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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 19, 1938)
Shan-Kar Will Present Music and Dances of India Zora, Shan-Kar, Simkie ... in the Vilasa, dance of love. f • • .. .r.-..-^r-v."-I Malhavar . . . strikes a pose as Kartikeyya, the god of love. Three girls of the chorus ... in a native dance. Shan-Kar . . . wields an implement in one of the dances. Colleges Near R uin Says Carnegie Body By ALYCE ROGERS The Carnegie Foundation for the advancement of teaching recently reported that unbridled competition has so extended to American col leges that those institutions are on the verge of ruin. The foundation views with alarm the increasingly greater problem of “maladjustment” in college. This problem is that of college students having only the vaguest of ideas in reeard to their college life and training. Cut rates, rebates, and the like have produced man’ and slightly shady practices whicl bring hundreds of students inti colleges who have no idea of wh; they are there or what they an going to do once they are there.— Los Angeles Collegian. Not So Cheap ... "How's your son doing in col lege ?” “Well, I guess he must be doinj pretty well in languages. I jus paid for the courses — $100 fo Latin, S10 for Greek, and $100 fo Scotch.”—Exchanges. Experience Wanted. Social workers may dry some o their tears for the under-educatei girls who can’t earn a living and direct some attention to the young women college graduates who can’t find jobs in Washington. The girl college graduate is a serious unemployment problem here in the capital, according to a recent report to American Associa tion of University Women. They may be highly trained, say, in home economics, but they can’t get prac tical experience until they find jobs. The report suggested college training that includes practical ex perience. A course in dietetics, for instance, would include six months’ restaurant work during the junior and senior years, beginning at the humble task of potato peeling. Hindu Ballet To Perform Monday Night Greeters Committee. Skull and Dagger To Greet Dancers On Arrival The time? Monday night at 8:30. The place? McArthur court. Who? Uday Shan-Kar and his Hindu ballet. Approximately 4000 persons are expected to flock to McArthur court Monday night to witness Shan-Kar and his talented troupe in dances and music in the style of India, presented by masters of the art. The University of Oregon offi cial greeters’ committee headed by Chairman Jack Enders, together with Skull and Dagger, sopho more men’s servive honorary, will be at the station to greet the Hindu group when they arrive in Eu gene late Monday afternoon. The University representatives will ex tend an official welcome to Shan Kar and his ballet, and will then escort them to their hotel. Brings Large Troupe Extra stage hands will be re cruited in Eugene to augment the working crew which travels with Shan-Kar. The troupe brings its own stage sets, lighting equipment, and musical instruments, plus 27 trunks of costumes used in the pre sentation. Much of the beauty of the ballet is said to be in the heavily decorated costumes of the dancers. This will be the last chance for Eugene people to witness the spec tacle of Shan-Kar's ballet, this being his farewell tour of the world. After his current tour, Shan-Kar will retire to his native India where he will found an all India center of Hindu arts. Good seats for the event are still available, according to concert tic ket offices in McArthur court, with reserved seats at $1.50 and $1.25, and general admission 50 cents. Ballet Movements Interpret Emotions Gestures play a major part in Hindu dancing. The hands, neck, and eyes are particularly expres sive. When the dancers tell of some simple love story, a circle of the arms becomes a sign of love, while joined hands with fingers inter locked means strength. A simple swist of the wrists with the fin gers laced together will mean the epitome of mother love. There are 55 different hand movements or “mudras” employed by the Hindu dancers in their ballets. While the hand-gestures indicate ideas and objects, the emotions are expressed by the head and eyes. Certain glances convey certain emotional states. A side-to-side swaying of the head signifies a feeling of affection, of mounting pleasure, of sympathetical saying “Well done!’’ Shan-Kar’s dances deal with love, playing its whole octave of emotions, rising finally to their culmination in the rarified air of divinity. His dances also deal with gods, whose dramas are the dra mas of human beings elaborately symbolized. Hindu Princesses In Dance Troupe Two Hindu princesses are among the dancers of the troupe. Both spring from a famous line of ma harajahs, and both have western education. Probably the most glamorous of the women in the troupe is Simkie, the only non-Hindu member of the company. Simkie is a French wo man who has embraced the Hindu faith, now taking the major femi nine part in the ballet. All of the members of Shan Kar’s troupe are high caste Brah mans. Despite an age-old Brahman prohibition against appearing in public performances in alien lands, an exception has been made in the case of Shan-Kar and his company, since they so perfectly express the culture of the Hindus. The red cir cle or caste mark of the Brahmans which is painted in the center of the forehead is also worn by Sim kie. Dorothy Davidson, ’31, who re cently married John Baird, is liv ing in Aiea, Oahu, Hawaii, where she is recreation director for a plantation company. AWS Nominating Group Meeting Today Seen as ForerunnerofHotContest Possible forerunner of a red-hot political campaign is this morning's meetings of the AWS nominating committee, which comes together to choose candidates for the March 2 elections. The committee will make first nominations, with the addition of nominations from the floor scheduled for March 1, the day before elections. Candidates for the various offices of the women students’ Speech Class Reaches Peak Of Democracy Practical democracy has reached its ultimate Utopian peak in Professor Dahlberg's 1 o’clock extempore speaking class. Yesterday members of the class took a vote to see whether they should have a class or not. The count was nay, 10, aye, 0, not voting 4. So they got up and walked away. When Walt Eschebeck, who •was taking Mr. Dahlberg’s place for the day, got there, the ech oes of the 1 o’clock bell were still reverberating in the cor ners of the hall. But the room was empty. Mr. Eschebeck called the roll and dismissed class for the day. Two students who were late were just in time. Girls' Rifle Team Leads in Matches — 'DeadEyes' Hit Wins Over Kan., Nev., Mo., Mich. Compilations from the result of matches shot during the past two weeks with six other universities and colleges in the United States, show that the Oregon girls’ rifle team is leading in the postal matches wrhich they have shot up to date. In the match shot last week the Oregon team won three matches and tied four. The scores in the fiv^ girls’ teams were: University of Kansas, 486; University of Ne vada, 494; University of Missouri, 500; and University of Oregon, 500. Four perfect scores were shot in last week’s match by Constance Kletzer, Louise Woodruff, Mar jory Bates and Dorothy Burke. In the postal match shot two weeks ago, Oregon again finished on top by winning from Gettys burg college and the University of Michigan. A match with the champion girls’ rifle team in the United States, the Carnegie Institute of Technology, is among the postal matches scheduled for this week for the Oregon team. Browsing Room Designers to Meet Sunday at Library The committee in charge of de signing furniture for the browsing room of the University library will meet there Sunday morning to make a further study of the room in preparation for ordering addi tional furnishings, says M. H. Douglass, University librarian. Further decisions as to color scheme and draperies will be made at that time, when the building is unoccupied. The committee is composed of three members. They are Miss Brownell Frasier, general chair man, Miss Maude Kerns, and Mr. Wallace Hayden. Art 'Champeens' Hold Tournament Two more games in the inter desk “champeenship” tournament : of the architecture drafting room 1 were played off Thursday evening. In a first series game Gerald McGonigle defeated John Link, 21-17, 21-5. Lynn Child won the first game in the second series by defeating Verlin Wolfe, 21-17, 21-19 organizations win oe piCKeu. The opening of the present cam paign for AWS positions sets the political pot simmering in women's houses about the campus. Party lines could not be drawn at this early date, but it is believed that similar lineups to the one which swept in the present AWS adminis tration might prevail. Hot Contest Possible If this year’s campaign has any thing like last year’s finish, cam pus politics, both male and female, are in for a treat. When the final tallying of votes was made last year, the electees were named, but no report of votes cast or of mar gins of victory made. The ballots were immediately burned, eliminat ing all possibility of a check or recount, whereupon the lid blew off women’s politics on the campus. 