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Oregon® Emerald Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, holidays and final examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. RAY SCHRICK, Editor; BETTY BIGGS SCHRICK, Business Mgr. Dune Wimpress, Managing Editor Jack Billings, News Editor Ted Bush, Associate Editor John Mathews, Associate Editor 1941 Member 1942 Pbsociated Golle6iate Press ALL-AMERICAN 1942 UPPER NEWS STAFF Lee Flatberg, Sports Editor Marge Major, Women’s Editor Mildred Wilson, Feature Editor Janet Wagstaff, Assistant Editor Joan Dolph, Marjorie Young, Assistant News Editors _ UPPER BUSINESS STAFF John Jensen, Cecil Sharp, Shirley Davis, Lois Claus, Classified Advertising Man Russ Smelser. ager. Advertising Managers: Elizabeth Edmunds, National Advertis t.onme hullmer, Circulation Manager. ing Manager. ivr'RePnesentedJ-r, national advertising by NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, I.\C., college publishers’ representative, 420 Madison Ave., New York—Chicago—Boston k°s Angeles- San Francisco—Portland—Seattle. While the Fascists regard the press as a nuisance and therefore suppress it, the believers in democracy also regard the freedom of press as a nuisance and thank God they have so glorious a nuisance.”-^-Lin Yutang. Watch ^hoAe SluxUawA,. . . J1‘ it is true that great events cast their shadows before them, shadows now are being cast in direction of the stu dent government setup on the University campus. Last spring the executive council, without a huge fanfare of publicity, started looking over a tentative constitution for the ASUO to replace and modernize the present tangle of by-laws, constitutions, and legislative action under which the ASUO now acts. After weeks of discussion, the tentative constitution was in fine enough fettle to be presented to Dr. Krb for his ap proval and suggestions. 'J'MIIS stimulated a series of meetings between Dr. Erb and some of the members of the executive council that had been working on the program during spring term. During these meetings, it became evident that the students and the faculty do not agree in some cases on matters of policy. To bring all the student grievances out in the open, Dr. Erb ap pointed a committee, composed of Dick Williams, educa tional activities manager, Les Anderson, student body presi dent, and Wes Sullivan, senior class representative on the executive council, to draw up a letter which would make these points of difference more specific. 'X'llI- ,otUT outlining the problems and their proposed solu tions from the point of view of the students was sub mitted to Dr. Erb a few weeks before the beginning of school. In the pre-rush period more meetings were held at which tentative decisions were made concerning these problems. In the near future, a letter embodying these decisions will be presented to the educational activities board for its approval. With these grievances out of the way, discussions was re opened on the constitution itself, and within a few weeks that .too should be tentatively settled. T. hat is the story to date watch those shadows deepen. JAWS. tyacituj, J.lie fyactl. . . QURS is a great responsibility. During this next year_a war year—we who will have the privilege of attending the University, or any university, should stop before we ap proach-the registrar s desk to evaluate our motives and to try to visualize our aims. Some students will be training directlv for various branches of the service. They must realize that thev must do more than just study. They must learn. To the student who prepares for the service, his aim is tangible, ever present before him, but we who are not en tering these specialized fields, the average year-to-vear stu dent, must realize that we too have an added responsibilitv. We have been granted an education. Therefore it is our responsibility to use that education to think out the prob lems of today. * * * 'T'HIS is not an easy aim to fulfill. A campus is a more or less isolated communitv. The round of campus life can altogether too easilv take one’s mind oil" the war and the problems his nation faces. If we can use our education to analyze clearlv the prob lems that are to come; if we can keep those problems before is, and if we can at the University of Oregon prepare our selves to better aid in the war effort when it comes our time to serve, we can sav that we have lived up to the responsi bilities of the American college student in the vear 1942-43. —J. w. s. At SecxMidl Qlance By TED HARMON NEWTON WAS RIGHT! Here’s an ode to a strapless gown; What goes up must come down. With McArthur court bulging this morning with the trials and tribulations of registration, fall term officially opens with a bang as well as a checkbook. Gone far into memory are the record-breaking pledge classes, the “Strip Polka,” Cal ifornia limousines and the life of a collegiate Riley. Between The Lines By ROY NELSON A fellow stopped me on the campus the other day and asked me where Johnson hall was. Be ing but a sophomore I stopped a moment to think. Then I got up. "Johnson hall?” I asked. "Thanks,” he said, and left. Student and More The place is over run with freshmen and new students. There are many interesting pledg es. Gamma Phi’s Shirley Casebeer, who is a transfer from St. H. hall where she ran the yearbook, in high school days steadied with Beta Don Mayne . . . the Phi Delts have a Bob Hope . . . Al pha Chi O’s Lois McConkey was a celebrated tap-dancer at gram mar school . . . the same housee has pledged Pat Ring, Jeff high Rose princess of the year before last . . . Sigma Chi’s Hal Abel sen was once named “most hand some physique” by a high school feature page. Canard’s Dan Mindolovich, who came down to school to learn how to spell his last name, claims to have the autograph of a gent who didn’t work in the shipyards last summer. The Oregana editorial office has moved from its site in Mc Arthur court to suite in the journalism building—on the sec ond floor. j Cars on Way Out? President Erb’s request that cars be left at home this year hardly seemed to take effect. There’s more cars on the campus this year than you can shake a rubber tire at. In his column a few days back, Winchell men tioned something about a rumor about a possibility that maybe there was a chance that the gov ernment was considering the probability of buying up all cars older than ’35s, perhaps. A campus without cars would look like a Phi Delt without a rubber band fastened from his slacks to his shirt. But it might