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Prepper Bands To Strut Stuff On April 14-15 Stehn in Charge of 10th Annual Stale Meet IN THREE DIVISIONS 700 Students Expected To Attend First Contest To Be Held On Oregon Campus By ED STANLEY Bands and approximately 700 students from high schools of all parts of the state will meet on the University of Oregon campus April 11 and 15, for the tenth an nual Oregon State high school band contest to determine the best organization-in each of three class es. This was announced yesterday by John H. Stehn, director of the University band and chairman of the event. During the past nine years the contest has been held annually at Oregon State college, but last year the state board of higher edu cation ruled that the contest should be alternated between the two campuses. To Be Three Groups The high schools will compete in tiiree classes. Class A will in clude all high schools over 600 en rollment, class B those from 400 to 600 and class C those schools under 400. Any band organized less than one year may step down one class. With 20 bands segre gated in the various classes, Uni versity students, faculty members, and Eugene townspeople will have an opportunity to hear some of the finest high school bands in the state. Commenting on the contest Stehn said, ‘T think the contest will be a wonderful thing to en tertain such a large group of young people and will give the University students, faculty, and townspeople an opportunity to hear and see competitive1 musical talent.” Hubert Totton,' who has been appointed as student chairman of ■the affair, has selected chairmen and ccommitteemen who will as sist in making preparations for the contest. Following are the ap pointments: registration commit tee: Norval Hamilton, chairman, Stanford Smith,' John McConnell, (Continued on Page Three) The Weather Temperature dropped to 32 de grees as the minimum yesterday morning, but warm weather tem pered by a gentle breeze prevailed throughout the day. Although freezing temperature was reached last night, warmer weather is predicted for today. Daily forecast: Fairer and warmer today with gentle change able winds offshore. Local statistics: Minimum tem perature yesterday, 32 degrees. Willamette river, 3 feet. Wind from north. Free Shows for Students _. . . i College men and Co-eds are stepping out to their dates as usual at Wittenberg university, since students of the Ohio college devised a series of free entertainments for the penniless members of the stu dent body, to prevent “dateless nights.” — i . Dateless Nights of Wittenberg Co-eds and Swains at an End * SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, April 4— (AP)—No more do lonely co-eds at Wittenberg college gaze for lornly from their windows on “date nights” wondering whether I to spend the evening thumbing through a magazine or playing solitaire. And no more do campus swains, on those same nights, mourn fully wander alone, unable to do anything about it because of an epidemic of empty pockets. The "Boost Wittenberg” associa Women Students Goto Polls Today To Name Officers , _ i j TiHE polls for the Associated Women Student elections j will open from 9 until 4 today ! in front of the old library, it j was announced by Elizabeth Bendstrup who is in charge of ! the balloting. Student body cards must be presented in order to vote. The j candidates for the various of- j fices are as follows: president, Jean Failing: vice-president, Virginia Hartie and Carolyn Card; secretary, Virginia How ard and Marie Saccomanno; treasurer, Josephine Waffle and Peggy McKie; sergeant - at arms, Betty Gearhart and Ro berta Moody; reporter, Ann Reed Burns and Henriette Ho rak. Three Former Art Students Featured in 'Spring Salon’ By CYNTHIA LILJEQVIST | What purports to be the first annual “spring salon” opens Wed nesday in the gallery of the Art building. Of exceptional interest are the contributions of three former stu dents of the University of Oregon: Mary Kirkwood, Lynn Forrest, and Ben K. Weatherwax. The oils and water colors of Mary Kirkwood are large, domi nating and carefully designed. Her color is varied to suit the different motives and on the whole the drawings are powerful and mov ing. The older students who have known and worked with Miss Kirkwood are delighted to mark her progress and the sincerity with which she has undertaken her works. Mary Kirkwood is now head of the department of draw ing and painting at the Univer sity of Idaho. She took her M.F.A. degree under the late Michael Mueller in 1931. Lynn Forrest, of the architec ture department, winner of the Ian Lewis foreign traveling scholar ship, has recently returned to Ore gon after a year's