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By CLARE IGOE
"One of the first things that
should be taught college fresh
men is not to act college," se
verely recommends Don Herold
in an article which he calls
“College 'Men’ ” in the Scrib
ner's magazine for December.
“Perhaps the first week of
their college year should be de
voted to boiling the little fel
lows in oil and otherwise tortur
ing them to get out of their
system all desire to wear mon
key caps and do snake dances.
Then, if they persist in acting
conventionally college, they
should all be shipped to the
Warner Brothers studios in Hol
lywood to cut up in motion pic
tures about college life a doom
worse than Siberia,” he contin
ues.
* * *
This drastic treatment might,
Herold thinks, cure Americans
of their “weakness for labels,
and for acting and dressing the
part.”
“There are, of course, in ev
ery college a few lusty little
nitwits who lead in this col
legiate babbit try. They should
l>e smacked to earth by their
more embarrassed classmates.
It is the embarrassed who arc
right, but it is the healthy little
babbitts who prevail.
“This goes, too, for after life,
and I think that I have sug
gested a bit of pedagogy here
by which the colleges can even
tually improve American life
as a whole. What America
needs, for one thing, is fewer
joiners,” Herold emphatically
proclaims.
* # *
Pursuing his pica for fewer
“collegiate” collegiutes, Herold
declares: “The best actors I
know look like businessmen.
Only the hams look like actors.
The best writers and artists I
know look like brokers or store
keepers. Only the phonies wear
long hair and Windsor tics. The
best musicians might be mis
taken for chemists. The best
college students ought to look
the least college.”
And on this stern note he
concludes: “If we can't get in
telligent people from our col
leges, we ought to close the col
leges. And I think it would help
a lot toward this end to smack
all that is collegiate out of the
freshmen before they are a week
old.”
• * *
We hope you’ll take this lit
tle tirade to heart, kiddles, and
don’t let us ever, ever catch you
looking like college students!
UO Broadcast
(Continued from pone one)
Warren D. Smith, head of the geol
ogy department; Mabel A. Wood,
head of the home economics de
partment; D. D. Gage, associate
professor of business administra
tion; and N. B. Zane, associate pro
fessor of space arts.
Some of the faculty commenta
tors told of barely managing to
keep ahead of the Sino-Japanese
war, one of them getting out of
Peiping only a few days before it
was captured by the Japanese,
while another member of the for
um told of an experience with a
Chinese bayonet. An American
owned dairy in Shanghai which was
blown up by aerial bombs a few
weeks after being visited by one
of the party was another topic cf
discussion.
Student musical numbers were
presented by Jacqueline Wong and
Emilie Chan, piano, and by Mary
Kay Booth, cello. Music school
faculty members who took part
were John Stehn, associate profes
sor of music and director of the
University band, and Mine. Rose
McGrew, professor of voice. Dean
Landsbury introduced the faculty
presentations.
This round-table type of pro
gram is the second in a series of
three to be released in the remain
ing few broadcasts under the ex
perimental remote control hookup
with KOAC.
Board of Higher
(Continued front pane one)
ences. He started at that school
as professor of physics in 1919.
The announcement was made
last week that David Faville, asso
ciate professor of economics at
Stanford had withdrawn his name
from the list being considered. Dr.
Charles Remer of the University
of Michigan and Clarence Upde
graf of the University of Iowa
were both considered out of the
running in stories published pre
viously.
W. WATTS VISITS SEATTLE
Marian P. Watts, reference libra
rian, visited with friends in Seattle
last weekend.
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The Fraternity's Utopia
OT long ago reports tliat Oregon Dads
would look into tlie rushing and pledging
situation again this year brought rapid de
fensive action from, ho'use presidents ainh
house managers. With the remote possibility
of deferred pledging in the air. the fraternity
leaders rallied ’round to collect their strong
est arguments and prepare to smite this
monster just as soon as it raised its head.
The dads’ investigation ought to he given
every possible aid. Although rushing, since
revised two years ago, has been running along
smoothly, there are major difficulties in the
system which the dads apparently have real
ized and would like1 to do something about.
Whenever the problem of rushing and
pledging is discussed, deferred pledging seems
almost certain to he considered. More than
any other, it seems the ideal solution to the
freshman’s problem of selecting a house. It
is undeniably true that a student could make
a better decision after he has had one term
on the campus to become somewhat acclimat
ed than he can in the rushed, bewildering lirst
week. At least he would have more facts at
hand with which to work in making a choice
—if he didn’t make an intelligent decision
his error would he the result ol poor judg
ment, not lack of information.
lOTM’IKM leveled against the deferred
pledging system—and it is always plenti
ful when the subject is broached usually
condemns it as impractical. It seems, how
ever, that with preparation before hand the
influx of new men into houses could he de
layed one term without wrecking fraternities,
as has often been asserted with great posi
tiveness. With proper planning, the average
fraternity should be able to “stock up” in
advance with enough men who were certain
to return to carry the house over the break.
