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AN EDITORIAL
Our Fifty-Fourth Anniversary
What is a campus newspaper?
i 0 you, the reader, it > something; you pick up-sometime (lur
ing the 'lay, -can the headlines, read the campus briefs, and
maybe wrap your books in when it rains.
1 he campus newspaper is something you criticize and cont
- plain about and, in the case of the EmeraUl, wonder "what in
■ the world is wrong with that paper. Four pages, all ads, and
no new>. And occasionally*, somebody does sav, "Food paper
- today.”
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That s all a journalist can expect from the readers of any
newspaper. And it's all we want really.
Hut what «l<> we. the Emerald staff, think our campus news
paper is <»n this, our fifty-fourth birthday?
In the first place, the Kmerald isn't an activity in the minds
of the staff. It's a way of life. We’re having coffee in the SU.
We overhear a conversation that sounds like it might he
“nevt s.” We just don't finish our coffee and go away. We listen
a little longer and then start checking sources.
We're on our way home from the press at midnight. We’re
tired. Our feet hurt. But somebody's decided to stage a torch
parade and it looks exciting. We don’t just shrug our should
ers and go home to bed ... or study. Even though we're not a
regular reporter any longer, we run after the parade to see
what’s going on. It could make “news.”
And that's the primary reason we publish the Kmerald—to
gather the news, process it and serve it up to the reader for.
we hope, consumption and digestion.
And on the editorial side, we're similar to the "gadfly" in
Greek philosophy. We goad and prod where goading and prod
ding seems necessary. \\ e try to keep our fingers on every cur
rent of thought and action in this campus world of ours. We
digest an awful lot of opinions on one thing and another and
then come up with our opinion.
A campus paper should be a leader in campus thought and
reaction. Not only are we trying to shape opinions and get
action, but we’re trying to pick up little shreds of conversa
tion, big mouthfuls of gripes and bits of half-formed opin
ions and shape a pattern of college life.
Hut a campus newspaper is more than a news gatherer or an
opinion molder. It is a source of public relations to the outside
world. A lot of alums and people who will never sec Eugene
read the Kmerald. \\ hen they get a chance, they let us know
what they think of the University. An awful lot of that is based
on what they’ve read in the pages of your-Oregon Daily Km
erald.
Fifty-four years is time enough to build up an awful lot of
tradition. Fifty-four years means countless numbers of
people, now adults and older, went through the University
as Emerald staff members. Fifty-four years means a lot of
memories stored in the yellowed pages of past Emeralds.
And on our birthday, we sit in our office and wonder about
oui future. \\ e re optimistic. \\ e know we vc got some terrific
people working on our staff, we think we’re on an uphill grade.
And we think we re headed in the right direction.
Crowned, Then Tubbed Is
The King of Hearts' Fate
Who will ho this year's King
of Hearts? Ho will bo chosen from
one of six finalists, and will ho
crowned Saturday night at Chi
Omega by YWCA president Cathy
Tribe Slegmund.
Dick Bruce, Bob Berry, Wes
Ball, Bruce Purvine, Ron Griffiths
and Milan Foster are the finalists.
The King will be selected by the
I vote of all women buying tickets.
Tickets for the girl-aak-boy
dance, “Heart of My Heart," will
continue on sale at the Student
: Union and the Co-op until 5 p.m.
i today.
Bonlme, Viles Entertain
The dance will begin at Chi
Omega, with entertainment sched
uled at 8 p. m. and crowning of
'he king to follow. Scheduled en
tertainment includes Don Bonime,
playing the piano, and Pat Viles,
playing the guitar. Also appearing
will bo Jeff Davis, playing the
banjo.
Andy Nasburg, sophomore in
business, will serve as master of
ceremonies for the program, and
will introduce the candidates for
King. Following the crowning
ceremonies the "King” will sit in
a regal "throne.” After that will
be tubbed by the other candidates
on the Chi Omega front lawn.
Following the entertainment
and crowning ceremonies, dancing
will be held at Chi Omega, Kappa
Alpha Theta, Zeta Tau Alpha and
Pi Beta Phi.
Decorations Vary
Each house has its own theme
for decorations. Chi Omega’s is
"You Belong to My Heart.” Dec-!
orations at Kappa Alpha Theta!
will center around "Candy1
Hearts,” and Zeta Tau Alpha's
theme is "With A Song in My
Heart.” Pi Beta Phi wilj featwo
"Heart to Heart.”
Immediately following the
crowning ceremonies will be the
presentation of gifts, donated by
Eugene business firms, for the
King and the other five finalist:}.
Gifts and donors include a bottlo
of shaving lotion from Claypool’f:
amber headlight disks from Pa
cific Auto Supply, and shirts flora
Fennell’s Bill Baker's, KirchofC
and Scott and Penneys.
Gift certificates w;il be presen
ted the finalists by Miller’s and
Oregon Outfitters, for $5 and $3
respectively.
