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■final examination periods by the Associated Students. University of Oregon.
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Almost every day The Emerald carries stories announcing
the appointment of a number of Betty Coeds and Joe Colleges
as committee members. The publicity is grand and the an
nouncement usually finds its way into home town papers,
thereby making the students “big shots’’ in the eyes of home
town folks.
The chairman is happy, “Such a nice bunch of people.’’ Soon,
however, smiles change to looks of worry. Just try and find
the committee members, or for that matter get any of them
to work. They have more excuses for inability to carry out the
functions assigned to them than a freshman trying to get out
of an eight o’clock.
Unfortunately, at the last minute something always comes
up which is more important than the job to be done. Granted,
there are a large number of students on this campus who do
not take appointments unless they are sure they have the time
and ability to do a good job. We are speaking of those who only
think of the glory of being on a committee and forget entirely
about such insignificant matters as the work involved.
...There is a responsibility attached to appointments. People
are dependent on you for the success of whatever function
you are a part of and if you shirk your job it may mean that
the whole project will collapse.
College is a training ground for future life and the cold, gray
world isn’t going to stand for shirkers. If you get used to slip
ping out of work which you had accepted, you will receive a
rude awakening when you leave this campus.
Only if everyone does his share, can a program, project,
dance or drive be a success. It’s up to you. If you agree to do
a job, then do it. Don’t let the work "slip your mind” after
you have received all the glory.—-M.A.C.
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Q. P. A. tf-a&dtc/i
With the latest ASUO executive council meeting', something
new lias been added to the freshman’s campus perspective.
.There is a lot to the old theory professors, grandparents, and
other such learned people are always driving into us, that
knowledge should he the pure, unadulterated goal of every in
telligent person and that such a purpose, in itself, is sufficient
cause for the student putting forth every effort possible.
But if one takes the average, slightly confused freshman and
asks him why he is attending the University, and what his pur
pose is behind the daily struggles he undergoes, there is likclv
to be only the evidence of chaos, l'or the average human being
is not corccrned with intellectual standards nor with moral aims.
J3e has a number of unformed reasons for doing what he is
doing, and in some cases even has none. So, progressive educa
tion considers the purpose behind education, considers the
human failings of the individual and then proceeds to set up
incentives and material goals which will persuade and charm
the student into throwing every mental hone in his head into
complete, over-all ettort.
The executive council with this realization in mind and also
as a personal merit award has offered to tlve freshman boy and
girl with the highest cumulative ('■ PA, a scholarship of $75.
The decision will rest upon grades received during the fall and
winter terms, and freshmen, with mid-terms hardlv begun, have
the best possible chances to start out on an even footing with
each other. This will be the first time such a scholarship has
been offered and some boy and girl can expect the award during
the spring term.
The results of this decision will probable be widespread and
will aflect more than the two who will eventually receive the
scholarship. With a material incentive before them, everyone
can expect an increase in freshman grades during this vear.
Now is the time to start pulling toward that goal which will
be just enough to start some person out for the summer vaca
tion, "well-holed" and with the best evidence of a superb record
anyone could offer. And the others will have learned that in
.aluable lesson—how to study.P.F.O.
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By BILL SINNOTT
Those aging lovers, ex-King Carol and Magda
Lupescu, recently amazed the people of Vera Cruz
by embarking for Brazil with 25 trunks, 40 suit
cases, two Rolls Royces and assorted servants.
Carol is en route back to Rumania. Russia believes
fcarol is the only person who is capable of ruling
a chaotic Rumania. Constantine Oumansky, the
Soviet ambassador to Mexico, sent Magda a corsage
of orchids as a proletarian bon-voyage present.
This amazing volte face of the Kremlin brings to
our mind how very different this war is than the
last. Then the Fourteen Points of Wilson were a
clarion call to the peoples of the world. The Allies
had something to fight for—the Central Powers
something to look forward to after their defeat.
Now the maxim is that a person strong enough
to form a stable government should rule. Thus
Russia’s support of Badoglio in Italy, Baron Man
nerheim in Finland and now Carol in Rumania.
A New Holy Alliance
The proposed international super-state is to be run
by the Big Three for Europe not by Europe. It is
sort of a revived Holy Alliance. The principle of
legitimacy seems to be playing as great a role as in
the days of Metternich and Castlereagh.
Carol and his companion will find Bucharest
greatly changed. The Athenee Palace hotel has been
blitzed. The Athenee was the center of Rumanian
intrigue. It was the hunting ground of Edith von
Kohler, the Mata Hari of this war. The hotel was
thronged writh painted excellencies, corseted army
officers and spies of both sexes.
It is paradoxical that Carol should owe his return
from exile to Stalin. The king, who is vastly proud
of his Hohenzollern blood, looked down on Hitler
as scum from Vienna flophouses. Now the cousin
of the last czar is beholden to the son of a Georgian
cobbler.
Carol Overshadowed
Carol is able and intelligent—a multilingual pro
duct of that old international of kings. The king had
an inferiority complex due to his overshadowment
in his youth by his sprightly, glamorous mother,
Queen Marie.
Carol’s great-uncle, Carol I, was imported into
Rumania, as the country’s ruler, in 1866 by the
Bratianu family who ruled the kingdom for sixty
years.
Marie was a beautiful granddaughter of Victoria
who, for political reasons, was forced to marry
Carol I’s nephew and heir, Ferdinand.
Ferdinand was a hideously ugly dumb cluck.
