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A Real Greek Week
The most recent issue of the report of the
Interfraternity Research and Advisory coun
cil carries a description of what we consider a
real Greek Week.
The report, submitted by Dean J. T. Palm
er of Mississippi Southern college, stresses
the fact that the objectives of the college’s
first Greek Week were “both serious and
social.”
Included in the activities of the four-day
observance were: open houses bv both fra
ternities and sororities; Greek Vespers; a
Greek supper at which the national presi
dent of Lambda Chi Alpha delivered the
principal address; workshops for the ad
visers, presidents, secretaries, treasurers and
pledge masters of fraternities and sororities,
and finally, a Greek dance for members and
pledges of the campus houses.
This appears to us to be a much more
purposeful undertaking than the Greek
Week proposed for the Oregon campus by
the Inter-Fraternity council.
Self-improvement, an honest presentation
to outside groups of Greek living, and serious
study, as well as social activity were evident
in the program.
We do not oppose a Greek Week for this
campus as such. We agree with Panhellenic
council, however, when that group says that
the preliminary report of the IFC committee
left much to be desired.
The proposed plan emphasized the social
side of the fraternity system without paying
any more than token attention to the more
serious, and we believe more attractive side
of fraternity living.
Panhellenic took the first step when it
vetoed the hollow phrase, “To elevate the
Greek houses and put them a little apart
from the rest of the campus ..
But the cut-down, slightly modified Greek
Week emerged from Panhellenic basically
unchanged. The affair would, by the current
proposal be a one-day rather than a two-day
l>roject, but it still has only social activities
on its schedule.
We wonder if, when the proposed all
< /reek celebration is concluded, a member of
the University administration will be moved
to say. as Mississippi Southern’s Dean Palm
er did:
"The administration, advisers, members
and pledges all feel that it (Greek Week)
was highly successful. \\ e are already plan
ning our Greek Week for next vear.”
We have our doubts.
As It Should Be
A belief that it'is good to look hack and
see where we have come from, to look around
us and see what we are doing and to look
forward to see where we are going—this is
the underlying principle of the University’s
second biennial Festival of Arts program.
Through the presentation of works in
various arts—visual, dance, music, liter
ature and aesthetics, theater and motion
picture—the committee hopes to create
an interest in America’s cultural heritage.
We don't expect all University students to
find the same things in the events of the
Festival, for it would not speak well of our
University if they did.
In any educational institution, especially
in America, students must he encouraged to
develop their own ideas and attitudes. A
possibility for such a development is being
presented with the Festival of Arts, with
its presentation of a wide diversity of events
and conviction.
No one is expected to agree with all of
the opinions presented. Rather, opposition
and disagreement are expected, in accord
with the great American tradition of toler
ation of the views of others. We hope that
the events planned do arouse some oppo
sition, for it would be indicative of true
consideration of the art.
And that is as it should he in a Universitv.
—(SR.)
Whet’s Happened?
Isn t it unusual that someone hasn’t
started the yearly blast against fraternities
and sororities about-their clauses?
Each year, someone takes it upon himself
to lash out at Creek letter organizations
telling how the L niversity gets a had name
due to the groups’ restrictive membership
clauses.
Next some group writes in praising them
selves for ‘abolishing the clause. This im
presses no one other than the letter writer
and his fraternity brothers.
More letter- come into the Emerald editor.
We are not sure whether these are written
by sincere persons or ones wild wish to see
their name in print.
Never do sororities and fraternities at
tempt to justify the existence of a clause.
They must, of necessity, sit back and let the
barrage of attacks continue.
We wonder when the Emerald will receive
this year’s first letter. It might be that NrAA
CP and people with similar views have de
cided that they can't get every fraternity and
sorority’s clause removed. — (P.K.)
INTERPRETING THE NEWS
Newest Power Shift in USSR
Could Mean Tough Foreign Policy
By J. M. Roberts
Associated Press
News Analyst
In October 1941 there was a
shift in the Japanese cabinet
which the world quickly assessed
as meaning extension of the Eu
ropean war to the Pacific.
It did.
The shift of Russia back to the
tough line now creates a similar
feeling, though not -quite so in
tense.
