Page 2DAILY EMERALD
Thursday, Jan. 3, 1946
Emerald
LOUISE MONTAG
Editor
ANNAMAE WX-NSMlt*
Business Manager
MARGUERITE WITTWER
Managing Editor
GLORIA GRENFELL
Advertising Manager
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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
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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 Ayer
Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, and holidays i®a
final exam periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon.
Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon.
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Be calm, girls. The University did not actually turn away
1000 single men students this term.
However, the administration did have to send out some
pretty discouraging letters about the housing situation. This
term the University warned entering students that they should
find a place to stay before registering. The “come at your own
risk” attitude had to be taken because of the acute shortage of
'housing.
Bleak as the picture may seem, it has improved considerably
over last term. The re-opening of the fraternities adds to the
available space for single men. Remodeling of Villard and
Gerlinger provides some emergency rooms. And the allotment
of defense housing helps fatten the list of housing facilities for
married veterans.
During the Christmas vacation, the Eugene chamber of
commerce and officials of the University made special requests
to the townspeople to rent their extra rooms to students. Al
though the response was gratifying, it was not enough to meet,
the demand. Until conditions permit the building of new dormi
tories and the opening of additional fraternity houses, rooms
in private homes will be needed in increasing numbers for
student housing.
Since the University is one of Eugene’s biggest assets,
student housing is a vital concern of city residents. Only with
their help can the University continue to grow throughout the
emergency until it is the greater postwar institution of past
predictions.
Three-fourths of a college generation have signed their
names to University registration cards since fraternities ceased
to be an actuality at Oregon. Tales of their serenades, picnics,
and house dances came to us when the ratio was 4 to 1. We
thumbed through old Oreganas and walked regretfully through
woman-littered fraternity houses.
Now, registration figures, gold pins, and newly-shined door
plates show that the long-awaited return of Greek men is oHhe
present. We will watch with satisfaction their rc-establi*hment
in student life. With a quota of no more than 10 pledges for
each house, the fraternities have begun to rush prospective
members. .Fifteen of the seventeen pre-war Greek-letter or
ganizations will pledge this term. Questions have arisen as to
the acceptability of the old system of fraternity life among the
v eteran members and pledges. Can the boys with the discharge
buttons and the campaign ribbons live in accordance with the
traditions and customs, they ask. Maintaining that the much
publicized "personality changes" have been exaggerated, fra
ternity men will solve these so-called problems in their own
manner. The very absence of the fraternity during the last three
years will perhaps emphasize its accepted place in University
life. Normality has come again to Oregon.
One of the not-so-welcome returning features of college life
is the contusion and waiting that goes with registration.
„ Miraculously, McArthur court, the center of registration
activity, was comparatively calm. Sometimes the lines seemed
almost endless, but they were at least orderly lines.
The biggest bottleneck was in Johnson hall where students
entering school for the first time were waiting to pay their
matriculation fees and get special registration information.
Johnson hall is not the best place on the campus to take care
of a crowd of students. Yesterday morning the lines stretched
down the stairs, outside the building, and onto the sidewalk.
Upstairs the lines degenerated into a mass of new students
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About Redeployment
(A former journalism major and
Shackrat, Courtney Swander,
wrote the following letters to the
editor from Europe where he is
sweating out his return to the
States. ,
MUNICH, Germany — Somehow
word has come to the servicemen
overseas that a lot of people back
home think that they have nothing
else to do than sit on the pier at
Le Havre and wait for a boat to
take them home. To almost every
one over in Europe that would be
ideal, but going home is quite a
complicated process.
With the end of the war in the
Pacific everyone wanted to go
home at the same time. Then the
army, navy, and marine corps each
announced their own plan for de
mobilization.
The biggest bottleneck in rede
ployment was—and still is—the
shipping shortage. Propaganda
films made during the war that
show the U.S. fleet and merchant
marine as the world’s largest are
still being shown, and wherever
they appear they are greeted with
hisses and hoots.
