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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 20, 1950)
'Stromboli, Might be Good The people of Eugene, including students, will not be al lowed to see “Stromboli” here. The Heilig Theater, which had booked the movie, conceled it because a council of Eugene ministers deemed the showing of the movie bad for American morals. If one looks back through history, he can find that a great many of the world’s art masterpieces were created by men and women who did not spend their less-creative moments sit ting at home in a rocking chair knitting. “Stromboli” may or may not be a work of art. But.consider ing the talents of the two persons who have a major connection with it—Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman—it is likely the film has some entertainment value. Miss Bergman’s acting is acknowledged to be of the highest caliber. Mr. Rossellini’s directing capabilities are also something extraordinary. We need only look back at their past film achievements to realize they are both artists in their profession. What Miss Bergman and Mr. Rossellini do when they are not in front of the cameras is their business. Since they are popular figures, their off-stage activities are likely to be re ported. And the public will follow those reports with varying degrees of interest. But when it comes to the showing of the film they have made, it is not the private lives of the two that is to be viewed, but their work. We (whether lip-service Christians, practic ing Christians, or not Christians) should not condemn Miss Bergman and Mr. Rossellini for behavior about which we know comparatively little. Rather than boycotting the film, we should request our news papers and advertisers not to capitalize on the situation. We should ask that the advertisements for the film confine them selves to the film, and do not, either directly or through impli cation, advertise the private lives of the director and star of the film. When we go to see “Stromboli” (in Springfield, Junction City, Portland, or wherever we get the opportunity) it will be to see one of our favorite actresses perform under the com mand of a very gifted director. We doubt if this will lower our moral standards. We would think that with all the money the University collected from late registration fines last term, envelopes could be afforded in which to keep the registration material. But apparently the office de cided more material could be lost and more persons could go through red tape if they just threw a loose rubber band around the material. Besides, if you loose your material, this may held up your entire regis tration process and then you won’t be able to go through step 5 by Mar. 4, therefore becoming eligible to pay the $5 late fine. With spring term coming up, and the old ruling about 12 hours minimum required going down, we can expect a large increase in the number of “part time” students. A student from Hawaii remarked the other day, “Quit kidding me, now, is this really spring or isn’t it?” We can’t find the answer, either, but as long as this sort of weather keeps up we won’t ask many ques tions. Not Just a Rehash The term may be drawing to a close (about 4 weeks of classes left) but deferred rushing controversy goes on and on. Tomorrow evening representatives of Panhellenic will meet with representatives of the Women’s Dormitories to dis cuss rushing for women. To rehash here all the problems of rushing early and then living a year in a dormitory, or of living a year in a dormitory and then rushing, is not necessary. These problems will un doubtedly be given a working over tomorrow evening. The important aspect of the meeting is simply the fact that the two women’s groups are getting together and are trying to work out a solution. It is hoped that each group will appre ciate and attempt to understand the problems of the other, and recognize more clearly the rights of the other group. The compromise worked out by the Inter Fraternity Council and the Inter Dormitory Council for men may or may not be used as a pattern for the women’s solution. While the prob lems of men’s rushing and women’s rushing are similar, they are not identical. When the IFC-IDC compromise is one solu tion to the deferred living, deferred rushing problem, it is cer tainly not the only solution. The women may come up with a better solution; they could easily come up with a worse one. We hope the girls go into the meeting tomorrow night in good faith; and that they act calmly, coolly, and with clear heads, realizing that the decisions they reach will effect more than just their dorm, or their sorority, that the decisions will effect the freshman girl who comes to Oregon for the first time next Fall. And the University is for the benefit of the student. 