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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)
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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.
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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)
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