Brecon® Emerald MARGUERITE WITTWER-WRIGHT Editor GEORGE PEGG Business Manager JACK L. BILLINGS Managing Editor HERB PENNY News Editor BOB FRAZIER, MARILYN SAGE Associate Editors MARYANN THIELEN and WALT McKINNEY Assistant Managing Editors BOBOLEE BROPHY and BRUCE BISHOP Assistant News Editors JEANNE SIMMONDS Women’s Editor PAT THOMPSON Executive Secretary JUNE dOETZE Assistant Women’s Editor BOBBIE FULMER Advertising Manager BERNIE HAMMERBECK Sports Editor BIT,!. STRATTON, WALLY HUNTER Assistant Sports Editors ROGER TETLOW DON JONES Chief Night Editor Staff Photographer Faculty Adviser—Dean George Turnbull Signed editorial features and columns in the Emerald reflect the opin ions of the writers. They do not necessarily represent the opinion of the ■sditorial staff, the student body, or the University. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. Beds for the Eds The advent of the annual high school press conference pre sents a housing problem of no small magnitude. Scheduled for Friday and Saturday. Dec. 6 and 7, the conference is expected to summon approximately 150 prep school editors to the Ldi versity—all of whom must be roofed and bedded within the confines of the campus. With the housing situation what it is, the problem of pro viding for conference attendees lies with the living organiza tions. Since the dormitory accommodations are already stretched to the breaking point, fraternities, sororities and co operative organizations are requested to delegate extra beds to the visiting editors. Members of l heta Sigma Phi and Sigma Delta Chi, journalism honoraries, working with Bud Jer xnain, chairman of the arrangements committee for the con ference, will undertake the task of securing this delegation. The objective is five conference guests to each house, for which the organization will receive $1.50 per person, since breakfasts, as well as beds, must be provided for the delegates. The high school editors, on the whole will be looking the University face to face for the first time—and will draw con clusions as a result. Co-operation of the living organizations in providing housing will contribute to the success of their impression, as well as to the consummation of an efficiently oi ganized press conference. The Coffee Song Here it is again—the coffee song, only this hasn’t much re lation to the amount of java in Brazil. It seems there is a rumor prevalent on the campus that one of the local restaurants has asked other campus eating places to standardize their prices, particularly on coffee, and their policy toward employees. It’s the old question of five-cent coffee or ten-cent coffee, with or without the “free” doughnut. The Emerald's rumor squad chased down the managers of several of the smaller cafes patronized by students. All of these men gave the same answers: We have not been contacted by any other restaurant owners concerning our prices or our policy toward em ployees. If we are contacted, we will continue to run our business as we see fit; we set our own prices and standards. In effect their attitude is, “No one (except the OPA) can tell us how to run our business.” Well, that’s great; Speaking for the students who kick in the nickels and dimes for coffee every day, the Emerald hopes these cafes will continue their policy. We believe that a stan dardization of prices on food in campus restaurants would be letrimental to business for the smaller cafes, would definitely ; urt the average collegian’s budget (especially the $65 per month veterans), and would help only the large long-established restaurants. .... It was only a rumor, anyway. Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds, and the holiday