Vol. IA’I I'nlvcrsltv of Or«*uon, Kuk<*ih‘, Oct. 20, 1051 No. 20
Stop Retreating/
Chafee Demands
American universities must stop retreating from groups trying to
suppress intellectual freedom, Zechariah Chafee Jr. emphasized in
iiis address marking the end of Oregon’s Charter day celebration
Tuesday night.
Speaking before a crowd of nearly 1,000 Chafeoe concluded the
two-day inauguration of University President O. Meredith Wilson.
Th< talk followed an Alumni Assdciation dinner in the Student Union
ballroom.
The 60-year-old Harvard law professor and former UN Peace con
ference delegate spoke on the theme of "If the Salt Have Lost His1
Savour..
( haf< e told of attacks on colleges and their professors regarding
the teaching of social sciences in a way different from the "standard
ized viewpoint of the times. He said that American universities
would be much freer of criticism had they never begun teaching
social sciences.
The famous author and educator pointed out that many of the
criticisms of open-minded thinking in some universities really is
based on fear by Influential groups that another group may get
power, win elections, and enact some "useful statutes."
leathers known to have liberal views on current issues "are
charged with membership in a subversive organization, singled out
for not signing loyalty oaths or are given a very inhospitable wel
come in this country by the government when they wish to hold con
ferences to exchange Ideas with others,” he maintained.
"Someone should tell the American government who is actually'
dangerous instead of permitting government bv gossip." he said I
Chafee said this country is building a wall of “solid ivory" around *
its borders, making it extremely difficult for any visitors to enter I
foi scholarly meetings. He proposed that universities sponsor foreign i
scholars to prevent delays in traveling to the United States.
"Major contributions to free thinking in our society will have to
come from universities.' he said. "Experimentation must be done I
in social sciences as well as physical sciences and that job is best
done in colleges,"
Referring to the charges against teachers in the colleges, he de
nied that "the real dangers in universities is in radical teachers "
but said that the main threat comes from teachers who are "unin
spiring.”
Col. Daily Begins
Air Force Course
Colonel Edwin B. Daily, pro
feasor of air science and head'
of the University military science j
department, left Sunday for'
Washington, DC., to begin
studies In a three week advanced
management course, offered by
the air force, at George Wash
oiglon university.
Independents Pledge
Twenty-six Women
Orides, independent coed or
ganization, pledged 26 girls Mon
day night. They are Ruth Ann
Bennett, Fay Blade. Mary Cadiz,
Betty Campbell, Irma Coe, Dara
Cooper, Donna Culp, and Irene
Eiekmeyer.
Others pledged are Carol Eld-;
ridge, Cornelia Fogle, Joan Gard- j
ner, Wanda Lee Hayes, Mary!
Lou Johnson, Mirdza Linkaites, 1
Gail Mulloy, Gladys Osburn and ;
Sally Passmore.
Other pledges are Darlene |
Peake, Sue Pynes, Mary ■tfane
Strohecker, Gloria Sunderland, j
Pat Taylor, Ann Thingvall, Mar-;
garet Voeltz, Carol Wildish and |
Mary Ann Young.
Radio Rustlers
Invade Straub
Something's missing from
Radio Station KW'AX.
The missing item is an ampli
tude modulation (AM t radio
transmitter which was used in
the past to transmit AM broad
casts to residents of Carson and
John Straub halls who had re
ceivers which could not receive
KM programs.
K. A. Kretsinger, assistant pro
fessor of speech, said that the j
transmitter was stolen piece by
piece during the summer while
it was stored in the basement
of Straub hall.
No furniture collector, the
thief obligingly left the cabinet
and the tuning knobs behind,
taking only the valuable work
ing parts of the transmitter. The
piecc-by-piece theft of the in
strument made the crime virtu
ally undetectable until Fall term,
since KWAX does not broadcast
during the summer.
He said that Eugene police and
University authorities have been
notified, but doubts whethr any
of the parts will be recovered.
Pres. Wilson's Inauguration
Highlights Day's Ceremonies
Progress Belief
Most Important,
Huxley Asserts
By Jerry Harrell
Emerald Nawt Editor
The most important belief that
is emerging from man's new
knowledge is the belief in human
progress, Julian Huxley told ap
proximately 2800 Charter day
guests in an address on “The,
Bearing of Scientific Knowledge
on Belief in a Free Society,” !
Thursday in McArthur court.
Huxley, noted English bi
ologist and first of three dis
tinguished Charter day speak
ers, said that the greatest ad
vances in freedom of belief have
been made when the world has
had the greatest outbursts of
free creative acitvity.
