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lack Wilson, .V. Johnson
Chief Make-up Edit • A’ T >hnson
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Nancy Fet |?us
Feature Edit a PC’ Hatter
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Nat A lv Mgr .1 > Anne Milhjran
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(imitation Mi'r ' ^ani \ ihrv
A''i. ^jh»it!* K litoih Jerry Kamscy, Tom
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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.)
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— 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
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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.