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Vote?
It's election day—the day the Emerald
should write an impassioned plea for all
voters to get out and vote.
It’s hard, however, to get really excited
over a primary in which there are only four
real contests.
The AGS races for senator-at-large,
sophomore and senior class president, and
sophomore representative are the notable
exceptions on an otherwise rather empty
slate.
We wonder what is basically wrong with
a so-called student body (in this case, dead
body) in which only two of 4000 even have ji
desire to he student body president.
Sure, the two candidates we already have
are both good candidates, and they could
probably survive the primary against heavv
odds—hut you can’t tell.
Both candidates, in their preliminary state
ments. have more or less debunked the idea
that there aren't any issues. But mavbe they
are the only two who want to take the time
to look around for things that could be done.
You'd think that more people would run
for office just for the glory. The rest of the
classes could learn something from the fresh
man class. Look at the number of freshmen
running for office. Regardless of their mo
tives, at least they're trving.
In spite of all this, it’s the duty of think
ing people to vote. Participation is what
makes democracy work. It’s also participa
tion on which student government will
stand or fall.
We're waiting for the general election for
a real contest and for the usual excitement
which accompanies an election.
But we’ll be at the polls today.
Will You ?
Questions n’Answers
Q. What is the purpose of Duck Pre
view Weekend?
A. To rush high school seniors: (a) for the
University, and (b) for the fraternities and
sororities. Since these prospective students
must first come to Eugene before thev can
join a house, rushing for the University dur
ing Duclf Preview seems to take obvious
preference.
Q. Why is this bad?
A. 1. Because most high school seniors get
just this one glimpse of college life. They
have no perspective; no way of properly
evaluating what they see. If the party and
drinking element of college is stressed, the
visitors will have no choice hut to accept
what they see as college life at Oregon.
2. Easily impressed, high school seniors
will return home with glowing tales of “party
time" at Oregon. Teachers, friends and par
ents will he assured that “It’s true, Oregon is
primarily a country club." Oregon’s excellent
academic facilities w ill be glossed over and
de-emphasized.
Q. What is the poorest way to rush our
school ?
A. By enticing Oregon’s visitors on par
ties. picnics, etc., where drinking is given top
billing.
Q. But suppose the high school seniors
like to drink and party; suppose that’s
what they came for?
A. \o doubt most high school seniors
would jump at the opportunitv to go on a
college drinking party. They would probably
have a good time and go away extremely im
pressed.
But is this the impression we want to
make? It costs four years of life and any
where from $4XXX) to .SN.OOO to go through
college. During hi- college stay the student
must pick up the tools to compete success
fully in a society bulging with similarlv
equipped college graduates.
Considering the great investment in time,
money and future, how many high school
seniors (and their parents) are going to se
lect a school on the basis of its great parties?
Mightn’t this superficial party emphasis tend
rather to drive students away?
Q. How bad is the drinking problem dur
ing Duck Preview?
A. In terms of numbers the problem isn't
bad. Most fraternities do a prettv good job
of following the rules. But it only take-, a
few organized drinking parties to spread the
word and keep Oregon’s party reputation
alive. z
Q. What should be done?
A. For one weekend it seems like we could
knock off the drinking and try to impress our
young guests with some of the more solid
offerings of our University. These kids have
a four year investment to make. Let’s give
them concrete reasons for investing in Ore
gon.—*(D.L.)
IHTEBPBETING THE NEWS
Einstein's Own Quiet Remark
Provides Comment on His Life
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associate Press News Analyst
Every time a great intellect is
removed from the world one won
ders when and how it can be re
placed.
A man like Albert Einstein,
capable of setting up and solving
problems which the average man
does not even know exist, soon
becomes a fetish. Men worship
him almost without knowing
why.
They merely recognize that
here is something beyond them,
-something valuable, sometime
awesome, something to be
cherished protected, and left
free to operate in its own
unique way.
. For many years the world at
large, though accepting the
world of scientists that Einstein
was a very great man who had
produced scientific equations
which would lead to a vastly im
proved understanding of the
forces with which man lives,
never understood how anything
practical could come of it.
