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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1960)
Frosh Success With the recent turmoil in student gov ernment concerning the eligibility of stu dent body presidents, the role of students in campus government, et al, it was refreshing to hear of the fine progress at last Satur day’s Frosh Leader’s Conference. IF APATHY IS EXISTING at some levels of student government, at least it is not evident to any great extent at the fresh man class level: no less than 150 students showed up for the well planned day of dis cussions( more than three times the number that turned out for last year's frosh con ference). A large amount of the credit should be given to hardworking officers of the fresh man class, who managed to make the pro gram Saturday such a success. Student leaders don’t just materialize at the junior and senior levels where many of the important campus offices become avail able. They are trained through active parti cipation. through learning about their cam pus in the crucial freshman year, where so much of the channeling into living organiza tions, fields of academic and social interest is dong. THE SPEAKERS at Saturday’s frosh conference indicate the freshman classes’ interest in finding out about the many phases of campus life they are being initi ated into. We hope the enthusiasm shown by the freshman class at their Saturday conference will rub off on the rest of the student body and so pave the way for a more responsible student government. Last Ditch Stand? The bitter struggle in South Africa has produced yet another plan to maintain white supremacy in an area dominated ten to one by Negroes. According to an Associ ated Press report the government of wound ed Prime Minister Hendrik F. Verwoerd will embark upon on a large scale program to bring in white immigrants. An interior minister has claimed that increased immi gration is “of the utmost importance for the union.” FOR MANY YEAS South Afirca's im migration laws have been unfavorable to the settlement of English speaking persons in South Africa. 'Phis has been primarily be cause of the fear the)- would vote against the nationalist government run by men of Dutch descent. Now, with the country gripped by a bitter conflict, and as the realization looms that many citizens are poised and ready to flee at any moment, the cry has gone out for additional immigrants. You must admit the prospects aren't de signed to attract an eager flood of settlers. THE PROPONENTS of apartheid sound like they have their backs to the wall, llar rassed by world censorship, dependant upon native labor, it looks like the beginning of the end for the strict segregationist policies of the present government. That these men cannot seem to realize this fact can only lead to tragic conseeptences before a settle ment is reached. Poor Old Joe According to what we hear on radio and television, it's small wonder so many of America’s finest got lost in London, fleeced in Panama and Scollay Square and never did manage to find the enemy. THE POOR FELLOW, by and large, must have been too dumb to eat breakfast in the morning without being bugled in to the mess hall. This doesn't square with our recollection of the American soldier and sailor, but the Veterans Administration apparently is pay ing for ads pleading with the GI on pension, or getting VA checks for school, to leave a forwarding address w hen he moves—so he’ll get his check on time. THE CREAM OF AMERICAN Man hood, as we remember him, would leave not one, but two or three forwarding addresses if he thought money might be forthcoming. Either the veteran has changed, the wel fare state has lulled him into somnolence— or they’re giving that money to the wrong peopie. <2)o« ^epsen University Participation Assured in NDEA The question over whether the University should withdraw from the National Defense Edu cation Act has been^settled. Ore gon will continue to participate under strong protest—but none theless, participate. THE DECISION wasn’t easy, if one is to judge by the length of recent faculty meetings. Strong arguments for withdraw ing — un-American, presumes guilt until proven innocent — were balanced by equally force ful pleas for remaining in the program. The latter point of course, boils down to the ques tion of money. That the University chose the more practical course does not seem surprising, although some of the more liberal institutions which have already withdrawn might have a name for it. Where else is this school going to ob tain funds so readily when you consider that the loan program here can’t begin to compare in terms and amounts available with that national behemoth called the Federal government. OREGON, in the throes of ex pansion and eager to attract competent students in both the graduate and under-graduate level, must have something to offer them. Accepting open handed offers from the Federal government is much easier than wresting funds from a tight listed legislature which, of ne cessity, must strive to distribute tax monies in the fairest manner possible. Will this short and practical view hinder in the future the right of academic choice? Pos sibly. Maybe a precedent has been set that in the coming years will be difficult to break. On the other hand, Oregon did come to grips with the problem which, with the exception of Reed College in Portland, no other school in the Northwest has done to any sufficient de gree. The University