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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1951)
THE OREGON DAILY EMERALD is published Monday through Friday during the college year except Oct. 29; Nov. 22, 23, 2b; Dec. 5 through Jan. 3 ; Mar. 4 through April 1 ; and after May 29; with issues cm Nov. 24 and May 10. by the Associated Students of the University of Oregon. Entered as second class matter at the post off cc. Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates: $5 per school year, $2 per term. ... . . Opinions expressed on the editorial page are those of the writer and do not portend to represent the opinions of the ASUO or of the l niversity. Initialed editorials arc written by ihe associate editors. Unsigned editorials are written by the editor.__ Lorn a Larson, Editor Abbott Paine. llusinri:; Manager Gretchen Grondahl, Bill Clothier, Associate Editors Gretchen Grefk, Advertising Manager Phil Bkttens, Managing Editor News Editor; Larry Hobart Night Editor: Sarah Turnbull Assistant Managing Editor: Bill .Frye Asst. News Editors: Al Karr, Kathleen Sports Editor: Phil Johnson 1* laser, Bob hord. ______________________ Hands Down on Hands Off Policy We understand all the freshman men on the campus can say hello to fraternity men if they so desire. \\ ithout benefit of pledge pins, that is. This smacks of rank liberalism. They can comment on the weather, discuss the world series, or blast the dormitory food before they say good-bye. They might even have a cup of coffee together. Just like ordinary people, we mean. Nobody cares during this fall term of 1951. Lots of people cared last fall. Several times they cared to the tune of fifty dollars, a broken pledge and an utterly con fused freshman. Such concern was due to the abortive “hands-off policy of last fall which made it a near criminal offense for fraternity men to have even the briefest contact with prospective pledges. We mention this because we consider it a sign of progress. Progress, of course, is relative and sometimes it’s possible to end up behind where aomebody else started from- But we think it’s a rather nice idea, this freedom to be friendly.—B. C. let's Meet the Foreign Students There's an opportunity for broader education on the Ore gon campus that shouldn't be missed. We don’t mean education that you find in books; this edu cation—and incidentally a lot of enjoyment—can he found by getting acquainted informally with the foreign students now enrolled in the University. We understand from John D. Provart, foreign student ' adviser that approximately 100 students from all over the world are enrolled at Oregon now. Having met some of them, we know that they are extremely interesting and well in formed on the situation in their native lands and throughout the world. We have a tendency to insulate ourselves in a blanket of our own campus, or perhaps national interests and activities. If we are curious about the rest of the world, we are often limited to what we can read in books or periodicals. What better way to get first-hand information on condi tions in other lands than by talking to those who have lived there? In a small way, contacts such as these are the key to world understanding. It is to hoped that foreign and American students will get really well acquainted this year in informal, friendly relation ships- It is all too easy to exploit our foreign students by asking them to speak at banquets and for programs, in a stilted, formal atmosphere. This is wasting half the value of a foreign student program, since it does not provide natural, relaxed contact. Get acquainted with the foreign students in your classes, in your living organization. Or you can meet them through the Cosmopolitan club, which is open to all students, or at the foreign student reception, scheduled for Oct. 22. Most of them welcome an exchange of ideas and opinions with Ameri can students. We don’t want two student communities at Oregon this year—one composed of foreign students and the other of American student^. We have a matchless opportunity for mutual understanding and recreation, valuable to foreign student and American alike. It’s our hope that this oppor tunity will be utilized to the fullest this year.—G. G. tyfuuft the Mosque... 5 YEARS AGO Sept. 25, 1946-More than 5400 students had registered for fall term as of today, according to C. V. Harvey, registrar. plans are now being formulated for a funds drive for the con struction of a new student union. A new program instituted on the campus this year is an Air Force ROTC curriculum. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 35, -1941-Appointment of Gyle Nelson as Old Oregoi^ f editor was announced today. Oreganas are now on sale for $5. Persons buying athletic cards will be allowed » $1 discount. i -Aside from the News Everything but the Red Carpet For the Freshmen This Year By Bill Frye _ A note to upperclassmen: If you're in doubt about parking regulations on the campus, or you don't understand the rudi ments of student government, or you think spirit has taken a lam, then you’d better ac quaint yourselves with the young sters who make up the Class of 'f>5. They've got the answers and the fire of Vesuvius. Once upon a time it was nice to think you had all the dope and it was proper to smile wisely at all the little first year boys and girls and play the answer man. That was back when freshmen de pended on the college-wise and counselors were little known and even less sought alter for info and advice. Even as little as a year ago counselors hardly earned their salt. They were the "hig bad wolf” in the dormitory system, looked on more often than not by their charges as the embodi ment of everything distasteful in dorm life or as the curriers of quotations dug from the ad ministration's book of rules and regulations. But this year a bunch of spec ially-pick°d counselors perspired their way through a week of