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OreeonDaHy lEMERALD They Call Them Honoraries So you've been tapped. The congratula tions are slowing down, your mother is gone, and there's no more "my child!” stuff, and you’ve started to think about that term paper that was due on Friday. So what? Unite a bit, that's what. Houoraries, they call them. That- means you’re a member of the elite of your class, they say. It means that sweater you wear next year will say things to people — it’s graphic proof of vour status as a "RMOC.” Rut you haven’t let these ideas give you the big head . . . not yet. After all, you know a little something about the way these things are run; you know what they say about the way you people are picked, at id you wonder just how much “honor" there is in honorary. But before you carrv this self-effacement too far. just think things over a minute. Somebody thought you had done something worthwhile or you wouldn’t have been out there in the first place, blushing and biting your lip. And whether other people thought you deserved the honor or not is not that important now; you've been selected. Right now, remember that honoraries aren’t all retroactive; you’ve got respon.-i bilities coming up. Sure, you're all ready for that; you realize what's expected of you. Or do you? Arc you ready for the test proctoring, the candy cane selling, the fund raising? llow eager do you think you'll he when you're supposed to ini'"- lunch to attend a meeting, when you've got to sell the I'ni versity to a visiting group of high school ers. when you’re emptying garbage cans after the all-campus picnic? Do you think these are the things that you. as the "honored,” should do? Mow far do you think this idea of “service” honorary should go? Do you think your selection means that you have any more pressure on you in making your grades? Well give you a word of advice: it doesn’t always seem like honor — more of ten it feels like drudgery. And the tempta tion is to skip out and leave the work for the peasants; after all, you've done your service for the school — that's how you got in the honorary in the first place. And sometimes — it's sad. but true — some of your BMOC colleagues will actually leave before the work is finished ... or not even show up in the first place. • So there you have it. You've been tapped; the question for you to a^k yourself now is, just how serious am I going to take this thing? A Real Meet We don’t know where to 'tart passing out the congratulations and thanks for Sat urday’s Pacific Coast Conference track meet. Congratulations should go to the champions and new record holders that came out of the meet. But so manv records fell and -o many winning performances were little short of amazing that we'd wind up writing reams and .'till not touch on everybody. Thanks — from everyone who wa< lucky enough to witness the big show — should go to the several athletes who, although not winning, ran their heart' out to make every race a close one. And a special vote of thanks should go to the men who made the meet one of the smoothest-running af fairs we’ve ever seen. Lacking the room to .'ingle out individual athletes, we can’t let this weekend pa.'S without mentioning Bill Bowerman. one of the greate-t track coaches in the country. His team’s second-place performance Sat urday (the highest they’ve been in PCC track standings since 1924) makes other Oregon sports activities look small by com parison. It was a track meet, from the viewpoint of partisan Oregon rooters and impartial OREGON DAILY EMERALD The Oregon Daily Emerald is published five days a week during the school year, except during examination and vacation periods, by the Student Publication Board of the University of Oregon. Entered as second class matter at the post office, Eu gene, Oregon. Subscription rates: $5 per school year, $2 per Opinions expressed on the editorial page are those of The Emerald and do not pretend to represent the opinion of the ASUO or the University. CHARLES MITCHELMORE, Editor GARY CAPPS, Business Manager JACK WILSON, Editorial Page Editor ALLEN JOHNSON, Managing Editor GLEN GRAY'ES, Advertising Manager CORNELIA FOGLE, WILLIAM COOK, Associate Editors PHIL HAGER, News Editor TOM CHAPMAN, JERRY RAMSEY, Sports Co-Editors JOANNE MILLIGAN, Ass’t Bus. Mgr. EDITORIAL BOARD: Charles Mitchelmore, Jack Wilson, Allen Johnson, Cornelia Fogle, William Cook, Phil Hager, Tom Chapman. Jerry Ramsey, Wayne Woodman. Make-up Editor: Wayne Woodman Ass’t Adv. Mgr. : Roger Smith Day Editors: Joan Kraus, Evelyn Olsen, Joan Dennis, Nancy Ferguson, Pat Treece. Office Manager: Charmion Ford Nat’l Adv. Mgr.: JoAnne Milligan Night Editors: Nancy Castle, Pepper Allen, Dave Lortie, Don Robinson. Executive Secretary: Pat Holley Picture Editor: Brant Ducey Chief Photographer: Nathan Bull Women’s Editor: Bev Chamberlain Circulation Manager: Sam Vahey track fans alike, that is not likely to he equaled for many years to come. What if... We've been racking our brains all w eek end. trying to come up with a plausible ex cuse for the abject failure of the traditional "Letter to the Cods" editorial. The most re