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POSSIBILITY that army or navy men may use the Uni
versity of Oregon campus as a training ground next year
still exists, this despite the fact that Oregon was not included
in the first 281 schools named. The first schools chosen were
picked by a joint committee of the army, navy and war man
power commission. They are but the first group selected to
train men and women in technical studies for the armed forces.
The announcement made it clear that this is only the be
ginning, and that “many others will be designated later.” The
joint committee is considering use of every institution in the
country.
The decision to use college and university organizations
is a time-saving step in technical training. The armed forces
can use institution living quarters, institution class rooms, and
institution instructors. With some course revisions, universi
ties and colleges are ready to train, awaiting only the arrival
of men.
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rpHE WEEKEND announcement shows that armed force
officials will use the institutions for training of women as
well as men, A training center of 800 WAACs will blossom on
the Oregon College of Education campus. These plans have
a two-fold advantage: To the armed forces they offer a ready
to-go instruction program. To the schools selected the}'' offer
an even greater opportunity to prove their worth to the war
effort and to remain open. That university instructors can be
of positive aid is shown by the large number already in tech
nical civilian or armed force service. Now their value will come
home to the campus, as many classrooms open to student sol
diers and sailors.
The University has been cooperating with military officials
in outlining facilities available here. As the training program
broadens, and as “the many other” schools are designated, Ore
gon may find its role in the war program. That even a liberal
arts university can serve a technical war program is proved
by the vast number ofimath and other technical courses added
in the past few months.
N ATTITUDE that one faculty member termed, “Amer
ican indifference to responsibility,” can be spotted in many
forms more easily defined every day on the campus.
Beginning while the morning is still dark this negligence
in matters of being somewhere at a certain time is most marked
in 8 o’clock lumber yard sessions. The classroom is occupied
by a few sleepy freshmen who had to get up for house duty
anyway, a host of empty chairs, and a stray dog that wandered
in out of the early morning fog.
At 8:05 the instructor comes in followed at irregular inter
vals by those who couldn't possibly have gotten up five min
utes earlier. And they all have excuses; good excuses. They
were held u^> by inclement weather. They were called to a
phone. They waited while a classmate shaved so they could
both be late together.
rJ'Mi h \\ OKS 1' offenders are those who don’t show up at all.
They too, have excuses, a headache, had to study for a
B o'clock midterm, or the classmate didn't finish shaving in
time to be even fashionably late.
Alibis have become so perfected that responsibility can
take a rest. There are a few departments, however, that frown
on alibis to replace responsibility and these are favored by as
tonishingly regular attendance. Students who find an excuse
for missing a military class have a hard time finding one for
missing a Saturday makeup. Grades and attendance go hand
in hand up at the physical education plant.
Because there may be lack of security and a feeling that
this is the last term in which to enjoy school, it should not
follow that grades or a good old bawling out are needed to
emphasize responsibility. .—A. T. G,
1 Collegiate
World
By Associated Collegiate Press
A survey among 520 college
students, male and female, from
five universities, reveals the in
teresting fact that the girls rath
er like to play poker. In fact,
they also like to watch race
horses and get all riled over po
litical problems, just as the men
do.
Dr. Clifford R. Adams, assist
ant professor of psychology at
Pennsylvania State college found
out these things through his per
sonal audit test.
Men, he says, aren’t so much
different from girls. They both
like to act in movies, perform on
the radio and play golf and
bridge.
But there are differences. Men
like to be big shots.
Deep down inside, the gals are
still just as the men like to pic
ture them.
Social activities and charitable
work are their forte. The coeds
said they enjoyed entertaining
and going to picnics, masquer
ade parties and full-dress affairs.
Because a United States sail
or took time out from the Solo
mon Island-New Guinea fighting
to think about his alma mater,
the museum of anthropology at
the University of California is
today the owner of a fine speci
men of Melanesian carrying.
The sailor, Donald Simmons,
was graduated in 1941 and en
tered the navy. Recently the mail
man placed a brown paper parcel
on the desk of Edward W. Gif
ford, curator of the museum. In
side it was a carved wooden fish
charm, compliments of Sailor
Simmons.
Gifford says that while the
postmark failed to specify the
place from which the charm was
mailed, it is typical of work done
by the Melanesians, black na
tives who inhabit the Solomons
and New Guinea. Made of very
light wood, the charm consists
of a long painted face with shell
eyes. The natives hang these
charms on their fishing lines or
on the prow of the fishing canoe
in the belief that they lure fish
to the boat.
| Aloikma
By J. SPENCER MILLER
INSIDE STORY of the Fred Beckwith abdication shapes
up as internal pressure from the brothers Alpha Tau Omega,
who feared that, through the sometimes annoying pen of Bro
ther B., they were losing their unsullied reputation as the
“friendly fellows” of the campus. It seems that several sorori
ties were getting overly annoyed by the remarks of the bum
quations Mr. B. and R. P. Nel
son’s "Ode to an ATO Mistake”
was the last straw!
Sic transit Beckwith.
Which goes to prove our con
tention that—to successfully
write one of these things—a guy
has to be un-attached, un-friend
ly, and un-social. That seems to
be me, God save my hair! We
predict Becky will get much fur
ther with the “Beckwith Greater
Publicity Program” by his ra
dio, sportswriting and otherwise
talents. . . . Then perhaps he
won’t be stood up at 4 p.m. the
afternoon of his house dance by
various and sundry Thetas . . .
