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Out, " EMERALD Save That Spirit Sitting in tlfe Oregon rooting section at Multnomah stadium last Saturday was like spending an afternoon in the morgue. W hich was fairly appropriate, perhaps, as the Web foot winning streak was murdered down on the playing field by a fired-up pack of Washington Huskies. And for a few days after that afternoon of dejection it seemed more like last year around here, with much cursing of the team and coaches and mut terings of "what a waste of time it is to travel to see Oregon play.” It was the first real let-down this campus has had since the Webfoots started looking like cham pions earlier this year. We trust that by now the gloom has worn off and the student body realizes that one loss does not a miserable season make. The Ducks of Coach Len Casanova are still very much a championship team—they need only one more victory to wrap up at least a share of the PCC hardware—and they’re planning on picking up that one victory this weekend. The place is Los Angeles. The time is Saturday afternoon. The team is the Uni versity of Southern California. They’re a team with an unimpressive record and no real stars, but the Trojans have one thing on their side. Sportswriters call it the "Coli seum jinx." Which simply means that Ore gon has not beaten a USC football team in the Los Angeles Coliseum since 1941. And it’s not going to be easy sledding (even if there’s snow on the ground in Los Angeles) to end that jinx. In Willie Wood, Coach Don Clark has a top-ootch running and passing back, and in Tackle Monte Clark he has one of the better linemen on the coast. USC’s only win was over Wash ington, which is not much help to those who like to juggle statistics. It'll be almost the same Oregon team that looked so good against UCLA, Cal, Stanford, WSC, etc. End Ron Stover will be back in action after recovering from a mild concussion, and Dave Fish returns to bolster the injury-weakened center posi tion. It WILL be the same Oregon team if that never-say-die spirit stays with them. If Oregon plays the kind of football they're capable of playing, there isn’t a snowball’s chance on Olivera Street for a continuation of that Coliseum jinx. And a word of advice—it isn’t necessary for you to prove your spirit (even if it did slip a little this week) by rushing out to join a death defying car parade after the final whistle. Save that spirit for a royal welcome for the team—and for the Homecoming game. Education Week By proclamation of President Eisenhow er, this has officially been Education Week. For the Oregon student, laboring from one midterm to the next, this announcement Oregon Daily Emerald Thf Oregon Daily Emerald is published four times in September and five davs a week during the school year, except during exam ination and vacation periods, by the Student Publications Board of the University of Oregon. Entered as second class matter at the post office, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates: $5 per year. $2 per term. . Opinions expressed on the editorial page are those of The Emerald and do not pretend to represent the opinion of the ASUO or the University. CHARLES MITCHELMORE, Editor GARY CAPPS, Business Manager JACK WILSON. Editorial Page Editor * _ ALLEN JOHNSON, Managing Editor WILLIAM COOK, CORNELIA FOGLE, Associate Editors GLEN GRAVES, Advertising Manager PHIL HAGER, News Editor JERRY RAMSEY, Sports Editor JOANNE MILLIGAN, Ass’t Bus. Mgr. EDITORIAL BOARD: Charles Mitchelmore, Jack Wilson Allen Johnson, Cornelia Fogle, William Cook, Phil Hager Jerry Ramsey, Wayne Woodman. * iUOAC-u^i XJUUUI, VV d/HC TV OOU raan Day Editors: Joan Kraus, Ev elyn Olsen, Pepper Allen, Mike Forrester, Pat Treece Office Manager: Alice Me Kindrie Night Editors: Dave Lortie, Marlene Perkins, A1 Reyn olds, Barbara Stepper, Jo anne Shore. nomens Editor: Kathy Look Ass’t Adv. Mgr. Roger Smith Nal'l Adv. Mgr.: Charmion Ford Executive Secretary: Pat Hol ley Chief Photographer: Nathan Bull Accounting Clerk: Erlene Whitehouse ciassmea Aav. xvigr.: warren Kuctcer Circulation Manager: Roger Gaffey * - . . , ..... _ . . ' . House Dance Time Again probably has all the import that an Armed Services Day lias for the troops during a war—why observe one week out of a battle approximately 36 weeks long? But perhaps we are so "vitally" connected with this complex process of maturation and learning called formal education that we have not evaluated its structure, func tions, goals and problems. These questions would seem to be the proper concern of students, as well as instructors and adminis trators during an Education Week. Unless our major field is education we’ve probably never been exposed to the more sophisticated topics involved in learning— all kinds of "isms”, systems etc. But you don't have to have a background in teaching to appreciate the most urgent problem fac ing the School today. , To us, it’s this: should American edu cation take it- cue from a society which i in the act of shifting its framework to a technological basis? This is no new problem for schoolmen— their attacks on it have produced doctrine like John Dewey’s progressivism, which has had its vogue in recent years. The well publicized "Why Can’t Johnny Read?" in quiry represents a critical look at one of education’s progressive new teaching tech niques, and Oregon’s own pioneer class room- TV system is an instructional aid that is part and parcel of the present trend to ward the technical in both methodology and subject-matter. But how far should this trend be continued? The nation’s scientific and military forces decry the lack of emphasis on scientific pur suits in today’s schools and predict a level ing-off and eventual decline in America’s technological and industrial output, unless some action is taken, beginning