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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 2, 1943)
•Character, Drip, Jerk Defined by Authority By CLELL CRANE (Editor’s Note—This is the first in a series of at least one article wherein the writer will endeavor to bring Webster up to date in regard to the classification of campus personalities. Mr. Crane has spared nothing to make this article the last word. He has, as a matter of fact, conferred with a number of campus authorities, two to be exact, so everything he says can possibly be depended upon to be accurate.) wnat characterizes a cnarac ter? Along the same varicose vein, what denotes a Drip and what makes a Jerk work ? Which Y itroduces you to the purpose of ‘the following words. Do you fol low me? Not very crowded back there, is it? My attention was called to the general unfamiliarity with the terms Character, Jerk, and Drip of the University populace by my friend George the other day. I was leaning on a pile of duffel bags watching him roll bandages when he looked up with a worried complexion on his face. Taking off his white apron he turned to me and said, “People don’t seem to know the meaning of the afore mentioned words.” I could do nothing but readily agree, at least until I pay him back that ten dollars, so I decided to clarify the issue. As I have already said, people, especially male people, can be di vided into the three groups, Char acters, Jerks, and Drips, of which the lowest form is the Drip. The Drip is usually a drudge to something or other, and as a gen eral rule has a very low social mentality. Drips come in very handy in the scientific world and libraries. Sometimes Drips make spirited attempts to become Jerks or even Characters but they never make it because they are destined to be Drips forever. (The rains Frosh Melon Five (Continued from page four) only have to learn to shoot bas kets, but have to keep themselves immune from mumps, one thing which has been hard to do, as wit ness the fact that a number of their casaba stars have been laid tn for the time being. 1 Two freshmen who showed they still had some of those ambidex trous tricks when they played yes terday afternoon, and who were absent from last Friday night's Rook game, are “Dutch” Simmons and Ed Devaney. Ed was the high point man in the Frosh-Ruben stein game of two weeks ago. “Dutch” was the top scorer in the “No-Name” league last season while he was playing for Salem Vikings. However, the loss of these two important reserves ap parently failed to daunt the pow er of the Yearlings, for they cer tainly played the best defensive as well as offensive game combined that they have all season so far on the McArthur courts. More games with no less action Jill probably be held before the ,d of the season, as the Rooks and the Frosh still have two more games to play against each other before the season ends. There is still more to be said about Joe Coenenberg’s sterling play under the backboard, Friday evening. This was something that will come in very handy in the future years to come for the “Tall Firs” even though our “Wiley” is yet around. Today’s donut schedule: 4:00 Court 40 •— Chi Psi “A” Awful Awfuls Court 43 — Sherry Ross “A” bye 4:40 Court 40—Sigma Chi “A” ^tas Court 43—Delts “B” Campbell club 5:30 Court 40 — Sammies “B” Kappa Sigs Court 43 — Sigma Chi “B” Kirkwood co-op. come and forget to leave.) Next we come to the Jerk, the most discouraging of the three classes. A Jerk naturally is not smooth, and anything not smooth is obvious, which is exactly what Jerks are. In fact they delight in being obvious; because they think they are clever kids they al so think they must flutter their wings around in front of the mass es. Of course Jerks aspire to be Characters, and some are so mis takenly classified, but the un smoothness of their ingenuity keeps them down at the Jerk stage. Fortunately, for the Jerks, they are rather unsensitive, so they convince themselves that they are really passing off as Characters, which we now come to. A Character has one important feature that shines like an ROTC buckle—individuality. Features that run a close second are sin cerity and sensitivity. A Charac ter may seem a little uninhibited at times, but he is always sin cere, without even the smallest smudge of affectation. His sensi tivity at times almost approaches hypersensitivity, for he has a del icate mechanism that hates to see people’s feelings hurt, not exclud ing his own. Something should be said, I sup pose, about female people in re lation to these terms of delinea tion. Sometimes women can get to be Characters, Drips, and even Jerks, but usually they are thrown into the broad classes known as Spooks and Queens, which are rather harshly self-explanatory. The unfairness of this now una voidable situation is that it al lows for no middle classification. The unfortunate girls that are caught in the middle must be thrown into one classification or another, and they are usually thrown for a loss. The next time I see George I’ll ask him if he has a remedy for the situation. I Cover the Campus (Continued from page two) Ball were Major Harvey Blythe and some gorgeous little brunette, name unknown, although ’tis ru mored she is an Oregon alum. Censored Please And now a 20-second pause while we think of all the unprint able news, things that really hap pened lately, but which would be censored in black and white . . . Janet Harney’s new popularity has spread to at least four fra ternity houses. . . . Laff of the day: That young gentleman in one of the Shack’s spacious quarters removing tar from his person, with gasoline. Said tar was acquired in the swimming pool. Flash: SLUSH QUEEN OF 1943 CONTEST RESULTS HAVE BEEN COMPILED . . . The win ner of this gigantic competition has been chosen by the judges and will be formally presented with an engraved cup at the Eu gene hotel this coming Friday night . . . (Exclusive) . . . NO BELLS DEPT.—Roy (Big Stoop) Nelson’s accusation that we “lifted” material from the corn that runs under the label of “Between the Lines,” is veddy, veddy amusing. All our material is original. Nelson was obviously trying to curry favor with his five readers. . . . Dads’ Day Spared By New Handbill (Continued from page one) not affiliated with any organiza tion may get the handbills at the Co-op store where a special con tainer designed by Clell Crane, Dads’ day art director, will hold the ads students may pick up there. Crane has also prepared ads to be placed in the library and down-town stores advertising the 1943 edition of Dads’ day. Students arc urged to send the handbills home immediately in order to give their parents suffi cient time to make plans for at tending the Dads’ celebration. Mothers are invited to attend the Dads’ celebration this year. Cups will be awarded to the organization with the most fath ers registering for Dads’ day. Set the urge , TO HELP PURSE Ad Lib (Continued from- page tzvo) and you will begin to have pic tures of Hodges and Greer and Carney and the rest, and before the week’s out you will have s’om a thirty-second of an inch }ff everything from "Black and ran’’ to "I Got It Bad.’’ If, by some fantastic chance, rou should happen not to be an Sllington fan already, I suggest i.iiiumiui'iiB that you look to your education. Columbia has bound eight of his sides from the early thirties— eight of his most richly Elling tonian--into an album called “The Duke.” Might as ‘.veil make them first grade. From there on you're on your own, and I \ arn you, Ellington is habit-forrer-g, and no one has ever been ob served to recover once he as fallen under the influence. Sweet dreams, Jack, f Valentines for All • For "Him"—"Her” • For Mom and Dad • For Soldier Brother • For Sis Select them early Valley Printing & Stationery Co. LAMB or LION The Facts Are The Same ONLY $1.50 for Remainder of Year! 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