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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.
Give Them A Chance
The freshman election controversy is with ns again.
We hope it’ll be settled this time. Under the present system
the four freshmen officers are elected on one ballot using the
preferential system. This means that four men running for
president get the four offices; students, especially women, run
ning for representative haven't a chance.
This system works alPright for the other classes because in
the party-controlled general election there are seldom more
than four persons running for office, with the stronger candi
' dates opposing each other for the presidential post. And »
party members know how to vote for their candidates.
But in the freshman elections there are no parties to limit the
number of candidates. Presidential candidates receiving ‘‘one’’
votes can easily out-distance representative candidates who
seldom receive a vote higher than “three”.
Result: you have to run for president in order to have even
a slight chance of getting any office.
Last spring an amendment that would have changed the
freshman ballot was presented at the general election and de
feated. Whether because of lack of interest or because no one
could understand the amendment we don’t know.
We hope the senate will this year place an understandable
measure on the ballot. And we hope the student body will re
alize the situation and end the confusion.
We don’t necessarily mean that all the freshman officers
shouldn’t be men. But look it this year’s senate—only four
women out of thirty members. Lots of women run in their class
election. They haven’t a chance and they lose interest. And we
lose several potential leaders. —(JAY.)
A Difficult Job
We want to take a moment to thank Dr. Victor P. Morris for
the time and talents he’s placed in his job of acting-president of
the University during the interim between Harry K. Xewburn’s
resignation and Dr. Wilson’s arrival to take over his new duties.
We recognize the fact that a temporary position can some
times, and in this case did, have more pressures, more problems,
more headaches than would ordinarily be involved in this job.
We know it’s hard to know just which are your decisions to
make in such a position and which must be left for the in
coming president. And we realize that some decisions which
had to be immediate we’re probably awfully hard to make.
We think Dr. Morris was in a difficult position. And we think
he did a job which shouldn’t be overlooked in the hullabaloo
•over Dr. Wilson’s arrival.
What we especially liked about Dr. Morris was his friend
liness, his smile when we met him on the campus and the deep
interest he took in student activities. We liked his willing
ness to hash over Emerald problems with us and we liked
. the gesture of a Sunday night dinner at his home for a group
of students. It provided an excellent opportunity to know the
Morrises as people.
And they are wonderful people. So thank you, Dr. Morris,
and we’re sure the business administration school is probably
as glad to have their dean back as he is to be back in his special
field of interest.
US Civil Service Jobs Announced
Examinations for U.S. Civil Ser
vice Commission positions have
been announced by the commission
for jobs in the Navy Department
-and other federal agencies in Wash
ington, D.C.
The other general area of work
includes farm credit examiner po
sitions with the Farm Credit Ad
• ministration. Salaries range from
$4,205 to $5,060 per year.
Navy department salaries range
Trom $5,940 to $10,800 per year.
No written test is required for
-either of the examinations.
Applications for the Navy de
partment jobs must be filed before
March 30, with the Board of Civil
Service Examiners, Navy Depart
ment, Washington 25, D.C.
Qualifications for both areas of
work include experience in the
specialized field of work.
Applications for the farm credit
examiner positions will be accepted
until further notice, and are to he
filed with the Board of Civil Ser
vice Examiners, Department of
Agriculture, Washington 25, D.C.
Another position, substitute mail
handler in the Post Office Service
in Eugene, has also been announced
by the commission. Applicants for
this post must reside within tTie
delivery of the Eugene Post Office
or be patrons of the office.
Salary for the post office po
sition is $1.56 per hour. Interested
persons may apply at any post
office or may write to the Direct
or, Eleventh U.S. Civil Service re
gion, 302 Federal Office Euilding,
Seattle 4, Washington.
-.1 It tiff at the Zoo
At Last: Frustrated Pioneers
Meet Over Flaming Campus
by Bob Funk
Emerald Columnitt
Revolution ia like plowing it
turns some old dirt under and
turns up some new.
—from Uncle Gloomy’s Almanac
(Synopsis of preceding install
ments: A SUBVERSIVE (name
withheld by request) dropped a
Shakespeare Variorum on THEL
GA SLURM and decapitated her,,
Student Body President IGNACE
RONGSISTER and hungry, beau
tiful JANET PLANET were a
larmed to read of this in the Uni
versity Daily Blrthstone, more
alarmed when they were ap
proached by Communist Spy
ALICE MALICE. Their fears
vanished when they learned she
merely wished to plan an All
Campus Revolution similar in na
ture to Junior
Weekend. In
the nation's
capital. Sena
tor Deuterono
my Squirm
prepared to
march west to
Investigate.)
Senator
Squirm's desti
nation in the
Far West was
tne campus of the stated univer
sity in the State of Lethargy. The
campus was built orr high ground
(the catalog indicated, reassur
ingly) to avoid floods and foul
smells from capitalist plywood
works.
The campus was an archi
tectural argument, each period
from the pyramids to the geo
desic dome being heavily repre
sented in the form of a building
named after the mothers of
dead members of the Board of
Regents. On one part of the -
campus a statue of the Pioneer
Father peered dimly back. Ei
ther to frustrate this affair,
or perhaps in pity (since
neither parent was a thing of
beauty), the administration had
built the imposing Administra
tion Building between the two.
