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Freedom Unimpaired
EXPLANATION of ASUO reorganization plans
by President C. Valentine Boyer, yesterday,
should calm campus liberals who fear that the
hand of strict dictatorship is snatching control of
student body activities.
Looking at the surface, it appears as though
the faculty has seized the power, that student
freedom and initiative is being impaired. However,
those that shout the loudest for freedom shoidd
delve into the how and wherefore of the new plan.
Those who have had an opportunity of attend
ing an executive council meeting under the old
ASUO set up know from whence comes most
student legislation. Faculty members, old hands
aL the game of promoting student functions and
deciding student policies, are almost always the
authors of new plans. Any student body officer
recognizes the fact.
Is this any different than a set of faculty
membered athletic and educational boards? Only
in one sense. The large numbers increases effici
ency and ideas. It also checks the possibility of
railroading a plan into acceptance. It is virtually
impossible to find any group, the members of
which think exactly alike.
Always, the president of the University has
had the final veto on student body action. But
instead of having the pot boil from the bottom up
toward the top as it has in the past, President
Boyer can check, while they are still in their
infancy, indiscriminate plans destined to failure.
But freedom of student thought should not be
the bone of contention. Student activities should,
first, train the individual to think; and second,
develop his abilities so that he can execute his
ideas. It appears that on these points the reorgan
ization plans are not adequate.
The faculty might in putting the new plan
into action give students a larger share of respon
sibility. Fundamentally, ASUO projects should
have a two-fold purpose: for benefit of the Uni
versity, and for educational benefit of the student.
Seemingly, the plan does not give students a great
deal of opportunity to express themselves, al
though it does provide executive titles for eight
more students than the old ASUO.
Doubtless other discrepancies are apparent in
the plan. Critics would be wise to point out their
beliefs and contentions now while the reorganiza
tion exists in an embryo state.
Advocates of student freedom need have no
fears of dictatorship under the new ASUO they
will be as free to act as they ever have been.
They might better look to see if they are receiving
a training that will adequately equip them to
exert the freedom they already have.
‘Something New’
<<0<JMKTH1NG old, something new" that's j
^ what freshmen have tried to incorporate into
the production of tins, the frosh edition of the
Emerald.
An attractive new headline style, an effort at
typographical perfection, and news of interest and
potency all the qualities of a good newspaper are
the ideals at which they have aimed.
In the news columns they have tried to show
that they are justly able* to produce an Emerald,
which in future years will be theirs. Editorially,
they have tried to show latent possibilities of an
occasional intelligent, constructive thought. Per
haps, nothing dynamic, but even Aristotle might
have found it difficult to move the world in a
single eight-hour day.
In short, they have attempted to produce an
issue of the Emerald which mirrors their training,
ideals, and abilities.
On to Oregon!
*TMIE originator of the new Greater Oregon
committee, creating an office of permanent
executive secretary to contact high school gradu
ates and prospective University students, should
be ‘ honored as the creator of the most concrete
plan to increase University of Oregon registration.
In the past the committee lias employed n wdy
duw, Joe College tactics to inuld up a consumer
appeal in Oregon high schools. The new plan puts
into operation a permanent, year-around executive
office to accomplish the objective in a business
like way.
More satisfactory results can be expected when
the lure of campus social life is combined with an
appeal to the intellect of prospective customer,
the high school graduate.
The idea contains a spark of true publicity
genius, and if coordinated with other plans to
brings favorable comment to the University, un- i
told bcnefiUi cut- be won.
Miscellanything
ANGIJCWOKMS MADE GOOD, BUT
ROBIN BANG DOWN THE CURTAIN
<(■ HAVE just received intelligence of a dreadful
tragedy,” said our anonymous scientific ob
server in the county engineer’s office this week.
It was also a great blow to science,” he added.
“Did someone die?” the reporter asked, in
nocently.
"No,” replied the learned savant. Forthwith he
unfolded the details of the sad story of the angle
worms that made good and their infinitely sad
demise.
