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 9m Q' jou.'i Pocket 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.? BICYCLES FOR KENT CLAY POMEROY’S ASSOCIATED STATION Phone 2968 11th and Hilyard Ufa. buddy, l!I!IHitl!ll!!llllltll!!lllll!ll!IIHII Iliiillllllllllillillllllii: MEET A BUDDY 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. EUGENE HOTEL Presents ART HOLMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA Every Sat. Nile Dancing 9 ’til 12 in the Persian Room ALPINE’S at the PUBLIC MARKET For an excellent cup of COFFEE \\ e recommend our FRESH ROASTED AND CAREFULLY BLENDED SANTOS, COLUMBIAN AND GUATEMALA also DELICIOUSLY AGED CHEDDAR CHEESE a,Kl I Grade A Swiss I I,