+ EMERALD EDITORIALS +
Congratulations?
Appearing elsew here on this page is a let
ter congratulating the United Independent
Students for their “attempts and good sports
manship" during the recent election cam
paign.
To us. this has a hollow ring.
Should we congratulate them for staging
the most active campaign? Yes.
Should we congratulate them for a sound,
constructive platform ? Yes.
Should we congratulate them for their
tenacity? Well, maybe yes'and maybe no,
probably the latter.
After a while, courageous tenacity and
continued minority opposition begin to
lose their early glitter and begin to appear
pretty silly. We think the Greek-Indepen
dent split, especially the role of UIS in the
split, has come to this point.
The Greeks, better organized and sharing
several common interests, will probably al
ways take six or seven of the senator-at
large seats and all of the class presidencies.
Worse yet is the partially truthful concep
tion that many people have of the purposes
for the party's existence. Whether this con
ception is wholly justified or not is not the
question—it is held by many. It is the idea
that UIS is not an essentially non-Greek
party open to all students, but that it is the
anti-Greek party.
We've discussed the problem with several
UIS members, people who do not share the
anti-Greek feeling but who recognize the
problem. Some UIS members, both past and
present, have harbored feelings of resent
ment toward Greeks and a somewhat militant
feeling of persecution.
People like these have given other peo
ple the idea that UIS is only a party of ne
gation. They also only serve to further
unite the Greeks and divide the Indepen
dents.
We don’t say that this IS the motivation
of UIS—we know-tetter. But the feeling that
the party is only a party of negation does
exist—many see UIS only as anti-Greek.
And as long as that feeling exists, campus
INTERPRETING THE NEWS
Many Nations Jc
New 'Atoms for i
elections are going to run pretty much the
same way.
We don’t know tlie answer—we don’t
know anyone who does. Part of the solution
of a realignment is parties, probably split
around issues, but that isn’t the whole solu
tion.
Given: the fact that there are UIS mem
bers who have the aforementioned feel
ings toward Greeks, and the fact that many
outside of UIS THINK that all of UIS
feels this way; we have what either is or
appears to be a party of negation, and you
only have to read the history of the Whig
party in U.S. history to discover the fate
of such parties.
We’ve got to have a realignment if we
want to have the best possible campus elec
tions and student government—either that
or we re doomed to many more years of one
party domination.
Need Some Books?
How’s your personal library? Could you
use a few more volumes?
If you have the fair beginnings of a li
brary and want to add $25 worth of books
the easy way, why not enter the Univer
sity Library's annual Library Day Prize
contest?
There are four divisions; the undergradu
ate student's general library, the undergradu
ate student's specialized library, and the
same two divisions for “graduate students.
Entries are limited to 50 books, and all
the books must bear some definite mark of
ownership. Nothing is mentioned in the rules
about the condition of the books, but we as
sume that they should be in fair shape.
We hope, however, that prime physical
condition isn't made a major basis of judg
ing—a well worn book is often indicative of
the element we assume the contest is seek
ing—thoughtful reading.
You’ve got a week before entries are
due, so now’s a good time to start prepar
ing.
Incidentally, we're told that students’ per
sonal libraries here, at least as indicated by
the contests over the years, are vastly su
perior to those of the cow college.
>in Snowballing
°eace Movement
BY J. M. ROBERTS
AP News Analyst
The growing number of in
ternational agreements for de
velopment of peaceful uses for
the atom suggests a snowballing
motion toward the atomic future.
The United States has just
signed an agreement to lease
uranium to Turkey and pro
vide the technical assistance
needed for building and opera
ting a reactor there.
This agreement is merely the
first of quite a number expected
to go through soon, a number
which probably will be greatly
increased after this summer’s
conference of experts on the best
ways of exploiting the Eisenhow
er United Nations proposal.
Two smaller nations—Holland
and Norway—already are coop
erating in the operation of a
reactor in Holland.
They and ten other European
nations also are cooperating, un
der the auspices of the United
Nations, in construction of a re
actor in Switzerland as a center
for nuclear research. This plant
is well under way.
