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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 28, 1954)
Dog Eat Dog . . . Who say* campus politic* are (lull? ASL'O candidates defended position* at coffee hour Tuesday. Nee edllorlal comment on page 2. Daily EMERALD And More Sunshine . . . With no rain is forecast for ri«y hy the weather bureau. Thr expected high temperature Is CZ degrees, with a low of 35. VOL. EV INIVKIWITV OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, A PR. 28, 1954 NO. 12* Candidates Air Political Views Censorship of the exchange as s e m b 1 y, racial discrimination, school spirit, the all-campus pri mary, athletic cards and married student participation ait came in for their share of discussion at the Student Union - ASUO coffee hour forum Tuesday. The discussion, led by ASUO President Toni Wrightson, featur ed as principal speakers Hollis ftaniom and Bob Summers, ASUO candidates of United Independent Students and Associated Greek • Students respectively. Both candidates agreed the question of assembly censorship was one of the big issues before the senate at the present time. "ants Screening "The University was the recip ient of a lot of adverse publicity following the assembly's presenta tion." Summers said, and he feels a screening board, established sep aiately from that of the assembly committee, should be maintained to prevent recurrence of the sit* - uation. Hansom maintains censorship in this area would lead to censorship in other levels of student affairs, and that a censorship board would, as it had in previous trials, "de generate into becoming the as sembly committee itself." I he subject of the all-campus primary was brought up in a ques tion from the audience. Ransom’s said. In defense of the system, that under the all-campus system the primaries are "open, and not subject to control by individual groups.” Personal Support Klaborating on the point. Ran som said that a party's candidate should have the personal support of the majority of individual vot ers, nut representatives who may or may not represent the consen ■ sua of opinion among the elector ate. This, he feels, is the danger of the alternate system of party con ventions. supported by AOS. On the other hand. Summers stated that in the convention sys tem the parties have the right to . run their own primary through representatives selected by each member-house. A member of the audience asked the candidates what they proposed to do about racial discrimination in , Greek houses. Summers answered « • that he felt the problem was not of large, significant proportions on this campus. Nothing can be done by local chapters except writing to their national organizations, he said. Two Canes Protected "At the recent NAACP panel," Summers said, "there were only two specific cases of discrimina tion which were protested,” He added this does not indicate a problem of immediate and threat ening proportions. Off-campus married students and their problems of participa tion in campus life were discussed by the candidates, also in answer to an audience question. Married students have different interests, Summers asserted, and their participation in student gov ernment is found to be an excep tion rather than a rule in past experience. "Off-campus students should be represented,” Ransom said, citing the establishment of a graduate student seat on the senate as an example of action taken in this matter. Several of the senator-at-large and class-officer candidates from I both parties were present. Fraternities Pledge 34 in Spring Rush Fraternities pledged 34 men dur ing the spring term open rush period which closed Saturday. A total of 45 men participated in the three-week rush period. Open rush ing will continue until two weeks before finals. Those men pledged include: Alpha Tau Omega; Donald A. Kick and Paul Frahm; Beta Theta Pi: Donald Sicard; Delta Tau Del ta: Charles Blackburn, Robert! Frank, Thomas Hemphill and j James Potter: Delta Upsilon: Da vid Chambers, Albert Rollinson i and John Watson, and Kappa Sigma: Jerome Poissant. Phi Delta Theta: Kenneth Bond' and Tillman Briggs; Phi Gamma Delta: Richard Collins and Charles! Fehely; Phi Kappa Psi: Patrick Kittredge and Ronald Oglesby; Phi i Kappa Sigma: Gary Donnell; Pi Kappa Alpha: Gregory Ripke;! Sigma Alpha Epsilon: Jack Jen nings; and Sigma Chi: William Bode and Dale Carroll. Sigma Nu: Richard Moke, Fred' Pinjuv and Dale Pound; Sigma Phi Epsilon: Frederick Fraunfelder, j Carl Gibson, Michael O'Harra and James Sopp; Tau Kappa Epsilon: Howard Russell, and Theta Chi: Gene Barnhart, Robert Kemmerer, Ronald Leland and Dennis Olsen. Vivas Slams Hack Critics Aesthetic* and critics should be mutually helpful, Klisco Vivas said last night in a lecture on ‘'Lit erary Criticisim and Aesthetics,” Many