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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1938)
BOB pollock's folly THERE IS a saying some where or another that the fe male of the species is more deadly than the male. Briefly, and in the language of the pro letariat, they ain't lyin’. J,ast night, purely in the in terest of science, this depart ment. procured from its femi nine operatives the costume us ually worn on the campus. Then the services of a makeup expert from the drama depart ment were obtained—excessive modesty or. his part forbids our mentioning his name. TOPPING THE ensemble we had one very heavy, very silk, very expensive bathrobe, made in China and excessively dear to the heart of its owner, one Av ery Cloniger. There is where we made our mistake. One can not do battle effectively when one is afraid of ruining about thirty bucks worth of bathrobe. After hours of being made up, we shuffled to the fray—that Is, the Coed Capers. Clutching our trembling right, arm was Feminine Operative No. 1 — Caroline Hand; to the left of us was Feminine Operative No. —Betty Pownall. WE ENTERED, climbed th steps, and went into the mad house. Wimmen? My friends, there were wimmen by the score all of them beautiful, all of them dressed as one dresses for the Florida beaches in then more palmy days. Everything was going fine. We thought we saw Happy But tleson in a very cute li’l sun suit, and maybe Alice Stewart in another; we saw the entire AOPi house strolling about in ,1. C. Penney’s best grade of long winter underwear. (Rater we learned that they had pur chased practically all of t In* stock in town of that particular article.) AS WE SAID everything was going fine. Then with a whoop like un Indian brave who had just qualified for his barber’s license, a form garbed in long underwear and practically noth ing else descended upon us screaming, "A man! Oh, lcol: 'girls a man!" It was Signe Rasmussen. We shoved an elbow in licr ribs, hoping to discourage her. It only added to the uproar. Wim men rose from the floor, stood around us an)l stared. We’ll never stare at the monkeys in the zoo next time we go. We know who* they feel like. SUDDENLY THERE arose a cry that sent terror to our heart, hidden as it was under thirty dollars worth of Chinese bathrobe. "Souvenir! We want a souvenir!” One might as well argue with a steam roller. While the dean of women, the assistant dean of women, and all of the officials who are sup posed to add to tlie womanly dignity of the University stood liy, we were attacked. Someone kicked us in the ankle, some one ripped a skein of living flesh from the back of our neck. We heard the Imthrohe come apart, cocoon by cocoon. FINALLY BY THE simple expedient of pulling and push ing we made the door. We left behind us our slippers, the most essential parts of our costume and a considerable portion of that priceless silk bathrobe. We went home. We were feel ing pretty low, thinking how many and how much that thirty bucks we would have to pay ('lonigcr would buy. But Ulonl ger is a gentleman and after the first five minutes — during which it was difficult to re strain him—he concluded it was all for the l»est. "I was getting tire of it any way,” said Honest Ave. •'But I was not that tired of it. Look here, either you get a signed apology from each of the gals that mobbed you or else,” he concluded. WE LOOKED VT him. !>lr. < loniger—when lie will stand— is a good six foot ore. He weighs on the Kate Smith side of 200. Anyway you look at him, he is no panty-waist. So you see how it is, gals. We have our board and room paid where Mr. Clontger lives. We can’t go back there without a bunch of signed apologies. Maybe you could help us out. We promise not to do it again. Three Eugene students of mu sic, Lorene Mitchell, violinist, ac companied by Dorothy Davis on the piano, and Evelyn Erickson, pianist, presented a program of music in the music hall last night. Iteineiuber l“umeroy’s Ser\ ice.—ad Let’s Bring Oregon’s Tenement1 Living Conditions Into the Open-—Why Evade the Facts . Facing the Housing Problem RTTTCTZTNG tlio fraternity system. through the suggestion that the council representing tin* Greek-let ter groups has been too long dormant, in tin- fare of evil eondi tions, gets one about the same result as being eaught plantin'.1' a bomb under the administra tion building. It oeeasions lots of eomment. But the nature of that eomment indicates the lack of thought, really, which the matter has received. Objections take several eouVses. Indig nant Greeks impure, “Do von think the dor mitories are any better?" Those who feel the challenge more directly come up with “Our house will hold more than 25 men and the rooms are big, too." And the third group, Die “economic necessity group,” asks, “Where would you house lliose 1200 freshmen if you had deferred pledging?”, and “What remedy would you suggest?” Having been eaught red-handed in the tossing of this figurative bomb into the struc ture of the status quo, some effort seems nec essary, not as defense but as explanation, to set the angry Greeks aright. rJ'A('KljNG the most often