(Steegnn Bailg Emetalb University of Oregon, Eugene RAY NASH, Editor MILTON GEORGE, Manager EDITORIAL BOARD Robert Galloway . Managing Editor Claudia Fletcher .. Asa’t. Managing Editor Arthur Schoeni . Telegraph Editor Carl Gregory .v. P. I. P. Editor Arden X. Pangborn . Literary Editor Walter Coover ... Associate Editor Richard H. Syring .. Sports Editor Donald Johnston . Feature Editor Margaret Long . Society Editor News and Editor Phones, 656 , DAY EDITORS: William Schulze, Mary McLean, Frances Cherry, Marian Sten. NIGHT EDITORS: J. Lynn Wykoff, chief; Lawrence Mltchelmore, Myron Griffin, Rex Tussing, Ralph David. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Joe Rice, Mil Prudhomme, Warren Tinker, Clarence Barton, Joe Freck, Gordon Baldwin, Glen Gall, A. F. Murray, Harry Tonkon, Hurold Bailey. SPORTS STAFF: Joe Pigney. Harry Dutton, Chalmers Nooe, Joe Rice, Chandler Brown. FEATURE STAFF: Florence Hurley, John Butler, Clarence Craw, Charlotte Kiefer, Don Campbell. 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Mitchelmore Assistant Night Editors—Joe Rice TUESDAY?FEBRUARY 7, 1928^ When College Birds Will Flock Together ARI) on the heels of Pro Bonn '*■ Scho’la, who Inst week summar ily impeached the graduate assistant and his ilk for gross incompetence, comes word from the graduate school that Oregon will need about (id as sistants and teaching fellows for next year. Stampeding students to universi ties and colleges have aroused an uneasiness symptomie of hysteria within the higher educational cen ters themselves. The continuous strain by a mob on the facilities in- j tended for only a few taxes the in-j stitution to its utmost. The vigorous j tug-o’-war between schools and do-j partmerits over the tag ends of a ; flail budget is demoralizing and dis couraging. The whole show bears unmistak 1 able evidences of exigency. Tire multitude has gathered, it is hun- ] gry; the obligation of the university to the state is to feed it. It doesn’t matter so much who tosses the particles of the miracul ously unfailing supply of education loaves and fishes, just so they are teased. Unprepared graduates do it handsomely—or they release more highly paid instructors from the in terminable round of grading and quizzing for class oratory. Nor does it seem to count whether the bits so dispensed are assimilated. That, is the responsibility of the student. He, however, objects that his treatment is shabby in compari son with his fellow who has regis tered more discreetly. Segregation is the only solution. If students must be herded—-and it’s patent that they must under such circumstances, let the sheep be pre ferred before the goats in the choice of their range. The University committee on un dergraduate curricular reforms, here confronts the enigma: which is the potential sheep and which the goat? The members of the committee are planning a group of correlated fioshmen courses. When the new student, enters Oregon he will regis ter in a curriculum which is intend ed to reveal his capacities, lie will not only find himself but will be found out early, the committeemen J ope. Incapable students will lie, before long—if the project matures under the tutelage of the more' incompetent teachers. The turmoil will be quiet ed when both students and instruc tors find their own levels. A Type of Cynicism Which Is Healthful ON 10 K<1 will'd A. Collier busies himselt’ with conducting a column called “The Collegiate Mer cury,” for the University of Den Commun ications _ Wire Suspension Rouses Ire To the Editor; I stand aghast as i look upon Wednesday \s Emerald and discover that there is a move on foot to abolish the United Press pony news service. It appears to me that the same element that tried so hard to put the Emerald under the censor ship of the student council last “year, but happily failed, is again trying to express itself. in my opinion the Emerald this year has shown no little improve ment. With the addition of tho world news if becomes more like a newspaper than a campus bulletin. The telegraph reports, though mea ger, tend to lift the Emerald out of the mass of college papers that are ver Clarion. Tho critical observa tions of Mr. Collier arc by no means as vitriolic as are those of Henry L. Mencken, of the American Mer cury, hut neither are they lacking in interest. In a recent issue of the Clarion, Mr. Collier gave utterance to the statement that “Cynicism has be come the religion of the modern co-1 legian. After a few years of higher education he begins to inquire what college is for—whether or not it is really accomplishing its purpose.” There is a question as to just what Mr. Collier was driving at when he made the statement. Possibly he meant that the modern collegian was developing a viewpoint on life so that he could see the existing order of things only in 4 contemp tuous light. And then he may have merely meant to state that the pres ent college generation is learning to question the- worth of things hitherto taken for granted. In either case, he does not Seem satisfied with the condition as it exists. The cynic is generally thought of as a person who is ever ready to question values and find fault with whatever arrests his attention yet does not concern himself with any endeavor to bring about an improved state of affairs. He is the seeker for truth in the abstract; and not truth us a tangible item of every day life. We do not believe the modern col legian to be a cynic of this popular stripe. While a revival of serious thinking on the part of college stu dents lias been widely heralded, the increase in intellectual activity lias not been unanimous, for but a min ority of the students are actually doing any really serious thinking on the subject of what college is for. The degree of effectiveness attained by this minority is varied. Merely to question the worth of an education as offered by the gen eral run of our institutions of higher learning is futile, of course. Stu dents