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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 4, 1947)
Emerald MARGUERITE WITT WER-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 BROPHY and JUNE GOETZE Assistant News Editors JEANNE S1MMONDS Literator Editor BARBARA TWIFORD Advertising Manager Don Jones, »tan rnoiograpuci _ REPORTERS . . Beth Basler, Leonard Bergstrom, Bettye Jo Bledsoe, Hugh Davies, Biana Dye, Ruth Eades, Virginia Fletcher, Lejeune Griffith, John Jensen, Donna Kletzing, Dick Laird, June Mc Connell, Kathleen Mullarky, Barbara Murphy, Laura Olson, Joan O Neill, Nancy £*terson, Marjorie Rambo, Katherine Richardson, Adelaide Schooler, Helen Sherman, Jackie letz, Gloria Talarico, Sally Waller, Hans Wold, Phyllis Kohlrocier._ " MEMBER — ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS ASSOCIATED PRESS WIRE SERVICE _ Signed editorial features and columns in the Emerald reflect the opinions of the wnters. They do not necessarily represent the opinion of the editorial staff, the student body, or the Entered as second class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon._ New Mortar Boards The chattering, laughing crowd of students, parents, and visitors picnicing on the old campus lawn is suddenly quiet, filing through the spectators are the black robed members of Mortar Board, red roses in their hands. Tapping of new mem bers at the junior Weekend picnic is a solemn ceremony, broken here and there by the wild cheers of members of a liv ing organization when one of their women is given a lose, sig pitying membership. It is a happy occasion for those junior women who have received the highest honor as a recognition of their outstanding leadership, scholarship, and service to the University. But it may also bring deep disappointment and disillusionment to those few women who are in every way qualified for membership in Mortar Board, but who somehow missed The List. In the the very near future presidents of women’s organi zations and head of all-campus activities will be asked to submit to the campus chapter of Mortar Board their list of junior women who, in their estimation, are worthy of mem bership in the senior women’s honorary. Mortar Board mem hers will compile a composite list which will he sent to lacuity members in each department for suggestions and opinions about the women mentioned. The registrar’s office will ascer tain the grade point average of each prospective member; the minimum requirement is a 2.75 GPA. Finally, this year's Mortar Boards, with their advisors, Miss Leona Tyler and Dick Williams, will elect the Mortal Board for 1947-48. It is of great importance to Mortar Board and to the Uni versity that no worthy student is missed by oversight or negli gence. If Mortar Board is to maintain its reputation as a service honorary, the chapter must include a large enough number of women to make fairly extensive service projects feasible. And any woman who deserves membership in Mortar Board but is missed lessens the effectiveness of the honorary. This means that any junior women who have served the school failhfullv and well, who have shown leadership ability, and whose scholarship record is well above the average, should be tapped for Mortar Board—whether or not she actually has been elected president of the Amateur Basketweavers club or head of the Tree Pruning comfnittce. A closely-knit group of really outstanding women, sincerely devoted to the interests of the University, and willing to work on its behalf could do much next year. Recognizing the need for such a group of Mortar Boards, we urge everyone re sponsible for submitting names to consider the matter seri ously. The Washington Slate Kvergreen says that the next time your professor mentions how busy he is, remind him of tliT1 duties of a schoolteacher in 1661. At that time they acted as court messengers, served summons, conducted ceremonial services of the church, lead the Sunday choir, rang the bell for public worship, dug the graves, took charge of the school and performed numerous other occasional duties. And not only tjiat, but Adam Roelandson, one of the first schoolteachers in the colonies, took in washing on the side. Porter R. Baiun, 54-year-old junior in the College of Agri chlture at Louisiana State gets up at 4 a. m. and bicycles 50 ttjiiles to class every day. . . . Our own Professor Warren C. •Price manages to peddle five miles to school, which, we still think, is doing pretty well. 5 __ The witch hunt is on. One professor cautioned students W ednesday to look under their chairs for any stray commun ilts lurking in the classrooms. BOX EPisSHLa® ■» By ROY FRANCIS “‘What’s in a name?’ they ask us,” a bleary-eyed gentleman who appeared to be mightily weary was talking, “and ‘A rose by any name would be as sweet,” they say. That might be true of roses (though we must admit that often the name is its only selling point); but for man—? Aye! There’s the crux to man’s personality. 