Oregon® Emerald LOUISE MONTAG Editor ANNAMAE WINSHIP Business Manager MARGUERITE W1TTWER Managing Editor BILL SETSER Advertising Manager JEANNE SIMMONDS News Editor MARILYN SAGE, WINIFRED ROMTVEDT Associate Editors Leonard Turnbull, Fred Beckwith Co-Sports Editors MARYAN HOWARD Assistant Managing Editor MARYANN THIELEN Assistant News Editor BERNARD ENGEL Chief Copy Editor TED BUSH Chief Night Editor ANITA YOUNG Women’s Page Editor JACK CRAIG World News Editor • BETTY BENNETT CRAMER Music Editor Editorial Board Mary Margaret Ellsworth, Jack Craig, Ed Allen, Beverly Ayer Published daily during the college year excel* Sundays, Mondays, and holidays and final exam periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon. Entered as second-clab* matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. _ A fytve&iutuui Vote.. . . Two-stub ballots and polling booths, along with an honest election board, will assure every freshman the right to vote as he wishes today in his class elections. The form of the ballot is vital. Two-stub ballots should be issued face-down to the voters after they have their names checked on the election roll. One stub is torn off at the time of issuance and put into a box. The other is torn off after the ballot has been filled out and just before it is put into the ballot box. With a two-stub ballot, the matching of numbers and names is impossible. Although the polling booths may be rude replicas of those used in metropolitan areas, they will answer the same purpose. When the old stalls or tables were used, curious onlookers could watch voters mark their ballots. A crude polling booth will shield the ballot from the gaze of all except the voter. Coercion cannot win the election if these two essentials are provided and if the election board is properly instructed and carries out its duties. The candidates have been chosen; the voting system is fair; if the members of the freshman class make a point of going to the polls and voting for the candidates they have selected indi vidually, no one can he dissatisfied with the election. Qnetjon in Rebvfrifiect. . . Proof that all of the Oregon men who went to war don't just “vvanta go hack to Oregon, the dear old college town” is seen in a recent letter to the Emerald. The writer of fjie letter, Lt. (j. g.) Malcolm McCallum, attended the University from 1941 to 1943, was a member of Yeomen, and was active in YMCA activities. In the navy he had eight months of Y -12 at Parks college, Missouri, four months of Columbia Midshipman’s school, and two months of S. C. T. C. at Miami before he was assigned to sea duty in the western and south Pacific. 'I'his is what he has to say about Oregon: “During the course of my wanderings, I have observed men from different schools all over the country, have listened to their talk, and have compared them with the people from my own school, Oregon. I’ve also heard what they had to say about the Webfoots. As a result, I’ve done some very careful thinking concerning my own postwar education. I’ve come to the conclusion that Oregon has both plus and minus attrac tions. For what they may be worth, then, here they are: Positive “1. Well-regarded athletically—in fact, almost over rated throughout (which is not uncommon where great distance and smaller schools are involved). “2. Academically entirely satisfactory all around, and tops in several lines of study—faculty especially good as are teaching subjects and methods. “3. Student recognition and institution accomplishment are well-known, particularly in music, journalism, law, and business ad. Negative, or Not So Hot “1. That ‘Country Club’ reputation and social organiza tion (this varies with the locality). "2. Student government—most definitely bad. “3. And student-faculty relationships—weak." In regard to these negative points, Malcolm asks what, if anything, is being done. He explains. "When 1 go back to the books I’m gonna mean business, which includes the axiom that students learn from each other as well as from lectures and books." And he adds, "1 won’t relish the boomer era. the sourgrapes, small time politics, the cutting of classes, copying in and out of class from big 'brothers’ and li’l ‘sisters!’ the doping off. Qechtuitlt and May&L ^iicJztatio+i Pawing over a pocketful of puz zling patter, we find that the cam pus cowboys and cuddling cuties are becoming more entangled as the term progresses. House dances, WAA carnival, local pub parties, and the establishment of vicious booth-heads at the Side were all sandwiched between the occasional flip of a textbook page. Chi O Jean Jacobberger an nounced her engagement to Jim Morell, ATO pledge, who returns to school spring term. Sunday night, when her sorority sisters gathered in the living room after hearing the fire alarm ring, they saw a sign over the mantle, “He got caught at the Teepee Trot!”. . Phi Delt Bill Abbey literally flew in from Medford Sunday. Object of his affections was Gamma Phi Averil Foster. ; . Helen McFet ridge, Sigma Kappa pledge, is turning into an important song writer. Even as this is being written, she has a big contract in Hollywood pending. Everything happened to Marilyn Sage this weekend. First of all, Don Mayne, Beta, bestowed his fraternity pin on her; next, she was involved in a minor automo bile accident Sunday night. . . Bob Ballard, SAE, is introducing an old Australian game on campus that promises to be quite the rage. The game is "Kapoona!”. . . Latest amorous combination pairs Sally Bates, Delta Zeta dream girl con testant, and Sigma Nu pledge Bill Whitelock. . . Phyllis Horstman, ex-Delta Gamma grad and former BWOC, came down from Portland this weekend to announce her en gagement to Elmer Sahlstrom, law school genius. Another Portlander, Phi Psi Harry Skerry, was down once again to see Theta Josie Holstad. . . . A terrific surprise was in store for the ATO pledge class when they visited the Dee-Gee freshmen prior to their joint get-together Friday night. The Anchor girls presented the hill-toppers with a new mascot, a little collie-shep herd puppy, all done up in a huge blue-and-gold ribbon. The boys are hunting for a name for their new pet, and they will appreciate any suggestions from the readers of this column. . . A weekend jaunt to Portland seems to confirm the rumor that ADPi Betty Mack is finding greener pastures in Lt. Eugene Didah, Theta Chi, ’42. She no longer wears Jim Lynch’s en gagement ring. . . Butch Blockling er, Alpha Chi O, was furious when Evan Sax ran off to Portland, leaving his roommate to call her at 7:15 p.m. with the message that Sax wouldn’t be around Friday night. The weekend wasn’t wasted, though. . . Blind dates do turn out well, so AOPi Bettie “Os” Merriam tells us. She insists Delt Lee McDonald is an old family friend— a new twist in excuses. . . Betty Carlson, Kappa, was called home for the weekend unexpectedly, breaking dates with B. G. Cox, Fiji; Jim Davidson, Chi Psi, and ATO Erie Swanson. . . Roving Phil Dana has turned his spotlight on the Alpha Gamma Delta house again although he has a different interest this time. .. Helen Haglund is moon burnt these days since Eugene boy linilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllinillllllllllllinnillllllllllllllllllllinillllllliniHIIIIIIIIlinilllllllllllllllllHlllilililllllllHllllillllimimmmiiiiiiiiimmHmHMiliiiiiiiiiiiiiimmmmiHmumuiiiiHii Jam for Breakfast I