ELSIE SCHILLER, Editor DICK CARTER, Business Manager
JACKIE WARDELL, RON MILLER, Associate Editors
KITTY ERASER, Managing Editor VALERA VIERRA, Adv. Mgr.
JOE GARDNER, News Editor BOB ROBINSON, Sports Editor
Too Many Stairs
“There were too many stairs—but it was fun."
We heard a lot of high school seniors say this before Duck
Preview ended. And we agree.
The weekend in general was a great success. Co-chairmen
Don Bonime and Jerry Farrow were successful in most cases
in their campaign to keep the seniors away from “beer busts"
and give them a picture of the serious side of Oregon life.
The department exhibits were well done and interesting
to the seniors and tour guides alike. That is they were for
the first hour and for the first few flights of stairs.
But there’s something about climbing up and down the stairs
in Yillard, Chapman, the Science building, etc., that becomes
a bit tiring. The visitors and the guides were dragging by the
end of the morning and ^nany complained that they really
didn’t get to see as much as they would have liked.
Perhaps tshe tours could be more specialized or reduced in
size—we definitely think they’re a good idea.
But as much as we like the “let’s show them*we study”
idea, we don't like getting out of the Vodvil show at 12:30.
Somehow the best of acts loses its appeal by midnight when
almost everyone was dead tired. Effectiveness of the show
lost out to sheer fatigue.
Also, we hope the idea of having student judges for such
things is not going to be permanent. Students, no matter how
fair they might be, have vested interests in their living organi
sations. It’s not fair to them or to other houses to ask students
to judge. Especially if their houses are participating.
The campus was disrupted as usual-—and studying was vir
tually impossible. But we think it was worthwhile—we need
those seniors down here- next year to boost the enrollment.
And it gives us something to complain about for a whole
year.—(JAY.)
Letters to the Editor
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African Dance
• An Open Letter:
• Through: Emerald Editor:
To: The President
Delta "Gamma
I Dear President,
» After watching the Vodvil
• Shows on Friday night, during
L which time your organization,
Delta Gamma, presented a kind
. of mumbo-jumbo dance, which
you wanted the audience to be
. lieve, was a typical Afircan dance
in the jungle. I decided to write
!' you and your organization this
open leter in protest as an Afri
can student in the University.
In the act, you have given the
audience a wrong and misleading
, impression of what the African
music and dance really are. For
instance, you presented an Afri
•>- can dance as being merely an act
of jumping up and down, falling
-■ flat on the floor and making any
‘ amount of noise, meaningless and
- unintelligible to man or bea3t.
I should not have taken the
- trouble to write you this letter,
but for two good reasons I de
cided to do so. Firsit, the fact
that already there have been
many habits of thought which
are anti-African in some" parts
of the world. These hinder the
realization of progress and
happiness in Africa. Along
with these habits of thought
are some unauthorized plans
and platftudes to present the
culture and problems of the
African people, and also for
the settlement of these prob
lems. These things the Africans
of the present century deter
mined to correct whenever and
wherever they can. '
Secondly, our international and
interracial relations all over the
world today are not too good.
One of the basic ways to develop
a better undersanding and re
spect for a national culture, is
the arts way. The way other peo
ple’s culture is presented should
be unbiased, natural and humane.
Probably you have had it4 in
plan for a long time enough to
If
present an African dance, and
yet there are six African stu
dents on this campus, and to my
best knowledge, none was con
sulted as to the best way you
could have presented an African
dance, to avoid giving the audi
ence an erroneous impression,
that Africans are still jungle
dancers and barbaric.
For your information and in
case you don't know, Africans
are music lovers. They have ap
propriate music for every season
and event. There are songs for
war or peace, songs for birth,
burial, matrimony, love and
whatever human experience that
may excite or inspire an artist.
Of the features of African music,
rhythm and high pitch stand out.
If you heard our orchestra
when you were sleepy, hungry
or despondent, you would sud
denly find yourself carried up
and down by the sweet melody
and activating tendency that
syncopation produces. You arc
dancing. There it is. And there
is another feature of African
music—delicacy. The effect
is the opposite of the former.
