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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1955)
+ EMERALD EDITORIALS + Realistic Approach If the Millraee is ever to be restored, the ~real incentive for the restoration will have to come from University of Oregon stu dents. The Eugene city council has had the matter under consideration for over six months, yet nothing definite has been de cided. One complaint of the city council is that University students aren’t really in terested in the Millraee. This may have been true in the past. It no longer is a just complaint. Formation of a Millraee Council two weeks ago was one of the first tangible ex amples of student interest in the Millraee. The ten Millraee houses, eight fraternities and two sororities, banded together at that time to “take immediate steps toward re storing the Millraee.” The group also sought to gain support for its project from the en tire campus. This Saturday the Millraee council will conduct a limited cleanup of the ’Race. The cleanup is planned as a gesture to the city council to show that the Greek houses on campus are interested in Millraee restora tion. A full scale operation (such as the cleanup last spring) could not be planned at this time because of the impossibility of completely draining the Millraee during the winter season. Street drains enter the 'Race, and about a foot of rain water from these drains now stands in the Millraee. The expense of pumping dry the ’Race at this time would be prohibitive. The Millraee council has demonstrated a realistic approach to the problem. If the ’Race is ever restored, it will be as a result of action by students such as those who or ganized the council. Coordinated Activities The AWS council will propose the crea tion of two coordinating women's groups in the February election in an attempt to streamline women’s activities at Oregon. The proposals sound good on first read ing and should he seriously considered by Oregon activity women. However, all con cerned should be extremely careful they are creating groups that will do a definite, needed job. Oregon women have lots of meetings to attend and should make good and sure they’re getting their money’s worth before they add two more. Keeping the office of student affairs up to date on women’s activities would appar ently be the most important duty of the proposed AWS activity board. Since a member of each women’s living organiza tion would sit on the board, it would be possible to keep an up-to-date, accurate accounting of each individual woman’s activities. Supposedly this would be of great help in making more equitable schol arship and award selection. The proposed AWS executive council has more ambitious purposes. Its duties would be to coordinate what appears to be all the women’s organizations on campus including Mortar Board, Phi Theta. Kvvama, YWCA, WRA, women’s living organizations, Pan hellenic, Coed co-op council and AWS. Since the presidents of all these organiza tions will sit on this council, it should cer tainly have the woman-power to do the job. We certainly can't find fault with the in tentions of any agency that aims at coordin ating women’s activities. In fact more power to ’em. — (D.L.) INTERPRETING THE NEWS Intervention Interpretation May Give Peiping Victory By WILLIAM L. RYAN AP Foreign News Analyst So long as Peiping interprets United States policy as meaning non-intervention for defense of anything but the Pescadores and Formosa itself, it can proceed to present its home front with victory after victory. Island after island can be “lib erated." The promise that For mosa will be conquered for Red China gains substance. The Red Chinese need not, for a long time to come, give any indication that they intend to stop short of the Pescadores and Formosa out of respect for the US Seventh Fleet. Important to Propaganda Such a string of victories and “liberations” would be impor tant to Red Chinese internal propaganda. It can offer con quests of the islands and defi ance of the United States in ex change for public belt-tightening so that Peiping’s armies can be come more and more mighty. The conquests are important for Peiping’s external propa ganda, too. Peiping’s claim to be the dominant power in Asia is buttressed. So is the claim to recognition as the rightful rep resentative of the Chinese people in the United Nations. Appeal to Red China With Peiping still outside the UN, that organization can do little but appeal to the Red Chi nese not to risk plunging Asia —and possibly the world—into a major war. If the Peiping decision to in vade Yikiangshan was in the na ture of a test, to determine what Western reaction might be, the Red Chinese now have their an swer: The United States will not de fend the outlying islands. The reaction in Britain and elsewhere in the non-Communist world was tinged with fear that the island fighting might lead to something far more grave. President Eisenhower’s sugges tion that the UN step in to pre serve peace in the Orient seemed to have been received with a sigh of relief. All this bespoke the extreme reluctance of the Western powers to become in volved in the shooting. But all this also gave the green light to Peiping. There seems nothing in the way of the Chi nese Red army now if it wants to launch a long campaign of island-hopping until all but the Pescadores and Formosa are in Communist hands. The threat to Formosa will remain as Peiping's biggest bludgeon