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* ~ —____ ______ Oregon W Emerald MARGUERITE WITTWER-WRIGHT Ed.tor GEORGE PEGG Business Manager " TED GOODWIN, BOB FRAZIER Associates to Editor____ JEANNE SIMMONDS Managing Editor BILL YAlLa News Editor BERNIE HAMMERBECK Sports Editor DON FAIR, WALLY HUNTER Assistant Snorts Editors WALT McKINNEY Assistant Managing Editor BOBOLEE BROPHY and JUNE GOETZE Accictont Mpws F.flitors BARBARA TWIFORD Advertising Manager PHYLLIS KOHLMEIER Executive Secretary Don Jones, Stall Pttotograpner__ _ " reporters man, Virginia Thompson, Jim Wallace, Sally Waller.-___- - ^"SocAgE'ifV'gg^R.^fcl''^5_ „„ K 222,'r^s? ttss ^ssisrs«=ra::?'s Unive™t_e^ 8tconj class matter at the postoffice. Eugene, Oregon.__ Multi-Feature Preview From where we sit plans for the AWS “Preview week end,” at which outstanding high school seniors get a look at the University campus, look good, although there are a few jokers in the deck. We gather that this one big weekend will be the first and last weekend in which “spring rushing” will be allowed. 1 hat is probably more good than bad. We know the high school administrations around the state will look favorably on this aspect of it. Long have they complained that frequent spring rushing was a deterrent to the student's senior year in high school. The idea was that the students, especially the gals, spent all their time treking up to the University (and to Ore gon State, Linfield, Willamette et al), and devoted so much time to borrowing clothes and learning to walk with books atop their heads, that they didn't get enough studying done. By the same token it followed that University students weren’t doing their best, what with weekends spent in showing prospective pledges what college life is like. On these two counts the weekend idea is good. It is good, too, in that one concentrated weekend, devoted to showing promising high school seniors what Oregon is like, can be highly effective. All efforts can be concentrated on this one big affair. But it is in this feature that we encounter the large beef. The girls are given too much to do. A glance at the schedule indicates that the girls are to have almost no time to them selves, and if they, relax they will be AWOL. It is doubtful that this* is putting our best foot forward if we show these girls a picture of University life which is regimented and packed with compulsory entertainment. Nonetheless the idea is good. We hear, via the grapevine, that obstacles may be so thrown up that a similar weekend next year may be impossible, or at least extremely difficult. The Emerald hopes the AWS will be able to overcome these obstacles, whatever their source, and make this thing an annual affair. Memorial to Erb The Class of '47 matriculated the year President Donald Erb died. It is the last class that heard his welcoming address, that knew his friendly interest. It is the class that will lye instrumental in insuring the success of the current drive to raise funds for the student union dedicated to his memory. * * * The suggestion from two art students that M. R. Sponen burgh of the hammer and chisel clan be commissioned to execute a work of sculpture for the campus seems to have taken hold. Many of the students who inspected the exhibit of Sponen burgh’s work in the Little Art C.allery have come away con vinced that the head of the sculpture department possesses the insight and ability to mold in stone a fitting monument to the University and the Spirit of Oregon. The Emerald suggests that of all the sites on the campus suitable for a piece of sculpture representative of this genera tion of students, the Erb Memorial student union is most ap propriate. Plans for the union include a large garden court - ^overlooked by the windows of the ballroom. Certainly, this would be the ideal location for a fountain or piece of sculpture honoring President Erb or the spirit of the University. * * * How appropriate it would be if the Class of '47 would launch the sculpture fund for the student union by contributing what ever balance remains in the class treasury at the end of this year! . ( Telling the Editor. ♦ ♦ About Princess Snowbelle’s Future The Junior Weekend committee feels that it is necessary to submit an explanation of its policy regarding the selection of the Junior Week end court, and especially the advent of Snowbelle into the picture. First; as to any question of the method of selection of the finalists. The finalists were chosen by an impartial committee composed of four faculty members, plus two members of the 1946 court. Second; the pre-election campaigning which took place had approval of the co-chairmen as well as all committee heads. The purpose of campaigning was to foster interest in the selection of the Queen and her court, as well as to arouse anticipation of the weekend. Third; the entrance of Snowbelle into the campaign was certainly welcomed by the members of the Junior Weekend staff. It added a great deal of spirit to the elections, and certainly resulted in large amount of favorable publicity in out-of-town newspapers. However, we feel that our future plans for Snowbelle are misunderstood, for we certainly plan more activity for her. We do feel though, that while Snowbelle should play a role that will be singular, the lead should be concentrated on the queen and her court. We personally are very proud of Queen Sue and her court. We are proud, as well, of Snowbelle, and feel that the queen, her court, and Snowbelle are excellent representatives of the University of Oregon and the 1947 Junior Weekend. Sincerely, Bobbe Fullmer Bob Daggett Co-chairmen Junior Weekend I 1 FOR BREAKFAST By POPS H INDI S By the time that most of you read this column, Ted