In fact, in the long run houses should profit—
for till1 mortality rate in the pledge class
should ho considerably reduced and loss
trouble would result from bousing a flock
of neophytes until .judicious pruning would
permit their collective entrance into the old
manor.
Second objection to this plan is that it
wouldn’t, work because the whole term or
year would he just one long rush week.
OW, anyone advancing tliis last argument
is taking a stiff poke at llie basic
principles on wliieli fraternalism is founded.
lb1 is insisting that bouses, as organizations,
could not agree upon and adhere to a plan
for controlled, term-long rushing. Since the
Greek letter organizations are supposed to
indoctrinate cooperation, brotherhood, sports
manship, and fair play, it’s a poor fraternity
man who doesn’t hold that his organization
and others could conduct itself under the
guidance of the ideals it professes.
The most practical of all the objections
comes from the University’s viewpoint—how
are these hoys to he housed for a year or a
term?
This problem has been answered at other
universities. The usual period before pledg
ing is one year, which enables them to keep
dormitories or other living quarters occupied.
(If 1 he one-year before pledging plan was
adopted it would remove the awkward bal
ance of men in houses by terms, with the
house pledging a greater number of men and
keeping them through their last three years.)
Housing around 250 or 300 for either a year
or a term would undoubtedly he a problem,
hut with dormitory space and the University
owned house at 1367 Alder, plus off-campus
facilities now available, it ought not to prove
an insurmountable problem.
Deferred pledging, at any rate, is worthy
of consideration. Too long has it been pushed
aside as impossible and impracticable. If the
end justifies drastic change, it is»one of the
“means’’ which ought to he considered.
The Seventh Occupant of the Presidential*Chair
that il s just about over, Oregon s
somewhat unusual method of choosing a
president has proven an interesting and satis
faetory aeadende adveidure.
Upholding the tradition of a democratic
faculty, the state hoard of the Oregon system
of higher education courteously extended to
the faculty and its representatives the oppor
tunity to advise it in making a selection. The
secrecy which usually accompanies such a
procedure was almost completely lacking.
The state hoard’s generosity has been and
will he further rewarded. Kvcrv one of the
men named to visit the campus was well re
ceived; each one, apparently, left the faculty
with the impression that he was the type of
man definitely qualified for the position.
As a result of the interviews, there has
boon an encouraging reaction, or so it seems
at least, on tin' campus. The concensus among
the faculty members is that whichever one
of the nominees is finally named, Oregon has
been able to pick its chief executive from a
group of capable and well-qualified educa
tors, and that the selection of any one of them
would be satisfactory.
Looking over the qualifications of the
group as a whole it seems apparent that the
nominees conform just about as nearly as is
humanly possible to the ideal set up by
Chancellor Frederick M. Hunter in his “1G
points.”
For its seventh president, the University
will he getting a first-rate man. Dr. Hover's
successor, no matter what his name, is fit to
carry on.
SIDE SHOW
Edited by ....
Kill Cumipings, Campus
Paul Deutschmann, National
Next Saturday morning tIn*
question of deferred pledging
will undoubtedly lie brought up
at the annual mass meeting of
Oregon dads. Their motive—to
rid the earn pus of rush week
and its evils—is sound, but their
method, if they propose the de
ferred pledging plan, is unsound,
lienee, this appeal: Don’t adopt
the deferred pledging plan, dads,
if you want to do the right
thing by your sons, daughters,
and your I’nlverslty.
Theoretically, deferred pledg
ing offers a solution to the
much-discussed problems of the
present rushing and pledging
system, but as far as the Uni
versity' of Oregon is concerned
the theory of the plan is its
only desirable element. Ulti
mately. deferred pledging may
be adopted on the Oregon cam
pus, but at present neither the
fraternities nor the University
is ready for it.
In the first place, deferment
of pledging would not do away
with the evils of rush week, but
would tend merely to postpone
them. No matter when rush
week is held, there will always
be confusion, interference with
school work, and a general emo
tional strain on rushee and rush
er alike. It is even possible that
deferred pledging would create
more confusion by spreading
these evils over a long period of
time. Furthermore, financial
stress in the fraternities and the
housing problem actually pro
hibit adoption of the plan.
* * *
Itesidcs deferred pledging, an
other substitute for the present
(closed! system of rushing has
been advocated—open rushing.
This system would confine all
rushing and pledging to the
summer months, before the
rushee is even enrolled in the
I'niversity, and possibly even
while he is still a high school
student. The evils of this plan
are obvious. It would he im
possible for a fraternity to
pledge a homogeneous group,
and the rushee could not pos
sibly get a true picture of fra
ternities.
