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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 18, 1961)
SI NSHINK, the mlllntce, a blanket, and a pretty girl. Who needs Hasses? (Emerald Photo By John Champion I Women's Rules Reach Standstill The Associated Women Stu dents, in proposing changes in women's rules for next year, have run into a stumbling block. I1KADS of Houses and the AWS legislature proposed that instead of just allowing faculty members and housemothers to chaperone house dances, alumni of the house and graduate assist ants at the University also be allowed to chaperone. The proposal, as it deals with the University discipline code, must receive the approval of the student activities committee and the discipline committee. Ray Hawk, Dean of Men. told the Km era Id that the discipline com mittee would not meet until next fall, and the same was most like ly tine of the student activities committee. HAWK, and Mrs. Walker, Dean of Women, both felt that the proposal has its diawbacks. Mrs. Walker said, "I feel that in the plates that alumni would chap erone, it would place a great deal of responsibility on them to re port any violations." Hawk said, "In many instanc es this would work well, but sometimes it would not. When you move outside of the realm of the University family, you ask other people to take the re sponsibility that many feel lies with the University.” HE ADDED, "There is the question of where the loyalties of such chaperones would lie . . . This piesents some interesting problems, and should be inves tigated thoroughly.” "Such a proposal is really speaking about men’s living or ganizations without housemoth ers,” he said. Janice Nakata, AWS President, stated that the students want this rule passed. Other rules passed by AWS and approved are: 1. Quiet hours must be strictly enforced in all living organizations from 7 p.m. . to 7 a.m. Sunday through Thurs day: A. All women are expect ed to study from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., Sunday through Thursday. All organizations are to be con ducive to study. B. When there are Wednesday night desserts, study hours begin at 7:30; C. Any student who is a chronic viola tor of scholarship rules in any living organization may be re ferred to AWS Board of Refer ence. A new section will be added to the rules which will say: “Vio lators of any rule written in the AWS rules and regulations of 1961-62. except the drinking code, are subject to disciplinary action of AWS Reference Board.” Internat'l Dorm Slows to Halt The proposal for an interna tional dormitory—a mixture of foreign and U. S3, students living together in a family situation— has come to an apparent stand still. The committee set up by past ASUO president Steve Schell to study the matter will reach a de cision. either to recommend the dormitory or to pass it on to a new committee, by the final ASUO Senate meeting of Thurs day, May 25. HOWEVER, any proposal made by the Senate committee may be over-ruled by Director of Dor mitories, H, P. Barnhart, or the Housing Board. Barnhart said. "At the mo ment, meaning within the next year, there is no prospect of (Continued on t'agc 2) Uwruline«s on 'Race Party Brings No Discipline By KEITH POWELL Emerald New* Editor The only official action” to be taken on a beer party last Thursday night on the Millrace was by a letter sent to Canoe Fete Chairman Brent Smith, advising that steps be taken so that a similar occurrence will not happen next year, accord ing to Dean of Men Ray Hawk. Students involved in the beer bust were in the area of the Millrace where construction of Canoe Fete floats was going on. THE LETTER from Hawk to Smith advised the steering committee of the Canoe Fete “not to sit on their hands but Faculty Reaches Decision On Personal Files The faculty committee has reached a decision on personal files, and is currently reporting to Acting president W. C. Jones on the matter, according to Dean oL Students, Donald M. DuShane. Jones told the Emerald that he has no inclination as to what the report contains. He said, "If I agree with the committee I will release the results to the Emerald next week as they recommend.” He added that if he does not agree with the recommendation of the committee he will want to argue with them. He said this would be done quietly with no publicity involved. Merv Thompson, chairman of the student committee on per sonal files, stated that the stu dent committee will not meet again until fne president re leases the decision on action to be taken on the files. He said. < Continued on I'ooc 2) In Browsing Room Lecture Aly Speaks on Education Dangers By BONNIE JOl WESBTER | Enieruld Staff Writer Pondering their rapid accom- j piishments, Bower Aly, profes sor of speech, compared the ex tensive domination of the world by both the Romans and the Rus sians in less than fifty-three' years when he spoke in the Browsing Room last night. As he examined the "Dangers of Education," Aly asked whe ther Americans miscalculated a hundred years ago when they placed more emphasis on poultry research than on history. He remarked, "I would like to have both chicken and history; if a choice is necessary, I submit that a knowledge of history should be preferred to a gratification of a taste for chicken.” “THE FOUR greatest dangers to education, besides miscalcula tion, are waste, formalism, dissen sion, and tyranny, Aly said. Aly cited the National De fense Education Act as an exam pie of tyranny because "impe-1 cunious students are singled out from all others, and required to sign not only an oath of loyalty to their country . . . but a negative disclaimer deny ing in advance of any charge j that they are traitors to their country." Aly also stressed that for- j malism poses a danger to Amer ican education because certain : groups wish to license all teach- j ers from the kindergarten level ' through the university. He ex-1 pressed intense concern over this proposal which he believed would turn universities of higher learn-! ing into institutions of lotver learning. KEGAKD1NG waste, Aly re marked, “The hideous wastes that occur in education are not j of materials but of men." He | questioned familiar premises - such as the concept "That it is a good idea for a man to work his way through college.” He stressed that our nation cannot afford to have its brightest stu dents wading through dishes ra ther than calculus. Throughout his speech Aly in sisted that we must determine an order of priorities if education is to serve the best interests of our nation. He felt that educa tion’s most crucial danger was neglect and stressed “we owe ed ucation the benefit of criticism.” He added that American citi zens should insist on knowing the evidence behind proposals for schools rather than accepting any proposition in the name of edu cation. He warned that Americans must apply the thought of Wen fell Phillips who said, “Education is the only interest worthy of the deep anxiety of thought ful men.” Unless we subscribe to this idea, the American century may become “the Russian or the Chinese millenium or what is more likley, an eternity of si lence following a planetary holo caust.” to do something" to prevent sim ilar occurrence which would cause “disrespect towards the University and lack of pride from those who participated” in the goings on. THE DEAN of men said that the report to the steering com mittee would be “very helpful” to next year's committee. Such reports, he said, are standard practice to advise incoming com mittees on the pros and cons of the operations on any project. The steering committee will meet today to consider the mat ter. Hawk said that perhaps only those with passes would be ad mitted to the float building area in the future. HAWK commented that he had only heard rumors about what happened on the 'race. However, he understood that whatever happened was “a pretty unhap py situation.” Hawk said that he was "disturbed enough to take a serious look at the whole operation of the Canoe Fete.” A number of rumors have cir culated around campus since last Thursday. Some have suggested that beer bottles were thrown through the window of a moving train, that one barely missed the head of the train’s engineer and that a beer bottle was thrown into the window of the caboose. SOUTHERN PACIFIC offi cials have not contacted Hawk about any damage that might have been done to railroad prop erty. "This is not to say that someone else may not have been contacted about the matter,” Hawk said. It has also been suggested that some University students took the badge and cap of a cam pus night watchman. Hawk said that although the watchman was not "manhandled, he was not treated respectfully.” HAWK pointed out that the above are stiictly rumors. The dean sa.d that it would be difficult to "pin down” exactly (Continued on page 2) Mortar Board Meeting Canceled The Mortar Board meeting scheduled for tonight will not be held, according to president Nina Sackett. All members who were notified of a change in time or place for the meet ing tonight are asked to disre gard these messages. An orien tation meeting will be held next week instead.