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Mary Margaret Ellsworth, Jack Craig, Ed Allen, Beverly Ayer
Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, and holidays ana
•nil exam periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon.
Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice. Eugene, Oregon.
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The ASUO executive council has decided to remain inde
pendent of the educational activities board for the present, but
the question is not settled.
Under the system started in 1944-45, the executive body of
student government finances its special activities with funds
contributed by the students. So far, donations have been ade
quate, and they probably will continue to be in the immediate
future.
It is not a question of willingness to pay the dollar asked
for the ASUO, but the desirability of adding that dollar to
student expense if it is not necessary.
Part of the money a student pays at registration is allocated
to extracurricular activities, which come under the athletic
board and the educational activities board. Funds for the rally
squad, travel of ASUO officers, and the other activities under
the executive council logically would come from the regular
fees for activities. The educational activities board is able to
provide the money needed, or it would uot offer to do so.
In rejecting the return to the educational activities board,
the executive council presented the following objections:'
1. Students are not equally represented on the educa
tional activities board.
2. The present system is adequate.
3. The board might not provide adequate funds, and its
appropriations would vary from year to year.
Students know that the board would be more likely to be
able to provide funds than the donation system would be. Con
tributions from students may dwindle to nothing in thin years,
but the board will be assured a sum in proportion to the number
of students enrolled.
The real objection, then, is that the students do not want
to have to ask for specific sums from a board which includes
more faculty members than student members. Although they
ask administration officials to advise them and to approve their
final budget now, they have an independent income. The execu
tive council lias the money to spend and asks advice and ap
proval only on the apportioning of it to the activities.
While the present system is retained, both the council and
the board should be working out a more ideal plan. Ideally, the
plan will give students the independence they have under the
donations and the part of regular fees they would have under
sponsorship of the educational activities board.
^acJzUvitf the fla/t . . .
Oregon’s record-breaking enrollment is a living advertise
ment for the direct method of solving University problems.
The housing shortage seemed a hopeless block to further
expansion fall term. Then, during Christmas vacation, Eugene
citizens and University officials conducted a joint campaign
for more rooms and apartments for veterans. The campaign
produced li\ ing space for hundreds of students.
The picture winter term was bleaker. Some additional fa
cilities would be available for married veterans spring term,
but the large dormitory and apartment units guaranteed by
the Federal Housing authority wouldn’t be ready until next
fall. Another Eugene campaign opened rooms for hundreds
more students.
If continued effort could produce such encouraging results
this vear, it can also bring long-range building plans closer to
realization. High construction costs already have stopped some
immediate building plans of the state system of higher educa
tion. and they threaten to postpone the University's project
for years.
Trite as the saving about tackling the job that couldn't be
done is, it has been the guide for solutions to the temporary
housing problem at Oregon.
A jbuck at the jbicU
By PAT KING
The American Broadcasting company has adopted a plan
which, instead of shifting the time of its programs with the
change of Daylight Saving Time April 29, will maintain its
programs in all time zones at the same hour the year around.
Programs originating in one time zone will be recorded and
piped in to the other zones at their usual hour. This will
Jam for
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By Ted Hallock
Spent a very pleasant Thursday
evening at the new Willamette
Park (no plug intended), and was
more than mildly surprised at
changes made. Coffey has put
quite a few berries into a newly
sanded floor, some deadening stuff
on the walls which makes it the
most perfect dance-hall (accous
tically) I have ever seen (or whis
pered in). Plans call for a rousing
type opening on the 20th. Art Hol
man, with evidently a new band
that has been creating a definite
following in the Cottage Grove
area, will play Sat. nights, and a
campus band, whose name we are
forbidden to mention, will handle
the Fridays.
Coffey will definitely put Jimmy
Launceford in the park June 8.
Although Snookie, Trummie, Wil
lie, and J. Crawford are in absen
tia, the band may hold up to its
old show standards. And may not.
