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MAXINE ELLIOTT
News Editor
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Managing Editor
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Associate Editor
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Advertising Manager
ALLEN BAILEY
Associate Editor
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University of Oregon. Eugene. Tuesday. January 11. 1%«
Where’s the Money
Coming From?
With the University’s $1 million stadium
drive at the halfway point and the chairman
of the drive predicting that the rest of the
contributions will be coming in within a
month the time has come for President
Flemming to answer a major question about
the drive.
When he outlined his stadium-financing
plan last term he said the $2.1 million need
ed to finance the stadium would come from
three sources: $1 million from the fund
drive. $800,000 from the athletic depart
ment's reserves, and S425.000 from other
sources and donations.”
It’s this $425,000 from “other sources
and donations" that bothers us. At the time
the plan was announced Flemming was
pretty hazy on where this money would be
coming from. He talked vaguely about gifts
in kind and sources that would go untapped
by the fund drive. But when you’ve con
ducted a million dollar fund drive that will
supposedly tap all alumni and friends of the
University, what other donations are left?
President Flemming said that once he had
the million dollars the rest would come
easily. That seems backwards. Once you’ve
tapped your resources money usually gets
harder to find.
There is an alternative open that the pres
ident said will be the last alternative. That
would be an across-the-board raise in ad
mission prices that would include charging
students admission for attending football
games. There are some things to be said for
this. It would only charge those students
who are interested in athletics.
But as far as we’re concerned it’s not an
equitable alternative. It seems unfair to
charge students any more for athletic facili
ties and activities. We already pay $19.50 a
year, payments which have helped consid
erably in the build-up of that athletic re
serve. (Even Athletic Director Leo Harris,
no man to over-emphasize the assistance
given his department by student fees, ad
mits that $130,000 of that surplus can be
attributed to the fees.)
We think students have paid enough for
the stadium. If the fund drive can’t provide
that $425,000 the University should borrow
it and pay back the loan from athletic de
partment surpluses during the next few
years. The athletic department usually
makes from $100,000 to $200,000 each year.
And its income—part of which is student
fees—will be steadier now with the Uni
versity’s turn to the Pacific Athletic Con
ference.
That alternative is much more equitable
than charging students to attend games.
Telegram to President
Encouraging Note
A most encouraging development came
about at the University over the past week
end. A group of about 65 students and fac
ulty got together Friday to discuss the cur
rent situation in Viet Nam. As a result of
this informal seminar the group drafted a
telegram to President Johnson, endorsing
his cessation of the bombing of North Viet
Nam and praising his latest peace objec
tives as relayed to the U N. Security Coun
cil by U.S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg.
This demonstrates that many persons in
the University community, including some
who have been critical of the American
role in Southeast Asia, believe sincerely in
the President’s efforts to end the war. The
latest series of peace feelers from this coun
try have involved a series of visits to for
eign capitals by the highest of high-level
U.S. officials. While the President has been
criticized for “grandstanding” in this re
spect, few Americans can doubt that he is
sincerely seeking a peaceful end to conflict.
North Viet Nam, of course, has officially
denounced all these recent gestures as frau
dulent. Ho Chi Minh arrogantly asserts that
the peace feelers are only a cover-up for
later escalation of the war, all the while
realizing that his stubborn refusal to nego
tiate will very well lead to just that escala
tion.
It seems that the United States has bent
over backwards to negotiate a settlement in
Viet Nam. Thus far we have been talking
to deaf ears, at least judging by the official
and public replies received.
We encourage students and faculty to
continue supporting the President’s efforts
at peace. This is our hope, for if these ef
forts fail we will find ourselves faced with
an increasingly nasty war.
Berkeley, et. al.
The most recent in a string of insanities
emanating from Berkeley, Calif., is the
following want ad placed in the Daily Cali
fornian, the campus newspaper:
“WANTED: Unmarried coed with child,
or imminent.”
Gary Evangelista, the student who placed
the ad, said, “I wasn’t too seriously think
ing of getting married, but I am pretty
worried about my 1-A draft classification
and I’m looking into all possibilities.”
What’s even more disgusting than the
ad itself is that Evangelista got some re
plies to it.
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Protesters Prove Their Sincerity
Editor’s Note: A group of
University students and faculty
members have begun a drive to
send a telegram to President
Johnson endorsing his recent
efforts for peace in Viet Nam.
Scott Bartlett, junior in history,
analyzes the endorsement and
the Johnson peace offensive.
