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preconceived plans of action; where the lead
ers in student government earn the right and
are permitted to make an honest mistake;
where the elected presidents of the various stu
dent governing bodies derive their authority
from those who elected them and entirely
from the university administration; where
student leaders are allowed to choose their
advisers from the faculty and are not forced
to accept “advisers” from the “brass” of the
university administration; where standard
fundamental rules and policies which are
known to all concerned govern the conduct of
all students, faculty, and administration in
stead of detailed bureaucratic orders; where
the administration is willing to allow capable
student leaders to actually lead and not re
quire them to follow detailed administrative
orders to the letter; where these student lead
ers know that they must perform their duties
to the very best of their abilities or then, and
only then, loose this freedom to the Universi
ty administration; where the student leaders
cooperate with the university administration
and the university administration cooperate
with the student leaders without holding
l> strings attached for such cooperation; where
the students themselves realize that their
elected student leaders have a certain amount
of freedom of action and thus have confidence
in these leaders and work through them and
back them ; where actual and intellectual hon
esty exists among and between students; fac
ulty, and university administration; where
students realize the almighty dollar does not
rule absolute in considering the various prob
lems.
I am allowed to think freely and am bein
taught to think both in the classroom and in
free student government activities.
I will be a better citizen having attended
the University of Oregon after learning to
participate actively in student government in
which I am allowed freedom of action and in
itiative within certain fundamental rules and
limits which are known to everyone.
This more realistic approach to true educa
tion exists at the University of Oregon and
will continue on this campus.
Sincerely yours,
Carl M. Davis.
heard of a likely Joe College who knew one?
Even all of this wasn’t enough, Mr, Loy
seemed to feel that there was deep dark plot
ting going on in the calling of the dorms. The
people making the calls were pretty evenly
divided between Greek and Independent. In
our attempts to be fair, we even used a new
judging system which prevented judges vot
ing for or against any one candidate, but had
all judges rate all candidates on a number of
points on a perfect basis of one-hundred, Mr.
Loy didn't take the trouble to find anything
out about this.
All in all, Mr. Loy seems to feel that he can
say anything he feels whether he knows a
thing about it or not. We wish he had taken
the trouble to ask us about these things before
he wrote. We did the best we could to be fair;
we hope it isn’t too much to ask that next
time, Mr. Loy does the same thing.
Yours for looking before leaping into print,
Tom White
Jeanne Hoffman
Co-chairmen, Joe-College, Betty Coed
Selection Committee.
And Mr. Loy Says
Seems “Mr. Loy” has been caught in a
case of inaccurate reporting. He did not know
that the contestants dressed alike and wore
similar clothes. He should have found out.
I still have some questions. Why is there
still no excuse offered for the very short no
tice given all living organizations ? How come
you couldn’t find out that Mr. Bowerman was
a Beta?
Perhaps you know, Mr. White and Miss
Hoffman, that a reporter is ethically bound to
protect his news source. I feel it would serve
only to make more of a mountain of a mole
hill to divulge the name of the judge who
committed the blunder of asking about greek
affiliation at such an unfortunate time. If I
were in the place of the independent person
who “allegedly” was asked if he were Greek
I would not care to make a fuss over such a
matter.
I apologize to the class if I have created
friction within. Perhaps the crotchetly old vet
doesn’t have the collegiate attitude necessary
to appreciate the gravity of such matters.
Kathy, Dick in Coed-College Story Continuation
(Continued jrom page one)
body president, student body treas
urer, and president of his freshman
and sophomore classes at Jeffer
son High School in Portland.
* “I’ve never been in anything like
this contest before, though,” he
concluded as he went off to hit
the books, striving to maintain his
3.2 GPA.
KATIIY NEWMAN
“I’ve wanted to be a nurse most
of my life,” petite blonde Kathy
Newman explained when inter
viewed as a Betty Coed finalist.
The 19-year-old miss, who came
to Oregon during winter term last
year, plans to enter nursing school
in Portland at the end of her jun
ior year.
