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University of Oregon, Eugene
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The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Asso
ciated Students of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily
except Sunday and Monday, during tin* college year. Member of
the Pacific Intercollegiate Press. Entered in the pos toff ice at
Eugene, Oregon, as second class matter. Subscription rates,
$2.60 a year. Advertising rates jpon application. Phone, Man
ager: Office, 1806; residence, 127.
Day Editor .T. Neil Taylor
Night Editor.Beatrice Bennett
Assistant Night Editors
Helen Rankin, Helen Jones
Literati vs. Coaching
«npHE publishers would be happy to receive
A small cash amounts from those who particu
larly desire that an active and incisive minority
paper exist on this campus.”
With those words a new pseudo-critical-literary
pamphlet, dubbed “Socks from Socrates” was flung
upon the campus yesterday by unknown persons,
• paid for by money from unknown sources. The
contents were mostly literary contributions which
were rather good reading.
True to their threat of being “incisive,” which
means sarcastic or biting, the editorial column of
our self-termed "contemporary" launched into a
bitter attack on alleged wastage of student funds.
A few rounds of machine-gun fire were dedicated
to the Emerald.
The editorial read as follows:
No, we don’t know Dr. C. W. Spears, but we
do know:
That the maximum salary received by deans
of schools at the University of Oregon is $‘1,1300
per year;
That the maximum salary received by full
feathered professors at. the University of Ore
gon is $4,000 per year;
That notwithstanding, Dr. C. W. Spears will
receive $5,000 per year for his academic func
tions;
Moreover we know:
That the associated students are paying in
excess of $4,000 yearly interest on a debt of
$00,000;
That the executive council of the associated
students enunciated, Coolidge-like, a policy of
economy in October, 1929, on that basis aban
doning plans for a lecture series;
And that now the associated students non
chalantly agree to add $0,500 each year to Dr.
C. W. Spears’ 5,000 other dollars. Total $11,500.
The editors of the Oregon Emerald have an
nounced unanimous student approval. They
mistake. We could not endorse, this transac
tion even though the good Dr. Spears were
composite of ltockne, Jones, and Warner. To
pay the head coach of an academic institution
within $500 of the salary received by the presi
dent is too obviously a capitulation to the sweep
of modern, perhaps, but vitiating intoxication
of athletic school fervor.
* # *
We are tempted to shout ‘‘Eureka” and “A Bas"
in the same breath. For the past term the Em
erald has had an editorial policy which was em
phatically against the overemphasis of football in
the American university. The Emerald’s editorial
columns have not declared that Dr. Spears had
"unanimous student approval” as the literati-pen
man suggested. It tries to reflect the true state
of affairs in student life and in so doing declared
that he had “enthusiastic student backing.”
As to the financial side of the question (Ah.
this clash between theory and cold facts, between
theorists and realists), the $11,500 was a stiff price
to puy. Anything' good costs money. The Uni
versity would have a difficult time to find a man
versatile enough to act as a health service doctor
and serve as a professor of physical education for
less than the $5,000 they are paying Spears.
The A. S. U. O. paid McEwan $5,000 out of its
own pockets. It will pay Spears $6,500. Whether
he is worth more is a gamble, since results cannot
be foretold. The University was also forced to
raise the McEwan figure to $5,000 but figured they
were getting their money’s worth by gaining the
services ot a skilled surgeon who will work with
the health service.
* * *
But this is not a defense of high salaries for
coaches. It is merely an explanation. The sock
‘'Socks” takes at the student body and University
is justifiable but it does not represent the opinion
of the students as a whole. Most students were
little interested whether the coach cost $6,000 or
$12,000 so long as they got a good one.
At last word, the collection box for another
issue of "Socks” is still open.
"The boy or girl who conies to college and has
not the moral strength to stand up for the Ideals
he or she has been taught at home, but hauls down
his or her colors, does not deserve a place on a
college campus." President Alfred T. Hughes,
Hamline university.