This story, he said, was a great blow to him,
and had the angleworms remained in the land of
the living, it would have made a great hit with
the learned societies, at home and abroad. The
engineer had rather looked forward to convulsing
the learned gentleman again and it saddened him
to think that the personnel which would have been
the basis for another scientific disclosure were
now digesting in the crop of a miscreant robin.
Trained the Worms
This learned scientific observer, as may have
been gathered from consideration of these pages,
is fond of causing seismic disturbances in the
skulls of the scientists of al! lands by means of
his contributions to the fund of human knowl
edge. His achievements, by now too many to
chronicle in any synopsis less than three columns,
have caused repercussions and reverberations, as
well as cerebrations, of untold magnitude.
It happened, our observer continued, that a
local architect had discovered that angleworms
have a latent intelligence, though of a limited
order, tractable to training and even have a
capacity for affection.
This architect devoted many hours and even
days to training his angleworms to assist him in
his labors, and his success was nothing short of
miraculous. He obtained several healthy specimens
of the giant angleworms that have their habitation
a couple of feet underground in this region, as
well as several of the smaller and slimmer variety
who have their abode nearer the surface.
Liked the Job
The worms soon became so accustomed to the
architect’s presence that they squirmed happily
whenever he approached their box, and seemed to
enjoy their training. In fact, the architect told our
informant that they took a real pride in doing a
good piece of work.
One of the larger worms he trained to form
a right angle, and at an undisclosed signal, the
worm would stretch out on a given line and then
do a column-right with half of his body. The worm
was said never to have varied a fraction of a
degree in laying out the designated angle.
Another would lay out a perfect arc and a
third would form avrious curves', all useful in
the architectural profession. The architect had a*
fourth worm in training to lay out acute and
obtuse angles of varying degrees, but it had not
completely mastered the technique at the time of
the catastrophe.
Two of the smaller worms had been taught to
follow a pencil line with the utmost exactitude.
They were provided with a plate of glass upon
which printer's ink had been spread thinly. When
called to duty, the worms would trail across the
inked plate and then start out following any
particular pencil line they happened to find. When
the line ended, they would halt until the architect
laid down a sheet of paper for them to crawl
upon, in order to avoid smearing the drawing.
Where a double line was required, the two
worms would march shoulder to shoulder along
the pencil mark. The smaller worms were used
for this work because their lesser diameters made
them capable of drawing fine ink lines, which
could be varied in thickness by the worms them
selves as they extended or contracted in length.
With these capable servants at work, the
aichitect could devote his spare time and energies
to drawing up other plans or making blueprints.
Encouraged by his success with the angle
worms, the architect secured a measuring worm
exactly one inch in length. He taught the measur
ing worm to inch his way across a plate of graph
ite and measure any line along which he laid a
straight edge.
The architect then sei tired several healthy
specimens of the large black beetle which inhabits
desert regions of this county and which is known
colloquially by the inelegant name of “stink bug.”
He had noticed that these bugs, when walking
over smooth sand, leave footprints like double
rows of right angles, something on the order of
a sergeant's chevrons.
He would stretch a couple of large angleworms
around an area to be shaded in a drawing, or
designated as forest, brush land or pasture. Then
he would escort the beetles across the inked plate
until their feet were well loaded with ink. The
hugs were then turned loose in the area to be
shaded, and they would carefully hatch-mark the
entire area with their footprints.
Things were going splendidly with the archi
tect's menagery, and the architect himself was
highly elated with his success. But one day he
leit his helpers at work while he stepped out of
the room for a minute. When he returned he
noticed a flutter of wings at the window and
each and every one of the angleworms, beetles
and the inch-worm had vanished. In their place on
the drawing were the black footprints of a robin.
"It was a great blow to science, the architect
and me,” said the scientific observer, shedding
large tears onto a blueprint. Courtesy of the
Walla W alla l nion-Bulletin and Stanley Tucker.
