Something New in'55
There'll be a new men’s dorm—but it won’t be ready before
1955.
The dormitory, to be located facing John Straub, is included
in present University planning for future construction. Physical
plant men are already surveying the area, and hope to give the
survey to the architects in a week.
Finances for the dorm will come from dorm bill proceeds,
since state funds are not available, University Business Man
ager J. O. Lindstrom has explained. Lindstrom said the Uni
versity would like to have the state legislature appropriate
funds, but this does not seem to be its policy.
Although-Susan Campbell and Hendricks Hall were financed
by state taxes, John Straub and Carson Hall, the latest dormi
tory, were supported by dormitory proceeds.
Critics of jleferred living have complained of an inadequate
dormitory sWtup, and of a poor men’s dorm physical setup—
that is, the vets’ dorms. (Eugene Fire Marshal Lester Barker
says the vets’ dorms fall below the minimum fire require
ments of the city building code.)
Some of these critics say that freshman men, not allowed to
live in a fraternity their first school year, are “relegated” to
the vets’ dorms.
A new men’s dorm would do a lot to provide better dormitory
facilities for freshman and upperclass men, but purely physical
reasons prevent its being ready before fall term, 1955.
It will take about a year to complete preliminary and finsj
plans and get necessary approval, Lindstrom said, and ap
proximately 18 months to build the structure. (Plus the time
m unforeseen delays which always seem to occur in large
scale construction projects.)
So it is hoped that the new men’s dormitory will be ready by
Sept. 1, 1955, but it won’t be available earlier.
Lindstrom said preliminary plans should be submitted to the
state board of higher education for approval by approximately
May 1 of this year if everything goes as planned.
The new dormitory will have an estimated capacity of 300,
and will cost about $1,250,000, Lindstrom stated. Bonds will
- be paid off by dormitory receipts over a period of 30 years.
And what of the vets’ dorms?
It is possible that they will be torn down, 1.1. Wright, physical
plant superintendent, said. However, an expected increase in
■«nroHment by 1955 will probably require their continued use as
men’s dorms, according to Lindstrom, unless the state should
provide funds for dormitory facilities in addition to the dorm
proceeds-supported new men’s dormitory.—A. K.
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that some other student might like to read this June, 1908 issue
too.?” .
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Special Report on: Cfebmamf
Dusseldorf-Gerreheim,
Germany
Feb. 8, 1953.
Tqn million Germans have been
driven from their homes in the
former German territories east of
the Oder-Neisse line, the Sude
tenland, the Soviet zone and
Southeast Europe, since the war.
And now the arrests, victimiza
tion, persecution and shortages
in communist dominated East
Germany are causing a great new
wave of refugees to pour into
West Berlin.
The influx, which is running
at double the rate of last year,
is seriously shaking the struc
ture of the Federal Republic.
The mounting wave of destitute
humanity is adding to the al
ready overcrowded condition in
Western Germany, which ever
since 1945 has had to support
the ten million. Hundreds of
Excerpts from a letter to the
Emerald from Gunther Barth,
foreign student who at tended
tho University last year.
thousands <>r them are miser
ably existing In mass camps.
The Jewish refugees coming to
Berlin from cofnmunist anti-Sem
itism in East Beilin and East
Germany report that the persecu
tion closing in on them in the
East is classic anti-Semitism.
They don't feel they're being
hunted only because of the Zion
ist question. They uniformly say
that they are fleeing because they
are certain the worst is coming.
They believe the future for those
who remain behind will be So
viet concentration camps.
The Soviet organized perse
cution of Jews in East Ger
many Rive* a new anRle to (he
arrest of the *even Nazi con
spirators by the British occu
pation authorities recently.
As there is no official British
report of the investigation pub
lished ho fur, there is much spe -
illation about the reason for the
arrests. One source says that the
British high commissioner tried
to warn former high ranking
Nazis that the West is not will
ing to adopt Nazi practices, even
if the East is adding now to its .
concentration camps the organiz
ed anti-Semitism.
Nevertheless, this explanation ■
didn’t abolish the rumor that the
action was taken to paralyze the
Near East activities of certain
German export firms and then
trade with Arab countries, espec
ially Egypt. These companies had
reestablished their old relations
with the Arab world.
■The College Crowd
Compus Headlines Elsewhere—
By Rae Thomas
A fraternity man at the Uni
versity of Oklahoma thinks you
can carry this “tradition busi
ness” too far. He complained to
a student court that after his
pinning, fraternity brothers toss
ed him into a pool and assaulted
and injured him. They said the
dousing was a post-pinning tra
dition.
The student also complained
that his “friends” took his
clothes and left him in the pool.
“I had to walk five blocks to the
house in wet underwear,” he said.
"I was very embarrassed.” Poor
dear.
