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OnronDafy @EMERALD Voter Problem There’s a quantitive aspect to tin's whole amendment election today that seems to have been forgotten in the fuss about the qualitative nature of the proposal. This is the voter problem. In two of the past 'three elections on amendments to the ASUO Constitution, the result of the election has been declared in valid because not enough students cared to vote. In the third one student officials suc ceeded in attracting the necessary one-third of the student body to vote and to make the election valid. But luring the necessary number of voters took three days of elec tion and the polls officials violated a number of regulations in getting enough students to vote. That election result was also declared invalid. We did not approve of the three-day at tempts of election officers last spring in which the polls were literally carried to stu dent living organizations. And we don’t necessarily condone the “vote or don't eat” methods used in many living groups. Will ful abstention from voting is a democratic privilege as much as exercise oi the voting right. But we would urge all with opinions on either side of the issue to cast their votes today. The confusion-over election changes proposed in this amendment has gone too long without a definite yes or no settle ment. The amendment deserves either adop tion or rejection in a manner that is clear cut enough to settle it. This can only be done through on election turnout that will make the result a representative and defin ite yes or no. New Symptom The latest craze to sweep the collegiate world (or so a TV network release would have us believe) is Russian Roulette. Says the blurb, “Dedicated to playing a defanged version of the deadly game, the club has been spreading its gospel to other colleges —already it’s the craze of seven campuses." In case anyone doesn't remember, Rus sian Roulette is a pleasant little game in vented by the czarist playboys, who got a thrill out of putting a bullet into one of the six chambers of a revolver, spinning the cylinder, pointing the gun to their heads— and pulling the trigger. The modern version involves only a bulletless powder gun, but the basic idea of the “game" remains the same. Now a television network has jumped on the "RR" bandwagon, hoping to use it pick up some publicity for a forthcoming adven ture series. A contest is under way and new clubs are being formed as fast as the inter est can be promoted. This whole thing looks like another in dication that our generation may be some what mentally unbalanced. Esquire maga zine comments that these “sick" jokes (known as “Ivy League” jokes on this cam pus) which have been circulating this year are a sign of some kind of nation-wide psy chosis in the younger generation. We had doubted that theory until we heard about the Russian Roulette fad. But the fact that 3,000 students are charter members of a club dedicated to playing -ui cide is almost conclusive evidence. If you haven’t decided on a major yet. better give psychology a try. Look> as if we'll be needing you a few years hence. Footnotes Coincidence that the University Theatre and OSC Speecli Dept, both opened their fall seasons with “Teahouse of the August Moon"? Xope. just demonstrates what we thought all along: Asiatic flu oriented us. * * * Oregon marching band director' have in structed bandsmen to leave their cars at home and start walking to clas.se>. Wh\ ? M e hear you have to be in good condition to last three and a half hours in that Pasa dena parade. Top Students Successful in Life “Straight-A” students in col lege can look forward to marital and financial success in later life, if they follow the pattern set by 61 honor graduates of New York University. Ninety-five per cent of these alumni—all of whom graduated with summa cum laude honors between World Wars I and II— are married, and not one has been divorced or separated. Al most all have families. About half (46 per cent) of the honor graduates earn more than $15,000 a year. Twenty-one per cent earn more than $25,000, and two of the alumni have an nual incomes above $50,000. (Seventeen of the 61 graduates are women.) N. Y. University's “Alur?ini News” conducted the survey and reported the results in its No vember issue. Summa cum laude, a Latin phrase, means “with the high est praise.” Lesser honors awarded at NYU and other uni versities include magna cum laude, “with great praise," and cum laude, “with praise.” Among the 61 honor gradu ates are 14 physicians and 12 accountants. Seventeen teach in colleges, a number of them on a part-time basis. Others have occupations in the fields of banking, law, advertising, psy chology, writing, and business. One alumnus is the president of a railroad. OREGON DAILY EMERALD The Oregon Daily Emerald is published four times in September and five days a week during the school year, except during examination and vacation periods, by the Student Publications Board of the University of Oregon. Entered a3 second class matter at the post office, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates: $5 per year, $2 per term. 