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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
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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...