Oregon If Emerald
MARJORIE M. GOODWIN
EDITOR
ELIZABETH EDMUNDS
BUSINESS MANAGER
MARJORIE YOUNG
Managing Editor
GLORIA MALLOY
Advertising Manager
ANNE CRAVEN
News Editor
Betty Lou Vogelpohl, Executive Secretary
Warren Miller, Army Editor
Carol Greening, Betty Ann Stevens
Co-Women’s Editors
Betty French Robertson, Gh:et mignt touor
Elizabeth Haugen, Assistant Managing Editor
Marguerite Wittwer, Exchange Editor
Marv Jo Geiser, Staff Photographer
Published 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.
Put the Gamfiul
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Next year's Webfoots will be the first to use the pocket-size
student handbook, a guide to campus living which is designed
to take the greenness out of the entering freshman and to serve
as a reminder and a handv reference book to the upperclassman
who knows his way around but isn't quit sure how to get back.
Newly-appointed Editor Charles Politz promises big things.
He has, he says, “a considerable budget.” The book will have
100 to 150 pages, a colored, hand-drawn cover, and many pic
tures and drawings. The handbook will be written in spiightb ,
readable style—"we don’t want it to become a mausoleum type
of reference book.”
J he contents of the book, according’ to 1 olitz, ■will dc eveiy
thing' that every freshman or upperclassman on the campus
should know.” Among that "everything” he lists yells, songs,
traditions, the ASUO constitution and by-laws, departments
of student government, campus activities, functions of various
committees and boards, pointers on college etiquette, clothes,
the history and nature of traditional campus events, student
teacher relations, how to change study habits from high school
to college demands—"how to become acclimatized.
"The idea, 1 ’olitz states, "is to have a book that kids can
carry in their pockets and can refer to for details on questions
when they come up.”
Such a handbook will be invaluable as a guide to campus
living. Few students now on the campus know the complete
and exact details of Junior ’Weekend tradition. 'There are always
some "crimes” of which freshmen have never heard until they
are carried squirming to the dunking pool. (Did you girls
know, by the way, that you may not speak to boys at the
luncheon but that they may talk to you—and that it you reply
when the Man You’ve Jleen \\ anting to Know All Tear speaks,
you’ll get a very dc-glamorizing dunking?)
The problem of the transition of study habits is one of which
most freshmen are not even aware till midway in their sopho
more year. ’The question of how to act with professors is some
thing freshmen often misunderstand completely if they rely
on the "wising-up” given thm by a blase and oh-so-bored
sophomore. And freshmen often miss out on a lot of campus
fun just because they don't know a few small things about
college etiquette.
The proposed luindhook is in no sense ;i substitute tor the
i.iKi.im mum ui me catalog. 1 nese usemi ami necessary duuKs
■will be published as usual. 'L'he handbook will be less formal
and less general than the welcome book and catalog, and will
contain more specific”pertinent details about life at Oregon
which are essential to a successful start. The handbook’s special
advantage is its size—it will be small enough that it will fit
easily into a pocket or notebook. Its special purpose is to be
available at all times for the uncertain, inquiring student. The
book will be free to everyone on the campus, both freshmen
and upperclassmen, so that everyone may have a copy. After
the first year, when all the old students will have the handbook,
distribution will be limited to new students.
AN ith the cver-handy new booklet, incoming students can
find their wav around the campus and in student life with
ease, and old students will have a ready reference book to check
the points on which thev are unsure. It seems probable, too.
that the book will have a third use, one not included in the
original plans. It will be kept with other mementoes by alma
mater-loving students and nostalgic alums as a sort of junior
Oregana, an abbreviated edition of campus life.—J.X.
1'wo Massachusetts Institute of Technology hitch-hikers
recently got a lift with a lad\ who surprised them with the
follow ing conversation :
"You boys are working hard, aren’t you?" she asked. They
nodded vigorously. "Whom do you have for math?"
"J’rofessor Zedlin." thev replied, adding that he was a good
teacher.
"Well, you’d better keep working hard — lie’s a tough
marker," she said. Before they could ask her how she knew
all about Tech and its faculty, she continued, "You see, I’ve
been married to him for twenty-one years."—A.C.P.
Clips and
Comments
By MARGUERITE WITTWER
Lack of manpower at South Eu
clid college caused coeds to turn to
their last resources. They were
squired to a prom by their fathers
and maintained that the dads were
very gallant escorts.
Over 200 coeds at the University
of Texas don canteen uniforms ev
ery evening after classes and servo
chow to the V-12 trainees in their
mess halls. The girls were re
quired to complete 20 hours of
training before being allowed to
relieve the shortage of help.
The commander of the NROTC
unit at the University of Southern
California has released a state
ment to the students regp.rding
proper procedure for civilians to
follow while the flag on the cam
pus is being raised and lowered.
