'England and Confinenf
Different Says Haycox
(This is the concluding article in
a series of four by the author, who
toured Europe this summer. Other
articles by Mr. Haycox will be
printed at intervals.)
By Jim Haycox -
After being on the continent,
England was like a different world.
It was nice, too, to be able to read
a sign or ask a cop where you were.
Just one qualification here which
made it England and not the
U. S. A.: that business of driving
on the left side instead of the
right. One really had to be on the
ball to keep from getting run down.
London is the biggest city in
the world and that in itself rules
out any sweeping generalizations.
The only conceivable impression
one might convey was that of an
all-over drabness that covered the
city and its people. Times are ter
rifically rough in England. Ration
ing there today is worse than any
thing we experienced at the very
peak of the war. Clothing, candy,
meat, almost everything we asso
ciate with as being plentiful, is to
JPthem scarce and precious.
Seeks Typical Englishman
We were all looking for that
typical Englishman, the stuffed
shirt, monocTed variety with a
“don’t-bother-me-now” air about
him. We had to look a long way.
The British man on the street is
a pretty swell guy who—and this
surprised me—has a great appre
ciation for what America has done
for him.
Piccadilly Circus, which I sup
pose is the one place to go if you
can't see anything else, was just
a small scale edition of Times
Square. You’d see big signs with
stuff like “I say, Reggie, Mother
looks a bit pale these days. I think
she could use a dash of Schweppes
Mineral Water, you know.” It
wasn’t quite that bad but British
advertising is somewhat different
if not a little amusing.
Now we had just enough time
left to stop and see a Shakespeare
play in his old home town, Strat
ford-on-Avon, and then push on to
the last stop, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Promotes Festival
We had two days and most of it
was spent,—and how—on Princess
Street, which is supposed to be
one of the most beautiful in the
world and well could be. Every
body with any money left was
buying tartans, cashmeres, tweed
suits, and the like for sensational
prices. I was flat broke. The music
festival was in full swing but you
had to work hard for a decent
seat at anything, so a bunch of us
had our own little festival hi the
rooming house, formed a chib, and
left it at that. The plane was sup
posed to take us right home, but
we were delayed when one engine
threw in the- towel about 45
minutes out. Even with three oth
er engines to get us back, the At
lantic looked awfully big, awfully
blue, and twice as deep as they
say it is.
The second try was more suc
cessful and we were in Montreal
in 16 hours, which included time
for coffee in Iceland, of all places.
Three train days from here was
Vancouver; eight boat hours farth
er on, Seattle, and then it was
just a hoop and a holler to the
trail’s end, Portland. After a sum
mer in Europe, you’d be surpris
ed how much a big booming place
like a rut.
Foreign Students Expect_
In feresting Homecoming
By Billie Hamden
“But I don’t know very much
about Homecoming yet,” seems to
be the unanimous comment of the
U of O’s foreign students when
asked what they think of our cele
bration.
Ingebord Vedeler, from Norway,
said that though she doesn’t as
yet know much about Homecom
ing, she is going to participate in
the parade and all the other acti
vities. Miss Vedeler said that the
Norwegian Institute of Technology
which she attended has a similar
event every two years. During the
course of a month-long celebration,
IT day is set aside for a big show
and reuuion for returning gradu
ates.
Oscar Hoessl from Munich, Ger
many, said emphatically that he
would “like to be here for every
Homecoming, especially if there
were no rain. I can’t leave the
house, it’s too wet,” Hoessl re
marked. Hoessl said that Univer
sity graduates in Germany and
particularly from the school of
law in Munich meet about once
every five years to renew old
friendships.
Carnival time in Munich comes
during the week before Lent, in
February, and, said Hoessl, “Every
body acts crazy for one week.”
Costume or formal balls are given
by schools and the occasion be
comes a sort of Homecoming for
the alumni.
In Iceland, high school gradua
tion on June I6th becomes a re
union date for alumni, said Jako
bina Thordardottir. Each class has
a special celebration and a big
dance is held. In the University, a
dance is held every fall to welcome
freshman but there is nothing re
sembling our Homecoming cele
bration.
Arne Boring from Sweden
thinks the Homecoming celebra
tion is a tittle funny, because the
atumni don’t know the present
undergraduates here. During said
that the only thing similar in Swe
dish universities is that once each
five years, the graduates will meet
in a restaurant or club to talk over
old times.
Dance Dress to be Semi-Formal
This year’s Homecoming Dance 1
will be semi-formal dress and cor
sages will not be in order, Joan i
Skordahl, dance chairman, announ- 1
ced Monday. i
This is to be the first Homecom- ]
ing dance to be held in the Student
Union Ballroom and will start a 1
tradition that may carry on for !
many years. i
Male students are urged by Dick ]
Davis, ticket chairman, to purchase <
their tickets from living organiza- i
tion social chairmen before the ]
jp&nce. Social chairmen must turn i
in all unsold tickets by Thursday <
o Dick Davis, ticket chairman.
Decorations for the dance pro
nise to be “very different from
hose of past dances. Three dimen
lional forms will be used,” Jeanne
Jail, decorations chairman stated.
Mu3ic from the dance floor will
>e broadcast over the loudspeaker
lystem to the Dad’s room, dining
oom, soda bar, and lounge. The
)ad’s room and dining room will be
ipened up to expand the dancing
irea of the second floor ballroom.
Entrance to the dance floor will be
hrough the main building entrance
>nly. The outside terrace stairs will
Lewis and Clark Sets
Playwright Contest
Cash prizes totaling $250 will
be awarded winners of the second
annual plyawright contest being
sponsored by Lewis and Clark Col
lege.
Any person or groups of individ
uals may enter the competition,
according to Arthur Coe Gray, con
test director, but ail plays sub
mitted must be original, unpub
lished, and unproduced.
The college reserves the right
to produce any winning play with
out paying royalty.
Contest deadline is Feb. 1, 1961.
Winners will be announced April
10.
Manuscripts should be sent to
3ray in care of the Speech. Arts
Department.
Students Get Newscasting Tips
From Bob Thomas, KEX Newsman
Yarning: with a group of journ
alism students, Bob Thomas, di
rector of news and special events
for station KEX in Portland, gave
them his ideas of the requirements
for radio newscasting during
"Meet the Press" in the Student
Union Thursday afternoon.
Thomas is rated as one of the
best radio newsmen in Oregon.
He has been with KEX since 1941,
when he became program director.
“Newspaper work is an insidi
ous business,” Thomas said before
the meeting began. “It seems as
if the more yon work with it, the
more unfit you become for any
other profession."
As background for his work,
Thomas worked in the editorial
department of a small paper far
seven years, for the Associated
Press in Portland one year, for the
defunct Portland News-Telegram,
and did freelance writing two
years.
"Newscasting is nearly as much
acting as journalism,” Thomas
told the students. "The newscast
er must get vitality across by
showing that he is interested in
his news”
He explained that the lack of
women newscasters was because
most women would rather hear at
man talk than a woman; and prob
ably most men too.
Campus Interviews on Cigarette Tests
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