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Don Thompson, Business Manager
Corn A Larson, Managing Editor
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Tom King, Ken Metzler, Don Smith, Associate Editors
Some Real NiceiBreaa ana Butter
(Editor’s Note: We would humbly say “a good guest makes for a
better host” in answer to this editorial which appeared in the Wash
ington State College Evergreen. It was written by Editor Charlotte
Friel and sent our way by Student Union Director Frank Noffke.)
Their spirit is stupendous. It wasn t their fault their team
didn’t win Saturday. And besides the concern exhibited for
their own activities, the University of Oregon students who
played hosts to the 30 or more WSC football fans and union
building representatives this weekend, were gracious and hos
pitable beyond normal conception.
We were extended every courtesy in the books, despite the
fact that a homecoming football game played second fiddle to
the dedication of a student union building that university stu
dents and alums have been working toward and counting on
for 27 years. No group of people could have been busier than
the Union Board and the ASUO officers who still found time
to take us on personally conducted tours of the new building
and to have special luncheons for us on last minute notice.
And it wasn’t just the “officials”. Students themselves in the
living groups where we stayed went out of their way to help
us get situated and make our weekend complete.
Yes, their spirit is tremendous. Their union building is beau
tiful. Their display signs were masterpieces of “artistry in
rhythm.” Their noise rally would have scared the Chinese
Commies out of Korea. Their pep at the game should have
spurred any team to victory. Still they were excellent hosts.
We were very impressed.
The Stuff Between the Yellow Covers
Pig-goers’ Guide day is almost as exciting as Oregana day.
The little books with all the names are on sale this week at the
main desk of the student union building; and even at the in
creased price of 40 cents the book is worth having.
There are some innovations you might notice after you’ve
checked to see if your name was spelled right.
For example, the Pledge Song starts out “Fir Oregon,” un
doubtedly a tribute to the Oregon evergreen.
And the reason you want to go back to Oregon, the Guide
says, is to go “back to some of the money I blew.” Which may
be the correct wording of the song, but not the one generally
sung.
The FLOWKRFONE is 4-6244. A number that faces the
reader at the bottom of each right-hand page.
And for students wishing to-make quick get aways from the
campus, on page 84 are the plane and train schedules.
And naturally there are several dozen people who had the
bad luck that Elmarie Wendel had, who’s name came out just
barely recognizable as Elmarie WenDel. And many of the art
education students would prefer to be listed as seniors in Ar
chitecture and Allied Arts, but instead have a simple 4E fol
lowing their names, giving them to the education school.
But with several thousand names to handle it's remarkable
that a guide could be put out with as few errors as are made in
such a brief time.
Remember, at a large Texas university, the student council
attempted to put out a student directory, but lost $2,000 on the
deal when students showed little enthusiasm over the book
when it was delivered in the middle of spring term.
So a bouquet of Emerald E’s to Editor Virginia Wright and
her staff, who have worked like dogs these last few weeks to
publish a handy little book; who still have to listen to the com
plaints of students who got their names misspelled, and who
have to read editorials that quibble over a lost "a" in "fair."—
D.S.
THE DAILY ‘ft . . .
goes with great enthusiasm to Mimi Jones and other YW
CA-YMCA members planning the student-faculty fire
sides which will be held this year at faculty homes. A
great step in higher education.
THE OREGON LEMON . . .
given today by the Eugene Junior Chamber of Commerce
in line with its traffic safety campaign ... to the jaywalker
who clutters our streets.
Magazine Rack
The Harvard Humor Magazine Gaes to Court
When 'Radcliffe Mother' Questions Decency
By Marge Scandling
COSMOPOLITAN this month
tells of new four-deck version of
canasta known as Chilean canas
ta .. . supposed to be wilder and
more exciting than regular game
... score is 10,000 points, a canas
ta of seven wild cards may be
melded and counts 1,000 ... a ca
nasta of seven cards of the same
suit in sequence counts 2,000 . . .
for 3,000 points you plunk down
ten of the same suit in sequence
. . . game is still too new to have
hecome standardized and is full
of variations . . . since players
pick up two cards per turn and
discard only one, only thing origi
nators of game fear will limit its
spread is capacity of the human
hand.
The Word
All Good Girls Go to Bed
By 11 p.m. at Oregon
■■■— — "■■From Stan Turnbull
We don’t know any Latin, but
we have a hunch about what the
motto of this institution (taken
in any sense of the word) means
—“Mens Agitat Molem,” or
“make some stupid rule.”
The most recent example of
small-time thinking (thinking be
ing hardly the right word) here
abouts is the decision to crack
down on an old rule prohibiting
telephone calls into women’s liv
ing organizations after 11 p.m.
week nights.
