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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
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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
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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.’’