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Crossing Danger Have you tried walking across 13th street lately? In the area between the Student Union and Friendly Hall? IF YOU DID CROSS you were lucky. You were lucky because you did not get hit by some blind driver. The Eugene Register Guard ran an artic le recently deploring the fact that pedestrian crossing is becoming as dangerous as step ping into a manhole. \Ye think the Guard hit upon a prime example of lack of consid eration among today’s drivers. Pedestrians do have the right to cross at intersections — especially those which have yellow markers. Drivers who fail to recog nize this right are breaking the law. TOO MANY OF US seem to forget the weight and danger of our cars and have little regard for the fellow walking his way to classes. The problem has existed for a long time at the University and some attention should be given it. As the Guard satirically said, . . halt your car short of the next pedestrian you see warily attempting to enter a crosswalk where traffic is not controlled by signal lights. More than likely, you'll have to make repeated hand motions to reassure him that you mean to stay stopped while he crosses. And even when he accepts his right-of-way he'll probably shrug as if to signify that he thinks you’re addled.” We are not going to suggest stronger police enforcement. The only solution that can work is better thinking and driving habits among both pedestrians and drivers. When walking on the campus don’t dare the drivers. When driving on campus be gallant — let those pedestrians cross. Ron JUt An Orientation in Two Hours; or How to Win at College Without Eating Much (Editor’s Note: Ron Abell wrote this article a year ago. For those who are contemplat ing leaving already, this story will undoubtedly solve your problem. Things haven’t changed so much after all.) I was over at the fraternity house the other night eating some liver and listening to the guys talk about the new school year. “This year is going to be great,” Skip said. “Proms and dances and bridge games—” “And classes,” Rip said. “I mean good classes you’re really interested in, with great in structors that make you want to study, and beautiful girls sit ting all around you, and coffee dates and the whole campus green and verdant-like vibrating to the healthy tune of healthy, active, intelligent young peo ple.” “Say,” I said, “this liver doesn’t taste very good. Every time I try to swallow it I start to choke.” “PUT SOME OIL on it,” Flip said. “Maybe it’ll go down eas ier.” “And how about parties?” Kip said. “Remember the par ties we had last year? We’d all get dr~k and we’d put on the hi-fi and old Pip would play his bongos—” “What happened to old Pip?” Flip asked. "I haven’t seen him this year yet.” “He’s in Africa,” Skip said. “He took a trip to Kenya this summer and one night while he was playing his bongos he was kidnapped by natives who thought he was sending mes sages in shorthand.” “THE OIL just makes this liver taste worse,” I said. "I don't think I can eat it.” "Keep trying,” Flip said. “It’s good for you.” “And how about weekends?” Chip said. "Great skiing trips and trips to Portland ancP-like that. Remember that weekend last year when Tip and all of us went to that tav-n in Port land?” ’ “Whatever happened to Tip?” Flip asked. “I haven’t seen him this year yet.” “No one knows,” Skip said. “The last we heard he was in Roseburg one morning yelling ‘Fire.’ ’’ "You know,” I said, “I don’t think this liver was even cooked.” “Anyway,” they said, “it’s going to be a great year.” “Yeah,” they all said. “IT’S TOO BAD about Tip, though,” Hip said. “I was going to room with him this year.” “If you’re looking for an apartment,” Flip said, “I know of a place close to the campus. It’s only $45 a month.” "What’s it like?” Hip said. "Well, there’s one big room, furnished, but you have to be careful at night because the guy who parks his car in it doesn’t want it to get scratched. It’s a garage, actually.” "That's too expensive,” Hip said. "Last year I only paid $35 for my garage apartment.” "I KNOW ANOTHER place for $35,” Flip said. "It’s got three rooms—bath, closet and hall—but it’s only partly fur nished. The bathroom doesn't have a toilet.” “I never like liver,” I said, "even when I was a kid.” "Here’s a place in the paper,” Flip said. "It says ‘beautiful new house, 16 rooms, complete ly furnished, automatic dish washer, color TV, bar and patio. Students only may rent lot next door to pitch tent. $100. No drinkers, smokers or minority groups.” "Boy,” Hip said, “the housing around here seems to get worse every year.” "You can say that again,” Skip said. "And how about the parking problem ? Isn’t it a mess?” “YEAH,” FLIP SAID, “but the worst thing is the schedule of classes. Have you seen it? I have to take all 8 o’clocks this term.” “Me too,” Hip said, “and I’ve got a lab on Saturday after noons.” “I’ve got five required courses I have to take,” Skip said. “They are really going to be a drag.” “My classes are going to be ' miserable, too,” Flip said. “I almost wish it was still sum mer.” (Continued on page 3) Letters to the Editor Emerald Editor: I hope that the internecine strife between our quarrelsome Falk Fellows in political sci ence is not an omen of revolu tion in that most frantically nonpartisan department. Just imagine tumbrels and a guillo tine in “Commonwealth Square” instead of the frilly, wanting so to-be-liked smiles of the vestals of sorority row. My, but would n’t the hoary heads roll! THE IGNOMINY of it all — when two compatriots in sub liminal politics fling the