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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 17, 1952)
The OtEGON Daily EmevaivIs oublished Monday through Friday during the college year, except examination and holiday periods, with issues on Homecoming Saturday, Dads Day Saturday, March 10 and Junior Weekend Saturday by the Associated Students ot the uni versity of Oregon. Entered as second class matter at the post office, Eugene, Oregon. Sub scription rates: $5 per school year, per term. Opinions expressed on the editorial page are those of the writer and do not pretend to represent the opinions of the ASUO or of tne University. Initialed editorials arc written by the associate editors. Unsigned editorials are written by the editor. Wire services: Associated Press, United Press. Member, Associated (. ollegiate I ress. Lorn a Larson, Editor Robfrt Greenlee. Business Manager Phil Bettf.ns, Managing Editor Jack Cady, Advertising Manager Gketchkn Grondahl, Bill Clothier, Don Dewey, Associate Editors A Re-examination of Religion A great university is the place to satisfy intellectual curi osity. It’s not just a factory equipped to turn out the latest model of college graduate complete with activity points, re quired hours, and the necessary GPA. To help satisfy that (we hope) intellectual curiosity among students, the University has arranged an imposing schedule of speakers and conventions for the 75th Anniversary year. One of the most imposing programs gets under way this coming Monday. It’s a four-day series of lectures and round tables called the Parliament of World Religions. We're not a particularly religious sort of character hut we’re curious about those beliefs with which we are unfamiliar but recognize to ~be very necessary to other people. Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism are relatively unfamiliar concepts to most of us but they are extremely significant to millions of Asiatics. Check the last decade and ask yourself if what the Asiatic peoples think is likely to be important to us. It might be wise to get a line on some of their basic philosophy and re ligion. There may never again be such a wonderful oppor tunity for you to gain some insight direct from the respective experts in each of these faiths. Such personal religious exposure should broaden the view point. It might help in understanding other peoples. Cod knows we could use some more understanding. There is a Protestant denomination back in Kansas and other states which preaches the following enlightened phi losophy : “There are matly roads to hell but there is only one road to Heaven and that is the- one our particular denomination is traveling.” Ridiculous? Of course. But you’d better not go back to the Mid-west and express such an opinion to any member of this particular denomination unless you’re in excellent condition. They believe their chosen-sect superstition and they wouldn’t mind taking punitive action to enforce that belief. Now ask yourself another question and answer fast before you have time to rationalize. Could you compare your general concept of the Christian religion to other world religions as we have compared the views of a single narrow-minded church in regard to other Protestant faiths? We consider ourselves a people motivated with the spirit of tolerance, religious and otherwise, but in many respects we are the most intolerant nation on earth. It is possible that we need to re-examine our beliefs if we are to achieve any harmony with other members in the family of nations. We might start by examining the beliefs of others. —B. C. Are We Forgetting Peace? Atomic energy to produce electricity? A few years ago it was a remote possibility and everyone was excited. Xow it is a definite likelihood and no one seems to care. No sooner had the first atomic blasts been set off, than hu manity was awaiting the moment when this immense power could be put to some utilitarian rather than destructive purpose. Now, there is an atomic energy battery. It is inefficient in its failure to use the radioactivity produced by the reactor, but it is a tremendous advancement toward the time when atomic energy will be used in industry. But who even knows about the atomic battery? The news papers did little with the story. This is war; no one is inter ested in peacetime atomic energy. If scientists attending the American Institute of Electrical Engineers had mentioned the possibility of a new weapon of destruction, the story would have been bannered in news papers across the country. We hope the human race has not become so cynical that it cannot rejoice over an advancement of society; tliat it thinks only of improving devices for destruction.—D.D. | . ... ; - Gamfiul cMecullined."£U&u*k&ie. » T Honesty at Texas; Access to Exam Files in Mass. By Rae Thomas The Turf a college. Mass., •'Daily Turf" took a survey ask ing freshmen what they wanted most in their fraternities. Num ber one answer was "a good chef." Number two was "access to exam files.” * * * Honesty is the best policy for University of Texas students. A campus-wide campaign for scho lastic integrity is being boosted by students and faculty alike. "Cheating hurts both the dis honest and the honest," said one woman. "The former simply buys a degree and the Inttcr must compete for grades with a dis advantage.” (Honor code com mittee take note.) * * • Parking tickets are plentiful at the University of Utah for students who must park where they can because of limited parking facilities. Faculty lots, however, are plentiful and stu dents are bitter. • Coeds in nighties were seen re cently at KaUunazoo college dancing on dormitory porches while male students gathered on the campus green to watch. Po lice ended the performance. • • • The Daily Kansan repcrt.