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Oregon Daily Emerald Opinion! expressed on the edttotUl p»fe are those of the Emerald and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the ASUO or the University. However, the Emerald does present on this pace columnists and letter writers whose opinions reflect those of our diverse readership and not those of the Emerald Itself. PHIL SEMAS, Editor ANNETTE BUCHANAN WILBUR BISHOP JR. Managing Editor Business Manager MIKE FANCHER CAROLINE PITMAN News Editor CLIFF SANDERLIN Editorial Page Editor Advertising Manager NOMI BORENSTEIN Associate Editor University of Oregon, Eugene, Tuesday, February 21, 1967 The CIA Went Too Far Many students were suspicious of NSA before the Uni versity joined in 1963. They claimed it was a leftist or even Communist front and didn't want student fees spent on it. It seems they’ve been duped. And so have the people who claimed NSA was above any underground dealings. Some will want to use the recently revealed CIA involve ment with the organization as an excuse to pull out. We hope they don't resort to those tactics. According to the reports, no members of NSA except the presidents have known of the ties with the CIA. And each president, for the past 14 years or so. has been pledged to secrecy and threatened with a prison sentence if he breaks the trust. For that reason, it would hardly be fair to condemn the whole NSA While it is unfortunate that it has taken so long for NSA to break its ties with the CIA, it is commendable that the present officers have done so. We feel the action of former ASUO President Phil Sherburne was very admirable and only regret that the disclaimer didn’t come earlier. The CIA has no reason to be involved with the academic community. That organization was not established to deal with domestic problems in the first place, except possibly tracking down American communists. And if the CIA directors had intentions of helping American students to get representation in foreign countries it has only caused a disaster comparable to the Bay of Pigs. It has failed miser ably and has done more to harm student travel in foreign countries and NSA dealings with other student organizations than any government or private organization could dream of. Why should hostile countries permit the entrance of students who are possibly American spies? We can understand the CIA being in sympathy with cer tain American organizations. But they should confine their their sympathy to moral support, not financial. If the CIA directors wanted NSA to remain soluble, they should have approached some other government branch, such as the Department of Health. Education, and Welfare, and recom mended it support the organization. Surely enough money could have been raised through other government or private means to keep'NSA going without the CIA’s money. The educational systems and student groups are no place for CIA involvement. In short, the CIA should stay out of the academic community. Survey Shows Some Students Good Are university students all immoral? Do they all blow “pot” and wave protest signs? What do college freshmen think about it? Ask the American Council on Education. The council has just finished tabulating the answers of more than 200,000 freshmen in 251 colleges, obtained in the first such extensive survey of how college beginners see themselves. They were not asked about narcotics but they were asked about personal behavior, resulting in a profile including the following particulars: Only 15.5 per cent said they had ever participated in any kind of a demonstration, but 63.5 per cent said they attended church frequently. Slightly more than half of those questioned, 53.5 said they drank beer (nearly all were under 21, the legal age in Oregon), but only 16.6 per cent said they smoked cigarettes. The objective of an education these freshmen considered to be the most important of all was, by a large margin, “to help others who are in difficulty.” The self-portrait may, of course, have some flaws. A freshman, like anybody else, may have a somewhat unreal istic view of himself. For example, only 24.6 per cent of the women questioned thought their popularity with the other sex was “above average,” but 32.3 per cent of the men allowed as how they were more popular with the women than the average guy.