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BILL M AlN WAR I NC. Editor MJHhi IA M E 1 EK. ItuMtir*' .\lana|rrr
MARCIA MAUNEY, Editorial Page Editor CHUCK MITCIIHUMORE. Managing Editor KEN' N1 KHANS. Adv. Mgr.
SALLY JO GREIG, SAM VAHEY, Associate Editors CORNELIA EOi’.LE, Nrvi» Editor
Better Late than Never, We Resolve
• • •
Those too absorbed in vacationing before
New Year's Day missed out on traditional
resolution-making. Included in this com
pany was The Emerald, which with, a
“better late than never” spirit today uses
the resolution season as an excuse to sound
off upon the future.
• Millrace development progress must
continue. We eagerly await contract ap
proval by the Eugene City Council, which
would then leave nothing but $20,000 on
our part as a barrier to the goal.
The $20,000, about one-third of which
has already been raised, would pay half the
cost of clearing the channel and of a pump
ing station which would greatly increase
the water flow, particularly on the upper
’Race. The nearly $7,000 already contrib
uted by students is a fine beginning, and
the present student leadership shows every
indication of pushing the campaign to a
successful conclusion.
• Higher education in Oregon must he
granted more money when the legislature
convenes in Salem next week. And first
priority must go to raising professor's sal
aries if the state is to continue offering
its -youth quality education.
The legislature will be faced by a request
from higher education for a 44 per cent in
crease in funds during the next two years.
Increase in enrollment requires more build
ings and larger teaching staffs. And these
larger faculties must be paid higher salaries
if Oregon is to hold its present men and
compete with other states in the race for the
best talent available.
The legislature faced with a 44 per cent
increase, while meeting rising costs in every
other state department, has the alternative
of either refusing many requests or else
raising taxes. The political danger of raising
taxes being what it is, something is going
to have to give.
• Limited enrollment is The Emerald’s
preference to partially meet this crisis in
higher education. We favor such a move
both as a matter of principle and of finan
cial necessity. While limiting enrollment no
more than has been proposed would not cut
costs enough to greatly deflate a $47,000,000
state budget, it would help a little.
We can see no need for the state’s bur
dened taxpayers to subsidize students who
have not the ability to profit by a college
education. Students would be barred only
it they failed to meet both high school grade
and entrance te/t standards.
• The Emerald resolves that members
of junior and senior honoraries should he
given time to do things more important
than peddling lollipops and other miscel
laneous make-work activities. One wotdd
almost think that the honorary members
were among those women on campus look
ing for a chance to get into activities, pre
suming such creatures exist.
Honorary members are selected because
of their past accomplishments. Men's up
perclass honoraries, Druids and Friars, are
just that — honorary. Women's upperclass
honoraries are the victims o/ a system big
ger than themselves; they get sucked into
all kinds of projects that are worthy, hut
most of which could just as w ell be done by
activity-seekers.
• Something must he done about the
parking problem — which at least everyone
admits exists. Professors and off-campus
students are harde-t hit.
We offer no guaranteed solution. A pig
eonhole building over the Fiji lot has been
suggested, but there’s a question of finance.
Should the state be asked for such funds?
Such an item in a proposed budget would
get laughed out of the statehoirse.
Would students be willing to pay the
cost of such a structure, or of some alterna
tive plan? That is very questionable, but so
far no University agency has publicly pre
sented a single proposed solution. It is high
time something is done.
• We'd like to see the twice-beaten pro
posed amendment to the ASLO Constitu
tion passed. We say this not because the
amendment would make black student gov
ernment white, but because it is desirable
and would prove that student leaders could
interest their followers in such matters.
Finally, The Emerald resolves to continue
to do its best to provide the University with
the high grade daily newspaper it deserves.
Note the Change: Soiree No Longer
Throughout winter registration lines
there were curious and excited whispers
of possible Thursday evening Bohemian
living to brighting the coming somber
term. The Student Union calendar of events
had listed intermittent “Soirees.”
To many innocents, the term soiree had
the appealing connotations of checkered
table cloths, low-burning candles and all
else that goes with them.
These same connotations, however, are
the reason for the above paragraphs being
written in the past tense. The name of Soi
ree existed only one day; at which time the
committee in charge thought it advisable
to change the name to the “Sandwich Se
ries,” in order to squelch distorted rumors,
and to check a possible overflowing, attend
ance of misinformed and hopeful curiosity
seekers.
