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+ EMERALD EDITORIALS + ‘Case 16’ The University of Oregon, to our knowl edge, has never been ranked number one in anybody’s football poll. This may appear to be a bad thing, but perhaps it isn’t too bad, after all. The reason it isn’t so bad is that Oregon has not, at least in its recent history, had a “Case 16.” * “Case 16” was one part of a study made by the Middle States Association of Colleges. The study was concerned with the scholastic standards of college athletes, a field which is controversial to say the least. The group of scholars found that a foot ball player at the University of Maryland (ranked number one in the national football polls that year) in 195,3 was still a junior in his fifth year in school. The reasons: “Case 16,” who was from outside the state of Maryland, had at- * tended college for a little over four years with grade point averages ranging from 1.1 to 1.7 on the 4.0 scale; he had an IQ of 85; he was caught cheating in his attempt to pass a course in anatomy and physiol ogy, a sophomore course which he was taking in his fourth year in school, and was given an F in the course and put on probation. The investigators said that the case was not necessarily typical, but that is hardly justification of such practices. We may not have the top-ranked teams in the nation, but neither, we hope (and be lieve), have we had any “Case 16’s.” —(T.H.) From the Students Approval this week by President Wilson of a plan whereby students will have a part in the formation of building policy for the Student Union would seem to be another indication that student government is com ing to mean something at the University of Oregon. However, we would like to suspend our congratulations to the SU board on gain ing this important concession and to the administration for granting it. Setting up of a SU board subcommittee on building policy, a student budget board or even a student senate does not necessarily mean that the students will have a more ac tive voice in the administration of our Uni versity. It merely means that they are to have the opportunity to do so. The motive s of the administration in broadening the scope of student participa tion in the affairs of the University is not to be questioned. We are assured the president desires to hear more from the students on how they would like their University-run. But these new powers granted the stu dents—the subcommittee on building pol icy. the budget board—will be meaningless if someone else in-the background contin ues to pull strings, continues to present completed plans to a student group for “rubber-stamp" approval.” The administration has taken the first step in these matters. It is now up to the students themselves—members of the subcommittee on building policy and the budget board—to take advantage of these new-found powers. Real student government can not come from the administration alone. It must come from the students themselves. Footnotes Those tracks leading to. the Student Union and the Co-op are not proof that monsters reside in those buildings. They are the most recent effort of the Oregana staff to lead stray Ducks to points where they may purchase the newer and bigger Ore gana. Wanna bet that the near future finds the Oregana s business manager busy on the Hello Walk with a scrub brush and some strong soap? ♦ * * The College Side currently has on display a large something-or-other in a glass show case near the main entrance. Billed as a “Submarine Sandwich,” it looks as if it had been designed to feed the crew of one of those new atomic submarines, or maybe power the ship itself. INTERPRETING THE NEWS Red Chinese Attack on Tachens Seen as Part of Lonq-Ranae Policv By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst The Red Chinese attack on the Tachen Islands is a carefully planned and well-developed part of policy. It is not likely to be shaken by anything the West can do or say. Last year, during all the shoot ing around Quemoy, well-in formed Chinese Nationalists kept pointing their fingers away from that island at the mouth of Amoy harbor and directly op posite Formosa, and toward the Tachens 200 miles farther north. Concentrated on Tachens While the Reds were making noises around Quemoy, their real military concentrations were be ing made opposite the Tachens. They have two important rea sons for the current attack on the Tachens entirely aside from the attainment of new military positions. They have promised the Chi nese people to regain Formosa, which they cannot attempt now because the United States 7th "Fleet stands across the way and Peiping, like everybody else, wants to risk no general war now. Regainment of Formosa be came a Chinese creed long before the Communist conquest of the mainland, and provides a chord which can be struck among those people who have not maintained their loyalty toward long-gone Chiang Kai-Shek. It is impor tant to the Reds to make a show about keeping their promise. Even more important to a re gime which is perfectly capable of ignoring popular opinion if it wishes is the psychological effect on Asia of another defeat hand ed to the anti-Communist forces. The Reds have been producing such defeats off and on ever since on the way—in China, Ti bet, North Vietnam—and now on the way to Formosa. They pro duce two effects in Asiatic thinking. One comes through the demonstration of power, some thing that is highly respected throughout the area and with which even directly-affected Ori entals have long trained them selves to submit or coexist. The other is the infliction of “loss of face’’ on anti-Commu nist forces. Most of Asia now relishes that, and Chiang Kai Shek, never liked, now repre sents the long-resented West. Indochina did much to offset the gains made by Western de termination in Korea. Keeps UN Tag President Eisenhower, of course, in suggesting United Na tions action to obtain a cease fire in the Far East, is follow ing a definite American policy of trying to keep all issues in the broad field of international interest rather than have this country appear in the guise of going it alone, which Ijas hap pened frequently because of Brit ish softness toward Red China. It also is designed to employ world moral force, as was done in Korea after the United States decided