Look for, maybe, Bob Crosby
around these parts May 14 or
later, and possibly Georgie Auld,
whose agency seems to have for
gotten him again, or perhaps as
sumed his scalp to have been tak
en (by Indians, you fool, not wily
promoters).
Eddie Gipson
B. Mike, KGW’s promotion ex
pert Bud Lynch and NBC are giv
ing Eugene’s, and the U’s, Eddie
Gipson a huge plugerooni. Eddie
sings on W’s Sat. afternoon net
release “Name Your Music’’: 4:30
5 p.m. Eddie had a band on the
campi almost five years back. It
wasn’t very good. Neither was/is
he.
Carnauba Schmauba: Herman
has a new Columbia out. Two pop
sides. Hope he isn’t beginning to
lose the grip on first slot. Money
is no criteria. Said he gayly, trail
ing his feet in the lawn and throw
ing his sun-bronzed, blonde topped
Graeco-Roman head into the
breeze, laughing hysterically.
Stuff: Harry Terrill is the full
name of Krupa's lead alto man,
the guy who Gene raves about.
Terrill led the section on “Har
riet,” not J. Bothwell. If you care
a helluva lot. Mercer Ellington,
Duke’s fils, has begun again with
another large band and some of
dad's old scores. Congress’ “Sup
press Little Caeser” bill has passed
both house and senate and awaits
executive signature. Unless fed
eral courts use as little judgement
as the men who drew up the bill,
in interpreting it, every member of
the AFM can be hit hard (jail,
fines) if found forcing any broad
caster to hire too many cats or at
a rate slightly above scale (four
or five million dollars higher). So
Petrillo will continue to give his
trusting union fellows a bad time,
and name, and will remain scot
free of any charges or sentences.
And the little stooge takes the
rap again. Extinguish the lights,
Buster, it's time for five card draw.
Reorganization
Claude Thornhill (Good News
to Balboa Easter-timers Dept.) is
re-organizing. Same for Larry
Clinton. Harry “The Lipster”
James is about to one-night it a
while for fortune mostly, although
his fame has been on the wane.
Woody will keep the Blue Flames,
vocal quartet, in place of Frances.
Wax: Bailey followers (Mil
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eliminate the former necessity of
reshuffling local programs twice
each year.
Out of the 5,000 replies to his
question of whether or not this
country should revert to wartime
food rationing in order to aid in
feeding the starving people of
Europe, four or five are in favor
of it, according to a report by
Cecil Brown, Mutual commentator.
Many hundreds of letters urged
the abolition of banquets and sug
gested that restaurants be com
pelled to cut down amounts of food
served, half loaves of bread be sold,
and the size of canned goods re
duced; while others opposed the
return of rationing because they
claimed it would stimulate the
black market and hoarding prac
tices. People in large cities are
heavily in favor of rationing, while
farmers seem to be evenly divided
on the subject. Many letters from
servicemen and veterans decried
the great wastage of food in the
armed forces.
“Ox ” Adlibs
A crisis arose during the Uni
versity Hour Thursday when the
entire show had finished six
minutes ahead of time. “Ox” Wil
son admirably took over the situa
tion and adlibbed an impromptu
interview with Bonnie Chappell,
singer, and then slid smoothly into
the sign off patter of “Something
for You” to finish just as the five
o’clock whistle blew.
Incidentally, Joan Tweedt is the
best all-around pianist on the cam
pus as far as the radio gang is
concerned. ,
Kate Smith was presented with
the “Modern Screen Radio Award”
for her “fine program and mag
nificent broadcasting standards
during the past 15 years” by Ed
Sullivan, New York Daily colum
nist, last night on her program.
The six Metropolitan operas to
be heard next year on the Met’s
broadcasts over KEX, in response
to nation-wide voting, will be
“Aida,” “Carmen,” and “La
Traviata” in the list of repertoire
operas, and “Hansel and Gretel,”
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Powder
Burns
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By Rex Gunn _
Looking west of the radio sta
tion out a square window in the
main studio, you see a pair of dirt
tracks which spiral up to the top
of a hill and disappear in a swerve
right over the crest.