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 GRAVES, Advertising Manager CORNELIA FOGLE, WILLIAM COOK, Associate Editors PHIL HAGER, News Editor JERRY RAMSEY, Sports Editor JOANNE MILLIGAN. Ass’t Bus. Mgr. EDITORIAL BOARD : Charles Mitchelmore, Jack Wilson, Allen Johnson, Cornelia Fogle, William Cook, Phil Hager, Jerry Ramsey, Wayne Woodman. Make-up Editor: Wayne Woodman Ass’t Adv. Mgr.: Roger Smith Day Editors: Joan Kraus, Evelyn Olsen, Pepper Allen, Mike Forrester, Pat Treece. Night Editors: Dave Lortie, Marlene Perkins, A1 Reynolds, Barbara Stepper, Joanne Shore Urtice Manager: /\nce Mcis.in<irie Women’s Editor: Kathy Cook Circulation Manager: Roger Gaffey Classified Manager: Warren Rucker Natl Adv. Mgr.: Lharmion ford Executive Secretary: Pat Holley Chief Photographer: Nathan Bull Accounting Clerk: Erlene Whitehouse After receiving their under graduate degrees at NYU, 45 went on to at least one graduate or professional school. They at tended 24 different institutions, and 13 earned Ph.D. degrees. Politically, the group is equal ly divided among Republicans, Democrats, and independents. Their favorite hobbies are read ing, gardening, and musJc, in that order, and their favorite spectator sports are baseball and football. For exercise they prefer to swim, though golf and tennis are popular also. Thirty-four per cent of the graduates said that their out standing academic records were probably of some help in obtain ing jobs and promotions. Two alumni found their honors a burden; they said that prospec tive employers were frightened away. Twenty-five per cent of the group were employed full-time while at NYU, and 43 per cent held part-time jobs. A number expressed appreciation for a program that enabled them to work while attending college. Ranking high in what these alumni liked best about NYU was the educational experience itself. Others valued friendships made at college. Two enthusias tic alumni reported that they had met their wives at the Uni versity. Saturdays Surprise >f-/7 ''Now WE CAN 6:V£ TVEM A REAL TE9T MlSO pA0F— VfETEC PAV WA5 THf'S •ffAPUNe' FOR KiV,W.,\ fflOH ClMSttf 2w (2 A Fable for Collegians: Story of Carol s Conformity This is the Story of Carol the Conformer. the saga of a darling girl'.1! dilemma, or. How Carol Carrionated. Carol matriculated _ in the fall of 1957. As the col lege catalogue wasn't entirely clear as to what this process in volved, she de cided to lie pre pared for any contingency. In cluded In her luggage were two pound* of incense, four dragon's teeth, sixteen varieties of love potion, and The Mystical Arts of Vogu. Consequently, she was quite upset when her bored advisor told her that matriculation was merely an obstacle course, and not an oriental maturation rite. In her disappointment with col lege she fled to her cubicle, not even coming down for dinner. As you ran see, Carol was an unusual girl. But she was also sweet, innocent, naive, and eour teous. She thought that a blanket party was a modern form of the sewing bee, said “thank you*' when the house mother warned her against the evils of drink, and wiped her nose discreetly on dainty pink Kleenex. Carol's two faults were that she didn't like socializing, that is, Carol didn't carouse, and that she didn’t make friends easily. This isn’t to say that she didn’t go out. Being a model girl, her nights out weren’t re stricted. t She also went to the library twice a week and read 1m manual Kant and Arnold Toyn bee. She went to classes. She attended all the lectures and concerts. But she did all this alone, except when she took her favorite teddybear along. The problem was that Carol was a non-conformist. She said “Oh!” instead of “Your father's mustache.’’ She hated trite con versation but liked to talk about the subleties of existentialism. Her clothes consisted of com fortable skirts without buckles, study Oxford shoes, and socks long enough to keep her legs warm and her Kleenex in. She thought that t he SU was a bus terminal and the Side a con verted opium den. Football and rallies bored her—she liked much better to curl up with her favorite copy of Distinguished Koinan Poets of the Third < en tury. Her hair was long and combed. Dance committee* gave her a headache All in all, Carol wan a moat untypical college e. *» 1 After several weeks of school Carol realized that she wasn't getting an education. Something was missing. She wasn't exactly sure what It was, though. So, Carol applied herself, and watched, and listened, and took copious notes. Slowly, Carol began to change. She ran her hair through a cot ton gin to make it look natural. David Kills' book Drinks tor all Occasions replaced Amy Van derbilt on her desk. She bought three pairs of rock-and-roll Bad dies ami twenty-five yard» of skirt belting. She learned how to throb and pulxute to the golden strains of “Whole Lot of Shakin' Coin’ On." She went to class infre quently or not at all. employing her spare time to read Kinsey’« books and in practicing the arts of sophistication Library nights she spent one whole hour curling her eyelashes and two in select ing what clothes to wear, and then went to Maxie a instead. She learned the whole campus dialect in one day, and on the next called one of her friends a greaser. She learned how to lie su8K''stive, dumb, or sweetly attentive, as the occasion re quired. Carol conformed. Blit Carol wasn’t completely happy. Every now and then she had pangs of conscience. This forced her to take up smok ing and gossiping. Eventually, though, her eonsicence disap peared end Carol turned from a superb actress into a real col lege girl. She was no longer embar rassed when her real self emerg ed at awkward moments, she no longer had a real self. She be came Carol, Gamma Gamma Gamma, rather than Carol Sweethlng. She developed Just the right amount of acceptable eccentricities and found an out let for her suppressed desires in the norm of drunken be havior. As her crowning achievement, she developed a conforming psuedo-real-self, for use in those few intimate relationships she found to be necessary or useful.
