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A Doubtful Approach to Honor
Oh, come join “our” bandwagon . .
With a big cheer and much waving of the green and yellow
pom-poms, the honor code is being “sold to the freshman. It s
all in “The Oregon Way,” a pamphlet being distributed in
freshman dorms as the first step in a plan of long indoctrination.
“The Oregon Way” supposedly will instill in the freshman
the idea that we have a tradition of honor here at the University
and at the same time suggest reasons for such a tradition.
Grade school tiny tots might holler and applaud such trite
phrases as—“your grandfathers fought a way back in 1776,”
“And the first thing for you to do is to show us how well you
can run your own dorm,” “it’s just common, ordinary adult
sense,” and to close it (with perhaps a misty tear), “we’re
counting on you.”—but apart or in text they do so little to sell
an honor code to a mature audience.
The “pat them on the head” tone of “The Oregon Way”
liardly seems the answer to instilling an honor code in any fresh
man. And if we’ve grown so hardened in four short years to ac
tually laugh at material a first-year student is supposed to con
template, then it would be impossible for a standard honor code
to bridge the gap.
The ASUO senate felt it would be wise to keep “The Oregon
^Way” away from unsympathetic upperclassmen. How right
they were—too bad they didn’t have the chance to realize the
■ridiculousness of it until last week, when many saw it for the
<irst time.
The light put on the honor code through The Oregon
Way” appears to be a bit over-rosied for something as indiv
ual as honesty.
The honor code committee is working on separate spiels for
upperclassmen and faculty, too. It’s improbable that three
separated expectations from a system—freshman, upperclass
men and faculty—will result in a unified honor code.
It was admitted in the report that the committee was “guilty
• of glossing over a few of the facts of University life;” maybe
in the upperclassman campaign for honor we’ll get a few of the
lacts. (That’s all we want is the facts—just the facts.)—(P-G.)
No Anonymous Letters, Please
A letter came into our office Wednesday, a letter that was
^pretty indignant about what the writer indicated was a recent
. incident on campus.
We did not run the letter because it was not signed by the
-writer. It is our policy, as was stated in the Emerald of Monday,
Sept. 21, that letters to the editor should be submitted with the
name of the writer.
The reason is obvious. All other opinion that is printed in the
^Emerald, be it editorials or columns, is identified as to writer both
~ to the Emerald and to the reader. We do not insist that letters
must be identified as to writer for the readers, but the letter
must be responsible, to the extent that the writer is willing to
ibe known by us as the one who wishes it printed.
If the writer of the letter in question, signed only “Bitter Stu
dent,” will identify himself to the editor, his letter will be
printed, name withheld if he desires.
“Any o’ you guys ’round here gotta extra cigarette, Ed?”
'Scarlet Letter' Product of Agony,
Hoeltje Tells Lecture Audience
“No masterpiece of American
art was ever created in as much
agony of spirits as was “The Scar
let Letter,” began Dr. H. H. Hoelt
je, professor of English, in tne
first lecture of the term last night
in the Student Union browsing
room.
Hoeltje unfolded a story of the
circumstances under which Nath
aniel Hawthorne wrote his famous
novel. It was one of political in
trigue, deep dejection, faithful
friendship and determination, ac
cording to Hoeltje.
Hawthorne found himself in fin
ancial straits early in his career
and his poverty and misery be
came the subject of public gossip,
Hoeltje reported. Thus he sought
some type of position so that he
would not have to write for a liv
ing and government office seemed
the only alternative to the alms
house.
All of his friends were active in
the cause to get Hawthorne into
government office and wrote to
the president of the United States
of his unblemished reputation and
his sense of honor, Hoeltje said.
Eventually, this led to his ap
pointment as surveyor of the Sal
em, Mass., custom house. Accord
ing to Hoeltje, Hawthorne could
once more settle down to a more
peaceful existence, one where he
could continue his writing and en
joy life. Hawthorne suddenly was
dismissed from his position due to
New Oregon 'O'
To Be Stronger
(Continued from page one )
of concrete.
Both of these proposals should
discourage prankish actions, Hawk
said. They will, in doing this, de
stroy the source of what has be
come almost a tradition in the
life of the University’s symbol.
No less than three times the "O”
has been dynamited, since its orig
inal construction in 1909 by the
junior class of that year. Once, in
1911, it was tarred by pleasure
seeking OSC students, and its
well- worn surface has received,
according to one conservative es
timate, about 120 paint jobs j
throughout the years.
Until last year, however, the j
I conflicting nature of these pranks ,
1 didn’t come to the attention of;
! city officials. Since they had no:
preceding action on which to base,
a decision at that time, the mat
ter is completely new to them.
The city council, now under the
management of Robert Finlayson,
the city manager who took office
early in the summer, is open to
proposals from the student body.
They have completely referred the
initiative for action to the Uni
versity, and “we should be able
to get something done in time for
Homecoming,” Hawk said.
Immigration Row
Ends; Blind Pianist
Eugene Bound Now
(AP) - A blind British piano
player named John Snell and his
family will be allowed to enter
this country as permanent resi
dents. They will come to Eugene
where they have relatives.
Snell, who is totally blind, and
his partially blind wife, Betty, and
their two children were detained
at Ellis island in New York be
cause they had been on relief in
England.
Snell had been signed as a piano
player at $100 a week by a Eu
gene night club. But immigration
authorities at first said the con
tract was not a complete, guaran
tee of employment.
Later, ‘ immigration officials
said they did not know at the time
that Snell had relatives in this
country who could guarantee that
he would be provided for, Tuesday
the immigration board in Wash
ington directed that they be ad
mitted—provided that relatives
post $2000 in public charge bonds.
Snell’s two sisters live in Eugene,
"corruption, iniquity and fraud.”
The dismissal of Hawthorne be
came news of national prominence
as newspapers all over the country
raised a storm. Once more with
out income, the necessity for writ
ing once more took possession,
along with a desire on his part
to put his enemies to shame.
Finally, through all the adver
sity, the "Scarlet Letter" was
completed and Hawthorne sat
back feeling very depressed
through this work of human frail
ty and sorrow, stated Hoeltje.
“In the Old Manse at Concord,
Mass, can now be found the words,
‘Man's accidents arc God’s pur
poses’ scratched on the window
glass of his study with his wife’s
diamond,” Hoeltje ended.
Professors Turn
Summer Authors
Three members of the history
department had material publish
ed this summer. Gordon Wright,
head of the department, co-auth
ored the book “European Political
Systems,” which was edited by j
Taylor Cole. Wright wrote the sec-1
tion on France. He also had works ■
printed in The American Political
Science Review and the Virginia j
Quarterly Review.
William A. Williams, assistant
professor of history, wrote an ar
ticle dealing with the policy of the
United States toward Russia, en- i
titled "Containment and Peace.";
It was published in The Nation.
Wendell H. Stephenson, who'
joined the faculty this fall, was1
co-editor of the sixth volume of a
ten-volume series entitled "A His
tory of the South.”
Form Press Club
(Continued from page one )
returned from a year at Harvard
university on a Nieman Fellow
ship. The December meeting will
feature Albert Karr, editor of the
Oregon Daily Emerald, who will
speak on “Confessions of a Cam
pus Editor.”
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