Oregon W Emerald LOUISE MONTAG Editor ANNAMAE WINSHIP Business Manager MARGUERITE WITTWER Managing Editor GLORIA GRENFELL Advertising Manager JEANNE SIMMONDS News Editor MARILYN SAGE, WINIFRED ROMTVEDT Associate Editors Bill Walkenshaw, Leonard Turnbull Co-Sports Editors MARYAN HOWARD Assistant Managing- Editor MARYANN THIELEN Assistant News Editor JANET WHELAN Executive Secretary ROBBIEBURR WARRENS Chief Night Editor ANITA YOUNG Women’s Page Editor JACK CRAIG World News Editor BETTY BENNETT Music Editor Editorial Board Mary Margaret Ellsworth, Jack Craig, Ed Allen, Beverly \yer Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, and holidays smo final exam periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon.__ e74o*neca*ni*Uf BtanJtaAa... Homecoming was a new experience to most of us. We were accustomed to the big crowds on Junior Weekend, but Home coming was something different. This is fall, and the time when college spirit reaches its maximum. The alums were here for reunions, for the first visit to the alma mater for some'years. The show and rally, the bonfire, the crowd at Hayward field for the game, the Homecoming dance, the clever signs—these ingredients made Homecoming a real success, and we hope the alums enjoyed it as much as the students. The committee had a difficult task before them. To “revive” the Ducks in '45 required much careful planning and research. Most of the work was done behind the scenes before the im portant weekend, and it was done well. Standards for future Homecomings were set by this first postwar Homecoming. Vke. SmohUuz Jdamfi... If there are any doubts about the ending of the cigarette shortage, a quick tour of the University library will convince anyone that the days of scarcity are over. Generous-sized cigarette stubs decorate the floors everywhere but in the study rooms themselves. It isn't that the library isn't properly cleaned. The janitor makes several rounds daily just to keep the place fairly clean. And no one is conducting a campaign to stop student smok ing. There are smoking porches at either end of the second floor, and the front steps have been popular in the past with smokers. Miss Clarice Krieg, acting librarian, says the main objection is to students’ leaving the stubs around the building. Recep tacles are provided on the front steps and smoking porches for this purpose. Although the librarians say that smoking is not usually al lowed in the library, they realize that the rule is hard to enforce in cold weather. They ask that students dispose of their cigarettes properly and not clutter up the library floors. We are proud of our University library, and many of us con sider it the most beautiful buildipg on the campus. The librarians are asking us to observe the rules of courtesy to others in using a crowded campus center. Ofieacm GUsUitmal... We’re getting' our Christmas spirit a little early. The season is always a little previous at the University. We want to share Christmas here with our friends before we go home to spend the real holiday with our families. Preparations for celebrating the season were made even before Homecoming was past. Living organizations have ar ranged parties, music, and pageants, despite the study schedule. Students simultaneously check off the number, of shopping days 'til Christmas and the studying time left before exams start. It's an odd season at the University. The generosity* and thoughtfulness of Christmas vie with the tenseness and frazzled nerves of exam week. Carols break into the quiet of study hall. Professors write a flourishing Merry Christmas on the board and distribute fat packets of mimeographed exam questions. As usual, the Emerald chimes in early with its final edition it such sound effects as Santa coming down the chimney, the galloping reindeer, and the squeals of delight from the children. The I Ho Hum a By OKIN HUSKY WEIR What seemed to start out in the form of a gay and lively weekend most certainly changed to a ro mantic one as time slipped by. For instance take the case of a guy called George with a last name spelled Luoma who presented a ring with a glistening sparkler to Shirlee Dillard of Pi Phi. G. Dunk Wimpress got all car ried away and planted his Sig Ep jewelry on Dagmar Shanks. Gee, he sure kept his affections a secret a long time. Leaving the ring and pin plant ers for a few moments, we’d like to bring up a party held at one of the local hotels where loads of kiddies including a guy who plays soccer or. sumpin called Jake Leicht did his best to entertain everyone at the party. Still sput tering his affects from the good time Monday afternoon was Wormy, of football fame. Grumbling