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Cross-Word Parking Improper parking in student parking lots was a flagrant is sue facing members of the Student Traffic Court when they met Tuesday evening. Tickets will have to be issued to students who park their cars in lot entrances, blocking entrances and exits. Persistent violation will make it necessary to have cars towed away. Much valuable space is now being wasted by careless park ing. If car owners would park adjacent to cars already parked, this situation could easily be remedied. And space would be available for many more drivers. The parking lots should not resemble cross-word puzzles with harried latecomers struggling to find space. This responsibility rests with the individual driver. Com plete coperation would be a good indication of appreciation for the large expenditures by the physical plant in making the lots. —H.S. Sanforized Students That old stuff about Oregonians having webbed feet may not be so funny in another 1000 years. It may be true then. Probably, without realizing it, Oregonians and particularly the campus variety who don’t have to worry about appearance —have become quite well adapted to their climate. For example, where do you think an eastern umbrella man ufacturer would push his sales if he were to sponsor a “Buy More Umbrellas” drive? Why, he’d probably pick Oregon. But would the Oregonians buy umbrellas? No, indeed. Oregonians don’t seem to need such contraptions. Look around on campus on a rainy day. Who is carrying an umbrella, or even has placed a newspaper over his head like other civilized persons across the nation would do during a downpour? Nobody. Anybody with an umbrella here is laughed down. Somehow, people just seem to keep dry without such obvi ous devices. Not even professors carry umbrellas, and there is something about the collective personality of professors that would lead one to believe they’d have spreading black umbrel las with long spikes on the end. The same goes for galoshes of the ordinary variety. Only oddballs and foreigners wear them. Probably the secret of the Oregonian’s weather resistance is his choice of functional clothing. He has garments that don’t wrinkle easily when wet— or he has clothes that are so sloppy in the first place that it doesn’t matter what happens to them. But it may be that these natives of the rain belt have be come sanforized or lubricated or repellent so that they no long er have to worry about the weather. And that is why we think another 1000 years may evolve the webbed foot.—B.H. Our Readers Speak —Lemon Punch Dear Mr. Editor: Please help us find Mr. Kavanaghji, the student with 11 wives. Upon receipt of his impassioned plea, I went immediate ly to his apartment. The landlady, dark-eyed and grim, an nounced that not even the wives had been seen since Sunday. Other sources failed. Police blotter, no record—fire depart ment, no calls. Mr. Editor, apparently a terrible thing has happened. Mr. Kavanaghji seems to have dried up and blown away. Athletic Business Manager. Howard R. Lemons, (That was very nice of Mr. Kavanaghji and his 11 wives. But there are still 500 married students who have not dried up and blown away; and their spouses must still pay $5 if they care to see the Homecoming game.—Editor.) 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 aa second class matter at the postoffice Eugene. Oregon. Doit A. Smith, Editor Juan Mimnaugh, Business Manager Glenn Gillespie, Managing Editor Don Fair, Barbara Heywood, Helen Sherman, Fred Taylor, Associate Editors Core Mobley, Advertising Manager JjtRiLYN Thompson, National Advertising Manager Jean Lovell, Circulation Manager News Editors: Anns Goodman, Ken Metxler. Sports Editor: Dave Taylor. Dvsk Editors: Marjory Bush, Bob Funk, Gretchan Grondahl, Lorna Larson, Larry Ueiatr. Assistant Manager Editors: Hal Coleman, Vic Fryer, Tom King, Diane Mecham, Stan Turnbull. Chief Night Editor: Lorna Larson. Women’s Editor: Connie Jackson. Ritin at Random... Living a Nice Sheltered Life ...by Jo Gilbert I Get So Mad At: Those etaoin shrdlu char acters who cheerfully take two parking places to park their crates in. About eight o’clock on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings you can find same cars parked, so there just isn't quite enough room for your jalopy to squeeze in on either side of some convertible whose owner thoroughly believes in the “middle half” theory. May I offer humble suggestion to the Traffic Court that offenders mark off parking places with a nice new paint brush and some bright yellow paint? Then any joker who applies the “middle half” the ory be fined the limit. Half of the parking problems could easily be traced to this. Kigmies: Wonderful idea, Mr. Capp. Send some immediately out this-a-way. Think of kicking a Kigmey in place of griping at the prof during eight o’clocks; having the Kig mey take the hacks instead of the pledge. For that matter, Reno could go out of business— vent your wrath on the Kigmey instead of staring sullenly at your poor wife and wish ing you could take a slug at her without start ing the waterworks. Wonderful! Dear Miss Heywood: Thanx for your il luminating edit on the wives and husbands of married veterans. I am no longer confused. But it still doesn’t make sense. The spouse of the vet, if