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Rat Race Doesn ’t Score
What has happened to the administra
tion’s announced plan to examine registra
tion methods? Officials announced two
weeks ago that the setup was “getting a
thorough going over." Since then we have
heard nothing. And we think the students
are interested in a change, or at least that
is what a current Emerald poll indicates.
Perhaps the old method, when regis
tration was done before the end of the
term, was not the most convenient for
faculty advisers. It required them to be
in their offices sometimes. In addition, it
offered more time for counseling and
more time to complete the whole registra
tion process.
It has been criticized on the grounds that
some students need to learn their grades
before they can register for certain courses.
A logical solution would be to make class
reservations, then pick up the class at the
first of the next term. A second criticism has
been directed toward the poor class attend
ance on the day after vacations. Somehow
this doesn’t seem any worse to us than
starting, classes a day late. In addition, a
student who has already completed his
registration, particularly if he has paid his
fees, will think twice before he lets his
regstration lapse and enrolls at Portland
State. Thus enrollment might be affected.
We can’t help but agree with the stu
dents polled who felt that the current sys
tem of completing registration the first
day after vacation resembles a treadmill,
with frustration and confusion its distin
guishing characteristics. Chief causes of
the disgruntled rumblings seem to be the
length of the lines, which increase the
time necessary to register, and the lack of
sufficient advising.
Student affairs officials have suggested
the possibility of hiring extra personnel for
the registration staff to speed up the check
ng procedure. Perhaps, if enough checkers
could be hired, this would shorten tlie lines.
It does not help the decentralized campus
tour registration plan, whereby a student
must traverse the campus practically from
the Millrace to the Hilltop to get the proper
stamps—and then stand in line when he gets
there. And it does not solve the problem of
adequate counseling.
Perhaps a return to the old system of
registration is not the answer. Hut it cer
tainly scores more points than the current
rat race. — (S.R.)
Step in Right Direction
Oregon's campus leaders and executive
organizers—female type—will hold their
first meeting in over a year Thursday even
ing. Under consideration will he the pro
posed AWS constitution.
The group, known as the AWS executive
council, is composed of the presidents of
AWS, WRA. YWCA. Heads of Houses,
Mortar Board. Phi Beta, Kwama and the
members of the AWS cabinet. Prom such
a group one might expect some far-reach
ing decision regarding women’s affairs.
In the past, however, the group has met
only to approve the AWS slate of officers.
Starting Thursday, we see more possibilities
for action. Collectively they could work out
a schedule for the year, including all essen
tial projects and eliminating those which
duplicate efforts of another group. Each or
ganization could bring its particular prob
lems—such as Phi Theta’s busy work—to
the council for solution.
We hope their first action will he approval
of the new AWS constitution for submis
sion to voters in the women's elections at
the end of this month. The constitution
brings the old one up to date and provides
for re-establishment of the executive coun
cil. along with an activities board. Most of
the changes are minor, hut it's a step in the
right direction. We hope the council will
take steps in the same direction. — (S.K.)
INTERPRETING THE NEWS
History Repeats Itself in Far East;
Blood Defaces China Moon Again
By i. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
Fifty-six years ago the Eu
ropean powers and Japan seemed
to be on the verge of partition
ing China among themselves.
Japan had conquered China a
few years before taking For
mosa, the Pescadores, part of
Manchuria and a big cash pay
ment as a peace settlement.
Russia didn’t like to have the
Japanese in Manchuria and, by
threats, forced them off the
Liaotung peninsula. Russia had
France’s support, then.
China was disrupted. By 1899
the British, French, Germans
and Russians bad virtually
taken over the administration
of large areas under “lease
holds” obtained primarily by
coercion ■
Each tried to monopolize trade
in its sphere, and China as an
entity not only appeared to be
dporued, but the powers were
gradually approaching- a crisis
among themselves.
•Hie situation had become so
dangeeo«*a that; wfathe United
States stepped in with its “open
dpor” policy, aimed primarily.at
Russian occupation of Man
churia, she got support from the
other nations and all finally
agreed to stqp their trade mo
nopolies and permit China to
collect her - own customs} thus
preserving her as an adminis
trative • entity.
Formosa, which had been
taken over more than 200
years before by refugees from
a Chinese internal overturn,
remained with Japan until she
renounced ownership after
World War II.
