Oregon Daily Emerald
HARRY A. SMITH,
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MORE BICKERING.
Professor Howe again makes an attack on the Emerald,
and again we are forced to reply- In his delightful manner,
he accused us of ‘‘brainstorms,’ ’ of starting a “bolshevik move
ment,” of “throwing cat fits,” and of favoring the conducting
of negotiations in the manner of managers of “fourth-rate
professional prizefighters.” We plead “not guilty.”
Professor Howe seems to deny students the right to discuss
a matter which seems to have been fairly well settled without
calling on anyone’s opinion. California’s second team will
not come to the meet, and the other three northern members
of the conference seem to have taken a stand alongside Oregon
in refusing admittance to the second team of the southern
school.
Student opinion is evidently under-rated by Professor
Howe. When the executive committee refused to stand the
expenses of California’s second team, the matter was settled.
Th executive committee is an organization of elected students.
Professor Howe must remember that athletics at Oregon are
made possible by students, in spite of what say the faculty
may have. Students furnish the money and the athletes.
It is true that California is now holding exams, as Profes
sor Howe states. But if California would be compelled to hold
her track team over a few weeks for a coast conference meet,
as she has done in the past, would she not also be compelled
to hold the team for a few weeks longer to take part in the
I. C. A. A. A. A. meet?
All northern institutions were represented at the coast con
ference meet at Palo Alto last year.. Northern teams went to
the meet in the early part of the season, sacrificing several
weeks of necessary training. Is it but fair to ask that the
southern schools come to a northern meet, scheduled as early
as possible, in return? The northern institutions are being
slighted when California sends her track team to the eastern
meet and offers a second team to compete in the coast meet.
The Emerald: would never have printed anything concern
ing a possible break with California had it not felt that it had
facts to back up such a story. And it believes that student
opinion will back anything that has been said in this column.
Stop further bickering.
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Communications I
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April SO.
Editor of the Emerald: I must repeat
my objection to the persistent, attempt
of the Emerald to embroil the University
of Oregou in Quarrels with its competi
tors in athletics. The Northwest and
Pacific Coast Conferences came into ex
istence precisely because the public and
the college faculties alike tired of having
student bodies perpetually airing Quarrels
in the newspapers. If amateur sports
cannot be conducted in the spirit of fair
play, and good humor, if they are to be
conducted to an everlasting accompani
ment of such epithets as “toady,” “in
sult,” “dictator,” and the like, there will
be other college faculties following the
example of Columbia University in New
York, whose faculty forbade football at
that institution for many years.
This is nu unfortunate time to give an
exhibition of undergraduate bad manners,
because the student body is about to sturt
an experiment of governing athletics
through a council on which a majority
will be students. Now the ultimate con
trol of athletics rests in the hands of the
faculty. The Athletic Council, which the
new student body constitution under
takes to supersede, was established by
faculty legislation. The new governing
body provided by the new student body
constitution can act only by faculty con
sent. It is a bad time for the Emerald
to recur to the manner of conducting ne
gotiations used by the managers of
fourth-rate professional prozefighters.
Please notice £hat action by the stu
dent executive committee (or the \. M.
p, A. Cabinet, or Kwama, or any other
outside student body) does not affect the
fact that intercollegiate relations are in
the hands of the Athletic Council at pres
ent. Unless the Emerald wishes to start
n Bolshevik movement within the institu
tion as well as in the conference, it will
do well to leave our relations with Cali
fornia in the hands of those with author
ity to handle matters.
Student readers of the Emerald, at
least, will be interested' to know that
examinations are now over at California
and their students arc dispersing to their
homes. California has always protested
against having to hold her track athletes
over three weeks for the Pacific Coast
Conference track meet. She has pro
tested against the conference track meet,
exactly as Oregon protested against the
conference football schedule. She is en
tirely within her rights in so doing. If
this year, or any other year, she declines
to send her team to the conference track
meet, she will have valid reason for it.
ami there will be no excuse for any col
lege newspaper throwing a oat fit about
it. Tt seems likely that the conference
track meet will have to be given up and
regional meets substituted. It will be a
pity, though, and instead of roasting
California for letting her track men have
a junket back east this spring, the feel
iug should be that it is only real friendli
ness and a desire on California’s part to
keep the conference alive and healthy
that could lead her to consider sending
her team into tho northwest year after
year several weeks, not only after her
natural track season is over, but after
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Dial-—There will be a meeting of Dial
Wednesday at 7:30.
