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Oregon Daily From Apathy to Empathy Architecture Students Plan Association To Channel Unfocused Energy College students are a lively bunch. In the razzle-dazzle Twenties they wore raccoon coats and gave their all for dear old Sigma Chi. In later years they swallowed live goldfish au naturel. In more recent years, voting bucks with sardine syndromes folded themselves into phone booths. Others with more obvious complexes, floated beds down rivers. Recently at the University, over 100 seemingly disturbed young men crammed themselves into a freshman dormitory room. SOME WHOSE YOUTH is far behind them, or who never had any in the first place, call this immaturity. Perhaps this is immaturity, but it is also exciting and color ful, and well, youthful. We are all for students being colorful. But all this nervous thrashing about is a little unfocused. According to tradition, students are intense as well as lively. They sculpt, they write, they climb mountains. Thev do. Our generation has been called bv sociologists, who like to keep things in their proper place, the Silent, or Modest, or Unlost generation. WHETHER OR NOT, however, stu dents are more or less apathetic than they were twenty years ago, we cannot say. But the fact remains that the student activities where creative things can be done—such as student government, campus publica tions and the University Theatre—are not being swamped with applicants. Apathy itself has become a cbic topic of conversation over coffee at student hang outs. But the talkers are apathetic about apathy. However, we are heartened to see a campus group that is willing to rout jadedness, or better yet, to beat the drum for genuine enthusiasm. Barrie Learmont, a fifth-year architecture student, has had enough talk. He and about 1 (X) other students in the School of Archi tecture and Allied Arts are currently plan ning to form an organization to encourage their fellow students to utilize the School's teachers and facilities to the most advan tage. THE MAIN OBJECTIVE of this as semblage would be to promote that activity held to be primary to an educational sys tem : the exchange of ideas between students and faculty. The main function of this body will be the collection and expansion of stu dent proposals and recommendations pert inent to the program, administration and facilities, of the School. * The association would be concerned with the utilization of unused drafting tables as well as the encouragement of a spirit of empathy between the students and faculty. The members of the association would be concerned with encouraging a pride of workmanship and sell-discipline among stu dents as well as making the drafting rooms a more pleasant place to work. PERHAPS the founding of this associa tion would encourage the inauguration of similar groups in other schools across the campus. The potential of this association may not be realized. It may falter and event ually flounder. Hut it deserves better than that. If properly realized it would merit the support of students, not only of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts, but of the whole campus. This fledgling association could set an example of pride and interest to a student in his own work that might well be emulated in other schools and departments. Certainly here is an opportunity to channel all that unfocused energy, or apathy, as the case may be. Here is an opportunity to do some thing constructive, instead of spending four years exclusively at being colorful. Congratulations Congratulations are in order for three men who have been promoted since the last publication of the Emerald fall term. Although the promotions were made on different levels—State System, University, and department—they have one thing in common: each man was already a part of the system; no outsiders were called in. From a kind of homey point of view this is nice, but it is certainly not necessary. After all, there is talent other than our own. But it is gratifying to know that, when three good men were needed to fill import ant jobs, they were already here. FEW AT THE University are familiar with the new chancellor Roy A. Lieuallen, since for the last six years he has been president of Oregon College of Education at Monmouth. In that time it has been pos sible for him to become acquainted with the high-level problems of the State System as well as with the individual problems of running a state school. The chancellor’s job is certainly no easy one. As former chancellor John Richards showed, however, even if one cannot win a lot of friends from doing a good job, one can certainly earn a great deal of respect. The new Dean of Faculty is an old face at the University. Dean Robert Clark has been head of the Liberal Arts school, and since his arrival here in 1943 he has become a sort of fixture on this campus. Those of us who have met Clark personally have been impressed with his dedication to his job. Perhaps our frame of reference is lim