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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1945)
Oregon W Emerald ANNE CRAVEN Editor ANNAMAE WINSHIP Business Manager ELIZABETH HAUGEN Managing Editor PATSY MALONEY 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 Flora Furrow, Women’s Editor Jeanne Simmonds, 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 Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, and holidays and final examination periods by the Associated Students. University of Oregon. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. (U*tujLelcame Queiti . . . ‘‘I'll walk alone” is not a good motto on the University cam pus this year. The dean has asked that all girls do not leave their living organizations at night unless they are accompanied 1)v one or more companions. Observance of this request will probably do more than anything else to rid the campus of the latest prowlers. Although the University recognizes that the problem is real, the administration also realizes that there is a great deal of hysteria, too. Last Friday the city police were called out be cause two girls were heard crying in the graveyard. They turned out to he a couple of children who had been separated from their folks because they had left the concert early. The more often the police are summoned for false alarms, the less cooperative they will he when they are really needed. The University has asked the city police for more cooperation | in the matter so students should he able to rely on them if any- j thing should happen. 1 ins term stones covering the situation nave oeen puonsneci in the Emerald and local and Portland papers. Last term the policy was to hush up all news of the scare. In our opinion, the new attitude should also help to keep the scare from becoming a panic. If the students can be sure that they will be told the facts, rumors will not multiply as swiftly as they did last fall. Weird tales of the graveyard have certainly been less general this time. Publishing the news will also keep those students informed who arc not connected with any campus living organization and who do not hear the announcements from the dean’s office. If students, the administration, and the city and state police will cooperate, "Sam” can be eliminated from the campus vocabularv. • • • A+ui Sucffeltio+iA. ? In Tuesday's Emerald ran the second in a series of investiga tions into suggested changes and additions to the various schools in the University. This is a series which may well affect the courses that the class of 1948 may he taking in the future. It may also affect the standing and worth of our University. Jt is the Emerald’s hope to show constructively the weak points in our academic pro cedures. Aside from the value that this series may offer to the younger students of the University, as the articles progress into the schools and departments on the campus, more and more upper division students will he asked to contribute their thoughts and suggestions. These thoughts and suggestions can he of value only if the older student matches the objectives with which he entered his school with the objectives which he has gained during his study. A university, to he effective, must he constantly on the alert to improve itself, as must any other institution. And alertness is a quality just as necessary in students as in faculty. Alertness is a combination of observation and careful thinking. So, while the subject of revision is before our University, let those of us here observe and think. In that way we may continue to keep our University foremost among the universities and colleges of our nation. I I 1 Notei Ok, (lecanxlt j i bn the Jazz Side . . . By JIM WINDUS As one writes a column of this type, he gets an approximation of the number of people that his column reaches and influences. I am proud to say that this column has met with approval of those jazz fans oh the campus and even those that aren’t addicts of “Le Jazz Hot.” Because of this (and my desire to further the knowledge and ap preciation of jazz to those who scorn it for the simple reason that they don’t understand it) I feel that the addition of a club for the furthering of jazz, to the list of social organizations, is almost a necessity. Some colleges offer courses on jazz; some have clubs; so why not have some type of an organization on this campus for the serious dissemination of jazz knowledge ? Primarily we would listen to records of the different styles of the thee “B’s,” Barrel House, Boogie-Woogie, and the Blues, and what elements compose these styles, along with others. The Improvisation Side I know that there are quite a. number of fellows on the campus who have played and do play in bands so perhaps we could get them to give us some live music, on the improvisation side. I have access to magazines containing jazz info, and I am not alone there so some fine sessions could be ar ranged. Anyone interested can contact me at Sherry Ross or accost me on the campus. I hope you kids do take advantage of this opportunity, for, if nothing else, it will broaden your musical horizon. News, views, and reviews: Down Beat mag is presenting a Duke Ellington concert at the Civic opera in