Individually Speaking
There are those who say “So what?’’; those who ask
“Why?”; and those who just think “That’s fine for everybody
over there” when Religious Evaluation week comes around
each year.
This week, far from being geared to those students who
take an active part in campus religious activities all through
the year, is especially tuned for those students who go to
church once in a while on Sunday and activate somewhere
besides Wesley house, Westminster, Plymouth, Canterbury,
and so forth.
Going on the assumption that every individual has faith (or
almost every individual), but that he just cannot define his
faith, the religious week hopes to bring discussion of religion
and faith to the student, and instigate thought in the student.
It is certainly not the purpose of the week to bring students
together in one mass testimonial meeting in McArthur Court
where the University might break the 39-hour “record” set
by devout students at Wheaton College in Illinois last week.
Religious Evaluation week takes quite the opposite turn at
Oregon, in fact. It is placed on an individual basis here, where
the students are given every possible opportunity to discuss
their faith in small groups, or in private interviews with relig
ious leaders.
Use With Utmost Caution
A vet’s dormer dropped into the office yesterday and hap
ened to mention that the “telephone polls” conducted recently
by campus officers were not such a hot idea, since they tended
to change rather rapidly and without due notice things which
had already been accepted by the students.
In particular he was referring to the decision of the Execu
tive Council to not have polling booths in the Vet’s Dorms
after they had once decided to have them there; and the
decision of the senior class officers to change the senior ball
from formal to semi-formal.
His main complaint was this—it is unfair to the majority
of students to change things at the last minute. He further
went on to say that the slow-moving process is one of democ
racy’s virtues even more than one of its faults.
We tried to explain the Council’s actions; saying it was an
attempt to prevent a contested election, since there seemed to
be some doubt as to the justice of booths in the vet’s dorms in
some persons’ minds. This failed to impress the man, since he
was particularly chagrined at the fact that many freshmen
woke up election morning expecting to vote in the Commons
and found no polls there, and many were not aware where the
polls were.
The more the two of us talked, the more it became clear that
when changes are to be made, adequate notice should be given.
We also came to the conclusion that telephone polls are, at
best, generally inadequate.
While we are sure no one would want to go back and do all
the work necessary to have the Senior Ball over again, or plan
freshman elections once more; we do think it would be a good
idea for student groups to stick to the decisions they make; and
if a change is necessary to fully explain it in due time.
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A Very Frightening Character
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This, frands, believe it or not, is People
Who-Are-Dang-Fools-Enough-To-Read-Our
Column Week. Yup. There are some: we got
a letter from one, and a robin arrived with a
message from some others.
First, a letter came from Cyrus Noe, sports
editor of the Montana State University Kai
min, a newspaper. He was unhappy.
‘Dear Editor,” ni
he mused,
“R e g a r ding;
the column
[an. 30—Soph
o m o r e Wis
dom—I have a
z o m m u nica
tion to its auth
or.
“Funk, y o u
frig hten me.
“Of course, I
frighten easily.
I come from
the very little
lands beyond
hebephrenic barbers, Doberman-Pinschers,
vodka beverages, and neck shaves.
“In memory of Max Shulman, Cyrus Noe.’
Dear Mr. Noe, sometimes I frighten myself.
But it is really not frightening (my column)
if you know my background. I write chiefly
for my own amusement and for that of certain
small freshmen who live in my house. The ed
itor of the Oregon Daily Emerald is not par
ticularly charmed with my column, but prints
it anyway—we are extremely short of col
umnists.
When I was very young I thought I would
write Things about Social Questions. How
ever, I grew up to be phlegmatic, and so no
Social Questions ever occur to me. No one
ever reads my column except my fraternity
brothers, the staff of the Emerald, and my
grandfather, who thinks I should have gone
into sociology. And you. You are the big sur
prise. I did not think anyone east of Bend,
Oregon, read the durned thing.
I am sorry that you do not have hebe
phrenic barbers in Montana. I haven’t the
slightest idea what one of those is, but the
fact that we have them here does not alarm
me. I think I have two or three hebephrenic
fraternity brothers, too, and they don’t bother
me in the least.
