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Pollock's FOLLY By BOB POLLOCK COMES NOW the big event of the year for the boys arid girls who inhabit the cement floored, drafty Shack and think maybe someday they will be tall dogs in the newspaper world and make as much as $22.50 ev ery week. This event of which I speak is so big that practically all of the Hhack’s male gender who will step out of cap and gown into the big and wide world next spring have sent their best Ar row shirts to the laundry, have pressed their best Fahey-Broek man suits, and are practicing showing their teeth and saying heartily, “I'm VERY glad to meet you.” IT IS the annual conference of Oregon’s publishers the boys who control practically all of the opportunities for news paper employment in this sovereign state. Naturally, for one to get down in their little black book if they have a little black book, which I doubt is practically suicide. Or, looking at it another way, it is the equivalent of putting the thumb to a distinctly non-Aryan nose and waving the extended four fingers in the close proximity of Hitler’s puss. It just ain’t being done, friends. or COrrtSF, there is a very good chaftce that the publisher one polishes the old apple with won’t remember one next dune. Also, if Roosevelt's Recession continues and grows to be the lusty child of which it gives promise, the publisher may not be around to remember one. Nevertheless, t h e A r r o w shirts will lie on parade and those who favor !)X cent .1. Penney articles instead will very likely find themselves sell ing classifieds on a country weekly come next June. ,1. PINK, the grapevine tells us, recently paid under pres sure a six-bit line to Oregon’s finest, the library, for a book of Ibsen’s plays he kept over time in his enthusiasm for one of the drammers. John didn't mind the fine because the diam mer lie read was very nice in deed and besides it was for an assignment and John likes to stand well in his classes. But what made John’s visage resemble his name was the fact which he subsequently discov ered that the drammer he had read was the wrong one. Now John does not stand well in his class anti besides and above till he is short six-bits which is a lot of money to anyone who works on The Emerald. Public Property By L. M. If I were a Pollock (thank the Lord for something) I would express my sentiments of this evening with a statement "A foo upon all columnists; such individuals add grey to the hair of the editor.” And if I were a gifted feminine writer such as Miss Igoe, I would re mark, "We are of the opinion that columnists are of a type distinct from all others and, we think, although their genius is admitted, that they are some times remiss in the execution of their more prosaic duties." But we or I am neither and the fact remains that it is Tues day night. Now, Tuesday night is not as famous as Saturday night but it is a night upon which both Pollock and Miss Igoe are supposed to write col umns. And at 9:13, just three hours and 13 minutes past his deadline, Pollock, who didn’t contribute last night, dribbles In and sets down. Miss Igoe, bless her little heart, does not concede herself the virtue of being lale. She just doesn’t show at all. It’s no wonder people go screwy. * * * Barbara Henderson, species Alpha Phi, made news for the Register-Guard Monday and Sunday made many skiicrs very, very irritated. Miss Henderson’s name didn’t appear in the Guard but we are led to believe that the R-G’s Ned Simpson must have been one of those she made very irri tated. For the Guard prates at length, no names mentioned, of a miss who parked her car in the loop of a one-way road - and skiied blithely off to test her skill on the mountain. People, it seems, just couldn’t get by for hours upon hours and, presumably including Mr. Simpson, they became very, very irritated. It is time our boy Pollock once more made the news. Bro ther SAE Dick Lit fin kept at least one of his sophomore whiskerino appointments in the house. He named Pollock head of the cleanup committee. Pollock, it is to be remem bered', is a senior. * « * A tiny campus mutt sounded his own knell long and loudly in the street below Condon when Romey DePittard cruised over him in a long black Buick. Worried, mouth agape, the blonde young lady who accom panied DePittard as he rolled towards the fatal scene, stood on the running board while ttie howling remains were gently deposited in the rumble seat. The black car became an am bulance as it bore the tortured body of the pup toward merci ful extinction at the hands of a veterinarian. Strange indeed are the ways of women. Monday several campus cap erers got all dressed up and had Cameraman George Godfrey in to take their picture