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Marcia Matinev
Election Firsts
Wednesday’s freshman and graduate election will mark
several “firsts” for student government at Oregon and as
such merits the close attention of everyone interested in cam
pus politics.
This is the first time graduate students have elected a rep
resentative of their own to the ASUO senate. This election
will show just how much interest graduates have in student
government.
It’s also the first time freshmen have used the divided
ballot. Candidates are running for either representative or
president this year. In the past the top four presidential can
didates were elected to the four officers.
But an even more significant “first,” we think, is the
new election procedure being used this year. The system
was originated by ASUO Vice President Hollis Ransom
and its purpose is “education.”
Ransom believes, and rightly so, that a large number of
Oregon students just don’t understand the preferential sys
tem of voting used here. The mechanics of voting, of vote
counting, of quotas and transfering of votes are all highly
confusing.
In order to understand just how a candidate gets elected
on this campus you almost have to participate in the election
as a booth captain, poll attendant or vote counter. We didn’t
understand how preferential voting really worked until last
year when we participated.
This is Ransom’s theory in the new system. He plans to have
two attendants and two poll watchers at each booth each
hour. This means 16 people every hour will be helping in the
election.
These people will be interested, they’ll talk about the elec
tion and more students will become interested. The poll cap
tains, attendants and watchers will attend an “instruction”
session at which the preferential system will be explained
in detail.
In this way each election will see more people understanding
the election system, and there’ll be more interest in student
government.
We can see, however, one possible flaw' in the plans. Will
enough people be interested and willing this-time to man the
booths? Personnel, especially this first time, is going to be
Ransom’s biggest problem. We hope he can overcome it, be
cause we think the idea is a good one.—(J.W.)
Dr. Jekyll and Prof. Snarf
<09*1
—The Looking-Glass—
Two Recent Movies
Win Critics Praise
By Len Calvert
Emerald Columnist
Two very fine pictures recent
ly completed their first runs nt
the downtown movie theaters.
They are ‘‘Rear Window" und
“Seven Brides for Seven Broth
ers."
Alfred Hitchcock, long recog
nized aw a master of suspense,
scores again with “Rear Win
dow.” I’tlllzing u one-set de
vice, similar to his “Rope,”
Hitchcock creates a compell
ing mystery without having
the camera ever leave one
room. All action outside the
room Is seen from Its win
dows, a very effective tech
nique, to my mind.
James Stewart turns in an
excellent performance as the
photographer with a broken leg
who amuses himself by watching
his neighbors through the "Rear
Window.” It is the events he sees
from this window^ which gives
the show its action and plot.
Grace Kelly is a beautiful, and
talented, addition to the picture
as his girl friend. And Thelma
Riter. long one of my favorites,
lends much needed comedy relief
to the tense drama.
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For those who like their en
tertainment on the lighter side,
"Seven Brides for Seven Broth
ers” qualifies as one of the more
refreshing musical comedies to
come out of Hollywood in the
last year or so.
Based on Stephen Vincent
Benet’s novel, "Sobbln’ Women,"
the plot hinges on the efforts of
seven brothers to find seven
wives in a very extraordinary
way!
The choreography in some
of the best I have seen since
“Ull” and “An American In
Paris.” The dance at the barn
ralslng scene is skillfully and
energetically done.
In color and Cinemascope,
“Seven Brides” features Jane
Powell (Oregon’s own> and How
ard Keel. Both turn in the best
performances of their careers,
in my opinion. The music, with
lyrics by Johnny Mercer, lends
itself to the fun, especially the
"Lonesome Polecat” number.
Even though they have com
pleted their downtown runs, stu
dents who missed these films will
get additional chances to see
them when they play in Spring
field and the Eugene neighbor
hood theaters.
11 11 M11S i
■annuli aianiam
Letters to the Editor
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UCLA Attitude
(Editor’* note: The writer of
the following letter, Martin
Meadow*, I* an Oregon grad
uate, who I* now a graduate
assistant In political science at
LOLA.)
Emerald Editor:
It will be no contest this
coming Saturday at the Loa
Angeles Coliseum—-the Ore
gon football team simply has
no chance against UCLA,
which is probably the best
collegiate squad in the coun
try.
That, bluntly, is the atti
tude here on the UCLA cam
pus. In fact, this feeling has
prevailed in regard to all the
games on the Bruin schedule,
following the victory over
Maryland and the Stanford
rout. Since then, UCLA oppo
nents have been regarded as
mere stepping-stones to the
top rating in the nation.
Take this headline in a Los
Angeles newspaper of October
30: “No. I Grid Rating Bruin
Aim Today.” This position was
to be attained by beating Cali
fornia by a larger score than
Oklahoma or Ohio State pre
viously had done. It will be
more of the same on Saturday,%
with the Bruins out to resume
their point-a-minute average
after being held to only 27
points by California.
Furthermore, many persons
will be attracted to the con
test not primarily by the pos
sibility of a good game but by
the prospect of witnessing the
“best pass defense in the coun
try” botle up the nation’s lead
ing ground-gainer.
However, as a transplanted
Webfoot now at UCLA, I can
say that I am confident the
Ducks will do at least as well
against the Bruins as did
Washington in losing by 21-20.
