A Time To Visit
Governor Hatfield Should
Speak at University Soon
It was interesting to read in an election
follow-up story that Oregon’s Governor
Mark Hatfield will be flying back to Ohio
with the Oregon football team as part of
his post-campaign vacation.
In other news of the Hatfield family,
Mrs. Hatfield recently accepted her elec
tion to the Board of Directors of the Uni
versity Alumni Association.
Governor Hatfield plays a key part in
the Higher Education Budget, and it is
encouraging to see that he and his wife
take an interest in higher education and
the University.
However, the fact remains that he has
not given a major address to the students
on this campus since 1959. Many people
have suggested that this might be one
reason that he carried Lane County by
1.357 votes this last election—a very nar
row margin compared with his large plur
ality in the rest of the state.
At an ASUO Cabinet meeting Monday, it
was suggested that we ask each governor
to set aside a day each year when it would
be convenient for him to visit the Uni
versity. During this day the governor could
give an address, perhaps hold a coffee
hour, talk with students, or lecture in a
class.
We believe this idea has a great deal of
merit, and hope that the ASUO Senate or
some other student group will make an
attempt to establish such a day this school
year.
Class Contributions
When the Student Union Board voted
to make a permanent Union Square free
speech platform, Jim Sheldrew, senior
class president, offered class finances and
personnel to help plan the project as a
gift to the entire University.
The plan of the Class of 1963 is in the
tradition of earlier class projects which
left the University plaques, benches and
walkways. The most recent contribution
was from the Class of 1962 which donated
money to repair and move the sundial to
its new location near the Student Unios
building.
Last year’s senior class, and now the
present seniors, have been the only two
graduating classes in recent years that
could afford such donations. Other classes
have had little, if any, money left in their
treasuries at the end of four years.
Now, with classes having opportunities
to make money both on Homecoming their
sophomore year and Junior Weekend their
junior year, it seems likely that they will
continue to finish in the black. If they do,
class contributions such as have been made
in the past, will be a definite asset to the
University.
Will Hatfield Commute Freeman Sentence
A University of Oregon student was inter
viewed by the Emerald October 9 concerning the
case of Jeannaee Freeman, sentenced to go to
the gas chamber oe Dec 6 for the slaying of a
child. The student George F. NeovalL a 21-year
Gad poiitscai science major, is working to get Miss
Freeman s sentence commuted.
Following the interview, the Emerald primed
letters to the editor criticizing Neavoll for his
efforts and many other people also questioned
his action
We are not sure that NeovaH will be success
ful. but we admire bis attempt to save another
human being after she told him that she was
innocent.
NeovaH will have to address his pleas to
Oregon's Governor. Mark O. Hatfield, who is the
only person who can save Miss Freeman’s life.
It was obvious to many that the governor would
not commute the death sentence before the
elections, as the publicity resulting from the
trial has created a great deal of public senti
ment concerning it Now that the elections are
over, the question still remains. “Will the Gov
ernor commute the sentence?”
If she goes to the gas chamber, she will be
the first woman in the history of Oregon to be
executed But this is not really the significant
issue involved There are several other factors
which could also apply to many men that have
preceded her.
It is important to point out that Miss Freeman
is most definitely from the lower class of our
society She has no money and few friends. Nor
is she a particularly desirable citizen. If she had
possessed the means to hire a good criminal
lawyer, would she now be faced with death?
Miss Freeman's accomplice, Mrs. Gertrude
Nunez Jackson, who pleaded guilty, has been sen
tenced to life imprisonment with the possibility
of parole. Mrs Jackson claimed that she killed
one of the two children, and that Miss Freeman
killed the other. Under what set of values should
one be sentenced to death, and the other not?
It is significant to point out that the luck of
the drawr can have a great deal to do with a
death sentence. Various juries have various ideas
about the fates of men.
It is also very easy to point out cases when
men have been executed, only to have evidence
arise at a later date that proves the victim inno
cent.
One cannot completely overlook the moral
issue If a man kills another, does that justify
his life being taken? Or is the taking of a life
wrong under any circumstances’
Faced with these arguments, there will still
be those who will argue strongly for the execu
tion of Miss Freeman. Tnev will say that if her
life was spared she would probably never be
able to return to society as a useful citizen Why
then should the state clothe and feed her for the
rest of her life, they will ask. But if we accept
the argument this far, must we not extend it to
insisting upon putting others away for their
crimes and shortcomings because they are of no
use to society.
