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7k Ortp* Petty ® EMERALD Looking Back Some afterthoughts on Junior Week: • Generally, it appeared to be a solid suc cess. The Canoe Fete and All-Campus Sing were highly enjoyable and looked as though they came off without a hitch. Congratula tions are in order to Duncan Ferguson, who handled the Canoe Fete, and Frank Weigel and Sharon Hewitt, who were co-chairmen of the All-Campus Sing—and all of their helpers, too. • We wonder Jf the Junior Week court— Queen Sharon Meyer, princesses Larrilyn Carr, Dorothy Gamblin, Dottie Quinn and Sandra Vonderheit—weren’t a trifle per turbed at where they were forced to sit to watch the festivities. They saw the “wrong” side of the floats from their perch near the Physical Plant at the Fete, and heard the selections at the Sing “on the rebound" and sweltered from the heat in their "isolation booth” behind the stage at McArthur Court. Is this "royal” treatment? • \\ hile everyone supposedly enjoys the tension of tappings at the All-Campus lun cheon, we wonder it there couldn't have been a more concentrated effort to speed them up. It’s nice to “wait in expectation,” but one gets tired of sitting there toying with potato salad and melting ice cream while an honorary searches tar and wide for its next newest member. • We enjoyed especially some of the ‘'spontaneous” events of Junior Week: the “eyes right" and "hand salute” rendered by the ROTC troops when they inarched past Maxie’s Saturday morning; and those in genious fellows who put up the vast number of green campaign posters in a last-ditch attempt to get a certain Phi Delt into Friars. Junior Week was fine. But we’re glad it conies only once a year. Stiff Upper Lip People complain bitterly about Straub Hall food, cooks assault it and occasionallv camouflage it. and part of the population grimly eats the stuff three times daily, 250 days a year. Students bury their heads in their arms when confronted with raw, or hard-boiled, or cold eggs on cheerless morn ings. 'I'lie dish-uppers smile apologetically and sympathetically at the queue of guant faces filing through. It is indeed bravery that these people un dergo the test so close-mouthed with nary a whimper. Once in a while, one will over hear the oft-repeated promise, “On my last day here. I’m going to take this stuff and—” But generally, the troops stand up well. The reason that it is termed “Straub Hall food,” is probably the similarity between the drabness of this quaint castle and the “food.” Also, the place is never ventilated and this somehow lends to the general at mosphere. One can comment forever on the nutritional program : people swear that the University gets brussel sprouts at half price, they scratch their heads at the con glomeration of bacon, peas, carrots, rice and you name it. After all though, to find mass-prepared food that was entirely agreeable would be a rarity, so bear up people—stiff upper lip and all that! Footnotes Someone in the Earl-Straub dorms area has: A. a very blatant hi-fi set, and It. a craving to play ‘ He Has the Whole World in His Hands." The song carries a comfort ing thought, hut one doesn't like to he re minded of it at two in the morning. * * * Whyizzit—that four out of every five students and teachers in political science have maroon, corduroy sports coats? Must be the price of eternal vigilance. * * * It Must Be Spring Dept: A Johnson Hall executive recently one morning had to "in tervene”*het\veen two lovers who were per forming in hack of the building. Seems no body could get any work done. Letters to the Editor Emerald Editor: We, the undersigned, hereby protest the locking up of all the Lawrence Hall studios on week ends for insufficient reasons. Certain rare acts of vandalism need not lead to the restriction of all innocent persons. We are quite willing to accept such risks in return for the ad vantages of keeping the fool building open alia time. We also recommend installing a lqck on the grad studio door. Jim Shull Senior in arts Michael L. Van Gong Junior in arts Emerald Editor: Here is still another letter regarding the dunking incident of last week, or more spe cifically, regarding the issue of traditions, as brought to the fore by that disgraceful inci dent. There is in this democratic society of'ours a tradition that far outweighs any that may be established by group within that society. It is not usually called a tradition, but a privilege, or right. It is the privilege of each person in a free society, to choose, within reasonable limits, what course of action he shall, or shall not, take. It is one’s right to not follow the multitude, but to act inde pendently, without the fear of physical assault by a self-styled Gestapo. It is an American’s (Continued on page 3) Cjue^t C^olb umn Hungarian Revolt Discussed, ‘Not An Individual Effort’ Ed. note: George Handlery took part in the Hungarian uprising and is now majoring in liberal arts at the Univer sity. He lives in Douglas Hall. By GEORGE HANDLERY Since October 1956 Hungary became a commonplace subject all around the world. The ques tion is a controversial one which allows the writer to look at it from many different angles, in his approach. As a participant I * would like to present in this writing a few of the observa tions I had a chance to make. After some meditation I real ized that it would not make too much sense to describe the events of the revolution, as everyone who was interested probably read some of the ar ticles which dealt with this sub ject. I do not want to say that the fighting is of no interest but I believe that the reasons that created these events