ASUO Winter Term
Program Includes
Outstanding Concerts
Finley, Paddock
Head Students’
Committee for
Card Sale Drive
Yesterday, out of a bustling
graduate manager’s office in Me
Arthur court, popped the full pro
gram of the ASUO for the winter
term of 1936. And the program
ranges from the presentation of the
Ted Shawn male dancers, a troupe
of young men that in 1934 jarred
undemonstrative Londoners into
furious applause—to a squad of
fash-breaking, sensational basket
ball players that in pre-season con
tests has caused sports scribes to
hold their hats, sharpen their pen
cils, and nervously gabble about the
“Webfoot Giants.”
Craig Finley and Bill Paddock,
appointed by President Jim Blais
as co-chairmen of this term’s ticket
drive, announced last night that a
committee for this drive would be
appointed later.
Leaders Discuss Drive
“In the present drive for ASUO
members, we believe that it is more
important to stress the value re
ceived in the purchase of the ticket
rather than the great and rather
outmoded emphasis on a nebulous
thing like school spirit,” Finley and
Paddock said last n ight.
“People with a heightened sense
of loyalty to the University of Ore
gon will purchase tickets because
they appreciate the necessity of
maintaining the institution as a
broad school of academic excellence
and extra-curricular offerings. We
seek to interest students who de
mand not only an adequate activity
program but also sound interest
on their investment from a mone
tary standpoint.”
Information evaluating: the
worth of the eoneert series to be
presented here will be found on
the editorial page.
Varied Groups Come
The University of Oregon concert
series this year brings a varied
gVoup of artists. On January 8 the
famous Ted Shawn men dancers
present a unique program of dances
executed entirely by men.
On January 23 the Latvian Rus
sian singers, a choral group singing
songs of Russia demonstrating the
ritual of the High Russian Ortho
dox church, folk songs, and dances.
The Portland Symphony orches
tra under the direction of Willem
Van Hoogstraten is scheduled to
appear in February. Also antici
pated is the University Symphonv
orchestra under the direction of
Mischa Pelz, guest conductor, in
conjunction with the Christianson
Ballet, guest artists appearing in
Portland this winter with the Port
land Symphony orchestra.
In addition there will be two con
certs by the University of Oregon
concert band directed by John
Stehn, who in band circles is con
sidered one of the leaders in that
activity. Under the direction of
Rex Underwood, two concerts will
be presented by the University
Symphony orchestra.
In conjunction with the extensive
music program which is being car
ried on by the schools of Lane coun
ty, the Associated Students of the
University of Oregon are hoping to
do their share in promoting interest
in such an enterprise by offering
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Students Moan as
Only Official Holiday
Falls on Saturday
Students are moaning this
year. Not only are there no hol
idays this term, but Memorial
day, May 30, falls on Saturday.
Students without Saturday
classes have continuous school
for the next two terms, accord
ing to the official calendar.
$11.15 Value for $5.00
Since it is common knowledge as to the eligibility of members
and non-members of the ASUO as regards participation in all stu
dent body activities, and since it is generally understood that active
participation in student government depends upon the ownership
of an ASUO card, the better approach this year (as in ail years)
is the economic and educational approach. In other words just haw
good an investment is the five dollar card? As regards the eco
nomic justification of the program—the figures speak for them
selves : *
CONCERT SERIES:
Ted Shawn Dancers, Jan. 8.$1.10
University Band Concert, Jan. 19.55
Russian Latvian Singers, Jan. 23. 1.10
Eugene Gleemen, Feb. 4. *
University Symphony, Feb. 13.55
Portland Symphony, Feb. 23. 1.10
University Band Concert, March 8.'.... .55
EMERALD . 1.00
EASKETBALL GAMES:
Oregon vs. Idaho, Jan. 13.40
Oregon vs. Idaho, Jan. 14.40
Oregon vs. O.S.C., Jan. 17. 40
Oregon vs. Washington, Jan. 31.40
Oregon vs. Washington, Feb. 1.40
Oregon vs. Washington State, Feb. 17...40
Oregon vs. Washington State, Feb. 18.40
Oregon vs. O.S.C., Feb. 22..:.40
Eight Freshman basketball games @ .25. 2.00
TOTAL .$11.15
PRICE OF ASUO CARD . 5.00
(ASUO card admits holder free to above mentioned events.-)
*The admission price of the Eugene Gleeman concert has not,
as yet, been determined.