Wonder who he took anyway?
A HAS-BEEN PICKS UP
FROM LAST SPRING . . . Tiger
Payne, past-prexy of the ASUO,
Sigma Nu, and other Greek-letter
organizations, took the marital
vows last night with ex-Fee
Connie Waibridge in a Paso Ro
bles army camp . . . Living next
door to them now are Lt. Bill
and Lorraine Sampson Regner—
the connatations of the whole
situation being obvious to those
who have been around the cam
pus awhile . . . Sigma Chi Art
Damschen received his brass back
from XO Helen McKean, not sur
prising considering the way he
had been operating while she was
away from the campus . . . We
apologize to Frank Watkins for
accusing him of slowness. His
FieDelt shield adorned Lila Lee
Chaney, 10 days before it was
announced in ICIT. Which must
have been around his second date.
Kappa Shirley “Call Me Legs”
Beller went to Survey of Creative
Arts the other day in her gym
shorts, as she lost her skirt in
the gym, and Zane promptly pa
raded before the class to the
board . . . Lovely gams, too . . .
Since its been on for over a week
we can call our “scoop’ on the
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Arno Dosch-Fleurot
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For a typical piece of excitement out of the life of news
paperman Arno Dosch-Fleurot, ’00, picture him sprinting for
the Finnish border followed by a group of incensed Russians
—with guns. If you follow the picture through you’ll find
Dosch-Fleurot on the other side of the border bridge, puffing,
and watching while Finnish and Russian patrol argue as to
whether he lives in the Finnish
hank—or is “dealt with” on the
Russian side.
It all happened during the Rus
sian revolution in 1917 when
Dosch-Fleurot irritated the Rus
sians—to the point of quite liter
ally chasing him out of the coun
try. Incidentally, the Finns won
the argument.
Arno Dosch-Fleurot loves ex
citement and he’s seldom more
than two feet from it. At the
present time, as far as his sis
ter, Mrs. David Campbell can as
certain from news reports, he is
somewhere in Germany with a
party of American newsmen, dip
lomats and Red Cross workers
recently interned after Germany
took over all of France. At the
time of the Toulon incident Arno
was in Cannes, France. At the
time of the Toulon incident Arno
was in Cannes, France, and from
there went to Lourdes, France,
where he joined fellow Americans
in a hotel carefully guarded by
S. S. troops.
This latter information was re
layed to Dosch-Fleurot’s relatives
by his very good friend William
Shirer, author of “Berlin Diary.”
Among other cloSe friends he can
claim the late pianist and presi
dent of Poland, Paderewski—
“And practically everyone else in
Europe except the Duchess of
Windsor” as his niece Mary Ann
Campbell, journalism senior, ex
plained.
As to a description of her fam
ous relative she reflected, “Well,
he’s rather short, gray-haired
now, talks like a machine gun—
at the drop of a hat he’ll tell you
all—and I do mean all—about
French politics.”
For a strictly factual biogra
phy of Dcsch-Fleurot life it
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Between ®
The Lines
By BOY PAUL NELSON
The meeting- will please come
to order. We will dispense with
the minutes. Not to mention the
hours.
We are about to take up a
problem of interest to women
only. Hello, men. And you, too,
"Scottie.”
Alpha Chi’s Miss Helen John
son, in her letter featured in Sat
urday’s Emerald, tells of the need
of a lovelorn column, and intro
duces the following problem:
"How can I get a man to ask me
for a date?”
Substitute
You could probably take the
problem up to Mr. Anthony, but
he’s probably working in the ship
yards by now, so we shall do our
best to fill in.
But first—a brief message
from our sponsor:
Friends, have you lost your
love for parties and fun? Do you
stay home nights while others
are out enjoying life ? That math
is tough, ain’t it?
And now, back to our prob
lem.
So—you want a date, huh?
Why?
Advice
In the first place, I would ad
vise you to be subtle in working
the boy around to the point where
he will want to take you out.
Don’t come right out and s^^
“Why don’t you ask me for a
date?” He might think you want
to go out with him. Work up to
it gradually, such as: “Nice wea
ther we’re having—why don’t you
ask me for a date?”
Or, you might write him a let
ter, dropping him a hint. Send
the letter to his address. You
might word it like this: “Dear
Sir ... I have nothing planned
for Friday night . . . Hope you
are the same . . . My phone num
ber is in the Guide. . . .”
Mix It Up
As a girl, or reasonably exact
facsimile, you should not ask an
other girl for a date, as mixed
dates are more desirable here at
Oregon. And, too, you should
never offer to pay the check un
less the boy insists.
If you have been neglected \9J
late, perhaps it may be attributed
to the following:
Have you seen your dentist?
Often girls have been dated after
going up and visiting him. But
maybe he already has a date.
How about your personal ap
pearance? Does your participle
dangle ?
Well?
And your personality? Do you
make yourself interesting? Or
do you have scruples?
Can you cook? Well! Phone
854.
One more question. What kind
of a man do you want? Do yQk
want a big, handsome gent^P
likeable, talented, easy to get
along with—with a car and gaso
line? Are you kidding?
Once having decided on the man
you want, and by the application
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