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“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
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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"
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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.
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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
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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.”
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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
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student, realizing as his own ex
pression of the subject, knows the
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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
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