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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.”
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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.
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“WHERE ARE YOUR
CHILDREN?”
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Jackie Cooper - Gale Storm
— and —
Charlie Chan in
"SECRET SERVICE”
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Clips and
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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.
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