Emerald
MARGUERITE WITTWER-WRIGHT
Editor
GEORGE PEGG
Business Manager
JEANNE SIMMONDS
Women’s Editor
JACK L. BILLINGS
Managing Editor
MARYANN THIELEN
and WALT McKINNEY
Assistant Managing Editors
BOBBIE FULMER
Advertising Manager
HERB PENNY
News Editor
BOBOLEE BROPHY
Assistant News Editor
JUNE GOETZE
Assistant Women’s Editor
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Student Action
The recurrent dismay over the traffic situation on 13th street,
the official protestations of University authorities, and the annual
postponement of action (for oh-so-good reasons, of course) by
the city needs a three-way solution:
(1) Action by the students
(2) Action by University officials
(3) Action by the city street and/or police department.
This is the second in a series of editorials in the Emerald s
campaign, in conjunction with administration efforts, to reduce
the potentially fatal flow of traffic on the campus.
The page-one picture of Hilyard street glutted with paiked
cars could apply to Alder, University, 11 th, 13th, and 14th streets.
There are even cars parked on both sides of the narrow gravel
alley between University street s “dead end and the junction of
11th and Highway 99.
Students are leaving their cars in the University lots provided
for faculty parking. Faculty members arriving late in the morn
ing must scout around the campus for a place to park. Students
%vho are forced to commute to school from surrounding towns and
outlying housing projects find parking places as scarce as nylons.
Much unnecessary campus traffic could be eliminated.There is
no reason why students living' in fraternities, sororities, or other
housing on or near the campus should drive their cais to classes.
The campus is compact enough to permit all University buildings
within easy walking distance.
Unless students living on campus refrain from using their
cars during school hours, University authorities may be forced
to take drastic steps. Many schools do not allow students to keep
cars. Years ago all students were required to register their cars on
the campus. The administration does not wish to restrict stu
dents’ use of their own automobiles, but present conditions,
unless alleviated by student action, require disciplinary measures.
Students cannot do much to negotiate with city officials; that
is what the administration is doing. But students should be able
to regulate their own use of cars if such action is taken merely to
make sterner action by officials unnecessary.
Such student action could be made the concern of the student
government. The ASUO president may find in this suggestion
a project worthy of his attention. Why not send the student’s
ASUO representatives to the living organizations of their con
stituents to explain the situation and to urger car-owner to leave
their automobiles off the campus during rush hours?
If this plan, this self-disciplinary action by the students,
actually did clminate much of the excess traffic, it would seem
that further measures in the way of new rules from the adminis
tration would not be needed.
What’slivTa Name?
Students are appearing to evince interest in the naming of
Hudson Hall. Most of the comments and suggestions have come
from veterans, and people who were on the campus before the
war, and can therefore recall the names of good men who did not
return from action.
Various individual names have been suggested by personal
friends and admirers of the deceased. The re-naming of Hudson
is a monument to our military dead, of more worth than an
infinite number of Carrara marble statues. If University men died
for no other purpose than that others might live, an adequate
dormitory for their fellow men should be at least partial tribute
to their memory.
The question is: will the name of one serve as reminder of
many ? To some it is a foregone conclusion that only the unknown
soldier is truly representative of all war dead. Perhaps that as
sumption is correct. Perhaps the name of Pat Riley or Kent
Stitzer would not mean as much to you as to comrades of the two.
We offer no suggested name. For two nights, countless
phrases, titles and super-patriotic dedicatory wordings have
passed through our head. But for some reason we could not accept
“Hall of American Dead,” or “Hall of American Living.” Much
to long for the average granite marker, and much, much too trite.
Perhaps some reference in labeling the hall should be made to
the loyal American plumbers who refused to work to meet a con
struction deadline a month ago. Or mayhap an engraved note that
floor-polishers wouldn’t polish, where Guadalcanal muddied feet
were due to tread in a week or less. But no . . . those sentiments
are completely unsentimental, and biased besides.
We ask you to think, and contribute. Surely someone can
envision an appropriate name for one of the first useful memorials
to our dead. Think, if you can, beyond the name of a good
friend, and think of the names of many. Then, from the jumble of
spellings, races, creeds and colors, extract a word that says ‘ To
the memory of happy men ; simple men; kind men; who died for
us.” Or something to that effect.
The Other Half
As indigent to Oregon’s football season as rooter’s caps or
paper-festooned goal posts are the public complaints of those
dissatisfied with seating arrangements in the student section at
Hayward field. This year the complaints appear to be justified.
. Traditionally, the section south of the 50-yard line in the east
grandstand is reserved for Oregon students. Statistically, this
space will accommodate approximately 2500 people.
