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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 30, 1955)
+ EMERALD, EDITORIALS + No Issues We're already to the middle of the first week of spring term and there don’t appear to be any issues for the coming student body • elections. There doesn't even appear to be must early interest. The general election is still a little more than a month away, and the two cam pus political parties, which we assume still exist, may be doing something about the coming elections. As for issues, everyone seems to be ignor ing any possible controversial issues which could come up between now and election time. ' A year ago, there was the question of censoring the exchange assembly after the assembly had been banned from Portland high schools. There was the question of a joint student body and athletic card, which seems to have dropped from the picture after considerable research and study by the ASUO senate committee in charge of the project. Now and then there have been murmurs of a revival of the closed primary issue by AGS. But apparently the knowledge that the question would be controversial has kept it from coming up. Last year there were other issues—the problem of too many activities was brought out into the open for discussion, and politi cians were expressing themselves on the sub ject of a four- or an eight-page Emerald. Somebody is bound to invent an issue or two when the elections draw near, but we'd like to see more positive thinking about issues and candidates. Maybe people are getting tired, and be ginning to think that ASUO elections are pretty much cut and dried. It is beginning to look that way, but unless some en thusiasm and positive thinking about stu dent government appear, the situation cer tainly won’t improve. We hope some issues will shape up in the near future, for it’s only a few weeks until the primary elections and then two more weeks until the general elections. We're Not Alone Oregon students are not tke only college students who object to long registration lines, and apparently the lines are a problem at most institutions of higher learning. In an article in a recent issue of School and Society Magaizne dealng with what he calls “areas of tension and conflict,” Walter I. Murray of Southern University reported that 69 per cent of college students inter viewed in a survey ranked registration lines and delays as the biggest factor making for poor student relationships. Other areas in which students reported difficulty in interpersonal adjustments were: dining hall lines, 52 per cent; student-teach er relationships. 46 per cent; grades and grade points. 45 per cent, and dormitory regulations, 44 per cent. The list included 17 such areas, but the students were in greater agreement on regis tration lines and delays than on any of tin other areas. We're not alone in our dislike of lines. Worth the Work? (Oregon State Daily Barometer) “AWS staged their annual AWS Carnival 1-riday night, ' the news story on page one will read. And so they did. “A profit of $4K0 was netted and-will go towards the AW S scholarship fund." the story will continue. And so it will. But, will they mention the attendance at the mfdway show? Will they write about the hundreds of hours spent con structing the 22 carnival booths? No. But the carnival was a success, as it annually is. Granted, the giving of scholarships is hon orable. Staging a function to earn money for scholarships is honorable. But what is hon orable about some two or three hundred man hours spent on behind-the-scenes construc tion for a brief two hours of shuffling through the sawdust-covered in i d w a v , collegiate style? Not much, unless it’s the joy of hard work, or the organized utilization of time— a scarce commodity halfway through winter term. AWS can list a host of goings-on—all of which are annual, all of which have been annual for years. And the carnival is among them. Perhaps students are tired, not only of the carnival proper, but also of the preparation that is required of not just a few individuals but of 22 different com mittees of persons from each of the wom en’s living groups represented. Perhaps AWS needs to find a new way to support their scholarship fund, if only for a year’s diversion. Oregon State student leaders have learned, in the past four or five years, the basics of objective evaluation. The carnival is a pro ject which could easily benefit from evalua tion by answering a single question .. .is it worth it all? INTERPRETING THE NEWS WEU Arms Control Features Aimed at German Militarism By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst As a means of allaying sus picion between strange bedfel lows united for purposes of de fense against an over-all threat, the arms control features of Western European Union repre ■ sent one thing. Using such machinery as the basis of general European dis armament, as suggested by Sec retary of State Dulles, would be something entirely different. The cbhtrol provisions of the Paris accords were initiated by France to insure that a re armed Germany would not run away with the new organiza tion, perhaps involving it in a war to regain her lost terri tories or, perhaps at some later date, reassume her former mil itaristic attitudes. Under the agreement, a gov erning council will place limits on the power of each member, and control disposal of its arms. Inspection will be maintained, and the council will have power to punish violations. This is an internal protective device. President Eisenhomer has said any sign of defection by any member would bring into play the section of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization which calls a threat to any member a threat to all. In other words, if one nation made hostile gestures toward any of the others, or started to pull out of the union under circum stances which threatened