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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1963)
Support Fund Drive Students Have An Opportunity To Provide Benefits For Themselves The Student Development fund drive, which starts today, will give University stu dents a unique opportunity to contribute to a project which will be of direct and vis ible benefit to the University. Money donated to the drive will go to build a University camp for student use. Students are asked to contribute the unused portions of their breakage fee for this pur pose. We think that both the intention of the drive and the way money is to be collected are good ideas. The camp, with its eventual overnight facilities, is needed as a recrea tional area and as a place for meetings, retreats and conferences by student and fac ulty groups. Such an area will be a definite asset to the University. The method of collecting money provides a relatively painless way for students to help the University and themselves. Each student will be asked to sign a card author izing the University to turn over the un used part of his breakage fee to the drive, and in this respect his donation will prob ably not be missed very much. Students will also have an opportunity to donate their breakage fee directly to the regular development fund if they prefer. This money would be used to provide reve nue for general University projects not cov ered by state funds, such as faculty travel or scholarships. We hope that students will take advan tage of this opportunity to help provide themselves with facilities. Too often, stu dents forget that they can play an impor tant role in improving the University as well as benefitting from the improvements instituted by their predecessors. The New Senate The new ASUO Senate passed its first real test last Thursday night, and it did so with flying colors. For the first time in the past three years we were proud that it was our Senate in action. The questions they asked on the NSA legal debate were logical and reasonable the decision they finally made was the only sensible one. The Senate also discussed but came to no decision on the majority and minority reports on student discipline. Perhaps the most significant matter to come before the Senate in some time, the current discipline controversy offers the senators an opportunity to make their in fluence felt in an area of real importance and interest to the average student. A strong recommendation to the faculty sup porting the viewpoint of one of the three reports will be important. We hope that the Senate will see fit to support one of the three reports, for the issues are already complicated enough. To throw another set of amendments and rami fications into the matter would only confuse the situation further. Also, we doubt that the ramifications and amendments of the student senate would have much effect on the final outcome. A strong resolution for one of the three reports, however, could be influential. We also hope'that the senate will make a real effort to determine the desires of its constituents on the matter of student dis cipline. If there is any one area where stu dents can benefit by a united front of strong support, it is in the area of student conduct and a discipline code. We are convinced that a sampling of student sentiment would produce almost unanimous endorsement of a more liberal discipline code. The indivi dual senators should attempt to find out for themselves, however. We hope that the Senate meeting this Thursday night will produce the same thoughtful and informed discussion that last Thursday night’s meeting did. It is important to each student at this Univer sity that he is represented adequately by his student government in the area of stu dent discipline this Thursday. Special ef forts should be made by each senator to do so. Letters to the Editor I Leftist Organization Emerald Editor: The following are some facts that I know many University students were completely una ware of at the time of the re cent election on the proposal to join NSA. I am sorry that these facts were not made known pre vious to the election. If they had been, there is no doubt in my mind that the proposal would have been easily defeated. Since August 1961, a total of 32 colleges and Universities have withdrawn from the NSA. (Attached is a list of these schools). These 32 schools have a total of 206.000 students. Dur ing this same period, 14 schools with 112,000 students have re jected proposed affiliation. (Al so attached is a list of these). Today NSA represents less than 1/5 of the institutions available for membership. Obvi ously the prestige and popular ity of NSA must be suffering considerably. I venture to guess that in the near future a substan tial number of present members will decide to disaffiliate also. Colleges and Universities which have withdrawan f r i m NSA since 1961: N.Y. University Ohio State U. U. of Texas Northwestern U. U. of Missouri Los Angeles State U. of Oklahoma U. of Nebraska U. of Kansas Utah State U. of Ag. Ball State College Hillyer College U. of Bridgeport Vanderbilt U. Canisius College Cal. Western U. Denison U. College of St. Catherine Arkansas A & M William Jewell Earlham College Bates College Western Maryland Lynchburg College Simpson College Stonehill College Tennessee Wesleyan Kansas Wesleyan Shelton College Indiana U. Schools which have rejected proposed NSA affiliation since 1961: Purdue U. George Washington U. U. of Virginia U. of Kentucky Fordham U. American U. I Illinois Inst, of Tech. Texas Christian Tufts University U. of Chattanooga