—The Oregonian Emerald Editor Supports Action Emerald Editor: I want to thank you and con gratulate you on the editorial "Is Our Speaker Program Really So Unbalanced?” I felt Rcpre sentative Thornton should have a whole list of speakers so send the editorial to him inviting comment. Mrs. Terry E. Barnes Rt. 3, Box 448 Hood River. Oregon * * * Sorry, Bill Emerald Editor: I realize that the latest vogue and fashion in literature is to ascribe authorship of some fa mous literary works to some one other than the generally admitted author. The most consistently harass ed of these is Shakespeare. It is the “in” thing to attribute tht plays of this man to such hazy literary figures as Sir Fran cis Bacon. It warms my heart to see you folks bucking this tide of dis repute. Whoever wrote the en closed story (‘Oedipus Rex Film Set for Monday'), from the January 20 Emerald, is a cham pion of believers in the bard everywhere. If pedants are go ing to divest Shakespeare of works rightfully his it is only fitting that he be given some others to fill the gap. It was a fine effort on your part. However, the Greeks, Sophocles included, arc pretty firmly entrenched as rightful authors of their attributed works. Even though they come from the misty dawn of our literary heritage, there is still ample proof to uphold Sopho cles' authorship of Oedipus Rex It was a gallant effort, though I can only suggest that in pur suing this worthwhile cause in the future you turn to lesser known, more easily disputed authors than Sophocles in your crusade to bolster the bard. Keep up the good work If you are successful, just imagine the end results. Our grandchil dren will be able to study an entirely new, revised volume of plays by any University English Department’s favorite Eliza bethan dramatist. Robert L. White, Jr. Press Secretary, Hon. W. Wyatt (former U. of O. student) Editor’s Note: In an advance story on an Oedipus Rex movie, an Emerald reporter implied Oedipus Rex was authored by Shakespeare, which is not really true ... is it? "DM, IS HE. L\A.\ | THOO^HT WAS F.B. I.* Emerald Editor: All letters to the editor must be typewritten and double ■paced. Letters must not ex ceed 300 words and must be signed in ink. giving the class and major of the writer. Those dealing with one subject and pertaining to the University or Eugene community will be giv en preference. The Emerald re serves the right to edit letters for style, grammar, punctuation, and potentially libelous content. Letters not meeting these cri teria and those which arc mim eographed or otherwise obvious duplicates will be returned. “Townies” Write In Emerald Editor: ‘‘Good Grief” as Peanuts would say, I thought the Emer ald (that forum for the U of O Bad Guys) was a University rag for the students and faculty to express their views, but Lo and Behold, one of our local letters to the editor writers has come to iweacli and teach in its hallowed columns. So, as another "townie’’ I got to get into the act. The Patron izing big brother (or sister) pitch is frankly really some thing else. To the Children attending the U: You should read Horatio Alger, The Bobbsie Twins, Little Women and Robert Welch. To the Faculty: You should Down The Rabbit Hole teach only the above, and bow each morning and afternoon North toward the Big Legisla ture in Salem For the va.st majority of you that read the comics 1 would like to share some inside info with you. Did you know that Little Orphan Annie is really a sixty year old Com-Symp folk singer from Berkeley, Phonic Joanie is in real life A1 t'app's daugh ter. Peanuts a tool of Godless Communism, whatever the - that is. In fact anything that is edu cational or fun is bad. As regards to her reference to Socialists, I didn't even know Fabian had his own group. The last time I saw that cat sing, I figured he needed something •else because man, he was really bad. I suggest you get rid of the Left, deep six the Middle and keep what's ''Right.” And tonight took under your beds for reds, take heed if your friends or parents seem to not want to impeach Ear! Warren because they may be one too! So in closing, please keep as crummy "townies" out of your newspaper, because most of us are uptight and out of it anyway. Frank Ellington Answers Needed Emerald Editor: As a concerned student not directly affiliated with any part of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts, I should like to pose some questions that seem to beg answers—clear and sen sible answers. First: Why was the head of the Art Department removed from that position? The rea son given—essentially that cer tain administrators felt a change was needed does not really seem very reasonable and, as a mat ter of fact, makes the entire act seem rather arbitrary. Second: If it is true that the faculty of the Art Department submitted to President Flem ming a petition in May of 1966 requesting that the department be moved to the College of Lib eral Arts and that an investi gation be made immediately of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts and its relationship to the Art Department—if this is true, and if the petition, sug gested urgency in the matter, why has it taken this long for the president to take steps in this direction? Third: If it is true that Pres ident Flemming is asking out side “experts” to come in and examine the situation before any decision is made concerning the position of the art department, there are these questions to (Continual on 7)
