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+ EMERALD EDITORIALS + On Rabble Rousing There has been considerable talk (among those who are interested) about just what student government can do and what it can’t do. where it can go and where it can't go. The thesis has been advanced that the reason there are no issues is because things are going so well, or as a member of last week's panel on student apathy put it, . . the ship is sailing in a pretty even keel.” Is that really the answer, or did another panel member hit it when he said. “... We’re afraid of politics at Oregon.” Donald DuShane, director of student af fairs and tire ASUO’s adviser, said at the con clusion of the same panel that the senates of recent years have been “too intelligent” to act in a “rabble rousing" way. Heat and light are proportional, he said. The amount of light shed will often decrease as the amount of heat generated increases. This is fine. But when the amount of heat decreases to the point that student interest sinks to its present low level, isn’t something wrong? There are a couple of things the senate could and should investigate. It might be suggested that these things are in the "hin terland” between student jurisdiction and faculty jurisdiction. We don’t think so. Some of the student leaders don’t think so. It’s been suggested that student gov ernment has enough working space—that expansion must be horizontal rather than vertical. We’ll go along with this, but our suggestions are for the areas open to stu dents. First, has any student group undertaken an investigation and evaluation of the de ferred living program. It isn’t the dead issue many of us think it is. Does the freshman owe primary allegiance to his dorm or to the fra ternity he’s pledged? This is one unanswered question. There’s an answer in the book, but is it be ing followed? Along with this is the counseling program. How well are freshmen in the dormitories being integrated into the life of the Univer sity? But if the investigators run into the fatherly pat on the back and the advice that everything is just fine and subsequently abandon the evaluation, investigation, if you please—then forget it. Secondly, is Oregon’s “pigging” system, with the separation of the sexes at athletic contests a practical, workable idea. We don’t think so, but it’s not for us to say. That’s what we have student government for. Again, if the investigators meet the brick wall of silent assurance, they should work all the harder. We’re beginning to paint a picture of an athletic department, faculty, and administra tion staffed by ogres. This isn’t our intention. When they say that everything is just fine, this isn’t our problem they might be right. One thing we’ve learned not to ques tion is a person’s sincerity. We’ve suggested two issues, though, and there are more. Let’s stop looking for things to do, stop evaluating ourselves, and get to work. These are areas where “rabble rousing” and honest action may appear to some to be one in the same. We prefer to call it the latter —we believe it is the latter. Whose Ore-Nter? Remember the little booklet about Oregon that you got in the mail or were given during Orientation W eek before you entered the University? , The little booklet, called the Ore-Nter, purports to be published by the Associated Students and the ( MYice of Student Affairs of the University of Oregon. - Rut it’s time credit be given where credit is due. In reality the booklet is published, or at least financed, by the pledges of Oregon's 21 fraternities and 16 sororities. Each person who goes through rushing pays a five dollar rushing fee. For each man who goes through rushing, one dollar re verts to the Inter-fraternity council and for each woman, one dollar goes to Panhel lenic. In addition, Panhellenic receives an additional dollar for each woman who pledges. The rest goes toward a fund known as the ‘‘Pre-freshman Week Account,” a separate account which dates back to the days of Dean Virgil D. Earl and the days when rush week was held before the first week of school. Then a-^ now, the rushees supported Orien tation week. The fund also -erves as a reserve for con tingencies for the I EC and Panhellenic. It has. in the past, been used for such thing-, as furniture and curtains for Mac Court (in the days before the Student Union was around and all-campus dances were held in the pa vilion). In the words of Donald DuShane, the account is used “to do things in the line of promoting the Univessity which could not be done otherwise.” (Meaning that the state doesn’t allow funds for strictly pro motional activities.) We hope the ASUO senate will see fit to see that proper credit is given, even just a credit line, or maybe it will even see fit to chip in for the Ore-Xter. Footnotes There’s a reason, we’re told, for the closing of that middle door on the east side of the SU, The hinges are broken and new ones have to be custom made. They’re the fancy kind—invisible or some such thing. INTERPRETING THE NEWS Scientists Not Likely to Find Thing That Made Einstein Great By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst So the scientists are going to pick the brain of Albert Einstein once more to see if it can add some last bits of their store of knowledge of the forces among which man lives. What can they find? Perhaps certain small con formities slightly different in a brain which spent its life thinking as compared with those which spend their lives contemplating pleasure or the more active Impulses? But will they be able to find the cells which provided the pan oramic screen on which other cells projected the picture of the universe ? Will they be able to tell why the center of logic was so much more active in this brain than in those of the milliins of ether men who lived during its life? Will they be able to tell which muscles and which nerves and which cells put that look of brooding compassion into the man's eyes? Will they be able to find the dividing line between the cells which were so coldly mathema tical, and those which made the man seek and gain a place of warmth amid all humanity? These things they will not find. For man is not merely electricity and