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tile editor; Initialed editorials by the associate editors
ELSIE SCHILLER, Editor
DICK CARTER, Business Manager
JACKIE WARDELL, RON MILLER. Associate Editors
KITTY* FRASER, Managing Editor VALERA Y1F.RRA, Adv. Mgr.
I.EN CALVERT, LAURA STURGES. Editorial Assistants
A Special Invitation
We’d like to get in our note of approval for the senate’s decis
ion to include foreign students in its meetings as non-voting
members.
The special invitation to the campus foreign students is very
good public relations if nothing else, but we think it will bene
fit both the senate and the students selected by K. S. Ghent
to represent the foreign population on campus.
To the senate the program will give a slightly different
aspect and perhaps some new ideas and outlooks.
To the foreign student will go the opportunity to witness
a form of representative government in action. And a chance
to let the senate members know the problems faced on campus
by the foreign student population.
Some persons have suggested giving these students a vote on
the senate. We don't agree here. Not because they’re not quali
fied, but because the foreign student enrollment is so low in
proportion to the total university enrollment that a vote ex
clusively for them would be unequal representation.
Students from other countries may always run for sena
tor-at-large, a class officer position, and we would encourage
any who remain on campus for more than a year to do so.
Having the foreign students at senate meetings to voice op
inions and join in the discussions is a good idea. We hope the
students selected will benefit from the program and we hope
that they will not hesitate to express their opinions. That’s the
•only way the program will accomplish its purpose.
It’s a nice gesture, senators.
Ideals to Live By
At an ASUO senate meeting several weeks ago, we overheard
one student senator, in recommendation of a fellow student
petitioning for office say, “He doesn’t let his ideals stand in the
•way of his practicality.”
Is that a recommendation?
We’ve been musing over that statement for weeks now and
we still haven’t come up with just the exact answer. But we
think we might have stumbled across an answer to the current
collegiate question of whether ours is a “silent generation,”
and, if so, why.
Ideals versus practicality—it’s a debate of long standing
and certainly not confined to the collegiate circles of the mid
20th century.
Still, we've been spoon-fed on the “starry-eyed visionary”
.and the “idealist” until we almost unconsciously accept the
thesis that an idealistic person is bound to be unsound, im
practical and just a little mad.
Ideals are a funny thing. They can be comprised at any time
for the sake of expediency. Ideally, you may except the premise
that “Honesty is the best policy.” But, practically, you might
find yourself in the position of flunking a test or cribbing a
little. Is that bad?
You can believe in truth. But, sometimes, the truth hurts
and its much easier to just color the whole thing a little.
Well, you’re being practical.
Freedom of speech is an ideal. But, sometimes from a practi
cal standpoint, somebody else practicing freedom of speech can
be ve-ry dangerous.
An ideal encompasses ideas. If we’re going to disregard ideals
as impractical in a starkly practical world, then we find our
selves coming up with a shortage of ideas. Imagination is a
priceless gift. Practical aims curtail imagination at the source.
There’s a funny philosophy going around that ideals are
Something to die for. But there hasn’t been too much talk about
ideals being something to live by. We wonder why.
It’s strange but if you cut out ideals there isn’t a great
deal left to live for or by. Man is just an animal grubbing
away for an existence — even if existence is a home on the
hill, a two car garage and a bank account. Everything man
does, he does so he can get up the next day and do the same
thing. You’re living to work instead of working to live.
Is it true lhat we are a generation whose dreams have'all
been dreamt? Is it true that machines and mass production and
modern living force us to consider only the practical?
- We may be fools but we still carry around a few ideals. And
try to live by them.
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Silent Generation' Ideals
Topic of Concern, Question
by Bob Funk
Emerald Columnitl
A number of persons have ex
pressed, through the columns of
the Emerald and otherwise, their
regret and concern upon the res
ignation of Dick Williams, stu
dent union director. We are in
very firm accord with the opin
ion that there is much to regret.
It is entirely improbable that we
will ever again get a student un
ion director who performs his
duties with so much imagination,
diligence, and idealism. Opinions
which vary from ours can be
very easily explained: they are
wrong.
