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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 30, 1942)
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. G. Duncan Wimpress, Managing Editor Jack L. Billings, News Editor John Mathews, Associate Editor UPPER BUSINESS STAFF Advertising Managers: John Jensen, Cecil Sharp, Shirley Davis, Kuss Smelser. Dwayne Hcathman Connie Fullmer. Circulation Manager. Lois Claus, Classified Advertising Man ager. Elizabeth Edmunds, National Advertis ing Manager. Represented for national advertising by NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, INC., college publishers’ representative, 420 Madison Ave., New York—Chicago—Boston —Los Angeles—San Francisco—Portland—Seattle. ~r • • • HI ike CnaA&nxuzdui Jj^DUCATlON nears the crossroads as the United Nations continue to lose this war. Those who think the Univer sity is a long way from what it used to be may soon find that this “is only the beginning.” Here, for example, is a plan to clear up the college manpower mess.suggested by Harvard President James Bryant Conant: Military authorities and the colleges would pick jointly top rank high school graduates for an enlisted training corps, limited by military quotas. Each enlistee dons uniform, draws basic monthly pay plus living allowance, would choose his own college. Four semesters for basic training follow under ROTC or college teachers. After that picked men stay in col lege for advanced professional or technical training, the rest would go directly into armed forces. * * T^RASTlC as it sounds, this plan (which leaders of the American Council on Education have approved) is con servative when compared to army and navy proposals. Here is their plan: Army and navy would pick students, prescribe their courses, eliminate all from the curriculum but technical and essential professional studies. The two* plans conflict basically on one idea: Who will run the colleges in war time, 'the army and navy or civilians? Although military officials intimate that all college men will be required for armed service in a not too distant future, it is certain that trained experts in technical skills are always in need. It is not a case of dodging service but of supplying an arsenal of trained men for war service for the long-term war this may well be. It is the double role the universities can play: To train men for armed service, to train men for tech nical service. Neither of the plans has received official sanc tion as yet. Still that crossroad may not be far away. New Stall ta fyhf,. . . rush order went out Thursday for more stars. These astral decoratives, however, are not designed for indirect lighting of evening skies. Theirs will he a posi tion of even greater honor—the place of honor on the alumni service flag. When the scoreboard for the alumni service contest went up yesterday at the Side for the first time, several scores were far above the anticipated. One hundred stars had been con sidered the probable peak for any one organization, but with ■six days remaining until the contest’s end, five houses posted lists ot over 70. Thus the rising demand for stars. * * * ^JOMPILA 1'ION of the 681 names represented on the score 1 board means a tough job tackled bv the shoe string. Fur ther listings will entail surmounting of greater obstacles. 'There are still eleven organizations unrepresented by figures on tin' board. Three of those are dorms, and some are among the largest houses on the campus. So anything is to be ex pected. Originated as a publicity measure in connection with Homecoming, this campaign has turned into a campus-wide service activity. The information will be used time and again by the Alumni office, Old Oregon, and the F.merald. In times, when address changes are so frequent and all records are be ing fast outdated, group effort of this sort is the only prac tical approach to maintenance of any semblance of order in records. * * * ^JONTINUKD returns proportional to those of the first davs of the contest will be indication that Oregon men are really at work, tor this is no mere sweater-bov service that’s being done. Information to be supplied includes: the name of the alum, the year of graduation, the branch of service, rank, and army address it possible. 1 he task ot checking' on the validity ot claims is in itself a huge one. The house to whom the multi-starred flag is awarded dur ing Homecoming will not reap the whole benefit from this effort. Their winning will merely symbolize the general cam pus gain. Their effort will merely be a part of the whole. — I .AAV. HT SECOnD GLRI1CE DEFENSE NOTE TO HOUSEBOYS Roses are red, Posies are pink. Don’t toss waste fats Down the kitchen sink. This is war, and it’s real. Tomorrow means another meal. The University at war is becoming so complete, so air tight that we’re well alarmed that it’s here to stay; that after the peace (which will never enter our mind) things may not Al Larsen Writes - - Longing sighs about “the good old college spirit’’ and its hilari ousness, as accidentally brought to life by the scrap drive, do not mean that the old rah-rah col lege days will return. Fewer collegiate Homecoming slogans, elimination of annual noise parades, fewer and simpler social events, greater discipline, more study and forced interests, and even higher GPA require ments may only be temporary. But, like New Deal reforms that are forced by crises, to a great extent they will remain and fla vor the future. Unavoidable The world is moving in on col lege youngsters. They are being forced to grow up. Their activi ties and thoughts are not merely dictated by the war emergency, but by the maturing of their Un cle Sam. To the rest of the world Amer ica has been a land where the promise of a future has always been great—a democracy. Our way of life, however, had the national growth. Opportunity national growth. Opp-orttuni.ty was automatic. Freedom from fear and want could be got by in dividual initiative. Rights were gained, not given. Most things were taken for granted, allowing hope, or wishful thinking, to be come one of the strongest ele ments in our American secular religion. New Pattern Young people are today think ing and readjusting themselves to an advancing world and a pos itive form of democracy. De mocracy must now embrace con structive ideas regarding