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Then It Will Be Too Late to Think
rJ>HERE have been a great many things
written about the cocksure attitude of
the college student; so much, in fact, that
assuredness has come to be as much a part
of the collegian’s makeup as that sleepy 8
o’clock look.
But there is a time when that “cock-o’-the
walk” attitude becomes absurd. Such a point
is reached when the approach threatens public
safety. Two days of school at the University’s
fall term session indicates that students so far
this year have little or no respect for Thir
teenth street traffic regulations.
' Main thoroughfare of campus traffic, Thir
teenth has always been the bugaboo of Eugene
safety theorists. For during the noon hour,
it carries the complete load of east Eugene
traffic to work as well as students . . . and
that in itself creates a severe problem. Cer
tainly there is everything imaginable wrong
with the present setup. But until traffic is
taken from Thirteenth, until it is converted
into an avenue for students only, University
students have a responsibility to themselves
and to the general cause of public safety.
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'J'VHE whole campus area is considered a
“safety area,” which means that auto
mobiles move at a decreased rate of speed
during school hours. But they should not be
required to plow through milling throngs of
undergraduates who choose the middle of the
street as a spot in which to hash over some
professor’s eccentricities or last night’s date.
Traffic observers along the thoroughfare
this week note that students have not at
tempted to cooperate in moving rapidly across
from one side of the street to the other. Cars
have been forced to come to a virtual stand
still while students w'ander aimlessly across
to class.
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'J^HERE has been an ideal in the minds of
University and Eugene leaders for years
to remove all traffic from Thirteenth, but so
far city council action has not developed to
actuality. The new-born plans to change the
route of the highway and move the railroad
tracks may open the way for establishing a
new street for city traffic, so that the campus
can be a unit unto itself.
Until such developments are made, how
ever, it is the student’s responsibility to do
everything in his power to avoid accidents
in this danger area, to look before he steps
off the curb, and to move quickly about his
business instead of loitering in a busy spot.
In a larger sense, it is his duty to go half-way
in extending the “courtesy of the road” to
vehicles.
Unless students begin to realize the severity
of the situation, there will one day be a
serious accident. Then it will be too late to
think.
Well-Feathered Ducks
''^^'HILE Mars was spreading his gloom over
the continents of Europe, Asia, and
Africa, other Olympus gods seemed to have
smiled on Oregon students during the summer
months and granted them the gift of Midas.
As late registrants continue to crowd John
son hall, administration officials are more and
more amazed at the prompt payment of all
fees with such a small percentage asking for
the privilege of the term payment plan.
Outstanding example of the “nigger rich
ness” of Oregon students this fall is the
shorter line in front of the loan window and
lengthened line before athletic card and Ore
gana salesmen.
In statistical terms, only 241 students have
applied for combined loans of $7,440.60 this
year c o m pare d to the 343 borrowing
$10,121.30 last fall term.
History-recording records have also been
established in the Oregana and ASUO card
sales despite a 7 per cent decrease in enroll
ment. With the drives only five days old, al
most 100 more students have purchased
their athletic tickets and 300 have signed up
for a copy of “the biggest yearbook in the
world.”
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J^OTICEABLE, too, is the increased num
ber of newcomers who paid rushing fees
despite enrollment dropping from 3700 to
3024. Greek women this year chose from 350
girls compared to 295 last year. Fraternities,
also rushing against the army and national
defense, gained five men over the 1940 season
of 327 men.
The University of Oregon in the past, has
pointed with pride to the fact that 90 per
cent of its students contribute to their college
education by their own earnings.
This year the University can point with
even more pride to the fact that the riches
of the “outside world” tempted only a very
few; that Webfoot students were more inter
ested in continuing their college education
than adding easy defense dollars to their
pocketbook.
The Oregana Scores Again
JpOR the fifth time in six years of competi
tion in national contests, the Oregana yes
terday received notice of its selection to All
American rating among annuals of the United
States colleges.
If any Oregon yearbook ever deserved this
high award in journalistic endeavor, it is
"Wilbur Bishop’s colorful, museum-covered
1941 creation.
The campus greeted the book last spring
enthusiastically, for it was indeed a Avork of
art. Every page showed detailed work, for
makeup was completely different on every
one of its 408 pages. There was more color
than ever before, more pages, and better de
velopment of the phases of yearbooks that stu
dents most appreciate. The type was new and
sparkling. The Bishop-originated “magazine
style” of headlines and stories rather than the
old-fashioned captions.
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JT was a record year in Oregana history, and
is accepted as the most beautiful book Uni
versity undergraduates have been able to
call their own.
First salute to his success in pleasing the
campus came to Bishop when a decreased
registration brought around a 15 per cent
increase in 1941-42 Oregana subscriptions in
first-week sales. Such a boom is a credit to an
editor’s ability to please.