Back from the window a few
yards, the light gets dim so that
tall shadows of trees appear in the
glass, a reflection from the wood
ed hills opposite.
Each afternoon two boys and a
dog come down the dirt tracks into
a gently-sloping meadow and play
until the sun gets tired.
Sometimes they frisk about all
afternoon; sometimes they merely
pet the dog’ and talk. On days
when one of them wants to play
and the other is tired, the tired one
grasps his first opportunity for
martyrdom; he falls dead. The dog
is game for anything, he never
gets tired.
Everything went well for the
comrades until yesterday after
noon. She was a pretty little thing.
She had skinned knees and pig
tails and a freckled nose and, of
course, dimples.
The first thing she wanted to do
was play nurse. That part was
fine, but the time came when a
game named' “house” was men
tioned and the smallest boy, along
with the dog, were left behind by
“mom and pop” who went out
searching for an apartment. She
said they would have a better
chance of renting one without
small children or pets.
Breakdown
I got the story this afternoon
when Pug (the small one) came
down from where he played only
with the dog, in the meadowj^SSej
was trying to act like he didn’t
care—he had an impressive num
ber of reasons, but none of them
worked, so he finally broke down
and' told me it hurt.
He is gone now. He went up the
hill and followed the dirt tracks
out of sight, the dog at his heels.
If Pug has thought above his
hurt, he knows things best learned
young.
Happiness is collective; trouble
deals solitaire; hurt lessens when
someone listens; and it always
helps to have a dog.
Clips and Comments
By Carley Hayden
Quips from April Fool’s Day
Editions of our Quads:
INDIANA UNIVERSITY STU
DENT — Announcement — Theta
Raeta Phi — Business meeting at
McCormick Creek, 7:30 p.m. Bring
your own refreshments as our club
funds are on ice.
The Student Council at INDI
ANA UNIVERSITY at a special
meeting took action to reduce the
speeding along Third and Tenth
streets. All other attempts have
failed to stop students from speed
ing so their latest plan of action
is sure to spell success—they will
dig up the paved portions of both
thoroughfares, and if this fails to
bring results all council members
will resign.
An important decision by the
Beanblossom Township Supreme
Court in the case of Malta-Gee and
Alpha ki-yi sororities vs. Theta
ki and Sigma Alpha Everyone
fraternities, et. al., threw a new
light on the laws of privacy and
property at the INDIANA U cam
pus. The court ruled that trick
clauses written into lot deeds re
serving sky-rights above, and un
obstructed view of sorority house
sundecks were legal. The court,
however, granted an injunction to
one of its plaintiffs, Melta Gee,
restraining Theta-ki-Yi from using
binoculars and tops of chimripys,
as observation posts.
COMMENT: “Wjat you cain't
see wit de nekkid eye frum de
windeys shunt be looked at,” the
court observed.
WHITMAN COLLEGE—Profes
sors sacrifice salaries to meet pres
ent day debt crisis, and Whitman
college conservatory forced to cur
tail operations due to malnourished
teachers. APRIL FOOL HEADS.
FROM HERE ON IS NO JOKE.
UNIVERSITY OF WASHING
TON—A springy atmosphere of an
“East Parade,” wil lprevail at the
annual Mortar Board Tolo, for
which coeds have been bustling
from florist shop to grocery store,
locating the traditional carrot cor
sage or wristlet to present their
dates for this girl - takes - boy
“strict” formal.
UCLA—“Nothing is too good to
be true” are the words of Far a--,
day, inscribed above the entrance
to the physics-biology building on
the UCLA campus. These words
gave new life with the realization
of current plans for a $4O,OOO,-0fKf
public university to be geared to
an enrollment of over 20,000 stu
dents, anticipated by the southern
campus in 1960.