are more important than their conse quences. These reasons and some comments are going to be the central theme of this article. I do not pretend that I am going to say the absolute TRUTH but I will make an honest attempt to get as close to it as my abili ties allow. Have you been a Freedom Fighter, is usually the first ques tion. I have to hesitate for a moment before I say yes, as I am trying to think how I could explain how wrong- the image the person has of Hungary is. My dear friend, not only those were the “Freedom-Fighters" who as you read it in Life de stroyed one Red armored di vision after another. Believe me, things were not as simple as that. Those who fought and died were not alone, they had a people backing them, whose every individual mem ber was just as much of a Free dom-Fighter as the other. If someone deserves recognition, it is the nation but not the indi vidual. You should not look at us if we would be supermen, something that has to be seen, a curiosity like a man with two heads or a pipe-smoking dog who rides in a sportscar. jo negin mm, Hungary could have happened In any other place. Poland almost made It; just think al>out the critical hours of Itokossowsky’s dismis sal. The reason the Kremlin hacked down there was, as a Pole suggested it, the respect the Russians had for the Poles. Its sou roes are to be found in their heroic resistance against the Germans. When Hungary’s people asked for the same privi leges that were granted to Poland the government answer ed with bullets which shook the world. It is interesting to know that (Continued on page 3) Belt Him in the Back ...» .... ..... •-» i ' YOH)Kttf\uJ l u rS (“acc AOUltft VCHi DC AR Ku f. . - W* //, 0 H . Yqi\*( JUST urn IVY J/errij r^am .icy Television Advocates Covet Butte; Big Blowup Hoped In a southerly direction. Four miles out Willamette's route; Stands a natural erection Sorely needing our protection, A mighty fortress: Spencer's Butte. Once a smoking, live volcano, Spewing lava streams afar; Now the hoys from KRED are screaming "Spencer’s Butte for TV beam ing! Come on up and drive your car." The first Eugene landmark that I noticed on coming to the University was Spencer’s Hutto, that 2000-foot p 1 u s timbered cone directly south of the campus and about four miles distant. I had to ask a number of native r-ugenians before one was able to tell me its name, but from the very start I was fasci nated by the intriguing "back yard” mountain. Furthermore, I very early made a supposition which I afn still inclined to believe: that Spencer’s Butte served as model for the great symbolic moun tain on the seal of the Univer sity of Oregon. Mens Agitat Molem" still means Mind Moves Spencer’s Butte, to rne, a situa tion I find a little hard to en visage. I don’t know how many other University students since 1576 have felt this kinship with the upthrust mass of Spencer’s Butte, and have memories of its seasonal shades: red-orange in fall, blue-black on rainy win ter mornings, sudden green in spring. But I suspect that a large portion of Oregon's alumni and undergraduates would im mediately take arms if they thought the private peak of their college days was in real jeopardy. Well, it could be: Eugene’s city council last week approved the construction of a television station on the summit of Spen cer’s Butte by station KEED, Springfield. Proponents of this action-suggest that more people would be thus able to enjoy the view from the Butte” and that "the view would look just as good whether you walk or drive to the top." Station KKEI>, long a late hour companion to I'nlvernHy student*, Is currently competing with other Interests to claim < honncl U. The awarding of a TV channel is up to the I T C, hut more important, KKKI) wants to place Its video station on Spencer’* Hutto, and Ku gene's city council has voted to approve such construction on the summit of its biggest city park. The first time I climbed Spen cer's Butte was in early fall we walked from campus one foggy afternoon and climbed up the steep meandering trail through a bank of gray clouds. But just as we reached the base of the rocky hog-buck that ex tends along the summit, the top most layer of fog blew away in shreds and we could see west to the coast, where the sun had just vanished in a blaze of red; and east to the fresit snow of the Cascades. .Just below the summit, a little haml of sheep grazed on the grassy flanks of the Butte. With an opaque plane of fog in tersecting the mountainside Just below' us, we felt as if we were floating above the rest of the sunset world, completely iso lated from the rest of Lane County and Eugene below us. If TYr should come to (he Hutto: replace the rocky, charm ingly primitive trail (good time: 20 mimiteH) with a spir.ll road, winding around the Itiittc on a 80-foot right-of-way cleared of trees, ferns and squirrels. Shave off (If you can imagine it) the, rugged hogback, with its hidden noonks a u d windbreaks and blackened firesites, and con struct three or four rambling buildings to hide the scars left by heavy construction ma chinery. <Continued on page 3) OREGON HAIRY EMERALD The Oregon Daily Kmerahl is published four times in September and five clays a week during the school year, except during examination and vacation periods, by the Student Publications Hoard of the Univer sity of Oregon. Kntered as second class matter at, the post office, Eugene, Ore gon. Subscription rates: $5 per year, $2 per term. Opinions expressed on the editorial page arc those of Tile Kmerahl anc^ do not pretend to represent the opinion of the ASUO or the University. PHIL HAGER, Editor BILL BKYANT, Business Manager
