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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1925)
©tegon ©ailg ifmetalfr Member of Pacific Intercollegiate Press Association Official publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, issued | daily except Sunday and Month.y, during the college year. | DONALD L. WOODWARD ...-.-. EDITOR EDITORIAL BOARD Associate Editor ... Margaret Skavlan I Managing Editor .„..-. Harold A. Kirk i Associate Managing Editor ....••.v. Anna Jerzyk Sports Editor .... George H. Godfrey Daily News Editor Mary Clerin Emily Houston James Case Jalmar Johnson Gertrude Houk Lillian Baker Night Editors Pete La uni Ray N*ash Webster Jones Claude Reavis Tom Graham Walter A. Cushman Lylah McMurphy . Society Editor Sports Staff Wilbur Wester .... Assistant Sports Editor Richard Syring, Richard Godfrey . ] .Sports Writers Upper News Staff Edward Robbins Mildred Carr Elizabeth Cady Geneva Foss Sol Abramson Eugenia Strickland Mary West Josephine Ulrich -- Exchange Editor News Staff: Helen Reynolds, Margaret Vincent, Esther Davis, Jack Hempstead, Georgia Stone, Gien Burch, Lawrence Armand, Ruth De Lap, Dorothy Blyberg, Clayton Meredith, Margaret Kressman, Philippa Sherman, Ruth Gregg, Mary Baker, Alice Kraeft, Geneva Drum, Helen Schuppel, Ruby Lister, Barbara Blythe, Mary Conn, Ronald Bellers, Paul Krausse, Bill Klien. BUSINESS STAFF JAMES W. LEAKE .-. MANAGER Associate Manager . Frank Loggan Advertising Managers . Si Slocum, Wayne Lelhnd, Wm. Jones Advertising Assistants . Milton George, Bill Prudhomme, Bert Randall Circulation Manager ... James Manning Foreign Advertising Manager . Claude Reavis Assistants . Walt O’Brien, Hilton Rose, Neil Chinnock Specialty Advertising. Mildred Dunlap, Geneva Foss Adminstration . Margaret Hyatt, Marion Phy, Fred Wilcox, Bonner Whitson, Bob Warner. 1 Bay Editor This l8sue Web Jones Assistant .Dorothy Bleyberg Night Editor This Issue Ray Nash Assistant .Ronald Sellers Entered as second class matter at the post office at Eugene, Oregon, under act of Congreea of March 3, 1879. “A Dose of Medicine” “JT WAS like giving me a close of poison when Virgil Earl handed me that slip with the three ineligible men on it yesterday evening,” said Bill Hayward, veteran Oregon track coach, and he sighed realizing that his best chances for the Frosh-Rook relay carnival, scheduled for today, had faded into thin air. It is interesting to see just how such upsets can come about. In the first place, of course, there are the rules of eligibility subscribed to by the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate conference, of which Oregon is a member. These rules are in a booklet, and anyone may read and know them. The reason Bill did not know he was going to lose Prendergast, Howe and Leatch was that, the official information comes from the registrar’s office, and it generally takes considerable time to compile individual student averages and determine which athletes have fallen under the scythe. However, it seems plausible to suggest that each athlete could read the booklet and ascertain for himself whether or not he has become ineligible as soon as he knows J his grades. Could he not then report to the coach, so there would be no surprise element contained in the official notifi cation given out one month later? Such a course would eliminate any chance for the coach to be taken unawares, but would not cure what seems to be a fundamental wrong in the whole question of eligibility as ap plied to the University of Oregon. This centers about the rule called the ”5-1” rule, which is, briefly that a student cannot compete who has total failures on his previous record exceeding one-fifth of his total hours passed. At the University of Oregon both failures and hours passed are recorded. At Whitman College, on the basis of 60 to 100 for passing, a student may get a grade between 50 and 60. and receive a condition, lie has not passed, but neither has he failed. He may take the course over again, and if he attains better than (it) lie has passed, and no failure is ever recorded against him. In tlm I diversity of Oregon it a man falls below passing grade lie fails, and repeating the course will not remove the black mark against his record. There are various other regis trar methods in use which minimize the possibility for declara tons of ineligibility and cannot work with the same degree of mortality as occurs here. Each institution assuredly should have the privilege of fix- i ing its own standards, and the one in use here is not faulty. The \ fault lies in having any such ruling as the ”5-1” in the Con ference rules, when it does not enforce identical scholarship requirements on every member of the conference. Why was the rule originally proposed and ratified? Ob-! viouslv for the laudable purpose of maintaining a certain degree of scholarship among the athletes. What silliness! Since each i institution has the vested right of fixing its own standards, will not those standards encourage scholarship without the aid of a conference rule which in practice works with favor and par tianty! In the I niversify \vc have a rule which places a man on probation when ho tails to attain a certain specified standard of scholarship. A student on probation cannot engage in any activities, athletic or otherwise. If that rule is thought by the faculty sufficient to maintain the acknowledged high standard of the University of Oregon for the ordinary student, as the debater, the journalist, the dramatic student, the glee club and orchestra member, it is perfectly logical to assert that it is suf ficient to protect the athlete from falling into poor scholarship habits. The 5-1 rule is ineffectual in attaining its purpose; it