Potentially Great, Colorfully
Alluring..Oregon's Team
On December 23, in Portland’s
Jefferson high school gymnasium,
a crowd of 2000 sat uneasily watch
ing two green high school basket
ball teams staggering erratically
through a preliminary contest.
Once the youngsters cleared the
floor, received the plaudits of an
amused and slightly eager pre-sea
son basketball gallery, sports writ
ers, coffee coaches, and athletic
wiseacres settled back to brush up
their critical acumen.
Finally a door in the west end of
Jefferson gym opened, a yellow
clad team took the floor, and the
Oregon varsity a la Howard Hob
son, and the spirit of ’36, made its
debut in Portland collegiate bas
ketball.
More than one eyebrow was
raised as the Portland citizenry ap
praised such gentlemen as the fur
tive Sam Liebowitz, the graceful
Chuck Patterson, the beefy Ward
Howell, and the calm Willie Jones.
Some smiled slowly as a little ball
hawking Indian darted in and out
dribbling a basketball with the stac
cato movement of a woodpecker on
a drain pipe.
Union Oil, the opponents of the
evening, slouched easily through
the warm up with the aplomb of
seasoned veterans that they were.
The first half of the contest
opened with aforementioned sea
soned veterans repeatedly sticking
their fingers in the Oregon pie. This
curious combination of Oregon ball
players was as skittish as a team
of brewery horses.
One by one the bench personnel
was changed—as Hobson attempted
to settle his bungling team. But
shock troops too fell before the
merciless and cold attack of Union
Oil and company. They knew how
to handle a team on the floozie—.
Most of Union Oil’s personnel had
handled the best that intercollegiate
basketball had to offer before.
The half ended 22 to 11 with the
spectators manifestly skeptical of
Oregon’s ability to beat an egg
much less the stiff competition
placed before them by fellow col
leges.
It was a dark evening at this
point.
But what happened in the second
half created a spark that has set
fire to Oregon's basketball support
and pointed a sharp and pugnacious
Duck bill toward the crown that
rests uneasily on the head of the
Oregon State Beaver.
Portland papers said that the
Webfoots swept the floor. They
not only swept the floor but they
polished it. The dusky arms of
Messr. Patterson repeatedly wound
around the Oregon basket, gathered
in missed shots, slipped the ball
discreetly to a lurking little In
dian lad, and the Oregon team con
verged on the Union Oil hoop like
the Johnstown flood.
When McClean didn’t rifle a pass
to Patterson under the basket,
Slippery Sam Liebowitz performed
a half-ganor and swished the net
with the greatest of ease. Oregon
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Master of Men Dancets
Toil Shawn, organizer and director of the Ted Shawn Mon Dancers,
who have been acclaimed by critics as artists in the art of the dance.
The Ted Shawn troupe, four of whom are ex-college athletes, will
appear before the students of the University as one of the many
attractions offered by the AStO concert series.
February GJSet
For Dr. Boyer’s
Inauguration
Formal Ceremony
Will See All Day ‘
Session in Honor
Of UO President
Formal inauguration of Dr. Clar
ertce Valentine Boyer as the sixth
president of the University of Ore
gon, will take place Thursday, Feb
ruary 6. At that time an all-day
session of representatives of other
colleges and universities, faculty
and students of the University, and
citizens of Oregon will take place.
The inauguration ceremony, to he
held in the afternoon, will be the
leading event.
” Two groups, one representing the
liberal arts and the other the pro
fessional schools as found in mod
ern higher educational institutions,
will hold separate sessions in the
morning. The public has been in
vited to attend all meetings, in
cluding the inauguration.
Starts April 1934
Dr. Boyer took up the actual
work as president, of the University
April 16, 1934, after serving as act
ing president from January 15,
1934. His predecessors as head of
the institution were J. W. Johnson,
who served from August 9, 1876,
the year in which the institution
opened, to March 30, 1893; Charles!
H. Chapman, July 25, 1893 to June
5, 1899; Dr. Frank Strong, June 15,
1899 to July 1, 1902; Prince Lucien
Campbell, July 1, 1902 to August
14, 1925; and Arnold B. Hall, Sep
tember 1, 1926 to September 6,
1932..
