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Oregon# Emerald - MARGUERITE WITTWER-WRIGHT Editor GEORGE PEGG Business Manager BOB FRAZIER Associate to Editor JEANNE SIMMONDS Managing Editor BILL YATES News Editor BERNIE HAMMERBECK Sports Editor DON FAIR, WALLY HUNTER Assistant Sports Editors __ walt McKinney Assistant Managing Editor BOBOLEE BROPHY and JUNE GOETZE Assistant News Editors BARBARA TWIFORD Advertising Manager PHYLLIS KOHLMEIER Executive Secretary Don Jones, Staff Photograpner____ REPORTERS Seth Basler, Bettye Joe Bledsoe, Diana Dye, Ruth Eades, A1 English, Luwayne E"|":a11’ Virginia Fletcher, Joanne Frydenlurid, Chuck de Ganahl. Laverne Gunderson, Dale Harlan, Donna KletSng? Janice Kent. Pat King, Phyllis Kohlme.er Hden She"! ■McConnell, Barbara Murphy, Laura Olson, Carol Jo Parker, Nancy Peterson, Helen Sher aan, Virginia Thompson, Jim Wallace, Sally Waller.__ MEMBER — ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS ASSOCIATED PRESS WIRE SERVICE____ Signed editorial features and columns In the Emerald reflect‘he opinions of the n-HtefS; They do hot necessarily represent the opinion ol the editorial staff, the student body, University. * _ _ Entered as second class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. The Fabulous Rebate The decision of the co-op board to refund 30 per cent of the value of cash register receipts turned in next week is good news to those enterprising students who saved their receipts, just as it is bad news for the majority of us who saved them only casually, or in some cases saved them not at all. J he fig ures presented to the Emerald by the co-op board would indi cate that the rebate is not too high, considering the healthy profits the store has realized this year. Marilyn Sage, chairman of the board, who is largely re sponsible for the increased rebate, warns, however, that this 30 per cent figure will apply this year only, and that future re bates will be up to the boards of other years. Manager M. F. McLain, who opposed the rebate increase, also cited the idea of “bad precedent” as one of bis objections to the proposal. Therefore it would seem wise to look into this co-op busi ness and sec how it is that the board could recommend and pass a 500 percent greater rebate than they have passed in previous years. : There are three big reasons for the prosperity of the.store this year. First and most obvious is the greatly increased vol ume of business. The co-op is a "decreasing cost business" in the sense that; certain fixed costs such as rent, heat and light remain static, regardless of the sale volume. Labor costs ina} rise a little as business increase, but their raise is not in propor tion to the increased business. Another feature of the business which makes so large a rebate possible is that many students have not exhibited too much enthusiasm for the co-op system, and that only about 40 per cent of the cash register receipts are turned back each year. This allows the co-op to pay back at a 5 to 2 ratio on the receipts. But the big feature this year is a feature that the co-op inever had to worry too much about in other years, and that •may or may not exist in such strength in future years. It is •.the huge volume of C..L business on which no co-op receipts art given. Of the $,150,000 business volume done by the store last year, only $190,000 was. in cash business on which receipts were given. That leaves $160,000 qn which,receipts were not given. But the co-op still made profit on that money. Incidently the reason receipts are not given on the G.I. business is that the G.I. bills so provide. The laws allow $500 to each student for tuition, fees, books, and supplies, but pro vides that none of this must come to the students in cash. If receipts were given on books and supplies, students would get cash at the end of the year through rebates. Another feature of the 30 per cent rebate is that many of the items are selling in the co-op for less than cost. There is jiowhere near a 30 per cent mark-up on most items sold by the ktore. This, too, was voiced as an objection to the plan, by the ♦dissenting faculty members and by Manager McLain, j The Emerald feels that the purpose of the co-op is not to tell each item at a profit, but to give the students the best deal - possible. If that