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■nal exam periods by the Asaociated Students, University of Oregon.
Entered as second-class matter at the poctoffice. Eugene, Oregon.
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Sifting ^nadUioni
The challenge of Junior Weekend traditions was expected
long before the Order of the “O” announced its intentions tc
enforce the customs this year. And the idea did not originate
with the older veterans, as some of them seem to think. It
started, in one form, last year when one of the “lads fresh out oi
high school” decided that hacking for violation of traditions was
not part of a college education.
Anyone' will concede the right of students to ignore the
dictates of the Order of the “O.” The enforcement has never
been rigid, and the lettermen take the paddles every year be
cause of custom and not because some sadistic members sug
gest it.
But the challenge to traditions is part of a process through
which Oregon is going as a growing institution. A university
of several thousand students cannot preserve the atmosphere
of a small college, even for a week.
If the enrollment stays up for a period of years, as is ex
pected, one of two things will probably happen to the traditions,
including those dusted off for Junior Weekend. Either a com
paratively small group of students (probably those living in
organized groups) will carry on the customs, or most of the
students will accept, with good humor, a few traditions on
special occasions.
With visions of being branded as representing the old
school tie set, this page is plugging for the continuance of some
customs for all.
This week should prove that some of the old standbys are
gone forever. It won’t be a great loss to Oregon if the members
of the classes are not distinguished by the type of pants they
wear, and it won't be tragic if smokers on the old campus are
not hacked for indulging. Students cannot get into the atmos
phere of Junior Weekend ahead of time so that these relics of
the past seem like incidentals instead of issues.
Still, sentimental memories of earlier campus picnics don't
bring to mind any picture of dunked students wdio looked per
secuted about the punishment.
If the sifting of traditions this week eliminates some that
are not particularly funny and that are a little abusive to pride
and body, it is quite natural. But a good-natured acceptance of
some of the customs during the three days of Junior Weekend
is not a submission to “Gestapo-like” tactics. Even the most
sedate of the “older veterans” seem to like a little of the hubba
lutbba college days on occasion.
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Telling the Editor
About Traditions . . .
We quote from a front page
article in the May 4 Emerald. "The
heavy-handed Order of the ‘O' men
will enforce the traditional Junior
Weekend traditional Junior Week
end traditions with Gestapo-like
severity.” May we suggest that
the phrase "heavy-handed” be al
tered to read "heavy headed”? The
writer of this article should be,
however, commended for his use
of the descriptive term "Gestapo
like.” Having seen the Gestapo in
action, at least two of us can say
that, while the Order of the "O”
has not quite the technique, they
have a fine grasp of the basic prin
ciples of gentle Heinrich’s organi
zation.
Some of the fraternities on the
campus have very sensibly either
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abolished or greatly reduced “haz
ing” and all the other assinine in
fringements of the personal liberty
of mature men which are associat
ed with this fanny-swatting tra
dition. To find that the “order”
is planning to reinstitute them is
discouraging and not a little bit
humorous.
For instance, can you imagine
a teen or early twenty of distin
guished athletic ability command
ing a man of 28, veteran of all the
rotten hell from Guadalcanal to
Iwo, to bend over while he lays a
board across the nethermost por
tion of the veteran’s anatomy?
The paddle wielder would not only
be makiTig a fool of himself, but
he would be making a lot of peo
ple do some serious thinking con
cerning the ability of the Univer
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The social barometer fumes at its boiling point this week as
Junior Weekend, with its tepid tunes and tantalizing tidbits,
tiptoes into the- campus tent. In the advent of this gaiety, we
scoop up the dangling bits of debris from last weekend and go to
press.
Note-ary public: SAE Chuck
Beckner seems to be the reason
why Gamma Phi Mavis De La Mare
is enjoying spring term picnics . . .
Sigma Kappa Donna Neville and
Theta Chi Bob Miller are an added
attraction these days . . . Only gal
on the campus these days wearing
a Delt pin is Grace “Blitz” Simp
son, AOPi . . . Carry on, Keefe . . .
