SORORITIES II
Alumnae Decide House Policy
(Ed. Ntote: Thi^Js the second in a series of four editorials discuss
ing sorority-alumnae relations.)
Sorority alumnae for the Oregon campus are organized cen
trally as Eugene City Panhellenic, and individually as alumnae
boards for each house on campus.
There are 32 members in City Panhellenic, which is turn
is represented in National Panhellenic.
Panhellenic and Campus Panhellenic, the central organiza
tion of active chapters, are virtually synonomous. The core of
both organizations is the executive board, composed of 10 mem
bers from Campus Panhellenic and the officers of City Pan
hellenic.
This is the group that determines policy for the houses
on campus.
”\Ye feel that almunae, like mothers, are there only to give
advice. They have no undue influence. They’re there only to
help the girls,” Mrs. Carl Koppe, president of City Panhellenic
said. Airs. Koppe was attempting to describe the extent of
alumnae participation in active chapters.
A mother who gave advice without intent to influence would
indeed be unique.
In addition to the Panhellenic group, there are 16 alumni
sorority chapters in Eugene, one for each campus house. It is
from these groups that the major influence comes.
There is one chapter advisor from each group for the
corresponding house on campus.
“These advisors act as go-betweens between the sorority
and Mrs. Wickham.” Mrs. Mary X. Plummer, former national
president of Theta said. "They are general consultants on all of
the house’s problems.”
In addition there is one alumnae advisor for each house
for rushing, pledging, financial, scholarship, and social ques
tions. These advisors are appointed by the district officers of
the individual sororities. They work with corresponding un
dergraduate chairman.
That means, counting the chapter advisor, that there are six
alumnae advisors for every house.
“A good advisor,” Mrs. Plummer said, “meets often with
her chairman. A good chapter advisor will attend some chapter
meetings.”
How much financial support comes from alumnae?
“Room and board charges pay for running the house,”
Mrs. Koppe stated emphatically.
But alumnae may contribute to building funds, help pay
for redecoration.
It’s just like alumnae contributing to the Student Union,”
Jean Webb, former president of campus Panhellenic, said. Her
parallel is not exact, however, for the SU is used by the whole
University. Sorority houses are not.
Chapter financial advisors do research on living costs.
They meet as a group to trade ideas.
“We try to keep the salaries paid by the different houses
uniform,” Mrs. Koppe said, “because otherwise we have
trouble keeping help.”
Aid in running the house is a good selling point for active
alumnae. They do the job the E'niversity does for the dor
mitories.
Alumnae groups do perform useful duties not connected
with the campus. Their charities are widely known. Portland
City Panhellenic operates a “Clothes Closet" for needy high
school girls. Willamette Valley Panhellenic in Salem has an
annual lily sale for the crippled children’s fund. Both Pan
hellenic and individual alumnae chapters offer scholarships.
Mrs. Plummer mentioned also public relations work that
alumnae groups do for the University. This includes teas given
for prospective students to acquaint them with the University.
“These teas are in no way rushing functions as none of the
girls wear pins or speak of their own groups,” assured Mrs.
Agnes C. McClintock, president of Portland Panhellenic.
Mrs. Wickham and the AWS president usually speak at
these functions.
City panhellenic meetings, however, are workshops for chap
ter advisors. From them come suggestions to be sent to the
houses.
Active chapters are under no obligation to accept the ad
vice from their advisors. They rarely reject it.
From Texas
University of Texas instructors have been provided with a list of
suggestions to "help guarantee student honesty.” The suggestions
are:
“1. Do not leave questions in offices overnight . . . the least pos
sible time should elapse between construction of the examination
questions and using them, with questions in the personal possession
of the instructor in the interim.
“2. . . . Greater care in the supervision ... in the selection and
training of proctors. . .
"3. Request students to retain from bringing books and notes into
the examination room.”—(Re-printed from the Daily Texan)
The Psychological Moment
The College Crowd
_1_Campus Headlines Elsewhere
By Rae Thomas
The hottest act in the Univer
sity of Oklahoma's Aquacade
show is the stunt diver who is
doused in kerosene and lit with
a match before diving headfirst
into the pool.
* * *
The Daily Kansan repoits that
the fellows helping in the kitch
ens at the Greek houses are in
for a wage drop. In fact they
may find their wages disappear
ing altogether. Work will be done
on a feed-as-you-go plan. Says
the paper: "Pretty soon they will
be weighing guys before hiring
them.”
* * *
According to an American Col
legiate Press report, a professor
at Turin University in Italy has
been arrested on charges that he
sold 1,800 copies of the questions
he was planning to ask on exam
inations, before the exams were
held. *
* * *
The University of Idaho went
to a great deal of trouble to
look up and publish the questions
that are most likely to be found
on coming midterms. A wide
range of fields is covered, and
shoukl be a help to us.
