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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 29, 1951)
The OiEOon Daily Ehiaalo it published Mond*y through Friday during the college year, except examination and holiday periods, with issues^on Hotnccomine Saturday and Junior Weekend Saturday by the Associated Students of the University of Oregon. Entered as sec ond class matter at the post office, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rata-** pcr school year, per term. Opinions expressed on the editorial page are those of the writer and do not prKend to represent the opinions of the ASUO or of the University. Initialed editorials are written b* the associate editors. Unsigned editorials written by the editor. Pay Phones-Matter of Economy Pay phones are costing everyone concerned a lot more money than the private lines. This seems to be a common mis conception on campus right now. Individual students are paying more, of course. But the University administration is saving money—$4945, to be exact. The 50-51 University budget included a $17,117 expense for operation of the campus telephone exchange. Only $12,172 appears in the 51-52 phone budget. In past years dormitory phones (excepting the pay variety for long distance calls) have been handled through a campus exchange. The number of calls through the campus switch board has been greatly reduced since extensions were removed from dormg. Consequently, less workers are needed at the campus exchange. Fewer people working, less salary money. That’s logical. And it's economically beneficial—to the administration. Now comes the question: What if the phone company should change its mind and permit the removal of pay phones from dorms? Would the administration be willmg or able to find the additional money required if extensions were reinstalled in the dorms? From a budgetary standpoint, the institution is better off with pay phones. Dorm bills might have to be raised a few cents to cover the added cost. We may well be digging up problems that will never arise— the phone company may hold to their present policy—but it s' a question to think over. Calling Mr. Jordan The critics of football had better clean up their own back yards before offering suggestions. That’s the wish of Harvard Coach Lloyd Jordan. But it’s too late now, Mr. Jordan. Now the matter of deemphasis of evils in collegiate sports is a public affair. Speaking from the lofty heights of his position as president of the National Football Coaches association, Jordan said this week that collegiate football should be emphasized more, and senators and judges should leave football alone until they’ve cleaned up politics and the courts. That’s not so smart, Mr. Jordan. So politicians are dirty. So you prevent them from making a political football of the sport. So next you want the newspapers to keep their noses out. After all, SOME newspapers are just as corrupt as SOME politicians. -So now you’ve got censorship, Mr. Jordan. Now the matter is left entirely up to you, the coach, and to the college presi dent. The coach and the president were in charge before and what did they do? They let football become the great money rrtaking proposition it is today. It was not until the newspapers brought corruption to the eyes of the public that reform was attempted. '\ he editor, the judge, the senator—anyone with a worthwhile suggestion or comment should make it public. But on your account, Mr. Jordan, well refrain this week from making suggestions. You say the reform is up to the coach and university president. O.K., what are your sug gestions? For that matter just what have the coaches done about de ekiphasizing the evils of collegiate sports during the many yjears that they’ve had the reins.—D.D. Pity Poor Franchot | Poor Franchot Tone. 3 The first intelligent thought he’s had in the last three months and then his brain conked out again. He almost walked out. But he lost the second round too. The only point we can get from the whole sordid mess is 'diat .such an affair just proves that a college education doesn’t mean a thing. It has been said that Tone is a well educated man. lie also .has money to burn. At least he’s a man with money. Probably 130 million people felt sorry for him when he “won” Miss Payton by virtue of Neal’s TKO. But we no longer feel any remorse for what may happen to him. He’s asked for a second helping. Miss Payton will prob ably give him a full course dinner. They’ll be back in the news. And strangely enough, they'll probably make the first page and some more editorial columns. Funny how much interest we take in such worthless subjects. --Letters to the Editor Southern Comfort Emerald Editor: Yon say you want more for your money. We'll tell you what not to do. Never, never again spend it on an OSC-Orcgon game at Eugene. Boy, were we taken! After pay ing an outrageous price of half a fin for student tickets, we ex pected to be treated at least as well as we were at Berkeley, Seattle, or Palo Alto. In these other games away from home we paid $1.50 or $1.75 for seats be tween the forty and fifty: with out exaggeration, the best seats in the stadium. Oregon, being un able to beat our football team, and being determined to take OSC to the cleaners one way or another did the next best thing, giving the student spectators from Corvallis the seats no one else would buy behind the goal line. Needless to say, Oregon stu dents had choice seats in the per manent grandstand. As if to heap one abuse upon another, the combined bands of the two schools directed their ac tivities exclusively to the Ore gon rooters and alumni, complete ly ignoring the OSC contingent hidden behind the South goal posts. Even the amusing ROTC squad, with all its stupid bungl ing in playing soldier, never bun gled in our direction. Since the athletic management at Eugene had no interest in us except for our money, next time we shall decline their "southern hospitality" in favor of Southern Comfort, our radios, and home. Murry Kolnick, Arlon Tussing, OSC Students Oriental Viewpoint (Ed. Note: Toshio Horikawa, a Japanese student living in Gam ma hall, was one of several for eign students invited to write their impressions of football for the Emerald.) Emerald