means selling some items at less than cost, and making up the difference through the above-mentioned ways, the Emerald is all for it. Miss Sage and her co-op board are to commended for their firm stand on the question, and for their insistence that the LIndents get the advantages they have a right to expect from their cooperative store. — The AP wire said late last night that within 48 hours com plete telephone service will be restored in Oregon. . . . This is just a reminder to all coeds to get on the phones as soon as possible after the strike ends—the men might play hard-to-get for the Mortar Board ball. It . . < • . • . » » * » .... . ' i r The Fight Goes On For the second time since 1933 when he was editor of the Emerald, Dick Neuberger, Oregon’s outstanding writer and a Democratic liberal ranking with the Republicans Senator Morse, returned to the campus yesterday. He spoke at the annual Theta Sigma Phi Matrix Table banquet and he talked to journalism classes. He was most interested in the attitudes of Oregon students today. And he-asked the senior editing class whether the cam pus had changed since he was a crusading Emerald editor. ... In his last editorial, May 20. 1933. Neuberger said: Opinion (on the campus) has been heartily for or overwhelm ing against the Emerald, except in those instances when the ad ministration’s silence concealed its sentiments. “Cooperation! is a watchword dinned continually in the editor’s ears. Webster s dictionary says that the word means concurrent action, but those who everylastingly threw it in the Emerald’s face interpret it to mean “Silence! Hush-Hush!” Many reactionary forces and elements have hollered and bel lowed that the Emerald was not cooperating every time it pointed out a fallacy or discrepancy on the campus. How do they expect things to be improved if no one ever indicates where improvement is needed? . . .• “Leave things as they are! Don’t touch a thing! I know the pingpong instructor is no good, but give him enough rope, he 11 hang himself!” That is not our creed, although we know some per sons on this campus who swear by it. If something is wrong, mertd it. If something is good, keep it. Halfway measures have no place; fence-riding is ridiculous. We must show courage and forti tude; we must face the facts. Let us not try to evade the issues; let us face them. Life is too short to spend most of it running away from realities. ... We hope, in our brief term here, that we have instilled a few liberal and' enlightened opinions among those who have been our readers. We think we have. In recent weeks there have been re curring examples of students who are willing to think, to fight and to act. The fight goes on, Mr. Neuberger. , The reactionaries we have always with us. The defenders of the status quo are still raising their eyebrows in horror whenever change is mentioned. Fence-riding is still one of the most popular indoor-sports on the campus. Unpleasant real ities are still scaring people into about-face maneuvers. You fought for democracy on the campus—undemocratic practices continue. You fought against the authoritarian, thought-stifling influence of the coerced Greek system—Greek control of members of the system is as strong as ever. Y on fought for liberalism on a conservative campus—the campus is still conservative. But there is reason for hope, Mr. Neuberger. Men like you are still fighting for democracy, tolerance, rational think ing, fair and just practices—throughTTtffTfie state, throughout the world. On the campus, there are many students—veterans, mostly—who have seen the results of authoritarian govern ment, who have seen what lack of democracy can do to the peo ple. These students are beginning to think, they are getting ready to fight, they are waiting for someone to lead them into action. There is reason for hope. As long as there are men like Neuberger who are unafraid to face the facts and to write about them, there will be individuals like the liberals on this campus who are straining at the leashes, eager to join you. Graduate Transcripts The list of graduate students for one team as publisheed in the Graduate Quarterly has been mis chievously analyzed. Of approxi mately 244 students the following schools are represented here at Oregon: University of Oregon 157 Students regon State . 