Behind the
With JACK BRYANT
BULLETIN
AURELIE WOLCOTT, I’an
hellenic and Tri-Delt prcxy,
gets SAEized Wednesday after
noon as she takes FRANK LU
KOW’SKI’S pin. He’s changing
his name to Lucas.
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BETAZ now own a railroad!
Editor Jermaln complains at
lack of room and plans to move
it from chapter room to McAr
thur court. “It’s always too
crowded for me to play,” he
moans.
Story of the week is Art
Winetrout’s and Bette Hobbs’
decision to be married at the
Tri-Dclt house December 20. Of
COURSE you’ve heard of the
celebration that the Kappa Sigs
threw after Art announced that
he was going to make the big
jump . . . EVEN better was
that Oregon’s football team is
going to be minus one star tac
kle come next season . . . he’s
going to work in his pop’s Ford
garage as a parts man . . . he’s
not going to finish the term,
and Eette has already gone
home to get ready. , . .
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CONGRATULATIONS a r e
due the Sig Eps on their steady
drive to rid the campus of the
Sl*Es and install the Sig Kps
. . . they started this many long
years ago. Three years hack
they had it well under control
and now a complete victory. . .
MORE CONGRATS to
FRANCES BUD (BEASTIE)
NESTOR ... he comes through
with the news that he left his
pin in Seattle . . . now he says
tell all the pretty girls hello.
BOB SMITH IS BACK in the
good graces of Mary Jane John
son, Seattle . . . She saw him
play his sensational game
against UCLA.
THE SPORTS STAFF is
wandering around with the
phrase, "This boy Frank Em
mons is really in love. . .”
Then there is the TIMELY
idea about having HOMECOM
ING for the grads next year
. . . the idea centers around
having a campus dance the
night before the big game and
an Alum dance the night of the
game. . . Alums arc still kick
ing about the last one, and
while on the subject, if some
one mentions Leon Mojica for
next year there is going to be
at least one picket at the joint.
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Cutest column of the day was
Dave Compton's little ditty on
advertising men’s clothing . . .
Dave, you know, is one of the
members of BOUNDERS ROW,
really an exclusive organi/.ation
. . . (you have to live on Pat
terson street!) . . . Another
rluh, not heard much from this
year hut still active, is the
SMOOTCHE club . . . leading
member Mary Jane Horton who
returned from Chicago Tues
day.
Rod McMillan, prominant
Fiji, relinquished his pin to a
Portland lassie over lust week
end. . .
THEY ISAY
Virginia Swcaringcr keeps
(tie Fiji (?) phone busy three
hours a day talking to ? . . .
Sense Please
Didn't sec Kitty Hitter and
Bob Whitcly at the Uptown -
Saturday night but they were
there . . . also missed all the
ATO and Pi Phi cuties that
were allegedly there. . . .
BBT THEY CAN'T SEE
ANY MORE OK EACH OTHER
if they tried: Mary Carmack
who fell in a hurry for Johnny
Martin (he fell hard too) De
lores Davidson, not a baker,‘is
also seeing a lot of Rockcy
Rodman. . . .
Fire, Fire
Delivering for thr (censored)
last night offered an opportun
ity to talk ill the fire drills at
the Alpha Chi ami Chi O man
sions . . , one Chi O keeled over
and one Alpha Chi nearly had
heart failure.
Utile publicity has bi'cn giv- '
en the 3 o'clock club, and I
probably because they don't 1
want it . . . the club is the 1
bunch that hangs around the 1
press and puts the Emerald lo
bed . . . they meet at 3 o'clock *
in the morning for a ieed. of 1
cokes and hamburgers—Hiry 1
can't get those good sandwich- a
cs from the (censored) because
that place closes at. 12 . . .
We've beard stories about some l
el their meetings. A
ifvSiSiia’a V:-?i l
t tte students jet prom* v,
'NoMan’sLand’Was NeverLike This--or, The Throttle’s Reign on 13th
A popular vagary which sometimes finds
itself boomeranging is tlie time-honored
expectation, near-resignation, that collegians
will be varyingly erratic and given to ex
tremes in their natural habitat. To the man
in the street, particularly the non-college
stock, it is his wont to prefix the word
“crazy” just before the word “college” when
referring to the boys or girls who belong.
