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Successful?
Yes, Bui.
rT''HE curtain has gone down on what has prob
•* ably been the most smoothly conducted rush
week in the history of Oregon fraternities. A new
rushing plan, the product of many a night of
weary lucubration by members of last year’s inter
fraternity council, has stood on trial and won the
general verdict “excellent” from all who remember
the hot charges and counter-charges that were
flung over the campus this time last year.
What a time they had last year! At the close of
a rough and tumble rush week charges were
brought against five or six houses who were
thought to be the chief offenders against inter
fraternal decency. Followed then a month or so of
heated bickering ending with the refusal of the
accused houses to pay the fines levied against
them.
We don’t mean to say that, in contrast, rushing
activities this fall went off without a hitch, for
that is not exactly true. The new system is by no
means perfect and there is even reason for doubt
ing the wisdom of one of its major features.
1 AST year the interfraternity council recognized
the prevalence of certain abuses in the way
fraternities rushed and pledged their men. The
council was compelled to notice both the great
absence of sportsmanship in interfraternal rela
tions and the disregard showed by individual fra
ternities for the welfare of rushees.
The most flagrant abuses were “holding out,"
hiding a rushee where rival fraternities could not
reach him; "date-breaking,” prevailing upon a
rushee unwisely to break his rushing engagements
in favor of a single house; “knocking other frater
nities,” telling a rushee stories damaging to the
reputation of other organizations; “pin-planting,”
secretly giving a rushee a pledge button binding
Inin to pledge before lie may legally do so; and
“hot-boxing,” submitting rushees to various high
pressure methods of persuasion.
With these unethical practices in mind, the inter
fraternity council set out to draw up a new set of
rushing rules. In drafting the new code extensive
use was made of an investigation by Stanley King
of Pi Kappa Alpha who had spent weeks in studying
the procedure on other campuses. Also considered
was the plan advanced by Bill Corman of Phi
Sigma Kappa, the main feature of which was the
“sealed bid.”
* * *
WHAT happened when this plan was put into
play?" o ..
Have thfe old abuses been corrected? This is the
important question. And, briefly, the answers i.s
“Yes, but ...”
Yes, in many respects the plan has been success
ful. There can be no doubt but that the new plan,
insisting as it does upon the close registration and
supervision of freshmen, has done away with “hold
outs” and “date-breaking." And “knocking of rival
fraternities” also apparently disappeared in the
fine spirit with which the new rules were executed.
But "pin-planting” and “hot-boxing,” the two
abuses that the "sealed bid” was to obviate- well,
they are still with us.
Some two weeks ago the Emerald, in a super
sanguine mood, declared its hope that “sealed
bid” might do away with the “hot-box.” Our hopes
were poorly answered. “Hot-boxing” took place
almost as though the new rules had never been
heard of.
And the charge of “pin-planting” was gracefully
side-stepped by persuading rushees to sign writ
ten promises to pledge. '
* * *
JT looked swell on paper. But, like many a grand
design, translated into a working reality the
“sealed bid” plan revealed its short-comings. Last
spring it was concede that the drawbacks to the
plan including absence of a personal contact in
pledging, in some respects valuable would be
more than offset if the plan .were effective in pre
venting “hot-boxing” and “pin-planting.”
We still have those two abuses, and now we
are saddled with the additional problem: what are
we to do with the “sealed bid” plan?
Fascism, Communism
Or Democracy?
'T'HE eruption of fascist-communist riots in Lon
cion and Paris on Monday should renew in
John American’s mind fears of the trouble two ex
tremes of political thought can provide.
Unquestionably the trend in Europe today is
toward a class warfare, rather than, as has here
tofore been true, disputes between nations; and
the danger to the American democracy, though
three thousand miles of water separate us from
the storm and strife of onr mother continent, is
great and deserving of calm thought on the part
of the citizens who can turn this country to radical
ism of fascism.
EN who have recently returned to the campus
-LTA after months spent in Europe, have noted the
birth of class warfare, which, in its present wide
spread effect, is unparalleled in the world’s history.
