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JOE GARDNER, Editor JEAN SAND1NE, Business Manager
DICK LEWIS, JACKIE WARDELL, Associate Editors
PAUL KEEFE, Managing Editor DONNA RUNRERG. Advertising Manager
JERRY HARRELL, News Editor GORDON RICE, Sports Editor
Chief Desk Editor: Sally Rvan
Chief Makeup Editor: Sara Vahey
Feature Editor: Dorothy ller
Ass’t. Managing Editor: Anne Ritchey
Ass’t. News Editors: Mary Alice Allen,
Anne Hill, Bob Robinson
Chief Night Editor: Valerie Hersh
Ass’t. Sports Editor: Buzz Nelson
Office Manager: Bill Main waring
Nat*!. Adv. Mgr.: Mary Salazar
Circulation Mgr.: Rick Hayden
Ass’t. Office Mgr.: Marge Harmon
Layout Manager: Dick Koe
Classified Ada*; Helen R. Johnson
Morgue Editor: Kathleen Morrison
Woman’s Page Co-editors s Sally Jo Greig;
Marcia Mauney
It's Worth a Try
Assuming that the Oregon student body will not be making
a mass migration to Los Angeles for the UCLA game Satur
day; and further assuming that the few, if any, loyal rooters
who do make the trip will make a dishearteningly small squeak
in the mighty Coliseum, we suggest a Denver University tactic
as reported in Sports Illustrated.
It seems that Denver University had a game scheduled
with the University of Utah some 500 miles away.
Chances of transporting enough cheerers to make more
than a peep were nil. But D.U. ingenuity came through
with a plot that out-noised the Utah crew by double.
The Denver fans hired a sound truck with which they
blasted out “Let’s go D.U.” and “Smash Utah” with an
abundance of both volume and enthusiasm. “Ute fans were,
to state it as mildly as possible, stunned,” reports Sports
Illustrated.
The sound truck broadcast genuine D.U. cheers that had
previously been recorded by fans unable to make the trip.
“Ute fans squawked,” says Sports Illustrated. “The sound
truck, they complained, was raucous. It was toned down but
continued to blast out cheers when Denver needed them.
Utah, a pregame favorite by two touchdowns, looking for its
14th straight Skyline Conference victory, was beaten, 28-20.”
Why not Oregon? All we need is one cheerleader and a
sound truck. We’ll make that Coliseum ring! It’ll be worse
than smog.
It’s worth a try. If ever a team is ripe to get dumped it’s
UCLA. Maybe this psychological weapon is the little bit
extra that’s needed to turn the trick.—(D.L.)
Every Vote Counts
American democracy is on trial today. Voters throughout
the state and nation are in the process of selecting the repre
sentatives who will determine the future course of this coun
try.
Interest in the Oregon election has centered on the sena
torial race in which Guy Cordon is fighting for political sur
vival and Richard Neuberger for political recognition. The
outcome is crucial. And yet, how many people have we heard
say: “I’m not going to vote this year; neither candidate is
any good.”
Cordon is too conservative, you say; Neuberger, too
radical. So don’t vote at all. That’s real logic. Let’s ignore
the election, and to hell with representative government.
It is precisely this sort of political apathy that makes us
wonder about the future of this American democracy so
many are willing to praise and so few are willing to do any
thing about. How can democracy survive when the electorate
remains uninformed, not because the means of becoming in
formed are lacking, but rather because it is unwilling to avail
itself of these means.
The Cordon-Neuberger race has been one of the best
reported and most widely publicized campaigns in the history
of our state. Political analysts across the nation have called
the Oregon senatorial contest one of the key elections in the
1954 campaign.
There are many issues in the Oregon election which will
be decided by the balloting today. President Eisenhower’s
and Secretary McKay’s “partnership” program for the de
velopment of the West’s natural resources is on trial today.
Control of the US Senate may well hinge on the outcome of
the Oregon election.
We have stressed the senatorial race, but don’t forget the
other important aspects of this election: selection of a gov
ernor and four US representatives, as well as numerous state
and local officials of varying importance.
Whether you are for Cordon or for Neuberger; whether
you are a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat or a “sometimes” Re
publican, your vote means something today. Use it.
Letters...
...to the Editor!
Exhibit Impresses
Emerald Editor:
I was impressed with the
Polish Embassy exhibit on Co
pernicus now on display in the
Science building. I am remind
ed of the fact that last year,
1953, was officially pro
claimed "Copernicus Yenr" in
Poland. It is encouraging to
know that both East and West
can take pride together in
Copernicus, one of the found
ing fathers of the scientific
tradition.
Oil the Revolutions of the
Heavenly Bottles was published
in 1543 (the same year as the
author's death). It was the re
sult of 39 years of intensive
study and discovery by Nich
olas Coperniciis. This work ef
fected the emancipation of
natural science from theology,
for Copernicus challenged the
"earth-centered universe"
scheme of things by declaring
that the earth revolved, like
other planets, around the sun.
The prevailing theory about
the universe before Copernicus
was a strange synthesis of Ju
daism and Greek metaphysics;
it saw the universe as "an
thropocentric.” Christianity,
being both theological and met
aphysical, readily accepted this
scheme of things. Such a con
ception of the universe fitted
the feudal political and eco
nomic system like a glove, i.e.,
the heavenly hierarchy of God
and his angels mirrored the
earthly ones, both secular and
ecclesiastical.
