Dog Eat Dog . . .
Who say* campus politic* are
(lull? ASL'O candidates defended
position* at coffee hour Tuesday.
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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.