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Manpower Shortage
What's happened to all the U of O he
men ?
A couple of weeks ago we pointed out that
-the Oregon Ski cluh was men-shv. Now it
comes t6 our attention that Oregon’s swim
ming team is suffering from the same mala
dy—lack of men.
\\ e shouldn’t like to think that Oregon
males are too busy fooling around with
dances, etc., to take part in the more virile
sports, but...
It hardly seems right that we—a school
of Webfoots—can’t even shake up the mak
ings of an adequate swimming team. Ad
mittedly our antique swim house isn’t a
Roman bath' (built in 1907, it’s nearly old
enough), but the water is just as wet, and
it seems like that’s what ought to count.
The past record of the Oregon swim team
is good. It has never placed lower than
third in the Northern Division and ranks
second, behind the University of Washing
ton colossus, in conference wins. Last Sat
urday the team received a most humiliating
defeat. It lost to OSC for the first time in
16 years.
The thing hurting the Oregon team is the
„lack of depth. In several races the team can
put up only one man instead of the usual
two.
The depth problem can be traced to small
frosh squads in the past two years. Present
ly there are six men on the freshman team,
and Coach John Borchardt says that’s a lot
for an Oregon team.
It’s here, at the freshman level, that the
Oregon team needs help. New men are wel
come and opportunities for future varsity
berths are wide open.
A deeper problem for the Oregon swim
team is its inability to attract top high
school swimmers. Of the la^t four Oregon
high school All-Americans, three have gone
to the University of Washington and one to
Oregon State. Possibly this problem will be
partially solved when Oregon gets its new
swimming pool.
Plans for a new 75 by 42 foot swimming
pool have been passed by the state board of
higher education and are now before the
legislature.. The pool, when authorized, will
be built on the northeast side of the Phys
ical Education building and will have a
seating capacity of 1100.
Oregon is host for this year’s Northern
Division conference meet March 4 and 5.
Five schools and more than hO swimmers
and divers will participate in the two-day
meet. Ths is an excellent opportunity for
anyone who's interested in seeing just
what the sport of swimming has to offer.
Spectators are also welcome at the Idaho
meet, Friday at 3:30 p.m., and the Washing
ton State meet, Saturday at 2 p.m.
Swimming is a good sport—it deserves
the support of the Oregon student body both
as participants and spectators. Trv it!
—r(D.L.)
Queenophobia
Toasts, Swamp Girls, Sweethearts, Moon
light Girls, Dream Girls! Where will it all
end ?
Campus life appears to he headed toward
becoming a maze of kings and queens of-var
ious descriptions.
With the revival of Pi Kappa Alpha's
Dream Girl contest, the addition of the
Toast of Alphaholics. and the reinstatement
on a departmental basis of the military ball,
the campus will soon have three more titled
women.
Since the Little Colonel, or queen of the
military ball, actually comes closer to falling
under the heading of an all-campus celebrity
than the sweetheart of an individual living
organization, this one can be ignored.
Nevertheless, the list of living organiza
tions choosing sweethearts has risen to a
total of five already this year.
An easy solution, despite the already heavy
activity schedule which faces University stu
dents, might be to have a queen weekend, in
which all persons previously ignored be
named queen of something.
We envision the day when the people who
have not been named king or queen of some
thing-or-other will be in the minority and
these victims of campus queenophobia rise
in revolt.
Footnotes
Just what were the rules for the Dad's
day signs? The winning signs, built by the
sign chairmen’s houses, didn’t quite comply
with the rules as we understood them.
* * *
Are they really going to put some new
light fixtures in Straub hall or are thev
piled in the hallway as decorations?
INTERPRETING THE NEWS
Lack of Red Interference Offers
No Clue to Effect of US. Policy
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press
News Analyst
The beginning of the Tachen
evacuation without Communist
interference offers no real clue
to the ultimate effect of the
toughened United States attitude
regarding Formosa.
At first glance it might appear
the 7th Fleet has the Reds stop
ped. That is not - a supportable
inference.