8 Students Linfield . 5 Students Willamette Univ. 8 Students Pacific . 5 Students Three students each from: Univ. of Oklahoma, Washington State, Stanford and UCLA. One or two from 47 miscellan eous colleges. Definite conclusions cannot be drawn because of questionable ac curacy of the fledgling publication. Several questions are hereby raised for contemplation by the Graduate school: 1. Does the fact that an over whelming majority of graduate students represent the University of Oregon indicate: a. A desire to perfise graduate work ? b. A tendency on the part of the faculty to consider graduate work at this school a continuation of the senior year ? 2. Why does this graduate school represent no other college in an ap preciable degree ? 3. What attitude do seniors at other colleges have toward the Univ. of Oregon Graduate school when they consider doing graduate work ? An answer to these problems will give us an increased number oi graduates which is in itself a goal for the school. Onceover and a shave! emAMTltO BY 1 fHE MARLIN FIREARMS COMPANY fie* Gees Since 1870 • ? Browsing * with LARRY LAU Well, I’ve done everything on this campus now; I attended the ISA nominating convention yester day afternoon. Nobody got out a rope, no daggers were thrown. My seat near the door wasn’t really necessary after all. As predicted in this column, Howard Lemmons walked off with the No. 1 bid by an overwhelming margin. Dale Harlan, despite some last minute accusa tions managed to carry only three houses and a split-vote from Suzy; actual count was 46-8. Harlan’s at tempt for the No. 2 bid fell short and the Emerald’s Jeanne Sim monds waltzed in 42-13. By way of changing the subject, Tom Burbee’s Snack Bar in French hall is really packing them in. Pre-war prices on hard-to-get items, and besides, it saves that mile long hike from the Vets’ Dorms. A recent, far-reaching sociologi cal study shows that; women like, (1) men, (2) marriage. Men like, (1) women . . . Hope the Thetas aren’t overestimating the attention Marv Rasmussen is paying Ruth Eades . . . Joe Miller, ahead of Bill Bayliss by a neck in the Gary Brad ley handicap . . . From Jack Burris we have the newest definition for GPA (gravel pit average) ... Sly old Phil Dascomb being secretive about eye-sigh-thigAful Densey Howard . . . Dick Corbett looming large on Mary Naftel’s horizon . . . The Westgate Shoppe is featuring Co-op type reductions for the rest of the week. Blouses and slips for the prcie of one, $25 items for $5,^ etc., etc. Come early and avoid the mob. ZTA prexy Bernice Lamour an nounced her engagement Tues eve to Bruce Avrit, of (as Mr. Wliitely often puts it) the Law School Av rits ... Rumor from the K-Sig house has it that Patty Newton has joined the anti-Tom Kay club (wish I was clear on just where Jack Pnffenbar ger fis into the pictur£) . . . Dagmar Shanks and Brad Fancher, nothing really, just looking nice together . . . Note to machine lovers; Hen hall’s cute Clara Lee Ogle is swooshing around the campus in a sleek new Cad convert . . . Janis Peterson making a big hit with the DU’s Ed M. . . . For Webfoots who are after better clothes, ones that are, and look like, class, the Uni versity Sports Shop is hard to beat (at least in this town). Sakana Rich Guild sport shirts are but one item. Oregon’s world-famed Bill Hay ward, dean of American track coaches, will make his last official appearance at the meet here Sat. After 44 years at Oregon alone, there shouldn’t be a single student absent from the stands to give this grand old man a real sendoff . . . Jimmy George finding the Phi house and Ginny Bratfisch much handier than the Alpha Chis (you could blame the phone strike) . . . The Pi Phis’ blithe Joan Hickey still seems to be the No. 1 gal on “Angus Mac Gilivary’s books . . . Predict that Bill Baraseh and Liz Powers will tie the knot soon ... that there will be a Bill Hayward Weekend next year. Mary Anne Hansen celebrated Dave I Dimm’s birthday more than he did. The Spudnut Shop on 11th has the SRO signs out these days with their Spudnut Top Hat stealing the show. Spudnut, ice cream, chocolate syrup and what have you. For 20 cents, you can’t miss. . . . Copy Desk Staff: Gloria Talarico, editor W’alt McKinney Virginia Fletcher Jim Wallace Hans Wold Bill Stratton 3 : : : . 1 I ;• i