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Activity and Grade Points Now the executive council is going to investigate some thing we’re in favor of—academic credit for extra-curricular activities. Granted, there are a lot of sides to the problem; and we aren’t going out on a limb and say every member of a clean-up committee should get 5 hours credit. In fact, we won’t even say the student body president should get 5 hours credit; not un til the council has made its investigation and reports its find ings. There are some schools in the nation who already have such a program in operation. There are some activities at the Uni versity for which academic credit, one way or another, is given. These of course are under departmental jurisdiction at present. So the idea would not be completely new to Oregon. But the scope might startle some persons. Whether or not such a program would be of value is what the council intends to discover. On the surface it sounds like a grand idea. For the suspect in the University Co-op robbery, it was a fast trip from Co-op to coop. He didn’t even get a chance to open one package of the 30 cartons of cigarettes he allegedly stole. * * * * How Many to Cal? To the 5000 students who now plan to attend the Oregon California game at Berkeley November 12, the news from the athletic department that “only” 353 tickets will go on sale Monday does not seem encouraging. However, before mobbing the athletic department and lynching Howard Lemons in a fit of pique, students might do well to consider second paragraph facts. Firstly, Lemons says he can take care of all students who want tickets. The 353 tickets which go on sale Monday are in the rooting section; other tickets available will be in section H—next to the rooting section, same price, $1.25. Secondly, the business manager has made a safe estimate of the number of students planning to attend. By November 12, he says, the 5000 now planning to attend will be cut down (by studies, lack of time, lack of money, lack of interest, etc.) to around 300. This is about the number from the University which usually attends games in California. All in all, it seems like the athletic business office has the He * * * situation well-in-hand. It. is truly remarkable how the skies may remain gray and threat ening all through the hour, but not drop forth their contents until the ten-minute-to bell. He He He * Petitioners-Take Note “I am petitioning for this position because I am very, very interested in it and I think I can do a very, very good job.” Which is about the extent of the suggestions that appear on a good many petitions submitted to the executive council, class officers, and activity chairmen during the years. From that illuminating statement chuck full of brilliant ideas, these officials are expected to select a competent person for a job. The executive council this year has attempted inter views—but this takes time and frequently no more information can be obtained. Some students apparently petition for every thing on the theory the law of averages will eventually catch up with them. In the interest of all the council has now set a deadline on petitions a day or two ahead of their meetings. This will allow the representatives to look over the petitions submitted. In addition, the council requests that students now fill out peti tions completely. * * * * Dr. Paul S. Dull has a novel solution to the “we can't hear in the back row” problem. In his early morning Far Eastern Government class of about 200 students he has reserved the two back rows for students who have colds and want to cough, make comments to their neighbors, have hangovers, rustle papers, or who just don’t want to listen that day. OhegdnWEmehald 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 JLarilyn Thompson, National Advertising Manager Jean Lovell, Circulation Manager iNews 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. Women’s Editor: Connie Jackson. Desk Editors: Marjory Bush, Bob Funk, Gretchan Grondahl, Lorna Larson, Larry Mciser. Things in General... Boys Have to Quit Playing Fireman ...by Steve Loy Finally cod myself a code. By wastebasket is full of Gleenex and my ashtray full ob Gool stubs. Seebs the scholarship cobbittee should be required to consider the common code as an ex tenuating factor in reviewing their cases. Heard of a pitiful state of affairs in one of the millrace sororities. They haven’t a single gal old enough to buy a liquor permit. Now ask me what good is a house mother? Looks like the snack delivery business is get ting to be a good thing. When the original Campus Snack started three years ago at what was then the Midway drive-in (Rush Inn now) they had the field more or less to themselves. This years brings at least one new service along the same lines plus the innovation of a sand wich crew which simply peddles coffee and cold sandwiches from house to house. Glad to see Beneke is coming to town. Brings fond memories of Sunday afternoons and Tues day evenings down at Norman Oklahoma dur ing the late unpleasantness. Tex had the station orchestra which featured a fine trumpet man who could sing Basin Street Blues better than Walter Huston did the September Song. I think Tex belonged to the station fraternity we called AEIOAFGW. (Americans exiled in