Recent Domineering Senior Of High School Visualizes Days As Confused, Ignorant Frosh EDITOR’S NOTT: The following art! ?Ie v:ns written l.y '» fe^hman who will so >n he emr
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to the University of Oror-ron as a member
of twe cla-ss of 1940.
Three months ago I was in
“nigger heaven." a senior iri
Eugene high school! As a senior
1 scoffed at sophomores, skipped
classes when f pleased, and prac
tically got away with murder.
Now, as I am about to enter
University as a pitifully ignor
ant freshman. I find myself lark
ing my heretofore mire-footed
ness. Registration, rush week,
stern professors, and Tlreek let
ters loom before me like mon
sters about to .jump upon me and
remove my new freshman pants
from my weak knees!
When I start to Oregon, how am
I to know where to go and what
to do when I get there? Should I
take dates with houses which I
know that I will not pledge ? How
can I stall on the high pressure
sales talk of men in such frater
nities ?
Nor have I any idea of how I
should act while being rushed.
What should I wear? And how
/ should I dress when on the cam
pus? I know that cords are upper
classmen's pants, moleskins the
sophomore’s regal attire, and that
frosh nants, commonly called "tin
pants.” are the ones which should
adorn my frame. Yet, should I
come upon the campus the first
day strutting in my new trousers,
or would the upperclassmen think
I was showing off?
As a freshman, what chances
will I have to participate in social
events on the campus? Will I he
welcome to student dances? Would
I dare wear a tux? And would I
venture to date a coed who was
a junior or a senior, even if she is
a close friend ? And I’ve never been
at a sorority house to call for a
date. This disturbs me.
How am I to approach the lordly
upperclassmen after I pledge? Am
I expected to reach for my ankles,
assuming a position which will
result in the rising of black welts
on the back of my l^p?
Millracings and tubbinprs make
my weary bones tremble! How am
I to learn what not to do and when
not to do things whmh will result
In these punishments?
wnai am i 10 expeci irom a
profeasor? Ia he going to have a
bristling beard? Will he ga^p upon
me and flunk me with fiendish glee
when I fail to have mv legion, or
can he be persuaded to give me
more time as most high school
teachers did?
The physical exam. I am told, is
an overdone torture chamber,
filled with doctors who nounce up
on one not unlike an octopus, tear
ing and scratching until one car
hardly breathe, then finishing by
announcing the discovery of a
slight case of athletes foot which
was already known.
With these horrors in mind, T
intend to enter University, to i
brave all of those; just to have
the thrill of being a genuine fresh
man, then to embark on n career
in school which T hone will carry
me higher in life. D.K.H.
Optimism Prevails
(Continued from Pa