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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 7, 1949)
Credit Where Earned There are many rules and regulations posted along the bog gy road to graduation. Many of them the student never knew or understood; many more he has forgotten. Ditto for many advisers. Amid this hodge-podge, there is one set of regulations that we would like to complain mildly of. It specifies, in brief, that no student shall receive more than 17 hours credit per term, (or 18 hours if the curriculum re quires 204 instead of 186 hours for graduation), unless he gets a 2.5 for the term. He can’t get credit for more than 19 hours per term unless he gets a 3. Furthermore, a student shouldn’t be allowed by his advisor to register for more than 19 hours unless his preceeding GPA was a 3. Now it may be incomprehensible to some why anyone would load themselves with more than 19 hours. But people do, for devious reasons, so burden themselves. And it ought to be their right to do so. It should also be their right, as long as they get a passing grade, to get all the credits that they earned. It isn’t hard to believe that a student who took 20 hours and got a 2.8 learned just as much as another student who took 12 hours, and got a 2.2. Yet the heavily burdened student will get one credit cut off his record for falling down to a measly 2.8. One other thing. The psychology seems wrong. Many stu dents find that they get better grades when they take more hours. With 13 hours they don’t have enough to do, so do noth ing. With 19 hours, up goes the GPA. And the registrar can’t pick out these students with latent ability by looking at a dexi graph. It’s up to the adviser to pick out the students with wast ed talents—and that would be a hard job even for him. In the recent report of the Academic Requirements Com mittee, it was recommended that it be put in the hands of the adviser the permission or denial of requests for study loads ex ceeding a certain maximum. That seems sensible. A rigid for mula can’t apply to all the persons in a University. And we further recommend that the practice of chopping off credit hours for students who, carrying a certain load, make their 2. but do not meet the specified grade be discontinued. It’s unjust and rather senseless.—B.H. The Way Is Open The timid soul is at last finding his place in the local sun. No longer need the shy individual in the back row remain si lent on things of vital concern to him. He may write his piece; shout his gripes with a pen; suggest his suggestions. At least concerning students and student government. So he thinks the executive council should be composed en tirely of campus queens? Or maybe he wants the rally squad dressed in hobble skirts? Could be he feels the council should investigate the wage paid to students working for the Univer sity? «... That’s about the ratio expected—one serious suggestion to two not-so-serious—when the executive council puts into ac tion its plan for suggestion boxes. With their installation in various campus locations, there will be no reason for students to complain of lack of opportuni ty to contact their representatives. Especially since council members are always open to suggestions—written or oral—at any time. Egad! Department It sure looks like a sad commentary on something-or-other, we’re not sure what . . . Disillusionment, it seems has belatedly overtaken sponsors of a recent “Miss New Orleans’’ contest. Post-contest griping brought out charges that at least half the contestants wore falsies. There are—there must be—sinister, not-to-be-ignored ov ertones to this charge. As one non-winner put it, “at least half the girls came to the contest with their chests in their purses.” This obviously casts a new light on Shakespeare’s statement, “Who steals my purse steals trash.” Local aspects of the falsie situation have not been (and aren’t likely to be,) very thoroughly investigated. But sharp-eyed campus observers are wondering if the Campus Chest Drive might not be producing results in more than one direction.—S.T. You can lose almost anything at the University: Faith in education, interest in classes, fountain pens, note books, appetite, intellectual curiosity. But H. J. Beltan Hamilton (ext. 445) has hit the jackpot in lost items. According to an Emerald classified he has; “LOST—19th st.” Poor fellow must be in a terrible fluster wondering where it is. Wild Notes Whodunit? By Fred Young We’d like to thank the Inter fraternity council for being in terested in our music and our asides to call attention to a point in yesterday letter in which we aren’t in full har mony. However, we know that the point in question wasn’t originally raised by a member of the council. The IFC wasn’t ev en mentioned in the article. It would seem to me that the Office that was mentioned could do its own explaining, rather than to work through the wool ier ones. Maybe the background to this situation can be briefly stated: Spring term all frater nities whitewash walls as Deans come through checking housing quotas. End of July letter to rush chairman implys the war time quotas are still in effect. Next to last day of rush week in afternoon rush chairmen are told of blanket quota of 15 by Vergil Fogdall. Morning of last day of rush week “15” plan nudged out by fraternities. Still housing quotas have been cut by several as final result of spring search is revealed. At our suggestion yesterday the Emerald checked for the true picture of rush week. There were 283 men here for rush week. 226 pledged. 57 un pledged. 