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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 3, 1948)
Honor System? Ha! Are Oregon students mature enough to put the honor system into successful operation? This question was mulled over on the campus last spring, and though nothing concrete has yet been done to put the honor system into effect, interest in it has been maintained. Now something has happened on the campus which makes the possibility of putting the students on their honor look more unlikely. Miss Elizabeth Findley, reference librarian, reports that current issues of mazagines have a habit of disappearing from time to time. And this habit has grown particularly since periodicals were put on open shelves where they are avail able to all. No longer is it necessary to ask for each magazine indi vidually; they're all within easy reach in the second floor periodical room. Convenience was the sole purpose of putting the maga zines on open shelves, but a greater inconvenience has result ed from it. It’s mighty unhandy for the slaver over the term paper who has found a good current reference to tie in, when he finds that the magazine he’s looking for has just disappeared. And it’s downright disturbing for the librarians, when it comes time to bind a year’s supply into volumes, when some of the issues are missing. The binding simply has to be de layed until a replacement can be secured. Right now they have a whole roomful of mazazines wait ing for the missing ones to be filled in. Meanwhile, anyone who wants one of the otljier issues of the year must be told that they are unavailable until they have been bound. The people at the library are not complaining; they’re not grumbling because things are not in perfect order. They expect a certain amount of magazines to be mis placed or damaged. But they’re just a bit disappointed that the st-udents can’t respect public property. When next you feel that sudden urge to carry off your fa vorite reading material for closer perusal, just remember — the Golden Rule is still an acceptable philosophy. J. G. Let Us Spend Your Dough Yesterday, election day, was peaceful in one respect. There was no high pressuring from liquor advertisers be cause nobody could buy the stuff anyway. But the day before, November 1, the men with the hot ideas and the copy pencils were working full scale. That was when many persons received their first veterans checks. Ad vertisers took advantage of the fact, and dangled allurments via radio and newspapers before the newly flush vets. Celebrate the arrival of your check, exclamation point, they said. Come to Club Blank, dance and dine. Or: Stock up now on the candied ginger you've been deprived of for two months. We have it in all degrees of hotness. It’s a vulture attitude: the arrival of $100 from the estate of your deceased grandmother would not be safe if the huck sters learned of it. That’s one of the more dismal things about Christmas be ing less than two months away. The Christmas advertising onslaughts will begin any day, now, that Halloween has be come history. And then Thanksgiving must be wedged in. Thank the Lord that a new stock of radio’s has come in today, exclama tion point. Buy now, exclamation point. Editorial 1’IU.KK . JUST TO PROVE that the Emerald can laugh at itself, here are some choice items gathered from yesterday’s issue: The Sophomore Whiskerino publicity took a beating. Said the Emerald, "He asked the cooperation of house presidents to insure that all sophs grow bears." “Again, on Page se%^en, "There are 1542 sophomore men enrolled now. A survey re vealed that about one-third of these are electric razors.’’ Poor fellows! The Oriv.on Duty Kmfrai.d, published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, holidays, and final examination periods by the Associated Students, University ot Oregon. Subscription rates: $d.00 per term and $4.00 per > ear. Entered as second-class matter gt the post oft toe, Eugene, Oregon. BILL YATES. Editor Y1RC.1L TUCKER, Business Manager Bob Reed, Managing Editor Tom McLaughlin, Adv. Manager Associate Editors: June Coetze, Boholee Brophy, Diana Dye. Barbara Hey wood. UPPER Mike Callahan, Stan Turnbull Co*News Editors Glenn Gillespie. Sports Editor Yinita Howard. \\ omen's Editor l>ob Funk, Church Editor NEWS STAFF Don Smith, Assistant Managing Editor Evelyn Ni 11 and Ann Goodman Assistant News Editors J > Rawlins, Research Director Tec Arthur, Research Assistant UPPER BUSINESS STAFF Beth Miller, Circulation Mgr. Virginia Mahon. Assistant Adv. Mgr. Eve Oveibeok, Nat’l Adv. Mgr. Donna Brennan, Asst. Adv. Mg*. Sully Waller, Assistant Adv. Mgr. Jack Schuaidt. Asst. Adv. Mgr. Joan Mittinaugk. Assistant Adv. Mgr. ---Lau of the Press Yes - - Your Vote Was Important By LARRY LAU Last spring the University of Oregon caused a disproportionate amount of consternation among politicians when 2200 students registered to vote. Old timers wagged their heads harkened back ; to previous elec tions when gov j ernors, senator* i and mayors had been elected by less than 500 votes, and ner vously wondered how this newest segment of the electorate would behave. As it turned out, approximate ly 70 per cent registered Repub lican, except for a few issues their opinions were normally di vergent, and there were no extra close contests the students could be said to have decided. Perhaps yesterday was differ ent! All day Tuesday the precincts abounding the University were crowded with voters ... a ma jority of them very young voters. On most issues campus opinion varies as much or more as that of the townspeople . . . but on some, the 2200 were of like mind. Was the Webfoo't vote influen tial? At this writing the polls are still open; the results won’t be tabulated until very late this eve ning . . . but. Downtown sources hint at a very close mayorality race be tween Hawn, Johnson and New man. Because of his pro-millrace activities, Mr. Johnson undoubt --From Where We Sit Beginning--New Kind of Column; What Our Honoraries Think (tiiiiTors ore: i uaay page begins a new policy of open ing its columns to University ser vice organizations. From time to time we will accept columns writ ten by authorized spokesmen of any campus service