Life in occupied Germany gets
to be dull and uninteresting. Day
after day checking civilians at out
lying roadblocks, collecting used
war equipment, and watching
others on their way home helps
morale take a tumble.
To partially relieve tne strain,
a number of leaves and furloughs
for sight-seeing in Europe have
been set up. As yet only a minority
of the men in the ETO have been
able to take advantage of them,
for they are allotted on a quota
basis, wth only a few per 1000
men.
Ten-day trips to visit England
and the French Riviera have been
set up. Seven-day trips to Paris
and Switzerland are now operat
ing for about 35,000 a week. Three
day passes to Brussels, Luxem
bourg, and Garmisch-Partenkir
chen in Bavaria have been started.
To make it easier for the GI,
free transportation on European
railroads has been arranged—pro
vided proper papers are given by
district transportation offices.
Hotels and restaurants for GIs
travelling on passes or business
are located in large cities, and
offer free service.
The trip home usually turns out
to be a long drawn-out affair for
most men. The first step is bring
ing together men with the same
point grouping into units. At the
present time those with 60 to 65
points are just beginning this pro
cess. Next comes a move to
France to one of the redeployment
camps of the Assembly Area com
mand. These are gigantic tent
cities housing 40,000 at one time.
The final step toward home is
arrival at the port. Le Havre, Mar
seille, Antwerp, Southampton, and
Bremen are now being used for
this purpose. The ships leaving for
the United States now are loaded
wth 70 to 79 point men. The hap
piest moment for any soldier or
sailor comes when he sees the
Statue of Liberty again. That mo
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By TED HALLOCK
Hello. —• t „
The time for witticisms has returned. Should not devote much ot
this first in to long gone one epics to music, though that s the title,
man. We have taken enough fives, and you can drop the handle and,
stop mop mopping.
Fine people have returned. Now there are more than four. So, fol
lowing the old mention-names format, we mention names of “gay ones
Collegiate
World
(By Associated Collegiate Press)
Water sprayed generously and
students ducked in front of Frank
Strong hall, as Chancellor Deane
W. Malott and Dean Paul B. Law
son, of the University of Kansas,
fulfilled their obligation to wash a
car. The services of the two ad
ministrators were purchased by
the Alpha Omicron Pi for $65 at
a recent W.S.S.F. auction.
The chancellor and the dean
donned bright plaid shirts and blue
jeans for their work and succeeded
in getting each other as wet as the
car.
! Students who heckled the indus
trious and illustrious pair were
answered with sprays of water
and appropriate comments.
“This car hasn’t been washed
for months,” the chancellor wailed,
“and the ash trays haven’t been
emptied since before the World’s
Fair.”
The mud-splattered automobile
soon began to take on a brighter
color and the chancellor observed
that it must be blue.
Water dripped from the brim of
Dean Lawson’s hat, and he shed
his glasses for lack of windshield
wipers and want of better visibil
ity.
“I can’t get this spot off,” the
chancellor groaned once, to which
Dean Lawson replied grinning,
“Try a knife.”
“No, no, no!” the pair cried,
when a passing student suggested
that they wax the car.
‘I’ll be glad to simonize it,” the
chancellor reconsidered, “—for
$300.”
Little Black Bag
A small black suitcase caused
quite a stir at the Friday session
of the Texas Academy of Science
on the Baylor campus at Waco,
Texas.
The majority of the 200 scientist
delegates brought toothbrushes
and such items in their overnight
cases, but not junior academy
member Lawrence Curtis of High
land Park high school, Dallas.
His bag was full of two dozen
snakes, alive and wriggling.
Snakes are Curtis’ hobby, and he
brought along his bag of speci
mens to illustrate a lecture to the
junior academy.
He set the bag down for a few
minutes to inspect some exhibits
in the Strecfier museum, absent
mindedly leaving it open. Dashing
to his snake box later, he counted
tails and found that three of his
specimens were missing. Two of
the snakes refugeed through the
vents of the ventilating system of
the museum office, and were ex
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crowded in front of two windows. Some enrolling students
Waited two hours only to find that there was another one-hour
delay for lunch.
