Omm Daily
(EMERALD
The Oregon Daily Emerald ia published Monday through Friday during the college year
from Sept. 15 to June 3, except Nov. 16, 25 through 30, Dec. 7 through 9, 11 through Jan. 4
March 8 through 10, 12 through 29, May 3, and 31 through June 2, with issues on Nov. 21.
Jan. 23. and May 8, by the Student Publications Board of the University of Oregon. En
tered as second dasa matter at the post office, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates: $5 per
school year; $2 per term.
Opinions expressed on the editorial page are those of the writer and do not pretend to
represent the opinions of the ASUO or of the University. Unsigned editorials are written by
the 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 YIERRA, Adv. Mgr.
JOE GARDNER, News Editor
BOB ROBINSON, Sports Editor
Platforms, Please
The deep curtain of silence has finally lifted — with .official
Announcement of the filing of candidates for ASUO office in
the forthcoming elections.
We’re glad to know who’s “running” but we’d also like to re
mind candidates they have one short week left in which to pro
duce some platforms and constructive ideas on which students
■can vote when they fill out a ballot for the individual of their
choice.
We know that student turn-out for campus elections has
sometimes been disappointingly small. One doesn’t have to
look too hard for the reason. For the people who personally
know the candidates, it’s comparatively easy to cast a vote on
the strength of a name.
For a majority of the campus, and this is a fairly large cam
pus, the name alone doesn't mean a thing. It's the ideas and the
concrete issues of a campaign on which these students must
form a judgment.
And if a campaign is lacking those ideas and concrete opin
ions, then campus apathy is bound to result.
But we can't help thinking of what one campus politician
told us recently, “There’s always plenty of noise and action
during a campaign. I’d like to see a little more of the action
through the rest of the year.”
"To Verify
\\ e "would like to ask the two men who turned the letter to
^he editor into our office yesterday afternoon to stop in and
Verify the names signed to that letter.
It is and has always been the policy olt the Emerald to verify
iLhe validity of the names appearing as signatures on any letter
-*ve receive. A call to the registrar's office yesterday afternoon
indicated that the authors of this letter are not enrolled as stu
dents in the University.
We have occasionally run letters from townspeople and
other off-campus sources—for instance the letter from
Sheriff Edward Elder which appeared in the April 6 edition
of the Emerald. However, this has always been with the stip
ulation that those names appearing on the letters could be
verified and we usually run an additional line, identifying the
position of the person writing that letter.
We have not and will not run letters unless the names can be
-verified. If the authors will verify this letter, we will print it in
■our next issue and we will withhold those names as requested.
A New Approach?
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“Well, Freda, let me put ft another way . .
Letters to the Editor
Really Irritated
Emerald Editor:
Kuth Martin’s letter of April
5 eritizing the Emerald’s print
ing the name of the sorority
whose members had a beer
party really irritated me.
She stated, “Beer parties, of
course, should be discouraged,”
and I agree. But what is a bet
ter way of discouraging them
than printing the names of any
persons doing that — and the
name of their living organiza
tion ? If a student really has
pride in his house, he won't do
anything that might discredit it,
and if the officers of the house
want to prove their house to be a
“respectable national organiza
tion," they will keep liquor out of
all house functions.
Kuth also stated. “If the !
girls hadn't been inexperienc
ed, they wouldn’t have been
eaught.” Possibly that is true,
but does the fact 'that they
haven’t been to beer parties
before make the act any less
wrong?
Printing the name of the soror-1
ity involved not only added to
the punishment of the girls, but!
it. also prevented false rumors
from being linked to sororities!
that are trying hard to be up
standing.
Bruce Bloomfield
University Wet Nurse
Emerald Editor:
Recent articles in the Emerald
have left us with the impression
that University policy seems to
be one which regards undergrad
ate students as a group of juven
iles, to be wet-nursed on their j
way through college life.
As a group — we believe —
mature individuals, we heartily
disagree with said policy, j
We’ve been on our own for sev- :
eral years now and feel our
right to do what we want
when we want and how we
want, with the only limitations
our own personal and moral
feelings and civil law. We need j
no University to aid us in this.
Incidents of last week indicate
that the University feels that it\
has the right to closely survey
the private lives of its students j
— up to and including punishing
them for actions for which they
have already received civil pun
ishment. We have always be
lieved, on moral if not strictly
legal grounds, that no person
should be twice tried, convicted
and punished for the same
“crime.”
We, the undersigned, wish to
strongly protest this particular
University policy. W’e are of
age but we don’t think that
this has anything to do with
Social Calendar
Wednesday Desserts
Chi Omega — Delta Tau Delta
Alpha Omicron Pi — Alpha Tau
Omega
Alpha Phi — Phi Gamma Delta
Saturday House Dances
University House
Alpha Phi
Pi Beta Phi
Highland House
Delta Delta Delta
Alpha Chi Omega
Alpha Delta Pi
Delta Gamma
Orides
Hendricks hall
I/O Women Attend
AWS Conference
Janet Wick, AWS president, and
Rosemary Hampton, AWS vice
president, left this morning by
plane for Tucson, Arizona, where
they will attend the Western In
tercollegiate AWS conference.
They expect to return Monday.
Mrs. Golda P. Wickham, asso
ciate director of student affairs,
will also attend the conference,
which will include representatives
from all of the states west of the
Mississippi.
the University'* stand. We
often like to leave campus, If
only to seek recreational diver
sion, and we don’t need a
group of college fathers to tell
us how.
