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An Important Event Coming so soon after the massive shake ► - up in the Soviet Union, Charles H. Malik’s Charter Day address may easily prove to be the most important speech given on campus this year. “The Struggle for Peace” is an appropriate topic for a man who has been a member of the United Nations Gen eral Assembly and has served on many UN committees. The Charter Day ceremonies, which will also honor three distinguished Oregon residents, should be well worth at tending this year. Charter Day ranks with Commencement in its importance to the University. The ceremonies were begun eleven years ago to commemorate the day on which the state legislature approved the University’s char ter. Ceremonies include a procession by faculty members and the recognition of three outstanding Oregonians through Dis tinguished Service Awards. This year’s re cipients of these awards are a sculptor, a scientist who has studied the mechanisms of pain, and a professor of political science at one of Oregon’s outstanding private col leges. Tom Hardy, a graduate of the Uni versity’s School of Architecture and Allied Arts, created the fountain in the enclosed courtyard of the Student Union, as well as many other pieces throughout the nation. William Kenneth Livingston is a graduate of Harvard Medical school who has pub lished widely during his teaching career at the University medical school. The third recipient of the distinguished service award is Charles McKinley, a professor of politi cal science at Reed College who has done work in conservation with various North west projects, including the Bonneville Power Administration. Highlighting the presentation of these awards will be Mr. Malik’s speech which should touch on many of the significant issues facing todays world. The speaker has been an active participant in world af fairs and will provide some valuable in sight into the current world situation. Charter Day will not have some of the formality of past years as faculty members will not enter the ball room wearing their academic robes as in past ceremonies. How ever, the quality of the program will not be impared by this change. Charter Day is one of the valuable experiences which many University students will unfortunately pass up. Mr. Malik’s address makes this year’s observation even more important. We urge students to take advantage of this evening’s program which will be one of the most im- < portant academic programs of the current school year. The OFCL, Useful or Useless? Representatives of the ASUO will travel to Portland this weekend to take part in the conference of the Oregon Federation of Collegiate Leaders. We hope that this year’s delegates will review the OFCL and its purposes with a critical eye toward its value to the University. The organization needs one of two things, either massive re structing or complete dissolution. At the present time, the OFCL is a loose ly structured organization of virtually all colleges and universities in the state, pub lic and private. The state schools have long needed a well organized lobby program to educate voters throughout Oregon to the problems faced by higher education in the state. Private schools have no such need and have continually dragged their feet on legislation calling for any lobby effort and involvement in political programs. One program proposed this year has merit and seems to be applicable to all the schools within OFCL. This program would invite speakers to several campuses in the course of one lecture tour, hopefully reduc ing costs to all concerned. This is a good program but is scarcely enough of a reason to justify the existence of the OFCL. A separate program could be established with out the OFCL to perform this function. The problem with OFCL is that its scope is so limited that it cannot avoid the con flicts of interests between state and private schools and provide legislation applicable to all. In the past, the group has not been willing to deal with general student prob lems such as academic freedom, the pur poses of higher education in general, the importance of student movements in other parts of the country, federal legislation in volving college students, voting age re quirements and a long list of other areas of concern. The group is now at the point where it exists and is trying to find pur poses to justify its existence. If the scope cannot be widened enough to permit the conflicting interests of public and private schools to exist within one organization, the OFCL should dissolve and set up two organizations, representing the two pres sure groups now struggling within one or ganization. Letters to the Editor ilJlUiittl!!IIUtiWUIU(liUUU)ilUWJiUlUl]lltt Further Comments Emerald Editor: Re: Mossei letter of Oct. 20, 1964 Mr. Lee Mossei, you should not jump to conclusions so fast, because if you do, you may end by jumping into a river. A riv er I said? That brings me to the point that I was trying to make the other day. I was not trying to drown or character assassi nate you or our student leaders. Instead, I was asking myself: Why can not Mossei do the same as the Moselle does? The Moselle comes to life in France, and flows into Germany. It has done that for many years, and it has not been concerned with the fact that Germany was trying to take over its native country. The people of France ■r— did not believe that it was a traitor to “la patrie” because it went into Germany. Neither did the Germans believe that it was subservice because it was born into the lands of the enemy. While both governments were asking for each other’s head, the Moselle kept its little bit for friendship among the people of both nations, and it helped in a minor way the economy of both countries. The Moselle did not win the war for anybody, and if it would have been stopped at the border, it may have gone unnoticed. Its role was, and it is still, a minor role. However, the Moselle keeps flowing from one country to another trying to do its best. And now I ask you Mr. Mos sel why, if a river—a being without life, feeling or con science can make its waters fl.ow to another country — why can’t we let our ideas and feel ings flow to far away lands? It is almost impossible to stop the flow of the water from one coun try to another. The water does not need an airplane ticket, or a passport. Nor do ideas and opinions need them either. We may not be able to go to a foreign country because we may