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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 7, 1944)
........ MARJORIE M. GOODWIN EDITOR ELIZABETH EDMUNDS BUSINESS MANAGER MARJORIE YOUNG Managing Editor GLORIA MALL,U x Advertising Manager ANNE CRAVEN News Editor Norris Yates, Joanne Nichols Associate Editors Betty Lou Vogelpohl, Executive Secretary Carol Greening, Betty Ann Stevens Warren Miller, Army Editor Co-Women’s Editors Bob Stiles, Sports Editor Betty French Robertson, Chief Night Editor Mary Jo Geiser, Staff Photographer Elizabeth Haugen, Assistant Managing Editoi Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, and holidays anc final examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon, Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. Saltesi Sunday . . . Again this Easter, University students and townspeople wil gather in McArthur court at 6:45 for sunrise services, a custom dating back eight years or more but one which has so become the accepted tiling that no one can remember just exactly when it did start. In England when people go to church to worship, the sun* light streams through holes in the ceiling and walls where axis bombs have laid the building open to all kinds of weather. But Sunday morning in McArthur court the roof will be whole and the worshippers will not have to worry when the planes go overhead, because they know they are their own. The only ravages here are those of time, not of incendiary bombs. The fact that in this country, people may band together in a whole building, without fear of either bombs or oppression, and worship when and how they please makes it even more worthwhile, even if you just go for the reassuring feeling that “All’s right in the world.” Dr. John R. Knight, professor of religion at Willamette uni versity and counselor on religious activities, will present the Easter sermon “A Faith Reborn”; music will be supplied by the Eugene high school a 'capella choir and the University string ensemble; and the audience will be given a chance to participate in the singing. All in all a well rounded program, one that should be well attended. An offering will be taken and any amount over the expenses of the program will be given to the World Student Service fund, certainly a w orthy cause.—M.A.C. Valiant 279 • • * Into the valley of women came tlve 279 civilian males who are at present enrolled in the University. Surrounded by coeds and flanked by flights and sections of military students, these men might sometimes feel that they are ignored, passed over. Hut instead of sitting around mourning their fate as short sighted Miniver Cheeveys might do, the men are making them selves known on the campus. Yesterday afternoon's all-male assembly held at Steiwer hall is an example of this interest in campus affairs. It was amusing at first to the juniors and seniors on the campus, this idea of having all the civilian men meet in one living organization. In tin1 “old days" this would have been impossible. But after the first moments of amusement, the old-timers were pleased to see signs of increasing interest in campus affairs appearing among the civilian men. Traditionally, Oregon has more men than women students. Usually the campus is governed by men; men are the leaders in the various activities. More than two years of war has cut this male-female ratio, and it has also cut the number of men who are active in campus affairs. Of the men who are left on the campus, however, there is probably the same proportional interest in University functions. One man is vice-president of the ASl'O, another is junior repre sentative to the executive council. Oregana and Emerald edi tors, for a while afraid that they would have all-woman staffs, found that men still take an active interest in the campus publications. Members of the Student Union building commit tee work under the direction of a man who is general chair man. Other men form members of different committees and carry out their work in the old manner. \tter the war the proportion of men to women will rise. So will the entrance into activities. Hut all this will be partly due to the men who are now on the campus, reminding the coeds of Oregon that this isn't strictly a woman's world.—M.Y. It may have been coincidence but it is fact that in a co-ed campus poll at Tulane universitv on the question: "Do vou find it difficult to get a date with a New Orleans girls?" these were the results: Men with 1 .atin names, like Sosa and Satire/, said, ‘‘No trouble at all." Men ii'om Boston, Mass., said ‘A es, I do," or “I haven't been looking," Men from Texas said, "It all depends.” IIIIIIIIIIIllllllIIIIIIIII!III!llIlllIIIIIIIIIIllllIllllll!UI|!IIlI!!!llll!