for pub licity purposes, Now, the costumes worn at the capers, if those shown were representatives, reveal some startling things about the shapeliness or unshapeliness of coed legs. But the strange part of the incident was the diffi culty Mr. Godfrey had in get ting them to strike a pose. Dressed to reveal their limbs (for publicity and caper pur poses) none of the girls would exploit their outfits. No one would sit in tiie front row, all insisted on standing behind the bench used in the picture. Which seems a strange quirk indeed, even for a woman. I In the Mail ANOTHER SUGGESTION To the Editor: At last some thought is being given to the matter of the grad ing system in list' here. 1 he many weaknesses of the present method, diverting attention as it does to the entirely false ideal of a high GPA, have been brought out capably. But as yet there has been no mention made of one of the most important points of a satisfactory educational sys tem : the comprehensive exam ination. This type of over-all test at the end of the year (or even, ideally, at the end of the entire college course) is un pleasant to think about, from the standpoint of the student, but this very fact indicates its need. After all, it is a common place that the purpose of edu cation should not be the train ing of pupils to memorize tem porarily, but rather to equip them for life. And while it is equally obvious that a student could not be expected to re member the details of the sub ject matter brought out during the year, still he should retain :i definite and thorough under standing of the subject as a whole. Therefore, year-end ex aminations. not too objective, seem appropriate. To reword the argument: at present, a diploma too often in dicates merely that the posses sor has for the past four years boned up on his different courses for the different exams; then proceeded to forget com pletely, as of no further use, what he had "learned" acual ly, what he had absorbed only superficially and temporarily. Far more in accord with the purposes of our vaunted higher education. would be a system so organized and administered that it produced, and demanded, a retention of understanding. "University education” should not signify the successful pass ing of successive tests over a four-year period; it should IjF.ROY MATTINGLY, Editor WALTER R. VERNSTROM, Manager LLOYD TUPLING, Managing Editor Assoeiate Editors: Paul Deutsrhmann, Clare Igo». The Oregon Daily Emerald, ofTieial student, publication of the University of Orepon, published daily during the eolleye year t>xr(*T t Sundays, Mondays, holidays and final examination period?.. Entered as second-class mail matter at the postffice, Eugene, Oregon. __ _tt t Editorial Board : Darrel Ellis, Bill Peace, Margaret Pay, Edwin Robbins, A1 Dickharf, Kenneth Kirtley, Bernardine Bowman. The Battle for the Butte Yynill able Doan -Morse tietuml it, ino drive to save Spencer's Imtte from “tim Iier wolves’’ is starting on the campus. Spencer s liiitte is one of the landmarks of Eugene. As il now stands, it is a tree-clad and beautiful part of the low hills which frame Eugene and contributes more than a little towards making this city the pleasant, forest-surrounded community that it is. But it seems that private interests own the butte, and with considerable justification, have become tired of waiting for the city to purchase their land and make a park or re serve of if. So the butte goes on the block and if some one doesn’t come forth with 1100 to take an option on it. the frees which cover it will he on their wav to the mill ere long. The total price is siikI lo he if i.tmi which might lie voted by the community ;it the Mny balloling. # » # |T seems strange tlmt Eugene slimibl be so occupied with budget-balancing as to fail to foresee the menace which is very definitely about lo attack its “setting.” And. appar ently, the money is beginning to flow in from organizations and individuals downtown. Although the matter is not primarily one for campus consideration. University students have evinced much interest in the movement to “save Spencer's.” Anything which affects Eugene is almost certain to hit also at the University. And if the general drive fails for want of campus support. Oregon's face may not be as red as Eugene’s but its south face will be iust as barren. Two More Oregon Teams? jyjO'.'h, or less submerged under 1h<* mass of material which the executive council was 1o consider ;it fi mooting sclicdnled ten tatively for Tlmrsdiiy will lie two petitions, both for the right to represent Oregon in :i111 letie fields. One is from the ski club, growing in mem bership nnd apparently in 1he field to stay. Skiing is a participant’s sport—that is, there art' several hundred men