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EMERALD
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29, March
Entered as'second class matter at the post office, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates: $5 per
Opinions expressed page on the editorial are those of the writer and do not pretend to
represent the opinions of the ASUO or of the University. Initialed editorials ar*written by
the associate editors. Unsigned editorials are written by the editor. __
Lorna Larson, Editor
Carolyn Silva, Business Manager
Marjory Bush, Don Dewey. GrEtchen Gronpahl, Associate Editors
Phil Betters. Managing Editor
Sally Thurston, Advertising Manager__
Wire services: Associated Press, United Press. Member, Associated Collegiate Presi.
News Editor: Larry Hobart
Assistant Managing Editor: Phil Johnson
Sports Editor: Bill Gurney
Asst. S;>orts Editor: Larry Lavelle
Asst. News Editors: Kathleen Fraser, Jim
Haycox, A1 Karr
Makeup Editors: Judy McLoughlin, Faul
Blucmle. Larry Hobart
Wire editors: Donna Lindbeck, Lee McCary,
Lcn Calvert, Mary Ann Mowcry, Helen
Jones
Feature Editor: Harriet W’alrath
Photographer: Fred Sehneiter
Advertising Salesmen: Ann Bankhead,ard
Cook, Marcia Dutcher, Barbara Kcelen,
Tom Matthews, Silva \\ ingard.
A Political Workout
"Warren today.
Hoffman and Kefauver Tuesday.
Stassen Thursday.
We’re really getting a workout this week, politically speak
ing.
Three of the men—Gov. Earl Warren of California, Sen.
Estes' Kefauver (D-Tenn) and Harold Stassen, University of
Pennsylvania president — are actual presidential candidates.
Paul Hoffman, Ford Foundation president, is an Eisenhower
supporter and has been mentioned as a possible nominee.
We’re extremely fortunate to be able to hear these men
speak now. What they say will undoubtedly influence our vote
in the Oregon primary this Friday. (Too bad those of us voting
by absentee ballot couldn’t have heard them sooner.)
* * *
A lot of Republicans may be looking forward to hearing Gov.
Warren at 1 o’clock today, especially those who aren t really
too pleased with either Taft’s foreign policy or the idea of hav
ing a military man for president.
Warren didn’t do badly in our mock convention. If a third
ballot had been taken, or if more of the second ballot vote
changes had been allowed, we think Warren would have shown
even stronger. And we don’t think all the supp'ort came from
California students.
* * *
These politicos want to talk to you just as much as you want
to hear them. They’re out after votes—your votes, in this case.
So turn a critical ear. Ask questions.
Then, go out and vote Friday for the man you want for
president.
A New 'Tameness' on Campus
Are college students taming down?
That’s the conclusion reached by Robert Stein in this month’s
issue of U.S.A., a magazine published by the National Asso
ciation of Manufacturers.
Stein, basing his conclusions on a survey of more than 100
colleges and universities, reports that a major change is taking
place on America’s campuses. Today's undergraduates, he says,
are more serious, sober and hard-working than earlier students.
An example is the decline of hazing and prank-playing in favor
of constructive community activity.
“Unfortunately,” the article comments, “an account of several
dozen brawling, rioting students makes more dramatic reading
than the story of 214 million young men and women quietly
and efficiently going about the business of learning.”
Oregon students will agree—rather wryly—with the latter
statement. It’s always been a bitter pill to find stories of “riots,”
suspensions, etc., on the front pages of the state and national
press while more constructive developments are relegated to
the back pages of the Sunday edition.
Is the Oregon campus quieting down? Not to the point of
getting dull, certainly, nor to the point where no pranks are
played. But we have seen evidences of what Stein calls “sober
purposefulness” gradually building up. There’s the increased
student interest in speakers, as exemplified in the lecture series
and the Parliament of World Religions. There's the “Help
Week” movement, which may be put-putting along on one
cylinder but at least is getting consideration. And there’s the
project in which rah-rah spirit and educational experience
could be combined—Operation Politics.
Oregon students haven’t done anything like the project taken
on by Wilmington college students in Ohio. Stein tells of their
putting in up to 400 hours each in the construction of a $200,000
dormitory; the free labor cut the cost to the school down to
less than $18,000.
We can’t quite see anything on that scale happening here.
But we have seen indications that this college generation is
beginning to take itself, its education and its community res
ponsibilities more seriously.—G. G.
^ M OKlvOs! ,ii
Gun Vi'UtanA. Speak...
GreeksjMake Campus Policy; No^One Else Will
By Gerhard Zahn
You will sec fraternities and
sororities are making the cam
pus policy an American stu
dent who stayed fhr a while in
one of the little dancing-dubs in
Paris told me. I still had this
conversation in my mind when I
came to the XJniversity of Ore
gon. After being introduced to
some members of fraternities
and sororities I personally found
out what all the talk against
fraternities and sororities is
about.
Indeed the American student
in Paris was partly right. Fra
ternities and sororities arc mak
ing campus-policy, but not be
cause they are eager to do it.
It's just because there are no
other people who want to pre
pare for things like Homecoming
queen and various other activi
ties. Students in the dormitories
are not as unified as the frater
nities and sororities are. It is,
therefore, easier for a fraternity
leader to secure action than for
a president of a dorm who has
not enough personal contact with
all the fellow students around
him.
