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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 28, 1915)
E. H. 5. IS T CONCESSION ON l OTHER END OF BUHE Student Council Takes Action On Petition, Among Many Other Matters. ‘HOMECOMING’ DISGOSSED Matter of Co-operative Store Taken Up and Suggestion of Prof. Morton Submitted. Eugene high school wants to put an E on the “other” end of Skin ner’s butte. They request^! the for mal sanction of the University stu dent council at a meeting held last night. It was granted. “Just tell them to keep it away from our O, so it won’t look like Oregon Electric,” said Butts Avison. A number of other matters con cerning the student body were re ported and examined. Among these was the action of the faculty in elim inating basketball. “It is one step in the ultimate aim to abolish all intercollegiate sports.” “The faculty is expecting us to fight it.” ' “We will lose a lot of advertising.” “For the sake of principle, we ought to fight it out.” These were among the sentiments expressed by members of the student council. A committee was appointed to arrange the matter for presenta tion to the board of regents. The committee consists of Cleve Simpkins, James Cellars, Anson Cornell, Gen evieve Shaver, Grace Edgington. A concensus of opinion favored that the University library be kept open all nights but Sunday, till 10 o’clock, with the privilege of taking out reserve books at 9; the library to be closed on Saturday afternoons, when any University contest is being put on. This resolution will also be reported to the board of regents. Max Sommer reported for the home-coming committee that Profes sors Dosch and Lawrence of the ar chitectural department will cooperate with the decoration committee and direct the working out of the color scheme. Suggestions were made that the marching be under the di rection of the physical training de partment; that an alumni luncheon for students and alumni be held on the campus; and that the whole week-end from Thursday on be kept open. “ ‘The Fortune Hunter will be given Thursday night,” said Echo Zahl, “and we’d like to get ’em here to see the thing. We are going to give the proceeds to the woman’s building.” It was recommended that formal cards of invitation to home-coming week-end be sent to the various houses, to be enclosed in letters to friends, relatives “and sweethearts”; also that a similar card be carried in the Emerald on the alumni page. A plan for establishing a coopera tive store was reported by Chester Miller, but laid aside pending a more complete investigation of the finan cial situation involved. The plan, however, has been suggested by Prof. D. W. Morton, of the school of commerce. It was thought the^ore could be utilized as a laboratory for students in cost and accounting. The original plan favored taking over the University book store, and later an addition of other goods, particularly required by students. Athletic sup plies would be a specialty. There would be a manager, probably elect ed from outside the student body, (Continued on Page Four.) Echo June Groans for Nation’s Fate Poet Mourns Advent of One Step and “Let ’er Rip” * Rag-Time Devotees. (By ECHO JUNE ZAHL) As I sit and cogitate On the dances up-to-date. I groan for the nation’s fate, Honest I do truly. Once slow waltzes used to rate, Now no waltzes men can bait, They all look out for a mate, * Who can one-step duly. Up and down the ball-room floor, Dishevelled hair and eyes of gore, Modern nymph with toreador, Rushes, hops and dips. There is one mad dash and roar, Till the rag-time music’s o’er, Then they cry for more and more. What care they for rips? FIRE KOI FORGOTTEN Frosh President Promises Surprise On 1 tally Night Before Big Game. What is the matter with the frosh? Why isn’t the end of Kincaid Field beginning to resemble a lumber yard these days? These are some of the questions being hurled at Raymond Burns, president of the freshman class, by upper classmen these days as the big rally preceding the Oregon-O. A. C. game draws near. The upper classmen, noticing the lack of bonfire material on Kincaid Field, are evidently beginning to fear that the frosh are not goiug to live up to the time-honored custom. “Prexy” Burns says he is being worried to death with their questions and wants it generally known that plans are being made although they are to be kept a secret. “The bonfire committee has been appointed and arrangements have been made. The committee intends to spring a 'big surprise this year and it will be some blaze, I’ll promise you that, and that is all I can tell you,” said President Burns. WINDNAGLE ELECTED TO CORNELL STUDENT COUNCIL Vere Windnagle, a 1912 student and track man ol the University of Oregon, has been elected to the stu dent council from the junior class of Cornell University. * Windnagle finished his freshmen year here and entered Cornell in Sep tember of 1913. In the track meet between Harvard and Cornell last year, Windnagle won the mile for his school. On^iccount of a recent in jury to his hip, he may not be able to run this season. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity while at Oregon. University of Utah, Oct. 21. 