All civilians will be asked to face
the flag squarely, standing at at
tention, men removing their hats
and holding them opposite their
left shoulder. All automobiles in
the vicinity should stop, according
to the officer.
Are (he clays when huge rally
rally crowds flock into college
stadiums really not so far off?
Football fans may at least receive
some encouragement from the fact
that the turnout for the first
spring football practice for two
years at Syracuse university far
surpassed the expectations of even
the most optimistic gridiron fol
lowers.
I Unbelievable as it may seem in
wartime, 72 men appeared on the
field for the first drill session re
cently and the show of campus
enthusiasm and revival of the old
Syracuse spirit has brought a
pi.omise of continuing scrub prac
tice. . . . How about that, coach0
Maybe next year’s Oregana can
carry a full football section again.
Well, tiiis little item gives us a
panic. Quote from the Skiff, Texas
Christian university newspaper,
“The juke hox has been repaired
and is in good condition for next
week’s dance. We want the girls lo
dress, hut not in evening dresses.
As a special feature at the dance
the nightwatchman, who was with
circuses for some 30 years, will do
a slack-wire act.” . . . Anyway,
we’re glad the girls are going to
dress.
With- little white lace frills
around their heads, simulating
halos, 273 liars marched around
the University of Purdue campus
singing songs, forming plans for
tiiv.lv looolrlot, cviacl presumably, ly
ing. It was the annual state con
ference of the Liar's club, an oc
casion where the biggest of grand
ciaddies of big whoppers are ex
changed.
The temperature at the Univer
sity of Minnesota may still be low
enough to allow the NROTC’s to
trot around energetically in then
navy woolens.
Hitt what bothers us considerably
is (he fear that the few remaining
air corpsmen and pre-meds on this
liyar campus will disappear. We
get quite a charge when we see the
fellows melting away in big drops
on the sidewalks on Thirteenth be
cause they still have to wear their
Oil's. How about that, (’apt.
Cable, etc.?
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By BETTY FRENCH ROBERTSON
After the war department telegram arrived, Ted Baker’s
parents got a letter from their son who is in a New Hebrides
hospital, about the wound he received on Bougainville island
March 13. “I can’t use my right arm,” he said, "so this is being
written by someone else.” It was signed with his left hand.
Ted, who was a freshman SAE
last year at the University, left
school a year ago and has been
overseas six months in the army’s
famed American division. On pre
vious occasions he has written
home about seeing good shows
overseas, eating pineapple in the
Fiji islands, and having the na
tives do his laundry. Christmas
night they landed on Bougainville.
In his last letter Ted also told
about being evacuated by plane to
the hospital, and of his new medal.
“I am now the proud possessor of
the Purple Heart, perhaps the old
est and best known medal given."
Everyone hopes Ted is wiggling his
right hand now.
Don Fox, Flu Dolt, is another
Oregon lad at Willamette univer
sity in the navy V-13 program, and
he is heading for medical school
next fall. He tells one interesting
tale about three boys in his class
who uere penalized by being re
quired to write, “It is not polite to
talk in class” 500 times. One of
them got fancy, wrote it in French,
and for this insubordination was
made to write it 1000 times.
Pvt. Pete Tugman, former SAE
now in the infantry at Camp Beale,
California, waiting to be sent over
seas, wrote home that he found
out his supply sergeant is Hartley
Kneeland, a fellow Eugenean, and
that Kneeland entertained him
overnight at his home there.
It will be a race against time for
the wedding of Jim Ricksecker,
Theta Chi, and Jean Gallo, ADPi,
which is scheduled for June 11 in
San Francisco. Jim becomes a lieu
tenant in the army air corps June
10, and his friends are planning to
get him all dressed up on the train
which pulls into ’Frisco at 7 p.rn.
so that he will be ready to be mar
ried at 8. Jean, by the way, is
going to do a little fast scurrying
to get to California after graduat
ing here June 4.
Apprentice Seaman Ben Wright,
Theta Chi pledge last year, was
I,
transferred from Willamette uni
versity to Sun Valley, Idaho,
where he is now going to school.
His room, so he claims, formerly
was priced at $37.50 per day.
In about a week Corp. Don “Ag
gie” Martin of the marine air corps
at Jacksonville, Florida, will be
back on the University campus,
where he was formerly a Theta
Chi. He attracts innumerable peo
ple by the words on the back of
his dungarees: “Aggie Martin, Uni
versity of Oregon, ADPi.” His frat
pin rests upon the sweater of Amy
Pruden, which explains the ADPi.
A box of candy she sent him for
C hristmas just caught up with him
a few weeks ago, with postmarks
of marine bases all over the coun
try on it. Someone offered the ex
planation, “Maybe the pony ex
press got sick.”
Joe Estes, who was at Orejpen.
the first term this year, is a pri
vate in the army air corps at Fort
Logan, Colorado, and has been
down with rheumatic fever almost
the entire time he has been in the
service. Hopes for his quick re
covery are earnestly extended now.
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