An Ode to AAA
V Lover's Lament
I see her now a vivid ghost,
Those eyes, that hair I loved the most.
Kaeh fond caress for widen 1 yearned
Mliall never to me be returned
My heart cries out I've lost her now.
Betsy sure as heck was a good old cow.
Anonymous.
What ran an ordinary egg do? How many
people in the world realize that from its white
and yolk, the egg can produce, in a very short
time, feathers, something that no human has been
aWt u* accomplish in the last CdOO years.
f
Cousin
Hoogle
By EDGAR C. MOORE
Hero we were bowling down the
main drag the other morning and
who do you think we ran into?
None other than one of our pro
fessors, peeping out from behind
an armful of books.
“How do you do, sir,” we said,
tipping our hat respectfully and
fumbling in our pocket for a very
big and shiny red apple.
"How do I do what?” he said.
Too bad. And he’s supposed to
i be a geniu3 in his field, too.
* * *
We have definite proof that Mh
hamud, although he was born some
fifteen hundred years before his
time, never inhabited the fair city
of Eugene (plug). History, or was
[ it soma professor who attributed
'the following statement to him:
“Sit ye not upon graves!”
The last trip to Corvallis, a very
nice residential city, which recent
ly added an industry, a dairy, sc
we hear, to its accomplishments,
and which is located some forty
five miles to the north and slight
ly to the west of us, when, upon
sniffing the wonderful atmosphere
of the town one of our companions
was heard to remark: “What a
wonderful climate. It is a wondei
that they don’t have a college
here.”
* * *
One night a star student called
up one of the faculty and imper
sonating a telephone company test
er requested the stately old gen
j tIonian to whistle into the mouth
piece. And when the professoi
whistled, the college man (he musl
have been a freshman) said: “We’ll
send the bird seed tomorrow.” At
a late hour last night, the profes
sor’s mental assailant could not be
found. Fraternity brothers inti
mated that he had packed., his
few belongings and half of those
belonging to his room-mate anc
departed for parts unknown.
* * *
To the editor of Scruples: Oui
friend wrote a letter to us anc
when we came to work this fine
morning, it was found peacefully
reposing in the mail box. And foi
such a gentle-looking epistle, deal
editor, it was loaded with dyna
mite. It proved conclusively that
you had done a fine job on youi
’umor magazine. The proof of any
literary work, is its reader. Anc
we have found that reader for you
in fact he surrendered to us. II
must have been a guilty con
science. He suggested that the
jokes in your magazine be reviset
so that the funny side be por
trayed. We sent the letter back
and wrote on the envelope: “openec
by mistake!”
Cousin Hoogle, for one© in his
life, wants to reread the oolumn
Gee, lie must he hard up for a
laugh! Several things prompt hin
to reconsider carefully what has
I heen written. First: to be sure ev
erything said can lie hacked uj
: without having to fight; second, ti
i protect himself from “comma seek
ers" and also in order not to leaf
any Knglish “K” students on tin
I downward path; third: trying t<
imagine himself as a frosh and see
ing if there is anything funny ii
it; fourth,—Hey, who flung tluv
ungood tomato unto here?—to set
if it is too adolescent for seniors
fifth: to see that ins one is offend
i ed, especially after the barrage o
tomatoes. By the looks of tha
last one, tomatoes must he out o
season: sivth: to wonder how thi
professors (particularly his) wil
I take it: seventh: to search for pos
slide third meanings that nia\ in
} flame radicals and reactionaries
and eighth: if it is not too had, foi
J his ow n pleasure.
Palmist to Visit V Hut
Students on the campus will noi
have to worry about their exarx
grades after next Thursday. Sen
iors will know whether they art
1 going to get a job or not. All oi
this will be solved by Loy Reedei
| when she takes over her duties a:
I fortune teller at the YWCA hu
I Thursday. She will tell the futun
; by leading the palm for only l,:
cents. Money raised will be usee
by the YWCA to send a delegatt
to the Y conference at Seabeck.
