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MARCIA MAUNEY, Editorial 1'age Editor CHUCK MITCHEI.MORE, MaiuniiK Editor DOROTHY BARKER, Adv. Mgr.
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EDITORIAL BOARD: Bill Mainwaring, Marcia Manner, Sally Jo Greig, Sam Vahey, Chuck Mitchelmore, Cornelia Fogle,
Jack Wilson, Al Johnson
Chief Make-up Editor: A1 Johnson
Ass't News Editor Cay Mundorff. Joan
Dennis, Nancy Castle, Evelyn Olsen,
Nancy Ferguson.
Feature Editor : Phil Hager
Women’s Editor: Dorothy West
Nat’I Adv. Mgr. : Jo Anne Milligan
Classifies! Adv. Mgr.: Arlene Kraus*
Photo Editor : Xatham Hull
Ad Makeup Editor Warren Rucker
Circulation Mpr Sam Vahey
A->* S|k>i»v Editor*: Jerry Hamw), Tom
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Executive Secretary : Eat Holley
Greater Oregon: Emphasis on Quality
Great strides have been made since tire
AWS Cabinet one year ago became inter
ested in forming a “Greater Oregon" com
mittee. Recent reports from the now-well
organized group indicate that approximate
ly 250 students will participate in a grandi
ose effort to "rush” top high school seniors
starting this spring.
It is now co-sponsored bv AWS and the
Alumni Association and has the support of
the administration. All real obstacles seem
to have been removed from their path and
they are ready to roll.
Lest any of us knowingly offend some
alum in telling him of this “new" plan, we
should all realize that it is far from new.
University students originated it in the mid
dle ‘20’s. And until it was discontinued
fifteen years ago it was recognized as one
of the most important and worthwhile ac
tivities on campus.
Stressed in those years was the attracting
of quantities of students to the University.
The emphasis today has necessarily chang
ed to quality. Attempts to attract “more”
students would never be -auctioned by Uni
versity officials. They warned the group
from the start that it should be concerned
solely with the “better" students. Other
wise it would only contribute to admini.
r
tration heailaclu>> stemming from our con
stantly increasing enrollment.
We don’t question the need for such a
group. As long a* fine ‘‘students, leaders
and athletes” do not choose the 1,’uiversity
because of false conceptions about our
school or because they have not heard en
ough about it this committee will have a
worthwhile job to do.
liut we hope this huge group of students
who will he carrying out the actual “in
formal contacts" will be fully briefed on all
aspects of our fine school, h’ach of them
cannot possibly know the answers to all of
the detailed questions they can expect from
such a varied assortment as “students, lead
ers and athletes" without a very special ef
fort made to inform them. They are fresh
men and sophomores who. naturally, are not
a* well-acquainted with the campus a* they
soon will be.
'1 he proposed "(Greater Oregon” magazine
would alleviate this problem a bit. Hut even
then these students must realize that they
will be representing our entire campus and
will be responsible for information about
areas beyond those with which they have
normally come in contact.
This committee as its predecessor can
prove itself to be extremely valuable to the
University. We think that it will. (MM.)
— Letters to the Editor —
Emerald Editor:
Interest Thursday night was
shown in student politics that
even the senate admitted was
the best of all year, as far as
student turn out for a senate
meeting. A letter was written
to the EMERALD by Robert
Fischer, condemning certain ac
tions of the senate recently.
Mr. Fischer read at the meet
ing a statement defending his
letter, and very admirably
stayed to answer questions by
the senate. During ensuing dis
cussion Mr. Fischer was con
vinced that many of his strong
beliefs were based on campus
feelings spreading in the form of
discontent and rumor.
Mr. Fischer was convinced
of his misapprehensions, and
apologized to the senate and
the individuals concerned.
The evening was of worth for
two points. It proved that closer
contact is needed between the
senate and the student body.
Certain steps should be taken
to obtain this. One might be the
publication of newsletters or
bulletins by the senate, telling
of the senate’s actions, and be
liefs.
This bulletin could contain
articles by senate members, and
would be able to give a more
informal and definite declara
tion of policy, that isn’t always
available through news stories
in the EMERALD. These bulle
tins could be sent to all living
organizations.
The evening was of value in
another fashion. It created stu
dent interest, as witnessed by
the turnout. It encouraged stu
dent discussion, and I believe
made the students more aware
of the senate as a representa
tive body, and spurred the stu
dents and senate to be more
alert as to activities of the sen
ate, and to discriminate and
choose as to truths involved in
certain issues.
I commend the senate for its
action and Mr. Fischer for his
valour.
Kill McKee
Sophomore in
rolitical Science
Inaugural Prayer Meaningful
From the N.Y. Times
It was no political address
that President Eisenhower made
to his people and to the world
after he took the oath of office
yesterday. It was an Inaugural
prayer. He said these were the
“deepest prayers’’ of our peo
ple. They are worth remember
ing.
