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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1942)
At £eco*u& Qla*ice. By TED HARMON Weather Report Roses are red, Violets are blue; There’s no election Without a Sigmanoo. B. J. Biggs. Today’s Friday the 13th, and along with the superstitious comes the first contribution by “BeeJay” Biggs. Also, there’s the reminder that there will also be Friday the 13th next month, too, just when the shortened final ex am week starts. Oh well, if you’re superstitious, just breathe hard. Then, too, as a matter of dis cussion is the effect of no Mill -Race for spring term-ites. No longer will they be able to doze along the mossy banks, diving into the water occasionally and cutting their feet on tin cans and discarded fraternity prns. On sec ond thought, they still can jump into the mill race . . . into the mud . . . which has its merits. We’re told that Helena Ruben stein charges five bucks for a similar treatment in her parlors. Anyway, what to do spring term with no mill race ? Here are just a few suggestions submitted by thoughtful persons: 1. Hold SB elections in the mud flats. It’s easier to sling there. 2. Play cowboys and Indians with rubber-guns. 3. Let the sororities vie in gar den-growing competition. It. will be appropriate for spring-term blossoming anyway. 4. Have a rally. 5. Write a thesis on “What Mud-flats did to my Personal ity’’ or "The Gamma Phis Ain’t Got the Palsy, They’re Only Trucking.” 6. Careful now, brace yourself: study. GOSSIPATTER: There’s the example of “Got Rocks” Lyle Nelson, Delt, who goes all-out for the recognition of Bobbie Run dell, Alfgam. When he gave her his pin last weekend, he didn’t stop there. Along with his Delt brass went a bracelet around her wrist and a locket around her neck. Next week, we’re told, it’ll be bells on her toes . . . there’s the Pi Phi that gives every campus male the geological survey; you know, the stony glare . . . Chi O’s Patty Pierson, one term ahead of the rest of us, by skat ing on the library quad . . . Tri Delt Virginia Wells buys a new, shiny bicycle to ride to her class es; was given a ride, via the han dlebars yesterday, by Don Moss. . . . People who live in glass houses should go into the florist business ... It was rather amus ing when all the pinned steadies stayed at the DeeGee house dur ing the Heart Hop coronation so they could have room to dance and hold hands. In fact, most of them had their shoes shined, a rite which is usually only per formed on military day . . . In the library, we suddenly became con fused by two jazzers talking. Said one, “Who’s book is that?” The answer was emphatic. “Walt's . . I said Walt’s . . .” The other person gazed a moment into the air and shot back, “No thanks, I’m sitting this one out.” . . . After a month’s hard work, Kappa Sig Jack Lansing is al already to show Oregon Dads that a college education is more than cokes, checkbooks add cur riculum. He’s Dads’ day chair man . . . The amusing headline in the Emerald's front page last Wednesday . . . Cleverest - song - of - the - week: “Buckle down, 1'least turn to />a<;c seven) Oregon w Emerald The Oregon Daily Emerald, published daily during the college year except Sunday, Monday, holidays, . Vntered" as second periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon. Subscription rates: $1.2a per term and $3.00 per jear. class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. _____ Represented for national advertising by NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, INC., college publishers tepresentative, Madison Ave., New York—Chicago—Boston—Los Angeles—San Francisco—Portland and Seattle._ HELEN ANGELL, Editor Ray Schrick. Managing Editor Associate Editors: Hal Olney, Fritz Timmen Bob Frazier, News Editor FRED O. MAY, Business Manager Betty Jane Biggs, Advertising Manager UPPER NEWS STAFF Helen Rayburn, Layout Manager Lars Gilson, Circulation Manager Helen rlynn, Office Manager Peggv Magill, Promotion Director Elizabeth Edmunds, National Advertising Manager UPPER BUSINESS STAFF Tonathan Kahananui. Eee Flatberg, Co-Sports Editors Corrine Nelson, Mildred Wilson, Co-Women’s Editors Herb Penny, Assistant Managing Editor Joanne Nichols. Assistant News Miior Mary Wolf. Exchange Editor Lois Clause. Circulation Manager 1941 Member 1942 Associated Cotleftiate Press No Slams for the Oreg ana • • • /~\REGANA Editor Wilbur Bishop met an Emerald reader on the campus yesterday. From that fellow-student, he obtained the im pression that the average campus reader inter preted Emerald editorial and news coverage of the Educational Activities board’s “new regime” in Oregana management as a debase ment of the present staff and its achieve ments. Editor Bishop himself interpreted the board’s legislation as no encroachment what soever on the next editor's management of the book. The board’s action certainly was no per sonal attack on Editor Bishop’s ability as an editor. It is a presupposed fact that everyone on the campus recognizes the unmatched ar tistic qualities of last year’s Oregana. Anyone who has. seen the elaborate plans for this year’s volume knows that it will leave a mark hard for any editor of future years to match. The book in recent times has moved consistently up the scale in national ratings, and these achievements have posted an un heard-of record for the Oregon campus. * # * rjpiIE chief reason for the Monday night action of the educational activities board, then, was not to make an effort to regulate a job that has not been Avell done, but to change the setup on a job that has grown beyond the physical capabilities of one stu dent. Wilbur Bishop has spent from 8 to 10 hours almost every day of each of his years of publication working in his office on the Oregana. He lias done, with his managing editor, practically all of the work. Ever since the page increase trend got underway on the yearbook, editors have found the job so con fining that they have been unable to carry a full 12 hours of college work simply because they were doing a job that was far outside the scope of a one-student activity. Wilbur Bish op's GPA is an entirely creditable one, but he has not been able to carry a required load of hours. The hoard is stepping out of its usual back seat in requesting appointment of a complete upper staff personnel in the spring term of the editor’s appointment. Inasmuch as the proposed staff included in