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VOLUME XXXV UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1933 NUMBER 32 Roscoe Nelson Quits Position On State Board Chairman Resigns After Deliberation STATEMENT IS MADE Governor Meier Accepts Action In View ot' 111 Health of Portland Attorney Roscoe C. Nelson, chairman of the Oregon state board of higher education, resigned yesterday from the group. He made his decision after serious deliberation. In commenting on his action, the Portland attorney said, “I be lieve this action best for the cause of higher education in Oregon.” He further stated that it had not been his intention to attack the University of Oregon or its students in his address. In a statement following his resignation he declared: . “No judge will pass upon a cause, a party to which believes him to be prejudiced. In retiring, he does not do so under fire, nor does he admit a factual "basis for the challenge. He withdraws so that the suitor may submit his controversy to a court, the impar tiality of which is constant and whose ultimate judgment cannot thereafter be assailed upon the grounds that the court had been prejudiced.” Nelson indicated his contacts with the University faculty under existing circumstances “could be nothing but embarrassing.” Governor Meier in accepting the resignation stated that he knew tftat Nelson was not in the best of health and that doctor’s orders had been given Nelson to rest. More Rally Ties to Be Sold at Co-op Today; Lid Supply Exhausted Another allottment of 100 rally ties was received yester day and will be placed on sale at the Co-op this morning-. This is the third and last order placed for ties, and makes a total of 700, 600 of which have already been sold. The entire supply of rooters’ lids purchased by the A.S.U.O. and distributed free to students was exhausted yesterday. Students desiring to sit in the rooters’ section at the game must have both a rooters’ lid and a rally tie. Resigns Post Roscoe C. Nelson, who resigned as chairman of the state board of higher education yesterday. Dean of Medical School Plans Visit To Campus Soon Dr. Harold B. Myers Invited by Advisory Committee to Aid Students With Programs Dr. Harold B. Myers, associate dean of the Portland Medical school, is to visit the campus some time in the near future for the purpose of holding personal inter views with pre-medical students planning to attend medical school next year. He will help students to adjust their programs so they will be best fitted for the work there. Students will be allowed 20 minutes for each conference, and must sign up for the time. Myers has been invited by the pre-medical advisory committee, consisting of Dr. Will V. Norris, professor of physics; Dr. E. S. Conklin, professor of psychology; and Dr. H, B. Yocom, professor of biology, and will arrive prior to the aptitude test. Those students taking the test, the Association of American Med ical College Aptitude test, which will be given in room 105 McClure, December 6 at 2 p. m., must apply immediately to Dr. Yocom. A fee of $1 is required of each one tak ing the test. Six Students Get Jobs Due to the efficient work of «he employment agency in locating va rious jobs, six students were able to meet last installments on reg istration fees Saturday. Such jobs as cutting lawns, washing win dows,, fixing radios, irons, sweep ers, and cutting wood were the means of the earning of this money. Guild Hall Players to Present Variety Show November 24 Contrary to the policy of past years, the Guild Hall players this year will give a variety show as their first fall term production. The show is scheduled for Friday and Saturday, November 24 and 25, in the evening. Formerly the group opened its seasons with full length, serious plays. However, in the words of Mrs. Seybolt, the drama division’s director, this year the players and their associates will go completely frivolous. She states that there is not a serious thought in the whole program. Since the beginning of the term, the players, accompanied by cam pus musicians and entertainers, have been traveling to C.C.C. camps where they presented an evening's amusement for the boys. Their contributions have been wel comed enthusiastically in each case. In some camps, members have been found to be clever en tertainers in their own right. Some of these will be invited to take part in the players' variety show. Among the 33 campus actors to be added to the drama group this year are many singers, dancers, and comedians. Since “doubling in brass," the stage term for taking part in the play as an actor and in the interlude as an entertainer, is the order of the day in the C.C.C. camps, these little acts have been tried under production conditions, and therefore will not be new when given on the players’ variety pro gram. First there are the McCall bro thers, Tom and