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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1966)
OREGON DAILY EMERALD Opinions expressed on the editorial page are those of the Emerald and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the ASUO or the University. Opinions expressed in signed columns are those of the writer. LOUIE ABRAMSON Business Manager LARRY LANGE News Editor CHUCK BEGGS, Editor BOB CARL Managing Editor PHIL SEMAS Associate Editor WILBUR BISHOP, JR. Advertising Manager MAXINE ELLIOTT Associate Editor Page 10 University of Oregon, Eugene, Friday, April 1, 1966 What the Students Intended The group of students who decided Wed nesday to hold a vigil outside next week’s faculty meeting could be creating an explo sive situation. What they want is quick fac ulty action on a request from the ASUO Senate to allow two students to sit in on faculty meetings. The explosive situation is likely to come from faculty members who will feel the students are trying to “pressure” them. In a way, the students are. Students at that meeting indicated that they feel they are not asking for a special favor. They are asking for their rights, maybe even less than their rights. Their draft of a letter to the faculty indicates that they want the University to operate from the assumption that there are certain basic rights which all citizens in the aca demic community have. They think it’s time students stopped being second-class citi zens. A lot of faculty members will object to that in itself. But many will agree that this should be done. What’s likely to bother even those faculty members who favor in creased student participation in the deci sion-making processes is that the students will be demonstrating before the faculty has even had a chance to vote on the Sen ate’s request. The faculty should realize that most of the students who’ve planned this demon stration are not trying to say that they expect the faculty to defeat the proposal. Many are skeptical, but they hope the faculty will agree that students have a right to attend faculty meetings. After all, deci sions on such areas as curriculum and stu dent discipline are made by the faculty and these greatly affect students. Most of the students merely want to make clear to the faculty that they consider the Senate’s request important, warranting swift approval. It will be a quiet, controlled vigil, not a demonstration, rally, sit-in, or anything else. We hope the faculty realizes that and don’t feel they’re being treated unfairly. This question is much too important to be messed up by a misunderstanding of the students’ intentions. How Dirty Is Playboy? Tim Casey’s recent efforts to remove Playboy magazine from the stands at the Co-op bookstore have been met, as would be expected, with cries of indignation from the student populace. While his spirited crusade has a few supporters, most of the letters we have received oppose his stand. Unfortunately for his purposes Mr. Casey carried his arguments much too far. If he thinks the magazine is trashy and doesn’t deserve tacit endorsement by the student store, that’s a valid opinion. However his prediction of someone’s 18-year old daugh ter posing unclad for the publication has no relevance to his cause. And his asser tion that persons buy the magazine largely for the pictures and ignore the numerous articles therein is not an academic question with a ready answer. Playboy, while controversial, is not ob scene, at least not by Supreme Court stand ards. The Court has ruled that an obscene What’s Important? The “win or else” boys will be at it again pretty soon. Their target: University Bas ketball Coach Steve Belko. Mr. Belko’s team won 13 games and lost 13 this season. A lot of people seem to think he should have won more. So they’ll be out demanding that he be fired. You can bet on it. Happens regular as clockwork after every season. They’ll have lots of reasons why he should be fired. His supporters will have some reasons why he shouldn’t. Be fore it’s all over they’ll all probably sound pretty silly. We only know one thing. The times we saw the basketball team play, including those last games against Oregon State, we saw some good, entertaining basketball. After all, entertainment is the main rea son for having a big-time, student fee sup ported intercollegiate athletic program. Isn’t it? work must, taken as a whole, serve the purpose of exciting prurient interests. The photographic displays in Playboy are a relatively minor part of the content, and even these are little more exciting than some underwear advertisements in wom en’s magazines. Much of the literary con tent is well-written and timely. Mr. Casey, however, must be admired for expressing his opinion in the face of ex pectedly strong opposition. There is a lot of really filthy trash on the newstands be cause most persons are afraid to express any convictions. Letters to the Editor Whore to Write Emerald Editor: It is encouraging that Mr. Casey of the Coop Hoard is concerned with student welfare, morals, and maturity. It is a wonderful idea that Playboy maguzine be removed from our magazine racks, so that the ma ture, though immoral, among us can make up our minds to buy Playboy elsewhere. While the moral, immature, or unlit erary majority may then turn to such more worthwhile collegi ate pursuits as the Woman’s Strike for Peace, the Grape - pickers’ and Drinkers’ Unions, or whatever would be prefer able. To assist him in his cam paign, we should recommend that he write for the Alaskan Command Exchange Board min utes for 1964 Among the sub jects discussed in these meet ings was whether girly maga zines should be sold in the base and post exchanges. Each US. military installa tion in Alaska has a branch. This proposal, approved by the chaplains, was directed primar ily toward the branches on re mote sites where the troops have only limited off-duty activities available. The resolution was passed and implemented. Thus, individual squadrons and group unit funds had to subscribe to these magazines. Note the life time subscription entered by the air 'cavalry company in Viet Nam several months ago. Mr. Casey, the address is ACCOM Exchange Officer, APO 942, Seattle. Wash. Good luck, we’re all with you. Howard Teasley Grad. Hus. Adm. Rob Swingle Grad. Hus. Adm. Paul Vogt Grad. Bus. Adin. Irresponsible Press Fmrrald Fditor: In reference to your article yesterday "Who Wants In?” in which you complain about not being admitted to meetings, and in which you state that . . everyone will campaign for open meetings—until it's their meeting:” most of us would campaign for open meetings if they are of interest to the stu dents, as a matter of principle. But you must realize that de spite this worthy principle, the limitations of freedom in prac tice may force us to revise our stand to meet these limitations. For example, an irresponsible press. I realize the danger of this position, but, hopefully, the situation here is somewhat unique. I don’t know about the “Po litical Union" or why, apcciflc iilly, they refused to admit you to their meeting But you «re wrong about nobody loving the press. We do. We do. We also became wary, however, of a paper which often allowa Itself to criticize for the sake of the sight and sound of their criti cism, and not always for the sake of the subject criticized, or for the edification of the reader. Perhaps if these meetings charged admission like t h e University Theater, there would be no objection. But then . . . their purpose is not to enter tain, is it? Besides, Mr. Dimeo is given comps, isn't he? William llall Senior, Speech Print in Full Emerald Editor: On March 29 I had thought it unwise to soak up public atten tion with a request for correc tion of the small misprint in my month-old letter which you pub lished. Today I read Phil Se rnas' prediction that we should expect student faculty relations to become a big issue during spring term. Because 1 agree with his pre diction, and also because I feel the time is long past due for the entire University community to pool its fragmented assessments of needs and duties, it now seems more important that the record be straightened, during this quiescent period, on a cou ple of small points. i appreciate wie Lmrniu» clarification of my mis reading their report that it is the ASUO Senate which would approve student Council members ap pointed by the ASUO president. Unfortunately, this effort led to a typographical slip in the March 30 printing of my letter: in the second to-last para graph of that letter, let readers replace the words "ASUO Sen ate members” with the words "student Council members.” In addition, may I suggest that, if the Student Faculty Council is to be of any benefit to use, then it might be a serv ice to the community to print the motion in its entirety, in its final form as passed by the fac ulty last term At least the F.in erald editor, Phil Sernas, and the Register-Guard editor would then be able to refer to the full title of the proposed Council in its correct form. I hope the foregoing com ments have not been mere quib bling What I seek is far more profound and responsible dia logue than any of us have man aged to date. David Stannard Asst. Prof., AAA C - PLUS
