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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1952)
n Daihf EMERALD The Oregon Daily Emerald is published hob. 4 thru 8, H thru 15, 18 thru -.5 tl r 2» March 10, Apr. 2 thru 4, 7 thru 11, 14 thru 18, 21 thru 25, 28 thru May May 6 thru 10 12 thru 16. 19thru22, and May 26 by the Associated Students of the 1 Diversity of Oregon Entered as second class matter at the post office, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription lates. JS pn Slh’'opinionsVxpressed page on the editorial are those of the writer and do not Prrjend h represent the opinions of.the ASUO or of the University. Initialed editorials arc written bj the associate editors. Unsigned editorials are written l>y the editor. __ A Job of Selling We have a big letter-writing job cut out for us within tlu next few days. We’re all going to be filling the position of amateur public relations representatives for the L Diversity. The High School Relations committee has outlawed tlu sending of invitations by the University or individual living groups to high school seniors for Duck Preview \\ eekend The catch is that Oregon State college houses had alreadj sent out their invitations, they claim, before their administra tion got around to telling them of the prohibition. At Oregon however, the administration counsels obeying the law. So the High School Relations committee has sent out card to Oregon high school seniors; the cards can be marked b\ the students as to which institution—Oregon, OSC. OClv EOCE, SOCE. OTI or Yanport—they would like to visit Apr. 25 and 26. It’s up to us—as individuals—to see that our high school friends are at least sufficiently informed about Oregon to con sider making Eugene their destination, by writing personal letters to them now. We re the only contact they’ll have. • What can we tell them ? We might mention some of the ail-too-little-stressed scholas tic advantages of Oregon. We have some of the finest depart ments and schools on the Coast—opportunities in many fields that cannot be duplicated by the other state schools. Why not toot our own horn a little? How many high school seniors decide to attend Oregon in the fall is important—directly or indirectly—to all of us. \\ e're all aware of some of the unfortunate consequences of an en rollment drop, which could include faculty cuts and further fee raises. Besides, we’re convinced that Oregon is the place to go—or why are we here? The importance of contact between Oregon students and our high school friends is obvious. Nobody else is going to be stressing the University of Oregon to them—it's up to us.—C«. G. Don't Blame Our High Schools The freshmen of Oregon, Oregon State and Yanport—and their deficiencies in English training—have gained nationwide attention. The March issue of the magazine College English presents the findings of Dr. Hoyt C. Franchere, who made a survey of the English abilities of 2,000 college freshmen in the three state schools. His figures shot.- that word deficiency is prevalent among entering freshm n; that 70 per cent of the students feel they have been inadequately prepared. We might bemoan the publication of the article and the re sulting bad publicity for State of Oregon students. But we won’t. It seems to us that Franchere offers something constructive. He doesn’t take the usual tack of putting all the blame on our secondary schools. Franchere, the supervisor of English for the state system of higher education’s extension division, points up the responsibility shared by colleges who turn out incompetent English teachers, and by the scrimping taxpayers who insist on overloading high school classrooms. If these figures were merely presented for the sake of pre senting figures, Franchere’s article would have been unjustified. But he seeks w-ays of improving an obviously bad situation. His primary recommendation is a drastic reduction of class loads in English and reading departments. He also emphasizes the necessity that colleges recognize the immense responsi bility of the English teacher and give him the effective prepara tion he requires.—D. D. Fun IS Important We’re glad to note a bit of entertainment interrupting our line of serious speakers (most excellent ones, we must add) at the 1 p.m. Tuesday assembly hour. Today at 1 we’ll be treated to some college humor, OSC variety. This is good. Fun is important. We can become too weighted down with the serious, oftentimes ominous aspects of human life. So todp v we’ll go to the SU at 1. We’ll laugh and forget, for a m ’ i it, our studies, the draft, and Communism. We w ’come the opportunity. At 2 - we’ll return, with maybe a brighter outlook, to the ser: ide of ilife. Professorial Ingenuity . __ crzatijn oOHyXn ,c r hiom bj "Why don't I rewrite the Introduc tion and juggle the chapters, mak ing the ’»8 edition of my text obsolete . . . I'm Iw-glnnlng to miss that royalty cheek, J. It.” A Dny fit the Zoo Friendly People, 'Lily White' Porties-Politics Is Back Again __- By Bob Funk - This is the season when persons you have never seen before will speak to you on campus. They are sincere, friendly, civic-minded BOB FUNK persons, l ney are also candi dates for of fice. This is also the season when one wakes up to the fact that one is a Greek or an Indepen dent. Depend ing on which jyou are, the Jother group is ’still rather far back on the path of evolution. Some rather painful things are happening. In the first place, AGS finds itself in the horrihle situation of having two candi dates for president. Obviously, both of them can’t run, although what difference this would make to student government is