Harry, whom Mrs. Seybolt calls the “prize campus clowns.” They team up to enter tain with saxophone and banjo. Then there is Marion Bass, blues singer who caused the camp boys to sit up and take notice. She will appear with Dale Brown, pop ular campus pianist, as her ac companist. Gertrude Winslow and Helen Vinson will appear in specially ar ranged dance numbers. They promise to be gay and not to go “Mary Wigman” on us, Mrs. Sey bolt says. A number of one-act farces and black-outs have also been slated. Among them are “How Perfectly Absurd,” “Give the Audience a Chance,” and a duet for man and girl, depicting a love scene with a very modern economy of words. Finally, there is to be a Chinese grotesque in which Tom McCall plays the God of Fate. Even Jove himself could not tower more threateningly over puny man, says the director. The popular price list will be re leased later, as will the exact hour : of the show. It is planned to raise | the curtain early, possibly at 7:30. Library Plans Being Pushed To Completion Proposed Building Site Is Chosen PLANS CONSIDERED Proposed Infirmary Awaits Final Action; 30 Per Cent of Cost Would Be Gift Plans for the proposed $350,000 library oa the Oregon campus are being driven to completion, it was stated last night by F. E. Callis ter of Albany, member of the Oregon state board of higher edu cation and chairman of the build ing committee of the group. Ellis F. Lawrence, dean of the University school of fine arts, is in charge of plans for the project and is now completing them. Site Chosen The site for the proposed build ing has been chosen. The location will be the easl side of Kincaid street between Thirteenth and Fif teenth. This situation would place the library between Condon hall and the education building. Another site had originally been proposed. It is Thirteenth street between Condon and Johnson halls. Callister indicated that the selection of Kincaid had been made in order to provide for fu ture expansion. Plans Considered Tentative plans for the struc ture are now being considered by Governor Meier’s advisory com mittee of the Public Works ad ministration. Official action will be taken by the committee after Lawrence has submitted his com pleted plans. From this group the project can be forwarded directly to the Public Works administra tion in Washington, D. C. Awaiting final action of the PWA in Washington is the $100, 000 proposed infirmary for the campus here. Of the money sought by the University for ihe two projects, 30 per cent would be an outright gift and the remaining 70 per cent would be borrowed for repaymerit over a period of sev eral years. Honorary Has Formal Pledging on Tuesday Seven men were formally pledged into Alpha Kappa Psi, national professional fraternity for men in business administration, Tuesday evening. Those pledged were Ed gar Perry, Ralph Finseth, Ken neth Wood, Donald Heisler, Rob ert Crouter, Wayne Tyrell, and Donald Farr. During the course of the eve ning plans were made for a smoker that is to be held in the near future. Initiation for the pledges will take place Sunday, November 19, in Gerlinger at 10:30 p. m. Following the initiations, a dinner will be served at the An chorage. Smith to Speak at Y Hut Dr. Warren D. Smith will speak before the Graduate Students divi sion this evening at the YMCA hut. Order of O Will Assist In Organizing Rooting Group for Football Tilt Because of the enormous stress to be placed upon the cheer leaders, the Order of the O has arranged to assist in the organization of the cheering section at Portland this Satur day. The following men have been requested to be at the Multno mah stadium on the east side of the field at 12:20 Saturday af ternoon: Bob Miller, Ron Gem mell, Ike Donin, Jim Watts, Charlie Dolloss, Bob Wagner, Bill Berg, Don Olsen, Wally Hug, Sherwood Burr, Ted Gei secke, Gib Olinger, and Wes Clausen. All rooters are requested to cooperate with these men in making this rooting section a success. Chancellor Kerr Must Go, Declares Dean Morse T'\EAN WAYNE L. MORSE, center rf tho educational upheaval that has rocked the state for the past week, yesterday issued a statement calling- for the resignation of Chancellor W. J. Kerr, declaring that the chancellor can thus best serve the interests of higher education in Oregon. The statement, issued shortly after the resignation of Roscoe C. Nelson from the state board of higher education, follows: “Mr. Nelson's resignation is indicative of the true character of the man. I was convinced that when he fully appreciated the fact that his presence on the Board was inimical to harmony in higher education, he would resign. During the last few days Mr. Nelson has learned nifyiy facts concerning- higher education which he did not knew at the time he delivered his unfortunate speeches. As a result, he is now in a position to speak out to the people