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by the editor; initiated editorials by the associate editors.
JOE GARDNER, Editor JEAN SAXD1XF.. Business Manager
PICK LEWIS, JACKIE WARDEI.l.. Associat.' Editors
PACE KEEFE. Managing EditorDONNA Rl'NHERO, Ailvrrtisinn Manager
JERRY HAKREI.L. News EditorGORDON’ RICE, Sports Editor
Needed: Better Service
That new self-service coffee bar in the Student Union is a
great idea; really speeds up service. It’s a shame it’s not used
more often.
Some people claim they’ve never seen it in operation. We
have. It was opened Tuesday morning at about 9:20—right
after the rush was over.
What’s wrong with the SU soda bar? Frankly, we don’t
know. But we do know we’ve heard more than the usual
number of complaints this year. Complaints on the service,
the coffee, the juke box and the personnel.
And we think a lot of these complaints are justified. We
can sympathize with the problems of restaurant operation, but
we begin to wonder if the SU set-up is as good as it could be.
We begin to wonder when the coffee tastes the way it did
last week-end. Perhaps students complain about SU coffee
because they just don’t like it very strong. But there’s a limit
beyond which even the most hardy advocates of “make it
good and black” won’t go. SU coffee has reached that stage.
We also begin to wonder when you wait 15 minutes for a
cup of coffee or 45 for a sandwich. We were in the SU the
night of the Bunion Derby—a night when a brisk business
could be expected. The soda bar was woefully under-staffed.
As for Sunday nights—it’s impossible to stop at the SU for
a quick sandwich. It’s faster to go several blocks away.
Of course, labor costs are a problem to the soda bar, which
should operate on a profit basis. But why couldn’t the people
you see clearing tables be put to work behind the counter
so that both sides could be opened and service be speeded
up. We’re sure Oregon students wouldn’t be terribly upset
at having to clear their own tables—after all, carrying a
coffee cup isn’t much of a strain.
The juke box—new this year—does sound rather "tinny,”
but this is not an earth-shaking matter. Sometimes the soda
bar personnel aren’t the most pleasant of people—but would
you be if you’d been working at top speed for a couple of
hours without much help? Besides that, they have to wait
on people like us who probably snap at them too.
All we ask for is faster service and coffee that doesn’t taste
as if it had been standing for a week. With that we could
probably stand listening to “Skokian” four times in one
hour.—(J.W.)
The Prosecution Rests
At the conclusion of men and women’s rushing two and
ar half weeks ago, the Emerald editorially expressed the opin
ion that a rush week held simultaneously with the first week
of classes was a mistake. A week ago Monday we reported
the results of a random sampling of student opinion which
indicated that many students agreed with us.
To date we have received no formal indication that there
is any disagreement with us on this issue. Are we to assume
that all agree fall term rushing held during the first week
of classes is a terrible mistake?
Such an assumption, we feel, would indeed be hasty. Ad
ministration officials and the student officers of the Panhel
lenic council and the Inter-fraternity council have given a
great deal of thought to this problem of fall term rushing.
They must have some of the answers to the questions we
posed in our editorial.
A rush week coinciding with the first week of classes makes
it impossible for hundreds of Greeks and rushees to pay any
attention to studies at the crucial “foundation” period for
the entire term. Is rushing considered so nonessential as to
throw it in with classes? Are studies so undervalued as to
think they take no time even during the first week?
Many freshmen, we feel, are forced to make lightning de
cisions in pledging houses they can know little about after
being on campus only one week. Is this fair to the rushee?
Is this fair to those houses who are not well known off cam
pus? Doesn’t this favor the so-called “big name” houses?
We suggested in our editorial that IFC and Panhellenic
consider a winter term rush period. What are the arguments
against winter term rushing? What are the arguments in
favor of an early fall term rushing period?
We admit we don’t know all the answers to these questions.
We would like to know them. The defense of a rushing sched
ule so criticized must come from those responsible for that
schedule. We await that defense.
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Letters...
• • • to the Editor |
Emerald Editor:
I’ve started this letter many
times but have’n’t been able to
finish it because the words would
not match the strong feeling be
hind them. I’ve written it subtly,
comically and stinging with sa
tire, but I’ve finally decided that
a factual list would be the best.
1. John Jensen is an enter
tainer. He has never claimed,
as have some of our nobler
students, unsullied Innocence.
He was picked as director I lo
calise he would turn out the
most entertaining show. He
quit because he did not In
tend to flatter the shammed,
tittering piety of a narrow
minded minority in Portland.