advanced ques tions and arguments in the order of their importance, it should be remembered that BOO, not 1200, freshmen pledge houses. A good many of that 200 soon leave school. In proportion, some of the 900 also drop out — and one reason that students from both groups drop out is that the University and its fraternities have failed in their efforts or have made no efforts to adjust these students, either academically or to their environment. But putting aside this phase of the prob lem, which is perhaps the most important of all but is rarely considered, it can be seen that deferred pledging would mean the hous ing of not more than an additional 300 stu dents. The tenor of the discussion at the recent meeting of the Oregon dads indicates that the dads at least (and they represent an im portant influence in state allairs) are willing to go to some lengths to improve the poor living conditions which at present exist. T^ONE on a three year basis, the prepara tion of the University to lake over the 300 men orphaned by deferred pledging would be one of the primary steps in the insti tution’s recognition of its obligation to stu dents in the problem of housing a long ig notVd obligation. How should it be done? Probably not with dorms there has 1.. too much dissatisfac tion and there are too many shortcomings ill the present dormitories- they house 270—to warrant the construction of another such building without first investigating the possi bilit ies. Tlii‘ most successful system for providing housing has l)(M‘ii tried in 1he east with tin* so-eii l led “university houses,’’ M'lu's** are buildings eonstrueted on university-owned land by the university which house about 25 men. In some eases they are used by inlormal living groups in other by social fraternities. Under such conditions, the fraternity system, where used, lias been successful and applaud ed. The standard of the houses lias a ten dency to remain fairly even and university supervision of the maintenance of the houses and grounds have kept that standard high. The success of this plan elsewhere makes it worthy of Oregon's investigation not for the University alone hut also for the state college and other schools in the system. o # # for the second argument, several fra ternity men have forwarded the state ment that their tong's lodge was built to hold more than 25 men. The objectives of the fraternity which make the system worth fighting for although some would see it move on, un changing. to atrophy and ultimately be com pletely discarded are the oft mentioned brotherhood, fellowship, and scholarship. The effort. to attain these ideals places a physical limit on the size of the fraternity. There can b>- little brotherhood in a group which in cludes 40 to 100 affiliates—and little scholar ship. at least within living quarters, when there are more than two men in a room. Qt-'UOLARKHIP in American institutions of k higher education has taken a heating. One hig reason that it has is the fact that student environment has heen ignored. It scents only proper that every student should have, espec ially if he's paying $40 it month for it. a room of his own. Failing litis, and if the room is large, light, and airy, he should not have more than one roommate forced upon him. Even those who protest most vigorously that their fraternity isn't over-crowded can not say that their members sleep in healthful surroundings. Not, long ago, at the request of the Univer sity, it survey was conducted of campus sleep ing quarters. Health regulations require that every person have 1100 square feet of air space. If those regulations were enforced, every fraternity on the campus would have to double its air space, at least, or halve its membership. In most houses Ihc member pay $10 per month for sharing a room and a 1 wo-or-three deek hunk on the sleeping porch. Hut the indications of tenement conditions do not, stop here. One fraternity figures it pays $9 for food for each member. That makes $19. The rest of the more than $45 house bill goes 1o plug up various rat-holes; over-taxation, poor buying, inexperienced management, old debts, excessive interest to the two men who have a great many of our houses by Ihc nose, financially. HE question, “ Do you think the dorms are A any better?”, lias already heen partially answered in the consideration of ‘‘university houses.” As far as room goes, they are an improve ment. For $T! per month, however, Ihe stu dent isn't getting his money’s worth, espe cially from the standpoint of food served, in t lie dorms. But the male dorm dweller does have a semblance of privacy in his room, which he shares with one other student. The beds are slightly belter than those found in most fra ternities, for house beds are usually double or triple deck hunks of the sort usually obtain able in a two-bit flop house. Women’s dorms are crowded to the physical limit and beyond the limit, of de cency. They are on a par with the sororities, which if anything are worse than the frater nities when it comes to massed humanity in small rooms, sleeping on damp, ill-ventilated and never warm sleeping porches. "'HR