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Anita Holmes, Editor
Don Thompson, Business Manager
Lorna Larson, Managing Editor
Ken Metzler, Tom King, Don Smith, Associate Editors
Barbara Williams, Advertising Manager
News Editor: Norman Anderson
Assistant News Editor: Jackie Pritzen
Chief Night Editor: Mary Hall
Wire Editor: John Barton
Sports Editor: Pete Cornacchia
-Assistant Business Manager: Shirley Hillard
National Advertising Manager:
Bonnie Birkemeier
Layout Manager: Martel Scroggin
Portland Advertising: Karla Van Loan
Zone Managers: Fran Neel, Jean Hoffman
Virginia Kellogg, Nancy Pollard
Circulation Manager: Jean Lovell _
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Overcoming Disadvantages
Ed. Note: Carson Hall President Jackie Pritzen has written this
week's “editorial by invitation” as a parallel to one written last week
by Panhellenic President Joan White. Both writers have given their
views on. these first weeks under the new living-in plan . .. Miss White
from the sorority standpoint and Miss Pritzen from the dormitory
view.)
Since a decision last year resulted in fall term rushing for
freshmen women this year, the most convenient and beneficial
time during the first weeks seemed freshman week.
Despite the obvious disadvantages of an overloaded schedule
for all concerned, particularly freshmen, a backward glance
seems to assure that the freshman week schedule was most
advantageous.
An earlier rush week would have found the dormitories un
able to present a necessary orientation policy; a later rush week
would have interfered with freshmen classes and studies an
even more important consideration.
Each of the available periods at the beginning of the term
offered serious disadvantages, which could have been over
come, it seems, by deferring rushing until a later term or next
year.
The problems arising out of the fall rush-living in plan are
many and large, Both women s halls and Panhellenic have
made every effort to solve them with the least possible confu
sion. Cooperation has been excellent.
However, it seems that these problems would not arise un
der a deferred rushing plan. The shift would be to a complete,
rather than modified, three-year plan of activity in campus so
rorities. The freshmen would be placed under the University
sponsored orientation plan for one year, then pledge sororities
with the period of scholastic adjustment behind them.
Both sororities and freshmen could use their first year on
the campus as a background for pledging in the second year.
The immediate question this year, however, is making the
combination of fall term rushing and deferred living work to
the best advantage of University freshmen women.
Every problem solved so far has heen solved with the ulti
mate welfare of the freshmen in mind. Mistakes will be made
but this year is a year of experiment. The dormitories have re
ceived every consideration from both the administration and
Panhellenic, therefore, cooperation—the first step to ironing
out perplexities has been achieved.
The Odds Are About Two to One
Last chance for student tickets to the OSC game is today.
The annual classic, held in Portland this year for the first
, time since World War II, is Nov. 25, the Saturday of Thanks
giving vacation.
Tickets, 1,500 of them, are to be allotted to Webfoots by a
drawing tonight. To be in the drawing, students must drop by
the Student Union sometime today from 10 to 3, stop at the
table in the main lobby, fill out a drawing slip, and turn it in
along with an athletic card to be punched by the attendant on
duty. It’s simple, it’s painless, and it’s the only way to get a
chance at one of the student tickets—which will go on sale next
week, at $2.50 each, to the students who luck out in the draw
ing tonight.
This semi-annual drawing is almost as thrilling as a game of
Bingo. If you want a ticket, be sure and try your luck today. •
' D.S.
THE DAILY . . .
goes to Athletic Business Manager Howard Lemons for
his behind-the-scene efforts to make Oregon’s cheering
section a good one at the Oregon-Oregon State game.
THE OREGON LEMON . . .
to Ellsworth for not returning those socks advertised in
the “Classified” column the past several days.
-—— Letters
The Campus Answers
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House By House Spirit
Emerald Associate Editor D.S.
The six steps to spirit you
wrote about are fine, but won’t
you please tell me how to enforce
them ? I am interested chiefly in
the white shirt section so lets
work on that. First, you suggest
—“Reserve seats between the 35
yard lines for students wearing
white shirts. No white shirt—no
seat between the 35 yard lines.”
To fill the section you mentioned
it would take about 1,000 people,
in white shirts or more perhaps.
At the Montana game we reserv
ed 468 seats for fellas in white
shirts (no girls because we didn’t
want to break the pigger tradi
tion) and only about 250 men ap
peared in the prescribed apparel.
Nobody seemed to care about tra
dition, school spirit, or just being
good guys and helping out. As you
can see it’s a problem.
Next week when we play St.
Marys, we plan to reserve the
same number of seats or maybe a
couple of hundred more.