* * *
An enterprising student at
Brigham Young is slowly steal
ing the library—page by page.
This fellow takes a book of his
choice, his little knife, and slices
all the pages right out of its cov
er! Then he puts the empty cov
er back in its proper place and
escapes with his unbound spoil!
* * *
A fraternity at the Univei-sity
of Michigan was fined $500 and
placed on social probation till
June by a disciplinary committee
recently. The fraternity appealed
the amount of the fine but to no
avail. In addition to the fine the
president, vice president and so
cial chairman were told to resign
and members of the fraternity
were warned that a more severe
penalty would result if there were
any further misconduct.
Although this fine is a steep
one, it is not the largest ever
handed out at Michigan. One
House was fined $2,000 and plac
ed on social probation following
a drinking party in 1950. Some
party.
• * *
At University of Washington
350 fraternity pledges helped Se
attle with its March of Dimes
program. The Houses have a pub
lic service system aimed at rais
ing public respect for fraterni
ties. And it seems to work.
Last week, at Washington, big
names included Louis Jordan,
Stan Kenton and Nat King Cole.
John Scott, noted foreign corre
spondent and Time assistant pub
lisher spoke. And the Julliard
String quartet gave a concert.
No time for classes obviously.
* * *
An Austin parked on the Uni
versity of California campus had
18 minutes left on the meter.
Immediately behind the Austin
and in the same section with the
same 18 minutes on the meter,
was another small foreign car. A
few students watched when a
notes to the editor
As I read the account of Mor
timer Adler’s address in the Ore
gonian, Feb. 11, I was shocked at
his viewpoint. Quote: “ . . . all
that man does is to make some
thing out of something else by
changing it in some way ... art
always and everywhere imitates
nature.”
And to the young artists' ev
erywhere I say, so long as you
persist in imitating nature you
are under Plato’s condemnation
of art. You are wasting your
time.
Art, to he art, must express
something of the mind and spirit
of man himself, and it need not
reproduce anything in nature at
all. All the forms and mediums
are merely vehicles used to ex
press the mind’s own conception
of beauty and of order. This
beauty and this order exist in
the mind alone. It is a character
istic of the human mind. There is
no beauty and there is no order
in nature.
Let’s- get this through our
heads and stop imitating nature
without knowing what our pur
pose is beyond imitation. Our
purpose is to translate on canvas,
paint, stone, music, etc. that con
cept of beauty, and that idea of
order, which we have developed
in our minds, if we have develop
ed one.
E. Narro
Albany, Oregon
(We’ll have to go out in the
ugly forest and think this one
over.)
SNERD PRESENTED BERGEN
(or The Barnacle Who Described
the Boat)
So few points
ooshed into such a thick line,
propped up verbal facade
Mortimer Adler the voice was*
heard,
the mind behind
was Mortimer Snerd
(name withheld by request)
(?)
policeman arrived. They saw him
look the situation over, shrug his *
shoulders an$l leave. The spate
had been paid for and was being
occupied.
• * •
Two University of Chicago stu
dents flunked a counterfeiting
course last week. The two stu
dents and the wife of one of them .
were held by police who found
10 $10 bills—some still wet, in
one of the boy's room at his fra
ternity house. At the other's
apartment they found a small
printing press and bathroom “
walls splattered with green ink.
The boys told the Secret Service .
Agent that they “needed money
to complete their schooling.”
• • •
Proof that college presidents „
don't read campus editions was
given by Michigan's president
who said at his send-off party:
“I'm still amazed that anything
so big as this could be planned"*
with me on campus and not —
aware of it.” The paper of the
day before, carried three fior.t
page columns of party plans, and -
one inch headlines announcing
“Surprise Party for Hannah ".
* * *
A bookstore at Chicago sells
used books by the pound. “Our,
annual clearance of miscellan
eous used books. Broken sets,
odd volumes, tag ends of pri-*
vate libraries, damaged volumes, *
items of obscure interest . . . ”*
I own 15 pounds of obscure in- ^
terest. ' 1
* * * "
A little white mouse which „
has been missing for nearly tlwec
years from the Psych building
at Minnesota has turned up as ~
a big snow white rat in front,
of the place.
One of the grad students who
claimed he discovered it said:
“This particular animal had
been missing for nearly three
years. At the time it was rum' .
ored the rat had left in protest 1
against working conditions iir
the laboratory. We do not 1 now ^
why he came back. Perhaps he
felt more able to protect birr
l ights now, especially since he J
has grown so.’’
No one, however, could coan
the animal to come into the J
building. No wonder.
* # *
The University of Washington j
Daily, in a romantic mood, chose
its “ideal couple” on campus. The
lucky duo consists of the guy j
who kicks points after touch- *
downs and the guy who holds the ^
ball. .