Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, December 01, 1954, Page Two, Image 2

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    The Oregon Daily Emerald is published five days a week during the school year
except examination and vacatiou perils, by the. Student Publications Hoard of thr Univer
sity of Oregon. Entered as second class matter at the post office, Eugene, Oregon. Sub
scription rates: $5 per school year; $2 a term.
(opinions expressinl on the editorial pages are those of the writer and do not pretend to
represent the opinions of the ASUO or of the University. Unsigned editorials art written
by the editor; initiated editorials hv the associate editors.
)OE GARDNER. Editor _ JEAN SANDIN'E, Business Vanapt
DfCK LEWIS, JACKIE WAWDEl.I.. Associate Editors
PAUL k}• ! F I Managing EditorDONNA Rl NBERG^ Advertising Manager
JERRY HARRELL. New, Editor GORDON RICE. SitortTErtm*
Who Isn't Interested?
Campus living organizations have been visited during the
past two weeks by wandering minstrels from the ASUO
senate. Our elected representatives have been addressing us
on the subject of ASUO activities.
The speeches are part of a senate education program, planned
and promoted by ASUO President Hob Summers and by
Jerry Beall, campus public relations chairman. The idea is
a sound one. Its execution, unfortunately, has failed to live
up to its potentialities.
Announcement of the speech assignments, made by Sum
mers at a recent senate meeting, came as a surprise to most
senate members despite the fact he had told them earlier
in the term of his plan to make the senate known to students.
Immediate reaction among senators ranged from indiffer
ence to indignation. They were being asked to do more than
they had bargained for in seeking their places on the legis
lative body.
It takes a great deal of ingenuity and leadership to sit up
on the third floor of the Student Union one evening a week
and play campus wheel. It takes a lot of thought and study to
spend three hours discussing a subject and then consign it
to committee oblivion. But go out and meet your constituents?
Discuss your activities with the electorate? Why, it’s un
heard of.
Some of the speakers displayed this attitude in giving their
speeches. Practically no attempt was made on the part of the
speakers to present interesting talks. Some have demonstrat
ed so little concern for the program that they have yet to
fulfill speaking engagements which were supposed to have
been completed before the Thanksgiving holiday.
Preparation for the speeches was inadequate, in our opinion.
Senators should not have to be briefed on ASUO activities
(as they were) ; they could be told how to make an interesting
talk of the material they were to use (and they apparently
weren’t told).
Topic for discussion by the senators was limited to what
the senate does. Too little stress was placed on how the
ASUO affects student life at the University and how stu
dents can participate in the ASUO.
The education program, off to a rather slow start, will be
followed through next term with questionnaires sent to the
living organizations visited this term by senate members.
The senate should not be too disappointed if it finds the re
sults of the questionnaires disappointing.
We would like to see this education program continued.
There is a great need for expanded student interest in the
ASUO senate and its functions. All we ask is that the senators
show a little more interest themselves the next time they
ask for time to be heard.
False Alarm
amiuLHtu
“Hey, come back! It’s only Ed’s sister with his laundry.”
Campus Briefs
0 'limit1* Korer, I’nlverslty as
sistant professor of biology, will
speak on “Crater Lake ami Mt.
Rainier aa Seen by a Ranger
Naturalist" at a meeting of the
j Eugene Natural History society,
i The meeting will be held Dec. 4
at 8 p.m. in 207 Chapman. The
public is invited to attend.
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0 There will bo n meeting "I
all Religious Evaluation week
chairmen Thursday at noon and
[ Friday at 4 p.m., according to
Bob Hastings, general chairman.
0 Deadline for Religions
: Notes news is 5 p.m. today.
Items for the column should be
turned in to the Emerald office,
301 Allen.
—
0 Phi Betu, women’s speech
and music honorary, will hold a
tea Thursday at 4 p.m. in Ger
linger hall for all persona in
terested in music and speech.
There will be guest speakers,
, and refreshments will be served.
0 A Movie Commitee meeting
will be held this evening at 6:30
p.m. on the third floor of the
I SU, announced JoAnne Rogers, j
chairman of the committee.
0 Members of Alphu Phi Ome
| ga are to meet in the Student
[ Union tonight at 8, according
; to Travis Cavens, president of
the group.
0 Infirmary patients Tuesday,
according to hospital records
were: Mignon Schrader, Diane
Raoul-Duval, Margaret Berg
seng, Edith Jane Lunday, Ken
neth Gilmore, Donald Rehfuss
j and Ben Kahalakulu.
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SU Currents
"The Cabinet of Dr. Csllgari,"
a fantasy of terror, will he shown
free tonight in 138 Common
wealth at 7 and 9.
This movie is noted ns a fa
mous film because of its im
pressionistic sets and tale of
horror.
Concentrating on the portray
al of the world through a mad
man's eyes, it uses every device
of pattern, light and shade to
divorce its scenes from the nor-,
mal world.
