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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1951)
! "Duck .■ ■«■■■ ^ (ZhvU&x ‘PetentoH s Imarald Sport* Wrlur Autumn officially arrived Sunday afternoon, preceded by 24 hours l>y the first of 10 or so nationwide stampedes to ticket booths of football stadia aero s the length and breadth of the land No doubt about it, the fall madness is w ith us again, and a critical season it may well be for the many moguls w ith vested •interests of one sort or another in this mo t popular entertain ment of the masses. Added to the ordinary boogies which each year this time Vause football coaches to regret their fate—over anxious .alumni, passers who haven t passed anything but a pigskin in two semesters, and scatbacks who return from summer \aca "tions looking like renegade: from a barrel factory are a few special spectres. One of the big problems of seasons in the recent past, tele vision, is back litis year in new garb. This depopulator su preme of the country’s coliseums was given the bum’s rush by the high mucky mucks of the Xt'AA, and while this will give •mere pause to TV less Oregonians it will undoubtedly draw plenty of barbs from the set-owners who will be given the sing 'tihif honor of tuning in a game or so a week or none at all. Saturday Crowd Not Crowded : Whether this will lure back the faint hearts who deserted the traffic jams and pushing crowds to warm their tootsies by the fireplace whilfc watching alma mater slosh through the rain ■remains to be seen. Certainly Saturday’s miserable collection »which failed to (ill two-thirds of Portland’s Multnimah Stadi um is proof of a sort that unpredictable <»us I an won't part "with his rent money for something which promises to be strictly no contest. . That Saturday’s game wasn't is due to the unexpected show ing of I.en Casanova’s Ducks, a matter a scant consolation, ■we dare say, to the several thousand who could have gone but didn’t. Hut if "TV or not TV,’’ to quote a hackneyed cliche, were the only tormentor of the grid fraternity things would be only half bad. Developments of recent months, culminating in the .mass dismissal of all but two of the L'.S. Military Academy’s football squad, point to an even more serious situation—namely, •that the genteal corruption and hypocrisy which have long been overshadowed by adulation and w in-itis might be being brought -into the glare of frank publicity. Black Days for Black Knights The Army mess spotlighted a few of the practices which ‘are common to fumble factories across the nation- Many of the dense heads around the land shook gravely when they learned that the Black Knights had actually been brought to the Point Jo play football. They shook even harder when they heard that the boys got special tutoring for their entrance exams. Child's play. It's a wonder that Red Blaik wasn't ostracized by his fellow coaches for failure to circumvent the exams altogether. In short, what the Army was doing and what aroused the large smell were not in the same class with many of the deeds which some of the more devious brethren have undertaken. Put what appeared for a short time to be the start of a good ..old-fashioned burst of public indignation apparently is wither ing in the heat of competition. People who were crying for a .cleanup a few weeks ago are too often the same ones who holler for more when the autumn leaves start to fall. 1 know, •because I'm one of ’em. We like to have our cake and cat it too. \\ i1 would like to see King Football kicked off the pedestal on which he has perched these many years, but we also like to see the best brand of football available come Saturday after noon. It’s like a farmer looking at an egg and wishing it could be an omelet today and chickcn-in-lhe-rough three months , from now. You can’t have both Fat Chance It would appear that it is time the schools put their own * houses in order, but if anyone in the audience would care to bet that this will happen vou'll find my name in the phone book. Some, it is true, are taking the quick way out by dropping the sport altogether. St. Marvs, Nevada, and Portland U. are a few from our own back yard. Others prefer to “de-cmphasize,” but • the ones which have done so successfully can be counted on your lingers. Where the real answer lies, if, indeed, there is *pne, is hard to see. ro ... _ One thing, though, seems certain. There won't be any signih cant changes in our neck of the woods very soon. As long as "Oregon plays with the big boys of the PCC, it will have to go .after talent to the best of its ability. Kven when this is done the results are not always spectacular PETITIONS AVAILABLE FOR SU COMMITTEE WORK Petitions for students Interested , in working on Student Union I standing committees are due at 5i p.m. Friday in room .'301 of the HU, I office of Olga Yevtlch, program director. Petitions are available In Miss Yevtlch’s office this v/eek. All students petitioning for SU work will be automatically placed in the activity pool. The activity I pool is the first step in becoming a member of an HU committee. Students who do outstanding work will be placed on the SU commit-; tees from those in the activity 1 pool. The eleven standing committees in the HU and their respective di rectorate chairman are Donna Co valt, art gallery; Orville Collver, Browsing Room; James Wilson, concert; Bob Briggs, dance; Paul Uasker, house; Handra Price, movie; Carolyn Welch, music; Don Zavin, personnel; Bob Ford, pub-i llcity; John McAloon, recreation; i and Pat Choat, workshop. The art gallery committee sched ules and arranges a yearly pro gram of exhibits in the SU art gal lery. Such exhibits as student work and drama stage settings make up the exhibits. The Browsing Room committee sponsors the Friday night coffee hours in the Browsing Room, the lecture-forum series, and the Cre ative Arts Program which is held spring term. The concert committee works with the school of Music and the SU in arranging band and orches tra concerts, and in presenting var ied types of live musical programs in the SU. The dance committee sponsors the Friday night mixers in the ball room and the “fishbowl,” and also aids in making the square dancing available in the SU ballroom. In case of infraction of social quainted with their duckling coun selors. mittee works with Dick Williams, SU director, in taking care of the violators and setting up a general policy of SU conduct. The movie committee is respon sible for the Friday evening and Sunday movies in the ballroom, in addition to the educational and athletic movies. The music committee is respon sible for the music listening on the second floor of the SU. The personnel committee ap points all students who petition for SU work. A prerequisite for this committee is one year of SU work. The publicity committee publi cizes all SU activities in addition to doing promotion work for SU ac tivities, and keeping a scrapbook of Union activities. The recreation committee is in charge of dance instruction, and also helps in arranging ping pong, bowling, and billiard tournaments. The workshop committee is re sponsible for making available such equipment as paint, brushes, and hammers in room 327 of the SU, for use by campus decoration committees. ...because Philip Morris is' definitely jess irritating/ definitely milder than any, other leading brand! 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