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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1961)
Letters to the Editor I.im-ruld Kditor: I him writing thin letter be cause I disagree with the Em erald policy of printing the fra ternity affiliation and the soror ity affiliation of candidates for AHIJO offices. My view on this matter concurs with the opin ions expressed in Suzanne Brou illiard's letter. It will be a sad day for stu dent government at Oregon, when students start to believe that the place where a candi date lives is an indication of how well tiie candidate will rep resent his constituency. If the readers of the Kmer ald really want to know the liv ing organization affiliations of the candidates for AHUO offic es, you are giving your readers "what they want." I can only speak for myself and the many people I talked to last year, when I was a candidate for a class office. I believe that this Bmerald policy is not one that the students want. •lohn And resen. Sophomore, Journalism. • • Mr. <i. V. Mellor, «•/<• Kmerald Kdltor, I agree wholeheartedly with your letter except for two I«>ints. First, I don't believe one of our major faults lies in the desire to give "a college cur riculum and degree" to every one. Also, surely you don't mean to imply that "the scoundrels, the hucksters and the charla tans" have come to college al ready In that condition? I think what you must mean is that they were created In college. It VTHKIt than limit enroll ments, something you seem to favor, we should attract more. While students are in attend ance we should attempt to give them a set of values which would strengthen their resist ance to the materialistic Avhirl pool "outside." By contacting only a favored few we would lie doing what you deplore, ig noring the situation. It must be remembered that the college is only a small part of an individual's environment. Must we bear the full blame for failing, in 4 years, to do what ^ale DIAMONDS One Full V Corat total weight 110 VV. Broadway DI 8-7746 society and parents were unable to do in 18 or more? N K VKKTHKLKHM, I could recommend reprinting your let ter once a year at least — as a reminder. William K. Iledsworth, (■rad In Economics. P.H. The Kmeraid Business Manager could take some les sons fiom Mr. Mellor’s letter. Even a superficial reading of the chiropractics a<l reveals that It is a dishonest ad. No M.D. could disagree with the 4 basic principles of health It lists, but to imply that they "success fully" apply these principles, or that th«?y could, is another thing. Also, what is "structural, physiological and psychological integrity" in relation to the hu man body ? The attempt to reek of something dignified, thru the use of such words as “Health Research Foundation” (smells like Ford or Mayo), and “West ern States College" (?>, is so apparent that it is insulting. Chiropractor* probably have their place, but no one is that good. Mow much did they pay for that ad, and the one Just to the right of it that implies that Aristotle had time for pros titutes? (Respectively, $9.15 and $15. SO.—Kd.) • • F.merald Editor I couldn't help wondering if Jim Fields’ arm was hurting from patting himself on the back in Monday’s Emerald story about Delta Upsilon float ing a bed on a raft down the Willamette. IN A conversation with a Delta Upsilon member last Tuesday April 4. 1961 — I learned of the plans. Somehow I wonder how much actual in fluence the "editorial goad" had by appearing in the Emerald on April 7, 1961. I’m neither a math major nor a beauty queen, but this just doesn’t “figure” to me. Philip G. Paulsen, Freshman in Business. • • Symbolism... (Continued (torn t>aae 2) phenomena, honor, love, reli gion, sox, war, countries, soci eties. other people see what I mean ? IF YOU come up with any symbols that you think might be of interest, put it in a let ter to the editor, and if it’s ac ceptable, we’ll print it. And at any rate, it will probably be of real interest to me. MUN Post Office Ready For Use A model United Nations post office will be operating during the conference under the direc tion of Robert Forsyth, chief of '.he MUN Postal Administration. The office will serve delegates and the general public. Mail sent through this special office will be flown to New York, where it will be posted from the Unit Nations Headquarters Post Of fice for delivery to any domestic address. SPKf T.AL post labels are being issued to prepay the air trans portation to New York and the air postage from the United Na tions Headquarters. Delegates and students may secure these post labels and send letters through the special service from the model United Nations post office located on the mezzanine of the main stair case in the SU. Each letter is required to have two of the three special labels of the Mun Postal Administration. Kach of three labels commemor ate a goal of the United Na tions: Justice (blue); Security (redi; and cooperation (green). The labels cost 10 cents each. FORSYTH stated: "We are interested in furthering the MUN program and commemorating