■■■■■■■-■ «.« ■». . . mm mm . .mm. ■— .. ■ ■—i ■»- ■ ■ ■'■ -■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■■ ■ ■ —mi i ■ ■»»—■ ■ ... ■ ' ■ ■ ■ ' ■ > — EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE OREGON DAILY EMERALD \ I . mm —■ i .■ - i — mm (ffcegun Mb University of Oregon, Eugene Arthur L. Schoeni . Editor William H. Hammond . Business Manager Vinton Hal! . Managing Editor EDITORIAL WRITERS Ron Hubbs, Ruth Newman, Rex Tussing, Wilfred Brown Nancy Taylor . Secretary UPPER NEWS STAFF Mary Klemm . Assistant Managing Editor , Harry Van Dine . Sports Editor Phyllis Van Kirnmell .-.. Society Myron Griffin . Llie,r,Bry Victor Kaufman . P- I. P- Editor RalfJh David . Chief Night Editor Claience Craw . Makeup Editor GENERAL NEWS STAFF: Dave Wilson, Helen Cornell, Carol WerKchkul, Robert Allen, Henry Lumpee, Elizabeth Painton, Thornton Gale. Lavina Hicks. Jack Bellinger, Kathryn Feld man, Barbara Conly, Rufus Kimball, Thornton Shaw, Robert Guild, Betty Harcombe, Anne Bricknell, Carl Monroe, Thelma Nelson, Lois Nelson, Evelyn Shuner, Sterling Green. 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Elaine Wheeler, Carol Werschkul The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Asso ciated Students of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday and Monday, during the college year. Member of the Pacific Intercollegiate Press. Entered in the postoffice at | Eugene, Oregon, ns second class matter. Subscription rates, J $2.50 a year. Advertising rates jpon application. Phone, Man- i ager: Office, 1895; residence, 127. Grade List Revision BROUGHT up and discussed both in interfrater nity council and heads of houses meetings this week, the question of revising the present method of figuring the grade list is now under active con sideration. Fraternities and sororities, it is apparent, are dissatisfied. The grade list as it stands has weak nesses which can be remedied. Arguments heard on the subject include: J Incompletes should not be counted as flunks on the house grades. O Requiring that incompletes be made up within first two weeks of following term. O The new system should give more than five * points an hour to a student who gets a I with honors. A student cannot carry a normal load and take honors in his courses. He might be able to take 10 hours of honors and get a straight II aver age—40 points—and would have to work consider ably harder than the student who was not taking honors.. Theory: A I in honors should count more than a I in regular work. Shall the new system be worked on grade aver age instead of points? Or a combination of the two? rj Shall the grade list be drawn up at all? Many faculty members are opposed to it and educa tors all over the nation will support the contention that grades tend to be an end in themselves, rather than an incentive. ^ Shall pledges living in the dormitories be counted in with their fraternities as they are now, or should they be counted with the dorms? Which shall be charged with fraternity men’s grades when they live in the dorm? When he lives outside the house ? y Special students or ones carrying less than 12 hours with University permission—shall they be counted on the grade list ? Those are questions before the committees ap pointed by the men’s and women’s groups. Certain it is that there is a need for a fairer, more ade quate way of computing comparative house ratings. But many boulders lie in the path of the commit tees. Showing Editors Around ■jl^TEN of the "Fourth Estato”—newspaper men If -*-*-*• you please are on the campus for their an nual convention. Editors and managers of Oregon dailies, weeklies, and semi-weeklies, they represent the greatest collection of molders of public opinion in the state. Oregon is glad to have them here for the con ference, just as it welcomes the high school student body officials and editors or the athletes from state schools. Oregon puts herself on parade when visitors come. Prospective students from the prep schools are entertained in the fraternity and sorority houses and there get a glimpse of college life. They can see what it is like to be away from home and "on their own." Everything is new to them and makes a great impression upon their malleable minds. When the editors of the state newspapers are here they do not have the chance to see college life first hand. Unless some of them have personal friends in living organizations the only contact they make with the University is through the convention meet Lngs. The University is passing up an excellent op portunity to get acquainted with these editors, whose opinions and statements are read with inter est in all corners of the state. A great chance pre sents itself for Oregon to make valuable friends and to sow the seeds for a greater understanding of what a university’s problems are and what it is doing for the youth of the nation. "Guest night" at fraternities and sororities on the campus should be a regular feature of the news paper men's conference. These