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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 13, 1948)
Musing... With Bill Wasmann Duty Spelled Privilege I doubt if anyone will question the system used to distribute tick ets for the Oregon-Oregon State .game next Saturday. The system was a smooth one. it was well planned, no one could ask for a more democratic proce dure, up to a point. Where the executive council did get off the track was that its members sat down and voted them* wives each one ticket. This could go without notice if it weren't for the fact that all but two members of the council break their little necks trying to get themselves elected to that posi tion, presumably for the reason that they are interested in the student getting a square deal. At election time the campaign ers, following good American tra dition, trample each other to death in an effort to be the first to be crucified fighting for the cause of the common student. Let the ballots be counted and bingo, the word duties is spelled r-R-I-V-M.-F-G-E-S. Tt just may be that I'm being a bit harsh on this particular execu tive council. When I voted last fall 1 distinctly remember that the promises had nothing but a ring of sincerity, and I’m willing to be the first to admit that if ever 12 faces were the epitome of justice those of the executive council are it. With that in mind, I’m sure that these 12 apostles of student democracy will be the first to practice what they preached of a certain election day; I'm sure lhat one fine day next week, 12 Oregon-Oregon State football tickets will be tossed into the common pot so that everyone will 1 nve a shot at them, the members of tlie executive council included. I'm sure that some of the mem bers of the council realized that ■voting themselves tickets wasn’t the thing to do. consequently some of them probably never bothered to pick up their tickets, ets. If this be true, then I suggest that this be explained to the sat isfaction of the student body, along with a complete explana tion of tlie disposition of ALL tickets which never were drawn for, if there be any in that cate gory. Tigers Clean House As Manager Sought DETROIT, Nov. 13 The Detroit Tigers cleaned house yesterday for tiie manager who will succeed de posed Steve O'Neill, releasing' the last of two of three coaches who worked under O'Neill with the fifth place Tigers of 1018. General Manager Billy Evans announced that letters had been mailed to Art Mills and Roger <Doc) Cramer advising them of their release. The third 1018 Tiger coach. Bill Sweeney, resigned last month to become manager of Port land in the Pacific Coast league. No successor to succeed O'Neill as the Tiger manager has yet been named by the Detroit front office. ASST. ADV. MANAGER Donna Mary Brennan DAY MANAGER Bill Lemann STAFF Anona Freeman y .Mary Lou Stunbery Karla Van -Loan June Winter Donna Rae Worden Phyllis Calvert Sue Heifrin 'l r i - -> Let's Give the Thing A Chance Registration “might” run a lot more smoothly this term. Once again the registrar’s office has come up with a “new plan,” designed as usual to “avoid confusion and delay.” We doubt that any completely painless reg istration process will ever be devised. How ever, after studying this one we think it shows great promise. It should eliminate most of the “kinks” of its predecessors. Of course, as usual, a great deal will de pend on the cooperation of all concerned— students, faculty, and administration. James Kline, assistant registrar, believes that much of the success of the plan hinges on whether or not students pick up their reg istration material in Mac court today. Here’s how he reasons: Fourteen workers will be in the court from eight to five to handle the issuing of registra tion material. This, he says, should assure that no one need be delayed long in securing his material. However, he warns, should students in any great numbers fail to pick up their mater ial today, next week those students will cause no end of confusion by jamming up Emerald hall where space is limited and staff members will be busy with other details of registra tion. This would in turn, obviously, cause fur ther confusion on down the line. So why not give the “new plan” a chance. Play the game—pick up your registration stuff today. -- Footnotes by Callahan Is Du Shane 'Fall Guy of the Year'? By Mike Callahan Spent an interesting half hour yesterday morning in the office of the pan with The Plan—Don ald DuShane. Unless I miss my guess, he is