liable witnesses swear up and down that there has never been rain during a Junior Week (end) which was preceded by the an nual plea to Jupiter Pluvius. And for a w hile there Friday we even had hopes that it was going to work this time, too. Hut it rained. Xo matter what the rain insurance people say about the matter, it just plain poured. Sunday it hailed. About the only thing we didn’t get from Mr. Plu vious was snow, and that, at least, would have been beneficial in covering up the Ca noe Fete debris. But it was a pretty good weekend, in spite of the underhanded trick that Jupe de cided to play on us. The floats were beauti ful. and the music, both Friday and Satur day nights, was thrilling. The turnout of mothers was excellent, and the tradition of Junior Week(end) was upheld in every way . Still, we can't help wondering . . . what if we'd run that editorial a day earlier . . . or not at all . . . Footnotes— We observe that the new dormitories going ii]) on 15th St. are only three stories high, compared with four in Earl and five in Carson. We’d suggest that the builders tack on a few more floors to allay the need for new dorms in the near future, but the sunbathing enthusiasts in Carson would probably object strenuously. Xo one can claim the frosh aren't inter ested in the traditions and culture of the campus. As one was cutting across the quad in front of the art museum the other day he was overheard asking an upper classman, “I’ve been here almost a year now so you can tell me; who’s buried in there ?” ‘And No Lingering Goodbyes’ I |wm non | * I U6TA HAVE SO MUCH TKOV0LE GETflNG THEM IN MCWSM6 HOURS ~~ WILL YOU TURN ON THE WATER, \\AE?$ famri Illarion' Ike Runs Our of Tranquilizers As Congress Eyes Budget WASHINGTON -r Demo crats and Republicans both look like they've been hit on the head with an ax that kept on going. They're both split down the middle. For more than four years President Kisen hower has acted towards Con gress as if he thought his role was u> oe a tranquilizer 10 Keep it soothed and relaxed. But it seems he's fresh out of pills. He's in trouble. And he looks puzzled. His Republicans are milling around, aching to cut his budget. The two most distinguished Democratic leaders — former President Truman and would-be President Adlal Stevenson — at a party get-together here over the weekend cautioned Demo crats against slashing into Kis enhower’s budget. But while they were blink ing their amber light, the party’s leader in the House, Speaker Rayburn of Texas, was talking of cutting the budget by billions. This was an echo of what Rayburn's opposite number and fellow Democrat Lyndon John son, the Democrats’ Senate leader, has already been saying. Southern Democrats, in an effort to kill civil rights legisla tion this year, have offered an amendment to the hill for a fed eral law to ban union shops. But the Democrats’ advisory council, a 24-man group of Democratic leaders including Truman and Stevenson, came out against an anti-union shop amendment. In short, there's no more unanimity in the Demo cratic party than there is among Republicans. Each party has members who consider themselves liberals — a mere handful — and a big batch that come under the con conservative labels And among the conservatives of both parties are those who take a stand far to the right of Truman, Stevenson and Eisen hower. Truman’s Idea of dealing with Congress was to licit thr oppo sition on the now. Ho was in constant fights with tin- law makers. Eisenhower tried trnnquiliz ing them. He seldom fought foi his programs and. by avoiding name-calling, he avoded being called names. Some of hia program* were massacred. But. by and large, in hia first four years, he didn’t do too badly on the total amount of legislation passed. But now he's in real trouble: his budget seems certain to !*• cut. It’s only the degree of the i ut which ts not yet clear. He says he needs the motley he asked for. But, faced with heavy slashes, he uppers uncer tain a hut to do. Kven a White House report that he might go on radio and television to appeal for public support was Indecisive. And well It might lie. Asking tile public for support Is a poor substitute for taking a vigor ous stand with Congress and his own Kepuhliean leaders. The two Republican lender in Congress Sen. ICnowland of California in the Senate and Rep. Martin of Massachusetts in the House have both publicly stated their desire for reduc tions in the budget. The place for Elsenhower to put on the heat was with those two men. But, after talking with him the other day, they seemed completely unmoved in their opposition. The budget U only out* of :i number of his programs which arc in jeopardy. It was predicted after Eisen hower’s election victory last No vember that he’d lose control of his Republicans in Congress. They kept fairly quiet in his first four years. That was when, because he could run again, he might carry the party back into control of Congress. But while he won, the party didn’t. And now, because of the con stitutional ban on more than two terms, he can't win again. So he has outlived his political usefulness to a lot of Repub licans.