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Stoddard Outlines Desirable Points for New Constitution School for Yell-Leaders., Supreme Court Are Needed Student Body President Hopes To Submit Remodelled Draft for Vote Sometime in April CREATION of a yell-leaders’ school, a “supreme court” on the cam pus to make final decisions on student matters, and individual constitutions for each class are among- the outstanding recommenda tions which Tom Stoddard, student body president, hopes to see in the new constitution now being drawn up by a student commission. The finai*araft will be submitted for student approval at an elec tion about the second week in April, two weeks prior to the gen eral student body polls. ‘‘A constitution should be a mere statement of fact,” he said. He believes that the sections in Arti cle III providing for the subsid iary committees to the student council are weak and detailed, and that they should merely be pro vided for in the c o nstitution proper. He sug gests that their duties be placed in the by-laws in Tom Stoddard order that they may be changed more easily. Should State Qualities He suggests that, in accordance With the United States constitu tion, the section entitled “General Officers” in Article II should state specifically the qualifications and requisites of A. S. U. O. officers in order to avoid conflicts that , have been experienced recently in this University. The University should have a tribunal in its organization that would correspond to the supreme court of the United States, he maintains. The appointment of the members of this body by the executive council would be pro vided for in the constitution, and its duties would be to interpret the constitution and to decide matters such as the conflict con cerning “Socks from Socrates,” the anonymous paper that was put out recently by a group of University students. Classes Need Writs He also recommends that “blan ket” constitutions for each class on the campus be added to the constitution, which will regulate membership and state specifically their duties. This will give each class a definite authority to refer to, thus eliminating many conflicts that have been struggled through in the past. “A student body that is easy to assess will be assessed very often,” declared the president in advocat ing his next suggestion, that the constitution should state how spe cial assessments must be made. His plan is that for two weeks ahead of time the Emerald pub lish information about the pro posed assessment. If any students object, they can file their objec tions in the graduate manager's office. The president will then decide whether the objections are serious or not, and if they are not, he will bring the matter before the executive council to be voted upon. If the council favors it and the student body objects, the students may file a petition of 200 names to have the decision repealed. If the students favor it, the assess ment will be laid on the students Without question. Suggests lell School Stoddard’s last suggestion is to provide for a yell-leaders’ school to prevent conflicts such as the University experienced this year, and to free the matter from poli tics. The plan would be to have some boy who is acquainted with the art of yell leading select sev eral eligible meh as his pupils. He would have a class and would have one or two different men act as his assistants at the games for a year.. At the end of the year he would refer one of them to the president, who would submit his name to the executive council to be voted upon. In this way the best man would receive the office, and politics would play Do part. > A Chinaman tried to sell some coolie coats to fraternity men at Ohio State university. No luck. But he was minus seven coats at the end of his route, and appealed to police for their return. He claimed they were pilfered by the boys and distributed among the girl friends, as many co-eds turn ed out in the natty outfits. -• '' ' / y - .„ Contest Schedule Following is the schedule for the remainder of the Emerald KORE radio contest: Feb. 4, 8:00—Alpha TJpsilon; at 8:30, Alpha Tau Omega. Feb. 5, 8:00—Sigma Kappa; at 8:30, Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Feb. 6, 8:00—Sigma Chi; at 8:80, Delta Tau Delta. Feb. 11, 8:00—Kappa Sigma; at 8:30, Phi Delta Theta. Feb. 12, 8:00—Sigma Nu; at 8:30, Delta Zeta. Feb. 13, 8:00—Delta Gamma; at 8:30, Kappa Kappa Gamma. Feb. 18, 8:00—Theta Chi; at 8:30, Friendly hall. Feb. 19, 8:00—Alpha Gamma Delta; at 8:30, Zeta Tau‘Alpha. Feb. 20, 8:00—Alpha Phi; at 8:30, Delta Epsilon. Feb. 25, 8:00—Susan Camp ,*.41; at 8:30, Kappa Alpua Theta. Feb. 26, 8:00—Girls’ Oregon club; at 8:30, Independents. Feb. 27, 8:00—Alpha Omicron Pi; at 8:30, International club. Definite dates for Pi Beta Phi, Phi Kappa Psi, and