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Welcome, Mom
All mothers must, most of the time, believe they are taken
pretty much for granted. And. with a little sense of shame, we
must admit that Mom is usually taken for granted.
We do honor you on Mother’s Day and the University
Junior Weekend is traditionally dedicated to mothers. But,
before we extend the traditional welcome, we’d like to add just
a thought, Mom, on your position in our lives.
We do take you for granted 360 days out of the year. But.
you know, we take most other good things for granted too. We
take sunsets and blue skies and friends and freedoms pretty much
for granted. We accepted as our due meals three times a day and
college educations and money in the bank. We take home for
granted.
But, Mom, after we’ve left home and you and the rest of the
family, we somewhat appreciate you more. Guess that’s just
human nature. When you cease being a permanent part of our
lives and we only see jrou on weekends and holidays and maybe
in the summer, then we began to appreciate more what you
have meant to us and you began to mean much more.
So, welcome to our campus, all you mothers. W e hope you
liave a good time this weekend and, more than that, we hope
this gala weekend leaves yoira little time for visits and to gain
a better appreciation of what Oregon is to us and for us and
what college is doing for your sons and daughters.
Why Grows the Rose?
(Ed. Note: The following editorial was written by members
of Mortar Board, senior women’s honorary. New members for
this group will be tapped this afternoon at the all-campus
luncheon.)
When the black-garbed Mortar Boards wind their-way
through the crowd at the All-campus luncheon Saturday after
noon to tap new members, they will be performing one of their
last official functions of a busy year.
Behind this simple process of presenting outstanding junior
women with the gold and silver pledge ribbon and the tradi
tional rose lies a long and thorough process of selection. Mor
tar Board is a national honorary, and each woman who is se
lected for membership must have the qualities by which each
Mortar Board member in every chapter has been chosen—
scholarship, leadership, and service to the University.
The process of selecting new members for Mortar Board is
a careful one. When the Mortar Boards begin to scan the lists
of outstanding women, they consider not only what they know'
about each woman, but also what deans, department heads, and
campus leaders have to recommend. If possible, no avenue of
student participation is overlooked.
When the lists are complete, the affirmative plan of voting is
used to select the members. By this system, no one is "black
balled.” The whole process is a positive one—positive discussion
and positive voting. When any woman receives a unanimous
vote, conducted by secret ballot, she is declared elected to mem
bership. A unanimous vote likewise denies membership to any
woman.
The course of each woman’s college career is carefully taken
into consideration. One of the first points is the scholastic
record, for scholarship is one of the three prime requisites.
The minimum requirement is .3 above the campus average for
the past year. This year, each woman considered had to have
at least a 2.98 GPA. In outstanding cases, exceptions are per
mitted.
The second criterion is leadership. To qualify, each woman
had to show definite signs of capable leadership and ability to
handle responsibility by herself. Contrary to a common miscon
ception, Mortar Board is not a collection of presidents.
Leadership ability is probably most frequently evidenced by
election to a position of president, but being a president of some
organization is not itself a qualification for the senior woman’s
honorary. The ability to lead is found in those who may hot hold
the “top spot,” and Mortar Board has sought to recognize this.
The third necessity is service to the University. This does
not mean a woman must have kept busy for three years in a
large number of campus activities. The activities of the women,
' whether they be in several fields or in only one or two, should
add up to some definite accomplishment that is a credit to the
school.
Thus, each year, the wearers of the gold tassel have taken
their responsibility seriously. They have tried to overlook no
woman really qualified; they have tried to extend membership
to only those really deserving.
We are proud of each woman to whom we will present the
rose Saturday.afternoon.
—The Members of Mortar Board.
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-A Day at the /oo
Children, Chorus, Crepe and Cuties
Bedeck Back of Massive Horse, Mae
by Bob Funk
Emerald Columnist
When Grandma Fate, in the
form of the Float Parade chair
man, saw fit to pair Quadruple
Eta sorrority with Phi Belch fra
ternity ,lor the purpose of con
structing a float, there was
something less
than wild cele
b r a t i n k and
Cheering - until
hoarsc on' the
part of both
parties to this
artistic mar
riage.
Ever since
the Phi Belch
brothers had severed the sleep
ing porch from the Quadruple
Eta house late one night and left
it in the intersection of 13th and
Willamette, relations had been
only superficially pleasant be
tween the two groups. However,
as the Quadruple Eta president
said, “We must all enter into this
project with the spirit of Co
operation and Fun, especially the
pledges.”
For one solid week prior to
Junior Weekend, the members
of the two houses had Plan
ning Meetings which were so
Cooperative and Funny that
nothing much got planned or
started until Friday night. Fri
day night, a bonfire lighted a
poker game which Phi Belch
held under the float; and dimly
flickered upon the endeavors
of the Quadruple Kta pledge
class, which wan putting the
float together with scotch tape
m and slncerety.
The float consisted of a. two
acre superstructure artfully con
jured out of chicken wire, while
the pledges were covered with
aluminum foil to spell out the
names of the sponsoring houses.
In the center of the float there
was a forty-voice choir singing
the Battle Hymn of the Repub
lic. Garcella Hawgbladder, the
most shapely of the Quadruple
Etas, stood upon a chicken-wire
tower, clothed only in what a
large Portland firm fondly
thought of as a bathing suit,
waving a banner inscribed
WRITE A LETTER HOME TO
MOTHER. At the opposite end
of the float, two young men with
200-inch chest expansions stood
shirtless, with chests expanded
to the straining point and nicely
browned with Max Factor No. 5.
