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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 6, 1951)
Oregon Daily k _ _ (EMERALD The Oregon Daily Emwlald is published Monday through Friday during the college year, except examination and holiday periods, with issues on Homecoming Saturday and Jutnor Weekend Saturday by the Associated Students of the University of Oregon. Entered as sec ond class matter at the post o5ce, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates: $5 per school year, per term. Opinions expressed on the editorial page are those of the writer and dp not pretend to represent the opinions of the ASIJO or of the University. Initialed editorials are written b* the associate editors. Unsigned editorials a^c written bv the editor. the associate editors. Unsigned < Loan a La«son, Editor Abbott Paine, Bustreas Manager Phil Bettkns, Managing Editor Gretchen Grondahl, Bill Clothier, Don Dewey, Associate Editors Gretchhm Grefe, Advertising Manager The Northern Branch is Fighting Oregon's finally taking action to join OSC in the fight against pay phones. ASUO president Bill Carey has arranged for an Oregon delegation to be present at the hearing OSC re quested with the public utilities commissioner. The hearing date is, as yet, undecided. Representing Oregon will be presi dents of IFC, Heads of Houses, IDC, house managers, Carey, and Emerald officials. Meanwhile, our Corvallis neighbors are going right ahead with their own fight. The OSC Barometer of Xov. 2 states: “Campus sentiment is definitely crystalizing on the injustice of the telephone company’s position, regardless of what it says has been dons at other institutions and regardless of what it says its interpretation of its tariff permits it to do. ’ They have already succeeded in stalling installation until after the requested hearing. The Barometer doesn't agree with the telephone company’s contention that “similar coin installations, at other institutions is a valid argument for them here. Two, or a dozen, wrongs do not make a right.’’ Since the present tariffs seems to require pay phone installa tion, the Staters feel justice may call for tariff revision. We agree. We’re anxious to see if the tariff could possibly be re vised to provide for campus living groups. This is an issue that calls for close cooperation with Oregon State—where the students had enough enterprise to protest a move that we sat back and took as inevitable. Phones are al ready installed on our campus, which puts us at an immediate disadvantage. But let’s hope our cooperative action, late as it is, can still do some good. Our Monopoly is Broken We’re quaking in our editorial boots. With nearly a half-century of tradition as a monopoly news paper behind it, the Emerald now learns that it has a vigorous young competitor. Five days weekly the Daily Finger—that’s its name—is pointed at some notorious campus or world figurp. Such well known personalities as Plato (“a dirty Greek"), A1 Capone and Dr. Harry Newburn have been in its editorial sights. Fortunately Emerald circulation thus far has not suffered. The Daily Finger is posted on the Stan Ray hall bulletin boards so its official circulation is listed as “2”. However Co-editors Martin Meadows and Harold Starkel speak darkly of the possibilities of obtaining a mimeograph machine and starting an all-out circulation war with the Emerald. The Finger has already beaten down one opponent. The Daily Toe, a competing Vets Dorm publication, succumbed to the editorial blasts of the Finger after only two editions. Warily we extend our greetings to this infant in the family of newspapers. Consoling is the fact that Emerald circulation by mail can not suffer. Mailing privileges for this upstart newspaper are most unlikely.—D. D. Another Point at View Comments overheard during the 75th anniversary cere monies : “I hear the students hardly ever come to this kind of assem bly.” “We used to come to assemblies no matter how crowded it was and how little we could hear. And that was before there were public address systems.” “It looks to me as if students have too darned many activities. They’re so busy doing other things or recovering from what they have done that they don’t have time to listen to visiting lecturers.” There's little need for further comment. The three alumni— two women and a man—quoted here have put across our point.—D. D. So THiS Ms Orefton Eugene's Own Amboy Dukes Are Striking For Notoriety -—-By Jim Kaycox Kvcr been spit on by some little high school kid about half your size? Ever had a bunch of sixteen- and seventeen-year-olds lollow you and your date down the street making dlity remarks? Probably not... at least not yet. But sooner or later, if you wander down Willamette on a Friday or Saturday night, something along this line will happen. They rail themselves the Ne mos, As one story has It, the name was derived originally by s p e II I n g ‘women’ backwards. Their numbers are apparently re cruited from the high school age males around Eugene. They are probably more trouble to the town of Eugene than to the college kids in general. But, it seems, they take a special satis faction in needling the university crowd, their immediate elders. There is probably some psycho logical reason for this. From a few friends and a walk or two down town, I picked up these assorted tales. They give a pretty good description of the Eugene Amboy Dukes. Couple of weeks ago in a thea ter downtown, several members ot the gang began picking on a kid who wasn't very big. When the police got there the young ster was, according to those who saw him, "a mass of blood.” One eye, they said, hiul been knocked out of its socket. Police were able to make a couple of arrests. Us ually, however, the gang, or