Of course, the situation this term is different. Winter term
does not usually attract such a large number of new students.
The rush fall term is spread out over freshman week and two
days of registration.
But we can expect a similar rush spring term if housing
conditions improve at all. In the meantime, some provision
should be made for improving the registration procedure for
new students. If possible, there should be. a better place for the
distribution of such material than •Johnson hall. At the verv
least, there should be more stations open for the same purpose
so that the crowd <?ould be scattered into several more lines
Registration is maddening enough for the old student who
knows his course of study and the procedure of signing up. For
the new student, the jam at Johnson hall is not exactly a heart
warming welcome.
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than five). Back: J. Mathews of
the Tasmanian branch of HIP
(new and select order); D. Wim
press who was lost somewhere for
three years; D. Carlton, Phi Delt,
but o.k. anyway; H. Widmer,
tenor-man (a joke, son) and—a
... a what of the others Mr.
Arbuthnot? A. A host of others.
To paraphrase Slim Gaillardy
music should come on like the
swan this season. Padless Selmers
will be worn by all. And with three
lit courses this column will sound
like mad English by June.
Starting Now
So Holman’s still at the park. I
seem to remember having received
the gold scroll for that hot flash
during the summer of ’03. Orches
tras, however, will play music be—
ginning now and not wait for that
train which, having left track 29,
is still expected to come in.
For those who p*ay the radio
there are things to hear again,
which will get better. Finest re
mote from Billy Berg’s, on Vine,
in L.A. (old Radio Grill I believe).
Seems Warner Bros, station, not
caring for life or FCC much long
er, plants a live mike on the band
stand for half hour periods each
a.m. at midnite. You’ll find the
show, on a weak signal, around
950 k.c. after KOIN leaves us at
twelve.
For those who have purchased
the Calloway dictionary of hip
terms ,toss same away. This is the
real heat man. Diz Gillespie,
known for: (1) having cut Cab C.
with a slash-razor in Hartford .>
Conn., at the State theater one
night when yours truly thought
all god’s chillun used Webley-Vick
ers as equalizers; (2) having
played horn on a few of the more
rabid late Herman Columbias
when everyone thought it was
Pete Candoli; (3) having played on
all the fabulous Boyd Raeburn
E.T.’s not to be heard in Eugene;
(4) having stylized' a new style
of stylized trumpet playing, to wit,
without mouthpiece, just air man.
Gaillard and Trio
So listen for Slim Gaillard and
trio (ex-partner of Slam Stewart) ;
Harry Gibson piano, and Diz and
some other fellows. As Diz has
been quoted as saying, “about
duece&bells Art (meaning Art
Tatum who plays piano, a large-,
piano-like instrument) is coming
on to dooz a swan with them paper
hats.” For those who don’t quite
follow this dialogue you will find *
in the addenda bibliography o
jazz at the libe an article entitled,
the “Anthropological and' Social
Derivations of Words” which is
very dull.
Seriously though (and get this,
kids, for the tears) you won’t hear
jazz on this shot. You’ll hear the
“power-rhythm-swing” that began
with Charlie Barnet’s elite effort
at the Door in N.Y.C. about seven
years ago, and ofays imitating the
negro, and without success. Like a
thousand other combos of pick-up
men and friends, Diz. and staff
play riffs all night with much
attempting to out-do the good lord
who passed out emboucheres at
the start.
Rumor: Lionel Hampton due at
Willamette park on Jan. 6. I refuse
to say that this is a “mad crew,”
because my copy of Metronome
hasn’t reached me yet, and you
just can’t be too careful. There is
a guy in the band who is fine,
aside from Hamp. Name: Herbie
Fields. One of the first white men
to be so honored by playing with
a negro outfit, of the Sam Dona
tried it with his own ork till bank
hue, Auld tenor school, Herbie
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