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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1960)
Utiwyiiriy ® EMERALD Search for a President Friends of Oregon State College can be thankful that, in resigning the presidency of the college, A. L. Strand gave a year’s no tice. Certainly in that length of time a qual ified successor can be found. The search will be of interest to all Oregon residents, how ever, not just to those who wear orange and black to football games. For Oregon State College, we hope, will remain an important institution for the education of Oregon young people and for service to the lumber ing, industrial, agricultural communities of the state. President Strand, with 18 years of ser vice, has been president of a major state ins titution longer than any except three men in Oregon history. Only B. L. Arnold and Wil liam Jasper Kerr at Oregon State and Prince Campbell at the university exceeded his long service. In that much time, a man gets to be pretty well known, as Mr. Strand is in every corner of Oregon. His successor will spend many years on the job before he can possib ly attain the high level of personal popular ity that Mr. Strand has achieved—and that he has used so to the benefit of the college. When Met Wilson resigned as president of the university last winter, he told report ers that he was irritated by the talk of friends who kept saying, “We want another one just like Met.” Far from that, Mr. Wil son insisted , the alumni should want a dif ferent type man, a man who would bring a new element into the development of the un iversity. Such, we would think, would be the wish, also, of the partisans of Oregon State. Great institutions should bear the stamp not oi one man. dui oi a succession. So what kind of man do we need at Ore gon State? (And be noted here that we do not apologize for asking “do We need.” We do need him. The whole state does.) We should like to see the state again pick a man who is distinguished in a special field, as Mr. Strand is distinguished in entomology. Such a choice helps assure that good facul ty will continue to be attracted there, for one of the truisms of higher education is that “good faculty goes where good faculty is.” Also, he should have had experience in higher education. This is no job for a green horn. Oregon deserves ,a first-class institution in the image of Oregon State College. We should like to see a man who puts quality foremost in his blueprint for his college. Ac ross the nation, colleges and universities are getting not only larger, but also better. It doesn't take a genius these days to make a college big. The birth rate and prosperity take care of that. But it does take a good man to so employ the limited funds at his disposal that he creates a distinguished in stitution. Oregon, with limited resources and a seemingly inexhaustible supply of youngs ters, can’t squander its precious educational dollars. There should be no room for em pire building. We have in this state a unified system of higher education. This means that various institutions share the educational task, each performing the functions it can perform best. We hope the state board of higher education, in hiring a new man un derstands this concept and, equally import ant. that he sympathizes with it. We shall need, for Mr. Strand's job, a man with a will of iron, a man who will fear neither his own faculty nor his own alumni. For Oregon State College, for better or worse, has a faculty and an alumni that can be troublesome. The faculty, more’s the pity, suffers from an unwarranted inferiority com plex because Oregon State College is not an institution at which everything under the sun is taught. The alumni suffer from the same unfortunate feeling. Together they put terrific pressure on the president, causing him to ask for expansions that are plainly unwarranted by the facts. Higher education in Oregon is not a Saturday football game, in which score is kept. It’s serious, and ex pensive, business. One more thing: time. The board has shown it will not be rushing into finding a successor for Mr. \\ ilson at the university. And that is fine. We want the best man we can get. However, time is not unlimited. It is fair neither to an institution nor to a tem porary chief to wait too long. The institut ion suffers when needed long-range plan ning is deferred. And the man is put in a bad spot when he has more responsibility than he has authority. The quest, so far fruitless, for a university president has pos sibly acquainted the board with some of the available men, perhaps with men who, though unsuited for the university presi dency, are just right for Oregon State. Let’s hope so. For both schools need good pres idents, and need them promptly, if Oregon education is to advance with the crowded years ahead. (reprinted from the Eugene Register Guard) /fames --- Khrushchev’s Actions at UN Reviewed (AP)-—Premier Khrushchev’s actions — by all the orderly standards of the United Nations —have been abnormal. It seems fair now to ask: How much bal ance does he have? FOK 22 DAYS in this coun try, instead of appealing to rea son and fairness, Khrushchev has tried repeatedly to obtain what he wants by threats. Whether or not his fits of an ger are real or for effect, his purpose has been to intimidate. One after another his pro posals have been frustrated. Each frustration seems to have driven him to a new excess. He could have presented his ideas in one well arranged pack age. Instead, he seems to have improvised, thinking up new extremes as he went along. IF HE FOLOWS through on some of his threats, then his main accomplishments in vis iting the United Nations has been to wreck it. He said he wanted disarma ment. But he also said he want ed Secretary-General Dag Ham marskjold thrown out and re placed by a three-man