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An Example of How to Do It
Four examples of “how to present a good petition asked
the Executive Council for the chairmanship of Duck Preview
Weekend Monday night. Seldom is the Council faced with four
such outstanding petitions for one position.
(For the benefit of one foreign to Oregon’s vernacular, a pe
tition is an application blank for a chairmanship or student
body office. It does not contain the signatures of many stu
dents, as the word “petition” implies. And the Executive
Council is the top student governing body, and Duck Preview
is a weekend during which high school seniors visit and view
the University.)
The techniques used by the four who sought Duck Preview
^.chairmanship could well be copied by petitioners in the future.
They had contacted Alumni Director Les Anderson, the
man on campus most familiar with the preview. Because he
will help direct the weekend, his suggestions were incorpoiat
»ed in the petitions.
All four students, two men and two women, were thoroughly
familiar with Duck Preview as it was set up last year. They
looked at its bad points and offered suggestions, and they
spoke up for its advantages.
An especially objective appraisal of last year s weekend was
given by Georgie Oberteuffer, the candidate who was chosen
chairman.
Students interested in campus activities could well follow
•the lead of this foursome and learn why, when, where, and for
what they’re petitioning.
A Little off the Top
The price of haircuts is vying with other crises for space on
■ big-city editorial pages. In New York the chit will soon read
$1.25, the press pundits fear—which seems taking a lot off
•one’s financial foundations for taking a little off one siop.
In Big Town the one twenty-five is only a sort of f.o.b. figure,
a basic price on which further costs must be computed. If
these must keep pace percentagewise, it won t be long before
the parting smile of the barber will cost 10 cents per tooth, with
another 2 cents per whisk for the fellow who can find lint all
over an overcoat that came into the barber shop straight from
a currying at the Waldorf.
How are the small-town papers tackling the trend? Are
small-town barbers different from their metropolitan cousins?
Do they make their babies go without milk so as to avoid rais
ing their prices? Or are small-town editors afraid to speak out
•on the subject, being members of one-barber communities?
For ourselves, we’re trying to take the broad view of the
problem. Barbers, we recognize, must live. But so, if possible,
should their customers—for who else is to grow enough hair
to cut? This is a matter that takes a lot of statisticizing to get
straight—soaps, towels, equipment like automatic clippers,
and so forth.
But what’s that again? Automatic clippers? A big barber's
supply house reports an increase in its sales to non-barbers,
but it may be that more people own French poodles than used
to.—Christian Science Monitor.
THE DAILY 'JU...
to I. I. Wright, physical plant superintendent, and other
campus planners who are now putting 80 new lights on
the Oregon campus.
THE OREGON LEMON...
to tire person without a conscience who took a leather
jacket which was not his own from the Student Union
last weekend.
Magazine Rack
Digest Article on Humor Cloims Favorile
British Joke Is Like a Shaggy Dog Tale
By Marge Scandling
wmumm&y wmvMtv '■■■'
LOOK this week is added to
the growing1 list of magazines
dealing with present conditions
on U. S. college campuses . . . this
article is on the attitudes of war
eligible students and is the result
of opinions gathered at Califor
nia, Northwestern, Princeton,
and North Carolina, where stu
dents described themselves as
“bitter and disillusioned, frus
trated and resigned, but not mad
at anyone in particular” . . .of
those polled most would prefer to
serve in the Navy or Air Force,
regarding the infantry and Ma
rines as having “mighty little fu
ture” . . . standard greeting at
The Word
| Council to Investigate
[Un-cam puslike Activities
=From Stan Turnbull'
The ASUO executive council
seems quite fond of investigating
things. TJhey’re always doing it.
Just to tickle their little fancies,
here’s a list of things they could
look into. Vital campus prob
lems of”vital importance to the
campus, too :
1) See if they can locate the
crew of fiends that goes around
each night putting out furnace
fires, opening windows in all liv
ing organizations and blowing
super-cold air onto sleeping por
ches.
