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Other Sports Get Notice
Baseball and track take the spotlight during spring term, but
there are a couple of other varsity sports which deserve notice.
jWhen we’re looking for games to watch let’s not discount golf
and tennis.
Sid Milligan’s varsity golf team has done a top job this sea
son, working into a position to take the dual meet champion
ship for the sixth straight year. The golf men walked over Seat
tle last weekend to avenge their only dual competition loss in
1954.
The tennis squad, coached by Capt. Robert Laurence, has
matched wins and losses in Northern Division competition
this season with a 2-2 record. The webfooted angels of the
courts have been beaten only by Oregon State and defending
champion Washington. Oregon has won the only dual match
championship that Washington hasn’t copped. In 17 seasons
Washington has won 16 championships.
: The golf and tennis matches are something for which to
watch. The next matches in both sports are scheduled for May
15 against Oregon State. How about a big turnout to show the
cowyards we back all our sports?
The big day for sports is May 22. a day to make up for lost
time. Besides a Oregon-OSC baseball game in the afternoon
there will be the Northern Division golf championships and.Che
Northern Division tennis championships held here in Eugene.
There will even be a football scrimmage to catch your attention.
Sports will be king, even golf and tennis.—(R.M)
From History to Grammar
Would you like to spend as much as 10 hours a week teaching
high school students about the American revolution or correct
English usage? On top of your regular college courses that is.
A lot of prospective teachers on campus are doing that. And
spending more time preparing lesson plans and doing extra
curricular activities in connection with their teaching.
The student teachers are ofter criticized. Some people go so
far as to say they give their pupils only a “practice education.”
We disagree. We think they're doing an excellent job with
out any publicity.
These student teachers work hard—they’re usually too busy
for any extra-curricular activities during the term they teach.
In fact they're usually too busy for most anything.
And without realizing it, the University has in these teach
ers an excellent public relations staff. They’re popular with
their students — some of them even more popular than the
regular classroom teacher. And they have influence with these
high school students they teach.
W e know of at least two Eugene high school girls who have
come to Oregon because one of their practice teachers was so
enthusiastic over the school.
W e’ve been guilty of laughing at “that cinch course. All you
have to do is give high sehool kids a test once in awhile.” We’re
sorry we did. It’s hard work and these students are doing a lot
to help increase Oregon’s enrollment.—(J.W.)
This is a.System?
•'/'/
“Oh, I wouldn’t worry about passing this course—as long as I’m
grading by the curve system.”
-A Day at the Zoo
Moosela Dreams of Lover
As Chi Zebra
by Bob Funk
Emorold Columnist
Once upon a time in the far
West, after the Indians and b'ars
had been muscled out. Chi Zebra
chapter of The Best Damned So
rority North of Biloxi built a
chapter house. The chapter house
looked like the Parthenon would
have looked if the Parthenon had
had red shutters and a fire es
cape.
It was built next to a slough
full of evil
brown water.
This slough
was a Campus
Tradition and
an Alumni
Memory, a n d
was accumula
ting a salt con
tent rivaling
MHmm that of the
Dead Sea. Across the slough
from the Chi Zebra house was
a fraternity house full of ardent
youths held back only by the
brackish waters and rotten
boards in the only connecting
bridge.
Upon this physical set-up
was imposed the figure of Mo
osela, a Chi Zebra pledge.
About the only thing that
could be said about Moosela's
appearance was that when you
looked someplace hoping some
thing was there, it wasn't. >Io
osela had about as much per
sonality as you can have with
out having yourself confuted
with a night crawler; and her
IQ was latent, and then some.
Nevertheless, Chi Zebra had
reached out from behind its
white pillars and pledged Mo
osela. As the house president had
said: "We don't pledge for looks.
We don't pledge for personality.
We don’t pledge for activities.
Sister, we pledge for MONEY.”
And Moosela, it must be reveal
ed. was loaded with coin upon
which the soverign had placed a
stamp and declared to be Legal
Tender.
For a time nothing happened
at the sorority which wouldn't
have happened if Moosela hadn’t
been there, except that everyone
ate better. Moosela sat around
tendering her legal tender to the
house manager, and everyone
grew to love her. Then one night
the Chi Zebras carted out all the
furniture, hung the white pillars
with crepe paper, and declared
it to be a House Dance.
The night was full of magic
and what the orchestra tried
to convince the dancers was
music. Moosela, swathed in
gold lame, was attended by one
of the ardent members from
the fraternity across Memory
Slough. How she got the date,
no one knew; btrt there was a
nasty rumor abroad that Some
Men Can be Bought.
