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
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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
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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
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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