Drinking Problem at University of Oregon
Not as Great Now as It Was in 1950
By Anne Ritchey
Emerald Assistant News Editor
Campus coffee shops are pop
ular during breaks from classes,
at all times during the day. Stu
dents cut classes to go to them,
hut not as often as they used to.
There's a reason.
Two of them sold beer by the
glass until 1950.
They aren't allowed to now
because students were cutting
classes to attend their daily beer
drinking sessions, and were also
finding it convenient to have a
beer after afternoon classes in
stead of returning to living or
ganizations for dinner.
Another problem: minors were
consuming beer in alarming
quantities.
•“You had to be able to reach
the top of the counter with your
money." one student in 1950 told
Donald DuShane, director of stu
dent affairs.
The state law that people un
der 21 couldn't buy beer was in
effect at that time, but it was
impossible to enforce when beer
was so close to campus. DuShane
said.
Everything came to a head
during Homecoming weekend in
1950. when the bonfire rally was
held on the Fiji parking lot. Beer
was handed out the windows of
one place indiscriminately. Alum
ni and other groups were so dis
gusted that they brought pres
sure to bear.
WCTU Steps In
One such group was the Wom
en’s Christian Temperance Un
ion, which urged elimination of
beer licenses near the campus.
Then Oregon’s Liquor Control
commission stepped into the pic
ture. first holding preliminary
hearings on student behavior.
The commission then consulted
student affairs, asking for a map
of the campus showing Univer
sity buildings and living organ
izations. They proposed to draw
up a tentative “dry zone" bound
ary to settle the question and
satisfy critics.
A fifteen-day suspension was
levied on the two offending es
tablishments by the liquor com
mission. which charged them
simply with seining beer to mi
nors.
Harry K. Newburn. then Uni
versity president, told liquor
commissioners that in the early
pre-war days students, many of
them returning veterans, needed
“a beer outlet near the cam
pus,” according to a 1950 Ore
gonian article.
The faculty changed its mind,
however, and recommended a
mile limit around the campus re
. striding sales. Newburn told
them.
Student reaction a't that time
I was interesting. Barry Mountain,
then ASUO president, pledged
full co-operation in living up to
' administration and liquor com
mission rules, but asked that the
■ campus establishments be al
! lowed to continue serving beer.
A suggested alternative was to
have student body caids printed
j with pictures and ages, and the
card could serve as identification.
The ASUO'Senate defeated that
plan. .
"Why should I vote for some
I thing that would prove I'm not
old enough to drink ?*’ one sena
I tor said, according to DuShane.
Between 1950 and last spring
the agreement between student
i affairs and the liquor commis
i --
.sion was the one under which the
dry zone operated. Last spring
the Eugene city council voted
approval of the principle of the
zone.
The council has since shown
1 disapproval of the zone, particu
larly last November when they
were forced to deny a beer license
application from a grocery with
in it.
The council felt that the zone
is “unfair" in some cases, a Eu
i gene Register-Guard article at
the time reported. But members
agreed that they don't favor in
discriminate sale of the alcohol,
and that the boundaries are fair
i for the sale of liquor by the
drink.
Where is the zone? Roughly, it
is set at “a block or so from the
' campus and living orguniza
: tious," DuShane said.
Radcliffe Offering
Publishing Course
This summer Radcliffe College
| in Cambridge, Mass., will conduct
the eighth annual session of an in
, tensive course in Publishing Pro
cedures which prepares college
, graduates for jobs in magazine
, and book publishing.
i
The course, which will run from
| June 22 to August 2, will be open
: to recent graduates of a four-year
college or to people presently em
ployed in some branch of publish
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Basic Techniques
Besides surveying the require
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Instructors for the course are
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Total Cost $200
Tuition for the course will be
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cluding books and materials, will
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Women students will live in a
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Athletic Facilities
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38, Massachusetts. Since the en
rollment is limited, early applica
tion is advisable. Applications
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