1915. —At a meeting of the board of re gents of the University of Utah held Tuesday morning a resolution was passed to compromise with the heirs of the late James McGregor who left a part of his estate as a permanent fund to the school of mines, and whose will has been contested by his heirs. The amount of the be quest to the University is $50,000. As a result of the compromise, the University will lose approximately 8 per cent of that sum. A Girls’ Brass Band was used by the women of Minnesota U. to get up enthusiasm for the annual W. A. A. rally Wednesday. MUR ADVOGAIES MILITARY TRAINING Congressman Thinks All Public Fund Institutions Should Have Trained Cadets. WANTS MORE ARMED MEN Land Forces Heralded as Insuf ficient and Navy as Inade quate For Defense. A trained cadet corps in every col lege or university, supported by the public funds and full credit for ev ery hour of time spent in connection with such courses—this is the policy that Congressman Clifton N. (“Cat”) McArthur advised for all of tire public schools of higher education of the nation—and, of course, for the University of Oregon, in his assem bly address Wednesday morning in Villard hall. “Our lanu grant colleges are al ready required to give instruction in military drill and maintain a cadet corps, and there will soon be a strong movement to require the same thing of state Universities,” said Mr. Mc Arthur. “I know that what I am saying may not please some of you, but you are receiving your education free of cost and at the expense of a benificent state and government that have the right to expect you to give something in return. If military drill is good for the land grant colleges and it is good for the stu dents who attend them, it ought also to be required of University students, but, of course, should count in the curriculum in the number of hours required for graduation. Tknow that there is no young man in this audience but who would give his services, and, if necessary, his life for our country, and I am sure if it should be the (Continued on Page Four) SQUAD 10 COMMUNE WITH THE METHODISTS Football Boys Will Ramble tc Salem Next Saturday Morn ing For Battle. SECOND STRING MAY 60 ON ’Tis Rumored That Non-Letter Men to Make Debut as Varsity Satellites. (By Chester Fee) Saturday morning the Oregon squad is going to ramble down the line to Salem, and partake of the Methodist offerings at the altar ded icated to the god of football. This year they don’t seem to be going very heavy on this gridiron worship stuff, for several high school and weak col lege teams have been scaring and drubbing them. But the Varsity is going to keep strings on their bacon, because there is a never-to-be for gotten skeleton reposing in the in accessible recesses of the dead past that brings back haunting mem ories and night-mares, although the fact never passes the gates of silence on the Oregon campus. It is rumored, however, that the second string are going to make their debut as Varsity satilites, at least for the first half. We all hope they won’t get another grewsome relic (in the shape of a scalp) to hang in their impoverished cupljoard of ancient stiffs, where rare testimon ials of their pristine prowess are still retained. Willamette has only one real player listed so far this season, and he is “Tubby” Hendricks, a former Oregon man, who showed much promise while here. The rest of their players are unknown quantities, but from all appearances, they seem (Continued on Page Four.) Students and Coach Voice Their Athletic Opinions Student opinion as expressed by some of the senior class seems to be in decided opposition to the recent faculty rulings concerning athletics and the abolishment of intercollegi ate basketball. Coach Bezdek. however, is more reconciled to the changes. He says: “Abolishing the training camp is all right—in fact the department sug gested it. Limiting practice from 4 to 6:30 in the evening is highly satis factory. “1 hated to see intercollegiate bas ketball suspended, but if the faculty see fit, all right. We’ll try it out. “I am strong for the scholarship rule, because it is not restricted to the althetic department alone. “This legislation will hold us for a while. In many respects it is more than many schools of two or three times our size have adopted. But let’s go. Anything for a greater University and a greater state.” Lyle Bigbee says: “It was not necessary to cut out Varsity basket ball to make interclass basketball a have had games between the differ success. Up to this time we always ent classes and fraternities. The stu dents turned out that they might have a chance to make the Varsity team. "Furthermore, training rules will not be observed in the smaller games, therefore the exercise will overtax the ordinary students.” Lamar Tooze: “I am not in favor of the abolishment of basketball. It leaves the long period of three months between football and baseball seasons, when spirit will be allowed to lapse. Basketball, from a finan cial standpoint, is a good thing for the student body. Expenses are not heavy and the games always draw a good crowd.” Anson Cornell: “I’m sorry that basketball has been eliminated. This abolishment, however, will promote interclass athletics, and, as a whole, the students will take more interest in intra-college basketball. “Doing away with the pre-season training camp is a good thing, and will not hurt the football prospects. This camp was only a sort of get-ac quainted affair and not much real training was carried on.” Merlin Bat ley: “The killing of basketball was the one objection to the faculty’s rulings. Everything else is for the betterment of our col lege. I think that the faculty was sincere, but that it made a mistake in cutting out the game. “This rule will undoubtedly re sult in the decrease of athletic en thusiasm and the Oregon spirit that we’re all trying hard to keep alive.” Cloyd Dawson: “Varsity teams only serve to stimulate the intra-col lege athletics. The hoi>e of some day being able to make the big team is quite enough stimulus to bring a person out for class or club teams.’ Bob Bean: “It will tend to kill th« spirit of inter-class teams, because the players will have no goal foi which to strive.” Co-ed Debate Ban Causes Rebellion Coach Prescott Says That De nying Women Forensic Priv ileges Causes Uprising. "Denying women the opportunities of debate lias caused a general up rising on the part of the feminine ele ment against this ruling recently laid down by the forensic council,” says Bert Prescott. "We are now negotiating with O. A. C. and Reed to form a state tri angular debate. At the last meeting of the forensic council, which had previously agreed to admit women to this new state triangle, by a vote of three to two, it was decided that in the future the debating council should try to arrange debates where women would be admitted on equal footing with men. "The girls feel that because they pay their student body tax of $8, which totals over $2000, for the sup port of men's activities, that when there is opportunity to compete along besidQ the men, they should be given that right. The forensic coun cil expresses its willingness to ar range a co-ed debate, but this does not satisfy them. They believe that they can beat them out for the team (as they actually did in the tryouts), and they crave their opportunity to try their mettle in intercollegiate de bate against men and women of other institutions. “Further, they assert that they need this training in college, be cause in after life if they take part in social and political activities, their audiences will be men as well as wo men, and their opponents and co workers will be men as well as wo men. They believe, above the ques tion of right and personal need, that as a matter of expediency for the larger sake of the University, that the institution ought to be rep resented by its best talent. If women in compettive tryouts can beat th<* men the University needs them on its teams. Wintry Season Halts Tennis “Rain has stopped the racquet on the courts for this season, but wait until next spring,” declared Captain Bond of the tennis team. It is ru mored that Oscar Norine, who de fended Oregon at Washington last year will re-enter college in Febru ary. In addition to Walter Church, Tubby Wheeler and Lewis Bond, members of last season’s varsity, new material is available in Wright, a junior from the University of Idaho and Paul Downard, a freshman from Portland. DANGERS IN DEMAND Miss Cummings Desires Girls to Ijoani Aesthetic Steps in (Jym nasium (Tiasses. Fancy (lancing in the women's gymnasium classes is to be developed in the University this year, according to Miss Mabel Cummings, women’s physical director. Miss Cummings said: “We have the best of material if the girls will take an interest. Ex tensive plans have been made, and all that is necessary is the response of the girls.” Miss Hazel Rader, who will have charge of the dancing classes, is in Portland learning new steps for the benefit of the classes. The advanced classes will meet Monday, Wlednesday and Friday at 2 o’clock; and the beginners will meet Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, un less another hour proves more con venient for the members. Hours will lie arranged to the advantage of the greatest number after all are signed PI BETA PHI, OLDESI WOMAN’S FRATERNITY, MAKES CAMPUS DEBUT Mrs. F. J. Allen, Grand Vice President, Will Install Chap- • ter Here Tomorrow. MANY VISITORS IN ATTENDANCE “At Home’’ Is Saturday After noon, and Will Be Followed By Banquet in Evening. Tomorrow, Pi Beta Phi, the oldest national woman’s fraternity, makes its debut on the University of Oregon campus, replacing Mu Phi Epsilon, formerly national social but now na tional honorary musical. Mrs. F. J. Allen, grand vice-president and an alumna of Beta .Chapter of Illinois, will be the installing officer, assisted by Mrs. 'P. F. Carney, of Berkeley, national historian; Mrs. Vance Mc Clymonds, of Berkeley, president of Eta Province in which the new chap ter will be located; Mrs. H. C. Wil bur, of Seattle, vice-president of Eta Province; Miss Winifred Forbes, of the U. of O. faculty; fifteen alumnae members from Portland; four dele gates from the chapter at the Uni versity of Washington and two dele gates from the chapter of W. S. C. at Pullman, Wash. The first intimation of_ the expect ed installation of PI Beta Phi came Monday when Mrs. Allen arrived on the campus. “A splendid bunch of girls,” was her comment Tuesday after the formal granting of the char ter and the colors of wine and silver 'blue had been placed on each peti tioning member. ‘‘I received a royal reception here,” she said, “and I find more loyalty and real spirit in this University than at any I have ever been. The campus is very pretty, es pecially tho leaves.” 1 IIU 1 until muiiMi wiciiiwuivo place tomorrow afternoon and even ing. At this time twelve charter members will be initiated. They will be: Myrtle Kern, senior, of Cottage Grove; Leah Perkins, senior, of Cot tage Grove; Mona Dougherty, sen ior, of Wallowa; I^eta Mast, of Co quille; Ruth Lawrence, junior, of Medford; Jeanette McLaren, sopho more, of Portland; Mildred Wood ruff, sophomore, of Portland; Ada Matthews, sophomore, of Cottage Grove; Hester Hurd, sophomore, of Florence; Esther Stafford, sopho more, of Eugene; Rita Fraley, senior, of Eugene, and Helen Dresser, sopho more. of Eugene. Saturday afternoon from 2 to 5 o’clock the young ladies will he at home to the faculty, students and friends. In the evening there will be a banquet for the new Pi Beta Phi s, and the visiting members, at the Ho tel Osburn. Wednesday evening the time was given over to the formal pledging and the traditional “cooky shine.” Visitors from the Alumnae club of Portland, are: Mrs. J. R. Turner, Mrs. J. C. Monteith, Mrs. Fletcher Linn and Mrs. Burton Beck, Gertrude Blackman, Francis Dewar, Fay Stein metz, Mrs. J. McMemlnin, Mrs. Frank Knight and Anna McKay Brown. They will spend the week-end here and then, accompanied by Mrs. Allen, go for a visit to Corvallis. From there Mrs. Allen will go south for a visit to southern chapters before her return to her home in Chicago. Pi Beta Phi was founded at Mon mouth college in 1867. With the ad vent of this chapter at Oregon the fraternity will now have, forty-nine active chapters, boasting a member ship of about 9000. The badge is a iContinued on page four)