in its inter course with the Western world. Oregon Principals Hold Conference By Evelyn Olsen Emerald Reporter The winter conference of the Oregon Association of Second ary School Principals opens to day on campus and will continue through Saturday afternoon. University President O. Mere dith Wilson will deliver the ad dress of welcome in the Dads room of the Student Union. Cliff Skinner, president of OASSP, will preside. Talks are scheduled by Rex Putnam, state superintendent of public instruction, and Clyde Beard, William Bear, and Duane Christenson of the Oregon Asso ciation of Student Councils. Texan to Speak Guest speaker for the confer ence wiill be J. G. Umstatd, pro fessor of education at the Uni versity of Texas. He will speak on “Appraising the Secondary School.” Following the opening sessions, the principals will adjourn to Eugene High school for a crab feed and entertainment. Saturday the group will meet as a whole to hear committee reports on transfer student rec ords, junior high schools and the Interstate council. Jacobson Scheduled Paul B. Jacobson, dean of the school of education, will speak on “Current Problems in Edu cation,” following the committee reports. After late morning and early afternoon group discussions, the group will meet for its final ses sion. Harry Jacoby, chairman of the scheduling committee, will report on scheduling of students. Other speakers will be Umstattd, Dean Micklewait and Bob Ku eenberry. A business meeting will bring the session to a close. A tea for wives of conference delegates will be held Friday afternoon between 3 and 5. The tea will be at the home of Dean and Mrs. Jacobson. CAMPUS COMMENT Committee Workers May Start Stampede By Sam Fraar Emerald Columnlit Just supposing;, sny, a meeting whs culled for all members o the many and varied Studen Union committees. And, jus supposing, a stipulation wai thereon also attached thereto which threatened a fate mud worse than death. Supposing, say, that all <le linquent members would los< activity credit for such com muiee, ir ne, oi ■the, failed tc show hi», oi her, shiny am unktiown far* before his, oi her commltte< chairman. And just lm »gine, if yoi could, the seem that w o u 1 c ■ hoioim/m urw because of, ensue. Say, perhaps many thousands of desperatf students mobbing the doors pushing, shoving, clawing, am spitting--just because they don'l want to lose some very ea.sil) gotten activity points. And likewise and similar to is an interesting fact whereir it takes a hundred and a hall freshmen to put on a little ok dance. Now, just supposing. th< dance was only for committer workers and their dates. Th« dance could be, say, the biggesi of the year. And this banquet for flno Ball committee chairmen to be held before the danee. If all S no-Hall committee workers were allowed to attend, it might he, pcrliups, the biggest banquet of the year. ' A grand occasion. ' Now, Just supposing, all com mittee members of the hII differ . ent kinds of committees, made i regular appearances at such com i mlttee functions. These, might i be, the most populous things on campus. Heal fun. • But, no doubt, upon Inspection, land a little resurrection), we'd • find committees really very i small, with Just a very few to ■ do the w#rk. I No doubt. For an ex-commlttee chairman was known to say, that from his i roll of members (about thirty seven or so), he knew and saw a little less than ten. IVrhaps he shouldn’t be so demanding. After all, when a t h I s-j ear-freshman petitions next year for some chairman ship or other, he or she will need, of course, some quulify ing experience to Insert In that space on the top of the pe tition. So let him, or her, insert that “Junior Assistant Co-Chairman of the Under Committee of the Brothers and Sisters Buffet Tea Sub-Committee on Helping with Decorations, (Reserve Element), Fall, 1955," on the top of the sheet. It may be all right to leave that petition space reserved for "Suggestions" a complete blank, but social prestige, and honor arica, and all that "leadership'* business demands at least one kind of chairmanship, which In turn requires committee "work." The Scheming Mind T * w “Th»« Pencil sharpener seem* harder to crank wince Profcwtor Snarf moved It lip front.” oreqor? )Ih PfEGCCD ° »..r* Entered a. eeennd claw matter at W irr.i^ll ol the Unt.or.lly ol Oregon, •chord year; $2 a term P “ Sulr.c,>pti„„ ,.,e. ; »5 per ■ent llhe opinion1, of t he" AS UO'or’Vhi Ijiuer.Uy'^rn-i'yned” o'"' ,n rT'« initUled editorial, by men,I,or. ,,l the editorial |,'J'rd * d d utUl* *" wrl,,r" b>' ">» ««•**•»* JOE GARDNER. Editor Titr-ir t ctirrc—r-T—.. --Jjr-A-V SANdTNE, Bu.ine.i Manager QlCj<_EEWIS^JACKIE \VAKbKlt..lK^T.t.- Pdiw. PAUL KEEFE. Managing Editor DONNA l< [ ■ v ifg~'57;" L "' -|l . IERHV Tf Ansiri f—S-ETr;-uvwnfl Adwrttiwi Manager SiALS~m-T_V_ ,;OKI",N — Mice, Sally Ryan. Jarki<: Warflcll?*1** ^ttty GS 02SE Lewis, Gordon C.hiff fiesif F^itnc *s»ll,r u. ' --— Chief Makeup Editor: Sam Vahey feature Editor: Dorothy Her Ass't Managing Editor: Amir Kitchey Asst. News Editors: Mary Alice Allen Larol Craig, Satn f rear, Anne I till ||,,| Robinson Chief Night Editor: Valerie Hersh Asst. Sports Editor: liuzz Nelson k m * . n,lJvJr: ”>•» Mamwanng Nat !. A(lv. Mgr.: Mary Sala/ar (ireuUjhon Mgr.: Kirk Hayden Asst. Office Mgr.: Marge Harmon l.ayout Manager: Hick Koc < lassified Adv.; Helen K. Johnson . lorgue Kditor: Kathleen Morrison Womans Page Co-editors: Sally Jo .Marcia Mauticy Greig.
