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Letters to the Editor (Continued front pane 2) cost is suddenly out of reach. Another point we would like to make in favor of the waiver as it exists is that most Alaskan students are self supporting: the money they earn from sum mer jobs pays for their school ing. If the waiver is not avail able to these students, many will not be able to earn the ad ditional $3110 Many high school seniors from Alaska and Hawaii will also be thwarted in their efforts to obtain a better edu cation in Oregon. In conclusion, we believe that Oregon will be losing more than it will gain if this waiver is re voked It will lose the potential of future citizens who may choose to make Oregon their home but will not have the op portunity to be educated in and know this state of Oregon. Gordon Stryken Sophomore in Marketing Andrew Warwick Sophomore in Finance Don Wlnfree Sophomore in Pre-Law • * • Fiasco Not Necessary Emerald Editor: I ain angry over having wast ed my money, 1 feel very sorry for the performers, and 1 am embarrassed for the University of Oregon 1 refer of course to last Saturday’s performance by Peter, Paul and Mary at Mc Arthur Court What could have been a superb musical show was reduced to two hours of unintel ligible garble. Judging by the large attend ance, such a fiasco hardly seems necessary It would seem that the profit margin from one or two such events could be ar ranged in such a manner as to finance a new sound system or ceiling bafJics and draperies or both. Obviously, McArthur Court will never be transformed into an acoustical masterpiece. But, a supposedly sophisticated institution such as the Univer sity, sophisticated enough to ask artists to come here, should be sophisticated enough to try to do the best it can with what it has. Ronald Mitchell Graduate, Psychology International House Emerald Editor: It may interest those studying the potential value of an "In ternational House" to know there is an off campus hoarding house run by Sacred Heart llos pital which goes loosely by this name. It is occupied primarily by students from the East and the Near East, plus a couple of American students. They seem to live together amicably, and l have heard no complaints from any of them on this arrange ment. There is, however, one real problem arising from it: Some of these students from o t he r countries desperately need more contact with Ameri can students in order to attain greater competence in speaking and understanding our lan guage. It is, frankly, too easy for them to restrict their social contacts to those who speak the same native tongue. It would seem fairly obvious that this makes their studies here more difficult than they ought to be. based on my observation of this group (admittedly a limited observation) I would suggest that an International Center might well be preferable to a living group set up on an inter national basis. A center would offer the foreign students a bet ter opportunity to coordinate their activities with those of the campus in general, as well as better facilities than they now have to Hive the national stu dent the benefit of learning about other cultures. It would also tend to avoid the linguistic disadvantage (and possible other difficulties) involved in attempting to house our foreign students in one building. If an "International Mouse” is to be established, perhaps the following criteria might be con sidered in order to overcome the possibility of linguistic problems: (1) The various fore ign countries should be repres ented in proportion to one an other; failing that, in proportion to the number of their represen tatives on campus. The total American population should equal the ttoal foreign popula tion. Then, (2) each foreign student would room with an American student. The entire population should, of course, be chosen upon application, in order to make for the best pos sible mutual interest and af finity. (3) Some kind of pact ought to be in effect to speak only English at least, say, at mealtimes and on social oecas ions; preferably at all times. Other criteria might be more workable and suit the purpose as well; these are merely sug gested as offering one solution. Grace Cameron Secretary and Student English Department * + * Student Apathy Emerald Editor: It has been claimed by bas ketball coaches that the home team rates an advantage of from eight to twelve points over their visitors. The Ducks record to date is Seven and Nine. Of their victories, five have been garner ed on their opposition’s home courts. They have won but a single game at home, and two at neutral Portland. Yet the Ducks have defeated such teams as Washington and California, both highly touted teams, as well as W.S.U., on their home courts As anyone knows, it is a rare