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.
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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.
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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.
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TED MA1IAR, Managing Editor
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DULCY MORAN,
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RON COWAN. JIM PRAKE,
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Ron Rued, Phil Cogswell. Ted Mahar
Everette Dennis,
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