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Akita Holmes, Editor
Don Thompson, Business Manager
Xohna Larson, Managing EditorBarbara Williams, Advertising Manager
Tom Kino, Ken Metzler, Don Smith, Associate Editors
No Tears for Beer-~Only Action
Out of the smoke of last week have come a good many voices
—all of them echoing the same sentiment:
“This problem of drinking is a social problem—one that
•won’t be solved by simply stopping the sale of beer near the
campus. Liquor laws should be enforced, but you can’t legis
late morality.”
And surely a handful of administrators in that office called
student affairs can’t legislate morality. No matter how strict
their rules, they’ll fail without student support.
A week or two before the cork blew off, the Executive Coun
cil was told that excessive drinking and rowdiness were becom
ing a problem—“but keep this off the record”—Director of
Student Affairs DuShane said.
Had there been a little more “on the record”—the problem
thrown to the student body—Oregon’s own students would
have beaten the liquor inspectors and administration’s inspec
tor to the draw.
But spilt beer merits no more tears. The students have gone
to work.
Some house presidents have already spoken, and ASUO
President Mountain is asking support from all living organiza
tions on a policy of “each group responsible for its members
staying in line.”
New student body cards—complete with photograph—will
be introduced to Executive Council members tonight. Inciden
tally, the Council was working on such cards long before the
present ruckus.
And now—if some pressure groups throughout our conser
vative state and the University administration will wait a min
ute or two—we’ll see just what we can do.
Relax Your Way to Higher Grades
The University recently has become concerned—and some
what perturbed—about what was described as an “undercur
rent”— an ineffable something relating to a general “devil
may-care, I’m only young once” attitude.
But maybe some aspects of that undercurrent are desirable.
For a recent scientific survey hows that leisure is just as im
portant as work—and that it also must be taken just as serious
ly
One doctor discovered that “more dates mean better marks
—frequent dating enlarges a student’s interests, broadens his
extra-curricular activities so that he becomes a psychologically
healthier and more rounded person.”
Now, to see how you stack up, take a look at these questions
the experts ask:
(1) Do you have several hobbies?
(2) Do you think you know how to make yourself relax, par
ticularly under tension or when you’re over-tired? What is
your posture for relaxing?
(3) Are meal times filled with relaxed, pleasant tastes and
adventures in the enjoyment of food, or a nervous shoveling
in of tasteless food?
(4) Can you catnap?
(5) Can you sleep at night even when not physically ex
hausted ?
(6) Can you concentrate as hard on a pretty girl as on your
studies even though you’re in the midst of exam week.
(7) Do you smoke for enjoyment and not just as a nervous
habit ?—T.K._
THE DAILY
to Oregon’s outstanding scholars—Byron Brenden, Dor
othy Christiansen, Richard Dahlberg, Roger Moore,
Henrietta Richmond, and Barbara Stevenson—who have
been chosen the Senior Six of Phi Beta Kappa.
THE OREGON LEMON . . .
to the poet who writes so well but fails to sign his name:
“There once was a student named Stew who tasted of
brew at the l’. An official quite fair sniffed a burp in the
air, and Stew’s college career was quite through.”
<M(ua to Make, an H
Here's the Key--From Psychologists
‘‘What’s the psychology of get
ting an A?” was one of the ways
the question “How do you get an
A?’’ was turned around for the
psychology department.
“Any attempt to tell students
in general how to get an A is
silly,” H. R. Taylor, head of the
department, exclaimed. “It im
plies there is some way by which
the majority of people can be
come above average.”
The most important single fac
tor in earning high grades in col
leges is intellectual capacity, Tay
lor believed, though he realizes
memorized information often
gets by as a substitute.
"The amount of time devoted
to study, and the efficiency of
study habits also effect achieve
ment and tend to be reflected in
grades,” he continued. “A desir
able improvement in academic
standards would be achieved if
students increased the effective
ness of studying, yet the number
of A’s assigned might not in
crease at all.”
Working for grades is the
poorest of educational motives,
Taylor explained. Students are al
ready too grade conscious.
“The only educational values
really worth striving for are new
ideas and growth in understand
ing.”
Second in a Series
This is the second in a series
of articles entitled, “How to
Make an A.”
The Emerald isn’t setting up
an A as the ultimate goal of col
lege achievement, nor is it sup
porting or opposing the grade
system as it now exists. It is
simply reporting the best ways
to obtain an A as expressed from
three different viewpoints: the
student, the psychologist, and
the faculty.