Copernicus, in rejecting the
old theory of the universe, at
tempted to see things as they
really are and not as our sen
ses perceive and distort them.
He truly destroyed the “man
centered universe."
The Copernicus tradition is
more than adequately ex
pressed in a paragraph from
the final poster of the exhibit:
"In paying tribute to Nicholas
Copernicus, the world honors
science and scientific thought,
the courage of all men of our
time and before us who did not
fear to look upon new worlds
and discard old outworn
thought no longer of use to the
mind of man."
Steve Talbot
Delegates Return
From SU Confab
Ten delegates from the Student
Union board and directorate re
turned Sunday night from the
Association of College Unions
regional conference held Oct. 29
and 30 at Whitman college,
Walla Walla, Washington.
More than 80 representatives
of 16 different college* and uni
versities participated in the dis
cussion groups of the two-day
session. Among the distant uni
versities represented were those
of California and Hawaii.
Andy Berwick, vice-chairman
of the University’s Student Union
board, acted as chairman of the
conference’s steering commit
tee. Appointed as secretary of
next year’s steering committee
was Lucia Knepper, member of
the directorate.
Si Ellingson, SU director, and
Sandra Rennie, SU program di
rector, were the staff members
accompanying the student repre
sentatives: Bob Pollock, chair
man, Berwick, Donna Schafer
and Phyllis Pearson of the board;
Dick Gray, Jack Socolofsky, Lu
cia Knepper and Lolly Quacken
bush of the directorate.
Commission to Hear
Speech on Pakistan
Kathy Holloway, who recently
returned from a year in Paki
stan, will speak today at 4 p.m.
to the YWCA international af
fairs upper commission on Paki
stanian customs.
Plans concerning a coffee hour
on Far Eastern problems and an
Oriental festival dinner will also
be discussed. Anyone interested
lay attend.
Campus Briefs
0 The lilltle standard Institute
brass trio of Eugene will be
featured at the regular meeting
of Inter-Varsity Christian fel
lowship tonight nt 7 p.m. in the
alutnnl lounge of Gerlinger hall.
George Bander, 1VCK stuff mem
ber, will be devotional speaker.
• Vyrl .In Hogan, Sally Mae
Intyre, Shirley Turtell, Neldru
Ackerman, Peter Webster and
Robert Rutchman were confined
to the infirmary Monday for
medical attention, according to
hospital records.
0 White Caps, the pre-nurs
ing club, will meet Wednesday
noon in the Student Union. A
student nurse from Portland will
speak oa the clinical work at the
medical school and the school
of nursing. All students interest
ed in nursing and those major
ing in pre-nursing are invited to
attend.
• The meeting of the Kiddie
Karnival decoration committee
has been changed from 4 p.m. to
4:30 p.m. today in the Student
Union.
0 IIul-O-Kamnaina Huh will
meet in the Student Union today
at 8 p.m. Anyone who has lived
in the Islands for more than two
years is eligible to Join. The main
purpose of the meeting will be
the election of officers and plan
ning the year's program.
0 Narrated football movies of
last Saturday’s game between
Oregon and Washington are
scheduled for tonight at 6:30 p.m.
in Commonwealth 138. Assistant
cjCiilenina
..On K WAX
6:00 Dinner hour serenade
7:00 News till now
7:15 Sport shots
7:30 Musical memoirs
8:00 Student Union assembly
(Ralph Bunchej
9:00 K waxworks
11:00 Sign off
Conch Vorn Sterling will narrate.
There Is no admission charge.
^ Mem Iters of Gumma Alpha
Chi, national professional adver
tising honorary for women, will
meet at 7 tonight In the Eric VV.
Allen room, Allen ,'lo7.
^ Member** of the Student
Union music committee will meet
today nt 1 p.m. on the third floor
of the SU, according to Lucia
Kncpper, committee chairman.
q Kwania will meet tonight at
0:30 in Oerllnger, according to
Helen Kuth Johnson, president.
0 John C. McCloskcy, asso
ciate professor of English, will
speak on "Utopian Romance in
American Literature.” Wednes
day night at 7:30 in the Student
Union browsing room.
^ The Red Cross hoard will
meet today at 4 p.m. in the Stu
dent Union, according to Janet
Gustafson, president. '
0 The Homecoming danee dee
orations committee will meet to
day at 4 p.m. in the Student
Union workroom on the third
floor. Committee members are to
bring scissors and pencils.
0 Homecoming dance commit
tee chairmen will meet at 4 p.m.
Thursday in Student Union 312.
0 The AH'S cabinet will meet
at 12:45 p.m. today in the Stu
dent Union.
Campus Calendar
Noon Phi Chi 110 RU
PE Grads 112 SU
Pande Lunch 113 RU
Drama Staff 114 SU
3:00 Hotnecg Kin Cpm 110 SU
4:00 Newman Cl Exec 315 SU
4:30 Kiddie Karn Decor 111 SU
Red Cross Bd 112 S1J
6:30 Kwama Oer! 1st FI
Football Movie Ballrm SU
7:00 IVCF Ceil 2nd FI
7:30 PDK 111 SU
Yeomen 315 SU
8:00 Phi Eps Kap 110 SU
Hul O 334 SU
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