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EMERALD
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AL KARR, Editor
BILL BRANDSXESS, Business Manager
Survival of the Fittest
Classes began Monday and something known as “new student
week” ceased.
Freshman orientation week is five days designated to famil
iarize entering Oregon students with campus traditions, activ
ities open to them, date proceedures, the knd of clothes to wear,
University regulations, registration procedure, how to major
in something and what to major in, and placement tests.
Most freshmen students survive Orientation week but we
.sometimes wonder how. All that which is acquired by a year, or
«event two or four years, of college living, is trotted out and fed
ito new students in one tremendous gulp. Each step of orienta
tion week seems essential but the sum total of the experiences of
■nany new student can be overwhelming.
Can there be too much of a good thing? How much of college
'tvays of living and ways of learning actually rub off in the ordeal
-■of meetings which faces the new student? In a contemplative
jtnood, we come back to the same question—what does the new
student get out of orientation week?
One freshman boy put it this way when questions were asked
sfor following a dormitory meeting:
“I thought I knew what I was doing when I came into this meet
ing, but now I’m all confused.”
“Why two assemblies?” a freshman girl asked. “They seemed to
repeat an awful lot.’
And one upperclassmen put it, concerning registration,
“Someone must think if any student can make his way through
this maze, he’s really ready for college.”
Here, one could certainly ask for improvements. Badly pen
-ciled direction signs and desks in the registration room without
identification of any sort can confuse even a hardened veteran.
$Ye always wonder why some allowance isn’t made for the 9
out of 10 students who wander into the SU ballroom from the
-wrong door and immediately get hopelessly lost.
At least the weather last week favored the newly arrived
<eollegian. An occasional cool breeze fanned feverish faces of
-those newly initiated to walking 10 miles a day, and the constant
/battery of sprinklers were turned down for a day or so.
Orientation is a tremendous job for the students, administra
tion, and campus organizations. It is a necessary job and we
Iknowr a great deal of attention and though is put into the pro
gram.
But each fall term, as we sink gratefully into the routine of
'every day classes and cease muttering “those poor freshmen,”
Ave continue to wonder if there isn’t something that could be
-cut out or cut down. We retain that feeling of every man out for
Ihimself as far as freshmen and their eager, confused, whiling tal
•ent goes. And we can’t help seeking some accurate, complete
cnethod of measuring what orientation week has accomplished
vand for whom.—(E.S.)
A Snap Course ?
'■“I don’t see how any of you can expect good marks in this course—
5the very fact you enrolled for it shows you don’t have a very high
3. Q.”
Preference Dotes
Finish Rush Week
Women rushees wind lip rush
week with two preference dates
tonight at 6:15 and 7:15 p.m. The
16 sororities on campus will hold
breakfasts for their new pledges
at 7 a.m. Wednesday.
Short silks are in older for the
two dates tonight, Panhellenic
President Sally Thurston advised.
Rushees will return to Gerlinger
hall immediately after their last
date tonight to fill out preference
cards, she added.
YWCA Tea Set
For Tomorrow
The annual YWCA orientation
tea for a'l women on campus will
be held Wednesday afternoon be
tween 3 and 5 p.m., according to
Jo Kopp, general chairman.
All sophomore women who
served as duckling counselors in
the summer counseling program
are to contact their ducklings as
soon as possible and are to take
them to tea, Miss Kopp said.
Barbara Keelen Altmann, pres
ident of the YW, will be serving,
assisted by Cathy Tribe Siegmund
and Kay Moore Stager, first and
second vice-presidents, respective
ly
Eileen Lindblatt, the new YW
director, will be at the tea to meet
all old and new members, accord
ing to Bernadine Bartz, co-chair
man of the tea. Freshmen are
urged to attend, whether or not
they had duckling counselors.
UT Season Tickets
Sale Open From 1-5
Season tickets for the Univer
sity theater’s 1953-54 season will
be on sale this week from 1 to 5
p.m. daily at the theater box of
fice. In order to retain their prior
ity number, subscribers who wish
to renew their tickets must have
the payments in by Oct. 3, accord
ing to Mrs. Gene Wiley, theater
business manager.
Those subscribers who purchase
their tickets this week will be en
titled to see the first bonus pro
duction, “The Man,” to be offered
Friday and Saturday evenings.
Grid Star Advises
Lutheran Students
A professional and college foot
ball player who turned preacher
is at the University of Oregon
this year. Jim Kallas, new coun
selor of Lutheran Student asso
ciation, is a former player for the
Chicago Cardinals and Minneapol
is Bombers.
He led the Bombers to Western
division championship of the Mid
dle States professional league last
year and earned 12 athletic let
ters while at college.
Kallas is also a Phi Beta Kappa
and has written a popular sports
column for Minnesota college pap
ers. Kallas will be on campus for
•a year.
'Race Studied
by Committee
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versity furnished such equipment
as trucks for the removal of de
bris. King and the students de
cided upon a system of fines that
were to be levied against people
who were caught dumping rubbish
into the newly-cleaned stream.
