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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1958)
Service Through Selection To explain the aims and purposes, as ■well as the structure, of any newspaper’s policy is difficult at best. Misunderstand ings, confusion and disagreements are oc cupational hazards and as such must he taken in stride. Policy, in definition and in practice, comes hard to the most skilled of profes sional journalists. To full-time students act ing as part-time newspaper men and wom en, the task is progressively less easv. The Emerald enjoys a great degree of freedom in deciding that policy (from term to term). Compared to many college pub lications, faculty advice and administration supervision (other than through the Student Publications Board) is negligible. This mobility in forming editorial and news policy thus makes possible a near realization of the ideal campus newspaper— run by the students for the students. This will continue to be The Emerald’s chief goal: service through selection. As in the past. The Emerald will con tinue to provide the campus with compre hensive news coverage of all major events and many of the minor ones; informative and entertaining features, both on a regu lar and spot basis; and informed opinion, speaking through the editorial board and representative columnists. An innovation in opinion presentation planned for the near future is a column written by a panel of foreign students on campus. This should prove a real contribu tion in the always-trickv field of "every body-pleasing.’’ The editorial page itself will consider timely issues, primarily from the campus, while not ignoring questions of more gene ral interest. As in the past, editorial judge ments will be made by the editorial board in regular meetings, with individual board members writing the editorials. Columnists —representing their own viewpoints—will appear in daily rotation. The "Letters to the Editor” section is again expected to act as a sounding board for student opinion, spontaneously spoken. Traditionally, a newspaper’s basic policy is expressed most actively in its editorial columns. The historic separation between news ami opinion, however, has been some what bridged by a compromise known as in terpretive reporting. The Kmerald will not attempt to cram in terpretation into every campus brief and pinning announcement, but background in formation will occasionally be used to fill in the shadows and vacancies which can oc cur in straight news reporting. News is many things to tnanv persons, and with limitations of time and space can not possibly satisfy everyone as to display, amount and frequency. An honest objective effort and experienced judgment will, how ever. underlie the end result of each day’s Emerald. Feature material will take the light ap proach. known to some as human interest. \\ ith humorous sidelights and unique off shoots on the everyday news, relaxation is achieved without sacrificing a chance to know. Illustrating the news and features in The Emerald will be photographic coverage, once more highlighted by sports pictures. Photos will also play a vital role in depict ing the expanding nature of the campus, as well as its daily activities. The Emerald realizes it cannot please all factions, interest groups and outspoken in dividuals—political or non-political. Its greatest service can be its chief duty, an ability to select what is important and lit erally relay the message. Realizing a goodly amount of freedom itself, The Emerald urges its use bv oth ers. We admit fallibility in advance, but deny vigorously any doubt as to our sin cerity of purpose and amount of effort we expect to put forth. We’ll welcome any suggestion which we feel will contribute to our fundamental aim, or policy—to maintain the prestige of the immediate past, to extend our service in the immediate future and to stress quality through selectivity. This will best fulfill The Emerald’s responsibility as we see it. + A Moral Victory About a month back, the Emerald stated ■with no hesitation that it wasn’t impossible to beat Ohio State—it was just very diffi cult. And we cited the story of the little train who “thought he could" as our chief authority for the statement. And certainly, if the author of that story, or any other respectable writer of fables had been handling the script for Rose Bowl game, the ending would have been differ ent. If ever a team deserved to win a game, the Oregon Ducks deserved to defeat Ohio State. Tearing a page from the old Cinderella story, the Webfoots grudgingly gave up the first touchdown (the villain in fairy stories always draws first blood) then battled gamely back to tie the score. They held the touted Buckeye offense scoreless in the sec ond quarter. By halftime, the stage was set for a story book finish. Reality, however, seldom conforms to fictional ideals. Happy endings aren’t near ly as common as Hollywood would have us believe. The Oregon team had everything it takes to make a happy ending but luck. And luck plays an important role in foot ball games. We lost, and the happy ending to the Cinderella story didn’t show up on the scoreboard. But reality has .an important advantage over fiction. In fiction, a win is a win and a loss is a loss. But in this case, h + the win was more of a loss for Ohio State, and the loss was more of a victory for Ore gon. Everyone who saw the game—even our old friends from the Los Angeles press— knew that Oregon had won that game. And in doing so, the Oregon team and coaches earned themselves a permanent niche in the tradition and history of the school. There is no way for us to reward the in dividuals who put their hearts and minds and bodies into this achievement. They weren’t playing for any reward but that which comes from the game itself. Naturally, a few individuals stood out. But special praise for those individuals would only take away from the team effort, without which there could have been no Rose Bowl and no victory, moral or other wise. So now it’s over, and it’s time to start thinking of basketball (and Oregon won't do badly in that sport, either). But one thing, Mr. Harris. How about getting Ohio State on the schedule sometime in the fu ture.