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Well, Maybe...
An important phase of the plans for the
establishment of a Greek Week on tlie Uni
versity of Oregon campus \vas deleted, ap
parently by accident or oversight, from the
initial report of the Inter-Fraternitv coun
cil’s Greek Week committee.
The point may appear minor to some, but
to us it is quite significant—for the point is
future plans of the campus Greeks for ob
servance.
The Emerald has on several occasions
urged a more serious apporach to Greek
Week than the approach outlined in the
committee report. That report completely
ignored the more serious side of fraternity
living; it completly ignored the service
function which fraternities can, and in
some cases do perform.
As a result of joint sessions with Panhel
lenic, IFC is revising the report. We hope
the plans for the future will be included, for
in those plans lies a meaningful Greek Week.
Pete Williams, IFC president, has pointed
out since the release of the report that this
first Greek Week is being planned merely to
show campus Greeks that it can be done and
to stimulate interest. Plans for serious study
and service to the University and community
will come in the future.
Viewed in this light, a Greek Week at the
University could be a desirable thing. It
could serve to strengthen the Greek system,
and thus indirectly be of aid to the entire
student body.
It would do much to dispel the unfavor
able impression of fraternities and sorori
ties held by many non-college persons.
(Notable examples of which are noxious
movies like “Take Care of My Little Girl”
of several years ago.)
We'll withhold judgment until the first
Greek Week has been staged and the com
mittee’s report turned in. complete with rec
ommendations for the future. As two or three
days of social revelry- we’re opposed to the
idea, not only for silliness per se, but also for
the off-campus ramifications.
As a constructive evaluation of the role of
fraternities and sororities in contemporary
college life, and as evidence that there is
more than a social side to Greek life, we wel
come a Greek Week.
We’ll wait and see.
Student Manifesto
The pre-final lament, “too many things to
do and not enough time to do them in,” be
comes popular at Oregon as we enter this
gloomy period when things that have been
put off all term can be put off no longer.
Every term we yak and moan about our
troubles, but nobody does anything except
give us that old line that we should have
kept up. Here at last is a simple, sensible
scheme to ease the stress ami strain. We
merely throw out our old style 24-hour days
in favor of a more practical 28-hour day.
Think of it! Four extra hours a day to
all the things you don’t have time’to do.
Why, you could goof off for the whole
regular 24-hour day and still have four
hours left to hit the books. Or you could
lead a serious, studious, academic life for
the regular 24 hours and then raise whoo
pie for the last four hours. The potential
combinations of play and work, work and
play- play and play are infinite.
Of course- the hours would only he 50
minutes long, but with a little thought, you
will agree that—if anything—this is for the
best. Less time to wait for people who are
an hour late. etc.
But the best thing is the classes—which
would then be only 40 minutes long. Some
will argue that this is still too long, but all
must admit it's an improvement. Who has
had a class that would not have been better if
chopped by 10 minutes? Ah. 28-hours days,
a veritable golden age.
Some of you astute mathematicians have
by now undoubtedly figured out that with
2tS hours at 50 minutes per, there would still
be 40 minutes left over each day. Exactly!
herein lies the real beauty of the plan.
How many of you get up in the morning
beat — utterly, absolutely, and entirely
beat? You suffer from that general college
malady—not enough sleep. Wouldn’t you
with just a few minutes of extra sleep each
morning be singing instead of growling,
smiling instead of scowling, a good guy
instead of an irritable rat?
The 28-hour day plan would devote this
extra 40 minutes solely to sleeping in. Think
of the utter ecstasy of hearing the alarm go
off knowing you have 40 minutes of sack
time remaining. Who knows, this may be
the answer to world peace as well as campus
harmony. Molotov might he an entirely dif
ferent guy with 40 minutes of extra sleep
under his belt each day.
Students of the campus unite! Throw
down your watches. You have nothing to
lose but the bags under your eyes.—(ILL.)
