‘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
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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
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