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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 18, 1946)
Oregon W Emerald LOUISE MONTAQ Editor ANNAMAE WINSHIP Business Manager MARGUERITE WITTWER Managing Editor GEORGE PEGG Advertising Manager JEANNE SIMMONDS News Editor MARILYN SAGE, WINIFRED ROMTVEDT Associate Editors ■ ■ -- ■ ■ ■ - - ■ ..- ■ ~ ’ I Art Litchman, Tommy Wright Co-Sports Editors BYRON MAYO 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 except Sundays, Mondays, and holidays vna final exam periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon. Entered as second-class matter at the poctoffice. Eugene, Oregon. --f “When the price of total soverignty is total war, the price is too high.” This statement by Edward S. Corwin, professor of juris prudence, is the key to discussion about an international or ganization or world federation. It is the theme that will be in the minds of students today as they consider the resolutions drafted at the Pacific Northwest College Congress. Many students have taken part in a war as total as modern science can devise. While the fighting was going on, many of them condemned the older generations for allowing the seeds of war to grow. Now they are in a position to do what they blamed their fathers for neglecting to do. They can see the errors of their elders. Now they must find out how to avoid them. The resolutions made by the Congress are aimed at building a firmer foundation for peace. Each vote will strengthen or weaken the individual resolutions and their influence. It is foolish to stop fighting for peace now that the war is over. The number of ballots cast today will be a sign of the num ber of Oregon students who want to keep fighting with ballots instead of bullets. Check, an Cheatina . . . The suspension of a student for cheating in examinations is the first sign this year that the University regulation against such practices is being enforced. Judging by students’ com plaints against cheating, the enforcement will be accepted as the only solution. The campus attitude toward cheating is contradictory. On the surface, students make light of “putting one over” on the professor. They don’t have the nerve to expose someone vise’s dishonesty because they would be considered squealers. Yet, when they see a cheater rewarded with higher grades on tests, they are indignant that the practice is overlooked. Rationalizing that the cheater really is doing himself more harm than he is doing anyone else is small comfort. His degree looks the same as that of an honest student, and his possession of that degree discredits others who have graduated from the institution. The student who doesn’t cheat can have the satis faction of knowing he is getting a better education, but that knowledge doesn’t help him too much when no one else recog nizes it. There is too much cheating at Oregon for one suspension to check. Most students feel sorry for one who serves as an •example when others have been equally guilty. The regulation must be enforced continually to be effective. It is doubtful if any rule or punishment can stop cheating or any other form of dishonesty. Responsibility for getting rid of such practices rests with the members of the class. No pro fessor can be a watch bird searching for cheaters all the time. But as long as cheating is evident, better enforcement of the rule by the instructors can eliminate some of the worst of fenders and warn others that the regulation is not just a paper standard. mmmmm To bring you a line, rich // S shampoo to make your hair 35 r J soil and gloriously clean, LACO 5 OZ. ' combines 3 rich oils (olive, , / castor, coconut) blended to 5/ C* ' give triple-action results. 12 OZ. / Gofuyi&Lliostal Ga+nmenti luiiiiuuuuuiiiiiiiiiiniMHHiiiiiiiiinHiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuninininnnnMinmiiiiiiNiiiiiii By Ted Hallock This morning should see a live ly gathering of the international ly-minded clan. The 11 o’clock as sembly has been called for the sole purpose of exciting student com ment on resolutions adopted by the Pacific Northwest College con gress. A panel of students, including, and selected by, Oregon’s dele gates to the above-named gather ing, will serve as commentators and amateur authorities on vari ous phases of the United Nations Organization. The Law School’s Dr. Howard will serve as mediator, and Dean Morris of the B. A. school will function as historian - librarian custodian of UN facts and figures. The idea behind the whole affair is quite simple: students in the audience are at liberty to ask questions, directed at any of the panel members, concerning any of the PNCC resolutions, which will be read individually by Dr. How ard. Panel members will elaborate on the basic material, adding sup plementary data, and perhaps an opinion or two of their own. If enough students attend the assembly, with a sincere desire to become more familiar with the work of both the UN and the PNCC, Oregon stands a fair chance of sending one or two delegates to the now-proposed world student conference to be held in New York. China and UNRRA Of all the warring allies, China deserves perhaps the greatest share of credit for making victory a truism. Chiang, the Eighth Route Army and Kuomintang government; these elements are China to me, these factions fight ing together, separately and among themselves, somehow man aged to enter the anti-fascist war a much greater job of defending much greater job of defending themselves, the ratio of trained man-power (existent) to demand, considered. Yet once again UNRRA is being allowed to make mockery all promises of post-war aid to be rendered China by the allied