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.
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Student Drinking Concept
Said More Like ‘Drunking’
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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.”
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(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
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