the part of it involved, gets away. Out at Elmira, gbe* another story, they parade around wear ing Jackets with only the bottom button fastened in a kind of off ttie-shoulder style effect (collar up, of course). They don’t wear any shirts or Tee shirts either, and run uround with their manly chests sticking out. The night before Halloween a troup Of ten to fifteen of them were seen and heard outside the second unit of the Vet’s dorms trying to get the freshmen to come out and fight. They Identi fied themselves as Nemos though some think they really weren’t. Apparently this N'emoism, this spirit of rebellion, Is Infectious. The freshmen were kept in their dorms and the group left before police arrived. On Hallo ween night, while fraternity and sorority members were up at Mac Court, a group (probably not the same one) of high-school age boys and girls, perhaps twenty of them, was seen wandering through the campus. They were singing a college fight song, ap propriately adapted with Nemo words. -Aaide from ilte Kara Questionable Entertainment Sets Problem of Campus Judgement - ——--By Bill Frye - Questionable campus entertain ment, if it can be pegged that, has flamed up anew and its heat has drawn the ire of the usual responsive few who mount the stump in vociferous protest or defense of the latest episode in "bad taste." Campus comedians who deviate from the straight and narrow have been under fire from the “do-gooders” since 1 first showed my curley head around this in stitution, and I’ll proffer a guess that it was nothing new then nor will it ever completely pass from the college scene. What makes the guy with the loose tongue so free with the verbiage and how does it rebound on the ear of the reactionary? There certainly are legitimate answers to both parts of the ques tion. Take the night of the Sopho more Whiskerino as a good ex ample. For a change, every stu dent who had a voice in the in termission proceedings stayed within the bounds of “good taste" to the point where no one could get excited about anything except maybe the awards that were handed out. Then the dance band gets its two cents in and suddenly every iKidy was excited, most of them getting some good laughs in and a few others feeling the pangs of embarrassment. student entertainment was re ceived with a few polite chuckles, or smirks, depending on your in terpretation. They boys from Hol lywood who hadn't heard about our campaign to “clean up” cam pus entertainment got all the laughs for the evening. And so it becomes apparent to the aspiring college comedian that in order to be, a hit with his audience he lias to occasion ally wander off on a spur that a few people don’t view as exactly ethical. In other words, he is simply leaning toward the major ity. It is in defense of the few that don’t go along with him that lines have to be drawn, and that’s fair enough, depending' on the fine-, ness of the line. University enter tainment is supposed to cater to everyone, not just to tne jot a and Betty's that like what they dish up at the Blue Moon night club. The problem, then, Is In draw ing a line that will not detract from the enjoyment of campus entertainment as far as the ma jority Is c ?ncemed and at the same time one that will not per mit offense to anyone. I believe In restrictions, but I also believe the line can be drawn too fine. Whoever decides on "bad taste," or what a "smutty" joke is or "what is best for the stu dents” (and I submit that these terms are ambiguous) is wel come to the problem but I pre dict that it will outlive them. Letters to the Editor' Turkey Talk Emerald Editor: , So thin year It'll be a queen Instead of a hostess. We’ll hope there Is Just loin of excitement uiul honor Involved in lielng llomreomliig queen. Ollier" wise file poor girl who wins nil) feel like everyone else. She won’t want to break up her Thunks giving holiday just to lake In lie lloineenmlng festivities. . Mandated by an extremely small minority the great ma jority, those who disapprove bul ; do it silently, just don't couni , the peoplo-who-plan-thls-sort-of.5 thing continue to schedule j .ft radon and what-not for the wc end. Has anyone ever thought o|, letting the ali.mni have toe ram |ius to themselves when they start “coming home." They could I yet just as drui k; and that, at lei all, si cins to he tjie purpose lie hind the eetehrution. Of course it's too late now ti? do anything along this line, ah kinds of planning would go for naught. IJut we might keep it in mins as an effective reprisal the next, time the administration !e It the Thanksgiving week end fori Homecoming. le t the admini irn tor. stay here to meet and gr- -1 Name withheld by request. Night Owl Speaks Emerald Editor: The University ndininistrnt n has many restrictions on the ' i dents, ail of which an- o■•i-nsihly for the students' own benefit and which allegedly help to keep grades up. If this 1» the case, then how in the name of the almighty tu’V cun tin- administration justify the closing hours of the library V I lie. 10 p.m. deadline on vvei I..' y nights is asinine enough, hut the limit of absurdity is reached when the library Is closed at 5 p.m. o» weekends. < To forestall an anguished ad( from the budget department, t think that it would cause no in convenience and be quite i.'.<x»l pensive to keep one room in the library open, if not al! night,j then at least until 1 or 2 a m. Such an action would work to tile advantage of all runceriuuU particularly in the ease of seniors and graduates, many of whom' find that the best time to study or even the only time It Is possible Pur them to study, Is from M)-'!" ut night. Martin Meadows Season's Greetings ri “I don’t think I should distrub her—slip’s helping l’rofessor Snart make out an examination.”