The fall of Malenkov, who
walked more softly than Stalin,
the full emergence of tough man
Khrushchev, the appointment of
Bulganin as Khrushchev’s front
man, and the appearance of Mol
otov on the same Supreme Soviet
program with violent new threat
against the United States, all tie
into a very disturbing picture.
Here we have something of a
triumvirate, it may be some
time before its impact on inter
national affairs can be fully
evaluated. But one thing is
sure. Its members are belliger
ent toward the West.
This is so true that, in the
brief interim between Malenkov's
resignation and Bulganin's ap
pointment, there was some hope
among Western observers that
Molotov would get the job, in the
thought that he, because of his
greater contacts with the West,
at least understood better than
the others the extreme dangers
of a warlike attitude.
But after Bulganin had been
introduced to the Soviet in his
new role by Khrushchev, Molotov
took the floor and made one of
the most dangerous statements
ever to come out of the Kremlin:
“In case of eventual war,
world civilization will not per
ish but what will be destroyed
is the rotten social system with
its blood-saturated imperialism
which is being rejected by op
pressed peoples.”
If that is the Russian belief —
that she can win and come out
strong enough to be master in
the ruins—then the world has
arrived at a point of extreme
danger, and hopes of peace must
depend on a faith which becomes
very hard to sustain.
Perhaps the post immediate
effect of tfiese events of this
fateful Tuesday was a Soviet
attempt to solidify its position
beside Red China in the Formosa
dispute.
There was every indication,
from Molotov’s speech and from
the records of the new-smaller
group of men who rule Russia,
that instead of acting as a re
straining influence as the West
had hoped for a time, Moscow
would now present with Peiping
an even more intransigent axis.
A DAY AT THE ZOO
Young Magoo Finds
Referee's Life Trying
By Bob Funk
Emerald Column)*!
The room neatly marked HKK
KREK8 was strangely similar to
u bank vault. Jt had three layers
of bullet resistant steel and a
door with a combination and a
time lock that opened at ten till
eight. Inside, the referee sat at
his dressing table. A small spot
light on the table was shining
directly into his eyes.
He turned a
way from the
apot momen
tarily. "I can't
aee anything
but nome pink
whoojees and
•ome little
yellow things
Jumping up
and down
when I look away from the light"
he told his fellow referee.
“You'd better stare into it
some more, though," the second
referee said. "Don't forget the
Idaho game, when the effect
wore off and you could see the
players all during the last three
minutes. I was never so em
barrassed —”
“I did NOT EVER see the
players,” the first referee
said indignantly. “Only dim
blobs. You're forgetting that
my mother was a Magoo."
For a moment there was si
lence as the referees concentrat
ed upon looking into the spot
light. Then there was a barking;
the time lock opened the door,
and two seetng-eye dogs came in
and escorted the referees to a
Loomis armored car. which in
turn drove them onto the basket
ball court.
"I can hear a ball dribbling.’’
the second referee said. "The
teams must be on the floor.
And I'll bet I get more foulN
than you do tonight. You're get
ting soft, you don't have the
old fire any more. I even caught
you reading the rulea book the
other day."
"Just tell me where the bas
kets are,” miarled the other, "I'm
not washed up." A klaxon Hound
ed; play commenced, and the ref
erees ran up and down the floor,
only bumping Into the utandu
once or twice. A member of the
visiting team had cornered one of
the home guard** and wan rather
effectively strangling him; anoth
er of the home team lay dead
hh a result of an unidentified
gunshot; still another was being
tossed up In a blanket.
The referees padded up and
down the floor. Just then the
star of the home team roughed,
and fatted to rover his mouth.
Whistles blew; lights flashed;
referee number one stood en
raged In the renter of the floor.
"The basket Is good, Hiid two
foul shots," he said.
“Past," the second referee
said, "nobody made a basket.
"Who’s getting soft ?" said
his cohort.
Seconds later a member of
VISITORS had climbed up Into
the first balcony and was drop
ping baskets from there, A for
word from VISITORS was driv
ing down the floor in a Je< p
with a hook and ladder attach
ment.
A member of the home team
said "Goah."
Whistle* blew; lights flashed;
the crowd roared. There was
something about the roar that
indicated that the home crowd
was not aware that the ref ere. s
mother was a Magix*.
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