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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
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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
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/~\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.
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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.
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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.
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“No More O," says an Emerald headline.
Xo more o' what?
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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.
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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.