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the editor; initialed editorials by the associate editors.
On the Air, Oregon
KWAX, voice of the Oregon Ducks, is back on the air this
week.
KWAX goes on the air every evening, except Saturday, at 6
p.m. with a complete itinerary of news, music and dramatic se
lections designed for cultural and educational entertainment.
Its local programs are re-inforced by a network connection with
the National Association of Educational Broadcasts. Not only
is KWAX highly listenable, but it could be a valuable addition
to the well-rounded program of ..concerts, plays and lectures
available to Oregon students.
But KWAX traditionally has audience problems. It might
well be a ghost station for all the university students that ever
-tune in on its nightly programs. Everyone on campus seems to
have heard of KWAX, but we’d be willing to make a strong
' wager that a good percentage of students have never heard a
«broadcast.
Why “the voice that no one hears” atmosphere? As an FM sta
tion, KWAX can’t be received on a regular AM receiving set
which almost every student possesses. An FM set is a piece of
Specialized equipment which is usually owned by those inter
ested in radio .as a hobby or the radio “ham.”
Not that Oregon is alone in this problem of a campus radio
station for most colleges use the same broadcasting system.
FCC doesn’t allow campus stations on AM frequency where they
would interfere with the regularly scheduled local stations with
a much wider listening audience.
At the moment, KWAX has double trouble in putting its
: broadcasts across for its FM facilities are off the air. Seems
there’s been some conflict,with television channel 6, Portland
station KOIN-TV, which is being received in Eugene. So the
FM broadcast is off the air until a frequency change comes
through from the FCC in about four weeks.
Students in Carson and Straub can still pick up the campus
programs though. Last spring, it was suggested that KWAX
be piped into campus dormitories on an AM frequency so stu
dents could receive it on their regular radio sets. The mechanics
were set up and the system is working. And we think it’s a pretty
smart way to acquire close to 400 new listeners.
Although it is not mechanically or financially feasible that
AM facilities be piped into the living organzations off campus,
we just wonder why the program isn’t carried out one step
further and the same facilities made available to Hendricks
~ Hall and Susan Campbell.
. As the situation now stands, we congratulate KWAX on a fine
•job of broadcasting and continue to hope that some solution will
^appear so Oregon students can hear and appreciate the good job
of programming the group is doing. (E. S.)
Matter of Opinion
“Did Worthal only get a 15-yard penalty tor "Illegal use of tb'j
hands? The referee should have seen what I gave him!"
letters to the Editor
Seeks Informed Debate
Emerald Editor:
The chain of letters that have
followed that of the "Bitter Stu
dent” have become consistently
more clouded by prejudice and
oversimplified 'statements. The
initial letter justly raised the is
sue of fraternity “restrictive”
clauses. Mr. Crow twisted the ar
gument into an attack upon the
entire fraternal system as not
only exclusive but "juvenile.”
This charge seems to us to
show the same prejudice
against fraternities as he ac
cuses them of showing toward
minorities. We believe that in
both cases the individuals
should be judged on their mer
its. Some fraternities as, Delta
Upsilon rightly points out,
have no restrictive policies.
For this they should be com
mended, rather than being con
demned with all the others. We
would commend them even more
if their policy were more often
put into practice.
Mr. Denman, National Com
mitteeman of Phi Kappa Sigma,
further clouded the issue by fly
ing to the defense of the
"Greeks” against the "Indepen
dents."
We believe that the question
of religious and racial restric
tions on membership in frater
nities and sororities is more
than a quibble between Greeks
and Independents. Such re
strictions, we believe, are truly
undemocratic.
It is unfortunate that these
extraneous arguments and divi
sive statements were introduced.
We would like to see an in
formed public discussion on the
question originally raised by the
"Bitter Student.” Let those
houses which practice discrimi
nation sincerely present their
reasons for this policy, and those
of us who deplore such policies
will present our views. From
such a discussion should come
more light and less heat on this
important question. •
Itobert Holloway
NAACP Chairman
No Fig For Denman
Emerald Editor:
I am appalled by the letter
which appeared in the "Emerald”
entitled “No Argument.” The
writer, William F. Denman, stat
ed that ”... it is a rather futile
and petty thing to argue via
newspaper” about racial discrim
ination in fraternities; ”... ar
gument does no good — only
harm.”
Can he lie serious? Are all
problems merely verbal? If so,
the world could settle Its social
difficulties by doing away with
the alphabet. His thesis must
be “Don’t discuss racial dis
crimination and poof! . . . the
problem will vanish.”
Rather I would suggest that
Mr. Denman’s real reason for as
suming this line of argument
can be poetically described as . . .
“Come well, Come woe
My status is quo.” (Not orig
inal)
To Mr. Denman I aay . . .
