+ EMERALD EDITORIALS + 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 “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- • < 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 '"5 u"*‘>n Waily Emerald is published five days a week during the school v*ar t examinamm and vacation periods, i,y the Student Publication., Hoard of the r,mn.r <1 Oregon. Entered as second class matter at the post office, Eugene. Oregon. Subscription rates. 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