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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.
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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.