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Our Part
Two gleaming new crosswalks will go into
service on campus today. We hope they'll
get a lot of use by University students.
City Traffic Engineer Lee Kies made an
important point when he stated that "Col
lege students crossing Thirteenth have
been fair game for cars..in explaining
the purpose of the crosswalks.
Still more important, after they've raced
through the crosswalks into the lap of a wait
ing policeman a few times, those who use
East 13th as a speedway will probahlv begin
to slow down. The crosswalks for use during
class hours will probably be as great a >tep
forward in traffic safety as the red lights for
between classes were.
Both steps have been taken over the pro
tests of "irate citizens," who say "let the col
lege kids take their chances the same as any
body else." But the city hasn't seen it that
way—they've bent over backwards to help
makethe University’s streets safe.
Consideration by a city council of the
problem of a fellow who has ten minutes
to make it from Commonwealth to ROTC
or PE classes is a rare thing. We’re lucky
to be in a city which goes out of its way for
the college.
Let's show that we deserve this considera
tion by doing our part and making use of the
new crosswalks. They're there for our own
good.
Women's Manifesto
Women unite! Throw away your water
buckets and hoses! Throw off the shackles
of a halt-drowned afternoon. This may be
the day. If it is, you may live to rue it—if
you're not drowned on Carson 3.
This is the season for lettermen to run
amuck. Lettermen and all other supposedly
red-blooded men who live for the chance to
inspect the nether-nether regions of Carson
hall. But this year it may be different.
The good clean—and wet—fun this year
may result in appearance before a rather
critical body known as the disciplinary com
mittee. It seems that such good, wet fun has
gotten out of hand during the past few years,
with the resulting damages to persons and
property.
Last year the Order of O and the student
affairs office/cached an agreement: the tra
ditions violators were to present themselves
outside of the dormitory for escort to the
dunking grounds.
This year the lettermen are turning the
names of the violators hack to the living or
ganiations, with those groups to take charge
of the violators. I’erhap> this will clear the
situation.
We do hope so. for the administration is
looking to the students themselves to con
trol the situation. We should he able to ac
cept that respon>ibility—even if it is spring
term and almost Junior "Weekend.—(S.K.)
Something to See
If you haven't -eeii it. you should.
The Junior Weekend souvenir program,
printed on'slick paper, contains a listing of
all the events scheduled for the weekend, the
Canoe Fete and All-campus Sing programs
and several interesting stories on the week
end's history.
Xot only will the program serve as a handv
reference during the weekend, it will be a
worthwhile addition to anyone’s souvenirs.
The program, edited bV Sally Ryan, junior
in journalism, will be on -ale for the re
mainder of the week at the Student Union,
Co-op and the First National Hank, down
town. It will also l>e sold at all of the events
this weekend.
We're glad the Junior Weekend commit
tee and the Canoe Fete steering committee
decided to publish the book this year. It was
needed and this year’s program was a good
beginning.—(P.K.)
Footnotes
It's banquet season again, and if you’ve
really played the role of activity hound, you
can get three or four free meals, not to men
tion traditional picnics held by several cam
pus groups.
* * *
Signs of spring — the umbrellas are up at the
SU, people are sipping cokes on the rock - by
the river, and the sprinklers are sprinkling
people again.
* * *
We join the Junior Weekend committee and
others in keeping their fingers crossed about
the weather. It's been good for so long that
it seems impossible for it to last three more
days.
INTERPRETING THE NEWS
Issues Now Clearer Than in '45,
Analyst Says as Meeting Nears
BY J. M. ROBERTS
AP News Analyst
Doughty old Winston Churchill
has finally won his point about
a Big Four conference, now that
it is too late for him to go.
Eisenhower, Bulganin, Eden
and Faure are going to meet for
an informal discussion of world
problems—just what Churchill
suggested two years ago.
It seemed certain that Rus
sia would accept the three
power invitations extended
Tuesday. Only Monday night
Bulganin reiterated his desire
for such a meeting, and Khru
shchev, big wheel of the Soviet
regime, seemed to put his seal
of approval on it.