There was a paper mache
eagle which flapped its wings
dutifully in time to the choir
music, and a creep-paper vol
cano which erupted root beer
and Tootsie Koils. Several
small, reluctant children sat
around among paper flowers;
they were a sort of coup d’
Grace—judge bait in case ev
erything else failed.
This entire hanging garden,
dedicated to Country, Chastity,
and Untrammeled Motherhood,
was supported upon the back of
a retired plow horse named Mae,
who had stood there patiently for
a week while a glorious new
world was erected upon her. She
was a modern-day Atlas, living
on no-doze and spudnuts.
Mae was not the only victim
of the New Order. While leading
a hard band of climbers up the
half-completed volcano, the
Quadruple Eta president, Passion
Slodge, had been asked to hold
a section of chicken wire while
it was nailed to the frame. The
end result, due to poor planning,
was that Passion was nailed into
the mountain. She was a con
stant example of the Good Sport,
smiling forcedly out from behind
some crepe-paper snow.
By the time it was Saturday
afternoon, several things re
mained to be done to the float;
these Rap** were artfully
bridged by tucking up some old
campaign literature over em
harasslng spots. Mae lum
bered heavily to 'the Point of
Assembly, where most of the
float fell apart and had to lie
put back together uguln.
Several hours later everything
was ready and the parade start
ed. Moat of the other floats
seemed to have restricted them
selves by adhering to some un
imaginative Theme or something.
The progress of the float was
smooth, except for a couple of
minor incidents. One of the
shirtless young men, together
with chest expansion, was swept
off by a tree. His anguished
cries were successfully drowned
out by The Battle Hymn of the
Republic. During the lulls there
were obligato moans from Pas
sion Slodge, who was becoming
drenched with root beer vapor.
The members of (Quadruple
F.ta and Phi Burp, who were
not somewhow attached to or
trapped in the float, ran along
behind, sticking stray pieces
of crepe paper hack into the
wire and shouting encourage
ment to Mac, who was down
to her last spudnut.
The float was a great success
with the crowd. Several mother*
wept openly at the banner
WRITE HOME, and declared
that GarcelJa Hawgbladder was
a "sweet thing." Several fathers
also said that Garcella was a
sweet thing, or something to that
effect, although their attention
seemed riveted upon the product
of the Portland firm rather than
the banner.
The judges ignored most ev
erything except the small chil
dren. They gave ten points for
each small child and bonus
points for each Tootsie Roll that
erupted their way. A male judge
gave 200 points for Garcella. A
Republican judge gave 100 points
for The Battle Hymn of the Re
public. A near-sighted judge
gave 100 points for General Ap
pearance.
By this time, Passion Slodgr
was completely carbonated, and
giggling hysterically. Mae, god
like in her endurance, was recit
ing “Out of the float that covers
me, heave as hell from tail to ear,
I thank whatever gods may be
for my unbending rear."
After 'the judging stand had
been passed, things began to
fall apart rather generally.
Passion Kludge, due to some
kind of relocation Inside the
mountain, erupted spectacu
larly from the volcano along
With the mist and Tootsie
Roils. The flapping eagle
flapped off both wings, which
fell into the choir and caused
considerable screaming and
jumping around. .Mao r«n out
of npudnutn and In-gun munch
ing upon nomo of thr paper
fliiwrm and even tentatively
nipped ono of the hudiii chil
dren, which wan a social error.
The second cheat expansion
wan plucked off by a low wiiP,
while a frollcaome wind wound
the banner about Uarrella Hawg
hlpdder and cauaed her to topple
heavily into the choir, which wan
only beginning to recover after
the fall of the eagle wings
Finally, nothing wan left but
Mae, with aome crepe-paper
(•ticking out of one aide of her
mouth, and two determined choir
members atill ainging The Battle
Hymh. They continued thin way
until they reached the Dlsasnem
bly Point, at which point th.-y
dlurovered they had nothing to
disaaaemble.
We will not tarry to speculate
upon «uch moot question an Did
they Win the Moat Parade. (Of
course they dldli Or Whether
They Exceeded the Limit on Kx
pennen. (It wan all done with old
leftover pieced or paper.) We will
only reflect aadly, for a moment,
upon the panning of the two-acre
float, now commemorated only
by a few at rays impaled on tree*
and high wire*. and a cane of in
digestion nomewhere In the in
nards of Mae.
Library Contest
Deadline Today
University students stilt have a
chance to win free books, accord
ing to Bernice Rise. Student
Union browsing room librarian.
Deadline for entering the Stu
dent Library contest has been ex
tended to noon Saturday, Miss
Rise said.
Undergraduate and graduate
students may enter not more than
50 books in either the specialized
or general division. All entries
must be arranged in the reserve
book room of the library by noon
Saturday.
First prize in all divisions is $'25
in books, to be chosen by the win
ner from the Co-op. Second prize
is $15 and third, $10 in books.
Judges are J. C. Sherwood,
Elizabeth Kindly, Mrs. Frederick
Hunter, W. A. Williams, and C.
T. Duncan, undergraduate's gen
eral library division; Lloyd Sta
ples, Marlon Ross, W. 8. I-augh
lin, A. B. Stillman and Alburey
! Castell, undergraduate’s special
ized librury section.
Judges for the graduate divi
sion are Hoyt Trowbridge, Quirin
iis Breen, W. S. Baldinger, A. L,
I Soderwall and Pierce Jones, gen
eral library; Paul Dull. D. M.
j Dougherty, T. F. Mundle, Sidney
; Little and E. C. Kbbighausen, spe
cialized library.
junior 'lAJeehen cl
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