of this state, and knowing him to bte a (fearless man I sincerely hope that he will do so. Again I wish to' repeat that my controversy with Mr. Nelson has not been a personal one. I have not and shall not stoop to personal abuse. I am very fond of Mr. Nelson personally and my spirit of friendship has hot been extinguished by this con troversy, which simply had to come. “Intellectual honesty compels me to call the attention of the people of this state to the undeniable fact that harmony in higher education is impossible until a chancellor is appointed who is free from long-standing partisanship in educational controversies. I do not mean to reflect upon Dr. Kerr’s outstanding service to the State College. However, it must be obvious to all impartial observers that if Dr. Kerr is sincere when he states, as he has so many times, that he is devoted only to the best interests of higher education in the state, he can best accomplish this end by resigning from the chancellorship. Such an act on his part would be truly great and would enrich him in the history of Oregon. WAYNE L. MORSE” Correction Matle On Date of Arrival Of Col. Campbell Conflicting Information Received At Personnel Office Causes Misunderstanding The announcement made yester day stating- that Col. W. T. Camp bell, autogiro expert, would be on the campus was erroneously an nounced as a result of conflicting information received by the per sonnel office. Campbell will be here today and will either land in a field near the campus, or the plane will be at the Eugene airport, where students may inspect it if they wish. He will give an address at a public meeting to be held in Villard hall at 7:30. Campbell has lectured in 36 states during the past 18 months. He has delivered his address at Carnegie Institute of Technology, University of Illinois, Harvard'uni versity, University of Tennessee, and other colleges. Band Will Have Heavy Schedule at Portland A heavy schedule will confront the University of Oregon band upon its arrival in Portland. It will leave at 4:30 Friday after noon and arrive in Portland at about 8 o’clock. At 11 o’clock it will participate in a big down-towA rally. From then on it rests until 10 o’clock Saturday morning when it will assist in the Armistice day pa rade. At 12 o’clock it will play for the big student rally and then perform as usual at the game. The Oregon State band will also function on the ball field. , Rally Dance to Be Given Friday at Multnomah Hotel Celebration to be Broadcast From Arabian Boom Over KGVV And NBC System - - Two parties will take place at the Multnomah hotel in Portland in connection with the game fes tivities on Friday and Saturday. •The entertainment, to be held in the Arabian room, will feature Jim Taft’s 17-piece orchestra with Ed Cheney, who appeared on Broadway with Ed Wynne, in charge of the floor show. The Friday night rally, which is the one that has formerly been held in the studios of KGW, will be broadcast from the Arabian room over KGW and the NBC sys tem. The coaches and prominent sporting authorities will speak. The cover charge for each night is fixed at $1 50 a person. There will be no regular dinner, but food may be ordered from the set menu. For students with A. S. U. O. cards, the cover charge will be 75 cents on Friday night. Students Urged to See Art Exhibit in Portland Students are urged by the art and architectural departments to attend the art exhibit which is be ing held in Portland this week end. This is a rare opportunity which will not be available to the student body again. Besides Oregon’s own art and architectural exhibits, a collection of the old masters has been sent to Portland from New York ex pressly for this exhibition. According to Dean Lawrence of the school of fine arts, it will more than repay any student to spend some time at the exhibition. Campus Calendar Friday class in copy editing will read for next assignment the first four chapters in Dobbs’ Proof reading and Style. Copies on Eng lish reserve. _ Christian Science organization holds its regular meeting tonight at 8 in the Y. W. C. A. bungalow. Frosh Commission will meet at the Y. M. C. A. hut tonight at 7:30. All members be present. Heads of women’s houses must have their house rules in the dean of women’s office by 5 o'clock to day. Westminster operetta practice this afternoon at 5 o'clock. Important meeting of Phi Mu Alpha tonight at 7 in the lounge of the Music building. All mem bers are urged to be present. Pan Xenia, foreign trade profes sional fraternity, will meet to night at 7:30 in Gerlinger hall. Dr. H. J. Noble will be the speaker of the evening. Pledges and mem bers will be admitted. Meeting of the directorate for the Sophomore infoimal at 4 this afternoon at the Alpha Phi house. Amphibian meeting tonight at 7:30 in women’s swimming pool. All members be present. Music half-hour at the