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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 24, 1952)
Oregm daily " , _ ^ (EMERALD .The.OMOoi. EmeV-S ^•^ndlla^ma^V.fthi'po,' office. Eugene. Oregon. Sobscr.p.ion rotes: *5 per ,Ch0oS,<2™.rrS' pane on the editorial are those of the writer and do not pretend to represent The ooim"nfof the ASUO or of the University. Initialed ed,tonal, are written by the associate editors. Unsigned editorials are written by the editor.__ Defeat in Victory The honor code won the vote yesterday but it looks as if it lost the election. “Yes” votes in yesterday’s election totaled 97d. against a "no” total of 895. That is a numerical victory for advocates of the honor code, but it is a moral victory for the code’s opponents. , When this important a measure pulls only a 52.1 per cent vote majority, it means that the work of a lot of people has for now at least—come to nothing. A substantial margin of victory was what the honor code committee wanted before presenting the product of their labors to the faculty. This majority was a good deal less than sub stantial. The apathy we've seen among students indicates that we may be lucky if the code is not accepted in the committee's meeting next week. Such a plan would require the complete cooperation of stu dents and faculty alike. Students have indicated that they are not interested in this type of cooperation. Ten of them were so completely disinterested that they encircled both “yes” and “no” in an I-don’t-give-a-darn gesture. We learned yesterday that a social reform can not be legislated. We hope that persons pushing the honor code will not be so completely dejected that they give up. They should now put their efforts to convincing apathetic students that an honor system really offers them something. We won’t know what the system can do at Oregon until we try it. It won't increase cheating. It might halt some of it.D.D. Congratulations, YWCA This is a Week. Not National Doughnut Week, or Be Kind to Journalists Week, or Eat More Prepared Breakfast Cereals \\ eek; this is National YWCA W eek. And though we generally toss all the tons of publicity puffery about these “weeks” in the round file, we'd like to take time in this case to give credit to a hard-working organization. The University’s YW, founded back in 1906, has grown to be come one of the most active student associations in the country. Its varied program is probably the most far-reaching of any single campus organization. More important, most of its ac tivities go beyond the point of “busy work and are designed to meet a campus need—welcoming and orienting freshmen, developing better student-faculty relations, working with fore ign students, sponsoring educational programs such as political conventions and marriage lectures. So congratulations to the YWCA during its special week. We feel we have a worthy representative of the national or ganization on our own campus.'—G. G. 4* Wouldn't Be Ponies Under Code “Class—didn’t I announce that I wouldn't tolerate a ‘pony’ during an examination?’’ -Confusion Confounded" Isn't Science Grand? Latest Soap Stops Perspiration Before it Starts _By Sam Chirman___ Even after a few years of mind-broadening education under our belt it is still hard to realize completely the full extent of re cent scientific advances. Only re cently did light penetrate to us, in the form of a full page ad in a newspaper, and give us a daz zling glimpse of the future and of its thousand possibilities for making this world better for our yet-unborn children. This was an ad telling in re strained terms of a new wonder soap which stops perspiration be fore it occurs. We noted this carefully: before it occurs. These three short, simple words opened new vistas to us. True, in the past we had used soaps which stopped perspiration as it came; dentifrices whose benefits on our molars had pre vented decay, pyorrhea and pink - - Letters to the Editor - - Complaints Emerald Editor: We have several complaints about the grouping of the men’s living organizations as units for drawing in the Junior Weekend float parade. The first complaint is that Jim Owens, chairman of the parade, stated specifically that the men’s living organizations were to be grouped to equate the number of men in each unit in the drawing. This was nbt done, as is shown by figures of the Office of Stu dent Affairs. Our second complaint is that no two Greek men’s living organ izations were paired together. Contrary to this, every dormitory was paired either with one or two other dormitories or with one of the smaller fraternities. Further, a great majority of the fraternities were not grouped at all with another men’s living organization, even though the av erage number of men in these fraternities is 38, whereas each dormitory has approximately 50 men. We can’t understand why some of the fraternities weren’t paired. We believe that each dormitory has the same right to be con sidered as a separate entity as each fraternity. We expect Mr. Owens’ reply will be that the dormitories in the past have not participated ac tively in such events. Our answer is that we cannot, when our initiative and incentive are stifled by such groupings. Signed: \V a y n e Parpala, president, Sherry Boss-Omega; Kay Glass, president, Gamma; Eddie W’ah, president, Alpha; James Mead, president, Stan Kay-Stitzer; Rob ert Blaisdell, president, McChes ney, and Ben Schmidt, president, Minturn. To an Ag Freshman Emerald Editor: At risk of corrupting my own views as to how outspoken chil dren should be dealt with, I feel it a duty to point out a few slight inconsistancies in the recent Em , erald article,, ‘‘On Stage,” by loDy .wci^arron. Upon reading the article, my assumption is that Mr. McCar roll is a freshman majoring in