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MARJORIE MAJOR
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ELIZABETH EDMUNDS
BUSINESS MANAGER
MARJORIE YOUNG
Managing Editor
ARLISS BOONE
Advertising Manager
ANNE CRAVEN
News Editor
Charles Politz, Joanne Nichols
Associate Editors
EDITORIAL BOARD
Edith Newton Norris Yates_
Published dailv 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.
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Have you made your New Year's resolutions yet?
Probably most of us right about now are too busy thinking
about boy or girl friend, or the dance Saturday night, or the
Great Virgil, or how we’re going to get home for Christmas to
even begin to wonder about New Y ear’s resolutions.
But perhaps, back in some remote cobwebby corner of our
brains there is an occasional furtive trace of the almost-begin
ning of a halfway starting to worry about studies and classes
and grades. It’s a feeling that will grow to mammoth propor
tions by final examination week. With each succeeding exam
that worried feeling will sink into an ever-lowcr depression.
And when we see our GPA s it won t be news—it will be only
confirmation of what we already know.
That’s whv this is a good time to make Xew Year's resolu
tions. There’s still time enough to put them into effect to benefit
us this term, when we certainly need benefiting. When the term
is all ov er and we go home for Christmas vacation, we don’t
feel any need or desire to turn over a new leaf—it’s already been
turned. When we come back to begin a new term, we don’t see
any reason to make resolutions about starting out all over again
with a fresh page or a clean slate—each new term automatically
provides us that opportunity with no necessity for endeavor
on our part.
Now is the time we really need new resolutions. Now a reso
lution to get on the boat, to hit the books, to study can help
u.s. This term is almost over, but it isn’t yet too late to "resolve
to attend everv class, to catch up on assignments, to do that
back reading, to begin really studying, to stop wasting time.
New Year’s resolutions are usually a rather childish and value
less practice, but if we turn over that new leaf now, it can
have a real meaning in our work. -—-J. N.
'feattle al the JJtahdlcufi.'
This \far the transportation problem is so critical that the
Kmerahl put out a questionnaire in order to help the rail and
bus companies forecast the approximate volume and direction
of Christmas traffic. By this we may all take warning and real
ize that last year’s crush was but a mere warm-up for what we’re
likely to have to go through this year.
And yet it need not be. We all know what the word "cooper
ation” means. What’s the matter with applying it to this
problem ?
Now all of us know good and well that mentally promising
to cooperate in reducing the rush, and actually planning our
trip in such a manner as to show the most consideration for
others are two different things. The majority of us will go ahead
and decide on a certain date and time and mode of transporta
tion—and then stick to our decision no matter how great the
stampede for that particular train or bus turns out to be. We
do so hate to delay, or to have to change even a single iota of
our travel plans!
But much of the scramble can be averted if we will only
make up our minds to do these things AND THKN DO THKM :
(1) Kind out what trains or buses most of our friends
and acquaintances are taking, and then try to travel on those
which will be the least crowded.
(2) When we get down to the station, be willing to change
our plans and wait awhile if the bus or train we figured on using
is crammed to bursting.
(3) Arrive at the station in plenty of time to check our
luggage, and thereby avoid having to take it with us and occupy
additional space.
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Remember, that several million soldiers and sailors are try
ing to get home for the holidays even as yon and I, and that it
is a matter of much more vital importance both to themselves
and to the nation that they make it than that we do. By cooper
ating to solve this problem yon will not only be doing yonr
classmates a service, but also aiding some unnamed soldier or
sailor or marine to add a few precious hours to the time he is
allowed with bis loved ones.
The thought of helping out thus should make us all feel
warm inside. We university students should have no scruples
whatsoever about losing the "battle of the holidays" to the ser
vicemen, or in striving to keep it from becoming a battle at all.
—X. Y.
The Cutting Room
“Saludos Amigos,” the only picture Hollywood
ever made about South America which didn't create
a diplomatic crisis when it was shown in Buencs
Aires, is an extremely. clever hybrid between the
travelog and the cartoon comedy. .
It is, in fact, four separate cartoon shorts pieced
together by the research crew of artists and writers
Walt Disney sent there to absorb local color.
What Happens
The first of these episodes shows what happens
when Donald Duck takes time off from being' the U.
of O.'s favorite windshield sticker to take a vacation
trip to Lake Titicaca. Against a background of
travel-talk which relates in a monotone the wonders
of the world’s highest navigable lake, the excitable
Donald gets into the kind of situations for which
he is famous.
Episode number 2 takes place in Chile. It is all
about a big papa mail plane, a middle-sized mama
Eemale plane, and a itty-bitty baby airplane named
Pedro. This oh so cute little story of how Pedro flew
through a thunderstorm the first time he carried
the mail over the practically perpendicular Andes
is obviously designed for the kindergarten element
in the audience. The kindergarden element probably
enjoyed it.
Goofy
The picture makes a comeback in Episode three.
So does Mickey Mouse’s old sidekick. Goofy. The
long lank what-is-it is shown as a ratMfTfiixed up
Argentine gaucho, complete with poncho and bolas.
