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BUD JERMAIN, Editor
Lyle Nelson, Managing Editor
GEORGE LUOMA, Manager
Jim Frost, Advertising Manager
Helen Angell. News Editor
George Pasero, Co-sports Editor
Elbert Hawkins, Co-sports Editor
UPPER NEWS STAFF
Betty Jane Thompson, Chief Night Editor Marge Finnegan, Women’s Editor
Jimmie Leonard, Assistant Managing Editor Jack Bryant. Staff Photographer
Hal Olney, Assistant Managing Editor Ken Christianson, Assistant Sports Editor
Don Goodall, Asst. Mgr. Editor.
Jean Critcs, National Advertising
Frederick Eiders, Classified Manager
BUSINESS STAFF
Bay Cook, Merchandising Manager
Herb Anderson, Circulation Manager
Charles Kenyon, Staff Photographer
Ex ecu t1 vo Se<n*etarics :
Janet Earnham
Emily Tyree
Hot Potato
Only It’s a Football
S hot a potato as the powers who plan in
tramural programs can find to avoid is
touch football, which lias just reached the end
of the trail for the year with the finishing
of its season.
Whatever they do with the game it is not
likely that any of the several possibilities will
meet with complete favor. This year touch
football, back in the intramural fold again
after a year of suspension, went over like a
house afire. The boys took to it like ducks to
water. Competition was hot, and most of the
leagues were fast.
New rules were in effect this year, which
did actually cut down on the tide of injuries,
until they were far below what other years
had established. There were few serious foot
ball injuries in the month and a half of play.
But there was at least one human smashup
which was bad enough to bring on some knit
ting of official brows over the status of touch
football for the future. It doesn’t happen very
often, but a ruptured spleen, necessitating
complete removal of the gland, is bad news
in any language, and that is just what hap
pened to one touchball man. Playing his first
game, although an accomplished athlete in
two other major sports, he was so seriously
hurt that for a time his condition was ex
tremely eritcal, even to the point of life and
death. Now, at 18, he faces a lifetime of re
stricted diet and impaired vitality, corpuscle
trouble.
^^Nii such case is not enough to start having
kittens about, although if the outcome
had been different the situation would un
doubtedly be insistently serious. But the fact
that such a thing did happen lands intramural
heads face to face with what to do to prevent,
the chance of other such mishaps. It is pain
ful when arms, legs, ankles, and such, are in
jured, but not particularly serious for foot
ball, for these same injuries may result from
almost any sport, even from ordinary walking.
Most touch football athletes got through the
season with no injuries whatsoever.
One of the new rules this year prohibited
blocking below the belt. This pulled the teeth
of Ihe game, making it, as a three-stripe var
sity back said, “ like hop-scotch to one who has
played the game.” Hut such a rule will not
eliminate body contact; and maybe body con
tact should not be eliminated. At the state
college, where the rules permit more potential
roughness, they have a better, less injurious
game, llow this is accomplished is not quite
clear, but at any rate it should be worth a
study.
* * *
£JNLY three possibilities seem open. Either
cross t ouch foot ball completely off t he list
again, modify the rules some more and open
up the game in the other direction, or require
protective equipment foil players. For the
first course, popular opinion would probably
raise its voice in favor of keeping touch foot
ball. The case for opening up the game would
have to await further study of the Ori(J sys
tem and others.
As for protective equipment, probably lim
ited to hi]) and back pads, this may be a for
lorn hope also. Equipment is expensive, and
there is no money for it. Anyway, since there
is supposed to be no blocking below the belt
there should theoretically be no need for pro
tection. Hnt apparently there is such a need.
Where the money could come from is another
question.
Accordingly, a combination of the latter
two possibilities seems to be the answer for
intramural football, if it is to justify its own
existence without a long trail of human
wreckage in its wake. Next year’s football
season will be around before anyone realizes
it, which would indicate that the time to make
adjustments is now. w
Behind the
With JACK BRYANT
Hero’s one we can’t print tlie
answer to, so If you want to
Know ask the boys In the law
school. Wendall Wyatt plays the
lead, he objected rather furious
ly, but he still has the lead . . .
SO FOR THE BEST joke of
the day don’t fail to ask about
Wendy Wyatt’s plans for the
future . . .
* * *
THINKEK OF THE WEEK
title goes to “Three point two”
Canada, of Hendricks (her GPA
might drop five tenths of a
point) . . . Anyway . . . says she
“Jf this Leavenworth club is as
good and wants to accomplish
something why don't the back
ers come out in the open?”
