Oregon W Emerald MARGUERITE WITTWER-WRIGHT Editor GEORGE PEGG Business Manager TED GOODWIN, BOB FRAZIER. Associates to Editor BILL STRATTON Managing Editor BILL YATES News Editor BERNIE HAMMERBECK Sports Editor DON FAIR, WALLY HUNTER Assistant Sports Editors WALT McKINNEY Assistant Managing Editors BOBOLEE BROPIIY and JUNE GOETZE Assistant News Editors JEANNE S1MMONDS Feature Editor DOUG EDEN Advertising Manager DON TONES Staff Photographer REPORTERS . ^ . _ , Beth Basler, Leonard Bergstrom, Bettye Jo Bledsoe, Hugh Davies, Diana Dye, Ruth Lades, Virginia Fletcher, Lejeune Griffith, John Jensen, Donna Kletzing, Dick Laird, June Mc Connell, Kathleen. Mullarky, Barbara Murphy, Laura Olson, Joan O Neill, Nancy Peterson, Marjorie Ram bo, Katherine Richardson, Adelaide Schopler, Helen Sherman, Jackie letz, Gloria Talaric®, Sally Waller, Hans Wold, Phyllis Kohlmeier. MEMBER —ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS ASSOCIATED PRESS WIRE SERVICE Signed editorial 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 body, or the University. ^ _ Entered as second class matter at the postomce, Eugene, Oregon. It Can Work-'lf Oregon students have long considered registration, when they considered it at all, with a sort of resigned complacency as a distasteful undertaking to be worried about on registra tion day. There would be the long-suffering faculty advisers who would attempt in a few minutes to do the thinking for the student that he should have been doing occasionally during the previous term. There would'be the bottlenecks, lines, and by 10 a. m., an empty coke machine to worry about. This week there is a proposed plan in the hands of the deans and heads of departments that, with a little thought and cooperation on the part of the faculty and students, can solve the difficulties encountered in Winter term pre-registra tion and the bottlenecks that had become honored traditions in years past. The plan has one feature that might be called a drawback. It would require the individual student to take the responsi bility for his own registration. Last term there were two sets of gripes. The faculty, already busy with oversized classes in the final stretch of the term, had to find time to sign adviser’s signatures on every study program. The students, looking at life through their GPA, didn’t like registering in the dark. The proposed plan contemplates: 1. Leaving advisors free to serve those who really need or want advice by recinding the now required formality of the faculty signature on all study programs. 2. Requiring the student to consider his courses with judgment and to assume the responsibility for his choice. 3. Setting up two trips to register, one. for pre-registration, the second for final registration. The two trip schedule would take care of payment of fees and housing checks during the pre-registration period. The second trip on the scheduled day (March 31), would include'picking up grades, making a final inspection of study program with previous grades in hand, dropping class cards and registration material to seal the bargain. The Emerald will discuss various phases of this plan at greater length in an early issue. Transformation Marian Anderson sang in McArthur court last night and the profound beauty of her singing and the simple aloof dig nits of her person transformed the hostile building and the commonplace audience. The Igloo with its bine and ocher beams is an uninspiring concert hall even in the darkness. And the unsympathetic acoustics are enough to discourage any listeners. Itul who noticed the physical aspects of the court while the low mellow voice of the tall brown woman filled their hearts? McArthur court became Carnegie hall or the Holly wood bowl .... And the audience was made up of student# and towns people, ordinarv human beings insecure in a dynamic world, worried about personal affairs, unhappy with themselves, malicious to their neighbors, jealous of each other, intolerant, domineering, petty. Hut who could think about his little ego while listening to the music of the spheres? W ho could think of today and vesterdav while burning candles before the altar of beauty? So it must he. The drabness of our surroundings, the drab ness within, ourselves can only be forgotten by the realiza tion of things eternal. . . . the book of lau By LARRY LAU Against the glare of the head lights the rain looked like white pencil dashes on black paper . . . the streets were deserted, a light hanging from an overhead pole swung crazily . . . the girl stirred restlessly, 'Tve got to be in by one,” she murmured ... (I wonder if he really loves me . . . hope this isn’t just another line . . .) The boy looked straight ahead, a slight frown on his forehead . . . he felt strangely old ... a vague sense of guilt seemed to smother him ... his hand fumbled with the dashboard . . . the rain that had been so vividly before them disap peared and became part of the night ... "I