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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1959)
Tk* Or*f*» EMERALD After Women’s Week ftem: Women’s Week concludes today on campus. Not that the female segment of Oregon's citizenry will drop back into obscurity and/ or wither up for lack of attention after to day. Anybody who has observed or partici pated in the friendly interplay of sexes on 'campus knows that. Women’s Week or no Women’s Week, there’ll still be queen con tests, corsage-buying and dormitory-room discussions on the subject. But University men have been looking at University women since the Faculty Club was a modern bungalow. As part of a cam paign to stir UO coeds into looking at themselves, The F.merald sponsored a series of critical articles bv Women’s News Editor Pepper Allen, and it is hoped that these articles received a careful reading by Ore gon women. By suggesting that they look at them selves, we mean that Oregon coeds might profitably give the same critical scrutiny to the following matters as they give to items of dress as they stand before their mirrors. Like this: “Mirror, mirror, on the wall, what’s the matter, if at all?” • university women should continually examine and voice their feelings about the rules and enforcements of rules which ap ply to them, particularly those which fall under the heading of “dormitory regula tions.” • In view of their heavy participation in campus activities, Oregon’s coeds should take some serious and objective looks at the general direction, worth and scope of these activities, both those which apply only to women and those which entail “coed” participation. Such an evaluation has al ready begun in some women’s circles, and is a promising note. • University students who are'women should ask themselves and each other if thej' are satisfied with their role at ’Oregon —whether or not they should be a political force proportionate to their numbers; whether or not they should occupy more positions of all-campus leadership. The Em erald does not hope to play the role of a “suffragette,” championing the cause of down-trodden UO women, hut it does sug gest that these women should ask them selves “Am I satisfied with what I am at school ?” • Finally, women students should join their male counterparts in asking what is surely the mose important question of all: “Am I satisfied with the education I’m re ceiving at the University of Oregon?” As Women's Week finishes, then, these ought to he matters worth attention of the newly-elected women’s officers, and of the coeds who elected them. To the Snow I he spotlight on the Northwest ski scene will he focused on the 1959 Winter Carnival this Saturday at Timberline Lodge. Offi cially, the carnival will be opened at 10 a.in. by Branford Millar, president of Portland State College. Although some gloomy critics are draw ing parallels between the festivities and St. Valentine's Day Massacre, the Carnival is shaping up as a good show. The two-dav schedule calls for everything from tug o’wars, door prizes, entertainment, fun activities, a fashion show, to spme real old fashioned, garden-variety skiing. The schedule also favors a rapidly de veloping cult of ski buffs called “bar skiers,” or “social skiers,” by dyed-in-the-wool "slope dopes.” This non-skiing mutant has the best togs, but wouldn’t dream of ventur ing outside the lodge. If the sun is shining he might chance it to the sun-deck. Undoubtedly everyone will have a good time, in his own way, after all, we drove over 300 miles didn’t we? Seriously, more emphasis could be placed on skiing and pure ski team competition itself. If handled prop erly the Carnival could attract top skiers throughout the nation, similar to the Uni versity of Nevada, Denver and Dartmouth winter carnivals. Instead of fashion shows maybe we could have something like spirited, skilled com petition, with man against man and both against nature. Dke Co((e9e Sc tcene OSC Ponders Aggie Version of UO Song; ‘Crimson’ Writes a Friendly Letter to ‘Time’ The Harvard Crimson’s Al fred Friendly Jr. wrote a letter to Time magazine which ap peared on the Crimson editorial page recently. “I got your nice note today and wanted to thank you for it before I forgot. As you prob ably remember you suggested that now was the Tight TIME’ to save on the purchase of TIME, because ‘Never before in his tory has the news been so urgent and thought-compelling, so packed with surprise and ex citement as it is today... As you probably already know,’ you wrote me, ‘college students pre fer TIME to any other maga zine. ... I was able to use the (Time articles) at least a dozen times today. For instance, I was in a conversational circle today that was revolving around Bern stein (Estrella Bernstein, our cleaning woman) and I just OREGON DAILY EMERALD The Oregon Daily Emerald is published four times in September and five days a wek during the school year, except during examination and vacation periods, by the Student Publications Board of the Univer sity of Oregon. Entered as second class matter at the post office, Eugene, Ore gon. 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. JERRY RAMSEY, Editor BILL BRYANT, Business Manager casually dropped the fact that Cecil B. DeMille was dead. You remember—your latest issue devoted nearly three-quar ters of a page to his career as an ‘epic-maker.’ My, was I sur prised when Estrella told me he’d been dead since January 21—12 days. But I won out any way by dropping one of your writers’ bon mots to the effect that ‘The DeMillenium was over.’ .. later I was able to join in easily with an off-hand re mark about Governor Almond’s blowing ‘off his mask of cool legality’ and taking ‘to the air waves like a latter-day Faubus.’ Then one of my business-leader friends told me that Almond has acquiesced to the court orders and had persuaded the emer gency session of the Virginia legislature to go along with him in destroying massive resist ance. Well, of course, I knew better, because your lead ar ticle had quoted Almond: ‘I will not yield to that which I know is wrong,’ cried he. The other fellows wouldn’t believe me until 1 showed them the story, but it really shut them up.” * * * A colomnist in the OSC Ba rometer writes: “Although top administration figures at OSC have oft voiced disapproval of the habit of Ore gon State fans singing the northern version of Oregon's fight song at Oregon-OSC ath letic contests, nothing has ever been done to quell the off-color rendition. . "We noticed a comment on this problem in Dick McKin ney's Duck Tracks column in the last Oregon Emerald. Said the Emerald sports editor: ‘Speaking of off-color and bush league tactics, we know of nothing more bush league and off-color than the public spectacle of Aggie fans singing in unison the OSC version of Oregon’s alma mater, while Webfoot students and alums try to sing the correct version.’ "From the viewpoint of the visiting school, even in the case of the intense rivalry between Oregon and OSC, it is only right to expect the host school to treat the visitors as guests. “But is drowning out the visit ing school’s fight song with an off-color version of the same fight song, being courteous to one’s guests? "If nothing else, but in the furtherance of public relations for Oregon State as an institu tion, let’s curtail the off-color singing and treat our guests as guests should be treated.’’ Solemn Slalom (Bud Dun* Non-Activity Week Talked; Maybe this is (non-)Sense There are Junior Weeks. There are Mother’s Week-ends. There are Women's Weeks. There are all kinds of weeks. And there seems to be a ubiquitous philosophy dominat ing our present activity "rat race” that the University should supply all kinds of activities in order to satisfy the diverse wants and needs of our student body. Furthermore activities are periodically concentrated into weeks and week-ends of feverish doings; hence the reference above. Now it seems to me that a certain segment of the student body (and faculty) has been neglected in this diligent search for an all-pervasi\c activity pro gram—that substantial number of students and faculty who do not want any Interference of the planned extra-curricular in their college life of study and play. With the deepest admiration for this dwindling class of indi vidualism, I therefore propose that a "NON-activity Week” be placed on the University social calendar. Now there are some very ob vious “non-programs” that could be conducted in such a week that would take no time at all, and have positive benefits. For instance: the Student Union Pro gram director would get a needed vacation: in fact all of us "squirrels” could escape our third-floor cage and go in search for “nuts” in the cemetery with our counter-pahts. The ASUO Senate would cease Its roving; the Student Union Board would not have to worry about its r eputation which is pro foundly affected by the an nouncements in The Emerald about its numerous committee meetings—there simply would not be any such gatherings. Monday nights would be rid of the trying and earth-shaking problems that are classified as “Good of the Fraternity”; there would be a non-content for essa y - Ists writing on "What makes a Good House Non-Function”; The Games and Outdoor Activities committee will M>!in h no longer for those much sought-after in ner-tubes for daily juunts down the river. There would be a special gathering around the Pioneer Father for all non-committee members. Of course it is under stood that nobody will show up. There will be an unconducted tour through the various depart ments, who will, of course, hav nothing prepared for display. Oh yes, there will be a generous supply of "soma" for all those activity people who feel they have lost their "security blanket.” * e There will he a non-mystic sale, the proceeds of which will not go for scholarships; there will be an amcndiffent to the ASUO Constitution that will not require one-fourth of the student body to vote- it just won’t pass. Our world will be come ever so more provincial as The Emerald would cease to inform us of the world and campus affairs. Nobody would la* nominated for a queen contest; all llxlng organizations would schedule NON-desserts; and above all, these non-social activities would not have to bo registered an in tolerable week in advance at the Student Affairs Office. And the entire Week would Is* high lighted on Saturday night by not having a dance—we could all meet at Maxle’s or out at the “Ship.” The advantages of having such a week are so obvious that I won’t bother to list them. As a matter of fact, the more 1 think about it, the more I think that I will conduct a personal cam paign to establish such a Week As a starter let me tell you what I am NOT doing right now...
