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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1925)
©tegott Bailg iEtnetalii Member of Pacific Intercollegiate Press Association Official publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, issued daily except Sunday and Monday, during the college year. DONALD L. WOODWARD .-... EDITOR EDITORIAL BOARD Associate Editor . Margaret Skavlan Managing Editor .—_-.. Harold A. Kirk Associate Managing Editor .-. Anna Jerzyk Sports Editor George H. Godfrey Daily News Editor Mary Cleric Emily Houston lame* Case Jalmar Johnson Gertrude Horuk Lillian Baker Night Editors Pete Laura Ray N'aeh Webster Jones Claude Rearis Tom Graham Walter A. Cushman Lylah McMurphy __ Society Editor Sports Staff Wilbur Wester _ Assistant SporU Editor Richard Syring, Richard Godfrey .— .....Sports Writers Upper News Staff Edward Robbins Mildred Garr Elizabeth Cady Geneva Foss Sol Abnuason Eugenia Strickland Mary West Josephine Ulrich ..Exchange Editor News Staff: Helen Reynolds, Margaret Vincent, Esther Davis, Jack Hempstead. Georgia Stone, Glen TJurch, 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 Sellers, Paul Krausae, Bill Klien. BUSINESS STAFF JAMES w. T/EAKE ..... MANAGER Associate Manager . Frank Loggan Advertising Managers . Si Slocum, Wayne Leland, Wm. Jones Assistants.Milton George, Bill Prudhomme, Bert Randall, Calvin Horn Circulation Manager ... James Manning Assistant Circulation Manager.Burton Nelson 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. Day Editor This Issue Dorothy Biyberg Night Editor This Issue Web Jones Assistant .Clate Meredith Entered as second class matter at the post office at Eugene, Oregon, under act •f CongrsM of March 3, 1879. A Fair Request ^JITY authorities have requested that the students hereafter make some attempt to leave the street of 13 Avenue clear for the free flow of traffic. Between classes the north half of the street from Kincaid to the Library has generally been so jammed with students standing in groups or walking three and four abreast that automobiles have often been compelled to stop and wait for clearance way. The request is a fair one, and really has been prompted by a desire on the part of city officials to avoid a condition which has been a constant source of danger to the students. That no one has been struck and killed, or seriously injured, is a marvel under the circumstances. Thirteenth is a part of the highway system and much through traffic from the north and the south passes through the University campus while traversing the Pacific Highway. To the uninitiated, unacquainted with the habits of student street frequenters, the fact|that no amount of warning or signals will disperse the group and obtain a right-of-way is startling and unexpected. The result is a surprised feeling, a quick jam ming of the brakes, and a narrow escape for one to several im perturable students. Luck, careful driving, and four-wheel brakes have been generous and a regrettable, seemingly inevit able, accident has so far been avoided. The men originally took to the pavement in order to smoke, as the practice was against tradition on the side-walk. In the recent report of the Tradition Committee, accepted by the student council at its last regular meeting, the ban against smoking was lifted from the two sidewalks paralleling 13 Ave nue. There is, therefore, no reason remaining which forces the students off the curb into the street. Since the request is made for the benefit of the students themselves and for protecting innocent drivers from the worry of unavoidably injuring the students, cooperation on the part of those following the practice of standing in the street is only fair and reasonable. Elections are today. Students do not need to be told the duties of a member of a self-governing body. There are some important measures coming up for their consideration which will affect them vitally next year. These measures should be thoroughly understood and an expression of opinion made at the polls today. Only through a representative vote being cast can the will of the student body be determined. It is your right, your duty. Use it. Warning has conic regarding the danger of canoeing the rough water of the rapids near the entrance to the mill-race. The Willamette has taken a toll about once in every four years there, and though there is much question of whether or not “history repeats itself,“ caution and sane conduct will do much to disprove the theory in this case. Aside from the ruling pro viding a heavy penalty for attempting to “shoot the rapids.” common sense should be sufficient to warn the average student that such ,a risk is not “smart,” but is foolhardy. The police department ordered all wood-piles removed from curbs where they obstructed the view to autoists approaching cross-streets. The result of such obstruction to clear vision would have been apparent to anyone who could have stood at the corner of Id and Alder streets just a little before noon, today. He would have seen a Dodge coupe and two Ford coupes arguing with one another for the right of way. The dispute ended with no one the winner, and the three cars show ing sad signs of conflict, as they stood tilted up on the curb, with crushed fenders, broken lights, and irate owners.