Here's Your Answer, Fellas—
Too Much B'ar Grease
Yesterday this page carried a missive from four law stu
dents who, by their own testimony, do not have “yaws or some
other loathsome disease,” and yet were barred from the men’s
i p0ol—because they didn’t have bathing caps.
The Emerald extends its sympathy to these young gentle
i men who were frustrated in their quesfof cleanliness and exer
i cise. It recognizes, with them, the irony of wearing nothing
! below the earlobes, but keeping the head covered according to
\ the custom St. Paul established for women.
But we are forced to point out to the denizens of Fenton
1 hall that the custodians of the men’s pool have their difficulties,
too.
Hair oil is the source of these troubles. Dean Leighton ol
the P. E. school explained that the oil floats on the water and
clogs up the drains.
Mr. Borchardt, who is in charge of the pool, added, “We
want to keep the water clear and clean. Although the bathing
cap ruling is just a department regulation and not a state law,
the law does say that authorities should take all precautions to
maintain cleanliness in a pool.’’
But Dean Leighton made one other point. “If the boys
. would stop wearing hair oil,” he said, “they could go swim
ming without caps."
Our advice to our correspondents, then, is to organize a
campaign against wearing hair oil. If this succeeds, they will
be dealing a blow to the capitalists in the cosmetic industry,—
besides securing readmission to the pool minus pleasure-kil
ling restraints.
If their campaign fails, we submit to them as consolation
'! the fact that the Co-op sells bathing caps for a considerably
I smaller sum than most downtown stores.—B. H.
Faculty Grading
j On several occasions we’ve expressed in this column our
hearty approval of the ASUO executive council s plan to es
tablish on this campus a system for grading professors.
A friend has brought to our attention an editorial from the
11 Washington (D. C.) Post commenting on a faculty-rating poll
jj taken at the University of Michigan.
Because we feel the Post editor has made some rather wise
observations regarding a faculty grading in general, we’re pas
sing along parts of the editorial to our University readers.
As a means of checking or confirming the views of univer
1 sity officials who have the responsibility of hiring, firing, and
promoting members of the faculty, student polls serve a highly
t.i useful purpose, provided they represent a large and represen
tative body of student opinion.
The chief danger from the regular employment of such
• means of testing teaching ability is that the polls may have an
unfortunate effect on some instructors who in their zeal to get
i good marks from their students may strive for popularity at
the expense of the kind of thoroughness that students some
times fail to appreciate. Some outstanding scholars, for in
stance, lack the power to appeal to large numbers of students,
while some very indifferent scholars may be able to hold large
bodies of students by virtue of their oratorical skill or their
ability to present a subject in predigested form.
There is always danger that the student body concerned
about passing examinations and getting good marks will over
rate the instructor whose lectures can be easily outlined for
review and whose opinions are clearcut. not to say dogmatic.
However, allowing for the fact that some distinguished
members of a faculty may receive low teaching marks from an
immature student body, it is. after all, the teaching that counts,
• and if a large proportion of the taught conclude that the in
struction is below par, the burden of proof to the contrary
rests with the university authorities.
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How Can
Cold War
Be Ended?
By Bud Hurst
An American statesman, for
mer Undersecretary of War Wil
liam H. Draper, made a very
strange statement in St. Louis
the other night. He indicated
that, in his opinion, American
troops would have to stay in Eur
ope—and get this; long after the
cold war has come to an end, to
help guard against sudden at
tack.
We have several questions to
ask you. Mr. Draper. In the first
place, how can the cold waj' end
while we still have troops in Eur
ope ?
How can the cold war end while
Russia still has troops in Ger
many ?
How can the cold war end
when there is such mutual dis
trust between Russia and the rest
of the world?
How can the cold war end un
less one or the other withdraws ?
That leads to the biggest ques
tion. How, Mr. Draper, can the
cold war end?
We’re sorry to have to tell you
this, pal, but it can't. You are a
grown man and have held a high
government post during wartime.
By this time you ought to be
able to face facts whether they
are pleasant or unpleasant. Rus
sia isn't going to pull out and
neither are we. They can’t and we
can't.
Look first at their situation.
Tactically they are better off
now than they have ever been
since the October revolution.
Their armies are garrisoned in
two-thirds of Europe. Eight
countries are under their sway.
Their avowed purpose in life is
to spread the Communist doctrine
through all the nations of the
world. Are they gonna quit now ?
Uh-uh!!
All right then—shall we pull
out ? We have signed the Atlantic
Pact and it will be ratified by our
senate. We have committed our
selves to a policy that runs coun
ter to aggression. We have set
our standards and we will stick
by them. We will not pull out
and let the other nations of Eur
ope fall to the same sort of “ag
gression” as did Hungary, Cze
choslovakia and Poland. We are
the malntstay and we will stay
that way.
In the face of this, do you still
think the cold war can come to
an end. Maybe it will at that.
Maybe it will get hot all of a sud
den. Lord knows they are throw
ing enough lighted matches at
the powder keg.
