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AL KARR, Editor
DICK CARTER, Business Manager
PAT GILDEA, ELSIE SCHILLER, Associate.Editors
KITTY FRASER. LAURA STURGES, Editorial Assistants
JACKIE WARDELL, Managing Editor
JOE GARDNER, News Editor
Chief Makeup Editor: Paul Keefe
Chief Night Editor: Anne Hill
Chief Copy Desk Editor: Gloria Lane
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Asst. Managing Editors: Len Calvert, Bob
Patterson
Asst. News Editors: Dorothy Her, Dick
Lewis. Gordon Rice, Sally Ryan.
-A Day at the Zoo
Farris, Committee Playing
At University Coloseum
by Bob Funk
Emerald Columnist
The University of Oregon, like
■Rome, tries to provide interesting
diversions for the mob, so that
they will not become too disen
chanted with the humdrum life
and rebel {or, in the case'of the
nBHHH University, w e
h suppose, trans
fer, get mar
ried, or flunk
out). Now play
ing at the Col
orseum: J. Kelly
Farris (as the
Christian) and
the Discipline
Committee (as
the lion.)
jtoittee and Mr. Farris (according
to each other) are behaving ab
nominably. In spite of numerous
explanations, polls, and scattered
outcries, no one seems to really
understand what is going on. We
would pretend that we understand
(presumably all column writers
understand everything; their only
problem is how to communicate all
this wealth without splitting in
finitives), but quite frankly, we
.don’t.
Speaking via the front page of
“ the Oregon Daily Emerald on
Wednesday, T. M. Foskett ex
pressed one of the chief objec
tions to Mr. Farris’s way of go
ing about things: if carried too
far, Mr. Farris and kindred
souls would soon have the Uni
versity in a position of having
to submit to a full scale lawsuit
everytime someone came in aft
er closing hours. (“Are closing
hours constitutional?” “What
proof do you have that it really
Was me?”
This might seem to many an
ideal state of affairs. However, un
less the University was to proceed
without rules (this is an excellent
idea, but unpopular with certain
circles here), we would have about
two parts litigation for every one
part of education.
If this were the whole story,
we might, via still another poll,
request Mr. Farris to desist and
retire back into the law school
lounge. This, with some apt
analogy to a bear hibernating for
the winter, would settle the mat
ter, maybe.
However, there is something
more involved. The “something
more’’ is that even the University
may not, through the very broad
disciplinary powers which have
been given to it, ignore those basic
rights which are guaranteed to
citizens through the constitutions
of this state and the United States.
It is not at all certain that any
such constitutional right (belong
ing here to Mr. Farris) has been
ignored; however, if it HAD been
ignored, then an injustice is being
| permitted here. This injustice,
; multiplied many times as other
i persons run afoul of the discipline
committee, becomes quite signifi
cant.
The constitutional right which
Farris has questioned (this may
not be right—-'try to figure it
out from previous Emeralds if
you’re not satisfied) is depriva
tion of property without due
process of law. The “property”
in question is the breakage fee,
which might he tapped to pay
traffic fines.
All the other questions which
Mr. Farris has raised may be rela
tively more or less significant; one
question per column is probably
enough, and besides, this is our
favorite one.
Most persons may consider such
small injustices to be scarcely
worthy of so much controversy.
However, it seems to us that it is
of considerable importance that
we, as individuals, should be aware
of our rights in relation to others.
Even innocent, casually illegal
practices (if such is possible) on
the part of the University are to
be frowned upon.
The discipline committee has
evidently deemed itself competent
to decide the questions which Mr.
Farris has posed. While we can
understand their annoyance with
this entire matter, we cannot un
derstand this entrance by the com
mittee into the field of jurisprud
ence. Statements issued by the
committee as to its own confidence
in its own judgment may make
committee members quite happy; I
however, to other ears the bell!
may ring with an unhappy clank.
Perhaps the attitude of the com
mittee may the the New Freedom
: for litigations: decide that you are
right, and you don’t have to go to
court.
Much has been made of the
motives of Mr. Farris. While
these may be very interesting,
exhaustive discussions of his
personality and motives add lit
tle to the questions posed; they
are little more than gossip,
which is extremely pernicious in
fhat it confuses the real issues.
It is fortunate for Americans;
who do not attend the University
of Oregon that, when in court,
they are not asked whether they
have come there just to get their
name in the papers. Their fate
in litigation is not contingent upon
the result of any public opinion
poll; their objections are not de
feated by the fact that their op
ponent has decided he is right, and
is much bigger.
Such crude forms of justice,
however, sometimes perish in the
rarified intellectual atmosphere of
a university.
