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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 18, 1949)
r*. *V 'V V JW -. "I alwart halo to tee the bon lose confidence!** , Our Readers Speak Dear Dave Taylor: (Emerald Sports Editor) We had a little discussion in my room last night about fair weather in general and Oregon football in particular. (>uess most everybody present was an oldtimer around the school— a few of them reminisced about the old die-hards like Meach am, Roblin, Rhea, Shepard and gang. The days when if they had us inside our twenty we didn’t have to start planning how we’d get our 7-points back. It seemed that most of us had daily contacts with this year’s team and we thought we’d try to put 2-and-2 together—not from the quarterback’s position, but from the standpoint of the attitude which has been varying in not such a strange manner since the Monday a year ago that we threw a helluva drunk around here. We were disappointed then to have to take “second choice’’ and play in the Cotton Bowl. Naturally, the team wanted the Rose Bowl which is the greatest honor a coast college can at tain. So there we were with everybody mad and, what could we do but look to this year. In fact, several of the players came back for another season who would have otherwise been will ing to play their final collegiate game in the Rose Bowl last year. And as this season took shape the dope sheets hardly both ered to rate us—but, that was all rigid, just wait. Suddenly, it was apparent that we all expected this to be the ear. It s hard telling whether the students convinced the team of this, or vice versa. After all, it was a good time in Dallas last New Year’s, and certainly they had the campus’ admiration for be ing a great and winning Oregon team—so why not win. Now as the season progresses it seems that all of our bub bles have been broken several times over. However, the stu dent-body has gone out of its way to show that they’re not just fair-weather fans. The students admire every one of those men who burden their college years by playing, thinking, and sleeping football. However, I doubt if there is one man out there that doesn't actually enjoy and get a thrill from the sport. I'd hope so! Last night in that room we made a couple of decisions, but since it was behind their backs I decided I'd drop you this let ter. First, we think that because of the good times and the wrist watches thev’re missing this year that Oregon is blest with some fair-weather football players. Men who have found that winning must always bring some reward greater than the satisfaction of having given their best and found it right. We suspect that this will be the reason Oregon will lose to Oregon State, Saturday. There seems to be nothing gained by working, so if the Aggies are going to play harder why shouldn’t they beat us. We, also, wanted to extend our sympathy to the stu dent-body, Coach Aiken, and the ball-players who like to win. Incidentally, would you mail a couple of tickets to the first basketball game to my return address? And, please credit the Homecoming tickets I'm returning—there should be a good demand for these tickets from Oregon State. Very sincerely. Name withheld at request. Other Voices, Other Rooms Fraternity By Fred Young The most important disad vantage of the “deferred liv ing plan" is that what will hurt the school will naturally hurt the fraternities. Vergil Fogdall, Associate Director of Student Affairs, once said, “If the Univer sity rveren’t here, neither would he the fra ternities.” (We’re not that argumentative.) All history reverts to the findings of the Oregon Dad's club. “There should be defer red living.” Yet, what other conclusion could they make when only a small percentage of them attended the University themselves. And the idea of the desirability of “deferred living” was presented by educators who are assumed to have the students’ interests at heart. Why hasn’t the opinion of the Alumni been reported ? A formidable question would seem : “Since this new living plan directly affects the students presently in campus living orga nizations—THEN WHY HAVEN’T THEY BEEN CONSULTED FOR THEIR ESTI MATIONS OF THE DESIRABILITY OF THIS PLAN? Not told—this is our plan, now you students make it work. Scholastically? The administration admits that it will have to improve dorm counsel ing. Dorms have long existed on the Oregon campus—if dorm counseling could be im proved it would have been done long ago. As it is, figures show that sororities have con sistently been above the all-University aver age and above girl’s dormitories. Last winter term 45.5 per cent of fraternities were above the all-University figure while only 30.7 per cent of men’s dorms were above the same av erage. Economically? Students will be forced to live in the most expensive type of campus housing, dormitories. Socially? The fraternity pledges will have divided loyalty. This will seriously hinder the organization co-operation rightfully ex pected by the dorm men. This will antagon ize Independent-Greek relations. The fraternity system anywhere is depend ent on the healthy administration of the uni versity. We are opposed to this plan because heedless administration of our school will di rectly affect our fraternity system. Defects of the deferred-liv ing plan are presented by stu dents representing the two groups concerned — dormi tories and fraternities. Anita Holmes lives at Hendricks Hall and Fred Young is a fraternity member. —The Editor. Dormitory By Anita Holmes If we must take a negative ittitude, faults of this “pled je-then-live-in-a-dorm” plan ire easy to find. Here’s one. Both dormitory dues and fraternity or sorority fees will be demanded of the new pledge. Another. Stricter studying rules will have to be set up, or upperclassmen and freshmen alike will have trouble settling down to work. And if rules do get stricter, much better lighting and study arrangements will be needed in some of the dorms. Number three. Will he work on French hall’s or the Phi Delt’s Homecoming sign? Whose desserts does he go to ? What about intramural teams ? Is the Sweetheart of Sigma Chi a candidate^ from Hendricks hall or Gamma Phi Beta? A fourth. You can put the pledges from one house in different dormitory rooms, but you can't pick their friends. More “hello, how are you” acquaintances will necessarily be made when you live with 130 girls instead of 60. But that basic circle of friends will probably be pledg es from the same house. That defeats part of this “group living experience” we hear so much about. BUT WHY MUST WE HAVE THIS NEGATIVE ATTITUDE ! Deferred living is here as sure as Deady Hall. And the admin istration is leaving it up to the student body to make the plan workable instead of un wieldy as it now stands. It looks like Panhellenic, Interfraternity, and dormitory leaders should get together right after Thanksgiving to talk over living in—or better yet, its big brother, deferred rushing. Individually, these three groups have proven what they can do by pooling ideas. A problem like this is bigger than Panhellenic or dormitory leaders alone. Therefore, a cau cus. | As for the first move. One of the two best organized groups—Panhellenic or Interfra ternity—only need to set the time and places jdoncUt' 23 Skidoo...Oh You Kid by Rill Jlance Football season is always a picturesque part of a col lege year, but if we’re to be lieve all the stories that have come out of the so-called roaring Twenties we can't hold a candle to the events of ma’s and pa’s college days. Gone forever are the times when the young swain would come wheeling up to the house for this girl friend in a Stutz Bearcat, squeeze the bulb on the horn and wrap his raccoon coat a bit more tightly about himself to ward off the autumn chill while awaiting her apperance. The trip to the stadium must have been an event in itself, with a flurry of skirts, pennants, bumps and mud, for it is to be supposed that the roads were none too good then, and the bucket seats of a speedster none too secure. Imagine if you can. a stadi um tilled with racoon coats, long silk stockings, and short silk dresses, and two teams butting heads in the mud down below. In those days the team with the thickest skulls won. (If this picture seems a little exaggerated, that’s the way it was present ed to the writer.) Of course, the most vital part of the equipment was a small school pennant for each woman and a flask full of goodies for each man. A cast iron stomach lined with lime stone was also desirable. 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