Professor Marion Clarion, for
eign languages, had often secretly
pondered this thwarted romance.
To him it symbolized his own
dingy life. He taught a very
foreign language to the sons and
daughters of millionaire plumbers.
He had a small office in Amiable
Hall full of water pipes, fluoresc
ent lights, and regret. There was
a little room left over for a desk,
and at that desk he composed a
lecture in which he would attempt
to dispel his students' lingering
impression that the Cid was some
how related to Billy the Kid and
was now on television.
The door opened. “Got a
light, youngster?” a velvet
voice asked. He looked up to*
see a cigarette and—YOVV!—
beyond the cigarette a woman
dressed In rt scarlet gown. She
was the real thing all the way
down to the floor. In his ner
vousness he tried to light her
thumb.
'Welcome' and Fine
Is Court's Decision
by the Associated Press
Wakefield, Rhode Island—Some
weeks back, Perry Potter was
fined $15 for reckless driving when
his car left the highway and
cracked up. He appealed.
In appellate court, the state an
nounced it was prepared to re
duce the charge from reckless
driving to speeding. It had found,
said the prosecutor, that Potter
was just out of the Army after
fighting in Korea.
Said the judge—one dollar fine.
And, he added: “Welcome home!’’
"Dr. Clarion?” she breathed.
"Speaking," he choked.
"I understand," she said, "that
you arc an Enlightened Intelli
gentsia prototype. We need one
of those to take minutes at the
All-Campus Revolution cell meet
ings, and to write manifestos now
and then."
‘Tve never written a mani
festo,” he confessed, choking on
a fingernad, "but I'm sure I'd
like to. I wrote my thesis on
‘Speech Aberrations: Catelan'. if
that helps any." He tried to make
it sound like sort of a semantic
Kinsey Report.
"Never mind that." she
luughed throatlly. “You’re all
right. You could go places If
you knew where to go. \Miut
you need Is to throw off the
Iroiids, arise, revolt, and gener
ally take over. I see muscles
bulging under thut coat. You're
laden, man."
"You remind me of Liberty,
leading the people," he said.
“Can that sort of breeze,"
Alice (for this was indeed Alice)
said. "We're having a little cell
meeting over at the student union
tonight, and I'll see you* there,
son." Then she was gone. He
heard her clumping* down the
hall. Liberty, with a cigarette
and a charred thumb.
He went to the window.
Below him was the Pioneer
Father. An all-campus revolu
tion! He could imagine Admini
stration Building burning, with
the Administration and the
head bf the department of
foreign languages all Inside,
screaming hideously; ard then
in his mind’s eye the walls fell,
and the Pioneer Father saw for
the firs* time the Pioneer
Mother. The beginning; Gene
sis; primavera...
Senator Squirm sat in the club
car, speeding Went in the crack
"City of Schnorkland". He waa
thinking about wickedness. Wick
edness, he thought, was one of the
most satisfactory things about
life. If you were wicked, you had
your own reward. And if you
were not wicked it was so very
satisfying to point this out to
others. And to investigate the
persons who were. He stuck a
pin into a new wax figure of the
Easter Bunny.
He settled back into his seat.
“Wake me,” he said to the porter,
"if anything suspicious happens."
(Next term: the cell meets;
Blood and Revolution; Senator
Squirm on Campus; Sappho Sven
son dies horribly.)
Let tern...
...to the Editor
Emerald Editor:
In the Emerald of March 2,
wax an editorial entitled
"Lets Uac the Vote." Within
this article was the statement
that the graduate student amend
ment before the senate for revis
ion "was originated an a bit of
political finesse during the heat,
of the campaign and we suspect
U18 put the amendment on the
ballot to draw graduate student
votes."
'I he point that I feel was not
brought out In this statement
Is the fm't that a 118 senate
member was contacted by
graduate student*'Who sought
hit support for such an amend
ment. It was the mime group of
gruduute students who spoke
to a I IS meeting and urged
the organisation-to pu«h this
amendment. Therefore, the
point I wish to make is that
the amendment was not pri
marily for the purpose of get
ting votes for the party hut,
for getting representation for
graduate students.
The unfortunate thing about
the amendment was that it was
too ambiguous as to a time of
election. It was the intent of the
trainers to have the flections
during fall term. At the time of
spring term elections, however,
the dates of the freshman class
spring term elections were being
considered for revision. Because
of this reason. It was felt best
to leave the time of elections
ambiguous In order that there
would be no conflicts between
the two elections.
When the problem eamr la
fore the senate fall term, the
senate decided ’that the elec
tion* would be *prlng term and
therefore a vacancy existed to
he filled by petition.
The Constitutional Re v i s I o n
committee of the senate was
faced with this problem and after
constdetable thought and discus
sion decided that one of two pro
posals were sound. These pro
posals differed only in regards
to the election of the graduate
student; whether by the senate or
the graduate students. The cofto
mlttee felt that the student body
was In favor of graduate stu
dent representation but it was
uncertain of graduate student in
terest. Therefore, it submitted
both proposals to the senate. The
senate's answer to this problem
should come Thursday night. It
is then up to the students to de
cide if the senate was correct by
approving or rejecting the pro
posed-amendment in the general
elections spring term.
Hollis Ransom
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