Picturesque: Phi Psi pledge Les
Hixson and DeeGee Honey Johns
sharing a horse, a hotdog, and a
fire . . . Musicman Dave Fort
miller planted his Beta pin on that
certain Pi Phi . . . As hinted here
earlier, ADPi Betty Swann has
nailed SPE Carrell Bradley’s brass.
. , . Smoothies: Bev Pitman, Pi
Phi, and Harry Larson, Phi Delt
pledge . . . Bill Barnum’s moving
into the Maggie Wells (Alpha Phi)
league . . .
Griddle gatherings: Alpha Chi
house is still humming from two
recent engagements. Bev Stephens
is sporting a sparkler from Kappa
Sig Paul Everett, and Norma
Davidson will take the vows with
Whil Peoples, Oregon Stater . . .
Over the weekend we bumped into
a pair of familiar Betas, Bob Kich
and Paul Beard. One of the old
sport scribes, Bill Stratton, was in
last weekend . . . ^Add couples:
Kappa Pat Griffin and SAE Mark
Ferris . .. ATO Frank Bocci moved
to smooth territory Saturday night
when he squired Gamma Phi Irene
Moor hither and yon . . . Steady
teddies: Helen McFetridge, Sigma
Kappa, and Glenn Snyder, Theta
Chi . . . Terrific piano man from
Hansen hotise is Dick Mallett. Dig
him, Hallock . . . The Barbara
Fullmer (AOPi)-Jim Lund (ATO)
affair is getting beyond the casual
stage . . . Phi Psi Bob Reed and
Alpha Chi June Wiswell are getting
along famously.
Twilight Time: Former Webfoot
Bob Weston stands a fat chance
for a small role in a big N’Yawk
show this coming season . . . Fiji
Don McSweeney was jolted Sun
day ayem by first-hand news of
Pi Phi Ann Parson’s acceptance of
a Beta pin . . . Incidentally, Ken
Jackson planted his Beta pin for
a second time on Pi Phi Wanda
Shaw, squelching rumors he was
interested in Claire Konesky . . .
Kappa Pat Stone and Fiji Mike
Mikshe are a pair . . . DU Bill Mc
Lennan is operating in the Theta
house these days. Her name is
Margie Hirschbul . . . Charlotte
Yandel’s time is being monopolized
by gridder Art Milne . . . We won
der if “The World’s Biggest Hog”
on display in Eugene a while back
will show up for Junior Weekend’s
State Fair . . . Carl Cluff’s main
interest these days appears to be
Katherine Leonard of the Suzy Q
domain . . . Fiji Marty Pond has
now zipped into the Janet Davis
(Theta) league but string . . . Beta
reunion stag is set for Friday eve.
. . . Bill Kidd, Fiji is making pic
nics jollier with Theta Jean Mor
rison . . . Gamma Phi Treva Tor
sen is poppin’ over SAE Jim Popp.
. . . His brother brought the ring
down from Seattle, and so Ed Hig
genbotham is engaged to Pat
Bright . . . Newcomers to romance:
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Graft and Corrupt
ion
By O. LARSON
One discovers so many new sacred cows grazing in the
political pastures this week, that it’s difficult to pick on any big
noisy one in particular to push around.
Reviewing the full gamut of momentous occurrences, the
neutral observer—if there is such an animal—is struck with
the realization that the hundreds of daily events taking: place
in all phases of current history
as so complex and so laden with
significance, that they defy an
alysis. Therefore the field is wide
open for the wild statements and
the irresponsible conjectures which
erupt volcanic-like every Tuesday
morning out of the disturbed
depths of our closed minds.
Today’s first item about which
we know absolutely nothing is the
British loan. Wild statement no.
1 is that the proponents of this
measure should tell us more about
it so we won't be so ignorant on
the matter. All we know as yet
is that it involves a three and a
half billion dollar handout in “our”
interests. Obviously the whole pur
pose is to bring America a greater
prosperity. If we don’t kick
through, John Bull says he’s going
to heave a sterling bloc at Uncle
Sam's head.