honorary. We make but one demand. The group must have SOMETHING WORTH SAYING. Arrangements for col umns should be made at the edi tor’s office in the Emerald Shack.) , \ ifJHf;® By the DRUIDS “From Where We Sit’’ might well have a sub-title of “As We See It.” Because that’s what this column is going to be, a com mentary and criticism of the campus as we see it. A point should also be made that the opinions expressed under this by line may not always coincide with those of the Emerald’s editorial page, or with official University stands. This column is written by The Druids, the junior men’s hon uiai^, euiu win uc <x icuctuuu ui the opinions of the group. The idea that prompted this column was the notion that the student body was looking for a sounding board, a method of criticizing when criticism was needed and a place to applaud when applause was merited. This column is going to supply such a sounding board. As the weeks go by, the col umn will probably be“ weighted more heavily with constructive criticism than with “well dones.” That is our basic idea, to suggest and criticize, as long as the criti cism is constructive and so long as it is aimed at the general good of the University. The scope of the column will develop as the idea develops. There is just one thing that this column will not be. and that is a stone for grind ing axes, personal or otherwise. In the past couple of weeks we have noticed two actions that certainly should be pointed out as steps in the right direction. One of these was the letter written by Howard Lemons ex plaining the WSC seating ar rangements. The basic situation, not enough for good seats for both home and visiting rooters, could not have been foreseen by tin' athletic department. It prob ably can't be solved until some future Leo Harris invents a sta dium with nothing but fifty-yard seats. When the situation did arise, it was smoothly handled by the Ct Lille UiVyACt int point of all was the letter ex plaining what had been done for the WSC students and, even more Howard Lemons ... Gets Orchids important, why it had been done. The student body has always felt that if actions by student of ficers, University officials or di rectors of student affairs were more fully explained, much hard feeling would be eliminated. There have been many such mis understandings in the past. Usu ally they were cleared up when explanations were forthcoming. Why not get out the explanations before the misunderstanding aris es, as Howard Lemons did, and turn the energy expanded on grumbling to better fields? Step No. 2: There were lots of* disappointed faces as students searched the list of eligibles for OSC tickets, but there wasn’t a general cry of “unfair to me” as lias arisen in the past. It took the executive council a long time to take 'the lottery step, but when they did it was a good one. The members have been criticized for holding back tick ets for themselves, but the over all lotteery plan has met with stu dent approval. The idea of hav ing an athletic department offi cial supervise the drawing was also a good one. All of which goes back to step No. 1, the elimination of misun derstanding through explanation. A simple statement from the exec council as to the “why” of the withheld tickets should have ac companied the lottery plan. edly caugnt a majumj Webfoot vote. We don’t know who won, but if it was close . . . the Webfoot vote was Important. Political experts give the liquor over-the-bar bill very little chance of passing. These same . experts concede that what a man says in public is very often at variance with what he marks on his ballot. Although improbable, it is possible that the liquor-over the-bar question could be a close contest. Unblushingly, students have often reaffirmed the desire - to be given a chance to vote on such an issue. In a close contest . . . the Webfoot vote was im portant. vtn Komiio Vi? 11 11 n i? a intelligent attack from papers like the Oregonian and the Reg ister-Guard, is important to the student electorate. Its opponents claimed the bill was ill-drawn . . . maybe so. Both the pros and the cons have seemingly good argu ments. If that particular meas ure should draw a 50-50 vote over the state . . . then the Webfoot vote was important. A student of last year, Dale Harlan, was running for the state legislature. Mr. Harlan is a Dem ocrat in a Republican county, but the voters were allowed to “vote for three.” We’ve no doubt that Mr. Harlan can thank quite a few students for voting support. Con tests for the legislature are tra ditionally close. If this election follows tradition, Democrat or no . . . the Webfoot vote WAS im portant. Campus sentiment indicates the students favored all the an nexation measures, and they even tempted fate by voting for erec tion of a new jail. A lot of people in Eugene were lukewarm to cold about the annexations, and equal ly as many thought the present jail was an architectural master piece and should be preserved. Was the count close? If so . . . the Webfoot vote WAS impor tant. The list is an imposing one, one this “bit” needn’t tackle in its entirety. The voting part of the student body should be aware of the praise and admiration direct ed towards the University as a direct result of student participa tion in the various elections. Right or wrong, this kind of in telligent interest speajts well for campus inhabitants. Civic leaders would be more than pleased if the average citi zen showed the same kind of in terest. Four PE Profs Return from Trip Four faculty members of the health and physical education de partment returned to the campus Sunday after attending a two-day session of the Western Society of Physical Education for College Women, held at Asilomar, Califor nia. The group left Eugene Thursday by auto, and were the official rep resentatives of the University of Oregon at the meet. Dr. Margaret Poley, associate professor of phy sical education, led a discussion on correctives for college women. Her companions were Janet Woodruff, also associate professor of physical education, and Jeannette Masilionis and Josephine Newbury, instruc tors. The society discussed topics in various areas of physical education for women. Don't hunt for trouble, .but look for success.