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the editor; initialed editorials by the associate editors.
AL KARR, Editor
BILL BRANDSNESS, Business Manager
PAT GILDEA, ELSIE SCHILLER, Associate Editors
KITTY FRASER, LAURA STURGES, Editorial Assistants
JACKIE WARDELL, Managing Editor
Midterm Returns
Freshmen students at the University of Oregon got their
first taste of college scholastic ratings during the last week
when freshmen mid-term grades were handed out. For a num
ber of these neophytes of higher education, those grades were
a rude awakening to the fact that classes, studies and grades,
after all, are still the main foundation of any college.
Mid-term grades, on the average, ran about the same as
they have during the past several years. Approximately 50
per cent of the freshmen class sure having trouble with at
least one subject.
The Office of Student Affairs reports that 40 to 50 per cent of
the freshmen men have below average rating in at least one
class.
Five per cent of the women are failing in any one subejct
and another fivd percent are below average in three subjects.
Less than 10 per cent of the distaff side of the freshmen class
is below average in two subjects and approximately 30 per
gent are having difficulty in one subject.
Just what is indicated by these figures and how seriously
should freshmen take their mid-term reports?
A number of items figure in a mid-term report that make it
not clearly indicative of what a student is doing in his classes.
For example, mid-term reports are figured on a basis of super
ior, average, below average and failing. If a student is doing
,C- work, he’s still in the below average class although he would
get credit for that C.
• Instructors find it more difficult to compute a mid-term grade
from several standpoints. In some classes the final examina
tion makes up one-third or more of the final grades. Mid
term grades seem to be more conducive to errors than those
handed out at the close of a term.
Many freshmen students are faced with extensive sub
jective tests for the first time and are adjusting to this type
'of examination when mid-terms come out. This is evidenced
by .lower grades in history and literature classes than in
; courses wheer objective or shorter type essay tests are used.
Despite thejhffi*Mltj?§'.of‘Such a system, we’re still in favor
of giving freshmen—and their counselors—a preview peek at
how they’re doing in the way of grades.
This system gives the wayward freshman time to really hit
the books and burn the midnight oil to bring those grades up.
; Arid they usually do. It also allows time for proper counseling
and a rearrangement of schedules before the freshman faces
!: his first bout with final week.—(E.S.)
Those Are Fiji's?
“You’d think that the DU’s would want a picture window like that
in FRONT of their house.”
Letters to the Editor
■I
Emerald Editor:
I was a scared and unhappy
teenager, generally, but DicR, the
old sawmill worker, was one of
the guys who was good to me.
Quite a few nights I would walk
a couple of miles over the mud
roads to play pinochle with him
after supper. Tonight, he was try
ing to tell me something. “Re
member,” he said, “the boss is
just another man.”
My life today Is a richer life,
whether on or off the campus,
because I finally began to un
der stand what Dick meant. He
was saying something a little
different than “all men are
created equal;” he was telling
me that the “boss” or “the
other guy” In addition to hav
ind the strong points I noticed,
also had weaknesses—just like
me. (When the GI Bill gave me
a college education I’d never
have gotten otherwise, I learn
ed to call ’em “human frail
ties.”)
Yet to pull the boss or the big
wheel out of his area of “special
value" where I was not' "good
..enough” to be, and to drag him
into the same common pool with
myself as “just another man”
was also to deny myself any spe
cial niche, then, or at any time
in the future. If I believed what
"Sawmill Dick” told me, then I
would always be "just another
man” to everyone else.
And I believe It. I don’t want
any special rooms In tyie Stu
dent Union to which I should
go because I am “an older stu
dent.” As long as the other
guy is “just another man” and
by my actions I can make It
reasonably plain to him" that
that’s all I expect him to re
gard me as, the common
ground Is established for our
Homecoming Plans
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enough, Worthal will be present,
too.” : 'i
The performance will start at
8 p. m. Friday at McArthur court.
Admission is free.
MUMS READY
Corsages and mums for Home*
coming are being sold by members
of Mortar Board, senior women’s
honorary. Orders may be placed
with Sandra Price, Delta Gamma,
or Elsie Schiller, University house,
this week through Friday after
noon.