Approval of his own campus was what the
Oregana chief wanted more than anything
else. But he is undoubtedly pleased too that
his year’s product has been voted by the Na
tional Collegiate Press association as one of
the five best yearbooks in its class. For not
only the campus, but the nation, salutes him.
Modern Extra-Curricular Activityr
Chaotic International Events
(Editor’s Note: The following is the fifth in a series of interpre
tative articles on international affairs by University students. The
author of today’s article is a senior in journalism.)
By BILL HAIGHT
International authorities each day interpret with varying
degrees of objectivity their analyses of international events
for us.
We, in turn, are supposed to evaluate these interpretations
and resolve an opinion of the chaotic events of each harrowing
day. V
Russia will succeed, Russia will fail, the Czechs revolt, the
Czechs are not revolting, it is just a few communist agitators;
the Vichy government will or won’t—ad infinitum.
How can we resolve this into a definite constructive part
of our daily program ? What does it mean to us ? What possible
answer can we as students have to the multiple problems of
national defense, the tragic confusion of war?
A Course of Study
I believe we should interpret the international situation with
what we have to offer, personally. To us students that means
attention to the particular job at the particular moment with
everything we have within us.
For men students it may mean practical and close attention
to military courses, to the women attention to the courses that
will enable them to care for themselves individually; equipf
themselves to face the rigors of possible self-support.
Learn. Develop your critical faculties. A long ways from
the front? Not necessarily. Learn to examine deeply the words
used by disseminators of various doctrines. Evaluate critically,
carefully the meaning of a sentence like: “war means the
subjection of right to might—the right of tolerance, inde
pendence, and freedom of choice to the might of the war
god, Mars.”
Our Analysis
Does it also mean there is no subjection of those freedoms
in a form of peace? What about Norway? Sweden? Czecho
slovakia? Be critical. Learn here, now, how to develop our
critical faculties.
Our right to search for an intelligent understanding of cur
rent events is a gift, that gift purchased with “blood, tears, toif*
and sweat” of others.
During a great historical drama our place at the present is
on the University of Oregon campus as students. Let us accept
that privilege as a responsible duty, an integral part of the
international situation, and “give it everything we’ve got.”
We will need the knowledge we have the opportunity to learn.
9*t *llt&
Mail Bacj,
The following is an excerpt
from a letter written by Corporal
Lowell Dick, 1941 graduate of
the University of Oregon, from
Camp Roberts in California. We
reprint part of the letter here as
a suggestion to students who
have friends in camp that they
are “homesick” and would ap
preciate a letter. If complete ad
dresses are not available, the
name of the camp will usually
get the letter to the addressee.)
Lowell writes:
“As the time for school to start
grows near, I find my mind wan
dering up Oregon way again and
I wish I were in Eugene right
now. But the army is the army
and national defense is national
defense, so I guess I’ll just have
to get along without Oregon for
quite a spell.
“I was inducted July 15 at Salt
Lake City. They kept me around
the reception center for one
week and then shipped two car
loads of us off to this part of
California . . . which has the dust
bowl heat ....
“Maybe if I had it all to do
over again I’d try to evade the
draft, but being what I am, I
suppose I’d just do the same
thing over again in the same
way.
“I understand Kent Stitzer is
supposed to be in California, but
no one seems to know just where.
Other Oregon men are supposed
to be in the camp, but so far the
only one I’ve found is Bob Smith.
He’s in the 87th infantry. Jay
Graybeal is supposed to be down
in the infantry area too, but it’s
so hard to find a man in this
camp that you give up after
awhile. There are about 30,000
men here now, and the personnel
is constantly changing.
“Another Oregon student I’ve
seen recently is Vic Townsend,
and his wife (Edie Yturri). Vic
and his wife and Vic’s brother,
Chuck, sailed from L.A. Satur
day night for the Islands. I was
down there on a three day pass
to see them off. Vic said he in
tended to stay in Hawaii for an
indefinite period. Chuck, who
was my roommate for two years
at Oregon, is going to work on
an air base on Johnston island,
600 miles southwest of Hawaii.
Anyway, they both get out of the
draft.
“I think I’ve consumed about
enough of the government’s time ^
for one morning. This is the third^
letter so far this morning and it
isn’t 8 a.m. yet, but there isn’t
anything else to do and I’m try
ing to build up a correspondence.
If anyone around the school of
journalism cares to write, I’ll be
mighty glad to hear from them.
Prompt answers are guaranteed,
or the postage will be refunded.
Lowell Dick,
Camp Roberts, California.
Dr. Gordon Wright stopped
yesterday in his “History of
Modern Times” class to let a
passing train’s whistle hold sway.
His beginning leacture dealt
with the ancient beginnings of
European history. He cracks, “I
don’t mind such interruptions af-^
ter I reach the Industrial Revolu
tion, but until then it’s not
ethical.”