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Oregon Haifa EMERALD The OurcoN Dmly F.mfkai.d is published Feb. 4 thru 8, I I thru IS. 1R thru ...... 5 thru 29 March It' Apr. 2 thru 4, 7 thru 11, 14 thru 18, 21 thru -5. -8 thru May -, May 6 thru 10, 12*thru 16 19thru22, and May 26 by the Associated Students of the 1 mversity ot Oregon. Entered as second class matter at the post office, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates: $5 per school year. $2 per term. ... . Opinions expressed page on the editorial are those of the writer and do not pretend to represent the opinions of the ASOO or of the l mversity. Initialed editorials arc written by the associate editors. Unsigned editorials are written by the editor.__ A Step Toward Democracy By a 19 to 4 vote in an AGS meeting Thursday afternoon that political party instituted a direct "primary” election system. It looks as though AGS “saw the light,” so to speak. Their rival party, the United Students association, has utilized a direct primary for several years. This didn’t seem to bother AGS until a USA senator, Virginia Wright, proposed an ASUO-sponsored primary election for the entire campus, with students voting on their respective party ballots. The senate, in which AGS holds a majority, was nut en thusiastic about the proposal. One senator, Bill I'rye (AGS), asserted that the AGS candidate selection system actually was a primary, so why would another be needed? : So, at the March 4 AGS meeting, a new “primary" for AGS is announced by its originator, President Larry Dean. 1 he reason given for the *1 reek change is more democracy. ( hor merely each house collectively turned in one vote for a candi date.) Under the AGS “primary" on April 14, ballots containing the names of all AGS members petitioning for student body presi dent will be distributed to the AGS houses and each member will vote for one candidate. A student must have a majority vote to become an AGS candidate; so, if no majority is secured in the first balloting, a second will follow. Dean said this setup is similar to the USA open primary. But there's one major difference. AGS members will be allowed to vote only on presidential candidates. USA has all primary candidates on its ballot. Still Miss Wright’s original proposal has not been entirely for gotten, (though it might have been as far as this year is con cerned). An 8-man committee, (5 AGS and 3 USA), headed by Pat Dignan (AGS), yvas appointed to study the all-campus pri mary. You haven't heard much about the committee because it was yvaiting to see the results of yesterday’s AGS meeting Now, says Dignan, they’ll go to work. He feels the AGS change is a “big step” in the right direction, but recognizes there’s still a definite weakness in the selection method. ASUO President Bill Carey seems to disagree. “With the primary in both parties yve yvon t need the ASUO primary. We ll go along with Dignan. He says he doesn t necessarily agree completely with Miss \\ right s proposal, but thinks the matter yvorthy of much careful study. He shares our view that the problem isn t solved, as the in dividual student still has some say only in selection of the top man. We fervently hope a direct primary for the entire campus, yy-ith individuals voting on all candidates, is in the offing. Give Us Our Long Vacation The fate of spring vacation 1954 may be decided in a meet ing April 15. The Board of Deans, which meets next on that date, has been intimating that there is a strong relationship between attend ance the first day of classes this term and whether the full week of spring vacation will be continued in the future, We’re safe for next year; the calendar has already been made out. The background for the discussion is that in 1949-50 and '50 51 the deans adopted a shortened spring vacation consisting of a “long weekend,” because they chopped a w'eek off classes in June in order to help job-hunting Webfoots. Attendance at early classes after this abbreviated vacation proved low, so the deans decided to experiment with a full week this year. The deans discussed the situation at their first meeting Tues day. Accordiftg to Dean of Administration W. C. Jones, the general impression was that attendance this term was pretty good. But the deans didn’t have complete figures, so they post poned the discussion to Apr. 15. Meanwhile, the Emerald has taken an informal survey of departments. Results, which appear elsewhere in today’s paper, indicate an average attendance of 65 per cent for all classes, with the professional schools scoring up to 95 per cent. We don't know what the Board of Deans will think about these figures. But in our opinion a 65 per cent attendance for the first day of classes isn’t so bad. There is always a certain proportion of absences due to registration for new students, illness and other unavoidable factors. Besides, we can ahvkys hope that the deans enjoyed their longer vacdticgi|j^t| as much as we did.—G. G. It IS Books at the UO // .,'lAS/j Wf Mr ~FgJ, X 50-17 “Dead I»ad—This probably will come as a surprise to you—urltiiiu another cheek for more hooks—you must think 1 have ijuite a library by now, and the cost of books seems . . On Staxje and Sc/ieen .. . More Plays for the Common Man By Toby McCarroll There has been considerable complaining around the towers of Villard. It usual!