Agriculture. This assumption is based on the author’s ambiguous use of extremely difficult terms such as "concert” and "opera.” This r.light error in terms may possibly be due to the fact that Mr. McCarroll could not hear Over the “exhibition of a con siderable amount of stupidity, egotism and lack of talent” which the orchestra was producing at the volume marked by the lowly composer. Unfortunately for the layman, the duty of the orchestra is to play the music. It is the duty of the singer to make himself or herself heard. If, in the future, the Emerald wishes to offer official comment on productions for the public, it would be rny suggestion that a more qualified writer should of fer the criticism. If this is diffi cult, then at least get a person not given to using terms and opinions not within his compre hension. , , . I/pnard W- Jared toothbrush at the right moment; shampoos which had made our hair more lustrous, more easy to manage after we had washed with them but that is ancient history; those are obsolete prod ucts of a backward civilization now we possess, after years of re search (so says the ad) a soap which prevents the ugly crime before it happens. What possibilities indeed! Now, with these products of war-time research (the only kind of re search which could possibly cre ate such a wonder) we can mar ket toothpastes that prevent tooth decay before we have teeth; lotions to stop baldness before we grow hair. Naturally this soap has a sec ret ingredient. It wouldn’t be worth advertising unless it had such an ingredient. Picture a soap without a secret bah! it's a failure. No soap worth its lath er lacks a secret. This soap has one, naturally. In the past other soaps have had secrets. We had Solium, Po dium, and a lot other '‘-iums," but these were secrets of a minor sort. Our soap is not only super secret (its formula is whispered to be ZX-5 In well informed Washington circles) but is sold with a triple-endorsed-double your-money-back guarantee to remove all perspiration before it occurs, needless to say. Our soap works by killing skin bacteria on contact. These bac teria, probably believed harm less in the past allowed to live on our skins as decent, law-abid ing bacteria usually were now are discovered to be villains. They cause the offending odors. Our soap's ingredient sorry secret ingredient kills all these bac terias, thus avoiding the disaster before it happens. Grateful though we are for this miracle of science and research (war-time research, of cohrse) we are horrified at the brutality of this soap’s operation. Perhaps there is a way of avoiding all this bacterial slaughter. Perhaps a new super-super ingredient (doubly secret) could prevent bacterias before preventing bac terias to prevent odors ? Oh the HiA.., * No Daylight Time; Just Radio Mixups By Don Collint The noverelgn ruler of the «tat<• of Oregon, with one fell swoop of ills negative proclnmatlon hand, denied the subjects of this Htute day-light savings time. Ah one of the court favorites put it, "Tluj ' Governor kept ua on God's time." For I he convlence of not having to tamper with your timepiece you run begin watching the radio logs carefully for time changes when the network!* switch (hit Sunduy and the provincial Iki nilnlon of Oregon remains on standard time. Moat networks are making nr- .. rnngementa for delayed tape re cording to bring your favorite program to you at the same time. - However, because of network change-overs and other general confusion, the stations won't guarantee a thing. "Town Meeting" (KUGN, TAJf*- 1 day at 9 p.m.) will discuss J | question, "Was Yalta Stalin'* Greatest Victory?" Affirmative speaker will be Chester Wilmot (BDC correspondent.) Arthur Schleslnger Jr. (one of the Har vard boys) won't agree. This isn't the first time they y haven't agreed. Schleslnger taker | Wilmot's new book, "The Strug- j gle For Europe," to task in cur- f rent Reporter magazine just re» celved by the subscribers. KOKH steps up its truffle safety public service series this Sunday by adding "Eugene Safe- i tv Program" at I p.m. and “Could This Be You" at 1 :S0. KOBE airs the latter on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. ^ It records alibis of traffic viola tors and treats any other spontan eous program for humor. "Mr. President" (KUGN. Mon-.! day at 7:30 p.m.) will portray ai story about Teddy Roosevelt . . . "NBC Symphony" (KUGN, Sat urday at 3:30 p.m. and KGM, Sunday at 10 a m ) will present contemporary American music. Drew l’earson has found the way to Increase the percentage of predictions that come true. Three weeks or so ago, he pre dicted Ike would come home and make four speeches. I-ist week he predicts that Ike will make two speeches. Want to try again Droop? New series of "Latin Rhythm" i starts this Saturday on KORE at j 0:30 p.m. Features the poplar South American tunes . . . Eariy f Saturday evening music oil KORE is rounded out with “Lorn- ' bardoland" at 7:30. Qamfxui. cMeadlUtei.... Kissing in Doorway Out at S-D. College By Rae Thomas A new ruling at South Dakota, State college has replaced kiss ing at the door of the women's dormitory with a casual hand shake. "It isn't the idea to completely prohibit the traditional good night kiss,” says the dean of women, “but to cuib prolonged half-hour demonstrations at the door.” ’> * * * Psychology class at City Col» lege of San Francisco, asked to write Its views on the causes of college apathy, has come up with some interesting results. From a hitter coed. “You have to have a student hody card to breathe in this school. Most of the- people} who are here cannot afford the' money to go to any other college, or their grades are too low. “The only thing yOu have to have to ge*t into this plae1*? l» warm blood, hut to ged out V*u have to be a genius.”