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Good Luck, Aggies
After our past heated little exchange over who has and who
doesn’t have sportsmanship and such like, we had planned to
even up the editorial score after going up to Corvallis and ob
serving the crowd. And yes, the Aggies do boo, yell at players
and carry on much like any other basketball crowd.
We suspected as much.
We lost the game. Corn Valley has a Northern Division
championship. And we just don't feel it's the time to quibble over
“boos” from the two crowds.
We don’t get irritated every time we go to Corvallis. We
did win one game of the series and Saturday night Oregon
gave the highly touted Beavers a good fight. Considering the
manpower Oregon had on the bench, the game indicated some
terrific stamina and a “great” basketball team. After all, to
quote Bill Borcher, "Oregon doesn't have to win anything.”
But both teams played some of the best basketball we’ve seen
and that’s the important thing.
So all we'd liqe to say is: Aggies, you’ve got a good ball club.
You've got the height, the shooting ability and the reserve man
power to go places. You could easily be great against USC. We
hope you are. And good luck.
Why No Fuss?
There hasn't been any fuss raised over an editorial we printed
on Feb. 8 concerning the lack of equality in the present intra
mural setup, and we feel there should be.
The situation seems to be so noticeably bad that none are
willing to say otherwise, or even admit that we are right. This
may be an indication that no one cares whether the intramural
sports program lives or dies. If it is, that is all the more reason
to do something to improve the program.
We are championing the small organizations, not because we
feel the large organizations shouldn’t win, but because the small
groups should be given a chance to be better than last. The small
teams will never get anywhere as long as they must contend
with Alpha Tan Omega, Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Alpha Epsilon,
Beta Theta Pi, etc., etc.
This year and last are good examples of who wins and who
does not. The Phi Delts took top honors in basketball in both the
“A" and "B" tournaments, playing against ATO in one and Hale
Kane, consistent champ in most sports, in the other.
In volleyball. Hale Kane won over Phi Delt teams both
years in the “A” tournament, and over the ATO's in 1952 and the
Phi Delts in 1953 in “B” playoffs. In football this year SAE
managed to beat the Phi Delts in the championship playoff. Last
year it was Hale Kane over SAE. In softball last year Sigma Chi
beat ATO.
We're not trying to dig any of these organizations, in fact,
r ire power to them. We would, however, like to see a champion
ship being decided between the Sammies and the Lambda Chis.
(RM)
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Education for Tolerance
Emerald Editor:
It is very enlightening to find
that discrimination really does
exist on the Oregon campus.
What an original conclusion! And
I am happy to see that fraternity
men are absolved of the neces
sity of doing anything about^Jt,
for “there is little that can be
done immediately on the local
level." This comes as an agreed
conclusion of an NAACP spon
sored panel!
Unfortunately 1 wus unable
to attend the panel discussion
Tuesday. But if I had l>eeii
there, nothing could have stop
ped me from exposing the
hypocrisy of that glib phrase,
education Is the only way dis
crimination can be eliminated.
Certainly education is the prin
cipal way of handling race pre
judice. But the important ques
tion is, who’s going to do the
educating?
Education in social living does j
not take place in the classroom, j
Theorizing in somebody's soc.
class seldom alters attitudes. |
Students’ attitudes on the race
question, as on other questions
of manners and morals, are
formed by the social group in |
which they live from day to day.
The function of fraternities and :
sororities on a college campus is
to form for the individual desir-!
able habits in group life.
This is their place in the
educational scheme — to help
their members ml just to social
living. And when the practices
of the Creeks are such that
they conduce to undesirable
social attitudes — in this case
to the idea that it is normal
to exclude certain races from
society — fraternities and sor
rorfties cease to perform their
part in the educational plan.
For a fraternity man to speak
of education as if it were some
one else's job is to dodge the
issue entirely. If the campus so
cial groups don't do the educa
ting. who is going to do it?
It is possible to sympathize
with the view that fraternities
and sororities should not go so
far in their position on the race
question as to cause a break
with their national organizations.
But national organizations are
notably conservative; they are
not primarily composed of cam
pus people who see the need to
change policy to meet changing
conditions on the campuses. Each
local chapter should go as far
as it can. without precipitating
a break with its national.
I know of one fraternity on
this campus whose national
has had no restrictive clause
in its charter since 1947; yet
the local chapter itself has a
gentleman's agreement not to
pledge non-Caucasiaus or non
Christians. Is this a situation
where nothing can be done on
the local level?
Even in the most conservative
fraternities it is often possible
to pledge an outstanding Jewish
student. A Jewish student today,
perhaps an Hawaiian - American
next year, and eventually the
chapter may be able to pledge a
Negro. It is by a series of such!
steps, gradually taken in each
local chapter, that discrimina
tion in fraternities cao finally j
be licked.
Forbes I. Hill
Illegal Discrimination
Emerald Editor:
I really have very little time
for this sort of thing, but be
cause the comments following
my letter in the Emerald of Feb.
25 strongly imply that I was
misconstruing the facts, I am
compelled to answer. It is strange
that the University of Washing
ton was omitted from the list of
schools that have taken action
to abolish discriminatory clauses.
Their policies could serve as a
valuable guide for this institu
tion. The following information
was gained from the office of the
dean of students at Washington.
Discriminatory clauses In
institutions recognised by the
University have been declared
illegal. Periodical statements .
to that effect are Issued to
those organizations that still
retain discriminatory clauses.
A permanent committee has
been formed thut works with
the problems and which hits
had considerable success, I am
'told. Organizations were not
given a deadline, us 1 stated,
lint discriminatory clauses
were declared illegal by the
school, and constant work Is
lielng done to eliminate them.
Concerning the reference to
Oregon State, I can .speak with i
some experience as I was there
when this issue arose. The con
troversy at the time raged
around what was called the
"Wick Amendment." Due to;
shrill opposition, it was passed
in a watered-down form. How
ever, future organizations were
prevented from possessing racial
or rellglouB clauses, and tli
amendment encouraged cxlstm
societies to rid themselves <
them. The call to Corvallis we
not long enough or such fact
would have been learned.
Whut disturbed this writer
at Tuesday night's meeting
was the reluctance of some
members to admit that there
was a problem. Instead of ae
knowlodging there was one and
dismissing what to do about
It. In eloslng, I cannot tint
point out the advantages of an
editor In I icing able to present
evidence that seemingly re
Idles Statements ruude by a
lowly letter writer. Perhaps
the answer Is to become a
journalist.
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