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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1964)
Festival Draws USIS Interest I’res Lyndon B. Johnson has requested that the U.S. Informa tion Service make material on the l niversity’s first International Festival available for distribution overseas, according to Anant Cha ven, chairman of the event Every foreign country repre sented on the campus will be rep resented in tlte two-day festival today and Saturday. Exhibits will open at 3 p in. today on the sec ond floor of the Student Union and run until the 7:30 show to night in tlie SU Ballroom. Gov. .Mark Hatfield will be the honored Noted Publisher Major Speaker At Conference The 4.'ith annual Oregon Press Conference will feature two dis tinguished speakers today and Saturday Barry Bingham will he the guest speaker in the Eric Allen Memorial lecture at 2:30 p in today in the Student Union He will discuss "The One-Owner ship Newspaper Town." Bingham is a Kentucky-born Harvard graduate and has worked as police reporter for the Louis ville Times, a Washington cor respondent, editorial writer, as sistant to the editor, assistant to the publisher and as a publisher. Since 1937 he has been president of the Courier-Journal and Louis ville Times Company KcceBed Bronze Stars During World War II. Bingham received two bronze stars for covering US Navy operations next to Normandy and in the Pacific During the surrender of Japan, Bingham was one of 9fi corres pondents in Tokyo Bay. After the war. Bingham served as chief of mission for the Economic Coop oration Administration to France, and received the French Govern ment’s Legion of Honor. At present he is a director of the American Press Institute anil a member of the advisory board for Pulitzer Prizes He has spent three months touring Asia and after returning to the states was co-chairman for Stevenson's bid for the Presidency. Banquet Speaker Featured Speaking earlier in the day will be Dr. Sioma Kagan, a professor of international business in the University School of Business Ad ministration Dr. Kagan will speak at the noon luncheon on "Oregon Newspapers' Stake in (l onlinued on page 5) guest at the opening performance. Saturday exhibits will open at 11 a m The show will be at 3 pm. University President Arthur S Flemming will be the honored guest. Highlights of the free program will be the crowning of an Af rican chief, a Chinese traditional wedding, a Swedish skit, a Japa nesi judo exhibition, and a fash ion show representing 30 conn tries. Sponsored by the YMCA, the purpose of the festival is for for eign students to express their ap preciation for their acceptance in to the community. Donations tak en at the show will go to the For eign Student Loan Fund. The festival is financed entirely by donations from town business men Twenty-five hundred dollars worth of sendees and $500 cash have been contributed to date. A half hour taped preview of the festival will tie televised on KVALTV channel 13, at 3:30 p m. Saturday Plans for the festival started last September and were insti gated by YMCA President Kuri en Chacko. Civil Rights Week Goldschmidt, Sherburne Defend Drive for Funds By DAVE JORDAN Assistant News Editor A pair of ASUO presidents, one of present vintage and one of past, explained the upcoming Civil Rights Week and the Mis sissippi voter registration drive it is to help finance Thursday afternoon. Phil Sherburne, present ASUO President, and Neil Goldschmidt, former president and now an NAACP field worker in the .South, spoke to a meeting of living or ganization delegates to answer various questions which have been presented to challenge the project. Sherburne’s comments were concerned with justifying the move of student government from the traditional field of eampus afTairs to problems of national and somewhat distant origin. Answers Questions Goldschmidt attempted to ans wer the questions, What good will it do? and. What is it?” Sherburne opened his defense of the project by saying, “It seems to me that you naturally resolve back to the question of what does student government exist for?’ “It exists to fill a vacuum— handling things which perhaps the administration should do but which it doesn’t have the man power to handle, and bringing concern to this campus to make students aware of being citizens in a national as well as a campus community. "I don't think there is neces Washburn Relates Primate Behavior to Prehistorics By STEVE GREEN Associate News Editor "Primate Behavior" was dis cussed by Sherwood Washburn in the final Condon lecture be fore a capacity crowd in the Stu dent Union ballroom Thursday. Washington is currently work mg with a primate colony at the University of California and is a member of the national scien tific advisory council to the Ore gon Regional Primate Research ! Center near Portland. lie has made several field trips including primate expeditions to Ceylon. Siam, Burma and Africa. In his Thursday lecture. Wash burn showed .. series of slides taken during his African expedi tion in which he was primarily in terested in the structure and so cial organization of baboon troops. Make Generalities The reason, according to W'ash burn, that present day studies of apes and monkeys are undertaken is that generalities made from observing them today can prob ably be applied to their actions during prehistoric times. “Our camp, commented Wash burn, "was located right at the foot of Kilimanjaro. It consisted of seven tents which were own ed and operated by professional 1 11 i BKUCE BABBITT, ASUO Senator-at-I.arge, presented a motion to send a letter to the American Legion affirming University’s support oi NS A during Thursday’s Senate meeting. ASUO Presi dent Phil Sherburne looks on. (Story page 8) hunters. I might point out that one day's room and board there was considerably less than one day in the Eugene hotel.” He said that the baboon troops live in relatively small areas usu ally from two to 15 square miles in size. They have never been seen to venture out of this area. There is no fixed home with in this area and the baboons range freely over it Attempts to coax them out by means of food or by scaring them have failed Relations Neutral "Relations between most ani mals in the game preserve where we studied seemed to be neutral,” Washburn