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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 30, 1924)
OREGON DAILY EMERALD Member of Pacific. Intercollegiate Press Association Official publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, issued tally except Monday, during the college year. A*THUS a RUDD ....... EDITOR Editorial Board Managing Editor . Don Woodward Aaioeiate Editor . John W. Piper Aaioeiate Managing Editor ....Taylor Huston Daily News Editors Margaret Morrison Rosalia Keber Junior Seton Velma Farnham Leon Byrne Norma Wilson Night Editors Rupert Bullivant * Walter Coover Douglas Wilson Jack Burleson George Belknap JP. I. N. S. Editor _ Pauline Bondurant assistant . Louis JDamrnasch Sports Staff Sports Editor_—_ Kenneth Cooper Sports Writers: Monte Byers, Bill Akers, Ward Cook. Upper News Staff Catherine Spall Georgians Gerlinger •’ranees Simpson Mary Clerin Marian Lowry Kathrine Kressmann Leonard Lerwill Margaret Skavlan Exchange Editor . 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Advertising rates upon application. Subscription Phones Editor — bob Manager yoi Daily News Editor This Issue Rosalia Keber Night Editor This Issue Doug Wilson Junior Week-End, But No Guests Til is is an important day in tlie iiistory of the student life on the Oregon campus. The fate of Junior Week-end is to be decided. Not only will this Junior Week-end be affected, but the voice of the student body today will certainly influence future events of a similar nature. With the growth of the University to its present size Junior Week-end has become overgrown. The “professional week ender,” the hanger-on of the University campus has come each year to plague and vex us. He has been so numerous that the original good which came to Oregon from having Junior Week end is almost entirely lost. For two or three days of eaeli spring term they come and play at the expense of students, who in many cases, are barely able to keep themselves in the University. Junior Week-end in recent years has labeled Oregon as a center of fun and frivolity. High school principals all over the state regard it as a nuisance, and at a recent meeting in Port land, Oregon, educators hinted strongly that the state institu tions ought to do something to remedy the evil. • The incident of the high school boy who carried home the report of his “great time,” thereby deciding his parents that the University was too frivolous and that they would send their son East, is a good example of the kind of an advertisement Junior Week-end is. 'Three plans are up for consideration today. The first pro poses to keep Junior Week-end in its presold form. Campus opinion is apparently so strong against tins that there is little need to discuss it further. The second suggests doing away entirely with the event. The value of keeping certain events of Junior week-end for the sake of stimulating Oregon spirit is evident, and it is thought probable that this plan will not meet with favor. The suggestion that is expected to carry is the one proposing that Junior Week-end be kept, minus the guests. This would probably mean that the canoe fete, the junior prom, and the junior vod-vil would be kept. These three events all have a definite place in University life. Up to this time the students have had little time to enjoy them due to the grind of taking care of the prepper hordes. An alumnus who was on the campus yesterday expressed great interest in the proposed change. “1 wonder why some one didn t thing ot ii before. ’ lie was a man who has been in touch with high school officials in various parts of the state, and lie says they are almost unanimous in condeming the an nual practice of drawing the students away from their work, lie held that the contusion caused in the high schools by Junior Week-end injured the reputation of the institution with a great many people of the state. Some guests have already been invited for this Junior Week-end. Most campus organizations have held off their in vitations until they could see what the opinion of the campus would be. It the ‘‘prepper-less” week-end measure passes, as is probably will do, these guests can be asked down at some other time. There need be no hard feelings on that score. An expression from the administration office of the Uni versity indicated that the feeling from that quarter generally favored a change. There was no inclination to interfere in any way with student action, however; but the statement was made that very little real value comes to the institution from the present form of Junior Week-end. The referendum on this important question will be held between nine arid four today. Every registered student is en 1 titled to a vote. The opinion rendered will govern the final ac tion of the student council tonight. To leave Junior Week-end in its present form is out of the question. To abolish it entirely, thereby eliminating desirable events, would be harmful. To approve the elimination of guests is the needed remedy. Vote today for the third plan. o-— Campus Bulletin I Notices will be printed in this column 1 for two issues only. Copy must be in this office by 5:30 on the day I before it is to be published, and must ! be limited to 20 words. •<§>— ----^ Oregon Knights—Meeting at 7:15 tonight. Women’s League Tea-—This after noon, 4 to. 6. O. N. S. Club—Meeting tonight in Viliard at 7:30. Phi Mu Alpha—Luncheon at the Anchorage, Thursday noon. To-Ko-Lo — Meeting at Campa Shoppe, 8:00. Committee reports. Cosmopolitan Club—Special meet ing Wednesday at 7:30 at Y hut. Women’s League — Executive council, no meeting Thursday even ing. Orchesus—Meeting Wednesday 8 p. m., dancing room, Women’s gym nasium. Temenids—Important meeting at Anchorage this noon. Bring money for dues. Cosmopolitan Club—Oregana pic ture to be taken at 10:50 Thursday on steps of Administration building. Communications Letters to the EMERALD from stu dents and faculty members are welcomed, but must be signed and worded concisely. If it is desired, the writer’s name will be kept out of print. It must be understood that the editor reserves the right to reject communications. ABOLISH BASEBALL? To the Editor— Should baseball be abolished at Oregon this spring season? This question has been recently sprung upon and around the campus, with some saying that it should be abolished on account of lack of sufficient interest in the diamond sport, coupled with unfavorable weather conditions in April and May, while others vehemently cry out in protest that the national game should be, and must be main