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Another Side?
The fate of the proposed “Creek Week”
for the Oregon campus will be in the hands
of Panhellenic when that grtgip meets to
night. The published report of the Inter-fra
ternity council Creek Week Committee
states that, “It is the opinion of IFC that
the approval of Panhellenic is necessary to
have a successful Creek Week.”
Wfe urge the members of Panhellenic to
consider the proposed weekend celebration
carefully before voting approval or disap
proval.
“Creek Week” could do much to bring the
Creeks of the campus closer together and
thus could work for a stronger fraternity
system at Oregon. If a sincere desire for a
closer-working Greek system really exists,
this proposal might be the beginning of a
new era of Greek strength on campus.
On the other hand, the addition of an
other activity weekend to the already
brimful spring term schedule would work
considerable hardship on some students.
The IFC report stated that, “This would,
contrary to the Emerald editorial, give the
Greeks a weekend of fun without the usual
work associated with all other campus week
ends.”
The proposed “little work, but a lot of fun”
weekend cannot be passed over that easily,
though.
Considerable work and planning would
have to be done on the part of the commit
tees for the picnic, street dance, athletic
contests and dance.
A deeper and more significant question
also arises. Is the fraternity system an ana
chronism in contemporary college life?
Critics, and there are many, of the fra
ternity system base their criticism on the
fact that the Greek system elevates the so
cial side of college life, frequently at the
expense of scholarship and educational ac
tivities.
They claim that the need for such a sys
tem does not now exist, ajid question the
idea that such a need ever did exist.
True or false, these criticisms exist. They
have a considerable following.
Wouldn’t a “Greek Week” be adding fuel
to these fires if it stressed only the “party”
aspect of Greek living?
The proposal in the IFC report that ad
mission be charged for the athletic contests
and proceeds be donated to “the March of
Dimes (which ended January 31) or some
similar charitable drive” hardly adds a sig
nificant “public service aspect" to the
weekend.
A “Greek Week" might he a fine thing, and
if there is nothing but the social side of fra
ternity life to be displayed, the proposed ac
tivity weekend should accomplish its pur
pose.
If, however, there is another side to the
picture, shouldn't it also be emphasized?
Gregory Likes l/s
A great day is dawning.
Oregon’s rally squad has finally worked
(or dressed) itself into the good graces of
L. H. Gregory, sporting editor of the Ore
gonian.
Gregory was so impressed by the appear
ance oi the yell leaders at the January 21
Oregon-OSC basketball game played here
that he devoted seven and a half inches of
his Sunday column to the matter.
“Gregg" was reminded of army regula
tions by the multi-colored trousers of the
yell kings. Army officers from major general
on up are permitted to design their own uni
forms. He was impressed bv the “not un
pleasing effect—uniformity through nonuni
formity."
We’ve never quite agreed with Gregory
that Oregon’s past yell squads have been
the worst in Creation, but we agree with
him when he says “.. . They now rate with
the best dressed in the northern division;
for that matter, anywhere.”
Footnotes
With the advent of house elections, we
are reminded of an incident involving offi
cers of one group last year. Remember Fox
Hollow road and be forewarned.
* * *
Glad to see that the members of one of
the more prominent sororities got away
with their annual blast in the house recent! v.
INTERPRETING THE NEWS
Warden Requests New
Prisoners Privileges
By Paul W .Harvey Jr.
Of the Associated Press
SALEM (AP)—State Prison
Warden Clarence T. Gladden,
who’s been on the job 22 months,
wants the Legislature to give his
convicts a few more privileges.
But at the same time, he wants
to crack down on prisoners who
seize hostages, actively take part
in riots, or who are guilty of
gross insubordination.
Ten bills have been introduced
in the Senate at his request.
Some opposition has developed
to the bills to make things tough
er for the unruly convicts. The
opponents say they are too se
vere.
The bills granting extra priv
ileges would:
1. Let prisoners go to funer
als of close relatives, or to
their bedsides when they are
seriously ill.
2. Permit reduction of sent
ences for good work done in
prison maintenance work. This
extra “good time” now is given
only for convict labor that is
performed in prison industry
or agriculture.
3. Allow prisoners to make
wills, give power of attorney,
and to acknowledge sale of
property.
4. Permit transfer of prison
ers to state hospitals for treat
ment. This now is done, hut
there’s some doubt that it’s en
tirely legal.
Another measure would permit
convicts to pick fruit and vege
tables on private farms, provided
the produce is for use of state
institutions.
Nobody opposes those bills, but
that isn’t true about two others.
They are:
Senate Bill 14 — It provides
that prisoners who take hostages
shall get additional sentences of
20 years or more. If a hostage
dies, all prisoners who take part
would be guilty of first degree
murder. No one convicted under
this bill would be able to get a
parole.
Senate Bill 17 — Already
passed by the Senate, it pro
vides extra 10-year sentences
for rioting, and five years for
group insubordination.
No one could be convicted un
der these two bills, except by a
jury trial, or by pleading guilty
before a circuit judge.
Gladden says he needs these
two bills to assure propeg control
of the few long-term convicts
who often cause trouble.
Citing the fact that there re
cently have been hostages seized
in prisons in Massachusetts, Ne
braska and Saskatchewan, Glad
den says:
“We need hostage legislation
so there will lie some deterrent
to the few, hardened long
termers who now have noth
ing to lose if they seize a guard
as a hostage. We also need a
law that would deter these
men from starting rebellions
and riots.”