A small point ? Sure, but a real
example of small-caliber logic.
Coast to Coast:
Guarded Women,
Guarded Press
Things may not be so good at
Oregon but at the University of
North Carolina southern gentle
men are carrying things quite a
distance. It appears that the
dance committee ruled that any
girl leaving a campus dance in
tending to return must be es
corted by a chaperone during her
entire stay from the dance hall.
While North Carolina is sup
pressing activities of women
away-from-dances, The Midland,
paper of Midland' College in Ne
braska, has started an all-out
campaign to suppress Commun
ism on college campuses. Hoping
to start a national movement, the
paper urges university men and
women throughout the land to
“join hands. Let our hands, so
joined, form an insurmountable
barrier to stop, now, those ten
tacles, those poisons—Commun
ism.”
Southward, the California Re
gent’s “sign or resign” stand on
its loyalty oath has caused the
University to be blacklisted by
the America Psychology Associa
tion.
Where freedom of the college
press is not considered so precious
as it is at Oregon, the Michigan
State News is resuming publica
tion with a full-time adviser, af
ter being suspended this summer.
The suspension of publication was
brought about by the editorial
criticism aimed at the Wolverine
Boys’ State, a citizenship insti
tute under the sponsorship of the
American Legion. The News ob
jected to “militaristic methods”
and particularly to a mock trial
of an alleged Communist at the
institute. At the time of suspen
sion it was announced the paper
would be put under strict college
departmental supervision when
it resumed publication in the fall.
An editorial in the first issue
termed the suspension of the
summer paper a "thing of the
past.”
The rule has lain, rightfully,
asleep for years—at least as far
as sotorities are concerned. Now
everybody gets to suffer alike.
One wonders just what is the
inherent biological difference be
tween the women at the Univer
sity of Washington, as an exam
ple, who may stay out until 11:30
—and the girls at the University
of Oregon who may not even re
ceive a phone call after 11.
•If a girl is in bed, she doesn’t
get up to answer the phone unless
it’s important. But if she’s up,
why in the name of the home of
the brave and land of the free
shouldn’t she answer the phone?
Or did we miss a rule that says
all U of O girls must be in bed by
11? Tliat’d be real ducky, too,
Possibly we should have a sepa
rate counselor to tuck each one
to bed and stand by during the
night to safeguard her if she has
to get up.
This is undoubtedly a trade
secret, but the upside-down line
giving the name of a local flower
shop in a Piggers’ Guide ad is up
side-down on purpose. Clever.
Speaking of the Piggers’ Guide
the first thing we did when we
bought ours was look up our
name. Again this year they have
n’t made a mistake and put an
asterisk by it. There must be
some other explanation.
GOOD NIGHT, LADIES.
i
Same magazine has compiled
dictionary of words used by Com
munists which mean something
quite different in American usage
,.. says FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoo
ver, author of article, “white is
black and black is white to the
Communist.” ... to the red, “ag
gressor” means a nation that re
sists Communist invasion — as
Finland or South Korea . . . “de
pression” is a condition existing
only in capitalistic countries . . .
capitalism itself to the Commun
ist is a weak and dying system of
the past which the Communist
feels his duty to completely abol
ish . . . “education” refers to in
doctrination of Communist young
with difference between right and
left instead of right and wrong
. . . “disarmament” means demo
bilization of armies, navies, and
war-production facilities on njn
Communist countries, but not the
Soviet Union .. . and a “warmon
ger” is one who would defend his
country against Communist ag
gression.
NEWSWEEK tells of furor in
Cambridge, Mass, over issue of
Harvard Lampoon which paro
died Midwestern college humor
magazines . . . police cracked
down and confiscated issues when
they check up after receiving let
ter from “A Radcliffe Mother”
. . . the questionable cartoons,
ironically, had been reprinted
from other college magazines . . .
final blow was when an editor of
the Lampoon’s rival magazine,
the Crimson, was revealed as “A
Radcliffe Mother.”
TIME tells of University of
Chicago’s booking for six weeks
of poet T. S. Eliot to speak at
poetry lectures and seminars
there . . . Chicago publicity de
partment couldn’t seem to get
much from him to send out in
-press releases . . . one member
saying, “Mr. Eliot just doesn’t
seem to say anything startling”
. . .to thoughtful questions on in
terpretations of poetry, Eliot
commented Only, “I agree” or
“Quite right” . * . further disillu
sioned highbrows by smoking a
corncob pipe.
• It Could Be Oregon •
“I'm going to TRY to make this an interesting course.”