The Oregon Daily Emerald is published daily five days a week during the school ^rear
except examination and vacation periods, by the Student Publications Board of the Univer
sity of Oregon. Entered as second class matter at the post office, Eugene, Oregon. Subscrip
tion rates: $5 per school year; $2 a 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.
We Stand On Our Own
The Oregon Daily Emerald is not forced to keep silent on any
issue.
We think the expression of opinion hv a group of students
Monday evening, reported in a front page story in "Tuesday's
Emerald, is a gross insult to the liberal administration and fac
ulty at this University. Students on this campus may not real
ize it. but the Emerald is one of the few student papers in the na
tion which has a completely free "editorial” voice.
There have been no moves on the part of any official on this
campus to censor the Emerald on McCarthy or any other issue.
On the contrary, all faculty and administration members, in
cluding the chairman of the Student Publications board, the
dean of the school of journalism, and the president of the Uni
versity, have continually leaned over backwards to assure the
Emerald complete freedom of the press.
The only move toward censorship we have witnessed during
the past year came from a group of students who protested the
Emerald's right to run the names of certain violators of state;
laws on alcoholic beverages. The move came from students and
was a highly emotional protest, not a concrete plan to censor j
this paper.
We think the students who made the above statement were
insulting our faculty, administration and members of the Em
erald staff.
Our Decision
Perhaps we have not come out with both fists swinging
against McCarthy. But the editorial decision was made by the
the student staff which publishes the paper.
Otlr opposition to McCarthy has been expressed throughout'
the year. Our first protest against McCarthy came under A11
Karr’s editorship when he wrote a strong complimentary edi
torial on the Harvard student paper for telling McCarthy to "put j
up or shut up” about communists at that school.
On March 4, under the present editor, the Emerald compli
mented President Wilson on his outspoken opposition to the:
[Wisconsin senator. On April 2, we printed a highly favorable;
editorial comment on Elmer Davis’ new book, "But We Were
Born Free,” which is one of the strongest anti-McCarthy pieces
of literature to come out since the issue of McCarthyism arose.
On May 13, the Emerald re-ran an editorial from the Regis
ter-Guard advocating an understanding of the emotions of Me- |
Carthyism in any attempts to eliminate the man or the idea.
Last Friday, the Emerald ran a highly complimentary editor- !
ial on various student opposition groups, such as the Green
Feather, which are springing up on college campuses around j
the nation.
We have also run several editorials evaluating liberal educa- j
tion and our basic fundamental ideals, which are directly op- i
posed to those expressed by the McCarthy group.
Oppose Witch Hunting
If students wish us to stand up and yell, we are only too glad
to do so. We are opposed to the entire procedure which McCar
thy has used in his “witch hunting.”
Everything in our own political concepts and ideals is so op
posed to the McCarthy idea that, because of our own belief
that no one at Oregon fav&rs the procedures, we have made no
crusade in our editorial columns.
Editorials, after all, are written to inform and to convince.
Our experiences indicate that this University is aware of Mc
Carthy and, as a group, unalterably opposed to his policies.
We have not thought it necessary to keep our editorial pages
filled with shadow boxing McCarthy when there are other im
portant issues of which the campus is not so aware.
Correct Opinions
If any student who believes the Emerald is a censored paper
would care to talk to any student or administrative personnel
connected with any University student publication, they might
form a more correct opinion of the Emerald in relation to press
freedom.
We have disagreed with groups and individuals before.
Here, we do no^fisagree on basic issues. But, it is still the
first time we have ever been accused of being mealy-mouthed
enough to take editorial orders from anyone. We resent this
accusation, not only for the Emerald, but for those groups and
individuals on campus who have continually supported and
safeguarded freedom of the press for the Oregon Daily Emer
ald.
We say what we think. If any group disagrees with us, that is
their fundamental right. But we are a free publication and we
shall continue to write our own editorial page, and, we might add
with pride, WITHOUT FEAR that any University official will
attempt to censor this paper.
Jitterbugs Never Die
“How’s alniut playin’ a hot, fant, jump turn-?”
Letters.*.
... to the Editor
Emerald Editor:
Open Letter to Bob Funk:
This is to let you know that
one person took the trouble
to thank you in hlaek and
white for 'the many columns of
enjoyment you have provided
for Emerald readers.
In all the years I have been
here, I have always followed your
column with interest. Many of
my friends, and enemies, have
expressed the same appreciation
(appreciation with a different
sense in the case of the enemies)
for your quiet, subtle approach
to campus, local and national af
fairs.
You seem to he the *type of
person who would not particul
arly look for any recognition,
for must have spent many
hours chuckling to yourself as
you set your puppets to work
—be they Alice Malice, Sinner
or the Administration.
Those hours must have been
satisfaction and reward enough
to you. Just the same, it may
give you a sense of accomplish
ment to know that your subtle
comments reach under the skin
once in awhile, depending on the
degree to which they hit home to
the individual reader. Thanks.
An Outgoing Sinner,
Mi trie Asai
Registration For
Seabeck Due
University students who are
planning to go to the annual YM
CA - YWCA Seabeck conference
must register at the YWCA or
YMCA by Friday, according to
Germaine LaMarche, conference
chairman.
The conference is held annually
at the conference groups on Hoods
Canal in Washington. Students
from throughout the Northwest
attend the week-long meeting.
Registration and car pool fees
are $11.
“The Courage to Be’’ is the
theme of this year’s conference.
Principal speaker will be the Right
Rev. Stephen F. Bayne, Episcopal
bishop of the Olympia Diocese. He
will speak to the students on cour
ageous Christian faith in the
atomic age.
Special features of the confer
ence this year include an interna
tional night, a salmon barbecue on
the beach, the annual Seabeck Fol
ies, and a trip through the Puget
Sound Naval shipyard at Bremer
ton, Miss LaMarche said.
Campus Calendar
8:00 ASUO Ids Sales
Ckrm SU
Noon Natl C’lg Plyrs 110 SU
Fi Tbl 111 SU
4:00 SU Bd 337 SU
0:30 Frgn Stu Bnqt BIrm SU
7:00 Alp Delt Sig Init 334 SU
Educ Movie 138 CW
7:30 Pi Slg Alpha 110 SU
Crane Lect Brsm SU
Pub Bd 337 SU
Sq Dnce Or Anx
A1 Kap Delta 112 SU
9:00 YMCA Cabinet 319 SU
CAMPUS BRIEFS
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p.m. tlic day prior to publication,
0 Thursday In Ascension Thurs
day and a Holy Day of Obligation
for Catholic*. Mann for Catholic
students will he held at 6 and 7
a. m. In the chapel of the Sacred
Heart hoapital.
0 I’aul R. Kay horn, district
manager of building materiala for
Pftbco Product* Inc. la Interested
In men for sales lh the Northwest
district, according to Kurl W. Qn
thank, graduate placement direc
tor, Further Information may be
obtained at the graduate place
ment office, Emerald hall.
0 The University library will |„.
closed all clay Sunday and will be
open only from 8 a. m. to 5 p. ni.
on Monday. Normal hours will re
sume Tuesday.
0 Members of Pltl Theta I |>.
silon are asked by Treasurer Syl
via Wingard to bring their pins to
initiation ceremonies this after
noon. Initiation for new nicmbeiH
will begin at 4:210 p. m. at Delta
Gamma.
0 The Museum of Art will
cloned all day Sunday and Monday
for the Memorial Day holiday. Tt.
museum reference library also will
tie closed those two day*.
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