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!
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Bob Reed, Managing Editor Tom McLaughlin, Adv. Manager
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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
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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.