“Sandwich Series” is a more accurate,
though not so enticing, term for the in
formal get-togethers planned as a part of
the Creative Arts committee. The sit-on
floor type programs will be sandwiched be
tween the times of 7 :30 and 8:30 p.m. in op
position to the “duration of the evening,”
as the French dictionary defines soiree.
Sandwiches will also he served instead of
the usual soiree refreshment.
The idea for such programs arose at the
requestvof students interested in contem
porary art, and in becoming acquainted
with other students and faculty with simi
lar concerns. Theme tor winter term is
“Emergence of the Arts,” giving special
attention to drama, poetry and the fine
arts.
The committee welcomes all who would
like to attend for such reasons. The oth
ers?— still welcome, hut with the warning
that it is the “Sandwich Series,” not a Soi
ree.
Moral: The “Sandwich Series” offers a
fine opportunity for casual chatting and ex
change of ideas on contemporary art, hut
Soirees must still be confined to the unor
ganized activities of Friday and Saturday
nights. (S.J.G.)
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Students Questioned
Good Job by Colleges?'
Subject of Recent Poll
MINNEAPOLIS (ACPt Ed
ucators, politicians, pari-nta
and many other Interested in
dividuals have discussed the
kind of a job colleges are do
ing in educating the youth of
this nation for the future Much
of the argument concerns the
perennial issue of liberal vs
narrow, intensified study. Me
thods of teaching also come in
for praise and criticism.
In order to get the collegiate
slant on this issue Associated
Collegiate Press asked the fol
lowing question of a lepresen
tative national cross-section of
college students:
IJo you feel that your col
lege Is doing an adequate job
of preparing you for jour
future life?
The results:
Met! Women Total
Ves 72% *K% 14%
No 15% I ;»% 13%
Undecided 13% 7% 11 %
In general, college students
overwhelmingly support the
kind of a job their present col
leges are doing. When asked
reasons for their decisions,
most students reply in terms
of their own individual situa
tion, saying they are satisfied
with their choice of programs,
etc.
One comment however, is re
peated a number of times, and
a Wake Forest college (Wins
ton-Salem, N.C.) senior coed
expresses it quite well: "Ade
quate preparation depends more
on the person than the college."
And a freshman at the Univer
sity of Wyoming (Laramie)
puts it this way: "What you*
put in is directly equal to what
you get back."
A very satisfied sophomore
attending Mississippi college
(Clinton) lias this to say:
“I'm getting an all-around
education and am griming
mentally, spiritually, physi
cally and socially." Hut a
sophomore at Tylfer .Junior
college (Tyler, Tex.) stales:
“Scholastically yes; mentally
and spiritually no.”
A University of Denver soph
omore qualifies by approving
the overall job colleges are do
ing but comments that “some
majors are sometimes too con
fining in scope," while a fresh*
man at the same school can
find nothing wrong: "The Uni
versity of Denver is definitely a
wonderful institution, and the
instruction received here may
be considered a* excellent.”
With student* who feel their
college* are not doing an adc
quale job the major complaint
in an overabundance of petty
detail* and unrealistic academe
approaches to Idea* and prob
lems. "They burden you with
too many extra courea you don't
need” in the way on Ohio uni
versity (Athens) junior expres
ses himself, and a Wake Forest
college senior states: "1 think
the college program Is unreal
istic because it Is too concerned
with details that will never
make any difference.”
A Maryland university
(College I’ark) senior feds
that colleges should offer
more "chances for experi
ence” and take more "Inter
est in the students." \n«l a
senior at the Rochester Insti
tute of Technology (lUa-hes
ter, N.Y.) Iieltrves that in
some instance* the “calll*er
of Instruction and the courses
do not have many things in
common with preparation f •
I lie future.”
"Right now I don't feel as
though I'm prepared for a
thing" is the quizzical reply of
a University of Maryland soph
omore. And a freshman cued at
Wake Forest college is worried
because her institution doesn't
"offer adequate preparation for
married life.”
Some students undecided on
the issue feel the pros and cons
equate each other, or as a jun
ior coed at Syracuse university
(Syracuse, N.Y.) puts it:
“. . . adequate in certain phases
not at all in others.”
But jn general, undecided
students believe they Just don't
have enough information avail
able in order to make a deci
sion. But when asked the ques
tion a sophomore at Juniata
college (Huntingdon, 1’a.)
states: "I'll Ull you in about
15 years.”
Zampus Capers
“Posture is a dead giveaway
of your own personal opinion
of yourself,” said the professor
of physical education at Sou
thern Cal. "The person who
feels an honest pride in him
self . . . stands straight and
looks the world in the eye.”