At present the policy of the office of athletic management
seems to involve a close adherence to tradition and a complete
disregard for statistics. With a probable 5000 students attending
the games, this policy cannot continue unquestioned.
The Oregon varsity is a college team trained and sponsored by
the University. Funds for the maintenance of the team are sup
plied in substantial part by student tuition fees. It seems that the
right of students to adequate seating facilities to school athletic
matches is a natural one. Yet, if tradition prevails, 50% of the
student spectators at home games will either stand or stay home.
The removal of all reserved seats from the east grandstand
will, it is true, cut a source of revenue, but the entirety of this
stand is necessary for efficient handling of the crowd. The con
fusion which occurred at last Saturday’s game as the result of
student invasion of reserved seats is evidence of this necessity.
Without non-student spectators, the football season could not
occur, yet in viewing a team supported by them, and their school,
the rights of ASUO members appear to us to be primary.
The dearth of textbooks spotlights the incongruity of an
almost religious dependence on the text in some courses. ... If
textbooks are actually indispensable and good ones are not to be
found, perhaps the libraries could be exploited. But for our
money, the instructor’s convictions and his reasons for them are
much more valuable than any text.—Michigan Tech Lode (ACP)
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
The Emerald welcomes letters to the editor. Not only are
such spontaneous expressions of student opinion invaluable to
the editor, but the “Telling the Editor”^ column is one of the
widely read features on the editorial page.
There are necessarily some regulations which must be fol
lowed by the editor in printing letters. Writers please take note:
Letters must be limited to 150 words.
Letters must be signed; names withheld on request.
Letters cannot be libelous or malicious.
Form letters will be discounted.
Not all letters to the editor are printed. Letters which are
judged to be of interest to students are printed; communications
containing advice to, praise of, or derision of the Emerald are
usually regarded as. suggestions for the use of the editorial staff
alone.
Any student is privileged at any time to discuss his gripes
with the editor personally..
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By SUDS CHANEY and
BOB MILLER
From here on out anything that '
appears below the above head is co
authored by Bob Miller. Mr. Miller i
is a Theta Chi, six feet one inch in ,
height, weighs 182, has wavy brown t
hair, brown eyes, a winning smile |
shy personality and a studious in
tent look ... he pushes a ^)lue
model A roadster. This information
is published so that no innocent by- I
standers will be injured by stray
shots. Shoot if you must this old
gray head but spare my new co
author.
Night Maneuvers Dept.
We thought the era was finished
but evidently it isn’t.One of the Al
pha Chi pledges had a date the oth
er night with an SAE. The man in !
the case, a veteran, slipped back
into GI for a moment and the sweet
young thing flipped her lid. Out she
got and home she walked.
Staff and Distaff
The male to female ratio here
abouts is so improved that a clever i
girl in the Side the other day slipped |
the following into her conversa
tion.
Once again girls have a choice
Cause all the world is full of
boyce.
Intramural Sports-Sports!
Mary Lou Diamond has been
throwing fits of girlish ecstasy over
the fact that she shares all^faer
classes with just oodles of Phi Delts.
The only thorn in her gay young
life is that there are no Phi Delts
in her volleyball class . . . whatthe
hellsa matta wit you guys . . .
cantcha play volleyball! Suggestion
to Mary Lou: Transfer to funda
mentals of baseball.
Just a Small One Please
Jim Curry, a Theta Chi with def
inite ideas and an ardent subscrib
er to the old theory that “candy is
dandy but likker is quicker,” was
mixing the drinks Saturday night
for his date. Needless to say the
drinks would have left nine out of
ten of the local loggers completely
numb. Nine portions of bourbon to
a snizz of sizz. Jim’s date, however,
was a lass that knew all the answers
and 95 per cent of the questions . . .
she sly switched every drink with a
Theta Chi named Lindsay who was
sitting on her immediate right. Cur
ry spent the evening admiring the
young lady’s Falstaffian talents
and Lindsay is still trying to find
out whether it was a freight train
or a truck.
Bird in the Hand Dept,
There may be a definite shortage
in fraternity jewelry within a few
weeks. Not just a few of the re
turnees are leaving brass planted
in home town areas and, in order to
foster the idea that they are eligi
ble on the campus, are also sport
ing pins around here. Of course a
few of the lads get carried away and
plant this sceond pin. We’re giving
eight to two that they burn their
fingers.
Sound Your Klaxon Please
Under existing traffic regula
tions there are only two types of
people on the campus .. . the quick
and the dead.
WANTED—Sax or Clarinet man
and guitar man. Call 5355-W.
LOST—Gold and black Shaeffer
pencil, name engraved. Reward
Return Douglas Fetsch, 1252
Beech.