Whether this escort was one of
those men or not is immaterial;
he began to feel, very shortly,
that if he could be bought, his
price hadn’t been named yet.
Moosela was a dancer in the
same way a circus elephant is
a dancer, only faster and more
imaginative. For the first time
in his young life, her escort re
alized that there is a place in the
fox trot where' your partner
jumps up and down three times,
jerks you off your feet in some
sort of a judo move, and then
impales you upon a chandelier.
Between getting down off the
chandelier and avoiding being
jumped on, Moosela’s partner
spent a very busy evening. But
Moosela observed none of this. In
the windy passages of her mind
a light was kindling, and the
Sisters Sing
light Is what hi the higher ani
mals is known us Love.
It was perhaps unfortunate
that Just at the moment the
flamed lept from Infatuation
into devotion, one of the chan
deliers fulled to Impale the fra
ternity man, and be rather
neatly broke out a window and
land<4 in the Slough.
Moosela arrived at the water's
edge just in time to see True Love
floating slowly westward down
the Slough. He waved languidly,
it was reported, then drifted
around the bend.
Thereafter, Moosela's life was
a waiting kind of life. She was
sure that somewhere he had
drifted to shore, and would come
back, or at least call. Every
night at dinner the sisters sang
his fraternity song to Moosela.
and she would giggle and hide
her face in her napkin.
She spent her nights embroid
ering pillow-cases which said
"MOOSELA AND ” she
had never gotten his name. In
the daytime she occasionally
dragged the Slough with a big
net.
He never came back. Some
one Huh! he had drifted oi/t to
sea and been torpedoed during
the war. Someone else heard
thut he had gotten plugged up
in the pipe which constituted
the Slough’s outlet. Moosela
never believed these rumors,
even when the current In the
Slough completely s t o p p c d
shortly after his disappear
ance.
There were other house dances.
There were other ardent young
men who could be bought. But!
Moosela walked alone, diagging
her net, change jingling.
After the three millionth din
ner at which the fraternity song
had been sung and Moosela had
giggled into the dessert, she died
of old age. They dried her and
put her on the mantel between
the scholarship cup and a picture
of the founders.
The irony of the whole thing j
W’as, that three days after she
died, he drifted back to shore
right next to the Chi Zebra
house. They found out that his
name was Jim.
Social Calendar
Wednesday Desserts
Campbell Club — Alpha Chi
Omega
Phi Gamma Delta Chi Omega
READ EMERALD CLASSIFIEDS
All-Campus Sing
Mac Court
May 15 8 p.m.
Admission 85c
NOW PLAYING
MARLON BRANDO • JAMES MASON
JOHN GIELGUD • LOUIS CALHERN
EDMOND O'BRIEN • GREER GARSON
DEBORAH KERR In
JULIUS
CAESAR
SU Board to Elect
New Officers Today
The Student Union board will
elect officers for next year at itn
meeting today at 4 p. rn. In the
board room. Alao on the agenda
for the meeting are:
0 Introduction of new board
mem»M*rs
0 Selection of public relatione
chairman
0 Creative aria workshop dta
cuaalon
0 Directorate chairman's re
port
^ Special events report
0 Approval of personnel com
mittee members
CAMPUS BRIEFS
Drarilmt (or itriM for (hi* mhrmn n at 4
p m. the day prior to publication.
0 The YWCA I'aMnrt will mci-t
at noon Wednesday In Oerlinger
hall, according to Hally Htadelman,
publicity chairman.
0 The Order of the “O" will
meet Wednesday noon at Sigma
Chi, according to Doug Clement,
president. Freshman t radii ions
violators will be dlscii-scd.
0 Alpha l>< Itu Sigma will meet
tonight at 7 in tire Student Union,
according to President Dick Car
ter.
0 Sub-chairmen for the all.
campus luncheon will meet at 4
p. m. today in the Student Union,
according to Corky Horton and
Marcia Hodgson, co-chairmen.
Kwamas Selling
Life, Time, Fortune
Special student rate subscrip
tions to Time, Life, Fortune and
an as yet unnamed sports maga
zine arc now being sold by the
members of Kwama, sophomor
women's service honorary. Money
obtained from the sale will go to
scholarships awarded annually by
the honorary.
One year student subscription
to Time cost $3. a saving of $3;
Life is $4, a saving of $2 75, and
Fortune is $7 50, $2.50 under the
regular price.
P’aculty subscription rales ar>
the same for Life and Fortune,
with Time costing $4.75.
The subscriptions are sold on a
start now, pay later basis. They
do not have to be paid for until
after the subscriber has received
the first issues.
•Students and faculty members
interested in subscribing to the
magazines should contact any
Kwama mem tier.
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