Huxley is currently visiting j
the United States on a lecture [
tour. His home is in London. '
“You cannot impose beliefs by
force," Huxley said. “In doing
so you damage the whole struc
ture of society," he said.
He cited the example of the
degeneration of the biological j
sciences in Soviet Russia since!
1936 and spoke of the conflict
of Fascism versus Catholicism.
Aryan science versus real science
end Marxist science versus Bour-i
geois science, the great conflicts
in beliefs in the 20th Century.
“We think differently about
beliefs," Huxley stated. “We
must have practical limits for
beliefs because beliefs have prac
tical consequences," he said.
“We can tolerate insane peo
ple, depending upon the degree
of their madness,” Huxley said.
“When essentially mad people j
like HiMer gain power, we have
to stop thena." he asserted.
Huxley said that a belirf in
volves an attitude or an ap-'
preach to life. He said that a
great artist or writer knows ho
must express hi3 beliefs, and he j
becomes creatively free. Such !
artists are great only because
they are disciplined to the limits I
of freedom of expression.
"There is a constant interac
tion between our beliefs and our
knowledge of the facts about the
universe," Huxley said. He saio
that men can carry evolution to
even greater heights than it has
n’W attained through social and
cultural betterment and the ex
pression of beliefs in free so
ciety.
Stating that science can hope
for a "reasonably long future"
for man, Huxley said that hu
man beings tend to think more
about the beliefs in possibilities
than belief in the origin of man
or his past. This is encouraging,
he said, because man is looking
to the future and not to the
past, and yet he is learning and
profiting by past experience.
"Christianity took the first
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Homecoming Queen Candidates
To Be Interviewed Toniaht
First eliminations in the Home
coming Queen contest will be
held tonight, according to Mary
Sandeberg and Peggy Gather
coal, co-chairmen of the Queen
selection committee.
Interviews will be held in the
Student Union starting at 6:30
p.m. Room numbers will be post
ed. Second eliminations Rre
scheduled for Monday, and final
interviews and eliminations will
be held next Thursday.
Campus clothes are in order
for the interviews tonight, ac
cording to the co-chairmen.
Homecoming queen candidates,
their sponsoring organizations
and times of tonight's interviews
are listed below:
6:30 Barbara McNabb, Alpha
Chi Omega; Galen Mills, Alpha
Delta Pi; Pat Johnson, Alpha
Gamma Delta; Anne Ritchey,
Alpha Omicron Pi; Barbara Bail
ey, Alpha Phi and Nolene Wade,
Alpha Xi Delta.
6:50 La Rae Koon, Carson II;
Betti Fackler, Chi Omega; Carol
Gerlach, Delta Delta Delta; Lois
Powell, Sigma Nu and Delta
Gamma; Tina Fisk, Delta Zeta,
anti Molly Cashin, Kappa Sigma
und Gamma Phi Beta.
7:10—Sue Silverthorne, Phi
Gamma Delta, Campbell Club,
and Kappa Alpha Theta; Ann
Erickson, Sigma Alpha Epsilon,
Freshman men’s dormitories and
Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Teddy
Croley, Alpha Hall, Sigma Phi
Epsilon and Pi Beta Phi; Mary
Clare Allen, Rebec House; Lor
etta Mason, Sigma Kappa and
Dianne David, Susan Campbell.
7:30—Jeanette Kimball, Zeta
Tau Alpha; Joyce Bearden, Phi
Sigma Kappa and Alpha Tau
Ohega; Dorothy Kopp, Beta The
ta Pi; Patti Fagan, Chi Psi, Pi
Kappa Alpha, Delta Tau Delta,
and Phi Kappa Psi; Cynthia
Long, Delta Upsilon and Nita
Hamilton, Lambda Chi Alpha.
7:50—Jill Hutchings, Phi Delta
Theta; Nancy Leaverton, Phi
Kappa Sigma; Mary Jane Rud,
Sigma Alpha Mu; Joan Price,
Tau Kappa Epsilon and Loie
Meade, Theta Chi.
Universities Must Keep
Culture Alive: Faust
By Sam Frear
Emerald Reporter
I resident O. Meredith W ilson was inaugurated Tuesday
in a colorful and impressive ceremony in McArthur court
at 2 p.m. The activities were highlighted by a brightly colored
academic procession that began the inaugural exercises in
the early afternoon.
