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What Do You Think of...
... Student Government?
Koger Danielson, junior in business, said:
I went to a smaller school before, where we knew everyone, and it
was u lot easier to take part in student government. The government
gets away from the student here.
However, students don’t take advantage of the ehanees they do
have . . , like voting. Of course, compared to a smaller school, its
hard to know all tin; candidates here. Maybe when they’re electing
officers they could run character sketches of candidates . . . that
might help. Something should be done to stimulate interest.
100 PER CENT
AGS to Reinstate
Prodigal Houses
The Associated Greek students
voted unanimously Monday to re
instate Alpha Xi Delta, Delta Up
silon and Sigma Alpha Mu in the
(ampus political party. The group
also voted to giant Lambda Chi
Alpha membership in the party.
The first three houses petitioned
AGS for reinstatement near the
close of fall term. For the past few '
years they have been members of
the United Students Association,
coalition party of Greeks and inde
pendents.
Lambda Chi has never been a
member of AGS, but decided to go 1
into the party with the other three
houses. The Greek bloc is now com
plete with every house a member. ■
At other action taken at the1
meeting. President Jack Faust pre-1
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Twelve Named
As Semi-finalists
For King of Hearts
Twelve semi-finalists for King of
Hearts were selected Monday, ac
cording to Norma Hamilton, sopho
more Y cabinet chairman.
They are Ed Kenney, Phi Kappa
Psi; Ron Lowell, Alpha Delta Pi;
Jim Livesay, Carson hall; A1 Barz
man, Sigma Alpha Mu; A1 Babb,!
Theta Chi; Mel Erickson, Delta'
Gamma.
Neil Trilling, Sigma Kappa; Jim'
Owens, Sigma Chi; Tom Harrison,
Hendricks hall; Jim Miller, Pi Beta
Phi; Bill Kirby, Gamma Phi Beta,
and Ron Lyman, Kappa Alpha
Theta.
The semi-finalists will appear
before the Y soph cabinet at noon
in Gerlinger hall next Monday, at
which time the six finalists will be
selected.
sen ted the AGS policy committee's
proposed plan for an open primary
in the party.
Under the committee's plan,
every member of AGS would vote
for candidates to run for student
body president, class officers and
senate members in the spring term
elections.
At the present time, candidates
who run under the AGS banner are
selected by two representatives!
from each member house
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As the plan was proposed the
balloting would take place at a
scheduled mealtime in all the
houses at approximately the same
time. The number of votes per
house would be based on the num
ber of members and pledges in
each organization and the vote
would be by Australian ballot.
Petitions and Screening
The candidates would petition
and be screened by the AGS policy
committee before the primary.
There would be no set number of
candidates for student body presi
dent. but class officers would be
limited to five candidates for each
office and 25 candidates would be
the limit running for the senate
nominations, Faust said.
Under the plan the election
would be held in three separate
stages — student body president,
class officers and senate. Candi
dates for student body president
who were defeated could re-peti
tion for class offices and senate
seats if they wished, Faust said.
For the student body president
nomination and for class officers !
a majority of votes would be re
quired for the nomination. In the
election for the senate nominees,
two ballots will be taken. On the
first ballot, a majority of votes
are needed for nomination. On the
second ballot a plurality of votes
will be needed for nomination.
R. C. WILLIAMS
Who Runs the UO?
Richard C. Williams, director of the Student Union, has been at the
head of the SU since 1950. He had been working on plans for the build
ings since 1941.
Williams graduated with a bach
elor of science degree in 1941 from
the UO. Since that time he has
worked in planning and operating
the SU except for two years spent
in the Navy.
As director of the SU. he is
general co-ordinator of all the ac
tivities which go on in the building.
He is on the Student Union board
and is in charge of all areas of the
building including the recreational
area in the basement.
Before plans were drawn up for
the building Williams toured other
student unions around the nation
so as to be better acquainted with
what should be included. He then
helped plan the budding and be
came director of the Student Union
when it opened in 1950.
Williams is presently at the Uni
versity of Nevada in Reno helping
plan their new student union.
RE Week Program
Begins Second Day
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Holy Leaders
Open RE Week
Speaking on “Refugees and Dis
placed Persons as a World Prob
lem,” Clifford E. Maser, dean of
the school of business and tech
nology at Oregon State college,
told an audience in the Student
Union Monday morning that it
was impossible to exaggerate the
tragedy of refugees.
leaser, representing the Society
of Friends during Religious Eval
uation week, was one cf the speak
ers who opened the first day of
talks on the subject of “Man in
the Atomic Age.” During his talk
he cited stories of tragic cases he
came in contact with during his
13 month stay in Austria and
Germany as a representative of
the American Friends service
committee.
, Eastern Tradition
“The Eastern Tradition in Chris
tianity" was presented to a later
audience by the Very Rev. Geo
rges Florovskv, a priest of the
Greek Orthodox church. Dr. Flor
ovsky stressed that his church,
while being ancient, should not
be rejected as archaic.
The real threat of communism
is the spreading of fear among a
free people, the Rev. H. C. Me
serve told his audience Monday
afternoon. Meserve. a minister of
the First Unitarian church of San
Francisco, suggested that Amer
ica offer the people of the world
something to believe in rather
than maintaining a defensive at
titude toward communism. In his |
speech “Liberalism versus Com
munism,” he indicated the role of
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Luncheon to Honor
Religious Leaders
Luncheon scheduled for today :
by the Religious Evaluation week |
committee will honor two guest ■
speakers, Rabbi L. Elliot Grafman.
spiritual leader of Temple Israel1
at Long Beach, Cal., and Rev. Mat
thias Burger, professor of scripture
and religion at Mount Angel sem
inary. Scheduled for noon in SU
111, the cafeteria-style luncheon]
is open to the public.