Marie decided to console herself with the handsome
and rich Prince Stirbey. Prince Stirbey, by a funny
coincidence, negotiated the recent Rumania armis
tice in Cairo.
Much-Wedded King
Carol grew up willful and spoiled. He married
morganatically during the last war. Marie had the
marriage annulled. Carol was dragooned into marry
ing Princess Helen of Greece.
Carol emulated his mother; seeking consolation
from Magda Lupescu, the daughter of a junk dealer
from Jassey, called Wolf. The couple were exiled
in 1927.
In 1930 Carol returned and displaced his son as
king. For ten years Carol ruled Rumania by trying
to play off all the powers against each other.
Magda was disliked bitterly by Rumanians, net
because she was the king’s maitresse en titre but
because she sold offices and concessions like a
true daughter of the horse leech. The Rumanians
are the world’s most amoral people. The patriarch
of the State Church was looked up to because he
kept a chorus girl.
Graft Causes Trouble
The kindom’s great trouble was an overloaded
bureacracy that grafted like Pendergast. Carol tried
to modernize his country’s economy. He was a
staunch supporter of the Allies until the fall of
France paved the way for his downfall.
Mihai is still ruling Rumania. A cabinet made
up of the same old gang—the Manius and Bratianus
is trying to fight off communistic attempts to in
filter the country.
IF A BUJJDY
MEET A BUDDY- ]
By JEANNE WILTSHIRE
Hello all! Here’s more news of our Oregon men in the ser
vice. . . . Let’s start off with Ed Moshofsky, former Delta
Upsilon president who is home on leave and visiting the
campus. This previous football player is now playing ball with
the army as a second lieutenant at Camp Sheldon, Mississippi.
Don Lonie, ATO, also visited the alma mater last weekend.
Don is stationed in the naval train
ing school at UCLA.
Ensign Bill Huggins, class of '45,
and ATO member, graduated from
midshipman school August 23,
1944, and is now stationed at Little
Creek, Virginia, as a gunnery offi
cer. Harlowe Hayes, Duck from
'41 to '43, now in the V-12 program
studying to become a chaplain, has
been assigned to Columbia uni
versity. Harlow was previously
schooling at Park college, Mis
souri.
John Noble Home
PFC John Noble, Phi Psi, just
returned from two years overseas.
John is reporting back to Mary
land to be an instructor. Private
Jack Ruble, Chi Psi now in the
M. P. platoon at Fort Leonard
Wood, Missouri, spoke at a fratern
ity meeting last Tuesday evening.
Navy man Marve Brown has been
seen around the campus recently.
Marve was previously at Willam
ette university in the V-12 pro
gram.
As for some data on “who is
where, or who's doing what” . . .
Bill Borcher is in the navy sta
tioned in the Hawaiian Islands;
Harry Johnson is in England with
a replacement unit; Fred Rugh is
studying meteorology in the army
air corps; Bill Dean is in a rest
camp in Australia convalescing
after a siege of typhus; Bob Lit
ten is in New Guinea.
Fanclier Visits Campus
Bill Love is studying in the V-12
program at Notre Dame; and Eu
gene Bird, also with the V-12, is
stationed at Helena, Montana.
Lieutenant j.g. Brad Fancher,
Sigma Nu, who graduated from
Oregon in ’41, was visiting the
campus last Thursday. Brad is sta
tioned near Boston, Mass,
i And now for a glimpse into the
Lemon Drops
By SHUBERT FENDRICK
If you see some students wan
dering around the campus mum
bling odd jumbles of letters, don’t
rush them to the infirmary. They
are just freshmen learning to spell
for English comp. The dictionary
is now reported speedily replacing
the dog as man’s tfreshman’s) best
friend.
Have you noticed large clouds of
smoke hovering over the campus
lately ? Or have you seen boys
tramping down the street emitting
huge billows of smoke not unlike
that of locomotives? Due to the
life of the air corps -Privates Jim
Pelton, Don Beechler, Ben Brown,
and Frank Churftey, have really
seen something of the world since
they left the campus last May.
From here they took their “direc
tion finding” training at Selfridge
field, Michigan, and after a slight
wait for planes, the boys flew to
Brazil and from there on to India.
Krusclike in Medford
Private Ray Kruschke who left
the campus last May, is now sta
tioned at the Medford air field.
Ray was recently in Eugene on a
three-day pass.
And as a closing note, Private
Bob Glasgow, ’41, now in New
Guinea, writes that while on a
night problem with several buddies
leeently, they just happened to run
across a watermelon patch, raided
it. and carried the melons back to
camp where the boys enjoyed a
feast. This war isn’t so bad after
all.
shortage of popular brands of
cigarettes, many lads have drawn
their trusty pipes and these pipes
are responsible for turning the U.
of O. into another Pittsburgh. And
that, as the man said, is no pipe
dream. The girls have, so far, maiSii
aged to get by with the brands of
cigarettes obtainable.
* a: a:
At last! At last! The Republi
cans have their Dewey buttons, and
the Democrats have their Roose
velt buttons. From now on until
election, everyone can go about
glaring at everyone else. We spot
ted one enterprising female with
a Roosevelt button on one collar
and a Dewey button on the other.
Maybe she was trying to appease
both factions or perhaps she just
hadn’t made up her mind.
Yesterday we saw a squirrel run
ning around the top of Johnson
hall. Johnson hall, as you know, is
Where you go to register. MaybJ?
the squirrel managed to get in. Has
anyone seen a squirrel attending
classes ?
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