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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1959)
Inactivity needs revision, not activities, says Horn Kd Not**: Robert Horn, pro fotMor of Knglhth, ww award ed the Friar’** «cr**ll Haturday night an their choice for out standing professor. A* the key note speaker for this year’s AWH Honor's Assembly, he maintained that aetlvltles are valuable to the campus. Here nre some of his observations on aetlvltles, students and ath letles. By ROBERT D. HORN I am mildly bothered. Bothered by the recent depreciatory corn menu on "activities." Does this mean someone didn’t get a cup, pin, or certificate? I thought there were enough for everyone. At any rale I know where you can buy them for reasonable prices. But that doesn’t mean you can buy activity. Aren't publications activity? And dehatlng? And student body office-holding? Or even studying? It's inactivity that bothers me. I suppose we’ve got plenty of that. If you don’t want to do what the other fel low's doing- that’s activity in a bad sense. You can be Just as in active In not sharing the life of the University, even sports, as you can In not even trying to find out how to get Into the library. Inactivity is bad; just mental, moral, social, and physical nothin'. Mystic* wanted To be sure, some activities are more important and constructive than others, particularly my ac tivity*! Since I've never got the answer. I've always assumed that Mystie-selling isn’t on the Heifetz level. If I ruggest that I've un derstood that they are sold to celebrate Be-Unkind-to-Y our Stomach Week. I may be betray ing raw ignorance. I've never eaten (I'm assuming they are eaten) a Mystic. I want to live. To me they look like the orphaned apples from a railway station vending machine, em balmed in a mixture of linoleum paste ann crankcase oil. But atiil I don't see why selling them should not merit point#. After all, one of tne basic dividends of col legiate education is Instruction in the Art of Survival. Eaten or left alone, to come through Mystie Week alive means that the stu dent has made some progress. Fete valuable Then there’s the complaint that much of lilt work on Canoe Fete floats is oartly drudgery. Is any thing that's really worth doing not about 90 per cent drudgery? Where else do students (men and women together) produce any thing as breath-taking as that tremendous blue and white snell for Gold Beach? Who will ever forget that stupendous dinosaur, chewing on his fireball, and then going up in flamer of glory? Sure sports are an activity. I am worried here, having re cently seen a machine for serving tennis balls. When they get one to return ’em too, what a pipe course that will be. But I’m not worried about the value of what I saw Messers Otis, Grelle, Ed strom, Miller, and company doing !aat Saturday. Coach Bill Bower man does worry me. All he did wan ait and Watch, except for occasionally doing easy sums in arithmetic with a pencil. Still I must admit it is a real thrill to know that somehow his boys turn out to be among the best athletes in the world. Am I sup posed to be ashamed about that? Athletics re-pay I've had athletes in class, from Iron Mike Mikulak, now a gen eral in our armies in a position of enormous responsibility, to Bill Dellinger, and George Shaw, to Erika Schmoll (dance i. I haven't found out yet that they are the worse for it. And please tell me where there is any activity or non-activity that demands such personal cleanliness, sound health, such a clear head and eye, such a readiness to give yourself, as these so-called physical activities. Okay, you answer, you want more activities, more and more— and more, is that it? Certainly not. I don’t want more, nor less. I Just look at the activity, what it does to the activator, and what It contributes to your dandy little community. I haven't an atom of assurance that if we abolished sports, publications, stu dent government, or even queen contests, that there would be any more students studying. Needs evaluation Students nre young, aren't they? All except the tired-out, inactive types, the kind that look like candidates for the Used Car Lot. But then what about all those little frittering activities. Well I agree that probably some might be forgotten, or probably that more people should help; carry the load. Nevertheless that's the way it is in your own home town. A small percentage are in there pitching when you have to raise funds for the needy, put on ^ public event or do anything that everybody thinks ought to be done but that it would be nice to let anybody else do Emphasis placed on results I mentioned football. If I ever (Continued on page 8) STYLED HAIRCDTTINC EXPERT I PERMANENT WAVING : KENNEDY'S BEAUTY SALON 37 West 13th . DI 3-1722 THE TWO PAISANOS invite you to sample NEW PIZZA TONIGHT 8:00 -10:30 p.m. Possibly Entertainment Dl 3-9852 Pizza-to go 11th & Alder Campus Merry-go-Round By AKLKN'E SAUNDEKH Women’s News Editor Alpha Phi The engagement of Mimi Goldsmith, senior in English education, to Hill Miller was announced May 17, at the Alpha Phi house. The centerpiece was a blue, white and silver floral arrange ment around blue candles in silver candelabras. Miller, a 1958 graduate, is presently a DuPont advertising agent. The wedding is planned for July, I960. Alpha XI Delta 'l he names of Carol Hollister and Xeal Campbell were printed on napkins and matches, distributed as favors at the engagement announcement, May 16. Miss Hollister is a junior in business administration .and her fiance is a junior art major. The wedding date has been set for next spring. Delta Delta Delta Dottie Quinn, senior in business education, announced her engagement to Jerry Ramsey, Theta Chi senior in English, May 15, at an after-hours party. Pansy rings with the couple’s picture inside were given as favors. I’oth Mr-. Quinn and Mrs. Ramsey were present for the announcement. The couple is planning an August wedding. Gamma Phi Beta A candle decorated with pink rosebuds and bearing the SAE pin of Pete Givas was passed by Karlene Quinstad, May 4. Miss Quinstad is a junior in education. Givas is a junior architecture major. Kappa Kappa Gamma Eleanor Johnson, senior in business, announced her en gagement to Hob Dickson, Alpha Tau Omega senior eco nomics major, April 19. The theme, “April Showers,” was carried out in favors of pink and white parasols. Pink angel hair, cherry blossoms, and parasols filled with roses made up the center piece. The wedding date has been set for September 12, after which the couple will go to Lackland Air Force Base in San An tonio, Texas. Smith Hall A pink candle decorated with lilies of the valley and car nations was passed May 11, by Wanda Horodyski to an nounce her Aigagement to Pete McKee, a math major from Beaverton. He is graduating this year from Portland State. Miss Horodyski, a junior transfer from Portland State, is a retail major and wilt attend school in California where the couple will live after their September wedding. University House Susan Huh, senior in art education, has announced her en gagement to Young Coo Lee, a Tau Kappa Epsilon who is presently doing graduate work at Columbia in International law. A June wedding is planned. 4 AMERICAN AIRLINES Do you like to travel? If you are single, between 1954 and 26, there’s a splendid op portunity waiting for you. - Along with its current expan i sion, American Airlines needs many more attractive Steward esses. You must be 5’3 to 5’8 in height, 135 lbs. or less in pro portion to height with 20/50 eyesight or better without cor rective lenses. Those accepted have FREE TRAINING, ex cellent salaries, liberal expense accounts, and the privilege of free travel. I Even though you may not reach the minimum age re quirement, if you are interested in this as a career, please feel free to discuss this with us. INTERVIEWS IN EUGENE SAT. MAY 23, 1959 ' EUGENE HOTEL 9 A.M. to 3 P.M. No Phone Calls, Please More buxom blondes with shipwrecked sailors insist on Camels than any other cigarette today. It stands to reason: the best tobacco makes the best smoke. The Camel blend of costly to baccos has never been equalled for rich flavor and easygoing mildness. No wonder Camel is the No. % cigarette of all! leave the fads and fancy stuff to landlubbers... Have a real cigarette - have a CAMEL “How can I be sure you’ve got some Camels V* J R.J. Reynolds Tob. Co. Winston-Salem. N C.
