Oregon Daily Emerald
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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.
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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. The unpa
triotic intellectuals do not re
alize that we must make the
world believe that acceptance
of capitalism is the only way
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Oregon Dally Emerald
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John Sasaki, Photo Editor
Rick Fitch, Sport* Editor
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Linda Melerjurgen, Feature Editor
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