1 lie president s inauguration was held in conjunction with
the University Charter day activities. Featured speaker of
the afternoon, Clarence Faust of the Ford Foundation, told
the audience that the primary task of the University is the
enrichment of the life of reason. He said that this must be
And All Doing
Nicely, Thanks
Paul Metzger, University grad
uate student in psychology,
modestly said, “There wasn't
anything to it,” Monday after
delivering his wife’s child.
Forewarned by the family doc
tor that the child might come
quickly, Metzger delivered the
baby, cut the umbilical cord,
wrapped the baby in a blanket,
and called an ambulance to take
the mother and the baby to the
hospital.
Playing down the feat. Metzger
said, "This is nothing more than
has been done by hundreds of
taxi-cab drivers.”
The baby was the Metzgers’
second child. It was born Mon
day morning at the Amazon
housing project.
After the baby was bom,
Metzger called his doctor ana
requested instructions on how
to cut the cord. Metzger admit
ted that “shock set in after
wards.” while disclaiming credit.
The mother and child are re
ported doing nicely at Sacred
Heart hospital.
Whiskerino
Tickets Sell
Sophomore Whiskerino tickets
sales continued today in the Stu
dent Union and Co-op. Approx
imately 500 tickets are on sale
for SI.65 per ticket. One ticket
will admit a couple.
Freshmen women will present
flying speeches at each men’s
living organization going
through Thursday night. Tickets
are being sold during the
speeches.
The dance will be from 9 to
12 p.m. Saturday in the SU ball
room. Roger Middleton and his
16-piece orchestra are to play
for the dance.
A free shave will be awarded
to the person ■ growing the best
beard by Charlie Elliott, local
barber.
Theme Deadline
Set for Today
Two tickets to the Homecom
ing dance and a five dollar mer
chandise certificate will be pre
sented to the student who sub
mits the winning Homecoming
theme suggestion. Deadline for
turning in themes is 5 p.m. to
day.
Suggestions may be left in
boxes in the Student Union or
the Co-op. Any student is eligible
to submit a theme and there is
no limit to the number of themes
one person may turn in, accord
ing to Barbara Bailey and Shir
ley Brown, theme contest co
chairmen.
Theme suggestions should per
tain to all activities to be held
during the weekend, since all
Homecoming events will center
around the winning theme.
the fullest possible development
of the human capacity for re
flection.”
Governor Paul Patterson was
introduced following the Invo
cation by William Jones, Dean
of Administration. Governor Pat
terson paid tribute to the peo
ple concerned in and with higher
education in Oregon. He said
that Oregon would not be what
it is today without the contribu
tion of the University of Oregon
and the other schools in the state
system.
The induction of Wilson as
ninth president of the University
followed the governor’s remarks.
President Wilson received a long
ovation after being introduced
to the assembly by Dr. R. E.
Kleinsorge, president of the state
board of higher education.
Oregon Guarantees Freedom
Wilson said that activities such
as Charter day demonstrates
that institutions like the Uni
versity of Oregon are the best
guarantees of freedom. Under
this freedom ‘‘we may discover
in truth the bounds of interest
and the limits of curiosity.”
Doctor Faust, president of the
Fund for the Advancement of
Education, spoke to the assembly
after Wilson had been adminis
tered the oath of office by Dr.
Kleinsoree.
The 53-year-old educator said
that the cultivation of reflection
and reason are the hope for the
future. Western civilization is
the sum and substance of cen
turies of human reflection, he
said.
“It is a living culture,” he em
phasized. “But it either is in
creasing or it is dying. The role
of the university is to keep it
alive.”
This can be done by the uni
versity encouraging, stimu
lating, nourishing, and disciplin
ing the powers of reflective
thought” in the students who
come to it. Faust stressed that
by delving into the mind, exam
ining the philosophies and con
cepts found there, a capacity to
obtain wisdom is developed.
Reason and Reflection
Reason and reflection contain
the capacity to rise above one’s
self. Reason contains correctives,
Faust said. It cannot be sep
arated from emotion. “At critical
points reason may be decisive”
in human affairs. This is the
hope of mankind. Through rea
son, thought may be elevated
above passion and practices.
"My wish for the University
of Oregon is that it be an in
creasingly bright beacon of rea
son and reflection,” Faust told
the audience. “For if universities
neglect the development of re
flection within their students,
then they will contribute to the
death of civilization.”
Music for the hour and a half
long ceremony was provided by
the University band under the
direction of Robert Vagner, as
sociate professor of music and
the University singers under the
direction of Max D. Risinger.
Paul Washke, professor of phy
sical education and University
Marshal, was in charge of the
processional and recessional.