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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1957)
Oregon Daily The Oregon Oaily Emerald is published five days a lug the school year. except during: examinations au< periods, by the Student Publications Hoard of the ' of Oregon. Knteird »• -> vond class matter at the ; Eugene, Ore. Subscript!n : $5 per school year, $J week dur I’nivcrsity Mst office, per term. Opinion* expressed on the editorial page arc tho«e of The Knun .ild and ci»» not pretend to represent the opinion of the ASt’O or the I'nivrrMty. I’nsigned editorial* atr written by the editor ; initialed editorial* by membei»of the edituiial board. HILL MAUN W AKI .Mi, h.ilitor ivr.A .mi-.ma.na, Manager MARCIA MAl'NKY. Editorial Page Editor ( III i'K MITCHEI.MORE, Managing K.l.t.-r DOROTHY HARK IK, Ativ. Mgr. SALLY JO GKEIG, SAM VAHKY. Associate Editor* CORNELIA LOCI E. Nr»- Editor JACK WILSON. So its Editor Cl.L N CRAVES. A" t A Iv. Mgr. CIIARMION I OKI>. Office Manager EDITORIAL HOARD: Hill Mainwaring, Marcia Mauney. Sally Jo Oreig, Sam Valiev, Chuck Mill lielm.ue, Cornelia Fugle, lack Wilson, .V. Johnson Chief Make-up Edit • A’ T >hnson AJ*«’t News I if • ‘ loH T .*» Denni.«. Nancy Castle. Evelyn Olsen, Nancy Fet |?us Feature Edit a PC’ Hatter Wimifti1' !• ! t.it Puttin' Wrvt Nat A lv Mgr .1 > Anne Milhjran *."ivsi(ioti AHv. Mgr Arlene Kran>* ! *h t > Edit! • \ a ?I an Bull A i Make tip Edit *r : Warren Rucker (imitation Mi'r ' ^ani \ ihrv A''i. ^jh»it!* K litoih Jerry Kamscy, Tom ( haimian Executive Secretary : Pat Holley Have We Learned from Them? Persons from other countries otter Amer icans a unique chance to learn, and as University students we have an added opportunity to explore the customs and cultures of countries other than our own. Here on campus are approximately ISO students representing 4<> countries other than the United States. And their number is increasing annually. They represent coun tries of everv habitable continent - - Europe. Asia, Africa, Australia. North America and South America. And each international student has something which he can offer the University of Oregon. In the Student Union the other evening a group of these students talked-rapidly in their native language. Unconsciously they used American mannerisms, and American slang expressions interrupted their con versation from time to time. 1 hex had been learning from people as well as from books. But have we Americans learned from them? In our smugness we think only of the experience they will obtain during their stay in the United States. We wonder if they properly appreciate our modern con veniences and our “enlightened*- idea-. The mutual benefit to be obtained is forgotten. Too many of us forget that we are being offered a chance to learn of different coun tries, beliefs and cultures. In our false su periority we consider everything "Amer incan" to be right, while other ideas are disregarded. Students from other countries, or those with beliefs other than our own we consider “foreign” or “different". r Whether students from other countries are fundamentally different from American students, we don't know. Different phil osophies ami different religious beliefs ginde \ ariotis members of the human race in different ways. Hut if a basic difference does exist, it should whet our curiosity and make us want to learn more about these people. Perhaps we will find that people of different nationalities are more similar than we think, perhaps not. Hut why we blind fold our eyes and plug our ears instead of finding out the tacts? Only by getting to know another student, one with a different creed, race or national origin, by understanding his view-point, his ambitions and goals can we bury our old prejudices. Then we learn to accept or reject a person strictly on his merits as a human being, and not because he happens to be of a different race or religion. Only when we, as American students, realize that learning i- a two-way proposi tion. can we fully enjoy the experiences made available to us to by our international students. We must take advantnge of their know ledge. and this wr can do only when we understand them as individuals. The ar tificial nationality harrier must he broken down, for the fund of knowledge avail able to tis through thse students is too important to waste. (C.F.) ■-1 — Letters to the Editor — Emerald Editor: In his editorial of Tuesday. Feb. 19. on "We Question Wom en's Dorm Restrictions,” S.V. asked several rhetoric questions. Some of them concern the re actions and the position of the international students on this problem. Most international students realize that an educational sys tem as it exists in the U.S.A. and the different culture under which the education takes place are the major reasons for the rules and restrictions which govern life in the women's dorms. Many of these rules and restrictions are necessary, al though I often wonder why and why so many. Should not a university stu dent be old enough to be regu lated more liberally, so that as sumption of responsibility will rest mainly with the student herself? Generally I would s'ay yes. The situation in most uni versities abroad is different, though. Most students have had an education in high school that makes them feel much more re sponsible towards their study than students in the U.S.A. The main reasons are that they have to study much more and that the stress is not upon accumu lation of credits and upon high grades but more upon the gath ering of knowledge. This responsibility is carried on into the university and is in creased by the fact that most students financially depend upon their parents. Furthermore, the campus-sys tem does not exist in most uni versities abroad, while less girls attend the universities (are they not afraid they won't catch a man ... ?). Social life is not as intensive