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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1968)
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. However, the Emerald does present on this page columnists and letter writers whose opinions reflect those of our diverse readership and not those of the Emerald itself. Ron Eachus Rick Fitch Gil Johnson MIKE FANCHER, Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS Linda Melerjurgen Cliff Sanderlin John Sasaki WILBUR BISHOP JR. Business Manager Ron Saylor Jean Snider Jaql Thompson RICH JERXSTEDT Advertising Manager BARBARA STONE National Advertising Manager University of Oregon. Eugene, Tuesday, February 13, 1968 Warhol Lecture Fee Warrants Better Use A mistake was made when Andy Warhol was invited to come to the University next week, this time in person. Last October an actor, Alan Midget, impersonated War hol. with full knowledge and consent by Warhol, at a film-lecture to University students. Warhol called it an experiment. That fraudulent experiment cost the Uni versity $600. When an investigation drew a confirmation from War hol and his technical director Paul Morrissey that the Warhol who came here in October was a fake, arrange ments were made for another appearance February 21. This time Warhol is to come as himself. We don't think the University should play along with Warhol’s little game. A demand should have been made for the return of the $600. It could be put to better use. The University has already been given a taste of the Warhol talent with the showing of his films in October. Warhol himself doesn’t think his appearance would be much better than Midget's. “He was what people expect ed. They liked him better than they would me,’’ Warhol has said. The University as a whole would benefit by calling off his appearance, especially since it will take place at the same time as the Social Revolution conference, February 19, 20, and 21. The University would get more value out of the $600 if it were spent for another program at another tune. Warhols art may be good and appreciable, but his ethics aren’t. Such deceitful conduct should not be re warded. The Movie Mentality California Governor Ronald Reagan made another bid this week to take the Barry Goldwater “Finger-on-the-But ton" Award away from Lyndon Johnson. Reagan declared that, had he been President, he would have gone into Wonsan Harbor immediately to recapture the U.S. Intelligence ship Pueblo. Come on Ronnie. In the nuclear age, let's leave tactics like that to John Wayne and his movie Marines. DBinSnilllll!l'!!!!i:!,imtl!!II , Jules Feiffer iB!iiriii!!ii(iitiiiiiHimiiinmifiiiimitniiiimiitiiiiiiiiiiiuiiini!iiii BviimimiiNimiii!i!!i!i!ii ‘rniiiiiitiiiiiiimiiiMiiiiiiiiiiittiiiinuHiiiiiiiiiHiiiitiiitiniMuiiiitiiiiiiuiitiiiuiHiuiuiiHiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiuiiittBmiiiiiiiiitiHiiiiiHMnuMMiiMiitiiintiiiHiniitiiiiiittiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiitiiiiNiitiiiiittttinHitiifiiiiiiiiitiiniHiiiiiiiitintiiiiiiiiciit Emerald Editor. All letters to the editor must be typewritten and triple spaced. Letters must not exceed HOC 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 Ktigene community will be given pref erence. 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. A Bad Dream Emerald Editor: „, I hud a hideous dream last night: I was going through a stack of Emeralds from spring term 1968. Most dreams are re lated to reality, but I can't quite see the connection. Can somebody help me interpret? Here are some excerpts: March 28: William F. Buckley debates Charles Porter on dis armament. Headline reads: Por ter Debates Columnist. April 12: YAF meeting attend ed by 117. Passes resolution that campus paper be renamed To paz. Due to heavy advertising. Emerald unable to fit story in. April 18: SDS member stubs toe during peace march, rates front page coverage for three days. April 23: YAF candidate for office has 30 signs destroyed Emerald unable to cover due to heavy advertising. April 25: Wandering athlete stumbles over SDS sign. An Emerald photographer, two re porters, and eleven SDS witness es immediately record the atrocity for posterity. May 2: Ad hoc committee favoring sports and the frater nity system is formed. First meeting draws 2800 students. Story appears on page 6 due to front page coverage of sit-in (by three people) demanding that bagels be sold in EMU. May 13: Emerald attacked by 7500 copies of Green Goose. GG charges: “The Emerald has eight pages of editorials: in eluding page 1, sports, and en tertainment." May 17: Column on entertain ment page attacks Green Goose. Any available interpretations of this dream would be appreci ated Jim Casterline Senior, History Duty of Youth Emerald Editor: Subject: The Implications of the Recent Mock Election. The recent campus mock elec tion reveals an encouraging at titude of students toward poli tics: desire for ideals of peace and humanity and rejection of wi:iiii!!