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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
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