For you, old prig,
I don’t give a fig! (Original)
Steve Talbot
-The Looking-Glass
Three Broadway Holdovers
Feature Romance, Murder
(Ed note: Toby McCarroIl
today returns to the editorial
page as Emerald critic, begin
ning a new column, “The Look
ing-Glass.” Says McCa rroll
about the proper function of a
critic:
“Man has never been without
his world of “unreality,” and he
has also probably had that
strange creature called the Crit
ic from the very beginning. There
have been many suggestions of
what the function of a critic
should be; the suggestions com
ing from conductors, actors, au
thors or the like sometime put
the reviewer on a lower level
than the one he relegates to him
self.
"The primary
duty of the
critic is the
same duty as
that of any cit
izen of this
world of “un
reality," to pro
mote and ob
t a i n better
works and to
discourage me
diocre pieces.
Secondly, the reviewer has a
duty to acquaint the potential
reader or viewer with the cur
rent selections and to make an
evaluation of them.
“The audience or the readers
are usually not associated with
the so-called Arts except in a
financial way, but they are as
much a part of the Arts as a
playwright or publisher, and the
final major function of a critic
is to serve as a speaking repre
sentative of this class.
“None of these objectives can
serve as an excuse for that oc
cupational disease—glibness for
the sake of glibness.’’
“The Looking Glass."
* * *
By Toby McCarroll
Emerald Critic
There are three plays still
playing on Broadway, hold-ov
ers from the last season, that
are in general circulation.
The play that has received the
most comment is written by Wll
Item Inge, who wrote “Come
Back, Little Sheba" in 1850.
“Picnic” (Random House) op
ened in February. Inge terms it
a summer romance in three acts.
Into a world of midwestern
women comes a young, hand
some, but crude man. The wom
en have all in some way been
disappointed by men, but their
desires are awakened by this
no-good’s activity.
One runs away from him, an
old-maid school teacher brow
beats her friend into marriage,
a younger sister thinks less of
being a tom-boy, etc. The play
is nicely done, and has an
abundance of wit as well as
tenderness. This was a Pulit
zer Prize play and won the
Drama Critics Circle award.
The most hilarious comedy to
appear in many a year is George
A x e 1 r o d’s “The Seven-Year
Iitch.” (Random House), which
opened last fall. The wife of a
pocketbook publisher goes away
and he decides to have an affair,
which is ushered in by a falling
flower pot.
Particularly humorous is
the contrast between the way
the herp envisions circum
stances and the way they ac
tually take place. The char
acters are very amusing; e.g.
—the psychiatrist who cannot
understand why the title of his
book was changed from “Of
Man and the Unconscious" to
"Of Sex and Violence.” The
daydreams of this play set a
fresh and enjoyable pace.
The world has been plighted
by mystery writers for a long
time, but from England comes
a new approach. Frederick Knott
weaves a superb web of intrigue
and drama in “Dial M for Mur
der” (also Random House),
which has been running since
last fall.
Tony hires a man to kill his
wife, but his perfect murder
backfires momentarily when she
kills the “murderer”; Tony tries
to have his wife executed, al
though he appears the loving
husband. Then comes Scotland
Yard, but the rest you will have
to read (op see).
Scholarship Goes
To Gerald Ohlsen
Tho $1,000 Orln F. Stafford
scholarship in chemistry has been
awarded to Gerald Ohlsen, junior
in chemistry, according to A. H.
Kunz, head of the chemistry de
partment. He will receive $000 his
senior year and $400 this year.
Others receiving aid under tho
terms of the scholarship are Dav
id Rosenlof and Donald H. Hoten
berg, both juniors in chemistry.
Each of the men will rcceivo $300
in place of the $000 senior schol
arship.
Selection for the stipend is bas
ed upon aptitude for advanced
work in chemistry, good charac
ter, a superior scholastic record,
and need for financial aid. The
award is provided by the Crown
Zellerbach foundation.
The scholarship iH named for
Orin Fletcher Stafford, a member
of the faculty of the chemistry de
partment from 1902 until his death
in 1941.
Miss Tyler's Text
Out This Week
Leona E. Tyler, associate pro- 1
fessor of psychology, released a
textbook entitled “The Work of
the Counselor” this week.
Miss Tyler, who has been con
nected with the University coun
seling center and has taught
courses in counseling, designed the ,
text for college courses in coun
seling.
Student Union
Presents
"Our Musical Pioneers"
IkwM Music lecture by
GEOROE HOPKINS
SU Record listening Ream
Tuesday 13 a* 7:30
FOOTBALL MOVIE
"Oregon vs. Washington State"
Ballroom 6:45
Wednesday
EDUCATIONAL MOVIES
138 Commie Hall - First Show 7 p..m.
Friday
FRIDAY AT FOUR
Browsing joom Coffee Hour 7:45
Sunday
Midsummer's Night Dream
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