Are You a Scholar ?
“The scholar,’’ said Emerson as quoted by the Christian
Science Monitor, and here and now requoted by the Emerald,
“is Man Thinking."
That’s fine, but Mr. Emerson, isn’t it a rather broad defi
nition/ WHAT is Man thinking about?
Man of the campus species may be playing pinochle in the
Side. All the time, in the back of his mind, runs this little
thought: “I have 20 algebra problems due tomorrow. If I get
back to the house before five. I'll have only half an hour to work
on them before I eat and go to the Chess club. I guess I’ll have
to cut class tomorrow.”
That’s Man thinking. And, by definition, he is a scholar.
Or Man, of the campus-female genus may be thinking: “If
I don’t get forty dollars from home I won’t have enough to get
a new formal for the Senior ball. And I’ve gotta have one. Un
less I can find a good bargain basement sale before Thursday,
I’ll have to sell a pint of blood.”
That’s a scholar. You said so yourself, Mr. Emerson.
And then, female scholars think about men, and male schol
ars think about women.
Really, this hardly seems scholarly. People should just for
get about money and women and potatoes and clothes.
They should concentrate on problems like this: Alligators
before they are hatched have a little tooth which they use to
hack open their shell. Then they shed the tooth.
Men are born with no teeth. This, most logically, gives the
alligator an edge over man.
Now, if you can conclude which is more remarkable, man or
alligator, you are worthy of being called a scholar, we think.
B. H. . "
-me Lowdown
Good Old Caesar -- He's Giving
Us Peons a Break Again
I
By BUD HURST
Things are starting to loosen
up a bit in the recording biz and
good music is coming our way
again. Apparently Petrillo has
had liis way and feels that it is
time to “give the public a break."
You know it, Caesar old kid.
At least the artists are getting
“bebop” down to the place where
all those who listen to it can get
some idea of what it is all about.
Charlie Ventura demonstrates
this with his familiar scat and
boy combination on I'M FOREV
ER BLOWING BUBBLES. It's a
National label as per usual and
really quite an oddity. The way
the vocal group scats on the word
“bubble" should hand you no end
of kicks, Bill Harris, the trombon
ist, seems to enjoy thinking up
note combinations that are im
possible to play and then playing
them flawlessly. He is unbeliev
able, that man.
For those who get a boot out of
the animal type boogie we offer
Earl Spencer’s E. S. BOOGIE. It
has all the appeal and basic
rhythm of Dorsey's old QUIET
PLEASE plus a few of the mod
ern improvisions of beat that will
please the ear of the most ardent
Balboa fan. No vocal. Black and
White label.
Along a more serious vein—
Columbia has come out with an
album of great historic value in
Edward R. Harrow's production,
T CAN HEAR IT NOW. This is a
recorded panorama of the Roose
velt era, 1933 to 1915 and the end
of the war, taken from broad
casts, records and wire recordings
made over that period of time.
All the famous figures of the
day speak to you from the past
and as you sit by your machine
you re-live some of the most ex
citing years in modern times.
All the great events are cov
ered; Louis’ first round knock
out of Schmeling as described by
Clem Macarthy; the pathetic
voice of the present Duke of
Windsor as he surrenders the
throne of England to his brother;
the horrified cries of the announc
er as he watches the crash of the
dirigible Hindenberg; the ranting
of Huey Long as he argues his
share the wealth program; the
interruption of the New York
Philharmonic broadcast for John
Daly's announcement of Pearl
Harbor and excerpts from the
many speeches of Churchill and
Roosevelt. These and many more
go to make up 45 minutes of
memories that bless and burn.,
* * *
Remembering the age and ori
gins of most of the material used,
its amazing, liow vital, individual,
and above all, real these voices of
heroes, clowns and devils still re
sound out of the past. It’s an in
comparable document. From Will
Rogers’ wry depression cracks,
through the fateful years of crisis,
the varied spokesmen of our time
echo with almost terrifying actu
ality the words and actions that
shaped our destiny. That’s the
Lowdown.
