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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1957)
Oregon Daily The Oregon Daily Emerald is published five days a week dur ing the school year, except during examinations and vacation periods, by the Student Publications Hoard of the University ei Oregon. Entered is second class matter at the post office, Eugene, Ore. Subscription: $5 per school year, $2 per term. Opinions rxprrMed on the editorial pane are those of The Kmrrnld and do r»ot pretend to represent the opinion of the ASl’O or the University. Uniigned editorial* air written f»v the editor; initialed editorials by members of the editorial board. HILL MAIN WARING. Editor LORETTA MMfcK, Business Manager MARCIA MAUNEY, Editorial Page Editor CHUCK MITCH ELMORE, Managing Editor KEN NI KHANS, Adv. Mgr. SALLY JO C.RE10, SAM VAHEY. Aasociate Editor* CORNELIA FOOLE. New* Editor JACK WILSON. S[Hirts Editor DOROTHY BARKER. Au’t Adv. Mgr. CHARMION FORD. Office Manager EDITORIAL BOARD: Bill Mainwaring. Marcia Mauncy, Sally Jo C.reig, Sam Vahcy. Chuck Mitchrlmorc. Cornelia Fogle, Jack Wilson, A1 Johnson Chief Make-up Editor: A1 Johnson Ass’t News Editor: Cay Mundorff. Joan Dennis. Nancy Castle. Pepper Alien. Feature Editor Phil Ilaffcr Photo Editor : Brant Ducey Nat’l Adv. Mgr.: Jo Anne Milligan Classified Adv. Mgr.: Arlene Kraus* Women’s Editor: Dorothy West Circulation Mgr.: >am vanry A^t. Sport* Kditors : Jctry Ritn»e>. Jim I-arimorc Exrcutivt Secretary • Pat Holley '—But the Best Is Lost' We know not what death is to the dead, hut to the living it is sorrow. For sorrow, however, there are comforts. The spheres of influence around a man are not as easily claimed by death as is the man himself. Death has taken Bernard Mainwaring. but his influence has not been touched. His intelligence, his integrity, and his service will still be felt in the spheres of journalism and education. Long noted as a newspaper owner in Oregon and Idaho, he was perhaps best known and most respected as the edi tor and publisher of Salem’s Capital Jour nal. and as a member of the State Board of Higher Education. His friends and associ ates speak of him in terms of "courageous,” "forthright honesty,” "vigorous,” and “ser vant of the state and this university." lie will not he forgotten. Reflection on Bernard Mainwaring’s life brings comfort, hut not resignation to a great loss. The works are still here; never theless, the most valuable — the man — is gone. As Edna St. Vincent Millay once said, “A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew, a formula, a phrase re mains — but the best is lost.” (S.J.G.) What About Next Year? Cancellation of the University of Ore gon’s 1957 swimming meet schedule, be cause of a poor turnout for the sport has brought attention to a situation which has more far-reaching considerations than the mere withdrawal from competition for one year. The big question is this: What steps are being taken to see that Oregon doesn’t find itself in a similar situation next year, or the year after? When Swimming Coach John Borchardt surveyed his prospects at the start of the term, he found only four men on his var sity squad. Scholastic ineligibilities had de pleated his ranks even further than a poor turnout last fall. With only three swim mers and a diver, no team can carry on a dual meet.swimming schedule; so all the team meets were cancelled. Borchardt contends that he just can't get anyone to turn out for the squad. Maybe it’s because the swimming team gets very little recognition; but this, in turn, could be the result of poor showings in the past. Whatever the reason, the fact is very ob vious that someone needs to recruit some fine high school prospects, the same as in football, baseball, track and basketball. Borchardt, himself, is in a bad position to do this because he is a full-time assistant professor in the school of physical'educa tion besides being coach of the freshman and varsity swimming team. These two jobs leave him little time to go around the state procuring high school prospects. Fur thermore, he has no staff under him on whom to pass off some of these responsi bilities. We don't profess to know all the fact> about coaching a swimming team, or re cruiting athletes; but we do know that the University is not getting its share of the top state prospects. Many of them end up at the University of Washington, Northern Division kingpin in swimming circles; but an even more alarming number has shown up on the OSC team, which is currently giving the Huskies a run for their money. To lose an athletic contest to the Aggies is quite disheartening; but to have to can cel a swimming meet with them because no one turned out for the squad is a much greater blow to our pride. We recommend that the athletic depart ment either get a coach who can spend a justifiable amount of time on the swim ming team; or that the intercollegiate swimming program be officially dropped from the schedule. It‘s better to have no team at all. than one which has to back out of its schedule just before the season opens; (S.Y.) The Suzie Dilemma Reprinted from the Eugene Register-Guard The Susan Campbell girls are upset. It’s not the 35 cents each that bothers them ; it’s the principle of the thing. And