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Oregon Daily Emer VOLUME XXIV. .\ UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17. 1923 NUMBER 67 BALLOTING WILL REVEAL STUDENT OPINIONOF PLAN Semester System Sentiment Proposal Will Be Decided By Straw Vote POLLS OUTSIDE LIBRARY Lone Booth Will Be Open from 8 A. M. Until 4 P. M. With Journalists in Charge The vicinity of the ballot box in front of the library will be the most popular spot on the campus today, it is predicted, especially during the ten minute intervals between classes, while •the hundreds of students from all de partments of the University gather there to cast their votes on the pro posed change from a three-term to a mester basis. Members of the Emer ald staff will have charge of the booth, which will be open from shortly after 8 a. m. till 4 p. m. The votes will be counted immediately after the closing of the booth by a committee chosen from several departments. Rules governing the ballot today are as follows: There will be but one vot ing booth, which will be placed out ride the library or just inside the door, depending on the weather. A printed ballot will be given the voter, which must be signed by him and marked with an X in the blank space opposite the plan of his choice. Ballots not prop erly signed, or marked in any way will not be counted by the committee. In case of duplication of signature, or other irregularity, the counting com mittee will act as seems advisable, but in any case of doubt will destroy the ballot. Booth to Close Promptly The booth will be closed promptly at four o’clock. It is urged, therefore, that all those who can should vote as early in the day as possible to avoid overcrowding in the late afternoon. Also those who can cast their ballots during class periods will lessen the rush between classes. The following members of the count ing committee will meet at the jour nalism shack at 4 o ’clock to count the votes: Ellen McVeigh, senior, English literature; Mary Parkinson, senior, bus iness administration; Carlton B. Spen cer, registrar of the University; Lester Turnbaugh, junior, journalism. Student View Welcomed Since “the point of view of the stu dents is always welcomed and actually does have influence in determining fac ulty policy,” and the question under consideration is one of the most momen tous of recent years among the stu dents, it is quite safe to assume that the results of the straw vote will show that a very large majority of the stu dents availed themselves of the oppor tunity to expresi their opinion. Fac ulty members, both pro and con, await the outcome of the straw vote with con siderable interest, realizing the weight txn overwhelming majority of the stu dent body might have on the faculty and the final decision of the proposition. LIBRARY BOOKS CHANGED During the Christmas holidays some changes were made in the provision for books at the library. New shelves were constructed in the graduate room and in the librarian’s office. Books from the basement were moved to the graduate room. Those were mostly state documents, and the shelves left empty by this removal were filled with bound copies of newspapers. The shelves in tile librarian’s office were filled with books from other departments. WALL PROTECTS CLIMBING VINE CARPENTERS SCHEME TO. SAVE STALK ON McCLTJRE HALL Plant Passes Through New Hallway of Journalism Building by Means of Metal-Lined Holes Did you ever hear of building a wall around a vine? It is being done right on the campus, in the new Journalism building, where a hallway joins the new structure to McClure " hall. Here the brick-layers find carpenters have left two metal-lin ed holes in the wall so that the main stalks of the vine go in through the hall itself, coming out through similar holes on the farther side. There is a definite reason for such careful treatment. The mere fact that cutting the largest stalk would kill the whole plant carries a more than senti mental significance. The fact is, that the vine has been in place so long that tif it were removed or killed the old structure wTould be considerably weak ened, according to information from the construction office. WRESTLERS WILL MEET DENTAL COLLEGE SOON Five Men to Be Chosen for Portland Contest Saturday With the first wrestling meet less than a week away Coach Widmer has been speeding elimination .'outs to de cide upon the five man team to meet the North Pacific Dental College squad in Portland on Saturday of this week. The team, as Widmer has named it, consists of Jens Terjeson, 175 pounds, I James Brad way, 158 pounds, A. Robert Ison, 145 pounds, Tom Chatburne, 135 I pounds and Chester Sumption, 125 pounds. These men, accompanied by I the coach will