1 The nominating committee con sists of Brandon Young, Vivian Emery, Harriet Thompson, Vivian Runte, Aaida Macchi, Anne Fred ericksen, Gayle Buchanan, and Dean Hazel P. Schwering, adviser. I Cornish Article in February Magazine The February issue of the Ore gon Merchant’s magazine carries the first of a new series of articles on special sales in Oregon stores by Dr. N. H. Cornish, professor of business administration. The ar ticle is entitled “The Prevalence of Special Sales in Oregon Stores.” To obtain data for these articles, Dr. Cornish and four of his re search students, Donald Farr, As tor Loback, Alvin Overgard and Charles H. Sandifur, interviewed 277 selected Oregon merchants from small towns. They found that more than two-thirds of retail stores have bargain sales at least once a year. Department stores i have them more frequently than any other type, and drug stores have them very rarely. Ten jSemi-Finalists Named in Emerald Lucky Strike Contest Cow is Aid to Mankind, Says History Prof Where would mankind be to day without the cow? Nowhere, declares John T. C.anoe, associate professor of history. Where civilized man has gone, so has the cow. Where the cow goes, there goes civili zation. In short, the history of man is the history of the cow. God bless the cow. Nationally Famous Adviser Sue Here AWS Will Sponsor Personality Meets Starting Monday Elizabeth MacDonald Osbourne, nationally known personality con sultant, will arrive on the Oregon campus Monday under the auspic es of the Associated Women Stu dents to begin a series of personal conferences with campus men and women. Four years away from home in the companionship of one's own contemporaries should serve as ex cellent training in developing an attractive appearance and genuine personality; in overcoming oddi ties and in forming good habits, Miss Osbourne states. “An opportunity for gaining all this is offered on every campus but the unobserving ones—those who need help most—see neither their opportunities nor their own short comings. This is the gap which my work is designed to fill.” While Miss Osbourne is on the campus she will have ample time to observe the social activities as a (Please turn to pane three) Library in Need of Funds To Relieve Congestion By Extension of Hours By PAT ERICKSON An extension of library hours causing- the University library to open at 2 instead of 2:30 on Sunday afternoons in the future starting tomorrow is the first step in a program towards relieving library con gestion, M. H. Douglass, librarian, said yesterday. A statement prepared by the librarian’s office shows the need of the library for increased funds to hire more helpers. r or me next two weens ax least, the library will be open on Friday and Sunday evenings. “A continu ation of this depends on funds granted,” Mr. Douglass said. With sufficient funds and help available, it would also be possible to open seminar and reading rooms on the third floor which are now unused. This would only be done “if their use were justified,” Mr. Douglass stated. Hope for Old Schedule Through the present request for Increased funds, the library hopes to get back on its old schedule. The circulation department is now open 80% hours a week, whereas in pre-depression days it was open 941,2. The Oregon State library is at present open 88 hours a week. As for the University library re serves, they are now open 80 hours a week, compared to 94% in pre depression days. OSC reserves are available 85 hours a week. Book Desks Increased An increase in business this yea’ shews the need for more trained helpers to take care of the rush properly. Book circulation for the month of January shows an 8 per cent increase over the month of January last year, while periodical circulation has boomed to a 55 per cent increase for that period. (Please turn lo page (our) University Radio Players in Show Today Over KORE University radio players will present a program today, Satur day, which will be a dramatization of the development of trucking in this country. The broadcast, one of a weekly Saturday series, on vocations and employment, is scheduled to start at 1:45 p.m. over KORE. The program was previously an nounced for Sunday, which was in correct. Those taking part will be Arthur Porter, Freeman Patton, Laura Bryant, and Dolph Janes. V OFFICIALS LEAVE Officials of the local YMCA and YWCA are leaving this morning for a joint conference with the Cor vallis group. They will make plans for the summer conference at Sea beck, Washington. Those going are: Mrs. John Evans, John Cas teel, Miss Harriet Thompson, Frank Chambers, Miss Janet Smith, Dr. Nelson Bossing, Francis Beck. Margaret Keene, '37, is now em ployed in a jewelry store in Spo kane. News Commentator Post Auditions Draw Record Number of Students for Five Colleges Having Broadcasts BULLETIN Jean Rawson, sophomore, Kay Dougherty, freshman, Hallie Dudrey, senior, Roy Schwartz, senior, Luther Seibert, junior, Freeman Patten, sophomore, Dolph Janes, freshman, Paul Stew art, senior, Howard Kessler, senior, and Mary Alice Hutchins, sophomore, are the ten