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BILL BRANDSNESS, Business Manager
PAT GILDEA, ELSIE SCHILLER, Associate Editors
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JACKIE WARD ELL, Managing Editor
JOE GARDNER, News Editor
SAM VAHE-Y, Sports Editor
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Chief Night Editor: Anne Hill
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Patterson
Congestion for a Day
Lines, confusion and congestion won’t end with Christmas
shopping for the Oregon student. He'll have it all over again
when he completes registration for winter term, Jan. 4, along
>vith about 3800 other students.
Under the new system of pre-registration the most a stu
dent can do is work out a study program and have it signed
by his adviser.
The lines will form Jan. 4 as students wait to pick up regis
tration materials and sign for classes. The confusion and con
gestion will be as apparent as the lines form in this first attempt
in seven*years to change the pre-registration set up.
A fine for late registration after Jan. 4 should guarantee an
all-time high in class attendance for the first days of a new
term. The old system of completing registration before vaca
tion enabled the student to possibly enjoy a few days extra
with no fine and a smug knowledge he was missing nothing
but course introduction lectures.
On the advising side of the new system we can see some def
inite benefits for the student. For once, the different needs of
individual students have been recognized. Some need confer
ences to map out study programs and this can be done leisurely
during the last two weeks of fall term. Other students, with no
questions, can have their programs signed in the Nov. 30 meet
ings without conferences. This will enable the adviser to give
more time to the student who does need help.
The longer, spaced-out advising period appeals to us, but
the “everyone get registered in one day” angle is what raises
questions.
Even with the decreased enrollment, will facilities be large
enough to handle the entire student body registering at one
time? And will everyone be able to complete registration in
one day?
We’d like to see a system that combined the longer advising
period with a registering process that is not so rushed.—(P.G).
A Look at the Look
Here’s an excerpt from the OSC Barometer’s “A Look at the
Campus” column, written by Barometer Editor Dick Davis:
“Ticket price for the Oregon game is a robust two bucks
apiece for ‘big spender’ Oregon State students ... and for this
two dollars we get prize seats in the end zone . . . could be
that our sporting cousins from Eugene City College figure
that if they make the deal bad enough, nobody’ll come down
and molest their goal posts or blast the ‘O’ . . . either that’s
the reason or they’ve decided that no price is too high to pay
for the privilege of watching George the General go through
a few of his press-clipping antics . . . why watch at all when
you can get such a good run-down in the papers . . the
Oregons had fifty-yard line spots at Multnomah Stadium last
fall for our transplanted Civil War, but they don’t seem to
hot to reciprocate.”
Too bad about the Barometer, but it ought to take a look
back over the past years, and compare with the present.
Oregon students have been moved about 15 yards away from
the 50yard line toward the south goal line this year to make
room for more donor seats- on the east side and to allow visiting
school students to sit on the east side. OSC’s contingent of
students is too big to sit in that section, however, so they sit
in the end zone.
They have about 1000 seats of good position and under cover,
but those undoubtedly are sold to Beaver club and like re
cipients — and that’s OSC’s choice, not ours.
Oregon students sat on the 50-yard line in Multnomah sta
dium, but where did they sit when the Beavers played their
home games at Bell Field? In the end zone. And we don’t
think that OSC’s home game with Oregon was moved to
Portland so that the UO students could have good seats.
And where will Oregon students sit in Parker Stadium?
Most likely in the end zone.
We leave the rest to George the General and the army, to
perform their press-clippihg antics for the benefit of the Bea
vers. , •. L i
—A Day at the Zoo—
It Was the Night of the House Dance,
And She Was Having a Swell Time
by Bob Funk
Emerald Columniat
He had asked her to the house
dance. She had accepted with
something quite closely akin to
alacrity. It was, she felt, an op
portunity to learn more about
___— men. It was, fur
'thermore, an op
f portunity (and
an ah so rare
;One) for men to
learn more about
• her. Men were,
I'she felt, a minor
ity group; she
saw so few of
them. She decid
[ed that this was
one minority group that she
would be exceedingly tolerant
of.
During the week she had had
a number of pleasant visions in
anticipation of the dance.' In
one she was wearing the gold
lame evening gown with chin
chilla trim. The gown was off
the-shoulder, off-the-back, and
slit up one side. In this vision
she was, to adopt the veraac
ular, Melted. He wan beside
her saying “Ava (somehow her
name had become Ava), how
can you be so cruel. Please al
low me to kiss you, Ava.” The
vision ended very simply as
she allowed him to kiss her.
In another dream he clutched
her in a wild embrace, and be
fore she knew quite what had
happened, he had slipped an en
gagement ring on her finger.
In these vision and many more,
he was strong, somewhat silent,
extremely active in certain ro
mantic ways, and handsome;
above all, he was handsome.
