The Oregon Daily Emerald is published Monday through Friday during the college year •from Sept. 15 to June 3, except Nov. 16, 26 through 30, Dec. / through 9, 11 through Jan, 4, ilMarch 8 through 10, 12 through 29, May 3, and 31 through June 2, with issues on Nov. 21, Jan. 23, and May 8. by the Student Publications Board of the University of Oregon. En tered as second class matter at the post office, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates: 55 per •school year; $2 per term. » Opinions expressed on the editorial page are those of the writer and do not pretend -to ^represent the opinions of the ASUO or of the University. Unsigned editorials are written by rihe editor; initialed editorials by the associate editors. .AL KARR, Editor BILL BRAXDSXESS, Business Manager TAT GILDEA, ELSIE SCHILLER, Associate Editors A Look at the Coming Year The sun is bright. The time seems right during registration ■week for greeting friends, remembering past good times, and dooking forward to the 1953-54 year on campus. A peek in the future for old and new students reveals an array of planned lec tures, sports, campus dances, classes and house functions. We foresee changes for this year at Oregon but the biggest change—a new University president—will probably have the least effect on student life. Changes also are evident in the" ab sence of W. C. Jones, dean of administration, and L. M. Nel son, director of public services, on the administration side. Reviewing spring term campus elections, we could predict :a smooth year of accomplishment, for both AGS and UIS sup ported such important issues as the open primary, fall term ^rushing for men, some type of regional conference for North west colleges and the gradual honor code. But we hesitate to make predictions about the senate. Un der our preferential system, our ASUO president. Tom Wrightson holds his office by a 15 vote margin, and Don Col lin, UIS candidate, is on his right hand side as vice president. Campus lectures are still in the formative stage with the first meeting of the assembly comn>jttee slated Friday. Remem bering Lester Pearson, UN president, Wayne Morse, Independ ent senator from Oregon, Edward Weeks, president of Atlantic Nlonthy, we look forward to a lecture program which equals any on the West Coast. The Festival of Contemporary Art holds a Hot of promise with the strength gained by its successful first presentation last spring. Campus activities will probably tend to push to the same ov erwhelming climax in spring term, with Junior week-end and ■the all-campus sing, Duck Preview and house dances piling one on top the other. The schedule of spring term dances has been lightened by Mortar Board’s decision at their final ’53 meeting ■to eliminate their traditional ball. Decision to shelve plans for a new football stadium for the University reawakens the problem of seating at football and basketball games. Student complaints should be pacified with the proposed, and approved, addition of seats for Hayward field and McArthur court. The Student Union board has constructed an efficient pro gram to utilize the facilities available in the building. Compre hensive program of concerts, lectures, dances and a featured liberal educational program will continue but the board will <emphasize publicity and public relations to assure full utiliza ifcion of this program, according to Andy Berwick, chairman.— B.S. Fall Term Date Life “What if he does recognize you?—BuIImoose and I broke up when football practice started.” , 1 -A MPay at the Zoo Grand Oregon Traditions Listed For Ruddy-Cheeked Freshmen (Ed Note: Bob Funk, like nick Biblcr, is beginning ills fifth year on the Emerald edit orial page. Columnist Funk has written variously on serenades. Student Union soda bar serv ice, dates, tappings, rushing, and other sundry topics, in a stylo that can only bo de scribed os Fiinkian. Funk, with four years of column-writing experience al ready behind him, still did ex tra-curricular preparation for this year’s column on the Ore gon ‘‘zoo.’’ Ho worked this summer in the L'kiah, Calif., insane asylum. We asked Funk to describe his outlook on his columnistic endeavors. With brow fur rowed, he wrote: "The writer of this column lias been asked to compose a short summary of his philosophy of column-writing, his goal, ambi tions, ana ideals. Anyone who has ever read any of these columns, of course,] knows that this is perfectly ri diculous. Ambi tions are good in their place, j ideals admir able, and phil-1 osophy has real class. This column seldom ar rives within shouting distance of any of the attributes. “This column writer accepts criticisms with humility, al though there are days when the humility gets a little strained. He will not, however, tolerate crit icism of the column title, “A Day at the Zoo,” which commemor ates his visit to Fleishhacker Zoo in early September of 1951. Some things are sacred.” So, “A Day at the Zoo”: • • * The Freshmen are here again, looking new and unblemished. There are no seams, webs, lines, ! and dark bulging areas under their eyes. Their cheeks have a ruddiness that belies a long his tory of drinking milk. Their clothes are wondrously new, and their