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ft Quiet Term?
Winter term, they say, is the quiet term.
It's the term when there’s nothing to do. and
we can all settle dqjvn and study and bring
up those poor, sagging GPA’s. Besides, it's
winter and too cold and wet outside to party.
At least that's what we’ve been told.
But. we're afraid, this is just another of
those Oregon myths that sounds good hut
isn’t really true. Winter term is one of the
very busiest.
During the ten weeks of the term are
squeezed ten home basketball games, six
fishbowl mixers. Dads Weekend, the se
nior ball, the frosh snowball, the Lemon
Orange Squeeze, plus concerts, assemblies,
wrestling matches, swimming meets.
And if this doesn’t give you enough to do,
there are the regular Student Union Sunday
movies, educational movies on Wednesdays,
Friday evening coffee hours, browsing room
lectures and billiard tournaments.
All these things we see on the Calendar
of Events distributed by the SU. At the end
of the calendar is the cheerful news that we
should watch for additional events to be
scheduled during the year.
Then there’s the part of the myth that
says the weather is always bad during
winter term. We seem to remember at
least two or three weeks right in the mid
dle of every winter term since we’ve been
here that feel just like spring. Just as mid
terms arrive so does the sunshine and we’re
faced with picnic weather for a couple of
weeks.
So, if this is the quiet term with nothing
to do but study—then what are we going to
do spring term? That’s the busy term. We
wonder how anything could be more busy
than this winter term.—(J.W.)
Faithful Public Servant
News of the resignation December 13 of
Charles D. Byrne as chancellor of the State
System of Higher Education must have been
received with a*great deal of regret by many
in Oregon education circles.
Chancellor Byrne, whose resignation is
effective June 30, has served the state long
and faithfully. During his 26 years of asso
ciation with the system, Byrne has built up
a national reputation as an expert on co
ordinated state college systems.
Much of the success of the current setup
for state institutions of higher education
must be credited to Byrne, who has served
in capacities ranging from director of the
news bureau at Oregon State college to
chancellor, a position which he has held
since 1950. Byrne became director of infor
mation for the state system in 1932, and in
1933 he was made secretary to the state
board and assistant to the chancellor.
Although Byrne’s offices were located
here on campus, very few Oregon students
had the opportunity to meet him. His duties
were not of a type that would enable him to
have day to day contact with the young peo
ple who were receiving so many benefits
from his services. Yet, students could al
ways be assured that the chancellor, even
from his position of comparative anonymity,
was working hard to insure them of a good
education. It was indeed reassuring to know
that such a man could represent the institu
tions of higher education to the state.
4 A big job faces John R. Richards, vice
chancellor for the past year and a half, who
will succeed Byrne in July. Richards is as
suming directorship of the state system at a
crucial time of expanded enrollments, with
a pressing need for new classroom space and
additional facilities at all of Oregon’s higher
institutions.
Fortunately, Richards is well qualified
to take on such a responsibility. He has a
wide background in the educational field
and has already gained valuable experience
in the state system. The state board dis
played admirable foresight in choosing
Richards originally for the number two
position in the state system, so that his
choice as Byrne’s successor will mean an
easy and natural transition from one ad
ministration to the next.
The state system of higher education will
miss Charles D. Byrne. It can only be hoped
that his passing from the education scene
will mark the beginning of an equally long
and successful administration bv his succes
sor.
Number Fourteen
With the football season over and the
post season game ended for one of Oregon’s
greats in football, we can think of no greater
tribute that the University could pay to
George Shaw than retire his number.
Very seldom does Oregon have such
a versatile and talented athlete. With the
completion of his days in college football
in which he acquired national acclaim,
not only for himself, but for the Univer
sity, this honor would be fitting.
There is one problem, however.
Oregon’s athletic department has a
precedent or policy that only the numbers
of athletes who have participated in the
winning of a national title or have been
voted All-American will have their numbers
retired. (Oregon's 1939 basketball team was
not only the national champion but the
members of the team were voted All-Ameri
can ; their numbers are the only ones ever
retired at the University.)
The Etnerald called for the retiring of
football number 14 as early as ki>t Nov. 24.
