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Into a huddle on April 6, 1942, went members of
the Torgeson-headcd ASUO executive council. In
that single meeting the members of the council
put through three sweeping changes affecting stu
•dent activities on the campus.
Overnight class cards were abolished, a ruling
was passed allowing only students with a 2.0 grade
point average to participate in activities, and fresh
man political organization was banned until winter
term. All three rulings were passed in the hope of
eradicating long-standing abuses.
Freshman politics had long been a pain in the
-campus neck. Because of ignorance, lack of suffi
cient orientation, upperclassmen control, and plain,
ordinary newness to college life, each fall the at
tempt to organize the freshman class ended in dis
order and dissension, even more unsavory than the
annual spring debacle. In 1940 there were two
freshman class organizations and in the following
year it was necessary to have two elections before
the frosh became sufficiently organized to carry on
any business. The council hoped that by winter
term the class would be better able to organize on
its own hook instead of being forced to follow blind
ly the more experienced upperclassmen. Thus the
freshman classes, beginning in the fall of 1943, were
required to wait until the fifth clay of winter term
(and not past the fourteenth day of winter term)
before they could organize themselves into a poli
tical unit and elect officers. The desirability of this
program is obvious.
When nominations and elections were held early
in fall term, usually even before classes began, the
votes were cast not for candidates but for blocs.
It was impossible for the voters to know the candi
dates under this system. Like sheep they followed
the dictates of their brethren upperclassmen who
had just got them moved into the various houses as
pledges. And the independents, to counteract the
solid Greek phalanx, moved in to help their fresh
men get started in the game.
Now freshmen are given a term to become ori
ented and acquainted with one another. It is expec
ted that their elections will be much cleaner and
closer to a purely freshman undertaking than was
previously the case. There is no need to depend
upon the upperclassmen, and, correspondingly, the
upperclassmen should keep their fingers out of the
class of ’48's pie.
Politics has never been too clean on this campus.
Nor has there ever been much thinking abouWIhe
candidates—except on the basic point of which
party they belong to. But you freshmen are not
forced to follow that unwholesome precedent.
Just because there always have been two candi
dates and all the Greeks voted for their nominee
and all the independents for theirs is no sign that
someone can't be elected from a “best man for the
job” standpoint.
You freshmen have a chance to set a precedent
that would extend and bolster the reforms begun
that spring day in 1942. You can nominate and
elect candidates, not according to party lines, but
according to qualifications for the offices. You can
vote for the man or woman who seems to you,
individually, to be the best person. You can to taffy
disregard the argument that such and such a candi
date is a Greek or an Independent. If you want to.
The vote is by secret ballot. There is no way of
determining which candidate received your vote.
You do not have to become sheep merely following
a leader who tells you how to vote. But it is up
to you.
The executive council prepared the way, you
CAN break from tradition—if you want to.
Oregon W Emerald
ANNE CRAVEN
Editor
ROSEANN LECKIE
Business Manager
ELIZABETH HAUGEN
Managing Editor
PATSY MALONEY
Acting Advertising Manager
MARGUERITE WITTWER
News Editor
LOUISE MONTAG, PEGGY OVERLAND
Associate Editors
Jane Richardson, Phyllis Perkins, Viriginia
Scholl, Mary Margaret Ellsworth, Norris
Yates, City Desk Editors
Bjorg Hansen, Executive Secretary
Betty French Robertson, Women’s Editor
Flora Furrow, Assistant Managing Editor
Winifred Romtvedt, Assistant News Editor
Darrell Boone, Photographer
Betty Bennett, Music Editor
Phyllis Amacher, World News Editor
Gloria Campbell, Mary K. Minor
Librarians
Wally Adams, Sports Editor
EDITORIAL BOARD
Norris Yates, Edith Newton
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Although the forthcoming Kailing-Beekman-Jewett oratorical
contest seems to be a long time away with winter term regis
tration just completed, now is the time to prepare for the event.
Always one of tlu1 most distinctive highlights of graduation
■week in June, these oratorical attempts on the part of seniors
interested not onlv in competing for highly emunerative re
wards but also iu investigating and defending adequately sub
jects of political, cultural, or economic significance, draw the
most enthushistic response of any intellectual endeavor of the
students during the year.
The contestants are invariably seniors from the top (IP A
brackets and their subjects range from the Chinese situation
and what American students can do about it, to a fine dis
cussion of whether St. Augustine was a nco-platonist or a
Christian. They are guaranteed to interest every student who
attends because the contestants realize that the winner will be
the one who impresses the judges most forcibly with his clarity
and power of expression.
Only seniors who graduate not later than June are eligible
and their speeches must be no longer than 15 minutes duration
and may be upon any subject of their choice.
Now is the time to begin thinking about it. Now is the time
to start choosing a subject w hich will be of enough significance
to warrant entry in the contest. Prizes range from $150 through
5100 and $50 and are not to be overlooked by any senior pre
paring somewhat apprehensively to embarked upon a new
order.
“The difference between the education in this country and
Kurope is that the United States has a broader sense of edu
cation. balneation of tomorrow in Kurope will be middle way
between American education and Kuropean leader education.
As for when the war will be over, it will end soon with the
surrender of dennany. The real importance is how to recon
struct not onh Germany but also the world. I believe that
the problem of peace is not exclusively what to do with tier
many and Japan. It will be necessary to build a real concert
of nations in which the victorious as well as the defeated will
be members. Ur. Max Wollt, political expert and former labor
judge in Germany, emphasized the importance of education in
the postwar world in a University of Oklahoma address.—AGP.
