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Spirit-A Way of Life
Welcome home, alums!
Manv of you won’t recognize the place since your last time
here. We're being very progressive at present.
Notice our new science building? And that cavity down be
tween Oregon and Commerce—that’ll turn out to be a new
home for the business administration school.
Take a stroll around campus and see our new lawns and" the
other signs of improvement. There are lots of new innovations
besides the Student Union and Carson Hall.
Even our football coach is new—and he 11 be fielding a team
this afternoon that is probably the newest thing in collegiate
football. It’s just beginning to get broken in.
There’s just one thing that is as old as Skinner’s Butte.
That’s the Oregon spirit you bring back to the campus every
year. And the spirit the campus shows in its many ways for
the Homecoming group. It’s more than a tradition. It's a way
of life at Oregon.
This day is yours to share with us. This is when you return
to become a part of what you once were.
Great feeling, huh!
And incidentally, don't waste any sympathy over that baby
football team of ours. This could be the day it becomes a man.
The old pros up north may be favored on the books but this is
the occasion when previous form means nothing.—B. C.
Throw Out the 'Win or Else'
The football season is almost over—on this campus at least.
Now seems to be a good time for evaluation of King Foot
ball and its place in campus life.
This has been an unhappy year for the sport; it's been an
unpleasant year for most sports, amateur and professional.
Several institutions dropped football entirely, a Colorado In
dustrial commission ruling branded a Denver university player
as an employee of the school, and the biggest shock of all was
the West Point cribbing scandal.
College presidents across the country a-e now trying to cope
with the problem of putting football in its proper niche. Many
are the suggestions ... Limit the season to September, October
and November. Forbid Bowl games. Do away with televised
games. Scrap the two-platoon system, etc., etc.
The best idea we’ve yet heard comes from a college coach.
George Allen, football mentor at Whittier college in Califor
nia, complains that the fans are ruining football and that we
must have a “general disarmament of the will to win.”
Allen suggests that our college presidents conduct a strenu
ous campaign toward winning the alumni and fans over to the
idea of relaxing the “win or else” pressure. Our Dr. Newburn
has tried to do this very thing the past few months.
The wolves have been silent this year. This was a building
year and what victories we had were just so much gravy. Next
year will be different. The fans will demand victories and more
victories.
Why can’t they look at football in its proper perspective.
They should be reminded that the University of Oregon is an
educational institution, not the Los Angeles Rams or Chicago
Bears.—D. D.
A Dinner and Better Relations
Well, the journalism school’s annual family dinner was held
as scheduled Tuesday evening. The main portion of the pro
gram was devoted to skits—the faculty ribbed the students,
the students ribbed the faculty and the Emerald, and the two
.journalism honoraries—Theta Sigma Phi and Sigma Delta
Chi—poked fun at everyone and anyone.
It’s a good idea, this family dinner. We enjoy getting to-'
gether with our instructors, meeting them on such an informal
basis. The skits are presented all in fun, and nobody—we hope
—gets their feelings hurt.
Perhaps because of this, you’ll find a good spirit existing
between journalism students and faculty—a feeling of friend
liness that exists, not only at this annual dinner, but all through
the year. You find that, if you get a chance to know the "talk
ing machine” outside of his classroom, he turns out to be a
pretty nice guy.
Other schools and departments ... please copy.—P. B.
A« C’&itoAiat
A Gripe: The Pay Phone Era Comes to Oregon
“Hello ... Is Susie there?”
“I'm sorry, she’s not In right now."
“Darn . . . another nickel wasted!”
That's a pretty common exchange of conversa
tion on campus today.
Why? Maybe a lot of alums didn’t know It, but
the pay telephone era Is here. All living organiza
tions now have pay phones. They were Installed Just
before school started this fall.
The reason ? The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph
company has a tariff—okayed by the Public Utilities
commission—which, they say, calls for the phones in
“semi-public” organizations. (That's what they now
call our campus homes.)
The same tariff has been in existence for over
20 years, but the company just began working under
the new interpretation in 1947.
Expansive? It sure In. The 1*1*1 flat rate phones
"xvure $7.50 per month. Say, for Instance, that 20
NtuilentN In an organisation place one call per day.
That's $1 a day for 30 days, or *80 per month.
Are students complaining7 Yea. Riled-up OSC
.students succeeded in stalling off the phone In
stallers. We've met with them. We re also work
ing with Willamette. The Oregon Federation of
Collegiate Leaders passed a resolution demanding
abandonment of the puy phone policy.
Progress 7 Home. A recent letter from George
Flagg. FUC commissioner, asked us up for a meet
ing to discuss the problem.
Future plans? To meet with Flagg. If necessary,
to have a Pt'C hearing. To make absolutely sure
the phone company Is Justified In forcing the "nlckle
eaters” upon us.
We thought you alums would like to know.
Letters
to the
Editor
Freedom and Beer
I have lived in the United
States a little over two years
now. and the best explanation of
"what the lady in the harbor of
New York stands for” I have
heard is the following: "Liberty
or freedom means that you can
do what you want, as long as
you don't hurt others."
