Inactivity needs revision,
not activities, says Horn
Kd Not**: Robert Horn, pro
fotMor of Knglhth, ww award
ed the Friar’** «cr**ll Haturday
night an their choice for out
standing professor. A* the key
note speaker for this year’s
AWH Honor's Assembly, he
maintained that aetlvltles are
valuable to the campus. Here
nre some of his observations
on aetlvltles, students and ath
letles.
By ROBERT D. HORN
I am mildly bothered. Bothered
by the recent depreciatory corn
menu on "activities." Does this
mean someone didn’t get a cup,
pin, or certificate? I thought
there were enough for everyone.
At any rale I know where you
can buy them for reasonable
prices.
But that doesn’t mean you can
buy activity. Aren't publications
activity? And dehatlng? And
student body office-holding? Or
even studying? It's inactivity
that bothers me. I suppose we’ve
got plenty of that. If you don’t
want to do what the other fel
low's doing- that’s activity in a
bad sense. You can be Just as in
active In not sharing the life of
the University, even sports, as
you can In not even trying to find
out how to get Into the library.
Inactivity is bad; just mental,
moral, social, and physical nothin'.
Mystic* wanted
To be sure, some activities are
more important and constructive
than others, particularly my ac
tivity*! Since I've never got the
answer. I've always assumed that
Mystie-selling isn’t on the Heifetz
level. If I ruggest that I've un
derstood that they are sold to
celebrate Be-Unkind-to-Y our
Stomach Week. I may be betray
ing raw ignorance.
I've never eaten (I'm assuming
they are eaten) a Mystic. I want
to live. To me they look like the
orphaned apples from a railway
station vending machine, em
balmed in a mixture of linoleum
paste ann crankcase oil. But atiil
I don't see why selling them
should not merit point#. After all,
one of tne basic dividends of col
legiate education is Instruction in
the Art of Survival. Eaten or left
alone, to come through Mystie
Week alive means that the stu
dent has made some progress.
Fete valuable
Then there’s the complaint that
much of lilt work on Canoe Fete
floats is oartly drudgery. Is any
thing that's really worth doing
not about 90 per cent drudgery?
Where else do students (men and
women together) produce any
thing as breath-taking as that
tremendous blue and white snell
for Gold Beach? Who will ever
forget that stupendous dinosaur,
chewing on his fireball, and then
going up in flamer of glory?
Sure sports are an activity.
I am worried here, having re
cently seen a machine for serving
tennis balls. When they get one
to return ’em too, what a pipe
course that will be. But I’m not
worried about the value of what
I saw Messers Otis, Grelle, Ed
strom, Miller, and company doing
!aat Saturday. Coach Bill Bower
man does worry me. All he did
wan ait and Watch, except for
occasionally doing easy sums in
arithmetic with a pencil. Still I
must admit it is a real thrill to
know that somehow his boys
turn out to be among the best
athletes in the world. Am I sup
posed to be ashamed about that?
Athletics re-pay
I've had athletes in class, from
Iron Mike Mikulak, now a gen
eral in our armies in a position
of enormous responsibility, to Bill
Dellinger, and George Shaw, to
Erika Schmoll (dance i. I haven't
found out yet that they are the
worse for it. And please tell me
where there is any activity or
non-activity that demands such
personal cleanliness, sound health,
such a clear head and eye, such
a readiness to give yourself, as
these so-called physical activities.
Okay, you answer, you want
more activities, more and more—
and more, is that it? Certainly
not. I don’t want more, nor less.
I Just look at the activity,
what it does to the activator, and
what It contributes to your dandy
little community. I haven't an
atom of assurance that if we
abolished sports, publications, stu
dent government, or even queen
contests, that there would be any
more students studying.
Needs evaluation
Students nre young, aren't
they? All except the tired-out,
inactive types, the kind that look
like candidates for the Used Car
Lot. But then what about all
those little frittering activities.
Well I agree that probably some
might be forgotten, or probably
that more people should help;
carry the load. Nevertheless that's
the way it is in your own home
town. A small percentage are in
there pitching when you have to
raise funds for the needy, put on
^ public event or do anything
that everybody thinks ought to be
done but that it would be nice to
let anybody else do
Emphasis placed on results
I mentioned football. If I ever
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By AKLKN'E SAUNDEKH
Women’s News Editor
Alpha Phi
The engagement of Mimi Goldsmith, senior in English
education, to Hill Miller was announced May 17, at the
Alpha Phi house.
The centerpiece was a blue, white and silver floral arrange
ment around blue candles in silver candelabras. Miller, a
1958 graduate, is presently a DuPont advertising agent. The
wedding is planned for July, I960.
Alpha XI Delta
'l he names of Carol Hollister and Xeal Campbell were
printed on napkins and matches, distributed as favors at the
engagement announcement, May 16.
Miss Hollister is a junior in business administration .and
her fiance is a junior art major. The wedding date has been
set for next spring.
Delta Delta Delta
Dottie Quinn, senior in business education, announced her
engagement to Jerry Ramsey, Theta Chi senior in English,
May 15, at an after-hours party.
Pansy rings with the couple’s picture inside were given
as favors. I’oth Mr-. Quinn and Mrs. Ramsey were present
for the announcement. The couple is planning an August
wedding.
Gamma Phi Beta
A candle decorated with pink rosebuds and bearing the
SAE pin of Pete Givas was passed by Karlene Quinstad,
May 4.
Miss Quinstad is a junior in education. Givas is a junior
architecture major.
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Eleanor Johnson, senior in business, announced her en
gagement to Hob Dickson, Alpha Tau Omega senior eco
nomics major, April 19.
The theme, “April Showers,” was carried out in favors
of pink and white parasols. Pink angel hair, cherry blossoms,
and parasols filled with roses made up the center piece. The
wedding date has been set for September 12, after which
the couple will go to Lackland Air Force Base in San An
tonio, Texas.
Smith Hall
A pink candle decorated with lilies of the valley and car
nations was passed May 11, by Wanda Horodyski to an
nounce her Aigagement to Pete McKee, a math major from
Beaverton. He is graduating this year from Portland State.
Miss Horodyski, a junior transfer from Portland State, is
a retail major and wilt attend school in California where
the couple will live after their September wedding.
University House
Susan Huh, senior in art education, has announced her en
gagement to Young Coo Lee, a Tau Kappa Epsilon who is
presently doing graduate work at Columbia in International
law. A June wedding is planned.
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