students chosen by the judges to broad cast in the semi-finals of the Daily Emerald-Lucky Strike news broadcast. Two alternates, Sanford Moose, sophomore, and Adelaide Zweifel, freshman, were named. Miss Rawson will start the first of the series Monday night. With the closing of the educational activities building doors last night at ten o'clock, auditions ended for the position of news com mentator on the Daily Emerald-Lucky Strike radio broadcasts. A week's total of 1262 persons signed up to take the audition, while 1163 went through the actual voice test. Due to the late hour the judging was completed last night, no chance was found to check the semi-finalists’ names against the regis trar’s books to see if the contest ants are regularly enrolled under graduates. Alternates will be avail able if any of the ten are found not to be enrolled in the Univer sity, the judges announced. Broadcasts Next Step The ten semi-finalists will each receive a prize of $10 from the Lucky Strike company and will compete by broadcasting one night each for the next two weeks’ pro grams. Records of the broadcasts will be sent to Boake Carter and Edwin C. Hill, nationally, known radio commentators, for judging. The two finalists will be regularly employed on the news programs over KORE each night at 10:30 starting Monday night. They will (Please turn to page three) Two $1,000 Awards Offered to Authors Two literary fellowships carry ing an award of $1,000 in addition to subsequent royalties are being offered by the Houghton Mifflin company in Boston, Massachusetts. These will be awarded to promis ing writers who are in need of fi nancial assistance to complete pro jected books. One fellowship will be given for a fiction project and one for a non fiction project. In making applications for an award, candidates will be expect ed to submit examples of past work, published and unpublished, as well as definite plans for the project for which the award is asked, including a detailed synop sis or a tentative table of con tents. Applications must be received by April 1. Information may be received from the company at 2 Park street, Boston. George Hopkins Soloist for NBC Hook-up Concert 'Big Broadcast' by Symphony Will Be February 27 Featured soloist on the “big broadcast’’ of the University sym phony orchestra over NBC net work February 27 will be George Hopkins, professor of music at the University, it was announced by Rex Underwood yesterday. Mr. Hopkins, will give the last movement of the famous Beetho ven concerto, with the accompani ment of the symphony orchestra. The piano solo will be one of the main features of the program. As announced recently by John J. Landsbury, dean of the music school, the broadcast will be sent from the music auditorium over the blue network of the National Broadcasting company, and very possibly may be presented over a coast-to-coast network. The broad cast will be one-half hour in length, from 3:30 to 4 on Sunday after noon. Mr. Hopkins is well known throughout the Pacific coast foi hi3 mastery of the keyboard. Sev eral concert tours have added to his musical prestige. His latest success was as one of the soloists on the concerto program presented with the University symphony or chestra in the music auditorium last month. In addition to the Beethoven con certo, a program of distinguished concert favorites, not yet chosen, (Please turn to page three) Stude Gives Lowdown On "Fags' at Audition Mirth and criticism yesterday entered the Lucky Strike auditions when Mr. Jack Fruit, trained in strict physical condition as a boxer and famed for refusing to join the ranks of the now-famous Portland goon squad, walked into the audition room and gave his opinion of smoking and cigarette advertising. To the dismay of the technician and others Mr. Fruit read his script, written by himself, which he claims is the “truth.” Now this is what Mr. Fruit read into the mike for the judges and for the recording: “The idea behind a university is to educate our youth toward the practical and finer things of life. Now, the colleges and universities throughout the land are fast be coming advertising headquarters for the leading tobacco companies of the country. I think Oregon is to be congratulated on being cho sen the principal victim of the coast, after all, it is not every school's chance to be educated which cigarette is kindest to your throat. "Maybe ‘Luckies’ don’t give you the ‘lift,’ but then you won’t have so far to fall when your health is gone. Boys and girls! think of the advantage: this is your lucky strike.” All the technician could think to say was, "Where did you get that commercial?” Mr. Fruit now owns a flat fifty of cigarettes he condemns, and his recording, featured by a rapid lingo is a popular campus memento.
