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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1947)
. Oregon W Emerald The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the University of Oregon, published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, and final examination periods. 3 Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Ore. Member of the Associated Collegiate Press__ 30B FRAZIER, Editor BOB CHAPMAN, Business Manager walt McKinney, jeanne simmonds, maryann thielen Associates to Editor __ “ WALLY HUNTER Sports Editor __ BILL YATES Managing Editor JUNE GOETZE. JIUUUL^ JJiturni Co-News Editors PHYLLIS KOHLMEIER HELEN SHERMAN Assistant Managing Editors BARBARA TWIFORD Advertising Manager .zrr.—=::::= Man and the Machine Since man made his first crude tools from stone, he has been striving to perfect his surroundings, simplify his work, and add to his knowledge. Modern civilization bears witness to the magnitude of his inventions since that long ago begin ning, inventions that are even dwarfing the inventor and making him a slave to his own machines. \\ itness internation al fear and puzzlement with the birth of the atomic bomb. Its here, what’ll we do with it? A smaller, more local, but nonetheless dangerous problem already with us is the campus sprinkler system. Man invented the sprinkler so that he could automatically water his lawn and keep it green, thereby having more time to read his evening paper. One sprinkler, like one atom, is a useful and fairly harmless device. Multiply either of them and the situation be comes fraught with imminent peril for man and beast. Neither man nor woman has found a solution to the organi zed sprinkler system. Serious-minded students are forced to cavort in a Virginia-reel manner while trying to judge the velocity and force of long arms of wet spray set strategically along campus paths. The invention has again triumphed over its creator, and again man seems powerless to control his giant. Although man has failed, a member of the animal kingdom does not shake with terror at the fiendish device.Little uneduca ted campus squirrels are making their way through the spiink Icrs without getting wet. The secret: As the watery arm swing toward them, the small creatures scamper around to the dry side of a tree until the spray has broken against the the sprinkler side and passed, then the animals are dry and free to continue their play. May be the squirrels should have registered last week instead of the students. It would he interesting to see the results of their placement exams. M.E.T. Service With 'Activity' Educational activities have long been recognized as an in tegral part of the college system. Nobody doubts their value. In fact, their position is so secure that they ofttimes become anti-curricular as well as extra curricular. 1 her aie indeed here to stay. Another feature of the modern college system is the "service group,” the select little band of spirited students who work for the common good. The University’s symposium group which meets Tuesday night comes under both headings. Certainly it is an education al activity. But it is more than that. The work the group does in speaking to groups throughout the state — in “plugging the school” — certainly make it a service group. This symposium group is not elected by the retiring group in the manner fol lowed by the “service honoraries." Ability is the standard. If you can make the grade, you’re in. If not, that’s tough. Qne year this symposium group spoke before 13,000 persons _all of whom doubtless learned something of the University. and who went away with a better understanding of the class room end of things at the state s liberal aits school. It is the finest tvpe of public relations. Students who are inclined toward speech or drama will miss a bet if they don’t show up Tuesday night and give this sym posium some attention. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE MODELS WANTED 9 to 12 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday Salary, 85c to $1.25 See Mrs. Rudd The New Leaf By LARRY LAU Every year, for some strange reason, ten or twenty W eb foots respond to the call of the wild and transfer to Oregon State. Whether this is merely the result of their reverting to type, or a perverted physiological quirk, we aren t prepared to say. The honorable editor told us in Tuesday’s edit page that no minority group at Oregon will be deliberately neglec ted. Therefore it is to that rugged little band who will, some time during the year, forego the ^ pleasures of a metropolitan cam pus for Beaverville, that we af fectionately dedicate this article. We checked through an OSC cat alogue the other afternoon so as to be able to give the readers bona fide information on the activities and courses offered, on the other side of the moon, as it were. The names of the courses are genuine; the helpful explanations, our own. The largest section, Animal Husbandry, offers no end of fas cinating bits of information, among them, this gem: ‘‘The stables and barns are located on the western part of the campus. The hog barns lie to the east.” (The |itrocity in between is Bell field, ho doubt). Freshmen will take such courses as Elementary Human Anatomy (so as to be able to discriminate be tween the animals and students), Applied Hygiene (which teaches the student how to wash face, ears, and armpits), Economic Consump tion (cost per month of having consumption), Modern Nursing Problems (to be offered immediate ly prior to the OSC-Oregon game in November), Practical Bee Cul ture, Plant Propagation, and Glass Blowing. they allow you to wear the tradi tional OSC uniform, bib overalls), you may take Organic Analysis (where they gather in bi-weekly seminars to drool over last year’s Oregana), Oratory Squad (which consists of marching up and down in the hog pens shouting the pre vious day’s lessons), Principles of Insect Control (which study should eventually reduce their reputed bedbug problem), Lower Plants (for