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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1963)
Houses Building Pushcarts For April 27 Relay Fhr first annual Push Cart re lay sponsored try Delta Chi fra trinity, will be held Saturday, April 27. CAUL FINWAI.L, director of the relay, urges all living organi zation to enter the relay Dead line for entering the relay is mid night. Saturday, Aprii 20. There will be a $10 entry fee which will go to Ptar^ Buck School Many fraternities and sororities are building push carts Sigma Nu, Beta Theta Pi, and Sigma Phi Kpsilon are letting the pledge classes build their carts The sen iors at Theta Chi are building their cart, and freshmen will push it at the relay. THIS ALPHA Tau Omega’s in dicated that they are helping a sorority to build their cart. Sig ma Kappa. Alpha Chi Omega, and other sororities are letting their house boys build their carts Trophies will he awarded to the lirst and second place winners in the men’s and women’s division and to the organization with the most original push cart. Proceeding the relay will be a fun parade in which all organiza tions entering the race must par ticipate THE RELAY will take place on 550-yard course down 13th, 14th, and Kincaid streets. F'inwall said Letters to the Editor i Ctmiinucd fmm p(vje 2) ‘ allowed" to become a Parthe non (as Mr du Toit insinuated Is the case with the Side); it is of supreme elegance or it is not We all know, in this case, it is not. Put what is it? Mr. du Toit says its an old building to be compared to grandmother's old dress, an old dirt road, and as part ol an old American heri tage, which ail stand in the way of progress. I choose to examine these ideas. MK. du TOIT states that he would never ask his grandmoth er to wear one of those old 1899 dresses, “because modern clothing is more pleasing to the eve" and better meets the needs and activities of today. I can not understand why we. as the general public, believe that any thing new is always an improve ment over the old, especially so for architecture. If the public does not realize* that too much of modern ’ architecture is sterile, boxy, and artificial, with screens covering the emptiness of their folly, I say we are a hell ol an ignorant group. And I say don t be surprised if the archi tecture that replaces the Side is not so pleasing to the eye and does not better meet the needs and activities of today For if the needs and activities of to day do not call for a better ex pression of our society, in all fields, then why arc we all in volved in this human drama con stantly striving for the better ment of man and a universal happiness? And how do old roads fit into the human drama? Mr du Toit thinks the Side is comparable to an outdated dirt road. The Side very definitely takes part in the human drama, hut do dirt roads? The Side is part of the beauty in Eugene, part of the landscape, part of the surround ing atmosphere; it will always serve as an expression of the strength, the firmness, the fit ness of the Oregon society. The thought of it being an ‘old" building is irrelevant for there are good old buildings as there are bad old buildings, and the same is true for modern archi tecture. With the Side, we are concerned with a good building Losing this building would rep resent a grave loss to the land scape of the Eugene community as well as to the University cam pus Consequently, how can there be an analogy between an old dirt road, whose improve ment does not significantly alter the landscape, and that which is a definite part of our environ ment, of our being, of our socie ty, of our nature. We train, we produce, we turn free the architect. He is endowed with semi-sacred pow ers. He is the one who covers our land with mildew or radi ante, with triteness or grand eur, with ignorance or intelli gence; he represents society. Yet much too often he goes un questioned in his work. He pro duces forms that are big and small, symmetrical and asym metrical, this and that; but do we seriously question these forms? I think not. As a result, the sham is everywhere, the commonplace is common, and the devoid is interesting. We must learn how to look, exam ine, and question Always ask ing why specific materials, meth ods, and forms take shape. Only in this mariner will the healthy, the logic, the fit be seen in ar chitecture And then it will be easy to distinguish the good from the bad. WITH THIS, I must conclud ed that Mr. du Toit lacks in knowledge of the true issue. The controversy surrounding the Side is not one of the pres ervation of an old building or a specific American heritage. It is one of the preservation of the well being, the healthy, the good, in architecture, in Oregon, in Eugene, ami specifically on campus. We must learn to pre serve the good in our environ ment, whether it be old or new What or who does dr. du Toit represent? Most probably you: the complacent, the illogi cal, but at times the rational public. What does progress consti tute? Too often the golden dol lar! And I am still too young and irrational to sympathize with that aspect of the Side con flict. Art Paz Jr. Architecture P S. The College Side Inn is still standing. the course has been cleared with city manager Hugh McKinley. Finwall is originator of the push cart relays at Oregon. He got the idea for the relays from San Jose State College, which he attended before coming to Ore gon fall term. According to Fin wall the push cart relays at UCLA, San Jose State, and Cali fornia are similar to Oregon's Canoe Fete as a campus attrac tion. Debatable Films On HUAC Action To Be Shown “Operation Abolition" and “Op ation Correction,” controversial documentary films, will be shown at 3 p.m Friday, sponsored by the ASUO Civil Rights Committee j Room will be announced later. “Operation Abolition" concerns the May 1960 “student riots" in San Francisco, which occurred j during the hearings of the House Committee on Un-American Ac tivities. Although sanctioned by the House Committee, the film has been criticized by many per sons and organizations who con tend that it is not an accurate representation of the actual events which occured at the time “Operation Correction,” spon-1 sored by the American Civil Lib erties Union of Northern Califur-; nia. is the same film with a few additions and different narration.! It attempts to show that “Opera tion AlKilition" is not. in fact, an accurate portrayal of the student demonstrations. A debate between former con gressman Charles O. 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