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EMERALD
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Eleanor Kellogg
Junior, Applied Design
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