na tions. Forty per cent of Hunan province’s population is existing on a starvation diet, not one of those, by comparison, scientifically lux urious “they'll get by” dietetic dreams now being given so much play in Germany. During the first three months of 1946, China re ceived, from UNRRA, for her 450,000,000 people, 5000 tons of rice. Usually figures are dull. Those aren’t. Farmers in Hunan are marketing edible grass. The people are enjoying it immensely. it s odd how, after England’s General Scobie used UNRRA funds and food in Greece to squash the ELAS-EAM revolt against British domination, with the aid of a few RAF tanks and Spitfires; and after a few fed-up columnists gave the British the works, printing the facts, UNRRA suddenly shot the per capita relief figures in that country up to $46.90. China is re ceiving, per capita, $1.20. Destination Data There has been a peculiar scent associated with UNRRA since its beginning. In spite of earnest American housewives who pledge themselves in complete good fel lowship to contribute shoes and foodstuffs to continental peoples, those relief articles somehow have n’t consistently managed to get to where they were supposed to go. It is simply a matter for the citi zen to get a little irate about. Write your congressman, demand a few official UNRRA statistics. Ask why UNRRA refuses to feed the thousands of Spanish Loyalist refugees who fled across the bridge at Hendaye into France when Franco finally won the first war in which democracy was pitted Way Back When . . . Scarlet Sheet Publication Brings to Many Regrets By Dottie Habel and Trudi Chernis Thirty Years Ago “Summary punishment was met ed out to nine University students yesterday as the result of their implication in the ‘Scarlet Sheet,’ the scandal paper issued during spring vacation. This annual pub lication of the scarlet sheet occur red Saturday and was distributed over Eugene. The paper contained ‘take-offs’ and campus gossip con cerning faculty members and stu dents. Dean Eric W. Allen of the school of journalism, was aroused over articles which he maintained had no double meaning and were capable of only one interpretation.” “Plans are nearly complete for Junior Weekend. The opening, Thursday, will probably be a base ball game with OAC. Friday is University Day when everyone will clean up the campus, and a new walk will be built across the campus. The walk is to be built where the path cuts across the campus from the road between Villard hall to Eleventh avenue east. Saturday will feature the water fete and junior prom.” Twenty Years Ago “Arnold Bennett Hall, professor of political science at the Univer sity of Wisconsin, and one of the foremost social scientists in the against fascism. Our state depart ment has condemned the Franco regime officially, UN has followed suit, yet UNRRA, supported and administered by these same na tions, evidently refuses to aid the first group of anti-fascists to phy sically resist its growth. And then of course you might ask congress why Herman Shumlin, of the In dependent Arts and Sciences Com mittee, v/ho organized a group to feed, from individual contributions, these same Spanish Loyalist ex iles, is now under indictment as being party to a Communist con spiracy. The answer you will NOT receive is that congress seems to assume any anti-fascist automati cally a Communist. Just think it over and find the facts for yourselves. Which state ment constitutes the sole creed of this columnist and column. Only the treacherous and the liar are afraid of the truth. country, is the new president »f— the University of Oregon,” declar ed the board of regents. A tabulation of the Emerald questionnaires distributed last week has revealed numerous re sults: For instance, students are on the warpath against methods used by the Romance language de partment, the education and the B. A. school. Also, students want as much inter-collegiate athletics as at present and desire more in ter-class and organization athlet ics. Revealing fact: that courses of study lure students to attend the U of O rather than athletes.” Kappa Delta Phi, oldest men’s local fraternity on the campus, received notification of the grant ing of their charter into Sigma Phi Epsilon. Ten Years Ago ‘‘Faculty Plan Whole - in - One Doughnut Sale.” Dr. Rudolph Ernst heads the faculty committee which is staging the doughnut sale to raise funds for the browsing room of the new library. Their slogan reads: No donut is too good for our students. Alpha hall topped the campus for organization grade point aver ages with a GPA of 2.848. The all campus average was 2.41; the men producing a 2.26 and the women a 2.58. MliiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiimiiiiimiiimimiiiminimr/fHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiitiiiiiiiir ( Clips and jj I Comments I f i By Carley L. Hayden Oregon State—With Sadie Haw kins day approaching rapidly, com petition for the best beards is get ting really tough. The nylon stock1— ings being offered the best Daisy Mae are proving quite an incentive to their Dogpatch girls. University of Washington—Eas ter and all-season fashions will have an early preview in the Spring Fashion Parade held every year just before Easter season and featuring campus clothes for wom en. A much looked-for and talked about affair, the fashion review puts campus coeds “in the know.” It offers valuable tips and acces sories and the elements of good grooming. > . " Our jackets and slacks, shirts and sweaters, skirts and peddle push ers play dozens of variations on a basic spring theme. Mix them well—you’ll be amazed at the number of congenial combinations they make. 1080 Willamette