May we pursue the right—
without self-righteousness.
May we know unity—without
conformity.
May We grow in strength—
without pride of self.
May we, in our dealings with
all peoples of the earth, ever
speak truth and serve justice.
In humility and reverence^we
can say God grant that his
prayer be answered. These are
the things of which we have
need. These are the goals to
which we have need. These are
the goals to which we aspire.
This is the base upon which a
firm peace can and must be
built.
We must pursue the right, in
Lincoln’s phrase, “as God gives
us to see the right,” else we are
traitors to ourselves. But this
pursuit, also, as the President
said, must be in full humility,,
"w i t h o u t self-righteousness.”
We must know unity, not com
pelled and not blind, and not
meaningless, conformity. We
must have strength, but we
must be devoid of the false pride
that might come from it. And
we must serve that justice that
is based upon truth in our deal
ings with all.
Peace, said the President, is
our goal. But peace, he pointed
out, must live in the climate of
freedom. We must serve that
peace through that freedom, and
it will not be easy.
In his Inaugural address we
are only by indirection within
the world of policy and politics.
We have been taken, rather,
into the field of philosophy and
morals. Here are no questions
in expediency. Here are the
basic issues of the things by
which we live.
The President has spoken for
his country and has spoken
prayerfully. We join in his
prayer, in his aspiration, and in
his dedication to pursue that
which is right, without self
righteousness.
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'UH-OH-LOOKS LIKE MOTHER MCVIE W'
Interpreting the News
Ike's Soft Word' Policy
Discarded for Criticism
By JAMES JIALOW
AP News Analyst
WASHINGTON .V la Presi
dent Kiaenhower changing? He
ahowa sign* of getting tougher,
of more willing
ness to criticize.
If so, he can ex
pect to be re
paid in kind and
his second term
will be rougher
than his first.
A soft word
turneth away
wrath was the
nnliev of his
first four years. It worked
pretty well.
But at a news ronl'THiof this
week he was unusually blunt
twice within a few minutes:
first, about Secretary of Dc
fense Wilson; second about
criticism of his foreign policy.
He said stingingly Wilson
made an "unwise” statement in
suggesting the National Guard
had been a refuge for draft
dodgers. This was the sharpest
rebuke he had ever handed a
member of his Cabinet.
If he wondered how this ap
proach would work, he soon
found out. Mrs. Wilson told re
porters Eisenhower’s statement
was uncalled for, and a pat on
the back might have been more
in order. This was the first time
the wife of a member of his
Cabinet had hit at him.
Dulles has been a kind of
whipping boy for Eisenhower.
Critics of the administration's
foreign |H>licy have, for some
reason, been reluctant to go
after Eisenhower. They Iteat on
Dulles instead, and recently
Dulles has been under the most
severe criticism of his life, par
ticularly from Senate Demo
crats.
At his news conference Eisen
hower took full responsibility
for all that Dulles has done.
Then having put Dulles critics
on notice that they have been
criticizing Eisenhower all the
time, the President blasted his
critics:
"... These critics . . . don’t
bring out any particular project.
They just talk about great
blundering and lack of leader
ship. I have seen no proposals,
no constructive proposals, for
what even should have been
done with the benefit of hind
sight.”
Tills In u «ii) was Elsenhower
Inking tiff the ijlovin.
Some Democrats particular
ly Senators Mansfield of Mun
tnn i and Kulbright of Arkun is
have voiced criticism of the
administration's foreign policy
in a way which at the time they
said they considered "consti uc
tivc."
Was it "constructive" for
them to ray aa they have a
number of times in the past
year that Dulles was talking
out of both sides of his mouth
and ought to follow a policy
clearly-stated, clearly - under
stood arid adhered to?
Sen. Know land of CalUViriilii,
Kepuhlican leader in the Senate,
congratulated Mansfield lust
April IK when the Montanan,
in one of many long review* of
administration foreign polic.x,
said:
"We have fulled, up to now,
to come up with the right
policy. I do not have the answer,
but I hope that with our collec
tive thinking we may give the
administration some suggestions
which will help them, in the in
terest of peace in that area of
the world the Middle East."
Know-land said of Mansfield:
"The senator approaches the
problems of foreign policy with
fairness, and he has made a
very fine contribution to our
foreign policy."
Was Fulhrlght “constructive”
when he tried to nail Dulles
down on wheher he thought the
Middle East was going to erupt
or was getting calmer? Ful
bright probably feels lie was.
He said in the Senate last
April: "I think the purpose of
discussion ... is at least to
give voice to our view's,”
The Democrats huve been
very considerate of Eisenhower.
He has now given them less
reason to be by lashing out at
them.
Campus Capers
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods Col
lege executive board offered Na
tional Catholic Welfare confer
ence four scholarships for Hun
garian refugees, according to
the newspaper Fagots at the
Indiana college.
Students will contribute to
the scholarships through their
college and university relief ad
ministration fund.