make the trip Saturday, and the same five will probably be sent ■north a week later to meet the Wash ington squad in Seattle on January 25 or 27. The Washington meet is rated las the most important since Washing ton has five veteran wrestlers back from last year’s squad. Men who have made the varsity £quad, although they will not be on the team which goes to Portland, are Estel Akers, Lars Bergsvik, Mike Youngs, Walt Whitcomb, John Bryson, Ray Gar rett,* Sterling Patterson, Wilbur Lara bee, Donald Wilkinson, Howard Win nard and Ed Kirtley. These men, as well as any others who prove their mer it have a chance to engage in future competition. The only members of this year’s squad who have participated in varsity (events before are Whitcomb and Brad way, and Kirtley. Because a wrestler must win his event in a varsity meet to win a letter, Oregon will have no lettermen in competition this year. Coach Widmer of the physical educa tion department who is handling wrest ling for the first time this year, is hope ful over the prospect of a formidable frosh squad and although the year lings are barred from conference par ticipation, they present promising ma terial for next year. The varsity schedule for this year is: Jan 20—North Pacific College at Port land. Jan. 27—Washington at Seattle. Feb. 3—O. A. C. at Eugene. IFeb. 16—North Pacific at Eugene. March 3—O. A. C. at Corvallis. March 12—W. S. C. at Eugene LORENZ LEAVES SCHOOL Fred Lorenz, president of the Uni versity Chamber of Commerce, will not return to the campus this term as he intends to accept a position in Port land. Persons of Various Vocations Enrolled In Extension Division Grandmothers, shepherds, school tea chers and orchardists are among the more unusual people enrolled in the Un iversity extension division. Besides these a farmer living in Eastern Ore gon and located 60 miles from a post office who gets his mail in Nevada ev ery two weeks, is studying English and grammar and intends to study the ology. Another Eastern Oregon extension stndent, an elderly lady of 67 years, is a grandmother to ten children and ciespite ill health, finds time to do her extension work. She attended summer school at Berkeley last year. A young woman residing in Salem is taking education through the extension division. Her father has been blind for 14 years and recently suffered a paralptic stroke. Her mother has been suffering from a nervous breakdown anl pneumonia. The girl and her bro ther are the sole supporters of the fam ily A young fellow in Eastern Oregon who herds sheep has taken work in the extension division for three years. He gets up at 4 o’clock every morning to begin his study before driving the sheep to the range.. He plans to eome to Oregon soon. A Portland man recently returning from the Orient took his assignments with him and studied on shipboard. Another interesting student is a young woman in Washington who man ages an orchard and livestock in ad dition to preparing her extension stud ies. She expects to attend the Univer sity of Oregon next year. A young Jady teaching school in Coos i county is another extension student. Because ,he was unable to procure suit able living accomodations she built a shack of her own. Although behind in her work on account of the time re quired to erect her house she expects | to do better soon. TO COOS COUNTRY III EARLY SPRING Bandon, Coquille, Marshfield Myrtle Point Included in Itinerary PROGRAM NOT ANNOUNCED Manager Edwards Completing Plans for Tour; Director Well Known i The University Symphony orchestra, comprised of 27 members, is to make its first trip of the year during spring vacation when it will give concerts in Marshfield, Coquille, Bandon and Myr tle Point. Arangements for the trip fire being made by Shirley Edwards, ’manager of the orchestra, who is also ’forming tentative plans to include North Bend in the trip. It was originally intended that the orchestra give concerts in some of the Washington towns, out upon referring the matter to the finance committee, it ^as discovered that only one club in the University would be permitted to tour outside the state, and this privil ege was given.to the Men’s Glee club because of their seniority of organiza tion. Group Was Welcomed Four years ago the initial trip of the orchestra was made to these same towns, where they were extremely well received by the alumni, townspople, and friends of the University and it is because of this that the members of the orchestra feel assured that the trip will be successful in every way. Seven members of the present orches tra made the trip at that tiiqe. Ralph jHoeber, cellist, was then president of the organization with John Anderson as manager.. The violin solos were given by