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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 3, 1943)
Emerald MARJORIE MAJOR EDITOR ELIZABETH EDMUNDS BUSINESS MANAGER MARJORIE YOUNG Managing Editor ARLISS BOONE Advertising Manager Charles Politz, Joanne Nichols Associate Editors Shirley Stearns, Executive Secretary Anne Craven, Assistant Managing Editor Pvt. Bob Stephensen, Warren Miller, Army Co-editors Carol Greening, Betty Ann Stevens, Co-Women’s Editor’s Bill Lindley, Staff Photographer Carol Cook, Chief Night Editor Publisher! daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, and holidays and final examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice. Eugene, Oregon. 0 9 9 Anti-Bu^ Aduioe Winter is a-comin’ in and with it middle-of-the-night eight ©’clocks, never-dry shoes, and calls to the infirmary. It’s that last item—sickness, that can cause more lost hours and days than any other. It seems that just about the time the poison oak curls up for the winter, the various “bugs” move up .to the front line and take over. This year more than ever the infirmary will be overtaxed. Soldiers and civilians share our student hospital now, and the infirmary beds will be available for only the more serious ill nesses. So it’s up to the individual student whether or not his nose is a persistent red, his voice a husky baritone ALL winter. Every time a physician says easily and cheerfully that so and so needs more sleep—so and so stiffles a temptation to elab orate upon his overwhelming schedule, the impossibility of it all. But is it impossible? If you HAVE to say up half the night, or half of two nights in preparation for an exam, too bad. But if you ditto this procedure with no logical reason, don't get mad and decide that life is pretty terrible. Another thing, it’s no secret that the so-called “protective foods,” fruits, vegetables, butter, etc., etc., are not exactly weighting down dining tables these days. So when the terrific choice between carrots and cake, milk or meringue pie con fronts you, try carrots and milk. Or didn’t you know there was a Kleenex shortage? :!< * * * The hardest, but the longest-wearing health insurance is learning to take one thing at a time, to relax the brain cells, and all the twitching nerves. Your own remedy is for you to discover, sometimes it’s little naps now and then, a warm shower, or just changing shoes. About ten minutes after so and so has stopped defending the hectic pace he treasures with such fond martyrdom, he will begin 'to admit that he knows what’s the matter. Once that’s decided, a little reorganizing of food and sleeping habits turns the trick. The infirmary has enough to do. The idea is to stop depend ing upon “nervous energy” and luck to scare away “bugs.” —M.M. • • • ^Iteie tyou/L Four students have indicated a desire to help in student gov ernment by submitting their names to the executive council as prospective senior representatives on the council. These stu dents, by submitting their own names to the council, are taking part in a new move among campus leaders to allow those to gov ern who want to govern and who demonstrate their ability to do so. In past years, vacancies in class offices and on the executive council were Idled always more or less arbitrarily. A student .was appointed. He did not have to show a desire for that ap pointment, at times he was not required to show any ability He .took the job, did the amount of work necessary. But because the position was given to him, rather than being asked for by him, he did not feel the responsibility to say to himself, “I’ve asked for this job; I have to show that I can do it.” But these four, Lee Montgomery, Yvonne Torgler, Charline Pelley, and Harry Skerry, by their requests for the job of senior representative on the council, have showed that they are willing 'to accept the full responsibility of this job. They have asked for it, thej' will take it, and they will do their best at it. There are criticisms of this system, and there are favorable comments on it. As a criticism, it is pointed out that sometimes those who would govern best are not necessarily the ones who .Would like to govern. But this is countered by the fact that some times, under the arbitrary appointment system, the one to gov ern is neither one who would govern best, or one who W°uld like to govern. By submitting names for a position, stu dents indicate an interest in student government, in this job and in others that might come up on the same line in case they are not appointed. The system isn’t perfect, it can’t be and be dem pcratic. But it’s getting better. —M.Y. THEY WAITED TOO I if a Bunorl IIIIIIlllllIIIHIUllIllllllll MEET A BUDDY* By GLORIA MALLOY At last it’s happened! They’ve been keeping us in nothing but suspense for the past few months. As a result of his leave from naval training at UCLA, ATO Bob Sell finally nailed a killer of a diamond on Pi Phi Alice Bloodworth’s third finger, left hand. As for the date of their wedding, it might be any time after Bob graduates from school and becomes an ensign. Oh, happy days! That handsome-looking couple we’ve seen around the cam pus the last couple of days is none other than Ensign A1 Lar sen and Marge Dibble. A1 was that plenty powerful ISA presi dent last year. He’s home on leave after his graduation from Northwestern university. His Old “Pal” One afternoon last week Pfc. Harry Haugsten visited his old “pal,” Alpha Phi Jean Brice. Harry is in the air corps sta tioned in