female, goes to the game to be with the husband. She usually wouldn’t go by her self, and she certainly isn't going to let bub ble spend the money for the pint and then kill it himself. So if she does dish out the $5 for a reserved seat, you can be sure she is going to trail over to the student’s section to sit with the spouse. I doubt if they will spend $10 for the game when this way is open. So the result will be many vacant seats in the reserved seat section. Wherefore in this is logic, I ask you ? - PrayeF of Thanksgiving: We thank thee, University, Athletic Business Office, and Howard Lemons, for thy beneficial care of all spouses; we sincerely appreciate thy kind ac tions—but where in blazes is the five spot coming from ? Incidentally: We certainly live a nice shel tered well-guided life around here. Along with the University protecting us from all evil, organizations happily tell us’ns what we should wear. If you note, practically every announcement of any event in the Emerald is accompanied by a notice as to what should be worn. To this, short silks; to that, informal dress; to this, suits and heels; to that, a cor sage. We had, don’t know if we still do, a campus social chairman who blithely dictat ed dress to different games, yet! Why doesn’t someone show up to the Whiskey-rino in a beige tinted sheet ? If: Beards are a sign of virility the sopho more class ain’t got it. Sophomore Wisdom... Smart, Reputable—and Quiet ...by Bob Funk Every student who has been on the Oregon campus for any length of time must have no ticed—either with dismay or disinterest—the sometimes unpleasantly strained situation between Independents and Greeks. For the most part, this situation is ignored; however, social life, political campaigns, and contests repeatedly draw out the undercur rent of bitterness and distrust which mars an otherwise commendable University life. It seems to be the opinion of some people in both groups that only a person of very du bious character and personality woul d choose, or be relegated to a position in the other group. Reputable members of Greek houses probably do not condone an attitude of intolerance and superiority toward stu dents who happened to be Independents; on the other hand, broad-minded Independents do not assume that every Greek is a moral lep er on the lose. But these reputable parties make a pretty small noise when compared with the “we're right and they’re wrong” faction, which seems to be particularly verbose. Oregon can never establish intelligently amicable relations between the members of its two systems of University living while biased and unthinking persons continue to circulate tales of derision concerning those whom they consider, in some strange way, to be their enemies. There is nothing wrong with being a Greek. Greek houses were originally established to propogate good works and to mutually assist their members. They were not established as organizations of people impossible to equal in quality. And there is nothing wrong with being an Independent. An Independent organization allows each individual a great deal of free dom ; in addition, the Indepenednt may meet a greater cross-section of people than the Greek would. But Independents are not nec cessarily superior in mental and moral quali ties to those who happen to have chosen a fra ternity or sorority. If it were possible to keep the members of our campus living organizations thinking about the real worth of their own groups rath er than the lack of it in other groups, our problem would be nearly solved. Sometime in the distant future this may be accomplished. But for the present the problem is very much with us. It should be disgusting to ev ery observer that persons mature in practi cally every other respect allow themselves to be enmeshed in a tradition of ill feelings. This is one of Oregon’s most important problems at the present time—far more important than deferred living or football scores; for this is a problem of mental attitudes—a slippery thing to combat on any basis. * * * * Short Stuff This is just one of those temptations we couldn't resist. Three persons recommended names to the Presi dent for appointment to the Student Union Board —Ed Anderson, Art Johnson, and Dick Williams. Included among the membership of the boarT are Ed Anderson, Art Johnson, and Dick Williams. Naturally, as soon as we do more than scratch the surface, the fun ends. Johnson, because he is ASUO President, and Williams, because he is Stu dent Union Director, received ex-officio appoint ments. Anderson was recommended to the com mittee by the dean of his school, and had to meet the same qualification standards as all other ap pointees. A Buyers' Market Homecoming tickets, like other expensive items, may now be purchased on an installment plan, ac cording to the LATEST word from the athletic business office. No down payment is required on these easy-to get hard-to-pay-for tickets. All you have to do is sign your life away and guarantee payment by next Wednesday (coinciding nicely with arrival of veterans’ paychecks). If worse comes to worse, maybe the money can be saved from the baby’s milk fund by next Wed nesday; maybe the grocer would extend credit; maybe married students can experiment and find if candles are cheaper than electricity—Abe Lin coln studied by firelight.