Contest finalist is a new twist
in Kathy’s life, she said. Elected
by her Kappa Alpha Theta soror
ity sisters as their candidate in
the annual contest, Kathy came
through semifinal and final elim
inations unscathed and is now one
of the six remaining Betty Coed
candidates.
LIKES FOOTBALL
If pigging were sanctioned at
football games, Kathy would be a
good selection for any red-blooded
Webfoot, for she “loves football”
and even admits that she knows
something about the rules.
Other activities of the finalist,
who claims she’s “five foot two—
almost,” include zone manager of
the Emerald advertising staff.
“FROM KLAMATH FALLS
^ Her interests followed advertis
ing lines in her high school days
at Klamath Falls too. She was
business manager of the Klamath
Krater, a paper frequently rated
high in state competition, and soli
cited ads for the yearbook.
Sunbathing and water skiing
take up Kathy’s time in the sum
mer, when she stays with friends
at Lake of the Woods, about 35
miles northwest of Klamath Falls.
DICK LEE
His fraternity brothers are call
ing him "Joe" or "Smoothie" since
his selection as one of the finalists
for Joe College, but on campus he’s
Dick Lee, sophomore in pre-law.
“I’m getting quite a bit of ribb
ing around the house," the brown
haired blue-eyed finalist admitted
ruefully when interviewed yester
day. “This is my first experience
with contests.”
ACTIVITIES
It’s not his first experience with
campus activities however; he is
now a member of Skull and Dag
ger, sophomore men’s service hon
orary, and is working on the noise
parade for Homecoming. Dick was
also vice president of the Fresh
man Interfraternity Council and
president of his Alpha Tau Omega
freshman class last year.
The 20-year old candidate calls
Portland his home, and Franklin
High School his alma mater. An
Army veteran, he spent 11 months
with a military government team
in Hiroshima, Japan.
Bouncing about in an Army jeep
from hamlet to hamlet checking
election returns was part of his
duties in Japan, which he charac
terized as “interesting and enjoy
able.”
DICK TRAVELS
His new white Ford is his fav
orite mode of transportation back
in the States, helping him to in
dulge in one of his pet pastimes,
travel.
Last summer, the Ford marked
off 7000 miles in 16 days as it
carried Dick and a couple of his
friends to Mexico City for a six
day sojourn in the Mexican capital.
The finalist lists hunting among
his other interests; “no luck yet
this year, though.” His friends are
hoping for better luck for Dick in
Friday night’s voting at the Whis
kerino.
Med Applications
For 1950 Available
Applications for admission to
next year’s Oregon Medical School
are now available in 1 McClure,
Adolph H. Kunz, chairman of the
Pre-dental Advisory Committee,
announced yesterday.
Deadlines for submission of the
applications is Dec. 1. They must
be accompanied by a transcript
with a supplementary transcript
needed later to cover work done
after the deadline.
Interviews for admission will be
held sometime in January. The ex
act date will be determined later,
Foreign Students
Present Program
University foreign students pre
sented a radio program entitled
“The United Nations and My
Country” Monday night at 7:30
over radio station HASH.
Three students took part in the
panel discussion covering their
feeling about the United Nations
organization and reactions to its
establishment.
Members of the panel were Cheo
Peh Hsuin, China, graduate assist
and in the Mathematics Depart
ment; Irwin Peter, Austria, special
student in foreign languages spon
sored by and living with the Beta
Theta Pi fraternity; and Dirk
Schepers, Netherlands, special stu
dent in sciences, sponsored by and
living with the Chi Psi fraternity.
James D. Kline, foreign student
adviser and assistant registrar,
was moderator for the group.
Campus Calendar
TODAY
Noon—Spanish Table, Anchorage.
Noon — Red Cross Meeting, 12
Friendly.
7:30 p.m. — YMCA Membership
meeting at YMCA.
THURSDAY
7:30 p.m.—Freshmen Club meeting
at YMCA. Vergil Fogdall, direc
tor of men’s affairs, will speak.
Paris police are working on a
subway murder mystery and likely
hope to solve it with underground
information.
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