Speeches, firesides, and discus
sion' periods will highlight the sec
ond day of activities emphasizing
the purpose of religion in campus!
life.
Schedule:
7:30 a.m. Chapel meditation—
Gerlinger, second floor.
Adult leader: Rabbi
Grafman
9:00 a.m. “The Kremlin and the
Eastern Church'’ Dean
Georges Florovsky
9:30 a.m. “A Spiritual Interpre
tation of Germany”
Dean Hal C. Gossard
10:00 a.m. “Church and State in
the Catholic Tradition”
Father Burger
10:30 a.m. Question period
Noon Luncheon
2:00 p.m. “Judaism and the Po
litical Order” Rabbi
Grafman
2:30 p.m. "Religious Foundations
of Democracy” Rev. H.
C. Meserve
4:00 p.m. Religious films: “One 1
God, the Way We Wor- j
ship Him” "Brother
hood of Man”
6:00 p.m. Fireside dinners and
discussions
8:00 p.m. “Church and State in
Protestant Thought”
Rev. Paul Wright
YMCA Leader Tells
Of Global Tensions
A Dad's lounge audience of
about 60 beard Hal C. Gossard,
YMCA and education leader, dis
cuss the tensions between the
United States and Russia, in the
9 a.m. address Monday.
Opening the addresses and dis
cussions on the first full day of
Religious Evaluation week - theme
of the day was "Man in the Atom
ic Age”—Gossard described three
tensions between the two pow
ers:
1. Conflict between the two
economic ideologies of commu
nism and free enterprise.
2. Strains caused by the dis
placed peoples of the earth.
3. Tension created by the de
sires of the impoverished peoples
for a better way of life.
We arc not actually fighting the
idea of communism, Gossard said,
because ideas cannot be defeated
by force. “It's only in the force
of time that man will make his
deductions ...” Ideologies are
settled only by the test of time,
he asserted.
Instead, we are fighting the
political activities of the commu
nists, activities which have pro
duced the present “cold war.’’
Gossard enumerated the differ
ences between our philosophy and
that of the communists. Their so- :
ciety, he said, is that of a dictator- ,
ship, where man is the slave of
the state. Ours, however, is a de- !
mocracy or free state, where the
state belongs to man.
Under Russian \communism,
stated, expediency is foremost,
force is the method, and morality
is based upon what a person does
for or against the economy. Under
our concept, he said, reason is up
permost, persuasion is the meth
od, and morality is based on hum
an relations.
Communism, Gossard asserted,
is impersonal, but our democracy
stresses the secredness of the
human personality.
Gossard said he believed a war
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Rabbi Presents
Jewish View
''Man is a partner of the Hey
One, blessed be he!" This quota
tion from Holy Scripture best ex
presses the Jewish view of man,
according- to Rabbi L. Elliott Graf
man, who spoke last night in tho-*
Student Union in conjunction with
Religious Evaluation week.
Rabbi Grafman from the Tempi*.
Israel in Long Beach, Calif., talked*
on the subject of "Judaism as a
\ iew of Life." He called this \,e it
of life "a philosophy of faith fath
ered by the experience of the Jew
ish people.’’
The fact that the Jewish year
begins on the anniversary of t * a -
birth of Adam reveals the essentia*^
respect for man held by those <f-’
the Jewish faith. There is no ci:g
RE Week Speeches
Get Limited Coverage
Because of space limitations
the Emerald will not be able to
provide complete coverage t?
Religious Evaluation week every
day. Each day coverage of the 8
p.m. address and one other
speech will be published, as \v»; f
as a round-up of the other ad
dresses.
The Thursday and Friday Em
eralds will include coverage of
all RE week talks not yet cov
ered.
ir.al sin in then- religion, no loss < f
paradise and no depravity in man,
stated Rabbi Graf man. Man bee
in himself the image of God and i -
a thing of sanctity to the Jewish
people.
Man Has Free Will
"God helps those who help them* •
selves" was another theme devel
oped by the rabbi in his talk. "Man ■
has a free will to choose between
good and evil. If he chooses evil;
he will suffer the natural corse- -
quences; if he chooses good, GdV*
will be at his side." Rabbi GrafmaiV
stated his regret that men ha a ■
forgotten this principle “fn tha •
world today.
Rabbi Grafman pointecTto Mop* a-t
as a man of great humility, net
meakr.ess, who was "aware of hia
power to do. to be and to become,
and aware of his weaknesses ar d
of the ever-greater power of tha
divine.” He found in Christ, whom
he called possibly the greatest. maiV
of all times ar.d of all faiths thiy
same kind of humility.
In closing his speech, he outlin' d
man's supreme task and obliga
tion to remove the Shadow of war.
He urged the formation of a new
concept of human worth and the
realization if the dignity of man.
Persecution
In the question period immedi
ately following his talk, Raot.i
Grafman was asked about the Je w
ish feeling toward the persecution
of Jews by nominaly Christian peo
ple. He labeled this persecution
"not a crime of Christianity, nut a.
crime of Christians in not iivin. tp
to their faith.”