9*i V«e Bcuf, The Word From the Lawyers JletteM. Editor, Oregon Daily Emerald Dear Sir: With dismay, the members of Barrister Inn read the grade listings in Wednesday’s issue of the Emerald. Though probably no fault on the part of your staff, the name of the living organiza tion located at 1427 Onyx Street was listed as (ugh!) Zeta Hall. This error was undougt edly due to your source of information, an of fice probably much too concerned with inves tigating the vice on the campus to consider such a trivial matter as accuracy. So to cor rect this error, be informed that what was formerly Zeta Hall is, nunc pro tunc, Barris ter Inn. While we realize nullus idoneus testis in re sua intelligitur, nevertheless we wish to state that the average grade point of 1.82 is not in dicative of the intelligence of our group. Our membership is composed of a good number of graduate students, whose grades, the regis trar’s office informs us, are not included in the average you printed. Therefore, the published average merely shows the effect of Barrister Inn’s scholarship committee (the Law School faculty) on the undergraduates. The fact that we are now on social proba tion pains us. We wonder if this status will force us to cease and desist having our custo mary coffee breaks at the Falcon at nine o’clock of an evening"; these being our only ventures into the social life of the campus. But as eternal optimists, we can say with impunity, NO OTHER GROUP AP PROACHES OUR SCHOLASTIC STANDING. R. D. Bennett, Pres. R. L. Myers, Vice pres., sect’y, treas., social chairman, red cross representative, athletic mgr., house librarian. The Registrar’s office, having exhausted all its imaginative powers of devising the regis tration system, insists upon calling your liv ing organization Zeta Hall.—Editor. 0h> the Aib * With Spring's End Come Jobs? Lu MgsUu 'Weibxne’i What a weekend! Birds chirping, grass shoots sprouting up all over the place, and the sun playing peek-a-boo all day. Spring term a month early. Funny, but the whole campus seems to have taken on a new look. The buildings have a hallow ed look about them, a n d all the girls sun ni n g the in- t selves out on( the campus ( lawns looked li k e fugitives from a Holly wood set. It’s also get ting around that job-hutn X nee ing time. One of the bright bits of informa tion we picked lip at Broadcasters Confer ence, is a hint that the best place to start looking is some small town. Less chance of them pulling that old bugaboo, “All this is very nice, but have you had any experience?” Wonder how many people were at the Ida ho series? We were downtown Saturday night, and ran into a lot of people we’ve been used to seeing up in the rooter’s section at Mac court. They’ll all be back in the fold next week though ; an Oregon State game is a bat tle regardless of the position of either team. That radio program that was lost up in Vil lard Hall has been safely recovered. No ran som was needed. Somebody placed the thing where it belonged and no one thought of look ing there. There are all sorts of stories going around about why television hasn’t gotten Up here. Seems a lot of people aren’t happy about the benefits that radio’s latest baby has brought to their communities. A recent survey taken in Washington, D. C., showed that television audiences were cutting into the attendance at baseball, football, and boxing exhibitions. Movies have also shown a drop after tele vision was installed in some town. Boosting the thing are bars and dining places, where lounge lizards have boosted business. A common night’s entertainment is going to watch the game or fight, or attending the theatah over a couple of beers. All this controversy may be part of the x-ea son why that planned cable hasn’t come" through from San Francisco to Seattle. We understand the northern end of the line is locked in a little struggle concerning the ex pansion of “seeing radio.” <1UecUcUt and QuvemcUv An Attempt at Art-by Hollywood La Qeosiae. Spelvin While “Stromboli” takes the feature spot today, there are still other movies and theat rical attractions that might be interesting. “You Can’t Take it With You,” favorite American stage comedy, is currently playing at the Very Little Theater. After this week’s performance, it’s scheduled for seven more showings, skipping Monday evening and picking up again Tuesday. I caught “Intruder in the Dust” at the Heil ig last week; the movie, which is a success ful Hollywood attempt at art, met with audi ence approval. The film is an interesting tale of the deter mination and faith of an old woman and two youths to preserve justice—even for a negro in the South accused of murder. It is taken from the novel by William Faulkner and was filmed in Oxford, Miss. It is a good picture that holds interest throughout and still manages to get in its contention as art. Photography and acting are good; and any lack the picture may have can probably be blamed on inexpert directing and screen writing. What could have been a fast, exciting, thrilling movie is merely cjuite interesting. It seems to roll along at pretty much the same level, with no peaks of dramatic action but merely small bumps. Elizabeth Patterson, Juan Hernandez, and Claude Jarman Jr. are powerful in their ma jor roles and realistically Southern. David Brian, as the liberal-minded Southerner, is good enough if only he talked, as do all the others, with a Southern accent. (Please turn to page three) ^