MARGUERITE WITTWER-WRIOHT
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Entered as second class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon.
No Encore, Please
The tempo of events is increasing already. If the rapid-fire
decisions of Dr. Newburn on the athletic board’s resignation
and the release of that information is any indication of future
action there is cause for hope.
The very nature of their organization means that boards are
slow-moving and cumbersome. Generally the only purpose they
serve is to approve the proposals made by their chairman or
some other executive whom they serve.
The neat and tactful liquidation of the athletic board should
indicate that a recommending body of this type is no longer
necessary in our present set-up. We respectfully suggest that
Dr. Newburn would only be inviting an encore of the recent
upheavals if a new board was appointed to advise the presi
dent. Inevitably, students and alumni will insist that they have
a “right” to make their wishes known concerning the Univer
sity’s athletic policies. In recognition of this justifiable claim,
it would be wise to appoint a student, an alumnus, and a faculty
member as ex-officio advisors to the new director.
If Oregon’s new athletic director moves as swiftly as Dr.
Newburn has in the past two days, chances are the whole situ
ation will improve. Dr. Newburn should be commended for
his official release of the Board’s resignations at a press con
ference Wednesday. This action certainly dispelled any fur
ther public speculation and suspicion.
Eyes East!
U. S. Foreign policy emphasis shifted from the West to the
East with the announcement Tuesday of the choice of former
General of the Armies George Marshall to replace Jimmy Byrnes
•as head of the State department.
Whether or not this will mean that there is to be further
shakeups in the State department remains—probably a process
of evolution. While conjectures bounce from side to side on the
course of U. S. foreign policy under the directorship of Marshall,
one thing seems certain. The State department will be run
much more efficiently under the capable capable generalship of
Secretary Marshall. There has been constant criticism of the
State department under Byrnes for its inconsistency. Especially
has this been so as regards the far cast and more especially
China. Now Marshall, with the experience of close contact
with the China scene, should have the remedy for some of
China’s ills.
Marshall has been more than an ambassador to China and
the Kai-shek government, lie has also been in the position
of arbitrator between the Kuomintang party government on one
side and the Communists on the other. Especially on the latter
has a consistent policv been desired. Marshall has felt that
there should be some middle-of-the-road policy within China
itself to bring the two opposing forces to conciliation. The next
twelve months should prove vital to Chinese solidarity. On
fanuarv 1 the new constitution was adopted. By Christmas day
this year it will go into effect.
Marshall moves up to the crown prince position in the gov
ernment. and China moves into \the limelight as Number One
importance on the foreign policy bucket.
"While listening to the symphony the other evening. Herb
jjlatz of Northwestern was disgusted with the static caused
bv a razor next door. When a hut-mate asked which selection
was playing. Blatz snapped, "Razor Concerto by Schick.
All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of
minorities of one.
■—Emerson.
Deplorable Delay
Regular readers of these columns have doubtless realized
by this time that the Emerald is not sold on Grades—with a
capital "G’\ that is. There would be a feeling of real achieve
ment around the Shack if students suddenly ceased to care
about their grades and became interested, rather, in what they
learned from each course—what they got out of!it. Gayer yet
would be the day when the faculty and administration took a
corresponding attitude, and began throwing people out of school
because they weren’t learning anything, instead of because their
grades were not up to a certain standard.
But there is no denying that this dream condition will re
main a dream condition for many moons. The accent today
is definitely on grades, and we may as well face it. But how
about those grades?
Tomorrow, three weeks after exam week, students can trudge
up to the Igloo and learn their grades. Time was that fall term
marks were mailed to the student’s home, arriving between
Christmas and New Years. Increased enrollment has made this
less feasible.
Many students already know their grades. They were an
xious, and with the accent still on grades, there is little wonder.
They went from department to department, asking their profes
sors or the departmental secretaries. Other students don t
have their grades, because the departments or professors would
n’t give them out early, because the professor forgot his grade
book, or because the students couldn’t run down the right man.
If it is really impossible for the university to pass out grades
before the beginning of the new'term, we recommend that sorne^
channel be set up whereby all students can learn them quickly
and easily by going to the departments. Posting of a list on
departmental bulletin boards might cause some embarrassment,
although grades above “C” could be published decently enough.
If we must have grades, and it seems patent that we must,
then let's have ’em, and have ’em as soon as possible.
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds, and the holiday
of fools. -—Lord Chesterfield.
The modern girl adores spinning wheels, but she wants four
of them and a spare.
God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists
more truly than Pie is imagined. St. Augustine.
Telling the Editor
About Marty Pond
I am writing you so that the Ore
gon student body and faculty may
be kept informed of the present po
litical situation at this University.
This may be considered as a news
story in advance. Here it is:
Marty Pond, vice-president of
Druids, junior men’s honorary, and
newly appointed Dads’ Day chair
man, will be president of the ASUO
for the 1947-48 school year, accord
ing to the decision of political “lead
ers” on this campus. The student
body was not consulted in making
the decision.
Pond was given the nod for the
post during the last school year, but
he received his largest boost from
“the boys” Tuesday when he re
ceived his appointment as Dads’
Day chairman. This grooming
however, is somewhat off schedule,
as it was originally intended that he
should hold down the 1946 Home
coming chairman post. These plans
were jogged off the track by the in
dependent attitude which ASUO
President Tom Kay formerly pos
sessed when dealing with campus
politics.