Critics of the critics of the
administration’s Viet Nam pol
icies have been proven wrong
in their forecasts that the stu
dent protests would never have
significant effect.
What better proof than the
recent Johnson peace spectacle?
This is clear evidence of the
President’s respect for his crit
ics—people who have been in
sisting throughout that the U.S.
suspend its bombing.
The Oregonian recently wrote
an editorial condemning anti
war citizens who have voiced
distriust over the Madison Ave
nue peace effort. The paper
went on to infer that those whp
doubt Johnson’s sincerity are the
real “war hawks.”
In one clever position —
draped in red, white, and blue
—the Oregonian perverted the
overall peace hopes of the
“peace niks”—a term odious in
its own right because it identi
fies with “beatnik” and “Viot
nik”—those devious people who
would subvert the country and
hand it over to the “Commies ”
The current drive for signa
tures on a telegram to Presi
dent Johnson which praises his
peace efforts is significant proof
that many, other than hard-line
administration supporters, are
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When Oaths Are Bad
When They’re Good
Kditor’s Not*-: Many of the
same people who deerv loyalty
oath* for teacher* and others
are heavy backers of antidis
crimination clauses for frater
nities and sororities. Alan May
of the Hatchet, student news
paper at George Washington
University in Washington, 1M'.,
discusses the "double stand
ard."
It is always strange how par
ties in the political fray tend
to use the same tactics which
they often officially deplore.
"Are you now, or have you
ever been a member of an or
ganization which advocates the
unlawful overthrow of the Unit
ed States Government? Have
you or do you now advocate the
unlawful overthrow of the Unit
ed State government? Affirm by
oath your loyalty to the United
States.”
Such questions and affirma
tion are anathema to those of
liberal persuasion
They dutifully claim that such
are violative of the guarantees
of the Fifth Amendment, and
loyalty oaths are fascist with
drawals from the principle of
innocence until the proof of
guilt. They suggest that no citi
zen should have to plead or af
firm his loyalty, that such is to
be presumed in the absence of
proof to the contrary.
Valid Logic
Following this quite valid
logic, they have continuously
pressed to have such questions
and loyalty oaths withdrawn as
pre-requisites to office in the
federal government, or the re
ceipt of National Defense Loans
or federal subsidies.
However, when it come to the
Letters
Infirmary Immodesty
Emerald Editor:
In regard to the recent com
plaint by the staff at the new
infirmary concerning the open
curtains of Hawthorne Hall, a
suggestion has been made that
the complainers take note of
their own “show.”
ft appears that the frosted
floor-length window in the lava
tory has been put in backwards.
It is realized that this is no re
flection on the modesty of the
patients, but it is merely an
oversight on the part of the
contractors. However, the fact
still remains that although the
patients cannot see out, the
ladies of Hawthorne can cer
tainly see in.
Remember, “Modesty, when
(he) goes, is gone forever.”—
Landor.
Hawthorne Hall
question of discrimination, es
pecially among Greek organiza
tions at universities, this logic
seems to escape many liberals.
For it is these same parties
who wish to compel all Greek
organizations to answer "dis
criminations” affidavits and
loyalty oaths.
“Have you ever or do you
now discriminate in member
ship on the basis of color, creed,
national origin, religion, or
sex?" arises as the new inter
rogatory, and "We pledge that
we do not now, nor will we In
the future discriminate on the
basis of color, creed, national
origin, religion or sex" becomes
the new loyalty oath to inte
gration.
More Oaths
Already many schools are re
quiring Greek chapters to sign
"loyalty oaths” with regard to
efforts to eliminate discrimina
tion in their respective na
tionals (Sex, of course, will
have to be eliminated from the
oaths, since most fraternities do
not take women, and most so
rorities will not take men. The
list of those who do remains
confidential )
This writer would like to make
it plain, at this point, that he,
too, deplores discrimination
based on the enumerated prem
ises.
Hut what continues to irk
this writer is the double stand
ards that seem to exist. It just
does not seem consistent, re
gardless of the worth of one's
intentions, to vociferously argue
and campaign against affidavits
and loyalty oaths when incon
sistent with one’s interests, and
then turn around and impose
one's objectives when it is ad
vantageous.
“Equally Repugnant"
I certainly think it is repug
nant to require a citizen to
plead his innocence of disloy
alty. I think it is equally repug
nant to require pleas of inno
cence regarding discrimination,
or for that matter a plea of
innocence on any subject.
But fairness and logic are not
the characteristics of the ex
tremes of either the left or tlm
right.
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