sketching while traveling from the Mediterranean to the Baltic. He presents a record of his architectural impres sions with vitality and skill. His work includes lithographs, draw ings, and a group of singularly in teresting water colors expressed in an unconventional manner with intense color and forceful design. Forrest’s work has been the sub ject of gratifying comment from the staff and those privileged to attend the preview. He will be in Eugene Wednesday to renew his associations and talk of his experi ences and impressions of Europe. Ben K. Weatherwax, another alumnus whose interest was called from architecture to painting, is represented with a group of oil paintings of parts of industrial Seattle, where he has worked during the past two years and (Continued on Page Three) tion has launched a successful campaign to bring campus life back to social normal. The way to accomplish that, they tind, is to provide entertainment to which the men can “drag” their dates— without cost. “Boost W.” is an organization comprising 19 men students repre senting as many campus groups. Their aim, members say, is to see that Wittenberg college life has its “wholesome diversions.” “College men can no longer af ford expensive dates,” Wallene Derby, of Elkhart, Indiana, told a meeting. “The girls are spending too many evenings in the dormitories and sorority houses, without the social companionship which is so much of college life.” That speech won Derby a job as chairman of a special social rela tions committee, appointed by Howard L. Kany, of Dayton, pres ident of “Boost W.” The committee arranged a series of musical and dramatic programs in cooperation with the depart ment of public speech, the college orchestra and other groups. The entertainments are free to campus men and their “dates.” First was a lecture recital in the little theater at Blair hall. Next came an evening devoted to four one-act plays. The “date” has been preserved as a college institution for a time, Plii Chi Theta Will Give Dessert Party April 11 Plans for a dessert party to be held Tuesday, April 11, were made by Phi Chi Theta, women’s commerce honorary, at a meeting held in room 10G, Commerce build ing, today. The Pi Beta Phi sor ority is being considered as a place where the party will be held. The Phi Mu trio will entertain during the evening, according to arrangements made by Miss Mary ellen Bradford, ’33, president of the Phi Chi Theta. Betty Betkel with Hilda Fries and Greeta Kirkpatrick are to make arrangements for refresh ments for the party. Invitations to the party will be given out by Francis Bart an(#Ardith Hutichen son. F. S. Dunn To Address Lorane P.-T. A. Meet Frederic S. Dunn, professor of Latin, has been invited by the Par ent-Teacher association of Lorane to address that group tomorrow evening on the subject of "A Trip Through Ancient Rome.” Professor Dunn has been an act ive speaker at Parent-Teacher meetings in the county during the past year, and his talks on ancient Greece and Rome have been of in terest to his audiences. U of O Orchestra To Give Concert At Music Building ASl O Concerts April 9 University orchestra. April 23 University concert band. April 30—University orchestra, Jane Thacher, pianist. May 14- Polyphonic choir and Polyphonic chorus in joint concert. May 21—University band. May 28—University orchestra. The remaining six of the series of 12 free Sunday afternoon con certs sponsored by the Associated Students will get under way for the spring season next Sunday, when the University Symphony orchestra will present its third program of the series at the music auditorium. The shift from Mc Arthur court has been made for this one concert because the court is acoustically unsuitable for the type of program planned. The other five concerts on the (Continued on Page Pour) A. W. S. Carnival Will Be Held at Igloo Saturday Money Obtained From Dancing, Concessions To Be Placed In Women's Loan Fund Get out those easy-going shoes, and start saving up your shekels for the A. W. S. annual all-campus carnival, to be held next Saturday night, April 8, at the Igloo. The orchestra has been selected —so practice up on that latest step and be ready to trip the light fantastic to Sherwood Burr’s six piece music - makers, the well known Campa Shoppe favorites. Bill Seavers, “knock - em - down’ boy, will sing, the rest of the or chestra will entertain with short features—so get to work, fellows, and surprise the women at the car nival with that double side turn. There will be jitney dancing, tick ets five cents, each good for one dance. And then, if by chance you don’t dance, save those shekels anyway —you can use those five cent tick ets to play roulette and