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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.
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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.
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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!
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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
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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
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