1. How many aliens became U.
S. citizens last year?
A. 88,393.
B. 88,394.
C. 88,396.
D. 88,395.
2. A recent President of the
United States was:
A. Richard Nixon.
B. John Steinbeck.
C. Marilyn Monroe.
D. All of the above.
3. True or false?
4. Criticize the makeup, writ
ing, advertising, features and ed
itorials from the January 27,
1947 issue of the New York
Times (from memory). Discuss
and evaluate.
6. Give the counter-clockwise
movements of polo.
7. What was Edgar Allen Poe’s
grade point when he left West
Point ?
8. What height is attained by
a Pinus montieola after five
years of growth ? < One centimet
er error allowed).
9. Review briefly (one para
graph) the history of the world.
* * »
Oregon State has big dance
troubles too. For the past two
years; they haven't had their cus
tomary Big Name bands because
student attendance wouldn't pay
for them. So they had smaller
bands. This caused another drop
in attendance. They are now
working on the Senior Ball—
sending out questionnaires ask
ing students if they would like
to see a name band and if they
are willing to buy a ticket in ad
vance.
• * *
A bill to amend the Minnesota
state constitution to allow 18
year-olds to vote got its first
reading in the house of represen
tatives last week. If passed by
the legislature, the proposed
amendment would be placed be
fore the people in the next gen
eral election. The old "If they're
old enough to fight, they’re old
enough to vote.” saying, finally
moved somebody to action.
* * *
In the Montana Kaimin:
“WANTED: One female for
light Housework. Living condi
tions best available, free beer
nightly. Never a dull moment.
Write: Pfc. Robert C. Friede.”
And he’s stationed in San Fran
cisco.
* * *
The Westminster Holcad, Pa.
thinks it’s “a fallacy” to believe
that teachers aren’t necessary.
“Where would we get chaperones
for our dances?” asks the Hol
cad.
* » *
Michigan State thinks there is
such a thing as being too loyal
to your school. It points out that
at a recent football game at
least 30 men kept their hats on
during the playing of the Star
Spangled Banner, but everyone
had his head bared during the
playing of the MSC Alma Mater.
Oh well.
m Dcrihf
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UO Students Study,’
Dance and Party,
But Also Wonder .j
l. I
By Bill Gurney
Ordinarily, you think of .I.-ui
nary as being a pretty bleak
month. Uut this one wo are wear
ing out now has been pretty mild,
more like late February or early* '
March back in l!u‘ wilds of k,i, t
ern Oregon where I came from. ' 1
I-a*t Suturday, the sun reallv '■
tinliinbered for a while and a I ,
guy could flex Ids muscles and 1
stretch like a cut and think
what a good day this was for
all sorts of outdoor-type pur
suits. Of course, the sun wasn’t
really sincere about the whole
thing, and hustled hack liehind
some stratus or cirrus or cu
mulus clouds (can’t suv cxactls
which, because I never could
tell them apart).
J
1
Plenty of Bain *
Of course, we've had plenty of _
rain, and it always seems to co.: -1
at the wrong time, and then ; ! iy .
away when you really want it. <
For instance, at about ten in.a-, ]
utes to 12 each day, you get out . J
of some class and if you have to
walk home, you get suspicious
that maybe this is Burma in the
monsoon season. - '
And at 2 p.rn. Tuesday and 1
p.m. Thursday, somebody,
somewhere turns off the faucets
long enough to allow for KOTtl j
drill. When you think about it, . {
maybe this is a good omen, and
a patriotic gesture by the guy
who runs the weather.
Affairs Pretty Normal
Outside of the weather, which -
I agree with Mark Twair^ we
can’t do much about, affairs in
our tight little coocoon of a world *
are pretty normal. Here we are,
insulated from the hard, tough „
facts of life, having in the main
a pleasant time assimilating an _
education.
Of course, the nagging reali
ties impinge themselves on us
once in a while, and we wonder,
W'e read about how the war is
going in Korea, and the males .
sometimes think: “Guys are
dying over there, and maybe
that’s where 1 ought to Ire.” *
But that is not a pleasant
thought, and we dwell on it as -
little as possible.
An Knigmatic Gnome
And we read of an enigmatic
gnome named Stalin who sits in
his Kremlin and pulls wires and
pushes buttons and will deter
mine whether or not this cold war *
thing gets hotter than Hades, re
plete with A-bombs and H-bombs ■*
and ginned missiles. Wc have
pounded into us the importance
of Europe and Asia and the Mid
dle East and the Near East and a
lot of places we can't pronounce.
We think about how to ar
range our own lives and how to
use our own times when we
graduate. VVe usually assume
that the Commie machine will _
continue its jet propelled pace,
or get even faster. Although
we were horn In a depression,
we did our growing up when
the old man was making money
like he never did before, and we
have gotten aceustomed to
prosperity. It would be hard to |
adjust to being hungry.
We’d Ail Have Ulcers
But we would all have ulcers if "
we thought continually about
these things, so we don't. We go
to classes and study Shakespeare
and calculus, and salesmanship.
We dance, arid party, and go to "
sports events, and even have a
beer now and then. No, we aren’t
terribly afraid of what is going
to happen next, but we sort of
wonder.