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From Our Mailbag
Letters to the Editor _
(All letters to the editor must bear the write;
signature. Names will be withheld at the writ
er's request. Because of space limitations th<
editor reserves the right to withhold such com
munications as he sees fit. All letters should b<
concise and to the point. The editor of the
Emerald solicits opinions and constructive
criticism from both students and faculty mem
hers of the University of Oregon.)
NO CENSORSHIP
To the Editor:
Two cartoons—good ones—
have been run in the Emerald re
cently. Now the story is circu
lating around that a member of
the faculty has forbidden any
more of the type to be printed
in the Emerald.
Why? Too sexy.
Strangely enough, members of
the student body didn’t see any
thing unduly lewd in the cartoons,
but that's beside the point. The
point is, the Emerald is supposed
to be a publication of the Asso
ciated Students of the University
of Oregon. It is financed by them
and the work is done by them.
Why is it then that they are
not allowed to print what they
see fit? Is it because they lack
judgment or are too immature to
be allowed to put out the type of
paper they wish? Or is it simply
that the faculty has decided that
the Emerald is another phase of
student activities that they should
take over? If so, and the Emer
ald is to become the faculty
mouthpiece, why not pay the
staff a fair wage for its work?
All it is getting out of the paper
right now is the satisfaction of
producing something which it
would like to call its own.
This situation of a faculty
member stepping in and running
a university newspaper is one
's that is unprecedented. In other
schools the practice is not fol
lowed. If the student herd is be
ing lewd by printing a couple of
harmless cartoons, then the stu
dents at other schools with their
more liberal papers and humor
magazines—free from faculty in
tervention—must be headed for
hell in a rowboat (pardon the
sexy expression).
Bill Rogers.
(Editor’s Note: There has nev
er been to our knowledge an at
tempt by any member of the Uni
versity faculty or administration
to coerce, or dictate to any edi
tor of the Oregon Daily Emerald,
or censor any matter appearing in
the newspaper. Emerald editors
and staffs for obvious reasons
have long availed themselves of
the advice and counsel of mem
bers of the journalism school fac
ulty. However, the final decision
as to what goes into the Emerald
rests entirely with the editor. He
is answerable only to the educa
tional activities board, the body
which appoints him.
URGES REORGANIZATION
To the Editor:
I am about as completely a no
body on this campus as you could
find in years of polls and sur
veys. I am writing this with the
idea that may be I am the kind
of nobody that is almost every
body.
Frankly, I am tired of being
stepped on, and I think I know a
way to remedy the situation. The
students on this campus have
With the Legislators
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Salem
Daylight saving time began
shaping up yesterday as a major
legislative issue, with three
or more bills on the subject be
ing prepared for introduction in
the Oregon legislature.
Hep. Henry Peterson, lone, act
ing on behalf of farm organiza
tions, said he would introduce a
bill to make standard time the
official time throughout the state.
This, in effect, would prevent
any community from adopting
daylight time.
Sen. Robert D. Holmes, Gear
hart, is sponsoring a memorial
to ask congress to provide for
uniform time throughout the
,-couutry, whether this time be
standard or daylight. He said he
is acting on behalf of the radio
industry.
I lit' legislature also will con
sider Governor Douglas McKay’s
recommendation that Oregon,
California and Washington get
together and adopt a uniform
time system. The governor didn’t
say whether lie wants daylight *•
time or not.
The Association of Oregon
Counties told the legislature yes
terday what it wanted.
The recommendations include:
counties surplus income tax
laws to religious, charitable and
educational corporations which
run commercial businesses,
amend the constitution so that
all initiative measures to spend
money shall also contain the
means of raising It, . give the
counties ..surplus ..income ..tax >
money to reduce county welfare
taxes, and increase gasoline taxes
and auto license fees. <
The house got a bill today to i
repeal the entire milk control \
Governor McKay wants milk con
;rol retained, but he wants en
forcement taken from the de
partment of agriculture.