craps, shoot at a target range, buy hot dogs and soda p.op, and do a dozen other things in the 17 booths I which will be placed around the j sides of the Igloo, each booth hav ing a different sort of concession. If your heart longs for one of the rather slapstick sideshows of the childhood fair, there is one booth in which, if the player tosses a (Continued on Page Three) I Campus Calendar Order of the “O” meeting this evening at 6 o’clock at the Sigma Nu house. Alpha Delta Sigma meeting this afternoon at 4 o’clock in Mr. Thacher's office. Bring question naires. Pi Beta Phi announces the pledging of Elizabeth Anderson of Klamath Falls. Meeting today at 5 in upstairs College Side of the representatives j of all living organizations who are ‘ managing booths for the A. W. S.; carnival. Important. Sigma Alpha Epsilon announces the pledging of Curtis Smith of: Seaside, Oregon, and Walt Cald- j well of Eugene. W. A. A. mass meeting today at 4 in Alumni hall in Gerlinger hall. ’ There will be a meeting of Phi j (Continued on Page Two) Committee To Select Heads Of Publication > > Petitions Mast Be Brief As Possible [APRIL 10 DEADLINE < j Editorial Ideas, Financial Needs, j General Policy, Basis of Selection The publications committee of the University will consider can didates for the editor of the Em erald for next year on Tuesday. The business manager of the cam pus daily and the editor and man ager of the Oregana also will be selected. At a special meeting yesterday the committee set midnight of April 10 as the final hour on which petitioners for the post may sub mit their statements of policy and qualifications. Members of the publications committee decided that the following points should be embodied in the petitions of those seeking the editorship of the Emerald: Points Set Forth 1. Past experience. 2. Financial needs of individ ual. 3. Statement of general policy, regarding makeup, editorial ideas and content. The committee went on record as not desiring any letters of rec ommendation and requested that the petitions be as brief and as pointed as possible. If the peti tioners wish they may submit sev eral samples of their work along with their statements. No Beer Ads Tiie editor for next year will succeed Dick Neuberger. The bus iness manager will succeed Harry (Continued on Page Pour) 50 New Students Sign for Spring Term’s Session Registration Pauses 2000 Mark; More Than 750 Paying Fees On Installment Plan Registration for the spring term in the University passed the 2000 mark Monday and by Mon day night 2006 had enrolled. The registrar’s office said that about 20 more are expected to enroll be fore April 15, the last day to reg ister. More than 50 students who were not enrolled in the University last term were among those register ing. Approximately 750 students arc paying fees in installments, an in crease of 200 over last term. April 15 will not only be the last day to register, but also the last day to withdraw from courses without a passing grade. The second installment of the fees will be due on April 22. Non residence fees will also be due at this date. New students, who may pay in three installments, must make the final installment before May 6. E. P. Lyon, cashier, said the fees twere payable at any time previous to these dates. A 25-cent penalty is made for each day af ter the deadline has been passed. The installments are $20 on regis tration, $18 on the second install ment and for new students only $10 on the third installment. Students have been cautioned by Mr. Lyon against writing checks against banks that are opened on a restricted basis without first making sure that such checks will be paid. Notice! Emerald’s Posts for Next Year To Whom It May Concern: Each candidate for editor and manager of the Oregon Daily Emerald shall submit to the publications committee or Hugh Kos son on or before April 10 a written petition stating his or her qualifications in full. From this group of candidates the pub lications committee shall recommend not later than the third week in April one person to the Executive council for final ap proval to occupy the positions of editor and manager of the Oregon Daily Emerald.' * Excerpt from A. S. U. O. constitution. Beer Imbibers at University Troubled Before Prohibition By ELINOR HENRY | Out from the back door of the ] fraternity house comes a stealthy pair of men. The night is dark, and the moon hides in a heavy dra pery of black clouds. The two gaze anxiously about to see that no late passerby sees them as they make their way cautiously with their dangerous burden to the mill race. V/ith a muffled splash and gurgle the box slides into the racing waters. A lusty shove from the two hien and the