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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. PHIL SEMAS, Editor LOUIE ABRAMSON Business Manager WILBUR BISHOP Advertising Manager ANNETTE BUCHANAN Managing Editor LARRY LANGE News Editor Page 10 University of Oregon, Eugene, Friday, May IS, 1966 Why, Gentlemen? An open letter to 117 faculty members: You voted Wednesday to keep your meetings closed. Although 102 of your fellow faculty members present thought opening the meetings to the public and the press on a trial basis was a good idea, you voted to continue to make the public that pays your salaries, the press which is com mitted to keeping people informed, and all but two of the students whose educations you control, outside the doors of room 150 Science. Why? That’s a legitimate question, since none of us were inside to hear what reasons you had for keeping your meetings closed. It must be that you are either afraid or you are stubborn. If you are stubborn there is nothing we can say, except that we always thought education involved willingness to accept new ideas and willingness to change. Perhaps you don’t share that willingness. If you are afraid, then we must ask what you are afraid of. That you will be misquoted and misrepresented? You will be misrepresented much worse if no one can be sure what you are doing while the doors are closed. That having other people and the press there will inhibit your discussion? We hope you are not talking about things that need to be kept secret. We would expect our faculty to be more honest than that. After all, anything that is really important can be said in front of the world, in fact, it should be said in front of the world. Could it be that you really don’t have anything important to say? Perhaps you wanted the meetings closed because you don’t believe that students should have any knowledge of what goes into decisions that affect their education and their lives as students. Many students will be angry with you. They will have a right to be angry because you have said to them, in effect, “you are not competent to have more than two of your number come to our meetings and listen to what we say. You are second class citizens in the University community.” We’re sorry, gentlemen, that you voted to make us wait outside. Sorry that you could not agree with your 102 fellow faculty members. Sorry because you have so little faith in students, in the press, and in the public. Sorry because apparently you have something to hide or at least think you have something to hide. Sorry you are too stubborn to change tradition. In other words, gentlemen, you made a mistake. SWINE Has a Place SWINE has a place on this campus. The idea of a protest group called Students Wildly Indignant about Nearly Every thing, conceived by cartoonist A1 Capp, was founded for a worthwhile reason, to satirize the increasing practice of students protesting for the sake of protesting. Good satire is always healthy, if used discriminately. And we should always be willing to look at the seemingly serious daily problems from an objective, and often humorous, light. Nearly as important a function of such a group as SWINE is its role as a “third party” on campus. Third parties, like the “radical middle,” nearly always generate interest in political issues. But we wish to remind the SWINE people to keep in mind the original spirit of Capp’s fictional SWINE characters ... to satirize. Make sure the marchers in your demonstrations know what they’re there for, and try to encourage them to act responsibly. Take a lesson from the rest of the cartoon series from which the idea sprang. Don’t let a pink cloud of collegiate enthusiasm overcome those who are in a position to guide and control. If the original idea of SWINE is lost here on campus, as it was in the comic strip, all will have been for naught. Oyez, Oyez Editor’s Note: This is the Law School's annual proclama tion for Lawst Weekend. It was submitted by Charles Morberg, president of the Student Bar Association. Be it known to all by these presents that upon this 13th day of May, the year of our Lord 1966, there will issue forth from the bowels of Fenton Hall a rapacious phalanx, to wit: Fenton’s Filly-Busters. And that said Busters shall engage in various and sundry revelries, debaucharies, exhibitions, and raucus and riotous merriment, known to the unwashed multi tudes at Lawst Weekend. Be it known, furthermore, that from dawn to dusk this ini quitous Friday the 13th, that none of said Busters shall be liable in any court of this jur isdiction, be it real or imagin ary, for any relief be it legal or equitable, (save self-help), to any maidens, be the "chased” or otherwise, who, to