and women on Iho campus who ski and have thus more than a spectator's interest. The other is from the boxing and wrestling club, which also has been shaping up in a manner which indicates it will be a permanent organization. In both instances, the petitions should4be granted. Both, if favorably received by the council, mean representation for Oregon in sports wherein it has now no teams com peting. « * * ''|''l I hi ease for the ski club is particularly strong. It is asking for no appropriation, at least it didn't in its petition as read to the athletic board recently. If' the organization can finance itself and if its members can cou duet themselves creditably on and off the field, it certainly has every right to represent the University in a recognized sport. And a strong case can bo made tor extending it financial aid, especially if its present success in interesting students continues. A recent letter from tlie AIi11 and Mat idol) indicates that organization is ready to schedule intcrseliolastic meets and desires the right to represent the University. The letter carries the suggestion, also, that the club might he able to finance its way in part. XTEND1NG the right to wear Oregon colors ought to come as a matter of Uni versity and ASUO policy. Broadening the athletic program should be one of the aims of the associated students, for the atheltic program, just as the educational activities program, should be designed to interest the largest possible number of students, both as participants and spectators. As a constructive means of de-emphasizing the “big time” varsity sports, the lesser sports should be encouraged. If the program can be made to interest and include a great number of students, there will be far more justification for permitting one sport, foot ball, to occupy a place of such importance ■financially and otherwise. Expansion in the sports field means increased support for the entire associated student program. SIDE SHOW Edited by ... . Kill Cummings, Campus Paul Deutschmann, National Campus Class of ’3i)ers have always boon not oil for thoir policy <*f slicking together in a united front—except when spring elec tions roll'around—and their idea cl getting together last night at the Theta Chi house for a dinner meeting was a good one. It’s al ways a good idea for politicians to sit across a table from one an other once in a while and ex change pleasant remarks, while underneath it all they are think ing what a dirty *(tb*( * that so-and-so really is. * * * Theoretically, the idea of cam pus-wide dinner meetings is a splendid one, and President Zane Kemler should be commended for inaugurating the plan on the campus. Such gatherings pro mote a class unity that should greatly facilitate such activities as the junior assembly series that is being planned, and Junior weekend. It is to be regretted stand for knowledge (less ob jective, factual knowledge than integral e d comprehension) thoroughly assimilated, to serve the student the rest of his life. Certainly, I'd be as horrified ns any other students at the in auguration of this proposal; but if our purposes are sincere, the logic of this system must be ad mitted. J. V. (Editor's note: The final at the end of the course of study which examines the student, impartially, over the field of his major is one of the main fea tures of the Continental or En glish system of education which was mentioned in yesterday's editorial. It is designed to shift the emphasis from individual courses and periodic factual ex aminations to an extended per iod of but lightly regulated in dependent study and a degree granted on the basis of assimi lated knowledge the student can show. Both are called systems of higher education; but consider ing the difference in technique leads one to believe that their objectives were radically differ ent.) that a class can work together so smoothly during the year—uni fied by such things as these din ner meetings and then blow up into several fire-spitting, mud slinging factions when elections come up. Too bad that the united front can't be preserved in the important process of electing class and student body officers. The return of polities always brings up the problem of politi cal pressure in honoraries. It has long been a black eye to the University—this mixture of pol ities and honoraries—and many students have become so dis gusted with political pressure that they have deserted the ac tivity field altogether. One can't blame them. * * * It is almost a common proced ure for honoraries, at least some of them, to pledge men and wo men who have no knowledge whatsoever of the field in which the particular honorary is sup posed to represent the cream of the crop. But just because a per son is a "good