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Editorial Opinion
SGA Stand Honorable
But No Solution Reached
Aftci a giuehng hour and 45 minute hassle, SGA
a .xonibly made the onU honoiable pioposal left last night
bv [)assmg a i(-solution to infoim the University Senate
that the students are not opposed to the full 15 week
semester but are opposed to the elimination of the three
day Thanksgiving holiday.
Despite the opinion expressed by Dr. Robert G. Bern
iouter Wednesday that unless the students could propose
a feasible solution the vacation would probably be elimin
ated the Assembly limited itself to this policy resolution.
An unwilling Dr. Benjamin A. Whisler weathered
the arduous and often repetitious questioning and pointed
out the disadvantages to each alternative solution pre
sented by the assemblymen.
Whisler said that the question to be determined by
vote of the Uiuveisity Senate next week is not just the
setting of dales for one fall semester's calendar but a
policy on the most feasible way for the calendar to be set
up each year.
Whislor's committee will present to the Senate what
it considers to be its mandate in view o£ the straw votes
taken last month. That is proposal four.
The Senate may vole to accept this change, or ask the
committee to work on another solution and return next
month. Or, it may vole down proposal four and bring
other alternatives onto the floor or let the three-day
vacation stand as last year.
And the Senate will know the students’ desire that
some solution be found without eliminating the vacation
because the SGA resolution will be before them. Incon
clusive as ds action may be the SGA has shown through
an honoiable resolution that it can represent the students’
One fui liter idea was advanced by former Assembly
man Howard Byers’ that the Assembly recommend that
Senate make it a policy in such future cases not only to
consider the students opinion but to seek it as expressed
tluough SGA.
This is the way SGA can develop the fullest responsi
bility for representing the students’ view.
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Being Amyable
Beware of
by amy rosenthal
Beware of words. Beware ol
what people say.
Take a simple statement,
“My prof is a good teacher.”
Now what did the speaker
mean? Without a moment of
hestilation many would reply,
“He means exactly what he
said.” But did he?
If the woids are said with a
sneer, they mean just the oppo
site; and if the prof under dis
cussion is nearby, the statement
may have been made only to
flatter him.
The meanings of woids are not
absolute in themselves. Speakers
might say one
thing while plot
ting another.
Wurda can be
used to deceive
as well as in
form
When \v« were
young, in that
long ago time
befoie we went
to college or
even high school,
eveiythmg was
Clear and Sini- M >»i Rosenthal
pie. We knew that people truly
believed in equality, brotherhood,
justice and honesty, and piac
ticed what they preached
Then we slowly came to the
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of public speaking and former
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until his retirement in 194 G, has
been conducted annually under
vanous names foi more than 75
yea is.
The first prize is $5O and the
John Hem y Frizzell award of
meut in extempore speaking and
the second pnze is the Forensic
Council prize of $25 and the John
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extempore speaking
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Monday in 2 Sparks. Eliminations
will be held at 7 p.m. the follow
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be assigned, and the finals are
scheduled for 7 p.m Monday May
IG, in 10 Sparks.
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must be between 8 and 10 min
utes in length and must be de
livered without notes.
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HOSPITAL
the Vi
realization that our world was
not quite so blight, clear and up
right as we believed.
The cruelest blow to our trust
ful innocence was the realiza
tion that the ideals people talked
about were in many cases not
practiced and that sometimes
these ideals were used to cover
up real motives.
We learned that, contrary to
equality and brotheihood, there
was racial, religious, social, eco
nomic and ethnical discrimina
tion, Of couise there were “logi
cal” reasons why this was so.
We learned that many people
were given things they didn’t
work for in schools, clubs, busi
ness, and govei nment. We learned
that there “is moie than one way
to skm a cat" and that people
could obtain rewards by bribery,
flatteiy, fou-e, and knowing the
right people.
We learned that it was not
necessarily wrong to cheat on
examinations, to get fines fixed,
tie Man on Campus by Dick Bi
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Looking Back
U.S. May Share
Blame for Korea
SEOUL, South Korea (/P) —The United States may have
to shoulder part of the blame for South Korea’s revolution be
cause it long ago failed to ensure correction of budding evils..
Much of the blame goes to Syngman Rhee himself. He lost
touch with his people and was accused of giving the signal
that led to rigging the March 15
elections to put Lee Ki-poong,
Rhee’s hand-picked candidate, in
as vice president. This was viewed
here as an attempt to guarantee
hts own successor
From centuries of foreign dom
ination by China or Japan the Ko
rean people reaped a bitter har
vest of hate, regimentation and
poverty. This was poor nurture
for the frail Korean democracy
implanted in the 1940 s by the
United States with backing of the
United Nations.
With the collapse of the Jap
anese Empire at the end of
World War 11, Rhee returned
and founded the nation he had
dreamed of only to have it di
vided by the tension of the cold
war.
Under constant Communist
pressure that finally erupted into
war in 1950, Rhee developed as a
strongman. His police became a
hated, feared symbol of brutality.
Nevertheless the United States
poured in hundreds of millions of
dollars to create an anti-Commu
mst bastion.
Rhee’s Liberal party went all
llainous Word
lo lell people things ihat were
noi true, in order lo gel some
thing you wanled. In fact, it
seemed for a while lhal those
who said one thing and did an
other were very successful.
So what are we to do? Well,
we could dose our ears and not
believe anyone or we could go
right along trusting everyone—
believing their rationalizations.
But perhaps a better method
would be to question and to make
sure of people's motives before
we decide for ourselves.
And then perhaps we should
take these tarnished words such
as equality, brotherhood, justice
and honesty; and, as has every
generation, try with all our
strength and knowledge lo put
them into practice.
Th? words we learned when
we were young were taught to
us so that we would have guides
to what the world ought to ba
like, even though they do not
exactly describe the way the
world really is.
...THE FAOJLT
SECRETARY—
By JAMES CARY
out to win the March 15 elections.
Rhee, at 85, was still the great
liberator to his country, but his
party’s successful efforts to elect
Lee embittered the nation. Riots
followed.
"We had been taught in school
how democracy was supposed
to work," said one student, "and
we knew it wasn’t working
here."
American missionaries and the
U.S. government, its troop com
manders and its diplomats, have
been trying to teach Korea about
democracy for years. They had
plenty of warning that their mes
sage wasn’t getintg through, at
least not to Syngman Rhee.
The United States did speak
emphatically several times of its
concern at Rhee’s authoritarian
ism, and it probably used strong
words behind closed doors. But
these efforts were only slaps on
the wrist compared to the pres
sure needed for an adequate rem
edy to counter stubborn old Syng
man Rhee’s belief that he alone
could save his nation.
FRIDAY. APRIL 29. 1960
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