their own peril, come within the purview of said denizens of the Dean. Any Filly, as hereinabove characterized, who shall use public or quasi-public passage ways shall be held to impliedly consent, upon penalty of loss of consortum, to participation in the following activities. Today's events will commence with morning classes in Fenton Hall. Therein, legal scholars of not some little repute, will ad dress a tumultuous assembly of students, maidens and assorted ruffians. At half past noon there will be a lighting of the Torch of Justice in the vicinity of the park blocks. (The exact situs being unknown to all but those third year students who fre quent a nearby establishment). Henceforth and wherefrom third year students will, torch raised high, carry said same symbol to the steps of Fenton where their arrival, eagerly anticipated, will be welcomed by those there so berly assembled. Immediately following, a pro cession will embark for Robin son’s Inn wherein, amidst ale and smoke, students and their assorted companions will en gage in quiet contemplation of numerous topics, proposals and propositions. From Robinson’s Inn, the horde will proceed with all due haste to the Erb Memorial Un ion, where at four o'clock the candidates for law school queen will be assembled. It is to be remembered that in the eyes of the law MINIMUM EST NI HILE PROXIMUM. She who is deemed must fair in PECTORE JUDICIS will be selected and crowned. Thenceforth the riotous as sembly will orderly disperse. Festivities extending far into the night will mark the end of an other Lawst Friday. The men of Fenton will then return to their hallowed halls, their weighty books and thoughts of finals, not to again emerge un til the following spring. uiumimmiHi:,!: :"iiiiii!imiiuiimu'uiiiiiuiinniainHiinuiHiniiiiiiianuiiimiui Emerald Editor: i 1 May Boomerang Emerald Editor: Howard Morgan’s campaign for a seat in the United States Senate is attracting many peo ple (all of them volunteers) who are working very hard for his election in the Democratic pri mary, May 24. Many small con tributions are flowing into Mor gan headquarters at 804 Pearl St. in Eugene. His opponent, Mr. Duncan, on the other hand, has found it necessary to employ for some time now a full-time political expert in Lane county. And now comes news of the additional hiring of. a Madison Ave. public relations man to conduct the Duncan campaign in Oregon. The question arises, “Where does this kind of money come from?” This technique may boomer ang, as I trust it will, because Americans generally, and Ore gonians in particular, do not like (Continued on page 11) Lawst Weekend liiiuiiuutinnufl'iiiiii uiiuimiUHit Emerald Editor: Bad Attitude Emerald Editor: Mr. Lou Sinniger (with the “aching guts”), I agree with you. But as a person with anti war sympathies, I don’t like your attitude. I don’t like it because, judg ing by your letter, you base your anti-Viet-war philosophy—noton love for the Vietnamese—but on hate for the Americans. Thus your arrogance is only polluting in its infancy this growing flow of history. The an ti-war movement is an expres sion of more universally genu ine longings and thoughts than were revealed in your letter. Andy Ragland Freshman, Liberal Arts * * * Support Subhash Jain Emerald Editor: It is with great pleasure that we support the candidacy of Subhash Jain for the post of president of Cosmopolitan Club. He is a man of considerable political knowledge and experi ence, and he has that high de gree of common sense necessary for a president in dealing with the problems of international students on this campus. His academic record is excel lent, he has a pleasant person ality, he is an excellent speaker, and he impresses people as a man who will get things done. And we are sure that when he is elected he will get them done. We, therefore, request all the students on this campus to come to the Cosmo Club meeting to day at 7:30 p.m. at Wesley Foundation and support Sub hash in the election. Neal Mohtadi, President Arab Association Sergio (iuonado. Pres! dent Latin America Association Burt Te, ex-President Chinese Students Association lima Lynton, Panama Friday Udo-aka, Nigeria Ahmad M. M. Sharif, Iraq Ndrumol Dilokwanlch, Thailand Takeshi Shibata, Japan Ivor S. Mitchell, British Guiana Atila Dereli, Turkey Sohan Sihota, President India Association * » * Good as Batman Emerald Editor: I really appreciate the oppor tunity Monday night to have heard George Szell conduct the Cleveland orchestra. It was su perior. And since it was offered free to the student body, I only wish more students would recognize the value of such an experience —one at least equivalent to an evening with Batman. Linda Von Draska Jr., History
