Oregon
Emerald
ANNE CRAVEN
Editor
ANNAMAE WINSHIP
Acting Business Manager
ELIZABETH HAUGEN
Managing Editor
PATSY MALONEY
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MARGUERITE WITTWER
News Editor
LOUISE MONTAG, PEGGY OVERLAND
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Scholl, Mary Margaret Ellsworth, Norris
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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
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Wally Adams, Sports Editor
EDITORIAL BOARD
Norris Yates, Edith Newton
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SkatutUf the WonU
The same names appear in the Emerald daily. Some activity
girls or boys have added new chairmanships or offices to al
ready imposing lists o.f responsibilities. They started out as
freshmen doing the insignificant jobs in campus affairs. As
seniors they are the BMOCs and the BWOCs.
Many of those who are less active resent their being the
leaders of everything. They think the jobs should be distributed
to a larger group of students.
Too many of the offices, chairmanships, and committee mem
berships are held by a handful of students. Too many of these
students had so much activity work last term that their grades
dropped below a 2.00.
The fault is their own in that they accepted more work than
their study loads made practical. The fault rests also with those
who took no part in activity and so forced the others to take
over any campus affairs that were scheduled.
Most of the campus wants assemblies, dances, drives, and
student government. But most of the campus leaves it to the
few to carry out the behind-the-scenes work that all these
require.
It is cpiite generally agreed that extra-curricular activities
are essential to a well-rounded college career. They give stu
dents valuable experience in planning and presenting entertain
ment and social affairs, in organizing drives, and in conducting
their own government. They provide an opportunity to get
acquainted with representatives of different living organiza
tions and of different schools of the University. They make
school affairs the projects of students.
Oregon’s activities should be in the hands of students whose
programs show a healthy balance of studies and activities.
Spreading the jobs around will allow a greater number to
share in the University’s affairs as well as relieving the heavy
load that the few are forced to carry now. The more equal
distribution of activities can be accomplished only if more stu
dents offer their services when help is asked.
There’s no doubt about the fact that school is becoming in
creasingly difficult, juniors, seniors, and graduate students who
can remember the days before the exodus of men students will
second this statement. Assignments have become and are still
becoming longer and harder, quizzes and examinations more
frequent. In general, the entire University curriculum is being
stepped up.
1'here is one train of thought which declares that the reason
for this is the war. Army and navy college curricula have shown
more speed and thoroughness in a short time than was pre
viously thought possible. Some people believe that this is being
spread to all colleges and universities in order to keep up in
some degree with the military programs.
'The other train of thought has its basis on an entirely differ
ent ground. When 1 >r. l’.rb was president of the University,
it was his wish to improve the general standard of the institu
tion. He did everything in his power to raise the educational
level and make its courses more complete and far-reaching,
lie wanted Oregon to become great by the students which it
graduated or helped to educate.
In order to do this. Dr. Krb started movements to improve,
add to, and build up the University curriculum and the very
“meat” of each course. Mr. Hollis has carried on his ideas, and
it is expected that the University will continue to have higher
and higher standards of education as each year passes.
By doing this, the reputation of the University will not only
become a good one in the country, but one of the best.—B.F.R.
Go-edUt&Ual
Jdettefi4> ta the CdUtosi
From Bullet-proof Tower
Dear Editor: January 16, 1945
As one concert-goer to another we like violins and we like
violinists, and of violinists we like Joseph Szigeti. But we have
considerable difficulty in saying that we like violinists playing
in competition with ventilators, even when the violinist happens
to be Szigeti who looks good with almost anything.
All of which is one way of lead
ing up to saying that McArthur
court is good for basketball be
cause it is a basketball court, and
is lousy for concerts and violinists
most probably because it is a bas
ketball court and is good for bas
ketball. Which leads up as we
have planned it, to shouting that
a good big, acutely-accousticated
auditorium would perhaps be quite
as handy to have around here as
the oriental art museum.
Now why do we come out and
say such things ? Well, principally
because we find on looking through
the state board of higher educa
tion’s postwar building program,
that no provision has been made,
at least in writing, for the erection
of an adequate auditorium. The
order of construction for the Uni
versity for the 10 years following
the release of building materials is
as follows: (1) student union, (2;
additions to the girls’ dormitories,
(3) science building with natural
history museum, (4) music build
ing addition—no mention of new
auditorium, however, (5) Villard
hall remodeling, (6) speech and
dramatic arts building—with audi
torium—seating capacity 300, (7)
commerce building addition. And
on down to 10.
But no auditorium. That would
make little difference of course,
if say a 2000-seat auditorium would
be included in the student union
building, but Gene Conklin, who
could almost pass for an authority,
tells us that as plans now stand,
there is no provision for an audi
torium in the union.
Now we may be radical to the
vena cava, but it seems to us that
an auditorium with a real stage
instead of stacked mountains of
Paul Bunyan's apple boxes, and in
dividual seats with arms instead of
those quintuplet folding affairs we
imported from Papa Dionne, is a
bit more important by way of log
ical precedence than a science
building replete with natural his
tory museum, or the remodeling of
a priceless antique like Villard hall.
We seem to have been inculcat
ed—probably by Dracula when we
were asleep—with what chooses to
call itself a' “for the common wel
fare principle.” It runs something
like this—what will do the most
good for the greatest number of
people should come before what
will do good for a lesser number of
the same species.
Our No. 1 building project—the
Erb Memorial union—seems to be
in line with that principle. But
from then on, it’s every department
for itself.
And visions of white-middied
nymphs swatting at shuttlecocks
whisk through our minds every
time we listen to talks on inter
national relations in Gerlinger, and
Szigeti still wonders why they
didn't bring in a bulldozer to join
his ventilator in the “Moonlight
Sonata.”
We wonder too,
CHAS. S. POLITZ
Augustana college's evening
school is offering a new course in
income tax problems.
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Take It
From Me
By DOC
Anna Belle WUkerson Davis, Hil
yard house, who has been chosen
for the lead in the University pro
duction of “Heaven Can Wait,”
couldn’t seem to wait for heaven
and married Wesley Davis in Port
land during the Christmas holi
days. Mrs. Davie spent the week
end in Portland, where Mr. Davis
is studying at the North Pacific
dental college. Looks like Grey
hound Buses, Inc., will have lots
of business now.
Alice Buckingham, active last
term in ISA, paid a visit to Uni
versity house last weekend but
seemed to spend most of her time
at Mary Spiller. There are so many
Coos Bay girls over there that I’m
surprised they haven’t some asso
ciation. Or could it be that Buck
ingham hadn’t heard that the men
moved to John Straub this term?
Pat Geil, Hendricks hall, has
taken a pin from Art Berg from
the Oregon Medical school. But
where does a med student find time
for romance?
The Campbell club boys seem to
be dividing their time between the
Hilyard and Highland coops. Jerry
Mosby has been seen so often with
Barbara J. Traxle of Highland
house, and Claire Webster enter
tained three Cambellites in the
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Bet those girls from Hendricks
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Roberta “Bobbie Boyd, Hend
ricks, is still seen a lot with Ken
Geiger. They certainly enjoyed the
Senior Ball, anyway!
Word came to Alpha hall last
week that Marilyn Hill, their
Bonds Away Girl candidate and
ex-president of Mill lodge, will not
be coming back to school after all.
Culminating a high school romance,
she was married last Thursday in
Chicago, and we wonder jusfTTow
many Oregon men are going to
miss Marilyn at the reserve room
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