I would sincerely appreciate
anything further you might write
to stir up school spirit in the form
of the fellas sitting in the white
shirt section and backing their
rally board and their team by
showing up after the rallies.
Very sincerely yours,
Bob Brittain
Chairman of the white shirt
section
We think it can best be hand
led through living organizations.
Have the house and dorm presi
dents announce your plan of re
served seats between the 35-yard
lines (or between the 40-yard
lines) for persons wearing white
shirts. Remind the presidents that
Order of O men will be on duty to
see that only persons wearing
white shirts sit in that section.
—D.S.
Service Slow But Sure
Emerald Editor:
A word about Funk’s fabulous
flop on SU fountain facilities.
Those behind the fountain are un
der constant tension, caused by
their attempt to take and fill cor
rectly the orders of innumerable
cutomers, make change, keep the
premises clean, for reasons of
public safety, fill syrup tanks, ice
bins, etc.
If Mr. Funk is capable of sim
ple mathematics, let him multi
ply one customer by-several hund
red and one hour by eight. The
answer is a tired soda dispenser.
Regardless of the strain under
which they work, these people
Magazine Rack
Suthin Gentlemen Show
Honor System Works
By Marge Scandling ..
The honor system can work,
according to an article in this
month’s READER'S DIGEST
dealing with the method used
at the U. of Virginia. . . each
freshman, after attending an as
sembly explaining the honor
system, decides for himself to
sign a card saying that he ac
cepts the system for himself
and wants to live under it. . . .
students are proud enough of
the system to keep it working.
When the strain increases as
an exam wears on, students go
out for a Coke or a clgaret,
can even talk to each other. . . .
system does away with idea of
a full-time proctor breathing
down your neck.
Spirit extends to city of Char
lotteville where the school is
located. . . . merchants aren’t
afraid to cash checks because
“a Virginia man is honest.”. . .
reminiscent of the old stories
about the “Suthin gentleman”
and his code of “honah.”
A questionnaire directed to
675 Smith College and Wiscon
sin U. women who graduated
ten years ago, in 1940, found
7.7 per cent of them married . . .
average graduate of ’40 has been
married 7.6 years now to a col
lege man who served in the war.
. . she has 2.2 children. . . .
laughs hysterically at thought
that she combine raising fam
ily with a career. Only 31 of the
313 tabulated remain unmar
ried. . . . though only one has
“put thoughts of marriage
aside”. . . . says that remaining
30 hopefuls have found, how
ever, that their good and satis
fying jobs lead away from mar
riage rather than toward it.
* * *
LIFE and POST came out this
week with twin articles on
Army Coach Earl “Red” Blaik
and quarterback son Bob. . .
LIFE quotes comment made on
Blaik Senior—“If you know him,
you know he will get himself a
good football team even if he
has to breed it”.also com
ments on his favorite idiosyn
crasy (tearing adhesive tape)
and says, "The rasping sound
of tape being torn seems to
soothe him. . . but there is al
ways the problem of what to do
with it then.”
always are courteous. Mr. Funk
was no doubt too impatient with
them to notice that.
The service is not the fastest
in the world I agree, but it is ef
ficient and courteous. Mr. Funk
should remember that these peo
ple are not menial servants whose
sole purpose is to drop everything
and wait on him the moment his
smiling face appears above the
counter. He seems to regard them
as such. His view is as egotistical
and as immature as that of a four
year-old child.
If there should be a delay in
getting his coffee and doughnuts,
Mr. Funk should bear in mind
that others arrived before him,
and their time is as valuable as
his. The soda dispensers keep in
"mind'the' drivel that “The Cus
tomer is always right.” It’s high.
time the customer forget that.
Alvin K. Reiss
Some Changes Made
Emefald Editor:
The Bunion Derby of last Fri
day night emphasized the need
for more careful pairings in
campus activities. In the case of
Alpha, Gamma, and Omega Halls
this point was borne very strong
ly. Approximately 130 men from
these organizations marched en
mass from house to house, caus
ing a terrifically congested situ
ation at the women’s organiza
tions visited. The men in this
group became thoroughly dis
gusted with the high ratio of men
to women.
The students responsible for
the pairing of houses for camp
us activities must realize that a
terrific change has taken place.
Lets face facts!
This year, dormitories are eag
er to support all campus activi
ties, but if they are handicapped
by situations such-as the one that
occurred last Friday night, they
may not be as willing ,to partici
pate in future activities. Let’s see
that a situation of this type does
n’t happen again.
Gamma Hall
It Could Be Oregon
L Ya know—our sorority is so crowded this yea* I meet someone
new every day.". ---