Curb
Cruising
By ALICE ROGERS
UIKje figo.ui wc ix
platen and really have a barrel
of fun.
To begin with, winter term is
revealing a surprising number
of campus newlyweds! And
that's not mentioning the num
erous sparklers that Santa left.
The biggest bombshell took
place in the Alpha Chi Omega
house at dinner Wednesday
night when Jeanne Hawkins an
nounced her wedding of Decem
ber 30 to Fred Beardsley, well
known campus crooner. The Al
pha Chis are still wading in the
rice that fell.
And over at the Alpha Gam
ma Delta house, we suddenly
find that little Carolyn Parker
has been married since last Aug
ust to Mort Yaden.
And to top that off, Mort's
sister Peggy, former prexy of
the AOPi house, has been mar
ried to Jim Dimit since last
spring term. All are still attend
ing the U.
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DG’s blonde Evelyn Nelsen,
“Sweetheart of Sigma Chi"
was a step ahead of them as
last week she took Ralph
Alden’s ATO pin which she
has previously w’om. Evident
ly she decided not to mind
staying home when Ralph
blows forth weekends in
Maurie Binford’s band.
From latest reports, we shall
have to name Mary Jane Shaw,
black-haired Kappa, the queen
of heart-breakers. It seems she's
been dividing her desired time
between Sherm Wetmore, ATO
Chuck Hoaglund, and her ex,
Phi Delt Bob Elliott. For the
Limp, tho, it seems Bob has
won out.
The same setup exists wiLh
Ellen Wenger, Delta Gam, who
has equalled matters up by ask
ing AI Sorenson, DU, to the
Limp, and Bill Hamel, SAE, to
her house dance.
The Sigma Chis really en
joyed brother Ed Avcrill’s wed
ding reception of late even
though there was no. cham
pagne. The Nasser twin was
definitely a most gorgeous
bride. We shall miss the pair
who have parked outside the
DG house 9 out of 13 hours each
day the last two years.
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SPOTS OFF THE CURB:
The shouting from Delta, Up
stlon is duo to their being the
only house on the eain|ius
without a mortgage. It's all
paid off... Rex Applegate is in
Arizona for his health this
term. ... They call Paymaster
Karl Wester, “Stencil-Brain”.
. . . Following the oncoming
initiations, there should lie
several pins out_Nancy Lu
tourette, gave Neil Farn
ltam a $10 cashmere sweater
for his recent Fiji initiation.
Nice-Sally Mitchell is tak
ing Ted (iehhardt to the Limp
tomorrow night. . . . Doris
(iething and Virginia Le Fors,
are being complimented on
their dancing. . . . “Uncle.
Koddic" McMillcn left his Fiji
pin in Portland last term. . . .
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It is reported that the Kappa
Sigs are a quiet bunch this year
but that's to be doubted. ,)ack
Lansing and Dick Olcott are re
ported lo be free lancing once
again, according to information
from the Kappa Big house. . . .
It won't be long, from appear
ances, till AW8 Anne Fredrick
r.en has Frank Van \ I let’s pin.
. . . And that cute little Dari I
“tieorge” Eians is reported to
have good intentions about pin
ning .lean Campbell, Alpha Phi
pledge.
Even though Ihrj're both
tall and slim, the two famous
1'ijis ticorge Smith and .luck
f'ttsej can sure take it. Nome
of I lie hois gave them a forced
lift just before evam neck in
the direction of Bend, oxer
the pass, to 111" extent of some
150 miles. The.i spent some I •
freezing hours and liualli get
back to Eugene, the little
“warmth" they hud along
helped bill i‘, is doubtful ivclh
cr c i Mi <- i ims l ouipleluly
thawed out ,iel.
Ita a bit bard to keep up with
Jean Knemss, tjaunua Phi, but
She'll he in ISAM Bob Keen's
company tonight Pul sIki,
Kappa, i, wmlcimg in New
Ion.. . . tat ia.Ic;. u iituh
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BUSINESS STAFF
Mary Ellen Smith, National Advertising Ray Cook, Merchandising Manager Executive Secretaries:
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The Watchdogs Begin to Bark
ot llo1 main troubles with student gov
ernment, as represented by the A>S1’() for
instance, is that it is so glaringly lacking in
continuity. An elected set of officers goes to
work at the end of one year, serves up to a
corresponding time the following year, and
then washes its hands of its year’s work.