Dr. Boyer came to the University
has head of the English department
in 1926, after 15 years at the Uni
versity of Illinois. He was named
dean of the college of arts and let
ters in 1932. He is a graduate of
Princeton university, where he also
received the degree of doctor of
philosophy in 1911. He has also
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Clear Sailing
Ahead,U of 0
Out of Calms
Accomplishments
Of Past Term
Show University
On Recovery Path
By FRED COLVIG
Sails that flapped listlessly in the
depression’s four-year doldrums are
filled with a fresh, strong-, steady
breeze, and the University of Ore
gon is away again, pennants flying.
Scholastically, socially, and athlet
ically the University has cleared
the baffling economic horse lati
tudes.
Blue water and a fair breeze
could have no more significance to
a sea-faring man than the rise in
enrollment at the University has to
the educators at its helm. With the
onset of the depression, the student
population at the University
dropped alarmingly. In the past
term enrollment regained its pre
depression level, and the expectancy
now is for it soon to reach even
greater heights.
Honors Again Come
Scholastically, liberal recogni
tion was heaped upon the Univer
sity last term, particularly, from
the Carnegie Foundation of New
York, which for the fifth successive
year chose the University of Ore
gon as its western art center; from
the society for the international
cultural relations of Japan, under
whose auspices Jiro Harada is now
visiting the campus; and from the
Carnegie endowment for interna
tional peace, which sent Dr. C. G.
S. de Villiers for a month’s stay on
the campus to lecture on interna
tional relations.
Athletically speaking, a rugged
and high-spirited Lemon and Green
team kept the University on the
football map defeating both Oregon
State college and the University of
Washington, in a season, however,
saddened by the death of Walter
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Students to Parade
i
In Annual Bunion
Derby Friday Night
Open House Schedule
TJELOW is the “line of march” to be followed for the annual
Open House event Friday night. The men's groups will start
promptly at 7 p. m. at the house or hall listed immediately opposite
theirs. They will proceed consecutively down the list, stopping at
eanh women's organization for 10 minutes only. They must observe
the “10-minute wait” periods. After reaching the bottom, they
should start at the top of the list and approach the house from
which they started.
OPEN HOUSE
1. Alpha hall
2. Alpha Tan Omega
3. Beta Theta PI
4. Chi Psi
5. Delta Tan Delta
6. Gamma hall
7. Delta llpsilon
8. Kappa Sigma
9. Law Students
10. Omega hall
11. Phi Gamma Delta
12. Phi Delta 'J’heta
13. Phi Kappa Psi
14. Phi Sigma Kappa
15. Pi Kappa Alpha
16. Sigma hall
17. Sigma Alpha Mu
18. Sigma Alpha F.psilon
19. Sigma Chi
20. Sigma Phi Epsilon
21. Sigma Nu
22. Students’ Cooperative
Living Assoeiation.
23. Theta Clil
24. Yeomen
25. Zeta hall
1. Delta Delta Della
2. 10-minute wait
3. Sigma Kappa
4. Alpha Omieron Pi
5. Zeta Tau Alpha (1070 Alder)
0. Alpha Gamma Delta
7. Delta Gamma
8. 10-minute wait
9. Kappa Alpha Theta
10. Kappa Kappa Gamma
11. Alpha Chi Omega
12. Pi Beta Phi
13. 10-mlnute wait
14. Chi Omega
15. Phi Mu
16. Alpha Xi Delta
17. Orides •
17. Orides (Green Parrot Palms)
18. 10-minute wait
19. Alpha Phi
20. Gamma Phi Beta
21. Alpha Delta Pi
22. 10-minute wait
23. Hendricks hall (there)
24. Susan Campbell hall (there)
24. 10-minute wait.
Alpha Delta Sigma Bargain
Ball Next in Social Whirl
Alpha Delta Sigma will take over
the Green Parrot Palms Saturday
night, January 4, 1936, when they
stage their annual informal dance.
This year’s shindig is entitled “The
Bargain Ball” and is the successor
to last year’s gigantic “Esquire”
dance. Johnny Bush, up and coming
maestro from the Corvallis cam
pus, will furnish rhythmic melodjes
for the affair.