VOXKS POPS
(Some of ’em you’ll have to
answer yourself.)
Teggy Faris wants to know
where donut originated in refer
ence to intramural sports . . .
just a minute . . . see what the
sports staff has to say . . . L. H.
Gregory, sports editor of the
Oregonian started it when ho
was here in about 11)10 or 'll so
they say.
» * *
Jim Pickett, ATO with a pri
vate phone, has been over at the
Alpha Chi house lately. Reason,
Dotty Horn, pledge.
Mostcst different pin plant ing
of the year goes to Rob Mills
paugh, Fiji, who is reported to
have pinned a laundry' bag, Mon
day night. . . . The bag was
lowered from the Theta balcony
by Nancy Wilson, (see yester
day’s 8 ball).
Geology Field Trip
The geology field trip to the
coast, originally planned for this
week, has been postponed and the
students will examine the Point
Lookout dam site in its place. One
group will go Saturday and an
other Sunday.
Cinema to Feature
Condon Club Meet
Motion pictures of hop fields and
Oregon scenery will be shown by
Alex Seevey at the Condon club
meeting Monday evening in 101
Condon. The meeting will begin at
7:30.
The pictures, according to Wil
bur Greenup, president of the club,
are exceptionally good and will be
well worth seeing. Seevey has ar
ranged to send the film back east
next week so the Condon club
meeting was moved up two days.
Greenup announced the meeting
would be open to the public.
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BMKItAU) REPORTERS :
Darrell Lear
Dotty Jane Thompson
Nisnm Panta
Mildred Wilson
Jeff Kitchen
Dotty Jane Bigga
Janet Piper
Norman Foster
Connie AveriU
.a mm raws is
Corine Lamon
Elsie Brownell
Jack Bukcr
Howard Eishcl
Jim Bn*nkfl
Edith Oglesby
Helen Sawyer
Jean Adams
Eleanor Engdnhl
Joan Spcarovv
business i>i;i*t. assistants.*
Mary Ellen Smith, National Advertising
Janet Rieg, Circulation
EXECUT1VK SECRETARIES :
Arvilla Rates Priscilla Gilmore
BUSINESS OFFICE SECRETARIES:
Billie Wade Boyd Copenhaver
Sue Ehrhart
BUSINESS PROMOTION STAFF:
Kathleen Brady, Chairman
Joan Stinnette Dorothy Horn
Kennett Lawrence Evelyn Nelson
Mary Jean McMorris
SPECIAL ACCOUNTS:
Rhea Anderson, Chairman
Ly.;u Johnson Don Rrinton
‘U’OKT M AI 1- :
Maigartt Young
Hob (Lctfcy) Smith
In tv O‘Callaghan
Nancy l.cwis
lleinaid Kngel
Marg.net Duke
Mary Belcher
Kav Schrick
Kav Foster
M lit l.cvc
.1 mi Schiller
I.Ml K.lllif
( harlt's Hoi< p
K »b Mavellc
Bob I'otwin
Wednesday Adxertising Stall:
Fred May, Day Manager
Jeannette Christensen
Bob Lovell
Jay Stott
Fred Welty
C.op\ IX'sU Statt:
Jimntie Leonard, t 'opy Kdttor
Betty Jane Biggs
Helen Aim Huggins
Jonathan Kahananui
Tom Wright
Priscilla Gilmore
Night Staff:
Tom Wright, Night Editor
Priscilla Gilmore.
Bernard Luge!
Librarians to Hold
Council Meeting in
Corvallis Saturday
A library council meeting will be
held Saturday, December 9, at
Corvallis. The library council is
composed of representative libra
rians from all the schools of higher
education in Oregon, including
those at the University of Oregon,
Corvallis, Portland, Monmouth, La
Grande, and Ashland.
There will be a meeting at 2 p.m.
which is the first of four for the
school year. M. H. Douglass and
Willis C. Warren, of the library
staff, will be the representatives
from Oregon.
A dinner will be held in the even
ing at the Student Union building
for all library staff members.
Xenophon Smith of Corvallis will
explain a movie which is being
made at Corvallis for the library
ami which will give instruction in
the use of the library.
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Jewell Speaks
To Rotary Club
Learning Comes
From Actual Work,
School Head Says
Dean J. R. Jewel], of the school
of education, addressed members
of the Eugene rotary club Tuesday
on changes during the past 15
years in teaching and in prepar
ing teachers for their work.