cells and nerves and flesh and hone. Why one is endowed as others are not is a mystery upon which Einstein himself gave up. If one could be reconstructed from his com ponent parts, we could recreate another Einstein in a very few tomorrows. But there would be one element acking, one which cannot be measured even by the equations •hat measure the parts of a oroken atom. Man may seek, but t is doubtful if he will ever find •hat element in the books of sci ence. A DAY AT THE ZOO Custer, Indians Meet At Black Belch Gulch By Bob Funk tm«r«M Columnist THE SCENE: the new wide screen of a local theater, upon which has been projected the town of Black Belch Gulch. Black Belch Gulch is distinguish able from other western towns chiefly by the fact that It was not filmed for the wide screen, and the heads and feet of all Its inhabitants disappear mysteri ously into the darkness. As the director's name, tastefully writ ten in bloodstains, fades from the screen, the tinkle of piano music can be heard, and the cam era approaches the Restless Trig ger bar, within which is DISOOVI?REP, Sorghum-June Bulgeflipper, graduate in soci ology. Columbia, '49, woman of the street, and bartunger. M Iss Bulgeflipper is singing a sari song. as is her won’t, when In wanders Rotten Dan the fast Iraw Man. "Rotten Dan," Sorghum -June says, "I don't want no trouble in Here. I run a clean, respectable bar with an ‘‘A” certificate. I am actually a pure, large-heart ed lady who runs a gambling joint oniy to swell my contribu tion to the Community Cheat. Piease Go.” Rotten Dan, after spitting ten tatively on Sorghum-June's shoe, laughs sarcastically and leans hie levf-encased carcass against the bar. "Keep on Hingin',’’ he says, “before I shoot you through the haid.” At this point a bar tender nervously hands Rotten Dan the fast-draw man a bottle of iced tea. Rotten Dan pouts a straight shot Into a drinking glass, quaffs it. spits, shoots the bartender, laughs sarcastically, and then chews up the glass, crunch-cjunch-crunch. "Rotten Dan,’’ says Sorghum June, pouring him a new drink in a new glass, "what are all youse good guys gonna do about all the nesters and sheep men and crooked lawyers, etc." She is obviously Dying to speed up the exposition of the plot. “I was jes thinking ” "That's the trouble!” she spits out savagely, "always drinkin’ and stinkin' and thinkin’, never doin’ and shooin’ and booin'." “Ah’m a dispossessed plan tation owner from the old Swhth, ma'm,” says Rotten Dan, “and although there, are but few'vestiges of the gen tleman what was, I, pardon me, ah, allu-/. thinks before I, nil. plugs some Mucker In the belly-button.” "What wo need," says Snr ghum-June, winking significant !y Into the camera, ''In a plan," At this point the camera shifts to the swinging doora, and Jo and behold. DISCOVERED. Hev erly, a renegade sheep-dog, in the process of entering. "Who'all'a that?" aaka Rot ten Dan. "That'a Beverly, 8hc waa a dog for the sheep men, but they kept dumping her Into the sheep, dip. until even the aheep got confused and a romantic aheep named Pagan Scimitar out of Thelma by the new freeway be gan making passes at her. Then she quit and came over to ua cow people,” This is a rather long speech, during which Beverly ap proaches the faro table and be gins betting wildly. Juat then Sheepman Bertie enters peacefully, accompanied by children of nesters, ministers, old gi andmothers, and the Ras ter Rabbit. They all go to the bar and down strong drinka. "Now," aaya Sheepman Ber tie, "draw Kotlen Dan, you ol' cow man!" "He ain't got no gun!" Sor ghum-June protests. "He's so brave he don't carry one.” Sheepman Bertie laughs hide ously and belts Rotten Dan one in the stomach. The piano begins playing, ami Rotten Dan sings: "Too can w hup me till I I idler if you like that kind of fun. But a row man's m wr yelter though he's caught without a gun. Vou can smash me in the i ( ontinMfd os pai/s ictvn ) ! LETTERS i ! TO THE EDITOR • Shaggy Bear Story Km*-raid Editor: Thought you might be inter ested in an inter-cam pun news item: Seem* that farmers n**ai Pei ping have heen losing chicken*. Only clue: fool prints about the size of a small boy's feet. Farm ers appealed for help to the Uni versity of Peiping. Students dug p large pit in the path to one of the largest chicken coops, and made a cage of taakwood cut on the farm of a Mr Chan. That night, they caught a large bear with small feet. Farmer* aie happy now that the students have succeeded in capturing the boy-foot bear with teak of Chan, Name Withheld by Request. (Ed. Note: We'd have our names withheld, too. i otrec^om let PiCCGLO Th<- Oregon Daily Emerald is published five days a weel< during the school year except examination and vacation periods, by the Student Publication* Hoard of the I Inivernty <f ttregon. Entered as aecond class matter at the post office, Eugene. Oregon. Subscription rates: $5 per school year; *2 a te4m. Opinions expressed on the editorial pages are those of the writer anil do not pretend to represent the opinions of the ASUO or the I'm.ersity. Cnsigned editorial, are wntten by the editor, initialed editorials by memlters of the editorial board, JERRY' HARRELL, Editor DONNA Rl’N'IlERG, Business' Manager . _DICK LEWIS, SAl.I.'i Ki.VN, Associate Editors PA 1,1 KEKFE, Managing Editor GORDON RICE, News Editor I'll.! M A I \\V A RI NG, Advo ti dug Manager ____~ _ XA.nTv SHAW, Office Manager JERRY CtAOSSEK, CHUCK ,\l ITf'HEl.MORE, Co-Sports Editors f’.i i Keeic, Dick Lewis, Gordon Rice, Jackie EDITORIAL BOARD: Jerry Harrell Wardt-ll Rice, Sally Ryan. i mu >1 aseitp cantor: ham \ ahey Ass’t Managing Editors: Valerie Hersh, Dorothy Her. Ass’t News Editors: Mary Alice Allen, ( arol Craig, Anne Hill, Anne Ritchey, Bob Robinson Feature Editor: Dave Sherman Morgue Editor: Kathy Morrison Women’s Rage Co Editors: Sally Jo Greig, Marcia Mauney Ass't Sports Editor: Buzz Nelson Nitt’l. Adv. Mgr.: I.aura Morris < irculatioti Mgr.: Kick Hayden Office Mgr.: Ann Haakkoncn < la-sitied Adv.: Patricia Donovan f o-Eayout Mgr*.: Jon Wright and Dick Executive Secretary: Heverly I.arnica A •■'«. Adv. Mgr.: Evelyn Nelson Photography Editor: Dale Turner .Managing Assistant: Sanford Milkes
