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VOL. LV
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afternoon and tomorrow are pre
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High both days will be 43, with a
low tonight of 30.
RE Week Starts Sunday;
Complete Agenda Revealed
Religious Evaluation week will
open Sunday at 6 p. m. with an
Introductory dinner in the Student
Union ballroom. Robert E. Fitch,
dean of the Pacific School of Re
ligion will be the main speaker.
Tickets for the dinner may be
obtained until Thursday in living
organizations, religious organiza
tions or the YMCA office. Tickets
for students arc $1; for non-stu
dents, $1.50.
The program for RE week fol
lowing the theme, “Religion and
the Individual,” is as follows:
Sunday
11 a. to, — Speaker in Eugene
churches.
3-5 p. m. — Coffee hour with
speakers for RE wek commit
tees and any interested per
sons, Gerlinger hall.
6 p. m. — Introductory dinner,
SU ballroom. Address: "Relig
ion and the Individual,” Robert
B. Fitch. Program by the Uni
versity singers.
Monday
Theme — "What Telia Us of
God ?”
7:30 — Chapel meditation, Ger-1
linger hall, Earl Cranston.
8 a. m.-Noon — Speakers in
classrooms.
Noon — No-host luncheon hon- j
"ting Robert Fitch and Otto
Hremer, Student .Union,
1 p. m. — Address: "What Tells
Us of God in Nature?" Rabbi
Joshua Stampfer, SU ballroom.
2 p. m. — Address: "What Tells
Us of God in Ourselves?” Otto
Bremer, SU ballroom.
3 p. m. — "What Tells Us of God
in Revelation?” Earl Crans
ton.
4-5 p. m. — Skeptics Hour, Stu
dent Union.
5:30 p. m. — Dinners and fire
side discussions in living organ
izations.
8 p. m. - Address: “Why Know
Senate Petitions Due
Petitions for the vacant AS*
1)0 senate-at-large position are
due Thursday at 5 p. m. In the
ASUO office, Student Union
’304. Any student with a 1 point
accumulative OPA Is eligible to
apply for the post, vacated by
Marilyn Parrish.
This God?” The Rev. Archibald
McDowell, SU ballroom.
Tuesday
Theme — "God and Man.”
7:30 a. m. — Chapel mediation,
Gerlinger hall, led by Father
Archibald McDowell.
9 a. m. — Address: “Knowledge
and Belief,” Edwin Becker, SU
ballroom.
10 a. m. — Address: "Faith,”
Otto Bremer, SU ballroom.
11 a. m.-Noon — Personal con
ferences.
Noon — No-host luncheon hon
oring Father Archibald Mc
Dowell and Earl Cranston.
lp.m. — Adress: "Christian
ity and Race Relations,” Mar
tin Harvey, SU ballroom.
2-4 p. m. — Personal confer
ences.
4 p. m. — Coffee hour forum,
Martin Harvey, SU.
5:30 p. m. — Dinners and fire
side discussions in living or
ganizations.
8 p. m. — Address: "God's Pur
pose for Man,” Rabbi Joshua
Students Should
Sign for Confabs
Students interested in having
personal Conferences with any of
the eight Religious Evaluation
week speakers should sign up im
mediately with Jane Bergstrom,
personal conference chairman, or
with Russell Walker, YMCA ex
ecutive secretary, according to
Miss Bergstrom.
Personal conferences with the
religious leaders have been sched
uled Wednesday from 11 a. m. to
noon and from 2 to 4 p. m.
Fireside discussions with the
speakers in the living organiza
tions have also been scheduled for
Monday through Wednesday. The
houses will be paired for the fire
sides to enable each house to hear
more speakers, according to Gail
West, fireside chairman.
Chanel meditations will be held
each morning during the week in
Gerlinger hall at 7:30 a. m. Medi
tations will be lead by the visiting
speakers.
Armour Stresses Humor
As Test of Free World
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“Laughter is healthy, wholesome
and civilized. The ability to laugh
is one of the distinctions between
man and animal, and perhaps even
between the free man and the
slave,” said Richard Armour, sa
tirist and writer of light verse,
at a University assembly Tuesday.
Armour presented a “view of
the world and the people in it
through the eyes of a social satir
ist” in his lecture entitled “More
Light Than Heat.”