happen. Things change. I remember how we used to build up the merits of the Finnish soldiers and tear down that of the Reds’. Now it’s quite the op posite. And I read an account in the paper the other day of how a woman was arrested for preach ing anti-communism and “tear ing down soldiers’ morale.” Hard Work The Emphasis Even though Sisie and Buz zie hate it, too, war-time college will be emphasized with more hard work, more concentrated study, and gym classes every day, instead of the usual three times-a-week. At any rate, we’re bound to be a leaner bunch. Being inevitable as a Pi Phi, Rush Week didn’t pass without incidents and mixups. F’s in stance, there were two freshman girls who insisted that Oregon had a sorority with the moniker of Alpha Delt (meaning, of course, ADPi), and the anxiety of the Thetaz who found out whom they had pledged when the baggage of theirs-to-be arrived some hours before any of the girls. Instead of throwing their arms about the new members, who weren’t there, the KATs em braced the luggage, screamed s,nd squealed as they read each new name on the luggage tags. And while we imagine that the Betas made Dale Carnegie’s best seller required reading for all of their members during the summer, the Tri-Delts, Alpha Phis, Gamma Phis, Alpha Chis and Thetaz are bound to raise campus-civilian morale. MUTTERINGS AT MID NIGHT: Newest polka to hit wax disks is the “Bubble Dancer Polka’’ which sounds amazingly similar to the episodes of the “Strip Polka’s” Queenie . . . the air-raid lookout station, once atop the library, is now squat ting informally on the edge of the Uni-High’s practice field . . . gay, sprightly Norma Trevar row is back after a summer of volunteer defense work and ac quiring a deep California tan . . . the eleven o'clock curfew for rushees stopped many from see ing the “Rendezvous With Death” floorshow at a local nitespot . . . Philanthropic Dottie Horn is giv ing away knives, especially de signed to sink in between the shoulder blades . . . Looks like Harry James and trumpet will be hitting Portland soon, along with some 20,000 defense workers . . . One of the most subtle and irritating remarks at the pledge dance came from two girls. Said one, “She's positively liq uid!” The other one smiled, ftodded and whispered, “Drip?” . . . Best-bet for social chairmen: secure “Cow-Cow Boogie,” new disk sensation . . . No one can tell us that there’s a priority (Please turn to page three) ’nil!ltl!)llt1!!H!!l!!l!lll!l!ltll!l!!ll!!tnil1llinillliHllltl!l!!nii;iltl!tllll!!lllllll!Nllllllilll!lilIltlllll!i:i!!llllllllllilllllll!!tilllilil!!lii!l!li!illillllUiil!lllll!IIIIl!;li:iHIIIIIll!lllilll!!illli;KI!lllllll^ tf-fyee jpsi All... (The Emerald welcomes signed contributions to this “safety valve” of public opinion. Lone toght reserved is to edit extra long copy to 250 words.) Dear Ray: ... I have been here nearly three weeks now (Santa Ana Army air base). The first part of last week I was classified as a pilot and transferred to a pilot squadron. Kahananui is in the same squadron with me, in fact we sleep in bed next to each oth er in our tent. We have all our uniforms now and feel like real soldiers. I real ize classes start at Oregon next Monday, but I don’t feel too bad about it all. I actually like it pretty well here by now and am anxious to get out to primary flight training. We have from seven to nine weeks of school here before we are sent out to primary. Wilbur Bishop (Bishop, editor of the 1941 and 1942 Oreganas has been in army air corps training fcr three weeks. Letters from him and oth er recent Oregon alumni will be relayed to readers as they ar rive.—Ed.) ^nead^oM: Ten Million* Men Are Not Mere Toys’ By DON TREADGOLD Mast of us men students know we remain in school only because of the simple fact that the war situation is not getting- much worse right now. Since that is so, it might be worthwhile to tia^ a look into the crystal ball IV try to estimate how long it will be before the need for men be comes critical. It is not hard to see that the lives of Oregon students, in this respect, will be vitally affected by such remote events as the fighting in Stalingrad and the Solomons. How long is the war to last? Will it get worse before it gets better ? Probably. Do We Lose? Some say we are losing the war. It would be more accurate to say that we have not begun to win it anywhere as yet. Yet tomorrow the British may in vade Norway, Italy, or France. Tomorrow Gen. Alexander might start to wipe out Rommel’s army in Egypt. Tomorrow the Rus sions might start a real counter-^ drive. Tomorrow England migl^B give India her independence. To morrow the Allied Air Forces might begin to reduce Germany’s industrial areas to rubble, one by one. Tomorrow all these things might happen. Probably none of them will, right away. But until some of these happenings do ap pear in the headlines, no one should take any bets on the dura tion of the war. When: Men When will they need men? A good guess might be January, when the elections are safely over. Drafting five million men— especially married men and boys —cannot be too popular at any time, when the need' for them is not clearly explained. Why does the country need ter^^ million men? Something mor^ than tiddledy-winks is in store for them, it is certain. We can only guess at the decision of the general staffs as to that. They may have decided it is necessary to invade Germany and Japan by land, and that we cannot avoid taking four or five million cas ualties. They may plan to under take a real air offensive against Germany, keeping these massive armies only as a reserve in case that fails. 1943 the End? Will the war end in 1943? No one can say. If Russia can hold the Baku oil fields, keep her armies from being split in two at Astrakhan, and withstand an at tack by Japan at the same time —if China can keep fighting—if India can somehow resist th<g Japs—the war might end in eu year. The wiseacres say five years. Yet when the Axis really starts falling apart, it will prob ably fall fast. However, it is dangerous to hope for too much now. Remem ber that the Solomon Islands were the first inch of territory yet reconquered from either Ger many or Japan in all this war— and they are not very large. One might su mup in saying that the average young man of draft age ought not hold his breath until the war is over, but probably will not be a soldier all his life. - « How About a Plane? The man-hours required to make an aircraft propeller are more than, double that of an au tomobile.
