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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 13, 1956)
The Oregon Daily Emerald «• published five days a week dur ing the school year, except daring examinations and vacation periods, by the St mien t Publications Board of the University of Oregon. Entered as second class matter at the post office, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates: $5 per school year, $2 per term. Opinions expressed cm the editorial page are those of The Emerald and do not pretend to represent the opinion of the ASUQ or the University. Unsigned editorials are written by the editor; initialed editorials by members of the editorial board. BILL MA1N.WARING. Editor LORETTA MEYER. Businm Manager MARCIA MAUNEY, Editorial Page Editor CHUCK MITCHEI.MORE, Managing Editor KEN NIEHANS._Ad*. Mgr Freshmen, Elect Able Leaders Freshman will select the first officers of the Class of ’60 Wednesday when they vote upon candidates for class president and representative. . It is important that the frosh elect men and women of ability who can represent them well on the Senate. The class as a whole will in part be judged by the four leaders it selects. Freshman have been at Oregon long enough to know that problems arise which require ability to solve. The popular man about town who had a nice smile and won eight varsity letters and was therefore elect ed high school student body president may not be even slightly qualified to lead more than one thousand college men and women. Often those the freshmen elect prove to be the campus leaders three years lienee. This would suggest that the decision made may have a.bearing on the future, and that past frosh classes have done a pretty good job. Both the present ASUO President and Vice-president were elected to the Senate fall term of their freshman year. Th class election ha.' been delayed until the eighth week of the term so that frosh can become better acquainted with the can didates. If you’re a freshman you have only one more day to learn something about the men and women who de>ire to become your lead ers. Be sure you elect officers worthy of vour class, which has been praised by many as the finest in the University’s history. Fun, Wasn't It! We Heartily Agree The Ducks didn't win the game; the dance had its typically crowded atmos phere; and the “lipstick riot” did some dam age to the Student Union; but well go along with the theme of the weekend and heartily agree: “Fun, wasn't it." Three events stand out particularly when one surveys the scene in retrospect: The bonfire rally was the best that has been or ganized in four years. Of delight to many of the alumni who returned were the "roar ing 20's” costumes worn by the rally squad, and the short talk given by Bob Mautz, for mer UO All-American. The sign contest, which also honored for mer alumni, faculty or friends of the Uni versity was carried out well, with the qual ity of the signs showing much more work and thoughtfulness than in recent years. The Saturday morning luncheon similar ly was well organized and reecived by the alumni, w ho had an opportunity to sit down and talk over old times with their cronies from years past. Concerning the game, we think that stu dent spirit was at its high for the year. Un fortunately, one speedy WSC pass receiver got behind the Oregon secondary, and the University had to be content with a tie game. We enjoyed the Homecoming dance mu sic of Dick Dorr and hi> musicians; and commend them for realizing the crowded dance floor conditions and therefore play ing slower music. Some bands in the past have increased the tempo proportionately to the size of the crowd, thereby making the event seem even more crowded than it ac tually was. The parade was successful; that is, what there was of it. The quality of floats was good; but their quantity was limited. We regard this is an indication from the living organizations that both a sign contest and a float parade are too much for one weekend. For that reason, we recommend that the building of floats be confined to Junior Weekend, when the houses can go all out on the Canoe Fete. And we don’t want to overlook one other factor of the weekend which did much to make the alums feel welcome; and make the students feel like it was really fun. That was the weather. We don't know what kind of weather committee was appointed, or who its chairman was, but we do commend them on their fine work in keeping the skies, signs and campus dry. (S.V.) Punishment Just for Lipstick Rioters' Freshman women will not be “campused” for their lipstick wielding activities of last week, the dean of women has decided, but they must pay for the damage they caused. We commend this decision, for it is a very realistic way of handling a complex situation. The property