Self-critical laughter is un
known in communist countries, he
commented, citing Germany be
fore World War II as nn example
of this. The country was lacking
in humor and its leaders were in
capable of laughing at themselves.
True humor, that which appeals
to the intellect, is walking the nar
row line between laughter and cry
ing, the author said.
Newspapers and the works of
other authors are full of material
for a satirist, Armour explained.
He illustrated his point by reading
many examples of his own provo
cative light verse, based on the in
congruities found in newspaper ar
ticles. -
The speaker also illustrated the
fact that a satirist can work in
prose as well as in verse with ex
cerpts from his most recent book,
"It All Started with Columbus,"
a parody on history books.
True humor, that which appeals
to the intellect, is walking the nar
row line between laughter and cry
ing, the author said.
Holder of a Ph.D from Harvard,
he has writteen more than 3000
poems, 12 books and numerous
articles. His versitility is shown
by the fact that his works have
been published in both The New
Yorker and Better Homes and
Gardens,-The Saturday Review of
Literature and Ksquire.
Stampfer.
Wednesday
Theme — “God-given Responsi
bilities.”
7:30 a. m. — Chapel mediation,
Gerlinger hall, led by T. Z. Koo.
8 a. m.-Noon — Speakers in
classrooms
Noon — No-host luncheon hon
oring Rabbi Joshua Stampfer
and Edwin Becker, SU.
1 p. m. — Address: “Responsi
bilities to Society,” Father Ar
chibald McDowell, SU ball
room.
2 p. m. — Address: “Responsi
bilities to Oneself — Moral
Honesty,” Edwin Becker, SU
ballroom.
3 p. m. — Address: “Responsi
bilities to Oneself — Intellec
tual Honesty,” Robert Fitch,
SU ballroom.
4 p. m. — Skeptics Hour, SU
5:30 p. m. — Dinners and fire
side discussions at living or
ganizations.
8 p. m. — Address: “Responsi
bilities to Oneself — Spiritual
Honesty,” T. Z. Koo, SU brows
ing room.
Thursday
Theme — "Responsibility to
God."
7:30 a. m. — Chapel meditation,
Gerlinger hall, led by Rabbi
Joshua-Stampfotv- >
9 a. m. — Address: “Knowledge
and Practice,” T. Z. Koo, SU
ballroom.
10 a. m. — Address: "What is
Worship,” Martin Harvey, SU
ballroom.
Noon — No-host luncheon hon
oring T. Z. Koo and Martin
Harvey, SU.
1 p. m. — Addess: "What is
Prayer. How to Pray. What to
Pray,” Earl Cranston, SU ball
room.
2 p. m. — Panel discussion: “The
Challenge,” all speakers, SU
ballroom.
Quartet Contest
Finalists Selected
Four finalists for the barbershop
quartet contest to be held as part
of the Dad’s Day events were sel
ected Tuesday night.
The four finalists include quar
tets entered by Beta Theta Pi; Phi
Kappa Psi; Sigma Phi Epsilon,
and Psi Chi, psychology honorary.
First and second place winners in
the contest will be chosen January
22 at 10:30 p. m. in the Student
Union ballroom after the Washing
ton-Oregon basketball game.
The winner of the contest will
receive a rotating trophy, and both
the first and second place winners
will be invited to sing at the Dad's
Day luncheon the next day.
Two guest quartets, the Timber
tones and a girls’ quartet will
also sing at the contest.
SU Board Agenda
The Student Union board will
meet in the SU board room at 4
p. m. today, according to Chair
man Andy Berwick. Business on
the agenda includes:
0 Treasurer’s report;
0 Barbershop quartet report:
• Perpetuation plan changes;
0 Special attractions report;
^ Announcement of ping pong,
bridge and billiard tournaments;
0 Directorate chairman's re
port, and
0 Discussion of the proposed
SU house organ.
Weber Resigns
As Court Head
Carl Weber, senior in business,
has submitted his resignation as
chairman of the student traffic
court, it was learned Tuesday from
the office of ASUO Pres. Tom
Wrightson. The resignation, sub
mitted last Thursday, is effective
immediately.
According to Wrightson, Web
er's resignation has nothing to do
with the present traffic court con
troversy over charges by Law
Student J. Kelly Farris that the
court is illegal. Opinion on the le
gality of the court was being
Baldinger to Talk
On Art in Japan
Wallace S. Baldinger, associate
professor of art, will speak on
"Art and the Common Man in Ja
pan" in the Student Union brows
ing room tonight at 7:30.