University and the state of Oregon vhieli owns it are big enough and finan cially powerful enough to step in and remove tenement conditions to the benefit of bo1h students and fraternities if they can be con vinced of the necessity for a large expendi ture. It is the position of the interfraternity council to see that every consideration of Ibis sort is obtained for the fraternities and to recognize thus conditions that do exist; that organization should cast off its lethargy and obliviousness to its own faults and investigate and evaluate any snggetion which might elim inate some of those faults. Finally, it should make the system's needs and shortcomings known to University authorities. Simply stated, the problem is this. The University is equipped in every way except housing to handle and is handling 0000 stu dents. It can house only about f>00 to GOO of those students and some of those not too well. The fraternity system has served a worthy purpose in handling the great excess and is worth retaining for other reasons. Why not give it the help it needs to do the job pro perly, as long as it is assuming one of the 1 niversity \ obligations? Exhibition Explained By Professor De Co u From the dim past of the civilization which existed in Egypt r.,000 years ago lias grown the whole of modern mathematics, says Ed gar E. DeCou, head of the University mathematics department, as he explains the browsing room exhibition of valuable mathematics books. The University library, together with that of the University of Washington, have the finest mathematics collection in the Northwest, 4-' I . L 'IV nil, I III l IlIVnMl) has built its collection up over a period of years, until it now num bers among its works an especial ly valuable first printed edition of Boethius, which was made in 1942. A recently printed volume shows facsimile pages of the Rhind pa pyrus which was unearthed in Egypt but a hundred years ago, i and even more recently deciphered. Written approximately 3 5 0 0 j years ago, this manuscript, says >r. DeCou. embodies all the known { nathematical knowledge of the [ Egyptians at that time. Asked about the accuracy of Egyptian calculations. Dr. DeCou said their methds brought them good results in measuring distances and con structing the pyramids, although the science has undergone innum erable changes since their time. The books range from this an cient papyrus through medieval and early English and American works. The works of Boethius, used from the time he wrote them, 500 A.D., in manuscript form were first printed in 1492. Early printed books show marks of actual book worms, Dr. DeCou pointed out, as he showed holes eaten clear through the pages of old books. Since Latin was the language of I learned men, Dr. DeCou said, most : of the books are written in Latin, with an occasional German and French one. The earliest one in English is a 1094 edition of general arithemetic by Wingate. The oldest American volume is Nicolas Pike's “Arith metic," printed in 17SS. It gives systems of federal money in use in the various states of the country at that time, said Dr. DeCou. For many years it was used in Harvard and Yale as a textbook. After winning the Rocky Moun tain conference title in 1937, Mon tana State college defeated the state university's Grizzlies three games out of four for the state col lege basketball title. # LEROY MA'l'TINGLY, Editor ^ * WALTER R. VERNSTROM, Manager LLOYD TUPLING, Managing Editor Associate Editors : Paul Deutschmann, Clare Igoe. ___ 'Ihe Oregon Daily Emerald, official student, publication of the University of Oregon, published daily during the college year excej t Sundays, Mondays, holidays and final examination periods. Entered as second-class mail matter at the postmee, Eugene, Oregon. Editorial Board : Darrel Ellis, Bill Peace, Margaret Ray, Edwin Robbins, A1 Dickhart, Kenneth Kirtley, Bernardine Bowman. The Press Is Here Again I lib Oregon Press eonferoneo of the Ore J4'Oii Press association opens its twentieth annual session here today. Willi one of the biggest newspaper strikes in reeent years now going on in Portland, a good news vdar behind them, and elections once again around the corner, the editors and publishers should find several lively topics 101* discussion. Rut the annual conclave has always found much to talk about, for that matter—for the Oregon conference is one of •he oldest, and most successful in existence. # # # rJ''IlE twentieth meeting finds the annual press affair one of the oldest gatherings of this type. Tt was preceded in its field h.v the Washington state press meet, inaugurated by the University of Washington school of journalism, by but three or four years. Recognized all over the country as one of tlm best state conventions of newspaper men, 1 lie* annual Oregon anair is snocosslul largely because it remains undivided, despite the fact the interests of the big and little papers grow further and further apart. But, while the big papers grow bigger and the small sheets more numerous, respect, in terest, and deference have bridged the grow ing circulation gap—and most of the papers in