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A Source of Faith
Religion has become “intellectually respec
tive” again.
We had suspected it lor some time, and
that’s what Time magazine reports in the
Nov. 21 issue. Reporters found that students
across the nation are showing a new interest
in and enthusiasm for religion in a search for
answers in an area that earlier students
scorned.
The magazine called this return to religion
a “revolt against a revolt." Observers say
that this generation is discarding the icono
elasm of yesterday—an iconoclasm which
had become almost an orthodoxy of its own.
One of the things that Time noted—and
one which we have discovered in talking to
several other students—is the preoccupation
of students with “finding themselves.” They
seem to feel the need for a religious faith.
Perhaps this is a result of the tenuous times
in which today’s students have lived. There
has been no real peace in the world since most
of us were born, so we must seek peace else
where. It seems only natural to turn to re
ligion.
It may be just an illusion, but it seems as if
there are more students in church Sundays,
and more taking part in special religious-ob
servances. Some of the local churches have
student chaplains, whose primary concern is
for the University student. The man in the
clerical clothes has become a common figure
to the Student Union as he holds casual con
ferences with students. Mention should also
be made of the interest in RE week, which is
still months away.
One of the best evidences of religious con
cern we have seen on campus has been that
presented by several of Oregon’s more promi
nent students. If these leaders express a con
cern for the religious welfare of the students,
then we may well assume that such concern
is more widely spread.
All of us, whatever our beliefs, have faith
of some sort. Perhaps that belief is in our
selves, or in our nation, or in the more secular
things of this life. That is why we were inter
ested in Time’s article, which pointed to a
grow ing greater belief.
And that is why on campus after campus
across the nation our religious heritage,
which has been rather neglected in the cul
tural history of the United States, is being
looked to as a source of faith for living in
today’s wrorld.—(S.R.)
Sweet Triumph
Another Homecoming has come and gone
but still the memories linger on. That is the
way it ahvays happens. So many exciting
things happen on this one weekend each year
that something is bound to take place which
will implant itself in the students’ mind for
years to come.
This year there is no doubt what that one
thing will be. Oregon’s 28-0 football victory
over the supposedly mighty Beavers stands
head and shoulders above everything else.
Thousands of words have already been writ
ten about the game but we think we can sum
“The
it up pretty well with six words —
Ducks were just plain magnificent."
It would be a slight to the other players
to try to single any certain performers out
for acclaim. This Homecoming game was
just a case of Leu Casanova’s team putting
everything they had into a determined team
effort. And it paid big dividends.
An ironic point about the Oregon victory
comes to mind when other Duck-Beaver
clashes in recent years are recalled. Oh. how
well we remember trudging out to the -ta
dium to see our favored Ducks take on the
underdog Orangemen. And we remember
even more vividly how bitter we felt as we
left the stands completely stunned bv an
OSC win.
But this year the shoe was on the other
foot. Oregon State came to Eugene as the
favorite and with still an outside chance of
getting the conference championship. And
this makes the Oregon triumph even sweeter.
It is indeed ample revenge for those many
upsets in the past.
And before we stop writing we just have
to ask a question of those persons who
hanged "Cas" in effigy last Monday. Don’t
you feel ridiculous?—(B.R.)
Footnotes
On top of everything else this term, our
country cousins up North seem to excell in
blood letting too. In a two-day blood rally in
the Memorial Union ballroom, 848 pints of
blood were collected for Oregon hospitals.
Of course they have an additional motive:
ROTC donors are excused from drill. The
AFROTC donated 247 pints of hlood, the
army, 211, and the navy 58.
* * *
It was Black Friday at the northern branch
last Friday—a day early. In order to rouse
spirits for The Game, a day of silence was de
creed. Men students were to wear black
masks; women, black veils. Even juke boxes
were to be silenced as students contemplated
the game. We wager that they didn’t plan to
make the celebration a two-day affair—as it
must have turned out to be.
* * *
Monday's “hanging” of UO football coach
Len Casanova reminds us of the time the
star fullback on a state prison football team
was paroled two days before their crucial
game of the season. The irate inmates
hanged the parole board in effigy. Or so
goes the story.
