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Headlines through the decades
One of the biggest elements on newspaper
pages, headlines are designed to do a number
of things. Grab readers’ attention. Bring peo
ple into the story. Reflect the sense and the
tone of the story.
The size and style of headlines has changed dur
ing the last 100 years, including within the Emerald it
self. The early years tended toward New York Times
style headlines, with staggered lines and lots of capital
letters. The 1930s and 1940s saw headlines for big sto
ries running above the nameplate. Recent years have
seen the use of a variety of typefaces, especially in fea
ture headlines.
But one thing has remained the same with the
headlines of the Oregon Daily Emerald. They have
told the stories of the University, its people, its com
munity, its events. The following is a snapshot of cam
pus history, told through the big type — the headlines.
Student Attention
Centered On Salem;
Proceeding of Legislature
Concerning University
Carefully Watched
— Feb. 3, 1917
Free Emeralds? No!
— March 11, 1917, from a
student council meeting
Oregon Men Now Await
Call To Arms; Ttoenty
seven Are Members of
Second Company Coast Ar
tillery Corps; Kent Wilson
first to depart for front
— March 27, 1917
War Rumors Not To
Hinder Track Work
— March 29, 1917
Student Ranks Decimat
ed By Men Enlisting;
Senior Co-Ed To Become
President Of Associated
Student Body
— April 3,1917
Pretty Co-Eds Will Make
Merry In Annual Glee Club
Concert Tomorrow Night
— April 19, 1917
University Day Will Be
State-Wide Affair
— May 5, 1917
War Has Other Horrors
Than Bullets And Blood;
Recruits Must Do Own
Cooking
— May 22, 1917
Seniors And Juniors To
Smoke Peace Pipe
— May 26, 1917
Oregon Takes 29-27
Thriller From OSC
—Jan. 18, 1936
‘Politics Needs Young
Men,’ Governor Charles H.
Martin Tells Emerald
Reporter
Jan.23,1936
Courtesy University Archives
Unidentified University students learn the complicated methodology of setting type during the 1940s.
TWo Veteran Race
Drivers Will Demonstrate
How Not To Drive Today
— April 8, 1936
ASUO Reorganization
Proposed
— April 21, 1936
800 ‘Smoke Packs’
Needed For Lane County
Draftees In USO-War
Board Drive
— Oct. 30, 1943
Turn In Your Books; The
GIs Want Them
— Nov. 9, 1943
Dean Eric Allen Dead;
Tributes Paid Leader
— March 14, 1944
Oregon Educators Advise
Draft Eligible Men To
Continue Studies As Long
As Possible
— Sept. 28, 1950
1.93 Men Per Woman
— Oct. 5, 1950
Proper ‘Hunting Attire’
Helps In Tracking Down
Male Game
—Jan. 12, 1956
Michener cites North
west as potential leader
— Nov. 16 1960
Student Sentencing
Sparks Drug Law Debate
AtUO
—June 22,1967
Fall Parking Fees
Probable
—June 22, 1967
UO Faculty Lambasts
U.S. Viet Nam Policy
—July 11, 1967
Hippie Definition
Difficult, Classification
Unnecessary
—July 18, 1967
In Conduct Committee,
Realm of Code Questioned
—July 20, 1967
New Football Stadium
Comes To Life
— Sept. 19, 1967, on the
opening of Autzen Stadium
Artist Warhol Speaks
Tonight
— Oct. 5, 1967
Autzen: Has It Hurt
Athletic Quality?
— Nov. 1, 1967
Bleah! Peanuts Takes
Leave of Emerald
— Nov. 6, 1967
Abolish Homecoming?
— Nov. 18, 1967
Headline, running above the
nameplate and teasing an
editorial, causes the Athletic
Department to seize 10.000
copies of the paper.
Corvallis: A Great Place
...If You Like Cows, Pigs
— Nov. 18, 1967
‘Teach-In’ Opposes War
— April 4, 1968
Dynamite Blast Shakes
Empty ROTC Offices
— Nov. 5, 1968
Emerald independence
near as new board takes
over
— April 9, 1971
The ‘Old Barn’: what
next? Friday, 10,500
persons will cram into
Mac Court to see the
Ducks play UCLA. Can the
‘Old Barn’ take it?
— Feb. 10, 1971
Student fees committee
considers voluntary
funding of OSPIRG
— March 5, 1971
Protestors, police clash
— May 6, 1971
Computer net ok’d by
Board
— Sept. 27, 1972
Out-of-state tuition
stands up to court test
— Oct. 30, 1972
State board dumps
S. African stock
— Nov. 21, 1977
Gay amendment
approved by City Council
— Nov. 29, 1977
Arrests end student
occupation; 19 apartheid
protestors jailed
—Jan. 26,1978
The Pac-10 Conference:
A final hope for major
West Coast Athletics?
— Feb. 8, 1978
The Selling of Antelope
— Oct. 21, 1982, on the
Rajneesh
Tennis courts to be used
for parting
— Feb. 6,1985
Majors abandoned
for water slide; three
departments eliminated
— April 1, 1985
Riverfront plan ques
tioned in public hearing
— May 21,1985
Professor predicts
timber will suffer due to
technology
— Nov. 11, 1986
Students take part in
fast protesting hunger
— April 6, 1993
Joke is on city after Frog
wins appeal
— April 22,1993
—Compiled by
Sarah Kickler