Mums will also be sold by the*
honorary Saturday morning at tbe
homecoming registration desk in
the Student Union.
The flowers are being sold at
regular prices.
LUNCHEON
Tickets for the Homecoming
luncheon will be available at the
Student Union and the Co-op Wed
nesday through Friday for $1.25,
according to Germaine LaMarche,
general chairman.
'Menu for the luncheon which
will be at 11:30 a. m. Saturday,
will include beef sandwiches, po
tato salad, various relishes, and
ice cream and layer cake.
Decorations for the luncheon
will be~the same as those for the
dance in the evening, and students
are urged to take advantage of
this opportunity to entertain their
guests and parents before the
game, said Miss LaMarche.
Committee chairmen are Russ
Cowell, physical arrangement;
Shirley Soble, promotion; Diane
Lacey, cleanup; Judy Carlson, con
tact; Janice Fortner, recorded
music and Cynthia Long, tickets.
Tickets for the informal, buf
fet-style luncheon will also be
available at the door, according to
Miss LaMarche, but there are a
limited number and students are
urged to buy them early.
Published In Anthology
K. Bart Koeppen, junior in Eng
lish, received notice Friday that
one of his poems, “My Elders,”
will be published in the College
Anthology of Poetry.
The poem was the first ever
submitted for publication by Koep
pen. Karl Harshbarger, senior in
speech, had a poem published in
the anthology last year.
social contact, whether he (or
she) Is 8 or 80, veteran or non
veteran, professor or fresh
man, janitor or receptionist.
Democrat or Republican,
Christian or agnostic, police
man or prisoner, Greek or In
dependent.
Deliver me from confinement
to an age group! There arc too
many interesting people, willing
to be friends, both substantially
older and younger than myself,
of whose company I do not wish
to be deprived by artificial social
barriers. Conscious discrimina
tion by reason of age is Just as
bad as by reason of “race, creed,
or national origin." And, so far
as I am concerned, not bad for
the other guy, but bad for me
because of the limitations I
would put upon my own satisfac
tions.
I suppose them arn students
at Oregon who convey to other
students, “Sorry, I can’t get
acquainted with you because
yon don’t quite fit my circle.”
If n fellow feels that way
about me I don’t even bother
to mentally tell him to go to
hell, herauNc I don't have
enough time aM it Ih to fully
enjoy all these other people
who are constantly meeting me
In this common pool of “Just
another man.”
And now If you fellows wil
excuse me, I want a closer lool
at that blond just walking inti
the fishbowl- that young 4 oia
with the yellow sweater and . .
oh, hi, Bill, you old ogre; wha
kind of Prof. Snarf exam you go
cooked up for those poor kid;
In your class tomorrow?
Carl K. Weber
'O' Rebuilding
Nearly Finished
Rebuilding of the "O” on Skin
ner’s Butte was nearly completed
Saturday by approximately a doz
en freshman men according to Don
Smith, freshman class president.
The original starting time of 8
a. m. was changed to 10 Saturday
morning when between 30 and 40
boys set out for work on the “O."
Because of a scarcity of tools, only
14 stayed to finish the job. One
carload of freshman women drove
up to the butte at noon with sack
lunches for the workers.
The “O” is being built entlrely
of lumber this time. The plan to
have it built out of sheet metal
was turned down by the Senate
as being too expensive.
The. Star Lumber company con
tributed 1000 feet of lumber, and
the Jack O'Niel Lumber company
300 feet of lumber to the project.
The tools were borrowed from the
fraternities of the university whili
the physical plant provided th<
trucks for hauling the lumber a
cost. The nails were purchased bi
the freshman class.
Completion of the “O" is schedu
led for Tuesday afternoon, ac
cording to Smith.
Former UO Dean
Dies In Phoenix
Elon H. Moore, head or the so
ciology department from 1935 Un
til his retirement in June of thi!
year, died Monday afternoon in i
Phoenix hospital of a heart con
ditlon.
Funeral arrangements, whlcl
will be handled by the Mercei
Mortuary in Phoenix, are pending
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