damage was uncalled for, and for this one can criticize the women who were sucked into mob action. But the picture was not all black, for we feel this event did much to produce the high spirit everywhere evident during the Homecom ing Weekend. A general condemnation of the women’s actions would have been especially ill ad vised because the idea came from a member of the Rally Board. The whole event was “sold” inside the dormitories as an Oregon tradition by persons considered authorities in the rally-spirit field. Who can blame freshmen for immature judgment in such circumstances? Nor do wre condemn the source of the lip stick riot idea, for it was a well-intentioned plan to boost spirit for Homecoming, per haps the damage should have been foreseen, but one should remember that the Rally Hoard has been harrassed from all sides about the need to “do something” about Oregon spirit. Some of those most critical of the “riot” were very proud of" the spirit we showed the alumni Saturday. Granted that an account of the riot does not especially impress academic circles or many adults across the country. Hut stu dents at Harvard and Yale have staged much bigger and equally immature produc tions, with little loss of their Ivy League stature. The freshman women got out of hand, and should pay for all the damage they did to the football team's meal and clothing, the Student Union and two fraternities. The dean of women’s plan to collect from those involved should make them more responsi ble the next time. The punishment was sufficient and just. .. the Better Part of Valor Wii.ilii 111 « fil, \\**ll, IP it ain't our c<m<h!” Gullivers Trifles A Victory Is Not Always To the Winners of War By HEX KESF.Y Emerald Columnist Friday morning in the SU I overheard two buxom and be ribboned freshman girls singing the boastful Imi.ad ol their eioriouH and victorious revolt against the Or der «rf the O. They laughed smugly of the overb alanced conflict. It is to these girls and to the rest of the "Victorious’’ freshmen femi nines that I dedi cate this polg nant expose of the freshman revolt this time scene that art the stage for someone's mighty victory. SCENE: Sigma Nu House: TIME: Wednesday noon; Let termen's lunch. (The president taps his glass and the noisy consumption of spaghetti and meatballs calms for him to speak.) CHUCK: All right, you guys, quiet down enough to listen to Bob make his report. And you there. Jack, quit trying to spell your name on the table with spaghetti. BOB: (unraveling the spaghetti from his fingers and standing i Okay, guys, look. I know I told you the revolt would pull off last night but I was wrong. The girls over in Carson just won't fire up. JOHN: You mean that gutless bunch is going to back out on us? BOB: No, I don’t think so. I’ve got two or three more agi tators over there and they are going to talk it up tonight. They should revolt by to morrow. HAftRY: Snort! R. C.: Let’s get out there at noon and give 'em something to revolt about, (he is at the back of the room readying a new member for initiation— tieing the stricken boy’s hands with the unmatched Sigma Nu spaghetti). CHUCK: About what time do you figure it will come off ? BOB: They’ll probably reach a climax about six o’clock and come storming at the SU, five or six hundred of ’em. HARRY: Snort! Snort! WALT: Ya gotta watch 'em though; hint year they Jerked tny pants off. CHUCK: They haven't decided for sure yet though ? BOB: Not yet, but we ll get 'em fired up. I can guarantee at leant two hundred squirming, .squealing bodies to wrest 1" with tomorrow! (thin in met with an exhuberant snapping of spaghetti.) WALT: And don’t forget the hoson. Water makes thus* peddle-punhers mighty trans parent and pleasing to the o!‘ eyeball!" HARRY: Wheeze, snort, snort! ALL: On to the HU! Kill, kill, kill! (they nurge away in a frenzied pack, armed with lip stick and paddles; a strange army bent on starting n revo lution against Itself! And following it from the hall is a short, lumpy form dangling spaghetti. It chugs over the grass like a locomotive, snort ing violently). END OF ACT 1 From the Files Ten Yphik Ago Lauritz Melchoir, famous heroic tenor <>t the Metropolitan opera company, was scheduled to appear in McArthur court. The Whiskerlno music was to be provided by A1 Donahue'H band. Evidently they had good entertainment then, too. * * * Excitement wan (darting to brew over the expoae of a cam pus TNE organization, an out lawed secret Greek fraternity supposed to exist for the pur pose of engineering Greek poli tics. * + * Twenty-five Years Ago Visiting fathers to the Dads' Day weekend met and con demned Greek rushing and pledging and "hell week." Out of their meeting came a pro posal for deferred pledging. They demanded that IFC make an investigation of its possi bilities.