Guppy-gulpers and angleworm swallowers
certainly do not help to refute this concep
tion.
However, there is something which hap
pens every hour of every day in and about
this campus which would seem to indicate the
shoe is on the other foot, namely the driving
characteristics demonstrated by non-Univer
sity cars.
Even state law has plenty to say about
how to drive in certain restricted areas, such
as residential districts and school zones, hut
this seems to make no difference as far as the
between-class hurrier can tell, lie must watch
and wait for a safe crossing anyway. Trucks,
busses, passenger cars—everything on wheels
— are in a hurry. They force their way
through bluntly, and with consummate and
undeniable crust.
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A LL streets about the campus are heavily
V used, both by pedestrians and wheeled
traffic. Drivers have gotten used to going by
these routes rather than others, while the stu
dents naturally swarm about the University
buildings. Most of the 3600 or so students
enrolled do not drive cars to class.
Any school of any considerable size is
bound to develop into a compact unit. This
is especially true of colleges and universities,
which become little communities within com
munities. Such is the University of Oregon.
At many schools of this size and type the
tendency is toward complete isolation, block
ing off the campus streets completely from
through and almost any other traffic. It did
not take long for traffic experts to realize
that a campus has a need and a right to be a
unit. Where there is another route it has been
found more satisfactory to make use of that.
Even on the Corvallis campus, where it must
be admitted the situation is slightly differ
ent, there is no constant whizzing through of
public traffic.
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rJ''0 student pedestrians, moving about on
1heir own campus, a special consideration
seems merited. They are busy, and the cam
pus is their unit. But instead of special con
sideration they get not even ordinary courte
sy. Between classes no one is allowed to for
get that the hand at the wheel and the foot
at the accelerator pedal are blithely uncon
scious of the fact that in roaring down Thir
teenth they are not on the open highway.
It was most interesting last year, especially
toward spring, to watch the movements of the
city council toward regulating traffic in the
University vicinity. The council was con
vinced to a man that it was the collegians
who ought to be watched as reckless and
dangerous drivers. At the same time there
was a smashup happening daily and oftener
at University and Thirteenth, not once includ
ing University drivers. Small proof this was
of the aklermanic theory that it was a colle
giate axiom to operate with only two speeds:
wide open and stopped.
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this time the University officially re
quested stop signs, all ways on Thirteenth
at University and at Kincaid. Stop signs, one
way, only at the entrance to the jcampus
proper, were the answer. Still the University
could not get the city to realize that here was
no ordinary stretch of city streets.
This is no complaint against speeding. It
goes farther than that, for speed is no hazard
in itself, what with better drivers and better
equipment. Speed is here to stay, and it is
good. But there is room for the exercise of
common sense on the part of those non-Uni
versity drivers who do their maneuvering on
or about the campus. They are not God just
because they hold the wheel of some fast truck
which takes the route through the campus as
the shortest way. True, not all such drivers
are as rude as those in whose direction this
is pointed, but these are in the minority, as
anyone can see by simply going out and
watching the stream of traffic whistle down
the campus asphalt, scattering pedestrians
like a splash in water. No driver likes to wait
for pedestrians, but where he should not be
driving at all he must expect that.
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fJ^IIE situation might adjust itself temporar
ily to a point at which conditions might
be better than they now are, but this will not
come in a short space of time. Better law en
forcement alone is not enough.
The only real solution is one which has
been entertained for no little time in the
minds of plenty of thinkers who have direct
and official contact with the problem. What
better answer could there be than to shut
off campus streets entirely to through traffic,
or to any traffic? There is not a single non
University property between Kincaid and
University on Thirteenth, and there are
enough alternate routes to make blocking
feasible. Thirteenth is not needed for through
traffic, and since its days are numbered as a
traffic street, it is just as well that the idea
be gotten used to now as later. Re-routing
could be a simple matter.
