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EMERALD
The Oregon Daily Emerald is published Monday through Friday during the college yeai
from Sept. 15 to June 3, except Nov. 16, 25 through 30, Dec. 7 through 9, 11 through Jan. 3
March 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 poet office, Eugene. Oregon. Subscription rates: $5 per
•chool 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
the editor; initialed editorials by the associate editors.
ELSIE SCHILLER, Editor DICK CARTER, Business Manager
JACKIE WARDELL, RON MILLER, Associate Editors
KITTY FRASER, Managing Editor VALERA VIERRA, Adv. Mgr.
LEN CALVERT, LAURA STUROES, Editorial Assistants
JOE GARDNER, News Editor BOB ROBINSON, Sports Editor
To The Voter, Not Officers
We are talking to the college voter today.
We could be talking to the house officers who enforce such
mles. But, believing in the democratic principle of government
by the will of the people and believing that our strongest hopes
for the ultimate success in that government lies on our college
campuses, we are talking directly to the voter. You make a
majority of the rules you live under at this University.
We could be talking to the student leaders on this campus
and those concerned with student government and student or
ganization. \\ e would talk to that group too, if we did not so
firmly believe that the student receives value from the student
government equal to the amount of time, thought and consid
eration he is willing to invest in that government.
Student government can and has been on some campuses
more than a game, a period of practice for the real thing when
college days are gone.
- And even if we were to draw the line arbitrarily and say that
student government was only a preliminary game to real demo
cratic government, we would still wonder at the type of com
munity citizens and voters we are preparing here at Oregon.
W e wish we didn't have to write this. We thought perhaps
this year such practices would be curtailed. But once again we
note that your houses are getting you to vote in campus elec
tions by "rule of force.” Xo vote, no dinner.
It's a simple, expedient method of getting students to vote.
M e understand it n'orked again in women’s elections last
TThursdav.
And perhaps we are wrong to maintain that such practices
iare a direct contradiction to all the ideals that democracy em
bodies. If we cannot loQk to you for educated, interested,
“thoughtful American voters, then where can we look?
Perhaps we are wrong to maintain that a vote is a responsi
bility and a duty you should be proud to perform. But we won
der who will deny you your lollipops when it comes to partici
pating in government in the outside world.
Perhaps we are wrong in believing so firmly that student
.government can be a workable, beneficial method through
-which to organize campus life at Oregon. It may be true that
student government here is just maintained to create campus
■*‘big wheels.”
Perhaps we are wrong when we are so shocked tTfat college
students should allow such childish methods of controlling the
casting of college votes.
But if we are wrong, what a price you pay for being right.
Matter of Opinion
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-f a in pus Commvnt
Nobody's Heard of Oregon,
'College Boy' Is Dismayed
By Sam Frear
Emerald Columniit
I held on to the strap very
tightly, bracing myself against
the sway of the subway. The man
sitting down in front of me saw
the book in my hand.
"You a college boy?" he asked
IL u f J beligerently. I
nodded my
head. “Where
ya go?” he con
tinued.
“The Univer
sity of Oregon.”
"O r e g o n ?
Where's that?”
“Oh it's out
in the West.”
“Yeah, I re
memDcr now, he shook his head,
“It's down near Texas ain't it?"
I smiled. “Isn’t everywhere
near Texas?"
He ignored my question. “You
got a football club?”
“Why of course. We even went
to the Cotton . . .” but the train
had lurched to a stop and he got
off.
I got off the subway at Wall
street and went up to a newstand
and asked for Time magazine.
“ Time," the man snorted,
' W hat are ya, a Republican or
a college boy?”
"Well, I guess you could say
both,” I answered.
“Yeah? Where d’ya go, NYU
or CCNY?"
“The University of Oregon,” I
replied.
“Oregon? Where's that?”
“It’s on the West Coast," I
sighed.
“Oh, California huh. Well,
that's the reason.”
“What do you mean that's ...”
but he left to make change for a
Daily News buyer.
Jimmy, the elevator boy, was
standing in the bank lobby when
X got there. “Hi’ya boy,” he
Letters...
•..to the Editor
A Triangle?
To the Editor:
After reading all the drivel
about the imagined love affair
of ex-Oregon student Waldo and
UO coed Snowbelle, I feel it is
time the Emerald got its facts |
straight.
Except in posed pictures and
the Emerald’s fancy, Waldo ac- j
tually never was Snowbelle’s
first love. Ladies of leisure are
naturally attracted to such
huge, uncouth specimens, and
a harmless flirtation may have
existed, but her first love has
always been a more genteel ca
nine with more of her own in
terests.
If you’ve ever had the two dogs
romp by and trip you as you
stumbled from the millrace area
to class at 8 a. m., you’ll know
the noble beast to whom I refer.
Or, if you’ve ever come out
of your slumber in classes on
the north side of Common
wealth long enough to gaze out
the window, you’ve probably
seen ’Belle and a slightly smal
ler black, tan and white collie
chasing one another across the
quad with gay abandon.
The dog’s name is Psi, the mas
cot of Phi Sigma Kappa, and he,
not Waldo, is and has for some
time been Snowbelle’s first love. -
Now that Waldo is gone and with
him the natural physical attrac
tion for such a magnificent beast,
Snowbelle is devoting all of her
time to her true love—Psi.
It’s true, Psi told me.
Jerry Harrell
Today's Staff
Makeup Editor: Sam Vahey
Night Editor: Mary Alice Allen
Staff: Harriet Miller, Ron Mil- j
greeted, "When ya leaving for
college?”
"Pretty soon, Jimmy.”
"That's great. What's the
name of that school again?”
"The University of Oregon."
"Oregon? That's part of Can
ada. ain't it?”
"No, it's not. Now look Jim
my, what states border the Pa
cific ocean ?"
"Let's see," he said, "Califor
nia and . . . and Washington.”
"That's all?," I persisted.
"Umm, well . . . Nevada?,”
he asked hopefully.
"No, Oregon."
"Oregon, huh?,” he mused,
"Never heard of it.”
He let me off on the twelfth
floor. Rosie, the receptionist
flashed me a big grin. "Hi, col
lege boy, hows it goin’?”
"Okay," I said sitting down.
"You're going to the Univer
sity of Oregon ain'tcha?"
"Yeah, do. you know where it
is ? ? Really ? ’ I asked excitedly.
"Ah sure," she said, "What
ya take me fur, a jerk?"
"Rosie, I luve you. Say you'll
marry me."
"Say, what's with you? You
got rocks in your head?"
"No," I smiled, "but you're
the first person I've met today
who knows where Oregon is.”
"You’re nuts. Really you are.
Marry me, well, I like that. You
probably want to take me to Ore
I K°n- Honest to God, now who
wants to live in the South?”
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