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And Something More
by MosUgSi BooJid
When the black-garbed Mortar Boards wind their way
through the picnic Saturday afternoon to tap new members,
they will be performing one of their last official functions of a
busy year.
Behind this simple process of presenting outstanding junior
women with the traditional red rose is a long and thorough pro
cess. As Mortar Board is a natioinal honorary, each women
who is selected for membership must have the qualities by
which each Mortar Board member in all of its chapters has
been chosen—scholarships, leadership, and service to the Uni
versity.
The process of selecting new members for Mortar Board is a
careful and thorough one. When the Mortar Boards begin to
scan the lists of outstanding women, they consider not only
what they know about each girl, but also what deans, depart
ment heads and campus leaders have to recommend. If possible,
no avenue of student participation is overlooked, in order to
obtain faculty and student opinion about each prospective
member.
When the lists are complete, the affirmative plan of voting
goes into operation. By this system, no one is “black-balled.”
The whole process is a positive one—positive discussion and
positive voting. When any girl receives a unanimous vote, con
ducted by written ballot, she is declared elected to membership.
The course of each girl’s college career is carefully taken in
to consideration. One of the first points is the scholastic rec
ord, for scholarship is one of the three prime requisites. The
minimum requirement is .3 above the campus average for the
past five terms. This year, each girl considered had to have at
least a 2.75. Those who had cumulatives of this figure would
pass the first qualification of scholarship.
The second criterion is leadership. To qualify each girl had
to have shown definite signs of capable leadership, ability to
handle responsibility by herself. Contrary to a common mis
conception, Mortar Board is not a collection of presidents.
Leadership ability is probably most frequently evidenced by
election to a position of president, but being a president of
some organization is not in itself a qualification for the senior
women’s honorary .The ability to lead is found in those who
may not hold the “top spot" and Mortar Board has sought to
recognize this.
The third necessity is service to the University. This does
not mean a girl must have kept busy for three years in a large
number of campus activities. The activities of the girls,
whether they be in several fields or in only one or two, should
add up to some definite accomplishment that is a credit to the
school.
Thus each year, the wearers of the gold tassel have taken
their responsibility seriously. They have tried to overlook no
girl really qualified; they have tried to extend membership to
only those really deserving.
They are proud of each girl to whom they will present the
rose Saturday afternoon.
Members of Mortar Board
Groups Select
Foreign Students
For U.O. Study
Six campus living organizations
have selected foreign students for
sponsorship next year, Foreign
Student Advisor J. D. Kline report
ed Thursday.
Kline stated that several other
houses are planning to sponsor stu
dents, but have not yet chosen a
particular person.
Residents of Carson Hall have
selected Miss Yoshiko Seki, from
Japan. Miss Seki plans to do ad
vanced work in English or journal
ism. She is a graduate of Joshi
Diagoku, in Tokyo, and has had
experience in journalistic and dip
lomatic work. At present she is
employed by Warner Pathe News.
Exchange Scholarship
Arrangements are being made to
obtain an exchange scholarship
which would allow a University
woman to study in Tokyo while
Miss Seki is in Eugene.
Alpha Delta Pi has decided to
sponsor Miss Ingeborg Vediler,
an advanced architecture student.
Miss Vediler is a Norwegian citi
zen.
Phi Delta Theta will sponsor
Arne Borgness, a Norwegian stu
dent in business administration,
who plans to study foreign trade.
Other Students
Campbell Club members have
chosen Oscar Hoessel, from Mun
ich, Germany. Hoessel is interested
in advanced study in education,
and has worked with post-war
German Youth organizations.
Sigma Chi will sponsor a journ
alism student from Berlin, Ger
many.
Alpha Xi Delta is making ar
rangements to continue sponsor
ship of Carmen Perez, special art
student from Guatemala.
Speaker Notes
Music Changes
Contemporary composers are re
turning to the style of Bach, Dr.
Manfred Bukofzer, University of
California, said Thursday night at
a lecture-concert at the music
school auditorium.