joe." is active on the campus, and would be an as set to the honorary, he is given the pledge ribbons emblematic of outstanding work. This is not true of all. or even the majority, of honoraries on the campus, but it is a smudge which should be removed from the reputation of Oregon honor organizations. National In 1875 France set up the third republic, because (some historians say) one man wore a black suit and a white tie. Ever since then the French have been changing ministries frequently and apparently (to us who change our government by “orderly” elections every four years) for as much reason as they started. » * « However, a glance into the history of the turbulent third republic, shows why a ministry lasts on the average only nine months and incidently why at the present. Camille Chautemps, radical socialist leader, is at tempting to form a new minis try. Returning to 1875 we discov er that the republic, set up more or less accidentally, was organized by the incompatible monarchists and republicans. A president was provided for, to be elected by a senate put into office by a system that assured their being conservative. There was also provided for a chamber, to be elected by uni versal manhood suffrage, and in which body almost all the pow er was vested. Connecting the president and the chamber is the ministry, which must sign the acts of the president and which is thoroughly controlled by the chamber. ft * * * As a matter of fact it is so well controlled that if a cham ber refuses to pass any mea sure of the ministry, the minis ter is left no alternative but to resign. The president steps in at this point and designates a man who attempts to form a ministry which will agree with the chamber. Then at this point the merry - go - round starts again. Another factor that enters seriously into French politics is the intricate party system. Unlike the United States and England, the French have about 30 parties, beginning on the right and ending on the left. Each is small, stubborn, and vociferous about its platforms and theories. It therefore be comes evident that the minis try must be a coalition. That is why the terms popular front, national front, centrists, right ists, etc. are so often heard in connection with French politics. * * * Chautemps, the present at tempter, was forced out four days ago by a convergence of strike, financial, and political difficulties. In the interim Leon Blum, socialist leader who was French premier before Camille, attempted unsuccessfully to form a cabinet. His failure was caused by lack cf a finance minister who would satisfy the radical socialists. Present crisis has developed into a matter of finance, radi cals seeking inflation, those The Executive Council Rides Again \ the agenda for the approaching meeting of tlie executive council art* several mat ters of importance. When tin* matter ol a stu dent union, reforms for the rally committee, proposed changes in the relations ol classes to t}„. AST'O. and two petitions by clubs for tlie right to represent the 1 niversity as teams all appear on the same docket, the meeting should be one of great importance. But more important than any of these im portant matters is the tact that the executive council is functioning again. • 'T'TIB present system of government of the associated students doesn't leave much authority for the executive council. When J)r. C. V. Bover set up the system, it was an organization designed primarily to givo him personal control. The two boards, educational and athletic activities, act only in advisory capacities and are made up to some extent of Student members. But the only committee wherein students wield the balance of power is the executive council. And all the power in the world in that body doesn’t mean much, in the final analysis. It lias only two or three constitutional duties, m which, by usurpation, it has added a very few others. If the present constitution delegates little power to the executive council, it also doesn't deny it power. The importance of the council seems to be just about what the members make it. With no or very few duties or ex cuses for meeting, last term it was almost inactive and, in the vernacular, seemed on the verge of “folding.” The sudden upturn in “business" upon which the council must pass gives it the op port unity to pet bark on its lent once mo..