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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.
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Emerald
Editor:
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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
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Lawst Weekend
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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
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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
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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