Campus Calendar
j.u:uu rvei uir assoc axy su
Noon Phi Beta Cab 110 SU
AAA 111 SU
Drama Staff 112 SU
FSFF 113 SU
Co-op Bd 114 SU
RE Wk Exec 319 SU
u:uu uis 110 SU
Christian Sci 315 SU
RE Wk Sun Din 319 SU
4:00 Pi Lambda Theta 112 SU
Alpine Cl 113 SU
RE Wk Firesd 334 SU
6:30 Ski Quacks 111 SU
7:30 Press Cl Dadsrm SU
Senate Attendance
For Term Listed
Perfect attendance for the eight
meetings held by this year’s ASUO
senate was listed for 21 of the 30
persons who serve on the student
lawmaking body.
This was considerably better
than last year’s record for the
senate at this time which found
only 12 of the then 25 senators
having perfect attendance records,
rhe group has never lacked a
quorum though it was late at
times in getting one.
Only one student. Ann Black
well, junior representative, missed
three meetings of the seven held
fall term and the group’s first
meeting last spring. Missing two
meetings was Sally Hayden, sena
tor-at-large.
Those absent from one meeting
were Len Calvert, junior class
vice-president; Ben Schmidt, sen
ior representative; Don Smith,
freshman class president; and
Ward Cook and Wes Ball, sena
tors-at-large. Of the faculty rep
resentatives, E. G. Ebbighausen,
associate professor *of physics,
missed three meetings, and R. G.
Horn, professor of English, miss
ed two, only both of them being
absent at the same time once.
Perfect records are listed for
A.SUO Pres. Tom Wrightson, Vice
Pres. Don Collin, Senators-at
large Bob Funk, Bob Summers,
Marilyn Parrish, Don Crawford,
rom Shepherd, and Hollis Ran
som; Dick Bruce, graduate student
representative, Paul Lasker, sen
or class president, Elsie Schiller,
senior vice president, Alan Op
pliger, senior representative, Jim
Light, junior president, Bob Kan
ida, junior representative, all four
sophomore class officers; Jim
Duncan, president, Sam Vahey,
/ice president, Janet Gustafson
uid Gordon Rice, representatives;
ind three freshman officers, Doug
3asham, vice president, and Gary
iVest and Darrell Brittsan, repre
sentatives.
The first meeting of winter term
will be held Jan. 14.
Dental Committee
Here Next Week
Members of the admissions com
nittee of the University of Oregon
Jental school in Portland will be
>n the campus Jan. 14-16 to meet
vith pre-dental students.
A general discussion meeting
will be held for all interested pre
lental students Jan. 14, and inter
views for students ■'applying for
admission will be held the other
:wo days.
Committee members are Dr.
Keith Claycomb and Dr. Ernst
Hurley.
Monday Deadline Set
For Editor Petitions
The deadline for submission of
petitions for editor of the Oregon
Daily Emerald has been set at 5
p. m. Monday, according to R. C.
Williams, secretary of the student
publications board. The publica
tions board will interview peti
tioners and select an editor for the
second half of the year at its
meeting Wednesday.
1
"Just like a row
of sitting ducks"
quacked mother duck as she saw her brood
sitting along the railing of the student
union veranda. “What’s up, duck?” she
quackingly asked one of the disgruntled
ducklings.
“.Well, it’s these danged lines,” re
ifua.oked the duckling as he tried to
smooth his wind-ruffled feathers.
Mother duck smacked her bills in her
most soothing manner and said, “Don’t
sweat it, kid, I’ve heard it said that this
is the best system for registration that
we have ever had.”
The duckling wasn’t soothed very much
by the words of solace so he comforted
himself with plans to get away from the
cares of the day. He stamped his webfeet
with glee as he anticipated a fast game
of sbuffleboard and some cool beverages
at his favorite cozy nest.
ROD
TAYLOR'S
On the Glenv/ood strip
Assignment Motives
*•
term papers one
every tvc weeks —
subjects -to write on :
J JAPAN
2. CHINA
3. 1NDA
4. ORIENTAL CUSTOMS
5. " POLITICS
C. •• RELIGION
7 kESOuRCBS OP AfVl
K Q~"‘
“Looks like we’ll be writing research papers all term—I under
stand Prof. Snarf is writing a book on th’ orient.”
IFC to Nominate
Veep Candidates
Nominations for the vice-presi
dency of the Inter-fraternity coun
cil will be held tonight at 6:30 at
the regular semi-monthly IFC I
meeting in the Student Union.
Elections will not be held until
the following meeting, Jan. 21.
i
The vancancy occurred when
Ted Rubenstein, former vice-presi
dent, assumed the presidency af- j
ter Con Sheffer, former president,
failed to make a 2 point GPA fall j
term and was declared ineligible
to hold the position.
Harriet Coe
of the
Westgate
Shoppe
is now taking in a lim
ited amount of altera
tions by appointment
only.
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