and most students do not have as much money to spend. The following remark of an American student may serve as illustation in contrasting edu cational systems: “Unfortunate ly I am so busy in getting an education that I won’t be able to learn anything.” In his editorial S.V. talks about women and dormitories only. It is apparent that because the women are restricted, the men are restricted too. But what about the living organiza tions other than dormitories ? Their regulations are often very strict too. I wonder whether a senior, who has to obey by all the rules set by the university and her living organization, will be able to face her responsibili ties after her graduation, while she is not supposed to assume these at the university? There are, for example, rules that result in a dead night if a girl dares to cut one or two of her classes. Even if she has low grades (does this always deter mine her interest and responsi bility in her education?), I feel that she should be able to decide for herself whether she can cut a class or not! Other regula tions force students to study at certain hours of the day or, as S.V. pointed out, only at certain njghts in the library. These are just some examples. There are many more restric tions, many of them necessary because of the whole set-up of the educational system. Every educational system has, of course, its good and bad points. One step has already been taken (although forced) to improve the situation in Oregon through selecting people that want to go to the university. Most international students realize the differences in the education and its bearings upon the rules and restrictions. They will note them as facts, al though, indeed, they may some times wonder... Jan Aarts International Student from Holland, Senior in Business Administration Emerald Editor: We read with interest your editorial of February 18 on the subject of tax assessment, with its decided title “Unreasonable and Unfair.’’ We wish to obtain certain amplificaitons of your statements on this subject. The question as you put it was "whether fraternitios, so rorities, and co-ops are basically The Graduate Assistant fU amA~^[\ It^-feid^] f£l^y 4 v~ " _ulj-— 'LOOK-lf 1 KKcWAU THE KJSHT AH9tM$ I TEACHIM." Interpreting the News Mid-East Dilemma Faces Ike and Leaders Today By JAMKS M \I(I.<>\\ A I* News \ iiiily -1 WASHINGTON 4* Pre-i,!e»t Ki.senhowcr'n micting with con* Kiesslonal leailer.s t<x!ay ih an encore. He met with them 51 days ago on the same problem: the Middle East. In that time the problem has deepened. So has con fusion over this country's think ing on the Mid dle East, in cluding Israel. For 51 flays the administration or, rather. Secretary of State Dulles has talked almost con Untiaily-'on the Middle Fast. In that time the cherished Democratic - Republican bipar tisanship has been badly split. And Dulles has been treated to the most angry Democratic criticism of his four years in office, even to being called a "liar.” If Dulles had talked less, and more to the point, there would now be a clearer understanding at home and abroad of what the administration has in mind on the Middle East in general and Israel in particular. Instead of letting Democratic congressional leaders be the first to know of the program and tell how they felt, the ad ministration — meaning Dulles’ State Department "leaked” it to a newspaper Dec. 28. Democrats have indicated since they consider this an at tempt to build up public pres sure on them for approval be fore Eisenhower ever asked for their views. His program was a three-in-one package. He wanted congressional approval for: private homes, or are they pro fit-making ventures such as boarding houses would be." Could not one put it another way: are fraternities, etc., pri vate corporations, like country clubs or private clubs, or are lhey public institutions like state-owned dormitories ? Also, isn’t there a distinction between private clubs and cor porations, which may well Is* (Continued on /'aye three) Huge economic aid to the Middle East. although who II K‘ t it, and how and why, is not i tear; gifts of aims to certain Middle Eastern countries; and uae of American armed fore* to atop Communist aggression In the area. There followed many days of testimony by Dullcn and other administration officials befoi»* congressional committee*. pub licly anil behind cloned door.* In all he nald Dull'm followed one consintent line: vagvicnes*. It irritated Democr.it*. Tile House his approved the program. The Senate, starting debate on It this week, will probably put some strings on it. Meanwhile, Something els. had been happening. Israel had Ignored the t'nlted Nations' demand that it quit territory claimed hy Egypt, con tending it first muni have guar antees against Egyptian attack. The Arab members of the I' N were getting set to ask for sanctions against Israel for de fying the world organization. But the U.N. has not even considered sanctions against a big power Ittissia which ig nored the U.N. demand that it get out of Hungary. Israel not only Is a friend of the I lilted States, which helped create it, hut has a lot of friends in this country, Ineltidii'g mem bers of Congress, who oppose sanctions against it. But if the United States re fuses to vote sanctions against Israel, it would antagonize the Arabs at the moment the ad ministration is trying to win them over with Eisenhowers program. In the hope of avoiding such a showdown, Dulles asked Israel to pull back its troops. But Is rael refused Dulles Just as it had refused the U.N. Now the squeeze is on. The Demoeratle Policy Committee in the Senate voted unanimous ly yesterday against sanctions on Israel. And Eisenhower's own Itepiililiean Senate leader, W il liam Knowland of California, has come out flatly against sanctions. Dulles will now have to talk his way out of this one, or get in deeper.