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CTION, if any is to come, will undoubted
ly wait until the state decides what it is
going to do about its new highway. Any of
the proposed new routes would send traffic
streams in better lines than the present. Ap
parently nothing is going to happen very
soon, and meanwhile this source of irritation
maintains itself, a thorn in the side of the
University. It is not reasonable for the city to
assume that college students, because they
come from other cities and towns, because
they are here only for four years, have no
right to a better arrangement in their own
college unit community.
Unless it can be demonstrated that Thir
teenth cannot possibly be given bodily to 1 he
University it would seem that this is the only
lasting solution to the difficulty.
Meanwhile drivers might tend to their
knitting everywhere in the several blocks each
way in which University students must navi
gate afoot.
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Serious-Minded Wings—A Winner
JU there ever was a course around liere which
developed quilt; the spirit that the new pilot
curriculum has built up in a few short weeks
il would have to be a wonder.
In the i'i)-st place, Carlton Spencer and his
board had a list as long1 as their collective
arms from which to choose applicants. When
the opportunity was first made known enough
bids came in the first day to fill the course,
but Spencer went out and campaigned for a
larger list, and he got it. Out of this they did
their picking, established an alternate lineup,
and made some entries for next year. With so
large a list it is certain there was plenty of
the very best material to select from.
Coming along fast, the flying classes have
already developed into one of the most hotly
pursued studies in the University. Part of this
is due to the fact that the people who are
conducting the pilot training indicated early
in the game that they meant business. No
loafing would be tolerated, and none has been.
There is too much ground to cover and the
investment is too great.
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ANOTHER tiling about University flying
winch is obvious is that tlio iortunate
ones who are enrolled are getting a whale of
a bargain for their motley. This they know
ami are anxious to protect.
No one in I lie course wants to get “rolled
out “ id' it. That is why the competition is so
keen both 1o stay in and to get in. Let an
enrollee miss a couple of classes in a row and
lie commences to try to guess about his suc
cessor from tin* alternate list. With so long a
list the goods have to be delivered. Only two
hours of University credit are given for the
training.
They are learning to fly, these would-be
pilots, chosen from among the regular under
graduate ranks of 1 lie University. And inci
dentally, it was no slight job of maneuvering
which got for this school so large an allot
ment.
Here is (lie most modern course in tlie
1 niversity. It is good to see il succeeding well.
The
BAND
BOX
By BILL MOXLIOY
Orrin Tucker ami his bund are
currently playing at the Mark
Hopkins in Han Francisco.
Doesn't seem very far from
here. In fact, it's so close that
if Mr. Tucker and Wee Bonnie
ever started to come north xve
might send out a special delega
tion to block all the highways
and steer Tucker and company
ight to the Oregon campus. The
anly trouble is that, if Orrin
•ould be lured up this way we'd
lave to enlarge the Igloo. And
here Is no way of telling how
nany people would be killed in
he rush when the baud began
o play “Oh .Johnnie,”
I’m go the. Oliver Metronome
Seven out of 1U of the men
n Gray Gordon's Tic Toe baud
dayed football when they were
n college. Perhaps the timing
.ml coordination learned ou the
;ridiron are responsible tor
hose dock-like rhythms . . .
ienny Goodman's new band
till needs some v hipping in
tape—he doesn't sound nearly
a smooth as he used to 'til
led Bailey is evidently si hed
ed a rally dame by the
SUO” It Bays on the studeut
■ J . tii1 V - • --- •
Uert u it? WHAT ABOUT
uled to be Benny's steady vo
calist . . . Speaking of swing,
they laughed when he walked
out on the dance floor with a
paper bag full of water—they
didn't know lie was going to
‘‘swing it." Ouch!
Kindling the Border, Bruin
Downtown music stores re
port large sales of “South of the
Border” and "Scatterbrain" . . .
Glen Miller's recording of "Blue
Kain" is drawing favorable com
ment. "Biggy Wiggy Woo" is
another of those crackpot con
coctions that may turn out to
be a hit. Wait until you hear
Hal Kemp’s recording of “The
Little Red Fox." They say it
tops anything Hal has ever
done.
Frog-Voice Fades
Exit: Tony Pastor from Artie
Shaw's band and Jack Leonard
from Tommy Dorsey’s crew . . .
Glen Miller and Larry Clinton
are slated for spreads in a forth
coming issue of Life magazine.
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