going to be one very unpopular man for quite a while. Mr. DuShane hit the big type last week as the man who was going to destroy fraternities, who wanted to corrupt the dorms, and so on, depending on which side of the Greek-Independent fence you stand on. I had a hunch the big story had some interesting foot notes behind it, so 1 barged down to Emerald hall to find out. Getting into Mr. DuShane’s of fice was quite an experience in it self, mainly because there was nothing to it. The magic password around there seems to be: “Ore gon Daily Emerald.” As a side light, I was surprised to find how small and plain the office of the Big Man really is. After see ing a certain other estate on the same floor of Emerald hall, I couldn't help feeling this cubby hole once belonged to some junior assistant. There’s quite a little story be hind the big headlines, as I found out after a few minutes with Mr. DuShane. First off, it seems he is something of the Fall Guy of the Year. This deferred-living in plan has been quietly brewing among the powers for many months, and was dumped in Mr. DuShane’s lap when he took over as student affairs director. However, he did go along. The decision to announce the new deal was made after a care ful survey of available dorm rooms and class enrollment fig ures. The plan picked up a little more weight when it was found that Oregon wouldn’t be exactly in the freak class with the split living system. Stanford and Pur due have been doing this for some time now. -It also seems that the Univer sity IFC, Inter-Dorm, and Pan Hellenic were all caught off-bal ance by the plan. As far as I can see, nobody bothered to consult them before the big bombshell was casually exploded. The pay-off is going to be plen ty rough on somebody. As is to be expected, the indi vidual fraternities are up in arms over what they can see only as a plan to deprive them of counsel ing privileges for their fresh man pledges. Further, since the pledges will be allowed in “the house" only at certain ‘specified times, the fraternities complain that they will be expected to in itiate and accept ns brothers men who are virtual strangers to them. Pan-Hellenic is only slightly less bitter. The biggest kick, so tar, comes from the independent dorm men. I talked with the president of one dorm, and got a few tips on how they see it. The plan, as ex plained by Mr. DuShane, is ex pected" to promote harmony be tween the Greeks and Indepen dents by giving each a better chance to know each other. -Af ter one year of living near a fra ternity group in a vets’ dorm, this president can’t even crack a smile at that. Everything from the food bill down 'to intramural loyalties will be in question with fraternity pledges living in dorms, he told me. As for participation in the dorm program and guidance from the dorm upperclassmen, the freshman pledge is going to get a double dose of both. And, as a footnote to the “clean up the houses” idea that exploded in the last Inter-Dorm meeting, I can see where the poor frosh is going to find that the advice of his dorm roommates and his frater ni'ty brothers isn’t always going to agree. As I see it, the most important man in the whole picture is get ting the general cold shoulder. That’s the freshman pledge him self. There’s no getting around the fact that the G.I. check will stretch only so far, and unless his father sells used cars, he’s going to be in a tough spot. The dorm bills will take a pretty substan tial chunk of the check, and then he will be saddled with miscel laneous breakage, entertainment, parlor, and other fees from the fraternity or sorority house. If the frosh is to know his bro thers-to-be, at all he will have to eat at least a few of his meals at the house. That will make it even harder to keep ends meeting. So what may be the effect? Unless the freshman is sitting on top of a very healthy bank book, he may be unable to pledge at all during his first year at school! The paper says that fra ternity enrollment is expected to increase up to 10 per cent fol lowing the first year of The Plan. Footnote: Show me, Mr." Du Shane, I can’t quite see it! Where Space Is Like Gold “It takes more intelligence to park than it does to drive,” someone once said. The statement is proving true on the Fiji parking lot. Occupying part of the block bordered by Thirteenth and Fourteenth, and Alder and Kincaid streets, the lot could well be paved with Fort Knox gold—every foot is that valuable. It is one of the few places on the campus where