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EMERALD
The Oregon Daily Emerald is published daity five days a week during the school year
except examination and vacation periods, by the Student Publications Hoard of the Uraivrr
•aity of Oregon. Entered as second class matter at the post office, Eugene, Oregon. Sub
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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 arc written
by the editor; initialed editorials by the associate editors.
JOE GARDNER, Editor~ JEAN SANDTNE. Business Manager
DICK LEWIS, JACKIE WARDELL, Associate Editors
PAUL KEEFE, Managing Editor DONNA ftUNBERG, Advertising Manager
JERRY HARRELL, News EditorGORDONRICE.~Sport.s Editor
Chief Desk Editor: Sally Ryan -> Office Manager: Bill Mainwaring
Chief Makeup Editor: Sam Y'ahey Nat’l. Adv. Mgr.: Mary Salazar
Feature Editor: Dorothy Iler Circulation Mar.: Rick Havdcn
Ass’t. Managing Editor: Anne Ritchey Ass’t. Office Mgr.: Marge Harmon
Ass’t. News Editors: Mary Alice Allen, Layout Manager: Dick Koe
Anne Hill, Bob Robinson Classified Adv.: Helen R. Johnson
Ass’t. Sports Editor: Burr NelsonMorgue Editor: Kathleen Morrison
A Great Newspaperman
(The Emerald here reprints an editorial written last February
by Associate Editor Jackie Warden. We think it is a very fitting
comment for the formal opening of Eric W. Allen hall, the
University of Oregon’s new school of journalism building.)
We got into one of those bull sessions over a cup of coffee
the other day and during the conversation someone asked us
why we were in journalism. He wanted to know what we
thought we were getting out of our journalism courses, out of
our college courses in general and what we expected to do
with journalism.
Today people from throughout the state of Oregon who
are “doing something with journalism” are on campus.
They are here to pay tribute to one of the state's greatest
journalists, Eric W. Allen, first dean of the University's
school of journalism.
Eric W. Allen taught many of these men. His memory, his
ideas are still teaching journalists here.
He was a great newspaperman. Palmer Hoyt, publisher of
the Denver Post—an example of what can be done with
journalism by a graduate of Oregon—once called Allen a
“practical philosopher.”
Practical philosophy is a good description of this business
of journalism. Most newspapermen we know are philosophers
—they dream, they think, they imagine—but they’re practical.
You have to be in this business, because it is a business.
Somehow the ideals, the philosophy must be combined with
the cold, hard, business facts and the sometimes unpleasant
gathering of the news
It’s a newspaper’s job to report the facts, the truth—and
that’s often an unpleasant and difficult job. If you can't do
that job, you’d better get out, a newspaperman of many years
experience once warned us.
Eric Allen felt his students needed a broad education before
they tackled the job. He recognized the value -of having
“something to write about” as well as a technical knowledge
of journalism techniques.
At the time of his death a Eugene Register-Guard editorial
said “he displayed an insatiable curiosity about the world
we live in and this is what he transmitted to his neophytes
in journalism.”
What are we getting out of our college courses? We lyDpe
we’re learning “something to write about,” we hope we’re
learning how to tackle that job of transmitting the news. We
think it’s important. Eric AJlen thought so too.—(J.W.)
Still the Shack
After an eight year leave-of-absence, the Oregon Daily
Emerald has returned to the school of journalism. The large
modern office of the campus daily is now located on the third
floor of Allen hall.
It was in the fall of 1947 that the Emerald moved out of
the old journalism building, where it had occupied various
offices for nearly 25 years- The Emerald headquarters were
located in a quonset hut next to the journalism building and
across from the science building from that date until the
spring of 1953. During construction of Allen hall last year,
the paper moved into another quonset next to Deady hall.
And now we are back in the school of journalism, a part
of Allen hall, but separate (as in the past) from the j-school.
Every new house need to be lived in before it becomes
a home, and so it is with the Emerald’s new “house-” We
don’t expect it to look like a newspaper office for at least an
other few months. The office is too neat, too tidy (or anti
septic, as Bob Frazier of the Eugene Register-Guard said)
to look like the Emerald yet.
Biggest --problem in connection with the new office is a
name. Allen 301 just doesn’t sound like the Emerald to us.
The Shack—a term long-used to denote the entire journal
ism school, but more specifically applied to the Emerald
quonset hut in the past few years— hardly fits new Allen
hall or the Emerald office
It’s almost impossible to break a tradition though, and Em
erald Shack will probably be used in connection with our
office until even the origin of the term is forgotten.
So Shack it is and will continue to be. And if the school of
journalism wants to exert its prior claim to the term Shack,
we’ll be glad to share it with them.
Campus Briefs
0 .Canterbury Club will meet
Sunday evening at St. Mary's
Episcopal church, 13th and Pearl.
There will be a prayer service
followed by a supper at 6:30 p.m.
David Dougherty, head of the
University department of for
eign languages, will speak.
• The YMCA cabinet will
meet Saturday at 1:30 p.m. in
the YMCA office in the Student
Union, according to Dave Rob
erts, president.
0 Amphibians, women's swim
ming honorary, will hold tryouts
Monday at 8 p.m. in Gerlinger
Pool, according to Olivia Thar
aldson, president.
0 The skeleton committee of
the Student Union dance com
mittee will meet Monday at 4
p.m. in room 302 of the SU, ac
cording to Don Peck, committee
chairman.
0 A meeting will be held Mon
day at 7 p.m. in the Student
Union for all men who are in
terested in turning out for the
track team. Color movies of the
1952 Olympic games will be
shown.
0 Norma Larsguard. Patricia
Alexander, Paula C. Smith, Turza
Wilcox. Helen J. Talbot, Gail
West. Barbara Bryan, James H.
Silverthorn and Walker Leong
were confined to the informary
Thursday, according to hospital
records.
0 Petition* for Religion*
Evaluation week chairmen and
committee workers may be
turned In to the YMCA office In
(he Student Union, according to
Riihs Walker, executive secre
tary.
0 There will lie II tiife'llnf( of
nil the a Luff members of KWAX
riullo Hi at Ion, The meeting will
he thin Sunday at 4:00 p.m. in
atudlo "C." Jon Powell, student
station manager, urges all stuff
members to attend.
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Steaks
Sandwiches
Salad
Home Made Pies
For A Saturday Evening
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957 Pearl St.
Our Congratulations to Eric Allen Hall
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A CAMPUS-TO-CAREER CASE HISTORY
W. D. Garland, E.E. ’52, Univ. of
California, is working for the Pacific
Telephone Company, We thought
you’d be interested in what Don
told us about his first assignment.
(Reading time: 45 seconds)
Here Don Garland makes noise distribution measurements
with a Level Distribution Recorder
My job is to help solve problems
of noise and other interference on tele
phone lines due to power interference.
Inductive co-ordination is the technical
term for the work.
“First thing the Chief Engineer ex*
plained to me was that ‘all the answers
aren’t in the book.’ He was right. Most
of the problems have required a com
bination of electrical engineering, a
knowledge of costs and generous
amount of ingenuity. 7 like it that way.
It’s given me an immediate opportunity
to put into practice the theory I learned
at school.
In addition to this on-the-job ex*
perience, I have attended several spe
cial training eourses conducted by the
company. Now I’m breaking in a new
man, just like when I started.”
• • •
Don Garland's work is typical of muny
engineering assignments in the Bell
Telephone Companies. There are simi
lar opportunities for college graduates
with Bell Ielephone Laboratories,
Western Electric and Sandia Corpora
tion. If you’d like to get more details,
see your Placement Officer. He will be
glad to help you.
BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM
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