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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 4, 1944)
Oregon H Emerald ANNE CRAVEN Editor ROSEANN LECKIE Business Manager NORRIS YATES Managing Editor FRANNIE MAIER Advertising Manager ELIZABETH HAUGEN News Editor LOUISE MONTAG, PEGGY OVERLAND Associate Editors Jietty Lou Vogelpoal, Lxecutive Secretary Marguerite Wittwer, Women’s Editor Winifred Romtvedt, Assistant News Editor Jean Lawrence, Betty French Robertson, Assistant Managing Editors Gloria Campbell, Pat McCormick • Librarians EDITORIAL BOARD Edith Newton, Carol Cook Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, and holidays and final examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon. Entered as seconti-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. Pait, PbeAent, and fyutuAe., Someone has said that the present generation is living in the past and future but not in the here and now. It’s true in a way. At the Side, in the living organizations, in the classroom, in The Kmerald, and all around the campus, students talk of what used to be and what will be when the war is over. The plans for a Student Union building would seem to uphold the statement. Oregon students started a fund for this build ing in 1923. The structure was to be a reality in 1943, but the war over-ruled any possibility of its becoming an actuality that lack of funds had not already killed. On the face of things it seems that the Student Union building is a dream of the future not to be toyed with in the present. It isn’t just a dream, though, now that the state legislature lias backed up last year's drive and has put plans for the building on its list of post-war construction projects. Plans for the interior of the edifice are taking form with student prefer ences listed for consideration. To make this long-sought building a reality of the future, the Student Union committee must work now so that there won't be more delay because of lack of planning or campus interest. That’s why the job of chairman of the committee is im portant. lie or she will have the responsibility of keeping the Student Union building in the spotlight, of finding out what the students want, of seeing that the movement keeps going and doesn’t stop short of realization. Petitions for the position must be turned in to Jean Taylor, second vice president of the ASUO, by Thursday noon at the Alpha Phi house. l\ach petition must be accompanied by an eligibility slip from either dean’s office. It’s a job that requires a junior or senior with a cumulative grade point of 2. or above. Here’s a job with a past, present, and future. Only with a chairman who is really interested in working at it today will the work ol the past be worthwhile and the dream of the future become a reality.—L.S.M. Zba*Uf&ir Studenti. at 'WoaJz. . To a new student, the numerous dignified and ivy-covered buildings on the campus may sometimes appear forbidding. If lie does enter one in which he has no classes, the bewildering assortment of halls and rooms may quickly discourage him from looking further into what it offers. When he becomes an upperclassman, he may not have time to find out what's inside any of the buildings which he has only passed from time to time, and he may feel that he would find nothing of interest in them, anyhow. The interiors of these buildings are not entirely of another world, however. To certain students, each special department or school has a particular lure of its own. It may be a little far fetched to imagine future scientific marvels among any of the experimenters in the chemistry lab, or to vision writing geniuses and future artists among the students pegging away in the journalism and art buildings, or brilliant lawyers budding forth in the law school, although it is a pleasant conjecture. But, nevertheless, the atmosphere and activity in these different “laboratories" is one of practical and vital learning. The faculty fend student members of these schools welcome "outsiders” who are interested in finding out how the department "ticks.” It’s possible to look in on their activities, and to trv to discover V'hat particular attraction and what purpose they have, without annoying people who are working. An introduction mav be ob tained through a lricnd in a certain school or bv just curiouslv peeking information. The aim of the University is to prepare its students with a ^veil-rounded foundation of general knowledge as well as spe cialized knowledge. These activities, which are a direct part fof the curricula, are as much a part of universitv life as are .war board, political, and other campus events. Here among the different schools, located in a comparatively compact area, is one ot the best possible opportunities for educating oneself in the "how and why" of the various professional field*—K.H. 9rd Walk a Mde.. . . (The following account of the Weed college disaster is reprinted from the Wings Tribune of Smokers Hack, Oregon, in sincere hope that such chaos can be averted here on our own campus.) By ERVIN WEBB SMOKER’S HACK, Ore., Oct. 3—Seven Weed college upper class students were severely mangled, and an undisclosed number of lower division students were badly battered in an nour ana twenty minute iree-tor all riot on the museum exhibition grounds early this afternoon. On the spot witnesses claimed the trouble began when a camel, presented to the museum by Dean Phil Morriss, president of the Smoke Ringers of America, was unveiled. The 1500 students and townsmen attending the special ex hibition were said to have stood in awe for a breathless moment and then to have apparently gone mad. A hurried FBI investigation re vealed, however, that not a came lus dromedalus but an American made camel manufactured by the R. J. Reynolds company of Win ston, North Carolina, caused the disturbance. Further investigation brought to light the facts that this American-manufactured camel had at one time been very popular with Weed college students, but for some time had been thought to be extinct. Mr. Chester Fields of the Lucky Strike Psychology School of Smoke Analysis summed up the unfortun ate affair as follows: “After years of