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
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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)
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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.
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