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ELSIE SCHILLER. Editor
DICK CARTER, Business Manager
To Philosophize
“Write an editorial about education,” the editor said. "And be
sort of philosophical."
Ok. we have to be philosophical about education — we who
can't even spell the word without the aid of a much-battered
edition of Webster’s Collegiate dictionary.
But somehow education is something we can’t seem to be
too philosophical about. It’s too practical a matter when you
get right down to the base of it.
Why are we going to college? To get an education. Why an
education? So we can get a good job after we graduate instead
■of digging those ditches we always hear about people digging.
Oh, it’s fine to say that we want to be educated so we can
tell a Shakespearian sonnet from the marginal propensity to
consume. And that’s really a part of it — a very important part.
But most of us are really here to avoid those ditches.
It doesn't matter too much these days what the degree is
in, as long as you have a degree. And that goes back to those
sonnets of Mr. Shakespeare. You can study most anything
and learn something. It’s almost impossible to go through
four years here without learning something.
If we learn nothing else except how to live with people, how
to work with them, our four years haven’t been wasted. And a
lot of this learning how to work with people comes from activ
ity outside the classroom. It all has a place in ' building the
well rounded person,” which people are so often trying to build.
This weekend high school seniors are on campus. They’re
looging us over, trying to decide if this is the place they want
to spend the next four years. Some of them are probably trying
to decide if they want to go to college at all.
We hope you seniors do decide to come down here — we
like it here. But even it you don't come here, we hope you at
tend some university or college.
We can joke about education, we say we’re against it, or
clon’t think it’s here to stay, but we don’t mean it really.
We’re already beginning to see what we’ve gained from three
-and a half years here. You'll gain too. You can't help but gain.
And it’s fun. Some of the classes are boring, sometimes
you start wondering why you’re spending all the time and
money just to sit in class when you’d rather be sleeping or
swimming. But it’s fun anyway. Because suddenly you re
alize that you know something, that you’ve found out some
thing that few people know or realize, that you can do some
thing that makes you just a little more skillful and gives you
a better job when you graduate.
. We’re sold on a university education, both for the practical
aspects and for, well, guess we have to call it the philosophical
fun of learning. (J.W.)
Remember When?
. He’s writing letters of application to four other colleges — He
thinks he just flunked th’ college entrance exam.”
19 hat‘s fioiaifl On Here?
Candidate Says This The Year'
by A1 Karr
Emerald Columnist
Hollis Ransom, UIS . candidate
for ASUO president, is a serious
minded campus politician who
feels that "this is the year” for
student government.
He has stated that the Univer
any is in «
transition peri
od, with a new
University ad
ministration in
being and a
new Student
Union adminis
tration becom
i n g necessary
next year. This
gives student
eovernment a
chance to branch out in activity,
a greater opportunity than it has
ever had before, Ransom believes,
because reshaping and new
thinking is in process.
The ITS eandUlute. who Is
also president of the indepen
dent party, cites the establish
ment of a committee composed
of students and faculty to
study the job of the SI' direc
tor and the selection of a re
placement for Dick Williams.
This committee, appointed by
President O. Meredith Wilson,
is an example of what is al
ready being done 'to enlarge the
role of students and student
government at Oregon, Ran
som says.
Ransom, a senior in political
science, has been at Oregon for
two years. He attended Jefferson
(Portland) and Vancouver
(Washington) high schools, and
then attend Clark junior college
in Vancouver, where he gradua
ted with honors. He was born in
Astoria, spent several years in
Portland, and now ban his homo
in Eugene.
Of moderately slight build (5
ft. 8'j inches, 130 pounds), Han
som Is u member of Campbell
Club, and was president this
year. He has served on the ASIH)
senate this year as a senator-at
large. At Oregon he has a 3,4
cumulative GPA.
Kanaom will return to Oregon
next year to begin work on his
master's degree.
The 1 IS candidate feels. In
order to take advantage of the
opportunity that student gov
ernment will have to make It
self more Important In mat
ters concerning students, Indi
vidual interest will Ite neces
sary. He also believes that the
ITS party, through its plat
form, has recognised this need
and the opportunity for stu
dent government next year.
Ransom's concept of the ideal
political setup at Oregon would
have two coalition parties, each
comjHJsed of both Greeks and In
dependents. Voting and political
activity should be based on indi
vidual thinking und issues en
dorsed by parties, not on the
place where one lives, he con
tends.
Platforms, he says, should be
made meaningful stressing
concrete matters. Because “this
is the year,’’ Ransom points out.
platforms can be made especially
meaningful.
If more Interest In student
activities and student govern
ment Is the result, Ransom be
lieves, the strong senate should
strengthen Its position by sidl
ing the students what the sen
ate is doing and by actively
campaigning for candidate*.
Ransom, then, believes that
IT'S HERE
H. A.T.S.
(HANDS ACROSS THE SEA)
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ALL CAMPUS
VODVIL
TONIGHT 10:00 P.M.
The College Crowd's Favorite ...
Welcome,
SENIORS!
Have a good time
this week end!
For the best lunches,
and fountain
Service at the
friendliest, most
relaxing place on
campus, it's
THE COLLEGE SIDE INN
student government has a unique .]
opportunity to make gain* m
portance at the University. aitl,
that it hiiH a challenge to do m...
iNVxt weak: Bob Sumniri»,
AGS candidate for ASUO j»i ,.HJ^
dent. I
* * •
Nullification of the present
ASUO-run all-campu* primary dm
AGS leaders are wot king f<„
would give the AGS party control
over the number of candidate*
put up for aenator-at-largc,
among other thing*. Presently
any purty la limited to nine the -*
number of poaltiona to be filled *
at-large.
Till* control ha* lieen linpor- J
taut In the past. Three year*
ago, for example, 1st (*m
eeedrd by I IS) put up only
fl\e candidates, on the then y
that 1s t vote* would be eon
eentrated. Hut AGS put up in,
on the theory that when pref.
ernutiul vote* were distributed
from eliminated candidate* on
the bottom, AGS “low men”
would thus contribute vote* to
contender*.
The AGS theory proved the
valid one; the Greek party came
through with *!x *ena torn-at
large. USA got two. and there
wa-t one non-pattiaan elected.
/7ccents
/V ^ Dalece
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the riicd'it desire
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Before long our favorite swim
ming hole will he open and the fa
vorite saying will he “Let's go
swimming.” He sure you’re ready
to accept the invitation, if you don't
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! the many swimsuits at Kaufman's.
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