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daily . EMERALD The Oregon Daily Emerald is published Feb. 4 thru 8, 11 thru I S, 18 thru 22, 25 thru 29, March 10, Apn 2 thru 4, 7 thru 11, 14 thru 18, 21 thru 25, 28 thru May 2, May 6 thru 10, 12 thru 16, 19thru22, and May 26 by the Associated Students of the University of Oregon Entered as second class matter at the post office, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates: $5 per ,Ch0Opinio’ns expressed page on the editorial are those of the writer and do not Pretend to represent the opinions of the ASUO or of the University. Initialed editorials are written by the associate editors. Unsigned editorials are written by the editor. ___ Lorn a Larson, Editor Carolyn Silva, Business Manager For Them a Rose... (Editor’s Note: The following editorial was written by mem bers of Mortar Board, senior women’s honorary. New members for this group will be tapped Saturday afternoon at the All Campus picnic.) When the black-garbed Mortar Boards wind their way through the picnic Saturday afternoon to tap new members, they will be perrorming one oi their last official functions of a busy year. Behind this simple process of presenting outstanding j u n i o r women with the traditional red rose is a long and thorough pro cess. As Mortar Board is a nation al honorary, each woman who is selected for membership must have the qualities by which each Mortar Board member in every chapter has been chosen—scholarship, leadership, and service to the University. The process of selecting new members for Mortar Board is a careful and thorough one. When the Mortar Boards begin to scan the lists of outstanding women, they consider not only what they know about each girl, but also what deans, depart ment heads, and campus leaders have to recommend. If possi ble, no avenue of student participation is overlooked. When the lists are complete, the affirmative plan of voting goes into operation. By this system, no one is "black-balled. ’ The whole process is a positive one—positive discussion and positive voting. When any girl receives a unanimous vote, con ducted by secret ballot, she is declared elected to membership. The course of each girl's college career is carefully taken into consideration. One of the first points is the scholastic record, for scholarship is one of the three prime requisites. 1 he minimum requirement is .3 above the campus average for the past five terms. This year, each girl considered had to have at least a 2.898. In outstanding cases exceptions of a .1 are per mitted. The second criterion is leadership. To qualify each girl had to have shown definite signs of capable leadership, ability to handle responsibility by herself. Contrary to a common miscon ception, Mortar Board is not a collection of presidents. Leadership ability is probably most frequently evidenced by election to a position of president, but being a president of some organization is not in itself a qualification for the senior women’s honorary. The ability to lead is found in those who may not hold the “top spot,” and Mortar Board has sought to recognize this. The third necessity is service to the University. This does not mean a girl must have kept busy for three years in a large number of campus activities. The activities of the girls, wheth er they be in several fields or in only one or two, should add up to some definite accomplishment that is a credit to the school. Thus, each year, the wearers of the gold tassel have taken their responsibility seriously. They have tried to overlook no girl really qualified; they have tried to extend membership to only those really deserving. They are proud of each girl to whom they will present the rose Saturday afternoon. Members of Mortar Board 'Round the Mulberry Bush Talk about roundabout ways of going at something .. . The students contesting the recent ASUO election told us one of their purposes was to secure a constitutional change permitting more flexibility in election rules. They think it silly to specify definite times for petitions to be due and for polling booths to open. But they have no intention, so they say, of proposing a con stitutional change. This will naturally evolve from their elec tion contestation because the student body will be aroused. You’ve heard about cart-before-the-horse cases. Here the two aren’t even connected. How do the students who can insti tute a change in the constitution know that’s what these con testors want if the contestors don’t tell them? A complaint to the senate and its constitutional committee would be a more direct means of. putting the rules up for scru tiny than an involved contestation of an election, the results iof which the contestors admittedly do not consider unfair. | ! i ; . . . ; i .: - > -A Dun at the Xtto Lemon-yellow Convertibles Win Weekend Crown for Ambrosia _— By Bob Funk Two hundred lemon - yellow Cadillac convertibles were lined up in front of the Quadruple Eta sorority house. Each of them bore the sign "Ambrosia Gurp for Hys terical Festiv ity Weekend Queen.” The cars were full of men from fifty campus fraternities, all of whom were in love with Ambrosia Gurp and had BOB FUNK sworn to fling themselves on Judkins Point for love, maybe next week sometime. The door of Quadruple Eta opened and the house president pushed four seniors, bound and gagged, down the steps. They were pushed into cars; rubber masks wearing delighted, fever ish smiles were pulled over their heads, and guns were put at their backs. “No senior slump here,” the house president declared happily. “Every