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‘Facets’ Reborn—Perhaps University Student Publications Board Recommends a Student Magazine to Fill Gap On May 18. 1961. the last student literary publication to appear on this campus end ed what had been a major controversy. “Facets” went out in grand style with an editorial by Sue Hunter and Marg Lange nes decrying the fact that one story con cerning homosexuality, which they wanted to publish, was “censored" by the Student Publications Board. Since earlier in that year when “Look Everywhere in Anger,” a short story in “Facets.” was dragged over the coals by the Oregon State Legislature, what to do with the student magazine had been de bated. “Pace,” a non-fiction supplement, has since appeared in the Emerald, but after the death of “Facets.” no editor has attempted to publish a literary magazine or supplement with the Emerald. There are many reasons why such a publication should not be a part of the Emerald, primarily, that literary work is not in the sphere of a newspaper. The edit ors are not trained along literary lines, and they have enough to do to publish a news paper every day. Also, because the Emer ald is distributed to high schools and is widely read throughout the state, the subject mattee which could be treated in a literary supplement would be limited. The Northwest Review was originally conceived as a partial outlet for student writing. It has developed into a superior publication, publishing faculty works and articles by outside writers, thereby justi fiably limiting the student work that can be accepted. This has left a wide gap. The good stu dent writer of fiction no longer has any place to publish. In a liberal arts univer sity with a strong writing school, this is a sorry situation. To fill this gap, the Student Publications Board recently passed a motion which would set up a student magazine of fiction and non-fiction to come out twice a year. It would be from 24 to 32 pages in size, and would cost approximately $500 an is sue. The editor would be appointed by the Publications Board after petitioning, and he would select his own staff. There would be a faculty advisor, but the magazine would be student-oriented and student-pro duced. There would be no advertising, and it would be distributed free to students. The board completed a thorough study before making the recommendation, and there were misgivings about the availabil ity of good student manuscripts and good candidates for editor. There was also a question of whether the campus would ac cept such a publicaiton. The board finally decided that the best way to determine the possibility of put ting out a good student magazine would be to try to do so. We believe there is a good deal of merit in this decision. The Student Union and Educational Ac tivities Budget Board must appropriate funds, however, if the magazine is to get off the ground. In certain infrequent cir cumstances the money could be found in the Publications Board budget. This year, however, the Oregana has sold under its budgeted sales, and money is not available for another publication. We hope that the Budget Board can see its way clear to appropriate funds for such a publication this year. When the board meets the last week of this month, it should consider all possible alternatives for financ ing it this year. If the money is not to be found, the Budget Board should make def inite plans now to include a student maga zine in the publications budget next year. Pumpkin Leaves For the most part the Physical Plant does a fine job keeping up the campus shrubbery and lawns. But sometimes it misses a little here and there, and the wom en of Tingle Hall think that it has missed a whole lot—like their front yard. Tingle has had the campus’ only mud flat for two years because construction of other dormitories around the hall would have torn up grass and because cement walks had to be laid in part of the lawn area. But now that the buildings around Tin gle have been finished and now that all the possible combinations of walks have been put in, the Tingle belles want to see something green in the front yard. Some of the residents have threatened to plant pumpkin seeds or strawberry vines, and others want to go all the way for real grass. In the hopes of placating the ladies for a while longer, Wilbur Weed. Physical Plant supervisor, has announced that a lawn will be planted when the weather is right, which should be after March 15. The grass will no doubt be a welcome sight to all who live in or pass by Tingle Hall. On the other hand, pumpkin leaves would be interesting, too. Letters to the Editor About The ‘O’ Emerald Editor: You deserve some sort of shrug - of - the-shoulder compli ment on your editorial of Wed nesday, Jan. 9, “The Stealing of the ‘O’.” When you write, “Maybe another ‘O’ should be put up there (on the Butte), but it would probably just get painted orange and black,” you showed good insight. In 20 years I have seen the “O” destroyed and restored and re-destroyed and re stored more than a number of times. I see no real point now for a re-re-re storation. Anyhow, as you indicate, the “O” isn’t in a good place in the first place, and every high school and college seems to have one. I’ve only seen one of these letters on campuses that has made much sense to me. That’s the magnificent “M” atop a mountain in Missoula, Mont. You can begin seeing this a dozen or so miles away as you drive into the city—and from a plane it must be visible for greater distances than that. Missoula is a good 3100 feet high and the mountain rises an other 3000 feet in a sheer wall behind the Montana State Uni versity campus. Montana’s “M” has a geo graphical advantage that Ore gon’s “0” never had. It’s in no danger from vandals and it has a scenic beauty that the “O” didn’t—and, as you said, “there is a good view from where the “O” was, as well as a parking area.” Warren C. Price, Professor of Journalism. Not Fooled Emerald