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Unappreciated Culture
It will be an all-University student pro
gram Thursday night. We are referring to
the annual Creative Arts Workshop, spon
sored by the Student Union board. All of the
material for the workshop was prepared by
students, and all of the participants in the
program are students.
The SU Board is to be congratulated for
providing such an outlet for the display of
Oregon talent. Such a program can and
should do much to encourage the creative
aspects of education on the campus—a de
sirable situation.
There's just one thing: how many students
will be there to appreciate the work of their
classmates? We doubt if there w ill be many,
and it seems rather poor to let all of the ef
fort which has gone into the Workshop go
unappreciated, as is the case with most Uni
versity cultural events.
We don't pretend to know what the solu
tion to the problem of poor attendance at
such events is. Perhaps in this case, the sug
gestion to combine it with the Browsing
Room program next year will help future
programs. But meanwhile, we hope at least
a few students will take the opportunity to
view the work of their fellows Thursday
night. — (S.R.)
Sweet Music
At 7 o'clock this evening, just before the
Creative Arts Workshop program, the Uni
versity’s concert band will hold a “pops’’
concert in the amphitheater cast of the music
school.
Needless to say, the program has been
well planned and includes a variety, of num
bers—everything front a portion of a sym
phony to marches.
We listened to the group practicing the
other afternoon and, to our untrained ears,
it sounded excellent. We particularly enjoyed
one of their selections entitled "La Fiesta
Mexicana." Incidentally, tonight will be the
first time this particular number has been
presented in the Northwest.
\\ ith the outdoor setting and the fine mu
sic, we're sure that students will find this
evening’s concert relaxing and enjovable.
—(V.K.)
Footnotes
OSC gets all the breaks—not only did they
have the Model L X convention on campus,
but also the 42nd annual Oregon Cattlemen’s
Association convention. (Dives the campus
paper something to editorialize on.
INTERPRETING THE NEWS
Red Peaceful Acquisition' Talk
Clears Tense Far Eastern Air
By J. M. ROBERTS
AP News Analyst
Although it represents no fun
damental change in the situation,
Chou En-Lai’s statement that
Red China will move toward ac
quisition of Formosa “by peace
ful means as far as possible"
does tend to ease Far Eastern
tension, at least for the moment.
The Peiping regime is left, of
course, free to determine how
far is possible.
Chou’s emphasis on the atti
tude of the Bandung Confer
ence, however, makes it dear
his latest words are directed
largely to that audience, which
College Capers...
From Coast to Coast
By Elliot Carlson
Emerald Columnist
THE UNIVERSITY OF ORE
GON is not the only school that
is having higher fees imposed
upon its students for the coming
year. Resident students at the
University of Washington have
had their fees hiked $6 for fall
term while non-resident students
Will have to dig up another $31.
A Washington official has
said that the only thing that
could cure their “budgetitis”
is either a winning football
team or increased enrollment.
With W'ashington’s football
team at Minnesota, they’d bet
ter hope for an increased en
rollment. Even though Minne
sota has the ex-Husky quarter
back their fees have also been
raised five per cent.
It’s ironic that if schools did
not subsidize football players
they probably wouldn’t have bud
get trouble. Yet the only answer
to unbalanced budgets are win
ning football teams which can
only be organized by subsidizing
more football players. As a re
sult even with a winning foot
ball team the dilemma continues,
and is frequently enlarged.
* * *
THERE SEEMS TO BE a tide
developing against military
training in colleges. At their re
cent state convention state
Young Democrats passed a reso
lution denouncing ROTC pro
grams in colleges. Now George
Burcham, Associated Peace Sec
retary of the American Friends
Service Committee, spoke at
Stamford University declaring
that apathy demonstrated by
Stanford students on UMT is
typical of all colleges.
He attributed the lack of
interest to a basic American
drive to conform which has
built up from fear of Russian
Communism, and from the 14
year Selective Service program
—“military training which
has destroyed, in part, our will
ingness to be critical.”
Although Burcham said the
military is sincere in its aims,
he charged that the goal of UMT
is an effort to gain control of
the American puoiie.
* *
AN IRATE WASHINGTON
STATE college student wrote a
letter to the editor there pro
testing to the “bitter, black,
horrible . . . mud flow” to be
found at the WSC version of the
cellar.
The perturbed student con
tinued that “nothing he had ever
found in the whole United States
and the army” compared to that
coffee.
It’s obvious that this bumpkin
has never tried the tempting
java served at the Erb.
£ * *
THINGS BEING BANNED
DEPT. The fever of banning re
nowned people from college aud
iences is spreading. First the
U. of W. rejected Oppenheimer
and now Stanford is getting into
the act. Recently when Patti
Waggin, a respectable burles
que dancer, was scheduled to
perform for the Stanford TV
station her appointment was can
celled because she was pro
claimed as "not in keeping with
the dignity of the University."
serves as something of a guar
antee that he will not imme
diately violate them. In other
words. Red China will do a lot
more talking before she com
mits herself militarily.
Even though American policy
as represented by the Seventh
Fleet practically assures no at
tack on Formosa under present
circumstances- because the Reds
know it couldn’t succeed—Chou’s
statement permits continuation
of the current ‘‘feeler’’ operations
in a better atmosphere.