this event by this post office. We require the prepaid postage and in return the delegate or collec-: tor will receive a regular postal service.” The Administration also dis closed that a limited supply of Vf UN Postal Administration Pre sentation Sheets are available. UO Girl Chosen Queen of Height Mauteen Sims, a senior at the University, has been chosen the Seattle Tip Toppers' Queen of Height. MAUREEN is blue-eyed, brown haired, and stands an even 6 feet in her stocking feet. A member of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority. Queen Maureen is an honor student majoring in biol ogy, and hopes to continue gradu ate work to a Ph.D. and become a. teacher and researcher in gen etics. THE NEW Queen was born in Tacoma. Her father, Andrew H. Sims, is in the Corps of Army Engineers in Korea. Her mother lives in Tacoma. Her father is 6-1. She has two brothers, 6-1 and 6-7, and a 16-year-old sister, who is 5-10. Maureen attained her full height at 17. 'Something to Swing About ’ JUNIOR PROM and CONCERT McArthur court Friday, april i 4th CONCERT 7:30 DANCE 9:30 TWO HOUR CONCERT, STARRING JAZZ GREATS SHELLY MANNE and HIS MEN PLUS JOANIE SOMMERS Gen. Admission $1.75 Reserved $2.50 THE PROM . . . MUSIC BY SI ZENTNER and ORCHESTRA RESERVED CONCERT AND PROM TICKETS $5.00 TICKETS ON SALE AT MAIN DESK IN S.U. Barton Questions Board s Statistics By JIM BOYD Kmc raid Editor Clarence Barton iD-Coquille), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Tuesday ques tioned the statistics used by the .State Board of Higher Education in making budgetary requests. He further claimed that the State j System has been overbudgeted in the past. MV FEELING is this,” he said, "we have to pay for excel lence and I think that excellence is what we want.” But, he said, predicating budgetary requests on fall term enrollments is a 1 questionable practice. Fall term enrollment is high- j er than either winter or spring enrollment, he said. Because of this it would be more accurate to base statistics such as the student - instructor ratio on an average, rather than peak, enroll ment. HOWEVER, Chancellor John R. Richards Wednesday differed with Barton. Richards said that Barton assumes that the teach ing staff fluctuates throughout the year. This is faulty, the Chancellor said, because state schools need a maximum staff during the term with the largest enrollment. STATE schools hire new staff members for the entire y’ear, he said. But even this is impossible at a time when the state legisla ture appropriates money late in j the session. In this case it may be impossible to hire new fac-1 ulty members prior to fall term and these faculty members must be hired later in the year. Two years ago, Barton said, "we struggled manfully” to ob tain enough money to meet the State Board's requests for higher faculty salaries. But after this money was appropriated, he said, the State Board still managed to squeeze approximately $1 mil lion out of the budget to buy land and construct buildings which the legislature had not authorized. TIII.S INDICATES that the State System of Higher Educa tion was oveibudgeted, he said. Barton claimed that the State Board takes a far narrower view of the state’s needs than does the Ways and Means committee. “I know more about the to tal financial needs of Oregon than does the Board of Higher Education. When I see patients sleeping in the halls of a state hospital in conditions somewhat less than that of the pigs at the state experimental station in Herrniston maintained by the University . . .” And several sputtered comments followed. “BL'T I DO believe that we must maintain competitive salar ies," he said. The University will be competitive with other schools, he said, and posed the problem of selecting the compet itors. “I don’t believe in being nig gardly” with professor’s salaries, he said, but continued that he did not think that the University could compete with the University of California. Agile Eater Scores There was a young man from Adair Who was eating a cone on a stair. When the bannister broke He nearly did choke. But he finished off in mid-air. (you know, silly’. 13th and Hil yard) The biggest sale of the year! Graves Music and Meisel's Houseware are offering up to 91% reduction on their merchandise. Everything goes. SALE Does this look like a FIRE SALE? It's not! It's just coincidental that we had a fire! Art Supplies, Ceramics, Musical Instruments, Gifts, Toys, Stereo and Hi-Fi Records. These are just a few of the many astonishing buys at the ane County Fairgrounds. STEREO CONSOLES were $1 89.00 NOW $99.00 RECORD ALBUMS $1.00 per dozen. Hundreds of items priced at NINE CENTS! Everything in these stores goes. Sale starts April 13, 7:00 a.m. to midnight; Friday the 14th, 7 a.m. to midnight; Satur day 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. The sale is at the Lane County Fair grounds in the main auditorium. Follow the searchlights. Prices are slashed, so hurry! Sale continuous next week. GRAVES MUSIC and ART AND MEISEL’S HOUSEWARES AND GIFTS i * ^ 4 IT* * • t