Chicago, Sunday, March 25. No guest artists, just the Duke and his boys. Will be aired over the Blue network, coast to coast. Watch this column for further details. Name Bands for Oregon I hear that Jantzen Beach ball room in Portland is renewing its name band policy. Wonder why we here in Eugene couldn’t have an other taste of* name bands, too ? Just a short hop down, or a layover going south or north. Let's talk it up. Cootie Williams has this season's most exciting new band. And his trumpet. He is far from through. A. Shaw's new “Million Dollar Band” is good and bad, which makes for a bit of confusion. "Lit tle Jazz” Eldridge and the new Gramerey Five are solid, but the rest of the boys seem a bit bored, already. Take five, boys . . . Mrs. Porrit Resigns Mrs. Delores Porrit has re signed her position as secretary to the dean of personnel in order to spend more time with her fam ily. Miss Claire Rhea Hines, Holly wood, a former student at USC, took over the job this week. Miss Hines’ parents recently purchased a ranch near Eugene. St. Mary's Episcopal Church 13th and Pearl Sts. Sunday, February 25 Consecration of the Church, 11 a.m. Bishop Dagwell officiating Continuation, 7 :30 p.m. Bishop Dagwell officiating and preaching On the Classical Side . .. By BETTY JANE BENNETT Dorothy Kirsten, one of the most promising of the young singers be fore the public in opera and the concert hall, has made an album, “Favorite Songs from Famous Musicals” with Felix Knight, tenor. This is light music, but includes favorites from many years: “Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life,” “Will You Remember?” “Thine Alone,” “Wanting You,” “One Alone,” “Sweethearts,” “My Hero,” and “Serenade.” Miss Kirsten, whose voice has an unusually fresh and lyric quality, will soon record an other light opera album. The violinist Erica Morini, whose brilliant performances on concert tours and whose recording of the Vivaldi “Sonata in D” arranged by Respighi, have been acclaimed throughout the country, has fin ished another fine release, the “Ca priccio-Valse Op. 7” by Wieniaw ski, and the “Romance” from the same composer’s “Concerto No. .2 in D Minor, Op. 22.” Miss Morini plays a Davidoff Stradivarius in strument, and Max Lanner is at the piano. Surpassing even their history making recording of the Tsghai kovsky “Piano Concerto in B Flat Minor,” Vladimir Horowitz and Arturo Toscanini’s NBC symphony play the Brahms “Second Piano Concerto” with fine musicianship. This concerto, with its great de mands on technique and feeling, imparts to the recording the mar velous teamwork of the two mu sicians and should be on the must list of every music lover. All the grotesqueness and charm of the legendary character, Kiki mora, in Russian folklore, is brought to life by the composer, Liadoff, in his treatment of this fantastic tale. Sir Adrian Boult leads the famous Halle orchestra in a masterful interpretation of this rarely performed work. Reporters This Issue Jack Craig Irvin Webb Joanne Kuck Helen Steele Bill Gulliford Herb Lazenby Chi: Are you doing anything for that cold of yours? Omega: I sneeze whenever it wants me to. Take It From Me By DOC — House dances seemed to be the order of the social life on the cam pus this weekend for those not fortunate enough to have gone up to Corn Valley. Gamma hall, with a Winter Rhythm theme, had a very successful formal. Among the more interesting aspects was the fine representation of the Portland Medical school by Barney and Charley, Marcia Mills and Mary McKlintock's dates, respectively. Wonder why no last names were given ? Nancy Sutherland followed up the Heart Hop by again dating Bud Rossum. Don't let her rush ym-;, Bob. What happened to Barbara Schetky's big flame ? Wayne lives in Albany, but Johnny Rader seems to be keeping Schetky from get ting too lonesome. Helen Brown and Roberta Per kins were evidently well satisfied with the blind dates from Sherry Ross. But they say things are tough all over. Nancy Heckera, Hendricks hall, who was the Sweetheart of the Omega hall Sweetheart Ball, was escorted by Harry Waggoner. The boys really turned out, and who wouldn’t after going to all the trouble of securing an orchestra for the affair. Ray Beeson was all wrapped up in Sandy and was doing' all right too! Hermie Mills didn’t think that. Louise Ryan-should be left out of any Omega hall social activities, and they, too, seemed to be enjoy ing themselves. Mary Spiller was well attended at the recent Hendricks hall house dance by seven naval air corps men. Very able facsimilies of Jen Whitcomb drawings, too. Dorothy Habel claims that the sailor from North Bend had no ef fect on her whatsoever, but just mention Texas and she certainly lights up. Although this is a little late, congratulations are in order to Pat Gile on her engagement to Art Berg, Portland medical school. Barbara Borrevik was well taken care of by Hal Puddy when Red Rocha failed to keep their date in Corvallis last weekend. Why don’t those boys stay in their own back yard ? GO GET 'EM DUCKS! ... GOOD LUCK GANG ^ from the FALCON ACROSS FROM JOHN STRAUB ALWAYS LOOK YOUR BEST! In memory of the boys over there and all the boys here come in now to . . . Gampui Beauty Slt&p,