I think that anybody wUl agree
to this explanation. To bo sure
it does not cover all American
freedoms, because by expressing,
or writing, your Opinion you may
very well hurt someone else;
nevertheless you free to do
so. In other works, the above
definition gives us only the mini
mum meaning of freedom. Need
less to say, if the freedom of the
press is an inalienable right, this
freedom “to do us you pb-use if
you don’t hurt others” is one too.
So far so good; but now I am
in a dilemma, because I cannot
see how it does anybody harm if
a 21-year-old student wants to
drink a glass of beer in Taylor's
after classes. Furthermore I do
not think that it does anybody
harm if a man wants to go out
at night to play shuffleboard and
drink a glass of beer in the same
place. But then this man and
student must be free to do so.
The liquor commission, though,
has forbidden the above things,
so they cannot be inalienable
rights (actually the liquor com
mission has chosen an indirect
way: it won’t extend the license.
This is a grave matter; let us
make sure about the arguments.
The meaning of freedom is cer
tainly correct—if you do not
hurt anyone, who cares what you
do?
What about a glass of beer ?
The arguments against it are:
1. “Beer drinking is immoral,
if the majority wants to restrict
or forbid it, it can do so in a
democratic system.”
This has very far-reaching con
sequences: What if the majority
of the people in the U. S. thought
it was immoral to have a black
skin ? If a person thinks it im
moral to drink beer, he by no
means should; he can argue, but
not force his opinion in this mat
ter. Morality is not dependent
on a majority vote, what did we
fight the last war for?
2...“This is the only way to pre
vent the abuse of beer-drinking.”
This is a stronger argument,
but not sufficient. I will not
deny that beerdrinking is fre
quently abused, that the abuse
may be the cause of hurting oth
ers, and that the abuse of liquor
calls for laws to stop it. But the
penalties on tipsy driving in this
state are ridiculously easy; it
seems that so many people want
to drink some beer while driving
that anyone who wants stricter
laws is voted out of office. But
if the people do not want to em
ploy the lawful means they have
against the abuse of liquor, why
do the lawmakers bother about
trying out unlawful means?
It seems to me that the liquor
commission has overstepped its
legal power (knowingly, because
of the indirect way employed),
and that the students and the
people in Oregon should do some
thing about it.
Dirk Schepers
So THIS l« Oregon
How Can an Honor CodeWork?
College Society Accepts Cheating
,___By Jim Haycox
I don't think I've talked to
anybody yet who thinks an honor
rode will work at Oregon. On this
point, at least, lots of people
agree.
A n tl the
people who feel
it won’t work
put up some
very convinc
ing arguments.
For one thing,
they say one
can't compare
Oregon to
other schools
where it is ap
plied . . . like
the Naval
JIM HAYOOX
Academy, v\ est Point, need or
Stanford. These, they say, are
selective institutions which take
only the better students. Oregon
takes anybody with an Oregon
high school diploma.
Besides that, who's to say it
does work where they have it.
West Point proved It a farce.
They also argue that people
just don't like to rat on other
people. Imagine yourself seeing
someone cheating. Would you
turn him in, knowing he might
get kicked out of school for it ?
Do you think you have the right
to do it?
We just seem to accept the
fact that cheating Is nine way to
get by . . . though a dangerous one
if caught. We don’t think it could
he eradicated or feel we indi
vidually have the right to ac
cuse each other of it. It is accep
table in our college society.
To be sure, the same people
who say it wouldn't work will
turn right around and say...
"But it sure would be a good
idea if it did work.”
I wonder if they actually know ^
what they're talking about? It Is
a curious dualism.
Way back in the first grade,
the teacher told us we shouldn’t
cheat. How muny times we've
been told since then is hard to
say. The only thing I do remem
ber is that by the time I'd gotten
here it was tuken for granted
that I knew I shouldn't.
Why shouldn’t I? (an you sit
right down und give 10 reasons
why you shouldn't? Try it. I
shouldn't cheat because ... It isn’t
fair. Isn’t It fair to give your
self the best break you know
hvu ? It might hurt someone else,
but certainly not very much.
I shouldn’t cheat because ... it
isn’t honorable? Well if every
body else does, that means they’re
no better than I am . . . no more or
Jess honorable .. . doesn't it?
I shouldn't cheat because ... It
discourages any attempt to learn.
I>-arn ? You forget most of what
you learn in college anyway.
What difference does it make?
These are stupid arguments, to
be sure, but you hear them. Or
you hear arguments that sound
just like them. I said nobody
really liken to consider themselves
dishonest. Apparently they don't
consider cheating really dis
honest, or dishonorable.
Cheating is morally wrong. But
try telling somebody someday
that they are “morally wrong."
They told us not to cheat all
right, but I suspect they never
told us why not. Consequently
we have an honor and an honesty,
but honor and honesty are just
about what ever we want to make
them.
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