Oregon W Emerald MARJORIE M. GOODWIN EDITOR ELIZABETH EDMUNDS BUSINESS MANAGER MARJORIE YOUNG Managing Editor ROSEANN LECKIE Advertising Manager ANNE CRAVEN N ews Editor Norris Yates, Joanne Nichols Associate Editors Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, and holidays and tr,al examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon._ • • • '^J&ke+i' eMomecomuUf, Homecoming 1944 style will be Homecoming in the war time style as a tribute to every alum who is doing his part in the war effort. What else could be more appropriate in these times? Homecoming is essentially a celebration to honor the alums of this school. This year it is naturally impossible that everv alum who would like to could attend the celebiation. So this new Homecoming, this Token Homecoming, will honor them where ever they are—on the battlefield, in the aircraft plant, at the training school, or in the shipyards. And greatest honor will be paid to those who have done the most possible, those who have lost their lives in the work they were doing for their country. This will be a program looking forward to a greater cele bration, one that will sec every alum back at his alma mater in a world at peace made possible by the efforts of those same people we will honor at Homecoming 1944 style. Homecoming is a tradition almost as old as the University itself, and to have abolished it this year would have been a mis take. But to have asked the alums to return in a number strong enough to make this a real Homecoming would also have been a mistake as well as an impossibility in these times. And so this is definitely a Token Homecoming which more than any thing else will look forward to that day when the old familiar faces can return. This Token Homecoming will keep alive every bit of the old spirit which has always made Oregon a school that every alum holds dear to his heart and wants to return to for a real Homecoming, the kind that will come ;\vith Victory. it was wise judgment on the part of the executive council that led them to see the advisability of having this token Homecoming to keep in the minds of all students and alums the basic idea of Homecoming, the idea of bringing everyone back to the school they love and respect. But this year Home coming, with its theme of honor to alums not here, is e\en more important than the visual showing of honor to the school by the returning of alums for Homecoming. The annual competition between Oregon and Oregon State will be carried out, and the usual meeting of some alums will take place, but the loud, long celebration will be replaced by a more important thing, a salute to every Oregon alum who cannot be here. B. A. N. fyetnuutte tytiolfc. . r livery year when the time for Coed Capers draws near, stories such as this begin to appear in the Fmerald: “University coeds will frolic at Coed Capers, annual all women celebration . . . ” And frolic they do, with, the spirit of fellowship and fun reigning supreme, and an undercurrent of serious purpose giv ng the affair real meaning. But Coed Capers is no longer the only occasion when University coeds can frolic in fellowship and fun with an i derlying seriousness. Tonight the \\ omen s Athletic associa '.n sponsors the second Fun Night for University women. The feminine funsters will choose from a wide array of n ts. Sports available for onlookers and participants include ; sketball, tumbling, gymnastics, swimming, card games, lingo, darts, checkers, table tennis, shuffleboard, square danc ’ r, badminton, volleyball, and deck tennis. And when they're worn out from a fast, hard game of sketball, the exhausted coeds can find refreshments and new ;wr in the hamburgers and cokes to be sold by WAA mem 'crs. If some coeds are so fatigued merely by the strenuous, ; nowing routine of daily lift- that even the WAA hamburgers i d cokes won’t provide sufficient energy for them to par ipate in a tough game of checkers or bingo, they can surely mmon strength enough to watch while others play. We un ntand that chairs will he furnished for sedentary spectators. The “serious purpose" behind the Fun Night is to make • iversity women more healthy and better fit to do the thousand d one tasks demanded by their scholastic, recreational, social, -,’.d war activities. WAAV Fun Night, a combination of worth while purpose and good entertainment, should give pleasure .. : profit to all coeds. By GLORIA MALLOY Yesterday marked the great day of graduation back at Fort Benning. The remaining officer candidates of yesterday are lieutenants today, proudly wearing a gold bar on each shoulder. from there was from ATO Dick Ralston to steady-starry-ey. 1 Maryanne Lynch saying that 'i would report to Camp Wolfe".'. Texas, January 16—but before that he would spend a few days’ leave in Portland. What a look of anticipation that girl is wearing these days! Fee Gee Chuck Scofield is in his final pilot trainig p ri»; ' bad, New Mexico, which he is “the home of the caves”. Chu hopes to receive his wings in ; , proximately three weeks. Staff Sergeant Fritz Timme.n onetime Emerald associate f • A and Ruth Jordon Timmen, : Emerald’s biggest “shack mance, have recently am ■ . .