Sex Standards: UporDown
Lurid stories of sex life on America’s college campuses are a
weak mixture of hearsay, half-truths, and fiction.
That’s the opinion expressed by Coronet in its May issue
and for its evidence it calls on information from outstanding
educators, college officials, sociologists and students from uni
versities throughout the nation.
In fact, Coronet reports that not only are sex standards in
the colleges no lower than any other group in the United States,
but actually they are among the highest.
For example, a top official at City College of New York
(third largest college in the nation) says, “We have found that
our 34,000 students are sober and intelligent in their attitudes
towards sex.”
And Coronet concludes “America’s students are going about
the business of learning with calm assurance and serious pur
pose. As with other complicated problems of living, they are
facing the challenge with high ideals and level heads.”
Now, we’d like to say that it’s high time someone has come
out and said something about us young whippersnappers that
was praiseworthy. Usually the old-timers smirK and pass the
whole thing off with a curt, “Well, I wonder what these young
’uns are going to do next” or, more frequently, what is this
younger generation coming to?”
However—we also wonder whether, even if college students
around the country do rate high in group morals, it just simply
means that the standards in the United States have reached a
pretty low ebb.—T.K.
The First Fast One
To have even an outside chance at winning the ASUO elec
tions this term, the USA was going to have to pull something
exceptional.
And it did.
The addition of Alpha Tau Omega and Delta Upsilon to
houses outside the AGS bloc was the revitalization that has in
vigorated USA.
Two weeks ago, the only excitement predicted concerning
this year’s election was the fight within AGS over who was
going to get the number one bid. After that, with little Greek
houses swarming back to the bloc, USA wasn t given the
chance of a snowball in hell.
But now it loks like the campaign will be a fight to the finish.
The ATO-DU drop from the bloc threw the AGS into such a
flurry it denied admittance to its election of a slate to an Em
erald reporter.
Now the next exciting move in this thrilling escapade which
occurs annually in the spring at Oregon is up to AGS. What
aces does it have up its sleeve to get candidate Gerry Smith in
the spotlight?
But the question that must plaque USA is this:
How far can Barry Mountain and the ATOs be trusted to
support the policies of USA?
No one denies that the move to USA by the ATOs was an
opportunist’s move. If Mountain had had a chance for the AGS
nomination, his house may have stuck with the party.
But now he is a USA candidate, and must show within the
next week that he supports the USA policies—which hinge
around clean student government. USA fights any group which
attempts to control student government for the benefit of a
select small crowd.
The ATOs left the bloc, as did the DUs, because they were
fed up with “dirty greek tactics.” Mountain has turned to USA
because he felt in that organization an individual would have
an opportunity to stand up and state what he stands for and
take his chances on meeting the approval of the voters, no mat
ter what house he may belong to.
But many independents who believe in the USA policies
are wondering if USA has sold out its principles to win an
election. Many independents may wonder if they do not simply
now have a choice between two evils.
It is the job of the USA to convince the students that it
retains the principles which has won it two elections. And
it is particularly the job of Barry Mountain to convince the
students that he has turned his back on the AGS; that he has
turned his back on “political deals and dirty politics”, and will
work for clean and honest student government as exemplified
by USA policies of the past.
Only in that way can he hope to get the support of the stu
dents who believe in good student government.
The OREGON DAILY EMERALD, published daily during the college year except all
Saturday but Junior Weekend, Sunday, holidays, final examination periods, Monday pre
ccuing junior weekend in May, and the last Thursday in May by the Associated Students,
University of Oregon. Entered as second class matter at the postotfice, Eugene, Oregon.
*]Ue. S<jfUiViel Gatje
A Big Hangover From a Big Weekend
Lif> Stan ^Jusmbull
The weekend over, we can
mop np a few odds, ends, and
anecdotes . . . and a couple of
garlic bouquets.
Actually overheard a mo
ther asking her daughter
this one while entering the
Co-op: “But do you study
down here, too?” Didn't hear
the daughter’s answer, but
wonder how she wiggled out
of that one.
The late, great float parade
was both of those, but defi
nitely great . . . Sometimes
you wonder, after two weeks
or more a-building and 15 to
20 minutes in the parade;
then prey for the neighbor
hood small-fry. But we sup
pose it’s worth it . . . The lit
tie kids sure had the time of
their lives, though; noticed
a swarm of them still having
the time of their lives bun
day on the Sig Ep’s merry-—•
go-round, which was without
locomotion but only slightly
broken-down .. .
For our money, the fun
niest part of the weekend was
the Druid’s’tapping . . . Our
personal congratulations to
those of the deserving that
didn’t make it, and condol
ences to those that were tap
ped that deserved.it.
