Politics Off to an Early Start
The Associated Greek students Wednesday afternoon voted
(1) to keep hands-off on winter term frosh elections and (2)
to allow Alpha Xi Delta, Sigma Alpha Mu, Delta Upsilon
to enter the Greek bloc subject only to a one year penalty
clause, not the two year probationary period presently provided
for in the AGS constitution.
AGS thinking on freshman elections was not all Platonic.
Freshman men will rush winter term. Fraternities will be able
to push new pledges into the freshman election race. The Greek
bloc will not be limited to a single sponsored candidate for
each office. AGS chances of sweeping the election will be in
. creased.
Alpha Xi Delta, Sigma Alpha Mu and Delta Upsilon may
return to the bloc. They left AGS before the two year penalty
rule was put into effect and thus, to AGS thinking, should be
exempt from this constitution clause. They will be subject to a
one year restriction on nominating candidates. Lambda Chi
would be entering the bloc for the first time.
Greeks currently represent a minority group on campus. The
proportion of Greeks to independents will probably be further
decreased within the next five years when enrollment begins
to rise. Fraternities and sororities are limited by house capaci
ties. They will be forced to marshall all possible strength to
maintain domination in campus politics.
The political manipulation of AGS in over-riding its con
stitution is regretable. It will merely serve to widen that syn
thetic split between Greek and independent which has served as
an excuse for the exercise of campus politics.
Morse Must Stand 'T/me Test'
Senator Wayne Morse made a strong impression on his
campus audience Tuesday. His 1 p.m. address was interrupted
three times by strong applause and a number of people walked
-out of the SU ballroom feeling better about the senator’s cam
paign activities after hearing his personal explanation.
Morse went to some length to expound upon his theory of
representative government—a senator represents all. the people,
not just a region and should be controlled by honest, independ
ent judgment rather than by a temporary wave of public opin
ion. The senator went on to deplore Congressmen who %are
rule's by “pressure mail'* and allow themselves to become
hand-cuffed by pressure groups.
We accept this theory as true in the United States where we
do not have a pure democracy but representative government.
.We place integrity and good judgment as the only limitations.
Only time can be the judge for Morse in the later. The facts
as produced in speeches, debates and statements, will prove
the former.
We editorially backed Morse’s switch from Ike to Adlai.
We believe it was the correct move. During the next four years
Morse will be explaining that switch to the voters. The senator
is willing to accept the people's judgment. “I don’t suffer
from Potomac fever,” he said Tuesday.
From Tulane
We’re for the idiots, the poor, stumbling, stupid idiots who come to
college every year unable to take care of themselves. We feel real sorry
for them, but we still like ’em.
College administrations all over the country, and at Tulane, too, have
in recent years developed a policy of caring for these “idiots.” These
poor guys and gals are unable to take care of themselves, university
authorities believe.
Dormitory supervisors, counselors, house mothers, and advisors, are
all being crammed down our throats to "help us, guide us, keep us on
the straight and narrow.”
The universities, rightly, point to the early thirties and late twenties
when college youth was wild, wooly and completely irresponsible. Then
they turn around, rightly again, and say today’s college youth is more
mature, more responsible, than his counterpart of 20 years ago. Why,
then, do we need more supervision?
We believe a certain amount of supervision is necessary, sure . . .
College students need guidance, we agree. They have a certain responsi
bility to their university and to their fellow students. And they should
be forced to live up to these responsibilities.
But they don’t need to be coddled, “mothered” or “babied” in the
process. How are you going to teach them to stand on their own feet
if you constantly give them an easy chair?
We have faith in these “idiots.” Their less responsible . . . parents
came through their college years fairly unscratched. We honestly think
we can do it, too.—Reprinted from the Tulane (La.) Hulabaloo.
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STALIN REMEMBERED
dementis Case Seen as Unique
By Gunther Bartli
A Prague court sentenced to
death by hanging eleven former
Czech Communist leaders for
treason and espionage. The trial
was characterized by a chorus of
self confessions in a week of
hearings unparalleled since the
Moscow trials of 1936 against
members of the Trolzky-Sinow
jew group.
The prosecutors of the theater
trials in Nazi Germany didn't
bother with this new styled sort
of self decomposition.
No Defenses
None of the eleven said a word
to defend himself, according to
transcripts of their testimonies
heard in the Prague radio.
There are no Western corre
spondents in the capital of Czech
oslovakia.
Among the condemned, de
mentis, the former Foreign Min
ister, deserves a special comment.
Even if he was member of the
Communist pai ty for thirty years
he never became a man of Mos
cow or lost his mental independ
ence.
His dossier showed many black
points when he tried to secure his
personal integrity and his human
idealism against the ups and
downs of the official Party "fine.
Stalin Didn’t Forget
From the whole nonsense, ex
tracted from the self-confessions
by the prosecutor, one fact has
to be mentioned. Stalin never for
gave Clementis that he publicly
criticized the Russian Friendship
Treaty with Hitler and dared to
condemn Stalin's attack on Fin
land.
