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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.
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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.
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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
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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 ?"
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