Kentucky. After his leave he will go straight to his new base in North Carolina. Says Harry, “The army isn’t such a bad thing at all, in fact, I rath er enjoy it!” Pfc. Dick Steelhammer, a mem ber of the class of '45, is now a drill instructor in the marines in San Diego, California. Ensign Dick Clark, DU, re ports from somewhere in the North Pacific that “these Jap anese radio programs are driving me crazy.” No doubt, the boy is in a hot spot! Doing All Right The V-12ers at the University of Washington are doing all right in the way of sports. Cliff Giffen, Pi Kap, is playing first-string tackle on the football team; Bob Wren, DU, is also doing a fine job on the basketball squad. Bells! Bells! Ensign Bill Brad shaw, Sigma Chi, and Alpha Phi Pat Longfellow took the final vows in Portland last Wednesday. Bill was on his leave after grad uation from Northwestern. First Lt. A1 Sorensen is now In General Patton’s 7th army in Italy advancing on Rome. A mem ber of a tank battalion, A1 says he has had three tanks shot out from under him. Ticklish busi ness, eh what! First Lt. Bud Leonard, SAE, and member of the class of '42, has been stationed somewhere in the South Pacific for the past nine months. Pvt. Bob MacDonald, past prexy of ATO, is stationed at Camp Kohler, Sacramento, Cali fornia. “Mac” will complete his training for the signal corps in about three weeks and thinks he might be home for a leave soon after that. Could this be the rea son for that sparkle in Dee Gee Sue Stater’s eyes lately? Our most somber apologies to friends (in or out of the Theta house), and relatives of Harry Prongas for our mistaken im pression of Mr. Prongas’ duties in the armed forces of the Unit ed States. He is now in New York as an army intelligence man. He just USED to be “nurse maid” to a squad of army nurses. Coeds Help (Continued from page one) women’s clubs throughout the state working on the project. This Oregon project is a part of a nation-wide attempt by the general federation to buy a bomb er for each state in the union. Coed Capers money will be do nated to the state fund, Gerd Hansen, general chairman, said, and should amount to between $200 and $300. Miss Hansen urged all girls to attend, since they will not only have a good time, but will also be helping in buying a bomber. “Women of the Future” is the general theme of the Capers, with “When Women Reverse the Uni verse” as its slogan. The annual frolic will be held at Gerlinger hall between 7 and 11 p.m. two weeks from this Friday. Master Dance to Hold Tryouts Tonight at 8:15 Tryouts for Master Dance will be held this evening at 8:15 in Gerlinger hall. Both men and wo men are invited to try out. Barbara Scott, president of the group, has announced that prep arations are being made for a Christmas recital. Nuf Sed By CHAS. POLITZ Some of our soldier-student friends (they resent being called “army men’’) have been crying in their mythical beer lately over the state of their culinary setup. It was about chicken. “We get it every Sunday—a whole half a fried one,” the la mented. “It must be awful,” we sym- a pathized. “One gets abominably bored with the fowl,” a Brooklyn intel lectual wailed. “Are you kidding?” we said. They weren’t. Neither were we—the closest . we’d been to chicken so far this year being the ones we drew for the cover of Pigger’s Guide. Who Suggested? We suggested that why not let us help you solve your problem by letting us undertake a gas trcnomical extermination of the pests come some Sunday soon. “Fine,” they said', blowing the mythical foam off the very pale pilsner en-unison. “Make it this Sunday,” they suggested afte*C we had suggested it to them. So they did. And we anxiously awaited the day, prepared for the event by consulting all the available house journals on chicken eating and accompanying table mannerJp keeping in hourly telephone conMI tact with “Aunt Emily” Post so as not to miss the latest reports on what fingers to keep from get ting greasy first, and consulting the local Boy Scout detachments on the latest in knots with which to anchor the napkin around one’s neck. And the day came. And we were ready. And were we disap-*' pointed. They had turkey. Career Girls On Campus §■ A girl knocked on the door and asked for Mademoiselle Janee. “Do you have time to take me now?” she said. Mademoiselle Janee, whose real name is Janet, looked over her schedule carefully. “I thin.Jfr' I could squeeze you in right af ter Shakespeare,” she replied. “I try to make all my patrons hap py.” Hair Dryer Cause of It All Janet Barringer is a college girl here at Oregon. When she re turned to school this fall she hap pened to bring a large hair-dryer with her and now she operates a thriving beauty parlor for her so rority sisters. Mademoiselle Janee’s Salon of Beauty is only one example of business ventures established in side girls’ living organizations on this campus. Kappas Sell Apples k There’s an apple concession at the Kappa house and a cigarette stand at the Alpha Delta Psis. One of the Pi Phis hangs a sign outside her door which reads, Pigtails—5 cents, French Braids, 15 cents,” and another Pi Phi runs a shoe shining parlor on the third floor. There is even an art student at Lombardy lodge who does char coal portraits for a nominal fee. All of the female production magnates say that an extracur ricular business career is fun! , It s a good way to spend Friday^ nights, anyway. Eighty-five students work part time servicing all departments of the Washington State college li brary.