The Oregon Daily Emerald is published Monday through Friday during the college year from Sept. 15 to June 3. except Nov. 16, 25 through Dec. 7 through 9, 11 through Jan. 4 March 8through 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 rear ; $2 per term. Dog Eat Dog If you were down in the fishbowl Tuesday afternoon instead of in the Dad’s lounge, you missed one of the biggest shows in catnpns politics we’ve seen in our two years at Oregon. It was dog eat dog at the ASUO sponsored coffee hour and everybody seemed to attack the two candidates for ASUO president. Every vested interest on campus was well repre sented and a majority of the fifty or sixth students in atten dance were there with their own particular axes to grind. Three primary issues which seem to be emerging in this campaign boil down to: 1. Should such programs as the University exchange as sembly be censored? (Hollis Ransom, UIS candidate, says no; Bob Summers, AGS candidate, says yes.) 2. Should athletic cards have pictures printed on them? (Both candidates say no.) 3. Should the voters junk the present all-campus primary and let the parties nominate their own candidates in any way they see fit? (Ransom says no; Summers says yes). AGS had such staunch party leaders as Bob Glass, Bob Pollock and Bob McCracken planted in the audience to put Ransom on the spot when it came to expressing opinions on the all-campus primary. Just to make things interesting, NAACP was there, qties tioning candidates about their opinions on discriminatory clauses in campus living organizations. Both candidates ex pressed the opinion that student government, as an outside power, could take no action on removing these clauses. Since the recognition of NAACP on this campus, its get ting so a person can't sneeze without a member of the group coming around to check on whether we’re being intolerant. Certainly we think racial discrimination is a problem that must be recognized, but no antagonistic group of sociology majors is going to get those clauses removed from any house until the house members themselves are ready to make the move. To make things even more exciting, some disillusioned mar ried students were at the meeting (whom we were glad to see) querying the candidates as to “W hat are you going to do about us. We think your platforms are childish. We want to see some real issues.” We thought Bob Summers’ explanation of what student government is attempting to do was excellent. We are trying to handle things that are directly in our student area, was in effect what he.had to say. “We’re learning to crawl before we try to walk,” was a (quotable quote Summers used. And the retort that married and older students were tired of crawling and wanted to walk doesn’t go over so big. We think as far as campus politics go, this group hasn’t been ■walking or crawling. They’ve been sitting. This despite the fact that at least UIS has made a concen trated effort to contact off-campus students to get their opin ions on platform issues — with very little response. The only thing we can say after that session is “Who said student government and campus politics aren’t interesting?” This Is A Dagger . . .? “Frankly you didn’t do too well on your tests, but I see your com mittee has reached a decision.” Letters to the Editor Vodvil for What? Emerald Editor: Vodvil for what? With the theme "Hands Across the Sea” and the proceeds going- to the World University Service, I was disappointed by the acts present ed in the vodvil last Friday night. Here, after all, was an opportun ity to stress friendship and good will between races and national ities. (I think Alpha Chi Omega came closest with their bit of drama, “Magic on the Moors.”) It is to our credit that there was no minstrel show this year, but It is regrettable that we had, instead, tile African dance number (“Old Faces of ”54” — Delta (iiunma). How Is it that this sorority was un aware of the hideous racial stereotype which they portray ed and. as the African stu dent's letter pointed out, the ' gross misrepresentation of African culture? It seems that sororities and fraternities, with their respec tive clauses, are bound to limit their knowledge of non-white peoples and cultures. Steve Talbot Belief in Biology Emerald Editor: Day unto day, my experiences convince me that the teachings of Biology are true. I believe in Evolution. I believe in the dogma of Inherited Trait. About 2000 year* ago, Julius Caesar spent his life fighting to keep the Wild Barbarians of the European wilderness from breaking in on Koine. The chronicles of Abd-ar Rahma reveal that the Arabs in 700 A. D. went to Europe to spread Civilization: they found smelly, hairy Infidels crawling in caves The only sport that those dirty Infidels knew, testified the chronicles, was to jump like frogs round their feast fires to which they fed pine cones. As they jumped about, they enlivened | their heathen sport with shriek-j ing sounds and weird noises. But the kind Arabs taught them their , first note of music. In 1600 A. D., the progeny of those Barbarians and Infi dels spread throughout our good old planet, raising ealn wherever they went. As late as 50 years ugo, they were still hysterically stalking Indians across the Prairies and keeping scores on the kill. Even a few years ago In the Goode Okie Dixielande, they were still | dragging helpless “niggers” to . the lynch post, hanging them amidst the cheerful howling and yelling of a mob, hysterical with lust for blood. Today, the Barbarians express themselves in their love of Heathen culture and Pagan art. It is too bad that evolution is not yet complete and there are a few Barbarians still around at Delta Gamma. Let us hope that Music and Dance, the great gifts of the good people of Africa to Human ity, will someday help to trans form them into useful homo sa piens. Gamili Iborn Honorable Profession Emerald Editor: Open letter to the president of Phi Delta Theta: We were rather horrified to see your portrayal of the honorable profession of Private Investiga tors in the vodvil Friday night. We feel that you have a warped conception of the science of crim Campus Calendar Noon White Caps 111 SU French Tbl 112 SU Phi Alpha Delta 113 SU 3:00 Hui O 111 SU 4:00 Red Cross Bd 112 SU SU Bd 337 SU 7:00 Educ Movie 138 CW 7:30 Alpha Delta Sig 113 SU Williams Lect Brs rm SU Sq Dance Ger Anx 8:00 Hui O 111 SU inology, anti wo think that you should have taken a more seri ous uttitudo toward this prob lem. Since when are “private eye*” (1) mean; (2) rugged; amoral; (4) chronic al coholics; (5) lascivious; i6) lewd; (71 fornicators; (8) ribald; or (9) demagogic. You have undoubtedly planned this skit for a long time und yet to our knowledge you did not take time to consult the alert Lane County police force or that of Eugene or Watchman Jensen. Your haste and misrepresenta tion have Riven our young guests an erroneous impression of our preservers of law and order. We are sure that If you anil your group had given this pro ject a little more effort, you would have been able to pre sent something more accurate und significant than you did. Educational material is cer tainly more desirable for the high school audience. Eor this (■roup, so-called sophisticated rollr|(n “humor” In liik lily In appropriate mid could well lie replans! liy panel dlMcussloiiM or it lllertil portrayal of an or guni/.n'tlon or Incident. Frank Buck, the noted big game hunter, once Haiti, "Good luck." 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