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Lorn a Larson, Editor
Robert Grff.nlee, Business Manager
Phil Bettkns, Managing Editor
Jack Cady, Advertising Manager
Grktchrn Grondahl, Bill Clothier, Don Dkwey, Associate Editors
News Editor: Larry Hobart
Assistant Managing Editor: Phil Johnson
Chief Night Editor: Sarah Turnbull
Sports Editor: Bill Gurney
Asst. Sports Editor: Larry Lavclle
Asst. News Editors: Kathleen Fraser, Jim
Hay cox, A1 Karr
Makeup Editors: Kathleen Fraser, Judy
McLooghlin, A1 Karr
Wire Editor: Tom Jaqucs
Feature Editor: Harriet Walrath
Photographer: Fred Schneiter
Classified Ad Manager: Toni Matthews
Day Managers: Carolyn Silva, Carolee Tate,
Mary Waddell, Sally Thurston, Irene
Bullard
Advertising Salesmen: Merle Davis, Janet
Petersen, Marcia Dutcher, Sue Mikkelsen,
Denise Thmn, Ward Cook, Sally Haseltine,
Barbara Keller
Lesson in Public Relations
Public relations has been described as '‘doing good and
getting credit for it.” Evidently, the Pacific Telephone and
Telegraph company doesn’t believe in public relations—good
ones, anyway.
• The PT & T does a lot of advertising, you know. They're fond
of leaving their receiver down with a constant busy signal of
"public service for the public good.” This advertising takes
money—a lot of it.
We wonderjf the money made by installing 10-cent-per-call
pay phones at Oregon will pay for the loss of good will the
company has suffered on the campus.
Of course, the company may think all this will pass away
with the winter snows and leave about as much impression.
After all, they are in a monopoly position, and as long as
people (which includes students) wish to use telephones, there
seems to be no alternative.
But there may be at some future time. There may be now.
Let no one belittle the power of a strong and united public
opinion such as the campus opinion regarding this issue. But
it needs to be directed toward a prescribed goal. It must not
be allowed to waste itself on a compromise measure as the
campus exchange just because a company spokesman has said,
"You better take it, because that’s all you'll get.”
As a University Senator remarked: ‘‘Why argue whether
we should lose both arms, or just one, when we may not have
to lose either?”
Everyone wants the pay phones out. The method of installing
them has reflected no credit on the phone company. 1 he reason
for installing them was apparently to see how much the traffic
would bear. The grounds for installing them seems to be based
on somewhat shaky ground.
As an old dorm resident, we cannot subscribe to the opinion
that a dormitory is a semi-public building. Define us an out
and-out private one. And the presumption that fraternities and
sororities ..are semi-public dwellings seems extremely far
fetched. Perhaps the PT & T company treasurer is making the
definitions.
We might add that the thundering silence maintained by the
University administration should be drawing to a close. Just
what is their publicly expressed position? We’ve heard a few
private ones.—B. C.
Selflessness—a Factor in Religion
One thing emerges clear from the discussions at the Parlia
ment of World Religions.
Each of the world's major religions—at least each of those
which have been interpreted so far—emphasizes, to greater or
lesser extent, a certain selflessness.
Selflessness—that implies, to us at least, a lack of selfishness,
with the implication that it is less important to satisfy our own
personal desires than to give of ourselves to others.
Pinning this spiritual concept down to a concrete and ma
terial example, the relationship between one more cup of coffee
and a donation to the March of Dimes drive, which continues
on the campus through Jan. 31, should become crystal-clear.
—G. G.
The Velvet Glove
Maybe the “iron-clad hand'’ held over freshman women in
regard to their 7 to 10 study hours isn’t so "iron clad" after all.
When asked if she would take any action against those frosh
women who participated in the Monday night phone demon
stration, Mrs. Golda P. Wickham, director of women's affairs,
said:
“How would I find out who they were . . . and why should
I want to?”
That last statement, “why should I want to," seems to indi
cate a reaJi^tic.iVeUby Attitude pf which strong administration
critics among the student body should take note.
