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Action Speaks Louder Than—
Today marks the end of a special Emerald series on the
Millrace problem. A good deal of time and space has been de
voted to consideration of what’s wrong with the Millrace and
what students, administrative representatives and city officials
think should be done with it.
Now the question is—where do we go from here?
The Millrace should be developed—starting with the basic
problems of insufficient flow and pollution and going on
through the possibility of a Canoe Fete—or forgotten about.
And it’s silly to have proceeded this far—at least to have a
trickle of water replacing the old dry bed—and to have spent
as much money as has been spent, without making the Mill
race a definite asset to the campus rather than a half-baked
project.
We-put it up to the ASUO Senate to cooperate with the
planning commission, the administration, and the city in pre
senting a definite plan of what should be done with the Millrace
now. After all, the city’s voters approved a $20,000 bond issue
for the restoration of the Millrace in 1949, and those bonds have
never been sold. We fail to see how the city, if presented with
a concrete plan for development on which those interests con
cerned agree, could refuse to sell the bonds and make money
available.
We want to be able to report a conference between Oregon
student leaders and the city council soon. To cpiote an old saw,
in the Millrace situation as well as most others "action speaks
louder than words.”—G. G.
A Fresh Sea-breeze '
The storm-tossed Atlantic has claimed the Flying Enter
prise. The United States is claiming Captain Kurt Carlsen, who
was born in Denmark, but England is serving as the locus of
admiration festivities.
In more ways than one the Carlsen saga shapes up as an
international incident of the type which has almost become
extinct.
Man against the elements is always a good story. \\ hen "de
votion above and beyond the call of duty ’ enters the picture,
the story becomes twice as good. No matter that the Flying
Enterprise went down, the superhuman efforts to save his
ship, at the clear risk of his life, appeals to the popular fancy,
regardless of nationality.
Carlsen’s exploit temporarily wipes out the somewhat sordid
picture of international politics.
A fresh sea-breeze has cleared away some of the muggy air.
It won’t last but right now it smells good.—B. C.
Student Officials—Why?
Let’s abolish University of Oregon student body offices.
PRO:
“Bill Carey ... extended the deadline for petitions to the va
cant senator-at-large position. His reason: no petitioners. With
no petitions ... there wouldn’t be enough business to warrant
calling the group together.”—Wednesday’s Emerald, page one.
1. No one wants to be a student body official.
Today you’ll read that the deadline has been extended again,
because only two petitions were in Carey’s hands by 'I hursday
afternoon.
This isn’t the first time-it’s been a struggle to get students
to volunteer for jobs. Last term the Student Union board
begged and begged for board replacements from two schools.
After weeks they got ONE petitioner from one school; there’s
still no representative from the other.
2. ASUO officials don’t have anything to do after they take
office.
The senate last met on Dec. 6, 1951. Now—35 days later—
the ASUO president says there’s no reason to hold tonight’s
meeting because the senator-at-large interviews won’t be on the
agenda.
If, in a university of 4100-odd students, there’s nothing more
for the students’ legislative body to do after better than a
month's recess except interview petitioners for a position wifh
their own group, why have one?
CON:
We should have student officials because we have student
government.
* * *
The actual and the theoretical are not always one and the
same.
-- The Atomic Age
Racial Prejudice Makes Easy
Reds' Propaganda Campaigns
__—- By Phil Johnson -
It is unfortunate that so many
individuals living in a '20th cen
tury world are equipped with 15th
century minds.
An exumnle
of thin strange
phenomenon in
a statement Is
sued last week
by Gov. Her
man Tnlmndge
Of Georgia.
According to
this eminent
Southern lead
er, the tele
vision industry
Phil .Johnson
snouiu stop
casting Neg
roes and whites together because
the "spirit" of the South's segre
gation laws is "flagrantly vio
lated" by such practices.
The Kremlin's propagandists
can work overtime exploiting this
demand. The news can travel by
teletype to Western Kurope, by
radio to the Middle Kast and In
dia, by courier to the remotest
sections of continental Africa.
Naturally there is an addition
al, more important reason why
that statement was undesirable.
It is an indication of support
for the cruel subjection of minori
ties which has been a normal
practice in some areas through
out American history.
This mistreatment of minority
groups has always been illogical.
Perhaps the governor’s next re
quest will be a demand that tele
vision programs be restricted to
color-TV shows so that all of the
images on the screen will not be
black and white.
There is no shortage of Tal
madges in .America. Not long ago,
officials of a Phoenix cemetery
refused to bury in its veterans’
section the body of a Negro
soldier killed in action in Korea.
The keepers of the tombstones
later relented under popular pres
sure and buried the body after it
had remained unburied for six
weeks.
The state civil service commis
sion informed an officer of Port
land's Urban league that Negroes
are not given state positions in
Salem because it is too difficult
for them to obtain housing in that
city.
