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Ounce of Prevention
Fire is no joke. It can be pretty serious business. Fire drills
can make it a little less dangerous, they're not jokes either. A>k
the pupils at Francis Willard school—they know.
Sure, you guys are older than that—but we wonder if you’re
acting that way.
We’re speaking to the men’s living organizations who are
not co-operating with the Eugene fire department and the
disaster committee of the campus Red Cross in their campaign
to hold one fire drill a term in each living organization.
Fire drills are held in the University-owned dormitores as a
matter of course. The fire department and the Red Cross would
like to see them a regular thing in the other living organizations.
,We think it’s a good idea.
Women’s organizations have reportedly co-operated very
well, most of them having already held this term’s drill.
But Campbell club, Philadelphia house and Sigma Nu are
the only men’s houses that have displayed any effort to co
operate.
The rest have said it’s silly, or takes too much time, or they
haven't said anything. And haven't done anything either.
Sure, it seems silly now maybe. It might not some night when
you wake up with the sleeping porch on fire and aren't sure how
to get out.
Think it over, fellows. (J.W.)
Were Not Convinced
We were pleased to see the ASUO senate tie into the question
of athletic cards and identification for admittance to Mac court.
We sat in on the senate meeting when Leo Harris came down
to talk to the group. And that pleased us too. The senate has been
playing around with the idea of having Mr. Harris in to discuss
student-athletic department problems all year.
And it pleased us to see students going right to the “top
guy**'to get at the problem. It’s good when an administrative
official comes down and lays out the facts to this student
group. r.
Brit we don’t feel that we have all the facts yet.
'We’d, like to know more about the cost of having pictures
pritU£ii On student body cards. We’d like to know if students at
other campuses still transfer cards with these pictures. We’d
like to know how other schools handle the problem which would
be involved in registration.
_TWe think the senate committee is headed in the right direc
. fxoafBy sending a letter off to WSC. We suggest they also try
OSC, ‘University of Washington, and . the University of
Southern Cal to get more information and opinions. These
.schools allprint pictures on their athletic cards.
. And we’re still firmly convinced that pictures will cut down
transfer of athletic cards. We talked to students at Corvallis last
.weekend and they turned “thumbs down” on loaning of their
pictured cards.
Even if you can occasionally use a card with a picture because
the pictures are blurred and such small print, we feel the idea has
the same merit that the use of radar has in traffic control. Every
car isn’t going to be stopped for speeding, but the pyschological
effect of that device is tremendous in speed zoned areas.
Letters to the Editor
"My Business"
Emerald Editor:
The most startling views ex
pressed by Mr. Herman Lind
in his letter to the editor of
March 2nd cannot go unanswer
ed. The gravamen of Mr. Lind’s
letter concerning discrimination
clauses in fraternity constitu
tions was, “that the business of
each organization and the inter
nal regulation of every organi
zation is that organization’s busi
ness only . . . repeat for empha
sis, ONLY.”
The logical result of such
reasoning, Mr. Lind, seems to
be that if it is a fraternity’s
own business what kind of re
strictions they have on their
membership, it is an employer’s
own business who he wishes to
hire, and likewise a restaur
ant owner’s own business who
he wishes to serve, but, you
see, in any of the above three
situations, if one of the deter
mining factors in deciding who
shall be allowed to join, who
shall be hired, or who shall be
served, is the race of the per
son or persons being consider
ed, it is racial discrimination,
and it does become “my busi
ness,” and your business too,
Mr. Lind, if you wish to speak
oiit against it.
Public outcry against intoler
ance and discrimination, whether
or not you are a member of the
organization practising it, is a
fundamental right in a demo
cratic country.
The problem is, how can we ex
pect to eliminate discrimination
in the business world if we can
not defeat it in the colleges and
universities where the business
men are being training. It seems
to me that discrimination clauses
in fraternity constitutions pre
sents ample grounds for concern,
and for all of us making it “our
business” if we wish.
James C. Goode
-.1 MB ay at the Zoo ]
Call for Petitions for Campus Revolt ]
by Bob Funk
Emerald Columnist
If you think a rose by any
other name would smell as sweet,
you have failed to reckon with
the influence of advertising upon
the sense of smell—
- from Psychology and Se
mantics.
