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WELCOME!
OREGON MOTHERS
ONCE again the University plays host to Oregon
mothers. This year's Junior Weekend prom
ises to be especially enjoyable for the visiting
guests, since an appreciable degree of peace
characterizes the state educational front. Partly
through the efforts of the Oregon mothers, dis
sension in the high ranks of the state educational
system has been settled, and Oregon's higer educa
tion has taken a deep breath.
We wish to extend a cordial welcome to the
Oregon mothers and sincerely hope that the activi
ties planned for their pleasure will find their favor.
More than a 100 students have planned and worked
hard during the last few weeks, in order that the
campus may be at its best for the Junior Weekend.
The mothers have a standing invitation for all
the events the campus luncheon, teas and a recep
tion, the water sports, the Junior Prom, the
Mother’s Day banquet, and, the climaxing pageant,
the “Stardust” canoe fete.
Although Oregon mothers, and dads too, are
welcome on the campus at any time, the pressure
of books and classes permits but a little play
during the year. Junior Weekend is a concentrated
effort to make up for all that. In three days,
cramped full of activities from morning till night,
daughters and sons wish to say to their parents
in their own way “we think you’re swell, and
here’s a little something in return for your con
stant giving. We realize it isn’t too much, but
it’s our best, and we dedicate this campus tradi
tion, the Junior Weekend, to you.”
Because of president and vice-president com
plications, the junior class got off to a late start
with its Weekend this year, but it has worked well
and admirably on the plans and deserves a vote of
thanks from the student body.
Even the playful Oregon weather has smiled
on the efforts of the juniors and sent sunsfhine to
dry the well soaked campus.
To the juniors, congratulations; to the queen
and her royal court, our bow; to the weather,
thanks; and to the Oregon mothers a WELCOME!
RESPECTABILITY
OF THE STRIKE
JI<’ there is anything more forlorn than a student
body without teachers, it is a body of teachers
without students. Very forlorn must have been the
faculty of Washington State college yesterday
when the 3200 students of that institution walked
out in a mass demonstration against their dean
ery's "blue law” regime.
Workers, appreciating the chagrin of an em
ployer without employees, found the strike an
elective weapon of protest years ago, but it has
received wide social sanction only within the last
two or three decades. Its use has spread, with one
protesting group after another delighting in its
potency.
*n # * f
Just last year the militant femininity of an
eastern city struck against the high price of meat
and picketed shops until the butchers gave in.
Not long ago students in an Oregon grammar
school struck against the removal of a teacher.
And a few week ago, when service workers in
New York buildings went out on strike, society
Women joined the picket lines with elevator oper
ators, janitors, and charwomen, tjuite likely the
last instance was just a stunt for notoriety on the
socialites’ part, but it all goes to show that the
strike has become respectable. It is not beyond
probability that we shall see even university pro
fessors out on strike some day.
Whenever the mass of any group finds author
ity unreasonably oppressive or unfair, the modern
nostrum is a strike. Frequently the strike is mis
employed, for in its essence it is mob action,
easily started, yet hard to control. Often it has
proved a tool of demagogery. But, for all that, the
mere existence of such an instrument is well worth
its dangers.
* * *
Any pronouncement on the strike at Washing
ton State must be based on several considerations:
are conditions at the college really as oppressive
as the students aver in their protests; what ap
peals were made to university authorities before
the strike was called into effect; was there any
reasonable proposal for a conference between
faculty and students at which the difficulties could
be ironed out ?
But, if conditions are such as the students
describe in their protests, if the administration
actually polices the campus by such loathsome
means as the use of “stool pigeons,” if restrictions
on campus social life arc as narrow as it is re
ported if all these complaints are true and the
administration has stiil been unbending, then the
students had every reason to walk out. For young
men and women of college age don’t fancy being
treated like grammar school kids. And who can
blame them ?
College days are not a period of suspended
social animation. College students should live a
normal active life, and they should be treated as
the mature young men and women that they are.
Miscellanything
Being Stuff From Heah and Theah
(Editor’s note: The following letter was writ
ten to the editor of the Michigan Daily and
concerns a topic much discussed on college cam
puses all over the United States—hell week.)
To the Editor:
It has been with considerable interest that a
number of us have read in the daily papers articles
about Hell Week and the difficulties some of the
national fraternity chapters are having in Ann
Arbor.
As one gets older he is apt to be more critical
of the actions of younger people and although we
speak of the “Men of Michigan,’’ at times you get
the impression that the undergraduates are pretty
much like school kids, with very little cultural
background.
To my mind, Hell Week, as far as it applies to
fraternities, is unnecessary and a very foolish kid
notion of trying to discipline freshmen.
Practically all fraternities were founded on
brotherly love, friendship and fairly high ideals
and why any group should want to destroy the
feeling on the part of the new members that they
are joining something worth while, by acting like
a lot of hoodlums, is beyond me.