Norway announced March 24
that she is working on an
atomic-powered merchant ship
which would demonstrate the
possibilities in the ports of the
world, and a month later Pres
ident Eisenhower announced a
Letters to the Editor
Congratulations
Emerald Editor:
The elections are over and the
ballots have affirmed the win
ner ... Mr. Hinkson. Congrat
ulations, EMERALD, for sup
porting the winner, but how
about a little praise for the
humble efforts of the other
team ? It is probably not proper
to bring old skeletons out of
their closets at this point, yet,
let’s give the U.I.S. party a "pat
on the back” for their attempts
and good sportsmanship during
the election campaigns. Yes, they
did have a good platform, and if
Mr. Hinkson knows his business,
he will utilize many of their
ideas when he plans his 1955-56
program. If the EMERALD
can’t include a congratulatory
remark to the U.I.S. in the edi
torials, I will. Congratulations,
U.I.S. You did a fine job of cam
paigning and even some Greeks
are proud of you.
Gail Monte
A “Greek”
similar project for the United
States.
The United States also is try
ing to develop portable plants
which could be leased or loaned
to power-hungry spots, plants
which might even supply the
power for building other perma
nents plants, or for other indus
trial construction in underdevel
oped areas.
Great Britain has progressed
farther than anyone in the devel
opment and planning of atomic
power plants to fit a particular
economic situation, since she
finds the exploitation of her
coal veins increasingly unecon
omical.
All of this points to something
like a “crash” program to tie
the free world’s health and econ
omy to the atom years before it
has been anticipated.
Ten years ago nuclear fission
meant, to everyone except to
a few researchers, merely a
terrific explosion. Now the use
of isotopes in all sorts of in
dustrial and medical research
is becoming commonplace.
Uranium’s general use for pro
duction of electric, power, while
at the same time continuing to
produce plutonium for other pur
poses, appears to depend only
on decreasing its cost and in
creasing its availability as de
mand decreases the availability
of other sources.
CAMPUS COMMENT
Tradition Time, Or, %
All Girls Get Dunked V
By Sam Fraar
Emerald Columnist
It happens every spring.
And we, in our youthful ma
turity, having so many times
(perhaps three or four) been
through it or seen it, are some
what oblivious and a mite dis
dainful of it all.
It's a trifle crude, you know.
Mi'n chasing girls and all that.
(And half disrobing them before
doing their dirty work.)
Muscled ath
letes (some call
them "toilet
seaters' cm days
like this) scam
per all over the
place - looking
so uncomfort
able on warm
spring days.
Heavy sweaters
and corpulent
women are
meir unaoing .
It'D an old Oregon tradition.
Legalized mayhem. If you please,
with an administration chuckle
and “boys will be boys, you
know." And maybe girls will
be girls.)
Olrle going fe^t first into
Kenton Fool for Nome alleged
Infraction of the rule*. Because,
for some strange reason, neat
week become* n sacred and
honored time, a week ripe with
tradition (doesn’t it swell your
heart f
A million silly rules are
brought from murky placet) And
nobody obeys them. Like all Ore
gon traditions, the whole thing
is a farce. I From alart to stop.)
The Order of the O becomes
honorable enforcers of the rules
like you mustn't tromp on the
Oregon seal and this noble body
punishes you If bad. Or if not
bad. Or if Innocent. Or if a by
stander. Or if you're just around.
And if you are a freshman
girl you're a special kind of
prey. And (lucky you) you won’t
even have to break the rules,
you’ll be dunked for free. Kven
if you are an innocent bystander.
Or just pussing through.
Every Junior Week three
thousand souls walk dim n
Hello Walk without saying one
word. Vet, funny thing, only
freshman girls get dunked.
Two thousand men will smoke
on the old eiunpus. Hut, curious
thing, only frewhmnn girls get
dunked. One thousand fresh
men boys won’t wear their
beanies, but only freshmen
girls get dunked.
And female passers-by. Inno
cent onlookers. And girls that
just happen to be around.
Because, like everything, the
routine gets out of hand. (Boys
will be boys, you know.) And
some spring day (how has it
been avoided this long?) some
human head will be split on the
side of Fenton Pool.
And then it won’t happen ev
ery spring.
Nice Guy
“Oh, my roommate is a nice enough guy—it's just that he's so
(lang big.”
or'ec^or?
jlq
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