Oregon State University - Beaver Yearbook (Corvallis, OR)

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Krtf i HutU A Remembrance The Military Industrial Complex and Eisenhower Conference examined the 1961 warning by President Dwight D. Eisenhower about the potentially damaging link between the military, industrial and educa tional institutions in our society. Johan Galtung. professor of conflict and peace research at the University of Oslo in Norway, stated that the U.S. political discourse is not adequate to the task of peace. Two reasons were the United States inability to confront the possibility of economic difference and their inability to see their own exception-alism as a problem. Galtung related a reason the United States is failing to possess a non aggressive defense that will pose a visible threat to other countries. The U.S. discourse of economics is a very unhealthy discourse from a peace point of view. remarked Galtung. David Eisenhower, grandson of President Eisenhower, chose not to speak on the military-industrial conference itself, but rather on the circumstances behind his grandfathers farewell warning. I think it’s important to remember that Dwight Eisenhower's military-industrial complex speech was a farewell. said Eisenhower. This is not the kind of perspective necessarily that someone entering power would offer. There may be a conflict between the effectiveness and the philosophical aspects of his speech. The warnings concerning the military-industrial complex were almost outweighed by the warnings aimed at preventing the scientific technological lead in capturing control of public poli- cy. explained Eisenhower. Also speaking at the conference were Seymour Melman. professor emeritus of industrial engineering at Columbia University, and Paul Olum, president of the University of Oregon, who worked on the development of the atomic bomb in the 1940 s. The conference was a part of the Ava Helen Pauling Lectureship for World Peace. The lectureship was established at OSU in 1982 in honor of Pauling, a graduate of OSU and wife of Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling. The lectureship brought speakers recognized for their efforts in promoting world peace or related concerns. Johan Galtung was a really inspiring speaker. said Becky Brice. I was looking around and people were just enthralled. He was speaking with us. not at us. The conference attempted to answer such questions as the extent industry influences the military, the extent the military influences industry, the extent the military-industrial complex influences education and the rest of society and the alternative understanding of security. national budgeting and the structure of defense. Cosponsoring the three-day conference with Westminister House were the Pauling Peace Lectureship and the Du-bach Distinguished Lectureship. Previous lecturers in the series include Linus C. Pauling. Paul C. Warnke. Helen M. Caldicott. George W. Ball. John Kenneth Galbraith and Adolfo Perez Esquivel. —Qmfy Jtwf Steve Johnson. Mke Kopetski. Cynthia Wooten and Dr Clifford Trovv discuss ' Political Realties ot a Military-Industrial Economy m the MU Ballroom Adjusting his glasses. David Eisenhower answers questions from the Gazette-Times MILITARY LECTURE 27

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This moose head IS part of the Natural Science and History exhibit. Unique Collection The Horner Museum, officially ap proved in 1925, was begun by John B. Horner, a professor of English, Latin and History. Horner dubbed it the Museum of the Oregon Country and gathered collections from around campus in zoology, commerce and other departments as well as from his collector friends. The museum began in what was then the college library. It soon moved to what is now the basement of the playhouse and then moved to the basement of Gill Coliseum in 1950. The museum received donations of people's collections and then put together collections into displays. We have extensive collections, said Lucy Skjelstad, museum director. The museum displayed exhibits on natural science and history which displayed shells, insects, butterflies, fossils and geological specimens of rocks and ores. An Oregon History exhibit showed the Victorian influence and progressive times. A life size setting of a home with completely furnished rooms as well as Victorian handicrafts depict the era. A related exhibit on the railroad era in Oregon was also displayed. The museum also included an exhibit on the Native Americans. This exhibit displayed basketry, stone tool technology and a display of how food was pro- cessed. There was also an exhibit of the woolly mammoth and the Kalapuya Indians of the Willamette Valley. An exhibit featuring the DeMoss family singers who performed between 1872 and 1933, displayed a stagecoach, purchased in 1900, which carried the sing ers to their engagements. Also displayed were their instruments, photos, music and tickets to performances. There was also a changing exhibit which changed about once a year. For the first part of the year it showed Victorian beaded apparel and then in the spring was changed to an exhibit on games, put together by an international games collector. We try to deal with ideas and concepts about people as much or more than we do artifacts. said Skjelstad. We are always collecting for the future, said Skjelstad. Many of the things in storage aren't all that unusual right now. but in 25 to 50 years we ll be really glad we have them. It is important to have places that save our cultural heritage for the future. The museum was run by two full-time employees and the rest part-time and student help. Graduate research assistants in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs in Museum Studies worked in the museum as well as work study students. —Kami Smilfc A stagecoach purchaser! n the 1900s by the De-Moss family was used to transport them to their singing engagements. HORNER MUSEUM 29