% the installation of cigaret vending machines in the University of Kansas student union because of the constant counter-filching of same. (No dreadful salt and pep per problems ?) Kansas has other troubles. No one cares about attending their Fine Arts programs. Brooklyn College finds the Athletic As sociation is going broke because of low attendance at games. Letters . to the Editor The Periodic Gr'me Emerald Editor: Well, here we go again! It seems as if the men in the Vet’s Dorms, in order to avoid falling completely under the heel cf this regimentary University, must make an annual complaint about the food, its service and condi tions in general. The last time anything of an improvement was notie.ed in the food was when a letter was sent to The Oregonian, but it was so temporary that it really isn't worth mentioning. If I didn’t know anything about food or how to cook it, the only thing I could say would be that it wasn’t very tasty, but since I have earned a good deal of my college money by work ing in cafes, kitchens, etc. dur ing the summer, I can say, at the very least, the food as a whole is terrible, simply terri ble. How anyone has the nerve to serve such atrocious "food” is beyond me. The University says it can’t please everybody, but it isn’t pleasing anybody (except the University). The food may be rather good basically, but what happens to it in that kitchen to make it come out so utterly tasteless and vile, I can’t imagine. After having stacked three men in accommodations for two in the period immediately fol lowing the war, moving us down stairs in order “to save money,” making us all eat at Straub, and then serving that food, we are sitting over here wondering what will happen next. It wouldn’t sur prise me if they moved the toi lets over to Straub in order to save the water bill. But if they REALLY wanted to save money, they might turn off the heat and lights and use candles to fulfill both purposes. Here’s hoping that the Uni versity realizes it exists for the benefit of the students and not the University. Walter Martin. . J li 1 , L i - I I < Seven fraternities at thi* Uni versity of Washington nre work ing out plans for converting lu ll week “from u body-w reeking week to u week of constructive work.” Washington nlso has n 7-1 year-olcl matron enrolled in a special prospector’s course. Mrs. Mercy Bromely is learning to pan gold and stake claims with the rest of the class, and Is taking geology on the side. She owns a 160-acre cluim in Spokane and wants "to understand what is go ing on” when she has it mined for copper. "Ituth Ann" attended 20 open house rushing functions anil didn’t rwclve a single return bid. Masquerading Herb Stade, *l\ TTT7T.H I’ill versify <>f Minin Mita student, (;iive the girls "something to talk to prospective pledges about during the re mainder of rushing." (Is It needed ?) • * * A Minnesota coed shot run! killed herself lust week. She was discovered in a campus building with a rifle beside her. No rea son for Minnesota's first college suicide in 17 years was given by officials. -A Vo ft oi Ihv Zoo Funk Turns from the Brotherhood And Examines Serious Side of Life - By Bob Funk --- We arc preparing ourselves, at the behest of friends who feel that we should be more learned and dignified, to write at least one column entitled Internation al Affairs, Class Struggle in Everyday Life and Serious Things. It is going to take a tremendous umount of work and preparation. Already we are reading a took. The book has no par- j ticular plot. It is about Seri- i ous Things, all right, and our only hope is that it has a surprise end ing. When we finish this book we In tend to sort of synthesize the information — that is, we will BOB FINK rememDer wnat we can anu lor get the rest of it with a clear conscience. Thus prepared, we Hhall begin to write of the oppressed masses. No doubt there is lots of oppres sion right here at Oregon. It is doubtlessly true that students of architecture and allied arts are living in a state worse than serfdom. This right in the shadow of the student union, while good-for-nothing liberal arts ma jors surfeit themselves on food, drink and cigarettes. And what of the fulse prom ises made by the higher-ups to those who frequent the vermin Infested sweat-shops of the sri-^, ence departmentsWhat ever IxK'omn of the now building they Hi re long since promised? It has In-on hullt, yes, litit ilo not he dwclvcd, It In going to ho uv-tl for a now antu-x of tin- ulready spacious mid luxurious faculty club. There is also a plot to force male students out of economics, sociology, and history Those de partments have been cleverly moved into Gcrllnger and Susan Campbell Halls. Which seems a rather innocent thing on the sur face. However, there are no men’s plumbing facilities, a thing unique in contemporary econom ics, sociology and history. Rome say there is a men's room In the basement of Susan Campbell. A 11c of appeasement, we it. These are just some of the se rious subjects which we may ex ploit when we become prepared —that is, when we finish the book. If ever. Just one more ap palling thought: is It true that sociology and psychology are one and the same science, masque rading under two names to es cape anti-trust laws? I>o not talk about this on the street. You may he hit by a brick somehow dislodged by the wind from Con don hall. Indignant reply to the young lady who was recently overheard to ask whether we write this column during a state of hang over or If we are naturally this way: lady, we are naturally this way. Blame it on heredity and environment. Military Ball Prospect? ymn B'26 V “Why can’t you just speak to him? He’s l>ccn trying to attract your attention for weeks!” it . ■ i i . ) i i • i