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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1957)
Dmfy " EMERALD An Appearance of Evil The appearance of evil is sometimes worse than the evil itself. This is true about Uni versity students’ drinking habits. The per-capita amount of alcohol con sumed by" Oregon undergraduates is doubt less lower than on many comparable cam puses. Yet the University has the unfortu nate reputation over the state as a party school, a country club, a pljice where beer v flows from every faucet. At one time, we are told, this description was more accurate. Oregon once deserved to be called a country club and the dubious distinction still remains. The appearance of the evil of student drinking is much worse than the evil itself. All this bears on the liquor dry zone sur rounding the University. The zone was originally set up in 1950 to slow the con sumption of beer by undergraduates, often underage. Beer at that time was sold over the counter on the University’s borders at the College Side and at Taylor’s. This consumption of beer strengthened the University’s already bad reputation as a party school and led the administration to ask the Oregon Liquor Control Com mission for help. The OLCC obliged and formed the pres ent dry zone. They told the Eugene city council to accept no more applications for beer and wine licenses from stores and taverns within the zone. The result, according to Donald Du Shane, dean of students, was to bring a problem that was out of control—student drinking—into proportions that the Univer sity could handle. Now the Eugene city council is attempt ing to open the dry zone by approving four applications for package beer licenses from stores within the zone. The OL.CC must make a decision on whether, in the face of strong University opposition, to violate its own policies and grant the licenses. The administration wants to retain the dry zone because it,feels that the zone limits student drinking. The Emerald believes that the dry zone makes little significant difference in the amount of alcohol con sumed by the present student body. Stu dents today are too mobilized—as the park ing problem indicates—to have their urges to buy packaged beer curbed by a few short blocks. Yet the dry zone .must be retained. If the University backs down on its dry zone stand and allows beer to be sold on the campus borders, the * administration would be saying to the public that it no longer cares to try to limit student drink ing. They would reaffirm the belief in the public mind that Oregon U in fact still a country club. Students should be concerned about this problem, for it affects them vitally. The value of their diploma is. in part, determined by the academic prestige of the University. A country club reputation is hardly in keep ing with building the University’s prestjge. We feel strongly that < )regon is no longer a country club, that the University is taking it- place among the first-rate academic in stitutions. Actions like junking the dry zone would have an adverse effect on this pro gress. That is whv the zone must be retain ed. Lm A Symbol, Too You start out with the design. All the art and architecture major , or their closest facsimiles, gather around a drafting board and pour out their collective creative genius. If there is a level-headed one among them, he manages to keep the working part> down to a reasonable number, the cost below $60 and the building time within a couple of hundred man-hours. Eventually it takes shape on paper, it is okayed by the com mittee chairman and somebody produces a beautiful, full-color rendering. Then the manual labor begins. Since the architects decided that their job was over once the plans were drawn up, it’s next-to impossible to find someone who can trans late their hen-scratchings into board-feet, gallons of paint and pounds of nails. But work begins, and it goes on far into the night. Anguished cries of “quiet hours" arc drowned out by pounding, sawing, and an argument between the construction fore man and the painting foreman. Finally comes Friday morn, and the work speeds up. Classes are cut and meals ignored as the crews labor on. % One minute before the deadline, all the pulleys, cords and motors are connected and the thing is set in motion. It works! Another Homecoming sign is welcoming alumni back to the University. It doesn't matter if the thing is ripped apart by Aggie marauders during the night or blown down by the hurricane that inevi tably falls on the night of the ,[gn contest. For a Homecoming sign is more than a gigantic greeting card. It’s a symbol of the ability of the members of an organization to work together and produce something tangible out of that cooperation. It’s worth all that effort. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Emerald Editor: Every year someone feels that he must display his ability to criticize by disapproving of the U. of O’s traditions and their en forcement. This year it was Eric Allen of the Medford Mail Tribune who ended up bragging about his experience with tra ditions. Last year I recall some one saying that at Harvard tra ditions are never enforced. It just so happens that here at Oregon it is a tradition that traditions are enforced by Ore gon lettermen during Homecom ing and Junior Week. So what if it is different at Harvard or anywhere else ? This is the Uni versity of Oregon and it is a tra dition here so why try to change it? Bob Decker President Order of the O Emerald Editor: In response to Bill Cook's column in Tuesday’s Emerald, “Students Forget Alumni in Homecoming Confusion,” we would like to publish