This Is My Weekend
Move over, fellow.
You think you're in control here. You think you're in the
driver’s seat and nothing can touch you. You think you’re safe
because, after all, you're a good, careful driver.
But this is ray weekend.
See that red light up there. You can make it. There’s no
cross traffic in sight. Step on the gas. You’re not really tak
ing chances. This is a sure thing.
Go ahead, have another drink. You’re not intoxicated, this
is just a little picnic and you’ve only had a couple of beers.
They don’t hurt a fellow. Sure, you're still in control. W ho says
<lrinking and driving don't mix. They do with us.
This is my weekend.
She’s signaling for a turn. Add a little speed. You’ve got
nothing to worry about. Let the other fellow worry about
himself. As long as you’re careful, nothing else matters. This
whole business is just a bedtime story, anyway. We’re big
kids now, and we’re in control here.
This is uty weekend.
We don’t like people telling us how to drive, do we? \\ e don’t
like orders. This is our car, isn't it, and we don't have a thing
to worry about. All those pleas for safe driving—they're not
talking to us. It’s the other guy. We’ve never had a traffic
accident.
And we don’t on my weekend.
Big weekend? Three days, hmm. Lots of time to go to the
beach and zip back. This is our favorite girl, isn’t it? She’s
more important than that car heading our way. Go ahead,
give her a little kiss. It’s a beautiful spring day and we’re
young. We don’t have any worries.
And this is niv weekend.
You can make it past that car. Slowpoke! \\ hat’s a converti
ble for if not to get up speed and to feel the wind in our hair?
Come on, off to the open road! You’re a good, safe driver.
Nothing for us to worry about. This is my weekend. I'm in
vincible. We're safe as long as it’s me behind the wheel.
Who am I?
I'm death. I’m death on wheels.
AND THIS IS MY WEEKEND
Opinions—
An editorial is an expression of opinion. Whatever one
•writes, the ideas and the words are presented in the contest and
bias of the writer.__ _ _ , .
The Emerald stand on Senator Joseph McCarthy has been
presented within a bias. We have written our editorials from
the viewpoint of one holding anti-McCarthy opinions. There
' fore, we have not felt it necessary to start out each opinion with
"We don’t like McCarthy and . . .”
We have also been influenced by the general feeling of
opposition to the Wisconsin senator which is prevalent on
this rather liberal campus. During our two years at Oregon,
v heard a faeuhy-member or stu.dent present a
pro-McCarthy viewpoint, although we have heard countless
number of criticisms of the man and his techniques of as
~ suming a person guilty by accusation.
f Remember the-cdd story of tli^' pr^aclyer.bailing out his
r congregation for the members who were not present. That.is
."’our position on this campus concerning Senator. Joseph Mc
Carthy.. ■*" -• —
But a group of students on campus have now raised the ques
tion of our stand on McCarthy ism. _ So_mav _ we outline it £o r
our readers,-point-by pomt‘
1. We believe that Senator McCarthy has endangered our
American heritage of-freedom and idedls more than the Com
~~ munlsts he would destroy. We continually find ourselves re
minded of the old story that Rome fell because of internal
causes, not because of any physical force from without. It is
only too easy to draw a parallel.
2. We dislike-the idea of 200 percent Americans advocating
. thought control and-investigating institutions' of higher learn
ing equally as much as we dislike those same practices in the
Soviet Russia.
3. We protest the limitation of any American’s right to ex
. plore fields of knowledge and to arrive at his own opinions.
4. We protest the right of any man to make the accusers al
ways holy. We think guilt must be proven bv actions, not by
the words of another man. Guilt by association is a dangerous
' game for any American to play,
5. We have been shocked, amused and amazed at the pres
ent army hearings in Washington. We sincerely hope the na
tion and Washington has more important work to do than
has been evidenced in the weeks of these hearings. We fear
that we may forget what we should be defending and over
look the real dangers of totalitarian governments if we prac
tice such totalitarian purges within our own government,
6. We believe that present movements of a “Joe must go”
nature are aimed in the wrong direction. It is not Senator Mc
Carthy which we must eliminate. It fs McGarthyism and its
- emotions. If the present .movement in Wisconsin to recall Mc
Carthy from the senate fails, as it may well-do, then America
• has, in essence, giVen Joe a vote of confidence—at a time when
• public opinions demonstrate that his star has reached its crest
- and Americans are rejecting this leader of McCarthyism.
i ’ .....
Letters ...
...to the Editor
The Chimes
Emerald Editor:
Whore does integrity begin,
What is her shape and form ? i
What are those things called ,
Values, i
Whence comes our ethic norm ?
Magnetic tape and shadow shape
Upon a whitened wall,
A canned and standard resume
Is given to us all.
The wall that's poured in con
crete form
Receives its brick veneer.
The surface then at least is there,
Tradition’s trust—so dear!
We know the word, “Truth,"
“Honor,” “Real."
And structures which they frame,
They stand aloft while shallow
sham
Receives deserved shame.
Yet, here across or campus rolls.
With character ironic.
The fakery of massive Bells,
A voice, alas, electronic!
—Anonymous
The Good Side
Emerald Editor:
We were quite pleased with
the recent feature “article on
Dick Neuberger, concerning his
unpopularity with students while
on the Oregon campus during
depression days. The article was
well written, and we have no
criticism other than that the
writer relied solely on news
items and letters to the editor,
failing to adequately consider
and appraise the numerous edi
torials Neuberger wrote as Em
jipald ec^tgr-Which serve to better
focus attention on the perspec
tive of his philosophy.