There has been a recent change
in classical music from the roman
tic, to a more technical approach.
The change indicates that we are
living in a parallel age in music, he
said.
Dr. Bukofzer praised Bach’s
“brilliant workmanship, profound
imagination, and thorough insight
in counterpart.’’
Taking part in the concert of
Bach selections which followed the
talk were, James Arment, Clenn
Garrett, Frank Cummings, John
Kienzle, Carolyn Oleman, Ellen
Liebe, Ann Kafoury, Robert Groth,
Keith Cockburn, Phyllis Higgin
botham, Charles Humphreys, and
Donald Hibbard.
Poison Oak
(Continued from page five)
where to start. Can't seem to find
out who's in charge. It’s not Uni
versity property. The city doesn’t
own it. And then there’s some
kinda law about cemeteries. They
call for kid-glove handling once the
plot gets planted.
So it looks as if students will
have to go on regarding the whole
business in the cold light of eco
nomic theory. That's when you
equate your marginal profit with
your marginal cost and ask your
self if it was worth it. If it wasn’t
you stop production. If it was, you
keep the check and do your own
scratching.
The Buchwach Editorial
(The weather in Eugene has been beautiful since the Buchwach
editorial was printed earlier this week. Since it wouldn’t do to break
the charm cast by Buck Buchwach, this edit is printed once again
today to assure the Weekend of fair and sunny weather. The Buch
ach editorial first appeared for the 1941 Junior Weekend and has
been reprinted every year since then to guarantee blue skies for the
annual festivities.)
When the occasion demands, and in truth it has on numer
ous occasions, the Portland Oregonian and Oregon Journal
have resorted to their editorial columns in an attempt to in
fluence weather conditions. Now there is no exact procedure
for a journalist to follow when he is begging for rain for poor
farmers gazing at the sky with parched throats, for verily, it
takes a combination of subtle demanding, varied pleading, and
good-natured hoping to achieve such desired results.
The Emerald, although of course it adolescently blushes
when compared to such time-honored organs as the Oregonian
and Journal, is driven to adopt such tactics, however, by Jupe
Pluvius, that old gentleman who loves the Oregon country so
well and so much that he delights in spraying it often and
thoroughly... especially when asked to by the Portland papers.
But now, Mr. Pluvius, the Emerald asks you politely, but
firmly, to shift your schedule in such a manner so as not to
spoil our Junior Weekend ... The farmers have had their misty
blessings, and the Oregonian and the Journal have received
their just due, and the city pavements, too, are washed clean
by the sweet Oregon mist. What the University asks now is for
you, Mr. Pluvius, to rest on your laurels, for a while, and visit _
someone else. >
There is reason to believe that you intend to scare us a bit.
In fact, you have. The rain clouds have washed our baseball
teams hither and yon, our track meets have been held in semi
wintry weather, and our golf and tennis teams have been forced
to completely abandon their frolicking.
But please, Mr. Pluvius (or Jupe, for we know you but too
well), don’t come around with your clouds and your tricks .. .
Our Moms will be down for the weekend festivities, and for
sooth—they will be attired in their springiest of spring outfits,
and their hats will be of the kind to bring male smiles. But we
want to take them to the campus luncheon to see the queen and
her court of beautiful princesses crowned, and my goodness
how the raindrops do raise havoc with even a proud mother’s
finest apparel.
The Portland papers have more important advertisers and
have more influence, perchance, Mr. Jupiter Pluvius, but not
even they will praise you with more honest enthusiasm and
open-mouthed admiration if you will but take your vacation.
And if you have to take that storm which is declared by seme
pessimistic meteorologists to be coming from out of Newport
way somewhere, perchance you could deposit it at Stanford,
California, or. even USC. '
Just for the weekend, you understand. We want you as our
permanent resident up here in Oregon, Jupe, to freshen our
flowers, to clean our streets, and to keep our soil rich and red.
But not Junior Weekend, please.
POWELL & EDBLOM
for Junior WEEKEND
82S Willamette St.
GOING GAYLY
Dial 5-3141