Emerald
The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the University
of Oregon, published daily during the college year except Sundays,
Mondays, holidays, and final examination periods. Subscription rates:
$1.25 per term and $3.00 per year. Entered as second-class matter at
the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon.
Represented for. national advertising by NATIONAL ADVERTIS
ING SERVICE, INC., college publishers’ representatives, 120 Madison
Ave., New York—Chicago—Boston—Los Angeles—San Francisco—
Portland and Seattle.
BUD JERMAIN, Editor GEORGE LUOMA, Manager
Lyle Nelson, Managing Editor Jim Frost, Advertising Manager
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UPPER NEWS STAFF
Helen Angel], News Editor
George-Pasero, Co-sports Editor
Elbert Hawkins, Co-sports Editor
Ralph Woodall, Cartoonist
Betty Jane Thompson, Chiei JNignt Editor
Jimmie Leonard, Assistant Managing Editor
Ha) Olney, Assistant Managing Editor
Marge Finnegan, Women’s Editor
Ken Christianson, Assistant Sports Editor
Jean Crites, Tuesday Mgr.
Fred May, Wednesday Mgr.
Majeanne Glover, Thursday Mgr.
Betty Mre Lind, Jay Stott, Friday Mgrs.
“Stew” Flay ward, Saturday Manager
Mary Ellen Smith, Mat. Adv. Mgr.
Lynn Johnson, Merchandising
Rhea Anderson, Special Acct’s
Doug Parker, Classified Dept.
Kathleen Brady, Promotion
Ted Kenyon, Photography
Bill Ralston. Layouts
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A Blitzkrieg on Brains
/CONSCIENTIOUS youngster members of the Interfraternity
Council released a veritable blitskrieg last Tuesday even
ing when the touchy subject of scholarship arose. Intent upon
making every social fraternity an aristocracy of brains, where
sophistication is measured by one’s GPA, the presidents raised
the requirements for initiation from 1.75 to 2.00.
With full agreement that every policy regulating the life of
Greeks be given teeth of enforcement, the council sat up late
Tuesday revising their constitution primarily to stiffen the
requirements on incoming freshmen. Much of the credit for
this blitzkrieg on brains can be given Dean Earl, former presi
dent, Walt Miller, and his cohorts who created the post of
faculty secretary in the council for Professor W. A. Dahlberg.
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C1NCE the speech department’s man from Michigan stepped
^ in, the wheels of planning have ground out such ideas as
scholarship cups for outstanding members; selection of new
men on a basis of native ability, special talents and past accom
plishments; fraternity libraries; greater insistence that older
members be more responsible for higher scholastic standards;
experimentation with the tutorial system as found in some
of the eastern schools.
Designed to step up the intellectual and social significance
of Oregon fraternities, the new Council will find its problems
many, the field 6i improvement unlimited and the results more
to their satisfaction than squeamish surveys in gaudy national
magazines on foolishness of fraternity life, the snobbery of
Greek letter bearers, and the prating of parents on the dubious
virtues of bein^brothers in the bond. Evidently the new setup
has revealed omV truism to the presidents: no fraternity is
stronger than the weakest one on this campus.—R.N.V.
'Sayonara’-^Since it Must Be So
'T'ODAY’S Emerald is the last. When the student daily re
sumes publication next fall it will be with a new set of
names in tin' masthead. Trite, some of the staff will be back,
but most of those who have guided the paper will be gone.
Since this is the last,issue it might be well to turn the spotlight
upon a few of the leaders who made the Emerald possible
this year.
As is the’ease with most organizations the great bulk ot the
work m ist fall upon the staff. This year’s staff has worked
hard. They saw wlmt there was to do and they did it without
being told. Their loyalty and efforts more than any other
one thing made possible the daily appearance of the Emerald.
Included among the staff were several seniors and others
who will not be back next year. We are limited by space from
telling of each one, but at least they should be mentioned.
r| 'WO seniors this year guided the destiny of the sports de
partment. For one of them it was the fourth year on the
Emerald and for the other, the third. Together they were the
nucleus of what can rightfully be called the best sports staff
in Emerald history. Elbert “Hawko Hawkins and “Black
George" l’asero will both leave the Emerald this spring.
The co-sports editors have been fortunate in having as a
member of their staff another senior. Rav Foster. Ray has
served both the sports department and the advertising depart
ments well.
Other Emeraldites who will don caps and gowns this spring
are Bat Frizzell, who won the admiration of the entire staff
for his work on the Monday night copy desk; Columnist Alyee
Rogers, of “Curb Cruising" fame; and Betty Jane Thompson,
organizer and director deluxe of the night staff. Columnist
Jack Bryant, whose “Behind the 8 Ball has attracted more
readers than any other Emerald feature, will leave to join the
Army air corps.
111 E^\ names '.missing from next year’s masthead, however* {
will be those of Bud jermain, editor and George Luonia,
Guardians of the Editorial Pen
To direct the policy of the Emerald as an editorial board next year will be this group of students.
