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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
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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
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