-. Some of thp items on the schedule for its first meeting indicate also that the students who ^ compose it have been stirred to open up a few matters on their own. Administrative control in the past has been rather heavy and the council has not. had too much chance to extend its powers. The time seems opportune for it. to try its un developed wings, for there has been an in creasing tendency on the campus to extend student participation in student, and even non-student, affairs. * * * JN once sense it is regrettable from the stand point of student government that Dr. Boyer is approaching the end of his regime. In the last couple of terms the president has called upon more and more student opinion. Re sponsible execution of the various phases of ^ jobs which lie has delegated to student lead ers has led toward increasing student partici pation. There is little doubt that Dr. Boyer’s “personal control” system of governing stu dent affairs has achieved most of its pur poses. Dr. Bovcr lias indicated through his actions that the student’s part in the setup would he gradually extended as the mess that was the ASUO gradually moved onto firmer ground. , There was little place in it, at the outset, for student action. Perhaps if the students, through such bodies as the executive council, continue to extend their powers and fulfill their obligations in a responsible manner. Dr. Donald Erb, the new chief executive, will sen fit to relegate to them greater responsi bilities in the system control he forms. nearer the center hoping to con trol the foreign exchange. Of course, it is not as simple as all that. In the event that C. Chau temps is not successful, it is said that another man, Albert Sarrault, ex-premier, will take over the difficult task. Then perhaps the nine-month cycle will begin over again. We might warn against scof fing at this apparently unsound system of government, for as tute students of politics say that it is perhaps the most democraic in the world today. Campus Calendar There will be a tea at the Alpha Phi house for Gamma Alpha Phi, women's advertising honorary, 4 o'clock Thursday. All members are asked to attend. Eighteen were registered yester day on the health service sick-list. They were: Mildred Huntus, Helen Howard, Corrinc Antrim, Vern Stokes, Peggy Peebler, Adelle Baron, Frances Baily, June Dick, Dave Silver. Floyd Mason, Ercel King, D. B. Holmes, John Nelson, Norman MacKay, William Jack son, Kenneth Eichner, Eamon Howard, Herbert Barbur. There will be a meeting of the Coed Capers committees at 11 Thursday in the AWS room in Gerlinger. Order of the O will meet at the Sigma Phi Epsilon house at noon today. Important. Senior coed cops will meet today at 12:30 at the journalism shack. Alpha Delta Sigma meets at 4 o’clock today at Thacher’s office. Master Dance will meet tonight at the dance studio at 7:30. Junior members will present their original dances for tryouts into senior Mas ter Dance. Prose and Poetry group of Phi lomelete will meet today at 4 o’ clock at the AOPi house. Drama group of Philomelete will meet today at 4 o’clock in the AWS room in Gerlinger. Carl Sorensen, world traveler, will speak to students at the cur lent problems discussion at West minster house Wednesday night at 9. He has made several trips around the world and will speak of his experiences. All are invited to attend. University to Get State Capitol Model The large model of the new state capitol building will belong to the University art school when the building is completed. The law provides that the art school should receive the model, Dean Ellis F. Lawrence said in making the announcement. Houses Draw for Costume Themes For Coed Capers The costumes to be worn by the members of each house at the Coed Capers Thursday night were drawn for at the heads of houses meeting yesterday afternoon. Each house will be represented by girls dressed in the specified costume of that house. The possibility of offering the subject of the four Love and Mar riage talks which are now being presented in a series, as a regular course in the University was pre sented and discussed. This was met by a favorable opinion of the group. Creating more interest in the house libraries was also discussed at the meeting. giiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiinnmiiimuiiiiuiiiiiitiiiiuiaiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiimniiiKM For Her I INITIATION it’s I ! Hoffman’s GIFT SHOP ! for I DISTINCTIVE JEWELRY 1 that will make her remember Il(1l!llllllllllllll! Broadway & Willamette 1 Phone 287 !^inijmuiuninniniim»iHi»niiiiminntminnn»nniinn!iiniiniiiim’n:iniinnininnniini? I~~ Business Majors to Be Entertained at Tea 1 Phi Chi Theta, national business honorary for women, will entertain at tea a group of business adminis tration majors in Gerlinger hall, Thursday, from 4 to 5:30, according to Vivian Runte, president. Ruth Ketchum is in charge of re freshments. ^OMSISJSlKJLirSJSISISlSJEiSEiiyciJBEJSISJc | Today’s 1 Emerald IIS made possible by the following advertisers Consequently they deserve your support! 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