. ,* There Is another side to
Neuberger besides the contro
versy that Tie stirred up. He
was not just a “rabble-rouser”
hut had many sourd Ideas to
place before the minds of the
•University students at a time
when these ideas were of spe.
dal Importance.
We believe that Neubcrger’s
.editorials -not only touched upon
highly pertinent campus and na
4ional_pfoblems of the time, but
also contained much in the way
5? .appetizing food for thought,
fndwied in this latter phase of
his writings were the following
excerpts from editorial columns
which w'e feel are as applicable
io our own troubled times as they
were in 1912.
Neuberger's. governing princi
ples regarding his own philoso
phy were clearly shown in an
editorial entitled “A Man’s Con
science.” In his own words,
. . after all, a man’s conscience
is his own, and if he dares to
stand out for what he believes is
right or against what he believes
is wrong, when it would be easier
to conform, then he should be
given an opportunity to do so."
Neuberger carried out his
philosophy in actual practice
as was illustrated in an edi
torial regarding the stand of
the editor of the University of
Nebraska in supporting Nor
man Thomas in the 1982 presi
dential election. Neuberger
stated ,. the Emerald hopes
the powers-that.be at Nebras
ka will have enough fortitude
to permit the young man to
retain his position in the face
of the criticism that is sure to
follow. If nothing else, the ed
itor of the Nebraskan has
shown himself to be a person
of courage, which Is something
in these days of compromising
and hairsplitting.’’
As to his implied troublemak
ing, Neuberger made one point
very explicit in a statement re
garding EmeralcTnews and edi
torial policy. He stated, . . it is
the opinion of the writer that a
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doing so."
In closing, we wish to quote
from President O. Meredith Wil
son's article, "The Power of
Ideas"; "It matters some, but is
not crucial that no law restrains
our freedom of speech, A man
who doubts his powers no longer
has them. A man who refuses to
express a divergent opinion be
cause of external pressures to
conform is more effectively re.
strained than one who is under
obligation of the law. Americans
know how to fight tyranny when
it can be identified, but they are
not so clear about how to pro
tect their freedoms against forces
as insidious as personal doubt
and public pressure. Yet the con
tinued freedom of thought and
expression is the secret of our
power, and the foundation of all
the other freedoms that we call
American.’’
Kenneth K. Cunningham
Lawrence Schwartz
Torn Shepherd
So Proud
Emerald Editor;
To An Unknown Vandal:
You are to be commended on
your recent nocturnal, hurculcan
feat of strength which saw you
completely demolish, devastate
and destroy the sign in front of
the Lutheran Student house dedi
cated to Christ, the King.
Don Quixote attacked wind
mills. You have improved on
this legendary lunatic and have
succeeded In stalking and over
coming a stationary pole. Hur
rah—you are a true man of the
first water (or was it some
thing besides water which
flowed through your veins in.
spiring you to such noble deeds
of conquest*).
Now you have much over
which to bare your arm in front
of your fraternity brothers -they
will be so proud! And such fine
news to write to the family back
home, investing thousands an
nually so that you can demon
strate your virility "Dear ma,
•Last night I tore down the sign
in front of a church building . .
They’ll be so proud.
The old adage, boys will be
boys, has now due to your
heroism been altered and im-1
proved to read “boys will be;
jackasses." I don’t know you
which is fortunate for both of us
- so I really shouldn’t attempt
to analyze you, but I would sus
pect that you are the kind of fel
low that when someone first;
meets you, they don’t think much
of you, but after they get to know
you, they hate you.
How do you explain this non
sensical little kid vandalism to
yourself? Is this part of your
“e ducat lonal emancipation"
manifesting ItselfOr were
you Just drunk? Or an* you ul
waya a little off balance, men
tally?
Stop by the Lutheran Student
Mou.se no hard feeling)*. You’
can have that sign If It meant i
that much to you.
Jim Kallas ■ 1
Student Pastor.
Freshman Spirit?
Emerald Editor: ■ 1
Where la the freshman class
spirit? Certainly It la not In help
ing to paint the "O".
This one-time Oregon tradi
tion has now degerated to the
point where hut one Freshman, -
even a tougli veteran, was the
only man who had enough
spirit to volunteer for tills -
thankless duty.
We realize that the Freshmen
had other things to do, but when.
a group of let ter men asked the
idle Freshmen to volunteer, they"
were greeted with false promises,,
lame excuse*, and slamming
doors.
How can we solve this prob
lem ? Is it possible to revive this
tradition to the point where it"
was a few years ago when the
Freshmen were living in frater
nities?
We fool that the Freshman •
girls, who fought so valiantly
against the Order of the "O,”
showed spirit which should put ’
these mere males to shame. . j
Our hats off to the martyred
Freshman, Leonard Svarverad,*
who we hope has put the present
Freshmen to shame mid may he
inspire our future Freshmen to .
fulfill our Oregon traditions.
Darrell Klntnpr j
Jack Fenton
Misunderstood
Kmc raid Editor; j
Several perrons who read my ]
letter in yesterday’s Emerald felt *
it gave tacit approval to Me-* I
Carthyism.
I wish to correct thL ex- •
tremely erroneous linpreWon. *j
I am opposed to any attempt.I
to curtail academic fr-adorn, -
either by McCarthy or any other
group.
Nona Cllazer ^
Cosmo Club Slates
Officer Elections
Cosmo Club will meet from 8 to
12 tonight at Plymouth House.
Temporary officers for 11)54-">5'
will be elected.
Entertainment for the meeting
will be Indian dances and slides orf
Crater Lake.
Students planning to go on the
trip to Crater Lake May 29 should
check at Plymouth House for
available space in cars.
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