An eastern college paper has barred cigarette
ads from its columns. And, we'll venture, 4,009
students quit smoking.
Students Want Grades
LESS than nix months after it had abolished its
grading system at the request of students,
Oberlin college has again established grading.
Though students were informed only whether
they were passing or failing, discontent grew stead
ily at the Ohio institution, for the faculty secretly
kept marks for their own use. The best way, stu
dents said, was to have no grades at all.
Oregon, too, has a large number of students
who would immediately, they themselves say, per
‘ form wonders scholastically if only they were not
graded. Grades are not their goal at all, but knowl
edge. “In Germany, now, but . . . ah!” Why, even
classes are wrong. Should a university be like a
penal institution?
Oberlin’s reversal might be, if those Oregon
idealists could see it so, a prophecy of such condi
tions on the campus. For if the faculty knew what
the students were doing, what would be the use of
it all? Let the world judge by its treatment of
the graduates. Surely that would be the best test
of worth.
But the fact remains that the world does not
hand a problem to a graduate and judge him upon
his answer. First it asks whether he can handle
hard problems at all.
Subconsciously then, these pass-or-fail apostles
seem to want to hide from that preliminary test.
“Choose us by our feet, for they have carried us
this far,” they paraphrase the old myth.
Niord, the tale tells us, chosen for his wondrous
feet, was the god of winds.
Literature on Downgrade?
<<r>UBLICATION of Varsity Weekly Suddenly
A stops.”
“Monthly Literary Magazine Suspends Publica
tion. Lack of Student Support Held Reason.”
Every week or so headlines like those appear
in the daily collegiate press. From Maine to the
Pacific college literary magazines are finding the
row too hard to hoe and are giving up the ghost.
Several times in the past Oregon has tried it.
Literary pamphlets and humorous periodicals have
been put out. But not for long. Lack of student
interest, difficulty in getting advertising, and a
paucity of subscriptions brought the cloud-flying
poets back to the earthly realization that money
makes the mare go.
Whether students are less literary-minded than
in previous days is not the main question. Rather,
it seems to revolve around the inability of college
writers and editors to give the student the same
amount and quality of enterLaining and thought
provoking literature that they can get by purchas
ing a nationally known and circulated magazine.
School spirit stops short of charity when it comes
to spending money.
It is nice for a college to have such an organ of
high-brow expression, but the students do not want
them. If they did, they'd buy them.
"Athletics breeding race of giantesses”—head
line. Does that mean we have to cut out dancing?
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Oreganized Dementia!
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T"VR. CONFUZUS’ cave-mate, a nameless old man
who has discovered a pre-historic library out
on the Amazon, has submitted a document from
which the OREGANIZED DEMENTIA staff has
translated tiie following three-part serial. The an
cient Eugene folk used to tell it to their children
more than a million years ago.
It was practically impossible to translate ver
batim.
OKOO PULLS FAUX PAS
Story Telling Of How a Young Lover Puts Skids
Under Villain.
(Tense Drama in Three Parts)
PART I
Okoo lived when people stone-axed beasts for
clothing, long before the world was any good.
He was a fine man, nearly perfect, in fact. But
Okoo
lie was insane, bugs, Idiotic over
one thing Toitus. That wasn't
: his pet pterodactyl, either. No.
lit was the girl he would marry
: if a last drop of blood stuck with
him. She was horrible to look at;
abut in those days man had no
|sense of beauty.
Commits Self
•‘Snore!” said Okoo in his best
Ipre-historlc French. “Love me, O
jmnid. My heart is thine. See.
1 wallow in thy footsteps."
"I’ll have none of you,” she
said coyly, “You ain’t fit."
"Toltus,” whinccd he, “I got good teeth. That’s
something.”
Toltus Critical
"But you are yellow,” said Toitus with her
cursed inhuman smirk, "you cur.”