ited. but we can’t help admiring a man who will on the shortest possible notice consent to take time from an unusually busy sched ule to write an article on the goals of a university. The University has never had a Dean of Faculty before, but there is not the slightest doubt that we have an excellent one now. AND FINALLY, closest to the Emerald personally, John Hulteng will succeed Charles T. Duncan as dean of the School of Journalism. In the jargon of show busi ness. Dean Duncan “will be a tough act to follow.” The University’s school of journal ism is one of the best in the nation, and merely maintaining that status would be a tough enough job for anyone. Winner of last year's Erstadt Award for the most out standing faculty member, Hulteng has won the respect of faculty and students alike. The Emerald acknowledges fully that we are not alone in our opinion that a better man could not be found. Little man on campus "I SAID, DON'T WOfZKY TOO MUCH A0CXJT FOJNiciNG-^MUSRY IT Uf? KIP) - WMFtf IT6FTS TO THAT f£nNT WLL vMDKK fOMgTHINGOUf. Of Ephemeral Significance Another Staff Introduction The editor adjusted his name plate on the door and put a welcome mat in front of his of fice. The welcome mat. a clev er piece of weaving to be sure, portrayed William Itan dolph Heart scratching his nose with his thumb. ‘‘Associate editor,” called the editor. “YEHSIK," said the oafish clot who shuffled into the of fice. narrowly missing the wel come mat. “Don’t you wipe your feet before you enter a room ?" asked the editor insultingly. The associate editor looked down, past the stains of his lunch and breakfast, to the floor. ‘‘Gee,’’ he said, "that floormat is so pretty I wouldn't want to mess it up. In fact that guy looks a little famil iar." "WIPE YOUR feet." The associate editor wiped his feet on William Raldolph Heart’s forehead. "Kinda re minds me of a guy I knew in the dorms. Or was it the Army? Or the Boy Scouts ? Or reform school ?” Probably not,” said the edi tor, “since you were never in any of those organizaitons.” “Hnimrn,” said the associate editor, his eyes peering rest lessly at each other across his nose. “What was it you want ed me to do, chief?” he asked, brightening. “WRITE A column,” said the editor, shading his eyes. "We can either run twenty inches of white space or your column.” "Jeeminy gosh,” said the as sociate editor, flustered by the compliment. "Oolly gee whiz,” he said, leaping to his tripe writer. After twenty minutes of si lence, the associate editor came back into the office, wiping his feet on William Randolph Hearst’s nose and thumb. "I forgot to ask,” he said, “what you want me to write about.” “Do another staff introduc tion,” said the editor, feigning patience, “they tell me you're not as bad on those.” “RIGHT AWAY, sir,” said the associate editor, scraping his feet reverently on William Randolph Hearst’s chin on the way out. “Argh,” said the editor, reach ing for his ulcer pills. “Oh, argh.” Keith Powell, new editor of the Emerald has brought many ideas Into his new office. "I think I’ll stack them up in the corner,” he said. Briefly outlin ing his plans for the Emerald, Powell said, ”1 thThk we’ll prob ably have news on the front page, editorials on the edito rial page, sports on the sports page, and women’s news on the women’s p a g e.” Continued Powell, "we’re trying to avoid controversy this term.” NEW MANAGING Editor Paul Ltzundia. who recently purchased a long, black whip, said, ”1 believe in running a tight ship. I expect to get a lot of work out of the staff this term. I’m going to pin up a motto on the bulletin board, and it’s going to say ’Produce or Vamoose.' Ya doan git the soap less'n ya boil the hawg, I always say,” he said, lighting a fire under a huge pot. News Editor Yvonne Eggers said, "I’m not exactly sure what I’m supposed to be doing, but I am glad to have n job. I guess. I asked the managing edi tor what to do and he said if I want to get soap I oughta boil hogs or something. I guess I’ll just sit around and wait 'til somebody tells me to do some thing, I think. I guess. I don't know." There are two associate edi tors, Fhil Cogswell and Ted (Continued on page 3) OREGON DAILY EMERALD The Oregon H»il> Emerald i» ptihlitheil seven times in September and five day* a week during the school year, except dur ing examination and vacation periods by the Student Publication* Hoard 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. KEITH POWELL. Editor LEE TURNBULL, Business Manager PAUL LIZUNDIA, Managing Editor RICK MILLER, Advertising Manager YVOXXK EGGERS, News Editor TED MAHAR, PH I L COGSWELL Associate Editors DICK LKUTZI NGER, Sports Editor JANET GOETZE, Assistant News Editor LINDA BROWN, Women’s Editor 1'RED * KAETS, Entertainment Editor EV EKE IT E DENNIS. Feature Editor M ERR IE WHITESIDE, Religion News Editor EDITORIAL HOARD: Keith Powell, Paul Lizundia, Ted Mahar, Yvonne Eggers, Phil Cogswell. Dan PfafT, Ron Huel, Allison Hlakely, Gayle Osburn, Quentin Breen, Virginia Anderson, Hob Forsyth, Jim Paulson.