• ! the birth of a son, Ri( key. geant Timmen is stationed Camp Beal, Marysville, Cairn... - ia. Alpha Phi’s “Aunt La” is i ■ ceiving correspondence i':\ u friend John Schafers, seaman > • class of the navy. John has been stationed in Honolulu for several months. Our ex-football st.'.r, it: Wren, who is now a tending the U niversity of Wash ington, played a full live minutes in the Rose Iiowl game between Washington and Southern Cali fornia. Phi Delt “Dutch” Simmons was called into the army December 29th. He’s now up in Fort Lewis awaiting classification. A Christmas card was received n (he campus from Fee Gee Kelly Snow of the ASTP. His saluta tions for the now year were as fol , “May the millrace turn to beer in ’44.” Sigma Nu Jim Carney, now a i i the army, left the wo weeks before p i-tmas and is Dorothy Lenha Ensign i^ ha: ' . ntly i , •ow in England. Orides and sic, has just I and leaves Suing school, mis, Chi Psi, gone overseas . member of a on Hutchins, '.L.A., has just an Alpha Chi o is unknown 'raitor! By MAKV r 'IrJLIilLzJLiliLrJLxl'L-JlzJL'l* •; .. It is a grim thought that t>. s.i petition for jobs after the war will be nothing less than “fierce". But, competition will be, never theless, a reality most of >■ face when peace terms are pm - ned and a normal ( ? 1 econ • . restored. This competition will stria* -1 women more keenly than at men. Today, there are educational ai ; occupational opportunities gr.«! - ty here on the campus. the fine1;*: pr. and is at ; the r.obl<: t . 1111' '■■■1 t * ■ ■ t ni - jr in nie, is one of in the world ■ i tainly one of it is created men. nursing is not ng a bedside ght suppose, semi-medical . l atifyingfeel by training type nursing oo and j p for more pro f< ■ •• )nal position . such as hospit administrator.’, supervisors, ■ - . health nurses. ■ those we- -e brave, this is sc Uie ojiiy a - ipational field ii< a worn a have opportunity i • ■ overseas service. Here, at the University of Ore ■u is the chance for you sweet '•{rts and sisters to offer con ■ ''do help to that relative or friend in Uncle Sam's war ma chine, by choosing nursing as your Ob in the war. j arses is quite tmns supply, : adequate to i emergencies to Psyshiatric • peal to one t while physioth another's fane;, ing may be . .i Im nis : home ma The fields r time belong? ! and the epp; in school. If v without direct : ir cade ntajr i* y ? cons: i' Hazel P. f "•emen, will b< . the it a Oregon’s quota of short, but the na a whole, is in life-and-death tur daily. ■ ig might ap rsity woman, might take i. d Cross nurs . d’s specialty, ■■ of a children’s 1 1 a fourth, nlimited, the egon’s coeds; a provided ■I re vague and planning your the Univers all means, ring, dean of 1 to advise you .■led fields of nthank, dean stration. Te rn, as intelli to be of help Clips and Comments By MARGUERITE WITTW Eli Three Louisiana State U. coeds were hurrying from class to their dorm for lunch one day. Long' low whistles sounded. The girls look ed around casually. No men in sight. Again the familiar wolf calls sounded, this time accom panied by gay greetings. The girls looked up—ah, yes, the solu tion. This time the wolves were riding the skies; Navy men were yelling merrily from a low flying Navy blimp circling the cam pus. After the war when planes are as plentiful as cars, girls may au tomatically look up for the source of a whistle. Who knows! . . . Oh, honestly. At the University of California sailors on the campus have taken the initiative and renamed the houses in which they are stationed in honor of Navy heroes ... I see where Susan Campbell Hall could become Eisenhower House—or something of the sort. The Daily Northwestern of Northwestern Univesrity reports the most amazing things turned in at their lost and found depart ment. For instance, one day tftky got a charm bracelet with several fraternity pins and other such in signia attached . . . Quite a gal, quite a gal. ....—And from the same paper we found an interesting article stat ing the fact that ice hockey isn’t frozen ..now—in ..spite ..of ..tough times . . . Really ? The other day we heard a G.I. stationed here on the campus tell another member of the ASTs the noteworthy item that every other year or so one of the frat houses on the University of Maine cam pus burns down without explana tion. Insurance men would aT^> be mystified by the sight of frat brothers carrying the furniture back into the blazing building as soon as the firemen throw it out . . . Heh, Heh. in an emergency and should make such a contribution now and later, by self-betterment and study.” - This, friend, sounds like a gentle conscription! Let’s hope our own government will not need to make more severe demands of us . . , America's women! Remember that your regular five year course on the campus and at the medical school is Ac celerated by working through va cation, and requirements for cer tificates may be completed in much less time. This is an ad ditional factor to consider. Rollins college recently cele brated its fifty-eighth annivers ary. s CHUB Thrilling Double Bill! CHARLES STARRETT "COWBOYS IN I THE CLOUDS" ^ Plus KENNY BAKER "DOUGHBG a S D IRELAND" TFfnI i • & R r j ■■ : \ ■ Entertainment Galore Olivia de Havilland in "GOVEW., GIRL" 4