'What's in a name ?’ they ask us. ‘Why only,’ we reply, ‘the making of the man.’ ” He paused long enough to note a cer tain degree of attention on my part, and then continued. “Your college has a course on marriage and the family; a depart ment of home economics; and vari ous courses in child and adolescent psychology. But they offer no ad vice, no caution in the most im portant event in a man’s life—his becoming tagged and labeled, or, what is technically known as being christened. “Supposing you and I," he went on, waving a long hairy arm in the immediate vicinity, of my face, “were to call on a man who is an utter stranger to you, one Elmer Fudd. Without previous acquain tance you could describe him accur ately enough to secure a conviction on a murder charge; you would be able to anticipate’his actions, tastes, and remarks simply because an El mer Fudd is only and eternally CLASSIFIED WILL sell complete set of law en cyclopedias, 43 volumes; to gether with textbooks and bar review material. Phone 1414-M. RETURN Blue Ski Jacket and Glasses to Kampus Barbers, picked up March 17 by mistake, claim yours. FOR SALE: 1934 Ford Coupe, good condition, $300.00. Contact Glenn Wilson, 2898. MISS REYNOLDS will type your term papers for you at reason able rate. Call at 302 Tiffany Bldg, or phone 2763. WILL exchange about June 1, un furnished 1 bedroom apartment in Portland for a furnished 2 bedroom apartment, duplex or house in Eugene. Write Jack McKee, 3615 S. E. Hawthorne, Portland. LOST — Golden colored cocker spaniel. Nine minths old, male, no collar, gone since Monday evening. 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He would acquire an ‘Elmer-complex,’ or, rather, an ‘Elmer Frame of Reference.’ His role in society would be that of an Elmer and all expected of one; and his status would depend on how well he lived up to that name. Even tually his behavior patterns would be so habitual, his frame of refer ence so fixed that he would irrevo cably be nothing more than an El mer Fudd.” My informant paused long enough to converse slightly with the burly waiter who was menacing him with gutteral questions. “Sure I’ll have more of the same,” my man snapped, “and stop calling me ‘Hypo’.” Moral: Call others no names un til thine own back hath ceased to itch. It has been said that people dis appear for weeks at a time in the stacks at the libe. Graduate - Transcripts Well, the search for classes is over for another term. Many stu dents no doubt feel that they have been robbed of a part of their edu cation because so many professors and classes hung out the “no space” sign early in registration. Granted that the war has crowded all the in stitutions, still it seems an unnec essary loss that students must go without some individual instruc from their professors. This is especially true in the upper division courses. There, where the student has more chance to cut his course down to the specialized fields, where he most needs individual in struction, he is faced with a lack - of professors which makes for con tinued large classes. True, those available are doing everything in their power to help in the struggle to attain some measure of private discussion. Not every student that stays to speak to his teacher is an apple-polisher. Many problems or prejudices can be smoothed away only by discussion and evaluation of facts under the guiding hand of specialists in that field. Learning in the old days was a matter of a few gathering around the teacher in a bull-session fash ion. At the college level this can be obtained only after that student has become a graduate. He may then join a seminar and with five to ten of his fellow students achieve some measure of individual coaching but here again there is a shocking de ficiency. Interdepartmental semin ars are non-existent at the Univer sity, yet everyone admits the inter relationship of geography to his tory, political science and econom ics, geology and geopolitics, etc. In deed some departments offer no ^ seminars for their graduates and requirements must be met by cours es from another department. Let us hope that future efforts of the legislators will be toward less restriction in financing the institu tions of higher learning rather than toward more restriction upon free dom of speech and thought. ■ / EYE-CATCHING COTTONS Cotton beauties in a har vest of rich colors, styles, patterns! ^ ell tailored for street wear; guaran m tecd washable. Sizes from 9-15,12-44. DRESSES . . . MEZZANINE __• _- « 'm H ~