Kappa Delta, have not yet been de cided, but these houses will probably be given places in the Final competition. High Y. W. Worker Will Arrive Sunday xr _ Winifred Wygal, national exec utive secretary of the student movement, will arrive Sunday from San Francisco to confer with girls on the campus who have scheduled interviews for next year’s Y. W. Cabinet. Miss Wygal will talk to the members of the present cabinet to gether with the aspirants at a “retreat” in the Y. W. bungalow Sunday from 2:30 until 6. At that time she will explain the “true meaning of Y. W. C. A.” This interview is imperatively necessary for the members and those who are trying out for cab inet to attend, according to Dor othy Thomas, secretary of Y. W. Samples of Sweaters Received by R.O.T.C. Samples of sweaters for the ri fle team were received yesterday at the R. O. T. C. headquarters by Major Barker from the Olym pia Knitting Mills, Inc. Ten sweaters will be awarded to the team this year instead of five as given out last year, Major Bar ker announced. Tel. 1733 573 E. 13th Ave. Shop Petite Dressmaking :—: Designing A Cup of Coffee Hot, steaming coffee, when your eyelids droop and the book drops from your hand. Take a brace and order a cup of coffee from The “O” | Lunch. It'll do you worlds . of good, and you'll be able to finish’«‘ cramming” for ! .Prof.’ ‘Cropland's Psychology Quiz . and that’s some thing not to be taken lightly. • I TEE Phone The o 2952-W Lunch 13th & AWer Sts. FROGS, CRICKETS PLAY Tiny Insects Hop From Earth To Act in Program By BOBBY REID Crickets and frogs thrive in this almost balmy spring weather. If you don't believe it, you should drop in Villard assembly and see them dancing and chirruping, or making whatever noise crickets and frogs make when together. Cecile Coss is the most ador able little frog you ever saw: Then there is Betty Fairchild. A real, "sure-nuff” cricket just wouldn’t have a prayer around her. It would crawl back into its crick ety little hole ana pine away for lack of attention. These frogs and crickets didn’t creep out of the earth, but hopped '‘From the Book of Wonder,” one act play written by Alice Henson Ernst, to be presented Wednesday evening, February 5, at the Guild Hall theater, by Phi Beta, music and drama honorary. They appear frequently throughout the play, which is a fantastic dream bit, intended only for entertainment. The costumes for all the actors in the play were designed by Con stance Coe, of Portland, who is gaining considerable recognition for her work; Fred Harris of the art department is in charge of setting. In contrast to the Peter Pan nish quality of this play, “Get away,” written by Sally Elliot Allen, is the other part billed for the same evening, also given by the Phi Beta group. It is a tense, psychological drama of entirely different appeal from the other Play. Societ n Phyllis Van Kimmcll, Editor —-— ~ - - Senior Class Frolics at Campa Shoppe. The members of the senior class held an informal “kid party’’ at : the Campa Shoppe last night. All j day suckers were served as re freshments and prizes for the best ] “boy baby face” and the best “girl j baby face” were distributed. Mu | sic was furnished by Johnny Rob j inson's “Varsity Vagabonds.” Patrons for the affair included: ! Dean and Mrs. James H. Gilbert, Dr. and Mrs. Charles Leslie Schwering, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas I. Chapman, and Mr. and Mrs. Dan i Gage. % ^ ^ . j Freshmen Hold Dance At Gerlinger Hall While the seniors romped through their "kid party” at the ' Campa Shoppe, the freshmen en joyed an informal dance at Ger linger hall, to music furnished by George Weber’s orchestra. Har vey Welch was chairman of the affair. Patrons were: Dean and Mrs. John Straub, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. G. Thacher, Mr. and Mrs. George H. Godfrey, Celia Stoddard, Hugh Biggs, John M. Rae, and S. Ste phenson Smith. * * * Myrtle McDaniel Will Go to New York Soon Myrtle McDaniel, member of Pi Beta Phi sorority, will leave in a short time for San Francisco. From there she will travel by train to Washington, D. C., for a short stay and from there to New York, N. Y. She is in Portland at pres ent, and plans to be accompanied by her uncle on her journey. Lucille Kraus Gets Commission Election! Lucille Kraus, freshman in Eng lish, was elected president of the Frosh Commission today. Jean Lennard was elected vice-presi dent; Eileen McIntyre, secretary; Nora Jane Stewart, treasurer; and Aimee Sten, sergeant-at-arms. The “polls” at the bungalow were opened from 9 until 5 o’clock, including the lunch hour, so every freshman woman had the chance ! to vote. The commission will be gin work immediately, according to Dorothy Thomas, secretary of the Y. W., and will have its first meeting sometime next week. Gertrude