Today's Staff
Makeup Editor: Anne Ritchey
News Desk: Bob Robinson.]
Mary Alice Allen, Anne Hill.
Copy Desk: Dotty Griffiths,
Sally Ryan.
Night Staff: Janet Kneeland.
Paid Adv«
The Student Union general
publicity committee will mot
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cording to Dick Gray, chairman.
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with
MaxQhuhm
(Author oI "Bartfoot Boy With Ckook," 4U.J
DECEMBER AND MAY: ACT I
Of all the creatures that inhabit the earth, none is so fair, so warm,
so toothsome, as a coed.
This is a simple fact, well-known to every campus male, and, to
most campus males, a source of rejoicing. But not to all. To some,
the creamy brows and twinkling limbs of coeds are a banc and a
burden. To whom? To professors, that's whom.
Professors, according to latest scientitic advice, are human. Stick
them and they bleed, pinch them and they hurt, ring n dinner bell
and they salivate, comfront them with a round young coed ami
their ears go back, even as yours and mine.
But, by and large, they contain themselves. After all, they are
men of high principle and decorum, and besides, the board of regents
has got stoolies all over. So, by and large, they contain themselves.
But not always. Every now and then a coed will come along who
is just too gorgeous to resist, and a professor — his clutch worn out
from yenrs of struggle - will slip and fall. White though his hair,
multitudinous though his degrees. Phi Beta Kappa though his key,
he is as lovesick, moonstruck, and impaled as any freshman.
But he’s far worse off than any freshman. After all, a freshman
can thump his leg, put on his linen duster, and take out after the
coed with mad abandon. But what can the poor smitten prof do?
How, in his position, can he go courting a young girl undergraduate?
In this column and the next one, ! am going to deal with this
difficult question. I will relate to you, in the form of a two act play,
an account of a professor's attempt to woo a coed.
The scene is a typical office in a typical liberal arts building on
a typical campus. In this shabby setting, we find two men. Professors
Twonkey and Phipps. They are lumpy and bent, in the manner of
English lit professors.
Phipps: Twonkey, a terrible thing has happened to me. A terrible,
ghastly thing! I’ve fallen in love with a coed.
Twonkey: Now, now, that’s not so terrible.
Phipps: Oh, but it is. Miss McFetridge—for that is her name—is
a student, a girl of nineteen. How would her parents feel if they
knew I was gawking at her and refusing my food and writing her
name on frosty windowpanes with my fingernail?
Twonkey: Come now, Phipps, no need to carry on so. You're not
the first teacher to cast warm eyes at a coed, you know.
Phipps: You mean it’s happened to you too?
Twonkey: But of course. Many times.
Phipps: What did you do about it?
Twonkey: Looked at their knees. It never fails, Phipps. No matter
now pretty a girl is, her knees are bound to be knobby and bony and
the least romantic of objects.
Phipps: Not Miss McFetridge’s-for that is her name. They are
sort and round and dimpled. Also pink.
Twonkey: Really? Well, I’ll tell you something, Phipps. If I
ever found a girl with pink knees, I’d marry her.
Phipps: It is my fondest wish, but how can I, a professor of fifty,
start a courtship with a girl of 19? J
Twonkey: Very simple. Ask her to come to your office for a
conference late tomorrow afternoon. When she arrives, be urbane, be
charming. Ask her to sit down. Give her u cigarette.
Phipps: A Philip Morris.
Twonkey: But of course.
Phipps: I just wanted to be sure you mentioned the name. They’re
paying for this column.
Twonkey: Give her a Philip Morris.
Phipps: That’s right.
SaTWsomoEfriIirnnliKhtuer(nPhll,P *1°™* a"d H*ht yourself.
f *£*htf.ul,y Wltfy thin^ about English lit. Be gay. Be
S rin?- " laughing for an hour or so. Then look at vour
Phipps: Yes, yes?
th(! way home, drive past that movie house that
TeH her v "V*' S£°P Car’ aS »«»«>» » audden impulse.
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Phipps: Yes, yes?
thJtTf£™if ftf th£ mov*e’ t0 hcr i" a Jocular, offhand way
ahfine fFrenchhd?nner VTV'T®’ th/ °,,ly lo*?ical thinK would be
a nne Prench dinner. Take her to a funnv little nlace vim know
PhUin MorHsU nt ^kettablacl°th«- 1% her with burgundy and
in aHbafre:iTW0Rnfeyi’ y0U’f a.fe.ni“s! This will be iike shooting fish
iSeapoorriiUlVinU„ice,rnder < “ ten 4 taki«« UIllair “^ntaje of
Twonkeiy: Nonsense, Phipps. All’s fair in love and war.
Phipps: You re right, by George. I’ll do it'
(So ends Act I. Next week, Act II)
(DMax Hhiilman, lttr»4
ThlS column 18 brought to you by the makers of PHILIP MORRIS
who think you would enjoy their ciyarette.