Oregon will be represented here today. rjpiIE twentieth anniversary of the confer ence marks the silver anniversary of the regime of grey-haired, canny Dean Erie \V. Allen as the head of the University school of journalism. One of the things which the school of journalism has fathered, fostered, and fondled during its 2f> years under the dean's tutelage is the press conference—and the best possible tribute to the journalism school's chief execu tive is the interesting meet which the twen tieth conference promises to be. SIDE SHOW By Bill Cummings and Paul Deutchmann On the Eastern corner of the Mediterranean are 3 5 0,000 square miles of land, most of which is arid. Sixteen million people inhabit this antique land which comes into the interna tional lime-light chiefly because it is at the head of England’s Suez canal. We speak of Egypt. Seven conquerors have set up their banners in Pyramid land, since the Persians swept across with their bearded hordes in the dim centuries B.C. Current con queror is Great Britain, who nominally added Egypt to her sprawling empire in 1914 when she declared a protectorate over the semi-autonomius part of the Turkish empire. Egypt has burst into the news recently with the corona tion and cutting up of the boy king, Farouk, who took over the royal job at 17 a few months ago. He has since fired his prime minister and married a beautiful commoner—16-year old Farida Zulficar. Although England relinquish ed her protectorate over Egypt in 1930, she still has hold of the most important strings. Egypt as well as being an important link on the route to India, is the only eoastland on the sou- - them shores of the Mediterran- ( ean under British direction. Furthermore the Capetown to London route is another colonial J lifeline, dear to the Britishers as the Indian route. c In view of the Italian threat r to English control of Africa, it C is unlikely that the status quo s will change. Egypt may keep f her autonomy, even paper inde pendence, but the Lion will stand behind the Sphinx, be cause Mussolini’s shadow in nearby Ethiopia looms large. * * * Interesting comment on the colonial situation was made yesterday by Lieut. Col. Ginks of the English Salvation Army. The veteran mercy worker, who has traveled through many of the Army’s posts, says that his country may cede Western Af rica to Germany in the future, if Germany will agree not to break the paece of Europe. The colonel points out that the land (originally a German colony) is of little value to Eng land, consisting of grazing fields inhabited for the most part by Germans and Boers. His statement is further evi dence of the curious policy the English are taking in foreign affairs at present—that of buy ing off the dissatisfied “have nots” with concessions, bits of territory, recognition of rights, etc. It should lie gratifying to the peace-seeking public; dis maying to the radical national ists. If the English continue on Crafty Cribber (Continual from finne one) ust a GIGOLO ‘‘Just a Gigolo, but we make the ough,” is the theme song of five len students at the University of iklahoma who have originated a ociety, and escort dateless coeds or 25 cents an hour and expenses. Greetings - Publishers! Wo are glad to welcome you to Eugene for another happy publishers’ reunion. While you are here make it a point to taste as fine an lee Cream as you will find in the state. ALWAYS A WINNER MEDO-LAND ICE CREAM GOLD MEDAL QUALITY Phone 393 this policy (in spite of their mammoth re-armament pro gram) we may see the strange picture of Europe sitting about a council- table, peacefully carv ing up the vast African "es tates” with rewards going to all the “little boys” who pro mise to be good. Campus Calendar -*! r pill Beta play tryouts will be held Saturday at 1 p.m. in Theresa Kelly's apartment on 7.ril R 14th street. All Phi Beta members whether music or drama majors may try out. Orides-Yeomen will sponsor a rlance tonight following the game in the AWS rooms. Members free, others a dime. intramural managers meet today at 4 o'clock in the College Side. Your Eyes Consume Enormous Energy Laboratory tests have shewn that 80 percent of the average person's con sumption of energy is used by the eyes. When your eyes aren't right—when you have to strain to see well—the drain on your nervous energy is much greater than you realize. Don't lower your effi ciency and use up vitality through neg lect of your eyes. Keep them right by having them examined regularly. Greater Comfort—Better Appearance ELLA C. MEADE Optometrist 14. W. Eighth University women do not trust their men... IN THE SELECTION OF Corsages Member F.D.T.A. Remove all doubt by ordering your corsage from the University florists. You will be assured of an exquisite cor sage that will make you the hero of the evening. Come in to see us—we will be glad to give you detailed advice con cerning flowers and arrangements which will befit the gown and the girl. We Deliver University Florists Phone 654 QualityCounts WITH BLUE BELL PRODUCTS Wo arc proud of the fineness of Blue Boll products . . . 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