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
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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
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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?
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yet picked up their full term
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... 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.”
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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.