In the case of the ASUO, governing is
managed mostly by the executive committee,
which includes the four elected student body
officers, the president of the assoeiated women
students, the editor of the Emerald, and the
dean of men. This body went into office just
in time for a perfunctory meeting or two last
spring, then started again cold this fall.
Dean of Men Virgil D. Earl, who has
watched many student executive committees
come and go, has perhaps the best qualifica
tion as an observer of anyone. The trouble
with such committees, Dean Earl, often de
clares, is that it takes them half the year to
find out what they can do, and then they have
very little time left in which to accomplish
anything.
* * *
'J'lI.lH hits been true 1 liis year, just as it was
last year and the year before. The com
mittee spent fall term going through mostly
routine business the hard way, working much
harder than the business at band required.
But yesterday, at that busy, well-rounded
meeting, there was plenty of evidence that, the
committee was coming of ago as a worthwhile,
effective body. Not a member but had a quali
fied idea and something to say along with it.
Not a sign of the fierce partisanship which has
sometimes kept the brakes dragging. And
more important than any other one thing,
plenty of backbone, aggressiveness, initiative
on behalf of the student body represented.
The life of the AStJO executive committee
is not a particularly satisfactory one. Early
in the committee’s annual career it becomes
evident to its members that there are diffi
culties in the way of perfect accomplishment,
difficulties which are almost impossible of
overcoming.
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rJTAKE for instance the business of getting
to tin! pulse of the school. Student opin
ion is the easiest thing in the world to learn,
except when it has not been able to keep up
wiih developments, when quick judgments
are necessary, and the latter is the lot of the
committee. When it came to appointments the
committee always went into session with scant
choice, for they never had a list from which
to choose. Another difficulty is the pileup of
routine work which the committee must go
through without much time to do it.
A body which is as dissatisfied with itself
as all green committees are cannot be a perfect
instrument until it gets the feel of things, can
not do justice to its job.
The turning of the tide was apparently
marked by yesterday’s meeting. From now on
the story will be different.
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gi’cen crew would know that it wanted
100 per cent board membership, or why it
wanted such a right. But the committee has
been at it long enough to figure out that when
it is split up between two boards the student
quorum is bound to fall short at times.. There
was even an educational activities board meet
ing at the end of fall term at which the only
student representative was the editor of the
Emerald, who does not have the right to vote.
Accordingly, the committee figured it was
time for a new deal. What they do not know
as yet is how their demand will be met, re
gardless of how good the grounds upon which
it is based.
ineitnor would an uncertain group cxlnunc
the parking issue relative to the Johnson hall
lot. It was banned to students beginning Wed
nesday. From the sound of campus comment
a storm was brewing if something were not
done to arrange a more equitable parking ar
rangement. Parking is held generally to he
too heavily weighted in favor of non-student
interests. With an ear to the ground, the com
mittee declared parking was not a closed
issue. More will be heard about the Johnson
lot and other campus parking before very
long, it is safe to venture.
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J^OTIlINtl was ever accomplished without
some specific effort, nothing worth the
having, at any rate. But with this effort, in
telligently conceived, a better order of things
cannot help resulting.
The few functions which are still left to
student government are quantities which must
he jealously defended against all comers, overt
or covert. A wide-awake, farsighted, thinking,
executive committee will go a long way
toward not only retaining what already is its
right, but also toward bringing about a re
adjustment which will make the undergrad
uate something more than a mere fee-paying
necessary evil.
It may still be too soon to credit the execu
tive committee with having arrived, but if it
has not arrived, then all the signs point the
wrong way, for it looks as if the ASUO had
gone into high gear.
By ALAN TOHBET
“With the great quantity of
mechanized armament, a navy,
and the huge troops forces that
Russia possesses, she should
have crushed Finnish resistance
in two weeks," said Arno Dosch
Flcurot in a chat with this writ
er yesterday morning.
Crawling Colossus
Then what caused the huge
Red Colossus to hog down at
Lakes Kyanta and Ladoga to
falter and fall back at the Man
nerheim line? The greatest mil
itary debacle of modern history
is taking place in the ice and
snow of Finland, but strangely
enough it isn't the little democ
racy of 1,000,000 population
that is being pommeled. It is
the Russian Bear that is caught
in the death trap; Russia of
180,000.000 population.
