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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.