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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 23, 1951)
daily EMERALD Tfce Oiboom Daily F.hualb published Monday through Friday during the college year w Deck's ££3hj£ 3; Mar 6 through 2S; May 7; Nov. 22 throuuh27;and S^May 24. with isues on Tv. 4 ami May 12 by ‘he Aw^ajed fetudent. ot the pn.v«^y after May Z4, wttn isues on nov. * ana j*i«y uy me —* c :u«w;nn of Oregon. Entered as second class matter a* the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates: $5 per school year; $2 per »erir Opinions expressed on the editorial page are those of thw. writer .and .do not Pr«rod •“ represent the opinions of the ASUO or of the University Initialed editorials ara written by the associate editors. Unsigned editorials are written by the editor. __ Akita Holmis, Editor Ma*til Scmocciw. Business Manager Loin a Laison, Managing Editor Tom King, Ken Metzleh, Jackie Peitzen, Associate Editors_ F*an Neel, Advertising Manager____ A Doghousejfor the Phi Delts Indefinite social probation and a maximum fine of Those are the penalties indicted upon l’hi Delta 1 beta for violation of Interfraternity Council regulations governing senior rides. The Phi Delts join Alpha Tau Omega in the senior ride dog house. Their error consists in using an excessive amount of al cohol. When the ATO's used indiscretions in carrying out this hon ored tradition, the IFC took it upon itself winter term to set down a list of specific regulations. Ironically, the chairman of the committee charged with this responsibility was a I’hi Delt. The rules adopted were adequate and fair—and now they have first come home to haunt the very house whose member helped form them. This, of course, is happenstance. But it does show that the regulations have teeth in them and were drawn up to be en forced. Even iflore—this case points up the necessity for each orga nization to take its own safeguards in carrying out senior ride procedures with common sense and in conformity to the es tablished regulations. It makes obvious the fact that all stu dents associated with such an affair—both seniors and the pledges who take them out—must be thoroughly familiar with what is considered proper and improper conduct. Possibilities are that many violations will not be discovered; fortunately, this was not the fate of the actions taken by the Phi Delts. If organizations fail to take proper precautions— then the consequences will be theirs to face. More senior rides are ahead for other students. May they not repeat the carelessness that has gone before them—T.K. Bachelors - - Beware of that Blonde “Women are getting desperate !” “There are more than 19 million unmarried women in this country and every last one of them is out to capture a hus band.” That is the ominous warning note sounded by an organiza tion of the prevention-of-cruelty-to-poor-unfortunate-bache lors type. Known as the Bachelors Protective Association, this New York organization, in a letter to a men’s fraternity, warns: “Bachelors are outnumbered and must organize for mutual protection. Do you know that women spent $58,000,000 for per fume last year . . And we say every man for himself. Men have struggled long and hard to be on equal status with women when it comes to outwitting each other. One after another, men have become trapped by females with ingenious strategy and/or expensive perfumes. They have been forcibly dragged behind the black mysterious veil of marriage and have seldom been heard from since. But it need not be this way. What if women do spend mil lions for perfume? Fifty-cent after shave lotion will offset the effects of expensive perfume at considerably less expense. So if the bachelors of the nation are not smart enough to keep from being trapped by a sweet blonde, it seryes them right.— K.M. The Second]Cup... Gleaned from weekend newspapers, a gem or two: * * * Headline of the week ... “Broadcasters To Look Into Plung ing Gowns.” * % # A sports story about a tow-head came to the reader as “The two-headed Laz, who climbed to 14 feet . . * * * And Eugene’s Axemen broke into print as follows: “Port land’s Lincoln won the race, with Ray Hendrickson’s Eugene Apemen, who finished a surprising third in the meet . . _ THE DAILY 'E' • • • to the pledge class of Alpha Tau Omega for spending at least two days cleaning the grounds of the Children’s Hos pital School. The school manager had nothing but great words for these University freshmen who took time out to help his school. ---letter*' The Campus Answers Politics, He Screams Emerald Editor: The report of the '‘Stanford” Committee is nt last public prop erty and it is as ridiculous as the so called committee that formu lated it. It is a political document and a party platform. No Individual «n the committee has had the experience nor the necessary objectivity of approach to examine a dormitory or coun seling program and to ’be In a position to call It successful or unsuccessful. Any member of the present counseling committee has forgotten more about coun seling than the entire committee will ever know, as is amply re vealed In the report. After journeying to Stanford and asking all sorts of questions about something which they are incapable of understanding, they journey back to Oregon to inform the peasants on this campus how to achieve the "Good Life." The solution to the problem, u they see it, is to make the coun seling or sponsoring program the illegitimate child of the political powers-thnt-be. They assert, '.hat the present staff Is not profes sionally trained anil then main tain the solution Is to fill the counseling staff with political appointees, thus making u coun seling job a political plum and a soureb of activity points for every nuckle-head that wants to become a BMOC. They would prostitute the pres ent program at the altar of po litleal expediency In the vain anil flaeeltl hope that the “Man" with the ■•Plan" may then distribute of flees to the faithful and the tn telleetir.il vagrants thut have suc cessfully fawned their way Into his entourage. When a counseling program falls or is suggested to fall with in the jurisdiction of a USA or ACS student body president, then -- ! iww-wj In \ Smof* ....