2. Most of the lines which have
been branded as vulgarities are
suggestive lines, and only a per
son with a knowledge of vul
garities would understand them.
Evil to him who evil thinks.
3. The entertainer should not
be criticized because he gives his
audience what they demand and
enjoy. You should not hang the
cook because the diners continu
ally crave Lobster-Chocolate
Casserole. This is what they
want. But if they ask for steak
and she brings them Lobster
Chocolate Casserole, the diners
themselves will fire her. No one
needs taste their food for them.
4. Editor Gardner is right
about one thing. The "acting I
blood” will overcome the per- 1
formers present anger; it will
also flow with the ebb of popu
lar opinion. If the public ma
jority does not like the actor's
performance, the actor, be
cause of this "acting blood”
will change it by himself. Does
this desire for freedom to
please seem “childish”?
' A suggestion for a solution
would be this: produce the show,
present it to the public in the
SU ballroom and let them, the
diversified, uncultured public,
choose what acta may be kept
and what acts may not. This Is a
means founded many years ago
called popular vote. Would you,
as the common audience, agree
to this plan?
Ken Kesey
Huxley Talk
Draws 2800
(Continued from page one)
great step forward by saying
that all men have an equal
chance for salvation,” Huxley
said.
Huxley, the author or co
author of 30 books, has written
in the fields of religion, poetry,
philosophy, and biology. He has
held several key posts in the
United Nations organization. El
don L. Johnson, dean of the
college of liberal arts and the
graduate schols, opened the
Charter day observance with in
troductory remarks on the gen
eral theme and on the history of
the University.
Raymond T. Ellickson, profes
sor of physics and associate dear,
of the graduate school, presided
over the meeting.
Petitioning Closes
For YW Karnival
Today is the deadline for pe
titions for the Kiddie Karnival
which is sponsored by the YWCA
for the children of Eugene on
November 5.
Committees open to petition
ers are: promotion (posters, fly
ing speeches, flyers) script, dec
orations, prizes, booths and
games, and entertainment.
Petitions may be picked up
and returned to the ASUO pe
tition box on the third floor of
the Student Union until 5 p.m.
today.
UO Parents to Hold
Joint Meeting Tonight
A joint meeting of the Oregon
Mother’s and Dad’s clubs will be
beld in Gerlinger hall tonight
at 7:30 p.m., Mrs. Paul Price,
president of the Mother’s club,
announced Tuesday. Parents of
freshmen are urged to attend.
Campus Calendar
10:00 Chafee Lect Dadsrm HU
Moon White Capa 110 SU
French Tbl 112 SU
1:00 Homeg Dance 313 SU
Oregana Staff 334 SU
SU Bd 337 SU
Sein Coffee Hr
Forum Dudsrm SU
»:30 Queen Wait 110 SU
Queen Selection 111 SU
r.OO Eta Mu Pi 112 SU
U of O Insurance
Soc 315 SU
Educ Movie 138 CW
r :15 Mens PK Dadsrm SU
r :30 Littman Lect 201 SU j
Noise Parade 313 SU
Mom & Dads .It.
Meet Gerl 2nd FI
3:00 YM Mbrshp 334 SU
£ According to the hospital
record board, one girl and two j
Boys; Donna Mae Paterson, i
Bruce T. Moriarty, and Lawrence
Beckius were confined to the j
infirmury Tuesday for medical
ittention.
KWAX to Broadcast
French Entertainment
"Comedle Francalse" is pre
sented by radio KWAX eVery
Sunday from 2 until 3:8t) p.m.
for French students and others
Interested In the language.
The program, which hroadcaata
French comedies and cnt<U'taln
ment, la from France via tape
recordings. It la presented by the
National AaHoclation of Kducu
tional Broadcasters.
rJLiih'nintf *3n
..On KWAX
Wednesday
8:00 Dinner Hour Serenade
7:00 News Till Now
7:15 Radio Nederland (music
from Holland.)
7:30 Campus Recital < tape I
8:30 Chicago Roundtable (tape)
0:00 K waxworks I popular mu
sic
11:00 Sign Off
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On Campus
(Author of "liarofoot Hoy W’ifA Cheek," etr.)
with
MaxQhuhnan
STUDYING MADE SIMPLE
I have passed my thirty-fifth birthday, and my dewlaps droop and
my transmission needs oil. More and more my eyes turn inward,
reminiscing, sifting the past, browsing lovingly among my souvenirs,
for at my time of life memories arc all a man has.
And most precious are the memories of college. It still makes my
pulses quicken and my old glands leap to life just to think of it.
