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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1960)
Sexy Movies? Editorially, the Portland State Van guard shouted, “Perhaps instead of satirists, and world renowned folk singers, art films and noted lecturers, we should bring rock ’n-roll singers, sexy films, and so-called popular comics to our thriving, intellectual campus.” THIS SARCASTIC comment came after a week of featuring prominent lecturers, folk-singers, and films at Portland's Fine Arts Festival. When we read this the immediate im pression was that every campus seems to have the same problems when it comes to deciding what students consider culture. At a university such as ours, the student body is broken up into segments of inter est. Each school within the University has its particular interests. Artists are prone to ignore lecturers from- the business world and vice-versa. ON THE OTHER HAND, when the vis iting lecturer or performer is someone with a big name the crowds and interest seem to rise. When famous persons come to this University there is usually a large crowd present. Examples are when Kennedy visit ed in the spring of 1959 and when Mrs. Roosevelt gave a lecture on Russia a cou ple of years ago. Sometimes the judgment of the assembly planners goes astray. Recent examples are Carlos Montoya and the Travelers Three. Montoya was given the relatively small Ballroom in the SU and tickets rapidly sold out. Persons stood up to hear him. The local folk-singers were given MacCourt and there was plenty of room for many, many more students to attend. ROCK-’N-ROLL singers and sexy films (whatever they are) are not what we think the University student will find interesting. The University has done a good job of fering varied cultural events for the stu dent body. Whereas the Browsing Room and Tuesday Assembly lecturers are not usually "big" names, the rooms where they lecture are not big either. This kind of plan ning makes it possible for each segment of the student body to find something to draw its interest. THE UNIVERSITY should be com mended for the many modes of expression it allows in lectures and concerts. The only thing lacking is the presence of more “big” name entertainers and talkers. Portland State can have the rock-’n-roll singers and sexy movies. We think the Uni versity has thrown off its high school inter ests and is willing to take on some of the famous folk singers and lecturers. Oregon Union We used to think that the only outside of-class contact that the faculty had with students was a chance meeting in Maxie’s or at some house dance. WE SMILED the other day when we heard the SU Forum Committee was pro posing a program that would “provide an intellectual closeness” between faculty and students. Robert Forsyth, forum committee chair man, calls this program “Oregon Union.” It is supposed to be modeled from Oxford University’s Oxford Union debating society. THE COMMITTEE assures us that this Oregon, Union isn’t the old, run-of-the-mill debate program. The idea is that maybe once or twice a term, some University stu dents w'ill debate with or against some mem bers of the faculty. The committee consid ers typical topics for debate ranging from '‘.Recognition of Red China” to “The Worth of the Fraternity System.” The Oregon Union would actually be a moot English House of Commons. Univer sity students would watch the debate be tween the faculty-student teams, then watch the rest of the Union membership debate openly. The real action of the debate is ex pected to occur when the chairman opens the debate for full participation. THIS AFTERNOON the planning group of the proposed Union is going to meet again to discuss the feasibility for this pro gram of “intellectual closeness.” We hope that the program is established—it sounds like a good idea. Government Issues Reports Which Say Nation’s Business in October ‘Not Too Bad’ By HENRY i. BECHTOLD UPI Financial Editor Business in October was not too bad after all, according to reports issued by the govern ment. THERE WAS no decisive up trend but neither was there a definite downswing. Individual American incomes rose to new peaks last month despite new payroll cutbacks in manufacturing industries. High er wage and salary payments in construction, retail trade and government more than offset OREGON DAILY EMERALD The Oregon Daily Emerald is published four times in September and five days a week during the school year, except dur ing 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 rates: $5 per year, $2 per term. Opinions expressed on the editorial page are those of The Emerald and do not. pre tend to represent the opinion of the ASUO or the University. KERNAN R. TURNER. Editor STEVE MILLIKIN, Business Manager JIM BOYD, Managing Editor TED MAHAR, News Editor I.OUIS TURK. Advertising Manager DULCY MORAN. KEITH POWELL Assistant News Editors AL HYNDINGj RON BUilL Sports Editors EDITORIAL BOARD Keman Turner, Ted Mahar, Keith Pow ell, A1 Hynding, Marge Langenes, Fred Crafts, Jim Boyd, Ron Buel, Clary Sala, Howard McGlasson, Sue Hunter. the dip in factory payrolls, ac cording to a commerce depart ment report. Industrial production, after declining for two months, lev elled off as stepped-up auto out put offset declines elsewhere. Retail sales, the bulwark of the 1960 economy, perked up but still ran substantially behind the pace set earlier this year. WITH A week and a half left in November there doesn’t seem to be any chance of a decisive upward trend in the economy. There may even be another dip if the recent