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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 11, 1941)
Oregon 'la* Oregon ua:iv Lmeraia, pumisned daiiy during the college year except Sunday*, ■Mondays, holidays, and final examination periods by the Associated Students, University at Oregon. Subscription rates: $1.25 per term and $$.00 per year. Entered as second class matter at the postottice, Eugene, Oregon. Represented tor national advertising by NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, ANC., college publishers’ representative, 420 Madison Ave., New York—Chicago— Boa* •on—Los Angeles—San Francisco—Portland and Seattle. (LYLE M. NELSON. Editor JAMES W. FROST, Business Manager ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Hal Olney, Helen Angell Editorial Board: Roy Vernstrom, Pat Erickson, Helen Angell, Harold Olney, Kent Btiteer, Jimmie Leonard, and Professor George Turnbull, adviser. fimraie Leonard, Managing Editor Kent Stitzer, News Editor Fred May, Advertising Manager Bob Rogers, National Advertising Mgr. Edi'orial-and Business Offices located on ground floor of Journalism building. Phone* i300 Extension: 382 Editor; 353 News Office; 359 Sports Office; and 3S4 Business Offices. UPPER BUSINESS STAFF Anita Backberg, Classified Advertising Manager Hon Alpaugh, Layout Production Man ager if ill YYallan, Litculation ftlanager Emerson Page, Promotion Director Eileen Millard, Office Manager Pat Erickson, Women’! Editor Bob Fiavelle, Co-Sport* Editor Ken Christianson, CoSporti Editor UPPER NEWS STAFF Ray Schrick, Ass’t Manag ing Editor Betty Jane Biggs, Ass’t News Editor Wes Sullivan, Ass't New» Editor Corrine Wignes, Executive Secretary Mildred Wilson, Exchange Editor Nearer Reality HpilEKE are few questions of University policy that can raise the ire of faculty and student camps more than the pub iislxiiiof house grade averages. Indeed, the anti-publication quarters do have many points in favor of their argument, par ticularly in relation to house pressure causing students to take “pipes” ill order to keep the GPA up. But say what you will, there are few news stories printed during the term that carry such a “wallop” in the field of reader interest today. For Oregon is becoming scholarship-minded. Publication seems especially right at the present time, be cause of the constantly increasing University grade point average, the progress in standards of scholarship which Oregon ip making during the 3 940’s. # * * HPHE all-1 adversity average published in yesterday’s Em erald showed a 2.429 rating for the school as a whole. This was ;i definite upward trend over the 2.155 earned by Oregon in dergraduates during fall term and the 2.41 marked down for winter term a year ago. A great step has been taken when a state of grade-conscious ness has been attained. For many years cooperatives, dorms, and independents have held the top-ranking place in all scholarship comparisons. In 1941, they still maintain number one spot in most instances. But close on their heels are the fraternities and sororities. And that new spurt of power from the. Greeks may be attributed, it would appear, to the stress that interfraternity council and Panhellenic places at the present time on study rules and scholarship development in their respective fields of student government. The fight for first-class scholarship for the University of Oregon has not been won. But the interest has been created . . . and the graph moves upward. President Erb’s dream comes nearer realitv.—II. A. The New Longer Patriotism J^OT so long ai;o a cartoonist for a popular magazine put the whole thing in a nutshell. He depicted two fliers bail ing out of a plane. Flier K was showing Flier Q two cigarettes -—one obviously longer than the other. Almost any magazine you pick up has full color ads showing two beautiful military men, one showing the other this amazing thing — a longer cigarette. If national defenders use the product, you really ought to, too. Our country must be prepared Nov. i'li’t that o roundabout appeal? # * * JT F not only in connection with cigarettes that one observes tl e national defense motif rampant. Advertisers of quantities of brands of everything are beginning to discover that the country must be defended, therefore you should buy what they’re selling. "What could be the benefits from such a super-abundance of this type of advertising? From the standpoint of the country’s nctiul preparedness, there could be none. From the standpoint of propaganda, patriotism is merely cheapened. Patriotism is really a very fine thing. You don’t buy it over a counter. The cartoonist pul it well. Flier lv and Flier Q are suspended wordless in mid-air, ogling at two cigarettes. Ah, the new patriotism is longer, and packed lighter. ’What the two fliers don’t seem to care about is that they have :.'t opened their ’chutes yet and the ground is coming up to meet them.—F.E. "NYlien the rainy skies of the past two weeks gave way to Sunshine yesterday, first-year students regained a semblance O4’ faith in the seven month onslaught of “propaganda" they have heard from veteran upperclassmen dealing with the won ders of “Spring at the U/' UNION NOW! By Ann Reynolds Another three-hour session Wednesday of the special student faculty committee to work on Student Union program resulted in a decision to throw open to the entire student body one meet ing of the group. This meeting will be probably scheduled for Wednesday, April 23. The pur pose of the general meeting is to make sure that the students have expressed their real opinions in regards to functions of the build ing. Any students who are inter ested in bringing up any point concerning the student union movement should attend the meeting. The time and place of the discussion group will be printed in the Emerald. Students should watch for the chance to make suggestions effective by defending them publicly. Hard-Working Committee In the past week we’ve seen a different form of action on our program for a student activity center. Not because wre feel that the committee deserves the pub licity or the praise, but because they’re really doing the hard work of investigation, we think the students should know what’s be ing done. Before the University can start even the drafting of building architecture it is nat urally necessary that a great deal of statistical planning be consid ered. An example of the kind of facts that the committee discuss es is for instance the discovery that the site north of the Y hut was entirely out of the utilities district and also that if the build ing was situated opposite the art museum a great deal of money would have to be spent in the ex terior architecture so that the building would not be incongru ous with the elaborateness of the other structures. Again the build ing must not be built in among a group of very old structures since its