Franklin and Marshall Gettysburg College Washington and Lee U. of New Hampshire Another interesting point is the fact that this organization was praised not too long ago in an article in a magazine called Communist Viewpoint. This article was written by Mortimer D. Rubin, National Youth Direc tor of the Communist Party. Rubin also received permission from NSA to set up a display booth representing the party at the last NSA convention. Two other resolutions passed by the NSA at its convention but not mentioned in a previous letter to the editor are 1. Calls for repeal of the McCarran-Wal ter Act. 2. Protests against the firing of Communist teachers. I personally do not want to see my compulsory student fees used to send delegates to such an obviously leftist organization. I know a mistake was made, and I know also that many people are having second thoughts about the way they voted. Lael Prock, Senior in Business. «'-J Letters to the Editor US and UN Emerald Editor: The patronizing and preten tiotis manner of Mr William A. Rusher may have obscured for some of his listeners his appal ling lack of information and un derstanding of the organization and operation of the United Nations and the role of the Uni ted States in the United Nations. Unless Mr Rusher was resort ing to the "deceitful methods,” of which he accused all Com munists and Communist sym pathizers, he must be sadly un informed about the interests and activities of the Afro-Asian bloc in the United Nations His comments regarding the dts interest of the Afro-Asian bloc in a commitment to freedom is a colossal effrontery to million? of people who have been in the forefront of the struggle lor human freedom. Furthermore, apparently Mr Rusher is quite unaware of the frequency with which the votes of the Afro Asian nations have coincided with the votes of the United States in the United Nations and also the great number of itmes when these nations have not voted as the monolithic bloc which he implied they al ways constitute For the students who would like an honest account of the United States in the United Nations, and for Mr. Rusher (if he reads anything besides his own publication), I commend a recent report from the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations entitled: Re view of United Stales Participa tion in the United Nations ” The report 'obtainable at the- Doc inents desk in the- library or from me) consists mainly of testimony by Ambassador Adlai Stevenson before eight mem bers of the Senate Foreign Rela tions Committee, along with questions put to him by the members of the Committee. Of course, if students prefer to believe that the United Nations is useful only for “regulating radio frequencies and plane schedules,” then they should continue to read only Mr. Rush er and comparable ill informed writers and speakers. John Gange, Director, Institute of International Studies and Overseas Administration. * * * Reformation Emerald Editor: For the past few days, the editorial page has been filled with outraged comments from out-of state students over the raise in tuition. Actually these students don’t know what a fa vor has been done for them. I am a poor, ignorant Oregonian, and I shall have to return next year to hand -over $330 for tui tion. For that $330, plus $700, next year s freshmen will re ceive the same great dorm tre;*i ment I cot this year They will humbly receive from Arthur Flemming and Ted Mclleynolds a new outlook on life They will be shown that liquor has no place in the life of a college cdu cated intellectual If one is a woman, (as this University hes itatingly calls them) she can he assured that for $250 per term, she won’t be seduced by some social outcast living in an apart ment. I am so thankful that 1 was reformed by this great dor mitory system; I’m sure it will last all my life Dennis Kerr, Freshman, B.A. About letters Letters to the editor must In signed and should include, if from a student, the writer's year and major. If not from a student they should contain the wriler’s position at the Univer sity or his address. There is no maximum length for letters but those under 300 words will be given preferen tial treatment. Letters should be typewritten and double spac ed. The Emerald will also publish intelligently-written columns ol campus or more general inter*- .1 either by students or faculty members. Columns submitted should also be double spaced. Preferred length Is between two and three typewritten pages. OREGON DAILY EMERALD The Oregon Daily Kmeiald i* published ■even times in September and five day* a week during the school year, except dur ing examination and vacation periods by the Student Publications Hoard of the University of Oregon. Entered a* second class mater at the post office, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates: $5 per >car; $2 per term. Opinions expressed on the editorial page are those of The Emerald and do not pre tend .o represent the opinions of the ASUO or the University. RON BUEL, Editor MARTY KKTELS, Businesj Manager TED MA1IAR, Managing Editor EVKRKTTE DENNIS. News Editor PHIL COGSWELL, Editorial Page Editor LARRY WILLIAMS, Advertising Manager JOHN BUCHNER. Sports Editor DULCY MORAN, Asiistant Managing Editor RON COWAN. JIM PRAKE, JANET COETZE, Assistant News Editors GEORGE BIG HAM, Photo Fditoi LINDA BROWN, Entertainment Editor CATHY NEVILLE, Associate News Editor DICK RICHARDSON, • Feature Editor EDITORIAL BOARD: Ron Rued, Phil Cogswell. Ted Mahar Everette Dennis, Dulcy Mo-'an, Lindi Brown Bob Forsyth, Hal snow, Grant Ledger wood, D» ug Ragen Janet Goctie, and Bill iutchison