Houses To Draw
For Float Pairing
Ml living organizations are re
quested to send representatives
to the Alpha Onilcron Pi house at
1:00 p.m. today to make arrange
ments and assign pairings for the
Junior Weekend festival, accord
ing to Phil Patterson, chairman of
the float parade.
Alpha Phi Omega
Alpha Phi Omega will meet at
1240 Mill street tonight at 7.
USA Cuncil Meet
The USA council will meet at 8
p.m. in room 3 Fenton tonight. All
delegates are requested to attend.
Same Old Stand
By Tom Marquis
From the sleeping porch win
dow I could see out across the
tree tops and telephone wires to
the big O on
Skinner's Butte.
Over at the big
brick house on
the corner the
DG girls, quick
to take advan
tage of the sun,
had turned
porch tops into
sun decks and
joined the rest
of the campus
sun worship
pers.
The lawn in front of Uni High
was the scene of several combin
ations of football and baseball
games. Whether they were or
thodox or not they were ample
excuse for being in the sun. If an
excuse were needed.
All day long the campus
abounded with coatless and
sweaterless people. One or two
even wiped what might have been
sweat from their brows, and the
Coke machine was kept busy
most of the day. It was good to
see people again Without the lay
ers of coats that had been so
necessary during a rather long
winter.
Art students were sprawled on
the lawn sketching the various
geometric designs offered by a
fast progressing Erb Memorial
Student Union. Light, shadow,
and steel made good patterns.
About the only hindrance to
plague them now were swarms of
gnats that seemed to have blos
somed out with the rest of the
raiment of spring.
* *
The password was,, “wonderful
day, isn't it,” and talk of week
end picnics increased notably.
Taylor’s and The Side seemed
much fuller than usual and class
rooms perhaps a little emptier.
Even some of the profs got a far
away look in their eyes as they*
gazed out classroom windows
toward beckoning hills. It was
tough to study about Words
worth on nature while sitting in
a stuffy room. It seemed like the
only way a guy would ever ap
preciate such ideas would be to
get out and get into nature. It
didn’t take an understanding of
Wordsworth for you to know it
was a great day.
Here through the sleeping
porch window it all seemed a
little impossible now. It was like
being on the outside looking in.
The shouts of the ballplayers and
a radio playing somewhere far
away wese as unreal as the sud
den sunshine after a winter of
snow and rain.
Atlantic pacts and communists
and New York slums and Los An
geles gangsters and Eugene’s
muddy streets and school board
problems didn’t exist in this
world.
Berlin and China and starving
children and UN meetings and
diplomatic squabbles had no place
under the sun. Only a feeling of
restlessness marred the complete
perfection of the day.
And like all other unreal
things, all illusions, all utopias,
all El Dorados it wouldn't last.
Soon—tomorrow or the next day,
or the day after tljat—dark
clouds would start heading up be
hind the hills blotting out the
sun, shutting out the warmth.
* * *
The wind would rattle the win
dows and blow the returning
raindrops. Coats would come
back out of the closets.
And the world would be real
again.
Win an Elephant And
Live a Life of Ease
By Hal Boyle
NEW YORK — (AP) — It is
welcome news indeed that a ra
dio giveaway show is offering a
live elephant as a prize.
This is a mile
stone in the
field of educa
tion. Wait and
see.
To win the
elephant all you
have to do is
answer a phone
call and identi
fy a certain
tune played on
a certain program. This requires
no Toscanini knowledge of music.
It requires no long hours of li
brary research.
The correct answers to these
radio quiz contests now are print
ed on $1 tip sheets, hawked on
the streets around Broadway's
neon temples. They are much
more accurate than the four-bit
tout cards peddled at most race
tracks.
The offer of a free elephant is
a sure sign that at last the radio
giveaway programs are growing
up. The industry is maturing. For
too long they have competed to
see which could give away the
oddest assortment of zany prizes.
A typical package might include
a trip to the South Pole, four
brassieres, a motor car, 200 used
pogo sticks, a sow complete with
litter, a refrigerator, a stove, a
motor car and a leaky Liberty
ship.
The winner of such a package
was no longer a human being. He
became a human hock shop,
frantically seeking bidders for
his impractical loot.
This chaos is reduced to order
at one master stroke by the of
fer of an elephant. A live whale
as first prize would have been
only an elfin gesture. All a man
can learn from a whale is how
to swim.
But an elephant—there’s some
thing really practical. It points
up anew how barren have been
the rewards of higher learning in
America up till now. In its 336
years Harvard university has
never seen fit to offer its gradu
ates an elephant. No, it gives
nothing but a broad-“A" accent
and a paltry sheepskin. They
even remove the wool from the
sheepskin—wool with which a
handy Harvard man could easily
weave himself a suit.
Yet Harvard has an endow
ment of about $160,000,000. rt is
no wonder, perhaps, considering
the tight-fisted largesse of
wealthy universities, that more
and more thoughtful and ambi
tious Americans are turning to
radio giveaway programs. Here
a man’s brainpower is ex
changed for honest value.
An elephant won on the radio
should be regarded, for tax pur
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