Footnotes
We can hardly agree with the selection of
one of the Emerald co-sports editors for the
worst officiating performance during the
past basketball season. We think a majority
of the students would select Lightner for
consistency.
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We saw our first “umbrella hat" the other
day. At least one inmate of Carson had the
nerve to wear it, but we’re glad that the
monstrosities apparently are not an accepted
campus fashion.
INTERPRETING THE NEWS
Private Atom Industry Marks
Six-Month Birthday This Week
By SAM DAWSON
Of the Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP)-1The baby
sister of the A-bomb—the pri
vate atomic industry—was 3ix
months did Monday.
She isn’t walking yet. But
she’s beginning to pull herself
erect at the table legs, and has
grown much more rapidly than
many expected when President
Eisenhower signed the Atomic
Energy Act Aug. 30, 1054.
Harnessing the atom to com
mercial use is well under way.
An atomic-powered plant to feed
electricity into commercial pow
er lines is abuilding on the banks
of the Ohio. Others are projected
in the Hudson valley, in New
England, California, Illinois,
Michigan and elsewhere.
Use of the byproducts of
nuclear fission in many indus
trial processes was widespread
even before Congress lowered
somewhat the bars to private
use of nuclear fission for pow
er.
Scientists have formed consult
ant agencies to steer corpora
tions wanting to get a head start
in the atomic race. Moneyed men
have formed groups to finance
atomic industry. A mutual fund
that specializes in stocks of com
panies in various atomic activi
ties has even been formed.
Corporations have announced
plans to build nuclear reactors in
Ohio, New York, Illinois, and
plan them elsewhere. Still others
are drawing up plans for atomic
research and development pro
jects for submission to the Atom
Energy Commission before the
deadline a month from .Monday,
None of this means that nu
clear fission is going to be a
big part of your life tomorrow,
or next year. It will be a long
time coming, but the start is
much snappier than the pessi
mists predicted.
Some corporations are work
ing with AEC on power plants at
least partly financed with public
funds. Under way is an 84-mil
lion-dollar nuclear-powered plant
which Duquesne Light Co. will
operate at Shippingport, Pa., on
the Ohio river. It may be making
electricity by the end of 1957.
College Capers...
From Coast to Coast
By Elliot Carlson
Emerald Columnist
WANT TO joint the hordes of
persons getting rich dinging up
gold and uranium? The Univer
sity of Washington Is now offer
ing a course in prospecting, with
particular attention being paid
to the mining (and finding) of
uranium and gold. The course was
started several years ago In the
public interest to stimulate an
interest in prospecting.
LOUISIANA STATE Universi
ty scientists are prepared to of
fer positive proof that sweet j>o
tatoes and yarns are not the
same. This startling result of
years of research has recently
been made public by LSU scien
tists.
The have concluded that the
mixup in names probably oc
curred when people of African
origin went to the West Indies,
where they Ireeamc familiar with
the yam and after sampling it
said "yarn, yam." meaning, we’re
told, “very good.”
ANOTHER UNIQUE course
offered by the University of
Washington, according to the
Washington Daily, is a fisheries
course which uses Puget Sound
as its lab.
Students take to boats to seek
out the spawning grounds of the
commercially valuable English
sole. For this they get credits.
Progressive education.
The DAILY TKXAN reports
that University of Texan student*
aren't happy about the plan of
University officials to raise tui
tion from $2ft to JfiO. Just goes
to show that there are some
things that even tidelands oil
can't pay for.
UCLA AND STANFORD now
have rugby teams, both of which
are undefeated (the story didn’t
say whether or not the teams had
played any games yet). The
game, similar In many ways to
soccer, is a major sport in many
European and Middle Eastern
countries.
AN UNHAPPY pigeon has
been named an honorary air
plane by ROTC students at San
Jose State, according to the
Spartan Daily. The unhappy bird
wandered into un AKROTC class
and was promptly seized, paint
ed, stamped with proper insignia,
and released.
There are more details, but
they begin to sound as If the per
petrators of the deed were snow
ing the poor reporter.
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