Oregon Daily EMERALD *»rr*r The Oregon Daily Emerald is published Monday through Friday during the college year from Sept. 15 to lune 3. except Nov. 16, 25 through Dec. 7 through 9. 11 through Jan. 4 March Sthrongh 10, 12 through 29, May 3, and 31 through June 2, with issues on Nov. 21. Jan. 23, and May 15, by the Student Publications Board of the University of Oregon. En tered as second class 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 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) «y t 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 Kaufman Bros. Bring You Tip* on Attire About “The Campus Iaiok" the riicd'it desire ‘It’s time again to disctt»> my fa vorite topic, t! c latest fashions at Kaufman's. The only thing they