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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1948)
The Students: Beginning--A Mosaic (Editor’s Note: Today’s column by Mr. Lau is the first of a se ries of word pictures which ho plans to draw of life at the Uni versity. Mr. Lau believes—and we aKTee—that the school has a per sonality all its own. By taking bits from here and there and pre senting them in the following fashion he hopes to build a mo saic of the University—one which students will easily recognize. This we believe to be a worth> undertaking—something we do not think has been tried before.) By LARRY LAI The thin metal walls of the shower shivered in protest as the four nude young men joined in a lustily inaccurate rendition of “O’Reiley’s Daughter.” The small drain in the center of the room was kept hopelessly behind as the water streamed off their glis tening backs into a rising pool on the floor. ‘‘Scrub my back, will you?” “Scrub it yourself! Who was your maid last year?” “Hey, howsa’ ’bout borrowin’ your soap?” “Christamighty! The stuff only costs eight cents , . . here.” One of the young men opened the window and yelled something obscene to a group in the yard below. He banged it shut quickly, grinning to himself, as a football thudded against the wall in near mi9s. “How you coming with that econ?” “I’m two weeks behind already. I’ll never make it this term.” “Huh! You ought to be taking this government course. 100 pag es of outside reading a week. Hell, I haven’t even looked at the text!” They accepted this as only natural and chuckled sympathet ically. “I don’t know about you ‘brains’ but I’m going to hit the books tonight. Government is something young guys like us should know something about.” They all grew serious and remind ed each other of how hard they were going to study. One by one World News - Yes Or No? The Emerald, just as you or you, has a good many prob lems One lies in deciding whether to be a house organ, (a campus publicity journal,) or to have a “world conscience.” House organ advocates argue that the University campus is the students’ home town for the time that they are here. Names make news, just as in any other small town, and campus affairs are vital-for today and tomorrow, anyway. Conclusion: the Emerald should give big and complete play to campus happenings, because no other newspaper is going to take over the job. The other camp argues that students should be as inter ested. or more interested, in national and inter-national news as in campus affairs. . . Therefore, they say, the Emerald should publish every day a page or at least a section on national news as has been done nt This would be possible, for the Emerald has access to the Associated Press wire. (This copy is now used only for sports td for news fillers-such as “A two headed gopher was born vesterdav in Popcorn, Oregon.") Mos' houses though, subscribe to daily papers. V ould thermal! coverage afforded by the Emerald serve any pur nose? It might be more convenient. Emerald editorials are written mainly on campus af am , and the paper in this way differs from many other colleg sheets in which a majority of the edits are on the national SCe’lTut do students read these erudite editorials when they could read the words of wiser editors in metropolitan papers. ])o thev take them seriously? There s the problem Ally comments on this from the students would be ap ‘’"inio1 comments come in. we’ll conclude that the Oregon student does not read editorials on campus affairs and ttell Jet out in the future to play referee for the Soviet Union and the United States.—lh IT. Little Schmoo Is Saved Occasional!v there comes a day when the tension built up over various situations is released-all at once. ^ esterday was such an occasion for the devotee of the comic strips. Three situations which have been developing- for lo. these nvinv weeks, stiddenlv exploded in Monday's funn.es to the relief of anvone who has been following them religiously. Chief among these climaxes occurred m A1 Capps l.il Aimer " It seems that the sweet, helpful, little schmoo has been saved for posterity, l.uckily. the two schmoos which were rescued were a girl-schmoo and a boy-schmoo, and every one can stop worrying now. Klsewhere in the so-called “funnies” Igor, in a fit of pique, finally got around to throwing his partner into the footlights, although readers of "Mary Worth" will have to wait a day to find out it he succeeds in breaking her neck. \i lastly. Rim Sawyer rose from his stupor to recognize his girlfriend. Christy, and all seems well in that department. Now, if it weren't for Dick Tracy, everyone could start reading the front page of the newspapers for a change. 