Teaching is a matter of prepa
ration, Dean Jewell said, and the
term, "teacher's training," should
be avoided in schools of education
today. He discussed advantages of
learning over memorizing and the
idea that learning comes through
laboratory work. The new belief
that guides youth in finding why
this is right or that is wrong was
given preference over the old opin
ion that arbitrarily set down cer
tain views as right or wrong.
Karl W. Onthank, dean of per
sonnel, introduced the speaker.
Special entertainment for the pro
gram was provided by Frank
Drake, educational adviser for the
Elkton 3-C camp, and members of
his camp musical group.
Flying Students
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bank, and when I could stop every
thing from spinning around, Vil
lard, Friendly, and the lower ‘cam
pus could be glimpsed through the
fir foliage.
Back around again, tiny white
specks running around on the
ground proved to be a white-jer
seyed touch football team, con
trasting sharply to the brown col
or of the ground. The cemetery
looked like an orchard, dotted with
white specks of tombstones.
Minutes ticked by, faster than
they ever do in a lecture, and the
plane swung around in another
tight bank and flew near Spencer’s
butte, approaching the airport
from the south. The ground came
closer rapidly and it was neces
sary to swallow several times to
relieve pressure on the eardrums.
Cutting the motor, Meaney glided
in, the sudden quiet seeming very
loud after the continual drone of
the motor.
Walking away from the plane,
ope can’t help but think that these
flight students are a lucky bunch
of guys.
Alex Seavey Shows
Technicolor Movies
To Condon Meeting
Digressing from the usual ster
eotyped scenic films, Alex Seavey
injected a spirit of human interest;
in his technicolor motion pictures1
shown before members of the Con- j
don club Monday evening in the
Condon hall lecture room.
A number of pictures were
filmed in the Seavey hop yards
during the past summer. They
showed scenes from the cultiva
tion, picking, drying, storage, and
final baling of the hops. Even!
more interesting to the club mem
bers were the amusing candid
shots of the pickers.
One modest fellow, who was
afraid of the camera, was finally j
tracked to his bed and caught in!
an unflattering position while tak
ing an afternoon nap.
The rest of the pictures were
taken from points all over the Pa- j
ciiic Northwest. Shots of the mo-1
tion picture company making
“Boys Town” were shown and sev
eral feet of film were shot at the
coast. Through the use of a tele
photic lens the photographer was
able to get close-ups of sea-lions
and sea gulls which were quite un
usual.
"Too Much College"
New Book at Library
By Stephen Leacock
“Too Much College,” a new book
by Stephen Leacock, professor
emeritus of McGill university, To
ronto, gives plenty of arguments
on the futility of 16 years of edu
cation ending with worthless col- j
lege curriculums. The book is on
the new book shelf in the circula
tion department of the library.
Among the subjects for essays
are “Psychology, the Black Art of
the College,” which he classes
along with astrology and alchemy
as making a mystery of plain
truth.
Professor Leacock takes a big
dig at languages under the titles
of “Parley-Vous Francais” and
“What Good is Latin.” He feels
that teachers don’t succeed in
teaching modern languages such
as French and that, though a stu
dent could read and write the lan
guage better than Victor Hugo
ever could, he can't converse with
a Montreal cab driver.
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Business Honoraries
Give Radio Skit Over
KORE; Cast Listed
A 15-minute play was presented
over KORE last Friday evening by
members of Tau Delta Chi, men’s
business honorary, and Phi Chi
Theta, women’s business honorary.
The play was written and drama
tized by members of the honor
aries, and is the first in a series
of programs to be given each term
by Tau Delta Chi. The skit showed
how the credit bureaus cooperate
with the retail stores in aiding
them get the necessary credit in
formation.
The cast included the following:
Norma Johnson, Doris Hanson,
Edwin Larson, Freeman Patton,
Lynn Bocltes, Harold Larson, and
William Essary.
Like Shelf Displays
Christmas Collection
On a shelf in an alcove at the
right of the circulation desk is a
book of Christmas works. This
shelf is made up of Christmas sto-!
ries, plays, poems, traditions, and
music, for the benefit of students
and faculty members.
Also on Christmas is the “Amer
ican Annual of Christmas Litera
ture and Art.” The 1938 and 1939
issues of this colorful book have
just been received by the library.
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