On Christmas night, Harry
Moore, Florida state leader of the
Oh the Screen...
Dickens Classic
Good Movie Bet
By Larry Hobart
Excellent acting and a bitter
sweet story by Charles Dickens
are combined in the J. Arthur
Rank production of ‘‘Oliver
Twist" showing at the Mayflower
through Saturday.
Dickens’ story of an orphan
who is shoved around by bullies
and pickpockets as he seeks to
find a spot of tenderness in a hard
world, is full of sharply drawn
characters, and the British ac
tors make the most of it.
John Howard Davies, the Eng
lish edition of Dean Stockwell,
plays Oliver in a sensitive and re
strained manner. Unlike many
American child actors, Davies
does not appear precious-just
believable.
Alec Guinness as Fagin is
something to be seen, not des
cribed, as he plays thief against
thief in an effort to gain his own
ends. The boys who constitute
his band of closely controlled
pickpockets represent a study of
the homeless.
The supporting cast, in the way
seemingly typical of Rank pro
ductions, turns out a fine per
formance.
The picture never loses the
sense of a period piece and a
commentary on an age. The ac
tion is fast; photography is good.
For 55 cents you can’t miss.
You can see the previews for the
Tales of Hoffman (and they’re
really good) too.
National Association for Uu* Ad
vancement of Colored People, nun
killed by a bomb plaeed under the
corner of his bedroom.
It was the duy of "peace on
earth, goodwill toward men."
Of course students at the Uni
versity of Oregon, where most
fratt rnltles and sororities do not
admit Negroes, don't need to look
to Georgia or Arizona or Salem
for evidence of racial discrimina
tion.
We have it right here on the
campus.
fyiont the Motyue...
30 YEARS AGO
.Ian. II, 102’i—Four |ier cent
of the Stanford Fnlverslty stu
dent iHKly wore flunked out lost
term, an Emerald story from l*alt»
Alto reveals.
The School of Mimic In offering
a slimmer jaunt to Kurope for
students and others. Cost of the
70-day tour Is ]fl075.
5 YEARS AGO
•Ian. II, 1047—Webfhot coach
Howard Hobson takes Ills crew
of Beaver-starved hoopsters north
tonight for the first game of the
1047 "civil war” series with Ore
gon State College.
"Honest John” Warren, Ore
gon swimming coach, sends his
varsity splashers Into action to
day In un Intrastpiad meet to
determine entrants In the sea
son’s opener.
Jutfi Loo Inn Arouna
Wait for Further Education —
Ph.D's by Correspondence Next
- By Jackie Pritien -
Perhaps the State Board of
Higher Education's feelings on
master's degrees don't naturally
fit into the coffee-and-doujrhnut
variety of the
undergraduate
conv ersation,
but we can't
help wonder
ing about the
trends w h i c h
their recent ac
tion indicates.
As we Inter
pret it, the ac
tion was taken
to make avail
able a master's
degree in ele
mentary e d u - Jackie i niwn
cation which would give the op
portunity for further specializa
tion in a field which has been
relatively specialized throughout
the preceding four years. An in
cidental outcome would be higher
wages for teachers awarded such
degrees.
The feeling seems to be that
procedure at the University In
gaining master of science or arts
degrees is too involved In studies
not completely relevant to the
problems of the elementary teach
er.
While we have every sympathy
for the lot of the elementary
teacher, it seems that advanced
work for teachers should include
more work in liberal studies
which would provide more sub
ject-matter background in tech
nique studies. In short, it seems
that concern with "how to teach”
is over-emphasized, and that more
concern for the teacher's back
ground of knowledge in liberal
fields would produce teachers
more qualified In the category of
"what to teach."
We therefore feel that the re
cent move h_* the hoard actually
lower* the requirement* hir an
advanced degree, and It follow*
that lowering requirement* ulti
mately lower* educational stun
dards—which many feel to lie low
enough already.
Plotting the curve of this trend
ns we interpret it, we might ad
vise joining the army now, and
postponing our educational ef
forts until w-e can get a I'll D. by
correspondence these days; just <
surprising when one consider* all
the things that can be done by
correspondence there days; just
clip out a coupon application in
the back of most any magazine.
And while we’re commenting
on collegiate development*, we
might note that several freshmen
classes in women’s physical edu
cation have been issued skirts to
lie worn Over the traditional leo
tard. The reason seems to he that
men are enrolled In these classes
ton.
And while we would be the last
person to rush to the defense of
leotards, we have come to con
sider them philosophically as a
lesson in perseverance common to
all freshmen women. And per
haps those co-eds with the privi
lege of wearing Hkirts will by
pass a lesson-in-llfe which we
have considered a noteworthy If
unintentional contribution to the
building of well-rounded college
co-eds in the field of character.
Repeat Performance
/' ,-V ' u
“Aww, this course ain’t so rough—I never cracked a bonk in it
/ast term.”