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Oregon ^Emerald MARGUERITE WITTWER-WRIGHT GEORGE PEGG Editor Business Manager JEANNE SIMMONDS BOBBIE FULMER Women’s Editor Advertising Manager TED HALLOCK, MARILYN SAGE Associate Editors JACK L. BILLINGS Managing Editor MARYANN THIELEN and WALT McKINNEY Assistant Managing Editors HERB PENNY News Editor BOBOLEE BROPHY and BRUCE BISHOP Assistant News Editors JUNE GOETZE Assistant Women’s Editor BERNIK HAMMERBECK Sports Editor BILL STRATTON, WALLY HUNTER Assistant Sports Editors ROGER TETLOW DON JONES Chief Night Editor Staff Photographer_ ' EDITORIAL BOARD Tom Kay, Byron Mayo, Bea King, Billie Johns Faculty Adviser—Dean George Turnbull ‘ published Daily except Sundays, Mondays, holidays, and during the final exam periods, by the Associated Students, University of Ore gon Entered as second class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. Features and columns in the Emerald reflect the opinions of the writers. They do not necessarily represent the opinion of the editorial staff, the student hotly, or the University. Spirit Indefatigable An editorial must have a point. Our point: Bob Reynolds. An editorial must be timely. Timeliness : to do with Saturday’s foot ball game. An editorial should include facts not covered by news reports on the subject. Said facts: Reynold’s attributes as stu dent, friend and liberal. We know nothing of football. Sports writers tabbed Bob’s Saturday effort as perhaps his greatest game. No game is actually Reynold’s greatest. His fighting heart would deny that one mo ment’s effort surpassed another in terms of zeal, physical or mental. Reynolds could he categorized as the “All-American Boy.” Like his brother Walt, Bob has consistently studied hard, played hard and believed hard; believed that good sportsmanship has only a little bit to do with the gridiron or cinder track. One of the One World club’s initial organizers, Reynolds has been actively engaged in furthering the causes of minority peo ples for more years than most sports fans realize. His work for .inter-racial understanding has been magnificent. Bob Reynolds is a realist. His thought is as taut and responsive as his muscular co ordination. If Reynolds is being heralded as the saviour of a football game, then perhaps we should add to his laurels the title of “Worker for Better Fellowship.” Not often in a human being are intellectual and athletic abilities combined. In Bob we are privileged to wit ness such a coalition. We should be proud that our university can send forth speci mens of its manhood, in the form of men like Reynolds, astute m sporting field and in debating hall alike. Our hat is doffed re spectful!}' to a fine citizen : Bob Reynolds. Horn soit qui mal y pense Twelve of the 30 letters to the editor received during the past two weeks have dealt with the columns by Larry Lau and Austin Chaney. The letters have varied from high praise to out and-out condemnation on grounds of obscenity. It seems somehow ironical that so often those readers who eagerlv scan any publication for suggestions of vulgarity are the first to toss bricks at the writer. Kvery sophomore knows that some of the best writing pro duced in this century, work by James Joyce, Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, Steinbeck, Lilian Smith, has been criticized, and, in some cases, banned because of alleged obscenity. With little research anyone could find paragraphs from Chaucer, Shakes peare, Aristophanes, Boccaccio, or even from the Bible, which could be labeled indecent. Obscenity can only be considered a matter of opinion. In their columns Lau and Chaney have written about the cam pus as they see it. If they have pointed out some aspects of college iate living which are well-known and much discussed, but not often printed, that fact alone does not justify the accusations of yulgaritv. Let us be realistic. College students are no better and no worse than the alumni, than the faculty. Most writers do not dare risk l^heir reputations in order to write frankly about us. And few of us like to see ourselves as others see us. Let all of us be sure our Jjwn minds are antiseptic before any more brick-tossing is done. .