OREGON EMERALD
Official student body paper of the
University of Oregon, published every
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of the
college year by the Associated Students.
Entered in the postoffiee at Eugene,
Oregon, m second class matter.
Subscription ratds $1.25 per year.
EDITORIAL STAFF
DOUGLAS MULLARKY .EDITOR
Helen Brenton .Associate
Elizabeth Aumiiler .Associate
Dorothy Duniway .News Editor
Erma Zimmerman,Assistant News Editor
Leith Abbott .Make-Up
Adelaide Lake .Women’s Editor
Nell Warwick....Society
I’ierce Cumings.Features
Alexander G. Brown.Sports
Bess Column.Dramatics
ASSISTANTS
HARRIS ELLSWORTH ...MANAGER
Elston Ireland .Circulation
Catherine Dobie .Collections
BUSINESS STAFF
News and Business Phone 055.
Reporters.
Kupert, Helen Manning, Lewis Niven,
Raymond Lawrence, Wanna McKinney,
Frances Stiles, Stella Sullivan, Velma
Helen McDonald, Louise Davis, Fran
ces Cardwell, Dorothy Cox, Elva Bagley,
A CONSTRUCTIVE PLAN.
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The student cooperation and approval
of Dean Walker's stop announcing Ilia
plan for a state-wide basketball series
with finals to be played at the Univer
sity each spring lias been in every way
satisfactory and in keeping with the
spirit of the University,
Walker’s suggestion is one of the
most constructive made for some time
looking toward 1 lie growth and useful
ness of Oregon to the people of the
stute, and is receiving tho support it
deserves.
It ls'true that the boys on Uy> teams
must be entertained by the men of the
University while they are here for the
championship games. Also there will
lie difficulty in getting a satisfactory
date so that (lie games will not inter
fere witli the present work and activ
ities of Oregon students. However, the
plan will tend to center interest of the
high schools at Oregon as they are nl
-eady in track and in the state debating
league. In tlds way they will lie of
real service in increasing tile enroll
ment and enlarging the service of the
University to tile young men and women
of tlie state. With those activities of
high schools all centering at the Uni
versity, the students will not only take
more Interest In their high school life
but "ill have the University called to
their attention to the end that more will
avail themselves of the opportunities of
fered to the people of the sttate through
he University of Oregon.
While it means little to the students
flow in the University, ns a larger en
rollment will not tend to give them any
additional advantages, the efforts toward
hu increased attendance at Oregon
should not he neglected. Oregon stu
dents want to see the University main
tain its present standards and to grow
in greatness in proportion to the other
schools of the 1‘acifie coast among which
Oregon now holds so high a place In
various forms of intercollegiate activity
uud in scholarship.
Furthermore, the larger the student
bod}’ at Oregon, the greater will he the
service the Fuiversity can he to the
Kate which supports it. It in a duty of
ritixenship to encourage education. In*
ssiuueh as Walker’s suggestion tends
toward a greater use of the service of
fered at Oregon it is constructive. Ore
gon likes the plan and will make it its
own.
THE OLD GYM.
The crying need for the new Woman's
building is felt more keenly perhaps by
the woman’s gymnasium department
than by any of the other numerous
women's interests which at present suf
fer from lack of housing facilities.
It is not generally known just how
badly crowded the dressing rooms are
but the amazing facts are these: Two
hundred fifty Oregon women are com
pelled to use twenty-three showers, and
nineteen dressing rooms in the brief
space of ten minutes allowed to prepare
for their next classes or their gymna
sium hour.
At three o’clock forty sophomores,
seventy freshmen, a»d twenty-five in
the corrective room are doing their gym
work. At four o’clock these one hundred
thirty-five women must share the twenty
three shoWrs and nineteen dressing
rooms with incoming four o’clock classes
of approximately the same size.
It is obvious that a large per cent
must be denied the privilege of taking
showers. The condition of lighting and
ventilation are necessarily abominable
us^a result of this tremendous over
crowding. The benefits of the exercise
are thus Inrgcly lost.
Tiie classes are too large to handle
satisfactorily since no individual work is
possible. The instructors in the depart
ment declare that classes of forty or
fifty arc ns large ns can be properly
haudled at once.
'l’lie new Woman’s building will obviate
these difficulties by providing adequate
facilities for the physical training de
partment.
At present there is no place provided
to keep the numerous trophies wbiqfi
are offered each year; the office space
is entirely inadequate since three in
structors must uso one smull room; there
is no rest room; and recitations are held
in five different buildings.
4 The new Woman's building besides
providing for these needs will add a
swimming pool; will house the homo
economics department, and provide meet
ing places for various women's organ
izations.
The University of Oregon must have
conducted its S. A. T. 0. iu u much more
satisfactory manner than did other
American colleges. This from the Uni
versity Daily Kansan: "The enrollment
at the University of Oregon shows an
increase of JO per cent over that of
last year. Unbelievable when it is
remembered that the S. A. T. C. was
established there lust fall!"