Just a side word on politics,
too—things are getting so
thick that if you consider ev
erything you hear a lie, you 11
be right more often than
wrong . . . Looks like maybe
the time is ripe for a know
nothing party. Any takers?
“We stand four-square for
progress, Americanism, and
48 states. Peasants arise!”
It would be very nice to be
able to come up with some
miraculous system for clear
ing up the st'ench of campus
politics and subversive
groups—which w o u 1 d do
more for the smell of the at
mosphere hereabouts than dy
namiting Weyerhauser. But
let’s don’t be idealistic, let’s
just figure it’s part of the
game when people who
should be friends are enemies
instead . . . after all, for the
greater glory of campus poli
tics, what price is too big?
Circuiting the NationsCollegeCampuses
While Oregon is turning its attentions
from Junior Weekend to spring term elec
tions, let’s take a brief swing around the na
tion’s collegiate circuit and see what gives on
the other campuses here and yond:
The educational pot is stewing down in
Louisiana where the president of Northwest
ern State College is being investigated by the
State Board of Education. He is charged with
everything from banning a campus speech to
interfering with campus religious activities.
Meanwhile, the Northwestern student body
is collecting a “Goodbye fund” to hasten his
departure.
At Syracuse University, television studios
were officially dedicated in a handsome cere
mony that topped off five weeks of success
ful video operation.
Across the waters at the University of Ha
waii, the editorship of the student paper
switched hands three times before matters
finally got squared away. But the student
body itself was actually much more concern
ed about the big May day pageant.
At its headquarters in Madison, Wis., the
National Student Association is now formu
lating plans for a round-trip summer journey
to Europe. More than 1,000 students are ex
pected to make the hop. Cost: $310.
The Oregon State College student body up
the valley is a little excited about the low pay
scale for student workers. Seems the wages
lag to 65 cents per hour and lower. It is point
ed out, furthermore, that the national mini
mum wage scale is 75 cents.
Students at the University of Idaho, Mos
cow, meanwhile, are all excited about some
thing much less serious. They’re in the throes
of selecting an Ugly Ike and a Gaudy Gert for
the campus. Leading candidates as the elec
tions got under way are “Toothless Pin
chears” and “Gorgeous Gussie,” but the vot
ing is expected to go right down to the last
hour before the winner is determined.
At Missoula, Montana State University
freshmen are getting ready for the spring
painting of the “M.” The color is green, as
specifically prescribed in the school consti
tution.
Things reached a sadder note at UCLA.
The death of Provost Clarence Dykstra
shocked the campus; student body elections
have been postponed for trvo days.—T.K.
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'The Lady of Distinction'-- Slapstick
by Cjecsiye Sfielvm
Rosalind Russell, noted for
sophisticated comedy, turned
to slapstick in "Lady of Dis
tinction,” now playing at the
Heilig.
She rides in hot rods, climbs
through windows, gets slap
ped and covered with mud,
and uses an oversized hand
bag as a weapon before
she finally clinches with Ray
Milland in the final scene.
The comedy has its mo
ments and some of the time is
quite funny, but generally it
is pretty weak stuff with an
admirable waste of talent.
Janis Carter as a high-pow
ered publicity agent doesn't
get much of a chance to do
much of anything except
jump out of taxicabs with an
agonized expression on her
face.
Edmund Gwenn jumps
around like a pixie, but a ra
ther medling one, as I\Iiss
Russell's father. And Ray Mil
land assumes a British accent,
which is natural to him, but
even that isn't worth many
laughs.
Milland plays a British pro
fessor of astronomy who is
going on a lecture tour in the
United States with Miss Car
ter as press agent. In attempt
ing to dig up something in
teresting about the professor,
she discovers that he is re
turning a locket to Dean Mid
dlecott (Miss Russell), dean
of women (or something, it
was never made quite clear)
at Benton college. Since the
dean, whose face appeared on
the cover of Time, has stated
she has no time for romance,
the chance of a romance with
its resultant publicity sounds
good to the press agent who
wants to make the rather dull
astronomy lectures sound in
teresting'.
Just to confuse things,
Miss Middlecott has a daugh
ter whom she adopted when
she served in France during
the Avar. This naturally leads -
into many interesting bits of
conversations as A’arious char
acters discuss the possibility
of the daughter not actually
being adopted, but instead
the offspring of Miss Middle
cott—and who is the father?
There are three possibilities
to this last question; but the
real ansAver is never disco\r
ered.
The script Avriters ap
parently realized fully just ex
actly AA'hat they Avere doing in
this picture. Some of the time
it seems like an attempt at an-^
other “Miracle on 34th Street,
sometimes like a Marx broth- #
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