The present system, then,
while open to criticism, is more
desirable than either deferred
or open rushing, and should be
retained. Under the sealed bid
ding regulations laid down last
year by the interfraternity
council, the present closed rush
ing system works fairly well
too well to warrant the up
heaval that a change to open or
deferred rushing would cause.
Strange Land
By WERNER ASENDORF
(German Exchange Student)
CONSIDERABLE DISCI'S
SION has been aroused in a cer
tain class about what propa
ganda means and if it could be
used for our own purpose. Most
of the answers to this question
agreed in the idea that propa
ganda is not so good but may
be used for a good purpose. The
outcome should defend the meth
ods. The dirty methods should
get cleaned by a clean aim.
Even lies- the professor suc
ceeded in bringing the discus
sion to such A heated point. —
these defenders of propaganda
stated, could be used for a good
and necessary idea.
In Germany, propaganda has
not such a bad smell as it is
supposed to have here. Propa
ganda means in Germany agi
tation for an idea or purpose
that is considered by the propa
gandist to be the best for those
who have to accept the idea.
The propagandist applies meth
ods which seem to be fit to con
vince his auditor or reading
public. He would therefore
modify his language and argu
mentation in respect of his lis
teners. Dirty tricks and lies
would not be considered as
rightful. It is quite clear thrt
such “devices” would not be
useful in the long run. Even a
people that gets all the news
by official agencies knows ways
and means to get around such
limitations. It has been found,
for instance, during the war
that it was wiser for England
to print the German G. H. Q.
Bulletins. France didn’t do it
and the effect was that the
French bought Swiss newspa
pers and did not believe the
French bulletins.
To come back to our discus
sion. We accepted the idea that
propaganda has to be defined
as the use of methods which are
not altogether clean. The pur
pose is to sway the masses ind
the worst point is that those
who deal in propaganda know
that they are handing dope to
the poor suckers who are not
intelligent enough to look
through the scheme. Propa
ganda according to this defin
ition is a frame-up, which is
aimed to make the masses lose
their senses, dough, and guts.
Propoganda stacks the cards in
the poker game of politics. The
propagandists are political card
sharpers. (This propaganda
would be called in Germany
“polische pekllame" or political
advertisement.)
IF YOU DEFINE PROPA
GANDA like this you must be
surprised that young men who
believe in democracy defend it
If you believe in the success of
such agitation, you believe, too,
that the masses are stup-.d
enough to fall for such low
class methods of stirring emo
tions for “higher aims.” What
is the use of democracy then ?
Doesn’t democracy need an in
telligent people that is open for
intelligent reasoning and does
not fall for blundering political
wolves in the skins of sheep but
lives up to the expectation of
those who think that persistence
in educational campaigning will
change the world into a better
place and make democracy
worth while ?
If you claim the masses are
stupid you will give “fascism”
all the breaks. For it is still
better to dictate in honesty than
to lie for the honesty of de
mocracy.
If you think this is propa
ganda you are wrong. It is tiie
case for democracy.
A democracy that is mayo?
not run by the people but for
the people and with the sup
port of the masses. For I still
believe that the masses fall for
the honest personality and not
for the most skillful lying
crook.
Big Dad's Day
(Continued from parte one)
an, president; and from the Uni
versity of Oregon by C. Valentine
Boyer, president.
Chancellor Frederick M. Hunter
will give the principal address us
ing as his title, ^“Building Oregon.
Following which presentation of
the attendance trophies and the
announcement of new' officers will
be made. The program will be con
cluded by everyone singing
“Mighty Oregon."
Merle Chessman, of Astoria,
president of the Oregon Dads, is
toastmaster for the banquet.
The Phi Beta trio will play
throughout the dinner. As a part
of the musical program the Gam
ma Phi Beta chorus will sing two
numbers and Barbara Ward will
offer a solo.
Women to Rule
(Continued from pape one)
the etiquette booklet presented to
all freshmen women at the Uni
versity of Pittsburgh.
“Pittiquette” further advises the
coeds to come to class on time and
say good morning to the professor.
Incidentally, being in the same
classroom is considered introduc
tion enough if you want to speak
to the handsome senior in the back
row. The booklet advises against
blind dates.
RECEIVES FELLOWSHIP
Elizabeth L. Munn, M.D. ’36, has
received a fellowship in obstetrics
and gynecology at the Mayo clinic
Sixth in Series by
Cornish Off Press
The sixth in a series of articles
by Dr. N. H. Cornish, professor of
business administration appear nl
in the November issue of the Ore
gon Merchants magazine. The ar
ticle is entitled, “Methods Em
ployed to Build Rales Talks."
The basis of the article rests on
research data collected from per
sonal interviews with 199 Oregon
merchants.
Dr. Cornish plans to write sever
al more articles in the series
which will appear in future issues.
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