from reading the Oregon Daily Emerald, we think the University of Oregon co-eds who live near the Pioneer Mother are right. The girls are disturbed about another, case of what we termed, last November, “double standard justice.” College boys overcome with the festive possibilities of snow, threw snowballs at Susan Campbell windows, some of which were broken. Who pays the bill? The boys? No, because the boys fled without leaving name or address. The girls? You bet, the girls, and that’s why they’re angry. Girls lead a rough life. Since the memory of man runneth not to the contrary co-eds in the spring have been subjected to indig nities such as being dunked in the fish pool behind the law school. Xobody is ever re quired to pay for the pressing of their pleated skirts. But last fall when freshmen girls, taking a leaf from the admired Hun garian book, rose up to assert themselves, what happened? They had to pay for the damage caused when they painted some football players with lipstick and permit ted the boys’ porterhouse steaks to get cold and greasy. It is too much to ask that the University make the hoys pay for the broken windows, inasmuch as the University doesn’t know which boys to assess. But it is also too much — too much on the principle of the thing, not too much money — to ask the Susan Campbell girls to pungle up 35 cents each for damage done their dormitory by outsiders. Answer to Swimming Problem? “Nobody sinks any question. Hr1* <-a|ituln of th<- swimming Innn" The Critic s Critique UT Team' Successful With Moliere's Comedy By BEN TROWBKIDCJE Emerald Columnist "This man must have a uni versal cure-all." Moliere inad vertently might well have been writing of himself There seems to he little doubt that this man was a master practitioner of lighting weary faces with broad smiles smiles of every race, color, and creed," for Moliere's plays have been henid and enjoyed in most every coup try, in most every tongue in the world. Last Friday night the Uni versity Theatre opened its win ter season with a robust little romp of Moliere's entitled "The Doctor in Spite of Himself." This is pure farce and appro priately was directed, produced and acted as such, Whether it is the individual audience mem ber’s ‘‘cure-all’’ is a treatment that each will have to undergo himself. Ah to the story? It is unim portant. Its structure lev* been influenced by the ( omedia, the capital and still-producing theatre of French comedy in I'aris. The framework is clas sic: ‘‘the old man with the troublesome daughter; tin- lusty and gymnastic clown; the sinis ter nonsense of the Doctor of Bologna.” It is not the story that is im portant, as has been said. It is just a necessary prop for the display of the ridiculous, often hilarious characters of Moliere's imagination. The University production ably carried out the slapstick comedy in the intimate Arena Theater. Daniel Krempel, direc tor, handled the job well, keep ing the play on ita toes at all times. This is not a play that de pend* on the strength of one actor to carry the load. The <■»>.( must act a* a team. If one mem tier fall* then the chances are the play would disintegrate. Fortunately, moat mem her a turned In fine. slnpsttck per formance* that make the plus the pleasant entertainment It I*. Outstanding in thl* team, though, la the 11m1. sparkling performance of Vlncen* Fanny aa the Iloetor (In apite of hlm aelf) Sganurelle. lie la certain ly the team'* captain. Slapstick comedy ta an art. that la If It la to be funny and not disgusting. While I can't aay the caat achieved I he pin nacle of thla difficult acting Htyle I will Bay a» a team they never let It fall to the pathetic and often disgusting level of some of our present day slap stick •‘artist*." Special kudos to Ann Becker for her imaginative costume* a most important element in any of Mollere'a plays. Proper acknowledgment unfortunately, was not accorded Ann Becker in the skimpy programs. Kvlilently .Mr. K rein pel, with the assistance of I>r. Hen Frank lin. provided thla production with an extra scene which re quired the service of three doc tor* who spend their lines ami actions lambasting the incdiml profession. Whether this can he considered a satirical blast at the present profession or those of Mullerc’s day I wouldn’t ven ture to guess. Included in the cast besides the excellent Mr. Panny is Donna Sue Ruth; Don Brown, Bill Kim tier; David Fredrickson; Tom Lewis; Juan Hickman; Dwane McHollick; Richard Lee; Joyce Niedringhaua; and Ray mond Huey. A good team this! Letters to the Editor Emerald Editor: It was very good to see that the Student Union has formed a jazz committee. It will be in teresting to see how well is works. Throughout the years I have found college students, and University of Oregon students in particular, very “square" when it comes to a knowledge of jazz. I doubt whether 20 persons on this campus know Charlie Par k<‘r from Dorothy Parker or John Lewis from John L. Lewis. I would judge the campus preference by the music I hear every day as I walk to the li brary. (I believe that one of the houses has a loudspeaker.) It would appear that the school students prefer Fats Domino ns an illustration of their taste in music. Let’s face it. This school has (Continued on page 3)