at Oregon, in company with students at 11 number of other uni versities and colleges throughout the United States, tune not been content with simply giving vent to criticisms hut have earnestly sought to discover means bv which condi tions might lie bettered. The ultimate values of their rec ommendations, joined with those of the administrative forces, can be determined only after thorough trial. That the plans may not prove suc cessful in curing tlie itls-of higher education is not a condemnation of all student thinking on the subject. Most improvements are arrived at by use of the trial and error method. The presence in our universities of students "cynics" who are striving to accomplish something definite is in itself a healthful sign of a con dition which deserves even more en couragement than it is receiving. —'W. 0. nothin)' more than anuiouneement organs, ami plane it among the daily MOWS papers of the state. l’erhnps if a few of those campus nitwits who spend all their time criticizing the Kmernhl, and their none) on the big igloo and similar educational enterprises, would get in touch with the world outside, they would realize that they were not the only flies in the soup and that a bond salesman and gas pump or are given a lower rating in the scale of world accomplishments than the hod carrier and the street elenner. Just for the fuu of it, why not ask those who object to the news service in the Kmcrald just how Hindi they retd the Kmcrald any way. Then ask them how much they read other papers. Might ask them, too, it they CAN read. 1 don’t mean to insinuate that this gang of party that would wreck the l'.mcrald and upset all principles of journalism might be a gang of morons. I merely mean that I don’t approve of them and as ant alum through the back door allow ; me to step in and advise them that ; they lack the proper spirit; that their ideas of how a paper should be run. are badly bent; that they are delving too much into other people’s business and that f hope they all have ingrown toena'ls LKIXAD YEXEIIC, Ex-’23. And Now Comes “Leap Week” To the Editor: Various colleges over the country have instituted some form of “leap” j celebration, day, week, or fortnight. [ believe such an event will be ! highly favored by the Oregon earn- | pus. If a week can be officially sot j aside for such an observance, I think that it will freshen up campus social affairs considerably. The plan is, that for seven days the wo men shall arrange and conduct all dating with the exception of fra ternity and sorority functions. In this way women will be initiated into the painful experiences of call ing taxis and buying incidental din ners, which, T venture to say, will make them a more sympathetic sex. This will be a novelty hitherto relegated to the senior class, which every spring celebrates a “lea^r week,” generally not so successful because of the limited number of participants and the fact that they lack practice. In such a leap week the whole school will have part and I predict a most successful “leap week” in the history of senior i classes. it would serve ns an escape iur that, (psychological repression, jtlie “secret sorrow” which exists in the minds of many. co-eds. This might explode a number of illusions as to “ideals” of men .and thereby rid sundry plugging male rushers of a myth with which they have been competing. And of course it might have the opposite effect. For the man it, would take from his mind a load, pheasant I’ll admit, and one which he could not get along without. This load consists of the mental anguish attendant upon hunting for things to do, places to go; who, when and where, to be short. It would serve to show the man his popularity, and in some cases r think, it, might let the, gas out of some egotistical balloons, Lastly, the week would come in the middle of a period of financial depression and would help tide the man over it. The length of the period? Approximately from Sep tember 22 to June 14. By discreet inquiries 1 find that the men about the campus are hcart i 1 v in favor of such a perverted festival. And I believe that all [the campus will faithfully support and abide by all the rules of a campus “leap week.” J. N. By RALPH !>. CASEY UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, Madison, Feb. 6.—(Special to the Emerald)—Since 180K the Haresfoot Club, men’s dramatic club at the University of Winconsin, has been producing musical comedies and ex travaganzas until now the Haresfoot shows would do credit to professional companies. As men impersonate girls in some of the leading roles and also as members of the chorus, the director selects his cast with great care. Hoys with big feet and hands, awk ward and ungainly boys, young men with rugged features—they haven’t j a chance. You have to be able to I wear feminine garb with some sem blance of grace before you can be admitted. At the try-outs the di rector requires the candidates to : dance a few steps to give proof that | everyone who is chosen will learn i the dance numbers readily. “Feature That,” this year’s show, was a lavish thing, beautifully cos tumed and excellently produced. Book, lyrics, and music were written 1.v students, but professional masters aided in training'the cast in dancing numbers. The Haresfoot company went on the road during the holidays, playing in Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana cities. The comedy always lias a night or two in Chicago and has played in Indianapolis and once in iSt. Louis. William Ruhr, ,lr„ n junior from Manitowoc, Wis., who wroto this year's “book," satirized the Holly wood motion picture industry, creat ing two quite humorous elmraetors, Eleanor lllynn, seeimrio writer, ami h'rie Von Strubeiu, a director. Ruhr 1 had a lot of fun at the expense of Elinor Glynn I mean Eleanor Glynn. The Hollywood setting gave the club a great chance to doll up ;,i. G., says the reason Paul Revere didn’t stop to talk to any women on his famous