Skow, the county home demonstration agent, will lead the Personality discussion group which will be held Monday at 4 o’clock at 768 East 12th street, instead1 of the bungalow. The discussion this week will Tie on “Personality and Personal Ap pearance.” Miss Skow will give some color readings which are the scientific way of determining what ( colors the girls ought to wear. She will use one of the girls in | the group for her subject, and the apparatus will be left after the j meeting for anyone else to use. The Jayhawlter, University of Kansas yearbook, has a practice of selling pictures of beauty can didates to newspapers in order to help pay expenses of printing. The ' papers discriminated against are fighting the practice and faculty members threaten to discontinue it. It’s Starting to Thaw . . . and When It Really Does you will want to be up where it is high and dry, so buy a campus “ark” now, and make your head save your heels. Sold at eheaper and-cheapest prices. And they will really ruu. MORRIS CHEVROLET CO. Phone 1920 orv627 Louis Dammasch H E I L I G COMMENCING SUNDAY fron tf\e jrory hr/ I JOSCPtt (pNRAD A .'HERBERT I BRENON *\« PRODUCT »C* U fot*1 , \>^5 s"°nV *v«° VVX vv It Four Executives Will Represent Portland Dailies R. G. Callvert To Be Chief Speaker on Saturday Morning Program 150 Journalists Expected To Attend Meetings Each of the four daily news papers of Portland will be repre sented by an executive in its or ganization when the twelfth an nual conference of Oregon editors and publishers convenes on the campus next Thursday afternoon. About 150 newspaper men are expected to attend the sessions of the conference Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, according to Dean Eric Wi* Allen of the school of journalism, and among them will be two Portland editors, one busi ness nmnager, and one managing editor. R. G. Callvert, editor -of the Portland Oregonian, will be the chief speaker at the Saturday morning meeting. He is to read a paper on “The Editorials in the Upstate Press," a detailed report which he has been working up for some time. Simeon R. Winch, business man ager of the Oregon Journal, will speak Friday on "What's Ahead for the Newspaper? The Existing Situation.” Mr. Winch will de velop his subject with respect to publishing and management prob lems on papers in the eastern part of the country, with which he is closely associated. The Portland Telegram will be represented at the convention by Lest'qr Adams, * managing editor. He has been njaking a study of editorials in Oregon newspapers, and will talk on “Interest in the Page" at the annual banquet Fri day evening. Ralph J. Benjamin, editor of the Portland News, also will be among the delegates. Earle Richardson, publisher and editor of the Dallas Itemizer-Ob server, is president of the 1930 conference. Prof. George S. Turn bull, of the University of Oregon school of Journalism, is secretary. Safe-crackers and pickpockets are the lecturers at the University of Chicago. ' They speak before classes in criminal investigation. c Monies Evelyn Sh&ner, Editor Scene from “The Great Divide,” at the Heilig theater. AT THE HEILIG— When a blonde and a brunette mix over a man the result is little short of pandemonium or what ever that place is that Dante talks about. But Dorothy Mackaill car ries a good punch as well as a good line of chatter, so there you’ve guessed it, man, the blondes have “It" honors in “The Great Divide.” at the McDonald— The charming Ramon Navarro plays well in “Devil May Care” for the last time today. He makes a pretty “swell” boy friend and fox McDonald “The Finest Sound in Town” r ^OJVg hits GALOPS, ST**Ts S l y ***** uiio\vn Zl*ae A2 any * • -y/aute113 PapeTS foT K seems extremely adaptable at cleaning Mademoiselle's dainty shoes. AT THE STATE— Stark drama, unconcealed emo tion, the thrill of the high seas, all these things make “Hurricane” at the State of more than passing interest. The State is also offer ing a brand new serial entitled “The Vanishing West.” AT THE REX— Ken Maynard is the big light of "Parade of the West” at the Hex theatre. They say history repeats itself and all Ken’s past perform ances are successes. Sunday Attractions— Heilig—“The Rescue." McDonald — "Love Comes Along.” Winter Has Went! Ami spring has come . . . and everybody is flocking over to the millraee for some wonderful food. Of course, it’s at THE ANCHORAGE There Is a Difference in People’s Appearance A sportsman would be out of place in dancing p u m p s — would he not?—and a Well-dressed man irt just as much oht of place in unkempt shoes. ‘Remember, we’re just across the street from the Sigma Chi bouse.” Shine Scripts > ’ Accepted CAMPUS SHOE SHINE Across From the Sigma Chi House STATE SUN.—MON.—TUBS. 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