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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 8, 1963)
No ‘Facets’ This Year Student Literary Magazine Out This Year Because of Deficit in Oregana Budget The possibility of the publication this year of a student literary magazine went out the window recently when the Student Pub lications Board calculated the Oregana budget. The Oregana. because it sold some 600 less copies than it did last year, has put the Student Publications Board $1,900 in the red this year. For this reason, the Student Union and Educational Activities Budget Board, who allocate the publica tions money from student fees, could not see their way clear to give $500 of their general funds to allow the Publications Board to put out a student literary maga zine this year. This, despite the fact that the Budget Board was in sympathy with the request for such a magazine. We are sorry to see the hopes for a literary magazine once again squelched, as it is badly needed. The editors of the Emerald should not have the responsibility of putting out a fiction supplement because they are not trained primarily along liter ary lines. And the Northwest Review, quick ly becoming a very successful publication, (.subscriptions doubled in the past year), is not the place for student writing. It has de veloped into a superior publication, pub lishing faculty works and articles by pro fessional writers, justifiably limiting the student work that can be accepted. This leaves a big gap. There is no place for the promising student writer to pub lish. In a liberal arts institution with a strong writing department, this is an in excusable situation. Plans should be made now to assure students that a literary magazine can be published next year. There are several ways that the Publications Board could do this. They could request extra funds for publications from the Budget Board. And they would probably receive them. There is an alternative solution, however, and one that we believe w'ould be better. The Northwest Review now receives over $5,000 from the faculty or University funds, not at all related to student fees. This money could be increased, and the Northwest Review could slowly move away from what, to us, is an unjustified use of student funds. The Northwest Review does not, in ac tuality, belong under the student activity structure, anyway. Although originally con ceived as a part-student publication and al though editors are graduate students, it could hardly be called a “student publica tion”. With some of the student funds now used for the Northwest Review available, these could be used to pay for the, staff and printing of the proposed student liter ary magazine—without increasing the stu dent publications budget. But more than planning for budgeting for next year, the Student Publications Board should call for petitions for the edi torship of the literary magazine, selecting an editor at the April 30 meeting this year. With these acts the Board would be assuring interested students that the camp us will have a long overdue outlet for su perior student writing. Footnote The State Board of Higher Education meets on this campus March 11-12. Monday and Tuesday. This will provide a rare op portunity for interested students to get a close look at one of the most highly-re spected government agencies in the state. We had the chance a few weeks ago to view the Board in action. We feel safe in saying that the students of this University would do well to sacrifice some of their finals week time in order to attend part of these meetings. They are a lesson in educated decision-making of the highest order. It would also give students a first hand to look at how Oregon’s state system of higher education is run. The room numbers for the meetings will be posted in the Student Union. Speaker Ban Stands We noticed with interest the stands taken by the ASUO Senate and the OSU Barometer on the recently killed speaker ban bill in the state legislature. We were in complete agreement with our Senate’s stand which passed unanim ously. It was a strong and well-written ap peal for freedom of speech. What inter ested us was the fact that there was no ar gument against the motion. Where were those 13 Senators who stood against free dom of the press less than a month ago? As for the Barometer’s stand, it was fairly typical of what can best be called, “The Oregon State Attitude”. The Baro meter, as did Oregon State's student gov ernment, came out in favor of allowing the institutional executives of each state-sup ported college to decide who could and could not speak on the campus. In short, they voted to leave their freedom of speech in the hands of their President Jensen. Letters to the Editor » Parthenon or Shopping Center Emerald Editor: Why not tear down the Par thenon for a new hotel or shop ping center? Can anyone re member the Old Anchorage? Th^ new Anchorage? The old jail? The new parking lot that replaces it? The old library? What remarkable building has replaced it? The Courthouse? There is now a lack of respon sibility toward historical land marks, a peculiar belief that what is new is better; all this in the name of progress. I would very much like to see what “our coop” board in tends to put in place of the original bookstore and College Side building. Why can’t the Side be used for the coop’s pur poses? What can they offer us better? What atrocity would we see in place of the House of Interiors had it not saved and used the church at 11th and Ferry? Surely, there are other sites available to the coop. Why replace a fine piece of useful architecture with what promises to be a very ordinary building like the coop bookstore behind it? I say, let us students vote on this issue. There are too many questions unanswered, and too little concern for