editors should be given a chance to visit student living organizations and contact student life. Sympathetic understand ing is one of the greatest aims the University could hope to gain from a gathering such as is now pres ent on the campus. Especially is it desirable in these men who hold the power of public opinion in their hands. A Year for a Cigarette Two men, one managing editor of the Minne sota Daily and the other the business manager of the annual, were suspended from the University of Minnesota in short order recently for smoking cig arettes in the university’s library. On the surface this seems exceedingly harsh punishment for smoking a cigarette, each man be ing suspended from school for a year. The Minnesota Daily came out strongly against the action of the university, charging that the men were not allowed to explain their conduct. Doubtless intent upon making examples of the two violators of school regulations, the university officials took no cognizance of the theory which recommends that "punishment fit the crime.” They went ahead and took drastic steps to punish the offenders instead of using the more accepted edu cational method of using kindness and reasoning instead of violent action. A year for a cigarette seems to hark back to inquisition days. Some people think examinations should be abol ished in college; others think seniors should not have to go to class unless they want to; a third “school” believes assignments should be replaced by individual research. What with exams, classes, and assignments out of the way college ought to be quite a social institution. The latest topic for debates is whether prepared soups are good for one’s morals or lower one's cul tural standard, we see by the Daily Kansan. Per sonally, we're interested in knowing what good we get out of eating all those turnips, parsnips and spinach they feed us down at the house. Hollywood is a regular country town and is dark after 10:30 p. m., says a movie star’s father who visited the Kansas campus the other day. These fond papas. Always sticking up for the home town. Who says college women are not interested in cooking? At the University if Missouri 1,200 stu dents attended a cooking school sponsored by the college daily. There are 396,000,000 ways to spell the word, "circumference.” This, no doubt, is good news to sign-painters. It gives them plenty of leeway. It is a crime to make a girl walk home from an auto ride, the Wisconsin supreme court ruled. Yes, it is. S1 ..■■ ■■ .. .—- "■ - —.——"——.mi j Oreganized Dementia a. .. .» .. .. .. , .-—.—£ CULTURE A terrific shriek drove some of the more timorous of the Dementia staff under cover. "Culture,” howled Dr. Confuzus, Dementia’s head philosopher, as he burst into the room, “is a great thing!” Realizing that the famous man had at last come through with another of his humanity transforming ideas, the Dementia staff recom posed itself. "There are several kinds of culture,” he con tinued: "voice, agri, horti, milk, bacteria, and—most preponderous of all—university culture. Ah! "University culture is divided into two parts, mental and physical. From my all-inclusive sur vey, I have just proved that our own university manufactures and sells the best brands of culture in the world. Think of that! "Is our physical culture department good? Well, I hope to tell you it’s good. Have you ever lost a key to one of their little tin pad locks? Have you ever lost a towel or a sweat shirt? “If you have committed any of these crimes, and are still in school, then you have no doubt paid the price for your heinous folly. Ah, the price—that’s what makes our pliysical culture department so superior. "You’d consider yourself good, too, wouldn't you, if you could get one solid iron smacker for each of your little two and a half-cent keys? Human nature is conceited, that’s what. Of course you’d be proud of yourself. "As for mental culture—believe me, gentlemen, we are absolutely unapproachable there. Imagine! Squirm in glory as you think of Plato’s or Cicero’s surprise if they could but see to what heights men tal culture has risen! “If they could but attend some of our classes, and hear some of the dumb-looking (hut really intelligent) profs mumbling away, without notes or uny organization whatsoever, about some darn tiling or other that didn’t seem to mean anything to them or much less to their little scholars—these undent friends of mine, Plate and Sis, would be absolutely astounded. “Their poor souls would cry out in joyous ad miration when they realized that at last, culture had broken the shackles of boredom and become a real science!” HOW TO WIN THE KOBE CONTEST To w the real utility of the white gold frames —light and strong. Dr. Ella Meade, 14 8th West, can very easily make a duplicate of your lens and put them in good looking frames. A Gift From The Heart Is one that is selected with « care, and sent on that anniver sary day of Romance, St. Val entine’s Day. 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