has also gone down on record as strongly opposed to the affidavit, on the loan fund and on other fellow ship programs emanating from Federal agencies. An ad hoc committee has been established to work for the removal through Congress of two part loyalty oaths. WITH THE nation's intellec tuals bearing down on Congress, and Senator John Kennedy’s bill for removal of the affidavit due for imminent consideration, we can only hope the results of the full-fledged academic campaign may soon be realized. SiJ X OUR CONTEMPORARIES THE UNIVERSITY of Cin cinnati News Record ran an April Fools Day issue with a booming headline: “Oscar Leaves, Tuition Goes Up.” Before reading further and finding out that due to Oscar Robertson’s "graduation and several NCAA rulings, tuition will be raised next year $25 per student” was only an April 1st prank, it sounded just about as believable as another April Fool Day paper which neaVly con vinced many students that Dwight D. Eisenhower would be the new president of the Uni versity of Oregon. Technology News, from the Illinois Institute of Technology report.3 the following from a student poll: ‘Q: Did you attend any of the Student Union Board sponsored free hour movies? YES: 16; No: 57. Q: Would you like to see these movies continued ? YES: 58; No: 2. Little Man on Campus *Tf ycu expect to te*:h fpe5haw/ buop -touu hav^ to l6aw to expect SiORO AftoWSR* Harvest Time on College Hill; Students Look to Bright Future By HA I, HOYLK CHAPEL HILL. N.C. i.P It's about harvest time in the meadows of learning. AMERICA’S greatest spring crop its college graduating classes- is matured and ready to seek its own place in the golden granary of time. The I960 crop looks like a record one in terms of both quantity and quality. Critics of our younger gen eration might fee! better about our nation's future if they would take the trouble right now to go and see how these "hopes of tomorrow” really measure up. I did just that the other day during a visit here to the Uni versity of North Carolina, which has won over the years an en larging recognition as one of the great pastures of the mind and spirit. CHAPEL HILL has always had a tradition of relaxed free dom and wide culture, and the late Thomas Wolfe war only one of many creative minds that have found inspiration here. For any middle-aged man his return to a college campus is always a kind of journey into Australia. But it can teach him a few things loo. The campus at Chapel Hill is beautiful. The walks are shaded by trees so old they are like shrines in leaf. The buildings, a mixture of architectures, blend in a friendly weathered warmth. BUT ON THUS walk upon this day it was the students, not the mellow atmosphere of the campus, that kindled in me a reverie of comparison. One does not like to be un fair to his own youth, but on the other hand it is not wise ever to get the idea that all that was best in the world died with it. Looking around at the stu dents I passed, pausing now and then to listen to them, I had the teeling they were su perior to the college students of my own generation. It wasn’t only that they had more height and perhaps more health. They had an air of easy assurance and self-confidence visible even to an outsider. IN MY I»EPRESSION-haunt ed generation the fear of being unable to find a job after graduation often made the last two years in college miserable; We hated to leave alma mater because we feared the world had no place for us. At one bull session I can re call a group of aeniors deciding that if they could sign up right then for a guaranteed income of $200 a month for life they would be glad to do so. These students here would strike no such frightened bar gain. They are hopeful, and they believe in themselves. M.\NV WM C’ATOHS defend this college generation as per haps the best In our history, and I am inclined to go along with this view rather than with those doom-criers who hold we have raised a generation of spoiled milksops. Returning from my stroll I had no desire to relive my own college days. One time of youth Is enough for one life. I felt no tinge of envy for these young men and women But I did feel that the world they so soon will set forth to better will fare no worse at their hands than It has at ours. Letters to the Editor Deer Edlter: My Ma read in ur paper that she was supposen to weer dressy cottens for Junier Weekend. As clnse I s Just a froshrnan down heer at the University, she < my Ma) was hoping to get down for the feativltees. Howsomever, she ain't got no dressy cottens. We all is Just poor farmin folk and caint af ford such fancies. Supposin she were to come down, wood it be uwright for her to wear her overalls ifn she premisses to warsh them? She sals she will bring down her ner paar that aint really two deity. Sincerly yourn ■Urn Dutcher Stoodent in. gracious livin OREGON DAILY EMERALD The Oregon Daily Kmerald is published four times in SeptemlxT and five days a week during the school year, except .lur ing examination and vacation periods, by the Student Publications Board of the University of Oregon. Entered as second class matter at the post offi.e, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription xates: |5 per year) $2 per term. Opinions expressed on the editorial page arc those of The F.r.ieri Id and do not pre tend to represent the opinion of the ASUO or the University. LARRY KURTZ, Editor WARREN RUCKER, Business Manager RANNY GREEN, News Editor AL IIYNDING, Sports Editor