(Synoplsls of preced
ing Installment: Little did
THELGA Sl.l liM know ns she
entered Amiable Hall that her
head was about to be severed
by a Shakespeare Variorum
dropped by a subversive. Her
decapitation was grisly, lint
provided good copy for the
University Daily Birthstone—
and good reading for Student
Bod y President 1 G N A C E
KONGSISTEK and campus
beauty JANET P L A N E T.
While IGNAC'E and JANET
sat in the student union read
ing the paper, they were ap
proached by ALICE MALICE,
Communist spy. They were
disturbed, alarmed.)
‘‘I’ve never known a Commun
. ist spy,” pond
ered Ignace. “Is
your organiza
tion national?"
"Internation
al,” whispered
Alice seductive
ly
"Oh!" caroled
Janet, who was
begin n i n g to
perceive the
■■■BJiW* flK.% iiuui, mai
means you must have chapters
in Canada!” She frowned. “But
you’re not wearing your pin!
OUR girls always wear their
pins for identification, you
know.”
“Yes, how careless of me.”
agreed Alice. "You never know
when you’re going to meet an
other Communist spy, maybe
from YOUR HOME chapter.”
She shifted the knife she was
holding in her teeth.
“But the business at hand,”
said Alice, "is a little plan Karl
Marx and I thought up. The
general deal is that all us pro
letarians will arise, resist, re
volt, and just mess up in gener
al. We’ll carry signs that say
"DIRTY CAPITALISTS GO TO
MAX’S” and we’ll burn Villard
hall.”
"Well,” said Janet, "I don't
know about Karl Mane (she
thought he might have been a
founder of a Miami Triad fra
ternity), but I think the whole
sounds just a little ungracious.”
"Sort of like a revolution,” said
Ignace nervously. He had taken
a history course.
"Not a revolution,” soothed
Alice. "It will be a celebration,
sort of like Junior Weekend.
We’ll ask Mortar Board to tap.”
Her argument was a telling one.
In Janet's mind, aho was already
a Committee Chairman for the
All-Campus Revolution. An for
Ignnce, he could see himself be
fore the student senate, saying
grandly, "The first petitioner for
chairman of the Alt-Campus Rev
olution is . .
"The first thing,” said Alice,
"is to form a committee. Only
we’ll call it a cell." And they
composed a notice for the Uni
versity Birthstone, which read
ns follows:
“Campus Shorts: (big black
dot) Petitions for committee
chairmen for the All-Campus
Revolution are due Tuesday, at
3 p. m., according to Ignace
Rongsister, student body presi
dent. They may be turned in to
Alice Malice at the Moss Street
sewer;, or Janet Planet, at the
Quadruple Kta sorority house.”
Meanwhile in the nation's cap
ital, Senator Deuteronomy
Squirm was sticking pins into a
wax figure of the Secretary of
the Army. Mis mind, however,
was on a report from the fat
West; a report of subversive ac
tivity on a University campus.
A faculty member had been kill
ed by a falling Shakespeare Var
iorum. Very bad business, Squirai
thought. Was Shakespeare a
Communist ? Shakespeare had
been a writer, and Squirm had
found through sad, sad, experi
ence * that most writers were
Communists.
Squirm squirmed uncomfortab
ly. He could not just sit there
in Washington, pushing pins into
wax figures. He must save the
people. He had a reputation for
saving the people; it was nur
tured by the Chicago Dally Ty
phoon the way fertilizer nurtures
a flower. There was a song the
committee members sang:
“Squirm will save us,
This we know;
For the Typhoon
Tells us so."
He sang it softly to himself.
Squirm stuck one last pin into
the Secretary of the Army, and
another into a Methodist bishop
just for good measure, and then
went out to buy railroad tickets
for the Far W'est and Un-Amer
ican activities.
(Next week: The "*1*ioneer
Father and Mother — a Frus
trated Romance (we meant to
have it this week but could not
seem to weave it into the plot);
Senator Squirm to the West;
New Members for the Commun
ist International Social Frater
nity.)
And After Finals. . .
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