Orsaon Daily
EMERALD
The Oregon Daily Emerald is published daily five days a week during the school rear
•sccept examination and vacation periods, by the Student Publications Hoard 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 opiniens of the ASUO or of the University. Unsigned editorials are written by
the editor; initialed editorials by the associate editors.
ELSIE SCHILLER. Editor
DICK CARTER, Business Manager
JACKIE WARD ELL. RON MILLER, Associate Editors
KITTY FRASER. Managing Editor
VALERA VIERRA, Adv. Mgr.
LEN CALVERT, LAURA STURGES, Editorial Assistants
Thank You, Dr. Wilson
We'd like to thank and congratulate President Wilson for
the interest he has expressed in student opinion here at Oregon.
We take this occasion because this is our last opportunity
to point out to University students the responsibility this man
in the president’s office is asking us to assume.
President Wilson appointed a faculty-student committee
■fever a month ago to do three very important things: 1. study
the duties and responsibilities of a student union director; 2.
consider applications for the vacancy created by the resignation
■of Dick Williams* and 3. re-evaluate the present educational
activities program at the University.
Recommendations of the committee have already been re
layed to President Wilson. And we think any result of the
committee’s study will have an important effect on life here
at this University.
Membership of that committee was based on equal repre
sentation of faculty and students. We think that’s good. We
firmly believe that in the area of student activities, Oregon
students can accept more responsibility and more initiative
and we are glad to see President Wilson is willing to offer
that responsibility.
But at the same time it is a challenge to the student leaders
on this campus. The president of the University has placed
great value in your opinion and your interests. In turn, you
must accept added responsibilities for this area. We believe
you will. We know you can.
Pomp and Circumstance
The last paper goes to press and you're through.
And then how does one say good-bye ?
Do you just walk out the door and close it behind you? Or
is there room for a few sentimental tears and good byes in this
rnodern, unsentimental age?
Do you just square your shoulders, clean off the top of a
rather battle-scarred desk, pick up your books and walk out
the door—without a backward glance? How do you say good
bye ?
This, after all, is the end of one life and the beginning
of something new. You’re looking ahead, but even as you
stretch forward to see over the next horizon and around the
next bend, you are still taking one last furtive, longing glance
back down the road you’ve traveled to June 3, 1954.
This is just another change—one change in a long pattern
of such changes which ultimately make up life. Change is the
breath of life and of progress to mid-century America. And,
if you always have the consolation of opening a new door with
one hand just as you close the last, you also have just a touch
of nostalgia for people you have known and things you have
done and places you have been and thoughts you have thought
here on this University campus.
Oh, we can laugh at sentiment but we hardly think we could
live without it. But is that how you say good-bye?
So, the last paper goes to press. You go back to sit down
for one last time at that old desk, to rummage through old
copies of the Emerald, stacks of mail and copy paper, Bibler
mats which ran three weeks ago.
It’s kind of lonesome when the office is empty and the staff
has gone its way for these last few days of college life. There’s
been a lot of times when you’ve washed you weren’t editor of
this paper, wished that there was someone else who was older
■ and wiser who would take the responsibility for a few' days.
But you’re going to miss the Emerald and the University.
For the most part, it was good being editor of the Oregon
Daily Emerald. And for every decision you had to make too
fast, for every time a staff member failed to come through, for
every morning that a paper came out late, for every person
that has pointed out a misplaced comma or a misspelled w'ord
in “your” paper, you’ve learned a little something.
You’ve learned a little about writing and a lot about people.
You’ve learned about ideas and men’s reactions to those ideas.
You’ve learned a little about the powers and sins of news
papers and the written word.
And now' another year is over. So you close the last issue,
you look around the Emerald shack, you hold your breath for
next year’s Emerald staff, wash the University good luck in the
future and in future students, and you walk out and close the
door.
And that’s how' you say good-bye.
The Cat's Away
■ ■■ I
“I'd bettor go in now, Wort ha I—I see tho’ hoiisrmotliiT hack.”
Letters...
... to the Editor
Sake of Accuracy
Emerald Editor:
For the sake of more accurate
guilt by association my name has
There Is no organization be
hind this “freedom paper.” The
drafters felt that this would
he expressive of student opin
ion, and we presented it to a
larger group of students to see
If they agreed. Whether or not
It is expressive of student
opinion it is obvious that we
underestimated the extent of
McCarthy’s venom of suspicion
and fear.
By the way, the people at the
Monday meeting did not defame
the Emerald’s chastity by sug
gesting it had succumbed to cen
sorship, but your editorial was
interesting anyway.
Emerald Editor:
To Jim Kallas:
Jim, you have a legitimate
gripe about someone destroy
ing the sign In front of the Lu
theran Student house. I can
see where such action would
be very disturbing 'to your Lu
theran students, I would prob
ably take such action as a se
vere insult.
However, I resent your impli
ations that the person who per
formed this unworthy deed is: 1.
a fraternity man, 2. drunk, and 3.
mentally unbalanced as you did
in your letter to the Emerald
editor on May 28. On what firm
grounds did you base these three
accusations that because a sign
is torn down that the person who
tore it down a a drunken, men
tally unbalanced, fraternity
man?
One of the main purposes of
any fraternity is to help fts
members mature. Encouraging
the members to destroy prop
erty and become perpetual
drunkards is no way to teach
a man to mature. You are evi
dently ignorant of this as is
illustrated by your accusations.
I do not know of any fraternity
man who has become mentally
unbalanced because of fratern
al influence.
I say to you, Jim Kallas, keep
these thoughts in mind, and next
time think twice before you make
narrow accusations (which are
probably false) toward fraternity
two “Is.”
Toby McCarroll
Legitimate
men just because you need some
one to blame.
Wesley B. NaJsh
President
Tan Ku|>|>a Epsilon.
Campus Calendar
9:15 Educ Seminar 111 SIT
11:00 Journ Kac 112 SU
11:45 Women's PE 113 SU
Noon Drama Staff 110 SU
AAA 111 SU
Coop Bd 114 SU
HE Wk Exec 319 SU
2:30 Newman Cl Exec 315 SU
4:00 Ore Ntr Staff 110 SU
Gam Alp Chi 112 SU
Alpha Lambda Delta
Init Ger 2nd FI
6:30 IFC 315 SU
APO Wait 334 SU
7:00 Sig Delta Chi 113 SU
Green Feather
To End Campaign
Oregon Student*' declaration for
academic freedom or Green Feath
er campaign will end today, ac
cording to Forbe* Hill, graduate
in liberal arts and chairman of the
group conducting the drive.
Canvasaera for the declaration
will be stationed In the commut
ers' lunch room of the Student
Union from 6 to 7:30 p.m., Hill
said. Student* may sign the peti
tion at that time.
Exam Schedule
Following i* a xbrtlulr final, for ftpllng
term, 1954:
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Mih 10; 100, foj, 100. 107
l"H Junr |0 (Till It 10
Mil III. 117. tU, IN. 115. I ll>
211. 212. 2U, 214. 215. 210;
221. 222. 223 Junr K (To) I I
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Wr. K; III, 112. 11.1; 214 Jnnr lo (Till I I
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Junr 11 (Fj 8 10
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