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‘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
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