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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 5, 1950)
05i3Pk'"~ ' Mmatmwmwv ' "You should do wsU la this courts, Miss Paddon." Then There Were None Grades, illness, graduation, and Washington, D. C., have taken their toll from the Executive Council, leaving a hardy crew of eight on hand to select four new members. But every cloud has its silver lining, and would-be politicos can now step up into the limelight in their petitions for one of the four vacant offices. Hardest hit was the junior class, with both reps not return ing. Anita Holmes accepted a secretarial position with Idaho’s Republican Senator Henry Dworshak, and Bill Lance, who is trying to hurry things up and graduate in June, feels he had better study Winter term. Phil Patterson, senior rep, graduated at the end of Fall term; and Ron Brown, sophomore rep, left school late in Fall term because of illness and will not return until Spring term. So Winter term will give opportunity to politically ambi tious students, no matter what their class. Freshman may try their luck in class of ’53 elections, and sophomores, juniors, and seniors may petition for Executive Council positions. The Council will most likely fill the positions with students from the same party as the absenting member. Particularly since both parties have suffered numerically equal losses. The appointments may also be in the form of a preview of coming attractions, especially with the junior petitioners. With spring elections not too far off, both parties may be in clined to try out potentials by placing them in Executive Coun cil positions. Which may not be such a bad idea, since it gives the students a chance to show their abilities, and gives them valuable experience. Too often, ASUO candidates have been elected without any first-hand knowledge of student govern ment. The resignation of the four reps leaves a situation which will undoubtedly have interesting developments. But there will have to be some pretty good petitioners to replace the lost members. Patterson served his term in office with distinction, Lance was a veritable whirlwind of activity. Brown was taking his first fling in student government, and Miss Holmes — well, she’s worth an edit of her own. The Council is faced with a challenge in appointing new members of the caliber of those who have resigned. Daily EMERALD 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 postofiice Eugene, Oregon. Don A. Smith, Editor Joan Mimnaugh, Business Manager -y— - ■■■ ■■ ... Barbara Hkywood, Helen Siifkman, Associate Editors. Glenn Gillespie, Managing Editor Cork Mobley, Advertising Manager News Editors: Anne Ooodman, Ken Metzler. Assistant Nrws Editor: Mary Ann Delsman. Assistant Manager Editors: Hal Coleman, Vic Fryer. Tom King, Stan Turnbull. Women's Editor: Connie Jackson. Sports Editor: John Barton Desk Editors: Marjory Bush, Suzanne Cock* cram, Bob Funk, Gretchen Grondahl, Lorna Larson. Chief Night Editor: Lorna Larson. Why Study—Chemistry? By A. H. KUNZ, Head, Chemistry Department (This is another story in the series offered by Phi Eta Sig ma, scholastic honorary, on the value of courses offered by var ious departments.) The chief aim of the Univer sity of Oregon should be to help all its students obtain a liberal education. At the same time it should not be blind to the fact that its students will have to make a living for themselves and their families after gradu ation. Some, but not all of the de partments of the College of Liberal Arts are not very lib eral in recognizing the value of a so called practical education. One can better appreciate the beauties of this world on a full stomach. Similarly, some, but not all of the professional schools, are content if their stu dents take the minimum of two group requirement courses in the College of Liberal Arts. There is too much emphasis on courses such as typing and shorthand. The University should not become; a trade school. NICE COMBINATION The Department of Chemis try is ideally suited to help pro vide an education for students seeking a combination of the practical and the cultural. The ease with which its better grad uates are placed in teaching po sitions and industrial and gov ernmental research work is a testimony to the dollars and cents practicality of its curricu lum. Operating as it does as one of 164 departments of chemistry in the United States which have been approved by the Commit tee on the Professional Train ing of Chemists of the Ameri can Chemical Society, the De partment has support in its own desire to insist on a broad curriculum. I believe the curri culum for chemistry majors is the only one, other than Ger man itself, that has two years of German or its equivalent as an absolute requirement for the bachelor’s degree. In addition to the university group require ments many chemists take the “Development of Scientific Thought” in the Department of Philosophy. Others have been known to take additional his tory, political science, Shake speare, music, speech, etc. It