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Now Is The Time
Rushing (the formal kiiul) is still a long
way away.
That’s one reason for bringing it up at this
time. The people who will run next tail’s
rushing are probably busy with end-of-the
term activities, but plans will have to be
made ,or at least agreed upon, at these last
meetings.
Repeated requests and suggestions for
improved rushing have remained unac
knowledged, but the matter deserves some
serious thought.
Few will deny that last fall’s rush week
was a mess. Enough time has also passed so
that the fallacy of early rushing helping the
small houses can be viewed in the proper
light.
First of all, students should have an oppor
tunity to get to know the campus better than
they possibly can in just one week before
they’re asked to make a decision which will
effect their next four years.
Secondly, it’s hard to get acquainted with
the completely new classroom environment
of college at the same time you’re trying to
get well enough acquainted with fraternties
to be able to make a decision.
\\ e don’t possess the splution—but we are
certain that rushing should be put off at least
until the second week of Fall term, probably
longer.
Any suggestion for a postponement of
rushing (even a very short one) is natur
ally unpopular, especially with the top
“big name” houses, but serious study
would probably show that the fraternity
system has as much to gain by later rush
ing as do the freshmen themselves.
The problem deserves some serious con
sideration—especially by II'C. And now is
the time to give the problem this considera
tion.
Fall term will be too late.
Story of ’55
"With the campus as a background, with
the faculty as a guide, students of the Uni
versity this year evolved a story of ’55 . ..
that story is herein eternalized,” says the
prologue of the new, white-covered Oregana.
We’ve gotten only a glimpse of the
gleaming new book, but that glimpse was
enough to convince us that our $6.25 was
well invested, better invested than Ore
gana purchase money has been in several
years.
Editor Hob Southwell and his crow have
turned out a t\ pe product. They’ve departed
from tradition in several places, and have
come up with some excellent physical im
provements, organizational improvements,
and the less tangible things that might come
under the heading of "spirit-type” stuff.
Physical improvements include the shin
ing white cover, thicker pages, the heavy di
vider pages (makes it easier to find your own
picture), and some outstanding art work.
Something we’ve always liked and will get
in this year’s Oregana is alphabetical ar
rangement of seniors’ pictures rather than
arrangement by schools and departments. All
honoraries are lumped together in one sec
tion—something which we believe i> an im
provement over the previous scattered ar
rangement.
The personalities section is large and in
clusive, and a good job has been done of or
ganizing student government activities into
a section called "Sstudent Administration.”
Something el>e new is the narrative, chron
ological style used—sports, for instance, are
included with the term during which they
occur.
The “Campus in Retrospect” section, is
something which will probably make even
the least sentimental amongst us pause to
reflect on his four years on the campus.
All in all. it's a good book, perhaps an out
standing book.
We're not trying to sell the book—that's
not our job, but we do say in all sincerity
that if you haven't ordered your book, you’d
do well to be one of the first in line to get one
of the 100-odd remaining Oreganas.
Whether you’re a sentimentalist or not,
it’s a big story—the Story of '55.
Footnotes
We hope the fellow who took all of those
pictures (he didn't work here) at the Thur
good Marshall assembly Tuesday got what
he wanted. lie certainly was busy (and dis
ruptive) enough.
* * *
We have it on good authority that the
steps.of Fenton hall are great for midnight
picnics, what with a water fountain sitting
right near by to provide mix.
INTERPRETING THE NEWS
Russia's Recent Actions Are
Just Maneuvering, Analyst Says
BY J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
■ A good many people are ask
ing why Russia is being so
tough in her relations with the
allies at Berlin while attempting
to spread so much sweetness
and light elsewhere.
After the experiences of the
last 10 years, few people are
willing to make categorical
estimates of why Russia does
anything the way she does.
Diplomats everywhere make it
a point not to center their
attention on any particular
angle, lest they be distracted
from others.
Secretary Dulles emphasized
in his report to the nation, after
his recent round of conferences
in Europe, that he wasn’t sure
about Russia immediate objec
tives.
Two factors, at least, seem
obvious in the Berlin situation.
One is that by getting her East
German puppet government into
a row with the West German
Republic ov«r the use and main
tenance of highways, she is seek
ing to establish the Eastern gov
ernment as a concrete entity, an
equal entity, in future discus
sions of the reunification of Ger
many.