individ ual welfare. Equal rights, not lights. Freedom to live and grow, not freedom to exist. Acceptance of mutual obligations, not rugged individualism. Of simultaneous importance is the realistic adjustment of our national character to a new in ternational arrangement—world economic democracy. Every trade of goods and ideas since man dis covered the advantages of ex change has created vital interde pendence between men and be tween nations. Our fumbling in the past makes future wisdom possible. Handwriting on Wall More serious attentions for University students are not only desirable but unavoidable, just as they have been in Europe and Asia, because of national necessi ties. College students will be ac companied in their more mature attitudes by a very helpful change in educational methods. More subjects will hinge upon a study of improvements on the present with a pertinent and live ly reference to the past, and few er studies will be primarily con cerned with a dull and uncorre lated view of history.—Al Lar son. * « g urup oatK in cunuiu. nesiues, we’re becoming convinced more and more each day that there will soon be only girls on this cam pus with two dates to their cred it; one of them is the date of their birth. With Thanksgiving cut down to a hamburger and a coke, and Christmas vacation starting De cember 12, it is obvious that it falls on our shoulders, as stu dents, to get certain academic requirements under our mental wings in order to save face with cur GPAs and innermost con sciousness. Although the epic making air-raid lookout has been abolished from the wet roof of the library and most Oregon cceds are more concerned with the loss of 15 minutes from the dessert schedules, many a male mind is wrestling with itself. It isn't always the wrestler who has his ear to the ground, either. A New Question But how far will these academ ic gains, supposedly to our credit, remain with us? We’ve wondered about this often and finally re sorted to asking a buck-private, who once attended the Univer sity. At first he didn’t understand just what we were asking, final ly found a partial answer in a round-about way. He said' that all that he re ceived from his varied courses was what he actually put into them personally, and that didn’t include merely handing in daily assignments .While at school he never quite made up his mind whether he liked literature or not and consequently he didn’t both er to attend class regularly. How (Please turn to page seven) Wan Bni+ujl New Anxiety . . . tynatn tfnosifA. Fighting in the Solomons slackened a little Thursday, but apparently only for a breathing spell before another pitched bat tle is joined. American forces were still tak ing a heavy toll of the Nipponese attackers, the navy reported. The disproportionate heavy loss es being suffered by the enemy may do much to offset the lack of equipment and supplies which is handicapping our forces. Navy fliers returning Wednesday to Pearl Harbor after seeing action around Guadalcanal , decla^S^ that our forces there were takimg heavy toll of the enemy, but that they were strongly outnumbered and needed supplies and equip ment badly. New Threat The Japs do not seem to be content with keeping us busy in the Solomons, but are posing a new threat by assembling power ful striking forces at the sea ap proaches to the New Hebrides and Fiji islands. These American bases lie directly on our supply route from Honolulu to Sydney, and any attack upon them would be of major importance. In revealing this new turn of events the navy described the en emy forces being mobilized as “superior numbers of ships, planes, and men," more evidence that Japs are certainly not fc^' ing in their attempt to gain a eftr cision in the South Pacific. Rommel’s tank forces, mean while, were reeling backward from blows delivered by the British eighth army as the desert offensive widened breaks in the Axis El Alemein line. The Allied advance was rolling forward over the wreckage of Africa corps ve hicles smashed in the continuous attacks from the skies dominat ed by United Nations airmen. Heavy Blows Our air attacks were not con fined to concentrations of enemy motorized equipment on land, but smashed Axis supply ships far out over the Mediterranean where furious air battles were being resumed. In Russia attention shifted from Stalingrad, where the gS' (Please turn to page seven) Mexico’s Schools Lack Social Life, Says Native By DOROTHY ROGERS That the social atmosphere in Mexican universities is rad ically different from that in U. S. colleges, is the observation of Esiquio Narro, special student from Mexico. Mexican stuuents lack the typically American custom of getting acquainted with one another,” said Narro. “Con sequjentiy there is much less so cial activity in their college pro gram. Full School ‘‘Students are refused admis sion to the universities of Mex ico every year, because there is not enough room to accommodate them all,” he said. “This is the reason Mexican students are so hard-working and ambitions. “Because the people of my country see only those American students that tour Mexico, and not the real college life,” ex plained Narro, “they usually ask, ‘When do the Americans study?’ ” The University of Mexico, where Esiquio took courses in Spanish and English, has the characteristic background of Mexican colleges. Its very old buildings, once schools entirely independent of one another, are scattered throughout the entire city. This lack of unity and com pactness eliminates the campus so important to universities of the United States, he said. Experience Narro taught in two pi'ivakv business schools before coming/ to this country. He-explained that the Mexican requirements for teaching positions are lower than in the States, and added that the salaries of teachers are low, too. because the government cannot afford to pay more. Requirements may be low for getting a teaching job, but the demands of the job itself are many. In rural districts besides teaching the students to read and write, a teacher must counteract and even try to improve sanitary conditions among- the peasants. Esiquio Narro, now working for his teacher’s degree in Span^ ish and English here, dec!ard|J^ I like Oregon very much. I hope I can soon go to see Crater lake and some of the famous Oregon scenery that I have heard about.”