Quadruple Eta does her part.” Meanwhile, Ambrosia Gurp, who had already been on fifteen “Ambrosia Gurp for Queen” noise parades and was getting saddle sores, was being cajoled out of the house. She had been told it was really just a rather large picnic. Ambrosia stood in the back seat of one of the con vertibles (people were already sitting in all the available space). A banner bearing the strange de vice “sex” was thrust Into her left hand, while she held an American flag and a Bible in her right. “The parade is about to start. Begin screaming,” the Quadruple Eta president shouted through a megaphone. All the Quadruple Etas began screaming vigour ously. The lemon-yellow conver tibles began moving forward, and members of fifty fraternities be gan honking their horns. It was a grand parade. Color was added by occasionally toss ing a Quadruple Eta pledge un der One of the convertibles. Am brosia smiled serenely, waving graciously at small children and dogs on the sidewalk. During one quick stop she was catapulted over the hood; but laughing good naturedly, she picked herself up, spat on the driver, and resumed her stand. The parade wound through the library stacks and down to John son Hall, which was blown up as a s«rt of finale. Everyone said it was the best noise parade ever. All the other queen candidates couldn’t digest their lunch for envy. Naturally, Ambrosia G u r p won. She had the majority of the convertibles on her side, after all. The only real mishap was that they couldn’t get the smil ing rubber mask back off one of the seniors. By a vote of the chapter it was decided that she looked better that way, anyway, so no one is worrying about it. - - Letters to the Editor - - Kids' Play Refreshing Emerald Editor: “Niccobarbus,” the children’s play presented by the Forest of Fancy players at the University Theater last Friday and Satur day, proved a most delightful and refreshing dramatic experience for adults as well as “small fry.” Laurels must go to its student author, Robert Pierik, and direc tor, Mildred Allen Butler. Cer tainly their production revealed a rare understanding of what is appealing and significant to a youngster. The character of Niccobarbus, the evil dwarf who transfers a prince into a bear, is so subtly drawn that the actor of that title role, Bob Chambers, was challenged by its variety and scope. But Chambers’ astute mix ture of mock menace and com edy was so cleverly executed that one of the parents was prompted to say, “I didn’t think my seven year-old could see through him so quickly. She caught on to some of the action before I did!” In the second scene at the cot tage of Snow White and Rose Red, when the fisherman, played by Jim Blue, attempts to kill the bear, who he thinks is a threat to their lives, cries of “No, no, don’t kill the bear,” showed the sympathetic understanding of the children for a bear who was the victim of the evil spell of Nicco barbus. Asked hOw he wouia mane a general comparison between adult and children’s theater, Pierik had a ready reply which reaches beyond the realm of play writing. “Simplicity should be the keynote of modern artistic taste,” he began. “Caught up in the fast-paced complexity of our society, we have need for a child like primitiveness and sponta neity, rather than refinement and sophistication. An adult too of ten trades the faith and inno cence of his youth for the skep ticism and debauchment Of a slick social order.” Niccobarbus, outstandingly di rected by Mis3 Butler and acted 'by a cast including Chambers, Blue, Harold Long, Philip Sand ers and Jeanette Stone, sets a mark of such high caliber that a subsequent group will have to be on its toes to duplicate its quality. Sylvia Engdahl On Starve and £c»ee* Co medians Trjj Fairy-tale Film' By Toby McCarroll There will be little time fo anyone to go to anything toy the annual festivities of Junta Weekend. But that has been th case all this term, and will cor, tinue with a statewide confer ence on communism being hel: next Saturday. There are alway some non-conformists, and fo their benefit the following movie are listed. Abbott and Costello found tha they couldn’t change their rou tines or jokes, but they realize that their “public” got tired o the same thing Over and over >* they changed the setting. Thri; new picture is called “Jack and the Beanstalk” and is playing at the MacDonald. The story Is same as always with the profi Costello modifications and wit) a rather small giant. It hai music. The Heilig presents “Stee Town” with Ann Sheridan ani John Lund. A heavy story aboji life around a blast furnace. ( "David and Bathshelia” make its Eugene return at the Rex of regular prices. Another return ij at the Mayflower, “The Priva, j Life of Henry VIII,” star Charles Laughton, Robert D< and Merle Oberon. This nil followed Sunday at the flower by “Catherine the G Other Sunday fares inc “Pride of St. Louis” with Dailey at the MacDonald “The Snake Pit” at the St •Union. Last week the revival o Thee I Sing” on Broadway mentioned. The critics spent all their time attai Jack Carson's performanc the production promises to Those in the University ter’s production of “Thei Gull” (opening May 23) be interested in a new lation with notes by Slanis! This is one of the few educ, al productions of the' Tl! The appeal of the Russian ter is limited in this countr; pecially if the Russian metjj acting is used. Neverthe good production can be en and rewarding, and it requi considerable amount of co to undertake it in commei America. * I Weekend Tip “Awfully thoughtful bf you to bring along a pledge, Worthal”