I know that when I was pledged and initiated
into the Michigan chapter of Alpha Tail Omega
that we had no Hell Week. The nearest, during all
the time that I was in school, to such a thing was
one night just prior to initiation when the entire
chapter, with the new members, gathered in the
living room and the freshmen were made to enter
tain the rest of the chapter by either reciting,
singing songs or doing various stunts, and being
somewhat heckled in their efforts.
This was a lot of fun and even though it might
have been a little bit embarrassing to the per
formers, there was nothing malicious about it and
certainly no physical hazard or humility.
As one representing quite a large group pf
fraternity alumni from Michigan, we would be
almost willing to go on record that any fraternity
chapter in Ann Arbor or any other school that
so degraded itself as to have a Hell Week, which
the name implies, should be forthwith disbanded.
Perhaps I am treading a little bit on my own
chapter as it is constituted at the present moment,
however, I do not believe so and do know that
from a national standpoint, the Alpha Tan Omega
fraternity opposes Hell week. Carl L. Bradt, The
Equitable Trust Co., Detroit.
Guys who smoke and pet and drink,
All end up in hearses;
But guys who don't end up the same,
Or else by writing verses.
Curses!
Stanford Daily.
Crime and punishment are exemplified at
Colot ado university by a students being forced to
attend Sunday school for three years if he is
caught drinking.
The Marsh
Of Time
By liill MurnIi
Ciimi's il now 1h(“ lu'st |ir;i»
tieal joke of the term.
It seems that the phone in a
local fraternity house gave forth
ringing sounds at a late hour
Wednesday night, anil a charm
ing feminine voice chirruped,
"Is Van Mollison there?”
Almost at once it developed
that Mollison \va there. So, un
thinkingly, the young man went
to the phone. “Yes?" he queried.
The following conversation
ensued,
"Are you Van Mollison?”
Mollison admitted that he
was such.
"Well, how would you like to
have a date with me tomorrow
night ?"
Mollison quivi red. lie paused
for breath, then ventured, "Sure
tiling, Toots. What's our
name?”
"Dolores.”
"Dolores what?”
"Why Van, don't you remem
ber Do'ores? Surely you re
member me. how could you
forget ?”
Multi:- -.1. Ir—tiii,, to lose
the date, lied like a trooper.
“Oli, sure sure. I rt'iniwlKT
'<M Dolores. Whore ran I pick
you up tomorrow night'.’"
“Well, you can find me nt
the corner of Broadway and
Willamette."
Once again Mollison quivered.
“‘Where?1’
"Broadway and Willamette.”
“Oil. Broadway and Willam
ette. Yea, sure." Mollison was
beginning to perspire.
“And how about bringing
along another handsome lover
for my girl friend?"
I>\ this time Mollison had
lost hie pounds and wits begin
ning to pant. “Ilim about l.ouis
Burse n
"I don’t know him. Is lie
pretty hot stuff?”
“He sure is."
“Drag him along then. See
you tomorrow night, baby."
Mollison hung up the receiver,
snshod across the street and
ordered a lemon coke and three
aspirin.
W «: <s
Non, then, the pay-olf. The
conspiring trot emit \ brothers
> I the twin gigolos got a bunch
ot rouge, lipstick, etc., mid fixed
up a pair of freshmen m |,or.
rowed dresses, pumps, coquct
tisii huts and all the trimmings,
'liicn, taking ih, charmingL
feminine frosh downtown, they
planted thrill ut Broadway anil
W illamettc.
Presently conies it along the
aforementioned Mollison a n d
his companion in love, Louis
Larson. They drove their coupe
11P to the corner, took a glance
at the disguished frosh, and
stopped. Sticks it Mollison his .
head out the window. “Hello,"
he chirrups in best picking-up
baritone. "Are you Dolores?"
“Dolores" acted coy. and did
n't say anything.
"Would you like to go on a
party with us?" queries the
Larson.
And so it was done. Not until
Dolores climbed into the car did
the twin Romeos discover the
deception.
Moral: That's what college
hoys get tor picking up girls
Irom elf street corners.
Zeb, Zeke
(Comtiiinctl /rein one)
least expectin' us. an' don't ye
doubt it.
Yestiddv Zeb fell off of thet
bridge, er wire. , as thet telegram
sod in yer paper wo just read sed.
He toll lisp feet down outer the
rooks along the banks of this here
river and broke his stilts. We ll
Lc aeomin’ doe.a \ec wo;, agiti as
Report of the SAAC
The University shall employ two or three specialists in voca
tional adivee, who shall maintain offices in Eugene and Portland,
as under plan number one, to advise as many students as possible
before the opening of the school year. If necessary, these offices
may be occupied only during the summer months.
At the beginning of each term, the present advisory system
shall operate, with additional time being allotted for conferences
with lower division students. During the term, the advisors shall
attempt to meet their advisees several times for informal consulta
tion. It will be necessary that faculty members who have a vital
interest in advising be chosen to make these contacts.