trend in many of the major business barometers continues. Steel mills continued to oper ate at around 51 per cent of ca pacity and there are no signs of a pickup. The auto industry, a major steel consumer, has had good response to its 1961 mod els. But stocks are at a record high for this time of the year and already there have been an nouncements of plant shutdowns for inventory adjustment. RAIL AND truck loadings slipped again, as did coal pro duction and bank clearings, but electricity output and crude oil production posted small gains. Retail sales dipped somewhat from year ago levels as unseas onably warm weather in many areas discouraged consumer buying of many lines of winter merchandise. John K. Galbraith, president elect Kennedy’s top economic adviser, said the economy is be having “at a far more satisfac tory level.” He suggested fur ther easing of interest rates, and more active highway building and urban redevelopment pro grams as ways of pumping life into the economy. But another noted economist said that with the Democratic platform not receiving a firm mandate, the social and econo mic promises of increases in spending may not receive suf ficient support in the Congress. HE ADDED that this country may not see increases in spend ing for urban renewal, hous ing, medical care, and agricul ture. Most of the experts now agree on mid-1961 as the time for business revival. A decline of only three per cent in spending by business for new plant and equipment in 1961 to 35 billion dollars apparently has elimin ated one of the major concerns in the business outlook. Little Man on Campus --- , " t virtJ.nr fGAVtiCt loom 2* *Ug WANT* TO KNOW AANYTHIN Ft*. STKlN^ -TWO ANP PKUM*. * Our OonlemporarieA Student Drinking Concept Said More Like ‘Drunking’ (From lh« Brit Kb Co lumbia I'bysaey) Ever since jolly, fat, Bacchus discovered the spirits derived from luscious green and blue grapes, the world has been drowned in a sea of wine, scotch, whiskey, rum, gin. vod ka, tequila, and various bever ages concocted by the ingenious mixing of this with that. THE HAPPY OIJI Greek un knowingly endowed humanity— the masses, rather—-with the past-time of social and unsocial drinking. The habit of downing gallon-jugs of red wine was developed to the utmost in the times of Nero and that dear old lascivius dame, Cleapatra, re portedly saw the bottom of many a wine-skin herself. Of course in the good old days, drinking was only next to sex in being the prime goal In every man's and women’s life. Through the centuries, man has painstakingly furthered this habit (drinking) until it has become an art in itself. On the continent, children are initiat ed Into this important phase of life at an early age; mostly aft er the passing of their first de cade, but of course, the French (rather fast in any subject) be gin almost at birth. As a re sult, adults develop with a ma ture outlook towards soical and personal drinking. We, as University students, have an immature concept of drinking! The drinkers on campus are either hypocrits or infants. In Vancouver, and especially on campus, the enjoyable past time of drinking has been de graded into “drunking” Who is responsible for this “Dr. Jekyll-Mr. Hyde” attitude? Our upbringing and the whole outlook of Canadians in gen eral is responsible. Sooner or later almost every individual in dulges in liquids with alcoholic content. If drinking were taught at home under parental super vision, not only would students (when they reach a temperance dominated plot of parking lots such as UBC) properly enjoy drinking, but they would know how, when, what, and where to drink. The absence of an adult attitude towards a bottle and its companion, the wine-glass, has resulted in a flood of “drunk ing" on the campus. THK PART week * Football game, and Homecoming dance* should adequately. prove that point. Any possible normal en joyment of alcohol cannot be received if the “it's-under-the table" practice prevail*. You scream, 'then why not open drinking?” The answer 1* sim ple. Children — you haven't grown up! The nightclubs, the downtown dances, the frater nity parties, all stress—“the wet part—the bar.” It seem* that all the social events in a student's life are dominated by drinking, instead of drinking being part of the social events. The establishing of open drinking on our campus would be a welcome change, but the administration would not allow this until the students decider! to face the problem and recog nize their stupidity. Why not more mature “drink ing” and less Immature "drunk ing.” i • • (From the Llnfirld Review) The editorial which appeared in a recent issue of Review con cerning apparel on campus when guests are here didn't go com pletely unnoticed. To those peo ple who read it, particularly the co-eds on campus, we recom mend you. HOWEVER, it is fair to have segregation between the women and men on this cam pus on the type of clothing to wear while guests are visiting our campus? Many people no ticed, during the recent OFCL» convention which was held on the Linfield college campus, that the men on campus did not seem to care about their appearance. Some people even saw, and mentioned to the editor, that many appeared in the Commons with sweat pants and sweat shirts which actually had dirt on them. Is this how we show respect for guests on campus? Wearing of ‘school clothes” does not just pertain to the co eds on campus but also the ‘men” on the campus, even when there aren't guests visiting here. A NEW rule in the Commons which was inaugurated at the (Continued on page 3)
