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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.
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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
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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.
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LADIES
COURAGEOUS"
With
Loretta Young
and
"THE MEMPHIS
BELLE"
Issued by the War Department
Religious Freedom
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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