Y. YV. C. A. today between 4:45 and 5:15. World Fellowship group meets at the Y hut tonight at 9. Sigma Alpha Epsilon will have pictures for the Oregana taken today at Kennell-Ellis studio, 957 Willamette. Westminster Guild cabinet will meet this evening at 7:30 at West minster house. Students Given Permission to LeaveFriday Rally Train Tomorrow At 4:30 P. M. DEMAND SATISFIED Assembly Scheduled in Gorlinger Friday at 11 o’clock; Classes Dismissed A train will leave for Portland tomorrow at 4:30 p. m. for the benefit of all students desiring to go at that time. The originally planned rally train will still leave at 7:30 Saturday morning, accord ing to announcement of Tom Stod lard, assistant graduate manager On Friday morning at 11 o'clock, a rally assembly will be held in Gerlinger hall under the direction of Mickey Vail, chairman. All stu ients, whether planning to leave Friday or Saturday, should be at he rally, Vail said. Dean Wayne L. Morse of the school of law will be the principal speaker. Eleven o’clock classes will be dismissed lor the assembly. Hally Slated The train Friday afternoon will xrrive in Portland at 8 p. m., en xbling students to march from the ’entral depot with the University band, which will leave Friday, to he Broadway theater, where a ;hort rally will be held under the Jirection of Portland alumni of the University. Twelve members if the rally committee left today to take care of arrangements for x huge rally to be held at the Broadway theater at 10 o’clock, two hours after the first rally. Students using the Friday af ternoon train are urged to be at the Sixth avenue entrance of the Portland hotel at noon Saturday to participate in the rally preced ing the game from the hotel to Multnomah stadium. Arrangements Possible Classes will n^t be dismissed on Friday afternoon. Students with late afternoon classes can probably nakc some satisfactory arrange nent v/ith their professors, ac cording to Karl W. Onthank, dean xf personnel administration. A rumor was circulated around the campus yesterday that women would not be allowed to go on the Friday afternoon train. However, the student advisory committee, consisting of Dean Onthank; Mrs. Hazel P. Schwering, dean of wo men; James H. Gilbert, dean of he school of social science; Virgil D. Earl dean of men; L. K. Shu maker, supervisor of English bu reau; C. E. Spence, professor of law; and Tom Tongue, president jf the A. S. U. O., officially passed on the matter, and women will be permitted to go. Procedure Outlined All women who have not ex changed their student body cards for reserved seats to the game must do so before noon today at McArthur court. Absolutely no tickets will be issued on the train or in Portland. The game tickets will be shown on the train on the way to Portland, and a return ticket will be given each woman while en route. Men's student body cards will not be exchanged for tickets but will be shown for passage on the train and will be collected at the stadium. Men will also be given return train tickets while en route to Portland. Students of the medical school, who protested yesterday at not (Continued on Paye Turn) Hally Ties Purchased On Credit Must Be Paid For by Coming Friday All students who purchased rally ties on credit must pay for them on or before Friday, according to Bob Hunter, pres ident of the Order of the O. The agreement which the students signed specified that the ties must be paid for on the tenth of the month. The money will be collected by the Skull and Dagger representa tive in each house. Portland Oregonian Recommends Kerr Return to Corvallis University Faculty Should Choose Head From Own Members, Says Daily In Editorial Reverse PORTLAND, Nov. 8.— (Special)—The Portland Oregonian will declare editorially tomorrow that the only method of restoring peace to higher education will be by the selection of a man from outside the state as chancellor, letting Dr. W. J. Kerr return to Corvallis as president of the state college. The University faculty, the Oregonian says, should elect its president from the members of its faculty. The reversal of the Oregonian’s previous stand on the higher edu cational situation is explained as its conception of the only move which would meet the situation and “rescue higher education.” It laid the opposition to the chancellor to deep-seated prejudice in University circles against the selection of a man who once headed Independents to Hold Joint Dance Friday Evening Affair Will Be at Craftsman Club; Decorations, Entertainment To Carry Out Rally Idea The only dance scheduled on the social calendar of the University for Friday, November 10, the night before the Oregon-Oregon State game is the Independent Women Yeoman affair to be held jointly beginning at 8:30 in the Crafts man club, 850 East 14th strteet. The dance is to be semi-informal and will carry out a rally idea in