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.
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'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.
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