Kay, however, has now lost his
independence, as evidenced Tuesday
when Dave Fortmiller, staunch
Greek, was appointed to replace Ted
Hallock, resigned Independent, as
secretary-treasurer of the ASUO.
Hallock resigned because of other
outside activities and apathy on the
part of the Independent party.
This apathy was shown at the
Tuesday meeting of the executive
committee when Fortmiller and
Pond were recommended by Kay
for their new posts and no Indepen
dent members of the committee pre- 1
sented other names. Pond's election
when he is nominated by the Greek
party spring term is assured be
cause of this Independent apathy. I
Fortmiller’s appointment presents
the University with an all-Greek
body of ASUO officers.
Herb Penny
About Athletics
I have been alarmed by the news
paper reports of the resignation of
the athletic board. Especially when
I read “Greg’s opinion that this
would permit greater alumni voice
in Oregon athletics. If the state leg
islature had not passed a law that
enabled the school to make an ath
letic fee compulsory this move of
the athletic board would not be so
startling. But since this fee has been
made compulsory, student partici
pation in the control of athletics
has become mandatory. The end of
this student voice brings back im
mediately the cause of the American
Revolution, “Taxation Without Rep
resentation.”
I am extremely alarmed by such
a course. It would mean that great
gains brought to athletics on the
campus by efforts of the board in
the past decade could be obliterat
ed and financial chaos would again
reign. .
When the present athletic board
took over,, our athletic funds were
in the red to the extent of thirty
thousand dollars. In the decade
since then they have removed the
deficit and put aside a small reserve
of one hundred thousand dollars.
This has been accompanied by a
new grandstand section, field lights,
a substantial turf field, and a grass
practice field. If the board does re
sign, this alone will stand as a fine
lasting tribute to their conscientious
effort.
There has been much talk of re
placing the athletic board with a
director of athletics. I think we
should have a director of athletics.
He should- work with the athletic
board, not replace them. He should
be a voting member of the board
and represent the school adminis
tration and faculty on a board made
up of students and alumni in pro
portion to their support.
Fred Samain
SIDE PATTER
BOB WHITELY
From the looks of tlje various
publications up and down the coa^fk
the administration is playing thi
old W. C. Fields shell game when
it comes to Oregon’s athletic
mumbo-jumbo. Somebody has the
pea in their fingers, as the shells
are obviously empty,. The habitu
ees of Marcus Winkjer’swine cel
lar are booming. Kil^gy for coach.
For further news watch the AP
UP wire releases. Here’s the lat
est SOP on the gal gets'boy situ
ation: Larry Lau, who was busily
scrubbing his tub last term,‘could
n’t stand it any longer; and hung I
his Phi Psi book end on one of the
cutest girls in Hendnclcs Hall,
Joan Lochead. After beating his
brains out writing about other,
nose rubbers all fall term, Lau has
lept. The price of hard coal is
going up when the Theta house
announced that Barbara Patterson
got a piece of that hard stuff .
in a ring from Phi Delt Don Mac
Collum. Another engagement seeps
out of the Chi O "house when Betty
Householder and Beta Paul Stamm
swear they can’t see anyone ^glse
in the room. If you read the Jour
nal, big headlines announced the
engagement of Pi Phi Kit Ritter
and Frank Rei. Back to the Pat
terson street gang, Bob Moran
and Pi Phi Gloria Montag are hud- I
dling over marriage signals. A ,
quick trip to the Emerald booby
hatch finds Gloria “Dinky” Smith
sporting a sparkler from Jack
“Cyclops” Billings. Not to be out- I
done, the Pi Phi’s bounced back in j
the win column when • Mary Lou ;
j Welsh filed honorable intentions !
with a Spee from Corn Valley. The
price of pie is going up also, as the
other half of the Hick’s combina
tion, Janet, has additional weight
to carry around as Ted Griswald
planted his Phi Delt pin giving
both twins a 1.000 batting average.
To top off all this engagement
poop, Chi O Janet Fitzmaurice and
Beta Hal Fredericks were married
Saturday. Congrats to you both.
Speaking of the ovendoor men,
Ceorge Alexanders fjeta pin has
taken off for warmer climes. I
guess it is warmer at Stanford at
that. In a beyootiful candTSfE
ceremony, Alpha Phi’s Aldine Mc
Nott and Molly Clair had to chop
their men out of the Phi Psi box.
.... not to be confused with “T”.
j The Fee’s tallied two points when
Cliff Wilcox and Glenn Kennedy
were dumped on the Fee lawn and
the gals had to crowbar ’em out,
for the double feature of the week. ^
The jolly Taus finally got their I
jhead out when Jim Morrell hung p
Ibis cross on the Chi OH’s “Beauti- |
ful Beast.” Mickey Bropliy jour
'neyed to Corn Valley to put a big ’
hole in Pi Phi’s Ketha Rendahl’s
] cashmere. The Pi Phi’s have had.,
!a field day this vacation, but even
! the pigeons were scared off the
roof last night when Dorothy Da
vis announced her engagement to
“The Beak” Burnett. All they've
been doing over there is eating
cookies and pie. The ring ching
girls might as well have a “closed
shop” sign over their door as "‘ft
out of 53 are all sewed up. Smooth
two .... “the ears” and Neet
Young. Remember Oregon Satur
day night .... KOAC .... re
member the Side . . . always.
Pd. Adv.