* takes the form of a criticism of the "aver age” student for being derelict in his cultural duty and not attend ing the plays. .Maylx- If the closed shop which regulates the policies and chooses the plays of the “University” Theater (when used in this sense “University” seems to mean “VII lard) would throw itself open and allow for greater University participation the students might perchance get a few more gen erally enjoyable plays. .More stu dents would probably attend were it not for the fact that so many plays are for the sole purpose of training actors to be “good” someplace else. * * * “Rasho-mon" has come arid gone, but the talk lingers on. A letter to the Emerald from Toshio Horikawa told us that the film is Japanese and not designed for a western audience. However, we would say the setting might just as well have been in a New York penthouse and it would not have seemed strange to have seen the name of Eugene O’Neill or Elmer Rise as the playwrite, nor to see Akira Kurosawa directing “The Great God Brown” or “The Add ing Machine.” The production fol lows very closely the principles of the modern American theater. * * * The best show of the week seems to be the one which the SU will show Sunday, a Japanese film called “Kimiko,” based on a popular story by Minoru Nakono. The Mayflower brings back the excellent but pointless psycho logical drama, “A Place in The Sun” George Stevens (the di rector! received the Academy Award for this film. At the MacDonald we find “Re treat, Hell”; this is the unimagi native story of a group of Ma rines in Korea, complete with lonely wife and green warrior; if you are an escapist this won’t help and if you aren’t an escapist you will be if you see it. The only person who should see this is a veteran—this (according to Hol lywood) is how he should look. The Heilig crawls through with “Boots Malone,” this is about a jockey; all the race-track stereo types are thrown in and to top it off the main character has run away from a rich home. The Very Little Theater (2350 fHilyard) will’ present “Light nin’, ” featuring Archie lloleman, a "hcltfr-than-ttvcragi'" veteran actor. * * « The Theater's twin musical bill is progressing, with music majors learning that audiences get tired of one gesture, and drama ma jors learning that an orchestra can’t ad lib, The show opens April 18. After a relatively long time Dr. Hunter has cast the ‘'Sea Gull." It is to be hoped that the painstaking care in the selection wili be to the benefit of the audi ence on opening night. Judging from the various factors which tiave already converged on the production it should be different. Letters to the Editor (I.rltrr* for thin column mutt !>c 400 word* »<r Icm in irniith And *iuncd I»y tlie Author or authorH. Krque»t» that tiamn he withheld will Ih* uivrii curcful rotini<|fra tion. Letters may l*e mailed to the Kuirr* aid editor or left in the Kmrrald <|iioti»et Adjacent to the Jouriialism building ) Phone Stand Praised Emerald Editor: Many llmnk» to the editors of the Emerald for their iitrong edi torial poliey concerning the ie moval of pay telephone*. Your job in forming public opinion wuk, in rny own estimation, one of the moat powerful factor* in our successful campaign to re turn to the buMlnc** telephone*. I slendd personally like to award the roses which the Km rrald so often grants to those who complete sueressfill endeav ors. IHck Hailing. Chairman Special Telephone Comm. Can't Speak tor Europe Kmcruld Kditor: Gerhard Znhn must have trav eled very ret ently ull over Eu rope. If not, I do not are hi* authority to apeak for the ,,Ku ropean" In his article "Europeans F'avor Eisenhower a* Next Pi t .-u dent (April 2). Moreover, I did not find any mention in tin- arti cle of the fact that Eisenhower is so popular in Europe because it wuk he who liberated the many European countries from German oppression. I think Mr. Zahn forgot one fundamental argument. K u r o peans might think (I am not an authority to say they do) tiiat a Republican victory Is Iticv I tahle. And when It comes It Is better to have the Elsenhower of the Western defense on the job than a Taft with a no doubt isola tionist le background. But if a Democrat is elected it might be just as all right with them, because they are then eure that the Truman doctrine will he continued. And that, after all, is all that matters for Europe. William van Eekeren The Netherlands GamfuiA, cMeadUinei. — Clieudtesie. £ ook Store Buys Comic Books By Rae Thomas Classified ad in the Purdue Kx ponent: ' ".Students” buy your reading materials and save 40',, to 75'// at the "Exchange Book Store,” We accept pocket novels, comics and current magazines in good condition at V„ sale price.' What a business they’d do here! • * * A former dorm Opened at Kan sas University to take care of an overflow of measles from the hospital. Over 200 cases have been reported. • * • A graduate student at the Uni versity of Wisconsin, last month created a hub-bub in the chem lab. When asked why he shot a fellow student, he replied, "I don’t know.” He admitted that he was in toxicated at the time from drink ing snifters made of 190 proof alcohol taken from the laboratory he had been drinking the stuff all day. * * * Two former roommates from the University of Purdue found themselves on opposite sides of a coutt decision. One alum sued the other for "wanton and willful ■ misconduct” in failing to ob- : serve a stop light — and was i awarded $21,500 for the injuries I she suffered. i The Sketch, literary magazine at Iowa State College has folded. Says the “Iowa State Daily: “Perhaps the material presented, which was student-authored, was too much like freshman English themes ...” There's trouble with trophy snatchers at Michigan State Col lege. Writes one group: “During the four years that Gilchrist has been in existence, we have won only one small tro phy. About two weeks ago, some happy little soul filched it. We were even going to buy a trophy case for it! Won't some noble heart return our treasure?” • » * Robert Davis will be president of Cincinnati's Senior class for Lire rest of the year—even though he has left for active service. The remaining officers will carry on “there need be no break in continuity of leadership,” said the officers. * * * At Cincinnati, too, is a pros pective woman lion-tamer. Klolse Berchtold, 1(1, called the Fencing teacher and asked for private lessons so as to become julck and light on her feet. She foes on tour with a circus on \pril 5th, us linn tamer. * * * One of the fellows at the Uni versity of Texas fell down one light in an elevator shnft. It ieems that the floor was dark ind he opened the elevator door tnd stepped in no elevator! But ie is all right except for a touch >f shock. * * * Students at Hastings College, Nebraska, weren’t happy when offec at the campus canteen vent up from 5 to 10 cents. A lewspaper poll Indicated th< najorlty may very well buy their •offee elsewhere.