Eutaxian Club.—Xo meeting this
Tuesday, May 3, on account of the dough
nut debates.
Colloquium.—Xo meeting of the collo
quium will be held Tuesday night.
Canoe Races.—Freshmen who wish to
tryout for canoe races should see Miss
Waterman at the Woman’s building, and
arrange for the tryout today.
her year is over, and her student body
gone home. The whole Coast conference
has no better friend than the University
of California.
The Emerald is mistaken if it thinks
"Oregon Fight" now or ever meant row
dyism or calling names. It means clean
sportsmanship and playing the game.
The question that shapes itself to most
of us is, how long will the student body
swallow the sort of stuff the Emerald
has been peddling? H. C. HOWE.
TWO CANDIDATES PROPOSED.
To the Editor: Since the custom has
been introduced of expressing student
opinion through the columns of the Em
erald in regnrd to candidates for the
coming election, I am taking the liberty
to send this communication to you.
I believe there are two men besides
the present candidate for the office of
student body president that student opin
ion would like to see enter the race for
that position. These are Wkyne Akers
and Xorton Winnard. Both of these men
were junior members of the Student
Council this year, and, along with Mr.
Iceland, have a reputation for doing big
jobs well. All three men have the abso
lute confidence of the student body, 1
believe, as being honest, fair, and con
scientious in everything they do.
I believe that there is a demand, as
there always has been at Oregon, for
clean politics or else no politics at all.
There is no reason for division of the
student body on any issue for we are all
members of the University of Oregon
above all else. What we want is the
most competent men directing our stu
dent affairs and nothing else should in
fluence us. I believe that this repre
sents the majority opinion on the campus
this year more than any before.
My own opinion amounts to very lit
tle, but the Emerald has made a plea for
openness and publicity in the coming
campaign and I have spoken because 1
believe this represents something of the
opinion of many men and women in all
parts of the campus life.
—Roy Veateh, ’22.
WOMEN’S SIDE OF "HELLO"
QUESTION.
To J. D„ ’29: I have read with in
terest your two communications, "To the
Editor.” insisting that the “hello” sys
tem of the University of Oregon was, to
put it in the vernacular, the bunk.
However, have you ever given those
few faithful damsels credit for their at
tempts at friendliness, to say nothing of
the snubs they receive? .T. D. ’29, I
wonder if you ever walk across this be
loved campus of ours with eyes set on
spme object far ahead?
The other morning I started to speak
as usual to a young hopeful, but observ
ing his eyes set in dreaming, I decided
not to disturb his reverie, so I changed
ray cheerful morning greeting to a cough.
Also:
Really, it is quite discomforting to
speak to a man and have him jump, grab
his hat (if he docs), and look at you as
a sort of novelty. And if you look back
at him you probably meet his glaring,
critical eyes, not to mention the cynical
smile of scorn.
You speak of the “fake attempts” of
geniality of the ladies toward the “weaker
mere-iuau sex.” Half—if not more—of
the men on this campus have not at
tempted to speak genially or otherwise.
They merely walk as fust as possible, in
order to keep from wasting breath or
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'energy in speaking or raising their
“lids.”
Did you ever hear your brothers com
plain that they were sick of raising
their hats?
You say the ladies are greasing the
skids toward the abolishment of Oregon’s
grandest tradition. The dear men of this
campus have actually started it on the
downward slide. Some mighty big bump
is needed to stop it.
Whether this would be sufficient or
not, I don’t know, but at least it would
be surprising:
Try speaking when an attempt is made
to speak to you, and at least looking in
terested, if you don’t care to speak first.
"You will give the ladies two weeks?”
By Junior Week-end, I hope every man
is awake and ready to say “Hello.” Or
perhaps some of them can’t wake up.
In that case, and that case only, will my
sev understand and forget their offense!
—M. L. ’30.
DE BUSK BACK FROM PORTLAND.
Professor B. IV. DeBusk, of the school
of education, has just returned from Port
land, where he addressed the Irvington
club at their community house last Mon
day night on the subject of the bright
child who is not making good in his
school work.
Found.—Plain gold ring. Apply to W.
K. Newell at business office.
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