He had added that strange
thing, time, to the length,
breadth and width by which man
was accustomed to measure mat
ter. In doing so, he discovered
that tiny particles of matter
could produce vast quantities of
energy, and he provided some of
the equations from which other
men progressed to the harness
ing of atomic energy.
Yet, 20 years after his major
discoveries regarding relativity
he said few men understood it,
and fewer knew howr to work
with it. It was 14 years before
scientific observations even
confirmed what he had worked
out in his head.
Despite this ability to solve
problems which had confused
and misled scientists for centur
ies, he was an extremely human
man, looking when relaxed much
like a mustachioed cherub.
He could turn from his studies
of the infinite to do simple sums
for neighbors, and always ex
pressed a broad streak of social
awareness.
It was this penchant which
finally began to raise questions
among his admirers as to wheth
er mathematics, even though
considered the basis of all logic,
might in itself be insufficient
preparation for adventures into
social philosophy.
At d time when communism
had become anathema in the
United States, the famous
scientist pursued his personal
ideas to a point which made
him suspect among rightists
and even among some liberals.
His appeal for the lives of the
spying Rosenbergs took him com
pletely out of the field where he
was an expert, into an arena
where he was ill-equipped to de
fend his motives. The general
verdict was that he had carried
his humanitarianism a bit far,
and those who knew him con
tinued to love him as ever.
He once said, quietly and with
out rancor or sadness, “They
didn’t understand me in the be
ginning and they won’t under
stand me in the end.’’
College Capers...
From Coast to Coast
By ELLIOT CARLSON
Kmc raid Columnist
ALTHOUGH OREGON may
have a liberal assembly policy.
mtoh school* as Stanford, Min
nesota, and the University of
Washington have taken great
strides in the quest to hear both
sides of controversial issues.
Instead of scheduling re
nowned men with little to say,
much h-ss an ability to say it.
they huve brought to their
campus political and social ex
tremists who enjoy spenklng
to campus discussion groups.
Minnesota and Washington
have recently heard Socialist Leo
Huberman speak in debate with
a professor. The result has been
a drop in student apathy which
often accompanies assemblies.
Stanford has gone a step far
ther by booking 11 editors of
Russian student and youth news
papers when they tour the United
States this month and next.
• • •
A UNIVERSITY OK MINNE
SOTA professor of law who
doubles as a politician has intro
duced a bill into the House of
Representatives banning "ob
scene" literature.
The bill, intended primarily
for books, would bring the
questioned Isioks la-fore dis
trict courts and provides a
gross misdeamenor penalty for
dealers who knowingly sell
items rilled “obscene.”
It will be interesting to note
whether or not student opinion
accepts this infringement on
their right to know remember
the Merry Men at Indiana who
demanded the return of ‘'Robin
Hood" after tt had been banned
from the library as "commu
nistic."
* « •
INMATES OK VETS’ Dorms
will be happy to learn that a
worse dormitory exists. A girl
living in a dormitory on the St.
Paul campus recently killed 20
mice in two days.
\nether girl there complain
ed of bugs a quarter of an inch
to an Inch long that eat hole*
In her dresses. Still another
girl said the uash tubs are too
corroded to wash nylons In
and are often clogged.
Living conditions far men are
so poor that only one study desk
is provided for every two men.
The men at Vets' Dorm can
now count their blesaings even
though they can still be counted
on one hand.
* • •
UCLA STUDENTS have in
augurated a le w Idea foi taising
school funds. A large group of
resourceful fe’ans rolled up
their sleeves one day and pro
ceeded to wash car windshields
in student lots.
Students were posted at the
exits to solicit donations as the
owners left. They were expected
to wash a total of 4000 wind
shields with all proceed* going
lo the student body treasury.
Too laid the rain eliminates
that possibility here.
Midterms
r
“Well, we W KICK going out tonight, Imt Gordon gave three
lousy tests today and forgot this was hallo ween night.”
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