Oklahoma, away from God and Water.) If your age is 21 minus you are no doubt aware of the campaign in the local bistros to curb juvenile beerbibbing. (Is there such a word, I’ve heard of winebibbers.) Seems the lo cal WCTII got hot on the liquor commission. Sort of makes me smile when I recall being booted from the bar in the Palladium because the bouncer discovered my ID card had been altered. Sonny, did I ever tell you about the bat tle of San Diego? Sam Fidtnan is in mourning. Says he didn’t have a cent on the Yankees Thursday, but they are just like members of the family and he hates to see them lose. I couldn’t get Taylor to bet me that the series would go to six games. Fire alarm horseplay is about to come to a sudden whoa. Vigilante lookouts have been delegated to watch alarms and apprehend the guilty. House constitutions say officers can deal with'offenders as they see fit and rumor has it Short Stuff The Piggers’ Guide has requested that all stu dents who have changed their addresses since reg istration inform the directory of the change. This is to assure staff members they have the right ad dress from which to make a mistake. that the rope is ready and waiting. It is to be hoped that the police arrive in time to remove the remains. Open letter to Piggers’ Guide Editor: Please try to get the right extension numbers for upstairs and downstairs in vets dorms. Half of the calls coming into the dorms are on the wrong line. Ritin' at Random ... The Iron Curtain ... by Jo Gilbert For quite a while I’ve been wondering when the present US-Russian situation would find it self as a fictional background, and finally it's come. Boris Ilyin with his “Green Boundary’’ (Houghton Mifflin Company, $3) has as his background the tension of East-West in Ger many. If he had stuck to the background the book would have been much more believable. The main plot is the old Boy-Girl kick. Boy is an American Major of White Russian parent age ; Girl is a Russian Lieutenant. The Russians are sent on a mission in the US zone at which Boy and Girl are both interpreters. They fall for each other but are sent back to their respective stations at end of mission. Girl flees Russian zone when Russians get suspicions of her rela tions with Boy during the mission, and eventu ally Girl becomes married to Boy and all for the “American Way of Life.” Obviously, the main plot is terrible. But the book is saved by the pictures of Russians and Polish refugees fleeing the Motherland. Prob ably the best character in the book is Orlowski, the former Russian scientist, who understand ably is filled with hatred toward the Reds. He, though melodramatic, is believable along with his friends. The background is good and well drawn. I think that someone could easily market this to John Ford and bill it as a “super-clooper” movie picture show. But one would have to talk Ford out of Westerns first. “Crime and Punishment” is out in a con densed, two-bit, pocket book version and result is easier, more enjoyable reading than the origi nal. None of the flavor of Dostoyevsky is lost, and the tiring deviations that scare most people away from Russian classics are removed. Our Readers Speak Madam Flagstad The article in Wednesday’s Emerald about Kirsten Flagstad was evidently written by a person who didn’t know much about the great controversy over the Madam Flagstad cjuestion that went on in San Francisco for two or three weeks. He said in his' article, “San Francisco's chief opponent to Madam Flagstad's appearance there was a gentleman who admitted that he “never heard of this Flagstaff’ before, but con tended that ‘where there’s that much smoke there must be fire.’ ” The truth of the matter is that the strongest opponents to the appearance of Madam Flag stad were the American Legion and the Vete rans of Foreign Wars. After much controversy the Board of Direct ors of the Opera House voted that she should not appear, due to the pressure of the American Legion and the VFW. Then, due to the efforts of many, the directors called for a re-vote and now Madam Flagstad will sing. Jon Hansen. (Bob Funk, author of the column mentioned, was in the bay area this summer and is well-versed on the Flagstad controversy. The person he quoted was a member of the board of the war memorial opera house. He did not think it necessary to cite the vete ran’s groups specifically since they were not them selves united in the matter, and many other persons were involved. Mr. Funk considers the man quoted Flagstad’s chief opponent—“no one else talked louder or longer.”—Editor.) 19th Street Oct. 7, 1949 To the Editor: It is worthy of favorable comment that the Emerald directed the attention of its readers to the notice in the classified section to the ef fect that H. J. Belton Hamilton Jr. wishes to be notified should his over-night bag (presumably lost on 19th) be found. In the interest of the “Emerald” I should like to point out that part of your humor results for a misinterpretation of printed material. The classified in no place states that Mr. Hamilton LOS 1 19th Street. It merely states that said stieet is lost and (he who finds said street) should contact Mr. Hamilton. H. J. Belton Hamilton Me are properly squelched. We’re sorry we can’t gi\e each of our classified advertisers the attention you’ve received.—Editor.