Oregon W Emerald
ANNE CRAVEN
Editor
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Business Manager
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Managing Editor
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MARGUERITE WITTWER
News Editor
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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
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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.
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‘‘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.
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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,