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EMERALD
The Oregon Daily Emerald is published daily five days a week during the school year
except 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. Sub
scription rates: $5 per school year; $2 a term.
Opinions expressed on the editorial page arc 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 editofials by the associate editors.
JOE GARDNER, Editor
JEAN SAND1>»E. Business Manager
PICK IEWIS, JACKIE WAR DELL. Associate Editors
PAUL KEEFE, Managing Editor
JERRY HARRELL, News Editor
DONNA RUN BERG, Advertising Manager |
_GORDON R ICES ports Editor
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Chief Makeup Editor: Sam Vahey
Featifre Editor: Dorothy Her
Ass’t. Managing Editor: Anne Ritchey
Ass’t. News Editors: Mary Alice Allen,
Anne Hill, Bob Robinson
Ass’t. Sports Editor: Buzz Nelson
Uthce Manager: Bill Matnwtnng
Nat’l. Adv. Mgr.: Mary Salazar
Circulation Mgr.: Rick Hayden
Ass*t. Office Mgr.: Marge Harmon
Layout Manager: Dick Roe
Classified Adv.: Helen R. Johnson
Morgue Editor: Kathleen Morrison
A Statement of Policy
The Oregon Daily Emerald is now in its fifty-sixth year
of publication at the University of Oregon. Through the more
than half-century of its history, the student newspaper has
built up quite a reputation as a center of independent thought
on campus.
We are an independent newspaper because of the liberal
views taken by the Oregon faculty, which has no direct super
vision over the editorial content of the paper. The administra
tion has assured us they want a free press at the University.
We of the Emerald staff think this is as it should be. We hope
the Oregon student body agrees with us.
The editorial policy of the Emerald, then, is set by the
students who devote a great deal of time and energy—with
little or no financial reward, but great moral satisfaction
—that the students of this University might have their
own newspaper.
What can the students expect to find in the Emerald?
They can expect a good-looking, interesting newspaper that
gives them a factual account of the University and its life.
As we interpret it, this means the printing of all the news,
both good and bad
Students will find in their paper all the news as they make
it. This may include the selection of a pretty girl as Home
coming queen or the arrest of sorority girls for illegal posses
sion of alcohol, tapping of outstanding senior women for
Mortar Board or the expulsion from school of an athlete
for cheating in an examination. The Emerald, in these in
stances, is merely acting as reporter, the impartial observer
of those who make the news.
Is this all the Oregon student body has come to expect
of its newspaper? Do they just want the news, accurately
reported and interestingly presented? We think not. We
think they have also come to expect opinions from their paper,
and these they will find on the editorial page.
Opinions expressed in the Oregon Daily Emerald are
those of the writer and do not reflect the opinions of the
ASUO or of the University. Unsigned editorials are written
by the editor; initialed editorials by the associate editors.
Columns presented as editorial features reflect the opinions
of the writers only and do not represent the policy of the
Oregon Daily Emerald.
Other students may disagree, sometimes violently, with
opinions expressed by the editorial writers. This also is as
it should be. Students who Avish may submit their own written
opinions for publication in a letters to the editor column,
which will be a regular feature of the editorial page.
We invite letters from outside the Emerald staff for the
healthy discussion of topics which is so essential to the
interplay of ideas in a free society. Because of space limita
tions, contributors to the letters to the editor column will
be asked to keep their letters to a one page maximum length,
either typeAvritten double-spaced or legibly written in ink.
All letters to the editors must be signed by the writer, and
names will be withheld only upon personal application to
the editor.
A newspaper can never be thought of as a one-man
production, and the Oregon Daily Emerald is no exception
The editor must of course accept the responsibility for
the entire newspaper. Credit for the paper’s triumphs usual
ly go to him, while he must also take the blame for its
errors.
And yet, the Emerald is no better than its most proficient
headline writer, no Avorse than its greenest reporter. The
paper does not belong to one man alone, but is rather the
product of a Avhole group of students Avho are members of
its staff.
Official Emerald policy? We can find no better statement
of policy than that which ran in the first issue of the Univer
sity’s student newspaper (then called The Oregon Weekly)
on February 12, 1900. The policy of this paper Avas then, and
will continue to be, built around this principle:
“Through these columns we shall endeavor to keep the
students informed as to what is happening around them and
to point out every possible avenue of advancement.”
Campus Briefs
0 Religious evaluation wwk
committee chairmen will meet
Thursday at noon in 319 Student
Union.
0 There will la- a meeting tor
all Kwamas at 12:30 p.m. today
in Gerlinger hall, according to
Helen Johnson, president.
0 Inter-Varsity Christian Fel
lowship will hold a planning
meeting tonight at 7 p.m. in the
Student Union. All officers and
interested persons are urged to
attend.
0 Part time workers are need
ed in the Straub hall dining room,
according to Leo V. Nuttman,
student supervisor. There are
part-time openings for both men
and women students,
0 Skull und Dugger, sopho
more men's honorary, will meet
Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Student
Union, according to Doug Bash
am, president.
0 Thi> Oregana open house,
originally scheduled for Wednes
day, Sept. 29, has been reached- :
uled for 8 to 10 p.m. Wednesday,
Oct. 6. The open house for both
new and old students will be held
in SU 308.
0 Members of the rampus
YMCA can use Student Union
ping-pong facilities free - of -
charge by presenting their YM
membership cards, according to
President Dave Roberts. The
cards may be presented at the
SU recreation desk anytime, he
said.
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