‘iIIIIliIllI!lli:iili;iiIli!il I IF A BUDDY l!llll]lll!l!llllllllllllillllllllllllllT; MEET A BUDDY By GLORIA MALLOY Well, here is your columnist again—sticking her nose out to get that news for you about our boys in the service. A lot of our boys at this point are right in the thick of things and they have a lot of thrilling stories to tell about their experiences overseas. Mother Nature seems to be doing her part to show these boys a rough time. For instance Pfc. Bill Aspfores SAE, who is in the marines some where in the South Pacific, was sitting- calmly in a foxhole one daj very efficiently carrying on his jol of radio operator when he heard s sound as if something were creep ing or sliding along the ground Visions of a slant-eyed Jap niusl have slid through his mind. He jerked around only to face a py thon measuring six feet in length “Well, I gotta admit,” says Biii “that it didn’t take long to remove myself from that foxhole.” Then there is the story about Richard Lawrence of the merchant marine. It was a pretty hot day so he and some of his friends thought it would be nice to take a little swim around the boat they were stationed on. Everything was ideal until an uninvited visitor decided to appear on the scene. The visitor was a large shark who very “play fully” began to chase the boys around. In less than a split second those boys were out of the water high and dry and decided from there on they would only swim in more conventional places. Bridge Blast On the subject of swimming brother Herb Lawrence, who is in the army and stationed at Hawaii, was not long ago out on jungle maneuvers. Herb and some other men were walking along one of those narrow wire bridges when a dynamite charge blew up. There were no injuries but a bunch of wet and muddy men. “You should have seen us. They had to take a knife and scrape the mud off.” Well, those are enough “thril lers” for today and we’ll get on with some more news. Lt. A1 Sorenson, DU and class of ’43, has just recently received a promotion to first lieutenant. A1 is stationed in Italy where he has just gotten out of a rest camp af ter some months on the battle front. Now he’s back in again lead ing night missions to retrieve dam aged tanks near the enemy lines. Sounds like a pretty delicate job. Ensign Connie Grabb, DU, the man who was well known for his delicious spaghetti and meatballs at “Liberty Hall,” is now at Provi dence, Rhode Island. Connie has been made recognition officer on the U.S.S. Missouri which is to be commissioned this spring some time, and off will sail Connie. Phi Delt Leroy Erickson, one of our big football men of last year, is on athletic instructor at the San Diego naval base. The boy must feel light at home for he is also playing on the football team there which from reports shows quite a bit. Before I sign off I want to ask all youse guys and girls who have some interesting information about our boys to let this columnist in on it. It sure would be appre ciated. wm \ \ “WHERE ARE YOUR CHILDREN?” with Jackie Cooper - Gale Storm — and — Charlie Chan in "SECRET SERVICE” with Sydney Toler Clips and Comments ' By MARGUERITE WITT WE R Three coeds at the Louisiana | State university went to a hos i pital for World War II veterans to ! visit a recuperating GI friend of j theirs. They felt sort of noble about it because after all they were 1 giving up a show or something to ; take time to see this sick GI. | States the article in the school paper, “One look at the eager, un shaven faces of the hospital pa tients, and they didn’t feel quite so noble.” Now there is a fine arrangement between the university and the hospital. Trucks pick up coeds Sunday afternoons and the univer sity women are brought to the wards to spend a few hours at the bedsides of the men, talking- to them, playing games, helping the morale of the hospital immenSHy. . . . This column usually doesn’t go off on a eulogistic tangent but that deal really shows us quite a charge. Well, the students at LSU ate up ‘‘Robin Hood,” according to a ; headline in the ‘‘Reveille.” That : may be all right, but I mean, what ; do they want—a pint of plasma ? The audience up here sort of ate | up ‘‘The Great God Brown,” too, and that sounds logical if you have cannibalistic tendencies. What wor ries us is how would you handle ‘‘Tobacco Road”? . . . Smoke it? From Camp Abbott’s newspaper (strictly GI) comes the sad word that 50 men and women teachers are needed to teach as ins(iiu*fe!rs in primary education equivalent to the first four grades in elementary school for illiterate soldiers in the ninth service command. There is no age limit for applicants and ex perience is not necessary. . . . Pro gressive education! Picture some slim, svelte sally saying to a class room of rude, crude and unattrac tive T 5's, “All right, boys, how do you spell ‘government issue.’ ” A woman PE instructor at the University of Kansas sent a spe cial request that the V-12 sailers are not to look through the cracks into the girls’ gym anymore. Ac cording to the “Daily Kansan” morale has hit a new low in-JJoS navy and there is serious talk of putting windows between the gyms. . . . That’s what watching baseball through knotholes can do for you. V X Our Ice Cream Specialty Dairy Products Visit Our Modern Dairy Store Toasted Sandwiches — Salads Fountain — Waffles Gustafson’s Dutch Girl 1224 Willamette St. Phone 1932 A large selection of beautifully boxed chocolates for Easter at Everybody’s Drug Store . . . 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