He said that many states now
are adopting this kind of legisla
tion.
Gladden adds that while peo
ple can have sympathy for the
prisoners, they also should give
some sympathy to the families of
the guards who are taken as
hostages, or who have to quell
riots.
Four years ago, the 15 prison
ers in segregation cells at the
Oregon prison took five guards
as hostages. Armed with knives,
these dangerous long-term con
victs threatened to kill the
guards unless their demands
were met.
These demands included re
lease from segregation, better
food, and a lot of other things.
It took Virgil O’Malley, then
warden, three hours of fast talk
ing to get the guards released.
He had to yield to many of
their demands. Discipline among
those men wasn’t much good
after that.
A PAY AT THE IOO
The Tiger Rag Story;
Or, A Tale of a Tiger
By Bob Funk
Emerald Columnar
It’s been n long time since
■'Hold the Tiger” graduated from
being a college yell or whatever
It was, and became something
you could do the Charleston to
If you could do the Charleston.
But the Original Tiger is still
around, like Original Sin and
Sophie Tucker although he is
not singing "Some of These
Days." He Is singing, or rather
humming and oom-pahing, "Hold
the Tiger.”
This depart
m e n t inter
viewed the O
riginal Tiger
in his suite in
the Eugene
Hotel, where
he was paus
ing during a
tour arranged
by S. Hurok.
When we first
saw the Tiger,
ne was humming "Hold the Ti
ger" and doing an intricate four
foot Charleston.
“If you have four feet, you
don’t need a partner." he ex
plained. “Us tigers always have
trouble finding partners, any
way." We smiled understanding
ly and took some notes.
"I spend the summer season at
the Bronx Zoo, and the winter
season down at Fleischacher," he
explained. "In between times
Dorothy Kirsten and Marian An
derson and somebody who plays
Swiss bells and I do tours for
S. Hurok."
“We—" we started to say,
but the Tiger was going oom,
pah-pah-pah-, oom, pah-pah
pah, and really seruffing up
the rug something terrible.
"I can remember when it was
touch and go, go and touch." he
said, a sad look in his big orange
eyes, “there was that one winter
I kept losing my managers be
cause there was never anything
for dinner.
“But us tigers has always been
versatile in times of famine and
general blight. The next thing the
country knew, I was doing the
Tiger Fox-trot, the Tiger Big
Apple, and the Tiger Charleston,
and it was sweeping
“The nation," we said, and felt
quite smug about getting some
thing in after all.
“The nation," he said. “Now
of course, they’ve got the ’Ti
ger Kag,’ the Tiger samba,
rhumba, conga, mambo, and u
new thing I’m going to Intro
duce next week up in Seattle
called the Tiger hop, which Is
like the bunny hop only you
jump up higher and c o m e
down heavier.”
"How nice," we said. "Prob
ably—”
“Probably I'll make another
million on Tiger toy*. Tlget
*nuggle-8tuffien for Bmall chil
dren and Morurtty ictrlj*. und Tiger
brenkfnKt food.”
"Tiger breakfast food?" we
naked.
"Omni, pah-pah-pah, omin-puh
pab-pah oh, yea, Tiger breakfast
food. It does not anap crackle,
cough, or ki«a you good-morn
ing,” he said. "It aort of huddlea
in the bottom of a bowl like h
alug or aomethlng.”
We decided not to go Into that.
"What about your family," w>
said. "What
"I've never married,” be
nigbed. “1 wan once In love
with a very lovely girl, but ohc
ttimed out to Ite a lion, und my
family la very prejudiced.
"Not that I didn't have u very
GOOD family. Ua na are the name
tigers a» the tyger, tyger burn
ing bright tlgera that you've
probably read about. We changed
the apelling when we cum<- over
from the old country. And then
you've probably heard of tint
atory about how the tiger got
hot at ripe*, by Kipling.”
We hadn't, but we nodded any
way. "That waa about African
tigers, wasn't it. What is your
opinion about the situation in
South Africa?"
"Ua tigers haven't been inter
eated in politics lately, much.
Mostly the South African tigers
are living on reaerv” lions now
and appearing in motion pic
tures.'*
By this time wr had heard
almost enough about hla fam
ily, but after a brief pause
while He gulped for air he said
oom-pith-pah-puh again and
then "Vou probably remember
Jigger in \Vinnie-the-l*ooh,
that was one of my cousins,
very clever, always turning up
In hooka—”
"Little Black Sambo?" we
asked.
“Bah! Those weren’t real ti
gers at all. Us real tigers never
could possibly turn into butter,
there was a article writ about
It. FKOBABLY It was just a
bunch of lions w'lth their manes
cut off to LOOK like tigers, but
you’ll never know how long it s
taken our family to live that
down.”
We edged toward the door.
"Now you won't want to go be
fore I show you tins new tiger
hop I’m introducing in Seattle,"
he said. And then he began a very
odd type of oom-puh-pah-pah,
still recognizable as a relative of
the Tiger Bag, and jumped very
high up Into the air arid came
down very heavily.
“Ooom-pah-pah-pah, oom-pah
pah —”
Us Kmerald reporters snuck
out the door. But you know that
Tiger Hop? It is sort of catchy.
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