The Oregon Daily Emerald is published Monday through Friday during the college year
^rom Sept. 15 to June 3, except Nov. 16, 26 through 30, Dec. 7 through 9, 11 through Jan. 4,
March 8 through 10, 12 through 29, May 3, and 31 through June 2, with issues on Nov. 21,
Jan. 23, and May 8, by the Associated Students of the University of Oregon. Entered as
-second class matter at the post office, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates: $5 per school year;
v$2 per term.
Opinions expressed on the editorial page are those of the writer and do not pretend to
•represent the opinions of the ASl’O or of the University. Unsigned editorials are written by
flhe editor; initialed editorials by the associate editors.
jAL KARR, Editor
BILL BRANDSXESS, Business Manager
r.\T GILDEA, ELSIE SCHILLER, Associate Editors
KITTY FRASER, LAURA STURGES, Editorial Assistants
JACKIE WARDELL, Managing Editor
JOE GARDNER, News Edtior
SAM VAHEV, Srorts EJitor
•Chief Copy Desk Editor: Dave Averili
Chief Makeup Editor: Paul Keefe
Chief Night Editor: Anne Hill
Asst. Managing Editors: Len Calvert, Bob
Patterson
Asst. News Editors: Dorothy Her, Gordon
Rice, Sally Ryan
Bill Gurney: Remarkable Person
Oregon lias lost an outstanding student with a brilliant mind,
through the death this summer of Bill Gurney. Bill, who was to
fee an associate editor of the Emerald and the campus daily’s top
■writer, was killed in a crash of a McChord Air Eorce Base train
ing plane during an orientation flight at ROTC summer camp.
The shock of Bill’s death is hard to describe. He was an ex
cellent student, and had a fine intellect and a gifted writing
ability. He was unique as a person in that he was a genuine
campus philosopher, as his discerning analysis of “This Col
lege Life,” in spring term’s Junior Weekend edition of the
' Emerald, indicates.
Bill reflected much of the thoughts and feelings of young
people of today—the perplexity of the times, and, again, the res
ignation to practical realities. In Bill’s words:
“We have only the outward stamp of maturity, and it is a hot
• house product of troubled times. Our outward calm enables us to
face what is hard impassively, if not with genunine understanding.”
Bill had a fine ability to analyze the feelings of hunselt and his
fellow students and to express his conception of those feelings.
In this he was intensely concerned about perplexities.
In a letter to the editor last spring, commenting on the “This
■College Life” piece, one writer summed up Bill’s talent for ex
pressing the unvarnished realities:
“While the nation listens to the ‘experts’ who say ‘a university is
a community of scholars,’ we at Oregon have been fortunate enough
to read a man from among us who has the real educational tools
to discover the less pompous truth, and has the courage to tell it.’’
Bill was a strong candidate for Emerald editor the last half of
this school year. He would have been a senior in journalism,
brilliant enough to cause chagrin last year for one journalism
professor who wagered that for any student in his class he could
find at least 10 words, in a particular issue of Time magazine,
that the student could not define. For Bill this professor could
find none. •
Bill, who had a GPA well over 3., was a member of Friars,
senior men’s honorary, and, before that, of Druids and Skull
and Dagger, junior and sophomore men’s honoraries. He was
a member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, of Sigma Delta
Chi, national professional journalism fraternity, had been
sports editor of the Emerald as a sophomore, and associate
editor and managing editor last year, and sports editor and
associate editor of the Oregana.
A resident of Juntura, a small town in eastern Oregon some
75 miles from the Idaho border, Bill made an outstanding mark
in his three years at Oregon. His death has brought the loss of a
fine mind, a talented writer, and a remarkable young person.
Low-Cost Student Insurance Plan
The group insurance plan approved in the ASUO election last
spring is a good buy on a short term basis. It has certain short
comings, compared with aspects of some other policies, but the
cost is very low for insurance plans.
Its advantages include year-round, world coverage (full year
coverage on a $4.50 payment), and coverage on a variety of ac
tivities. Limitations on some kinds of injuries and the relativelv
low sum of $500 for accidental death are disadvantages.
Students have to pay only $1.50 a term or $4.50 a year for this
coverage, however. The same plan offered by the company on
an individual basis provides $2000 for accidental death, but costs
^13 per year.
So for a year, at the low cost, the coverage is pretty good. Be
ing up to the individual student, it’s all a matter of whether he
considers the coverage adequate or wants to pay more for bet
ter coverage on some other plan, providing he wants insurance
at all.
There'll Be Some Changes
V%fe
“Perhaps we should discontinue using student advisers for the new
Freshman Orientation program.”
SU To Feature
Hamlet Parody
A repeat showing of the student -
filmed, student-acted and student
directed 8 millimeter film ‘•Ham
let” will be the main feature of
the Student Union open house
Thursday evening, according to
Andy Berwick, SU board chair
man. The film will be shown from
7:40 p.m. to 8:20 p.m. in the ball
room. ,
Directed by Jim Blue, the movie
features Bob Chambers in 10 dif
ferent roles and A1 Barzman.
Filmed on campus, the mock ver
sion of the play has already been
shown to audiences of over 2100.
“Hamlet” took six days to film at
a total cost of $40.
Also included on the program is
entertainment featuring campus
talent in the fishbowl at 7 p.m.
Free cookies and coffee will be
served by the SU hospitality com
mittee.
“Fishbowl Frolics,” an informal
no-date mixer, will be held in the
fishbowl from 9 to 10:30 p.m.
Displays of the 10 standing SU
| committees will be in the second
! floor lobby. Committee chairmen
; and/ members will be on hand to
j explain the activities of their re
spective committees.
Hosts for the open house will
be the members of the SU board
| and the public relations committee.
| All areas of the building will be
i open, including the record lending
1 library and a photography exhibit
i in the art gallery.
Honorary Elects
New President
Bob Summers, junior in law, has
been elected president of Phi Eta
Sigma, freshman men’s scholastic
honorary. Summers succeeds Bill
Reeves, senior in mathematics.
Gordon Rice, sophomore in jour
nalism, was name vice president
and Ted Goh, special student in
journalism, was elected secretary
treasurer of the organization for
the coming academic year.
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Campus Briefs
0 AH staff mcmhoH of the log
ger's Guide will meet in Student
Union 311, at 10 a.m. Thursday
according to Paul Keefe, editor.
New Set-up Affects
Education Juniors
Kducation majors who are jun
iors this fall term may register in
a co-operative joint-degree pro
gram in elementary teacher edu
cation by consulting Karl M. Pal
lett, director of teacher placement,
at the school of education.
Students enrolled in the program
take specified education courses
beginning with fall term of their
junior year, then go to one of
the three colleges of education for
a concentrated year of profession
al courses and finish here at the
University spring term of their
senior year.
After completing the program
the students will receive degrees
from both the University and from
the college of education that they
attended, and will qualify for a
standard elementary teaching cer
tificate in this state.
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British Embassy
Offers Scholarship
Graduate students nnd faculty
members may apply for one of the
new Marshall scholarships, ac
cording to the British embassy lu
Washington, D.C.
Tho awards are for two years
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graduates of a degree-granting
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An ability to play an active part
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