stated, "even if they are eating the same kind of food.” He said that as long as the ani mals were not being hunted they seemed to have no fear of each other or human beings. “Quite often the main problem was keep ing them off your car.” "Unlike man,” Washburn point ed out, “many of the animals can go for days and even weeks with out water. This suggests that man is not adapted to life on the sav anas. but is more adapted to life in the forested areas more like the gorilla." Washburn exhibited several diagrams of the structure of the baboon troops as they traveled and rested and noted that they were practically similar. Troop Led by Males The troop would be led by several of the subordinate adult males accompanied by a few fe males. The same situation exists at the rear of the troop In the center are the largest and most dominant males, the females with the youngest babies and one or (Continued cn page 5) NCAA Swim Mark | Falls to UO’s Boyd 1 By MASON SMITH Emerald Sports Writer Oregon’s Dick Boyd broke the NCAA championship record in the 400-yard individual medley at the Far West Swimming Champ ionships Thursday, clocking 4:22.1. Boyd placed fourth in the NCAA Championships as a sopho more last year in the same event to earn his All-American rating. “It was so easy. I didn’t feel the race until the end.’’ he said. His time set new pool, confer ence, and varsity records as well. After the first three events, Oregon is leading the 3-day meet with 33 points, followed by Wash ington with 25. Washington State with 14. and Oregon State with 10. The Oregon medley relay team also set a new varsity record with a time of 3:51.0. This time was only good for second, though, as a very fast Washington State team set a new conference record with a time of 3:49.2 The record setting Duck team consisted of Steve Kohl, Mack Hirayama, Lar ry Oshiro, and John Tompkins. Impressive Performances Other impressive performances were turned in by Kohl, Dale Wood, and Arthur Thompson. Kohl pulled the surprise upset of the evening by finishing ahead of Washington’s Ron Bohlman in that same medley race. Kohl’s time of 4:39.5 was only 0.9 sec onds off the NCAA qualifying time. In the same event Jack Carter came through to take a fifth place. Dale Wood and Arthur Thompson placed second and third in the 500 freestyle Wood led the race for the first 300 yards but with a fast finish Wash ington’s Ed Cazalet was able to win the race by twro seconds. The Oregon medley relay rec ord was made possible by trem endous individual efforts by the team members. The lead man, Steve Kohl, did his best time of 59.8 to give the team a narrow lead over the field. Mack Hira yama turned in a 1:05 8 for the breaststroke leg to better his standing varsity record. The effort was not enough to retain the lead from a fast hund red breaststroke by Bob Brown ing of Washington State. Brown ing's time of 1:018 would have placed at last year's NCAA Cham pionships. The deciding man in Oregon record was Larry Oshiro who turned in a 54.8 in the but terfly. Oshiro Bests Mark Oshiro’s time was better than the existing conference record for the individual event. The anchor man, John Tompkins, bet tered the varsity record in the 100-yard freestyle with his time of 50.4. It was fortunate for Ore gon that Tompkins came through because the pressing Washington (Continued on payed) warily any difference in these f'>vo tasks. It is not an 'either or’ situation We can do both,” he said. Most Important Crisis He continued, ‘'Civil Rights is probably the most important crisis facing our nation today I'm sure that in the next 15 to 20 years this problem will be come much more critical. And I believe that it is our duty to edu cate the student e\cn as far away from the actual source of this problem as the West Coast. Peo ple on the West Coast don't think it is relevant, but it is/’ In response to a fjuostion on why the ASl’O doesn't concern itself with local racial problems before it ventures into the na tional field, Sherburne said, "I don t see w hy we can t dig at both ends of the ditch. ' We can hold this drive to aid ‘he project in Mississippi and at the same time become involved in civ il rights problems in the Eugene area/’ It was then pointed out that C i\il Rights Week will serve an educational function for the local* area by casting light on several aspects of the civil rights prob lem. •Fascist State’ Goldschmidt said of the situa tion in Mississippi: "It’s almost a fascist state. I don t like to use that word, since it carries various connotations, but that’s the clo^ est thing to it.” W hat we need to do.” he con tinued. is get so manv students down there that it is a national story' We need an umbrella of national press attention under which vve can operate. There is safety in numbers. This is why vve are asking for 2.000 volunteers to go to Missis sippi. They can't take 2.000 whites out in the bushes and beat them like a Xegro—if they do thev will have the national press down on them/’ Manpower Needed "Students are available in the summer. There is no other way to get enough manpower: there is no other way to tell the Ne groes in Mississippi we are with them and the whites in Missis sippi that we are against them/’ "I think it is important to let these people know that all whites don t operate like Mississippi whites.-’ w He stated. "I d like to see the l ni\ ersity of Oregon do the same thing it did with free speech. We made a national reputation for doing something that we just should have done.-’ In reference to the makeup of the voter registration drive. Gold schmidt said. "All of these people participating won't be students— there will be journalists, law' stu dents from Yale University, fac ulty members, and nurses.-’ Press Coverage Needed Goldschmidt indicated that there is a real need for press coverage of the Mississippi situa tion to be stepped up. and that a good way to do it is throueh this project He said. "It is very difficult to find out what’s hap pening down there." Emerald Staff To Hold Meet AH members of The Emer ald staff will meet at 4 p.m. today in 301 Allen Hall. The mandatory meeting in cludes upper staff, sports staff, freshman reporters, proofread ers, and members of the adver tising staff. All those unable to be pres ent must call Janet Goetze at 345 1375 or ext. 1817 bv 4p.m.
