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ELSIE SCHILLER. Editor
DICK CARTER, Business Manager
JACKIE WARDELL. RON MILLER, Associate Editors
KITTY FRASER, Managing Editor VALERA VIERRA. Adv. Mgr.
JOE GARDNER, News Editor
BOB ROBINSON, Sports Editor
First Try Success
The first all-campus primary is over and it's timejfor arm
chair politicians to settle back and comment on how it worked.
We feel that it worked well enough to rate praise. The few
1>ad comments on the system can be discounted on the grounds
that it is something new and needs to be in effect for a time
to become known and appreciated.
Although this is new in the way of primaries, it is not very
different from the usual method of conducting elections. The
confusion on which ballots to mark and how to mark them
can be resolved with practice.
The general response to the system was gratifying. All the
comments of voters which we heard were on the good qualities
•of being able to vote either independent or “greek." without
indicatingAvhich you were.
The minor comment that AGS and UIS could not control
who votes on their tocket has value only if you believe that the
party should make the decision. We think a person has a right
to decide whether he has an AGS or a UIS feeling. -
One problem that arose during Wednesday’s balloting is
worth commenting upon. Two of the voting “booths" were
really not booths at all. Until steps were taken in the after
noon, voters at these spots were placing their ballots into
boxes themselves.
The possibility of marking both ballots and having them
counted is too great with a primary of this sort. Either atten
dants will have to be more careful, or we should put up a
couple more booths.
On this line of thought, it was noticeable that the majority
•of voting took place between Commonwealth and the Co-op.
Perhaps at future elections, more booths could be located in
this area to catch more students passing between classes.
It is difficult to say with assurance that the all campus pri
mary paid off in terms of voting. There were actually fewer
votes cast than last year.
No total AGS figures are available from last spring. Yet,
a total of 1,449 votes were cast for the three presidential can
didates in the primary compared to the 1073 cast for Summers
and Light Wednesday.
L'iS vo£es in last year's election totaled 470 compared to the
290 UIS votes listed in this election. However, since UIS has
"held on-campus primaries in the past, we feel that this drop
stemmed from the lack of opposition for the top post.
Actually, then, taking the Greek primary out of the houses,
•caused only a small drop in votes. Wait until the all-campus
- primary has a history and then tally the voting. We feel it
was a success for a first try.—(R.M.)
This Timeless World
It is evening. And suddenly, at 10:30, it is night on the Uni
versity of Oregon campus and the world is deserted, except for
4in occasional figure hurrying across the darkness to some light
ed building.
A thousand patterns of light and shadows project across the
campus as the familiar day-to-day world vanishes into the mys
terious, the awesome, the enchanted of another time.
The familiar bulk of buildings assumes shapes and propor
tions strange to the eye of the occasional student who ven
tures into this world. The blue of mercury street lights makes
little pools of brightness in this sudden, dark world.
The trees of Oregon stand tall and straight, great mounds of
•Black color in this weird pattern of shapes and shades.
And in the center of this world, the Erb Memorial Union
rears up in the reflection of lights from Carson and Straub, a
giant pattern of bright light and cold blackness. Each window
•casts its own strange little bar of light and shadow out across
this nighttime campus.
A more subtle beauty sifts down across the University cam
pus in this sudden hour of stillness, suspended motion and
timeless night. The co-ed, the athlete, the student is, for a
moment, dispossessed of this kingdom and only silence and
shadows reign in the night.
Behind each pattern of a lighted window, some student
studies in his own little world of light or chats with friends or
settles down for sleep. Man has had his say for this one small
chapter of eternity and crept away to lick his wounds or dream
in sleep. And Oregon awaits the day.
II hat 'h Gainff On Here?
Ex-Politico Tells Columnist
Political Change for Worse
by A1 Karr
Emerald Columnist
Judging by the number of vot
er*; tallied on each party ballot
in the all-campus primary, the
AGS party which had been said
to have the least to gain by the
new system turned out by far the
greatest vote.
It is impos
sible to deter
mine, of course,
how many In
dependent vot
ers cared
enough about
crossing over to
mark the AGS.
ballot instead
of their own.
But the turnout
in dinner voting; of past years
seems to be fairly well trans
ferred in AGS to booth voting',
aided, of course by much com
pulsory balloting.
Even so, the system is quite
a change in primary voting
in the AGS party. It U pretty
much the same for the Inde
pendent party, because IIS
last year and USA the year
before used a campus primary
system. But for AGS, the op
ening up of their primary vote
received a drastic speed-up
from last year to this.
Last year, the three-day AGS
primary was marked by less
“central control” than had been
true in past years, but this year
the voting was even more loose.
It ain't what it used to be.
Bill Carey. ASUO president
two years ago. AGS president
the year before, and a strong
AGS leader in his undergradu
ate career, feels that making
the AGS primary a campus af
fair has eliminated one of the
major purposes of the party.
