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EMERALD
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I.-oa.na Larson, Editor
Robert Greenlee, Business Manager
Phil Bettens, Managing Editor
Gretchen Grondahl, Bill Clothier, Don Dewey, Associate Editors
News Editor: Larry Hobart
Assistant Managing Editor: Bill Frye
Chief Night Editor: Sarah Turnbull
Sports Editor: Bill Gurney
Asst. Sports Editor: Larry Lavelle
Asst. News Editors: Kathleen Fraser, Phil
Johnson. A1 Karr
Makeup Editors: Kathleen Fraser, Judy
McLoughlin. Jim Haycox, Harriet Walrath
Wire Editor: Tom Jaques
Classified Ad Manager: Toni Matthews
Day Managers: Carolyn Silva, Carolee Tate,
Mary Waddell, Sally Thurston, Irene
Hullard
Advertising Salesmen: Merle Davis, Janet
Petersen. Marcia Dutcher. Sue Mikkeisen,
Denise Thum. Ward Cook, Sally liaseilinc,
Barbara Keller
Eisenhower's in, but How Far?
Ike’s in . . . how far we won’t know for a while.
He’s in the New Hampshire primary race. He’s in the cam
paign for the GOP presidential nomination.
But he’s not going to engage “actively” in the pre-convention
free-for-all. The general says he’ll not ask release from his
European defense chief job to engage in any political self
promoting.
Some Republicans say the GOP convention-goers may want
something more concrete to go on than a mere indication of
willingness to be “drafted.” And we can’t deny that Taft has
strong and influential conservative backers.
So what if Ike isn’t "in" as far as his vociferous supporters
think he’ll be? What if he should just happen to lose the GOP
candidacy? What if he should run . . . and lose.
In that event, Ike might well be “out”—in more ways than
one. He’d be out as presidential candidate. He’d be definitely
out as president in 1952.
Question: Would he be “out” in Europe too? He would suffer
a, tremendous loss of prestige among those Europeans who now
regard him with such high esteem. This might be disastrous.
Hardships or Hardheadedness?
Very often we see just what we want to see. Or we interpret
what we see so that it suits our own purpose. The facts are
obstacles to be hurdled, not guides for a valid opinion.
Some fraternity and sorority leaders seem to be reviving the
no-deferred-living theme song about financial difficulties im
posing a hardship on their respective houses. All due, of course,
to the evils of deferred living.
We say some of the fraternity and sorority leaders, because
we know others who sincerely believe no such money problem
is engendered by the Oregon plan.
The bone of contention in this case was mentioned by Alumni
Secretary Les Anderson’s preliminary account of what he ex
pected the Holloway report to contain. Anderson thought the
final report would blame financial difficulties of the fraternities
and sororities on the individual groups and not on the deferred
living system.
Charles Holloway, a fraternity man, is the chairman of the
alumni group which will make a report on the Oregon Plan in
the very near future. His committee is composed of both frater
nity and independent alumni. It has access to fraternity finan
cial records. All of them.
The committee spent an entire day on campus interviewing
fraternity and sorority members. Presumably, the major com
plaints against the system would have been registered at that
time by the dissidents.
It seems quite likely that the Holloway report will be un
biased, authentic and objective. We suggest that the opposition
wait until the report is rendered, or its continued cries of pain
may become a conditioned reflex.—B. C.
Short Lines, Happy Registrants
We’ve finally found something good, though minor, to say
about the administration edict which required students to return
to classes the day after New Year’s Day.
The unnecessarily early opening of classes worked hardships
on students and instructors alike, but it was one of the factors
resulting in the running of the smoothest registration week that
we’ve yet seen.
With some students arriving on campus January 1 and others
straggling in throughout the first week of January, the regis
trar’s office has been able to get them signed up without the
embarrasment of those excessively long lines that used to pro
trude out the doors of Emerald hall and and a goodly distance
down 13th street.
From the administrator’s viewpoint, as well as the student’s,
this has been a nicely-operating week of registration. The
spread-out nature of the student exodus to Eugene has enabled
Registrar Clifford Constance to handle the job with his regular
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So THIS Is Oregon
Read any Dictionaries Lately?
Here's a Summary of the Latest
-By Jim Htycox
Do you know where there are
some nice, so<t chairs in the li
brary? I bet you don't. One of ttie
little girls behind the counter just
off the reserve
book shelf
room told me
there weren’t
any. And I be
lieve her too.
They've got
squeakies, the
ones that moan
and groan ev
erytime you
think about
shifting your
position. They
've got tough
ies, the ones
JIM HAYCOX
that just sit there and dare you
to be comfortable. They've got a
few hidden away in the recesses
of the shelves on the annex with
deceptive leather backs and seats.
But just try and get one when
you want one.
Oh. they've got nice, soft deep
cushioned chairs all right. . . in
the SU Browsing room and scat
tered throughout that building.
Wonderfull for the SU but it
doesn't help the library. Accord
ing to this young thing behind
the counter, however, the library
doesn’t want help.
“Well,” she said, “you can
study best when you’re a little
bit cold, slightly hungry, and
somewhat uncomfortable.” Oh
swell.
Now, I'm not going to argue
with somebody whose business it
is to know something about study
conditions. But then, I'm not go
ing to the Library either.
* * •
Dictionaries are getting better
and better and costing less and
less. They are now selling one in
the co-op for less than a dollar
that has 30,000 words (including
the new ones like veep) and over
25 other subjects lumped together
under the title of a Ready Refer
ence to Useful Information. And
I tell you it is.