And now it was the night of
the dance. He had not been, on
close inspection in the front hall
of the sorority, quite like the
gentleman of the visions. But he
was, quite unmistakably, a mem
ber of the male group; and what
more, she thought, could you ask
to be standing in the middle of
the front hall.
They had, after leaving the
sorority, been to a series of
three cocktail parties. In spite
of this It was still Saturday
night. She had come to know
College Capers...
. ...from Coast to Coast
by Tina Fisk
Emerald Exchange Editor
Cries of “Block that road!”
“Cover that door!” and “Stop
that car!” rang through the air
that October day in 1936 when
the students of La. State de
clared a holiday. Professors and
instructors were denied entrance
to class rooms and campus . . .
Mike was arriving.
Some 6,006 strong, students
marched to the town’s railway
depot only to be disappointed.
University officials, fearing a
riot, had ordered Mike to be de
livered to the campus baseball
stadium.
inis man i stop me siaiwaas
though. That night a big pep
rally was held . . . along with
a torch light parade, and Mike
the live tiger made his entrance
as LSU’s official mascot.
The 18-year-old tiger now
weighs 450 pounds. The Daily
Reville said that “some people
get excited when he's hauled
around in his cage.’’ But now
he’s come into his own and at a
game halftime he’s going to be
awarded a varsity letter after
making his usual entrance . . .
to the strains of tiger rag.
* * *
The Syracuse Daily Orange
tells about the latest rage for
men . . . according to the Cen
tral New York Men’s Wear Club,
at least The club announced
“Bare knees for men” next sum
mer. Shorts for everyday wear
are expected to be all the rage
. . . whether men’s knees are
“natty, knobby, or obnoxious.”
• • «
The Spartan Daily at San Jose
State college says sometimes col
lege pranks aren’t so funny as
they may seem.
“We got a call the other night
to send a hearse to one of the
fraternity houses,”’ an ambu
lance driver said. “When we got
there, the undertaker found it
was a false alarm—somebody
had a big laugh. It was supposed
to be a joke. We didn’t think it
was very funny.” He concluded
by saying that "sometimes that
little time wasted can cost a
life.”
* * *
Here’s an item from the Pro
script of the Richmond Profes
sional Institute . . . "There are
those who say it pays to worry—
because the things they worry
about seldom happen."
• * *
An all-expense paid trip to
Hawaii is offered to the person
selling the most season reserved
tickets at Lewis and Clark col
lege. The athletic department is
sponsoring the trip which will be
by plane the first week in De
cember.
* * •
Coeds at Utah State college
have been asked to refrain from
wearing jeans in the classrooms.
College officials say the girls
should wear jeans only when
milking cows.
* • •
A fish head from an 8-foot
long fish that used to swim in
waters covering Nebraska 60
million years ago is on display in
La. State’s geology building.
him well, during the cocktail
parties. She knew the gentle
quality of hid leer when one of
her sorority Midler* hove into
Night. She knew hiH unsteady
gait toward the kitchen, and
hid unerring sense of where the
kitchen might be In a strange
houMc. She had, Nhe decided,,
come to know quite a lot about
men, particularly men at cook
tail partlcN.
On the other hand, he had no
become very well acquaint^
with her at all. His acquaintance
seemed to be chiefly with one u
more brown bottles named “Ole
Troublesome,” or the like. Tlj
real love affair was between th
boy and the bottle; she was mur
or less the chaperone. And no
loo effective a one, at that. .
"Old Troublesome," howevei
proved to, be a fickle love tb
bottle went dry. The last cock
tail party ended rather soddonl),
"X gesh theresh nothing to d
buh go t'the dance,” her rfat.
informed her mournfully. Thej
went to the dance.
The dance had some obscun
theme involving a great deal •<*
vegetation thrown around Us
ground floor of the frateinH;
house. Several couple* were \ ain
ly attempting to dance to sort,
music of indefinite beat and me]
ody. One light was burning abov
a group of chaperones.
Then they were dancing. Hfih
was not in his arms; he was
In hers—it had to be that way
in order to keep him topside
and navigating. It was the
house dance, the beautiful, ro
mantic house dance. She said a
bad word.
"Wha you shay-" he askt<
in his own charming way.
"I was saying," she saii
"what snappy decorations thes
are, what a nice cocktail part
that last one was, how well yp
dance, and that I’ve never beo
happier.”
“All my datesh have a swe
times," he said happily. It was a
that moment that she lifted Lh
skirt of lier off-the-shoulder, of1
the-back dress, extended oh
foot, and swiftly kicked hir
through the decorations an
against the wall beyond. Tb
band was playing "Good Nigh
Sweetheart.”
Better Safe Than Sorry
“Say, Cas, some of the boys feel you’re making them warm up
too long.”