Some people have asked me
about m#' opinion of the frater
nities and sororities. They asked
me if they are always interested
in foreign policy and if they are,
in my eyes, broadminded enough
to talk about other peoples’ prob
lems.
Without the slightest doubt I
can say that I never found more
interest in the destiny of the
Germany of today than I did in
fraternities and sororities. I
have spoken with fraternity
members—some of them vet
erans of the Korean war—and
it was sometimes hard for me
to answer all their very good
questions about Kuropo In a cor
rect manner.
Kraternitles and sororities are
typically American institutions.
In no other country will you find
them. But the existence of fra
ternities and sororities is justi
fied more than ever before. I'm
quite sure if German universities
would have a campus we woidd
introduce things like fraternities
and sororities.
I'm living in a dorm at the
I'nlvrrsily of Oregon anil I've
met fellow* who are not In u
fraternly anil Klrl" "ol In Hororl
t!»*. anil tht'y urr nice and well
I'dlirati'd. There h no ilirfi-ri'ni'o
If you live* In a fraternity, wororl
ty or dorm. It'* up to the charac
ter of the Htudcnt. “Non Hcholao
sell \ltue illHeluuni," a l.atln
proverb, Kay* that the Ktudent
In not learning anything for
sehool only hut for IiIh life.
Limits Note-taking Capacity
"Say, would you run down an' t«*ll tin* janitor v\«-*n* nliort one
d.-HU-clutlr?"
- - Letters to the Editor - -
No ASUO Banquet
Emerald Editor:
As a present ASUO senator, it
seems to me imperative that sev
eral points in relation to the pro
posed ASUO banquet to install
“newly-electod officers" on May
14 be made clear and obvious at
this point.
I cannot attend this banquet
nor can, I think, any other ASt'O
senator mindful of his responsi
bilities and the facts in the ease.
The recent student body elections
are being contested and until
such time as a decision is reached
on this matter, any attempt on
our part to install officers “elec
ted" this spring, would he pre
sumptuous and quite possibly in
valid and illegal.
As ASUO senators, we have
the responsibility and duty to
hold those offices to which we
were legally elected until such
time as our successors shall be
eiec ted in a legal and valid elec
tion under the terms and in the
manner prescribed by the ASUO
constitution. Such is not yet the
case, since grave and reasonable
doubts remain and are mutiply
ing that the recent elections were
not conducted in such manner
and under such terms.
V. e have no responsibility,
right nor duty to hand over our
offices to individuals whose legal
claim and right to such Offices
are under question and of doubt
ful legality.
Our responsibility lies in quite
on opposite direction. We can not
legally nor rightfully participate
in such a banquet, nor may we
be removed from our present
offices in any way until such
time as the recent elections are
declared valid, should they be,
or until new and constitutionally
valid elections be held, should
that Ijo necessary.
In any event, those .VSIIO sen
ators participating In the pro
posed banquet are doing so in
disregard of and in opposition to
the AMO constitution under
which they were elected and
have served, and those “newly
elected officers” are preparing to
take offices to which they are
not, as yet, legally entitled.
This situation should be
brought to the attention of
every senator, as well as every
other student on the campus, so
they may act in accordance with
or in opposition to the ASUO
constitution as their individual
sense of responsibility or irres
ponsibility propels them.
A rlo \V. Giles
ASl'O Senator
A Four-year College
(Ed. .Note: The following letter
by two University of Oregon stu
dents and the response of tUe
editor appeared in a recent issue
of the Portland State Vanguard.)
To The Editor:
In response to a letter which
recently appeared in the Oregon
Emerald written by a Portland
State student, we would like to
clear a few misinterpretations
which certain students obviously
hold.
The first misunderstanding
seems to lie in the way of fi
nnneial difficulties. Oregon tax
payers Could finance a new liuild
ing for you, using the reason
thal Erb Memorial and Carson
hall were afforded by taxes. This,
of course, is entirely incorrect.
The Erb Memorial Union and
Carson hall were both made pos
sible through student fees, con
tributions and a bond issue being
paid off from the board and
room charges. The only state
funds used were for the purchase
of the land. That is in answer to
your first misunderstanding.
Secondly, and most important;
tin* I diversity of Oregon Is not
In the leusl worried about any
Immediate deerease In student
enrollment If a four-year college
Here established In Portland. \\ e
haae, in the past, established a
favorable record In both scholas
tic and athletic ratings.
Thus we hope we have cleared
any ignorance of the true facUi
which exists in the minds of yofir
students.
Klchard Dultoseh
Charles Springer
From The Editor:
It is difficult for students who
enter a ready-made four-year
college equipped with rolling
campus and many fine buddings
in realize that those who are try
ing to establish n four-year col
lege in Portland merely want a
physical plant equipped with the
essentials for an upper and low
er division curriculum.
The hoard has already ruled
that funds for a student union
and other “trimmings" are to he
supplied by ilie student body.
Itut taxpayers paid for the class
room buildings al Ilie other Ore
gon colleges, mid It is their duty
to support a Portland four-year
school hIicii it is established.
The present Lincoln high and
Oregon Shipyards facilities will
handle 4000 students, so the first
ptoblem is having a .state-sup
ported four-year college estab
lished in Portland by action of
the state legislature. Portland
Ktate is not Intended to provide
competition for the other Ore
gon colleges, but to supply the
opportunity for a complete col
lege education in Portland to
those who, for financial or other
reasons, are unable to go elsqy
where.