FACULTY PLAY POSTPONED
Fergus Ruddle to Assist In Production
to be (<lven in April.
Tlit> faculty pln.v, “Milestones,” by Ar
nold Heunett, will not be produced until
after spring vacation, according to Mrs.
Uric Allen. Fergus Reddle, bead of the
department of public speaking, who has
just returned from Austrlia, has promis
ed to assist with the production. Rehear
sals are already in progress.
Peter t'roekatt, professor of econom
ics, will take the part left vacant by
William Vuuce, former secretary of the
V. M. C. A, on the campus. One other
part is yet to be filled.
The full cast now chosen is:
John lthead.W. K. O. Thncher
tlertrude lthead.Mrs. Sallie Allen
Samuel Sibley.Peter t'roekatt
Rose Sibley .Norma Doble
Miss lthead ......Mabel Dorsey
K hard Sihley .
N y Sibley.Charlotte Ranfield
N l\vm .Andrew Fish
Hon. Muriel Pym..Kmma Woottou Hall
Fudly lthead ....Mrs. Virginia Walker
Arthur Fierce .Robert Prescott
1-"“-* Monkburst.Clayton Baldwin
MOVIE SHOWS TO flF
GIVEN IT y. M. HUT
Secretary will Try Out Plan; to
Ask Dean Ehrmann if
Women can Attend.
Motion picture shows will be tfiven at
the “Y” hut if the University* students
desire them, According to Edgar I?. Van
Osdel, new secretary of the campus Y.
M. C. A. These show's will be given, he
said, as ofteh as the students wish them
which will probably be once a week. Mr.
\ an Osdel intends t« see Dean Ehrmann
with a view to finding out if it would
be possible for the University women to
attend these Rhows. This has been done
successfully in other places.
.“These films are sent past our door all
the time.” said Mr. Van Osdel, “and wo
might just as well have I hem stop off
here." They are sent under the auspices
of the War Work council to all the “Y”
huts and go from San Francisco to
Washington all the time. The War Work
Council will have charge of this work
orl>il June and if the students desire the
films will be shown on the campus. The
purpose of showing these films which are
issued by the standard moving pictures
associations and are the same as those
shown in the regular moving picture
houses is to add to the social pleasures
of the students. There will be no admis
sion charged for these shows. Admission
will never ho charged for performances
held in the “Y” hut. said Mr. Von Osdel,
if the Y. M. C. A. secretary can help it.
Plfcns will be made later in the year,
according to Mr. Von Osdel, for the Roa
beck delegation, which ho says he hopes
will he a good sized one.
Mr. Van Osdel says that ho likes the
University and the general atmosphere of
the campus life. Ilo wishes to get ac
quainted with each individual man in
the University, he said today, and ionrn
what the wishes of each and needs of
each are before making any definite
plans for the work of the Y. M. O. A.
for the year.
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♦ MU PHI EPSILON 4
♦ announces the pledging of 4
♦ MRS. \\' F. G. TIIACIIER, 4
♦ LEOLA GREEN, 4
♦ PATTY FRENCH, 4
♦ MARGARTT RIDDLE, 4
♦ MARTHA TINKER, 4
♦ DOROTHY DIXON. 4
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ALPHA BETA DISTRESSED
Old Men of Society Perturbed Over Light
Treatment in Emerald.
The feature story in the last issue of
The Emerald in regard to the purposes
and apparent features of Alpha Beta is
regarded as a challenge and the light
treatment an offence by the old men of
the organization, according to Don Ox
man, one of the six new men elected to
the inter-class society.
Oxrnan, who has been directed by the
old members to give a statement to The
[ Emerald, setting students aright in re
gard to the society, says:
“Alpha Beta is a society of nncient
origin on the campus, devoted to the
moral uplift of the students. In its pres
ent group of six pledges, the old men feel
that they have admirable material on
which to work for the ultimate good of
the University. This statement of the
society has been authorized by the pres
ent members who, of course, do not wish
thei^ names known for fear of ridicule
because of their ultra-moral purposes.
“The statement in The Emerald speaks
lightly of the society in regard to its
members and surmises ‘Alpha Beta is
evidently no scholastic society.’ This is
admitted. It is, however, I am told by the
men now' in the society, an organization
with a purpose, something distinctive in
view of some other honor societies on the
campus.
“It is also true,” says Ures Maddock,
for the men already admitted to mem
bership, “that the newly elected this
year embrace a wide field of student ac
tivity ns The Emiyald stpry said—‘prom
inent students, athletes, and some stu
dents not generally known at all.’ This is
whnt makes Alpha Beta strong. It is the
most cosmopolitan group on jhe campus
—Bohemian.”
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