Faculty Dinner Tuesday
Alpha Gamma Delta is giving ;
faculty dinner Tuesday at th<
chapter house. Juanita Nell is u
charge of the arrangements
Guests will be Mr. and Mrs. Leav
| itt O. Wright, Mr. and Mrs. A. B
I Stillman. Mr. and Mrs. Moll. Pv
and Mrs. 1„. S. Cress man. Miss Ma
bel Wood. Mr. and Mrs. Georg
Turnbull. Mr and Mrs. And rev
Kish, Mr. and Mrs. Victor P. Mor
1 ns.
i
Election Slated
For Education
Fraternity
—
Phi Delta Kappa Will Pick
Officers; Initiate New
Men; Keezer Will Speak
Election of officers, initiation of'
| new members, and a banquet for j
j tije installation of new officers
will be held today by Phi Delta
Kappa, national education honor
j ary for men.
Officers for the coming year will
be elected at a business meeting,
] six outstanding men in education
J will be initiated into the society,
j They include Ted Russell, Lary
! Hendrickson, Stuart Portner, Dal
J las Norton, Lloyd Beerman, and
William Wilmot.
Officers elected in the afternoon
j meeting will be installed at a ban
i quet at the Eugene hotel. Earl
Boushey, retiring president will act
as toastmaster.
Dexter M. Keezer, president of
Reed college, will be the main
speaker at the banquet. Mr. Kee
zer is well known throughout the
country as an educator and jour
1 nalist. Before becoming president
of Reed, }ie was assistant editor of
the Baltimore Sun in Maryland.
He will speak on some phase of
progressive education.
Short talks will also be given
by F. L. Stetson, district represen
tative of Phi Delta Kappa, and by
each of the retiring and incoming
I officers.
Plaque for Journalism
School Nearly Finished
Figures Show Relation of Press to
Producer, Consumer
Work on the plaque for the jour
nalism shack will be completed by
June 15, according to Louise Utter
who is making the plaque under
the direction of Oliver Barrett and
Eyler Brown of the allied arts de
partment. The clay model has
been completed and the sandstone
panel is ready for the chisel.
Representing the relation of the
press to the producer and the con
sumer, it will have three figures in
j Egyptian flat relief: a farmer on
the right holding a pail of pota
! toes, a laborer on the left holding
a mallet and a chisel, and a typi
| cally Egyptian figure in the cen
| tor representing the press. On the
; background and partly obscured
by the figure will be the motto,
! "A free and enlightened press, the
| surest guarantor of liberty.”
The plaque will be placed over
| the south entrance to the journal
j ism building. It is 7 feet by three
and a quarter.
High School Displays Art Work
Art work of University high
students for the year 1935-36 went
on display in the little art gallery
in the art building Friday, and
will be kept on display until May
27.
The purpose of the exhibit is to
i give the public some idea of what
is being done in high school art
anti also to give the students the
pleasure of seeing their work on
display, explained Miss Margaret
' E. Litscher, graduate assistant in
allied arts.
Mrs. Lydick to Speak
Mrs. Bell Lydick will speak to
the Westminster house morning
group Sunday on “The Individual
Responsibility Toward a Changing
Social Order.” A covered dish
picnic will be held on Skinner's
Butte at 6:30 in the evening.
Transportation will be furnished
for all who wish to go.
Grants Pass Principal Visits
J. F. Swigart, principal of Grants
Pass high school, visited on the
campus yesterday. Mr. Swigart
received his master’s degree in ed
ucation on the campus last sum
mer.
i UO Guild Play
(Continued from page one)
Actors of acting class who ap
peared recently' in “Street Scene"
will be seen in "Dinner at Eight."
1 Those filling prominent roles are:
Marian Bauer. Robert Henderson.
Virginia Scoville, Eleanor Pitts,
George Smith. Patricia Neal. Helen
Roberts and Dan E. Clark II.