Held in conjunction with the
Perry Centennial Conference on
Far Eeastern studies, the talk will
be illustrated with slides taken by
Baldinger during his recent visit
to Japan.
In Japan, Baldinger and his
wife taught classes in the history
’OT'WeSterft Ofrut Kjt>W. Jfc was
also studying the history of Ja
panese art.
The slides illustrating his lec
ture will show Japanese architec
ture, pottery, painting and gar
den design.
sought last week from the consti
tutional committee of the ASUO
Senate, according to Donald Du
Shane, director of student affairs.
Time Needed
A “desire to devote more time
to what I consider a heavier study
load this term” was listed by Web-^
er as his reason for the resigna
tion. In addition to his study pro
gram, Weber is married and hai
an outside job, Wrightson said.
Weber has held the position of
traffic court chairman since the
beginning of fall term. He has
been a member of the court since
fall, 1952.
A new chairman will be ap
pointed by Wrightson, subject to
approval of the ASUO senate. Ac
tion on the appointment is expec
ted to be taken at the senate meet
ing Thursday, Wrightson said.
2nd Vaneancy Occurs
Another vacancy occurred ©a
the traffic court when Dick Gray,
sophomore in business, failed to
return to school this term. Gray
was appointed to the court fail
term. This vacancy is also ex
pected to be filled at the senato
meeting.
Senior member of the court is
Don Rotenberg, junior in chemis
try, who, with Weber, was the cnly
holdover from last year. Appoint
ed last fal to serve on the court
were Sylvia Wingard, junior in
business; Art Middleton, sopho
more in architecture, and Gray.
Weber could not be reached by,
phone Tuesday evening for com
ment.
Willis Describes .
'Changing Mind'
There is still room for doubt
that any culture of the Far East
will follow western examples of
social, political or economic struc
tures, Donald S. Willis told an
audience largely composed of stu
dents Tuesday evening at the
opening lecture of the Perry Cen
tennial celebration being held on
Campus this week.
Speaking on the subject, “Perry
and the Changing Mind of Japan,”
Willis, an assistant professor of
Oriental languages, discussed
trends in Japanese literature, re
ligion and education before and
after the arrival of Perry in Japan.
Literature, at the time of Per
ry’s arrival, was “stereotyped and
sterile,” Willis stated. Prose was
devoted to either weighty scienti
fic treatises or novels with lewd
and fantastic plots, while poetry
was cluttered with ancient rhetor
ical devices. Drama was compos
ed largely of dancing, posturing
and orchestra accompaniment, he
said.
Translation Problem
First problem faced by the Jap
anese in their contact with the
western world was the problem of
which foreign works should be
translated into Japanese.
Among early favorites were bio
graphies of famous authors, chil
dren’s stories from the Bible and
"Pilgrim’s Progress.” The origin
al Japanese title of “Romeo and
Juliet” was “The Flower and
Moon Romance,” Willis said.
A combination of classic literary
style, borrowed from the Chinese,
with the new use of the vernacu
lar, a western innovation, became
the model for young writers of
Japan who were to found the
school or realism in Japanese let
ters.
Impact Weakened
The lack of religious sentiment
and new theories of evolution from
the West remained an obstacle ta
the Christian movement in Japan,
Willis stated. The multiplicity of
sects also weakened the impact of
Christianity on Japan.
The study of the West was en
couraged by the newly-foundevt
Japanese Ministry of Education it*
1871. Universal education was ad
vocated, and the French school -
system was adopted by Japan,
Willis noted.
Japanese education keynote**
the ideas that learning is the key
to success in life and that evei y
man should subordinate all other
concerns to that of his children'!#
education.
Remaining events in the Pen/
Centennial celebration include lec
tures at 7:30 tonight, Thursday
and Friday, and a tour of the Mu
seum of Oriental Art at 4 p. m.
Thursday. Special exhibitions of
books and art are currently fea
tured at the museum.
Kwama Taps Three
Three women were tapped by,
Kwama, sophomore women’s hon
orary, Tuesday night.
The three are Roberta Hack
worth, sophomore in education;
Donna Hill, sophomore iii political
science, and Sally Stadelman/
sophomore in sociology.