When the Bretton Woods agree
ments were being debated on the
floor of the senate the idea was
raised by legislators with an eye
on the limits of the American
purse, that six billion dollars was
a lot of money to throw into a
financial experiment in view of the
fact that the agreements might not
solve the problems, and that loan
requests would follow'. One editor
stated that Bretton Woods would
be the first bank whose prospec
tive borrowers constituted the
committee on loans. Oh well, six
billion dollars is just chickenfeed
anyhow. Just the same, the view
ers-with-alarm can now say, “I
told you so.” For the loan requests
are starting to roll in. It would be
wishful thinking of the first order
to believe that England is the only
country that will ask us for further
financial aid.
Senator Johnson, Democrat from
Colorado, stood up in the Senate
week before last and congratulated
Ohio’s Senator Taft for the latter’s
prediction in this matter, and Taft
replied modestly that it wasn’t a
difficult forecast to make.
* * *
There were stirrings in Oregon
political circles last week when a
determined campaign commenced
to amend the Oregon constitution
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Jam for
Breakfast
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By Ted Hallock ^
Portland’s Pop McElroy imports
Spike Jones this Wednesday night.
Price is the staggering item: 3000
against percentage. For this
amount of scratch one puzzler: will
it be the eight piece “Blue Danube”
recording combo, or the 35 string
ed radio David Roser. Somehow,
we can’t imagine a dance job play
ed with 14 cow bells, a Webley
Vickers .38 single-shot and a banjo.
Nor can we exactly visualize 14
strings being heard above the usu
al McElroy "upper class” din.
Might be worth going north to
find out.
Rumor has three or four Port
land-Seattle ballroom and nitery
ops, plus possibly recorder John
Keating, merging for a new disc
outfit; name of the Northwest Re
cording Co. It will be the 89th in
its field, and plans to wax only
popular N. W. orks. Obviously.
Changing Scenes
Jimmie Luncreford has evidently
started to throw the cabbage
around, else sentiment has outed.
Most, maybe all, of the old “greats”
are returning to the fold within
the next few months. Will be a
long trip for some. Willie Smith
will leave H. James. Joe Thomas
from Chicago, Garrick’s and odd
recording dates. Paul Webster
from Cootie Williams. Garald Wil
son must break up his own band.
Snookie Young from Cab Calloway
and Trammie (the same last name)
brushes Raeburn and others. If
above comes true you’ll hear,
come June 7, something like the
“Bugs Parade”-“River St. Marie”
gang.
very odd things happening in
the Holman organization. Is it true
that the “Georgia peach’’ naj«
sings with Art? Heard that she
debuted last Saturday night with
the band just a standin’ and a
knockin’ (knees, that is). Also
heard that Holman will probably
play personally with Youman’s-to
be Granada ork, with wife Kay on
piano; all the while keeping a band
at W. Park on Saturday eves under
his name. First time we’ve ever
heard of a band without an adver
tised leader at its head. Guess
there’s a first time for a lot of
things. Even after eight years of
playing “pretty for the people”! ?).
Record Bet
Heard a great arrangement via
KORE last weekend. It’s Les
Browns’s “I’ve Got My Love to
Keep Me Warm” one of our favs.
Can’t be caught commercially yet,
only through World transcription
library. Might phone Frank Wat
kins asking for repeat of same.
Remember also to ask Les fo&4fc
this summer.
Theta Chi house is rapidly
achieving an ideal of some sort.
Only house able to boast a sizeable
musically-minded minority among
members. Now contains: drummer
altoist Bob Allan; altoist-arrang
er Wally Heider; leader-tenorman
Widmer; trumpeter Gene Hebrard
and bassist Cliff Mallicot. Sincere
congrats. The campus has long
needed, since the Pi Kap-Phi Sig
demises, a group of men who know
the spots.
Almost completing Jantzen
Beach’s list of mistakes: Leighton
j Noble. Next week Hudepohl may
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