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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1944)
lURBiUHiiuiimiiimiHiimiiiimuiiniiiiiimimiuiiiMiiiuuiiMMimiiiiuiiuiiHiimuiiiiimiuti Clips and Comments (Continued from page two) time it’s only because I haven’t my watch and the hall clock has stopped,” concluded a prof. “There’s a calendar in back of you,” remarked a bored sophomore dryly. \ Something new in the offing! At the University of Kansas they have an annual Dandelion day. Organ ized houses and faculty members are divided into teams and every one turns out for a dandelion-dig ging competition last two hours. This is one novel way of ridding the campus lawns of the yellow flowers. After the digging all workers adjourn for a picnic and V-12’s stationed at the university are allowed to knock off chow and join the students. A street dance in front of the library will climax the Dandelion Day festivities. . . . Sounds like something Gloria Mal loy and “Joe College’’ Smith might have cooked up. At Indiana university another kind of spring campaign is under way; kids who want to study out doors are asking for benches to be placed in scenic spots all over the campus.This idea is worth underlining. We have often wondered why llie only bench the IT of O has seems to be the one contributed by some seniors for seniors and an old green thing near the library. Couldn’t the Or der of the () or some other spirited uuimwiiiiiinrniimiiumimiiiiiiiiiniiimiimimfiiiiimiuiiiiuuuMummiiiiwumuuiiiuuiu I organization sponsor a bench drive? GIs at Stanford university will i have to watch their manners thenceforth; the gig system has ; been instituted. Minor infractions j are adjudged at one demerit each j and four such demerits will bring the sad sack an order to remain on the campus over the weekend. . . . More Stanford news: soldiers are being given dancing lessons by the coeds. Elementary rumba and other modern dances are on the schedule for hep GIs. . . . Spodi odi Everybody’s doing it now. From Cornell intelligentsia we have this contribution to rhetoric: Thoity poiple boids sittin on a coib stone, choipin and boipin; along came Hoimen and his goil friends Goity who woiks in a shoit factory in Joisey. And when Hoimen saw them thoity poiple boids sittin on a coibstone, choipin, and boipin, he says, boy, he says, ain’t dey poitibed. ... If you’ve never been in the Bronx you’ll have to prac tice that one a little. Women Fill 239 Jobs In Military Services With the second anniversary of the women’s army corps on May 14, 1944, there are nearly 70,000 women in the army doing 239 different mil itary jobs, here and overseas. Among other positions, women serve on the war department gen eral staff and with the American embassy at London, as weather ob servers with the air corps in Eng land, as ballistics specialists with ordnance, as medical technicians at army hospitals, as photographers with signal corps, as linguists with psychological warfare, as artists with morale services, and as elec trician specialists checking gener ators in Liberator bombers at an air base. Free Films Two free movies will be shown at 8 Wednesday evening, May 16, at Chapman hall. Entitled “Nazis Strike’’ and “Fire-Power,’’ the films were re leased by the United States army. iTTwnra LADIES COURAGEOUS" With Loretta Young and "THE MEMPHIS BELLE" Issued by the War Department Religious Freedom Buy more war bonds and insure m Municipal Electric and Water Utilities Student Union Poll ■ Please place a check in the blank at the left of each facility which you think is needed in the Student Union building. The lower blank lines are for any suggestions which you would like to add. Please indicate whether you are a girl . civilian man.or soldier. 1 Dance Hall 2 Faculty Lounge 3 Lounges a. General b. Men c. Women d. Smoking 4 Browsing and Record Room 5 Photographic Dark Room 6 Art Exhibit Room 7 Movie Equipment 8 Chapel 9 Memorial Hall 10 Banquet Room 11 Cafeteria 12 Dining Room 13 Private Party Room 14 Kitchenette for Student Use 15 Soda Fountain 16 Terrace 17 Committee Rooms 18 Student Government Offices 19 Educational Activities Board 20 Athletic Board Office 21 Alumni Association Office 22 Oregana Office 23 Panhellenic Office 24 Inter-Fraternity Council Office 25 ISA Office 26 YMCA Office 27 YWCA Office 28 Bmployment Office 29 Administration Office 30 University of Oregon Co-op Store 31 Check Rooms 32 Information Desk 33 Lost and Found Department 34 Barber Shop 35 Beauty Shop 36 Living Quarters 37 Post Office 38 Banking Facilities 39 Locker Rooms for Students 40 Bowling Alley 41 Game Rooms 42 Sun Porch, Roof Garden 43 Trophy Room 44 45 46 i CAMPUS CALENDAR The Newman chib will hold a meeting at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in the YMCA hut. Oregon ^Emerald Night Staff— Betty Robertson, night editor Mary Jo Geiser Jean Lawrence A1 Young City Desk— Norris Yates Liz Haugen Bill Buell John Wray Receives Commission as Ensign John P. Wray, former University student, was graduated recently from the naval air training center, Corpus Christi, Texas, and was commissioned an ensign in the U.S. naval reserve. He went to the Uni versity in 1941-42 and 1942-43. CLASSIFIED ADS | • Wanted WOMEN STUDENTS for lunch and dinner hour help at the An chorage. • For Sale ' BICYCLE. Good running condition. ?25. 4993-W. Two Organizations Announce Pledges Just pledged yesterday to Alpha Omicron Pi was Lois Roeder of Portland, and a pledge of many — weeks whose name is only now published is Sally Flood, Alpha Chi Omega. "TRUE TO LIFE" ' Dick Powell Mary Martin and "TEXAS MASQUERADE" Have a “Coke”= Kom Er Bij, Amice! «r.a* * i (JOIN US, PAL) ixr i he b a ...» ...or how to get on with a Dutch flyer Like the Join us, pal of the Dutch flyers training in the U. S., the Have a "Coke” of the American airman means Friendliness speaking. Just as it does in your home when offered from your own icebox. Across the Seven Seas, Coca-Cola stands for the pause that refreshes, —has become the favorite greeting of the open-hearted. BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. OF EUGENE _©1944 The C-C Co.