treat to beat Cal. or Washington in their teritory. How, then, did these twelve ballplayers rise to their limits and accomplish these feats? How could such a mediocre' ball club do what so many other teams rarely, if ever, do? One reason is that while on the road the team doesn't have our own fans to contend with! They have only their own sup port, and their desire to win is strong enough to have made them victorious. At borne, the apathy and der-j ision appears to drain them of • that essential extra effort and desire In their minds could be. the thought that if they make a mistake they'll be scorned in stead of encouraged so they'll not make further ones. Another point, how do you think the ballplayers feel when un informed students are con stantly bickering against their coach. Mr. Belko is an accom plished coach. He has taken ballplayers with little or no tal ent and taught them to win. He has had winning seasons and losing seasons, as do all coaches. Mr. Belko will guide a winning team this year, if he has to do it ail on the road. The Oregon Ducks want to win. They have shown they can They want to be victorious, both for the personal satisfaction it gives them, and for the prestige it gives the University and its students. But they need the support of the Student Body they are play ing for. LA CASITA BLANCO 1841 Main Street, Sweethome, Oregon On main highway to Hoodoo Ski Bowl Now serving delicious Mexican dishes prepared in our own kitchen. The only Mexican restaurant in Linn County. Orders to go. Open Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.iu. Friday, Saturday and Sunday 12:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. no liquor served The Ducks are home to stay after next weekend’s games in Moscow, excepting Corvallis and the Heavers, Let us stop making a mockery of spirit and support. For Cod’s sake, let’s stop HURT ING them by our apathy. Let us go and cheer for them and cheer and shout, and if we are not of a mind to really support them, then let's not go at all. Let’s stop hindering them. Don’t forget, when the Ore gon Team does good, the whole Oregon Student Body does good. Ron Baderman Junior in English Workshop Offers $100 Scholarships Forty scholarships of $100 each are available for the Family Fi nance Education Workshop to be held at the University June 17 July 12. The workshop is designed for secondary school teachers of so cial studies, business education, homemaking, and mathematics; elementary school teachers; prin cipals and others concerned with promoting better understanding and attitudes related to problems of family finance. In awarding the scholarships, preference will be given applicants who plan to work in teams with others in the same system on a program for their schools. Activities, scheduled on a full day basis, include lectures, dis cussions, conferences, committee work, reading, films, and recrea tion. The four-week workshop will be co-sponsored by the University and the National Committee for Education in Family Finance. Hugh B. Wood, professor of edu cation, will be coordinator of the workshop. Faculty... (Continued from page 1) teacher’s individual attention to his students. “I would be hard put to defend any given ratio,” said the Chan cellor. but “the institution would probably be less able to provide educational services with a higher ratio. The impact would vary with the instructor.” Dean E. B. Lemon, chairman of the stale scholarship commission said each institution can issue the same number of fee remission scholarships up to 2*4 per cent of the previous year's enrollment. Lemon is requesting $150,000 in funds from the legislature for scholarships. LIEUALLEN also commented on the idea of raising tuition fees for non-resident graduate stu dents. as is done in California. Currently only non-resident un dergraduate students in Oregon are charged an extra amount. Nonresident graduate students pay resident tuition. He said that the development of graduate schools and research depends considerably on non-resi dent graduate students. "I would urge that we not move in the direction of an increase," said Lieuallen. Lemon was also asked by Sen. Cook what he would do if he had to choose an alternative between loans and the scholarship pro gram. Lemon replied that he would “prefer loans” although he feels the scholarship program is valuable. BETTER PRODUCTS advertising works lor you I EMERALD Dl 2-1411 Ext. 618 Acting Class Sets Performance Excerpts from such plays as “The American Dream,” “Andro cles and the Lion,” and “As You Like It” will be presented by stu dents in Jean Cutler’s Elements of Acting class Sunday. The performances will be giv en at 4 and 8 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10 in the Laboratory theater in Villard Hall. Participants