Tickets will be on sale at aii liv
ing organizations, the price of ad
mission being 99 cents per couple.
First all-campus dance of winter
term, the “Bargain Ball" promises
to start the term with a bang. Over
$150 in merchandise will be given
away. Everyone will receive favors
such as cigarettes, tooth paste, pow
der, perfume, candy, powder puffs,
etc. Each person will receive favors
with a total value of over 50 cents.
In addition to the favors, more
than 30 door prizes will go to hold
ers of lucky admission tickets.
Prizes are on display in the College
Ride window.
School Closes
Early This Year
New Exam Schedule
Tried Winter Term
Commencement exercises for the
University will be held on June 1
this year. Final exams for spring
term start the same day and run to
June 5.
Shorter vacations at Christmas
ancf between winter and spring
terms are the main reasons for the
early end of school. Also there are
no holidays during winter term.
Final exams for winter term
start on Thursday, March 12, and
finish on Tuesday, March 17. Spring
vacation lasts only until the fol
lowing Monday, March 23, which is
registration day for spring term.
Dean Allen Expected
Back Tomorrow
Eric W. Allen, dean nf the school
of journalism, is expected back
Friday from Washington, D. C.,
where he has been attending the
convention of the American Asso
ciation of Schools and Departments
of Journalism, in which he is active.
Dean Allen is a former president of
the organization.
Faculty Members
Speak at Portland
Chancellor Hunter and several
members of the University of Ore
gon faculty spoke at the conven
tion of the Oregon State Teachers’
association at Portland. The con
vention opened Thursday, Dec. 26
and closed Saturday, Dec. 28.
Portland Symphony^Orchestra Plays Here in February
Classic Open
House Trek Is
One Term Later
Than Other Years
Buoyant bipeds will scrape the
polished floor as the traditional
“open house” rolls around a term
late, Friday night, January 3, 1936.
Starting at 7 p. m. young gaffers
from the tongs and tribes will sally
forth in quest of campus muliebrity.
Open house is held each year for
the avowed purpose of acquainting
all the students, old and new, on
the campus with one another. It
serves several purposes, to wit: 1.
Gives the swain a good excuse to
contact an unknown but delectable
plum of the distaff line. 2. Give3
the plum a chance to see to it that
she is met by a palmy drake. 3
Gives both, especially the young
bucks, a "cheval de bataille” on
which to set up the dates for the
rest of the year, “Yeah, met you at
open house. Don’t you remember
me?”
Forty-four organizations will
participate in open house Friday
evening. Because there are more
men’s organizations taking part in
the affair than women’s groups it
is necessary that the men observe
six “10-minute wait” periods dur
ing their trek.
Following' is an example of the
procedure: Delta Upsilon is sched
uled to visit Delta Gamma. Listed
as their next point of call is “10
minute wait,” rather than another
house. After the Interval of 10 min
utes they are listed to visit the Kap
pa Alpha Theta girls.
It will be necessary to watch
these “10-minute wait” periods
closely, by watch, in order to avoid
confusion.
A complete schedule is to be
found in a box adjoining this story.
The men’s groups are instructed to
start with the house or hall listed
immediately opposite theirs and
proceed consecutively at 10-minute
intervals down the list. When the
bottom is reached they will start at
the top and approach the house
from which they started. If the
men will be prompt in their arrivals
and departures, it will greatly facil
itate the machinery of open house.
Moving'of ROTC
Barracks Starts
Construction on Men’s
Gym Starts Next Month
First steps in the construction of
the new men’s gymnasium at the
University were taken this week as
workmen prepared to move the Re
serve Officers Training Corps build
ing off the site chosen for the long
needed campus unit.
PWA funds advanced by the fed
eral government made the gymna
sium possible. It will be located on
University street ranging south to
within a few feet of McArthur
court. With its completion all ath
letic activities on the campus will
be centralized.
The R.O.T.C. headquarters will
be moved to the former drill field on
Fifteenth street west of Hayward
field. Actual work on the gymna
sium is expected to start next
month.
From 1906 to 1910, football
fields were marked like checker
boards into five-foot squares.
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Alpha Delta Sigma, important
meeting in College Side upstairs at
1 p. m. today.