Donald Duck returns for the final A The scene
is Rio by the sea-o. Against a background of hip
twitching Latin rhythm and the best flash-splashing
color Disney ever did, our duck takes-6g.jjipa lessons
from a smooth Brazilian parrot known as Joss
Carioca.
Red Hot Gulp J.
At first Donald can’t keep up with this soutJ*oi
the-aquator jitterbug. Then he gulps a glass of some
kind of scorching-red South American . bevera^k.
After that the rhythm just comes natural to him.
As the picture ends he is really cuttin’ the Persian
with Rio's most curvilinear cutie.
If anyone knows what kind of likker that was
will they please call us at 2798-W.
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By Ervin Webb
What happened ? This hap
pened.
The Casablanca girls dreamed
Tip and pulled off an overwhelm
ingly successful dance for Benny
the Beaver, the chameleonic OSC
rooter’s trophy, Saturday night.
Plans were made for the event
almost as soon as Benny took ref
uge at Casablanca. For days,
bright ideas and comments fairly
bounced off tne ceilings of the for
mer ATO house.
“Let's have a formal formal.”
“Naw, I'm in favor of a semi
formal.”
“Oh, let’s call it the mid-nite
frolic.”
“A barn dance would be nice.”
The barn dance idea came
through the verbal war the least
worse for wear, so a blueprint
crew went to work on alterations.
Did you ever change a house into
a barn or vice versa ? Well, they
hadn’t either.
Time Goes By—Without Bogart
Day after clay went by. Finals
the right one came along- and the
decoration crew flew into action;
the refreshment detail made out
elaborate chow budgets, then tore
them up and settled for a milk can
full of punch and a carload of
cookies. The welcoming detach
ment conceived fiendish entrances.
The music brigade arranged for
the nation’s top bands, and the
clean-up squad took the night
train out of town.
Nothing But Backbreaking
After hours of backbreaking
labor everything was in readiness.
Bales of straw, saddles, a Rhode
Island Red rooster, apple trees
(the song-inspiriting variety) and
other barn paraphernalia were
everywhere. Boy, did that rooster
get around!
Now they waited for night, fair
weather, and men to set in. At last
the trio arrived. Counting them
and Elmer Wattles (that stuffed
G.I. fatigue suit over in the cor
ner) everybody was there. Well
everyone except Benny the Beav
er. You see they came and got him
two days before.
(If it will make you feel better
Benny’s trailer was there.)
President Robert M. Hutchins
of Chicago won the De Forest
oratorical prize at Yale as had
his father before him.
BONDS
A Blip, aj the Jlip
By Teg Heitsehmidt and Bobbi Bealer
Bigger and better house dances this week-end—if the hay spread
around the campus on Sunday was any indication! Barn dances a-^thi
Pi X^hi and AXO houses were quite gay—that they were. Yup.
Casablanca and Alder Lodge
had their dances, too, with Circus
Days as the theme at the Alder
“big top.” Thetas went in for a
Parisian night club, complete with
Sally Bowerman, decked out like
a page out of Zola, officiating as
barmaid.
Tri-Delts and DeeGees went
formal to their dances. The Dee
Gees didn't starve beforehand,
either—over 90 members et dates
were at their dinner party at the
Osburne Hotel.
’Twas a Biot
And then there was dear old
Co-ed Capers Friday night —
which was really a riot. It seems
that half the male population on
the campus tried to attend. Two
army men, plus ATO Jim Lund
and Sigma Chi Bob Smith were
gently (?) ushered out by the
Mortar Board gestapo.
Outstanding among performers
was Phyl Evans, Theta, as The
Age of Innocence in the activity
skit. And laurels to Jean Taylor,
Alpha Phi, who, with a fractured
knee-cap, helped the show car
ry on.
Also Seen Waltzing
On campus for the week-end fea
tivities was Louis Duncan, DU
from way back, and now in the
air corps stationed at Pomona
college. Also seen waltzing along
Willamette was DU, now Ensign.
Jimmy Young.
“Tell me why she wears his pin
. . Once again this Phi^tjelt
song is being echoed, as TflTKfelt
pledge Jeanne Gilkeson r s
wave MacGuire's pm, an acquisk
tion of Saturday night. Dave is an
engineer from Iowa.
Her Go Steady Too
Another on the list of new
steadies is the warbler, Alpha Phi
Sue Welch, who is going with Don
Statler, the soldier boy we’ve seen
with her.
Late phone calls are no Inntfva
tion to Alpha Chi Dream Girl
Janet Marugg. Theta Chi Bob Bis
sett phones her any time from
one ayem on these days, we hear
tell.
Looked like old times to see
Jean Page and ROTO man A.r
Jones together igain at 1
Phi house dance.
She Catcimm Man
Dagmar Shanks, Theta pled ■■
captured an OSC civvie for net
house dance—and he’s got a con
vertible, too!
Salt Lake City Air Corps men
were out celebrating their victory
Saturday night at the Er^ene
Hotel, accompanied by ADPis
Amy Pruden, Yvonne Edwards, B.
Stevens, Doris Chapler, and
Jean Hall.
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