Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1965)
Quakers Slate Service Meeting Hugh Cummings, director of the College I’rpgram of the 1’a rifle Northwest Region of the AKSC, a i''riends organization, will talk witli campus groups and individuals about Service Com mittee summer and year-round assignments on Thursday, Jan. 21. Cummings will be available for individual conferences from 2 to 4 p.m. at the campus YMCA, Room JIB Si Appointments may be arranged by calling ext 185H AKSC, as an organization, at tempts to relieve human suffering and seeks nonviolent solutions to Johnson... (Cnntiiwi 'l 1mm f’at/i' D stand aside prideful in Isolation I tanners and troubles we once called 'foreign' now live among us If American lives must end, and American treasure be spilled, in countries we barely know, that is the price that chance has de manded of conviction.” He continued, "We are fellow passengers on a dot of earth. And each of us, in the span of time has only a moment among his companions. "How incredible it is that in this fragile existence we should hate and destroy one another There are possibilities enough for all who will abandon mastery over others to pursue mastery over nature. There is world j enough for all to seek their hap pi ness in their own way. "Our own course is clear We aspire to nothing that belongs to others We seek no domination over our fellow men, but man’s dominion over tyranny and mis ery." In concluding the speech. John-1 son said, “I will lead as best I can But look within your own hearts to the old promises and the old dream They will lead you best of all.” Letters • • • (Continued from pane 2) and what might happen to him if ho is combatative. Those les sons are important preparations for a world in which conflict on an international scale may mean extermination of life. Mr Powell is apparently con cerned that our culture encour ages competitive behaviour. In fact, he draws upon a “body of experimental literature in math ematical psychology" which he claims indicates that competi tion and cooperation are mu tually exclusive characteristics I suggest that he may have mis represented this literature. Again according to Dr. Jersild, ‘‘competition —while it may take the form of 'going against’ others j —may be a part of a larger cooperative relationship" among children. I)r. Jersild illustrates his point with the example of a baseball game between children: i the competition may be intense,; but were it not for considerable cooperation, the children would , not have come together in the first place, nor would they fol low the rules of the game. Doz ens of examples may be taken from the adult world. Recently, in fact, even the Soviet Union has implicitly agreed the coop erative competition can stimu late material, intellectual and aesthetic progress. On the more personal level to which Mr. Powell has chosen to descend, and which 1 hope he abandons in future exchanges, I find amusing his characteriza tion of my political persuasions as either “of the dogmatic left or of the dogmatic right.” I in vite the interested reader to ex amine my first letter for evi dence that I advocate either ex treme. Finally, T agree with Mr. Pow ell that letters to The Emerald should not be supressed. I do, however, advocate higher qual ity. Let us hope that Mr. Powell comes around to this view. Sincerely, Jack Davis Grad., Biology conflicts- personal, national and international. To achieve this the committee provides programs of relief, re habilitation, social and technical assistance. Participation in AFSC includes a range of work projects directed at aiding problem areas. It may mean working with Indian reser vations and blighted urban dis tricts, or assisting in overseas work projects in such places as Latin America AFSC programs are nonsectar ian and are co-ordinated through 11 regional offices in the Ij'.S. and through projects in 17 other countries. These programs are supported by voluntary contribu tions. According to Charles Palmer lee, campus YMCA director, "AFSC has accomplished a great deal in their quiet way.” Perhaps the greatest asset of AFSC is in the confidence people have in the work they have done. When a problem arises AFSC takes spe cific steps toward improving the human condition. Solons Oppose McCarran Act Ten Oregon state legislators1 have indicated their opposition to the McCarran Act, terming it unjust and calling for its re peal The ten legislators signed a statement earlier this week indi cating their support to an idea expressed in an editorial carried in the Oregon Journal of Port land. The concurring legislators were Carl Hack, Sidney Leiken, Ber keley Lent, Boss Morgan, John Mosser, Wally Priestley, James Redden, Betty Roberts, Keith Skelton and Howard Willits. After calling the act unjust, the legislators restated and endorsed an idea contained in the Journal editorial: "The registration provision of the McCarran Act should be re- i pealed if the Supreme Court does 1 not declare it unconstitutional first.” The act requires members of subversive organizations to regis ter their membership. 'Journey' Sold Out “Long Day’s Journey into Night" by Eugene O’Neill, a pre sentation at the University The atre, is sold out for this Friday and Saturady night. January 22 and 23 Seats are still available for the January 28, 29 and 30 performances. Horace W. Robinson directs the autobiographical drama which in cludes a cast of five professional level actors: Stanley Elberson, Beverly Waldo, George Sager Lauris, Harry Smith and Cath leen Nisbet. Curtain rises at 7:30 pm. for all performances. Bridge Tourney Signups Available All Bridge fanciers are invited to sign up for an all-campus Pairs Bridge Tournament on Thursday, Jan. 28, at 7:30. The campus win ners will represent Oregon at the regional tournament to be held Feb. 18-20 at the University of Washington. Signups are available at the Recreation Desk in the SU base ment. The tournament is being sponsored by the SU Games Com mittee. TODAY’S STAFF Night editor: Dave Jordan Desk editor: Maxine Elliott Reporters: Steve Brown, Allen Bailey, Rich Babow, Dave Butler, Chuck Beggs, Bob