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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1947)
A tivity Survey Being Taken A committee consisting of wo men's honorary members is tabu lating the results of the activity survey sponsored by the YWCA. Plans are being made for an open discussion meeting at the be ginning of next term to go over the committee findings. Women students filed out the question aires concerning their participa tion and interest in activities. The tabulating committee con sists of Gloria Grenfell and Anne Burgess, Mortar Board; Pat King and Shirley Lukins, Phi Theta Up silon; Marge Rombo and Marilyn Turner, Kwama. Senior Six Initiation Phi Beta Kappa "Senior Six” will be initiated at a meeting of Alpha of the Oregon chapter in Alumni hall, Gerlinger, Thursday at 4 p.m. All Phi Beta Kappa mem bers are invited to attend. Christmas Suggestion for "that" man At the store where "It's a Pleasure to Serve You’’ 61 E. Broadway nwni—n—i ram n n The Gay College Life In an Ivory Palace To the Editor: Our friends back home write, “It must seem wonderful, living i in a nice, new dormitory!” Yes, indeed!!! After enduring two months in Vet’s Dorm, many of us retain our own opinions. Here are a few gripes preceded by suggested solutions to eliminate them. 1. Combination door-loeks: The student, juggling a stack of texts, fumbles among bus tokens, Heilig stubs, board receipts, and pennies, finally producing an elusive key. After a profane struggle, the key is twisted, removed, and cast aside in an over-or-under-heatea room. Just two minutes for shaving before that “coke” datee. After a hasty de-fuzzing, the inmate returns, frustrated by the locked door, with the key somewhere therein. So, undaunted, he braves the downpour, to scale the fire-escape, only to find the window latched. He then borrows a pass-key, dashes into his abode, pours on a blob of Wildroot, and searches frantically for both keys, cast onto his cluttered desk. Window Screens 2. Window screens, located outside the window, and heat-vents lower than the ceiling (each where they should exist): The scholar drags himself from his sheets, shivers, staggers to the window, pulls open the screen (ingeniously constructed to swing inward) bowling over a lamp, a stack of books, and a box of cheese-crackers, all of which cascade to the red linoleum. Leaning far out into the mist to reach the window, he groans, yanks it shut, then reels across the room to open the hot ( ?) air vent. This he reaches on the third attempt by leaping gingerly over the door-top like a basketball center, producing the desired results. Sadly he laments his bruised fingers, and consoles his angered, late-sleeping roommate awakened by the acrobatics. Rumpus Room 3: Rumpus Room for “Gab” sessions (far, far from the study lounge): The student tries to “Cram” on his “Lit” while his neigh bors roar through the corridors like stampedes of longhorns, blare jazz on their radios, hammer typewriters, and pay “social calls” every five minutes. Having downed an aspirin and criticized “paper thin walls,” our victim vlenches his fists, determined to ignore all distractions. Tuning his radio (in self-defense) to Guy Lumbago, he settles back to decipher a few paragraphs of Chaucer, bravely ignoring his room-mate, who jabbers a Latin assignment. Then, the inevitable—in storm six exuberant buddies. They each slap his back, mooch a Chesterfield, crank the radio to a deafening pitch, and, discarding coats, sprawl like porpoises over the beds. After a judo bout they subside to a loudly-animated discussion of latest attainments among the feminine gender. Quiet Hours Our studious, but unsociable host apologizes, gathers his books, stumbles over a pile of feet, and trudges to the lounge. He devours more Chaucer, when a prodigy sits to hammer “Civilization” on the ivories, a “bull-session accelerates on the soft, and a dozen thirsty annoyances, each leaving the door ajar to admit the frigid breezes, jangle the “coke” vendor. A smog from the sofa descends, enveloping the helpless reader in its pungency. He glares, utters something equally pungent, and again squints carefully at each stanza in the feeble glow of the few inade quate floor lamps (the only illumination available), filled “cell,” discards his books, grabs his coat, and sulks wearily The defeated seeker of Higher Learning returns to his smoke down to the Side to enjoy some frothy diversion. What’s the use, anyway? After midnight the tempest will subside for a few hours of study before the milkman heralds the dawn of an other iovous dav. Sanford to Speak C. E. Sanford, graduate assis tant in physics, will speak on “Work Function of Metals, Field Fmission Method’’ at the physics rr.-ninar on Thursday at 4 p.m. in . :-ady hall. NEW COATS TO ORDER Budget Terms Lay away Matthews Fur Shop The Master Furriers Ill West 7th Ave. Phone 3567 R. E. Patterson /UiQ'ituf tf.au Are you wearing the Red Feather yet? If not, it’s high time you begin hauling out that billfold and institute a search for about five of the happy cabbage. The Community Chest really has an easy payment plan this year. Pay in monthly or weekly install ments to fit your pocketbook. Well, Cauliflower Alley is straightening its collective tie and wiping its shoes on the leg, etc., in preparation for the world’s heavyweight championship bout between Joe Louis and aging Joe Walcott. Scheduled at 7 p.m. to morrow night over KUGN and ABC with Don Dunphy and Bill Corum calling the mayhem. Mad ison Square Garden is the locale for the battle . . . but your lo cale is 1400 on the dial, KUGN. This Is Your FBI is on the air at 8:30 tomorrow eve with J. Ed gar Hoover in person to discuss the problem of juvenile delinquen cy. The show is the only one au thorized to use the official files of the FBI in radio . . . results of which are the best. Ellery Queen has announced a different format for his Thursday evening ABC-KUGN show. Says he will not be a blood-and-thun der gore opera, but will be a real fight against crime, including in tolerance and bad citizenship. Check him at 7:00 p.m. tonight. Salvatore Baccaloni will be the featured basso on the “Metropoli tan Opera” broadcast Saturday morning at 11:00 a.m. I-Ie’s well remembered in Eugene from his personal performances here in past years. Also to be heard are Regina Resnik, soprano, and Ezio Pinza, bass. Sunday Evening Hour (KUGN, 5 p.m.) will commemorate Pearl Harbor Day with Beethoven’s “Victory Symphony”—the No. 5 of Beethoven—because of its “motto” theme in the first move ment. Suite No. 2 in B Minor by Bach will also be presented. Remember the Christmas cycle of programs on “The Greatest Story Ever Told” Sunday at 3:30. This is one production everyone will enjoy. Listen To.... "SORRY. WRONG NUMBER" featuring AGNES MOOREHEAD on Graves Music Time over KASH tonight at 10:00 p.m. then Buy the records Phone “ 4407 f)tiave<L MUSIC f & ART 1198 Willmte. Ad Staff Day Manager Sally Waller Layout Staff Shirley Randall Donna Babb I Donna Mary Brennan j George Laroche Solicitors Andy Moore Kloh Ann Mayer Jackie Weiss Loralee Warnock Lois Himmelsbach At Oregon ANDY MOORE smokes CHESTERFIELDS Andy says: “Chesterfields are always fresh—so cool and soothing.” Voted TOPS!—Chesterfield the largest selling cigarette in Am erica’s colleges (by nation wide survey). Garland’s i a White Christmas Dream Sweater Comfy and warm, Sheltie Spun is the perfect solu tion to any coed’s holiday gift problems. Soft and fleecy, Sheltie Spun is * available in a rainbow set of hues. You’ll want to play Santa to yourself as well when you see these snow-soft classics, master dyed by Bernat. A Product of Garland Knitting Mills Jamaica Plain, Mass.