strange craft rides steadily down the stream. A murder? A theft? Some sin ister plot? Oh, no! Just a pair of campus beer imbibers in the good old days before prohibition. Or so says Dr. Henry D. Sheldon, who came to the University in 1900 when there were 24 saloons in Eu gene and a student was expelled if he was seen in one of them. Beer could be carried in under va rious disguises, but disposing of the empty bottles was a difficult problem. The young man who first thought of the idea of placing the empty bottles in a water-tight box and floating them off down stream where they would incrim inate no one is now either a fam ous lawyer or a famous bootleg ger no one knows, but he is prob ably the former. Many a man who has since won high praise was once expelled by the University of Ore gon faculty after a glorious row! And the rows were "glorious.” The allegedly bibulous student was not haled before a small and re sponsible discipline committee. His trial was before the entire faculty 15 or 20 men, some of whom liked him, some of whom disliked him, and some of whom didn't care. It took three successive fac ulty meetings to convict one stu dent. Saloon keepers refused to testify again t students. But if the faculty frowned heav ily on student drinking, so did it frown on drinking among its own members. "A lot of people who are pretty free and easy themselves think that teachers and preachers and (Continued on Cage Three) > Audience Thrills To Various Songs Offered by INash Seventeen Numbers Are Presented In Colorful and Striking Vocal Performance A distinguished personal ap pearance and a striking stage per sonality characterized Gifford Nash's performance last night at the music auditorium. Perhaps the most interesting of his selections was Gounod's “Serenade of Me phistopheles,” from “Faust," Nash’s interpretation of this song with its diabolical laugh, scorn and hate sent cold shivers down the back of the listener. As an encore he sang “Green Eyed Dragon" by Charles, a quick little number with an absurd, but clever verse. Mr. Nash's voice re soundant and strong, formally called “basso contante” is, in com mon language, a deep mellow bari tone. Seventeen numbers, greatly va ried, a small part of Mr. Nash's repertoire made up the program. The old familiar melody, "Drink to Me Only" was particularly love ly. Hahn’s “L'Heure Exquise,” one of a group of three of French num bers, is well described by its title, for it is filled with exquisite soft high notes. Brahm’s stormy "Verrath,” sung with power and enthusiasm by Mr. Nash was a direct contrast to the soft dreamy "Traume" by Wagner. Harold Ayres’ performance of the accompaniments, was worthy that of a solist. The program con cluded with the brilliant and pow erful “Siege of Kazan," ballad of erful “Sieze of Kazen," "Ballad, from Boris Godounow,” by Mous-" sorgsky. Npw German Society Organized on Campus The first meeting of a new or ganization for the furtherance of interest in German on the cam pus was held last Thursday eve ning, Mijrch 30, at the Westmin ster house. Bob Brown talked on the origination and purposes of the club, and the constitution was read and approved. Nominations for offices were hold, and those pro posed for president were Bob Brown and Max McKinney. The club will meet every two weeks and Dr. Pollard will be advisor. The name of the society is yet to be decided. The meeting was finished by se lections on the piano and violin by! Mr. Halbert and Miss .Jane Kanz-1 ler. Dr. Pollard stated, “The club will supply a great need on the campus for such an organization and it is hoped that it will stimu late interest in contemporary Germany and its life and lan guage.” Theta Sigma Phi Takes In Four New Pledges Formal pledging for four jour nalism majors was held by Theta Sigma Phi, journalism honorary for women, Sunday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Eric W. Allen. , The nt-w pledges ure Ruth Mc Clain, Elsie Peterson, Fay Rogers, and Helen Stinger. Peggy Vest has also been elected to the hon orary, but did not return to school this term. Guild Production Will Feature New Group of Actors Guild theatre’s first dramatic production of the spring term will be "Mrs. Partridge Presents,” a modern American comedy, to be given on the Guild stage Friday and Saturday, April 14 and 15, un der the direction of Mrs. Ottilie Seybolt. Mrs. Seybolt declares that the comedy will present to the public a new group of campus actors, and will be really the opening per formance of next year’s Guild hall players. The cast is not yet ready for publication, Mrs. Seybolt says. During-preparation of the play the principal roles were double cast. Since a few of the players were