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Anita Holmes, Editor
DON THOMPSON, unstress manage*
Lorna Larson, Managing Editor
'Lame Ducks' in Campus Politics
Both the sophomore and junior class'presidents have fallen
off their political perches because of spring term grades lower
than the treacherous 2.
We’re not condemning Vernon Beard and Joe Kiaser—the
two ex-presidents—but we are condemning the system which
fostered the situation of which they were part.
The faults are many:
At least one of the two didn’t know his previous term’s
grades were considered. He thought his cumulative GPA
would tide him over.
Nobody—including the Executive Council—knew exactly
who is supposed to see that all office holders’ grades are okay.
The vice-president of the sophomore class learned Sunday
that she is to step into the presidency. Two weeks hence is the
Sophomore Whiskerino.
The “who’s to blame” axe falls on :
1. Campus political parties for nominating students walk
ing scholastic tightropes.
This problem of political ‘lame ducks’ comes up every year.
It’s not peculiar to one party.
2. Candidates who take on the burden of running for camp
us office when D’s are facing them.
3. Executive councils of past years who did not set up ma
chinery to clarify the situation.
The Emerald’s promise is not only to blame, but also to offer
a solution. So . . .
Raise the grade requirement for campus officers? No, many
a bookworm makes a poor gavel-weilder. And a 3. student
could easily drop below a 2. one term.
Make Student Affairs responsible for checking officer’s
grades every term? No, it’s our problem, not the administra
tion’s.
Let’s try this.
Insert a clause in the constitution requiring the Executive
Council (and its parallel under the new constitution) to check
all officers’ grades either before or during registration week of
every term.
Specific members of the Council should have the job, and
their positions should be listed in the constitution.
Notice that plural... “members.” We think either the junior
or senior representatives—one from each political party—
should have this responsibility.
And it should be done right away. Before another grade
point falls.
Will There be Joy in Philadelphia?
Between a 50-yard-run on one Saturday afternoon and a 50
vard-kiek on another, baseball steps in to take its last curtain
call of the 1950 season today—the World Series begins.
And while sports fans everywhere will be interested in the
Ducks, Notre Dame, and Kyle Rote, they won’t be too busy to
stop and consider how the Phils are faring against the Yankees.
It’s the first pennant in 35 years for the Quakers—so they’ll be
used to having the odds stacked against them when they head
in against the New Yorkers as 2 to 1 underdogs today.
Maybe the Phils will pull a surprise. Chances are they won’t.
But for the next few days anyway there may be an understand
able drop in attendance at many classes—or maybe some pro
fessors will keep one step ahead of the game by either (1) dis
missing class, or (2) bringing along a radio to intermingle with
the class lecture. It’s been done before.
The Profs, should be thankful the series isn’t a year-round
event. As it is, the arrival of the series means football season
has arrived too.—T.K.
THE DAILY . . .
. . . Glenna Hurst and Pat Saunders, two persistent ac
tresses who stayed in “Born Yesterday” tryouts until the
final round. They were edged out by Joyce Sommerlade
for the lead role of Billie Dawn.
THE OREGON LEMON . . .
. . . to Ted Saenger, recent Oregon visitor and Sports edi
tor of the Daily Californian, who topped off a complimen
tary column about Oregon with the misinformation that
the Student Union bowling alley has six lanes. All true
Ducks know there are eight lanes.
The Second Cup
People have philosophized on
many things—some good, some
bad. Following are undoubtedly
the 'higher echelon among the
evil contingent:
On communism—
The theory of communism
may be summed up in one sen
tence: Abolish all private prop
erty.—The Manifesto.
On passion—
Passion is universal human
ity. Without it religion, history,
romance and art would be use
less—Balzac.
On drinking—
Drink! for you know not
whence you came, nor why:
Drink! for you know not why
you go, nor where—Khayyam.
He is a drunkard who takes
more than three glasses, though
he be not drunk—Epictetus.
Three may keep a secret if two
of them are dead—Franklin.
=Magazis*e Rack=
Idea of What Not to Say
When June Rolls Around
—Py Marge Scandling
Article in the September
AMERICAN advises college
students to know what they
want to do after graduation and
then sell that idea to the pros
pective employer.says that
one of the poorest techniques
is the line, “I'll do anything to
work for your company, even
sweep the floor”. . . .(one em
ployer told the candidate he’d
had a good floor sweeper for
35 years, but if he could do bet
ter, he could have the job for
the next 35).