Alberta Potter, and Gwendolyn Lampsliire played first violin. Ra|ph McClaflin, viola, and Herbert Hacker, (trombone, were also in the orchestra then. Beulah Clark, flute, who with drew from the University a year ago i to study in New York, is returning to the campus, and will go with the or chestra again on its trip to the coast (towns. Miss Clark has been on a Chau tauqua circuit during her absence. Program .wot Announced While the program for the concert has not been definitely decided upon it is probable that some of the num bers on the “pop” concert program which was given in December will be repeated. It will also include some of those in the program scheduled for January 28 in the Methodist church binder the auspices of the Eugene Elks. This concert will mark the first ap pearance of the orchestra downtown, land the proceeds of the affair are to be i turned over to some charity organiza tion in Eugene. The Elks are having a special platform built for the con cert, which can be moved, and which is to be given to the church for use dur ing future concerts. Rex Underwood, director of the or chestra, is known throughout the state for his ability in organizing and con ducting as well as one of the leading ’violinists. Mr. Underwood was a stu dent in the Leipzig conservatory of mu I sic, and the Bavarian school of musie, and studied under Joseph Olheizer in Chicago, and in Berlin and London. Mr. Underwood came to the University from Chicago in 1919 and since that time has been instructor in violin in the school of music, and director of the orchestra. . HUT IS BEING REPAIRED Electric Lighting System Undergoing Change; Old Wiring Defective Along with the other improvements which are being made on the Y. M C. A. hut, a new system of lighting is fbeing installed. Up to this time there has been an excessive wa3te in the use of electricity because of a poor ar rangement of the wires. The wiring I so arranged that less electricity is used [will now be more efficient and more economical for the maintenance of the | building. Plans are also being made to utilize the extra earth which was thrown on the curbing in front of the hut when the new street was excavated. This earth will be piled aronud the outside I of the building in the form of beds | and later, shrubs and plants will be i placed there to add to the attraetive j ness of the hut. H. M. Fisher, super I intendent of the grounds and buildings says that the painting of the Y. M. C. A. hut will be completed within a few days. Two men have been working on the building but because of the bad weather little progress has been made. PROMINENT STUDENTS STAND FIRMLY OPPOSED TO PROPOSED RETURN TO SEMESTER SYSTEM General Belief Is That Three-term Plan Aids Self-supporting Men and Women; Change Would Involve Much Trouble The consensus of student opinion op poses the semester plan passed at a re cent faculty meeting, according to data collected by Emerald reporters yester Hay. Men and women prominent in campus affairs were asked their opin ions of the much-discussed change and it was found that the majority favored the three-term plan. The chief defense of the semester ^lan, as expressed by the students, is Ithat it would do away with one period Af registration, while the upholders of the three term plan maintain that it would not only render worthless the work of instructors in arranging cours es in the past three years, but would also work serious hardships on the stu dents who are working their way through school. MacGregor Opposes Change John MacGregor, president of the student body, said that he would like the present plan to be kept, as it af fords the student who is working his way through a much better opportunity ito stay out ‘of school when his funds are low. “I do not believe the saving will be sufficient to compensate for the loss that will be sustained in a great many ways by the students,” said Mac Gregor. “I would say if they want to cut down on expenses, let them adopt the plan suggested by Dr. Gilbert, to !iave every student register for the whole year at the beginning of the fall term instead of making separate regis trations at the beginning of every term..” “I believe that we should retain the present system,” said Arthur Rose braugh, senior in the school of law, and Varsity yell king, “because it has prov ed successful, and because of the great inconvenience which would be brought about by such a change.” Present System Logical “I am in favor of retaining the pre sent system of division of the college year,” said Leith Abbott, senior in journalism, “because it is the logical and most convenient demarcation. The present system permits a student, who finds it necessary to work in order to ‘put himself