The Oregon Daily Emerald ia published Monday through Friday daring the college year from Sept. 15 to June 3, except Nov. 16, 25 through SO, Dec. 7 through 9, 11 through Jan. 4 March 8 through 10, 12 through 29, May 3, and 31 through June 2, with iaauea on Nov. 21, Jan. 23. and May 8, by the Student Publications Board of the University of Oregon. En tered aa second class matter at the post office, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates: $5 per school 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. 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 < Iwiiufinttii Bros. Bring: Vou Tips on Attirr About “Th« Campus IxMik” The Coed's Ofilrc Everything look* no wonder ful, everyone ko friendly Bn