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An Easter Thought
The University’s traditional Easter sun
rise service for students, ^faculty members
and townspeople will he held in McArthur
court Sunday morning. Participating will
he choir members from most of the Eugene
churches, members of the University Re
ligious council and local churches, one fac
ulty member and a Portland mnister.
The cooperation of such groups bodes
well for the University particularly at this,
the high point of the ecclesiastical year.
True, there will be some attending the
service for the basic purpose of showing
off their new spring bonnets, but at least
they will be there, accruing the benefits to
be derived.
We cannot but hope that students will
take time out Sunday to evaluate their posi
tions, their spiritual and temporal emphasis.
In the vicious circle of campus activities,
too many of us have a tendency to be sucked
under by the current of classes, committee
meetings, athletics and social affairs. There
is more to life than this, even in the closed
world of the University.
Oregon is fortunate to have an educa
tional climate in which students are en
couraged to seek out and pursue their own
beliefs. This is an innate part of the re
ligious freedom upon which our nation is
founded, and one which should be recog
nized by the student.
Perhaps Rev. Gene Laubach's Easter ser
mon will instill this recognition. But the
real thought will have to come from the
indivdual student.—(S.R.)
Can’t Be Beat
Baseball, among other things, is in the air.
The Pacific Coast League lias started its
season, the Emerald Kmpire team of the new
Northwest league has begun spring prac
tice—and the ()regon baseball team, already
the possessor of a five won, three lost record,
will make its second home appearance of the
young season this afternoon.
The Ducks are considered a top contender
for the W estern Regional championship
again this year.
We heartily recommend this afternoon’s
ball games (a doubleheader) with Willam
ette for a good afternoon’s entertainment—
and a good way to soak up some of the sun
we’ve been having lately.
It can t be beaten for the price (one punch
off your student body card).
Footnotes
Quite an extensive moving job must have
been done during the vacation if an item on
page 1 of the March 22 Portland Journal is
correct. 1 he news item datelined ‘‘Oregon
State College, Kugene” gave OSC basket
ball coach Slats (• i 11 s views on the widen
ing of the free throw lane.
* * *
A pamphlet for Duck Preview, which is
now in the planning stage, is to contain a
special glossary of "Oregon language” for
the benefit of visitors. Will it be all right if
the rest of us continue to -peak English?
INTERPRETING THE NEWS
Western Observers Are Puzzled
By India's Strange Emanations
By J .M. Roberts
Associated Press Newt Analyst
India continues to produce
strange conditions.
She recently set up a corpora
tion to borrow money and relend
it for the development of private
industry.
Almost simultaneously with
the first loan from the world
bank and from British and Am
erica, as well as Indian investors,
Nehru asked parliament to
change the constitution so the
government W'ould have greater
powers to nationalize private
business.
While the Indian ambassa
dor to Washington was still
trying to persuade American
investors that the nationaliza
tion measure was directed at
internal situations and that
India was well worth foreign
investment, the Prime Minis
ter chose to make a very
strange attack on the United
States.
He anticipated President Eis
enhower by assuming the United
iettersto#heiditor[
Vets' Committee
Emerald Editor:
As a member of the Veterans'
Committee, I would like to re
assert that the primary objec
tives of this organization are to
provide up-to-date information of
interest to veterans, to provide a
speedier solution to veterans’
problems by improving or re
vamping services which are in
adequate . at this time, to create
a social situation of a more ma
ture nature in some areas, and
n°t—to act as a political party.
At the present time, the com
mittee is working to bring a
well-informed veteran’s repre
sentative to the campus one
day each week. Such a repre
sentative would be available
for individual conferences,
where he could answer ques
tions concerning the G. I. bill,
Insurance, Government Com
pensation, Medical benefits,
etc. An information program
of this type would eliminate
the present necessity of con
tinually referring veterans to
the downtown Eugene office,
Portland, or some other office
not conveniently located.
The possibility of having a liv
ing organization, composed ex
clusively of veterans, or of hav
ing veterans assigned to a living
organization whose restrictions
are more applicable to the age
and maturity of the veteran, is
also being investigated at pres
ent.
The policy of segregation at
athletic events was discussed
at our first meeting. Due to
the increasing number of mar
ried students attending school,
the committee feels that this
policy is antiquated, and some
what degenerate to school spir
it. It is our contention that
married students accompanied
by their wives or husbands, be
they veterans or not, should be
granted the same privilege as
other students in choosing their
seats.
