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A Precedent ASUO President Neil Goldschmidt Initiates Another Progressive Step Neil Goldschmidt will set what we hope becomes a precedent by giving a speech from the Free Speech Platform in front of the Student Union today. Goldschmidt has brought several new concepts to Student Government as ASUO president this year. While there are those who feel that the value of the effects of what he has caused are debatable, we feel his ideas have stimulated student govern ment to define the direction in which it is going. His idea that the student body president should not guide every move of the ASUO Senate, his attempts to look beyond what has been the previous realm of student government at the University, and his ef forts to involve students other than ASUO Senators in ASUO action, will, in our mind, be beneficial to this University in the long run. However, as a mid-year evaluation, we find that student government has really ac complished very little so far this year. It has been unable to adjust to the lack of a president like Dan Williams who guided and directed almost every move from be hind the scenes. Goldschmidt, as he some times puts it. has “refused to be a wet-nurse to the senators.” The result has so far been an inability of the senate to really ac complish anything. We should qualify this by saying that the legislative lobby program seems to be progressing well, and that there is quite a bit of study taking place on such issues as fire insurance for students, student wages, and USNSA. But the net result of the Senate’s efforts so far this year has been almost nil. Thus, when Goldschmidt says that he will, “be very critical of student govern ment.” he will not have to look far for areas of disappointment. We hope that Goldschmidt's speech will set the tone for improvement in student government. But even more than this, we hope that the efforts of an ASUO president to present his ideas to the student body from the Free Speech Platform will be successful enough that other student lead ers will be encouraged to do the same in the future. Out of the Running Oregon State University, motivated ap parently by money and not by sport, has announced that its track team will not participate in the Oregon Indoor Invita tional track meet which will be held in Portland, Jan. 26. Sam Bell, the OSU track coach, has said that the Beavers want a financial interest in the meet or they won’t enter. He was quoted as saying that he was willing to go 50-50 with the sponsors to share the profit or loss. Mr. Bell was also quoted as saying that it w'as not in the best interests of Oregon State University to promote the University of Oregon by participating in the meet. He w’as referring to the fact that the sponsors of the event is the University of Oregon Alumni Association of Portland. Profit from the meet goes to grant-in-aid for Uni versity of Oregon athletes. Bell also said that he didn't feel that his squad had anything to gain by entering. We thought that trackmen sometimes en tered meets for the fun of it, that’s the whole purpose of sport, or at least the orig inal purpose. Now, they apparently have to make money, or gain something else, be fore they will make the effort. Fortunately. Oregon State can stay away without damaging the meet’s chances of success, for every other major school on the West Coast will probably participate. With the presence of Washington. Wash ington State, San Jose State, Stanford, UCLA, and USC—to say nothing of our NCAA National Champions—Oregon State might not have looked too well anyway. Right now, by their own action, they look a little left out of the field—a poor place for a track team to be. Compliments to Fadeley Lane County’s Senator, Ed Fadeley, gives us some encouragement. In a recent inter view by Dan Sellard in the Eugene Regis ter-Guard, Fadeley had the following to say: “I’ll vote against many appropriation bills this session,” he reports, “Such as in creased money for the State Marine Board, the State Military Department and others. I just don’t believe in growth just for growth’s sake . . . Unless the agency is producing I w'on’t support it . . . “I think the real major issue facing the Legislature is not just more money, more taxes, but the question of, ‘is the quality of education in Oregon to be maintained?’ “Thus, I will vote against appropriations which are designed just to make something bigger, hoping that the money saved will go to keeping this quality of education.” We are in hopes that voices like that of Mr. radeley s will be heard loud and clear when the 1963 Oregon State Legislature convenes on January 14. Footnote We must give the Eugene Register-Guard credit for digging this comment about Cor vallis and Oregon State out of the recent issue of Sports Illustrated in a story about Terry Baker. “In an era when the celebrated college athlete is turned into a special kind of mercenary, living and competing in a cul ture apart from that of the ordinary under graduate, it is fitting that Baker, a throw back to another epoch, should emerge from a bucolic campus deep in the forests of the Northwest where the simple verities of small-town American life are still held in high esteem.” "THIS THIN^ 'S BlGGrtR THAN BoTH OF OS." Letters to the Editor Fine Scapegoat Emerald Editor: The Friday, January 4th Em erald had an editorial, "Tuition: An Old Story”. It had this state ment: "In an academic waste land like Mississippi, limited facilities and high tuition rates in relation to standard of living make private wealth the pre requisite for higher education ” I cannot imagine where you got such information The facts are these: The only requirement for admission t > a Mississippi college or university is graduation from high school. Expenses are books, supplies, and personal expenses There is no tuition I will not comment on the quality of this education, except to say that education anywhere depends largely on our own ef forts. I am not concerned with your facts", but with your attitude. For you, a Mississippi that does not exist makes a fine scape goat. To one who understands, she is a tragedy. The situation in Mississippi is bad. Twisted personal journal ism by her friends and enemies both makes it worse. Thank you. Darnell Fulgham 4th year Architecture * * * Editor’s Note: Although the University of Mississippi does not charge anything which is called tuition, it does charge a registration fee of S135 a semes ter for instate students and $335 for out of-state students, according to page 86 of the uni versity’s catalog. The Mississippi that does exist also makes a fine scape goat, but this does not detract from the tragedy of the stale. OREGON DAILY EMERALD The Oregon Daily F.merald »i |»tiWi*hr4 wirn timrs in Sc|>ietnl»rr And five day* .1 week during the «chool year, rn rjd dur ing examination and vucifiw period* by the Student Publication* H'sjrd oi ll’e I’niveratty of Oregon Entered a* *ec : I lUm matter at the po*t office, Eugene. Oreg *n Subscription rate* $S per jrar; $2 per feim t )pintc.fi*. cnjif r*,r | .,ri ti:«* rd'fot ial age a*e thiixr of The Kmrtald and do iv»t prr tettd to represent the opinions of the AS I/O *r the Inivet'it* HON Bt EK. Kdtir*r MAK1 V KETEKS, Kumik ♦ Manager TED MAHAR, Managing Editor KV KKET I K DKNMS, News Editr i'll ik (<m;sv\ kkk. Editorial Page K'litw I.AKK V W 1KLI AMS. Advertising Manager KAKHV CRAVES, Sport. Editor DtT.CY MOHAN. AssnUut Managing Kd tor I)A\ E SA NDS. J1 M F K AK K, JAN E I r.oETZK, A*Mutant Nrw% Editor*. KEOKOE HICHAM. Photo Editor KIN" DA BROW N, Entertainment Editor RON roWAN, ( A I II V NEVIKK, THOKA WILLIAMS, Aftttociatr New** Editor* EDITORIAL HOARD Hon Hurl, Phil ('»g*wrll, Ted Malar Everctte Denni., Dave Sand* Daley Moran, Kinda Brown Ilai Carpenter, Hob F*or*yth Crarit f.edgct v.00*I, I)<«ug Ragrit Janet (i-iet/r, and Hill Hiltchi*ofl Academic Retreat This weekend, the first academic retreat will attempt to fulfill several needs. Among these are the needs for informal contact with faculty, for discussion of serious subjects not normally handled within the classroom, and for discussion by participants who can speak with a cer tain degree of authority in different fields. Last fall, enthusiasm for the academic retreat was widespread; qualified applications far exceeded available openings. The question is, will the enthusiasm be sus tained? Or, will it wither and die like the Oregon Union from lack of active, prepared participants? We hope that those taking part will assume the respon sibility that goes with the opportunity the retreat offers. They must arrive having read from the suggested reading list and ready to exchange and support their ideas. With out this kind of participant, the retreat will degenerate into a worthless trading of off-the-cuff platitudes. Much worse, at a time when budget problems, rising enroll ments, and crowded classrooms threaten the academic life of the University, students will have failed to take full advantage of an opportunity to improve that academic life.