2) Find out what the heck “The
Alley of Oop-de-Doo” (theme for
this year’s WM Carnival) is
supposed to mean and tell the
rest of us.
a) Find out if it’s WAA Car
nival, WAA Fun House, WAA
The
Answers
l he Thing
Emerald Editor:
The other evening I was relax
ing in a chair, listening to a re
corded version of that enigmatic
lyric entitled “The Thing.” Some
what puzzled—as I always am
when I hear that song—imagine
my delight when, having opened
a book to resume studying, my
eye fell upon the following pas
sage:
“We now know what ‘the thing’
is, and this is to know not at all
what this and that particular
thing is, but what it is to be a
thing as such. To be a thing as
such is to be the already over
come opposition of a concrete es
sence with its own existence, and
to know that is at once to know
what the “thing in itself" is . . .
Indeed, there was no mystery in
it; we see through it, and it is not
much. Just as being was indeter
minateness itself: the thing is
nothing more in itself than its
very “thingness." ... In other
words, instead of positing the
thing-in-itself aa the unknowable
root of all appearances, that is,
as the primitive fecundity where
in, could it only appear such as
it is, the source of all being and
of all intelligibility would at once
be found, Hegel posits it as the
penurious condition which is that
of the thing when as yet it is just
‘thing’."
(Quoted from E. Gilson, Being
and Some Philosophers, pp. 140
141.)
Lou Geiselnian
Fun House-Carnival or just what.
3) Locate the insane Arabian
that writes the little fillers in the
Emerald . . .they’re fascinating
in their very idiocy, as for ex
ample:
a) (This is in its entirety) “A
man in New York said he took his
daughter out of school because
she was too pretty. Is that how
we get those beautiful but dumb.”
b) “What most schools need is
more Spirit and less Spirits.”
c) “Many a girl with a very
fine carriage still craves to ride
in sports roadsters.”
4) The rest of these are serious,
hut just for laughs why not try
notifying people who petition for
jobs as to when they’re supposed
to appear for interviews? (As in
the case of petitioners for stu
dent court at Monday night’s
meeting.)
5) Pardon, for being ridiculous
twice in a row, but why not make
a real effort to get students to
attend executive council meet
ings—they’re supposed to be op
en to anyone that’s interested,
and there must be a few people
who are interested. These people
could crowd into the ultra-plush
board room in the Student Union
and sit on the floor as their re
ward.
some schools has become, “Where '
d’ya stand?,” meaning the draft
, , . opinion on national affairs
is anti-Truman and dissatisfied
with Washington leadership in
general . . . Acheson, howeyer,
is “far and away the most popu
lar figure in the Administration”
. . . practically everyone agreed
Russia was to blame for the pres
ent world situation . . . findings
also included widespread rejec
tion of ex-President Hoover’s
“Operation Gibraltar” stand.
Your sense of humor is discussed
in READER’S DIGEST this
month ... a test of U. S. college
students revealed the tendency
to overrate theirs, with one out of„
four considering himself "Hrfwit
and only one out of a hundred
rating himself even slightly be
low par . . . the University of
Florida has introduced a sense
of-humor course on a try, has
found it so popular that it now
plans to make it part of the regu
lar curriculum . . . feels that hu
mor can be cultivated just like
an appreciation for music . . .
professor teaching the course de
scribes its purpose as “to develop
the student’s ability to perceive
the comic elements in situations
and in people without being up
set by them—and above all to
recognize the comic elements in
himself”. . . wonder what depart
ment that’s listed under . . , ar
ticle also explodes certain popu- j
lar whims about sense of humor
on a national scale . . . for in
stance it showed that the British
find as many things amusing as
we do and have marked apprecia
tion for certain jokes . . . favor
ite British joke reported in the
survey taken is of the shaggy
dog variety .. . customer goes in
to a tavern, orders a glass of beer,
drinks it, then walks straight up,
the wall, across the ceiling, down
the other wall and out the door
. . . “That’s odd,” says an onlook
er at the bar . . . “Yes,” says the
bartender, “he usually orders ale.”
ft Could Be Oregon
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. . and honestly, Professor Snarf, that’s the whole story—now, will
you please, PLEASE, aeeept this day late paper?”