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Something About a Ski Team and an Arabian Storyteller
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There’s been trouble brewing up at the Pi Phi
house since last fall, when the girls decided to go
modern with polarized glass shower doors. The
chief difficulty is that a careless or sloppy work
man mounted the doors backward, making it pos
sible to see into the showers but not out of them as
was intended. As a result, there has been an epi
demic of throwing cold water upon the poor un
fortunates showering. The effect from the outside
looking in (this observation is by hearsay only)
is that of a goldfish in a bowl.
Why is it that the members of the ski team are
finding it necessary to advertise on the sports page
of the Register-Guard for a sponsor?
The following story is presented with apologies
to the narrator for shortening it enough to make it
fit an Emerald page :
A trader who had cheated some Arabs with
whom he was dealing was caught in the act. The
Arabs punished him by 'destroying all his posses
sions and torturing his family to death before his
eyes. Then they drove a stake through his body
and left him in the middle of the Sahara desert to
die.
OSC has a ski team.
The trader was discovered by a passing camel
driver who heard the whole story from the lips of
the dying man.
“How horrible,” said the camel driver, “Is there
anything I can do?”
“No, nothing,” was the reply, “I’ll soon die any
way.”
“That stake through your chest—do you want
me to pull it out? It must hurt terribly.”
“No—no, it isn’t bad, except when I laugh.”
Vanport sponsors its ski team, and so does Port
land University.
It may sound trite to you, but you could catch
polio. So the next time you see the blue can with
the window in it, why not drop in a dime? It's only
a cup of coffee, and it couldn’t be for a worthier
cause.
It seems strange that a school as ski-conscious
as Oregon doesn’t have a ski team.
What gem of learning will turn up in the class
room next? At least one professor of economics
acknowledges the beer “barter” system. Propon
ents are the students who figure their finances in
terms of the brew they can purchase.
Of course there’s no revenue from skiing—the
spectators get to watch for free.
Problems up North
Now that we have swallowed the fact that deferred living is
here, campus groups are chewing the possibility of deferred
rushing.
Last term, the Inter-dormitory Council issued a statement
favoring deferred rush; last week Panhellenic announced its
disapproval of the plan.
Will deferred rushing eliminate some of the problems which
“living in” will instigate? Why not look to the northern
branch at Corvallis, where deferred living for women has been
functioning for some time?
The problems facing OSC dormitories are numerous. For
instance:
1. When are we going to have house meetings? Meetings are
necessary to maintain hall organization, but on Monday nights,
set aside for this purpose, many dorm students are at pledge
and chapter meetings. Is there another relatively free night?
Find one.
2. Are the pledges going to work on the dormitory or the
sorority dance? Pledges ask themselves—“Whose dessert am
I going to? Shall I play hockey for the house or the dormitory?
How can I apportion my one activity night a week between
the house and the dorm?” The result is usually participation
in sorority activities.
3. How can we maintain close organization and a form of
group living when many students are more interested in the
group at their sororities?
4. When are pledges going to study when they must do door
duty at the house, telephone duty at the dormitory, house du
ties at the sorority, and committee work at the hall?
The problem facing freshmen at OSC is an expensive first
year, playing both house dues and dormitory fees, participat
ing in hall and sorority activities, AND the task of making
sorority grades for initiation. Many do it many don t.
Oregon State’s adjustment to the problem is freshmen dor
mitories, where girls live before going into theii houses or
Sackett Hall. At Sackett, independent women are offered
closely knit organization and "group” living.
But many problems are left unsolved. Pledges still face the
demand for dual loyalty, and all freshmen women live in a
group of conflicting aims and loyalties. Sororities are constant
ly faced with adjustments to make.
Deferred rushing offers one answer to these problems, but
at the same time instigates other problems. But these prob
lems affect both dormitories and Greek living organizations.
Therefore the problem should be solved by representatives
from both groups, working for the best adjustment for the
student body as a whole.”—Jackie Pritzen.
(The writer of this editorial attended OSC last year and was
president of Waldo Hall, freshman dormitory.—Editor)
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The Rat Race or
Next Bus Home
hy Rad Smith
“The object of school is to learn something,
not to get grades!” So stated one of my in
structors. It’s too bad that students at Ore
gon can’t follow this good advice. There is
much more to be derived from college than
prostration before the almighty GPA.
In grade and high school we were all edu
cated in fundamentals. We learned mechan
ical thought processes so that when the tea
cher asked a question we could give the cor
rect answer. We were somewhat like ma
chines ; the teacher put in the raw facts, the
wheels went around, and out came things the
teacher wanted us to know. In college this
should change. Thinking should cease being
mechanical and start being intellectual. In
dependent rationalization of lecture informa
tion should be employed, using the mechani
cally gained knowledge of early education as
a basis of thought.
At Oregon the concept of college is differ
ent. In exams the student does not put down
what he believes to be the correct answer—
what he got out of the course—but the an
swer he thinks the instructor wants to hear.
In other words, he^adapts his personal phi
losophy and thoughts to those of the profes
sor. Is this almost mandatory action logical
or constructive? Is an instructor justified in
giving higher grades to those students who
express his views? Should a student be re
quired to sacrifice his individual opinion in
order to get a passing grade ?
The power of grading which an instructor
reserves, if he uses it in a biased manner,
makes the knowledge and personal opinions
he imparts to his students not voluntary but
dogmatic, and necessary for survival in the
great rat race for high GPA’s. If the student
decides he won’t accept such a professor’s
views, he might as well catch the next bus
home.
It is all very well for instructors to bewail
the students’ “slavish dependence upon as
signments” and their “seemingly complete
willingness and desire to take orders” but '
professors should know why this attitude
prevails. As long as GPA is king at Oregon,
the average student will be found to have
very little individuality.
Wild Nolei
Who Said Kenton?
He's Hard at Work
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Here we are back on the page blowing the
usual sour ones and trying not to tread on
anvone else’s premises.
Who said Kenton? It’s a pretty common
fact that lie's reformed his band and added
strings and woodwinds. But. from there the
word takes many courses so we'll see if we
can't add up the known facts, and arrive
someplace?
Kenton rehearsals started early in January.
About, today, Kenton is staging a dress re
hearsal in Los Angeles with only a select few
among the invited. Tunes liked will be em
phasized in later concerts; tunes particularly
disliked will be tossed out. Kenton's initial
concert will be Seattle's good fortune, Feb
ruary 9th.
A few of the hipsters might wish it repeat
ed whose doing afl this writing for the 40
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