Editor: The anguished bleats of per secution appearing lately, con cerning proposed cuts in the Budget for Higher Education, are most amusing. As a firm believer in the importance of education, far be it for me to say, “I told you so.” but—yoit can't fool all of the people all of the time. It must be quite a shock to the ultra-liberals among us to realize that “the worm has turned.” Perhaps they would have it otherwise, but it is still traditional in the United States that those who help to support education have the right to evaluate its results. I am sure that many citizens in Oregon agree with Governor Hatfield’s statement that such things as the Gus Hall "incident” have marred Education’s public im age. Many of those who so strongly encouraged such mis adventures are now lashing about wildly in an attempt to absolve themselves of any blame. The unfortunate ones in this matter are the large numbers of conservative students, who may have to pay for the self-preten " 5Ucy<, \N* “THAT <SiiT/4 Letters to the Editor Sing Along Emerald Editor: 1 sing the praises of higher education. Out of the mindless mass of America 1 come, well schooled in the hot rod, in rock and roll, the street corner gang and the drive in movie 1 come to learn; 1 attend the university of the mind, enclosed in the skulls of my professors, and I am amazed, after the poverty of high school, at the wealth I find. I read the newspapers of his tors a proletarian revolt in 133 B.C , a coup d' etat in 4fi B (', a cold war between a church and an empire. 1 sit in lecture and 1 watch the unskilled Hom an sailors, on their way to Car thage, clinging to the shrouds as their Greek-made ships are tortured by the tossing seas, and I see the flickering campfires of the silent Spartans, who sit hud dled under their cloaks- in the pass at Thermopylae, waiting for morning and death at the hands of the surrounding Per sians. 1 sit in another lecture and I watch with awe an unbelievable film The nucleus of a single cell. The chromosomes—visible, coiled fingers -shift and move, perform a biological minuet; for ward—meet—bow; separate— retreat to the poles—and the cell divides. I am watching growth on the screen, actually filmed by an actual camera; made visible to the mortal eye. I am told to read Dickens, dead almost a hundred years, who will surely be dry and taste less, and 1 find: “We lived at the top of the last house, and Un wind rushing up the river shook the house that night, like dis charges of cannon or breakings of a sea. When the rain came with and dashed against the windows, I thought, raising my z tious fallacies of the extreme liberal ist minority among us. These conservative students have been repeatedly belabored as “apathetic,” because they refuse to fall in line with the policies and practices of these self-proclaimed spokesmen of student opinion. Evans, in his recent book, “Revolt on the Campus,” doc uments the surging wave of conservative student leadership and organization that is sweep ing the campuses of our Nation The one-sided monopoly that the liberal minority has en joyed for over 30 years is last crumbling. In its stead is arising a true climate for “freedom of expression.” 1 predict that the “apathetic” students ol' our Uni versity will join this revolt, and win back the esteem and sup port that it should deserve from the people of this State. Harry O. Pearson, Graduate Student, Biology. eyes to them as they rocked, that I might have fancied my .self in a storm-beaten light house Occasionally, the smoke came rolling down the chimney as though it could not hear to go out into such a night, and when I set the doors om-n and looked down the staircase, the stair case lamps were blown out; and when 1 shaded my face with my hands and looked through the black windows (opening them ever so. little was out of the question in the teeth of such w ind and rain I I saw that the lamps in the court were blown out, and that the lamps on the bridges and the shore were shuddering, and that the coal fires in barges on the river were being carried away before the wind like red hot splashes in the rain." Not so tasteless, this hoy. I smg of higher education I sing of green grass and brick buildings and clean streets and beautiful trees a refuge from the blinking, tarring neon, the candy and gum wrappers, and the used car lots ! sing of books, thousands of books, filled with the accumulated knowledge of the world, waiting for me 1 sing of teachers, excited by their subjects, instilling that excite ment in me I sing of museums, paintings, sculpture, music dra nia, academic retreats, kaflee klatches, meetings of the minds between Europeans and Ameri cans, between Orientals and Arabs; I smg of friendship in a hostile world. Come, my friends, and sing with me. David L. Williams Sophomore, Foreign Languages OREGON DAILY EMERALD The Oregon Daily Kmrrald i* published Sr.rii times in September and five day s t week during the school year, except dur it»K examination and vacation by the Student Publications Hoard of tbe I'niversity of Oregon. Kntered a-, %e<<>nd claw matter at the pu*t office, Ku^rne, Oregon. Subscripttoti iates $?» pet year; $2 per term. Opinion* fxprr •., <! on the editor iaJ page ase those of The Emerald and do n« t pt» tend to represent the opinion-* of the ASL'O or tin I nivcisity. RON HEEL. Editor MAR I Y KEI ELS, Husiness Manager 'I I*. I> MA1IAR, Managing Editor KVKKKTTK DK.VXIS, New* Kditor 1*1! I I. COOSWKLL, KditoriaI Page Kditor LARRY \V1 I.LIAMS, Advertising Manager LARRY (jRAVKS, Sports Kditor IJI’ITY MORAN. Assistant Managing Ed tor DAVK SANDS, JIM FRAKK, JANET (iOKTLK. Assistant News Editors (I ICO RLE HI (ill AM, Photo Editor LI NDA BROWN, Entertainment Kditor RON COWAN. CATHY NEVILLE, THOR A WILLIAMS, Associate News Editors EDITORIAL HOARD: Ron Bud, Phil Cogswell, Ted Mahar Everette Dennis, Dave Sands Dttlcy Moran, Linda Brown Hal Carpenter, Hob Forsyth Orant Ledgerwood. Doug Ragen Janet (h et/e, and Hill Hutchison