—The wood-pile stood woodenly silent, though the close observer might have im^ined it wore a mischievous smile as it sur veyed the arguing drivers atfempting to lay the blame each on the other. * * Campus Bulletin Notices will be printed in this column for two issues only. Copy most be in this office by 6:30 on the day before it is to be published, err' must be limited to 20 words. Mathematics Club—Picnic to be held Thursday evening. Meet at Springfield car line, in front of Villard hall at 4:30 sharp. Bring car fare, cup and spoon. Technical Club will meet tonight at 7, 105 Deady. Franklin Man ning will speak on the electron. California Club—There will be a meeting at the College Side Inn at 7:30 tonight. Eutaxions will meet at the Anchor age at 5:00 today, unless it rains. Alpha Kappa Psi—Dinner at Col lege Side Inn at 6 p. m. today. Life Saving Corps—Meets at 8:00 in Woman’s building, tonight. El Circulo Castellano—Meeting to night, 7:15 p. m., Bungalow. Sigma Delta Pi—Meeting today, 5:00 p. m., Oregon building. Zeta Kappa Psi—Luncheon, Wed nesday noon at Anchorage. Ye Tabard Inn—Will meet tonight at Shumaker’s cabin. Temenid—Meeting, Anchorage, at noon today. Q.---—....O Communications Letters te 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. (Editor’s note:—It was the orig inal intention to run no communi cations on election day regarding the amendments proposed for stu dent body action, nor any item of a political nature other than the ordinary election notice story with the list of candidates and hours that the polls are open, etc. How ever, several letters were acciden tally left out of the Emerald yes terday, both pro and con, regarding the $5 fee plan, and they are there fore being run today at the request of the writers. It seems this is only fair and reasonable since they had been promised publication the day before.) VICE PRESIDENT OF A. S. U. O. EXPLAINS $5 FEE ISSUE To the editor: There seems to be some misun derstanding concerning a few of the facts about the proposed amend ment to increase the student body fees. The amendment is so framed that the immediate necessities will be taken care of first, and in the fol lowing order: the grandstand this summer, the pavilion next year, and the student union within three years. After three years this money may go to a library or class rooms —the only instruction being that the money be used for building purposes. It is the student council’s desire that this amendment be thoroughly understood. Therefore permit me to draw your attention to the fact that not only will the buildings be constructed in the above order, but the amendment would unify opr building plans. It is a consolida tion of oitr interests in one busi ness like measure. VIC R ISLET. REFUTATION OFFERED FOR FEE INCREASE PROPOSAL To the Editor: After much consideration pro and con on the proposed $15 a year in crease in fees, I wish to express definite opposition to the measure, offering the following answers to the arguments used to support the increase: 1. and 2. It is argued that if the measure is passed, the bleachers will be built this summer, and the basketball pavillion next year. 3. That the Student Union, instead of at some distant time will be built within three years. Here we see a plain case of a rider on the student union bill, a means of obtaining money for athletics hanging on the coat-tails of an idea which has al-1 ready gained support from the stu dent body. The plain fact is that i the athletic fund has an $18,000 de ticit. V hy, then, should the hard ship of a heavy tax—a 35 per cent increase in registration fees—-be! put on the individual student for j structures which are solely for the purpose of enriching the old fund? A 35 per cent increase, especially for a cause which is not an abso lute necessity, sets a dangerous I COMING EVENTS^ <>-O Wednesday, May 13 9:00 a. m.-3:00 p. m.—Student body elections, Villard hall. 8:30 p. m.—Student Recital, Music auditorium. 8:30 p. m.—“Hassan,” Guild hall. Thursday, May 14 11:00 a. m.