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Opinions expressed on the editorial page are those of the writer and do not pretend to
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editor and the members of the editorial staff.
Jim Haycox, Editor Ron Brown, Business Manager
Helen Jones, Larry Hobart, Al Karr, Associate Editors
Bill Gurney, Managing Editor
Jackie Wardell. News Editor
Sam Vahey. Sports Editor
Chief Night Editor—Anne Hill
Wire Editors: Lorna Davis, Andy Salmins,
Virginia Dailey
Advertising Office Mgr.: Sharon Isaminger
.Asst. Managing Editors: Kitty Fraser, Dave
Averill, Paul Keefe.
Asst. News Editors: Laura Sturges, Len
Calvert, Joe Gardner
Is The Spirit Gone?
lror us, it's over. Xo more
pages to worry about getting
filled and no more deadlines to
meet. This is the last Emerald
until next fall.
When we do come back
you may notice a few changes
—but just a few. For as Larry
Hobart, editor for the first half
of this year, said Wednesday
night at the Emerald Banquet,
it won't really be a new staff
next year.
A few new names but, es
sentially, a continuation of a
staff started mcrre than fifty
years ago.
As our own particular Fath
er Time runs out, we can't
think of a great deal to say,
Glad to see our faculty took a
positive stand on XAACP.
Rather proud of our own Dean
Sabine for speaking up where
many others would hesitate to
whisper so much as a word.
We remember Louis Fisch
er saying that one of the big
gest dangers we face today
is hesitation on the part of
responsible citizens to defend
what they believed in. How
true . . . and how nice it is to
see somebody from this insti
tution talk square.
We had a very interesting
year. Had fun in two political
campaigns—one national, one
local—and trouble with that
old green stuff. Learned a lot
that next year’s Emerald,
under A1 Karr, will profit by.
And we end with a question.
*
What’s happened to the
“radical" spirit of young
people; where did all this "lib
eralism" we always heard
about depart to?
We're not talking about par
ticipation in activities or stu
dent government. We’re
thinking about the spirit we
used to associate with college
crowds.
Maybe it w a s “pinko”
though we doubt it. very seri
ously. We like to think it
an extremely liberal attitude
toward all things. Something
on the order of a very free and
open mind— at high tide in
the college age.
Well, we can't seem to find
it any more and we wonder.
Did this misdirected surge of
political conservatism drive
it out; did it depart with the
veterans of a couple of years
ago; was it eclipsed by the
burdens of a troubled world?
Who can say ? We can't. We
only know that the spirit is
gone, or only a dim shade of
its former self. A n d w e
thought it was a pretty good
spirit, too. The world is al
ready too full of conservative
people who stand behind
nothing so strongly as the
status quo.
Perhaps, dear reader, you
don't agree with us. Admitted
ly this is one time when we
wished like sixty that we were
deacT wrong.
The Year's Top St<
Stalin, Ike, Election, 'O', NAACP
Another school year nears its
end, and many of- us seniors at
least—arS looking back to^ee
just what the year has meant.
One way to appraise the past
months at Oregon is to peruse the
- news events, so we have done
just that.
• We’ve come up with what we
call the top eleven news stories
as published by the Oregon Daily
Emerald, plus several other ar
ticles and categories of articles.
This process creates a par
tial fiction, we admit, in that
the 1952-58 year at Oregon
wasn't just the biggest stories
—it was everything bulwarked
by day-to-day happenings. But
the top news represents tlie
tugs and pushes which gave the
past year its particular over
all character.
So, plunging off the deep end,
here are our picks for the eleven
top news events of the year—
as the Emerald ran them—and
not necessarily in order of im
portance. With them are the
bases for their selection:
1. Death oT Joseph Stalin, after
his becoming ill. No one would
argue that this isn't one of the
biggest news events, interna
tionally, of the decade. What its
significance will be is another
matter, but it certainly was news.
For the Emerald, especially so,
since the two main segments—
the announcement of the illness,
and the death—happened the
nights before two Wednesday and
Friday Emerald issues when
there was no paper in between.
2. Election of Dwight D. Eis
enhower as President of the
United States. The first Repub
lican president in 20 years, with
tremendous significance for
Oregon students and everyone
else in this country and the
world.
3. Faculty approval, then sub
sequent revoking, of the speech
requirement which would have
made mandatory three hours of
speech for every Oregon student.
When passed, it was to be the
first major change in academic
requirements in several years;
when revoked, that move was
cancelled.
4. United Students association
Greek houses return to Associated
Greek students party and United
Independent Students is formed.
First change in political party set
up at Oregon since USA's forma
’s
notes to the editor
ABOUT THE ‘O’
Please accept, for what they are
worth, these two suggestions con
cerning the recent controversy
about the “O” on Skinner’s Butte.
1. The present “O” is so solidly
constructed that the only prac
tical way of removing it is with
dynamite. Since many of us like
the “O” why not remove the pres
ent one and construct one out of
light wood or some other mate
rial which pranksters could re
move without resorting to dyna
mite? If the lightly constructed
“O” was then damaged it would
not endanger lives or property,
and it could be easily, quickly and
cheaply repaired.
2. If the athletic events and or
spring fever are continually go
ing to lead to incidents which
endanger the lives and property
of innocent people then why not
place restrictions upon the en
tire student bodies of the school
or schools involved?