— Letters to the Editor
Pay Phone Protest
Emerald Editor:
We, the undersigned members
of Pi Kappa Phi, wish to protest
the installation of pay phones in
our living organization. We feel
that the price of 10 cents per call
is unjustified and that the prob
lem should be solved in another
way.
(Signed:)
John W. ('rim, Fred Decker,
Paul D. Surprenant, Dude Wright,
John D. Musgrove, Sherman W.
Holmes, Jim Wooden, Donald P.
Jacobson, James V. Toner,
Dwaine R. Stoddard, Robert P.
Bartholomew, Donald Greco, Rob
ert R. Duffy, Loy W. Marshall,
Jr., Glenn M. St. Jean, Joe
French, Glen Garrett, Robert I
Boyd.
Person to Person
Emerald Editor:
It costs 15 cents to place a
call from Salem to Silverton, and
you at least have the opportunity
to reach your party, by having
the call placed person to person.
Please keep in mind, PT&T, that
you do not allow private phones
in every room of a ‘‘semi-private"
home. (Although it would be fi
nancially advantageous for you
to do so.)
In calling a person In a living
organization on this campus one
could put through to the number
called 10 times without reaching
the party desired, which would
cost SI with no results except the
dissatisfaction of knowing that
the phore company had just
gained $1 for services “not ren
dered."
If, PT&T. you are going so far
as to press a 10-cent charge for
phone calls upon us, you could
go one step farther and arrange
for them to be party to party.
Again, the point might be
brought up that living organiza
tions are not of public service
which people walking by might
use at convenience, such as a drug
store or a public library. It is
obvious that pay phones are
necessary in such places, but it is
inconceivable to the individuals
on the defense why there is such
a necessity to have pay phones in
living organizations which are
our homes for nine months of
the year. (Since majority rule was
set up in the Constitution as
valid, we can then consider these
living organizations our
‘‘homes. )
If the long distance difficulty is
brought to a point of discussion,
we are sure it can be handled
with much less difficulty than
with the pettiness with which the
PT&T is handling this larger
issue.
We doubt seriously that the
phone company will gain mone
tarily by their 10-cent phone call
innovation, because, since it is
necessary on this campus to use
pay phones, people will be more
and more reluctant to use such
an expensive form of communica
tion. It is also interesting to note
(since the phone company puts
tins on a business basis) that
business concerns, which use the
phone twice as much as any liv
ing organization, do not have
such an arrangement.
Another pervading fact which
might be brought to the public
eye is that the University, in its
entirety, is equal to, or larger
than, 80 per cent of the towns in
the whole state of Oregon and a
very loose estimate of the num
ber of people who have phones in
these communities would be at
least one in four.
We are not asking for the com
pany, PT&T. We are not asking
you to take a loss in the financial
channels, either. All we want are
phones in the campus living or
ganizations which can be paid for
at the end of each month. There
will be no financial loss, because
we assume that the monthly
phone bills will ipcrease in cor
respondence to the increase in
pay telephone charges.
Please remember, we have to
eat, too!
(Signed:)
Ann Hollenbeck, Gwen Fry,
Kosamond Fraser, Josephine
Coughell, Mary Frances Lorain,
Mary Lou Hansen, Jean Hender
son, Hope Riley, Donna Sher
wood, Kathy Burgess, Sally Ly
man, Joyce A mint rung, Nancy
(lloexe, Joan Dundorc, Dorothy
Lee Carr, Diana White, Marjorie
Beeke, Doris fadrlek, Valerie
Welnnuinn, Marlon Moore, Ann
( arson, Irene MeI.eod.
A Bit Exasperating
Kmerald Editor:
It seems to us the only solution
to a difficult problem, meaning 6f
course the pay phone situation,
is to just let us have back our old
phones! This nickel per call rate
has never been completely satis
factory and to now ask for ft
dime is a bit exasperating. There
have been more nickles lost than
successful phone calls made by
that continual nnswer of "Sorry,
she isn't here. Could you call
back later?”
All we ask is Please give us
back our old phones!
(Signed:)
Runny Bradley, Shirley Nichols,
Lois Kandra, Marilyn Purkey,
Ann Melutughlin, Betty Wise,
Barbara W'. Silva, Ann KohlnNon,
Marilyn Moore, Felicia Holler,
Shirley Ityan. Barbara Nichols.