Sometime I’ll dedicate one of my columns
to you. I dedicate them to all sorts of people,
such as Dorothy Manerud, a dog I know;
my father, who sends housebill money; Dr.
Powers, from whom (I, too, can claim an
acquaintance with grammar when I feel like
it) I get my Spanish Lit grade.
I do think, Cyrus, that you might pass this
whole thing off with a grain of philosophy.
Anyway, I hope that if anything in our paper
bothers you again, you will let us know. JVe,
or I, at least, enjoy your letters. >
(Please turn to page three)
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The Price of Speaking Up
Is “bop” on its way out? Seems that at the
“Heart Hop” all a house had to do to clear
the floor and assure a wholesale exit of danc
ers to another
house was to
slap a Gillespie
disc (or a plat
ter by some
other musi
cian? with a
similar style)
on the phono.
Have sane ^
prom people at
last tired of
fighting a knee
hip-foot-shoul
d e r - e 1 b o w
:reatment from » l e x •
“gone goons f ' ‘ * c ‘
and their gals”
who bounce about the floor, to the strains of
‘'bop” or, worse yet, “re-bop” (re is short
for regurgitating) with complete disregard
for life, limb, personal effects, or wooden legs ?
Maybe “bop” is dead !
Ly Hod Smith
If it still lives (it should so long, yet?) we
ought to employ the following system at all
“nickel hops.” Certain houses should be
designated as bop houses, charleston houses,
or wh-oops (choke, gasp!). This system
would allow the blood, sweat, and tears crowd
to fight it out among themselves with no
three-quarter time people getting in their way
(or trampled under foot). Something to think
about, anyway.
The following sentence concerning the
above paragraph is inserted at the advice of
Dale Carnegie. If it offends, send it to Fred
Young and he 11 burn it after mumbling some
ancient exorcisms (ragg mopp be bop, etc.)
over it. I like the guy personally but his hair '
is a lot shorter than mine.
While I’m kicking around, you should par
don the expression, music I might as well
mention that “\\ ild Goose” job, that Frankie
Laine put out recently. It’s just what he de
serves! If anybody wants to go “where the
Wild Goose goes” more power to him. Fly
away!
I had a lot of comment about my column
(Please turn to page three)
No One Was Disappointed in Stan's Performance, But...
By Jim Wallace, Member Student Union Board
Monday night Stan Kenton introduced jazz,
1950 model, to an enthusiastic audience. No one
was disappointed in Stan's performance. But there
was one flaw in the program. The Student Union
Board, which brings special events to the campus,
lost a good deal of money on the show. The board
lost money on Nappy Lamare, too.
In themselves, these two losses aren't vitally im
portant. But they do pose a problem for the future.
For many years, Webfoot students have
lamented the lack of “name" entertainers brought
to the campus. There have been two reasons for
this. One, entertainment is high priced; two, Eu
gene is in a bad geographical spot when it comes to
attracting top-flight entertainers on tour.
Entertainment is still in the high cost bracket,
but the Student Union Board hopes to overcome
this problem by attracting larger audiences, thus
keeping the per-ticket cost low. Board members
feel that we would be defaulting on our obligation
to the student body if we set high admission rates
for any entertainer.
Unfortunately, we can’t do anything about Eu
gene's geographical placement. If we can lick the
money problem, however, we can attract any band,
entertainer, or special event to Eugene. They'll go
wherever there's someone to pay the freight. In the
main, the big outfits will stop here between week
ends . . . it’s just more profitable to play Portland
and San Francisco on weekends and to fill in with
places like Eugene.
I lie Student Union Board isn't complaining'
about these first two financial setbacks. This year
e 1 e moi e interested in building a program than in
breaking even moneywise.
But the board is interested in showing this prob
lem to the student body. \\ e plan to schedule the
best entertainers possible for campus appearances.
\\ e also plan to keep ticket costs pared to the bone.
And we plan to develop a host of free student ac
tivities to be carried on in the Student Union Build
ing. That’s why we can’t continue to lose indefin
iteK on e\ ents with an admission charge.
Sometime we must bring expense and income
into the balance. For the present, we’re satisfied
with presenting the problem. ^
Jh