to intervene. Chemist to Speak To French Club Tonight’s meeting of the French club will feature an in formal talk on Europe by Pierre Van Rysselberghe of the Univer sity chemistry department. All interested persons are invited to attend the meeting at the home of Mary Lou Teague, 2098 Olive street at 8 p.m., according to Sally Calkins, president. Van Rysselberghe was born in Belgium and has visited Europe seven times since the war, in cluding a full year in Italy in 1950 and 1951. As a member of the US Commission of Electro chemistry, he has attended the International union of pure and applied chemistry. His talk will be based upon the impressions of various aspects of European life which he has received during his recent trips abroad. Persons desiring transporta tion will find cars leaving the Kincaid street entrance of the library at 7:30 p.m., Miss Calkins said. A DAY AT THE ZOO 'Women Discussed By SU Philosophers By Bob Funk Emerald Colwmmtt They were sitting In the stu dent union At least, sitting; is the easiest way to describe what they were doing. One was tipping gloriously, dangerously, back ward so that he threatened to land in the middle of a bridge game. Another was somehow suspended, rather gracefully, from the place his elbows had a slight hold on the table to a point where his billfold was about nu uioi w (i.i still sitting on the chair. And a third, to be sure, was us ing hia chair in more or less the man ner prescribed by the pos ture people. They had the look of persons who have devoted large segments of their lives to vice and crime and an industrious pursuit of depravity in general. This look was based, however, on the fact that they had been sit ting there all afternoon, and had skipped a grand total of nine hours of class. They were the Outlaws, the Splt-on-the-flags, the Lost. "You remember that girl I was pinned to?" the Suspension per son asked. "You mean the one that " “Nsw, not her.” He puffed casually on his cigarette, let the smoke find its way out his nostrils the way John Wayne did, cast a I’m-for-you-baby but - I-warn-you-I’m-rough-on Montfn look at the girl at the next table, and then broke Into a horrible coughing fit. The girl at the next table laughed, which Was of no help whatso ever. "I mean,” he wheezed, "the one that was Gloria's room-mate." “The one that was sort of fat," the tipping person said, trying to get his last ice-cube to slide down the glass without hitting his nose. "She was not fat,” Suspension said, “This girl was really stack ed." “She was more piled," the Tip ping person said. He stuck his finger down the glass to dislodge the ice-cube, but the glass was too long or his finger was too short, or something. "What about her, anyway?" the Perfect Posture said. "That’s her cousin, sitting over there, that’s whut, only I forget her name.” They ull ex amined the cousin, who was a female of the species flanked by two other females of the same species all partially ob scured by their own cloud of smoke. "Guta had a blind date with' that Rif! for the house dance," Tipping said. Hr had the ice-rube in hia mouth, finally, but It was rather cold so he ejected It back Into the glasN for aging. "That Guts, he gets all the babien," aaid Suspension. "I don’t think she’s so particu larly good-looking,” Perfect Pos ture suld. "You don’t know nothing about wlmml n," Suspension sneered, “anybody That liked Beowulf doesn’t know anything about women." Perfect Posture blushed: he had forgotten he’d told them about Beowulf. "You know what Guts said aboigt her?" Tipping asked sud denly. They leaned forward. "What?" Tipping looked about fur tively, then said. "Well see. Guts came In after he’d taken this girl home, and I tvas sit ting on the davenport and I thought he looked kind of funny, so I went over—” "Yeah?" "Yeah, and I said Guts babe what’s the matter, and he told m« about this girl, see ” Tip ping’s voice was a mere whisper by this time. “He says she’s a Democrat." And with this Tip ping leaned back to his former marvelous position and repos sessed the ice-cube. "It’s funny about some girls.” Suspension said "You sure never can tell by Just looking at them.'* "I can't even see her any more," Perfect Posture said wist fully, "there's too much smoke now." Secretly, he was wonder ing if they guessed that his ma ternal grandmother was a Dem ocrat, or at least voted for Roosevelt when London ran. Suspension inhaled deeply like Marion Brando did in "On the Waterfront," then gave the gul at the next table the old "Come here - baby - or - I'll-slap-you-in the-kisser look. J’y suisTj’y rente. Campus Calendar 12:00'Soc Dept 110 SIJ UNESCO Lnch 111 SIJ Speech Staff 112 SIJ Phi Eps Kap 113 StJ 4:00 Int Aff Cof Hr YM SU Skull A Dag 315 SU Stu Aff Com 337 SU 6:00 AAUW 110 SU 6:30 Ski Quacks Com Lnch SU Barbershop Qrt Com 313 SU Alpine a 315 SU I EC 334 SU Canoe Fete Com Gerl 1st FI Scab A B1 Hallrm SU 7:00 Bridge Benefit 213 SU 7:30 Yng Repubs 315 SU Delta Nu Alpha 333 SU NAACP Dadsrm SU oreqor? HEQCLD Th. Oregon Daily Emerald ■■ published five day. . week during the school tear r.erpt examination and mention periods, by the Sludem Publication. Board ul il.« University uf Orrann. Entered ». »ei'ond class mailer at the purl office, Eugene, Oregon. Subseripilon rsler t:, per •chpol year; $2 a term. ' Opinions expressed on the editorial page, are those of the writer and do not pretend to repre sent Ire opinion, ol the ASliO or the University. I n.igned nditoriab are written by the editor: initialed editonala by mi>mbirn> of the editorial board. 7 JOE GARDNER, Editor JEAN SANDINE, Btl^t. Mttnsger __DICK LEW 1S, JACKIE WARDKLL, Associate Editors PAUL KEEFE, Managing Editor DONNA KUNBERG, Advertising Manager JERKY HARRELL, News Editor GORDON RICE, Sports Editor Jtrry ^uIXebfer Dick Lewi* Gordon Thief MaVup Editor: Sam Vahey Feature Editor: Dorothy Her Ass’t. Managing Editor: Anne Ritchey AsV- rXWS- K<litors: Mary Alice Allen, t arol Craig, Sam Frear, Anne Hill, Hob Robinson . .. Chief Night Editor: Valerie Hersh Asst. Sports Editor: Buzz Nelson jMhc<; Manager: Bill Mainwaring Natl. Adv, Mgr.: Mary Salazar I irculation Mgr.: Kick Hayden Aks’t. Office Mgr.: Marge Jlarmon Layout Manager: Dick Koe lassifietl Adv.: Helen R. Johnson Morgue Editor: Kathleen Morrison A Oman’s Page Co-editors: Sally Jo Creig, Marcia Mautiey
