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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 18, 1952)
Oregon Daily _ . _ _ EMERALD The Oregon Daily Emerald is published Feb 4 thru 8, 11 thru 15, 18 thru ^hru school year, $2 per term. K>i year, ^ ^„^o^S«o^Uren»., {»« - -- S ttie associate editors. Unsigned editorials are written by the editor. I-ORNA 1.arson. Editor Robert CiRRr.NLr.it, Business Manager Phil Brttens, Managing Editor Carolyn Silva, Advertising Manager Gretchen Grondahl, Bill Clothier. Don Dewey. Associate Editors Wire services: Associated Press. United Press. Member. Associated Collegiate Press. News Editor: Larry Hobart Assistant Managing Editor: rhil Johnson t hief Night Editor: Sarah Turnbull Sports Editor: Bill Gurney Asst. Sports Editor: Larry Lavelle Asst. News Editors: Kathleen Fraser, Jim Haycox, A1 Karr Makeup Editors: Kathleen Fraser, Judy McLotighlin, A1 Karr Wire editors? Donna Lindbeck. t.ee McGary, Len Calvert, Mary Ann Mowery, Helen Editorial Asociate : Roger.Xmid Feature Editor: Harriet \\ alrath Photographer: Fred Schneiter National Advertising Manager: Beverly Uc* Day ^Managers: Mary Waddell. Maureen Kciter. Sally Thurston, Merle Davis, Sally Stearns . Advertising Salesmen: Janet Petersen. Ward Cook. Marcia Dutcher. Sally Haseltine, Barbara Keelen, Nikki Trump. Silva W »«• gard. Sue Fuller, Rod Hcestaud The Holloway Report The Holloway Report on deferred living is out and while it has not vet been accepted by the Alumni Association we be lieve that at last the causes of the existing friction between fraternity men and the University administration are brought into the open. We believe that with a little thought the causes of friction can be eliminated. Two weeks ago we said that fraternity men are suspicious of the University administration. How did this suspicion develop? Look at the report: “This committee continues to disapprove the methods by which the deferred living plan was invoked at the University of Oregon and it believes that the administration has failed to properly inform students and alumni of the bene fits of the plan.” Fraternity men awoke one morning to find that the adminis tration had decided to install a program of deferred living. Faced bv what they saw only as a severe blow to the fraternity system of which they had no warning, fraternity men sought an explanation and one soon appeared in the form of Carson Hall. The story quickly went around that deferred living was being invoked for the purpose of keeping \ et’s Dorm full so that Carson could be paid for. What was the administration’s answer? Only silence. Had anyone bothered to go to the business office and ex amine the directives of the State Board of Higher Education on file there they would have found a clause which provides that any profits made from the operation of \ et s will be set aside for the construction of a new MEX’S dormitory. \\ ith no in formation to the contrary, who can blame fraternity men for their assumption. With this sort of setting it would be easy enough to misconstrue Dr. Xewburn s remarks about the pos sibility of the University buying fraternity and sorority houses. Hence, the cause of the friction. The Committee recommends a restatement of the purposes of deferred living and a report of how the system is working believing that this would .. do much to dispel the confusion, secrecy, rumor and misinformation that now surrounds the plan.” In this very adequate definition of the present state of affairs consider especially the word “misinformation.’ Before the committee report was finished information was re leased on the financial effect of the plan on fraternities and sororities, to the effect that the financial difficulties of some houses, according to the committee, are the fault of the indi vidual houses and not the plan. Consider now the actual words of the report: “This committee finds that Greek living organi zations have suffered financially during the plan s operation. The clear implication of mismanagement in the first release is not to be found in this report. The former statement caused great bitterness among the Greeks which might have been avoided. In short, we belive that the aforementioned friction has been largely unnecessary. We think it has been caused by a seeming indifference on the part of the administration. We think it has hurt the University deeply. We’ve talked to enough people to come to the conclusion that the administration is not “out to get” the fraternities. We can find no evidence to this effect. One cannot help but see the wisdom in Ray Hawk’s statement that the University would hardly be able to accomodate the expected 9,000-person student body of 1960 without its fraternities and sororities. We hope that Oregon fraternity men will consider the facts as well as the benefits of the plan as expressed in the report and consider burying the hatchet. Each year- many potential Webfoots are discouraged from coming to the University by comments from disgruntled fraternity men. If we were to start selling the merits of our University rather than continually selling it down the river we could be a lot better off. The Ore gon fraternity system has everything to gain and nothing to lose by such a course of action.—R, N. Just to Make a 2 Point i “Kopp yer eye on Miss Maxtor, Ed—I *uH|H;ct hor of cheating.” -:l iPitff tal tha* /»« What is the Nature of Reality? A Brother Wonders Who He Is By Bob Funk No, he thought, it cannot be Sunday morning already. ■'No,” his fraternity brother said, gently dumping him out of the triple decker bunk, | “it is not Sun- | day morning. !j It is Monday f morning, and we are all go ing down to eat Wheaties and then skip off to Litera- * ture of Illiter- ! ate Societies.’’ f He got up * and groped through a BOB FL'NK drawer, attempting to rind Home clothe*. He found a toothbrush, a package of cigarettes, a hand kerchief, and some old letters. This will never do, he thought. It is obvious that I won’t lie the best dressed man on campus this morning. After some false leads he found the bathroom. It was full of strange persons in various singular garbs, shaving and mak ing low moaning noises. "Good mornings,’’ chortled one of the brothers brightly, "I think the sun is going to shine!” He looked out the window to where the brother thought the sun would be shining, hut couli) not seem to get excited. If I could only get that other eye open, he thought. The breakfast table was lined with unoccupied places. Two brothers primly turned over eggs, attempting to decide which side was sunny-side up. He sat down and chipped the ice out of the milk pitcher. There was no milk under the ice. One of the myster ies of fraternal life, he thought listlessly. "Pass the sugar,” one of the brothers growled. "Why should I have to pass the sugar,” another brother sobbed. "I’ve been in this chapter longer than anybody. I was doing pledge duties when " They stuffed a roll of shredded wheat into his mouth and he sat there quietly choking. The sugar was passed. There was no sugar in the howl. No one cared. Everyone stared uncom prehending!)' into the place the sugar should have been. It Is (he eternal frustration of life, he thought. The eternal frustration. Someone was pulling his chair out from under him. "Time to go to class,” someone giggled happi ly. He picked himself up off the floor and accepted a book from an outstretched hand. Maybe I'll feel better at lunch, he thought. Or maybe this is not really me. It doesn’t feel like it is really me. They passed a mirror. No, this is not really me, he decided, and felt quite happy at having es caped the situation. Letters to the Editor (Letter* for litth Column mmt Lc 400 wort)* or le*» in lcnuth ami lURncd f»y thn author or Author*. KrqticftU that name * he withheld will he Riven careful considera tion. Letters mny hr nuulml to the Enter aid editor or left lit the Kmeiald i|uou*rt adjacent to the Journalism huildioR ) Forgive Us Our Sins Emerald Editor: Tsk, tsk. The Emerald has ‘‘condoned and encouraged (un der certain circumstances) the commission of acts which have been mndc misdemeanors by law in the State of Oregon." With “law" Unis til rcateneit, and our democracy virtually tot tering on Its foundatiims th'-re from, 10 of our law students have charged Into the "letters to the Editor” column with their “pur ports,” “strenously denourees” anil “canoni of conducts" and saved the day, ■ » 11 v v i r»v «.* in <»ii >111 i n ;« v' II idealities of the “law," the poor dumb editors of the Emerald (and a generous portion of their fellow students) somehow feel that 40 cents for an unsuccessful, local, person-to-person phone call is exploitation, not justice; they feel that when they were told the IJO was getting pay phones be cause OSC already had them (but they didn’t) that someone was lying, and simple souls that the editors are, they distrust the other “reasonable assertions of the telephone company. Naive Americans that these junior journalists are, they have - the idea that it’s quite democra tic for government to regulate such natural monopolies as the telephone company, and I sus pect these journalistic misfits (whose inferior talents did not fit them for the chosen and sacred field of "law") feel that the government they’ve be. n taught to respect is letting them down: they’re losing interest In sterile “law," and want a little justice. Men the world wide get a little emotional when they start get ting that kind of helpless feeling. In such instances they sometimes use indelicate language, and worse, "advocate misdemeanors." Fear not. When such fires threaten us, the purists of the law (also spelled “puer-lsts" to give It a I-utln flavor), though ignoring justice, will seize upon the naughty words and dri\c them Into the ground. In the meantime, we’ll have pay phones, 10-cent calls, a callous monopoly and a dis interested state government thnt would rather let the students seethe under an obvious injustice than cause displeasure to a "right” bunch of boys who arc perfectly happy with things the way they are, and thus don’t blunder into these "nasty words,” or show disrepect for the "law." Carl E. Weber A*t £dUo>ual It's Easy to be Tolerant of Someone-Somewhere Else Two of the week-end’s most interesting news stories displayed again that our much-maligned government agencies often run far ahead of “our democratic citizenry.” At about tlie same time the FBI was culminating an investigation of North Carolina floggings and kidnapings by arresting 10 ex-Ku Klux Klansmen, a group of South San Francisco citizens gave us an example of what too often is “democracy in action.” Sing Sheng, a former Chinese Nationalist intel ligence officer, submitted himself to a test of Ameri can democracy. He found that democracy doesn’t always mean equal rights for everyone that it frequently means “equal” rights only for the ma jority. Sing "was not born in America and didn’t under stand” when the residents of South San Fran cisco’s Southwood residential district attempted to prevent him from moving into their all-white midst. Sing offered to move out if the majority of the residents indicated in a district-wide election that that was their desire. The setting wag a "natural” for a display of American democracy. The bigoted trouble-makers would be publicly rebuked by this demonstration of popular sentiment. But it didn't work out that way. There were 253 citizens eligible to vote. Twenty eight of them voiced approval to Sing's residence in their midst. That’s the way this democracy goes. We’re all for It, Just so long as It doesn’t step On our toes. The South Kan Franciscans were probably very happy to - see the FBI clamp down on the Ku Kluxers on the other side of the country. North Carolina citizens are probably opposed to the bigotry displayed in _ California. We In Kugene ean frown upon both cases. And yet we let Our Negro populace here live in abominable circumstances ... Too close to home! What the Hussian news agency Tass can do with cases like this is remarkable. Worse is the reception that even a non-biased account of this type of American democracy will receive throughout the world. • We can spend millions to broadcast propaganda to the world; but this propaganda can be completely t nullified by such examples of racial bigotry. We cannot win other nations to our way of thinking by telling them we’re with them so long as their - people keep their distance. D. D.