Carl, Jerry Hansen, Marlene Peterson, Caro line Pitman, Ron Terpening. Proofreader: Maryann McKay Nolte Discusses Mencken At Browsing Room Talk By CHUCK BEGGS Kincraiil Managing Kditor There are “widely divergent j views” on contemporary criticism of the arts, hut “precious few men” can produce a good read able review today, according to William Nolte, assistant profes sor of English. Nolte was speaking on “Men cken and Prose Fiction” at a Browsing Hoorn lecture Wednes day evening. He said that most of the good modern criticism comes from men that are journalists rather than from professional critics. But he considers Henry Louis Mencken the late author, critic and journal ; ist, “the most powerful and in fluential critic during his life-1 time than any this country has produced.” Mencken’s sole concern, he j pointed out, was not just criti- J cisra. He also had a wide back Fund Dance Set After Game The ASUO Committee on High cr Education will hold a fund raising dance following the Ore ! gon-Oregon State basketball game Jan. 29. Two bands have donated their services for the fund raising affair. The bands are the Syn dicates and Peter Jones and the Trojans. The committee is attempting to raise money to aid in an in formation program, explaining major isues in higher education to the state at large. Admission to the dance will be' 50 cents stag and 75 cents per couple. It will be held in the Student Union ballroom. Coffee Hour Set International Coffee Hour will I meet at 4 p.m. in the Men’s j Lounge, Gerlinger. Faculty, Amer ican students and especially for-! eign students are invited to at-! tend the meeting. Entertainment will be provided by The Couth Trio. Refreshments will be served. KWAX Program Broadcasting 91.1 me Thursday 5:00 World of Wonder 5:30 News (plus Edward P. Morgan) 6:00 The Dinner Hour 7:00 Washington Reports to the People 7:15 European Review 7:30 Jazz: Eugene 8:00 Popular Favorites 9:00 Jazz 10:00 News 10:15 Evening Concert Want to really get results?— Use Emerald Classified Ads— Phone 342-1411, Ext. 1818. ground in science, theology, phi losophy as well as the arts. “He could probably best be labeled as Emerson was, American as critic,” Nolte said. He said Mencken had a theory of criticism, though he was never a “pigeon-holer.” Mencken felt what interested readers was a protagonist who presented “one man’s battle with his fate,” a protagonist close to Everyman and in whom his reader could become emotionally involved. Mencken disliked the didactic, implausible heroes portrayed in most of the best-sellers of his ear, Nolte said. The hero of the popuar novel was to Mencken “superb, invincible, autonomous and master of his fate.” Accord ing to Nolte, Mencken felt that no man could really master or con quer his fate and any fictional character who was portrayed as donig so was not entirely plaus ible. Mencken felt that the “theme must not contradict the natural forces of life,” Nolte said. He said the two men whom Mencken most admired were German phi losopher Friedrich Nietzsche and biologist T. H. Huxley. Nolte said that Mencken would probably not like many of the modern novels because he felt fiction should be concerned with the “typical man, not the freaks and case studies of the minority.” He admired especially the works of Dickens, Hardy, Moore and Conrad. Mencken considered Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim “the greatest novel in the language,” according to Nolte. Nolte said Mencken had a liking for naturalism and what the latter called “subjective real ism” in fictional literature. He did not care for “objective or photographic realism,” Nolte said, as he felt reality could not be communicated objectively by one person to another. Mencken liked the works of Emile Zola, who he described as “one of the first great artists to view man as a mammal.” But he objected to the naturalistic nov elist who“ often dabbled in filth for the simple hoggish joy” it brought him. According to Nolte, Mencken was a great admirer of H. G. Wells during the latter’s first three years of literary criticism, saying he was “magnificently as sertive and iconoclastic,” but he felt that he degenerated into a Messianic complex and appealed too much to popular tastes in his later works. Mencken, Nolte said, felt the novelist must have “not only a point of view. . . but must be consistent in his overall view of existence.” “He must represent his views accurately and interpret them convincingly,” Nolte said. Men cken felt that the “successful man is the most difficult to por tray convincingly. The problem is to make the miracle of him not blow up the probability of him,” he said. Mencken felt that “art must present reality in light of some recognizable ideal,” Nolte said. His goal is that the central figure (Everyman)) “must have quali ities that enable readers to both admire and sympathize with him.” Correction Three errors occurred in the Undergraduate Groups Grade Point Averages published in the Wednesday edition of The Em erald. The Orides fall term grade average was not published. The group had a grade average of 2.66, placing it 15th among all campus organizations and 11th among women's groups. The Chi Psi fraternity was in cluded twice on the list and the Chi Phi fraternity was omitted. Chi Psi had a grade average of 2.464, ranking it 19 among the men’s organizations, and Chi Phi had a 2.265 grade average, rank ing it 39 among the men’s organ izations. 1&ADY-70- GO/ Italian Dinners ORDERS TO GO... PHONE 344-2453 FREE DELIVERY UNO'S Pizza Parlor 1491 Willamette Closed Mondays Open 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. Lots of Parking Another "Oregon great" joins the staff at Dunham Motors Lauren “Laddie” Gale We welcome this former All-American basketball star (U. of O., 1939) to our Rocketing sales force ... He played for Oakridge, then the U of O; Uncle Sam gave him the honor of being the first man drafted from Lane County. Laddie says he’s been afraid to come back until he got old enough so that it couldn't happen again. Come down and look him up today! rjzdWfu, Come In and See Laddie Today 13th and Oak Ph. 345-3324