our stand regarding alumni activities dur ing Homecomnig Weekend. Granted, Homecoming does offer activities for the students, for without the students we would have no Homecoming. Students play the football game; students put in many hours of their time on signs to welcome the alumni; students rally behind and support the team. Why shouldn’t the stu dents be rewarded for their time and effort in planning Home coming ? However, this year alumni take the No. 1 place in Home coming activities. We are offer ing two entirely new events for their benefit: the Coffee Social after the game and the Eugene Hotel dinner-dance Friday and Saturday nights. This is in addition to the tra tional signs for their benefit, game for their enjoyment, Homecoming Dance, and lunch eon. Thpy are definitely not being neglected; they are fore most on the program. In answer to your suggestion that the buffet-style luncheon will result in standing in long lines, actually, it will be much quicker. We planned it this way with the alums’ comfort in mind. What will happen to the alums that do not care to go to the dinner-dance ? We encourage them to go to the Homecoming Dance. The dinner-dance was originated because we recog nized the fact that many alums (Continued on page six) ‘Happy Homecoming, Mom’ ISH W\ 1 BI9TMIGWS VJM 60 6LAP Y£XJf?e THKILLEP A00UT fKATgKNlTV Uff, 60N— WHEN WILL YOUIZ 'PlEDC/£ TRAfN/NG ENO?/" + ^ini 'JLtfncl Homecoming Should Be A Chance to Thank Alums Homecomlnjf, now upon us. 1m many things to many different people. To some students, it is Just another nr tivity with the work that goes w i t h. it. To others, it is the big game of the year against the Aggie*:, with nil its accompany* ins hoopla. To still others it is *'!•••<• to skip class for a day to celebrate the victory. But to too few is it wh;it it should i rally be it chance to thank the alumni. Tiie alums are one of the must valuable groups that our Uni versity has. They are the ones to whom we turn when in ne<<l of support. They are in a po sition where they can do the University a great (leal of good. An alum therefor*1 deserves all the consideration that we, as students of the University of Oregon, can show him. It is our responsibility to prove that Oregon is still the l>est I ni versity and that it is going to continue to be just that. Alumni have a right to lw proud of their alma mater and the student body must justify that pride. The football team already has justified that pride. I am sure they will continue to do so by winning the big game this Sat urday. Their participation in the Rose Bowl will give alumni a further chance to brag about “their” team and '•their” school. But this is only part of the University scene. Another part is the academic life. This also, I am sure, will live up to any atom's expectations. But the part he is most interested in is you, the individual student. It is the alum’s impression of the students of Oregon that will form his opinion of the school. It is Ihis same opinion which will decide whether the alum deems fhe University of Oregon worthy of his active support. This then is the importance of Ilomeeomjng — to unite the alumni and students in a com mon cause; that of keeping Ore gon great. „ And how can you, the indi vidual student, help in this goal ? By being courteous and inter ested in the alumni while they are here. By treating them as returning friends rather than Intruder*. Hy tthowlng good school f.T»ifit nt the game. bon fire and other traditional ac tivities. Hy building bigger anil better signs signs which should be built primarily for the pur p .■ ■ . f pie -sing the alums. And, above all things, by being KKJ K.N'DLY! There In Nome disagree went es to how the alumni should he entertained, but there should be no disagreement on the imj«nr t;:rite of making Homecoming n surees* for the alumni. When, in the future, we return to the Oregon campus an alums, it Is *>r.iy natural thnl we will expect to be received with welcome und friendliness. Then It La only natural that we should la? willing to show this same courtesy to the pres ent alumni end make this w. -k end what it .should be a "home coming." Our Contemporaries A new problem Is facing Cor nell students, says the Daily Nun, It's the Tetrapak. A Tetrapak is a foui cornered, four-trianguhir-sided paper milk container. Hh danger lies in getting it open without squirt ing milk all over. To aid milk drinkers, the dairy will soon be perforating the lips of the containers for easy opening. The dairy man ager outlined a three-step tech nique for getting to the milk, then declared: "Kids in midwest elementary school have no complaints about the Tetrapak. Grownups should not have so much trouble, should they ?" OREGON DAILY EMERALD The Oregon Daily Emerald in puhlbhrd four Ion. 0 Ml September and live days a wetk during the school year. except dur‘„S examination and vacal.on period l,v the Sludenli-ub'" ".™. Hoard0[ (hr t.invro bntrrc-d ax xc,.. ,1a.. inaUi-' at I he poxl otlice, Eugene, Oregon huUcr.pt,on rate: $5 per year. Sdper areu','"" •7l.’,r.r'V1 m ,he c'lilorial page arc lhosr of I In- (emerald and do not . ,TXijYln^'nt the of the A SI JO br the University. w ‘ tc'AkYrSAelI<:{,,K, M(,RE l aVk-ici i'M ’N huoneaa Manager AI I Fn I'h ^mv";!'"1 i’-utc Kdilor (il I N ( K Juiy J/ Managing Kditnr rrwVi A .J,()(jLL, WILLIAM tm. ,•)*l'‘'t'iaic Editors * H I fa HAGER. Newt )*fIii«ir IOAVNrYM,VJ?1rSKY' S|""u K,l,lor JOANNE M1ELK.AN, Axa’l linn. Mgr. mlolre’KIA’C “»A'U>: ('>'a,le. Mitehrl more, Jack Wilson, Allen Johnson. < nrnclia I ogle, William Conic, Phil lla KT, Jerry Ramsey. Warns Woodman. Make-up Editor: Wayne Woodman