By 1950 the United States,
having failed in its half-way
measures to prevent Communist
conquest of the Chines^ main
land, and having practically
washed its hands of Chi&ng Kai
Shek in a State Department
“white paper” descx-ibing the
impossibilities of the situation
which developed in 1948-49, said
it was through.
President Truman said there
would be no American effort to
defend Formosa.
Right then the Communists
made one of the great mistakes
it their lives. They could have
tgken Formosa. Instead, having
prepared a puppet army which
-hey thought would meet little
>pposition in an invasion of
3outh Korea, they went after the
peninsula instead of. the island.
South Korea- was the first
nation founded under the Unit
ed Nations. The invasion be
came the first test of- a new
system of collective security
the world was trying to work
out. The West reacted, and
Chinese intervention- fatted to
poll the communist fat out of
the fire.
But China did flex her muscles.
She began developing a truly
modern army with Russian aid.
Now she has worked herself up
to the point where she may dare
the might of the United States
in a new try for Formosa—and
the United States has changed
its mind about letting the is
land go.
The strategic lines are tighter
and more clearly discerned in
the Pacific than they were five
years ago. An effort Is under
way to save what's left of South
east Asia.
The Philippines are involved
in that effort, and memories of
the Japanese bombers and Jap
anese ships coming out of
nearby Formosa to attack
those islands are still very
fresh.
A few months ago the Reds
were perfectly willing to discuss
a cease-fire in Indochina, ' for
there they were the winners. To
day they are adamant in refus- ,
lng to discuss a cease-fire in the
Formosa area until they get a ;
surrender, and can again be the
winners.
That la the unvarying history ;
of all Western dealings with .
them, everywhere.
Old friends face one another
grimly and, as so often dpwn
through the centuries, there's ■
blood again on the China moon.
College Capers.
From Coast to Coast
By Sue Lamb
ElMTild CtltHIMWl
CRABS SCARE COEDS AT
UCLA. According to the UCLA
campus paper, young ladle* of
the campus were horrified by
the capers of some 100 live Santa
Monica Bay crabs that had been
planted in library reading rooms
and the Coop shortly before a
football victory celebration. The
crabs scuttled under tables and
chairs and among agitated coeds
before being captured. Coffee
drinkers evacuated the coop as
the crustaceans scampered across
the floor.
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UNIVERSITY OF WASHING
TON Sigma Chi's will honor their
1955 Sweetheart at a dance to
be held at Harrison Hot Springs,
British Columbia.
* • •
NOT LONG AGO. MRS. WEL
MA HILL, of the Non-Resident
Tuition Office, at the University
of Washington received a note
from a person she often has
talked with but never met. The
note said: "Dear Mrs. Hill:
Thank you for your help and ad
vice. Thank you also for a love
ly telephone voice. If you are
fat, thin. 16 or 60, I would like
to buy you lunch one day, and
will!”
The note was signed only
"J.W."
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EDITORIAL FROM THE SAN
JOSE STATE College Spartan
Daily: “Slosh, Slosh, Club, Ugh':
For a while we thought that
Pogo's Okeflnokee nwnmp wan
drying up because they‘d moved
all the mud and gnok to 8JS for
Spartans to walk through and
park their cars in. We still don't
know about that aide of the goo
ey issue, but we do know that
there are reason* for not bridg
ing some of the aluah ponda
here."
The reasons behind one major
note point, the hog wallow park
ing lots for students und paved
one for instructors, go something
like this, according to John T.
Arnos, superintendent of budd
ings und grounds.
1. Work on the lots could not
be completed because of incle
ment (fancy term for "lousy")
weather.
2. The ratio of purking spaces
to faculty Is not so great as the
ratio of apaces to students. (The
man says he has statistics ail
over the place to prove It),
3. And more statistics!
(Appears to us the California
weather isn't what we hear tell
it is!)
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NEW INDICTMENTS HAVE
BEEN brought against Alpha
Phi Omega and the sophomore
class at San Jose Stale, for vio
lations of the campus advertising
code set up by the Student Ac
tivities board. Subpoenas weie
issued last week but the court
ruled that they were not the
proper charge and therefore dis
missed the case, saying that It
would entertain a new indict
ment.
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