Horace VV. Robinson, who is well
i known for his abilities as a direc
■ tor. has designed some beautiful
and interesting scenery for the six
different scenes necessary for the
- presentation of “Dinner at Eight."
The theatre workshop class has
constructed the setting under his
• supervision.
• Seat sale for “Dinner at Eight"
■ will open Monday at the University
theatre box-office in the adnnnis
I tration buildm*.
Frosh Edition
Cornell Will Be
(Continued from page one)
and H. C. Howe, representing the
faculty; Fred Hammond and Gil
bert Schultz, student body officers;
Lynn S. McCready, Basil T. Wil
liams, Eugene, and Paul D. Hunt,
Portland, alumni members.
ASUO Fees
(Continued from page one)
Problems in educational activi
ties which cannot be settled by
specific sub-committees will be
viewed and weighed by the faculty
members of the educational board
and a decision will be made, he
said.
“Faculty members who are
greatly interested in the develop
ment of their own projects will try
to build them up as much as pos
sible. Students will be consulted
and their views will be considered,
in making all decisions, he said.
Responsibility Centered
“The chief advantage of the
whole set-up is that authority and
responsibility is centered. The
coaches will not have to guess who
they are responsible to, because it
is apparent they are directly re
sponsible to the president.
The chief distinction between
the new and' the old system is that
the president has the first veto
action. In the old system things
worked from the bottom up; now
it is from the top down. The presi
dent is taking all the responsibil
ity and is organizing from his of
fice,” Dr. Boyer said in conclusion.
College Students
(Continued from page one)
for them. Surprisingly, 92 per cent
of the people liked spinach and
oatmeal. This should encourage all
young mothers.
Statistics at last prove that the
way to a man’s heart is through
his stomach, for men do not dis
like as many foods as do girls. For
every eight foods that men don't
like women have ten pet food
hates. Anchovies, cornbeef, beef
tongue, beer, caviar, duck, figs,
leek, and sweetbreads are disliked
by women much more than they
are by men. There are no foods,
strange to say, which men have
more of an aversion for than do
women. Coeds take note and get
your man, he’ll be easy to feed if
the boys have been telling the
truth.
Are you well fed? Do you know
all of the common foods and have
you tried to eat them all? On a
separate list these same students
were asked to check the foods
which they had never eaten or
which they didn’t know. Leek, an
onion-like vegetable, had been sam
pled by only one-third of the stu
dents. Only half the group had
eaten endive and okra. Abalone
and caviar, luxury foods were
known to only one-third of the
group. Chard, anchovies, and
brains were unfamiliar words to
three-fourths of the students. Len
tils and rutabegas had been forced
down only one-third of the people.
Brandy, gin, and whiskey top the
women’s list of unfamiliar foods.
(Well!) The surveyors evidently
forgot to include whale blubber,
rat’s nests, frog legs, and a few
other world famous delicacies.
As a final observation Dr. Hall
said that Oregon students were not
more particular than California
students or lacking in knowledge
of the culinary arts.
Extra !
When the Newsboy Shouts:
You Are Curious to Inspect His Paper to See
What Has Elappened
When Eugene Merchants Shout About Good
Bargain Through the Emerald You Should Be
Just as Curious to Inspect Their Merchandise
— It Will Pay You —
The Eugene merchants whq support your Emerald
have goods to sell you that you need, or they would not
spend money to get their message to you.
If these merchants did not feel that their merchandise
was the best in quality at the price offered, the would not
spend money to get this message to you.
And, if they felt that you would not make subse
quent purchases at their stores, they would not continu
ously spend money in the Emerald to help keep your
trade.
It is to our mutual benefit that you choose Emerald
advertisers as a directory for your Eugene buying—bene
ficial to you, because you are dealing with merchants who
are after your continued patronage—beneficial to us, be
cause with “advertising results” we are able to put out a
better Emerald.
“Mention Emerald Advertising When You Buy”