Halloek’s band will have played the first of a two night engagement at Jantzen Beach, in Portland. This is the third time that the band has played up there, and they have a week’s stand there this summer. Yet the incongruous thing is that, though the band is billed as the band from the U. of O., they have not played an engage ment here for many moons, and it was not for lack of open dates, either. There seems to be a great unwillingness to recognize talent, even if it hits one in the head. It would be nice of the campus could hear this band, recognized as the finest band in the Northwest, be fore this summer; you would realize that you have been duped. The Mi ami Triad liked them, you know. Jazz Club On to a more controversial sub ject, if possible. Last term a club was formed on the campus, dedicat ed to the furthering of the cause of Le Jazz Hot. No, Senator Taft, this is not a front for a Communist organization, but it is based on a liberal policy. The only reactionar ies in this group, and similar ones throughout the country, are those who feel that the classic or New Or leans style is the only true form of jazz. This is as it should be, for jazz is the music of the Negro, basically, and by the gradual assimilation of the form and content of jazz by whites , a whole new policy was built up. Jazz should not, and does not recognize color lines. As in all art forms, it is the subject matter that counts, not the color of the skin of the creator. If this sounds radi cal, call the Dies committee, Jack, but check with what I’m puttin’ down, first. Next Meeting The jazz club, as I have said, was formed for the purpose of dissem inating what we feel is correct in formation on the subject. If you feel that we might be doing differently, why come on up and criticize. We feel that a person’s education is never done, as long as someone else has a constructive criticism to of fer. The club meets every alternate Wednesday, the next one being this coming Wednesday, at 7:00 at the Gerlinger sun porch, south side of Gerlinger hall. The subject to be covered is the period from 1942 to the present, in eluding all the forms of jazz being played today. That includes N. O., Chicago, New York, and Re-bop or the modern school. If you think Slimy Kaye or Guy Lombago play jazz, come up and be informed. If you think Re-bop is nowhere, come and tell us so, and likewise for N.O. But come up, next Wednesday night, 7:00, Gerlinger sun porch. In cidentally, I have been told that some faculty members like and col lect jazz, so please, Prof, come on up too. You might be educated to a new pattern of thought, hummm, hummm. Law School Honor Roll Names Fifteen Students Fifteen students have been named to the law school honor roll for win ter term. They are: Gerald J. Nor ville, William F. Bernard, Norman J. Wiener, Alva A. Granquist, La mar Tooze, William Ganong, Donald H. Coulter, William J. Moshofsky, Robert C. MacDonald, Clayton R. Hess, Ralph W. Johnson, James E. Schiller, Jenelyn W. Wessler, Wil liam D. Cramer, Henry L. Hess. The honor roll is based upon the cumulative grade point average covering all work done at the Uni versity of Oregon school of law and includes those students having a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher. ABOUT THAT DOG Because 203 citizens exercised a democratic right and elected Snow belle third for Junior Weekend court, we protest her treatment. The Junior Weekend commmi'ttee has bitten off its nose by presenting a trivial and flimsy excuse for not according Snowbelle her due posi tion, prestige, privileges, and pre rogatives. But since the committee has tak en this shabby, humorless, imagin ationless move, despite the fact that Snowbelle was elected—yes, duly and democratically elected by 203 certified votes—I propose the fol lowing action: 1. Let the committee convene, de liberate, and repent. 2. Let the committee endeavor to make amends to Snowbelle and to 203 saddened students. 3. Let the committee grant Snowbelle a new and honorary title, with commensurate prerogatives and position. 4. Let this title not be common place. Let it denote all the dignity, stateliness, splendor, nobility, illus triousness, repute, eminence, dis tinction, splendor, royalty, and om ni-magnificence possessed of a dog who is regarded a queen by 203 peo ple. 5. Let Snowbelle rightfully take her place in immortality among the University of Oregon Junior Week eend court of 1947. Romulus and Remus ABOUT VETS A number of veterans have been coming to the contact office in the men’s physical education building asking questions about importan^ benefits available to them. Some of them express surprise when they learn of benefits of which they were not previously aware. I am well aware that the 15 min ute broadcast known as “The Vet eran’s News Review” which we give each Friday afternoon at 2:30 over KORE has few listeners. In other words, our Hooper rating is not so hot. But we do bring to our listen ers a wealth of news, facts, and figures about veterans as individ uals and veterans as beneficiaries of the multitudinous laws admin istered by the Veterans Administra tion. Perhaps you could bring this to the attention of the student body through the medium of the Emer ald, not that we want more listen ers (although I admit we could use a few more) but because we believe we can answer many questions for the veteran before he is driven by necessity to ask for information. Charles P. Kupper Contact Representative EL PRONTO Drive In > Restaurant Car Service I 17th Sz Willamette Ph. 5916-J ....".~.I PRONTO PUPS Weiner Dun in a bun Full Fountain Service Any orders to take out "ORDER PRONTO—SERVED PRONTO" FOR YOUR CLOTHES IT'S The Best Cleaners ON THE CAMPUS | 821 E. 13th Tel. 740 «