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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1962)
Letters to the Editor (Continued from pj</r 2) In (Illll Htl “il II 1.0 with no *‘mlckey«"!. II would i' in that Mr. Mon ger's Isle) beautiful theory of the impossibility of academic a (| athletic excellence I. mim blleg. Hut hi me intention one n ore example Although I hate to udrr.il it a certain jock at <ae^on Stale named Terry lia kei is not only the "greatest American college athlete." but he in also i consistent (sici mem her (>•' the OKI.’ honor roll. I WOU.Ii duo like- to brief ly refute Mr. Monger’s (sio unknowl' ilfa Ilf (ale i attack upon hlf .i ri IiooIh, which alleg edly de-enifiha -1ze academic in lieu of athlel At Madison in I oi l land 120(H) students ), the tin e ro-v.didhdorian:'. Isici ieach with a -1 0 for four years) vim1 all vanity lettermen. At Grant 12630 student: ( the val idictorian 'sici was not only a 1.0 students, but was 4th in the nation for prep discus throwers and wan student body president And the Oregon prep Athlete of the Year. Dick hags i e from Medford, he id a 3.71 for four years. Need I s«.y more? I hi n Tunn (8.82 UFA) Freshman in i’lnvirs * * High Standard kmernld Editor: Heretofore, we have seen fit to remain aloof from the contro versy s tit whether a univer sity should stress athletic and or academic excellence. This is b< cause in the L a w School we maintain a h i g h standard of performance in academic achievement while at the same time maintaining an HGi«KY-TON!'S And That Sort of Thing active program of participation in the intramural athletics. (It is noteworthy that rio ride In furnished any law student be cause of his athletic prowess). The Oregon Daily Emerald reported on Monday, Feb. 19, the score of the basketball game between the Legal Eagle "B” team and the Lambda Chi Alpha "B" team as having been in favor of the Legal Ea gles. The correct score was 32-3, in favor of the Legal Ra gles. We are proud of our ath letic program; however, we do not require unsolicited exagger ation of our margin of victory in order to enhance our status in the academic community. .Marvin I*. Nerseth, President. Harvey <\ Barrager, ('apt. “B" team. • • • Industry In Oregon (Continued from pane 2) form of ro.'uj, rail and water. In addition. th<- water provides an important recreational fac tor which together with the tveion's comparatively mild and pleasant climate (especially compared to that of New Kng land t constitutes a most at tractive physical environment. The cultural facilities could be developed later on. KVKN Moick encouraging, none- space age industries have shown an intense interest in this part of the state. Aero Space, division of Boeing Airplane Company, has already taken over the 98,000 acre Naval Bombing Range near Boardman ami intends using it as a test site. Another corporation Aero jet, of California, employing 2.0,000 men, has indicated its interest in the area. Besides a number of other factors, they consider the Pacific Northwest "a better place for young engi neers and executives with fam ilies to live." TUI's, TIIK requirement of an ideal site for industry, a site affording a pl< a.sant living en vironment can handsomely be met bv Oregon. However, the other requirement, namely an abundant supply of brainpower can. at best, be only partly met. We simply do not have the necessary number of “great” universities capable of meeting the skilled manpower needs of these industries. And the pres ent plight of higher education in the state doesn't encourage much optimism. Not only are our existing facilities fright fully overcrowded, but we are trying to solve the problem by temporary' piecemeal addi tions to them without refer ence to a positive over-all state wide master plan. THK ANSWER, of course, lies in building new universi ties; and here we approach a solution involving the “fantas tic potential” that the state could have in the technological space age. If we are going to build there new universities, which we will most surely have to, then why not exploit them Ti3Y THi Rush In 854 E. 13th On The Campus in a way which will bring in dustry and prosperity to the state that is. in much the same way that Harvard and M.I.T. have brought industry and pros perity to New England, namely, by coordinating higher educa tion with the space-age indus tries ? How? My proposal is this: • That the state government seize the initiative now' — buy up this land along the upper Columbia River, and plan and build an industrial-educational city there. • Such a city might be call ed "Columbia” an inland sea port named after the river on which it stands a city which some day might number a mil lion people! • It would have at least two great universities — one. per haps called the Oregon Institute of Technology rivalling even M.I.T. as the nation’s best, and the other, the "University of Columbia” with standards in finitely higher than its name sake back East. • Around these great edu cational institutions would be planned, commercial, residential, recreational and industrial growth planned on a local and regional basis, sympathetically exploiting the landscape in a way which would produce an ideal living environment. • The countries’ most out standing Architect and City and Regional Planner would be called in for the task. CERTAINLY such a vision ary project would cost money —millions of dollars—even hun dreds of millions of dollars, but as the evidence shows, could not fail financially. The time is ripe now. If we hesitate the land will be exploited in less desir able ways, and even worse, other areas, in addition to New England and California, will seize the initiative and attract those industries and corpora tions which are now favorably disposed to settling in Oregon. If ever there was a time when this state could take a gigan tic “leap forward,” this is it: Do our leaders have the dar ing initiative to promote such a plan do they have the bold imagination, the vigor, the fire and the ambition to transform such an ideal into reality? I wonder ? If in Brazil, they could ac complish something like this in less than three years then, is it really the height of absur dity to ask: Can we? Yearbooks To Be Distributed Today All students who have not yet picked up their full term issue of the 1!