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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 30, 1949)
With Open Eyes. . The Emerald's Policy Have the vets moved out and the kiddies taken over? No, not quite. But almost. The freshmen crop is mostly straight from high school. They are young, eager, spirited, impressionable, and full of vim, vigor, and vitality. The University is pulling out of the war hang over days. It’s entering the construction period. Things are returning to a “normalcy” that was never known before. It’s going to be a tough haul for the Emerald to keep up, or slightly ahead, of campus activity this year. Yet we think we’re in a fortunate po sition. Never before, it seems, has a year prom ised to be so packed full of news, activity, prob lems, and (we hope) solutions. The Student Union alone opens up an entire ly different field to this University. Students cannot yet realize the effect it will have on their campus life. The Millrace brings back old traditions and new problems. What was referred to in the 1947 Emerald as “the historic old millrace,” was cal led yesterday “the sluggish old millrace.” Before us lay many things—the completion of the new women’s dorm and the beginning of the “DuShane Planfinal exams scheduled in the middle of a week; selection of a student un ion board; and, still with us, the parking situa ation. Each day brings its news. Whether it may be the disintegration of Deady Hall or the meet ing of the Chess Club, the Emerald will try to faithfully cover both events. But our reporters are human, they have classes and mid-terms and finals, too. Once in a while they may slip up and forget to check their news sources; if they do, and you’ve some news, be a friend and give the Emerald a call. The Emerald serves upwards of 5000 stu dents and faculty; it is for them we write the news. We don’t expect to compete with the Ore gonian, Journal, or Register-Guard in coverage of world events. They can do a lot better job of it than we; but they can’t cover the campus like the Emerald. We aren’t taking an “isolation ist” attitude. It’s just this—with three easily available papers adequately covering the na tional and international situation, why should we do a botchy job of it and louse up the campus coverage as well? As usual, the Emerald will attempt to be fair and impartial. Not only will we get the surface fact, but we’ll dig to get the background. On the edit page there will be no criticism just for the sake of criticism. We’ll gripe about things we think need improving, and we’ll offer our solutions and suggestions. Editorial page columnists are selected be cause they have something to say, say it well, and know what they’re talking about. The views they express are not necessarily those of the editor, his associates, or his staff. Columnists are not picked because of the opinions they hold, but because of their ability. The editor’s door is open to anyone who wants to give column writ ing a try. Unsigned editorials reflect the opinions of the editor, initialed editorials the opinions of the associate editors who wrote them. The views expressed in editorials are backed up by the edi tor and his associates, but they do not claim to represent the opinions of the ASUO or the Uni versity. Explanations are in order on the edit page. It’s the place to which students may look for an in terpretation of the news. But it is not all up to the editors. Letters from readers are requested. All we ask is that they be kept down to 250 words if possible, they stay within the bounds of good taste, they be writ ten by a person informed upon the subject mat ter, undertaken, they don’t advocate overthrow of the administration by force (unless just cause can be shown), and they must be signed. The editor reserves the right to edit letters. So far the Emerald has received nothing but help from readers and critics. The students have been tolerant towards our first few issues. No one has yet thrown a time bomb in the quonset hut. But we are open to criticism, and will accept it in the spirit given. It’s not hard to reach the editor, his door is usually open, and there are three phones in the “shack”. An Aggie Toes the Line By Stan Turnbull The charge of “discrimination” has been hurled (jokingly) at University of Oregon reg istration officials by the Barometer, student da ily at OSC. The heart-rending story of the efforts of ex Stater Suzanne Cockeram to enroll at Oregon appeared last week in the Barometer, replete with harrowing details. Concerning Suzanne’s efforts to enroll, the Barometer says “There seems to be some mys terious force concerning registration which seeks out former OSC students and puts blank walls in their way.” Registration officials have not yet been contacted, but it is believed they will flatly deny this charge. But let’s let Suzanne take up the story, as re lated by the Oregon State paper: “Every new student at Oregon was scheduled to pick up registration material Sunday, so I confidently arrived then and asked for mine. ‘Henrietta?’ beamed the boy. ‘No, says I.’ She was informed that she must be an old student, then ,and to come back the next day. “Since the doors to Mac court, scene of the fray, were to open at 8 a.m., i arrived a lull 1U minutes early, certain I would be first in line. Imagine my chagrin to find a line about two blocks long! However, it moved rapidly and in less than 50 minutes I was in front of the same boy.” After explaining, again, that she was not Henrietta, she was shunted oft' to Emerald hall. “I arrived there, managed to squeeze my way inside the door and within 30 minutes was in sight of the counter. They finally informed me that I had not filled out such and such a form— one which I remember distinctly handing to them myself. I filled it out, of course, and will pick up my material tomorrow.” Miss Cockeram’s testimony ended on this op timistic note, but the Barometer fired one last salvo. ‘‘What further discrimination,” it asks, “must she now overcome?” But even Beavers have a sense of fair-play, for the article concludes, “Or then, again, does the flavor of the registration line-up of the U. of O. smack vaguely of the flavor of the tactics of the OSC registration committee?” You mean it’s like this other places, too? 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 Gi.enn Gillespie. Managing Editor Don Fair, Barbara IIkywood, 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. Chief Night Editor: Lorna Larson. Sports Editor: Dave Taylor. Women’s Editor: Connie Jackson. Short Stuff ISA coalition party wheels seem to be having- difficulty con cerning the replacement of presi dent Bob Miller, who is attending Willamette University in Salem this year. Several top members of the party learned of Miller’s absence for the first time yesterday when Emerald reporter Larry Meiser contacted them to determine their plans. One, Two, Slide Many students who pick up this paper will be recuperating from their first experience with that hold-over from dancing school, the weekly dessert dance. Now make no mistake. Even in this atomic age, we still be lieve that the boys should meet girls and girls should meet boys, and we still believe that college is as good a place as any to get your first mate. Our point is that desserts are a painful and unnatural way to accomplish this biological phase of sociology. Better that the little boys were left to throw stones and spitballs at the lit tle girls. Even that would be more natural. This way the boys and girls are thrown at each other. The boys, of course, have a distinct advantage, because they sign up for the girls—and they can consult that chart of relative pul chritude, the Oregana, in advance. The hapless girls, like Egyptian lovelies at the slave mart, must leave to fate their partner. The usual result is that five feet one majors in classical languages find themselves paired with six feet four B.A. majors. This is only an example of the weird and explosive combinations that can result. In the past, several halls have initiated “drool pools” in which the person, who by vote draws the most repulsive part ner gets the jackpot. That’s an idea, anyway. And incidentally, what about that misnomer, “dessert?” Is the word meant in the Biblical sense of a just dessert for one’s sins ?—B.H. Parking or Safety? The Eugene City Council Monday night failed to approve a University request to limit parking on Thirteenth St. The University requested that all parking be removed on 13th from University to Emerald, and on the south side of street from Emerald to Beach. The City Council action came despite the approval of the request by the public safety committee. The council returned the request to the public safety committee for further study. No roll call vote was taken. Orville Lindstrom, business manager of the University, who presented the request to the public safety committee, ex plained yesterday that there was no doubt that the City Coun cil will approve the request when they see what the University is doing in the way of off street parking. “The University is interested in the safety of students and pedestrians and facilitating the free flow of traffic,” Lindstrom stated. More than 150 car spaces are provided in off street parking, far more spaces than are lost by limiting parking on 13th. Addi tional parking spaces will be available when the student union is completed, in the block south of the student union building. Space will also be available back of the school of music build ing. It is not known when the City Council will reconsider their action.—(Walter Dodd). Ritin at Random... How Lt. Jerry Wright Trades 'Right'Life forMaturity-AReview ..by Jo Gilbert Once upon a time, not too many years ago, there was a sports reporter. He was a excellent sports reporter and was re spected by all in his profession. But he was not satisfied bang ing out sports stories. So, with great ceremony, he bid farewell to sports, and started writing fiction for the “Cosmopolitan,” and other magazines. Eventually he wrote novels. Not sports novels—he had given that up like other men swear off drink ing, and unlike other men, had kept his vow—but pure fiction. The latest of these to come off the press is “The Lonely” (Af fred A. Knopf: $2.50). Paul Gallico (for by now you must have guessed who I’ve been talking about) in this tries to tell the story of a youth’s growth to maturity during the war. Lt. Jerry Wright is station ed in England with the Air Force. He is the product of the “right” way of life; the average middle class background with its mores and traditions. Jerry is engaged to the “right” girl back in the States. All is fine except for his meeting with “Patches”. Patches is a WAAF and much in love with Jerry, and Jerry’s solution of this situation brings forth his maturity —at least according to Gallico. In my humble estimation, the novel fails. We never get to meet Catherine, the girl at home, so we are forced to take Gal lico s word as to her character. None of the characters are quite believable and the whole thing reminds me of a continued story in "The Ladies Home Journal.” “The Lonely” just doesnt’ leave any sensation except that one wishes that Gallico, this time would have stuck to sports.