«iiimiiii!!iiiii»ii«uiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiinniminiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiii power. Top vote-geUers Rocke feller, McCarthy and Kulbright appear to possess such ideals to some degree; at least they lack the image of a power-seek er that the President has created. This rejection of power poli tics seems to be the dominant theme of young college students today. It is a reaction to the phenomenal power of this no lion and its undesirable effects. Domestically, the tremendous powers of the whites have made Negroes helpless, and Johnson has created the image of a man who utilizes his power to per petuate his own glory. Internationally, American power has reached almost every where. While it seems to ob struct national unification of suffering peoples, it deprives true independence of peoples in various nations. Thus, power has created suf fering and helplessness, and it has given young Americans a sense of frustration und anger. Its rejection is the rejection of human suffering and assertion of human dignity. Such an attitude toward power seems to be the sign of inchoate American maturity and wisdom that calls for the use of power to further the ideals of peace and humanity and not to per petuate one's own power and glory. Standing in this histori cal moment, the young Ameri cans have the duty to exercise their natural and constitutional rights to pursue these ideals. Charles B. Cho Pol. Scl. Grad. Student * * * All too Concrete Emerald Editor: The Jan. 31 Emerald quoted ASUO President Scott Farlcigh as saying that it would be "ex tremely difficult to arouse sen timent about an abstract war in Vietnam" among the Uni versity student body. I believe he may be right, but I cannot understand it. Abstract war! This war meets us daily in headlines, in re lentless death tolls, on TV, in the face of every young man of draftable age whom we meet. And yet 1 see the people around me, and more frightening to see, I see myself becoming numb, dehumanized, accustomed to the daily horror of reports from Vietnam. Heading in the Emerald about atrocities of torture which most of us choose to ig nore or deny because they turn our stomaches and paint a pic ture of American action in Viet nam which we cannot accept without guilt, I am filled with outrage and grief at my own helplessness. Now I understand the frustration of a German Ullifllltlllllllllll ItllllllllllllMlillllllllllll lllllllllilllfillilllllllilllUllllllUIHlifflUMIliiil;! friend of m.v family who strove fruitlessly tn light Herman sup port of Nazism and finally end ed up in concentration camp. I am glad that in the U.S. my right to protest is protected, hut as protests continued to be ig nored I begin to feel that I, too, belong in prison. Will only violent protests shock us into awareness of tho day by day reality of this ter rible war"' Not even these? Tins war is being carried on in our names and we refuse to notice it. seem helpless to stop it. I fuel that 1 must do something that cannot be ignored; anything rather than be counted as one of the millions of silent observ ers of this horror. I dea nor Kellogg Junior. Applied Design Desert of Peace Emerald Editor: In a recent Emerald article which quoted from a YAK jour nal, the author insisted that the U S is not using napalm against civilians. In the Monday, Feb. 5 Regis ter Guard I read that American planes dropped napalm and rockets on suspected pockets of Vietcong activity in Saigon. Suspected pockets! Obviously during the recent Vietcong of fensive in Saigon the whole of the city with its dense popula tion was ‘'suspect.” It didn’t matter what your sympathies were, you could he shot if you could be suspected from 50 feet or from a plane. Clearly we are indiscrimi nately bombing South Viet namese civilians and Viet Cong alike. We kill both, of course. By the thousands. 1 read in the Feb. 7 Guard that the US. limted its bomb ing of Hue partly because 10 U.S. civilians were held some where in the city. What about the thousands of South Viet namese civilians who live there? No mention of them; our mili tary naturally couldn’t be ex pected to concern itself about them. After all, they are all suspect anyway. Before this attack at least one third of South Vietnam's popu lation was homeless, and hun dreds of thousands had been killed Why? To help them, we say! To save their country from a 'communist threat” that we decided was a threat. No threat could be more ter rible than what our military action is doing in Vietnam. We are not saving anything or any one. No—we are destroying a total culture, a total population; we arc wiping Vietnam off the face of the globe. We are mak ing a desert, that we may call it peace. 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