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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
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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.")
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