Minds Drift
(Continued from page two)
Strange as it may seem, most
students never discovered the dis
mal interior of “Maxie's." It was
just too much to walk five blocks
for a beer. Except, perhaps, for
a few recalcitrant twenty-old
year olds.
As we walked away precarious
ly balancing our cups, I looked
around the room, bleak and bar
ren, wondering who the architect
had been. The jukebox was now
shrieking something about rifle
bullets.
"Don't they ever change re
cords here?" I bellowed to myself.
Tugman To Speak
To Honors Classes
WHliam Tugman, editor of the
Eugene Register-Guard, will speak \
at a coffee hour Wednesday at 4
p. m. The coffee hour, sponsored !
by the sophomore honors society
classes, will be held in the Dads
lounge of the Student Union.
All sophomore honor students1
and professors are invited, accord
ing to Vivienne Brown, secretary
of the planning committee.
Tugman's general topic will be
"Ways of Weighing and Consider-!
ing Senator McCarthy and His
Action,” centering around the re
cent, cae, involving Senator Mc
Carthy and the editor of the New
York Post.
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-The Looking-Glass
The Censorship Principle
Could Be Turned on Censor
By Toby McCarroll
Emerald Critic
On January 14 there appeared
in this publication a column of
mine decrying censorship. In this
article I set up a straw man who
favored censorship. Several of
my friends didn't think such a
person existed.
Then along
came George
J. Wolfe —
filled to the
brim with
"Christian de
cency." I am
glad Mr.
Wolfe wrote
his letter, as
it allows me
to continue on
what I believe
to be an extremely important
subject.
Mr. Wolfe says it I; not for
him to say what is good or bad
but then goes on to say we
should use the moral code of
Christ, (especially sines* there
was no censorship in the pag
an theater). Even if we wanted
to subvert the arts to theology,
I suggest that there is not per
fect agreement as to what con
stitutes the moral code of
Christ. It would be (and is)
difficult to apply the generali
ties of the religious cliche to
such a particular situation
with any reasonableness.
Mr. Woife theij says he thinks
ti.o Legion of Dernoci icy is all
right and that it just expresses
an opinion. Fiom former work I
have done in co-operation with
the Legion, I would say that it
doesn't share his opinion of its
power.
I would like to point out a few
thing.-; about its power. The oath
is a promise not to see any films
binned by the Legion ar.d not to
frequent the theaters that have
ever .shown one of these films. Of
course, Mr. Wolfe might" mean
that one doesn't have to take the
oath. This is quite true; some
don't (myself included;, but it is
not exactly a matter of free
choice v/hen the statement Is
made, “We will now kneel and
recite the oath."
The oath is presented in such
a way that a vast number of
Catholics will take it. Being a
promise, moral pressure restrains
a person from seeing these films
or frequenting those theaters.
The Legion uses these facts to
apply pressure to the producers
who try.to capitalize on people's
“spine tingling perversity" (to
quote Mr. Wolfe;.
Mr. Wolfe is no different
from hundreds of others. They
want to protect the people
from seeing these things (es
pecially since 'they are shown
for monetary purposes). Cen
sorship, or “protection" is a
principle. It is quite possible
that the time will come when
other people may apply thU
principle against Mr. Wolfe. As
a matter of fact I think it most
probable tiia't some people '
would want to protect Mr.
Wolfe from the “had influence”
of religion, but that is not the
same thing at all, because Mr.
Wolfe is in the right and those
people are not.
On Monday the U.S. Supreme
Court reversed a decision censor
ing an “immoral" movie, “La
Ronde.” It was the opinion of two
of the justices (Douglas and
Black; that ail forms of movie
censorship are unconstitutional.
The moral defen-a for censorship
cannot be met by legal argu
ments, but it is comforting to
know that these moral consickr
atiens play r.o part in the legal
arguments.
IT PAYS TO PATRONIZE
EMERALI* ADVERTISERS
Page Three
Petitions Requested to Fill
Vacant Senate-at-large Post
Petitions for the senator-at-large
post vacated by ASUO vice-presi
dent Bob Funk are being called for
by President Tom Wrightson.
The petitions are due at 5 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 4, in the ASUO of
fice in the Student Union.
In other action taken by the sen
ate Thursday, approval was given
to Wrightson's appointment of Alex
Byler, junior in pre-law, and Bob
Maier, sophomore in business, to
the student traffic court.
Approval was given also to the
r
following committee appointments:
Doug White, Jean Mauro, Bar
bara Swanson,-and E. G. Ebbig
hausen to the honor code commit
tee, Jim Duncan to the insurance
committee, and Kitty Fraser to the
housing committee. ,
Wrightson also announced that
Don Foss, student body president
at Oregon State college, will visit
the next senate meeting here. Foss
will bring other student leaders
with him, Wrightson said.
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