The Chinese Nationalists -and
most observers as well—will see
little in it but guilt. It does, as
they say, represent another ef
fort to set up a Far Eastern
Munich. It does tend to shift the
burden for further approaches to
negotiation to the United States.
Chou, with a wily turn of
phrase, says negotiations are
‘‘daily becoming the unanimous
demand” of nations and peoples
who want to see peace. That
comes only a few days after
President Eisenhower's reference
to a similar demand for Big Four
negotiations over Europe.
The statement completely fails
to meet the recent British re
quest that Chou enlarge upon his
Bandung suggestion for negotia
tions with the United States. He
merely adds “alternate” ways,
without specification, to the orig
inal Communist suggestion,
made by Russia, that a 10-nation
conference be held. Most of the
other phraseology follows closely
that of his Bandung announce
ment.
Red China, like the United
States, continues to avoid com
mitments about Quemoy and
Matsu, the offshore islands
which were recently a focal
point for a wordy hassle in the
United States as to whether
they should be included in
America’s firm determination
to defend Formosa.
As the days pass, however,—
and it has now become a month
since some people expected a
crisis—the Red buildup on the
adjacent mainland which set off
the excitement appears to have
been designed more to bolster
Peiping’s diplomatic hand than
as an immediate military threat.
A DAY AT THE ZOO
Formal Education
And Gay Springtime
Are Not Compatible
By Bob Funk
Emerald Columniit
He was sitting in the class
room. listening to some more
glarp about embryonic pigs. They
had been on embryonic pigs ever
since he could remember. They
did not remind him of sex or
T-bone steaks or strong drink
or money from home. In other
words, he was not interested in
them.
How the hell did I ever get in
side this classroom; that Is the
question. He was not getting
into very ninny
classrooms this
term. His con
icience spent
nost of its time
ioing strength
ening calisthen
cs, but even so
t was never
nuscular
.‘nough to get
he rest of him
ip in the morn
ng. And then,
in the afternoon: will, you .sim
ply could not waste your after
noon going to class. It was the
Code of the Quad. When the sun
shines, so does primrose path to
dalliance.
“...will i»e on this lust mid
term we’re having a week from
Wednesday,” the professor wus
saying. I may have completely
peeled away due to sunburn
by a week from Wednesday,
he thought. Or maybe MUM
will have asked me to eome to
Hollywood to kiss Marilyn
•Monroe seventeen times In sev
enteen different plaees in a
movie called “Escape from
Oregon.”
The girl next to him bothered
him. She was wearing one of
those dresses which make damn
ed good and sure that in the
spring the young man’s fancy
lightly turns to thoughts of love.
He wondered what would hap
pen if he suggested that they
leave this den of crass education
and spend the rest of the after
noon drinking mixed drinks on
the terrace of the SU. He imag
ined that she would say no. She
looked like she was probably go
ing with a football player who
weighed 300 pounds and thump'd
anyone who approached his gii|
into hie own particular brand
ol tomato aspic. Still, that was
a very nice dress.
He seemed to be sliding lower
into his seat; at least, he had
been sitting in it, originally, and
now his shoulderblades were rest
ing on the place he had been sit
ting. Visibility of the professor
was very poor, but he could still
catch a word now and then about
embryonic pigs.
This little j.ig went to mar
ket; this little pig; and then he
was asleep, moaning slightiy.
There was a thunderous stir, and
he realized that the bell had
rung. He got up from his semi
prone position only to be hit in
lh< kisser by n swish of his
depart ing neighbor's crinoline.
He looked at hi* notes; May IS,
i he notes said. More about those
slimey pigs. And then there was
a big blank space that had two
little inked-in doodles and JAN'K
in large, tastefully conceived
letters. Then there were the lines
from a poem the rest of which he
would never write "since some
EE-rotic tulip got stoned on a
Julep and eloped with a sweet
talking bee."
He walked out of the class
room and Into the sunshine,
there was nothing out there
hut more girls In more of those
dresses, and a long line of cars
heading up the river. How bor
ing. he thought. How mun
dane. How ran 1 kid myself
so much. Answer; it's because
you’re such a clever dawg,
boy.
Two ladies that looked like
they were getting their fifteenth
PhDs in marriage and the fam
ily walked by. "And she had the
loveliest chicken salad, with
those new blue pottery plates and
it was really very attractive.'•
The other lady smiled apprecia
tively. He thought one last fleet
ing thought about embryonic
pigs, and then began following
a group of three particularly well
starched crinolines to the stu
dent union.
It is a mistake, he thought, to
try to get a formal education in
the spring.
Wage Question Arises
By Rowland Evans, Jr.
WASHINGTON IAP)-A re
ported squabble within the Eisen
hower administration over mini
mum wage proposals broke into
the open Wednesday when the La
bor Department refused to recom
mend that specific new groups of
workers be included within the
minimum wage law.
Sen. Douglas. D-Ill., chairman
of a Senate labor subcommittee,
charged the administration with
"an attempt to weasel out" of
what he called its previous recom
mendation that protection of the
wage floor be extended to more
than two million retail and whole
sale workers.
Stuart Rothman, acting wage
hour administrator, told the sub
committee the Labor Department
was not specifically recommend
ing expanded coverage to the two
million workers.
He said it simply was asking
that Congress “seriously consider”
whether the minimum wage
should not be extended to them in
addition to the 2\ million already
covered, and was proposing a
boost in the minimum, now 75
cents an hour, to »0 cents.
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