It is so delicate in harmony, so
low in pitch and touching in
meaning that one is made to
weep, remain calm, feel fright
ened or fall asleep.
I am convinced a little more ef
fort on your part and that of
your organization, you could
have presented something better
and more meaningful to the au
dience than you did on Friday
night.
Robert Stevenson, a great Eng
lish writer, once said, “To hold
the same views at forty as we
Rfeld at twenty is to have been
stupified for a score of years.”
Sincerely,
Ephraim M. A. Layode
• Kvvama, sophomore women’s
service honorary, will meet to
night at 5:15 at Kappa Kappa
Gamma. The meeting is compul
sory and all members must be jn
uniform, according to Janet Gus
tafson, president.
CAMPUS BRIEFS
Deadline for items for this column is at 4
p.m. the day prior to publication.
0 White Caps, pre-nursing club,
will meet Wednesday noon in the
Student Union. Mrs. Hannah Bar
gers, a Eugene school nurse, will
be the speaker, according to Judith
Pedersen, vice-president.
0 INI ( hi, psychology honorary,
will meet at 12:20 p. m. Tuesday in
the Student Union. Speakers for
the meeting will bo Jerome E
Kristal, on "The Relation of Pal
mer Sweat to Pesonality Vari
ables” and Calvin C. Nelson on
“Stress and Palmer Sweat." Both
men are graduates in psychology.
0 Amphibians will meet tonight
at 7 at Gerlinger pool. The meet
ing is for all members planning
to remain in the group this term
and next year, according to Olivia
| Tharaldson, publicity chairman.
0 Heads of Houses will meet
| today at 1 p.m. in the Student
I Union, according to Nancy Moore.
| president.
Foreign Living
Plans Announced
Some 450 high school and col
| lege students will have a chance
i to participate in an "experiment in
■ international living” this summer
j in 18 countries.
Students in the experiment will
! spend one month living with in
: dividual families within a single
| community and one month travel
ing throughout the country they
are visiting. Average cost per stu
I dent for those going to Europe
; will be between $095 and $775.
! Students going to Mexico will pay
| $390 and students in India around
$1245.
The students are split into
: groups of ten for the experiment
which will begin in June. This year
| students may go to Austria, Den
' mark, England, Finland, France, j
Germany, Holland, India. Ireland,
Italy, Mexico, Norway, Scotland.
Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tur
key and Yugoslavia.
Applications from college wo
men will still be accepted for all
countries except England, India,
Mexico, Norway, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland, and Turkey. Al!
countries except Norway are still
open for applications from college
men.
All applications must be turned
in to the chairman of the experi-1
ment at Putney, Vt„ by June 1.
University students interested in1
the project may gain further in
formation from Agnes Weitz, Car
son hall, or Fi-anz Hlawati, Alpha
hall.
Campus calendar
Noon IVCF Plan 110 SU
NW. Reg Proj 111 SU I
Span Tbl 112 SU j
UIS 113 SU
4:00 Hds of Hses 111 SU
4 :30 Mysti SI Cm Ch 113 SU
7:00 Yeomen 112 SU
7:30 Sigma Xi Lect 16 Sci
Job Opportunities
Accountants for Weyerhauser
Timber company will be recruited
Thursday by Representative S. A. (
Ridpath, according to K. W. On
thank, director of graduate place
ment.
A representative of Bethlehem
Steel company will interview pros
pects for their loop training pro
gram on Friday.
Students interested in meeting
with these men must make ap
pointments by contacting the
graduate placement office, Emer
ald 206, Onthank said.
Openings for summer work at a
resort in the Olympic mountains
have been announced by Shirley
Sylvester, student employment of
fice manager. Girls, preferably
over 21, should apply.
Forest service type of work in
Northern California is available
for men, and there is one possibili
ty for a girl, over 20, to obtain
work in a lookout station, Miss
Sylvester said.
Applications for these jobs may
be made at the student employ-;
ment office, Emerald 258c.
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