secretar iat, one representing commu nism, one the West, and one the neutrals. Then he coupled disarma ment with Hammarskjold. Khru shchev said that if he didn't get the three-man secretariat, then there could be no disarma ment. EVEN THE DULLEST UN delegate could see what Khru shchev wanted was not really a three-man, balanced secretariat but a hunting license. If Russia tried an adventure anywhere in the world and the three secretaries sat down to discuss action to stop it, the secretary representing commu nism could prevent with a veto anything the other two secre taries wanted to do. As time passed and Khrush chev saw he was making no progress on this, he went much further than just saying there would be no disarmament un less he got his three-man secre tariat. HE SAW THAT unless he got it—even though every other nation voted against him — “we shall uphold our interests outside this international body, outside the UN by relying on our own strength.” What are Russia’s “inter ests”? They could be anything Khrushchev wanted them to be. This threat, if carried out, will in effect wreck the United Na tions, leaving it a kind of shad ow organization. It is not only his continuing threats but also his seeming ob session with the idea of war, destruction and death which seems peculiarly abnormal. He never stops talking about it, linking it obliquely with h i s threats. HE HAS lost at every turn, on everything he wanted at the United Nations. Now the world has to wait to see whether he makes good on his threats. Little Man on Campus '-APTFfc LOOKUP OVt* THESE TEST PAPES*?-J'P SaTSOMCCF YttJ COULD WELL AffORP TO WT MPBE ATT6f*nOfJ lN CLASS.' Letters to the Editor Emerald Editor: In answer to criticism of their climb on Three Finger Jack, the leaders of that climb para phrased from a standard moun taineers guide to Three Finger Jack, what they considered to be a standard and safe proce dure for the ascent of that mountain. I CAN ONLY plead that this was by no means a •'standard" ascent, in view of the very un standard ratio of experienced to inexperienced climbers. Clearly, there is involved here a question of standards. The mountaineering guide that these men based their climb on was written as a rule of thumb for well equipped par ties with a solid core of experi enced leadership; making no pretense as being a set of in flexible laws. There are inflexible laws in mountaineering, e.g. A climber will never do anything that might endanger the members of his, or other parties. These “laws” however, only have a tendency to make all else ex tremely relative. Relative to the parties: physical condition, experience, equipment, etc.; and even to the state of the diges tive processes of each climber. IT 18 BECAUSE of these multiple, varying, conditions that I have concluded “stand ard" climbs do not exist; for on such climbs some very in teresting things can happen. I know a fellow who climbed a certain mountain many times. Each time he sat down to eat his lunch on a particular boul der. On the many’ith plus 1 time, the boulder took off down hill, the climber with it. His life was saved because he and his friends were familiar with these annoying little actB of Giod, and had put up with the inconvenience of eating while still roped up. This illustrates two points; (1) A climb made last year can only serve as a rule of thumb for this year’s :limb. (2) Experienced leaders •an counteract improbabilities prior to their occurrance. It is the leaders’ responsi lility to see that all dangers ire circumvented in the most efficient possible manner. And :his, after a rather extended di gression, brings us down to the dinib in question. 1. There were lot enough ropes. 2. There were lot enough experienced climb ers. 3. Individual members were 11 equipped: proper boots, ten essentials, etc. 4. And last, there were four inexperienced wom en along. (An experience* 1 mountaineering female on level ground can be uwfully unpre dictable.) THE LEADERS of this climb made a few minor error*. The big one* urc easy to see, so the small ones are the ones that get you. VV. Smith, Junior, Fre-Metl. • • • Kin*-raid Editor: After casually reading Mr. Glenn's lengthy letter, we felt as though we had missed the answer to his opening query re garding the purpose of the University of Oregon. However, on second reading, I blaming il logical conclusions, falaries and half truths on an inaccurate translation from the original greek manuscript), we discov ered that it wasn't only a ram bling tirade against all ma jors outside the field of Liberal Arts, but he also claimed that the Liberal Arts majors were scholars, and all others were ‘‘Caged Rats.’’ SINCE THE intelligence of all non-Libera1 Arts majors has been questioned by this self appointed scholar - philosopher who began his illustrious col lege career two long weeks ago, I accept Mr. Glenn's challenge to defend a major course of study directed toward a future occupation. Our first point is to prove that we “Rats” can also be scholars! While composing his letter, Mr. Glenn undoubtedly referred to Mr. Webter’s defi nition of the word scholar, ‘‘One who learns of a teacher or is under a preceptor; hence, one distinguished for the pursuit and possession of knowledge; a (Continued on page 3) OREGON DAILY EMERALD The Oregon paily Emerald in published four time* m September and five day# a week during the school year, except dur ing examination and vacation periods, by the Student Publications Hoard of the university of Oregon. Entered as second class matter at the post office, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates: $5 per year, $2 per term. Opinions expressed on the editorial page are those of 'Inc Emerald and do not pre tend to represent the opinion of the ASUO or the University. KERNAN R. 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