is par tial, it should be stricken out. Our athletes will still have to maintain the approved standard of the University to compete in contests, and Bill won't have to take so many “doses of poison.” Today is Saturday. The faculty will vote on the question of Saturday classes next Wednesday. If the change desired is due to a scarcity ot classrooms why are the afternoon hours not filled? Campus Bulletin Notices will be printed in this column for two issues only. Copy must be in this office by 6:30 on the day before it is to be published, er ’ must be limited to 20 words. ilazama Local Walks—Leave Ad ministration building ' Saturday afternoon at 5 o’clock. Campfire and lurfch on top of Skinner’s Butte. Bring lunch and dime for coffee. Return by moonlight. Hen’s Oregon Club baseball team be on field at 1:00 today. Irchestra—Meet 3:30 Sunday af ternoon. "coming events" o-— Saturday, May 2 9:00-11:30 a. m.—Discussion, Bungalow. 10:30 a. m.—Frosh-Rook Re lay, Hayward field. 2:30 p. m.—Baseball, Fresh men-Oregon, baseball diamond. 3:00-5:00 p. m. — Lecture, Bungalow. 6:00 p. m.—Seabeek picnic at Coburg bridge. Sunday, May 3 9:30-10:15 a. m. — Discussion, Bungalow. 3:00-4:00 p. m.—Commitment service, Bungalow. ■> 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 com munications. EDUCATIONAL DANCING Undoubtedly Dean Landsbury’s cook was more successful. She could make strawberry shortcake taste like beans. Whilst Dean Al den did not succeed in making be lieve that the overflowing joy of Miss Stupp’s dancing class was the dry product of academically de cent “laboratory methods;” “first ly, secondly, thirdly.” Dean Alden exerted herself in a gallantly sci- | entific apology speaking on behalf: of the school of education which had invited the faculty to a demon stration in the dancing room of the gymnasium, Wednesday evening. The faculty should believe that educational dancing is “scientif ic.” Why should it? Why is the school of physical education so bashful? Does it not suffice that dancing i3 educational? Must it needs be “scientific,” besides? The educational value of dancing is obvious; it promotes honesty of expression; and it might help stu dents in reconquering this honesty which, unfortunately, some have been trained to abandon for the j sake of so-called good records. Hon esty of expression is the very basis of education. How can an instruc tor assist a student in really learn ing something if the student’s re cital is merely a parrot’s babbling, a masquerade in somebody else’s expressions? And a student cannot even learn by himself as long as he holds that the subject of his learn ing is not revealed but concealed At the Theatres o---S> THE REX — Saturday: Hand some Richard Dix in “Too Many Kisses,” a rollicking tale of, a carefree young Amer ican who couldn’t make his lips behave, ’til exiled to sunny Spain. He led a trail of romance and adventure that brought him to the feet of the “only girl” and a climax that wasn’t written in the plot; Felix cartoon comedy; Ore gon’s own Webfoot Weekly new events; LeRoy PeVaney in atmospheric accompani ment to the picture on the or gan. Coming: “Inez From Hol lywood,” with Anna Q. Nils son, Lewis Stone and Mary Astor; Zane Grey’s “The Border Legion,” with Anton io Moreno and Helen Chad wick; Jackie Coogan in “Lit tle Robinson Crusoe.” o-o Men WATCH FOR OUR OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT NEXT WEEK We Will Feature Styleplus—$25-$30-$35—Clothes FAMOUS FOR BIG VALUE All other trimmings for dress wear—shoes too DeNeffs Complete Men’s Wear □ C MO I C E Better Meats I For the better cuts of delirious meats you can I always get tin* best here. We make a specialty of quality cuts at prices that mean wholesale savings to you. Shop Here and Save EUGENE PACKING COMPANY 675 Willamette Phone 3« or 39 TUESDAY MAY 5th SEAT SALE TODAY Prices—Lower floor $3.50; balcony, first 3 rows $3.00. next 3 $2.50, next 3 $2.00, last 4 $1.50—plus 10 per cent tax. in the expression. The student ac-1 tually learns only when he comes to | the point where Ihe cannot help confessing to himself that the sub ject is really expressed in the sen- ' tence of the book, or in the sen tence with which the student cor rects the saying of the book. The j student, realizing as his own ex pression of the subject, knows the (Continued on page three) Men’s Meeting at Unitarian | Church Next Sunday Evening Is Announced DR. ERNST ALSO TO TALK Theme: “What If Any, is the Working Philosophy of Western Civilization?” i, The Unitarian Laymen’s League has conducted a series of interesting open discussions this year ' called “Fireside Talks,” which have been all related to the general theme of western civilization, its spirit and its meaning. Next Sunday evening the subject will be “What, If Any Is the Working Philosophy of West ern Civilization?” This discussion will be opened in an informal ad dress by Dr. George Rebec who will be followed by Dr. Rudolf Ernst who will take as an allied topic: “Some Straws Which Show the Drift of World Opinion.” The previous meetings have been very interesting and have been at tended by quite a group of faculty members as well as students. West ! ern Civilization has been studied jfrom almost every angle and in the i discussions some very brilliant con i versation has been aroused. Previ | ous meetings have been lead by Dr. ! H. D. Sheldon. Dr. E. L. Packard, I Dr. E. T. Hodge, Dr. Warren D. ! Smith, Professor H. C. Howe and | Dean Eric Allen. j These are exclusively men’s meet | ings. A light supper is served at i 6:15 in the assembly room of the j church. Tile talk is opened by the j leader at 7:15. All men interested ‘are invited.—Paid Advertisement. 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