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Pears on: First-Teamer
Another one of the really
outstanding international fig
ures will be a speaker at
Tuesday’s assembly.
He is Lester B. ‘Alike”
Pearson, president of the
United Nations general as
sembly. Pearson is just one
of the many important per
sonalities, nationally and/or
internationally, who have
come to the campus through
the fine work of Lyle Nelson,
public services director, and
the University assembly com
mittee.
Assembly speakers in the
last two years have included
world historian Arnold Toyn
bee, CIO president Walter
Reuther, N A M president
William Grede, Senator Paul
Douglas, writer Bernard De
Voto, Russian experts Alex
Inkeles and Louis Fischer,
editor Edward Weeks, jour
nalist Roscoe Drummond, ed
ucator Mortimer Adler, come
dian Groucho Marx, and poli
ticians Earl Warren, Estes
Kefauver, Harold Stassen,
Paul Hoffman (for Dwight
D. Eisenhower), and John
Sparkman.
Pearson, president of the
UN assembly since October,
1952, is one of Canada’s top
diplomats. He was with the
UN at its beginning, at Dum
barton Oaks in 1944 and a.t
San Francisco in 1945. He be
came Canada's secretary of
state for external affairs in
1948. and was chairman of the
NATO conference in 1951.
Pearson is a friend of the
United States, but he hasn't
been particularly pleased
with our every action, espec
ially regarding Korea. He was
indignant at the use of Canad
ian soldiers to stop rioting of
Communist prisoners on Koje
Island.
Pearson is apparently quite
respected by the West and
Russia alike in the United
Nations, not an easy feat for
a UN leader.
The selection of the UN as
sembly president is another
feather in the University cap,
since his Student Union ball
room talk at 1 p.m. Tuesday
will be his only public appear
ance while in the Northwest
from New York especially for
the University address.
Selection of so many out
standing speakers is made at
the risk of dimming the bril
liance of any individual
speaker for the interest of the
student.
But we doubt if the import
ance of,any of them as an as
sembly speaker, Pearson in
cluded, has been diminished
very much.
The man has the back
ground to be a very interest
ing University lecturer. It
looks like his talk will be
worth listening to.
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It Can't Happen Here..
The Michigan Daily, University
of Michigan, recently reprinted a
letter received by a student at
Michigan Normal College. The
student has missed a meeting
called by college authorities to
discuss scholastic standing and
behavior of residents in the men’s
dorms. Here’s the letter:
“I am sorry that you failed to
meet your 10 a.m. appointment on
Tuesday morning, March 17, 1953.
However, because you did miss
the meeting you are required to
write a 1,000 word theme on the
subject, “Ways of Improving the
Men’s Residence Halls.” This
theme must be in President El
liott’s office by Friday noon, Ap
ril 3, 1953, or you will have to be
dismissed from school.”
Said the Michigan Daily, “For
tunately ... it can’t happen here
—or can it?”
notes to the editor
I
EMERALD MISSED
THE BOAT?
In the past several weeks, the
Emerald has carried many im
portant stories. But, it seems to
this person that the Emerald has
missed one of the most important
and significant issues existing on
the Campus at present—the re
fusal of the Student Affairs Com
mittee to recognizo the student
founded NAACP. It is not the
purpose of this letter to say what
I feel about this decision, but
rather to point out the fact that
the Emerald has not mentioned
the case recently. The Eugene
Register-Guard carried a front
page story on May 10, and K.ORE
a tape-recorded interview with
Donald M. DuShane (May 17),
but nothing in the Emerald. I
would like to know exactly the
stand taken by the SAC and what
the NAACP is going to do. I
hope the Emerald will take up
the issue and bring the FACTS
to light.
sincerely,
Robin LamsOn
(Ed. note: We, too,-Mr. Lam
son, would like to know a lot
more about what goes on in
SAC meetings. The Emerald Is
not, however, allowed to cover
them. So unless somebody feels
like telling us what happened,
we’re not apt to be able to tell
you much. In the particular
case of NAACP we’ve talked
to both sides and have some
idea of what went on. But far
better than that, we think,
would be the right given us to
go listen in and decide for our
selves what consitutes a fair
picture of the situation. We are
not particularly interested in
printing reports given us by
one Or the other of the contest
ants, though we sometimes
have to. Such a policy leads
rapidly into Inaccurate and bi
ased reporting.)
THE GURNEY EPISODE
. . . CONTINUED
I have just finished the last
of your week long series of let
ters and articles on the whims
and ways of campus education.
All that I have to show for my
lost time is a vaguely tickled
sense Of humor and vast sense
of confusion.
What is everyone arguing?
Better yet, what aren't they
arguing? Isn't everyone trying
to say the same thing; compar
ing the group system from the
individual point of view? It calls
to mind nothing more strongly
than • the ancient fable of the
blind men who described an ele
phant.
The scholastic goal of the
typical Oregon U. student, I
believe, could be stated so: to
get what he can from college.
Assuming the student’s status
a* a creature of reason and am
bition, W'e must assume also
that the school periods will be
devoted to realization of that
goal.