through college, to work two or three terms and attend the re maining two terms, counting, of course, the summer session as a term. It also prevents the unnecessary expansion of short courses to fit the semester plan, and the present plan of holding exam inations every three months prevents the student from putting off as great amount of work until the end of the term as he would be able to do under the semester plan of four and one-half months between examinations.” Lea Jordan, a member of the varsity football team, when asked if he be lieved that the proposed change would be of advantage to the football men, said, “No! I believe it will not help them in the least. I attended the Uni versity of Utah for one year, where they had the semester plan. The aver age football player is likely to be low in his grades. To the students who are already high in their grades, the va cation before examinations will be of value; but to the student who is be hind in his work Christmas vacation means only time for anxiety. One can not make up in two weeks what ho should have learned in three months. The majority of students ‘find’ them selves in college,” said Jordan. “It is (Continued on page four.) MOST HOURS CARRIED !N ROMANCE LANGUAGES English Next; Men’s Courses ' Heavier Than Women’s A survey made in the registrar’s of fice indicates that the romance language department, while men made only 1554 takes first place in the total number of registered hours in the department of the University during last term. The English department with a total of 5510 hours takes second place, while third place goes to the school of busi ness administration with 2525 term hours taught. In both the romance language and English departments women carried the greatest number of hours, 2421 hours being credited to them in the language department, whil men made only 1554 hours. In the English classes men car ried only 1278 hours, and women took a total of 2232 hours. The lowest num ber of hours were carried in the de partment of mechanics and astronomy and, in the 42 carried, women had no share. The 659 hours carried in the department of military science were al so entirely by the men. As might be Expected, no man figures in the 132 term hours credited to the household larts department. The complete survey is as follows, with the name of the department listed first, men second, women third and the total number of hours carried in each department last: 37 339 187 432 964 419 189 492 School of Arch and Allied Arts .927 Fine Arts . 80 Normal Arts . 2 Botany . 60 Business Ad .2170 Chemistry . 990 Drama and Speech Arts.. 192 Economics .2075 Education . 359 1264 1623 English .1278 2332 3510 355 2525 302 1292 221 413 417 2492 Geology . German . Greek . History . Household Arts . Journalism .. Latin . Law . Mathematics . Mech. and Astronomy Military Science . Music . Philosophy . Physical Education . Physics . Political Science . Psychology . Romance Languages: French . Italian . Spanish . Sociology . Zoology 689 219 908 472 170 642 111 66 177 798 1117 1915 132 132 316 134 24 200 387 64 521 671 42 659 67 112 703 198 545 871 42 659 764 268 697 156 .... 837 1308 2145 .... 431 88 519 .... 595 88 683 553 651 1204 726 1492 2218 5 61 66 823 868 1691 .. 284 180 464 . 793 574 1367 Average number of hours Men 15 1-3, Women 14 1-2. carried: UNIVERSITY ACTS IN ASTORIA RELIEF WORK Ralph D. Casey Views Services Rendered by Faculty “The thing that interested me is the part the University is taking in the relief work,” said Ralph D. Casey of the journalism department, who spent last Saturday in Astoria. “This is the first time we know of that a University department of social service has taken charge of relief work.” The University has ten representa tives in the relief work, according to Mr. Casey. Earl Kilpatrick, director of ^lie extension division, is in charge of the work. Directly cooperating with him are Dr. Phil A. Parsons, director of the Portland center of social work of tho University of Oregon, and Miss Elnora E. Thomson, in charge of the public health nursing of the school. Others aiding in the relief work are D. E. Clark, assistant director of the extension division; Helen S, Hartley, associate director of publie health nurs ing; Margaret Creech, special lecturer in the school of social work; Grace Holmes, a graduate of the school. Ma jor William S. Gilbert of Astoria, who is a member of the board of regents bf the Universtiy, is chairman of the f-itizen’s executive committee of ten. The newspapers were another inter esting phase of the fire, continued Mr. Casey. The Astorian did not miss a single issue, and the Budget only two ter three mimeograph copies. Both pa pers were flooded with advertising as each business firm wanted to announce Its new place of abode. News, of course, was plentiful. It is interesting to note that those burned out were all the dentists, all banks, nearly all the doctors, and the principal hotels, but not a school or church was burned. A. T. 0. HOUSE IS REPAIRED Damages Caused by Fire Are Covered by Insurance; Work Is Finished Members of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity have received $4500 insur ance as the result of the fire which re cently gutted their new home on 12th street. Of this amount $2700 was on personal effects and $1800 on furniture, 'according to Ralf Couch. Six thousand dollars insurance was j carried on the personal effects and $.'