the report even specifies the desired class affiliation of the staff members, it is obviously designated to divide the editor’s now heavy duties among more students. # =* * OUSINESS connections of the book arc the chief item of consideration. There will, in the future, be closer checking by the board itself on contracts for work done. Less free rein will be given to the activities manager in collaboration with the editor in granting con tracts to specific firms. This, however, is no attack upon the or ganization of the book itself, its makeup or content. For no one will quarrel with the Na tional Scholastic Press association which awarded the Oregana rating as one of the top yearbooks in the nation last year because of its “splendid general plan, concept and de sign, and because of the finest and most steadily sustained job of putting type ele ments and pictures together that has ever been seen done by students.” fiOTII the 1941 and 1942 Oreganas are tributes to fine workmanship, excellent organization of material, and hard work. The board's decision was not based on inefficiency on the part of the editor, but on the supposed need for stabilizing business connections of the book. They felt they would like to have some part in deciding the business policies in relation to hiring firms, etc. It is a definite step in the direction of closer board surveil lance of the book's management. The step was taken because they feel that the Oregana is growing beyond the scope of a student activity for a school the size of the University, and beyond the physical capabilities of one man. Without having any earmarks of an attack upon the ability of student editors, the board’s action still must be interpreted as a step toward increased regulation of a student activity. Long Live the O’... ^y'AH has made vast changes in the hitherto peaceful existence of the college student. Hut Avar added another crime to its long list of offenses against the 2800 students of the University when it Avas announced by the administration that the lemon-yellow O on Skinner's butte Avould be painted some other color so as to camouflage it from the air. The action is to be taken because of a request to that effect by the Lane county filter center. This does not necessarily mean that Eugene is in danger of being bombed. It simply means that it is not the part of Avisdom to leave such a conspicuous “identification tag" staring up from the hills around Eugene. Obviously, it ■would immediately identify Eugene for any pilot who happened to drift by. And so Oregon students will have to do without their traditional 0 painting parties. There will be no necessity for guarding the huge concrete circle on Skinner’s butte during homecoming weekends for the duration. An other tradition has gone by the boards. A minor thing perhaps but one of a large ac cumulation of deprivations that Oregon stu dents are accepting with a muttered, “Some day .. . ’ ’—11.0. BeiitHe the Point. . Wo wonder if daylight saving time is an attempt to upset the Japanese time table. Anyway we’ll bet the Japanese would be mighty surprised if they started an invasion onlv to find thev had arrived aiiVhoiiE late. * v y I ^ “No More O," says an Emerald headline. Xo more o' what? \ * # * The new Eiueraid column lieadin<r. ‘‘Awful 'Truths." is at least 50 per cent accurate. On ^Ue ~ Mail fee*}. February 12, 1942. To the Editor: Congratulations to Buchwach for his editorial, “Let’s Quit Kid ticle on a few simple truths tide on a sew simple truths which we should recognize. It was no surprise to read in the Thursday “Mail Bag” the letter condemning his statements^It is typical of the University of Ore gon student to call anything that brings the war close to home “brutal and erratic sentimental ity.” If the writer of yesterday’s let ter calls Buchwach’s statements brutal, I am in hopes he gets into uniform and receives the oppor tunity to see how brutal the busi ness end of a bayonet looks to him. More power to Buchwach! If he can pull a few of the Univer sity ostrich heads out of the ground he’s doing good. At least it is gratifying to know that there are a fefr as he on the campus who believe in “America First” instead of “America Last.” Mark Howard. February 11, 1942. To the Editor of the Emerald: There is the closest coopera tion between the members of the staff of the geology department, but we recognize certain limits. In 1837 Dana used a binomial no menclature for minerals, but this later went out of style. With the passing of this complicated no menclature, geologists felt re lieved but after reading some news items in today’s Emeraft?, there is little doubt but that con fusion has returned. For the sake of the record and to try to straighten out what must be con fusion, even to those who can see further into the crystal ball than can the average geologist, let it be known that Dr. Warren D. Smith and Dr. Lloyd W. Staples are two persons, each with a name in his own right, and that even according to the latest in formation obtainable there is no body in the geology department named Dr. Warren D. Staples. Furthermore Dr. Staples is no^on leave of absence, is not doing spe cial work in California and will not give the Branner lecture at Pasadena on Februthry 20th. This honor has been accorded to Dr. Warren D. Smith, head of the department of geology and geog raphy, now on leave of absence. With undiminished favor may I say that I would be proud to have a son as an officer in the marine corps, but at present such is definitely not the case, nor do I have a brother, Dr. Warren Staples, who might have a son. According to a confirmed report, Dr. Smith’s son, Lt. Warren E. Smith has been selected for ad vanced instruction at Quantity marine corps base. Lt. Smith will be giving work in the interpreta tion of aerial maps. Lloyd W. Staples Acting chairman of Depts. Geology & Geography. Would that I were a smart young coed at the Sarah Lawr ence college in New York. As their mid-term week rolls around, the students sit back and relax. It isn’t that they are any more intelligent than we, it is just that Sarah Lawrence and tions.—Utah Chronicle. '•» *}• George H. Earle, United States ambassador to Bulgaria, believes the Germans know they will lose the -war, but warns: “They reabv ize that they are going to be se verely punished, and that will make them fight on long after they have lost hope of victory.— Daily Texan.