Patricia Albertson, Colleen
Dunn, June M. Nichols, Charlotte
llenp. Bat barn Bullock, Marilyn
Ifurbcr, Donna Donuhuc, Jo
Chase, Helen Clark, Atldle Jones,
Adele Summers, Nance Gul
hruith, Pat Hunter. Norma Bee
tem, Virgina Rose.
Turn Every Stone
Emerald Editor:
We, the undersigned members
of Sigma Alpha Epsilon frater
nity, wish to make dear our
stand on the phone situation ex
isting here on the University of
Oregon campus.
We want it known that we do
not want to accept any compro
mise, or proposals, submitted to
us, until we are certain that no
stone has been left unturned in
an effort to regain the system of
regular business type phones in
fraternity and sorotity houses,
which we had in ye irs previous
to this one.
(Signed:)
Robert B. Brittain, Jay J. Me
Murren, Itoliert Brown, Richard
M. OthuH, Raymond I,. Kurnofskl,
Robert W. Cracknell, Dick Wells,
Jim (ianong, lieith Kreckel, Dlek
Thomas, Thomas J. Elliott, James
L Hershner.
William Johnson, Ralph F.
Clements, William W. Hail, Bolt
White, Tom Sawyer, C. I,. Wolf,
It. D. Smith, Jim Praggastis, llal
Davis, Jerry Ifendren, J. Moore,
Patrick Dignan, David K. Houck,
Shan L. Trebbc, Michael Klt
tredge, Jim Miller, Jaek Krieger,
Frank C. Franciseovich, Robert
E, Cunningham, Warren J. El
jenholm.
Robert E. Carlson, John Adams,
George Hailing, Mike Lynch, Dick
Peters, Jim Lancaster, Bill Chil
ders, Bill Johnson.
Qampul JleoJUiuel
By Rae Thomas
Six students of Sun .lose St mt<*
College are stranded by snow,
15 foot high, at Soda Springe Ski
Lodge outside of San Francisco,
They will not be able to get out
for at least a week. Plenty of
food and firelight there, though.
( And some of us go on slushing to
classes.)
* * *
Syracuse University, N.Y . stu
dents will have no more Liberal
Arts Saturday classes beginning
this semester. Those classes us
ually held on Saturday will be
held for hour-and-a-half periods
on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
• • *
A clip of good 5-rent coffee, an
almost forgotten thing, is being
revived at the U. of Minnesota.
University of Chicago's tem
porary housing units have been at
tacked by the city's chief building
inspector as "slums plus; not fit
for a dog to live in.” The units,
however, have ail of the public
plumbing and conveniences that
are not found in Chicago's slums,
and the unit director suggests
that the chief "clean up his own
backyard first.”
4
The ambitious University <
British Columbia's soccer playeriT"
anxious to get back in practice,
armed themselves with shovels
and ch ared the soccer field of
ti inches of snow.
At Ohio University, faculty
sheets have I wen distributed. Stu
dents critically examine their pro
tensors and then fill In a ques
tionnaire. Members of tile fac
ulty find out their strong and
weak points after the results have
been compiled.
Women students at Mary
Washington College in Virgin?.!
have formed a Blind Date B itea'.i,
sponsored by the College Maga
zine. Thanks to help of Univer
sity of Maryland students, the
scheme looks quite promising.
"Students at New York Uni
versity arc having trouble with
their student council," says the
editor. "Since our ‘school leaders’
have come into power,.they have
done nothing. They have not in
troduced one constructive plan or
project. They have taken their
jobs as just another item of their
grad school applications. Meet
ings have been social get-togeth
ers, nothing more. We have num
erous resources and outlets In
this school. It is up to the council
to use them."
• * •
Seniors at Ui'LA who do not
have their yearbook pictures
taken by deadline day, will find,
instead of tlicir own faces abovrv
their names in the book, a pic
ture of an angry bear-face.
There He Goes Again!
“Remember, Peterson, one more foul on you an’ yer out.”