The final of the three-part se
ries will be followed by editorial
comment from the author, Asso
ciate Editor Don Smith.
“Forget about grades,” is the
professor’s advice. Work hard to
broaden your outlook on life, to
learn some subject well; and to
discover your talents and diversi
fy your interests and skills.”
Miss Leona Tyler, associate
professor of psychology, has
some advice along different lines.
Miss Tyler agrees with much of
what professor Taylor hays, but
her work at the University coun
selling center has made it neces
sary for her to give some specific
advice to students on how to raise
their GPA.
Campus Critic
Movies Better Than Ever:
Exhibit 1, 'All About Eve'
By Don Smith
This is the week of good movies
in Eugene—which is a refreshing
change from most weeks.
“All About Eve” is one of the
finest films of this year, with
stars Bette Davis, Anne Baxter,
and Celeste Holm turning in
sharp performances. The comedy
is bright and witty, with the
smart remarks popping from the
screen at a rapid-fire pace.
It’s a story about show people,
which always appeals to show
people, and in this instance should
appeal to anyone who likes smart
comedy.
The story’s about a girl named
Eve who climbs to the top of the
legitimate stage heap by clawing
her way through the lives of the
stage’s top star, top playwright,
top director, and the playwright’s
wife. She does it all with a
“sweeter than honey” attitude
that covers up her cunning plan
ning. She gets away with almost
everything, but finally gets stop
ped by a man who’s even worse
than she—George Sanders as a
cynical drama critic, (fashioned,
perhaps, after George Jean Nath
an).
One plea—this show is two
hours and a quarter long (and
every minute good), but why,
why does the McDonald have to
throw in a co-feature as awful as
“Holiday Rhythm”?
But if you don’t feel like you
want to hear snappy dialogue,
you can try the Rex and Charlie
Chaplin expresses his protest in
comedy-tragedy that was made
after talkies were in style; but
Chaplain expresses his protest in
The Second Cup
Pouring salt into the wound
was the headline that appeared in
the Oregon Journal Saturday af
ter the University had reams of
front page copy in the metropoli
tan dailies headed “Beer Battle,”
etc. The head: “OSC Campus
Scene of Milk Sanitation.”
this one against talkies by mak
ing it without sound, and show
ing Hollywood that good movies
are good movies, with or with
out sound. Filmed about 1931, it’s
Still a funny comedy about the
love of a little tramp for a blind
flower girl.
The two old-timers at the May
flower were tops in their days,
and should still be powerful films.
“Les Miserables” was a Chapman
hall Wednesday night movie
about a year ago, and was mighty
entertaining. “Stanley and Liv
ingstone” is a good adventure
story—ten years ago, or today.
This is what Miss Tyler advises
students:
Pick the right field; clear up
your troubles; when studying get
basic concepts and get them or
ganized; read the material ac
tively; get precise ideas.
"The rig*t field,” said Miss Ty
ler, is the field in which the stu
dent has interest and ability.”
“Clear up your troubles that
might interfere with your study
ing. Don’t just ignore them, that
takes a certain amount of mental
energy.”
Precise ideas help a student in
any type test, the physchology
professor explained, while gen
eral, vague ideas are no help at
all in getting a' good test grade.
R. A. Littman, assistant pro
fessor of phychology, asked,
“Should a student try to get an
A?” He feels many students
shouldn’t; that the cost to the
student as a personality is some
times too great, and doesn’t war
rant the effort.
It’s a matter of values, as pr<
fessor Littman sees it. 1
“A consuming interest in one
or two subjects is a healthy inter
est,” Littman believes. "A stu
dent may be willing to accept a
B or C in a class, so he could do
a fine job of learning in one
course.”
^Letters*-—
The
Campus
Answers
Oops, Wrong Sex
Emerald Editor:
I wonder when the fraternities
initiated a new plan of selecting^
those to receive letters of invita
tion to rush.
The type of rushing done by the
Sigma Phi Epsilons is a little out
of the ordinary. Originality is fine
but just how original can they
get?
Though I am greatly honored
to receive such an invitation from
the Sigma Phi Epsilons to rush,
I being an “old fashioned” girl,
believe that the men should take
the initiative.
Miss Beryl Parrish
It Could Be Oregon
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