1>. 1>. the showers dribbled to a leaky halt. . . . An hour later the four freshly scrubbed young men were sprawled at odd angles over the brown leather furniture in the den. Crumpled copies of the Em erald were piled at one end of the couch. Last week’s Life lay half hidden under a chair. The Oregonian sports and funnies rested on the mantel, neatly fold ed and preserved; the main news section had long since been used to start a blaze in the fireplace. “Some series, huh?” “You said *t! How about that Feller, What a hard luck charac ter.” “Well, that’s life. We pushed Michigan all over the lot and still lost 14-0.” “Hey, lover, who you taking to the SC game?” “I don’t know yet. Still looking around for something ‘eager’ . . . Geez! I’ve just got to start study ing.” They all agreed that they just had to start studying. The ship’s clock on the mantel pinged twice signifying nine o’clock. The four men were simultaneously re minded of a war story. “I damn near got run over by a tank once, did I tell you?” “Hell, yes! About a thousand times. Save it for the freshmen.” “You know if we were smart we’d be upstairs studying. We’ve got a history test Friday.” They nodded their heads in solemn agreement. One of the young men passed a pack of cigarettes. “Just think, we helped make history, now we re studying ic. j The young men shifted uncom- | fortably and agreed they’d better I get started. “Look, why don’t we get one of those Outlines and have a sem inar at Robinsons?” The group perked up appreciably. Each gin gerly explored his cords for coins. “I’ll get one from Eddie,” said one. He clattered hastily up the stairway. One of the boys stood up, stretched, and playfully punched the fellow slouched in the “Senior chair.” In an instant they were rolling on the floor, wrestling and grunting fiercely. In another instant they were both lying still, breathing heavily and making sarcastic remarks about how badly out of shape they were. “C’mon, let’s GO!” The boy with the Outline was back. The two athletes on the floor made a dive for him and all three be came a tangled mass of arms and legs. The fourth young man stood idly in the doorway, grinning. “You guys couldn’t fight your way out of a wet paper bag,” he said. They all lunged at him, missed, and in a flash the four ran shouting out of the front door banging it heavily behind them. Halfway to Maxies someone asked, “Hey, where’s the Out line?” “Oh hell, I must have forgotten it. Shall we go back?” They laughed comfortably and quickened their step. -Out of Focus SAEs at Idaho Minus Pillows But Did Create Realistic Ducks By KIRK BRAUN Many of the boys at the SAE house on the University of Idaho campus are sleeping through the cold Idaho nights this week with out the benefits of pillows be neath their scholarly heads—and it's all because of an Oregon Duck. A semi-Oregon Duck, any way. It came about like this: It was Homecoming weekend at Moscow this weekend and Homecoming at this western Ida ho school, which only misses be ing in the state of Washington by some three or four miles, means a Saturday morning parade with all the trimmings. And so, along about Friday, the SAE’s decided to build a float showing an Oregon Duck trip ping on the Idaho step of the stairway to the Rose Bowl. Well, as everyone knows, if you’re go ing to have a realistic duck, it has to have feathers. And since the SAE’s didn’t have any fowls to pluck, there was only one an swer-pillows. So they built up a form in the shape of a duck, covered it with some sticky substance and pro ceeded to feather with down from their pillows. And that’s why the SAE’s all have stiff necks this week, inspite of the old belief that it is more healthy to sleep without a pillow. Practically every float in the hour long parade had some sort of an Oregon duck being tram pled. axed, beaten and shot, but in all the parade, only the SAE duck had real feathers. Evidently, the judges didn't ap preciate the realistic work of the SAEs, for their float failed to win a prize. Housing officials on the