Announcement of Policy
The writer who this morning taxes over the administration duties
of the Oregon Daily Emerald realizes that one of his most important
and difficult tasks will be to maintain the tradition of quality and
superiority that has existed for more than a decade. He also is aware
of the fact that it will be incumbent upon him to add to that tra
dition to the utmost of his ability. That this may be accomplished
he pledges the sincere efforts of himself and his staff to the highly
interesting endeavor that lies ahead.
It also is the ambition of the writer to add another chapter to
the already notable record of the Emerald. Both he and his editorial
assistants hope to publish a paper that will be fearless, yet tactful;
interesting, yet informative; attractive, yet practical; sympathetic,
yet unbiased.
It is still too early to ascertain the policies of the Emerald in
connection with specific situations and projects. The writer only
can set forth the major premises on which the paper will operate.
He hopes these will meet with the approval of the campus, for he is
sure their fulfillment will mean a better college newspaper.
The greater portion of the Emerald’s columns will'be devoted to
news that directly concerns the students of the University. Campus
items will not be subordinated to leave space for stories that are
covered adequately in the metropolitan dailies.
To give the paper balance, a certain amount of national news will
be used. This will be mostly of a feature and opinionated nature,
thereby giving the students a closer insight into the affairs of the
nation than could be provided by the editorial board of the Emerald.
Criticism will be along constructive lines. Personalities will be
avoided as much as possible in editorial comment.
The editor and his aides will debate and consider thoroughly before
taking any definite stands. Once an opinion is given, the paper will
not be afraid to reverse itself should it be shown its error, but it
will not vacillate in its arguments if it believes it is in the right.
The Emerald has no entangling alliances. There are no strings
attached to it.
The paper will have the courage of its convictions. The fear of
criticism or opposition will not deter it from crusading, provided
it believes its crusade is justified.
The Emerald will be conservative in whatever it does. Radical
opinions and bolshevik tendencies will have places in neither its
news nor editorial columns. It is the opinion of the writer that a
paper can oppose an existing order without turning radical in
doing so.
A spade will be called a spade. There ■will be no beating around
the bush. If the Emerald is opposed to something, it will say so.
In conclusion, the editor and his staff offer whole-hearted and
sincere cooperation to the students of the University. Oregon faces
a crucial year, and the Emerald will put forth its best foot in an
attempt to maintain student morale on its usual elevated plane.
The esprit de corps of the University will gain, rather than suffer,
through the activities of the Emerald.
The latchstring of the editor’s office is always out. He will wel
come criticism and suggestion from any member of the student
body. The students will be the prime consideration of the Oregon
Emerald. Their interests will be served at all times.
The appearance of the paper has been changed slightly. There
are considerably more pictures and the makeup has been checked
more closely. The staff hopes these alterations meet with your
approval.
RICHARD L. NEUBERGER
(Editor, 1932-1933)
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- A DAY AT THE ZOO -
By BOB FUNK
Emerald Columnist
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON.
Eugene, Dec. 8, 1954 Out in the
mountain vaatnesaes of Ap
proaching Hysteria, where most
[ of the landscape was devoted to
tlora and fauna and effervescent
streams cascading from mossy
rock with gurgling sounds, a
Student woke up in the middle of
the night with u cold, clammy
feeling.
Anyone was like to wake up
with a cold, plummy feeling in
Approaching Hysteria, because
there was a funny kind of cold
clams that crawled into bed with
you unless you had a zipper for
the top. Rut this was a figura
tive cold-clammy feeling.
Perhaps, the Student thought
to himself (and this is not in
quotes because he was thinking it
:nsidc, which is not quotish), I
am having a sudden Fit of De
! clensions. And he took a special
! gritty powder that his Grandma
had given him on Groundhog Day
that was supposed to be good for
Fits of Declensions. It didn’t do
anything but settle, though. And
then he thought perhaps he was
having an attack of Tort, and he
gargled with some charged
branch water, but as usual swal
lowed it ail about halfway
through, so he had to give that
I -JP
And then he remembered. It
was about to be Finals. And Fin
als was something that If you had
a choice of sitting on a Bunsen
Burner for twelve hours until
well browned or taking Finals,
you would sit on a Bunsen Burn
er and luugh heartily all the time
you were browning. Finals was
the time you tried to remember
Pi equula 3. Blunk-spots-ln-my
notes, and the Cosine of an Whoo
sis Is determined by finding the
square root of Your Own True
Love and then laughing hysteric
ally.
He remembered that he had
gone to see his professor about
finals. He hud found the profes
sor in the library, filed under Mis
cefiany, Unbound, by the Dewey
Decimal System.
“How do you figure out If a
poem is written by Shelley, or
by Keats, or if it was Just acci
dental?"
“We have to be intellectually
honest," the professor said, chew
ing abstractly on a verb. "It’s all
relative, nowadays. No black and
1 white, just shades of gray. It isn’t
like the old days when Joan of
Arc and Teddy Roosevelt and
Charles Carrol of Carrolton were
around. You knew good from bad,
Keats and Shelley in those days.
But now all the old gang's gone,
and it’s all Relativity."
"But how do you tell
"Keats from Shelley." The pro
fessor sighed. "I always look at
the top of the page It tells lit
my book."
"But on the final ?”
"Intellectual honesty always
wins," tlu* professor said. "J reud
that, I think.”
Whieh left the Student feeling
like there was penicillin or some
thing growing on the wall of his
stomach. Finals. The word envel
oped and overjiowereu' him; It ran
up his s pine and whispered
through his hair; it crawled Into
Ills nose and smelled awful. And
then, suddenly, there was a shush,
shush, r.hush through the pine
needles outside (they lufd fallen
off some of the florin, and a voice
sang out Into the night, and then
another, and another, and then a
whole mc*a more:
"God rest ye, weary Student
here a-restlng midst your wor
ries;
For Christmns now Is almost
here with egg-nog and snow-flur
ries;
Although In this abnormal
clime we‘11 likely Just have rain;
But rain or snow, this seaaon
is an anodyne for pain
A rising from your being djmb
in your examinations;
(Continued on pa'if II)
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