The other is an attempt to
demonstrate to West Germany
that, while Russia seems to be
relaxing pressures in prepara
tion for Big Four negotiations,
everybody should remember
that she is still in a position
to cause a lot of trouble if she
wishes.
It’s a sort of warning that if
her blandishments are spurned
she is capable of revenge.
The Russians undoubtedly real
ize they are in an anomalous
position. They threatened loudly,
before plans for West German
rearmament were ratified, that
such action would foreclose the
hope of a negotiated settlement
of the German question.
Nevertheless negotiations look
ing toward a settlement continue
even though the hope of concrete
results is slim.
One curious thing is the quiet
that has descended over Molotov
after all the threatening noises
he made prior to the establish
ment of Western European Un
ion.
He did rarry the word to
Vienna that Russia was inter
ested in German neutralism,
something the Western diplo
mats already had guessed, hut
it was not the same Molotov
who a short time before had
been predicting World War III
it the allies persisted in West
German rearmament.
At one point he seems to have
gotten off the Khrushchev-Bul
ganin track by agreeing with
Dulles that the chiefs of state,
at their meeting, might as well
confine themselves to a relatively
brief general discussion of issues
upon which the foreign minis
ters might go to work.
The Kremlin now gives signs
of wanting a lengthier and there
fore more detailed discussion at
the top.
Regardless of Russia’s exact
motives at any given point in all
this discussion, signs appear
more and more clearly through
the fog that she is just maneuv
ering, rather than intending to
produce concrete peaceful re
sults.
College Capers
• • •
From Coast to Coast
By Elliot Carlton
ImriM Column**!
UNIVKR8ITY OK MINNESO
TA men were recently spurred
to attempt a panty raid, led tiy
the cry, "We need somethin); for
excitement around here." About
100 were in on the attempt.
One to an anonymous phone
call the Kirk were warned, and
Here prepared for the coming
onslaught. With the doors and
windows secured all the dis
appointed men could do was
to ask the girls to obligingly
throw their underwear to
them. However, the girls bail
different Ideas and, as u result,
the men were only thrown
water balloons which shattered
tin spirit of the mule opressors
us well us the raid.
If the Gopher men could see
the U. of O. males in action dur
ing Junior Weekend sometime,
they might pick up a few valu
able tips on the fine points of a
well executed panty raid.
• ♦ •
THE HARVARD LAMPOON,
student humor monthly, recently
voted "The Caine Mutiny" as the
“best argument against naval
ROTC," and decided "The Long
Long Trailer” was the greatest
waste of gas of the year.
They voted special "Rescues"
to Tony Curtis "whose mobile
grease locks have titillated
scores of bobby soxers," and to
Grace Kelly “who easily earns
the title Ironclad Virgin of 1954."
FOR YEARN MKN HAVE hcni
adding conveniences to business
to make work easier. The l»ih
centurtea' Industrial Revolution
In now being followed by n 20th
century convenience revolution
in sports, namely softball,
Tills movement took root at
the I'nlvrrslty If Hunsas when
the seniors there challengcii
the faculty to a softball name.
However, Instead of playing In
the customary fashion they
hoarded donkeys, und from
there It wan just a matter of
w I in I team had selected the
most cooperative mules.
The senior* won when Fran
cis, i> hot-tempered faculty mule
and also their star, wua dismiss, d
from the game for making an
"ass" out of himaelf. (Ohhh,
lucky this la my last column of
the yean.
• • •
A CONSERVATIVE MOVE,
ment Is sweeping Southern Meth
odist University. Although H<t
muda shorts are considered "de
cent wearing apparel" by *chi*>l
officials, the dean of women has
discouraged them as attire tor
dates.
Sir college puper quoted the
d.-an as saving that Herniudw
shorts are just another fad and
that If girts were not allowed
to come Into dormitory living
rooms In shorts, the rule should
also applv to men.
Too bad Oregon weather wiil
never permit the wearing 01 not
wealing of Bermuda aborts to tie
a real Issue here.
Walking Wounded
“You know
‘whort-sheeted’
how fast he jump*. Into lied—well, lunt nit lit we
him."
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