prolonged study of the human mind and its functions I believe I can say that the mere sight of a thing thought to be extinct or at least beyond the reach of most peo pie will cause a great emotional uprising. Such was undoubtedly the case here at Weed college. The students and townsfolk alike had resigned themselves to never see ing another Camel, when unthink ingly the museum staged a special exhibition of a genuine Camel. Quite naturally the strain on the mind was too much and the entire crowd reverted to nature in the raw, the riot resulting.” The above story might well have been written regarding our own school as the same conditions pre vail here as at Weed college. Real izing this to be true, however, spe cial steps are being taken by the faculty to insure emotional stabil ity among our students. It has become a common prac tice among campus merchants to give free one pack of Sensations with each purchase of Dominos and a stick of gum with other brands. They hope this will insure safety of their stores and stock. The slo gan of this new psychological drive is, “Remember, as soon as the war is won and the Camel Caravan goes back to North Carolina and the fall elections are over, there will be Camels in everybody’s garage.” IF AIIUDD1 MEET A BUDDY By JEANNE WILSHIRE If a buddy meet a buddy, then they are certain to learn some thing new, and it’s certain you chicks etc. (etc. meaning the sparse male population) will be pleased to meet these men from the University of Oregon who are now serving Uncle Sam. Several promotions have been announced recently by the war department to representatives ot the University. Perhaps you'll re member Robert Moran, class of '40, Alpha Tau Omega member, who was formerly a company com mander in the infantry at Corvallis. He has been promoted to lieuten ant-colonel. Glendower Porter, who left in '43, has been stationed at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and was commissioned a second lieutenant recently. Also, Lloyd A. Wilson, class of ’41, business administra tion major, has been promoted to major in the 8th air force in Eng land. As for some “oldies,” Howard Lewis, class of '30, recent major in the army medical corps, has re ceived the rank of lieutenant colonel. Lewis graduated from the University of Oregon Medical school and belongs to Nu Sigma Nu fraternity. Norman Hampton, a Beta, assigned to the dental corps at Medford, Oregon, is now Captain Hampton. Enough of promotions, it's easy to see that Oregon men can take their place as leaders, but promo tions are not the only manner in which the boosters of the yellow ind green piove themselves. Take for example Lieutenant Bill Runey, science major who trans ferred from Oregon State and who left the campus the winter of L940. Runey spent 13 months in “REAP THE WILD WIND” in Technicolor Starring John Wayne Paulette Goddard "Night Plane from Chungking” with Robert Preston and Ellen Drew New Guinea as a fighter pilot and recently as flight commander. He has been awarded the silver star for gallantry, the distinguished flying cross, and the air medal with clusters. And we might add, just for a patriotic bit that Bill entered the service just two days after Pearl Harbor. Perhaps some of you know Lieu tenant Colonel Donald J. French, class of '37, who was recently awarded the distinguished flying cross “for courage and devotion to duty displayed during the air borne invasion of Cherbourg penin sula, and for the spirit and enthus iasm shown during the extensive specialized training that prefaced the actual invasion.’’ French also recently assumed command of a troop carrier group in the 9th air force. Second Lieutenant Arthur Price, who left the campus the fall of 1940 and was assigned to an army bomber, was reported missing in action over Paris, France, since July 16, 1942. Price was reported killed In action, by the war depart ment September 2$, 1944. By BETTY BUSHMAN and JANE ELLSWORTH After many pleasant hours of reading college papers from a.li over the country, we’re growing a little envious of interfraternity dances, 2 o’clock permissions, var sity football games, and colleges overrun with millions of active fraternities; so if we’re green at this it’s just envy. What, No Millrace? At 3 a.m. one Sunday morning a group of freshmen were initiat ed in the folowing manner at the University of Kansas: After being walked around the campus for sev eral weary hours, the girls were lined up against a wall and made to pray loudly for rain, the upper classmen then obligingly poured buckets of icy water over then heads. Coincidence of the Week Department Headline in the Indiana -Daily Student: LUNDIN ASSIGNED TO LONDON WORK Sisters in the Band The first and only band sorcMty in the United States has been or ganized at the University of Minne sota. Membership to Theta Nu re quires a B average and three quar ters in band. * * * L. S. M. F. T. (Louisiana State Medic Follows Training) A pre-medical student from LSU, w ho is working his way through college by serving as an assistant in a local funeral home, delivered twins recently in an ambulance. The student answered an ambu lance call from a maternity patient 15 miles out of town, and by the time they arrived at the hospita! there were two extra passengers. The grateful mother named her early arrivals, both male, for the ambulance driver and the student. Days of Democracy Norman Thomas, Socialist candi date for president, last week spoke to a group of more than 1400 Re publicans, Democrats," and Social ists at the University of California. His next campaign speech will be in Palo Alto. * !S # What Will They Think of Next? In a Brooklyn paper was the following department store a IX LADIES’ RAYON PANTIES 29c TABLE COVERS TO MATCH 39c Ungrateful A Sergeant Schmoozler, veteran wolf down Fort Benning way, swears he’ll date no more women war workers. Says they’re not satisfied with a good time—they want time and a half! Oh, Horace— The University of Colorado an nounces that their October dra matic production will be "The Skin of Our Teeth” with a mixed cast of faculty members and students. TO MATCH THAT NEW <* 1 \ FALL Pick a hat from— SUIT The BONNET NOOK 907 \\ illamette