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.”
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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
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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.
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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.