be stopped by the custom officials. However, our ideas and opinions can travel without re strictions. Then why shouldn’t we let them travel? I am not asking that our ideas be “forced” onto others. No, I would not want that. What I have been asking, and will keep on asking, is that we should turn our eyes toward the world out side of the University. That we should examine what is hap pening in that world, and then that we try to arrive to logical conclusions. And even if they are not logical conclusions, I think that we have the right and the duty of making those con clusions known to others. If I were asking for a way to “force” our opinions onto oth ers, I would not be supporting the Emerald stand that we should become involved in dis cussions of national and inter national affairs, but I would be asking for the support of the International Brigade or the minutemen organization. I question your second point, that is, that Mr. Aka’s death af fects us more than it will his counrtymen, because he attend ed classes here. Did the Ken nedy assassination affect Eng land and Germany more than it did us, because Mr. Kennedy studied there in his youth. Or did it affect Russia more be cause Mr. Oswald was an in dustrial worker there? My opinion is that Mr. Aka’s death may bring us to the reali zation that the Congo is not any more a land which we know (Continued on page X) After-Dinner Smoke "T'r“• ►•.•#* Letters to the Editor Collegiate Trend Emerald Editor: The editorial in the Emerald on the 'liquor bottles in the grandstands at last Saturday's football game leads to many points about today’s college gen eration; primarily that those who are often considered ma ture by many are the most im mature of all If we examine the motives of those who brought the liquor to the game, we see that the primary reason is for them to say, "Look, I brought booze to the game today.” It is merely another attempt at re bellion against authority and law. The unfortunate thing Js that it is this minority which, in the past few years, has begun to change the standards of the col lege audience as a whole Those who are on the borderline, and this is the majority, are in inclined to cheer the lining up of whiskey bottles and then jeer at the policeman who takes them down If it was kept at this level it might not be so bad, but the problem is it has ex panded to the point where this minority has swayed enough of the people to always boo the policeman and even physically challenge him as has been ob served in Florida, New Hamp shire, and Oregon where “fun loving" college kids have caused thousands of dollars damages to the local merchants and injured many policemen because the college students are just out looking for trouble trying in a most foolish way to show their immaturity, (It has reached the point where nobody cheered the policeman and booed the stu dent as people who would do that are not “with it.") It is this switch in status be tween the right and wrong that has led to a general assault on most of our moral principles. The civil rights demonstrations are often the result of this “fun loving” group of students who are just looking for trouble. The civil rights workers do not want trouble but often get it because of college kids who go on cru sades to Mississippi and often attract the bad element from the colleges throughout the country. This attack on moral standards was amplified even further by the “sex scandal” on this campus last year. Nobody wants to talk about this, though since the students were not penalized because of their as sociation with this University. There was a story going around that some students were won dering if a 14 year old girl had been found to teach this year’s class in premarital sex since last year’s instructor had moved out of town. The main point I wish to make, though, is that it is the minority of students which is changing many people’s views on morals The people in the middle often don’t agree with what the minority does but they are afraid to speak out against them because they fear social repercussions The minority is growing and soon may become the majority unless standards set by this minority are not adopted by the University com munity as a majority. The inci dent at the game was only one minor incident of rebellion by overgrown adolescents who couldn't drink at home but had to show everyone they could drink in public Until this type of incident ceases to be cheered by the masses, observers on the other side of the field will still think that no matter how good we think we are, there is still an awfully lot of rot in the col lege society. Patrick I>. I.afferty, Sophomore in Speech. Drinking Emerald Editor: Although your editorial ridi culing the drinking activities of our students at the Arizona game has for its basis on your own sound and community-ap proved set of morals as justifica tion, 1 suggest to you your usu ally clear-eyed view of the real ity of Oregon’s campus scene . . . might be due for re-evalua tion on your part Drinking, per se, is to a great extent the only xeasonly nonsen sitive form of recreation the student has here. And for you to condemn what was, in my opinion, a most innocent and ‘fun’ example of the enjoyment of said recreation—is indicative of the naive frame of reference (i.e. morals) to which the Em erald usually adheres. Alan Mitchell, Junior in Sociology. OREGON DAILY EMERALD The Oregon Daily Emerald is pub lished five times in September and five days a week during the academic year, except during examination periods, by the Student Publications Hoard of the University of Oregon. Entered as se.coml class matter at the post office, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates $5 per year; $2 per term. Opinions expressed on the editorial page are those of the Emerald ami do not represent the opinions of the ASUO or the University. Cathy Neville, Editor J. Craig Mathicsen, Business Manager Irma Dawn Moar, Managing Editor Kenneth H. Kappel, Advertising Manager Stephen Green, News Editor Chuck Beggs, Editorial Page Editor Dave Jordan, Associate Editor Phil Sernas, Sports Editor Phyllis Hiving, Associate News Editor Joe Frazier, Rich Hallow, Ken Fobes, Assistant News Editors Penny Wright, Photo Editor Thora Williams, Feature Editor Nancy Collins, Entertainment Editor Editorial Hoard: Pam Bladine, Clifford Kauffman, Pat Holt, Stephen Green, Irma Dawn Moar, Steve Goldschmidt, Chuck Beggs, Dave Jordan, Mike Gan non, Phil Sernas.