Harold Denny, New York
Times correspondent at Helsin
ki, and I'oseh Fleurot give two
main reasons why the Russian
ricks hall, was given a cute lit
tle wire-haired terrier by Sigma
Nif Itale Peterson* She < hI1s it
“Raleigh'' which was a smart
move considering the cigarettes
■lie distributes. . . . They say
•lint Pickett i ■ lonesome . . .
And Beit houglisgU-t cnnBuhu
And Betty Buchanan. Chi O.
broke a date with Bill A an Hus
en to take Wendell Wyatt of
dd Law School to the Leap Year
struggle . We ■>•' Nick ltd
las. darning L’et- werkiur
invasion backfired. One is the
fantastically chaotic system of
distribution in the Soviet, and
the other is the devastating ef
fect of the 1937 purge on the
Red army and the whole Rus
sian structure. There is a dis
astrous shortage of brains in
Moscow. Of eourso you must
also consider the stubborn, un
expected resistance of the
Finns. Joe Stalin didn’t know
how those lads could fight.
1’iirge Takes 80 Per Cent
The Red army purge de
stroyed SO per cent of all Rus
sian officers and placet! the
army under Stalin's direct po
litical control, or that of his
party henchmen who have had
little or no schooling in the art
of modern warfare.
Evidently Stalin recognized
I he weakness of his war lead
ers when he shifted the com
mand on the Finnish front last
week. And this weakness could
rightly cause untold worry to
the chief of the Kremlin, for
what dictatorship can survive
in the face of military defeat "
It the Finns hold out until allied
aid reaches them Stalin's worry
might develop into a terror.
War No Worse Than Peace
At the end of August persons
coining from the interior of
Russia described pitiful condi
tions. Then, in peace time, the
civil population resembled that
of a defeated nation at the end
of i long, bitter, and exhaust
mg war. Added to this stress i
month later was the burden of
supplying food for the Russian
army i f oeeupatiun in Roland
1 hat shot the Moscow food sup
ply to piece.. The already shaky
distribution system w i. fur.
flier disrupted
March or B*' Mint
today the strain of the I'm
*' ar ma!. . th- Vad
ticiis \>or£e. I at troopa are
poorly supplied with war ma
terials, there is an important
shortage of high-grade gasoline
needed for aerial warfare, and
captured Russian prisoners tell
a story of forced advance under
the orders of officers who
threaten to shoot if they don't
obey. Russ soldiers don’t know
why they're fighting. They lack
the Finns' will to win.
Russian counted heavily on
her tanks to run the Finnish
gauntlet and tear holes in the
defenses. These land battleships,
battered out of condition or ly
ing at ihe bottom of ice-covered
lakes, tell a sorry talc of Rus
sian disappointment.
Thumb in I)yko
Hut Finland is the last to be
lieve she can hold out forever.
Most of all she needs men to re
place those who have fought at
the front for the past six weeks.
Many" have been on duty for
over a month under great hard
ships and with little sleep. Men
can't stand up under that
strain for long. Yet every man
is needed at the front and a vi
tal weakness appears wherever
a man leaves his post. Rotation
of men from the active front to
quieter sectors has helped, but
front line men need more than
that. Listen to Kallio's broad
casts if you think Finland does
n't need help.
'Joe'
i
TSBSBam BOOK
“Joe” Chiaramonte who will open
his restaurant in the new Gray
hound bus depot today.
Vernstrom to Edit
(Continued, from page on*)
The new alumni editor is this
year a senior in journalism at the
University, and last spring won
the Koyl cup awarded the out
standing junior man on the cam
pus. Last spring he figured in the
competition for editor of the 1940
Oregana.
The appointment was announced
last night by Alumni Secretary El
mer Fansett, with whom Vern
strom will work in editing the
monthly magazine, organizing
alumni groups throughout the
state, and other activities of the
graduate directorate.
Pease took over the position as
"Old Oregon” head man in 1937,
and last year added the assistant j
secretary job to his editorship. He j!
succeeded Clair Johnson, former I
“Old Oregon” editor, to the posi- j
tion.
Exec Committee
(Continued from page one)
iors were going to use to pick a j
new leader, which is an immediate ! I
necessity, with Junior Weekend
due to begin its groundwork soon.