meetings, lectures, reading guide books, and memorizing tactics and rules, then went back to the dorms to spend another week draining off some of their recent ly acquired knowledge on some 1,700 eager freshmen. Bung! It happens. By the end of freshmnn week we have what is probably the best informed, best spirited first-year class in University history. Take the word of the wheels in Emerald hall; they're still squealing with delight over the results of only a week under the new orientation program. And what else could they ex pect? The ex-preppers were giv en everything from hints on table manners and traditions to the lowdown on scholastic require ments and how to keep out of the army. Throw all this anil more at them and top it off with •i class picnic the first thing and you have the makings of a close knit organization and a group of students more mentally prepared to accept the University and its ways than used ft) be the case. It took a little while to get this so-called freshmen orientation week to the point where it wus even worth having, and there’s still room for improvement, but if we have "war maneuvers” on Howe field or promising frosh athletes pulling stakes or any thing else similiar to the little escapades of last year, I'll eit this page. A Day at the Zoo Early Bird May^Gef Worm But Who Gives A Hang - By Bob Funk Getting up at 7 a.m. is still the peachy experience that it al ways has been. There is abso lutely nothing wrong with get ting up at seven IF: (1) you are mistaking the hour for noon, and upon discovery of this error will go right back to bed; (2) you went to bed at 9 the previous evening after reading three pages of How to Study; (3) you’re nuts. It has been the downfall of many an incipient scholar that scholarship begins at 8 a.m. The only persons who think clearly at 8 a.m. are young freshman girls who have been up since five brushing their teeth and smiling and things like that. The rest of us wake up half way thru the lecture on Slight Intro duction to Pos sible Ideas to lind that we have neglected to take the toothbursh out of our mouths. This is or is not a tragedy, depending on how stiff the bristles are. There are benefits to be reap ed by Oregon’s earliest and dark est hour, however. Anyone who has written for that fountain of knowledge and pertinent in formation, the Oregon Daily Em erald, knows the sense of secu rity it gives one to realize that the reader, after all, will 1m- read ing only with the lower half of one eye, and at that half-mast state will hardly be likely to ferret out a split infinitive. We have never been able to quite fit breakfast into the gen eral scheme of getting up. A stomach (ours, at least) is some thing not to be disturbed until much later in the day. There is nothing more indignant than a 7 a.m. stomach that has just had a hotcake dumped into it. Your stomach, maybe, is one of t'hMe eirty sbirdb ' thkt ' ib ' bf> practicing digestion long before sunrise; ours is a bit diffident, and often saves the entire week’s food supply to be digested on Saturday. Seven a m. is the hour of man kind’s greatest challenge. It is at that time we decide whether education is worth sacrificing a pillow and the prone position. In our own befuddled mind, edu cation always loses. To change the subject—after a week and a half or orientation the freshman should either t>e awfully well oriented or sorry that they didn't marry immedi ately upon graduating from high school. It is impressive to know the shortest route from Villard to ROTC—but do you really want to know? Music, Music, Music Same Old Tune By John Rooney After foisting u summcrful of atroclouH fllmuslcals on us, It: would Heem Hollywood would either give up or buy Home new stories and ideas. With the amount of talent, money, and energy, fllmdom could, If they would, atop underestimating the general public, present some thing worthwhile. Witness the traah thrown out the pust three months. Out of a film pot full there was perhaps one good feature. The rest were the same lousy stories, plots, etc., with songs tossed In any where, and many times in com pletely asinine places. Trend of the same type musi cal Is to continue though unless the public reully starts staying away. Paramount*' next big opus Is “Somebody Loves Me," In Which Betty Hutton will star. ' Warner Brother# wil bring out •I'll See You in My Dreams,” with Danny Thomas, a fine comedian not used enough, playing Gus Kahn, and Doris Day (which is reason enough to sec the picture) Anent musicals, MUM, which will bring out "The llomticrg Story," him flimlly admitted Ava Gardner didn't ding Julie's songs in "Showboat.” Hassle was strong about that for awhile. Actually Frankies’ girl friend did sing one souk, "3111,” while Annette Warren, ore of the un known song duhlsTs, filled in "Can't Help Coving Ihit Man.” MOM finally pulled Miss Gard ner's only vocal sound track from the film and the prints in gen eral release have Annette War ren’s voice on both of Ava's songs. Maybe anmeday they'll fix it so Hollywood folk won't have to go to the studio hut can have someone else act for them also. Most refreshing singer that an established disc company has brought out in the past few months is Champ Butler. Catch him on Columbia's issue of "Them There Eyes,” and then to his treatment of "Down Under,” a rag tune. The guy is versatile. Defini tely a welocme relief from the camp followers of Ekstinc, Crosby, Caine, etc. Another In this category is the Piano Moods album put out by Stan Freeman on Columbia. Includes such oldies as "Cabin in the Sky,” "Gone With the Wind,” "Dancing on the Ceiling." Best one of an nil great collec tion Is possibly "I'll Take Ilo mance," a lush arrangement that not only is treated with ex treme care, but it shows what a skilled "legit” pianiHt can do in the Jazz field, if and when he wants to. The Stanford Huddle An’ so th’ travelin’ salesman said to tlie farmer’s daughter