There will also be those who argue for the
use of the death sentence as a preventive force,
claiming that it stops others from committing
murder
But those who argue for capital punishment in
this manner will argue as if the penalty were
evenly applied They ignore the fact that for
every murderer Oregon executes several others
are spared. They will not ask themselves why
we would execute this one and not the many
others.
The time is long past due when the people of
this state surveyed their laws concerning capital
punishment—and then did something about them.
As far as the Freeman case goes, we wish
Neovall success.
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Dorm Food Revisited
By a Men's Counselor
The following commentary
is written by Hal Carpenter,
a men's dormitory counselor.
Once, when the qualitv of
dormitory food was criticized.
Carpenter quickly wrote this
rather emotional column.
• • »
“Why is it that we always
have spinach the day after they
mow the lawn"1" Oh, how well I
remember the long days spent
in the dormitory my freshman
year—three years past And do
I ever remember the fantastic
examples of food the kitchens
prepared for us to consume
Besides the spinach, do you
remember those eggs in the
paper cups that used to stare up
at you in the wee hours of the
morning: or those soft boiled
eggs that could be poured out
of the shell? And surely you
can think of many other exam
ples of Carson cuisine.
Why in the world would any
one in his right mind leave his
new found sanctuary away from
the dorms and its most palatable
excuses for food7 One year in
the dorm; two years elsewhere,
and now I have returned—of my
own free will!
People asked me. looking at
my already skinny body, why I
would return to that life and its
food At that time I truthfully
could not give them a decent
answer, I too remembered that
frightening experience fighting
the dinner lines and then thus*
metal trays
Aha, now I have that answer
to give all you disbelievers The
dorm food is great No kidding,
there's variety, there's quantity
and, most important there is
taste to the food While I have
n’t put on a great deal of pound
age. and this does surprise me,
I can. with no fear of being
struck by lightning, say that 1
have enjoyed almost every meal
the dorm kitchen has set out on
its serving lines
1 am not saying all this to
start a mass ingress into the
dorms Nothing would be worse
there isn't enough room for
everybody as is, and the waiting
list is already too long The pur
pose of this ditty is to enlighten
all you who have long left those
lines
Too bad you aren't here now
You would have to find some
thing else to complain about:
the food’s great
Letters to the Editor
Sneaky Despoilers
Emerald Editor:
The censors who lift mate
rial from periodicals with tin
idea of preventing its influence
on broader minds should know
who pays for the replacement
of that material Since the State
Legislature does not appropri
ate extra funds to the library
for replacement of despoiled
magazines, where does t h e
money come from? It must come
from some portion of the li
brary budget which is not fixed.
And that portion is the new
book fund The student body
finds one less new book on
the shelves for every S4-S5 spent
on replacements.
It is not the taxpayer who
shells out this time, but the
student suffers a loss!
In two large midwestern uni
versities where I was a student,
the mutilation of periodicals
had forced librarians to p u t
them under lock and key. No
student could approach a shelf
of periodicals, choose by brows
ing, and take a volume to ano
ther area to read All under
graduates had to write on a
form the description of each is
sue he wished to see, then pre
sent the form to an attendant
and wait for the issue to be
fetched. We paid dearly for the
sneaking despoilers in boin
time and temper.
But the materials were there,
which is more than we can
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the ASt'O or tl»e University.
RON HUE!.. Editor
ART EMIG. Busmen* Manag r
TED MAHAR. Managing F.di or
MEKRIE BUEL. New* Edit r
PHIL COGSV/ELL.
Editorial Page Editor
MARTV KETELS,
Adverbs og Mi.wager
LARRY GR k'ES. Sport* Editor
JANE! GOETZ K
Assistant Managing Editor
KYKKKTTK DEWMS. PAVE
SANDS, Assistant New* Editor*
CJEORfiK HIGH AM. Photo Editor
DULLY MORAN, Women’s Editor
LINDA BROWN,
Enterttinostnt Editor
EDITOR I \L BOARD:
Ron Hud. Phil C igtiwd . Tr<l Mahar,
Merric Burl Jinct Gootte,
Kverctte Den ii*. Dave Sand*.
Dulcy Moral. Lin 11 Brown,
Hal Carpenter Phil Saerburne,
Huh Forsyth, (bant Le Igerwood,
Doug Kagen and Bill Hutchison.