Martin Meadows
For Better Service
Emerald Editor:
The help at the S.U. Foun
tain welcomed the editorial
“Needed: Better Service” on
the 20th as helpful criticism.
However, we do not think that
you entirely presented our side
of the story. You mentioned
the night of the Bunion Derby
as having an insufficient
amount of help. Yes, there
was, but did you come in at 8
or 9? There were approximate
ly 15, at the most, persons in
the fishbowl. Do you think it
is profitable to have an abund
ance of help at this time, or
do you want to come in at 9:30
to 10 and work for two or three
hours? There is a certain
amount of money that must be
made to pay the wages and
many is the night when the
intake does not pay even the
wages.
The help wishes to make it
clear that the service will la
done more pleasantly in the
future. However, we do wish
that some of our customers
would be as pleasant as the
majority are.
The service is too slow you
say. Did you stop to realize
that most of us are new this
year and have had no experi
ence on a soda fountain at all ?
The help that worked here last
year and the year before re
turned to find a new arrange
ment this year as many old
students realize with the lower
counter. We have to get used
to conditions behind the coun
ter that are changed too. We
have to get used to working
together and this takes time
when you only work two or
three times a week, and we
cannot work more as we have
the same tests as the rest of
the kids in our classes. Please
stop long enough to realize
that we are only human and
that we make mistakes too.
We are not infallible. W'e do
appreciate our customers and
think that most of them are
very kind to put up with us
“jerks” behind the counter.
We would appreciate our
customers more if they would
do their part on the arrange
ment. Some may not realize
that they can help and we
have list**! some of the things
that would help speed up serv
ice.
1. Specify if you wish black
or white coffee.
2. Give your entire order to
one of us and don’t spread it to
two or three of us.
3. Order all of your order be
fore you pay for any of it.
4. Do not order for someone
else (after you have received
your order. This is not fair
to the rest of the customers.
5. Pay attention to where
you are in line and don’t talk
to someone behind you when
it is your turn to order.
6. Please wait your turn
and don’t order before it is
your turn.
7. Some customers complain
that their number has not been
called when it has been called
up to five times. Please listen
for your number.
8. Keep the front of the line
moved down.
9. Hand dollar bills flat and
not in the form of ships, birds,
College Capers..
From Coast to Coast
By Carol Craig
Emuuild Columnist
THK AOK OLD PROBLKM of
nen attending dipice* wcnn to
lave been solved by the male en
rollment of the University of
Idaho. According to the Idaho
Arganaut the problem would be
tolved If thla poem were true:
I wish I were a kangaroo
Deapitc hla funny stance*;
I’d have a place to put the Junk
My girl hand* me at dance*.
• • •*
STUDKNT BODY CARD8 are
valuable thing* at Oicgon, but
they aecm to be even more wo at
?an Jo»e State. The Spartan Daily
ileacribe* the antic* of one stu
dent in trying to retrieve a lost
student body card.
During campus elections, one
lovely coed mistakenly dropped
her student body card in the
ballot box. She then pulled a
piece of string out of her purse
and stuck a piece of used chew
ing gum on the end of it.
The climax was simple. She
then flshi-d for her ASH card
through the slit In the box.
After a few minutes the box
was Opened, and her card was
retrieved.
Result: one red faced woman.
MARRYING A FARMER? If
bo here'* the way to announce it.
At leaat thin la the way they do it
at WSC. Toy tractora were placed
on each of the dining table* of
the dormitory. The significance
evidently wa* that the lucky boy
in majoring in farm mechanic*.
The final touch wan the reading
of a poem by the houaemother.
Could it have been "Old McDonald
Had a Farm?"
• • •
A SAD STORY of disappoint
ment is told in the UCLA Daily
Bruin concerning passing fancies.
The Monumental Cross That
Must Be Bom
By Those Who Adhere Strongly
To Their Principles Regarding
What is Symbolized by Hellenic
Adornment
I saw her walking by me
The answer to my dreams.
Perfection she. incarnate
Her grace befitted queens.
Her every move wa* beauty
To meet her I did long;
The fairest of the fair she was,
The subject of all songs.
She seemed to me to be sublime
Radiant, she fairly beamed;
But as the learned poet warns
us.
Things are seldom what they
seem.
And since they are not,
I must try to forget her;
For, on a prominent spot
On her cashmere sweater,
A pledge pin.
Campus Calendar
Noon Soc Dept 110 SU
Future Tchrs 111 SU
Phi Beta Gib 112 SU
FSFF 113 SU
Coop Lunch 114 SU
Deseret Cl Com Lnch S1J
WKA Snpreh Gerl
RE Wk Exec 319 SU
12:30 Phi Theta Ups 315 SU
3:00 AWS Auction Aud 334 SU
4.00 IVCF 315 SU
6:30 IFC_ 111 SU
Alpine Cl 315 SU
Fool bail Rally Terrace SU
6:45 Chap Assoc Exec 318 STT
7:00 Scab & B1 215 SU
7:30 Delta Nu Alpha 112 SU
8:00 Episcopal Inq Op 319 SU
EUCMA Concert Mac Ct
etc. They take a while to un
c rumble.
We hope that there will be
better service in the future
and again thank you for bring
ing to our attention that we
are not doing our best. Every
one needs to be reminded now
and then.
Yours for better relations,
Sheldon Nelson