Carey is now a law student
on campus, after a sttnt in the
army, and he is an “alum”
of the days when a group of
leaders in AGS had great
control, and got the frater
nity and sorority members to
go along with their decisions.
Since then, AGS primary af
fairs have been pushed furth
er into the all-campus scene,
and Carey feels that the new
system is detrimental to the
party.
Carey says the present sys
tem allows anyone to vote In
the Greek primary, takes away
something which gave AGS a
tool to work with in conducting
their activity, reduces the num
ber of people who vote in the
primary election and reduces
the number of candidates who
petition.
He cites a figure of 120-plus
candidates who petitioned In the
AGS primary when he was AGS
president, as compared with the
34 who were candidates in the
recent election.
There has been quite a drop
off in interest In polities with
in 'the ACi.K party tills year.
Only three meetings were held
this year — Carey mentions
weekly meetings during the
whole year two years ago. The
big fuetor which has caused
this drop-off seems to la- the
all-rainpus primary.
After much previous AGS op
position to such n system, AGS
senators voted along with CIS
senators last year to approve
the primary system; something
of the spirit behind AGS voting
ha» undergone a chance. Whether
er for better of for worse, many
Independents and at least some
Greeks believe that it la for th<
better.
• • *
The primary went off pretty
well, but ASCO Vice-President
Bob Funk had his share of head
aches. He was kept busy run
ning around removing candi
dates frofn the Job of attending
voting booths, on the theory that
such a practice didn't look too
good.
Then he had to get 'the bal
lot boxes at Commonwealth
hall placed behind the voting
table Wednesday afternoon,
because voters had been plac
ing their own Imllots In the
boxes—and could thus mark
both ballots if they wanted to.
CAMPUS BRIEFS
Deadline (or item* (or (hi* column i* at <
pm. (he day prior (o publica(ion.
0 Today Is the petition deadline
for master-of-ceremonies of Uu
World University Service Vodvll
show, according to Helen R. John
son, program chairman. Petition'?
may be placed in the ASUO peti
tion box on the third floor of the
Student Union.
Safety First
“I’ll take this course If this classroom has a fire escape
’•fe
Solicitors Get
WUS Training
Solicitors for World University
Scivice will meet for a training
session today at noon In the Stu
dent Union, according: to Ger
maine L u M a r c h e, solicitations
chairman.
Gladys Luwthor, WUS regional
secretary, will show slides on In
dia and Misi LnMureljc will ex
plain solicitation procedure
All WITS house representatives
who did not attend the training
session Monday are required to at
tend today's meeting. Miss I.u
Marehe stated. Representatives
who were present at the first Ses
sion may also attend today's if
they wish.
Friday at Four Slates
Act; Snow Will Emcee
Friday at 4 program today in
the Student Union fishbowl will
feature an act done by Don Finley,
Mark Tabseott, and Bill Hatha
way. Spencer Snow Is scheduled
to act ns man! er-of-cereruonie1
according to Carol Aiken and Boh
Kelly, co-chairmen.
0 Deadline for Junior Weekend
float themes Is Monday at 4 p.
m, according to Jkfary Wilson,
float parade co-chairman. Themes
may he turned in to Miss Wilson
at Delta Gamma or Ann Hopkins
at Kappa Alpha Theta.
i /7ccents
| /'V ^ Dalece
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Iwiiufinttii Bros.
Bring: Vou
Tips on Attirr
About “Th«
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The Coed's Ofilrc
Everything look* no wonder
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co-operative that it ih a pleasure i
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nothing more enjoyable than
Just browsing through the store
and discussing the latest fash
ions and the newest in access
ories with the staff. Remember,
there is always an open Invita
tion at Kaufman's to Just look
and discuss your fashion prob
lem. 1
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You'll get that spring gleam
in your eyes when you see th<
full, full petticoats. Just wait
until you see your spring skirts,
dresses, or ballerina length ny
lon. or cotton. I fell in love with
one of bright red, but Kaufman’s
have them in the more subtle
shades of light green, a pastel
purple, pink, and white.
At the jewelry counter you'll
find the popular Chalk White
necklaces and earrings at only
$1.00. The earrings come in the *
loop, drop, or button style. For
the more dressy occasion these
styles come with sparkling
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moment longer at. the Jewelry
counter because there is some- *
thing else that is bound to catch
your eye, it's the matching Tie ]
and Cuff links sets for your cot
ton blouses. These Ernest Stein
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pearl and colored styles .. $1.95
* * •
Do you need a new purse to
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Well then your problem is solv
ed for Kaufman's have those
compact Clutch purses at only
$2.95. You have your choice of
washable plastic, of cloth or
straw and many in your favorite '
pastel shades.
* * *
A special attraction is “Per
fect Rose” a bright new lipstick
by Charles of the Ritz. A new
texture, quality, and shade that
will flatter new spring shades
and you.