In 1939, Clementis immediately
was expelled from the party un
til 1941 when Hitler's conquests
made Soviet Russia the ally of
the Western powers. "
But the punishment was only
postponed. When he met the Red
czar for the first time after the
war as Deputy Foreign Minister,
The College Crowd
_Campus Headlines Elsewhere
Think you're overworked in col
lege? You actually go to school
only 14 days out of every year,
according to the Southeastern, at
Southeastern State College, Okla.
The paper's reasoning: A stu
dent sleeps away a third of every
365 days at eight hours per day.
This leaves 243 days. Subtract 52
Sundays, half an hour per day off
for lunch, and three months for
summer vacation. This leaves 91
days.
Next subtract 52 Saturdays, a
couple of weeks for Christmas
vacation, spring and Thanksgiv
ing vacations. You have just two
weeks left.
What puzzles us is that accord
ing to this formula, there couldn’t
be more than a couple of minutes
left until final week begins at
Oregon, and we aren’t at all
ready.
* * *
A South Dakota State college
coed is disillusioned about male
lines, and not the kind a girl gets
from a boy on a date. During reg
istration she stood faithfully in a
long line for two hours, only to
arrive at—the men's washroom.
* * *
Ad in the UCLA Daily Bruin:
“Will the blonde young lady who
wore sunglasses Thursday morn
ing (besides other things) be in
the cafeteria between 11 and 12
a.m. ?’’
* * *
The housing shortage at Michi
gan State College has made it
necessary for one dormitory there
to house students of both sexes.
Typical dorm veteran's comment:
"We never had it so good." By
the way, how are things in Ore
gon’s John Straub dorm ?
* * *
A fellow named Joe Raff, who
writes a column for the North
Carolina Daily Tar Heel, is fas
cinated by a tradition of Welles
ley college:
"There is a beautiful symmet
rical garden,” he writes, "design
ed by a math professor whose
love was thwarted for a president
of Wellesley (presidents there are
always women)".
“It is said that if a Wellesley
girl walks her beau around the
lake and this garden three times
without proposal, she has a per
fect right to push him in the
drink."
"The flaw in this custom is
that not enough young men know
the story and often have their
spirits dampened. When going
with a Wellesley gal, remember,
men," that third trip around the
lake may be your first trip up
the river.”
Passing the Academic Buck
*****' '
m.t
“If you can’t answer"a student’s question again, just try to look
intelligent and ask him to look it up for himself and make a report
on it.”
■ i •
i
Stalin iron really remembered him
for his crime.
In the struggle between the In
dividuum and the totalitarian
.state dementis' life is one more
exception which proves the rules.
A member of a totalitarian
statp has only one duty: to obey
the Party authority. His integrity
forced dementis to ignore delib
erately the basic law of his sys
tem. That gave him in the trial
the shadow of a personality a
mong ten wheels which couldn't
keep up with the speed of the
Party machinery.
Notes to the Editor
From Korea
(Ed. Note: The Emerald lias re
ceived the following two letters
from G.I.’s In Korea. One was
sent to the paper, the other was
mailed to Student Affairs. Kotli
requested pen-pals to add to their
meager mail-call. The Kmerulil
hopes that Oregon students will
respond to the request.)
Dear Editor:
Coming right to the point, I'm
a G.I. that has been stationed
over here in Korea for the past
seven months. For the past few
months I've found my mail call
getting smaller and smaller. Mail
is good for one's morale and l ight
now mine is quite low.
Would you be kind enough to
publish my name and address in
your school paper. I would appre
ciate it very much as I would like
to get some mail. Thanking you
for your troubles, I remain,
Sincerely,
PFC Bob Jaureguy
Co. “C” 810 EAB
APO 970 S PM
San Francisco, California
P.S. I was a resident of Port
land, Oregon
University of Oregon
Dean f>f Students
Dear Sir:
We are three soldiers who have
beef! stationed in Korea for quite
some time. For the last three or
four months we haven’t received
very much mail. We were won
dering if you could have some of
your students exchange some let
ters and snap shots with us.
We are thanking you in ad
vance for your consideration of
our problem.
Yours,
PFC James Her
U.S. 55-159-410
PFC Raymond Lateu
U.S. 55-133-911
PFC Reynold Zimmermain
R.A. 17-314-189
The addresses:
Co. "C” 62nd E.C.B.
A.P.O. 301 c/o P.M.
San Francisco, California
From Faculty
Dear Editor:
I should like to thank those
students who sang Xmas carols
in front of the Faculty club last
Sunday night. It was quite a sur
prise — especially for someone
from another country — to see
them assembled out there in the
rain, and hear them sing those
songs which so well express the
Xmas spirit, and it was much
appreciated.
Sincerely yours,
Hans Reiter