The house completed legislative
action on a memorial to congratu
late President Truman on his in
auguration, the measure was
sponsored by Democrats, but the
Republicans voted for it, too.
State Treasurer Walter J. Pear
son, a Democrat, called a meet
ing of all legislative Democrats
for this afternoon. He said the
purpose was “social.”
The house education commit
tee introduced a bill to let school
districts bond themselves up to
10 per cent of their valuation for
the next two years to aid the dis
tricts in getting money for new
buildings.
Washington
President Truman asked the
Democratic finance committee
yesterday to stay on the job to
help put over his “fair deal" leg
islative program.
The president Told a luncheon
meeting of the party’s money
raisers that he would not let them
resign. Col. Louis Johnson, chair
man of the finance committee,
>vhen introducing the president
had said the committee’s job was
lone and that he was presenting
their resignation.
“That’s what you think,” the
^resident said when he took the
’loor.
He said he had the committee
'in the harness and you are go
ng to stay there.”
Undersecretary of State Lovett
ailed on the Russians yesterday
or action—rather than the mere
rords of communist leaders out
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practically no say on. the most
important things that are to hap
pen to them. This school is get
tin’ kinda big, ain't it? Wasn’t it
about five thousand last count?
Doesn’t it seem slightly stupid to
have only a few representing so
large a number?
What would happen if we
formed a student government
with two houses? One could be a
sort of senate, with one senator
from each living organization and
a certain number of senators to
represent the off-campus stu
dents. The senator could be elect
ed from a two-party slate by the
individual group he represented.
The two types of parties now in
operation here would be impossi
ble.
The house of representatives
could be representatives at large,
and voted upon as the class offi
cers are now. To satisfy the pub
licity urges of some of the living
organizations there would be
plenty of honorary offices.
They could fight that out
among themselves, I wouldn’t
care. I just would like to feel that
I had at least a whisper in form
ing University policies about
things like a semester system,
the DuShane plan, and whether
we had a Frosh Glee or not. Even
if the University officials didn’t
follow the recommendation of
this representative student gov
ernment, it would at least give
me the satisfaction of expressing
my opinion with some force.
How does one go about getting
something done without knowing
any of the big wheels on the
campus ?
Am I alone in my ideas, or am
I, as I hope, a nobody who is al
most everybody?
Patty McGregor
THE “GRADE CRISIS”
To the Editor:
In the midst of all this term vs.
semester squabble, there is one
point usually forgotton that could
greatly bolster the semester argu
ment; that is, that the “grade cri
sis,” a time quite conducive to
high blood pressure, ulcers, and
low mutterings, would occur only
twice a year.
The present grading system,
unfair as it is, should probably be ■
overlooked with the same toler
ance one regards a two-headed
brother; but when the school (as
in Hearts, to pass the Widow,
then lead spades) adds to the in- '
suit by placing great importance
upon the grades, the matter is far
from tolerable.
By “unfair grading structure” '
is not referring to curves, private
files, student graders, ambiguous
tests, etc., but to tile simple
mathematics involved in deter
mining the GPA after the grades
have been filed. Consider, for ex
ample, the ridiculous metamor- "
phosis from numerical percent
ages—to literal grades—back to .
numerical grade averages; and
the tragic miscarriage resulting
from the basic maladjustment be
tween the literal grades and the
numerical. That is, in the literal ’
grades, the “spread” compares
to a razor’s edge in the GPA—and
conversely.
For example: assume average
grades between 70-80 equal “C”;
while grades between 80-90 rate
“B.” Given two students—X,
whose grade at mid-term is 71;
and Y, whose grade is 79. Dur- -
ing the remainder of the term, X
improves his grade 8 points but
still gets a “C” or 2.00; Y, then,
improves his grade by 1 point, and
so rates a "B” or a boost from
2.00 to 3.00. The system, in short,
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