will be Don Por ter, Winona Cheatham, Douglas Vincent, Joy Johnson, Gail Owens, David Baker, Phil Thom as, Lynne Baseel, Linda Van Win kle, and Linda Anthony. Others include Donna Larson, Susan Rit tel, Fermen Dillon, Candy Cherry and Don Hoffman. The students, themselves, are preparing the cos tumes, lighting, makeup and set tings for the two performances. Browsing Room.. (Continued from page 1) economics from Columbia Uni versity. KAGAN IS the co-author of Report of the Advisory Commit tee on UN Telecommunications,” UN, 1947, and was one of the authors of “Partners in Progress” (Rockefeller Report), 1951. Kagan is a member of the Am erican Economic Association, the Academy of Political Science, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Council for Middle Eastern Af fairs, and the honorary economics fraternity Omicron Delta Gamma. lie is also a Fellow of the Popu lation Reference Bureau. Dr. Carl W. HinU, University librarian, will lead the discussion following the lecture. Use Emerald Classified Ads— Phone DI 2-1411, Ext. 1818. THE VERY LITTLE THEATRE PRESENTS n The Streets of New York rr AMelodrama in Five Acts Performances Feb. 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 1£. Box Office Open Weekdays / 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. J, DI 4-7751 Produced by Special Arrangement with Samuel French, Publisher ...something a little less serious by ted mahar A SADDER DAY’S REVIEW OF LITERATURE A great man once said that Lit majors don’t read books—they either analyze them or they ignore them. (In case you’re wonder ing who the great man is, his initials are Ted Mahar.) Sometimes, in my rare moments of lucidity, I like to try to visualize what some of my English major friends would have said if they had had the opportunity to review the Great Books the first time around. I have a rough idea: The Odyssey by Homer, reviewed by Lester Phester After the ponderous disappointment Homer presented in the Illiad. he has the gall to foist off another of his so-called historical novels on what he hopes is an unsuspecting public. Hopefully, it won’t work this time. In order to do full justice to Homer’s latest literary cripple, one must go back to his first crime, the Illiad—painful as that must be. The Graeco-Trojan war, as everyone knows, was a hard-fought, epic event which spanned ten years. Homer would have us believe that the Greeks were somehow nice guys who were merely hoping to recover a 45-year-old woman called Helen. That a whole nation would go to war simply because of one middle-aged woman s saccharine elopement with a man not quite half her age is hard enough to take. That the Trojans would not throw the two of them right out of the city in the face of the Greek invasion is downright ridiculous. The fact that the Trojans were an essentially peaceful nation is exemplified by the fact that they built around Troy a huge wall. Building a wall, Mr. Homer, is a defensive measure, not offensive. To make a long story short, the Greeks besieged Troy for ten years and were finally victorious. (I do not join those who quibble about the ethics of the Trojan Horse ploy. I blame the Greeks for starting the war, but not for winning it.) Homer, however, is not content with the Greek victory. He must insist that divine aid was directly involved. (Was there ever an adversary that did not feel it had gods on its side?) Apparently Homer himself is not content with the character of the Greeks; he must bring the gods in to turn the tide. And the gods he creates! If these besotted, lecherous, and irresponsible, petty swine are gods I will quit quarreling with the atheists. So what does Homer do in his second book? Exactly the same thing he did in the first. He has populated his book with a compen dium of improbable characters. The hero, Odysseus, might as well be a god; he is certainly more virtuous than any of the gods Homer has created. And—would you believe it?—the gods, particularly Pallas Athene, save Odysseus and his unworthy crew from one scrape after another. Only slightly more improbable than the characters are the events, which include, among others, the transformation of Odysseus’ crew into swine. (There are those who will say that this was not a par ticularly difficult trick, as fate had pretty much accomplished the job.) Seriously, a historical novel is not the proper occasion for black magic and mysticism. They belong in fairy tales. The final straw: After ten years at Troy and another ten getting back, Odysseus finds that his wife Penelope has remained faithful to him. Perhaps this only proves my point. Humans are better than Homer’s gods after all. Having thus ingratiated myself with the English department, I will now discuss Dairy Queen. Dairy Queens taste good. To say more would be superfluous.