Ah, I was somethiny then! "Swifty" my friends used to call me,
or “Kakehell” or “Candle-at-both-Ends” or “Devil Take the Hind
most.” My phone was ringing all the time. “Come on, Bevil-Tnke-the
Hindmost,” a cohort would say, “let's pile into the old convertible
and live up a storm. I know a place that serves all-bran after hours.”
So it went—night after mud night, kicks upon kicks, sport that
wrinkled care derides, laughter holding both his sides. “Come on,
“Candlo-at-Both-Ends,” my companions would plead, “sing us an
other two hundred verses of Sweet Vuilets."
“No, my companions,” I would reply with a gentle but firm smile,
“we^must turn homeward, for the cock has long since crowed.”
“ 'Twas not the cock,” they would answer, laughing merrily.
“ ’Twas Sam Leghorn doing his imitation of a chicken!”
And, sure enough, ’twas. Crazy, madcap Sam Leghorn, How I
miss his gaiety and wit! I never tired of hearing his imitation of
a chicken, nor he of giving it. I wonder what’s become of him. Last
I heard he was working us a weathervane in Tacoma.
Oh, we were a wild and jolly gang in those days. There was Sam
Leghorn with his poultry imitations. Then- was Mazda Watts who
always wore a lampshade on her head. There was Freddie Como
who stole a dean. There was Cap Quoeg who always carried two
steel marbles in his hand. There was Emily Hump who gilded her
house mother.
Yes, we were wild and jolly, and the wildest and joiliest was I .. .
But not right away. 1 blush to admit that in my freshman year I
was dull, stodgy, and normal. I finally corrected this loathesome
condition, but for a while it was touch and go. And, dear reader_
especially dear freshman reader—Ik* warned: it can happen to you.
The makers of Philip Morris have bought this space so I can
bring you a message each week. There is no more important message
I can give you than the following: College can be beautiful. Don’t
louse it up with studying.
That was my mistake. At first, cowed by college, I studied so much
that I turned into a dreary, blinking creature, subject to dry-mouth
and fainting fits. For a year this dismal condition prevailed hut
then I learned the real function of college. And what is that? I'll tell
you what: to prepare you to face the realities of the world. And
what do you need to face the realities of the world? I’ll tell you
what—poise, that’s what you need. And how do you get poise? I'll
tell you how: not by keeping your nose in a book, you may be sure!
Relax! Live! Enjoy! . . . That’s how you got poise. Of course you
have to study, but be poised about it. Don’t be like some clods
who spend every single night buried in a book. Not only are they not
learning poise; they are also eroding their eyeballs. The truly poised
student knows better than to make the whole semester hideous with
studying. He knows that the night before the exam is plenty of time
to study.
Yes, I’ve heard that lots of people have condemned cramming But
have you heard who these people are? They are the electric light and
power interests, that’s who! They want you to sit up late and study
every night so you’ll use more electricity and enrich their bulging
coffers. Don t be a sucker!
Clearly, cramming is the only sensible way to study. But beware!
Even cramming can be overdone. Take it easy. On the night before
your exam, eat a hearty dinner. Then get a date and go out and eat
another hearty dinner. Then go park someplace and light up a
Philip Morns. Enjoy the peaceful pleasure it offers. Don’t go
home until you’re good and relaxed.
Once at home, relax. Do not, however, fall asleep. This is too
relaxed. To insure wakefulness, choose a chair that is not too
comfortable. For example, take a chair with nails pointing up
through the seat—or a chair in which somebody is already sitting
Place several packs of Philip Morris within easy reach Hood
mild tobacco helps you to relax, and that’s what Philip Morris is—
good mild tobacco. But Philip Morris is more than just good mild
tobacco; it is also cigarette paper to keep the good mild tobacco from
spilling all over the piace.
Now you’ve got the uncomfortable chair and the Philip Morris
Now you need light. Use the lit end of your Philip Morris Do not
enrich the electric power interests.
Read your textbook in a slow, poised manner. Do not underline It
reduces the re-sale value of your book. Always keep your books' in
prime re-sale condition; you never know when you’ll need getawav
money. H y
As you read you will no doubt come across many things you don’t
understand. But don’t panic. Relax. Play some records Remove a
callus. Go out and catch some night crawlers.
. Relax' Be Poised. Stay loose. And remember—if things really close
in, you can always take up teaching. h y 0
©Mux Rhtilinan, 1934
This column is brought to you by the makers of PHILIP MORRIS
who think you would enjoy their cigarette.