aesthetics are not ration al about criticisms. This lowers the dignity of man’s efforts to increase human culture, Vivas de clared. The feeling of the aesthetics is increased by what Vivas terms "The obnoxious form of hacks hired by newspapers and maga zines who attempt to interpret modern literature for their half literate readers.” The critic must have sensitivity, but he also needs training to make his criticiem coherent. Vivas said. “It is out and out nonsese that a critic can work with only sensi tivity and no knowledge of theories and forms.” Vivas was bom in Colombia and came to the United States at the age of 17. He received his A.B. from the University of Wisconsin in 1028, and his Ph.D from the Barnes Foundation in 1928. Vivas is the author of “The Moral Life and The Ethical Life” and "Naturalism and the Human Spirit.” U of 0 Debaters 21sf in Field of 34 The University of Oregon’s de bate squad finished twenty-first in a 34 school field at the annual West Point invitational debate tournament, according to Herman Cohen, instructor in speech and adviser to the squad. Representing Oregon were Karl Haishbarger and Don Mickclwait, who won three and lost five of their debates. If they had won one more, according to Cohen, they would have placed in the top 16 grouping, which participated in the eliminations. Films on Radio and TV Scheduled for Tonight A program of five films dealing with radio and television is sched uled for tonight in Commonwealth 138 by the Student Union movie committee. The first showing will be at 7 p. m. and the second at 9 p. m. Admission is free, according to Barbara Wilcox, movie committee chairman. Mortgage Taken On Lambda Chi 4 1 he °reg°n Board of Higher Education Tuesday re considered its earlier decision and voted to lend $22,000 t<S Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. 1 he board changed it's position after University President O. Meredith \\ dson said that a delay in the board’s decision woubt be the same as rejection, since the fraternity needed immedia^ help. J he board s action called for lending the money to the hone at live percent interest for 20 years. The final vote on the pro posal was 8 to 1, with Henry F. Cabell, board finance chairman;, voting no. . ■ President \\ ilson’s appeal for immediate help came after the Foreign Policy To be Reviewed United States foreign policy will ; be reviewed and interpreted at to : night's browsing room lecture by W. A. Williams, assistant profes sor of history. Williams will speak at 7:30 p. m. on "The Myth of Isolationism." The United States is not now, nor has it ever been, an isolationist country, jn the opinion of Wil liams. "We confuse ourselves and the rest of the world by trying to view things in terms of our past so called isolationism," Williams ex plained. The rest of the world believes that the U. S. has always favored a policy of participation in inter national affairs. When we talk about our "isolationism" or non participation in foreign affairs, the other nations "think that we are either hypocrites or do not know our own country," William said. "I think we Americans do not know our own country,” Williams concluded. Williams will cite his ; torical examples to back up his theory that isolationism is a myth. Two books by authors well known in the field of foreign af fairs have been recommended by Williams for thise who want back ground material on U. S. foreign policy They are "American Ap proach to Foreign Policy" by Dex ter Perkins and "Ideals and Self Interest in American Foreign Re lations," by R. E. Osgood. "American-Russian Relations" is the title of Williams' own re cently published book. It is a his tory of U. S. diplomatic relations with Russia from 1781 to 1947. Faculty Appointments Announced Appointment of two new staff members who will join the faculty of the ynivcrsity of Oregon next fall and the confirmation of the appointment of three who are on the staff for the spring term this year were announced by President O. Meredith Wilson Tuesday fol lowing a Portland meeting of the State Board of Higher Education. Two of the spring term appoint ments are in the school of law. Hans A. Linde of Portland is a new assistant professor of law. His ap pointment fills the vacancy left by the death of the late Edward Morton, associate professor of law. Named as special lecturer in iaw is A. T. Goodwin, Eugene attorney. Linde, a Reed college graduate of 1947, received his bachelor of laws degree in 1950 from the Uni versity of California at Berkeley. During his final year at California he was editor of the California Law Review. He went from there to the office of Justice William O. Douglas of .the United States Su preme Court where he was a law clerk during 1950-51. The following year he was a legal adviser of the U. S. delegation to the general as sembly of the United Nations, and then went into the office of the legal adviser of the department of state in Washington, D. C., before returning to law practice in Port land. