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Help!
A cry for help has been issued.
The way things stand right now. it looks
as if one or two people will be setting up
bleachers along the niillrace to accommodate
some 3000 visitors expected for the Canoe
Fete.
Jerry Maxwell, property setup chairman,
and Bob Schooling, general co-chairman of
the Canoe Fete committee, have issued a re
quest for volunteers.
Major problems are two: First, the hon
oraries already have their hands just about
full: and Second, most people apparently
still have the idea that this year’s Fete is
just a trial run on reduced scale—a wrong
idea.
The bleachers are one of many difficult
details in the staging of the pageant. This
year’s Canoe Fete can mean a lot—possibly
a Fete as a permanent part of Junior Week
end, and maybe even a restored Millrace.
How about some help?
Why the Primary?
What good is the ASUO primary?
Look at the slate for this year’s primary—
you wron’t find many contests.
The ASL'O-sponsored primary, however,
is not the disease, it's just a symptom. The
real disease is the so-called party system.
It continues to exist solely on the basis
that it has existed. True, there aren’t many
surface issues around which teal parties
could be built, but there are underlying is
sues if anyone wants to muster the cour
age and energy necessary to bring them
into the open.
We must unearth these issues. Then we
must realign Oregon’s political system. The
two current political nonentities have little,
if any, real basis for existing.
They are drawn on the artificial lines of
Greek and non-Greek. Not that there are not
those who would set these two up as opposed
groups. There are many who see the place
they live and the particular arrangement of
metal and baubles they wear on their shirt as
the basis for social and political action.
But there is evidence that there are think
ing Greeks and thinking independents who
realize that the current alignment is not a
true one any longer, but simply an arbitrary
division.
Bob Funk, one-time splinter candidate
for the ASUO presidency, called attention
to the deadness of AGS and UIS at the
senate-sponsored panel on student govern
ment Thursday night. The Peon Party of
two years ago, for which Funk was stand
ard bearer, shocked arch conservatives,
died-in-the-wool-reactionaries, and non
thinkers.
Not only did it change the political setup
bv its very existence, but it questioned the
holiness of the sacred cow called student
government.
At this paint, however, there is divergence.
In a column last year, Funk lampooned the
closed primary.
We'd like to see it come hack.
Yes, with political deals, smoke-filled
rooms, and closed doors, we d like to see it
come back.
We're not in college to learn about the
evils of the big, nasty outside world, you
say? We agree, to an extent.
But neither are we here to learn a system
so unrealistically idealistic that it is dying
on its feet.
Find some issues. Split around those
issues. Let the parties hold their own pri
maries—you’ll have a lot more candidates,
you’ll see that there ARE some issues, and
you’ll bring new life to student govern
ment in general.
Maybe the primary isn't the basic issue,
but it's a starting point. Worthwhile action
usually follows thought.
This is as good a place as any to start think
ing.
Footnotes
By its action Thursday night, the ASUO
senate has kept automation out of the upper
reaches of the SU—no automatic player for
the chimes.
* * *
From the looks of things the rain (or, as
the Oregonian puts it, Jupe Pluvius) will
play an important part in the Northern Divi
sion baseball race once again.
* * *
Quote of the week : (from a member of the
audience at last week’s ASUO senate panel)
“Let's bring dirty politics back.”
INTERPRETING THE NEWS
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Several Changes Announced
In Latest Austrian Treaty Draft
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Reports reaching Vienna and
London from Western informants
Friday said the Russians have,
agreed to several changes in the
1949 draft of the Austrian Peace
treaty.
Announcement that Russia has
agreed to sign an independence
state treaty ending the 10-year
occupation of Austria was made
Friday by Deputy Austrian
Chancellor Adolf Schaerf.
The major changes follow:
1. Substantial renunciation of
Russia’s oil claims. Austria’s
Zistersdorf oilfields in the Sov
. Jet occupation zone are the
Soviet’s second largest source
of oil outside Russia, surpassed
in production only by the Rou
manian fields. Last year the
Austrian fields produced 3,300,
000 tons of oil.
Under the draft treaty, Russia
was to have the right to ex
tract 60 per cent of the 1947 pro
duction figure for 20 years. They
also would have controlled 60
per cent of former German drill
ing areas and could have pros
pected new oil wells in these
areas and used their output for
25 years.
Under the new agreement, the
Russians would receive an un
disclosed volume of oil from Aus
tria for six years.
2. Abandonment of Russian
claims to assets of the Dannbe
Steamship Co. in Eastern Aus
tria. Under the draft treaty,
the Austrians would have re
ceived 36 of the company’s
ships, the Korneuburg dock,
part of the Vienna port, store
houses, etc.
The earlier Russian claims
were based on the contention the
shipping company was controlled
3y the Nazis during the German
occupation.