We are not usually in trouble.
When we are, we expect to be
punished, but by civil law, not
college "policy," especially when
these actions hnve nothing to do
with the college.
Kip Wharton
George Wilkins
Douglas G. King
Dale Hullierg
Glen Overstreet
Donald L. Williams
Itobcrt Bonham
Donovan K. Jones
Robert B. Stallwood
Campus Calendar
Noon French Tbl 110 SU
Asbly Com 111 SU
Phi Beta Pldg 112 SU
Wh Caps 113 SU
2:00 PE Conf Of. 213 SU
3:00 Dk Prev Prog 111 SU
4:00 Red Crs Bd 112 SU
Hnr Cde Com 113 SU
Movie Corn 302 SU
SU Bd 337 SU
PE Conf Reg Lby 2nd fl SU
7:30 Alf Dolt Sig 112 SU
Nwcmers Brdg 113 SU
Stu Traf Ct 315 SU
Sq Dance Ger Anx
8:00 Hui O 334 SU
EUCMA Mac Ct
0 The house chaplains will
meet in the Student Union Thurs
day at 6:30 p.m., Acting Chair
man Jo Hutchon has announced.
Rev. Edmund J. Mumane of St.
Mary's Culholic church will lec
ture to the group on "Catholic
ism." The slate of new officers
will also be presented, she said.
Male Open Rush
Dates, Data Listed
Men’s open rushing started Mon
day and will continue through
April 24, it was reported by the
office of student affairs.
Any male student who wishes
to rush may do so by signing up at
the office of student affairs in
Emerald hall immediately. At the
time of signing, the student must
pay a $5 rushing fee.
If a student has already paid
the fee, he may pledge immediat
ely after signing. Otherwise the
student must watt one week be
fore pledging, student affairs has
announced.
Any student desiring to rush
must have made a 2.00 grade point
average winter term or have a
cumulative GPA of 2.00.
These changes in the open rush
policy were announced at the
April 1 meeting of the Inter-fra
ternity council. The new provisions
will be added to the IFC consti
tution at a later date, according
to student affairs.
Phi Theta
Deadline Set
The deadline for submission of
applications for the Phi Theta
and AWS scholarships has been
set for 5 p. m. today, according to
Janet Wick, AWS president. The
application deadline for Kwama
scholarships is Friday.
All women are eligible to apply
for the AWS stipends. Only soph
omore women may apply for the
Phi Theta awards, and only fresh
men women for the Kwama scho
larships.
The exact number and size of
the awards has not yet been deter
mined by the three organizations.
The basic qualification for the
scholarships is need, according to
Kwama President Janet Gustaf
son.
Applications for all three Scho
larships are available at the of
fice of Mrs. Golda P. Wickham, as
sociate director of student affairs.
CAMPUS BRIEFS
Deadline (or ilrinn (or llila column |a nt 4
p in. the clay prior to publication.
« i-lving orKUiil/aitlon
leaders will meet ut 4 p. m. Thurs
dny In the Student Union, ac
cording to Ann Ucrllnger, aII
Camptm Sing Chairman. The song
leaders will receive rules for the
Sing. -
• The .Inn tor Weekend float
! parade committee will meet at :j
p. m. today in the Student Union,
according to Mary Wilson and
Ann Hopkins, co-chairmen.
0 Nub-chairmen for I In- Junior
Weekend queen selection commit
tee will meet at 4:30 p. m. today
In the Student Union, according t<>
co-chalrmcn Ward Cook and Jack
I Boettcher.
0 The pledge class of Alpha I'hl
, Omega will have a dinner meeting
tonight at 5:30 in John Straub
0 Petitions for the Junior
Weekend queen coronation com
mittee are due at 5 p. m. Thurs
day, according to Jim Woodya I.
! cha.i man. Petitions should I •
turned In to Woodyard at Hi;, cm
! N'u.
^ Petitions are due at 3 p. in.
today for chairmanship or ro.ii
! inittee work on the decoration' ,
I food and tickets committees < *
(he all-campus luncheon. Pet
tions may be turned In to the As
UO box on the third floor of th
SU or to Corky Horton or Mar i
I Hodgson at Gamma Phi Bela.
0 Petitions have been called for
(chairmen and committee meinhe- .
tor the decorations, tickets in i
j clean-up committees for the Jui
lor Prom, according to Janet
Wick, chairman. Deadline for j>< -
i titions Is 5 p. m. today. Petitions
1 may be submitted to Miss Wick
at Pi Beta Phi or to the ASUO lx<x
on the third floor of the Student
Union.
0 All theme suggestions fur
the all-campus vodvil show, to be
held April 23. are to be turned in
to the VMCA office, on the thir l
floor of the Student Union, by 5
p. m. today. Two free tickets to
the vodvlll will be awarded the
winner, according to Edna Humls
ton, chairman.
0 White Capo, pre-nursing club
will hold it* firm spring term
meeting today at noon in the Stu
dent Union. All pre-nursing stu
dents are Invited to attend.
^ The honor rode committee
will meet in the Student Union at
4 p. m. today, according to Got
don Rice, chairman.
^ The program committee
chairmen for Duck Preview will
meet in the Student Union at 3
p. m, today. Betty Anderson, co
chairman, has announced.
0 A series of art films will
compose the educational movies
program at 7 and 9 p. m. this
evening in Commonwealth 13S.
The films to be ahown include
"Shadowland,” “Looking at Sculp
ture,” “Creative Art in Japan,”
and “Alter Masterpieces.”
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