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Order of the Coif, national law honorary. Alum Returns Major Lewis E. Tiffany is the third spring term appointment. He joins the military department as assistant professor of air science and tactics. A graduate of Oregon College of Education in 1932, he has been in the Air Force since 1940 and has served in Alaska, China, and England. Dr. Russell M. Blemker has been named to the post of assis tant University physician, a po sition he formerly held from 1947 48. Teachers Get Profs Both of the new appointments for fall term are in the area of the newly set up elementary teacher education program. Jack Watson Burgner will be assistant professor of art education and Marion J. Taylor will be assistant professor of education. Miss Taylor has spent the past two years at Teachers college, Co lumbia university, doing advanced work. She is a graduate of Man kato (Minn.) State Teachers col lege and received her masters de gee from Teachers college. From 1947 to 1949 she taught at the Uni versity of Wisconsin as an instruc tor of home economics and from 1949-52 was an instructor of pro fessional education at Mankato. Promotions Listed Promotions announced at the board meeting included: Wallace S. Hayden from associate to pro fessor of architecture; David J. McCosh from associate to profes sor of art; Morris J. Gaddis, from assistant to associate professor of architecture; William J. Robert from assistant to associate pro fessor of business administration; Jessie M. Smith, from assistant to associate professor of business ad ministration; Catherine Jones, from instructor to assistant pro fessor of business administration; Janet Woodruff, from associate to professor of physical education; William P. Rhoda, from assistant to associate professor of physical education; Earl S. Pomeroy, from associate to professor of history; Shang-Yi Ch'en, from associate to professor of physics; Herman Cohen, instructor to assistant pro fessor of speech: Robert E. Nye, from associate to professor of music education, and Vincent A. Ostrom, from assistant to asso ciate professor of political science. board had voted 6 to 3 to defer any action on the proposal until the June meeting, in order to get more information. The request for aid from the board was original! r made by President Wilson. >ot A Precedent In approving the loan the boa.* specified that the action was nt4T to be regarded as a precedent fer other student groups which migh% want to negotiate commerci©! loans. This attitude was emphasiz ed by President Wilson in a tele phone conversation with the En erald Tuesday night. Both the president and Ray; Hawk, director of men's affair <* expressed the belief that the ac ; tion by the board would silence* talk that the University is op posed to Greek letter organiza tions. Hawk said that the loan shoul.l "indicate once and for all that tn© University is honestly interested in the fraternity system.” Hawk explained that the frater nity could have secured a com mercial loan to help pay off the mortgage on its house, but that the rate of interest would “net, be more attractive" than the pres ent terms. "The house just doesn t have enough members to carry it-* present financial burden,” he saiit. He said he would “hate to s*>© any housing near the campus lost to us. In a few years the expected enrollment increase will hit -tha University, and all the housing available will be needed, he added,, Money Not Taxpayers4 The money for the loan will net come from taxpayer's money, Hawk emphasized. It will com© from the endowment fund, which is the reason the board had to b© consulted, he explained. None of the officers or Lambd* Chi Alpha would comment on tha loan or the request fqr it. Both President Wilson and Ore gon State College President A. L. Strand favored the loan, which i eversed a long-standing fratern ity-sorority policy of the board. | President Strand admitted tha* the action would set a precedent but added that be believes that tb© state system must consider a. policy of self-liquidating financia* aid to Greek letter organization© in a way similar to that given t*T co-ops "because they perform tho same function.” None of the co ops at the University presently re ceive financial aid. $343.07 Collected In WUS Fund Drive A total of $343.07 was collecte*! for the World University Service fund last week, according to Har riet Hornbeck, assistant treasuiec of the drive. The figure does not£ include proceeds from the Alt campus Vodvil Friday evening. Faculty members contribute** $72.50; students, $110.07; auction, $129.50, and car wash, $31.