Richard Kasischke, Associated
Press correspondent in Moscow,
asked Khrushchev if it was a
fact that he was really the works
behind Bulganin, and got a
laughing kiss-off. But when ask
ed if the positions were such that
he himself might have to attend
a top-level conference, Khrush
chev replied:
“If Bulganin goes, I do not
have to go to look over his
shoulder.”
Since the Western powers had
telegraphed their punch over the
week end, permitting stories
about the prospective initiations
to get out in advance, it seems
obvious that both Bulganin and
Khrushchev were talking against
a background of fairly complete
knowledge, even though the Al
lied notes were not delivered un
til Tuesday.
This will be the first meet
ing of chiefs of state of the
two contesting blocs in ten
years.
At that time, Churchill and
then Attlee met with Tinman
and Stalin at Postdam to make
arrangements for control of post
war Europe.
Since that time the Reds have
grabbed China, Czechoslovakia,
North Korea, Tibet and North
ern Viet Nam. They have con
solidated their grip on Eastern
Europe. All the time they have
fought ‘their war for the minds
of men, have attained a meas
ure of affinity with India and
Indonesia.
The Allies have fought a war
to save South Korea, helped
Greece save herself, protected
Iran, Turkey. Formosa and West
Germany. America helped stave
off Internal Communist control
in France and Italy. Fourteen
nations formed the North At
lantic Treaty Organization which
has just admitted a newly-inde
pendent West Germany. The Un
ited States has entered into mu
tual defense arrangements with
46 nations around the globe.
Cold war has threatened to
turn into hot war on several
occasions besides in Korea. De
velopment of atomic weapons
has made the world jittery
lest it happen yet. The Allies,
naively disarmed after 1945,
now represent a terrific mili
tary force which they hope
will eventually force the Reds
to reconsider their self-impos
ed enmity for all the rest of
the world.
The world has changed great
ly «ince Potsdam, and the Al
lies, at least, now see the issues
with a great deal more clarity.
College Capers...
From Coast to Coast
By Elliot Carlton
Emerald Column**!
S E V E R A L COLLEGIATE
newspapers across the Uniter)
Slates are quarreling: over which
one of their "scandal sheets" is
the oldest. The Dartmouth stu
dent newspaper has Inscribed
on its nameplate that it is "The
Oldest College Newspaper In
America." having been establish
ed in 1839.
The the Miami Student re
torted sa> Ing their paper was
the oldest college “sheet." since
it was started In 1826. To
add to the confusion (rrtnnell
College in Iowa came out say
ing their paper was the oldest
west of the Mlssippl.
If these papers had in quality
what they have in senility they
might have something to quar
rel over.
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APATHY DEPT. Because only
13 petitions were received for
the 24 student body offices at
Stanford University. students
were nominated rather than se
lected by petition and 114 ended
up in the political races.
WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY
students, recently the victims of
a bomb scare, almost panicked
last week when they saw smoke
pouring from a classroom win
dow. according to the Willam
ette Collegian.
Not knowing what to expert
the maintenance department
rushed to the scene, threw open
I lie door, and discovered »
broken radiator valve. The bro
ken val\e not only let steam
out the window, but d«m«(rt|
the room an well.
The blackboard wa* so badly
damaged that claaaea were can
celled. Too bad Oregon hasn't
had any bomb scares.
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TUP: IDAHO ARGONAUT re
porta that Idaho Htndentn went
all out for campus cleanup day
lh»o ahowed up.
The result* of the cleanup were
so good that the affair la now
scheduled to become an annual
event.
However, after the cleanup a
picnic was held in which 4000
hot dogs were eaten and 100
gallons of lemonade consumed.
It was reported that the picnic
left the campus In worse condi
tion than it was before the
cleanup staited.
UNIVERSITY OF WASHING
TON officials have announced
that this year's spring spoils
i ally will piobabty be the last
because of lack of student sup
port. Kach year the Husky stu
dents supposedly gather to meet
the coaches and hold a car pa
rade.
But the only students who
ever appear are the members of
the rally squad.
Oregon hasn't yet reached
THAT point in apathy probably
because we don't have a spring
sports rally.
News Item
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“Looks like an interesting news item. Professor Snarf—would
you mind removing your shoe?”
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