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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 18, 1947)
Oregon W Emerald MARGUERITE WITTWER-WRIGHT Editor GEORGE PEGG Business Managei TED GOODWIN, BOB FRAZIER Associates to Editor JEANNE SIMMONDS Managing Editor miii. i Aiao News Editor ' BERNIE HAMMERBECK Sports Editor DON FAIR, WALLY HUNTER Assistant Sports Editors _ walt McKinney Assistant Managing Editor BOBOLEE BKOPHY and JUNE GOETZE Assistant News Editors BARBARA TWIFORD Advertising Manager PHYLLIS KOHLMEIER Executive Secretary ■ Til ._I_ Jl/UII junto, » “"‘“O' - - REPORTERS . „ , T „ ,, Beth Basler, Bettye Joe Bledsoe, Diana Dye, Ruth Eades, A1 En?!lsJVJl”!![a¥Jfi|1EHa?lan Virginia Fletcher. Joanne Frydenlund, Chuck de Ganahl, Laverne Gunderson, Dale Harlan Donia KletSS? Janice Kent, Pat King, Phyllis Kohlmeier, Betty i^agomarsino, Jun McConnell, Barbara Murphy, Laura Olson, Carol Jo Parker, Nancy Peterson, Helen Sher man, Virginia Thompson, Jim Wallace, Sally Waller._____ ___ MEMBER — ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS ASSOCIATED PRESS WIRE SERVICE_ Signed editorial features and columns In the Emerald reflect,the opinion*. oiI the writers They do not necessarily represent the opinion of the editorial staff, the student body, UmVeEnte’red as second class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon.___ No Sausagehead He.. , Whenever anyone in irritation screams to another, "Whj you unprintable word sausagehead!,” he is doing a flagrant in justice to the sausage. For indeed the sausage is a creation o distinction. The history of the sausage trails back into antiquity. Ar Aristophanes drama of 423 B.C. vintage contains a chaiactei who growls, “Let them make sausages of me and serve me iq lo the students.” Charles Lamb extolled the sausage ‘ as tht savoriest part ... of the, entertainment . . at the annual feasl of chimney sweepers . . . held in Smithfield, upon the yearly return of the fair of St. Bartholomew.” The form of the sausage is tailored to its function with s simplicity that denotes a work of art. How clean and devoid of unnecessary bulges are its lines. How purposeful is its cas ing. How suited to the mechanics of eating—biting off anc phewing—is its overall shape. The popularity of the sausage is both eminent and unques tioned. .Sausage production has mounted steadily. Even as fai back at 20 years ago figures showed the federally-inspected TU. S. output to be 779,983,976 pounds, which is a lot of sausage Smothered with mustard and surrounded by a bun, the sausagt becomes a hot dog. And no American will deny that it is a deli cacy fit for the most memorable of occasions, for example spring picnics on the McKenzie s banks, 1 hursday night din ners, and—baseball openers. Today Oregon’s baseball team opens on Howe field against Idaho. Ceremony will abound. Harry K. “Lefty Newburn will burn the first hall over, with Orlando J. “The Jolly Dean Hollis stopping and Mayor of Eugene Earl McNutt swinging Prizes will be given to a series of “firsts”. Alas, but throughout it all nothing will be accorded the sau sage save the abuse of many grinding teeth. So it is suggested that during the seventh-inning stretch, spectators bow theii beads in a moment of silence honoring the sausage, and thal genius of long ago who conceived of and created the sausage —J. K. K. Oregon Going to the Dogs ? All this hue and cry about Snowbelle marring the traditional dignity and solemnity of Junior Weekend sounds a little hollow. Whatever dignity the election of the queen and hei court this year would have had was shot to pieces by the un precedented rally-rally tone of the campaigning. What is so majestic about a would-be “queen” hot-rodding around the campus on the back of a convertible, her name blared from loudspeakers and plastered to the very trees undei yvhose shade the traditional coronation ceremony takes place? What is so regal about campus politics entering an electior supposedly based on beauty, gracious charm, and the statel) bearing of make-believe royalty. And here is the paradox. Since when are Junior Weekenc festivities so exalted that the presence of a rather reserved am dignified St. Bernard dog would spoil the atmosphere? Is the hacking of tradition offenders dignified? Is the dunking o coed offenders in the law school dignified? The dunkings w< have witnessed have all been far from grave and sedate; nc coed can look remote and sophisticated with wet hair dangling in her face. Let’s be realistic. Whatever dignity can be scraped up foi Junior Weekend is just a mock, make-believe, skin-deep affair Like a Gay Nineties costume, it will add to the moment—brief inconsequential, soon put away for the natural every-day (anc sincere) collegiate spirit. Before Snowbelle even entered the picture, whatever fakt (dignity this Junior Weekend had was lost. Let there be m frantic scrambling now to restore the mask. Let us be honest. Junior Weekend has received more public ' interest and more state-wide publicity through radio, press, and the wire services because Snowbelle pulled more votes than six women . . . more than if the Weekend committee had solemnly announced that the queen and her court would pei forrn a dignified can-can. In fact, the discovery of a new vitamin ■ by Professor Longhair probably would have caused less com ment and interest than the fact that Snowbelle has three or four shades of hair. If subsequent Junior Weekends are to be dignified, let the queens be chosen for beauty and charm alone, regardless of their political affiliations or their campaign posters or anything else. Let them be chosen by a committee of impartial judges with an eye for feminine loveliness or let them be presented in person to the student body at an assembly before the elections take place. But this year the die is cast. Let the Gay Nineties be gay and informal and undignified and happy. . . . Someone should ; give that dog a Snowbelle prize. Graduate * * * Transcripts GRADUATE FUNDS One of the greatest difficulties confronting the Graduate Student organization is a lack of funds. Ru mor has i't that funds are made . available to other classes for such activities as Junior Weekend or the Sophomore Whiskerino or the Sen ior Ball. Coupled with this is the far more extensive use of under graduates of the privileges granted with the use of ASUO cards. Attendance at basketball games, use of the gymnasiums, or seeing the plays at the University theater are not generally part of the gradu ate student’s curriculum. This is not to suggest that these University traditions should be discontinued. Far from it! However, would it not be possible to allot the graduates—either from the budget of the graduate school or from the ASUO funds—a sum which would permit them to carry on some activities of particular in terest to them ? This would supply the graduates with funds for the publication of a graduate quarterly bulletin. It would give them a back log for obtaining speakers; it might even afford some form of so cial activity for them as a class group. Let’s start a campaign for grad uate funds to alleviate this need. Frosh Glee Chairmen All committe chairmen for the Frosh Glee are urged to attend a meeting today at 4 p.m. in' 104 Jounrnalism. V_>/ 3 i«0,,t : raiiimiMii BETTY HUTTON SONNY TUFTS in "CROSS MY HEART" and "WANTED FOR MURDER" Telling the Editor As one of the loyal supporters of Snowbelle I protest her disqualifi cation and demand a recount for the satisfaction of her entourage. She most certainly has the required number of hours in her major, Dog ology, to be eligible for the dubious honor of queen. The response to her candidacy was spontaneous. The Independen dents flocked to the standard of this “campus cutie” in spite of her being a Greek. Her friendliness was boundless ,and frosh as well as up perclassmen were recipients of her democratic expressions. Snowbelle would have been a great queen acceptable to all. I ven ture to say that she is probably the only female on the campus that is loved by everyone. Regardless of the outcome of a recount I will al ways consider the reigning queen as an usurper. Ave Regina Snowbelle! We wus robbed! R.C. 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