the public in terest. Dorothy C. Gilmore Graduate in Architecture * £ * Ideas or School Supplies Emerald Editor: Save the Side building. Here is a building that IS architecture. There are so few. It is unique on this campus in it’s appeal to the senses, it has repose, does not shout, re spects it’s site, states it’s pur pose with quiet dignity. I It has variety with consistent order in it’s form, is sized or scaled for human beings desir ing the specific services avail able there. It’s simple covered entry space is a delightful re lief from those barren store fronts pushing themselves on the street. The Side interior with it’s unique spaces, furnishings and character will not be replaced easily. This is a part of the tradition, the daily life, the very structure of the campus. We all know it has traditional and historical value, but how about it’s total value as a build ing in this community of Eu gene and of this specific campus complex. We look with dismay as new building horrors are prepetrated on this campus every day. Let us at least save some of those buildings that ARE ARCHITEC (Continued on page 3) (' $rnL cjt cF 'j,, - —■-J \. fciJSNfSS fc "ANOTHER 6000 NEWSPAPERMAN OR'VEN INTO AOVLRTlSlHG? W.SJLJm The Expendability of An Architectural Heritage Wallace S. Ilavdcn, the au thor of the following article is a professor of architecture at the University of Oregon. As one observes the rapidity with which the famaliar and re assuring local landmarks van ish from our city scape, one won ders how many of the fine build ings of the community we can afford to liquidate summarily for the purpose of clearing sites for proposed commercial enter prises and public services While vacant properties remain avail able why should a city of the Northwest frontier have to yield so many of its ties to its immediate cultural past to the demands of the expedient pres ent? While walking to work the Kugene citizen has occasion to frequently note the unceremon ious disappearance of what he had previously taken for grant ed to be a permanent visual component to the civic entour age to which he had become ac customed. His first reaction to the disappearance is one of shock and consternation. His surprise is followed by a sense of irreplacable loss. Depending upon his temperament he will be aware of resentment or indigna tion at some level of intensity. His image of the wholeness of a known region has been shat tered by the deletion of one of its constituent features. The more noteworthy the building is, the more positive will be the evoked sense of loss to the cog nizant citizen. It may be generally said of citizens who observe with nor mal concern and keenness the visual quality of their urban surrounds that they tend to fix in mind particular places where the eye finds satisfaction in scan ning and rescanning well placed and skillfully designed build ings which in their landscape situation convey a sense of total satisfaction. These places, rath er widely scattered, tend to ex ist as relief from the interven ing spread of incongruently built areas. What is being ap preciated in the preffered model is the salutary effect produced by the more thoroughly con trolled silhouettes, the more continuously flowing wall and roof surfaces, the more happily disposed openings and articu lated features, the civilized handling of proportion and scale and the more humanized com bining of agreeable color and pleasant textures. As the citizen observes these comely virtues existing in combination and ex tent here he recognizes his city becoming beautiful, here the vis ual experience becomes compen sating to the sensibilities and gratifying to the human spirit When the act of removal, or destruction, or substitution against which the city dweller reacts instantly anti instinctive ly involves one of these familiar and cherished “places" of per sonal delight and civic pride the sense of loss experienced is greatly intensified and the moti vation to affect individual resist ance becomes positive. What is being damaged is not the "thing", but the image of salu brity buried deep in silent feel ings; the side effects are of the nature of cultural trauma. For how many of the Univer sity of Oregon alumnae, the at tending students, the professor ial stalT, tlu employees, and the citizens of Eugene would the blotting out of the College Side Inn building stimulate a sense of loss of confidence, a loss of regard and a loss of image? The problem for society seems to be ever present: how much and what portion of our cultur al heritage, manifested in build ings, are we privileged to de clare to be expendable at any particular time, and with what justification? ORK<;C)\ DAILY EMERALD The Oregon Daily Emerald i» published •even lime'* in September ami five clay* a week during the school year, except dur ing examination and vacation periods by the Student Publicationti Board ol the University of Oregon. Entered a** second class mater at the post office, Kugcne, Oregon. Subscription rates: $5 per year; $2 per term. Opinions expressed on the editorial page arc those of The Emerald and do not pre tend to reprrM nt the opmi >ns of the ASUO or the University. RON HU EL, Editor MARTY KETKLS, Businesi Manager TED MAKAR, Managing Editor EVERETTE DENNIS. News Editor I'll 1L COGSWELL. Editorial Page Editor LARKY WILLIAMS, Advertising Manager JOHN BUCHNER, Sports Editor DULCY MORAN. Assistant Managing Editor DAVE SANDS, JIM FKAKE, JANET GOETZE, Assistant News Editors GEORGE BIG HAM, Photo Editor LINDA BROWN, Entertainment Editor RON COWAN, CATHY NEVILLE, THOKA WILLIAMS, Associate News Editors DICK RICHARDSON, Feature Editor EDITORIAL BOARD : Ron Bud. Phil Cogswell. Ted Mahar Everette Dennis, Dave Samis Dulcy Mo an, Linda Brown Boh Forsyth, Hal Snow, Grant Ledger wood, Doug Ragen Janet Goetic, and Bill Hutchison