3. Agreement by Moscow to
accept 150 million dollars in
goods as reparations from Aus
tria. The draft treaty would
have made Austria fork up
150 million dollars in cash to
buy back some 300 industrial
enterprises producing 30 per
cent of the Soviet Zone’s indus
trial output.
The severity of the reparations
clause depends on how long the
Austrians will have to ship the
goods Russia wants under the
new agreement. If the period is
short, it would sorely tax Aus
tria's resources.
The Western informants said
Raab’s team appeared to have
met Russian demands on two im
portant points:
1. Guarantees that Austria will
never merge with Germany again
in another anschluss. It was not
immediately clear whether the
Russians reserve the right to
reoccupy Austria if they fear an
anschluss is about to take place.
2. Preservation of Austrian
neutrality in the East-West
cold war. Again it was not
clear whether the Russians re
served the right to intervene
if they consider Austria’s neu
trality Is being violated.
Significance of the Soviet con
cessions in overall East-West
maneuverings is not clear. Some
Western diplomats believe it may
be part of Russia’s scheme to
thwart West German rearma
ment.
— Paid Advorliiemant—
'On Campus
with
Max Qhuimari
(Author of “Dart/oot Boy MifA Chtok," tte.)
THE STUDENT COUNCIL
Today let us investigate a phenomenon of American college
life called the student council. First of all. what is the student
council? The answer is simple: the student council is a council
of students.
Next, what does the student council do? Again the answer is
simple: it meets.
Next, what goes on at the meetings? This question is rather
more complicated than the others. Perhaps it can best be an
swered by reproducing here the minutes of a typical meeting
of a typical student council.
Meeting scheduled for 8:30 p.m. at Student Union Ruilding.
Call to order 9:51 p.m. by llunrath Sigafoos, presiding. Motion
to adjourn made by I^ouis Bicuspid, freshman representative.
Motion ruled out of order by Hunrath Sigafoos, presiding.
Hunrath Sigafoos called "old poop” by Louis Bicuspid, fresh
man representative. Seconded by Delores Whcatgerm, sophomore
representative. Tabled by Hunrath Sigafoos. presiding.
Minutes of last meeting read by Zelda Pope-Toledo, secretary.
Motion to accept minutes made by Hunrath Sigafoos, presiding.
Motion defeated.
Treasurer’s report not read because Rex Mercredi, treasurer,
not present at meeting. Rex Mercredi, treasurer, impeached in
absentia.
Motion made by Ix>uis Bicuspid, freshman representative, to
allow sale of hard liquor in school cafeteria. Seconded by
Delores Wheatgerm, sophomore representative. Motion tabled
by Hunrath Sigafoos, old poop.
Motion made by Booth Fishery, fraternity representative, to
permit parking in library. Motion referred to committee.
Motion made by Gladys Algae, junior representative, to allow
attendance in pajamas and robes at first hour classes. Motion
referred to committee.
Motion made by Klwood Feldspar, athletics representative,
to conduct French Conversation classes in English. Motion
referred to committee.
Motion made by Esme Plankton, sorority representative, to
allow hypnosis during Rush Week. Motion referred to committee.
Motion made by Pierre Clemenceau, foreign exchange student,
to conduct German Conversation classes in French. Motion
referred to committee.
Motion made by Harriet Critter, sg campus representative,
to allow faculty members above the rank of assistant professor
to perform marriages. Motion referred to committee.
Observation made by Martha Involute, senior representative,
that in her four years on student council every motion referred
to committee was never heard of again. Miss Involute was tabled.
Motion made by Louis Bicuspid, freshman representative, to
allow sale of hard liquor in Sociology I and II. Seconded by
Delores Whcatgerm, sophomore representative. Motion tabled
by Hunrath Sigafoos, presiding crossly.
Refreshments served. Coffee, cake, Philip Morris Cigarettes.
The following resolution adopted by acclamation:
"\\ HEREAS Philip Morris is milder, tastier, more exhila
rating, and chock full'of rare rich vintage tobaccos: and
WHEREAS Philip Morris is contained in the patented Snap
Open pack which is the quickest, simplest, neatest container vet
devised for cigarettes; and WHEREAS Philip Morris, the most
commendable of smokes in the most admirable of wrappings,
is available in both king-size and regular; therefore BE IT
RESOLVED that it is the sense of this meeting that Philip
Morris is1 far and away the best cigarette buy on this or any
other campus.”
Meeting adjourned with many a laugh and cheer at 9:58.
Respectfully submitted,
Zelda Pope-Toledo, Secretary
"PMat Hhtilman, J'ilJ
The maker$ of PHILIP MORRIS, who bring mu thin column, more
that today', PH I UP MORRIS i, the bet rrer. We know you'll
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