-' 'J hey’ve got a licking coming. Footnotes The Los Angeles sports writers evidently must have seen almost as much of Disney land as the recent visitors from the north. To -read their pre-game stories, one would assume the Oregon players were designed to five-eighths normal size (as per the park’s buildings). 1 iminvl F.nmllmcnt? r«—— W|1H0£M/AL cacp* Mm m emtv CTUPtH^l ^ajizi ruEAi.ru CA(tO i HUH 4t .*k*eoj MAX*. AMP MIN0* COURSE PiRsr 6frLfSwiiTW0nfK tAiC K yoorL. hit W1 ATllDF. mo rue aca^mic, aeauLivotifI -rYbOVI*«* I1 / CARP !/{MMflT nanwwi 9m0 VOU /MU5T File A statement of rrers»pewc£ L_ \ vouR. »HOW f££ receipt VtuPEnt** MACmm . | 'UTN’TTHINK WEU HAVE WVNV^TUPEnTS TM:6 —MQT *\ANY lMTELU6ENfE^OiOHrC(3fTTHSOU6H jLdt Tl hi.urn Object Lesson l oo Late For California Schools Rumor has it that some of us are discarding our proper mod esty and saying unkind words to the Los Angeles sportswrit crs and the PCC "bolters." It's a perfectly natural reaction after Oregon's brilliant per formance at Pasadena and the abuse we had taken before that event. We've heard comments to the effect that USC. UCLA, and California were afruid to play Oregon after the beatings they took during the past season and are now even more fearful after the Ducks made the Number 1 team in the nation look sub average. We’ve also heard a sugges tion that It should now be Ore gon not the southern schools —that gets out of the confer ence and goes looking for bet ter teams to play. But that kind of talk, amus ing and satisfying though it might be, is strictly sour grapes —a fruit which grows well in Southern California but just isn’t suited to Oregon's climate. Actually, no caustic com ments from this corner are called for. Oregon’s moral vic tory in the Rose Bowl speaks for itself. That victory tells the whole nation, if people are willing to look beneath the surface, that it isn’t under-the-table money and rnillion-dollar athletic pro grams that make a great foot ball team. It’s the ability and teamwork and—above all- the desire to play football that makes a truly outstanding team. The pity is that for the Cali fornia schools the object lesson came too late. And, regardless of how many people see how many California victories in the years ahead, those players and those schools will be much the poorer for it. So much for the moralizing. There was a lot more going on in metropolitan Los Angeles (starts just south of San Fran cisco and ends in the San Diego vicinity) than football. Los Angeles, we said, will be the ideal place to soak up some sunshine. And so we headed for the logical place: the beach. What we didn't realize is that in Southern California most, of the beach is privately owned, and not wanting to be labeled a Socialist, we didn’t dispute the fact. A lengthy search uncovered a atrip nf public beach If y«> i can rail a few acres of ruaty beer ran* u beach but in that area the smog (officially Los Angeles haa no more smog i blocked out the aun and made sunbathing aecm a little ri diculoua. We Io<iked around for some thing exciting to do and found that, ahort of getting involved in a gang war. the moat ex htliarating activity In Lon Angelea la driving the freewnyn for the firat time. And we're not alone. Sam lianka. winner of the 1957 Indianapolia 500, got himaelf Involved in nn acci dent in Lne Angelea lie de clared that he would much rather do hia driving on the Speedway it’a aafer. And then there wnn Dlancy larid, where you are guaranteed to spend all the money in your pocket, wear out your ahoei and live your childhood all over again. Dianey'a a fantaatic per son. when you atop to think. If you total up hla influence through several media on the children and adults of the past generation, you have to admit that he's had a lot to do with the shaping of America and Disneyland has become a sort of Mecca to millions of people. Knott’s Berry Farm (no berry bushes in evidence but lots of places to spend money) and Marineland (including this year a whale) do their best, but so far they Just can't beat Mr. Disney's show-place as a draw ing card. OKKfaON DAILY KM BRA LJ) 'Ilir Orgon Daily Kmcnl.l ic piil,l,,hr.| f'.ur timri in September ami five ila» i wr'1: tbiring I hi .chool year, except during examination ami vacation periods, by tb Student Publications Board of the I’nivrr s|,y Orgon. Kntcred a> r Cond das* matter at the post office, Eugene. Oregon. Subscription rates: $5 per year, %2 per Opinions expressed on the editorial page are those of The Emerald and do not pir. tend to represent the opinion of the AM O or the University. A1. 1.1' X JOHNSON. Editor EARY (’API'S, Hiimiw , Manager WII.UAM COOK. Editorial PaKe Editor PH IK I!A(*KR, Managing Editor CiKEN (iRAVES, Advertising Mgr. JA( K WIKSON, JERRY RAMSEY, Associate Editor* PEPPER A KEE N, News Editor B()|{ MIJKKIN, Sports Editor JOANNE MIKKICAN, Ass’t Business Manager Editorial Board: Allen Johnson, William ( ook, Phil Hager, Pepper Allen, Jerry Ramsey, Jack Wilson, Bob Mullin.