students can park. But space is being wasted and the lot becoming congested by unsystematic parking. Drivers are jamming up things by parking their cars in little clusters around the entrance. Harassed latecomers must then thread their way through to the open space, and they, in turn, park on the fringes of the cluster, so worsening the situation. It would be appreciated by everybody if students parking on this and the other student lots remember that some other poor fellow will be coming in later. Oregon Emerald The Oregon Daily Emerald, published daily during the college year 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 postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. BILL YATES, Editor Bob Reed, Managing Editor VIRGIL TUCKER, Business Manager Tom McLaughlin, Adv. Manager Associate Editors: June Goetze, ISobolee Brophy, Diana Dye, Barbara Hey wood, UPPER BUSINESS STAFF Beth Miller, Circulation Mgr. Eve Overbeck. Nat’l Adv. Mgr. Sally Waller, Assistant Adv. Mgr. Joan Mimnaugh, Assistant Adv. Mgr. Virginia Mahon, Assistant Adv. Mgr. Donna Brennan, Asst. Adv. Mgr. lack Schnaidt, Asst. Adv. Mgr. UPPER NEWS STAFF Alike Callahan. >tan iumouii Co-News Editors Glenn Gillespie, Sports Editor Yinita Howard, Women’s Editor Bob Funk, Church Editor jjou onnin, ivssiscant managing naitor Evelyn Nill and Ann Goodman Assistant News Editors Jo Rawlins. Research Director Tec Arthur, Research Assistant Porchlight Parade By ED CAUDURO With Sophomore “Joes” stum bling over their beards and the whiskerless floundering around in public tubs, there was no lack of humorous activity this past week. FrosTi classes obligingly assist ed Sheriff Eddie and his posse in rounding lip the varmints who forsook traditions fox a Schick . . . yet, many of the “Badmen,” hiding behind ingenious disguises and using back alleys, went un touched ... maybe something nice and rosy could be worked up for them at the dance tonight. . . . A Hen Haller tells this tale on her roomie . . . seems this young thing out viewing a movie with her betrothed the other eve, was forced to excuse herself . . . when she returned to her seat again, snuggled up to her partner and continued whispering sweet noth ings in his ear . . . feeling a lack of the usual reaction the lass took a closer look and to her shocking horror and amazement this poor “Jane” found that she was in the wrong row. . . . Understand that Theta Barbara Fagg passes her time nowadays counting the stubble on Phi Delt Will Urban’s chin in hope that he may have a chance in the whis ker contest tonight. . . . Thursday dinner found the DGS and Phi Psis unprepared for the surprising good news that Vir ginia Cassavant and Don Boots have reinforced their pinning with a flashing token of love. It will be a “Marry Christmas for the two. ... A sideline on this happy com bo .. . Wednesday afternoon, Don, who is on the Sophomore “Wanted” list, outran his would be dunkers for three blocks before finally surrendering. But Cassy, with a couple of well placed kicks-, came to his rescue saving him from the “Water treatment” . . . (Believe me, the water is icy . . . I speak from experience thanks to friend Sophs ... it isn’t even safe for seniors while the whis kered men are on the prowl . . .) More engagements come rolling in with Alpha Xi Jan Archibald tagging her “deer” and choosing matrimony to a nursing career . . . the lucky gent is Bob Shmor. Then there’s Sig Kappa Jill Leachman happily linked to Ray Lokting and Ed Harris, a male Pi Phi, to DZ Nan Hoerlin. . . . Week nights don’t seem to of fer much inducement for pinning but we do have one of last week that was lost in the shuffle of hearts ... Pi Phi Jane Carlisle and ATO Bill Bowes. . . . Seems Pi Phi Joan Carr is try ing to prove that she's the ath- , letic type . . . Between her sprints in the pool for the Amphibians, the "Flash” hustles about the campus in football uniform . . . If Oregon’s Rose Bowl hopes lie in the discovery of a “Sweeney’s sister” . . . Aiken, here’s your gal. Voted as the most steady of the “steady teddys” . . . Theta Barbara Stevenson and Beta Mac Montague. They never have need for the Piggers’ Guide. Ted Gullic Released PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 13—• (AP)—Ted Gullic, coach of the Portland Beavers of the Pacific Coast league for the last two sea sons, was released this week bv General Manager Bill Mulligan. Mulligan said Gullic was given an outright release to enable Bill Sweeney, new Beaver manager, to select his own coach.