modern architecture would clash W'ith its surround ings. Student Polls Every member of the commit tee has served some way in his own particular subcommittee. Some of the group conducted a student poll on the desired facil ities. Others have been investi gating site possibilities and still others have looked into the fi nance of the program. Although to some it may appear that the movement for our building is slowing down this is certainly not true for on the contrary the work being done is far more wide spread than before and is includ ing many of those students who before hesitated to put time on a rumor. Apparently it was the $250,000 that turned the tide but at any rate under the guidance of the committee a lot of hard but necessary work is being done. The Word Is Heterogeneous Perhaps one of the most impor tant discoveries that has been shown to nearly every person working on the student union program is that the only word for the purposes of the building is heterogenous. By this we mean that the functions provided for in the various other colleges are so numerous and unclassified that the student union buildings have become miniature main streets. For example we will not be able to say that the sole purpose of our building will be for a place to dance because in that building will perhaps be included smaller banquet rooms as well as the large one, game rooms, bowling alleys, committee rooms, student offices and even a barber and beauty shop. Thus the building will be almost a complete unit of International Side Show By RIDGELY CUMMINGS It is not my fault if the Em erald chooses to spell Rousseau's name without any u's, but for the rest of yesterday’s column __ I’ll take the rap Cummings —and yesterday there appeared to be an unusual number of heck lers. J i m Goffard, psych assistant, wanted to know what I meant by the “humanitar ian attitude of tiie British empire,” but even Jim had to admit that there is a dif ference in degree if not in kind between England’s treatment of India and Germany’s treatment of Poland. To the extent that both subject peoples are exploit ed by force, to just that extent is the rule of the ruler imperma nent; and although the purist may say one should not compromise with evil, still it is true that the civil courts and sikh policemen of India are much more palatable to western eyes than the concen tration camps and ghettos of Po land. Not Apologizing However, I don’t wish to be an apologist for British imperialism. I was merely pointing out that just as one evil does not excuse another so its existence does not excuse fascist oppression. Gene Edwards, drama student, raised a much more serious ob jection. I say serious because it opens a broad field. Gene object ed to my quote from Rousseau about the essential goodness of man, which makes it unnecessary for him to be bossed and kicked From All Sides By MILDRED WILSON Classrooms at Westminster col lege will be done over in colors like salmon, apricot and “cool green,” in an experiment to re lieve the monotony of the drab walls for students and thus keep the sleepy ones awake. —The Silver and Gold. * * * An unnamed fraternity at the University of Kansas was having a terrible time with its freshmen. Exceedingly lax in performing their telephone answering duties they were rapidly gaining a bad disciplinary reputation for the frat. In an attempt to reform mat ters 29 reluctant freshies were assembled in the library and in formed that for each time the phone rang more than twice, all freshmen would receive one stroke from a sturdy paddle. The phone rang. Without a word, 29 freshmen jumped to their feet and raced toward it. —The Daily Kansan. * * * Publicly, forcefully and spec tacularly expressing its political opinion the University of Colora do’s daily publication recently left its fifth column blank—ex cept for the words—“The Silver and Gold tolerates no fifth col umn.” —The Silver and Gold. group life in itself. Although some of these additional facilities may come gradually the building must be built with the purpose of enlargement in mind. The at tractiveness and use of the build ing depends on foreseeing the University of Oregon in the fu ture. around by divinely appointed rul ers. 'He admitted that Rousseau probably said something along those lines, but insisted that now that I am a big boy and a col lege senior I ought to have real ized that the great masses of hu man beings are not fit to govern themselves. Potential Fascist I promptly accused Gene of be ing a potential fascist, to which term he objected, but it seems to follow that if one thinks the av erage human is not fit to govern himself then a boss is what he needs. It may be idealistic to have such sublime faith in the decency and reasonableness of one's fel low men, but I submit that the whole theory of democracy rests upon just that assumption. Virginia Hammond, English student proved the most irritating heckler of all. First she said she didn’t like the way I use the Eng lish language, but I pointed out that that was a feminine and subjective reaction and that she’d have to be more specific. Then she said I couldn’t accept Rous seau and God, too. God and Rousseau I said that if it had to come to a choice I'd still take Rousseau, but why couldn’t I have both? “You’d have to study philosophy to understand,” Virginia replied loftily. I asked a few more questions and caught some sort of a reply about “divine order,” but it was all very confusing. Perhaps Vir ginia is right: I need more phil osophy. To get down to facts. Yester day the U. S. took over the re sponsibility of defending Green land. Three Miles to Go This expansion of the Monroe Doctrine puts the American de fense zone within three miles of the proclaimed German war area in the north Atlantic. The Ger mans claim their counter-block ade zone extends to Iceland and its territorial waters, which is just three miles from southeast ern Greenland. (The news stories say it is only three miles. On the map it looks more like 30 miles, but anyway it is quite close.) Under the agreement signed between the U.S. and Denmark this nation is to build fortifica tions, naval and air bases on the huge island. It’s all to be done on a lease basis, the title to revert to Denmark when and if Hitler is kapoot. There is a possibility that Greenland, 1,200 miles from Eng land, may be used as a transship ment point for American aid to Britain. At least the senators are talking about it. They’re talking about convoys, too. DregonHEmerald Friday Advertising Staff: Jean Adams, manager Betty Lou Allegre Norma Baker Marilee Margason Marilyn Marshall Marilyn Miller Copy Desk Staff: Wes Sullivan, city editor Elsie Brownell, assistant Herb Penny Bernie Engel Veva Peterson Ted Goodwin Doris Jones Night Staff: Fred Timmen. night editor Ruth Jordan Wally Hunter Marilee Margason Fred Treadgold Bill Murray Rylla Hatton