• Passive Nonresistance: Plan for the 'Thinking' ith Norm Anderson' This column would like to pro pose a new state of mind for stu dents of this university. It's call ed "Thinking without Griping." The result is to bring about the cooperation which this columnist understands has so far been lack ing at Oregon because there has been “irresponsible griping” at projects of our student body offi cials and the results of their work. , This theory has been proposed in haste, but It will run something like this. First we turn our af fairs over completely to our offl-. eials. That Is we elect them and then we do nothing but cooper ate. If we are in the right frame of mind, we will have no cans** whatsoever to gripe. Those who are appointed to committees will agree whole heartedly with the aims of the appointor and the rest of the committee members. So the theory will begin working right at the top. All the student body officials will cooperate. We forget the fact that we are Greeks and Independents, men and women, music majors and B.A. majors, from Portland or Lakeview, tall or short, fat or thin, or anything else that in the past has caused people to gripe. We discount how much or lit tle money we have to take part in what has been set up for us to do, or how much time we have to spare for student activities. Every lime we are presented with a thing to do, we plunge right in and cooperate to the hilt. That way we will have as boom ing a little university as will be found anywhere. Of course we always are sup posed to think about what we're doing. Just what happens after we think is hard to say. But cer tainly we shouldn’t comment ad versely because that will be "ir responsible griping,” something that has caused this University’s failure to take the pride in our little campus that Stanford, for instance, has in theirs. We automatically assume, of course, that the people who pro pose the ideas and so forth have proposed one about which no one will even want to "gripe.” In other words everyone will be happy. And our student body officials and the heads and officers of all the various campus organiza tions will see to it that they are constantly in touch with the "thinking” that is going on. They will endeavor always to bo <sin stantly in touch with the "little man” and the usual "griper” to get his ideas. This theory won’t work at all. though, if anyone disagrees with the plan which is proposed. If the time should come when a certain problem seems bigger than we can handle, we investigate what's happened all over the country in similar situations. Kven if in the process we become so charmed by the solution of another univer sity that we fail to see that con ditions may be different enough here as to bring about an unsatis factory result, we will have at least had "our eyes open.” "Thinking Without Griping” is really a good idea if everyone agrees ail the time about every thing. i t)u,yii'm'nt representatives of ?.i u dont government on this campus have reached the absolute up. x of egotism and should be neat back to their books and class rooms in the vain and illusory hope that they will be able to maintain a 2.00 long enough to depart this Institution heaped with the honours for wliieti they have fought so gallantly and have done so little to deserve, Arlo tv. («ilrx Scdcrstrom Slintss Challenge Kirn-raid Kitltor Kor some months now we men of Sederstrom Hall have been the victims of somewhat dlspaing Ing remarks, all of which center about our general athletic pi. ,v ess. It Is the |>ur|M>se of this mii li epistle not Only to st111tIf\ the Individuals re*porisible for such malicious trlpr, but also to issu - i formal challenge to an> campus group which may lie so deluded as to think it can offer contest^ our star studded aggregation of softliall specialists. Unfortunately, because of ti-m* poraI limitations on entrum i- in to the IM league we were frus trated in our efforts to ex pour- the younger lads to the finer subtle ties of tlie softball sport. How ever, our educative altruism was not to be cheeked. Armngernenti were made Immediately fur ath letic Instruction of ("lierney and Stan Ray Halls. Though purposely gearing the level of Instruction to the quality of contest offered us, on sun sive Sunday afternoons we prov ed the students wholly unprepar ed for our accomplished peda gogy We are now faced with a para doxical situation. Halls compris ing the Veteran's dormitories tremble at the sight of our facile nine and consequently refuse our athletic Invitations. We are not content to be merely the cham pions of campus Intclllgcnsta, (If, Indeed, other campus organiza tion* deserve to be so classified). Therefore, consider this letter an open challenge to a Sunday afternoon contest with the Men of Sederstrom. Any group wish ing proof of all claims made here in Is urged to «tl! Ed Deeb, ath letic chairman, at Ext. 325. The Mighty Men of Sederstrom It Could Be Oregon This will make a good test question: “Compare social psychology the Psychology of Music.” Hut when you make up tin* quiz make the question read: “Collate the formation of social stereotypes und the effect of the social environment of the individual with the psycho logical principles underlying the musical arts.”