EMERALD
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Aid, Not Replacement
We appreciate the shouldering by Bob Summers and Jim
Light of responsibility for the misunderstanding of the ASUC
senate during Thursday night’s action on the income tax
changes to be requested of Congress. But we feel that final
responsibility for senate decisions must rest in the hands of the
senate itself.
It is unwise practice, we would say, for such a governing
body to voluntarily become a rubber stamp group for its'own
committees. The senate is not that, but such procedure as oc
- curred on the tax issue Thursday night is along rubber stamp
lines.
The action wasn’t robot approval, because several members
of the senate have said that they didn’t fully understand the
proposal. These included some members who voted for the
proposal, and some members who wanted to wait to study it
further.
Of course, the tax matter had technical implications which
the average individual wouldn’t fully understand, as Summers
and Light pointed out in their letter in Wednesday’s Emerald.
Tax can be pretty involved, and we don't pretend to under
stand it very fully, either.
But the 18-year-old age limit (rather, the non-existence of it)
for dependency is a pretty basic matter in paying income tax.
Quite a few members of the senate must have had to consider
1 whether or not to earn less than $600 per year, in order to be
eligible as a dependent on their fathers’ income tax filing. And
with all or nearly all of them being over 18, they couldn’t all
have felt that they were acting illegally.
The point is that a reasonable amount of suspicion would
be logically expected of the senate on the proposal. And the
discussion Thursday night and comments of senate members
since then shows suspicion did exist. It isn’t good practice to
delegate alertness to a committee in the first place, but it is
especially bad to suppress one’s own curiosity when sitting
on a governing body.
In appraising the senate as a whole in sort of a mid-year look,
we feel that the senate compares well with those of the past two
years, especially with the senate-in-absentia of last year. At
tendance has been very good this year, and there have been no
losses because of failure to make grades. Numerous replace
ments have been necessary because of resignations, causing the
senate great concern.
We do feel that the senate should not be satisfied to complete
action on an issue until it is really satisfied that it understands
and approves of the action. The senate is the elected body of the
students; committees should facilitate action, but not take it
over.
Come Back, Big Waldo
One of Oregon’s few more-than-one-week-at-a-time traditions
is gone.
Waldo, mascot of the Theta Chi’s but belonging to everyone,
was put in a crate and sent away on the train Wednesday. With
a few members of the Theta Chi house down at the station to
see him off, Waldo left with tears in his eyes.
He’s going to the Theta Chi chapter at WSC, the first ones
'to ask for him when the local oxmen asked for bids. Waldo,
in his clomping way, was the campus’ No. 1 character, but
he was too mean with other animals, and even with small
children, we understand. So he ’bad to go.
He was taken into the country twice, but both times he re
turned. hjow he’ll be 350 miles away, which may be the op
portunity for a “Waldo, Come Home” episode, but Theta Chi
president Bob Summers doesn’t think so.
No more climbing trees. No more unsuccessful stalking of
squirrels. (Or are they chipmunks?) No more perching on SU
ledges ala the lions outside the New York public library. The
Theta Chi’s are even going around muttering to each other,
“Why, I like Waldo better than I do you. Why can’t you go
away instead?”
We offer these lines, composed in collaboration with colum
nist Bob Funk, with apologies to Waldo and Oliver Wendell
Holmes:
Ay, send the massive Waldo off!
Sever the old school tie,
For many an eye has danced to see
That crazy dog go by.
Nail in the crate that regal wag,
That proud and honored tail;
And give him to the Cougar gang,
C. O. D., by rail.
Thai Casual Look
“It’s a material quite popular with the faculty, sir—A tweed
is supposed to look baggy.”
Greeks Release
New Pledge List
The list of winter term board
ers pledged by various fraterni
ties during boys’ open rush peri
od has been released by the office
of Ray Hawk, director of men’s
affairs.
The plan of the Inter-fraternity
council enables upper-termers new
to the campus and interested in
rushing to board at fraternities
during the two weeks previous to
open rush instead of living in
dormitories. Starting the term in
a dormitory would mean that a
pledge could not move into his
fraternity until the next term.
Following are the boarders
pledged so far this term: Alpha
Tau Omega: John E. Spreen, Jr.
and Milan Soyanov; Beta Theta
Pi: Schuyler L. Jeffries; Chi Psi:
Vance L. Taylor and John A. Prag
and Delta Tau Delta: Alan Dale.
Phi Delta Theta: Stephen D.
Johnston and John R. Manning;
Phi Sigma Kappa: David E. Ross;
Pi Kappa Phi: Richard J. Pittman;
Sigma Phi Epsilon: Carl H. Irwin,
Jr., and Fred W. Hogg and Tau
Kappa Epsilon, Herbert S. Yam
anaka.
IFC Meets Today;
Veep Selection Set
John Greulich, Phi Delta Theta,
and Jim Casper, Chi Psi, were
nominated for the office of vice
president of Inter-fraternity coun
cil at their last .meeting, Jan. 7.
The selection of one of these for
the office will be on the agenda
for the IFC meeting today at 6:30
p. m. in the Student Union, ac
cording to Ted Rubenstein, IFC
president.
Fishbowl Mixer Date
Changed to Saturday
Date of this weekend’s Fishbowl
Mixer has been switched from Fri
day evening to 9 p. m. to 12 mid
night Saturday, Phyllis Pearson,
Student Union dance committee
chairman, has announced.
Pat Dugan, sophomore in speech
from KWAX) will play the records
and comment on the music. There
will be no charge for the no-date
affairs, Miss Pearson stated.
All students are encouraged to
take their fathers to the dance fol
lowing the game, according to
Miss Pearson.
Today's Staff
Make-up Editor: Janet Ferris.
Night Editor: Joanne Johnston.
Night Staff: Jean McLachlan,
Ted Goh.
Copy Desk Editor: Mary Alice
Allen.
Orderly Conduct
Asked for Games
Athletic Director Leo Harris has
issued a plea that students show
respect to the visiting team and
officials at basketball games. Har
ris received a complaint from Vic
tor Schmidt, Pacific Coast confer-1
ence commissioner, upon the atti
tude of the crowd attending the
second Idaho game.
Accordmg to Harris, the diffi
culty was not particularly of stu
dent origin, but since the home
team is responsible for the actions
of the crowd, he would appreciate
student assistance in halting fu
ture demonstrations.
DuShane Objects
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This change, Montague said,
cleared up amblqulty in the
amendment, which formerly read:
", . . upon adoption, shall become
effective upon the date stipulated
therein."
In other business Berwick an
nounced the chairmen for two spe
cial events programs. They are
Valerie Cowls, sophomore in lib
eral arts, as chairman of the crea
tive arts workshop, and Jack Sn
colofsky, sophomore in pre-law, as
chairman of the billiards and ping
pong tournaments.
Tlie board approved the budget,
presented by Treasurer Bob Kou
tek. Balance in the SU board ac
count Is $2,599.40.
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