’ Oh! Oh! Please don’t. I
Toltus
think I’m brave.”
‘ Kill Buvo then. He insulted
me once. He said I wasn't no
lady. With that I might like
you more.”
“Milady, it shall be.”
Stars Lost
As usual that noon, the sun
shine drowned out the star
light. Buvo was outside his
grass hut gorging himself upon
maggots. lie was very largo of frame, and when
he swelled his enormous ehest at the approach of
Okoo, the latter sweat.
liuvo Betrays Emotion
“What want you?" sourly demanded Buvo. his
emotions betrayed by the food oozing from his
clenched fist.
“ToUus," shivered Okoo in reply. “Toitus-. j
Toitus—— ."
“Otherwise. She ain't no more here than noth
ing,” said Buvo in his characteristically poor gram
mar. “I'll choke you if you don’t leave. Nay-.
Wait.”
tlsn’t this stupendous? Wait and see what hap
pens tomorrow.)
Where U. of O. Summer School Goes
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Both travel and study will be !
offered students by the Univer
sity of Oregon next summer, when <
the summer session ship will make
the trip to Hawaii and return,
with ample time there for both
work and play.
Classes will be held at the Uni- ~
versity of Hawiai and Punahou
campus. Ueft to right, above,
Hawaii hall, at the University of
Hawaii in Honolulu; and one of !|||§
the buildings of the historic Pun- ■
aliou campus, the oldest educa- ;/
tional institution west of the
Rocky mountains. Below, the lib
rary that summer session students
will use at the University of
Hawaii. Extra curricula activities
at the Hawaiian summer session
may incluSe a few hula lessons.
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One Fr’a Penny
By Gnilfin
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We, the editors of this column,
having a fondness for life and a
decided aversion to dark alley ab
ductions, wish to take this op
portunity of stating that the
graceless diatribes contained in
this potpourri have been and will
continue to be in the future ex
actly what they seem, anonymous.
While we might enjoy basking in
any fame or notoriety occassioned
from the publication of these fa
bles, it is, we hasten to assure you,
but a propensity to safety and a
desire to keep what friends we
may have that prompts this re
buttal of the implications of the
pointing finger of publicity . . .
For in the degeneration of this
column, its space has come to be
used as a vent for the spite of any
and sundry of the disappointed
suitors and scorned women abound
ing on the campus. So the lists
are open. Air out your scandal,
unearth the skeleton, and have at
thee. Anything scathing enough
or insulting enough will be accept
ed, and, the gods willing, printed
. . . And now, to fable number
three.
—Guilfin.
FABLE HI
And now we can go no further
without giving space to the rah
rah boya. You know them. You
can’t help but know them. Their
chests are just a little bit bigger
and their smiles just a little bit
more sneering than the general
run of the so-called and self-named
"big three” fraternity men. Their
motto is, “The-’s are the best.” |
It has a lovely, alliterative swing j
to it: “The-’s are the best.” |
The most characteristic trait of I
this gang of mill-race boys is a
certain gesture of the hand. The
fingers are stretched wide and !
the hand is wiggled from the wrist |
in a rather semi-circular motion. !
This is accompanied by a wagging |
of the head and a knowing wink.
It may mean almost anything, but
usually implies nothing in particu
lar, which is indeed characteristic
of the organization. (Neither a
beau geste, nor a shanghai ges- j
ture!)
And women! Haven’t you ever
heard about the sweethearts?
Well, they are the pick of the
There are plenty of
times when the very
thought of going to
class is unbearable:
and, of course, there
are plenty of times
when the assignments
aren’t ready either. At
such times the "O"
Lunch is a wonderful
retreat where one can
forget about all the
things yet to be done.
Skipping?
campus. “The -Babies are the
Best,” (More alliteration!) Ore
gon women just can’t resist ’em!