about the fact that the news of his recent pin plant ing which affected a gal named Elaine Taylor, Elliott “I’m just a lil kid” Wilson has been very un happy the past few days, for there is nothing he likes better than lots of publicity. Congratulations to these kids—we, along with 2000 other people, like em. From the Tri-Delt house comes more ring throwing, and this time it’s Lila Nevins who is now bound and determined to Herb “doormat haircut” Squires. Another gal sporting diamonds is Signe Ek lund, the ring coming via Hal Larson. Good night! The rate things are going this column will end it’s career this Wednesday just an nouncing sweet nothings 'n such. Again we hit jewelry romance with Miriam Becke of Pi Phi sporting a pretty fourth-finger article that glistens which was total effect is most interesting and well worth hearing. Then there is always the “sweet” recording of Loretta Young in a story about a little boy whose halo kept slipping over his eyebrow. It is worth mentioning. We have mentioned it. Stowkowski has outdone him self in a twelve-inch entitled “Rus sian Christmas Music.” Many tunes are incorporated in this number whose reverse side is “Eine Feste Burg.” The orchestral effects are' typical Stowkowski but are effective in this recording. Clips and Comments By CARLEY HAYDEN The University of Texas ... prepared for fall exams with a column-long list of time, place, and date information for struggling scholars. University of Kansas . . . Talented faculty members sold for fancy prices on the auction block, bringing §645.50 to the WSSF. University of Toronto . . . welcomed bikes, bridge, and blue jeans as features of "typical" college life, and they like it. Queens university . . . noted itiu servicemen in the total registra tion figures. University of Alabama . . . plan ned to activate advanced ROTC unit January 1. Men Kebel Male students on the campus of Queens university, where Sadie Hawkins' week is celebrated an nually, have formed a club which may be unique. The men in the WDWTGABDY MHA club have as their slogan, “We didn't want to go anyway, but dammit you might have asked.’’ Time for Change From Quincy, Massachusetts, the United Press has reported that 27 years ago a high school sopho more decided that the Caesars messed up the calendar. After his Latin teacher snapped. “Do you think you could make' a better one?’’, the boy went home and thought up six calendars. Now one of his perpetual calendars is being discussed by congress. Sorry, But . . . Jack Bruce received a letter from the dean’s office at the Uni versity of British Columbia this ] week informing him that he had : failed his midterm examinations. Bruce doesn't like failing exam inations any more than the faculty and administration like to see him flunk, and he appreciates the dean’s interest. But Bruce is not attending the! university this year. picked out for her by Bill Shinn. Of course then there is the story which concerns a guy Jack Ruble and Wanda Shaw. Guess Wanda had a bit of trouble with her gown Saturday eve and thus called upon i Jack to plant his pin in place of a broken snap or facsimile. Came 4 the end of the evening, and Wanda and dear Jack said goodnights, and up to this time neither seems to be too worried about sending or getting the pin back. Love works in strange ways, eh ? Celebrating the end of a week end he can be very proud of being chairman of, Bill McLennon was all smiles at ye local dance Satur day with Carolyn Tyler. Tsk, tsk, some guys have all the luck. Leave it to a group like Hal Bailey, Phyl Brugman, Bud Ros sum, Selby Frame, Mary Palmer, Bill Ellison, Helen Hicks, and Jimmy Ellison to think of a plao^ so novel as a potato chip palace ’n factory to hold a party. Guess that’s the first time those lads have been in the chips for a long, long time. Back on the campus and having a great time for his little self was likeable Foozie Frederickson, who is now garbed in khaki—the lucky kid, and who incidentally went all out to show Averill Foster of Gamma Phi the time of her life. Also making a welcome appear ance was Lou Gil'lis who thrilled Florence Guthrie most Saturday evening. Deane Bond was noticed at the dance doing the light fantastic (“fantastic” is the proper descrip tion, too) with Barbara Patterson. Where Jim Lund was no one dared ask after the splendid romance that was budding just a few days’ ago. Looking forward to this day, namely Wednesday, with great an ticipation has been Jeanne “I’m a lonesome woman” Krebs whose man will arrive in captain bars and all in San Francisco today after a long three years over there. 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