It would be very foolish for the
Reds, being handed the islands on
a platter, to risk starting a war
at the moment the United States
and the Nationalists are making
a move which all the neutrals
can see is designed to avoid
bloody contact. However warlike
Red intentions may be, this
would not be the moment.
Antiaircraft fire a g ai n s t
planes so close to their land po
sitions is merely something any
one would do.
It is far more likely that
clues to Red intentions will
come after the evacuation is
complete, and they have taken
over the Tachens.
Then they will have the op
portunity to embrace a de fac
to cease-fire or start military
operations somewhere else.
Intense diplomatic activity
among the anti-Cornmunist na
tions suggests strenuous efforts
will be made to get the situation
out of the military field and back
into that of political action by
the time the fleet’s demonstra
tion of its strength is completed.
The form such action will take
is expected to be clarified in the
next day or two.
Anthony Eden indicates Bri
tain is going ahead with her ef
fort to enlist Russia’s influence
against further Red military ac
tion.
Some new Ajnerican move in
the United Nations apparently is
in the making.
India’s Nehru is expected to
attempt an organized neutral
ist approach to Peiping as soon
as he gets home from the com
monwealth ministers meeting
in London, or even before. But
since he favors giving Formosa
to the Beds, he is not likely Jo
be accepted as a mediator by
the United States.
Some observers have interpret
ed the manner of Peiping’s re
fusal to attend Security Council
session as indicating a desire for
a Geneva-type conference, to
which the United States is op
posed. The United States already
has taken the position that she
has nothing to offer in a trade
except peace in place of the war
that will come if the Reds at
tack Formosa.
The only profit* then, from a
big power meeting could be a
cease-fire while negotiations
were under way. That did not
happen during either the Indo
china or Korean truce negotia
tions.
Instead, the Reds pressed their
military efforts during those pe
riods to back their political
claims.
College Capers...
From Coast to Coast
A UNIVERSITY OF WASH
ington coed turned around look
ing very homespun. She had re
fused the latent Paris fashions
much to the men's delight. The
Husky women ... rather the wo
men on the Husky campus have
given little response to a fashion
crusade exhibited on their cam
pus. That much notarized flat
look was met with no enthusiasm
not to mention the fact that the
girls are now letting their hair
grow out and viewing short hair
with disdain. Senility is now the
"rub" on the Washington campus
as "Grandmother shawls” have
replaced the bandanna.
TWO U. OF WASHINGTON
co-eds chortled with glee as
the goat lay motionless on the
ground. Satisfaction surged
through their veins as they whit
tled chunks off the goat's horn
for a souvenir. And they had
good reason to feel satisfied as
it isn't every day two coeds can
successfully rope a goat. The two
industrious young ladies (PE ma
jors) roped it while they were on
lookout at the 6200 foot level in
the Cascades.
THE U. OF WASHINGTON’S
cup runneth over with new*
items this week. It seems
post cards- for a small fee are
being supplied to freshman stu
dents with pictures on them of
the freshman living quarters.
This is being done primarily as
a means of publicity. It's refresh
ing to learn that there arc more
sumptuous freshman dormitories
on college campuses than Vet's
Dorm.
THERE WAS A BLAST AND
a woman screamed. When the
smoke clearod a scared woman
waa visible with holes burned tn
her dreaa. The reason was "01’
Smokey" the University of Texas
cannon, who fires salutes to
Longhorn touchdowns, had just
fired a salute to an untimely
Longhorn touchdown. It would
not have been an untimely touch
down had the cannon not been
pointed in the wrong direct Ion.
“Or Smokey" has now been si
lenced on the charge of trying
to annihilate spectators.
THE STRANGER WEARING
a mask dhd black robe pulled a
knife from his garment and
stormed into the Purdue student
senate and slammed an envelope
on the speaker's desk and then
left as ostentatiously as he had
come. This could be a hint to the
University of Washington and
Oregon reporters who are find
ing it difficult to attend meetings
of student groups.
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