At a meeting Dec. 3, the ASUO cabinet
endorsed the recommendation of Emerald
Editor Joe Gardner that the number be re
tired. The cabinet passed the recommenda
tion on to the ASUO senate for further ac
tion. The senate then appointed a committee
to study the recommendation at its final
meeting of fall term.
ASUO President Bob Summers wrote
a letter recently to the athletic depart
ment requesting information on retiring
Shaw’s number. The feeling of the ath
letic department»staff was that the prece
dent should not be broken since “it might
get out of hand.” Summers was so in
formed.
Should the precedent be broken or
should one of Oregon’s greatest athletes be
slighted because he didn’t get enough votes
to be called an All-American? The answer
is obvious. (P. K.)
Footnotes...
Maybe we’re just getting older, but those
registration lines M onda y seemed longer
than usual for midyear registration. Keep
thinking of how easy it was to sign up for
courses under the pre-registration setup
junked last year.
* * *
The squirrels on campus seein more active
and brazen than ever before. They must be
getting fat and saucy now that Waldo is
but a dim memory.
* * *
Well, freshmen, your first final week is a
thing of history. Was it as bad as you ex
pected? Or worse? The most fearful thing
about finals, you’ll find, is worrying about
them in advance. Those who went into their
exams “calm, cool and collected” shouldn’t
have found them as terrifying as we older
(and wiser?) upperclassmen had predicted.
* * *
The Co-op really scored with those new
book lists to speed up the lines at the book
counter. Students can now make out a list
of the books they wish to purchase in ad
vance, thus saving wear and tear on the
harried employees.
A DAY AT THE ZOO
The Ride to Eugene:
Pity the Poor Driver
By Bob Funk
Emerald Columnitl
When she emerged, radiantly
from the front door of 114K3A SK
Chattahootchce Gulch Place, she
was smiling; but when she no
ticed hia car, her mouth snapped
back into its customary position.
"That's an awfully small car,”
she said.
"But you said you’d only have
one suitcase. We'll have plenty
of room.” It
was a good
thin# she only
had one sirtt
case, he
thought: he
hadn’t r e a 1
ized she was
quite «o lar^e.
•Well, I like
to ride in bij;
wrmm cam. on ac
coiint of you don't get *> nick
going around curves and you feel
so much safer."
He pawed at the turf with his
foot. “Well, let's get loaded up,"
he said, with what he hoped had
passed for heartiness. She went
back into the house; for a minute
he heard some vague rumblings;
the house buckled slightly, and
then the door crashed open.
She was carrying the one
suitcase; in her other hand
she had a package of assorted
breakfast foods, a cage with a
small skunk in it; u combined
television and phonngruph eon
sole; seventeen garment hags,
three slightly soiled furinals, a
pair of beige pumps, three
sorority sisters in a duffel bag,
and a party hat.
"There'* some other little
thing* inside," she amlled nerv
ously. "I’ll Just hold these thing*
on my lap." lie knew she hail a
large lap, but It wasn't that
large. The "other little things"
proved to be an army cot, a .set
of the Encyclopedia Brltannica,
and a pile of assorted clothes
which reached to u point in the
front hall Just below the chande
lier. '
Fust, hi- tried loosening Ixsly
bolts, but there still wasn’t
enough room. Then he discarded
the spare tire, his tools, and
finally took his luggage back
home to be sent to Eugene by
railway expresa. The seating
order resulted in the following:
Front sent, from left to right:
door; driver (somewhat squnch
edi; large trunk; cage full of
skunk; sorority sister; two-suit
er; party hat; second sorority
sister (sort of sideways); assort
ed loose clothing; door.
Bark seat: door; she who had
procured the ride in the first
place and had come radiantly
smiling from the door of 114K39
Ohattahootrhee... etc.; soiled for
mal*; sorority sister (mixed with
garment bags, but still breath
ing t; breakfast food; and then
a large uncharted wasteland
holding everything else, horribly
mangled: door.
They started off, overloaded
but running; there was a hor
rible scraping sound where the
ear bounced on the highway.
”1 wish you wouldn't go around
comers so fast," a voice cried
(Continued on parts three)
Careful Course Selection
7T"\
“Flossy said she got so much out of your course, professor, I want
to enroll.”
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