Who Is This Goy?
1 '} lie name alone is enough to scare a person off. »
Dr. Mortimer J. Adler. Sounds high-tone, doesn't it? And
)»ij>e this. He's going to speak on "Art and Aesthetics. Might
■Hri i then be a fine opportunity for us to politely evade the dis
cu -sion and spend a few extra minutes with coffee, cards or
any number of other painless pleasures?
Herhaps there have been times in the past few years when
stub a question, to be answered honestly, would have needed
a ‘ yes.” But in Dr. Adler’s case, it's definitely "no."
* We think he’s one of our most provocative educators—
• but that’s not the reason. It’s because he can write about
( tr.d we presume talk about) five dollar ideas in those com
forting words of one and two syllables. We know he has
something to say;, we’re sure we’ll understand it when he
s tys it.
■And \ve*re not just saying- this to till space (either here or
at the assembly). We can cite an example, his classic work in
-■•Aflimtely unclassic terminology,. “How to Read a Book.” If
ytv.Ve' neveT read it, you’ve been cheated.
Tor in-that book. Dr. Adler tactfully tells- you tlrat you prob
ably don't know'how to read.' Unihiportant? Hardly, when
,.ys« think of lfbw much of tlvis.'CO^lege^ “education” of yours
‘based ou.„readin,g» .how much of your future life will de
^Mpewd on it. .
• Why cheated? Because he offers you the means to learn
-Tow to read. ... 1
' \\ e don’t -meaii to- imply that the book is just another of
■ dhe “How to . . affairs. A«ller himself describes it as a
‘'light book" about “heavy reading.” It is mudi more, in our
estimation.
-• It may,- foe •example,- leave you feeling- that you've so far
•J>>> i for two,-three or four years of underlining books and
-j4ie.«.ring- dead;facts droned from lifeless teachers—little more.!
St may make you angry with yourself, or with the school.
In fact we’ll suggest-you could do worse, a lot worse, than
d> Doping over to the library some rainy afternoon and pun
ning one of the half dozen or so copies of it off the shelf.
. -V. e suggest' you read 'just the first page of it. then deciding
whether you want to'go on with it or not. It you don't, and
tD o it hack on the "counter "neither remembering or caring
VTTr'i.t he said. then, forget we ever mentioned it—and consider
•four “education” £a&$4acbiry.
We think, however, tfikh you’ll find the first page will de
■tn3ud reading the second, the third, the fourth, and so on to
the end of the hook (which itself is only introduction to a
‘t'r.v of “Great Books.’j In that case, we need say nothing
—Dr. Adler is his"own best salesman.
Try it. If not completely satisfied in ten minutes, return
the unused portion of the book to the desk and your inclina
tion to keep on squeeking through with as little mental effort
a possible will cheerfully be refunded in full.
Oh, no. Nobody can make you learn or understand one
frarticfe more than you want to learn or understand. But if
tftof mystic fire is still burning-, after one or two or three years
*{ intellectual stupor, there’s fresh, life-giving fuel for you
tin those pages. (j.H.)
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Monday * rt %
6:03 Piano Moods *
6:10 News Till Nou " “ .
6:13 Guest Stuf
6:30 Campus Interview
6:43 Here Is Spencer-Snow
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7:30 Showtime •««—.
8:00 World in Review^!
8:13 Campus RectTttT'
8:43 News Roundup -
9:00 Cavalcade of .\luiTh~
9:30 Kwax worKT ---
10:30 Emerald of the-Air
10:33 Softly Now "
Journalist to Talk
On Foreign News
Jerome L. Heldring, .director of
the Netherlands Information serv
ice in the United States, will ex
plain - -how the . newspapers of
America handle f6fe~igh“ news to
Oregon newspapermen at the Ore
gon Rrese* conference on- oampus.
The conference,• 34th in an- an
nual, series,, .wifi. be. Held liiday
and Satujrday, Feb. 20 and 21. It
is sponsored by the school of jour
nalism and Oregon Newspaper
Publishers.' association.
Heldring and Henry R. Luce,
editor in chief of Time, Life and
Fortune magazines and director of
Time, Inc., will be featured speak- j
ers at the conference. Luce will de- |
liver the annual Eric W. Allen Me- !
morial lecture at the conference. I
• Campus Briefs
• Confined in the infirmary
over the weekend were Phyllis
Johnston, sophomore in liberal I
arts, James Hughs, sophomore in
business, Bob Southwell, sopho
more in business, Yoshinobu Ter- \
ada. junior in art and Henry Kai
uro, junior in physical education.
0 Assistant professor Herbert :
Bisno of the sociology department
will speak at Wesley house tonight
at 8. The meeting is under the
sponsorship of the local National
Ass’n. for the Advancement of
Colored People. Topic of Bisno’s
speech is “Accommodating Lead
ership in a Period of Political
Crisis." A discussion will follow'
the speech, and the interested pub- j
lie is invited.
FOR DABNEY, TREATMENT 'A'
Needed: Rebirth in Local Politics !
>| By Sill Gurney
The thought occurs that per
il 3.ps it is nearing the time when
campus politics will rise, like a
Phoenix from the ashes, and
plague us.
' Even now, decisions are un
d >tibte<fly being made in smoke
■ filled rooms that will affect the
course of campus history. For
instance, perhaps a TNE cell is
: again operating insidiously.
i i hope so, because what this
campus has needed for a long
j time is a little more Machia
, vellian maneuvering and old
fashioned free- style bade
« scabbing.
; 'The old-timers who were here
E Ol. (Before Deferred Living)
; volt tell you that you didn’t rate
a;, a Power, per se, unless you
t «» td made-a few ASUO Number
I Odes,-and broken a few others.