>6? Oregana, may do so on Thursday and Fri day afternoons from 8-5 p.m. in the coat room in the lob by of the SU. Students are re quired to show some form of identification and their receipt numl>er to receive the book. ... Rubin Praises Morse (Continued from paqe 1) which to condemn Castro,” he said, “I’m absolutely opposed to any idea of trying to topple the Cas 1 fro regime by force of arms,” he added. KI BIN STATED that he was , in favor of the purchase of Uni ted Nations bonds, though he thought the $100 million figure quoted for them would be pared down by Congress. The U.S. government should purchase United Nations bonds, ! Rubin said. He emphasized that the U.N. “has a great deal more support than most people rea lize.” He stated that a recent Gallup Poll found 90 per cent of the people it interviewed to be in favor of the U.S. staying in the U.N. “If VVE HAVE to do it again in five years (purchase more bonds) I say do it again, we’re spending $52 billion a year for armaments," he said. The lack of an executive or der forbidding segregation in federally supported housing keeps the federal government the “largest agency for segregation today.” Rubin said, referring to President Kennedy’s campaign promises to end housing segrega tion. PRESIDENT KENNEDY has been in power for now more than a year and he has yet to use that stroke of the presidential pen,” he said. Expressing disapproval of the appointment of John A. McCone as head of the Central Intelli gence Agency, the liberal maga zine editor said, "I believe Presi dent Kennedy feels it important to make appointments that will appease conservative elements.” SU MOVIE Sunday 2:00-5:00 S. U. Ballroom Admission 40c SHISLER'S OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK—9 AM. to 11 P.M. BEVERAGES • MIXERS • ICE CUBES MAGAZINES • MEATS • FRESH PRODUCE 13th at High Street Dl 4-1342 Advertisement ... something a little less serious by ted mahar Roger Mosky Is a constant source of disappointment to me. One naturally expects a number of qualities in cats. One expects a cat to be uncannily intelligent, unusually graceful, outstand ingly nimble, and impeccably clean. Not Roger. I have seen a number of clumsy animals in my life, and that includes turtles and elephants, but I have never seen a clumsier, more ungainly creature than my cat Roger Mosky. She is the only cat I have ever seen that could actually fall off a chair. Not only that, hut when she falls, she will "likely as not land on her side or her back. Occasionally, maybe fifty per cent of the time, she will land on her feet. Roger is about as nimble as a hippopotamus. When she is having her Mad Half Hour, her period of playfullness which comes roughly every other half hour, she gallops around the apartment, humping into chairs, knocking things over, and skidding across the kitchen floor to slam into the wall. When it comes to intelligence, Roger has no equal. She is undoubtedly the dumbest of the dumb"animals. She begs for food as long as anyone is in the kitchen. If someone does put food into her dish, she is so busy begging that she doesn’t know it and naturally keeps on begging. We have to grasp Roger by the hack of her neck and push her nose against the food before she knows it’s there. We have estimated that Roger would survive about twenty minutes in the jungle, and about forty minutes in a city. Roger in pretty good about keeping: elean—at least her tail. No one has ever seen Roger wash anything else, but between Mad Half Hours, about the only thing Roger does is wash her tail. She's not really dirty, but nothing in Eugene is as clean as her tail. Her tail is cleaner than most people’s tooth brushes. Every now and then a friend of mine will ask why I named her Roger Mosky. 1 reply that she just looks like a Roger Mosky. A friend of mine once said. “One of these days some body is going to bash you in your smart mouth.” He isn’t my very l>est friend, as you may have guessed. Once I had a scheme worked up w hereby I would bring home a Hairy Queen and see if Roger would eat it. If Roger ate it, I was going to say something like: You should eat Hairy Queens because Roger Mosky does. One night I did bring home a Dairy Queen hot fudge sundae. I put a little of it on a spoon and rubbed Roger’s nose with it. The theory was that Roger would lick it off her nose, see how good it was, and then eat some more. Roger licked it off her nose, all right, but then she went over and fell asleep in front of the wall heater. It's just as well, though, because Roger is just dumb enough that she wouldn’t like a Dairy Queen if it did taste good to her. For what it’s worth, she’s not really too hot for cat food, either. The only reason she eats it is tliat it’s all we give her. I recommend Dairy Queen however. Dairy Queens taste good. They taste especially good if you are not a cat. All cats who are reading this: don’t eat Dairy Queens. All humans: do.