gaunt let, what is our society coming to? Are not potential scholars insulated from the moribund an tics of partisan politics? Why, I wager that one, if not both, belongs to one or the other of those Saturday debating socie ties, the “Youthful Dialeticians" or the “Yawping Retrogressors.” The sanctity of our bird-specked ivory tower has been endan gered by the primordial invec tive oozing through the sticky pages of our own little scab newspaper; and what is worse, I notice that Mr. Phillips even went so far as to quote from the champion of anarchy, the re volting (That is* the word for revolutionary, isn’t it?) Satur day Evening Post, After the ink in the accusa tions dries, perhaps someone will be able to definitely out line the requirements and neces sities of leadership, not “ex perience.” Although this argu ment about "experience,” since there are many varieties of ex perience, is not entirely irrele vant, I don’t understand exact ly what the user of the word mean. The sad fact remains that neither of the candidates has ever been President, and it is only “after the fact” that the real decision as to the cor rectness of our choice can be made. Perhaps, and this is our only hope, the man who wins will rise above his past record, for Presidents, like steel, are made and not bom (unless in a log cabin), and, of necessity, it is only through the ordeal by fire that the true temper of a man, like that of steel, can be determined. DESPITE THAT fact it is a shame that the question of po litical experience wasn’t raised more often in 1952. Sincerely, Eckard V. Toy, Jr., Graduate in History. Little Man on Campus 1 i vV A YOUNG HOUSEMOTHER CAN SEA ££AL MORALE MlSS LaPlEU THiNKS Of EACH OF US AS JUST ONE OF HEK wOT» * ~Sam r^awson Columnist Looks at Election 4 And Electronic Marvel NEW YORK (API- Now that the nation has seen and heard Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy debate on TV and ra dio another electronic marvel is all set to tell the people early on the night of Nov.'g how they’ve made up their minds. AWARE THAT this election has issues and stresses unlike those in the past. Mime 1Q0 elec tronic computers researchers and programmers nevertheless insist they've got their big ma chine ready to foretell the final election outcome from only the earliest returns. Data is ready to be stuffed into a waiting Univac which will compare voting returns this year with those going back to 1896. But it won't be all comparison. The changing trends of recent years, and the special issues of this one — even the tricky religious one — are being taken into considera tion. THE GIANT computer is ex pected to issue its first predic tion early on election night to the ABC TV network. And Dause L. Bibby, president of Remington Rand Division of Sperry Rand Corp., Is confident his machine's prediction will come very close to the final Electoral College vote. But computer experts admit that if the upcoming election is as close as some observers predict, the first findings won’t be conclusive. They insist that the trend, barring a tie, will soon thereafter be apparent, but that in any event it will foretell a close race as quickly as it will a strong trend. If the religious issue changes the historical pattern in this election, Univac experts insist the computer will be able to spot the extent of the change quick ly in early returns. The machine is set up to compare voting re sults with that and other par ticular issues in mind. CHANGING VOTING pat terns in the 1930s and 1940s have been the subject of in tensive mathematical studies of the presidential elections over that and subsequent periods. Relations of voting trends for a region to those for the na tion as a whole are studied. This is important because early re turn* are mostly from the East due to time differences. But Univac experts pay that usually changing trends In a region can quickly be aligned to changes in the same direction elsewhere. Many months of data research has gone into preparing Univac for its role. The instructions will be programmed into the electronic computer at a rate of thousands of numerical char acters per second. PROGRAMMERS KAY the complex mathematical formula will instruct th»* computer how to reject errors in voting re ports. translate raw data into working quantities and process these into final results. After that the computer is being in structed on how to present the results In a.form readily inter preted. Part of Bobby's confidence in Univac is admittedly built on the results of the last two elec tions. In 1852 Just two hours after the first poll* closed, with only 3.400.000 votes counted from scattered Eastern states, Univac predicted Eisenhower's victory within four electoral votes. In 1956, with 293,407 vote* counted by 7:15 p.m., it predicted the final electoral vote within 13 electoral votes. Our Contemporaries From the Daily Cardinal (University of Wisconsin) comes this "Sign of the Week”: Gone Swiming, The Fish. Reported ly on a paper covering the fish bowl in their Union cafeteria. The Cardinal said, "Spelling class might have been the wiser choice (of destination).” OREGON DAILY EMERALD 1 he Oregon Daily Emerald is published four times in September and five days a week during the school year, except dur ing examination and vacation periods, by I? • ^Hident Publications Hoard of the l mversify of Oregon. Entered as second class matter at the jx»st 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 pre tend to represent the opinion of the ASUO or the University. KEKNAN R. TURNER. 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