The members of the faculty who assume these duties shall
be rewarded. This may be done in several ways. The advisors shall
receive increases in pay if they are expected to continue thir normal
teaching and research loads, or they shall be relieved from a portion
of their teaching hours. Exceptional advising jobs shall receive
the same recognition as excellent pieces of original research work,
or as highly-stimulating teaching. The business of advising shall
be treated as a definite academic and scholarly field. (The com
mittee believes that men qualified by human experience and warmth
of personality for this position are as rare as exceptional teachers,
and probably more difficult to find than men capable of doing
acceptable research.)
In connection with the problems of vocational guidance and
academic adjustment in the lower division, the committee investi
gated the advisory system of the upper division. There the com
mittee found that it was the practice for most students to seek
out the faculty members whom they most trusted for advice on
personal, vocational, and academic problems, even though the
formality of assigned advisors continued on into this period. The
committee also found that upper division students made more
frequent use of the opportunities for advice provided by the per
sonnel division.
The committee recommends that upper division students be
left tree to choose their own advisors, and that they be encouraged
to do so by the administration. The committee bslieves that the
present system of upper division advice, if combined with the first
proposal for the lower division, would adequately care for the
problems of upperclassmen.
It is the finding of the committee that some system of voca
tional placement is needed by the University. Many seniors are
completely ignorant of opportunities fur employment, and after
graduation, drift into whatever work happens to appear. The gradu
ating senior who wishes to continue his academic work, and needs
some form of student aid, has no service available for use in this
connection. Many students with one or two years of training are
unable to secure work that will make it possible for them to
return to school.
There are at the present time a number of agencies doing
placement work within the University. The committee recommends
that, wherever possible, these agencies be coordinated with the
division of vocational guidance and placement, and that the service
be enlarged and equipped to carry on a program of placement for
graduates, for summer work, and for advanced study.
The committee report should not be considered in any seilpe
a criticism of the work being done at present by the personnel
division, the placement service, or the lower division advisors. The
report is rather a proposal to extend the functions of those groups
and implement them so that they may be more effective. The
committee does not recommend the abolition of these services, but
rather believes that their duties should be coordinated with and
included in the division of guidance and placement. The committee
realizes in making its proposals that the administrative details
and coordinations must of necessity be determined by administrat
ive officers who are better qualified to do so than is the committee.
(End of Part One)
soon as he makes liisself a new
pair. Why don't ye build yer
bridges wider in these here parts ?
An what's more, Zachary swal
lowed two bees the other day and
they got to fittin’ and buzzin'
around till the only time we got
any peace was when Zac was
asleep and then his snorin', which
rounded nateral-like. drowned them
out Well. Zae was kitin' past a
pasture and some jackass reared
up and kicked him in the haid. Now
we got ter pay the many for his
jackass cause lie had to shoot it
after it broke its laig.
You just tell them people in
thet Uneeversity o' yours thet
we're agoin' to be there this week
end to do our part and if any fool
committee tries to stop us. by gum
we'll take 'em out and give 'em
seme good ol' mountain medicine.
Zeb. Zeke. and Zachary.
Send the Kmerald to your friends.
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Petitioners Active
At W ashington
Washington headquarters for the
optional military training initiative
this week declared 1.000 active
workers are in the field in that
state, rounding up the 50.000
names necessary to put the mea
sure on the ballot.
The measure has been endorsed
by the Commonwealth Builders,
the state organization of student
Christian associations, the Ameri
can Student union chapters, many
bodies of organized labor and
tanners, and the Young Commun
ist league.
Robert Shaw, head of the Wash
ington movement, announced 100.
000 petition blanks are now in cir
culation. He expects the measure
to succeed in both states, he said,
because of the organized support it
is gettting by strong organizations
of e\ cry kind.
Savage Asks Talent
For Emerald Program
Ernest Savage, chairman of the
committee for the Yeomen broad
cast of the Emerald of the Air
asks that anyone who has any tal
ent or suggestions for the pro
gram get in touch with him.
The exact date has not been set
but it will be some time soon.
Hardy Males Accept Challenge
To Log Rolling
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Ha! The masculine honor of the \
lampus 13 not to go down beneath
the dainty feet of feminine con
querors. Not if Bill Reese and
Bruce McIntosh have anything to
say about it. For these gentlemen
have come forth bravely, and have
accepted the challenge offered to
the campus by log-rollers Mary
McCracken and Jean Stevenson.
In case you don’t remember, the
aforementioned McCracken and
Stevenson have challenged anyone
on the campus to a log-rolling con
test Saturday morning at the wa
ter carnival.
The acceptance which was made
to the challenge follows:
“We, the undersigned, being of
sound mind (supposedly), and be
ing free, white and students at the
University of Oregon, do hereby
accept the challenge of Miss Mary
McCracken and Miss Jean Steven
son to a log-rolling contest, said
contest to take place during the
water carnival this coming Satur
day morning, May 9, in the year of
our Lord, 1936.
We do further agree to abide by
such rules and regulations as said
Mary McCracken and Jean Ste
venson shall determine to govern
the contest, providing that said
rules and regulations apply to both
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“We do further state that if the
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