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
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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
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