From Seniors to Alumni
Two cheerful words which garner respect
and pleasure on the University campus are
spring and senior, and when these two
classic words are put together — Spring
term senior—a special significance is rec
ognized.
THIS PHRASE SPURS many a profes
sor and alumnus to recall memories and
good times, and many an underclassman to
express envy, hope and some despair over
the senior’s status. But the full personal
reflection on this term belongs to the senior
for he alone is experiencing “senioritis.”
A knot can form easily in the stomach of
the senior when he seriously considers that
his days of being an undergraduate are
almost over, and soon many and most of his
college ties will be broken.
Yet no one ever completely separates
himself from his college days. He will con
sciously strive to give his University mater
ial and moral support, and many times he
will unconsciously find himself reminiscing
of his college days and placing a high value
and pride in his Alma Mater.
This University, as well as most colleges,
has an organization which attempts to bring
its alumni into closer contact with the
school—the alumni association.
The Oregon Alumni Association was
founded in 18S0. James (Jim) Frost, a grad
uate of the class of ’42, who returned to the
University in 1955 to teach journalism, is
the Alumni Director. He directs an Associa
tion of 4,800 of which 1,200 are life mem
bers. The Alumni office has an address file
on 35,000 graduates of the University.
Just what does an alumni association do?
As paraphrased from a report by Ernest T.
Stewart, executive director of the American
Alumni Council in December, 1959, an alum
ni association has four essential purposes :
to represent the school in an "ambassador
ial'’ capacity, act as an advisory group, par
ticipate in getting excellent students to at
tend the college, and provide funds to
“strengthen the college’s resources.’’
THESE SERVICES WHICH the Ore
gon Alumni Association participates in con
tinuously advance the status and quality of
the University. But, alumni in the Associa
tion also receive many benefits. Close con
tact can be kept with the University
through “Old Oregon”—the alumni maga
zine ; preferred seating when purchasing
athletic season tickets is provided; and con
tinuous contact is maintained to help the
alumni know what is happening on the cam
pus.
A greater satisfaction is felt by many
alumni when they return to the campus for
Homecoming, Junior Weekend and other
festivities because they belong to the Alumni
Association.
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Membership in the Association can he
obtained in two ways: on a yearly basis or
for life. Life membership costs $66, quite
a bargain in this day and age, compared to
the membership charges of many colleges.
The other basis for membership is on a
one, two, or three year basis, and costs $4,
$7.50, and $10 respectively.
Any person who has attended the Uni
versity for one full term is entitled to
membership in the Alumni Association.
It is not just for graduating seniors to con
sider but for the entire student body. On
commencement day, the graduate would be
wise to take his diploma in one hand and
his alumni membership card in the other.
AS THE OREGON ALUMNI Associ
ation puts it: ‘‘Alumni membership can
bring that certain intangible but satisfying
inner reward of knowing that you have not
only helped advance the position of the
Alma Mater, but have increased the value
of a University of Oregon degree.”
No Tea Party
(The following editorial is taken from
the University of Minnesota Daily.)
When President-elect O. M. Wilson ar
rives here to take over, he’ll find himself
in the middle of a Board of Regents con
troversy that amounts to a lot of *empests
in a pot of tea.
AND IT'LL BE NO tea party for him
when the Legislature convenes next Jan
uary.
If he read his newspapers W ednesday, he
discovered that a legislator charged the Re
gents with violating the law by conducting
parts of their regular meetings in secrecy.
If he reads' his newspapers today, he’ll
discover that the University has cited vari
ous Supreme Court and Attorney General’s
rulings which support the right of the Re
gents to regulate their own meetings.
AND IF HE HAS PURSUED the matter
further and tried to determine where the
various papers stand on this "freedom of
the press" issue, he undoubtedly is even
more confused, for at least one leading news
man has supported closed Regents meetings.
Our opinion at this point—just in case
the President-elect wishes to consider it
along with others—is that it would benefit
the Regents and the University to try to
work the matter out peacefully in the next
few months, perhaps bv devoting a special
meeting or a part of a regular session to the
topic.
If an agreement or at least an understand
ing can be reached this year, it will be to
the University’s advantage when the rigor
ous legislative session begins.
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Letters to the Editor
Emerald Editor:
For an. institution which pub
licly expresses itself against
violations of academic freedom
the University of Oregon cer
tainly has a nasty stack of vio
lations against basic freedoms.
DU) YOU know that backing
into a parking space is an
offense punishable by $2 fine
or $2.50 if the authorities find
it necessary to take the money
out of your breakage fee ? Prob
ably you thought, as I did, that
backing into a parking space is
just as legal as heading into
one. Upon inquiring I have dis
covered that the officer who
is checking to see that our cars
have the proper stickers on
them cannot walk around to the
backs of them to make sure
that he can’t also catch us in
the more serious $10 offense
of using a parking lot without
an official U of O sticker.
I have also found that this
same delicate footed officer is
on the committee which reviews
the petitions of the indignant
students who are innocent
enough to this they will get a
"fair deal” if they feel that they
have been unjustly fined.