Settling of the constitutional dif- [
ficulty was left to the judiciary; -
committee, but the executive com- j I
mittee answered the possibility of J
a recurrence of the present situa- j|
tion by voting that a committee -[
composed, of all officers of all !
classes be appointed to draw up I
one constitution to fit all classes. |
With so many irons in the fire, I
the committee faces another heavy I
meeting early next week.
duounmo rftUIMUl 1UJN SIAl'FJ
Kathleen Brady, Chairman
Joan Stinnette Dorothy Horn
Kennett Lawrence Evelyn Nelson
Mary Jean TMcMorris
BUSINESS DEPT. ASSISTANTS:
Mary Ellen Smith, National Advertising
Janet Rieg, Circulation
SPECIAL ACCOUNTS:
Rhea Anderson, Chairman
Lynn Johnson Don Brinton
EMERALD REPORTERS*
Bob McGill
Kay Schrick
Betty Jane Thompson
Nisma Banta
Mildred Wilson
Jeff Kitchen
Betty Jane Biggt
Marion White
Dorothy Kreis
Wes Sullivan
Pat Erickson
Adrienne Flurry
Corine Lam on
Elsie Brownell
Jim Banks
Edith Oglesby
Helen Sawyer
Connie Averili
Jim Bronson
Jean Dunn
Kolley Iiolhart
Margaret Holfert
Jonathan Kahananui
BUSINESS OFFICE SECRETARIES:
Billie Wade Boyd Copenhaver
Sue Ehrhurt
SPORT STAFF:
Maigaret Young
Nancy Lewis
Bernard Engel
Bob Flavelle
Rob Pot win
Don Gibbous
Bill Phelps
Austin Chaney
Fav Foster
Milt Levy
Jim Schiller
l.en Ballif
Don Cowley
Paul McCarty
Jim Browne
Friday Advertising Staff:
Doug Parker, Adv. Mgr.
Pat Heastand
Betty Mae Lind
Kenny Maher
Bob Potwin
Ron Alpaugh
Ray Foster
Copy Desk Staff:
Copy Desk Staff:
Hal Olney, Copy Editor
Wes Sullivan, assistant
Mary Ann Campbell
Corine Latnon
Luolla Miller
Betty Barr.
Night Staff:
Night Staff:
Jean Dunn, Night Editor
Ll.de Brownell
Barbara Roberts
Before You DUCK the BEAVERS
at the I-loo tonight
visit (lie
Gilmore Station
Aeros* from the Greyhound Depot
CAEL SNELL
I
University Students
Will Be Honored
fit Station Opening
Several University students will
>ccupy prominent places in the
>pen house program of Pacific
greyhound when they begin busi
less in their new $50,000 depot
.oday.
George Luoma, Emerald busi
less manager, will be a guest at
:he banquet at Seymours at 5:30
vhen Mr. W. H. Agger, Greyhound
superintendent presents the new
lepot to the city of Eugene.
Several members of Bob Calk
ins’ campus dance band will play
for the open house from 4 to 6
j p.m. All students are invited to at
l tend, Greyhound officials said.
To Hold Open House
j Open house will be in order for
the Westminster house Friday
night party immediately following
the Oregon-Oregon State basket
ball game. There will be refresh
ments, games, and dancing for all
and everybody is welcome, Mrs.
Bryant, Westminster house host
ess, said. •
Studio Players Group
Revived; Will Hold
One-Act Play Tryouts
The University theater is reviv
ing the Studio Players group and
is holding general tryouts for a
group of one-act plays to be pro
duced this term.
Tryouts are open to any student
not already registered in the Guild
Hall players or the technic of act
ing class. They will be given in
room 103, Johnson hall, at 4 o’clock
Tuesday, January 16.
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to the opening of the
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Round Trip Tickets
to Oregon points
Eugene’s Newest Cafe
995 Pearl
In 1 he Greyhound Stage Depot
C'liiaramonte's ue\v restaurant is one of the finest in the
Northwest, and features fine Italian dinners that have
been popular with college students when ‘'Joe" Chiara
inouie operated his restaurant in the Oregon hotel.
The new restaurant specializes in home made ravioli,
Italian spaghetti, home made pies, and Italian hard rolls,
and serves breakfasts, lunches and dinners, us well as
fountain drinks and sandwiches.
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■Chiaramonte’s
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