To further the united interests
of the veterans on this campus,
i3 the overall purpose of this Vet
erans’ Committee. To accomplish
this purpose it is necessary to
know the wills and resolutions
of the veterans as a group, and
I feel certain that the veterans
will give this committee their
interest and support.
Yours truly,
Allen G. Reynolds
States would defend Quemoy and
Matsu if the islands were at
tacked by the Chinese Reds, said
America was taking the position
of an aggressor in the whole For
mosa matter.
If he was deliberately trying
to alienate America’s affec
tions he could hardly have done
better.
Now S. K. Patil, one of the big
gest men in Nehru's all-dominat
ing Congress Party, fresh from
a big victory over Communism
in Andhra State, has made a
sudden discovery.
He flew up from Bombay to
New Delhi to attend a meeting
of an 18-nation “non-partisan”
conference. To his seeming dis
may, he found "Communists
running the whole show." He and
other Congress Party leaders
pulled out.
That conference has been
long-advertised as an out
growth of the 1950 Stockholm
conference at which the world
Communist movem ent
launched its “peace offensive”
designed to divide the Western
world and make a lot of suck
ers think it was the West, not
Russia, which was responsible
for the cold war and the pos
sibility of a shooting war.
Patil said he had "thought this
so-called Asion conference might
be a good thing and that it had
the support of Premier Nehru.”
If the past tense phraseology
means it does not have the sup
port of Nehru, it is an encour
agement.
If it means the Indian leaders
have merely decided it is inex
pedient to support at this time
something they were strong for
before, it is still disturbing. But
more disturbing is the suggestion
that they just don’t understand
what’s going on in the world.
The United States is in a lot
of trouble because she was once
like that.
CAMPUS COMMENT
Greeks, Independents
In Realm of Semantia
By Sam Frear
Emerald Column'll
'Bout this time of year people
start Kiting riled up over elec
tions and things. And before you
know it, along comes someone
who says, "Oh, him ? He's a
Greek," or. "Him ? He's nothing
but an Independent.”
Sometimes modifiers are added
and it becomes a "damned Greek”
or a "G-- damned Independent."
Or it may be a “lousy Greek"
or a "worthless Independent.”
Anyhow, it sometimes seems
that people start using the two
if r in h, i even
without modi
fier* i, mean
ing something
more than
merely frater
nity member
ship or dormi
tory resilience.
O f course,
one can ques
tion the validi
ty of t h i s.
How can a
term be used to convey,, way, a
social philosophy or a breed of
etiquette or a code of ethic*. The
word*, in the dictionary, oeem
quite innocent.
Take the u«rd “<ireek.’‘ I'lpil
definition ray eye landed on
when opening Noah Welister'*
told me that a greek Is a swlml
ler. Now some vituperative
ITS candidate might agree that
to do like a greek Is to cheat
at cards, but . . .
I also found that n greek was
an irishman. This undoubtedly
will come as a surprise to many.
Or, I found that a Greek is either
(a i An ancient Greek who lived
in Hellenic Greece, or (b) A mod- 1
ern Greek who liven In mode rtf’
Greece. Thin In Illuminating. !
Finally, I found that a Greek
1« a member of a Greek letter '
fraternity (college slang), That's
all. No mention of their being ;
party boy a, discriminators,
amoky-room politicians, or ten- .
nla players.
Now. on to the Independents.
Upon looking this up in Mr.
Webster's, 1 found no reference, !
to word connoting boorishness.
anti-sociability, irresponsibility,
radicalism, poorness, or roll< ,•
skating.
The word Is, however, Inter- *
citing. To Ik* Independent
(a) To Ik- not dependent, (h)
Not subject to the control of
others, or (c) Not relying 011
others.
Hy this definition I guess then*
isn't an "Independent" on tins*
campus. We are using the term to
express something thst doesn't’
exist. Independents. Of what?
Independents arc independent of
nothing.
The term may. though, tune
the |M>lltlc»l implication rhat *
its opposition is not Indepcnd- ~
ent of some Imagined "otitsld:•'• *
controls. Itut that Is neither *
here nor there.
Finally, as a shining (and *
sometimes glaring i example of
Independents who are very much
unindependent, we have a dorml-*
lory hall gone ape.
Gone ape for prestige, publl- •
<dy and a greater glory, this
outfit has bought pledge els •>< s.
elected a queen, bought person
alized beer mugs, and generally .
out-fraternitied any fraternity. •
Kirsch s Boys?
putt
OK, OK, you guy*! I^ct’s quit clowning around with that shot
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