■szOOM f H mm o' tmm A Home for Homecoming The chosen theme for this year's weekend ”ne plus ultra” is “A Home for Homecoming,” which has more significance than a first glance would reveal. The committee, with more wisdom than subtlety, has decided to use the 1946 Homecoming in putting the touch on visiting alumni for funds for the legendary Student Union building. It need not be explained that the “home” is a cause on the Oregon campus for which not a few of the students in the last twenty years have given their proverbial life blood. Yet the necessary funds have not been accumulated for the union building which has become more a necessity than a luxury with the current increase in enrollment. There are those of the traditionalist school who deplore the idea of turning the sentimentality and pleasure of Homecoming weekend into a money-making enterprise. We grant that com mercial extravaganzas ordinarily have no place in the activities of a state university—yet the exception that proves the rule is present in this case. If the alums can be made to see the need for a student union, can be impressed with the locality demoraliza tion of student activities and the dearth of office and meeting rooms, the goal of student union committee ancestry and the present Homecoming committee will perhaps become visible on the horizon. The aforementioned pleasure and sentimentality of the week end will not be diminished by the donation drive, which, if suc cessful, will enshrine the 1946 Homecoming forever in the hearts of the students who will use the fountain, the auditorium, the meeting rooms and the offices of Oregon's future student union. Welcome Home Oregon's victorious football team arrived at noon Sunday at the railroad depot downtown. They were greeted by a handful of students—that's all. Why was there no rally ? Those men played their hearts out against the California Bears. For the second time this season Oregon has come out on the long side of the score, by a slim one-point margin. Saturday afternoon hundreds of radios on the campus were tuned to the game; Sunday students were still sleeping off their celebration. The team undoubtedly expected to be welcomed home with some show of appreciation for their efforts. Any team, no matter how victorious, needs support from the school. Next time, let's have a rally. g«eeti This little a n g e 1 sprinkling-starcl ust wherever she goes is our heaven-sent mes senger bringing you our season’s greet ings for a M e r r y Merry Christmas. GIRLS! Order your Nor cross Angels to help herald in the Yule tide season. GIFT SHOP 963 Willamette — dimity !’ JFaotie By BOB MILLER It is with deep sorrow that wi announce the passing of Suds Cha ney from this column. The scbedul of deadlines being too much fo him, he is now devoting most of hi spare time to his radio broadcas! over KUGN and making mudball in back of the library. Just to show that this column is unbiased we re port that Suds Chaney’s grand en trance into the El Capitan the othei p.m. proved to be a grand exit. Sug gest that Suds stop robbing th< cradle and try a freshman in col lege. An Older and Wiser Head .. .Man About the Campus, Jacl Puffinbarger gets credit for one o: the best postwar plans yet. B starting an organization to pStyent an inflation on the campus. Nc member of this organization date a girl who is signed up foi more than a week in advance. Some body take him down and buy him a round. intrigue What Marylhurst*College coed is anxiously awaiting the go aheac signal from Beta, Dave Fortmillei before she packs up and grabs i train for Eugene ? What Now Along with the retiring of Chan cellor Hunter came the breaking up of Theta Mickie Metcalf and Sigma Haller John Grossman. The Reels of Gibraltar will probably crumble next. Odds’n’ends The ROTC captain and sergeant look rather unhappy bringing up the rear in the Straub hall chowline, Could be a few of us are bitter. j Passing remark overheard in the O.C.: Those girls aren’t bad but I'll bet that not one of them can play a decent hand of bridge. Geronimo A group of Tri-Delts certainly play a rugged game of bridge. Ask any of the victims about the gory details of last Friday’s massacre in Taylor’s. Coincidence With a whole train to pick from, Lynn Rennick and Sally Watson, Susie-Q, chose the car right behind the football team. Smart girls. Orchids to Alpha Gams Six lovelies came to the Sig Eps’ rescue last Sunday by cooking and serving the boys’ dinner. The Sig Eps lack a cook and were tired of burning the spam so the girls came through with a culinary master piece. Security Millie Stooke, states that she has a “Greek" that is safe from the en croachments of any other female operator on the campus. We'll bet he runs a restaurant. Southern Uncomfort Margaret Peppell, ADPi transfer from Va. wasn’t too impressed by (Please turn to page seven) To those whom we’ve pledged . .. WHITE SHIRTS . . . please make some ar rangement with me to pick them up by tomorrow. The wolves are breath ing down our necks, 5111 d we’ll have to give in by Thursday. ^ UNIVERSITY SPORT SHOP "BILL” ROHLFFS