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
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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
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RANNY GREEN, News Editor
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