They break dates, give back oth
er pins, sell their souls, do any
thing to rate a - date, dance,
dinner, or ride. There's some
thing about the -’s. They’re
the best, you know, my dear.
The house is not a bad house.
It shows signs of dissipation, but
all in all it's not a bad house. In
fact it was a helluva good house
when beer was just right. The
only trouble being that most of
the fellows preferred to have a
room in the basement instead of
one of the choice apartments up
stairs. However, a little bad luck
and indiscretion removed the
charms of the lower floor, and the
fellows all live upstairs now.
The -’s have what is known
as a well-balanced group of mem
bers, if you please. Their ath
letes may not always take trips,
and their political candidates may
not always win, but nevertheless,
well-balanced is the word, and
they’ll stick to it. Of course, they
have plenty of Don Juans, and
even (and this is a novelty) even a
Lord Byron, we hear.
Come, now, one and all, summon
up your collegiatism, get out your
raccoon coats, wiggle that hand,
wag that head, wink, give three
rousing rah-rah-rahs and join in
that good old chorus:
“- is the best.”
—SEZ YOU!!
Four fraternity houses at O. S.
C. were recently robbed of an ag
gregate of about $800 worth of
personal property. The Phi Delta
Theta, Alpha Sigma Chi, Sigma
Nti, and Theta Delta Nu houses
were the sufferers.
FORUM
MAN HELD A SENIOR
To the Editor:
Yesterday’s communication has
an element of justice in it—but
only after the following facts are
considered, facts which should
have been investigated before
criticism was made.
Dean Hugh Biggs, Dr. James H.
Gilbert, A. S. U. O. President Tom
Stoddard, all consider the man ap
pointed a senior. If campus us
age and approval count, then the
appointee is a senior.
He is in his fourth year. Unless
he be counted a senior this year,
according to a decision made last
spring, he will jump from junior
to no class at all.
The appointment was delayed
until all the rest of the director
ate could meet to decide on the
man. The office was considered
most important. The contested
appointee was the choice of the
entire directorate because of his
success in advertising and mer
chandising, his originality, his
membership in Alpha Delta Sig
ma, advertising honorary, Guild
hall play advertising campaign
work and his practical work on
the Coldex index advertisements.
To save embarrassing the ap
pointee, who is excellently quali
fied, it seems to me the writer
should have consulted the admin
istration or myself before blaring
half-truths.
—Day Foster.
Barred From Pan-Hellenic
To the Editor:
A student of the University of
Oregon finds herself in an embar
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' rassing position. As a member of
| the editorial board of the Oregon
Daily Emerald she asked for the
privilege of sitting in at meetings
of the organization known as Pan
Hellenic—an organization whose
decisions affect a fairly signifi
cant portion of the student body.
As an upperclassman and a
member of a sorority, should her
house so desire, she is very decid
edly eligible to representative
standing in that body. Which
would have been the best policy?
To have used various influences
within her own group to secure
that privilege and at the same time
have another mission at hand?
The press usually has the inter
ests of its field at heart. It is a
public servant and is above com
mitting the crime of underhanded
ness. So she chose the out-and
out method and in so doing for
feited right. Now, to be wholly
reinstated into that right she
W'ould have to sever her connec
tions with the instrument that is
expressive of that which stands
for democracy.
She believes this to be a wrong
that should be righted. Must it
take shrewdness to combat seem
ing narrowness ? If customs or bar
riers must be broken down to meet
this challenge, won’t there be
enough persons benefited to justi
fy the change?
—P.ikth Newman.
KFAB at Lincoln Nebraska is
broadcasting an interfraternity
song contest sponsored by the or
ganizations of the University of
Nebraska.
Northwestern university has
joined the list of colleges and uni
versities having aviation in their
curricula.
Next Sunday
11:00 A. M.
“Moral Chaos Today—
Cause and Cure’’
What is our moral author
ity?
When do we find moral free
dom ? i
Is the -younger generation
becoming more moral?
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