For instance did you know
that: there are 28 calories in one
cup of mushrooms, 59 in one four
inch pancake, 905 in 32 Brazil
nuts or 18 In five pretzels. I’ll bet
you didn’t.
Or did you know that if you
suddenly find yourself holding a
counterfeit fin you should not re
turn it. Indeed not, you should
call the police, delay the passer,
and write his description down If
he leaves (but preferably not on
the counterfit bill).
Hut this Is just the beginning.
Miiunt ltufcnzori In the Belgian
C ongo Is 16.7H7 feet high, kind of
a piker along side Mount Chim
borazo of Ecuador, which Is 20,702
feet high. Luckily, of course, they
are not side by side.
The largest luke trout ever
caught weighed 63 pounds and
was snagged in Lake Athapapus
kow, Manitoba, in 1930. The high
est single team bowling score
ever turned in was a lusty 1,186,
und the bowlers a red hot Tea
Shops gang in Milwaukee, Wis.
When you write the president
a letter you don’t have to be for
mal if you don't want to be. A
simple "Dear Mr. President" is
quite as adequate as "Sir "
The first provision in the Gen
eral Orders of the Armed Forces
of the United States is that the
serviceman "take charge of this
post and all government property
in view.” i Think this one must
have seeped out some way.)
And incidentally, if you’re ever
In an air raid, get under the bed.
And don't look out the window
like a fool.
ty>ia+H the M&ujue...
30 YEARS AGO
.Ian. 9, 1922—The University of
Oregon professors gave a total of
2336 hours of F to their students
during fall term. Of these, 1762
went to men and 574 to women.
20 YEARS AGO
A total of 25H3 students have
registered for winter term classes.
10 YEARS AGO
( lasses resumed today after a
1 i/i -day vacation caused by un
extreme silver thaw. WI*A and
University maintenance men are
working at full speed to dear the
campus of trees and' brunches
broken by the weight of the Ice.
Power and heat was off in Uni
versity buildings for varying per
iod* of time.
15 YEARS AGO
Frederic S. Dunn, I-atin pro
fessor and head of the classics
department died last night at his
home. Dunn had long been re
garded as the unofficial historian
of the University of Oregon.
These WSC Boys Piay It Rough
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“Boy, now, they really have a time Betting that hall away from oUI
Fred, huh?”
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Letters
bo the
Editor
A Bullheaded Blunder?
Emerald Editor:
If (he University administra
tion's latest underhanded action
of dosing the Vets Dorm chow
hall was so Justifiable from its
point of view then why are so
many errors, falsehoods, ami
misconceptions Involved, all on
the part of the administration, of
course.
To quote from a circular mailed
to all Vets Dorm residents mit
the vacation and signed by H. I’.
Barnhart, Director of Dormitor
ies, the administration wishes
“that you could have been in
formed of this decision before
leaving for the holidays. I nfor
t unut cly we were not In [Hisses
slon of the facts early enough to
make this possible.”
Is It or is it not true, Mr. Ham
hart, that:
1. “The facta” were fully in
possession of the administration
at least before finals; and (2> lliiH
Machiavellian goat lire was talrwft
to encourage the filling of vacan
cies in Straub in order to pay off
the Carson hall bond issue
Furthermore, the adminlnt ra
tion Is trying to keep undercover
the fact that Vets Dorm residents
can now move out any time be
cause the university has breached
the contract signed by dorm resi
dents stating thut the latter have
contracted to eat In the Vets
( ommons.
In addition, Mr. Barnhart, how
can the administration justify the
following facta: first, that be
tween 300 and -100 men used to
tat at the Commons, an against
between 200 and 300 at Straub;
second, according to student help
I have talked with, there are bet
ter facilities at the Vets Dorm
kitchen.
In view of all these fuets. It Is
quite evident that the adminis
tration has committed another
hullheaded blunder with accom
panying deliberate falsification of
the actual facts.
If you would care to defend the
administration's viewpoint, Mr.
Barnhart, or perhaps correct any
possible errors on my pait, I
shall eagerly await any such ac
tion by you. However, I seriously
doubt that this latest faux pas
can be justified in any possible
manner.
Martin Meadows
Look in On Cosmos
A good way to spend a spare
Friday night is to check the cur
rent Emerald as to the where
abouts of the Cosmopolitan Club
and go down and look the situa
tion over.
What may start as an Idle di
version may end up as an all
consuming interest or perhaps
even romance! There have been
eases of this in the Club's brief
history.
Dancing and refreshments,
games and companionship and
good conversation, all tend to
make a strong social club of the
Cosmopolitan Club. A classroom
situation is not absolutely neces
sary for learning, and the Cosmo
cabinet maintains that Americans
can learn just cs much from fore
ign students as foreign students
can learn from Americans and a
social situation makes the learn
ing easier and more fun.
Of course, those who are strong
for studying may stay home and
study Friday nights, hut those
who believe in a little fun once in
a while are heartily welcome at
the Cosmopolitan Club.
Both date couples and stag
members will be welcome. There’ll
be dancing at next Friday’s “In
ternational Evening” and re
member, the U.S. should be well
represented its members don't
have as far to go! And bring a
friend, cither American or for
eign, as all foreign students have
n't discovered Cosmo yet, either.
When foreign and American,
s t u d e n t s get together, their
knowledge of each other’s cul
ture increases and international
lelations improve, especially in
later yearp.
Lids Heynolds, secretary