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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1967)
Oregon Daily Emerald Opinions expressed on the editorial page are those of the Emerald and do not necessarily represent t'lo opinions of the ASUO or the University. However, the Emerald does present on this page columnists and letter writers whose opinions rellect those of our diverse readership and not thoaa of the Emeraldsitself. MIKE FANCHER, Editor WILBUR BISHOP JR. Business Manager RICH JERNSTEDT Advertising Manager CAROLINE PITMAN National Advertising Manager JEAN SNIDER Managing Editor GIL JOHNSON Nows Editor RON EACHUS Editorial Page Editor University of Oregon, Eugene, Tuesday, November 21,1967 Exercise Your Student Power Hooray for Al's Auto Upholstery. Buck's Auto Service. Crystal Mobile Service. Walt's American. Moore's Hancock, and Fox-Evergreen Theatres. These are just a few of the people who have been ad vertising student discounts in the Emerald recently. We think these businesses and the others in town which ofter discounts to students deserve a round of applause for their wisdom. Students in the Eugene-Springfield area spend a lot of money and they will often spend where they can get what they want for less. It makes good business sense to attract the student market by rewarding students for patronizing your es tablishment We think it's time for students to make it even more sense If students will watch to see who is giving the student market a buying break and then patronize those businesses our guess is competitors will have to fall in line. We recommend that Student Projects, Inc., think in definite terms of setting up some arrangement with local retailers to get a student discount program started. If students at the University, Lane Community College and possibly local high schools can join forces, they can make their presence felt in a big way. Stop! Thief! Word has it dormitory students have been taking arm loads of Emeralds from the EMU back to their dorms. This just can’t go on. Unfortunately budget restrictions only allow us to print 7,800 copies for students and 1.200 for faculty and staff. Of the student copies, every campus living organization receives a delivery equivalent to roughly 60 per cent of their total number of residents. Approximately 1,800 copies are delivered each morning to the EMU. These are intended basically for off-campus students who have no other means of obtaining the paper. Of course anyone wrho is interested is welcome to take a copy from the EMU, but it isn’t fair for dormitory or other living organization students to take a large number back home with them. If our present press run isn’t sufficient, w’e’ll do what we can to increase it. And if your living unit isn’t gettting papers, let us know' and w'e’ll make adjustments. But please, don’t raid the EMU. nil JW/ Zrarleitjh Student Rally—Constructive; Emerald—Lacks Perspective Editor’s Note: The following column was written by ASKI President Scott Karleigh in re sponse to an Emerald editoriul which appeared Monday, No vember 20. It is usually considered in appropriate for the President of the ASUO to respond to letters or editorials which are soon buried hy the weaknesses of their own arguments. However, it is usually appropriate for a college newspaper to support worthy endeavors that allect higher education. The Oregon Daily Emerald, having thrown propriety to the wind, has finally induced the ASUO to set propiety aside. The student rally was referr ed to by the Emerald as an "ex ercise in sterility." I think that it is unfortunate that the Emer ald was the only paper out of the three participating schools that did not support this presen tation, but 1 am not surprised The Oregon Daily Emerald fails to realize that there is a positive side to a university com munity and that it is not anti thetical to the tradition of jour nalism to present constructive evaluations. Consistent with this negative theme, the Emerald sits back taking potshots at any group or issue that may or may not come along. Warped Picture Consequently, the local inter est groups, city councils, and even high school student bod ies have already acquired a warp ed picture of university life, and the attempts to communi cate with these groups should be made, I agree, to undo the damage that has been done. The Oregon Daily Emerald, also consistent with policy, was grossly uninformed as to the purpose and content of the ral iy The purpose of the rally in Salem was to mark the begin ning of a new role for student advocacy for the needs of high er education. It was an attempt to let the public know that students are willing to assume this role and that we are de manding the right to vote at 18 and above. A final goal was to present factual information to voters about the need for support of the bonding issue next Novem ber. This will be the first gauge of effectiveness of the rally, and yet the Emerald says a year before, that it failed. The total effect of the Salem rally is one to be measured over a long pe riod of time, and unfortunately Hit' Emerald apparently lacks that perspective. The editorial in Monday's pa per also concluded the rally fail ed because only 75 students were in attendance. Since when do numbers dem onstrate the success or failure of what is said’ That is pre cisely why we elect representa fives of the people, to act on behalf of the people. Media Crucial The success of the rally will ultimately he derided through the media. I might point out to the Emerald thut media in eludes radio, television, and news stories in other papers, but I understand how easy it is sometimes to become so sub merged in what we do that our perspective is sometimes limit ed. I will say. finally, that tiie student rally in Salem was nut a riot, it was not a violent dem onstration. and it was orderly and responsible 1 am sorry that the necessary prerequisites for Emerald en dorsement were not met. But I am confident that the presents tion will do more for higher education mul the IB.year old vote than the Emerald. I would mukc one suggestion to Mr. Eancher and Ins stall. Instead of condemning others for the wrong action or inac tion, why not act as a newspa per? Why not take steps to have the Emerald completely financ ed through subscriptions? The excess revenue would strength en student government on the one hand. Secondly, it would force the Oregon Daily Emerald to he re sponsible to their readers. The present form of com pulsory subscription by every student on campus is no more consistent with freedom of the press than is a press operated by student government. I am appreciative, however, that Monday's editorial was printed under the name of the Oregon State Barometer. 1’er haps Monday's Emerald staff became a bit over zealous with their temporary name plate, and in their own ‘‘exercise of ster ility,” committed a great injus tice against responsible jour nalism naMiawMiifi Emerald Editor: All letters to the editor must be typewritten and triple spaced. Letters must not exceed 300 words and must be signed in ink, giving the class and ma jor of the writer. Those dealing with one subject and pertaining to the University or Eugene community will be given pref ence. The Emerald reserves the right to edit letters for style, grammar, punctuation, and po tentially libelous content. Let ters not meeting these criteria and those which are mimeo graphed or otherwise obvious duplicates will be returned. The Traitors Emerald Editor: Right now — today — our own American system of capitalism which made our nation what it is today is being criticized by pinko-socialists and fellow trav elers who obviously do not be lieve in what our forefathers fought and died for. Under the guise of free speech and what not these unorthodox traitors are claiming that capitalism re sults in a necessity for war because it needs expanded mar kets to continue its economy. Atheistic demagogues like Wayne Morse, Mark Hatfield, and Eugene McCarthy (not to mention the filthy, disgusting, unconforming beatniks littering our streets by the hundreds of thousands in “peace marches") are spouting the ideological nonsense that people in America are suffering be cause of funds for schools and anti poverty programs. (As if we needed an anti poverty program instead of a program to beat the hell out of people who won't work for our system). The ar guments these people present against our traditional way of life are the same as the argu ments the Communists use and arc therefore bad and I don’t like it. We are in Viet Nam to de fend freedom and to make our country powerful. 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