THIS IS NOT the first time
that the regulations concerning
campus parknig have come to
my attention as being just too
"far out” and unjust but I have
always heard that it is better to
pay the fine and not try to
fight back. The time has come
to think in other terms! If we
don’t fight back now things
won’t get better but they could
get worse.
Nan K. Wood
Graduate in
Mathematics
Emerald Editor:
I air. very glad to see that the
people in the editorial depart
ment are willing to take such
valuable space in the Emerald
to exploit with consistent and
excellent concern the glaring
situation of women’s apparel. It
is, perhaps, one of the most im
portant issues on campus. One
might say our clothing makes or
breaks us and is the only means
of telling whether or not we are
women and just how far we will
get in life.
IF WOMEN find it more com
fortable to study in such dispic
able apparel as Levis and sweat
shirts, they should surely con
fine themselves to their study
habitats. And if they should
during their tedious hours of
study find it helpful to make
occasional trips to the SU for
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Slide in Current Stock Prices
Affects Public Thinking
By SAM DAWSON
AP Business Now* Analyst
NEW YORK <*! The stock
market works on the mind as
well as the pocketbook. This
year's drop in stock prices of
10 per cent and more leads some
to sec it as signalling a break
in economic activity. Others
doubt if it is that gixKl a ba
rometer. holding that the break
was really a return to reality
after a spree.
BET THE slide is prices does
affect public thinking.
Many interpret it as meaning:
"Those guys down there must
have the inside dope." Others
are nervous because they recall
that in the more free-wheeling
past a panic on Wall Street
was the first inkling of a de
pression.
They forget three things:
• There has been no panic and
no hint of a coming depression.
• Numerous safeguards on
stock trading and on the move
ments of the general economy
now make comparisons with the
past of considerable less value.
• Corporate affairs are much
more a matter of public record
now than a generation ago when
only the insiders had the dope.
BET THE debate over how
good a barometer the stock mar
ket is of coming business ac
tivity will go on for some time.
Good or bad, it does affect con
fidence and spending plans, par
ticularly those of businessmen
setting inventory and invest
ment policies.
A study of past performances
of the stock market as a ba
rometer is offered in the April
survey of the Morgan Guaranty
Trust Co., New York.
IT NOTES that over the years
the curves of stock prices and
business activity generally have
tended to move in the same di
rection, with the stock curves
usually ahead of the business
one.
But it warns of two hazards
in jumping to conclusions:
• The relationship of the
curves varies widely in spe
cific cases;
• There have been false sig
nals in the stock market which
business ignored.
EVEN IN the big 1929 break,
stock prices turned down quite
a bit after business activity
had. The market didn’t lead.
And in 1945 and 1946 stocks
turned down and business ac
tivity continued to rise.
As an example of false sig
nals, the survey cites the long
price decline in the early 1930s
which "was punctuated by a
series of revivals, one of which
continued for five months and
was widely interpreted as fore
runner of business recovery un
til it gave way to another price
collapse.'*
A more recent example of the
stock market's flunking out as
a barometer came in the period
from August 1950 to February
1957.
The almost continuous seven
months' decline in stock prices
didn’t faze business activity. Fi
nally the market reversed itself
and climbed back to Us previous
peak.
Our Oonlem
\poraneA
With presidential primaries
and mock conventions in the aii,
Syracuse University announces
the results of the nation's first
university mock convention.
VICK PRESIDENT Nixon and
ex-Govemor Adlai Stevenson
were chosen on the second and
third ballots, respectively, to
become their party’s candidates
for the presidency. Henry Cabot
Lodge nosed out Nov York Sen
ator Kenneth Keating for the
GOP veep nod, while Massa
chusetts Senator John Kennedy
was named the Demo’c number
two man rtn the first ballot.
With the national nominating
conventions still three months
away these results hardly seem
significant, but they are inter
esting.
OREGON DAILY EMERALD
The Oregon Daily Emerald in published
four times in September and five days a
week during the school year, except dur- -*
jng examination and vacation periods, by
the Student Publications Board of the
University of Oregon. Entered as second
class matter at the post office, Eugene,
Oregon. Subscription fates: $5 per year, *~
%2 per term.
Opinions expressed on th-2 editorial page
are those of The Enierild and do not pre
tend to represent the opinion of the ASUO
or the University. k
LARRY KURTZ, Editor
KKRNAN TURNER, Managing Editor
RANNY GffrEEN, News Editor 4
AL HYNDING, Si>orts Editor
WARREN RUCKER, Butiness Manager
DON JEPSEN, Editorial Page Editor
STEVE MILLIKIN
Advertising Manager
TED MAIIAR, Assistant News Editor
SID LONG, Excangc Editor
KEITH POWELL, Feature pditor
EVERETT CUTTER,
Entertainn ent Editor ■»
ANNELLE DAVENPORT.
Women’s Editor
Circulation: Hugh Mitchell
Accounting: Gladys Altland <
GEORGE MOSHER, Photo Editor