Something New--SU By the end of winter term, Oregon’s long-awaited Student Union is expected to be open for business. To administer the complex functions and varied facilities of the building, a special body, to be known as the Student Union Board, is now being assembled. This group will be the policy-making body for all Student Union activities. It will decide what organizations get file and desk space in the Union; it will consult with Dick Williams, Student Union Director, on the management of the Union bar ber shop, restaurant, bowling alley, and other facilities. It will be an important board in student life. After much consideration by Williams and ASUO Presi dent Art Johnson, the following system has been outlined for choosing the membership of the first board: There will be one student representative from each school in the University, three from the college of liberal arts, and one from the graduate school. They all will have a vote. Two faculty members will be chosen—both with a vote. Donald DuShane, director of student affairs, and Dick Wil liams will be on the board, ex-officio, but they won’t vote. Thus the students have a 12 to 2 edge on the faculty in vot ing. That’s something new. The Co-op board was formerly the only group where students could out-vote the faculty. The student representatives are being selected from the school in this fashion: Dick Williams and Art Johnson visited the deans of each school and asked for the names of the five top students in each —tops in intelligence, that is. Willingness to contribute time also was considered. The deans were urged to avoid campus wheels, and to pick a representative group, as well as one that was not all greek or all independent. The lists were turned over to Williams and Johnson, who are now making the final selection. Although this may not be the best possible manner of se lecting representatives, it was necessary on the first board to have a wide representation from the University, and have it rapidly. Names of board members should be announced about October 1. It is hoped that in the future a plan will be devised whereby members can hold office two years, with half the total member ship being replaced every year, for the board’s job is so com plex that a complete change of personnel yearly would be bad policy. The board will take over all the duties of the old Education al activities board, with the exception of publications, and will handle the future SU activities. It will be a busy and important group.—F.T. A Legitimate Saturday Cut If anyone was getting worried, frustrated, angry, upset, or just plain curious (as we’re) about Saturday classes and the Washington game in Portland November 5, they may now rest more easily. The president’s office has announced that classes will be dis missed that Saturday morning, as they usually are for confer ence games at Portland in which the Ducks participate. In the meantime, and after November 5, it would be a good idea to attend Saturday classes. Otherwise it would be hard to enjoy what was missed. Something Old--Parking “Is this trip really necessary?” will be a frequent question as the student traffic court plan goes into operation today. By Tuesday over 1800 faculty and student cars had been registered. Irwin I. Wright, superintendent of the physical plant, anticipates approximately 300 more student cars. The Fiji parking lot will accomodate 216 cars. The Emerald lot and theater lot are now being surfaced. Completion is scheduled for next week. These additional lots will represent about 230 more park ing spaced . . . almost a doubling of campus parking area, and a ray of sunshine. It is hoped that by fall term 1950 the area to Fifteenth Avenue, south of the Student Union, will be land scaped and a parking area will be completed. Although these figures do not include parking space avail able on campus streets, it is obvious that there is definitely a parking problem. Students living in Springfield, Junction City, Amazon Flats, Skinner Butte Villa, and other outlying districts find it neces sary to drive to school. For them it’s vital. But for the residents of fraternities, so rorities, dormitories, and cooperatives adjacent to the campus the short jaunt does not present great difficulty. And the hunt for parking space may prove a bother. The ASUO Traffic Court has no machinery to allocate park ing space. The responsibility rests with the individual-Strict ly personal discretion. Is this trip really necessary?—H.S. Wild Notes... From Kenton To Gene Krupa ...by Fred Young Probably the biggest news in the popular music world is the planned reorganization of the Kenton band. (As we predicted last spring in the April 22 Em erald despite the announcement that Stan was through for alto gether.) Advance publicity tells that the new crew will be shaped along the original Balboa Ken ton sounds with a little more eye to the commercial commercial. That’s saying that the frantic Kenton was developing a com mercialism all its own. We’ll announce the sidemen when the band reaches rehearsal. Interesting this final rush week before the Dean’s office new “beneficial” deferred rush ing plan is supposed to go into effect, is the Dean’s office in structs both the sororities and the fraternities in a new “sys tem” causing the “mostever” girls to go home and boys to re main unpledged. Shooting the thoroughbred to give the blind horse a chance to show? Central campus bulletin boards are probably the first great Uni versity advancement since origi nal Mill Race diggings. King Cole and Trio’s “Yes, Sir, That’s My Baby” originally recorded in their album number four is receiving such singular demand that it’s being re-releas ed as such. A light gay thing that reaches its destination much to the enjoyment of all. Probably not displaying the technical essence required, but still interesting sounds from the Gene Krupa band are heard on a recent Columbia record of Kab levsky’s “Galloping Comedians.” A gambol past the “Sabre Dance.” And the tightest, finest thing of swing heard this summer is T. Dorsey’s “Pussywillow.” On the back “Dream of You” is very pleasant in its own right making - this Victor one of the year’s best. Free Lancin ... Rallies, Exams, Dances ... by Bill Lance At th rally last Friday I askd a girl to give her opinion of the street dance. She finally retorted, “The dance wouldn’t be half bad if the men wouldn't stare at us blank ly as if we were at a horse auc tion about to open our mouths and have our teeth examined.” I went home and went to bed. One smoothie, a freshman in Liberal Arts named Bruce Chase, hinted that before going to dances men and women alike should learn how to talk. Freshmen are advised to take good lesson from an experience that happeden to a Junior named Ellie Johns last spring. It seems she had to make up a psychology class. In order for her to do so it was necessary for her to at tend another professor’s class. It was unfortunate, of course, that this particular class should be having an exam at the time, since she was so totally unpre pared, rather than reveal her true identity, she signed the test paper with the name “Jefferson Davis.’’ A very unhappy prof fessor spent much of the sum mer vainly searching the files for some trace of a Jefferson who got the highest “D” in the exam. Anyone who doesn’t believe that it was a slick floor at the Hello Dance is advised to check with last years Miss Oregana, Ann Fenwick. 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: $3.00 a term, $4.00 for two terms and $5.00 a year. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice Eugene, Oregon. Don A. Smith, Editor Joan Mimnaugh, Business Manager Glenn Gillespie, Managing Editor Don Fair, Barbara Heywood, Helen Sherman, Fred Taylor, Associate Editors Cork Mobley, Advertising Manager Larilyn Thompson, National Advertising Manager Jean Lovell, Circulation Manager News Editors: Anne Goodman, Ken Metzler. Assistant Manager Editors: Hal Coleman, Vic Fryer, Tom King, Diane Mecham, Stan Turnbull. Sports Editor: Dave Taylor, Women’s Editor: Connie Jackson. Desk Editors: Marjory Bush, Bob Funk, Gretchan Grondahl, Lorna Larson, Larry Meiser. Chief Night Editor: Lorna Larson. 'ritin at Random... The Housing Situation ...by Jo Gilbert Housing is rough on the cam pus, they say. Yet doesn’t it seem rather ironic that at the same time they have marshalled into the overflowing dorms everyone and his dog who for merly lived off-campus? Grant ed, there were a few that could n’t be packed into Vet’s Dorms that were allowed to find off campus housing, but as soon as an alloted number die of suffo cation the few will find them selves packed in the campus buildings. But what really puzzles me— even with all the shifting that will occur when Carson Hall is completed and the gals can move in, is there going to be enough room for all of next year’s frosh bumper crop in the dorms? For it is next year that the DuShane plan goes into effect, y’know. Oh well, by that time they may have a new dorm. They should be able to afford it, what with charging the same amount of spondolicks whether or not one is living the life of a student or that of a sardine. Note on the $60 per month rent for married students in Su san Campbell—the powers-that be say that they have to charge 560 because as much money has to be taken into the till with Su san Campbell’s present occu pants as when the dorm was in habited by the girls. Units are furnished with two single beds, an ice box, table two dressers, three hard chairs, a book case, and stove units. Some of the students have theirs fixed up nicely while others are still using just the “basic” fur niture given them by the Uni versity. I wonder how living costs in a dorm a few years • hence will compare with sorority living ex penses ? Musically speaking—I hear tell that the next thing after “BOP” is “FLOP.” Going to be super-sonic and all converts will be wearing antennae attached to the ear. When the wearer wants to take a listen, he just cranks up his receiver and gets “FLOP.” Nearest thing in this direction is the Chubby Jackson recording (M-G-M) of “Follow the Lead er.” (E. Z. Zarones—take note). To all would-be-writers—Take a gander at W. Somerset Maugham’s “Summing Up.” Chock full of some good advice as well as being darned inter esting reading. Sophomore Wisdom... How to Drop Classes by Bob Funk Fall term studying has al ready started for some people, and for others it’s going to start just any month now. Probably a large per cent of the people go ing to Oregon will actually open a book this term, in spite of cir cumstantial evidence to the con trary. What is going to happen once the books are open is a horse that ran in a different race, how ever. Alarmingly enough, the sight of a newly cracked text book staring them in the face is enough to set a lot of people off into epileptic fits in some seclu ded corner. To be quite serious, some peo ple do give their all (or almost all) to education during the school year. Among these are the unfor tunates who quietly jump into the fresh cement at Erb Memori al (to each his own resounding plop) after learning that the Green Knight is not really the Green Knight at all, but some one quite different. And a few, the ones already weakened by change-in-a major and other comparable ordeals, will disappear into their text books spme fine day only to be crushed between the page con cerning motivational instincts and the one dealing with experi ments wih rats. Pressed, in fact, ^ like a frail wildflower, plucked from its native habitat (stem) in full bloom (we could work this into a poem if we really wanted to;. A perhaps not-too-uncommon scene (take this with your own. salt) in any prof’s office will be the following: “I’ve really enjoyed being in your class, and had a whale of a good time conjugating all those hitherto-unheard-of verbs you kept digging up from some where, but that strange chemical odor from off the textbook is giving me double stigmata, and I’m going to have to drop the course.” But for the most part these touching scenes of I-love-educa tion probably are rare, and the general trend is away fro medu cation toward almost anything else. Lin Yutang, our latter-day Chinese philosopher, opines that once we have reached our seem ing goal of wearing nothing but a rudimentary fig-leaf or two, we will exchange our mania for taking clothes off for one of put ting them on. Thus covering-up would become the fad, and noth ing would be more daring than a mother hubbard. (Please turn to page three)