But what does the student
want from school? Does the man
who diligently letters in every
available sport aspire to the
pinnacle of "sublime, intellectual
alcoholism" ? Does the equally
energetic social "joiner" of Ore
gon look forward primarily to an
increase in his or her intellectual
capacity? Does the student (in
the philosophical sense of the
word) hope for the day when he
may paper his den with the vari
ous athletic and organizational
awards of college. Is that what
these Oregon groups wnnt? Dol- “
lars to Student Union doughnuts .
they don’t. ■
It’s time for a few people to *
reall/.e that many groups and
many goals exist among us. Be- a
cause one goal Is socially vulld
detracts nothing from the
validity of another. The im
portant question is: Does the
student have a goal? *
As long as a student has an
honest college destination, it '
would be dogmatic despotism
(Friday’s Emerald critics please
note) to ridicule him for it. True,
for such men as these above, per
haps college rightfully is nothing
more than a piece of scribbled
sheepskin. They have a right to
that opinion. But the right to
hold one opinion does not imply
the light to condemn or ridicule -
another.
In one way I'm also prejudiced.
Sharing Mr. Wharton's status as
a veteran and Sophomore Honors
student, I look on the college •
goal as being one of the scho
lastic attainment. Four years of
service life have stimulated my
thirsrt for knowledge until it oc
casionally transcends more ma- .
terial "Alcoholism." But all this
is my own personal goal-scholas
tic attainment. It would be fool- *
ish and useless to foist it off on
every other student of Oregon.
I won’t begrundge the real
istic his parchment goal. Four
years of social life undoubtedly
forms a more solid personality
in the Joiner. Athletes may
reap tremendous benefits in
later life from college sports.
They have their desires—1 have
mine. Let’s respect them.
George Wilkins.
A LOOK AT THE OTHERS...
Congress Probe Danger, Plaudits]
For Fulton Lewis in College* News '
Danger Signals . . .
(ACP) — Time magazine has
asked U. S. educators across the
nation: What overall effect are
the congressional investigations
having on the nation’s colleges
and universities ? Here are some
of Time’s conclusions:
On campus after campus, the
danger flags are out. At Michi
gan State, department heads have
for the first time been asking
their deans how far they should
go expressing their own political
opinions. At the University of
Pennsylvania, a young instruc
tor said the only reason he would
not join the liberal, non-Commun
ist American Civil Liberties Un
ion was that "I don’t want ACLU
membership on my record.”
, . . How significant are these
danger signals? No one can ac
curately say, but some U. S. ed
ucators have begun to wonder
whether education is not losing
its boldness.
“I confess,” says Robert Bol
well, professor of American liter
ature at George Washington Uni
versity, “That after finishing a
lecture, I sometimes wonder if
somebody is going to take it to
Papa or to some repor ter . . . One
lecture could damn anybody.”
. . . For students, the situation
is just as serious. “When I was an
undergraduate 35 years ago,”
says one California college pro
fessor, “I enjoyed one luxury stu
dents don’t have now—the luxury
of making a mistake.”
Fulton Lewis Liked . . .
The Brescia Broadcast, Bres
cia college, Ky., asked 20 students
recently who their favorite com
mentator was.
Fulton Lewis came up with
eight votes and John T. Flynn
with six. The rest were scattered
for Walter Winchell, Cecil Brown
and Robert Hurley.
Said one student, “Fulton Lewis
is my favorite commentator be
cause of his fearless attacks on
corrupt politicians.’’
Said another, “John T. Flynn.
This man reports the news as it
happens, and does not give im
plied interpretation.”
Communist Pamphlets..
A few universities in Texas
have recently been showered with
pamphlets published, according to
the Daily Texan, under the aus
pices of the Communist party.
The pamphlets play on the
theme of alleged Wall Street
domination of the South and Ne
gro oppression.
'Comments the Daily Texan,
"The problem we face today is
not solved with a laugh or a
chuckle over such Communistic
literature. The answers rest in a
serious redefinition of democracy
which can successfully combat
the offensive tactics of Commun
ism ...”
Battle for Privacy ... *
Male students at Swarthmore
college, Pa., once had the privil
ege of entertaining female stu
dents in their dormitory rooms.
This privilege has recently been
withdrawn, and the whole affair
is causing a lot of trouble.
The Haverford (Pa.) News ex
pressed great concern for the
males’ problem in an editorial
entitled “Swarthmore’s Problem.”
Said the News:
"Swarthmore at the present
time Is engaged in a battle for
privacy. They are allowed prac
tically no privileges at all in so
far a? the problem of women in
the dorms is concerned.
“Previous to last year the men
were allowed to have women in
their rooms on Sunday afternoon
for a short time. However, when
a coed was caught in the rather
daring act of rubbing a male stu- -
dent’s back, even this privilege
was suspended.’’
“At the present time, Swarth
more students are allowed to have
one open house a year, in which -
the women actually may be in a
man's room.
"Now it seems to us at the
•News that morals should be con
trolled, although not legislated. -
Swarthmore students, we feel, are
entitled to at least some measure
of privacy.”
Honor by Signature... .
A proposed honor system at
Souhtern Methodist University
would require students to sign
honesty pledges on all quizzes and
exams, and on other assignments -■
that the instructor may direct. *
Supporting the plan, the SMU -
Campus declared, “ . . . each stu- .
dent at SMU should be a lady or _
a gentleman, one who considers 4
honor as a part of his character. „
If there are those here who lack M
honor, they must either assume »
it or leave the university. 1
“ . . . On tests, students would ^
be treated as ladies and gentle
men rather than as paroled con
victs with monitors watching
their every move.”