diffi cult to determine. Therefore, SOMEONE is going to have to be given the boot (probably into the position of candidate for senior class president). Question: can a deal be made before it’s time for the public to democratically de cide, or will there be a fight? If there isn’t a fight, something gentlemanly (and slightly rotten) has happened. There is also an interesting at tempt on the part of AGS to make their party and pretty little procedures look more lily white than Miss Virginia Wright’s party and their pretty little procedures. However, it takes an awful lot of dieting for a camel to lose its hump. Appearing in Monday morn ing’s Emerald was a letter by a political hopeful labeled “The Opening Blast.” It is an excellent example of why Greeks and In dependents do not get along too well sometimes, and why the University administration makes decisions for the fraternities. Samples of the strange and magnificent reasoning of this letter: “The administration has organized the so-called ‘indepen dents’ until they are no longer independent living groups. If a student wants independent life, he should not be organized into a seml-fraternal organization by tin' administration." In other words, all you un called independents, if you get organic J any better you are go ing to offer serious competition to the organized vote of the Greek houses. Keep the filthy barbarians disorganized, that's our banner for today. (And if a student wants independent life, and doesn’t like being organized, that student will probably write his own letter of protest.) Sample two: “If a man cannot abide by the decision of his party, of what use Is he to that party und that party to him? What Is needed in politics Is party re sponsibility." It takes a man of phenomenal gullet to swallow that one. Letters to the Editor It's Up to the Student Kmernld Kill tor: Thin Is a letter to the Oregon Student. Ah you no doubt know, Duck Preview Weekend will tnko place April 25 and 2t$, Thun far en thiiHhiHin hart not been too good, perhnpH because you don’t un derstand the partlculara. I cannot overemphasize the Importance of Duck Preview, It Ih u two-fold promotional activ ity, first and primarily for the welfare of the t'niverslty, second, for the benefit of the living or ganizations. The main purpose of Duck Pre view is stated In it.s title, that Ih, a preview of the University of Oregon for all who wish to enter college Primarily It turns toward the high school senior, who Is the college's likeliest prospect. Naturally we would like to make our preview of Oregon at tract the lurgest number of stu dents available. Only through your cooperation will this h • jcossible, and this means not Just during the weekend, but right now. As a matriculated student of this university, you should feel obligated to contac t one of your friends in high school inviting him or her to come down and disc-over just what our sehool has to offer. Just Imagine the re sponse if every one of our stu dents took time out tci write one letter to a high school friend. One letter itself may s*-c-m in significant, but all tolled, it be - comes an Integral part of our campaign to attract new students to Oregon. Duck Preview has been planned so the visitors will constantly be busy. The weekend ts informal and, as such, it is up to us to make the guests feci at home. Remember, you can help the University and yourself and your living organization by pitching in and becoming a part of this all important weekend. Only with your interest and cooperation will it be possible for Duck Preview to accomplish its purpose. Let’s get the ball rolling. Merle Davis Campus pr imed inn clirmn. Duck I’rev lew Weekend -The Atomic Age Spain Doesn't Share Colonial Problems of England, France - By Phil Johnson - Although England and France are having colonial difficulties throughout the globe, Spain ap pears to be handling its posses PHIL JOHNSON w uuuuk difficulty. According to a Spanish nnwspap er, friendly Span ish-Arab rela tions are “due not only to the historical fact that there is rn ii eh A r a It and Ihero-Ber her It I o o d in the racial mixture of the Span ish people but because of the type of open cordial simplicity which characterizes Spanish conduct, in this respect so similar to the Arab. . . The writer also comments on “the Spanish protectorate zone in Morocco where a mission of disinterested and fraternal aid to the Moroccan nation is being carried out.” Arab League Secretary Gen eral Azzam Pasha has stated, “The interests of Spain coincide with our own interests.” Meanwhile, Guatemalan youth organizations have planned a demonstration supporting t h e people of lli’ll’p, British Hondu rus, "who are being oppressed by Great Britain.” The Knglish just don’t seem to be popular admin 1st Tutors. Oregon Senator Wayne Morse a while back delivered a sharply worded criticism of those Repub licans who are attempting to turn a stronger-hand-in-Asia de mand into a major election issue, In a speech to the Senate, Morse warned, "Be on guard uguinst war parties that would have you follow a course of all out war in Asia, hut a course of a new brand of Isolationism in Knrope.” Morse closed with a stirring defense of the bipartisan foreign policy theory: "That foreign policy plank of the 191!) Republican platform is, in my opinion, still a fine ex pression of statesmanship; it is a plank which pledged the Re publican Party to stop at the water’s edge, insofar as partisan ship over foreign policy Is con cerned. The Issue of peace is too vital to the security and very survival of America to l>e jcop-^ ardlzed by political Irresponsibil ity in a Presidential campaign.’’