Fascists and communists beat each others’ heads
in from England to Rumania, with the exception
of the countries which have already declared them
selves for the Left or the Right. Spain is the pres
ent fever spot, but the malady is sorely felt
throughout the continent, and probably will soon
make of the most cultured nations in the world
a giant apoplectic.
But we ourselves cannot “point with pride.” The
presidential election of 1936 has shown, for the
first time in America’s history a class split that
accounts for the varying results achieved by the
Literary Digest and Fortune magazine polls. The
Digest, with its straw' votes sent principally to
property owners, shows a definite London trend,
wdiile Fortune, which sends out personal inter
viewers to laborers and relief workers, shows an
equal drift towards Roosevelt.
EMOCRACY is engaged in its crucial test now
>n Great Britain and France. America is
Scheduled to follow. Whether we are able to main
tain the political equilibrium of our fathers, or
stampede into a form of dictatorship, may depend
a great deal upon the million young Americans
who are now in schools of higher education in the
United States. If democracy is to succeed, young
America must be convinced of its efficacy.
Hop's
Skips and Jumps
by OKVIU,K HOi'KIXX
I’m strange liere, of course, but
I'm afraid it's going to be o.k. Too,
there are those who will tell you
that I'm strange anywhere that’s
neither here nor there. Something
is good about going strange places,
r1 B
seeing strange people, eating
strange food, and us Noel Cow
ard once put it making strange
noises afterward, 1 still wait for
somebody to come up, stick his chin
about so far from my chin, and
mutter, “Listen, stranger They
icin't spring that on every newie
though. I'll simply have to bide
my time.
To date my most charming' ex
periences here have been about
three-fold. The first of these
occurred when I was told, that
is, informed in writing', that l
am a member of the class of
1910. Those little cards that be
gin, “Von, a member of the class
of 1910—" and continue in that
vein. Now whether 1 should lie
happy at this apparent appear
ance of youth, young and glow
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ing, or should “take arms
against” this bold-faced go-by of
| my senior dignity, which I do
radiate, I assure you, I am not
prepared to say. But just you
wall.
The second (these are still the
threefold stuff) was when the staff
over at Ye Igloo examined me for
; possible heartbeats, possible blood
pressure, possible evidences of
something which I again hasten to
I assure you I certainly am not. One
i of the boys over there was really
j quite amusing, quite clever, I
thought. He was doing some of
the examining and his hands were
easily the coldest I have ever had
the pleasure of having had run over
me (that’s rather well put I’d say i.
And whenever anybody giggled or
gasped at his touch he’d murmur.
“Yaaaas the paws that refreshes.”
Really very effective, yaaaas.
All of which brings me to the
crack I’ve been saving for you—
that is, for some of you. It seems
that one Frank Nugent, review
ing “The General Died at Dawn”
for the N. Y. Times, claimed
that Clifford Odets had let his
leftist admirers down with it. The
quip, to wit: “Odets, where is
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thy sting.” And to this, which
• you wiil rernoml>er from Walter
Winchell (I’m just a bit senti
mental about this one): The col
ored lady had on so many or
chids she looked like a well-kept
grave.
And finally to this: “Honey in
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abouts, but it's escaped me thus
far . . . George Seldes, who wrote
“Sawdust Caesar” okays “Hail
Caesar,” by his successor as Rome
correspondent for a met daily . . .
Both were kicked out of Italy—one
way to fame and fortune apparent
ly .. . Dr. Beall, the Italian prof
(nono - he's United States, through
an’ through) has an engaging hab
it of wanting to know “is this clear
to anybody?”
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Lloyd Ruff Helps Draft
Flood Control Project
Lloyd Ruff, assistant in the geol
ogy department, this summer
helped to draft the geological re
ports of the Willamette flood sur
vey.
This project, carried out by the
United States army engineers, was
under the direction of Ernest Mc
j Kitrick, graduate of the geology
I department of the University. It
was a preliminary survey of all
tributaries of the Willamette, pre
paratory to building dams for
, flood control, irrigation, and power.
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