tained as one of our major inter collegiate sports. Of course, it is a pure fallacy to say that baseball as a college sport is losing interest because it is a professional sport, and that specta tors do not get as much thrill in a game played by college amateurs. It is somewhat true that gate re ceipts from college bsaeball games are not sufficient to meet the cur rent expenses during the season, but if the majority of the students favor the plan of maintaining base ball at Oregon, this should not in terfere with Oregon’s participating in the race for baseball supremacy in the conference. It is entirely out of the question that the athletic council of the University should ever think of vot ing to abolish our great national game. On the other hand, it should give very possible encouragement to make baseball as popular as football. Oh, what a dull and quiet place the campus would be in the spring without the sound of famil iar base knocks, doubles, triples and Babe Ruth stuff! Would it not bo a subject of j ridicule, if not disgrace, to drop i America's premier sport at Oregon, while on the other side <jf the ocean the boys are religiously tak ing up this sport, and are threat ening to beat the Americans at their own jjnu'i Jack Benefiel, the graduate manager, reports that Oregon has received a challenge from Meiji university of Japan to a game of baseball. The boys of Meiji are champions in Japan, having defeat ed the strong Waseda university, which had made several trips to | the United States. It is most prob- j able that the Japanese college stars! will be our guests this spring. In 1 case we play the Japanese college champions this spring, Oregon will travel across the great pond and j pla\ them in 1925. Oregon must prepare herself for j the international battle. The Am , ! ericans are known world over for I their baseball ability, and if Ore ! gon cannot beat our Japanese neighbor, something is wrong. | It is not too early to start train ing for the battery men. O. A. C. i pitchers are going to start limber ] ing up this week. Whoever is go ing to coach baseball for the var sity nine, a call must be sent out soon for possible moundsmen and catchers. This is the only way to unearth twirling talents as well as j catching caliber. C. S. PIL. REPUBLICAN CLUB ATTACKED To the Editor: The Emerald, of late, announced the appearance of yet another campus organization; this time it is a Stu dent Republican club. The Oregon wearers of the senator ial toga and others of their ilk has tily despatched congratulations to the sponsors of this movement. Other parties as yet maintain discreet sil ence; but ere long we may expect a deluge of such groups as the Student Socialist Society, the Democratic Demagogues, the Campus Communist Clique, and myriads of others repre senting all brands of political faith. Tn view of the growing clouds of dissatisfaction on the political hori zon, such a club perhaps looms as an oasis in the desert to shrewd politi cal bosses -who find their popularity waning under the onslaught of Bok peace plans and the results of recent investigations into government leases. What possible excuse, from the standpoint of the student, exists for the addition of another group to a campus overly burdened with socie ties ranging from groups of students from some particular locality to ones comprised of those enrolled in the various language departments? While it is well that the followers of the Grand' Old Party commune to gether over the latest derelictions of the insurgents, why the necessity for a close-knit organization? Presuma bly we are here to secure an educa tion. Yet from the ever-increasing number of these time-absorbing so cieties, groupR, and clubs the con clusion might well be reached that we are here for the sole purpose of seeing how many such organizations we might attend and to how many we might contribute financially. Surely a little running away ■would facili tate a return to the all-essential busi ness of getting an education. Are party politics of such vast im port that we must needs forsake our studies to participate in the petty bickering of political henchmen? Is the campus so devoid of real issues that we must wander afield into the realm of political uncertainty and illu sion? GOYSERYATTYE. ANSWERING THE “COLONEL” To flip Editor At last Colonel Lender lias broken the silence. He has evaded to answer my accusations and in an attempt to be fanny he has convinced me more than ever of a Hindu phrase. “As a man approaches liis sixties he begins to loose his talents.” Part of the statements T had made were proved by me from quoting his own letter which showed that he was taking down notes about me. Tt is for the readers to decide as to who is the more proper inmate of the Salem in stitution he refers to in his commun ication. However, T have said enough and T am mighty sorry for having told some truth about a fig ure so popular ns he. My intention was to show that the British spying system is much more elaborate than that of the Germans about which we heard so much during the World war. By the way T may add here that all the British spies are not neces sarily paid. Some of them are al ready officers under different capa cities and so they do not receive any remuneration for their contribution to the “black list” book. Y. V. OAK. 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Margaret Scott, senior in the school of journalism, leaves today for Salem, where she has accepted a position on the staff of the Ore gon Voter, a publication covering the activities of the state legisla ture. Phi Delta Kappa, national hon orary educational fraternity, in itiated a class of seven neophytes last Saturday. “Outlines of the Philosophy of Religion” is a new course now' of fered students by Rev. W. H. L. Marshall. Dorris Sikes, former student in the school of journalism, was a wreek-end visitor on the campus. Last Friday evening the varsity frosh basketeers were defeated by Chemawa Indians by a 28 to 25 score. Emil Ohio, president of the Cosmopolitan club, left for San Diego Sunday night. CAMPUS COUPLE ANNOUNCE ENGAGEMENT AT FORMAL Tiie engagement of Elizabeth F. 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Continuous Performances Every Day m UNIVERSITY of OREGON PRESENTS A Swiss Folk-Opera By ANNE LANDSBURY BECK Orchestral Arrangements by CHARLES M. RUNYAN, Musical Director Alpine Maidens Gay Dances, Colorful Costumes, Delightful Comedy Heilig Theatre Thursday, January 31st S:30 P. M. Pi'ices $1.00, 75c and 50c Reserve seat sale now on at Heilig Box office