—Assembly, Dr. Thomas E. Green, Woman's building. 8:30 p. m.—“Hassan,” Guild hall. ' Friday, May 15 8:30 p. m.—“Hassan,” Guild hall. Saturday, May 16 8:30 p. m.—“Hassan,” Guild hall. precedent. (This percentage is fig ured on the basis of the $14 fee per term which will be the stipulated amount since the fifty cent in crease authorized by the board of regents.) Fees are already growing prohibitive, since added to regis tration fees are the countless lab fees and special taxes. And the tendency is always up and never down. For the self-supporting student it will mean in many cases the difference between coming or not coming to the University. And the principle of democracy in edu cation is supposed to be the basis of the establishment of state uni versities! Why put elimination of students on a money basis? It is argued in point 4 that the $00 paid during the student’s four years on the campus will benefit the building fund more than a pledge of $100 payable 10 years af ter matriculation. Here “building O—--—-O fund” neatly blankets the fact that the first money will be diverted from the student union fund to the bleachers and pavilion! “5. At the present enrollment $45,000 will be available each year for building purposes.” Marvelous to behold!, No time limit is speci fied. The ihcrease will be per petual, unless, indeed, a two thifds tnajority'repeals the program, which is not intended. (11) Thus as the student body increases and the sums from fees increase proportion ally, there will be more money to spend while the building program is completed and decreases by the inverse ratio! Further, (6.) the spending is in the hands of the executive council and the board of regents. It is 'obvious fthat the executive council, dominated as it is by the athletic personel, will in terpret “buildings which are now’ necessary or shall become neces sary” to fit in with biased inter ests. Further, the surplus . grad ually piling up will encourage ex travagance. It is also a fact that only half of the 14 members on the council are students, hence the much vaunted check on funds by stu dents (8.) is entirely over-estim ated. The plea for making giving compulsory to do away with “drives” is fallacious. Why should the penalty of a mismanaged drive fall in the form of a virtual $15 poll tax which, though “proportion al to the time he spends in col lege” (13) is in no way propor tional to the student’s ability to pay? As for our fees being lower than in our sister universities, I hope it is true, and the student body will do well to keep them there. For though we are assured that (14) “Drives will be done away with,” there are always other causes and other needs! M. S. WINIFRED GRAHAM APPEARS IN PRINT To the Editor: By way of an excuse for this ap pearance in print, will you bear with me on the ground that this is positively my first and last in four years time. I am heartily in favor of the $5.00 amendment tax \Ihe largest selling quality pencil 'in the world Buy a dozen Superlative in quality, the world-famous vs ENUS PENCILS give best service and longest wear. 9 Plain ends, per doz. $1.00 Rubber ends, per doz. 1.20 c4t all dealers American Lead Pencil Co. 220 Fifth Ave., N.Y. and I speak from the angle of the! student ivho has been 90 per cent self-supporting. Our school now faces a crisis. It is a fact that we must have a build ing program if we are to continue on an equal basis with other out standing universities. A large amount of the income of the stu dent body depends upon revenue from athletic games. Our rating as students and scholars grows out of crowded library conditions. If we are to continue to compete with first-rate universities in athletics and scholarship, we must have first-rate facilities and the proper atmosphere in which to study. It is well to say that this is the state’s problem, but since the state does not furnish us with sufficient appropriations, is that a reason why the students themselves should lie down on the job and allow them selves to be placed on a compete tive basis with second rate schools. Other schools have student build ing programs. This plan originated among stu dents who realize the crisis in the Oregon student body. Business can not be conducted on hot air, nor can a game be won entirely by “spirit.” When football and basketball teams fight at great odds; when such men as Kenneth Stephenson, Bob Mautz, and Randall Jones use good hours of their time to make Oregon a school of first rank on a small sum of money, isn’t it time (Continued on page three) SUMMER POSITIONS Students desiring summer work see Mrs. Donnelly at Y. 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