people of 5 feet 7 inches and under), and Higher Plans (for tall er people, of course). Range and Pasture Botany is of fered to underclassmen. Advanced Range and Pasture Botany was discontinued in 1942 when a de termined group advanced too far and had to be dropped supplies from a passing airliner. Biochemis try of the Phenanthrene Nucleus is the title of another course, evident ly open to only Phi Betas. It is ru mored, however, that this particu lar course has not been offered since the spring of 1914, as the last man who knew what it meant died that year at an Oregon picnic. They have a three-hour course in Fruit and Nuts of the World. That would be gay with a two hour lab in Salem. Soil fertility lectures, "teaching the composition and val ues of fertilizers, barnyard and green manures.” (shades of ’Lil Abner!), Utilization of Dairy prod ucts (what to do with the stuff once you get it), Turkey Manage ment (offered only to visiting Turks), Fur Farming and Mohair Raising (they make their own coats and sweaters), Dehorning, Sheep Shearing (for men who washed out of the barber college), Food Dem onstrations (techniques of protest concerning rising house bills), An atomy of the Fowl (presumably where to find the white meat), and Character Education (the reason for which is obvious). They are great breeders at Ore gon State, listing no less than sev en courses in that vital field. Poul try Breeding, Plant Breeding, Fish Breeding, Bird Breeding, Dairy Cattle Breeding, and Animal Breeding I and II. We are a bit curious about that Animal Breed ing I and II, in that we don’t know whether in Animal Breeding II they use a higher type animal, speed up the process, or do just more of it. were also a uu suuuneu iu icam that they actually have courses in Wildlife (something that the Ore gon student becomes workably well acquainted with on his own hook, so to speak). Wildlife Technique (you must admit that’s intriguing), Wildlife Food Crops (evidently how to get out of buying your date a meal), Wildlife Conservation (by all means!), and so forth. There are also courses in Nursery Man agement (for those locked in wed lock), Sign Card Writing (for those too shy to speak), Elementary Clothing (which teaches the stu dent how to construct scanties of all types from flour sacks), Cloth ing selection (taught by a retired monk), and Costume Design (which partially explains the of tentimes strange garb worn at their infrequent formal functions. The course called Technology of Beverages interests us, especially the three hour lab in Albany, but space is fleeting. One final word: let no man think for a minute that this article was written in a spirit of jest' or de rision. The farmer, apple-picker and animal breeder have long been the backbone of this great coun try. Hail! then, to the little future backbones, the Montgomery & Ward users of tomorrow. A.W.S. Heads Meet Leaders and assistant leaders in the AWS Campus Life program will meet at 4 p.m. today in Gerlin ger hall. * I 't After the Rally Tonight ' enjoy a STEAK SANDWICH Complete Fountain in THE RUSH IN N "in coffee row" 13th on Campus ft. Petitions Due Oct. 4 Petitions for Homecoming chair, manships are due October 4, Bob- , bie Fullmer announced yesterday, j They are submitted to her at the . Alpha Omicron Pi house. By SALLIE CARTER TIMMEN> | Now that the campus is sinkin, back into its normal lethargy, and ' the Co-op is out of textbooks, the ! time has come to figure out just , what has happened to whom in the past week or so. All the little nuggets are finding that gold bricking is not part of the ac cepted tradition, nor is the library used just for intellectual purposes, But without further summary, I feel that as the new custodian of Shaefer’s column, I owe a few words of reverence to the x-news collector, one Robert Whiteiy whose choice words now hold KUGN listeners spellbound. There seems to have been quite a bit of serious summer romancing among the collegians, for the re ports in the ring department are impressive. From the Theta house comes news of the engagement of Dagmar Shanks to the law school’s cloistered Sigma Nu, Brad Fan cher. At the Kappa -house DeDee Hemenway showed a sparkler frc~i ATO’s Clief Dunson, arid next door Chi O Mary Patton made it offi cial that she was the recipient of a ring from Paul Basche. Down at the DG maison there’s been mudi activity with Joan Williams’ en gagement to Sigma Chi Jim Curly, Jean Herndon’s ring from Dave Silvers, and the Delt Gene Davis’ jewelry to Mary Lee Boothe. Julie Holman dropped in to her old haunt, the Gamma Phi house, to surprise the gals with her wedding date set to Jack Shaefer, something attractive the navy still thinks is essential. The on again, off again Phi Delt pin of Walt Kirsch is back again on Chi O Joy Hamm. And those loud screams from the Pi Phi house were brought about by the unveil ing of two Fiji pins, Gladys (Hap py) Hale and Mart Pond, and Paul Kunkel and Donna Mae Lyon? Don McCollum entrusted his Phi j Delt shield to the lovely Kathy j Cornel while ATO Barney Frank did likewise to another Kappa, Jean Jakeberger. Down on the millrace, three Gammafie pledges are already acclimated. Betty Bur kett has her Fiji sweetheart pin j again, Anne Phetteplace is sewed! up with Theta Chi Jim Lucky, and Helen Shepherd wears George Al? exander’s Beta brass. Rumor has it that Phi Delt pledge Chuck Fagen is waiting pa tiently for Patty Duncan to return to the Pink palace come winter term, and rumor also has it that the Phi Gams are planning a re union in Santa Barbara at the Bilt-, more on December 30th. But then again, rumors are rumors. If you've seen Chi O Kay Snyder lugging a supply of lumber around, don’t be surprised. She says she’s building j a house, but who’s going to live in j it? Question of the week is: Did the Chi Psi lodge pledge Bob jtfit chum? Watch the scoreboard next Tues day for the results of the mass mi gration to Portland this weekend, for the Texas game and subsequent celebrations one way or the other.