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The Green Ones
By now you're pretty tired. Tired of as
semblies, tired of examinations, tired of the
bustle of starting out at Oregon. You're stifl
from the physical education tests, you’re
half drowned after failing your swimming
test. The past two days are a blur of new
faces, new regulations, new activities. This,
obviously, isn’t high school.
Yet you know that everything is all right.
Different than what you expected, perhaps,
but all right. Your counselors, your advisers,
everyone you meet is looking out for you.
It wasn’t too long ago that the senior you
think looks so smooth stood in the middle of
Friendly hall and asked where Friendly hall
was. Yott’ll do the same thing, but you'll
learn.
You’ll learn tire way-to Emerald hall, and
maybe even to the Side. You'll soon de
velop a need for a coffee break at 10 which
makes even the SU brand of java taste good.
You'll dodge sprinklers on the way to your
S o’clock and you'll listen to wistful tales of
the Millrace and the boathouse-that-was-to
be.
You’ve never heard of Maxie’s and aren’t
sure of just which fraternity is which out
side of Sigma Chi. There are so many Psi’s
and Pi's and Phi’s and things.
No one has told you yet about how to
register for classes: how to decipher the code
names for the pipe courses (which really
don’t exist any more anyway) and how to
pick the easy graders (who aren’t necessarily
what they are cracked up to be).
Yrou’re green. At the risk of sounding gung
ho, you’re Emerald green. You're the class
of 1959. Watch the senior smile when you
write that on your new Oregon notebook.
It was a long, and yet so short, a time ago
that they proudly wrote “Class of 1956” on
their books.
They know much of what is in store for
you. They know what a comedown it is from
being a senior wheel to being a lowly fresh
man. and they understand. The experiences
which you are looking forward to now are
memories to them. And in three years, you
will be taking their places. So rest up, have
fun and study hard this first term.
We’re glad that vou chose Oregon!
—(S.R.)
Exhausting Experience
Approximately 80 upperclassmen women
started a three-day rush period Friday morn
ing in an experiment never before tried at the
University of Oregon.
Upperclass women who attended Oregon
last year and transfers signed preference
cards Monday night and move into their re
spective houses Tuesday.
Freshmen women will then go through
the usual 5-day formal rushing beginning
next Friday.
This means two completely different rush
periods for sororities. On the suiface many
disadvantages are apparent. Sorority women
had to quit jobs and come back to campus
a-lmost two weeks before classes start. House
members must twice go through preparation
erf rushing, then the actual thing itself. This
can be an exhausting experience.
Upon closer examination, however, one big
advantage presents itself—the fact that up
perclass pledges can immediately move into
a house instead of living in dorms for a whole
•-term.
To full houses this may not make much
difference; but to other houses, four or five
extra people may make a major difference,
especially financially.
These new pledges can immediately be
utilized. They can help in rushing the fresh
men. They can take part in other fall activi
tics which pledges living outside the house
usually tniss.
Resides helping sororities with this added
membership, the women themselves will be
come integrated in the group. Sophomores
will not lose any actual time in sorority life;
juniors and seniors will have an extra term
in houses instead of waiting it out in the
dorms.
Some inconveniences may arise at first in
the flurry of rushing, but the lasting results
may well be worth the effort.—(A.II.)
Endurance Test
Students of college caliber are traditional
ly able to absorb a lot of information in a
short time. But it’s doubtful if even a class of
genuises could retain everything that is
thrown at freshmen during New Student
Week.
Take a look at the schedule. From the start
of the opening assembly Sunday night
through the last dance of the "Hello Dance"
the next Saturday, the freshmen go through
an endurance test of assemblies, meetings,
teas, picnics, and still more assemblies.
When this schedule is added to the strain
of moving in to new surroundings, getting
unpacked, taking placement tests, and getting
ready for classes, the freshman begins to
wonder if the Air Force survival schools
could be so rough after all. And then, when
it’s almost over, rush week starts.
If the purpose of all this is to teach the
new student as much as possible about Ore
gon in a short time, we’re going about it in
the wrong way.
The AWS officers had the right idea in
a plan to combine several of the assemblies
and other meetings, but the plan was never
carried out. For example, the opening as
sembly, held Sunday; Monday night’s stu
dent affairs assembly, and the Friday night
ASUO assembly were to have been combined
into one.
] his would necessitate the removal of
some of the skits and chaff that now go into
the assemblies, and which have very little
value.
Another idea would have combined the
two transfer student-meetings, scheduled for
Monday and today, thus giving those
students more time to get settled and to rest
from rushing and other events. This also
was not done.
Some progress was made this year. The
Dean's Tea, combined with a sort of AWS,
YWCA, and AW S open house for the women
Thursday afternoon, is an example of what
can be done to cut down the time-consuming
events.
So is the scheduling of the President’s re
ception, the Student Union open house, and
the YMCA open house at the same time
Thursday night in the SU. This will give the
new students a chance to meet the President
and inspect the other two while they’re there.
But unfortunately, these are the only two
examples that can be given.
Likewise, if the purpose of all this time
consuming activity is to keep the students
so busy, or so exhausted, that they won’t
have time to go out for a beer or two, we
doubt if it is serving its purpose.
In the first place, the number of students
who take time to go out and drink during the
first week isn’t very large. Secondly, the ones
who are seriously interested in drinking
aren’t bothered by the schedule. They are
skipping the assemblies—anyway.
So the only people who are bothered are
the conscientious students, trying to learn
something, who are herded from event to
event until they are too tired to concentrate
on anything.
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Placement Exam
"I think that th<- trouble with most of the freshmen ;s
that the high schools didn't teach them how to read.”
THE PRESIDENT SPEAKS
Old Scouts Blaze Trail
By Bud Hinkson
ASUO Pr.ud.nl
With a suitcase in hand and
money in pocket we arrived in
Eugene. We looked out across
Oregon’s shiny campus and for
a moment there was a feeling of
anticipation, but it was quickly
lost in the excitement, as we
hollered a booming •’hello’' to
our friends and a hurried ‘‘good
bye’’ to our parents. But soon
our rooms were selected; our
bags unpacked. With two or
three of our closest friends we
started out across the campus.
Everything's just like we left
it, but yet it’s all brand new.
Forgotten are last term’s
finals, the midnight seminars,
and nodoze pills. Forgotten are
: v ( • a i >
I we didn't do.
This is an
other year. I
pand right
*'now things
!couldn't be
brighter as
old scouts
prepare to
biaze an
other trail,
and young
lenat-rieei innocenuy
hike.
But all in all. It
great to he back.
Degin their
Is really
Although
there are »ome faces missing,
there are many more to take
their plaee*. And this is the
thing that makes It so great to
tw hark. At Oregon one nner
erases to meet new friends.
With raeh new friendship we
develop, our past e*periener
takes on more meaning and
our future artion, more pleas
ure. The result, when more
broadly applied. Is called
“campus spirit."
The various surroundings, like
an active social calendar or a
winning ball team, can increase
the tempo of thia spirit, but
basically, it depends upon friend
liness.
In the future the more we
get to know one another, the
greater this spirit will lie. And,
of course, the result will de
|>end on all of us working to
gether. Certainly for you fresh
men, there will be rules to fol
low. As tradition demunds, you
shall conduct yourselves as
freshmen. Yet, you should
never hesitate to enjoy col
lege. The more friends you
make now, the more your col
lege education will mean later.
I would like to start out by
getting to know each one 7>f
you. Drop by the ASUO office,
Student Union 304. We'll be
looking forward to meeting you.
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