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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.
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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.
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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
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“Why can’t you just speak to him? He’s l>ccn trying to attract
your attention for weeks!”
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