unable to return to the University since the spring recess, several ad (Continned on Payc Three) Washington Cuts $800,000 from Education Budget RATTLE, Wash., April 4. - ^ (Special). The board of regents of the University of Washington yesterday slashed more than $800,000 from the school budget, thereby greatly reducing salaries and operating expenses. Lewis B. Schwellenbach, pres ident of the board, said that ap proximately $620,000 had been cut from faculty salaries and about $189,000 from operating expenses. No personnel will be eliminated. The average salary of the deans will be $400 and the professors $350. Former salaries ranged from $400 to $730 for deans and from $300 to $525 for professors. Em ployes drawing less than $600 a year will not be affected. The regents will confer today with University heads to figure out applications of the salary cuts. U.O. Officials To Adhere To Former Rules Previous Rules Forbid Liquor to Students EARL BACKS RULE Individual Fraternities Also Have Laws Against Beverage; Storekeepers Irked By JULIAN PRESCOTT There will be no beer in frater nity houses or halls on the Oregon campus, it became evident yes terday. Emphatic reiteration of the Uni versity administration’s stand against the use of alcoholic bever ages by students was made yester day by the student advisory com mittee and Virgil D. Earl, dean of men. This action was taken at meetings of the committee, of which Karl Onthank, dean of per sonnel administration, is chair man, and at a meeting of the in terfraternity council. The statement of the commit tee follows: “In consideration of the fact that beer of 3.2 per cent alcoholic content will be legally available after April 6, 1933, it seems ad visable for the University of Ore gon to reaffirm its position in re gard to alcoholic beverages. The University bf Oregon’s present pol icy pertaining to alcoholic bever ages will continue in full force. No Liquor for Pupils The administration has for many years expressed a strong stand against the use of liquor by stu dents, it was explained by Dean Earl. This policy is understood to date back to the first days of the University, long before the state went dry. “I am personally opposed to the use of liquor by students while at the University,” Dean Earl said in a statement on his own views. A check of the majority of fra ternities showed that they had either national or local rules against the use of liquor in the houses and that no action had been taken in view of the legalized character of 3.2 per cent beer. Several houses have sent queries to their national officers to ascer tain whether any change has been made in national rules. They have received no replies as yet. Houses Have Own Laws This would indicate that the pol icy of practically all houses of ban ning the use of liquor in the house will continue in force. It was not thought likely by leaders of the interfraternity council that any house would except the newly le galized beer from the ban. All sororities on the campus also have strict regulations as to the use of liquor by any of their mem bers. At present a member is lia ble to “unpinning” by practically all groups if she shows evidences of having been drinking intoxicat ing beverages. No Moves as Vet No immediate action against the | establishment of a "university dis (Continued on Pai/c Three) Dr. Barry Cerf of Reed Calls Modern Education pTravesty’ PORTLAND, April 4— (Special) —In no uncertain terms, Dr. Barry Cerf of Reed college recently told the Portland branch of the Amer ican Association of University Women that education in this country is a "travesty.” “Democracy as applied to educa tion,” declared Dr. Cerf, “should mean equality of opportunity for those capable of profiting by it. But we have made of our colleges country clubs, dancing halls and athletic fields. It is not the fault j of education, but the fault of our selves, the people. We hold funda mental misconceptions of what! life is and what it means. There is no need to convert the edu cators. They have never wanted the boys and girls who are sent to them because parents don't know what to do with their chil dren between the ages of 17 years and 21. It is the community that determines what an educational system shall be, and we get in our nation and in Oregon exactly the kind of education we ask for.” Gap Is Necessary Between high school and col lege, there should be a complete break, he said. But college is merely a continuation of high school the same methods, the same mistake, the same virtues, where there should be a new at mosphere and new tools used in a new manner. "Except for our law, medical and technical schools,” Dr. Cerf said, (Contimttd on Page Three)