20% !! (H o w e v e r, some of these may pledge later in the year.) The word of the blanket quota spread quickly through the dorms, as had the earlier word that the fraterni ties were pretty much in the dark as to just what their quo tas might be. I think there will be agreement that the fraterni ty’s. quotas are an important factor in the successful opera tion of rush week. Yet, the IFC had absolutely no jurisdiction over the establishment (or lack of) of these quotas. It never has. Admitted, the rules regard ing the actual rushing proced ure are in form of IFC by laws. But, we wonder who suggested that rush week be extended to four days ? Who has planned to do away with rush week in fa vor of the more aggravating (for rushee, independent, and greek) deferred rushing scheme? Who said that frater lity members won’t be able to ive in their own fraternities— it a greater expense to them in cash, studies, and assimila tions? If rush week is included in ‘collective fraternity govern ment” as per letter then certain ly convenience of living is no exception. But, it seems that the “freedom in formulating rules” which is claimed for the IFC is gradually growing a lit tle binding; becoming rather, a freedom for accepting rules. (The opinions expressed in by lined columns are those of the col umnists; and do not necessarily re flect the opinions of the editor or his staff.—Editor.) More of a Good Thing Anyone passing Chapman Hall Wednesday night when the Educational Activities’ free movie audience was leaving the building would have been struck with the notion that people want to see good movies. Cars jammed 13th street, and the crowd continued pouring out of the building for several min utes. Certainly the Chapman Hall theater is not the most com fortable place to watch a movie, even a free one. To get a seat one must arrive at least a half hour early. There are always late arrivals, and they seem willing to sit on the steps, or stand, to view the consistently good screen fare presented there. All of which makes one wonder if the movie situation couldn’t be improved a bit. It’s obvious that students want good movies. Its equally obvious that Eugene’s theaters sel dom offer really good shows. And the cost of tickets to watch the epics which are presented is too high. Here is a chance for the Educational Activities board, or its successor, the Student Union board, to step in. Why not run the Chapman Hall movies more than just once during the week? Why not set up a regular schedule, say for three-days consecutive showings, and charge about a dime a head, to pay the operator, and possibly coin a few dimes extra. No one would object to a slight charge, and with the revenue more top films could be obtained, possibly. People were turned away for Les Miserables, as they al ways are when the movies are showing a good issue. The mov-^ ies are a good thing—one of the nicest small jobs being done for the students on the campus. But the job might be improv ed a bit by this method.—F.T. Publication Honors U.O. Students of literature and particularly those interested in the study of the interrelationships of various literatures—an cient, medieval and modern—will be pleased to learn that the summer issue of Comparative Literature .rolled off the presses Monday night and is now being distributed. The quarterly journal is published by the University of Oregon in conjunction with the Comparative Literature Sec tion of the Modern Language Association of America. Dr. Chandler B. Beall, professor of Romance languages is the edi tor. It is truly an honor for the publication to be edited on the Oregon campus. Professor Beall is assisted by faculty mem bers of such universities as Yale, Harvard, and Cornell. International in interests and scope, the current issue con tains articles written in English, French, Spanish, Italian and i German. This issue marks the third of the first edition. The journal contains broad views of movements, periods, styles and criticism. It also publishes substantial reviews of current books dealing with literary scholarships, theory and criticism. Scholars on the world-wide mailing list will be awaiting the fall issue to be published in November which will commemo rate the 200th anniversary of Goethe’s birth. The following articles will be included: Goethe und di<$^ Schweiz, by Fritz Strich; Literary Relations in the Light of Goethe’s Wiederspiegelung,” by L. A. Willoughby; Goethe homme du milieu, by Edmond Vermiel; Croce as a Critic of Goethe, by Lienhard Bergel; and George Ticknor’s “Sorrows of Young Werter,” by Frank G. Ryder.—H.S. Car Troubles at UCLA, Too From UCLA comes word that the “share and ride” plan will be tried again this year. Main problem down south, as here, is lack of adequate parking facilities, and blicking of entrances to what lots there are by hurried and thoughtless drivers. Two Cornell students have a novel solution to the housing problem. Because the apartment they had rented would not be available until ! Oct. 1, the two spent a 10-day interval in a 1928 Stude'oaker hearse Cohen bought for $125. Oregon H Emerald The Oregon Daily Emerald published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, holidays and final examination peiiods 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 Hey wood, 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. Sports Editor: Dave Taylor. Assistant Manager Editors: Hal Coleman, Vic Fryer, Tom King, Diane Mecham, Stan Turnbull. Chief Night Editor: Lorna Larson. V omen’s Editor: Connie Jackson. Desk Editors: Marjory Bush, Bob Funk, Gretchan Grondahl, Lorna Larson, Larry Meiser. 5