Uni versity of Oregon staff could take some lessons from Washington State college when it comes to providing housing for both mar ried and single veterans. There are actually so many units on the Pullman campus that several single fellows are living in the two-room married “suites,” as they are called by the students. Now these two-room suites are not quite as good as they sound for married students but they are definitely a step in the right di rection. First, there are plenty of units. Second, they are comfortable and well furnished. Third, they are provided by the administration of the college and they are cheap. The only drawback is the fact that they do not have cooking facilities, however, a cafeteria, in which GOOD food is served, is available. Here is Washington State col lege, with some 9,000 students, with four veteran dorms, exactly like our TWO units, and enough married units to more than take care of the demand, all situated within a stone’s throw from the campus. Oregon, can you say the same ? Porchlight Parade By ED t -Vl lJl ku The campus is humming in ex pectation of the coming trek to the big city and the prospect of another Oregon victory when the gridders swoop down on Multno mah’s turf... .Everywhere social chairmen are busily putting fini shing touches on preparation for the many festive parties planned for the Duck invasion .... And on the home front, while most of the campus slept thru “Tap Roots” and ho-hummed “Rachel” and her troubles, the SAEs and ATOs plus dates en joyed a rousing get-together at Swimmers Delight Saturday eve. In swing with the gay hilarity of the occasion Gamma Phi Jean Dyck went home wearing SAE Don Stanford’s brass. Chi O Sally Terrll has all her sisters wondering over her sing ing telephone conversations.... Learned that the original charter member of the notorious Bird Dog Society was none other than Jean Hailing of the DGs, a hum ble bark to Jean for my error in last weeks column... .At Hen Hall Beth Coleman surprised her friends with a sparkler courtesy of Lamda Chi Irvin Duper. . . . Likewise at the DG domain where candy was passed out for Sue McAdams and Delt Ron Gray.. All sewed up are Fiji Bill Read and OSC Theta Jean Baker; Beta Hal White tacked to Alpha Chi Joan McPhearson; and Phi Psi Mac Epley entrusted his cop’s badge to Lois Larson of Pacific U . . . .A romance that budded last spring term and has bloomed into something special is that of Chi O Dencie Howard and Beta Paul Ediund. . . .Sizzling is the tempo being set by Nancy Belts and Tom Edwards, Alpha Sig transfer from U. of W. Looks like buddy cupid has again hit his mark. Nancy now sports Tom’s jewelry on her cashmere. An out of this world serenade with “Slide whistles” was offered the other PM by Phi Delts Walt Kirsch and George Watkins in honor of Mary Joy Ham and Mar tha Moore. / Overheard Sigma Kappa Betsy Moffit wondering where the Ore gon Spirit is going. Mused Bet sy, “The only place I find spirit these days is in liquid.” . . . No ticing that the price of furs are on the up-grade, Zoo queen Marge Peterson of the Crazy Chi Os is raising her own. Marge is feeding three armadillos and one chinchilla with the profits from her candy concession . . . Gamma Phi Donna Rankin is feeling foot loose and fancy free again after a time on the shelf. . . . Those wild looking males you see pole vaulting around the quad are only members of the IFC trying to ready plans for the ree gional conference to be held here late in October. Representatives from 100 colleges and universities are expected to be recipients of that famous Oregon hospitality. „ 7he Oregpn Daily Emerald, published daily during the college vear except Sundays Mondays, holidays, and final examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon. Subscription rates: $2.00 per term and $4.00 per year. Entered as second-class matter at the postofnce, Eugene, Oregon. BILL YATES, Editor Don Fair. Managing Editor VIRGIL TLTCKER, Business Manager Tom McLaughlin, Adv. Manager Associate Editors: June Goetze, Bobolee Brophy, Diana Dye. Barbara Hevwood Bob Reed. Assistant Editor UPPER NEWS STAFF Mike Callahan, Stan Turnbull Co-News Editors Glenn Gillespie, Sports Editor Vinita Howard. Wrmen’s Editor Bob Funk, Church Editor Don Smith, Assistant Managing Editor Evelyn Nill and Ann Goodman Assistant News Editors Phyllis Kohlmeier, Editorial Secretary