others, the rest would unite against that nation, under the terms of an other a border treaty to which all subscribe, and under which the power of the United States and Britain can be invoked. All these arrangements are based on an overriding mu tuality of interest in one re spect—defense against possible Communist attack—regardless of divergencies of interest in other respects. There is no such mutuality of interest between the West and the Red bloc as long as the latter proclaims itself an ene my. There is no common enemy except one, and that is war itself. Arms control between these two blocs, then, becomes not a mutual front with internal se curity arrangements, but a mu tual handcuffing with neither side able to surrender the keys to its own cuffs. So far, Western European Union is merely a part of an ancient contrivance, an attempt to prevent anyone from starting 1 a war by establishing a balance : of power which would make its outcome uncertain. Perhaps the prevention of war will eventually become an over riding mutuality of interest re- j quiring that every nation’s se curity be guar anteed by all of i the others. That is the idea behind : Leagues of Nations and United j Nations organizations. There can be no regional aspects to any such idea. — Paid Adv«rli*#m*nt— flu Campus with MaxQhukan <Author of "Barefoot Boy With Cheek," etc.) I’VE GOT NEWS FOR YOU It is my earnest hope that an occasional column of mine has pleased you enough to make you want to clip it out and keep it. Rut I’m sure that being preoccupied with more important things — like getting down to breakfast before your room-mate eats all the marmalade - the impulsc.has passed and been forgotten. So I am pleased now to report that the makers of l’hilip Morris Cigarettes, bless their corporate hearts, have published a booklet called MAX SIIULMAN REVISITED, which contains six of my favorite columns, along with some brand new material, all of this profusely illustrated—all of this available to you gratis when you buy a couple of packs of Philip Morris at your favorite tobacco counter on or near your campus. But this is not the only news I’ve got for you today. Following you will find a roundup of news highlights from campuses the country over. Southern Reserve University Dr. Willard Hale Sigafoos, head of the department of an thropology at Southern Reserve University and internationally known as an authority on primitive peoples, returned yesterday from a four year scientific expedition to the headwaters of the Amazon River. Among the many interesting mementos of his journey is his own head, shrunk to the size of u kumquat. He refused to reveal how his head shrinking was accomplished. "That’s for me to know and you to find out,” he said with a tiny, but saucy grin. Northern Reserve University Dr. Mandrill Gibbon, head of the department of zoology at Northern Reserve University and known to young and old for his work on primates, announced yesterday that he had received a grant of $80,000,000 for a twelve year study to determine precisely how much fun there is in a barrel of monkeys. Whatever the results of Dr. Gibbon's researches, this much is already known: what’s more fun that a barrel of monkeys is a pack of Philip Morris. There's zest and cheer in every puff, delight in every draw, content and well-being in every fleecy, flavorful cloudlet. And, what’s more, this merriest of cigarettes, king-size and regular, comes in the exclusive Philip Morris Snap-Open pack. A gentle tug on the tab and the package pops obligingly open. A gentle push on the open pack and it silently folds itself back, sealing in the savory vintage tobacco until you are ready to smoke again. Eastern Reserve University The annual meeting of the American Philological Institute, held last week at Eastern Reserve University, was enlivened by the reading of two divergent monographs concerning the origins of early Gothic "runes," as letters of primitive alphabets are called. Dr. Tristram Ijithrop Spleen, famed far and wide as the discoverer of the High German Consonant Shift, read a paper in which he traced the origins of the Old Wendish rune “pt” (pronounced “krahtz") to the middle Lettic rune "gr" 'pro nounced “albert"). On the other hand. Dr. Richard Cummerbund 1 wonkey, who, as the whole world knows, translated The Pajama Game into Middle High Ractrian, contended in his paper that the Old Wendish rune "pt” derives from the Low Erse rune "mf" {pronounced "gr"). Well, sir, the discussion grew so heated that Dr. Twonkey finally asked Dr. Spleen if he would like to step into the gym nasium and put on the gloves. Dr. Spleen accepted the challenge promptly, but the contest was never held because there were no gloves in the gymnasium that would fit Dr. Twonkey. (The reader is doubtless finding this hard to believe as Eastern Reserve University is celebrated the length and breadth of the land for the size of its glove collection. However, the reader is asked to remember that Dr. Twonkey has extraordinarily' small hands and arms. In fact, he spent the last war working in a small arms plant, where he received two Navy “E" Awards and was widely hailed as a "manly little chap.") f/Mii Khulm*n. }*r»3 Tht‘ mak,rt «/ PIIIUP MORRIS, npo.nor. of thin column, urge you UL^ l,J.,,Tc-’^r^‘.’harCO Ml,'re ,,,r )our r°l,y °f ',/IX SHI I M l.\ nr.r IslI hli. The nupply in limited. cure c^om iNeggld 'III- Oregon Daily Emerald in published five day* a week during the school >rar except examination and vacation period*, by the Student I’ublicaliona Hoard of the Univrrsiti . f Oregon. Entered a* second class matter at the |M»t office, Eugene, Oregon. Subset ipumi rate*: $5 per school year; $2 a term. Opinions expressed on the editorial page- are tlnue of the writer and do not pretend to represent the opinions of the ASl'O or the University. 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