decorations and entertainment. All Yeomen and Independent women holding membership in their organization are extended an invitation to attend; there will be a 20-cent admission charge to cover expenses. Patrons and patronesses for the dance are Mr. and Mrs. Harold Noble, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Cut ler, Mr. and Mrs. Clay E. Palmer, Mrs. Alice B. Macduff, and Mr! and Mrs. Kenneth Shumaker. Committees in charge of ar rangements include Laura Gold smith and Frank Evanson, chair men; Mega Means, refreshments; Teresa Nelson, program; and Hen riette Horak, publicity. Library la Busy Mid-term grades seem to have had a stimulating effect on study ing in general, if the amount of patronage of the library is any guage. For the last few days, there have been more people at work in the reserve departments than for any period so far this term. a rivat school. The full editorial, which appeared under the heading “We Indicate a Course," follows: "This newspaper concludes with regret that there never can be restoration of peace and progress in higher education in Oregon while Dr. Kerr remains as chan cellor. It believes this is due to no fault or any failure on the part of Dr. Kerr, but to conditions be yond his control or that of the board. The time has passed when ordinary measures can be expected to work substantial or lasting im provement. If their birthright of higher education is to be saved for the boys and girls of this and future generations in Oregon there will have to be extraordinary ac tion. At present, affairs are go ing from bad to worse. “Let Dr. Kerr be sent back to Corvallis as president of the state college. Let a president for the university be elected from among the members of the university fac ulty. Let the board find a new chancellor from without the state. "This newspaper was among those who approved the selection of Dr. Kerr as chancellor. It be lieved the selection was the best that could be made for the then existing situation. It believed Dr. Kerr would administer the chan cellorship competently, and that he would be fair to each and all of the institutions under his charge. He has fulfilled these ex pectations. “But prejudice in university cir cles against the chancellor who once headed a rival school was too deep to be overcome. Its depth had been underestimated by those who favored Dr. Kerr's elec tion, including this newspaper. It wept so deep that nothing the chancellor could do—and he has done many worthy things—ap (Continued on Page Three) Mae West Modes Featured In Dashing Display of Styles By I-IENRIETTE HORAK Mae West has come to the cam pus! One at a time, gentlemen, there is an amendment to that bold statement—Mae West has come to college in so far as wo men’s styles are concerned, and as evidenced by the type of clothes modeled at the A. W. S. style show in Gerlinger yesterday. Charles F’. Berg’s from Portland have caught the West trend and made it evident in the type of women’s clothes they sent to be modeled, dinner and dance dresses especially featured the protruding anatomi cal factors. The 400 coeds who came to set the latest in fall fashions, saw the latest, or perhaps a step aheac of the latest modes, and were left awed and gasping by the beauty and refined daring of some of the gowns. Dashing reds, vivid greens, soothing blues and blacks, glow ing silver and gold colors of the gowns left the coeds starry-eyed. High backs, low backs, and no backs at all, any of which shall be seen on dresses in the ballroom and at formal and informal din ners. Flannel, jersey, and satin pa jamas, in blues, reds, and delicate pinks brought forth a flutter of "ohs” and “ahs” from the coeds. Woolly robes and imported slip pers to match received murmurs of approval from the audience. Sturdy, yet good-looking sport clothes seemed to favor the animal part of the world. There were camel hair sports coats, swagger or belted, rabbits hair dresses, doe skin gloves, and pig skin shoes. The twin sweater sets and suede jackets, and hill-billy brushed wool sweaters are still to be favorites with college women. A dominat ing feature in sport clothes is the ascot scarf, which can be detached and quite change the style and chicness of a dres3. Yellow, brown, and maroon colors predominated in tne sport clothes. Some of the afternoon dresses showed the influence of Chinese culture in color selection and tunic style of design. A new type of monk-hood and nun collars, mak ing use of metal cloth, entranced the coeds with their mysterious ness and old world atmosphere. Dance and dinner dresses fea tured the Mae We3t silhouette, and were shown in various lengths. Jeweled clips worn in the hair with evening dresses are quite the thing, according to Miss Reifen rath, stylist from Berg’s, who de scribed the models and commented on their utility. Coats and eve (Continued on Faye Tivo)