!, 000 on the furniture but the lire did not destroy all of the goods insured. The payment; of the money was delay ed for some time due to the increased fire hazard of having hay in the house i at the time of the conflagration. A crew of five men have been work j ing on the house since the fire and the i work of reconstruction is practically | completed 00-NUT STANDINGS SHOW KAPPA SICS Two of Ten Intramural Sports Have Been Completed and Third Nears Finals CROSS-COUNTRY PUT OFF Success of Last Year’s Season Results in Increase in Number of Activities INTRAMTJRAL STANDINGS Team Basketball Pent. Total 1— Kappa Sigma. 13 4 2— Fiji . 2 5 7 3— PM Dolt.. 3 7 10 3—Delta Tau. 6 4 10 3— Kappa Theta Chi 8 2 10 4— S. A. E. 7 8 15 4— Sigma CM.14 1 15 5— Bachelordon .10 6 16 6— Oregon Club. 4 15 19 7— Sigma Nu. 5 15 20 8— A. T. 0. 9 16 24 8— Beta .14 10 24 9— Kappa Delta PM 14 11 29 10—Chi Psi .14 15 29 Alpha Beta CM.. 14 15 29 Delta Theta PM 14 15 29 Friendly Hall.14* 15 29 PM Sigma Pi.14 16 29 With two of the ten scheduled do-nut sports for this year completed and a third nearing completion the percentage column is beginning to formulate, al though a prediction as to the winner of the plaque is impossible this early in the season. Basketball and the pentathlon have been run off with the Kappa Sigg and tSigma Chis placing first in these events respectively. The handball tournament is nearing its close with Kappa Theta Chi, Bachelordon, Friendly Hall, and 8. A. E. leading the field, and another two or possibly three weeks will see the finish of the finals and challenge Contests and the crowning of the school champions. Cross Country Put Off Of the remaining seven sports cross country was scheduled for October but will probably be held in the spring. Boxing, wrestling and swimming are on the books for the winter term and track, baseball and tennis will be held in the spring quarter. Under the system of scoring used in Ithe percentage column, the team having the smallest average wins. Each of the ften sports counts equally toward the final total, and one group does not necessarily have to take first place in all events to have the highest total in the end. System Started Year Ago The doughnut or intramural program of sports as it is now practiced was originated last year. It is “especially designed for the rank and file of men, not talented enough to make a varsity team, who yet wish to have advantage of competent coaching and to enjoy competitive games and sports.” Letter bnen are burred from participation in do-nut activities so that those of less fexperience may be given a better chance. The system as introduced last year met with success and general approval, with the result that the scope of its activities has been increased. This lat ter move has met with doubtful popu larity and is still a matter of contro versy. Kappa Sigma ranked first in percent hge last year, winning possession for bne year of the bronze plaque offered by tho department of physical educa tion, which is given each year to the interfraternity champions. Other or ganizations which ranked high last year were Sigma Chi, Delta Tau Delta and Kappa Theta Chi. U. H. S. HAS NEW SYSTEM iPreppers Now Choose Courses Early to Eliminate Red Tape I With the introduction of a new sys tem of registration in the University high school, a great deal of red tape and unnecessary office work will be avoided. The new system will be one of pre-registration; that is, the student will make out a card in one semester, stating what he wishes to take the next. In this way a schedule can be ar ranged before the opening of the new Semester and a great deal of time will be gained which would otherwise be 'spent in an attempt to arrange a suit able schedule after work has started. Another improvement will be the vise 'of one card which will cover the details •if registration. The old system pro vides for three cards, one on which the student states the subjects taken, an other for his schedule, and a third for personal information.