• • • •
When we started writing this
column, Elsie Schiller was
■ writing an edi
tonal a r> o u t
“Ideals.” Ide
als, the oft-re
peated story
goes, are
something we,
“The Silent
Gen eration,”
have none of.
Or if we have
Wm Msm any, they have
to do with digestion, reproduc
tion, and hoping that no one
draws us into any unpleasant
ant arguments.
An ideal is easily acquired;
you can find one in lots of books.
Once you have it in possession
— sitting out in the garage, so
to speak — it is awfully hard
to tell how to handle the damned
thing. First: your friends may
not care for your ideal. They
may not care what kind of a
car you have, but they care aw
fully about your ideals. Either
your supply of friends gets par
ed, or your supply or ideals.
Ideals cannot go to the show with
you, can’t loan you money, won’t
vote for you, and they won’t kiss
you in the dark, baby. Perhaps
you should keep your friends.
Secondly: ideals are noisy. You
cannot just let the ideal sit in
the garage, rusting quietly. It
will start jumping around to get
out and insult somebody. We
realize that "insult somebody’’ Is
rather pessimistic language. But
you should know that while some
people may like your ideal and
think its just real ‘cheree,’ most
people will be insulted. That is
because ideals too often inter
fere with OTHER people’s little
plans as to digestion, reproduc
tion, ad the whole crowd.
Thirdly: ideals are easily dis
posed of. There is no corpse to
throw in the river or bury un
der the basement floor. There
Is no story in the papers. There
is only a tremendous feeling
of relief.
University students are fre
quently perplexed with ideals.
Ideals are supposed to flourish
at universities like tomato plants
in hothouses. This is not the
whole truth.
At Borne universities it is very
difficult to keep an ideal. If you
are a student, you cannot speak
out (or will not. rather i be
cause your professor may flunk
you; an administrator may glare
at you for four years; and you
may find yourself generally low
man. We concede that it is only
a petty professor or administra
tor that would hold your speak
ing out against you; but at some
universities, some people are pet
ty.
The faculty and administra
tors, for their part, may not
feel able to speak out, either.
Their jobs, the intricacies of
tenure, and their little nests in
faculty polities keep them In
line.
Because everyone may fear
petty acts of vengeance from
everybody else, nobody says any
thing. This leaves the way clear
for small, vicious acts, done in
silence, i ' t
We are perfectly aware that
no such fear of pettiness exists
at Oregon. We are fortunate in
having a perfectly enlightened,
perfectly objective faculty and
administration. Injustice is some-1
thing which does not breed here.
JL ettcm..,
•••to the Editor
Cagey and Lucky -f
The Emerald * ‘
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university of Oregon - .
Eugene, Oregon ■'
Emerald Editor: J
After scanning the Monday ini
sue of tile Emerald, we cotiltlrTU
help but laugh. Underneath ujt
editorial on booing the oppositloij
while they are making a fu-^k
throw is a supposed rebuttal of’
the remarks by Bob Ingdl.v,,
Corvnllls Gazette-Times ediloe, <
on Oregon conduct, and in i 1
sence the same booing.
The "poor thin-skinned Bea
vers” sometimes get ovor-en
thuslustle In their yelling, too;,
but they seem to ha\e the
sportsmanship to keep from
riding players while they're'I
shooting. -]
If Oregon's white-shirt <r<-.J
tion was at Its beat during tint
Oregon State contest, we'd ror-T
tainly hate to see it at its wor.if.l
From where we sat in the pn-f>tJ,
box right back of the section,[
the air was polluted with com-1
ments which weren't half :>-S
offensive to the players as theyf
were to the eurs of other list< n4
ITU.
In nhort, the hoy* would p.j.|
then- head* together ' very timer
Oregon tiad the ball and then
come up with 11 new and different
piece of verbal abuse when th:
Beavers came dowrt the floor the
next time. It got pretty tire- ,
some after a while.
If you’re going to make the *■
Reaver* welcome when they- I
play at the Southern Branch f
aoon, the leant that can t>e I
done 1h to leave enough room- !
on the playing floor no both r
team* cun work a fast break !
without landing In someone'*
lap under the banket.
A* for beating OSC. you were
cagey and plenty lucky once; but
don't count your championship •
before they’re hatched bei.mA
this one won't hatch at Eugeni*.
Turn Moore
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