Editor: Years ago I played rugby foot ball at college and quit soon enough to save my neck. I had never to this moment been in clined even to see American foot ball. With this background, I went to Hayward field. Now I realize why people are crazy for football. I certainly like it now. What induced me to go and see the games was a picture which appeared in the Oregonian the next morning after the Ducks' first defeat in Portland. Four girls jumping high in the air, heels upturned, yelling and swing ing something like a wig or a lion-mane which I sometimes see on stage in a classical Japanese theater! What were they doing? So I wont, anil there I was, cheering the elieer leaders, and being fascinated more by the rally squad, band, majorettes, and atmosphere, than by the game itself. For, whereas sports nre universal, these things were out landish for me. The lion-manes waved, charm ing rally girls rowed, danced, flapped and flickered. Male load ers sank deep, crawled, putieiitly rose, and then roared and soared. The squad was fighting as hard as the team. The huttleground was being exploited even during the intermission. For there was the band. I hail thut pageant from some royal court. (Don’t tell me they came from McArthur Court!) Finally we won. Good Heavens! I was ready to defend myself in an emergency, expecting a tii umphant outburst. Nothing hap pened. I went back to the Dorm as puzzled as when I came. Baseball eclipses all other stu dent sports in .lapan, at least in terms of the number of specta tors. In Japan thousands of students organize themselves into immense cheering bodies. Japanese stu dt nts usually wear black or blue uniforms. So first of all, coats are doffed by some to spell out the name of the university with huge man-letters, that is, white on black. School banners are un furled and a lot of school songs are sung accompanied by the uni versity hand. When singing, stu dents link shoulders and move in waves, white and black going the opposite ways. ('herring, clapping and singing are the main features. ICally squad members tie a long white handkerchief round their heads, and lead the clapping like acro bats. The captain wears a kimono with a long skirt and establishes himself on a pair of very high clogs. Usually he wears a beard. Cheers for the opponents are exchanged between the contesting schools at the beginning. Win or lose, the students sing and cheer for a considerably long while after tne game is over. Finally the winning school sings any of its representative school songs, followed by the loser doing the same. An exchange of cheers for the opponents winds it all up. The students then swarm to the Ginza street and other metro politan centers, triumphant or chagrined, but never creastfallen. The police must be reinforced in these places after a big game. Many people leave work for what ever pretenses they invent and rush to the games, often wait ing at the ticket office from the night before. Toshio Ilorlkawa A Happy Homecoming c_as—) j* Hand me that rag, Ed, you musta spilt beer on these binoculars.” * A Day at The Zoo By Bob Funk It was a dark night in tho fraternity house, the only Illu mination being that provided by a large neon sign saying "Three Weeks Until r ilium ten in Greek. From some where (oh, use your Imagina tion It could be anywhere) came the soft sounds of soph omores (Shh!) c o n j u g ating •Spanish verbs. The scholar ship chairman BOH FI NK was graciously poised above a door marked EXIT, a bucket of boiling pitch clutched in his claws. Imon Idyut sat crouched at his disk leafing bank through IiIh notes on The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg Since, "November 7,” the notes began (elevertfc enough): “The Grand Duchy of Luxem bourg has been going on since undecipherable word colon, dood le, hey Jim, who is that Theta sitting in the second row; no, not that one, the one with the other colored hair; (answer) That is * no Theta, that is a Kappa; their houses are right across the street; I reply l I could have sworn she went into the Theta house; ire buttal) she was probably on a flying speech, you bum; (further question) Well anyway, who ts she? (answer) 1 don't know "l'ndeclphemble word u a s probably the greatest influenee on Luxembourg In the word ob literated by a doodle period. Will you please ask Kill uhat time it Is; (answer) he left his watch at home; (reply) I think that was the hell; (answer) It Is Just u ringing In-your curs and please shut up I am taking notes. "Word that looks like it might be zymurgy, doodle." Here the notes ended. There was a piteous scream as the scholarship chairman scored a dtrect hit on someone who hail attempted to sneak out. Imon crawled on all fours towards the kitchen, and lifted his panting tongue to the water faucet, where it swept over a sign saying "No Water Until After Finals. Keep in Shape. Cheers to Everyone." He slunk wistfully back to The Grand I>uehy of Luxembourg Since, wondering. He was not wondering about anything In par ticular, hut It was a good time lo Im- wondering. He could lietdf the hum of the neon sign that told how many weeks it was until final week. “The neon sign is out of date,” he said to himself. “It is now only eighteen days." It was a dark night. Probably ' the darkest night in a long time. If you can think of a better way to end a column you are probably in the majority, but you couldn't possibly think of a darker night. Happy scrambled eggs or is this your morning for French . toast ? vJ-Mun the Mosujue... SO YEARS AGO Nov. 20, 1921—John F. Bovard, dean of the school of physical education, announces to students that ho would favor an elective director of athletics office for ' the University of Oregon. This system Is being experimented with at the University of Illinois. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 20, 1941—Student Body President Uou Torgeson tells as sembled students to rise up and crush the “Greek citadel” and to accept the Independent Students Association as their salvation. Torgeson, a member of the Greek bloc, was forced to make the speech when he lost a bet to the president of the ISA. 5 YEARS AGO Nov. 29, 1910—Students are encouraged to contribute thelrv breakage fees to the student un ion fund. _