should be admitted, however, that chemistry majors in gen eral, do not take as many courses in social science, liter ature, and the professional schools as they are encouraged to take. In some respects the curriculum is too highly pro fessionalized. RESEARCH PROBLEMS Throughout the chemistry curriculum, an effort is made to inculcate the scientific method of investigation. It is in the natural sciences that this meth od can best be illustrated and used. At least by the junior year, and in some cases as early is the freshman year, chemis :ry majors may undertake ninor research problems either n connection with their regular ;ourses or in special courses for :he purpose. If facilities and staff permitted, more of this work would be done by under graduates. Until the new sci ence building is completed, most individualized work must be restricted to graduate stu dents. Graduate students similarly are expected to develop a broad program of studies. At this lev el, however, more specializa tion in chemistry and related sciences is necessary. Never theless, formal minors or ser vice courses in education, busi ness, journalism, etc. are en couraged. Unfortunately, sel dom do the students have the necessary prerequisite for grad uate courses in these fields. Miss Holmes Goes to D.C. How many right hands can a person have? Quite a few, apparently, and still not be all thumbs. The University lost a student who was the right-hand girl to a lot of people. Josephine Moore of the news bureau no longer has a top notch Oregonian correspondent. Jim Wallace of Old Oregon is left without an efficient managing editor. Phi Theta Upsilon has to pick a new secretary. The Executive^Council and Art Johnson have to look around—for a new junior rep. The Win ter term honor roll will miss her name. It is rather difficult to be an activity girl, 4-point and hon^l roll student, beautiful, and a BWOC in general, but Anita Holmes managed to do it. And what she dislikes most of all is talking about her ac complishments. And her next favorite dislike is other people talking (or writing) about her achievements. When she was a freshman she didn’t petition for Kwama, despite 4-points and Emerald, Oregana, Old Oregon, and ISA work, because “I’m not the Kwama type.” When interviewed for her Executive Council position she forgot to mention that she had been student body president of her high school, a “first” in her town for a woman. Yes, Aniter has gone to Washington, D. C., to work for Idaho’s Senator Dworshak; and, to use an old phrase, Wash ington’s gain is our loss. And if we seem to have gone a little overboard about Anita’s departure, don’t blame us too much. A lot of people, and organizations, have gone overboard for Anita. And if she was the right hand to a number of people, she was something special to the Emerald, too. She was kind of a left-hand, part-time associate editor. A Way to Make Sure “It can’t happen to me” is a time-honored American mis conception, and it probably is useful in keeping us all from be coming quavering neurotics, fearful to peek out from under our bed-clothes lest disaster strike. But the definite knowledge that “it isn’t going to happen to me”' is a much more sound basis for confidence. And next week students will have a chance—free and next to effortless— to make sure that at least one thing is NOT gat ing to happen to them, when a mobile unit of the Oregon Tuberculosis Association visits the campus. Free chest x-rays will be available to all from 9 to 5 Mon day through Thursday, and Friday morning from 9 to 12. Tuberculosis isn’t as picturesque a way to ruin your health (or worse) as some of the other methods available these days, but as Dr. Miller, director of the health service, points out, it is still a major cause of sickness and death among young adults. It shouldn’t be necessary to wheedle and cajole college stu dents into taking advantage of an opportunity such as this, so we won’t.—Stan Turnbull. The Mid-Century Laugh Variations on the tired theme of New Year’s bells: Newspapers, and magazines such as Life, Time, Bbo and what have you had edi torial orgies the last month reminiscing the half century. Although the editors were wise enough to see that if they laughed too hard at Daddy’s quaint ways, they’d be leaving themselves wide open to the scoffs of editors yet unborn, they couldn’t resist a few guffaws at the expense bf their ancestors. In retaliation we’d like to jump the gun on the editors-yet-unborn and snicker grimly at the mid-century man. Was there ever such an earnest man ? Besides, admirably enough, expecting to reconcile in one generation the east and the west, the strangeness between white and black, and the snarled diplomacy of the last 200 years, he has become social conscious bn a more minute level. He has his world neatly di vided into capitalists, communists, white-collar workers, liigh-brows and low brows. The last two are sub-divided into upper-middle brows, etc. and according to their place in this sub-division people buy double (Please turn to page three) ft'