Take It
From Me
By DOC
News comes that Barbara Fos
sen, Susan Campbell, received a
very nice Christmas gift from Lt.
Larry Doyle in the shape of a
diamond ring. Very appropriate
congratulations go to both of them.
The vacation seems to have had
little effect on Roe Jenson’s atten
tion to Carolyn Taylor. Taylor says
it doesn’t mean a thing but we
notice that the phone at Alpha hall
rings constantly and those long
conversations ain’t hay.
Barbara Miller, Hendricks hall,
finally set the date and she and
Bill Hales will be married January
28 in Portland.
Lonnie Mueller, Susan Campbell,
and Eddie Marshfield, who spends
his time at Claypools seem to be
very chummy and spend the ma
jority of their free time together.
Wonder if Estelle Shimshak,
whom most will remember for her
performance as Bessie in “The
Corn Is Green,” is despondent over
the fact that Ted Shay, who
starred in the same play, is now
attending Northwestern in Chi
cago. Must be awfully dull after
all the attention thrown in her
direction last term.
Anne Hardenbrook, Alpha bull,
is seeing quite a bit of John Moore.
They not only drink coffee at the
Side and Falcon but lie is also
“serving” coffee to her at John
'Straub, along with about 300
others.
Donna Wilbanks, Gamma hall's
candidate for Miss Lane County
and the Bonds Away Girl, returned
to school only to collect the inci
dentals one can accumulate in a
term, and is now on her way tp
marry Cleo Brown, USN.
Future BMOCs
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matically removed from said office
upon his failure to meet any of the
above requirements.
Dean Earl suggested that all
campus office-holders renew their
eligibility listings with the deans
as soon as possible.
Annamae Winship, junior in
journalism, has been approved as
acting business manager of the
Emerald, Earl M. Pailett, chairman
of the educational activities board
said Tuesday. Miss Winship re
places Hoseann Leckie, sophomore
in liberal arts, who resigned be
cause of ineligibility. Petitions
from other candidates for the posi
tion will bo called for at a later
date by the board to determine a.
permanent business manager.
UFA BUDDY
MEET A BUDDY- j
By JEANNE WILTSHIRE
It was a merry Christmas for Second Lt. Aaron Jones home
on leave over the holidays. Aaron, a former student here, is
stationed at Camp Riley, Kansas, associated with mule packing.
Another visitor, helping out at registration, was Ted “Tex"
Goodwin and his wife, Ex-Emerald Editor Marjorie Major
Goodwin. Tex is now a second lieutenant stationed at San Luis
wuispo, cjanrorma. Eliot Wirt,
class of ’46, was commissioned as
ensign, USNR, in a ceremony held
December 14, in the Cathedral cf
St. John the Divine, New York.
Several Oregon men have been
commissioned as second louis re
cently. Among them are Marines
Harold “G” Lamoreux, class of ’38,
and Stanley E. Weber, class of
'44. Harold is a member of Alpha
Psi Omega and Gamma Theta Up
silon fraternities and Stanley is
affiliated with Theta Chi and Sig
ma Delta Chi.
Eden Promoted
Douglas S. Eden, former soph on
this campus and at present a bom
bardier, has been commissioned a
second lieutenant from his pre
vious rank of flight officer at the
100th bombardment group base.
He has dropped many tons of ex
plosives on enemy targets in Ger
many, having participated in more
than a score of missions against
the enemy. His group is part of
the eighth air forces, third bom
bardment division.
Charles J. Crittenden, Jr., for
mer student, has been commis
sioned a second lieutenant follow
ing completion of basic officer
training at the Quantieo, Virginia,
marine corps base. Charles, an
overseas veteran, is now undergo
ing advanced drill preparatory to
assignment to a combat unit or
specialist school.
Another officer recently promot
ed is Howard A. Fishel, graduate
of ’41, who has been promoted to
first lieutenant from second lieu
tenant, according to a recent an
nouncement from Major Gen.
W. E. Covell’s services of supply
headquarters in the India-Burma
theater of operations. Howard has
been in the India-Burma theater
for eight months.
Sergeant Receives M ings
Chester L. Sergeant received
silver wings for Christmas, Uncle
Sam s reward for the members of
class 44-J at Lubbock army air
field, who received their wings and
diplomas at graduation exercises
held December 23, at the twin- i
engine base. Chester was affiliated i
with Pi Kappa Alpha and was a
letterman in tennis, track, and
boxing on this campus.
Recently promoted from major
to lieutenant colonel is Franklin
S. Allen, Jr., former journalism
major, a commander of a B-20
Marauder squadron in France. A
veteran of the Pacific theater, Col.
Allen has flown 60 combat mis
sions. He wears the soldiers medal,
the air medal with eight oak leaf
clusters, and service ribbons from
three different theaters of opera
tion. The 26-year-old pilot has com
pleted IS missions in the Pacific
where he was awarded the air
medal and later won the soldier’s
medal for rescuing survivors of a
B-2-1 Liberator crash, in the f&w
of danger from exploding bombs.
Hodges, Niklas in Pacific
A couple more boys who earned
promotions recently are: Nelson A.
Hodges, former Oregon cheerlead
er, and Marine Edmund R. Niklas,
one time Delta Upsilon prexy. Both
are captains. Hodges is a veteran
of the bloody battles of Tarawa,
Saipan, and Tinian; Niklas is com
manding officer of a unit attached
to the third amphibious corps, hav
ing spent 24 months overseas and
participating in the Guam and
Bougainville campaigns.
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