with this generation. To reiterate the problem: the United States may soon be in the position of a great factory without motive power, if today’s pupils are not offered an adequate technical background. Must contemporary education meet this challenge by stressing such topics at the expense of the classical "3 R's and I*” (football)? (Russia’s recent scientific binge suggests that their approach to the problem is paying off.) Aside from such vital-to-all problems, education is faced with an internal dilem ma: there simply aren’t enough teachers to go around, from grade one on up. Spiralling population and the demands already men tioned for a broadened, more complex cur riculum are the culprits here, but there is no denying this sobering point: unless the rate of qualified teachers keeps in better step w ith the number of students, something must suffer. Educators are afraid it will be the quality of learning, and we scarcely need to be reminded that a democracy re quires an educated electorate. As students of a liberal arts University, the problems of education ought to concern us as much as they concern the schoolmen who have requested a National Education Week—in the event that we graduate, we may find ourselves as employers, employees, parents—even teachers—looking at educa tion from quite a different angle. And right now, perhaps, because of our unique “inside-looking-out” viewpoint, we can find something of worth to say back to our mentors. Footnotes One of our lettermen is apparently still learning his way around the University. Editor of the Springfield News reports ask ing one of the athletes how to find the Dads Room in the SU. “Go down the stairs and to your left,” answered the letterman. He lid, wound up in front of a door labeled ‘Men.” . LOU\tt - TH16 16 . YOU* pate vvopm I _i , TH' TAIL PACX I HA NPfOMC PEPONA\K£ PEVIL rve 0£EN TELUMJ YOU A&OUT Letters to the Editor Emerald Kilitnr: Tti|; editorial of the Emerald which "exposed" Wynn Dahl gren as a “campus political boss" is deserving of com ment. The Kmerald's exposure of "bossism" is indeed shocking. But, don't let the outward happy disposition of this new Tam many Tiger (the Carmen De Sapio. of the OSl’i fool you. Beneath that cheerful, Kiscn hower-like grin lies a power drugged politician whose desire is complete control of the A SCO Senate. His motive is to control the Senate, thereby gaining access to the huge resources of "graft" at the disposal of that august body. The tremendous power of the ASUO Senate in the hands of Boss Dahlgren will lx- a spring board to total control of the University. Everyone knows that student government is the real “power elite” that guides the actions of those Senate "puppets” such as the Office of Student Affairs, the Emerald, the faculty, and the great “un washed" masses that we some times call the student body. The Emerald should be com mended for its “muckraking" and its courageous editorial stand against the rise of a cam pus Huey Long. In time such strong stands will insure the Emerald of a place “up yonder" In the journalism Hall of Fame along with Confidential, Expose, and Time Magazine. George M. Boyet Graduate Student I’olitical Science • • • Emerald Editor: We have noted Dave Cass's column in the October 29 Em ■erald, particularly the head line: ()8C’h Admission Prac tices Shouldn’t Affeet Oregon’s. Merely want to point out that there have been times in the past when the University took that position. In 1941, both Oregon and Ore gon State had lots of California students, Oregon by far the most. This caused, I am told, some raised eyebrows. On in quiry, it was revealed at a meet ing of the State Board of Higher Education that Oregon State had higher requirements for the admission of non-resident stu dents than did Oregon. The Cali fornia students at OSC were eligible to enter the University of California, but not many of them registered at the Univer sity were no eligible. When this wan discussed at the December, 1041, meeting of the board, President Krb stated that the University couldn't afford to make a change right away because of the loss of fees. A good many thousand dollars was involved. You're right there at the board's head office; Irsik jl up. No. you don't need to follow OSC. Another j>olnt of departure you might consider has t > d > with so-called special students. Oregon State has less than half a dozen; Oregon has over 210. How did they get In, and how many athletes are among them ? What's more Important, what kind of students are they, an 1 how many credits are they taking ? They seem to be counted in the total enrollment. You aren't following OSC there either. Aren t you getting a little dizzy on that high pinnacle of scholarship? Thomas Wright Senior at OS< (The following letter was re ceived by Jim Lynch, President of the ASt’o.—Ed.) Mr. President: Although you may have meant your letter as a Joke we did not think it as such. Your criticism of Oregon State is not in keep ing with the Student Body Presi dents role in maintaining satis factory relations with neighbor ing schools. It has been brought to our attention that you and your studqjit body seem to be lacking confidence and faith in your "Rose Bowl Team( ?)." Per haps, you feel like Linus with out his blanket. Realizing that the Ducks may lose the OSC game and the “O," your reply was the only logical answer you could make. We guther from your letter that Oregon would like to make OSC’s Homecoming court a re volving trophy. We the OS<' stu dents feel that our court is far above that of being equal to your "O.” Besides wliat would happen to your traditional "O" ? We regret that the Oregon Students have not had the op portunity to visit the Oregon State Campus and notice our outstanding girls. The Home coming court is only a small (Continued on page 3)