emerald The Oiwm Drily Enermld b published Monday throofh Friday daring tk. college year •Mae Sept. 1$ to Jam 3, except Nor. 16, 36 through 30, Dae. 7 through 9, It through Jan. 4, Ifarf. g through to, 12 through 29, May 3, and 31 through June 2, with iuuca on Nor. 21, Jan. 23. and May 8, by the Student Publications Board of On Unberaity of Oregon. En tered as second class matter at the post office, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates: ($ per ffixhii your; $2 par term. » np.tewa ew|»«aaU men An page ere theie *4 the writer rad- do not' pretend to rfn...i 0^ opinions of the ASUO or of the Unseersity. Unsigned editoeiale am written by the editor; initialed editorials by the associate editors. _ Remember Us, Too The Oregon Daily Emerald University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon October 7, 1953 An open letter to: R. E. Kleinsorge, Henry F. Cabell, G. F. Chambers, Edgar W. Smith, Mrs. E. B. Mac Naughton, A. S. Grant, Herman Oliver, Leif Finseth, and William E. Walsh. Dear members of the state board of higher education: As you begin interviews of candidates for president of Oregon today, we hope that you will keep the wishes of the students in mind. We have a big stake in this, too. You are considering important qualifications in selecting the new president—including academic training, administrative ex perience, thinking on problems common to university heads, and relations with faculty and the general public. We hope that you won’t overlook some qualifications of par ticular interest to Oregon students. All of us, of course, want the best possible president in all respects. We want a man who will stand up well in the light of such considerations as experience, relations with faculty, and all other qualifications which you seek. But, as students, we also hope that the new president will: 1. Be able to devote some time to meeting with student groups and informal eontaet with students. H. K. Newburn, as president, always regretted that his busy schedule never permitted him enough time to get acquainted with students. He realized the value of close student-president relations. Newburn was an excellent president. It was unfortunate that the students were mostly ignorant and indifferent about the role of the University’s head administrator. 9. Maintain a steady interest in responsible student desires and student activities. We hope that the new president will be receptive to student feeling on faculty, course, and allied matters. We would like him to be also receptive to opinions expressed by such groups as the ASUO senate, the student union board, the Emerald, inter-fraternity council, inter-dorm council, and heads of houses. We recognize that the president has designated representa tives to work with these groups, but a reasonable amount of ac tive interest on his part helps to promote a progressive situation. 3. Carry on a sound philosophy toward academic and extra-cnr ricular life at Oregon, as Newburn did. An example: healthy en couragement of the athletic program, but not subverting the edu cational objectives of the University. These are not the only characteristics of a good president at Oregon, obviously. But we feel that they should be among those qualifications considered. Sincerely yours, Oregon Daily Emerald I&tCAN *£* I 0*1* TOOCg j HOV\e 6C0N r\ _ “Sometimes I question the realiabHtty of those vocational tests.” Letters to the Editor No Argument Emerald Editor: During the past few days, two letters have appeared in the "Emerald” — both emotionally toned; one, an attack on a stu dent leader concerning his pre sentation of a talk which con cerned discrimination in frater nities, and one which heaps abuse on the fraternity system as being undemocratic, exclusive, non-in tellectual, juvenile, and narrow. I have noticed—and I will admit, with some admiration— that no letters of rebuttal have come from the Oregon frater nity system; I would guess that they feel as I do—that It is a rather futile and petty thing to argue via a newspaper about characteristics of frater nities . . . not futile because the fraternity system has no point of argument, but because argument does no good—only harm. Argument, like these letters, leads to feelings of un pleasantness between Indepen dent and Greek. I think that instsead of straining relations, we on the Oregon campus are interested in ^bettering rela tions. Thus, the so-called "Greeks” of Oregon will probably, not give the writers of these two letters the argument they are looking for; nor will I. William F. Denman National Committeeman and Chapter Adviser Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity Regular Letters Receive Wings UP) - The post office department put wings on tons of regular three cent letters and two cent postcards Tuesday. If the tests are successful, the service will be expanded. It's based on the idea of buying up empty I space on the airlines at low rates. I The big “air lift” experiment is designed to speed up delivery of I first class mail between major ■ American cities. Carried by plane, the letters i were expected to be delivered i about 24 hours earlier than if 1 they’d been sent by train. The first ‘ class mail was flown without bene- 1 fit of six cent air mail stamps, on i flights between Washnigton and Chicago and Chicago and New 1 York. \ Postmaster General Summer- 1 field hopes eventually to get all < first class mail sent by air between major cities. Summerfield said it won’t mean i the end of the six cent air mail stamp. Letters carrying the air < stamps are sure of being sent by t air and have a priority on delivery i over regular mail. < The experiment brought a pro- i test from the AFL national pos- 1 tal transport association. It claims < to represent 30,000 postal trans portation clerks. t The union said the new service 1 will bring what it called ‘‘chaos < in the orderly transportation of < mail.” The union’s executive board : said the experiment would never have been started if it were not for what it termed “The open and hidden subsidization of the air line industry." The union contends that rail way post office cars, with clerks sorting the mail en route, would continue to provide the best guar antee of efficient postal service. Fraternities Broadening Emerald Editor: After reading the opinions of the several embittered, disillu sioned and ill-informed indepen dents on campus, we feel the time has come to Inform the poor unfortunates as to the Greek views on life, etc. First we may remind the young man whose letter ap peared in yesterday’s Emerald that not all fraternity men are juvenile delinquents and men tal dwarfs. Most of the bril liant and successful men grad uating from Oregon in the past few years have been, at one time or another, associated with fraternities. Mr. Crow has made a miser able and incorrect statement to the effect that fraternities tend to keep one's mind from being broadened. We feel that a frater nity broadens one more than any other college experience. The close dally contact with other students may not im prove one intellectually, but the benefits derived In regard to better understanding of people and a broadening of personalities are immeasurable. We might also say in closing that our fraternity and at least six others on campus not only have constitutional clauses ban ning any sort of racial discrimi nation, but practice tolerance in every single case. The Delta Upsilon Fraternity Campus Calendar &oon Phi Alpha Delta 110 SI' Advisory Coun 112 SU French Table 11SSU 4 pin Gamma Alpha Chi 111 SU ; Red Cross 112 SU j 6:15 Frosh dessert 213 SU 7.00 Educ Movie 138 SW 7:30 Sq. Dance Gerl Annex Barnett Uect 201 SU i Stu Pub Bd 337 SU ! SU Prog Staff Dadsrm SU Liftman, Associate Publish Psych Text Richard Littman, assistant pro fessor of psychology, is the co author of a psychology workbook recently published to accompany “Introduction to Psychology," a textbook by Ernest R. Hilgard of Stanford university. Richard C. Teevan of the Uni versity of Michigan co-operated with Littman on the book pub lished by Harcourt, Brace and company of New York. Attend Conference Four members of the school of education staff left Tuesday to at tend educational meetings in Sal em and Ashland. P. B. Jacobson, dean of the school of education, and D. E. Tope, director of the Kellogg project, will address the Oregon School board. A. C. Hearn, associate profes sor of education, and L. F. Mill hollen, assistant professor of edu cation, are attending the meeting of the High School Principals’ as sociation. 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