Let’s go to a TNE orgy. It is
- being held by candlelight in the
bitti-basement of the Awful Al*
fa!fa house, and the meeting has
been called to order by the
Worthy Boss.
YVB: Okay, men, let’s get to
work. First, about this Brows
ing room art subchairman job.
It’s big—see—really big, and
we got to get it. If we can,
nothing can stop us, but noth
ing. "Why we could even . . .
FIRST PLOTTER: You mean
WB: Exactly, and we’d be able
to smash those louts over in the
Omicron Kegga house who think
their boy Dabney is the man for
Number One. We all know Dab
ney isn’t Number One material,
unless his house bolts the block.
SECOND PLOTTER: Dabney’s
out, definitely out. Should we
give give him the treatment
type A?
CHORUS: Right!
THIRD PLOHLSK: But
what will his folks think if he
vanishes for six mouths aud
turns up in Candied Yam,
Georgia, working in a cotton
gin and think’s he s A1 Jolson.
Isn’t Type A a little rough ?
\VB: Whaddya mean, rough?
Remember what we did to
Smithers? He tried to get Num
ber One.
TP: Oh, yeah, I heard a skull
washed up in Japan—but no one
ever knew for sure. Ok, Type A
is fine,
\VB: Good. Now I got some
thing else to bring up. That lit
professor, Mr. Utter Cading
ton, he’s been giving me a bad
time. I want him eliminated.
Get the Contact on that right
away.
CHORUS: Right, chief.
WB: And tell the Contact
ten percent of the dorm profits
is plenty for his cut. This fifteen
percent stuff don’t go, see, it
don’t go.
Meeting adjourned.
MOST FROM OREGON
W'ebfoot Students Hail
FfOtir Many Countries
IBy'Anne. l\.iUlic; . . 1 „*
— —• •— Emartld Reporter
Where are you from? Jf you are like most students, you '
have asked and answered this , question many times since T
coming to Oregon. The probable answer would be that you *
are front some town in this state, as most of Oregon's 4,231 ’
students are. „ , - j
But if, as is the case with 127 students, you should say vou -
were from sora» foroigru country
it would- not be unique. There are
3S-^separate' countries represented
Bn 4h* campus 4his-4errrh-Largest
representations are from Morocco,
Pbl-tugdl, Belgium, Finland, Indo
nesia, Italy, Colombia, Palestine,
Greece, Peru, Okinawa, Panama,
Israel, Lithuania and Holland.
Eugene lands
Leading with the largest , num
ber of students from one town is
Eugene, which has 335 men and
323 women on the campus. Port-,
land is next with 443 men and
285 women. Springfield is well
represented, being next in line
with 73 men aad 37 women. From
Salem there are 54 men and 49
women.
There are students here from 37
other states, including the Dis
trict of Columbia, besides Oregon.
The states not represented this
year aie Arkansas. Arizona, Del
iware, Kentucky, Maine. Massa
chusetts, Mississippi, New Hamp
shire, South Carolina. Vermont
md West Virginia.
Many Keligkins
California has the largest num
ber of out-of-state students, 155
men and 133 women. From Wash
ington there are 73 men and 74
women. From New York there are
13 men and 4 women, and there
ire 8 students fiom Illinois. Seven
students are from Pennyslvahia.
The students from foreign coun
tries represent many different
types of religious groups. There
ire Moslems from the Near and
Far East, Buddhists from Siam
md Japan, Mohammedans from
Pakistan and members of the
Church of England from Canada
md England. The missionary in
fluence -is shown in the figures of
Protestant and Catholic member
ship from such countries as Afri
ca and China and there is a Quak
er from Japan.
WRA Calls Petitions
Petitions are now being called
for chairmen of the annual WRA
Carnival, to be held Feb. 28, ac
cording to Mary Wilson, sopho
more in liberal arts.
Chairmen for tickets, finance,
promotion, publicity, booths, deco
rations, the food booth and clean
up are wanted. Petitions, available
in the Student Union, are to be
turned in by 5 p.m. Wednesday to
the cage at Gerlinger or to Miss
Wilson at the Delta Gamma house.
Rally Board...
Positions Pilled
Terry O'Brien, sophomore in *
English; Ely nor Robbie**, sopho
more in pre-law, and Pete Will
iams, sophomore in business, have ■*
been appointed- to fill the three
vacancies in the rally board.
The appointments, which are ef- *.
fective immediately, were made
Thursday, according to A1 Golden- I
berg, chairman of the board. This *
brings the rally board to its full
strength of 14 members.
Head Petitions Due
Chairmanship petitions for the
campus Red Cross drive must be *
turned into Pat Ruan, general -
chairman, at Delta Gamma by 5
pm. Thursday, according to Miss
Ruan.
Chairmanships open are secre- ..
tary, collections, promotion and
publicity. Petition blanks are "
available in the Student union, »
third floor, Muss Ruan said.
The drive will begin late in
February. • *
Ex-Student Asks Help
For Stricken Hometown
VVim Van Eekeren. former for
eign student at the university,
has asked aid for his flood-rav
aged home town, Bergen op Zoom
in the Netherlands. He received his
master’s degree in journalism here
last year and is now a student
at Georgetown university.
Van Eekeren is asking that do
nations for the town, which has
been nearly destroyed by war and -
storm three time's, be sent to the
school of journalism. Money or
ders or checks which are sent *
should be made out to him, he
said.
Deadline for the contribution is
Wednesday, Gordon Sabine, dean
of the journalism school, stated.
Campus Calendar
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