Sincerely yours,
(name withheld by request)
(Ed. note: An agreement be
tween the University and OSC
in the fall of 1948, and reaf
firmed every year since then,
should take care of wrongdoers
on either campus ... if caught.
The agreement stipulates that
(1) student body members are
individually and collectively lia
ble for damages on the rival’s
campus and (2) students in
volved in acts of destruction and
vandalism will be suspended. It
has “worked very successful
ly” for the past five years, ac
cording to Donald DuShane, di
rector of student affairs.
Perhaps an “O” constructed
of something less solid than ce
ment would be less dangerous in
the event that it was destroyed.
Such a plan, however, doesn’t
get to the bottom of the trouble.
The only real answer, obviously,
is severe, and we mean severe,
punishment for those whose in
telligence is of such a low state
that they are willing to risk the
lives of others for a little fun.)
ATTENTION: DUCK TRACKS
In yesterday’s column “Duel
Tracks” your writer’s sang an
thems in praise of various senio
athletes who will depart this year
from the University. On the whole
the collective records of these ath
letes was somewhat impressive.
But I was appalled to find that
your columnist completely disre
garded mentioning the names and
impressive individual records of
four of the finest swimmers, all
seniors, ever to pass through our
school.
They were: Gordon Edwards,
Yasii Terada, Jim Allen and
Ray Atkinson.
Their records: (1) one National
Collegiate record. (2) Two confer
ence records. (3l A dozen state
AAU records. (4) Seven varsity
records. (5) Five conference
championships. (6 J Numerous
pool and meet records.
This specific oversight, or negli
gence has added notably to the
general fact that the Emerald
sports department has been care
less and unheedful, for the most
part, in devoting reporting cover
. age to our minor sports,
t Fred Mohr.
(Ed. note: An oversight, no
r policy.)
tion in 1948. Represents formal re
turn to old Greek-independent po
litical alignment.
5. ASIJO senate's refusul to
continue Paul Was like as a fac
ulty member of the constitu
tion committee, replacing him
with E. S. Wengert. Was one of
the senate's more aggressive
bits of action.
C. Declaration of that constitu
tion committee that the senate’s
intent to separate presidential
and representative candidates on
the preferential class ballots is
unconstitutional. Was another
block to the senate's lengthy at
tempts to make the change. In
the ASUO election, the plan was
passed as an amendment, but fail
ed to be voted upon by enough
students to put it into effect.
7. Chopping oft of two dances
from the future calendar by the
student affairs committee. Repre
sented one of the more controver
sial actions of the committee in
the last few years, and brought
that group’s activity Into the spot
light.
n. aslu election. r o m
Wrightson elected president,
such amendments as the all
cpmpus primary, fall term
freshman elections, and gradu
ate student class representation
on the senate (now up for con
testation), and dominance of the
election by AGS. Determines
much of the personnel and
framework for student govern
ment next year, which is poten
tially very important.
9. Blasting in half of the Skin
ner’s butte “O”, for the second
year in a row. Was one of the
more destructive < to surrounding
homes) and dangerous (to police
and other observers after the
third charge of lynamite 21
sticks was left unexploded) at
tacks on the “O ’, probably by Ore
gon State college students.
10. Selection of Ron Lowell as
the outstanding student in Ore
gon, by the National Association
of Manufacturers. Honor and
prestige for the University and
one of its top students.
11. Conflict over the refusal
of the student affairs commit
tee to recognize the local chap
ter of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People as a University student
organization. One of the bigger
issues, charged with emotion
and having important impli
cations.
We had to pick these eleven over
many other highlights and sig
nificant news events, and some
not too significant. We cannot
overlook, however, such news as
the visits of Eisenhower and Rich
ard Nixon to Eugene, the assem
bly addresses of such men as
Groucho Marx, Edward Weeks,
Mortimer Adler, Lester Pearson
and Wayne Morse, the Emerald’s
editorial backing Adlai Stevenson
for President, the series of house
burglaries, the American Legion
decision not to ask for teachers’
loyalty oaths at colleges in Ore
gon.
Disciplinary action against men
caught drinking in a dormitory,
the ineligibilities of three senate
members, the erection of the Geo
desic dome, the short-lived squab
ble over the initially-accepted but
later rejected attack on deferred
living presented for approval to
Interfraternity council, the state
legislature’s approval of a new
journalism school here, the con
flict over extension of civil serv
ice for University employees, the
appointment of Gov. Doug Mc
Kay as secretary of interior, the
failure last fall term of the fresh
man election amendment to pass
>ries
Are List's Standouts
because of an Insufficient votei
turnout.
The Emerald's poll showing
students liked Ike, the student
cleanup of the mlllraee, the
switch to noon, four-page pub
lication ol' the Kmerald, the w in
ning of the national howling ti
tle hy the W'ehfoot team, deci
sion to hold fall term rushing for
men next year, the death of
Puddles, the softly, of limited
AM broadcasts for station
KIVAX, the selection of the
various class officers, publica
tion heads, and other student
leaders, and the traditional
weeks, weekends and contests
—such as Homecoming, Itelig
iou Evaluation week, and the
Ugly mun contest.
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