They are left to right: Kent Stitzer, Hal Olney, Roy Vernstrom, Editor Lyle Nelson, Jimmie Leonard,
Helen Angell, and Pat Erickson.
business manager. In charge of the editorial and business ends
respectively, both have directed large staffs and have made
a name for themselves in their fields.
Under Jermain the Emerald again received all-American
rating—one of the eight best college dailies in the nation.
Under Luoma Emerald advertising hit a new all-time high.
Not all of the work of these two men can be seen from the
outside, however. Their method of handling large staffs, their
fairness, and the respect held for them by Emerald workers are
things of which the student body is little aware. Suffice to say:
a fine editor, a fine business manager—two swell guys.—L. N.
A Word About Kenny
rJMIE first accident fatality of an otherwise unmarred school
year occurred Wednesday night . . . and both the Univer
sity and the State college lost young men of wide acquaintance
and many real and admiring friends.
Kenny Hankins can't be replaced on the Oregon campus,
for his friendly crooked smile might be called “one in a
million.”
An expression of sympathy goes out to his family and that
of Charles Marshall. Both have been “sons” of the two cam
puses for three years and have proved themselves here to be
the kind of boys we want to know.
All that sorrowing University students and Staters can
grasp from this spring term tragedy is a renewed pledge for
greater safety in carrying on their activities, greater inspira
ton from hurrying too quickly, from living too rapdly.—H.A.
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The
BAND
BOX
By BILL, MOXLEY
Thanks for the Memory
Here it is the last edition of
the Emerald for this year. Some
how it seems as though school
had only just started. In two
weeks more everybody will be
starting home—flat broke and
weary of all the wear and tear
of academic life. The Emerald
will be forgotten for three
months, and then, with everything
else, it will spring up again next
fall and start out full-blast
toward a bigger, better, and more
successful year than ever before.
It’s been fun writing this col
umn. Sometimes it has been aw
fully corny. Sometimes it may
jhnye b£(m a |littjlQ interesting or
ahiuBtnfeMthatls 4 ihopa anywajy
But enough of this idle stuff.
My thanks go to Editor Bud Jer
main for his very helpful criti
cisms, suggestions, and encour
agements. To Editor-to-be Lyle
Nelson my appreciation for his
continued inspiration and confi
dence. To all the rest of the staff
— Helen Angell, Hal Olney,
George Luoma, Jim Frost, Jim
mie Leonard, George Pasero, and
many others—it’s been swell
working with you.
Glenn Waves Two More
Better pick up Glenn Miller's
latest recording before you de
part for home. He does right well
on a couple of slow sweet ones
this week . . . “Alice Blue Gown”
and “Wonderful One.”
Larry Clinton comes forth
with his best twosome in many
a moon as he really gets hot on
“Missouri Scrambler.” On the*
other side is another Clinton
“study.” This time it’s “A Study
in Modernism.”
Ducks Praise Goodman
Benny Goodman's long await
ed arrival tomorrow night seems
to be the biggest thing on the
campus right now. Quite a few
boys went up to Portland to hear
him the other night, and they've
come back with reports that
sound like fairy tales. Phi Delt
Pete Riley says he always know
Goodman was good but he never
dreamed he was that good. Pete
knows his bands, too; he spent
the entire evening sitting at Ben
ny’s feet out at Jantzen, gazing
up with enraptured eyes . .,.
About 3,000 people came to see
Goodman in Portland. The crowd
began to arrive on the scene at
five-thirty in the afternoon.
When the band arrived at nine
o’clock they were escorted by
troopers who made a pathway
through the howling mob. One
fellow said he arrived at the dance
at nine agd by eleven-thirty he
had succeeded in edging to with
in twenty feet of the bandstand.
Whew!
Watch Ziggy, Lionel, Toots, Nick
Ziggy Elman on trumpet, Lio
nel Hampton on vibs, Toots Mon
dello on alto sax, and Nick Fatool
on drums are the men to watch
Saturday night. Each one is near
the top in his field. Every man
in the band is capable of being a
soloist with practically any group
in the country . . . Lionel Hamp
ton is the show stealer. Being a
negro he has all the rhythm and
color of his race beside a su
preme “feel” for precision swing
of the Benny Goodman type.
Hampton is also reputed to be
one of the fastest and cleverest
drummers in the world. It’s really
a sight when he takes Fatool’s
place and starts throwing loose
sticks around in the air.
Tunes to listen for are “The
One o’clock Jump,” “Boy Meets
Horn,” "King Porter Stomp,” and
a new one called “The Hour of
Parting.” And of course they’ll
play Ziggy Elman’s “And the An
gels Sing.” We’ll also have a
chance to hear the second best
record Oregon students ever
heard when Benny swings out on
“Sing Sing Sing.” It will be a
big evening . . . and how!
DON’T
dispose of used
suits
I take it on a trade
or pay cash.
UNIVERSITY
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