hearts are full of conjecture ' as to the probable way to Emer ald hall and the identity of the blonde in the Student Union. All this will pass. Within a term they will be absorbed into j this drab, intellectual whirl, or whatever this business is we have going around here. We are, In our best public spirited manner, writing a col umn mentally entitled “A List of Grand Oregon Traditions About Which Freshmen Should Know.” We considered talking about Hello Walk, and maybe we will. Hello Walk was orig inally the sidewalk going from Fenton hall north past Villard and into infinity. When you meet someone on it you are supposed to say hello, even if it’s your Survey of English Lit professor. This tradition is a dormant one, to say the least. If strange persons should speak to you on Hello Walk, know now that it would be highly irregular, and our advice is to cut ’em dead. Another Oregon tradition is Waldo. Waldo is a large black and-white dog who lives at the Theta Chi house. Like most ce lebrities, however, Waldo spends a large part of his time away from home. There is something about Waldo which makes Ore gon students say "there’s Waldo” when they see him. When you have four thousand people saying "there you are” every day, you get to be sort of famous. Waldo is better known than anyone on any athletic team. ~ Waldo also gets a great deal of publicity. This is partly be cause he climbs trees after squirrels (he does, he really does. Don’t be misled by sci ence, nature, and gravity— Waldo gets right up there). When Waldo feels blue or lone .. ly, there is a feature in the , Emerald about it. When Waldo feels angry, there is an editor ial. If Waldo should fail to come down on campus some day, the Kmc raid would slop printing for lack of copy. Perhaps the most constant tra dition around here is the rain. The rain will start falling some day when you are wearing some thing that fades, and are several miles from home with no avail able transportation. From thence it shall continue to fall with greater frequency, slowly crump ling and rumpling your wardrobe. You will finally resort to attend ing all classes, etc., in a vul canized rubber toga. When the rain stops in the spring, the sprinklers take over. The sprinklers are a problem in patience, mathematics, intuition, and cussedness, set so that they block all paths to anywhere. You are not supposed to walk on the grass, but you will. All this information is not par ticularly helpful, and maybe even depressing. The sun is still shin ing, though, and midterms are at least a lifetime away. Live for today. Fulbright Scholar Wins UN Position M. S. Venkataramani, University of Oregon teaching fellow from India, was selected this summer for an interneship in the New York headquarters of the United Nations. Selection for interne ships in the U.N. is on a basis of international recruitment, with final selection being made by the U. N. Interne Selection board. Venkataramani was sponsored by the government of India. A native of India, Venkatara mani has been at Oregon since 1951. He came to this country on a Fulbright grant and was award ed the degree of master of science from the school of journalism. Since then he has served as a Carnegie fellow in the history de partment. Object of the interneship pro gram is the provision of qualified persons interested in the field of international affairs with a work ing knowledge of the U.N., its specialized agencies and its secre tariat. The internes have the status of staff members and as sist the permanent staff in re search, examination and analysis of documents and written reports. Straub Jobs Open Leo Nuttman, student employ ment supervisor at John Straub dining room, has announced that some jobs are available for stu dents at the dining room. The jobs are part time only, and applica tion may be made directly to Nutt man. r-1" Nelson Receives National Award For Oregon Work Lyle M. Nelson, former director" of public services at the Univer sity of Oregon, has received the nation’s top award in college pub lic relations, the American College Public Relations Association's. 1053 Award for Outstanding Achievement. . Nelson, who is now assistant to H. K. Newburn, head of the Edu cational Television and Radio cen ter in Ann Arbor, Mich., received the award mainly in recognition LYLE M. NELSON , . . . Outstanding Achievement H of his work in 1951-52 in the Uni versity’s 75th anniversary celebra tion. He is now in Ann Arbor mak ing preparations for Newburn’s new position as head of the Ford Foundation project. The achievement award carried the following personal citation* "A professional practitioner of the highest integrity and boundless resource in educational public re lations, whose effective leadership, and personal contribution to the interpretation of higher education, its underlying principles and pre cepts, have brought new under standing and appreciation tqj^ art of higher teaching, honor and? recognition to his university, and to him the respect and admiratiorr of his colleagues." i Nelson graduated from Oregon where he was editor of both th4 Oregon Daily Emerald and thl alumni magazine, Old Oregon. 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