wish neither of us ever had to get back,” he said earnestly. . . . (Why’n hell did I ever get into this mess . . . she’ll expect me to take her to the dance now ... nuts!) She turned to look out the win dow . . . the wind was coming in spurts . . . around corners, over the top of the building . . . tunneling down from an inky sky with vehe ment swiftness . . . bushes bowed and weaved to escape . . . for a few scattered moments, they stood straight, trembling defiance . . . “Do you t,hink we’ve done the right thing?” she asked . . . her hands played nervously with the large wooden buttons on her sweater . . . he seems different now, so quiet . . . I wish he’d kiss me . . . wait until I see my roommate!) The boy lit a cigarette, inhaled deeply and admired the stream of smoke ... he put his arm around the girl ... he felt a brief wave of compassion . . . “Will you go to the dance with me ?” he inquired huski ly ... he felt her hand pinch his shoulder tightly ... he knew, before he heard her answer ... I love you,” he whispered . . . (wish I’d have gone with the boys to slop up some brew . . . whatta’ dryball!) She shrugged into her coat . . . her hand caught the door handle re luctantly ... the lights on the porch flicked on and off . . . out of the shadows embracing couples broke apart . . . boys tugged at their ties and resumed as much dignity as was possible . . . girls re-applied lip stick and managed to look exasper atingly fresh, and unnaturally in nocent . . . they kissed . . . hard . . . and long . . . “We're the kind of peo ple that ought to get married,” he said . . his hand fondled the back of her neck . . . (hope- she doesn’t get any lipstick on my coat.) “Careful of what you say,” she laughed, “I might take you up on that . . . (the guy must be joking . . . get married with two years of college left . . . whatta’ dope!) “I just dare you,” he said serious ly .. . suddenly she was gone ... he heaved a great sight of relief . . . thank God it was over ... he won dered at himself . . . and her . . . I ! I SHAVES YOU for 3 months! cuAmniD ir THE MARLIN FIREARMS COMPANY file Cons Slice 1170 •i'tt'i’tttt'f'fffTTTTT'* Telling the Editor •rTTTTTTTTX'I"*"* -» - ABOUT VET GRADES ( The editorial in the Emerald’s January 29 issue entitled “Solve tor Value of ‘C’ ” created considerable discussion among some veterans. I hope that whoever wrote the article will not be offended by this reply, as it is not meant to be of a corrective nature. It is rather, of an explana tory nature. Those of us who dis cussed the article agree with the author that a GPA may prove a variety of things ... but seldom a measure of a person’s education. We do not feel that the author in tended to slander the vet when he or she stated that apparently the “fresh-out-of-high-school women were better educated than the world traveled vet,” but I would like to attempt an answer of the question, “What Happened” to the lid that failed to blow off the grade system ? Because the vet has seen Italy and the rest of Europe, the South Pacif ic, Orient and some of the so-called “hell-holes” of this country, does not necessarily mean that he should return to school and show “excep tional accomplishment” (an A grade) in English literature, eco nomics, or philosophy. The truth is, that the young student just out of high school, who hasn’t had the opportunity to forget his mathe matics, history, and English gram mar rules, should be able to do as well if not better than the mature vet. The additional knowledge which everyone seems to believe every vet possesses is not in a form or nature that can be measured by a GPA. If the not too idealistic dream of world peace is ever realized, I think it will be due largely to the efforts of conscientious young vets, who saw first-hand the racial, religious, and political persecutions and hardships faced by people not only in other parts of the world, but in this coun try as well. These men have earned the right to world peace and have seen what lacks in fulfilling this great promise. It is knowledge of this type that is alive in the minds of all conscientious vets. This is the,^ additional knowledge of the vet that can’t be measured by a GPA or compared to that of “fresh-out-of high-school women.” Once again I wish to ask the au thor not to take this letter as an offense. Perhaps I misunderstood the author’s article and if that is the case, he has my apologies. It is just that some vets do not care to have their knowledge evaluated by an inaccurate GPA comparison. . . . Walter Freauff Have You Joined? Today climaxes the campus March of Dimes drive. Have you joined? Give your dimes and dol lars today. Campbell Co-op is named for P. L. Campbell, former University president. FOR YOUR HOUSE DANCE Rent A P A System Record Player SMEED SOUND SERVICE G. H. Smeed Phone 4402-M FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Bdwy. at High Dr. V. 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