Joe Richard’s store is donating
a tie clasp, and the Drug Center’*
gift is Tussy cologne for men. The
Heilig, Mayflower and Lane thea
ters, which are all under one man
agement, will give ten movie
passes.
Lecture Rescheduled
The Condon lecture, scheduled
(or Thursday rvpnln?, was can
rrllrd because of the illness of
(ho speaker, Ralph Burhsbaum,
professor of zoology at the Uni
versity of rit'tshurgh. Buchs
baum was to have spoken in the
Student Union ballroom on the
topie ‘‘Man Studies and Under
stands the Sen.”
Buehshaum's leeture has been
rescheduled for Monday evening,
it was announced Thursday eve
ning.
UIS Sponsors
Social Affair;
Greeks Welcome
Independent students will ga
ther in the basement of Carson
hall tonight for the first annual
"Basement Bounce" sponsored by
United Independent Students.
All campus Greeks have been
invited to the social function from
9 until midnight.
"Special secret entertainment"
has been planned and Sam Vahey,
sophomore in business, will serve
as master of ceremonies, according
to Loris Larson. UIS secretary.
Admission is 35 cents to the
"stag, no drag" affair and campus
clothes are in order.
Decorations, centering around a
Valentine theme, are being done
by members of Rebec house, under
the direction of Shirley Knox,
freshman in liberal arts.
Tickets All Sold
For Corvallis Game
All students and adult tickets
tor the Oregon State college bas
ketball game in Corvallis Feb. 27,
have been sold, the athletic busi
ness office announced Thursday.
The last of the tickets was sold
Tuesday.
Student and general admission
tickets will be on sale at Gill coli
seum at 8 a. m. the day of the
game. Prices for the ducats are
81.50.
Aggie Campus Leaders
Stand up Senate Meet
Where are the Aggies? This,
(juestion was one of the principal
matters to come before the ASUO
senate at its Thursday night meet
ing.
Don Foss, Oregon State college :
student body president; Dick Da
vis, editor of t* OSC Daily Bar
ometer; and Paul Fillinger, chair
man of the board of the OSC
Memorial Union, were scheduled
to attend the senate meeting to i
discuss common problems shared
by the University and Oregon
State.
ASUO President Tom Wrightson
tried to contact both' Foss and
Davis after the senate had finish
ed its busines meeting, but neither i
could be reached.
Sam Vahey, chairman of a sen-'
ate committee to study improved
means of student identification for
athletic contests, reported that j
the committee had met with Leoi
Harris, Ted Bouck and Art Pitch
man of the University athletic
department.
After discussion of the question
of photographs on athletic cards
and other plans, the Senate de
cided to invite Athletic Director
Harris to attend a senate meeting
to discuss the problem.
The Senate approved the ap
pointments of Janet Gustafson,
Sam Vahey, Olivia Tnaraldson,
and Maeua-Louise Hair to tho
tally board. The four were recom
mended by flally Board Chairman
Sally Stadelman.
The Senate also approved a rec
ommendation of the University
Religious council that Ted Goh to
appointed chairman of the World
University Service drive. Gcii
Porritt and Gail West were named
assistant chairmen.
Jim Light, junior class presi
dent, was appointed to study a
proposed memorial scholarship n
honor of the late Judith Ellefson.
Kaufman Brothers department
store, where Miss Ellefson was
employed, plans to make a contri
bution toward an emergency fund
ta aid worthy girls in order th d
they might have more time for ac
tivities and study.
Patterson Guest
At OSBA Luncheon
Registration and business ses
sions opened the Oregon State
Broadcasters associations annual
convention this morning in the
Student Union.
The meeting will run through
today and will conclude Satur
day at noon, at a luncheon in the
SU. The luncheon and all other
sessions are open to interested
students and faculty members.
Saturday morning’s sales clinic,
scheduled for 10 a .m., will be of
special interest to students, said
Robert E. Summers, assistant pro
fessor of journalism and secretary
of the OSBA.
Featured at the clinic will be
P. T. Royston of Kelly-Clark Co.
in Portland, speaking on “Pro
blems of a Distributor in Rela
tion to Radio Advertising,”
Other speakers will be Dick M.*»
guile of station KFJI, who w tl
speak on "High School Athletics
—Answer to a Sales Problem1;'’
and James Mount of station KXL,
whose topic is "The Portland
Story.”
Governor Paul Patterson will bo
a special guest at today’s lunch
eon. Two of the German newspa
permen attending the University*
Lothar Loewe and Franz O exits. ^
will present "Reports on Gei
many.”
The Eugene hotel will be the lo
cation of tonight's banquet, to be
held at 6:30. Walton Purdom of
San Francisco will be featured
speaker, and his topic is "Advet
tising’s Liveliest Dead Duck.” Pre
ceding the banquet a hospitably,
tour will be held, beginning at
the hotel at 5:30.