* * *
The Civil War game must have really been
important to have society editors covering it
for the papers. The game story byline in the
Eugene Register-Guard Sunday read: By
Dick Strite, Society Editor.
* * *
We like the comment one of the entertain
ers made in the variety show Friday night:
“Remember, Lincoln was shot in the bal
cony.” Never have we seen a more rude audi
ence for Oregon entertainment.
* * *
Results of the recent elections reminds of
a statement Oregon’s junior senator made
when he first went to Washington. Anyone
for a caucus at 808 East 13th?
Letters to the Editor
Emerald Editor:
The presence of so many for
eign students on our campus
.offers us a rare opportunity.
Knowing these intelligent peo
ple, learning of their countries
and its problems, and seeing
world issues through their eyes
is sometimes more valuable
than travel abroad.
How can one get to know
these people? Of course there
are organizations which give
opportunity for becoming bet
ter acquainted with these
friends. But there is another
way. Many of these students
have language problems which
make it difficult for them to
understand lectures, and the
feeling of being among those
who understand well makes
them hesitant to ask ques
tions, especially in large lecture
classes.
As final exams approach, per
haps it would be well to offer
to review the material of cur
courses with these foreign stu
dents so that they may feel free
to ask questions where they
lack understanding. Giving in
formation to another is a good
way to insure we know it our
selves, but best of all, it gives
us a chance to become closer
friends of these guests from
other countries.
J. T. Kirkwood
Graduate in education
'WHEN CQftLH SAID'SUIT UP ’F« T|f EW^ET, HE AIEA/VT—"
INTERPRETING THE NEWS
Allies Escape After
Pretty Thin Skating
By J. M. Roberts
AP Newt Anelytf
One way you look at it. the
Allies have escaped from Ge
neva after skating on some
pretty thin ice.
They went there prepared to
pay Russia handsomely, js-r
haps even dangerously, if she
would really cooperate for
peace.
There was danger in the
Western offer to establish n
serurlty system leaving Ger
many free to chouse her own
course.
There was danger, as Molotov
said, in the American offer of
mutual inspection of military
concentrations In order to in
sure against surprise attack.
A good many people have
wondered if the President and
his secretary of state were not
taking a calculated risk on that
point, in order to impress the
noncommitted people of the
world of America's sincerity in
seeking to avoid war. Russia
was not expected to agree. If
she had, the complications
would have been terrific.
There was danger that the
Eastern European satellites
would find their positions
frozen in a new security ar
rangement recognizing the
entity of the Eastern mili
tary bloc which Russia form
ed in a show of balancing
NATO.
Is it better, then, that there
were no agreements? That the
pipe-dreams entertained by
some since the de&th of Stalin
have been shattered?
There In. of course, only a
feeling of deptcssUm at th>
rot urn to cold war. Hut for
the health of the Wi t. t full
realization of the facta of life
may tar a life-saver.
Some of them- fads are:
The Soviet t'nion In :t de
clared enemy of the West. It
Ih an Ideological as well as
a political enmity. It Is not
subject to compromise as
lonj; a* the promotion of
world roinimmlant Is Mu
cow's chief aim. ,
The Society Union will mal^*
no settlement* except for h*: *
own purposea connected with
this policy of expansion, and
she will keep them only ua long
a a they nerve those purposes.
The Soviet Union intends to
promote her policy by means <>f
disruption of Western affali
as in her campaign to identify
communism with the national
ist aspirations of underdevel
oped, or what .she calls 'Vo
lonial" nations, nnd as in the
<'esc of her current attempt to
infiltrate the Middle East.
The Soviet t'nion. If these
measures fall, is entirely cap
able of resorting to whole
sale war, once her Indus?
trsall/.atlon gives Iter a chance
against the United States, as
It will in the foreseeable fu
ture.
Strength, a determination not
to relax its vigilance, a dogged
pwi.siiit of better economic and
political conditions for the un
derdeveloped countries, and res
ignation to a long-term contest
are the West's only answers.
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