Map accompanying the arti
cle shows ratings of the 48
states as to percentage of em
ployables working.Oregon
News From All Over
Discrimination Hits Front Pages
The big fall term is fully
under way—so let’s hop on the
collegiate roller-coaster and
take a spin around the country
to find out what other cam
puses from the Northwest to
New England are doing these
days:
On the other side of the con
tinent at the University of Con
necticut, excavations for the
new Student Union building
have finally begun. The struc
ture will even contain tennis
courts. . .But courts of anoth
er kind were worrying 450
members of the student body
who received parking tags in
the very first week of school.
Discrimination, too, was oc
cupying much attention on cam
pus. . .The Pi Epsilon Pi nation
al fraternity refused to approve
the pledging of a Negro student
to Its Connecticut chapter. . .
The chapter now threatens to
secede. . .And the pledge? He’s
a varsity football player and
former president of his fresh
man class.
At Syracuse University, dis
crimination of another kind was
the center of student gossip. . .
The admissions office was heat
edly defending itself after 6
percent of the New York high
school reported that racial and
religious discrimination is be
ing carried on by colleges with
in the state.
Most dramatic news of the
week at the Illinois Institute of
Technology was the discovery
that ordinary dollar bills have
magnetic properties.
In the deep South at North
Carolina State, vandalism hit
the campus as the bell tower
and coliseum were besmirched
with the big, bold blue initials,
“U. N. C.” At Chapel Hill,
where the University is situat
ed, students painted up the
place with the letters “N. C.
S.” The University president
charged students with “com
plete irresponsibility.”
A student from the city of
the Arabian Nights, Baghdad,
has become the 13th member of
his family to study in the Unit
ed States. . . .He’s at Louisiana
State.
Meanwhile, at Texas Christian
University, enrollment dropped
12 per cent in line with other
schools the nation over.
On the West Coast, at Col
lege of Pacific, a political
science professor delivered a
fiery harrangue outside the
doorway of the Student Union
cafe condemning “profiteered
coffee.”. . .Seems the cafe now
charges a nicket for each extra
cup. . .The Student Union Com
mittee will decide the issue. . .
Also criticized was the $1.25
charge for haircuts.
Now on to the University of
Washington and more vandal
ism. . .The cgmpus was in an
uproar over deciding the fate
of students who broke into the
Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority
house and “ripped down window
drapes, scattered white powder,
sawdust, and ice on the rugs,
furniture and walls, and threw
eggs at sorority members who
came to investigate.”
At California, a 60-day ex
tension for signing the loyalty
declaration was granted non
signing professors by the Board
of Regents.
Meanwhile, Willamette Uni
versity was all hopped up over
the appearance of Pianist Ar
tur Rubinstein (he plays in
Eugene Saturday). . .The school
weekly ran two pictures, a biog
raphy, a news story, and an edit
on him—and all in the same
issue.—TK.
ranks in the second of five cate
gories with 96-98% employed.
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READER’S DIGEST article
last month, written by Colum
bia University history profes
sor, plays up neglect on part of
American colleges that fail to
require courses in U .S. history
. . . .author says that thorough
understanding of the subject is
the best counter offensive to
communism or socialism.
brings out results of a New York
Times survey to which some
college freshmen answered that
Walt Whitman was a band
leader, Alexander Hamilton in
vented the telephone, and Thom
as Jefferson founded the Satur
day Evening Post. List of state
universities not requiring U. S.
History, Oregon among them,
goes with article.
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The movie “The Black Rose”
has apparently started some
thing. . . .magzaines are full of
ads for Black Rose hair tint
(jet black), shoes (wine color),
stockings (seams in bright red),
a cocktail dress (black), com
pacts (black with red roses),
blouses, nail enamel and lip
stick (described as “autumnal
abracadabra. . .a ..veritable
chameleon of a color”), hats,
gloves, hair coiffure (“mould
ing bewitchery that blends the
storied adventure of ancient
times with the fashion of to
day”). jewelry, a new color for
the Hudson car, robes and pa
jamas, a sealskin coat, and a
new cocktail known as the
Black Rose (recipe on page 147
of September BAZAAR).
Clamor over university of
Washington’s photographing of
coeds culminated in a 3-column
story in TIME which explained
the whole situation.and
added that Harvard, Barnard,
and Smith colleges did the
same thing as a part of the
work of the health and PE de
partment.
It Could Be Oregon •
"Professor Snarf should know better than lecture to engineering *
students after the whistle blows." ^