These fines are, supposedly,
still in effect, although manage
ment of the city has changed
hands. But the stream is not now
and will never again be the swift,
unharnessed natural force that it
once Was, because of the culverts
and other construction.
Early in September water from
the race was temporarily averted
and a new bridge was constructed
at Alder street. The water was
later turned back into the stream,
but still it is slow and quiet. The
days of millrace glory are definite
ly over,- and it looks as though
any and all attempts to restore
that glory are completely futile..
Dance Program Offeredj
by Len Calvert
A well-rounded program in dance
is offered to University of Oregon
students who wish to improve their
body movement, teach or just
learn how to dance.
A fairly unknown division
in the University’s school of health
and physical education, the dance
division offers courses in contem
porary dance, folk dancing and
ballroom dancing. The burden of
teaching these classes falls largely
on the shoulders of two women,
Rosamond Wentworth, associate
! professor of physical education,
and Bettie Jane Owen, instructor
in physical education.
Miss Wentworth acts as head
of the division, one of four
; in the PE school. The other three
divisions are corrective, service
and teacher training. All dance
classes are open to both men and
women.
In the field of contemporary
dance, students who are really in
terested in dance as an art, or
movement as expressive art, may
go into concert dance group
taught by Miss Owen. In this class
students learn choreography and
plan their own dances. A prere
quisite for all contemporary dance
! classes in Fundamentals II.
Miss Owen, who is perhaps best
known from Delta Gamma's vod
vil skit “Fundamentals II”, has
studied under such dancers as
dancers ns Jose Limon, Martha'"
Graham, Doris Humphrey, Hanya"'
Holm and Louis Horst. She has <
studied under so many in order *
"to pass on a well-rounded tech- \
nique and background to my slu- (
dents.”
Directing Show Dancing
It is her belief that since each
person has developed techniques
suited to themselves, that a per
son should not accept the tech
niques of any one of them, but
should "shop around” and learn
from everyone possible.
Miss Wentworth also has a wide ,
background in dance after study
ing under Martha Graham and at ,
the Bennington School of Dance
at Mills College.
Students who wish to make
dancing their career may get their
start under the University’s pro
gram. Students can major in
dance under the physical educa
tion school. Students who are in
terested in teaching, may major
in physical education with an em
phasis on dance which will prepare
the student for teaching that sub
ject, Miss Wentworth said.
Here on campus, the conceit
dance group has given one public
dance concert, presented two work
shops and participated in "Theater
Excitements.” They also gave
two dances at the Creative Arts
workshop.
Freedom Worth
Every Sacrifice,
President Claims
<.'P>-‘‘No sacrifice, including
taxes, is too great for the Amer
ican people in defense of their
freedom,” President Eisenhower
said Monday night in a speech
at a SlOO-a-plate dinner in Boston
Garden attended by New England
Republicans.
This remark, plus the fact that
nowhere in his speech did the
President mention the^ income tax
and excess profits tax cuts sched
uled to go into effect in January,
touched off speculation that the
White House may be thinking of a
new tax increase to meet the
threat of Russia's hydrogen bomb.
Eisenhower’s reference to "the
most terrible weapon of destruc
tion” was his first public men
tion of its kind since Russia’s an
nouncement, confirmed by the
Atomic Energy commission, that
the Soviet Union has exploded a
hydrogen bomb.
The president said, “In this age
of peril, the security of our whole
nation—the preservation of our
free system—must direct every
thought and decision.”
The president’s speech was the
kick-off in the GOP drive to main
tain control of Congress in the
1954 elections. Committee officials
said 4,700 persons had bought
tickets for the dinner.
Crabtree Awarded
New Scholarship
One of the newest scholarships ^
offered to incoming freshmen is
the Richard ''Dick'’ Shore mem
orial scholarship established this
summer by Dr. and Mrs. Ronald
B. Slocum of Eugene. The gift is
made in the memory of the Slo
cum's father-in-law, Richard
Shore Smith. ,
Cocering the basic cost of liv
ing, the stipend is to go to a stu
dent of outstanding scholarship,
leadership and athletic ability. It
is renewable for four years and
is approved by the Pacific Coast
conference.
First student to be awarded the
scholarship is James Thomas
Crabtree, freshman n pre-medicine
from Coos Bay. Crabtree was
president of the Marshfield high
school student body, a member of
Torch National Honor society and
the recipient of the most out-'
standing player award in the
Shrine All-Star game last August.
Campus Calendar
0:30 a.m. Cosmo Exec 319 SU
4:00 p.m. Lect Comm 331 SU
6:30 Football Movie
Ballroom SU
7:00 Christian Sci 1USU (
7:30 Pub Bel 337 SU •
Kushees Meet
Oerl 2nd FI J
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Oregon vs. Nebraska
TONIGHT at 6:45
See the actual movie of the
Webfoot-Cornhusker game!
See how we downed Nebraska 20-12
Student Union Ballroom