OREGON EMERALD
Official student paper of the Univer
sity of Oregon, published every Tues
day, Thursday and Saturday to the
college year by the Associated Stu
dents.
Entered-tn the postefflce at Eugene,
Oregon, as second class matter.
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By term, $ .50. Advertising rat*** upon
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Edited by
LEITH F. ABBOTT
Dorothy Ouniway.Associate Editor
Lyle Bryson..News Editor
Nell Warwick.Asst. News Editor
Harry A. Smith.Managing Editor
Helen Manning.Dramatic Editor
Maybelle Leavitt .Proof Reader
Special Writers
Adelaide V. Lake Louise Davis
Victoria Case
Sport Writers
Floyd Maxwell.Raymond Lawrence
Reporters
Earle Richardson, Ariel Dunn, Ja
cob Jacobson, Charles Gratke, Mary
Lou Burton, Eleanor Spall, Stanley
Elsman, Annamay Bronaugh, Eunice
Zimmerman, Frances Qulsenberry,
Wanna McKinney, Mauna Loa Fallls,
Esther Fell, Mildred Weeks, Harry
Ellis and John Dierdorff.
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager
WARREN KAYS
Associate . Raymond Vester
Advertising Manager....Webster Riible
Circulation . Elston Ireland
Assistant, . Floyd Bowles
Staff Assistants:
Lee Culbertson, Charles Lamb
TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1920
“UNITED WE STAND”
HE University of Ore
gon can never hope
to progress as long
as the student body
spirit remains as it
is now. Today Ore
; is at ebb tide and un
gon spin
less different factions on this
campus realize what their petty
bickerings and childlike jeal
ousies are bringing to Oregon,
humiliation and defeat will be
our share for many years. Right
now we could be branded as a
“haywire” outfit and once we
stopped to analyze our situa
tion we could have no comeback.
We are “haywire.”
There are too many separate
factions on the campus each
anxious to get at the others’
throats and willing to injure the
name of Oregon in order to
cause humiliation to the other
party. We are not united for
a common purpose as we should
be and instead of fighting for
the University of Oregon differ
ent organizations and groups
are lighting among themselves
for no purpose whatsoever, ex
cept to even up cooked-up griev
ances.
A showing of college spirit
which brought tears to the eyes
of old graduates who returned
for Junior Week-end was dis
played by representatives of two
campus groups at the two
games held on the campus
Thursday and Friday when we
had a crowd of preppers as our
guests. At these ball games
these gri ups from their station
in the bleachers jeered the play
ers of their own team with
voices so loud that their remarks
were heard from one end of the
diamond to the other. One of
the Oregon players was not
playing up to form and had sev
eral errors chalked up to him.
Oul the crowd back him in his
endeavors and utter words of
encouragement? It did not.
Instead there were cries of
“take him out," and the repre
sentatives of some of these
blood-drinking organizations got
together in an organized cry to
“take-out" and “we want
-”, Oregon players were
jeered by students worse than
these same students would laugh
at errors on the part of a vis
iting team.
This spirit has been rampant
for many months and during the
basketball season the Oregon
varsity five was fighting its
own crowd of “rooters” in many
of the games.
The reason for this cutthroat
attitude is brought about by the
fact that the organizations and
indviduals making the biggest
noise often are not represented
on the team. Yet these same in
stitutions and individuals have
never put forth one ounce of
strength toward the support of
any student body activity them
selves. They support the stu
dent body activities by staging
pink teas and jazz dances.
Friday the University track
team meets the O.A.C. team in
the annual dual meet of the two
institutions. It is a pretty safe
bet to say that about one-tenth
of the students on the campus
realize this fact and about one
half of that number intend to
accompany the team to Corval
lis to support it. Members of
the varsity track team return
ing to Eugene for the past three
weeks after a track meet held
on a foreign field are met by
their students friends with the
question: “Where have you
been? I haven’t seen you for
the past few days.” Two weeks
ago the varsity track and base
ball teams left on a tour. Two
freshmen were at the station to
see them depart and the Hotel
Osburn bus to greet them upon
their return. Is that the win
ning Oregon spirit?
Oregon students have not
been educated in the art of los
ing. Hence when an athletic1
team or other student activities
start losing it is the common in- i
! clination of all to crab instead
jof to support.
Every men’s and women’s or
ganization on the campus has;
two courses open to them now.
They can either start taking les
sons in the art of unification or
the art of losing, for it is cer
tain that if they do not take the
first course they will have need
of the latter for the next many
years to come.
NO PROFESSOR WORTH $500
EMERALD PLEA IN “LIBEL SUIT’'!
(Continued from page 1)
school has suffered the humiliation
of a defeat.”
The real issue in the case is be
coming “to eat or not to eat," where
the editors are concerned, and per
haps, whisper some, the high cost of
living has also affected the profs.
“You see,” confided Dorothy Duniway,
associate editor, “we’ve simply got to
win, for the staff banquet comes off
next month. We can’t afford to fi
nance banquets and pay damages at
the same time and we’re not going to
go without ‘feed.’ ”
Let ’em sue if they like—Lyle Bry
son, news editor of the Emerald,
doesn’t care. “One of the first re
quisites of a damage suit is money—
somewhere,” said Lyle.” They -can
get judgment by the carload, hut if
they cian find more than thirty cents
Moral (£o.
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Have you bought
your graduation
gift yet?
The time is drawing near for graduation and
soon it will be too late.
New goods are constantly arriving and early
buying will give the careful buyer a chance to
select the best.
Luckey’s
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in the coffers of the Emerald they
can have it. Still,” she reflected,
"thirty cents is a lot of damage to
award a professor.”
“I hope that we lose our case.”
The surprising statement came from
Nell Warwick, assistant news editor.
“For if we do,” she said, it will give
u§ a chance to pay the law depart
ment back with some of those lead |
dollars that are reported to be per
miscuously floating about the Oregon
building.”
“Yes,” said Maybelle Lavitt, who
presides over the proof sheets, “any
time the law department thinks that
it can put anything over the journal
ists, they’d better guess again.”
The stage is set for Thursday
night. Sam Bass Warner is the prof
whose ability as a raqueteer is to
be defended as worth $500. Gordon
Wells and Lyle McChocky are to rep
resent the plaintiff and Kenneth Arm
strong and Ben Ivey will defend the
Emerald.
Kansas Seniors Elect May Queen
The senior Class at the University
of Kansas recently elected a “Queen
of the May” from the women of the
class.
Some Lie Accidentally
“People lie sometimes without
knowing it. Others tell the truth
accidentally.”—Daily Kansan.
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