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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 30, 1938)
Enrollment Hits Record Spring High Registration of 2829 Brings 10 Per Cent Increase Over Last Spring Total An all time high in spring term registration, a total increase of 10 per cent over the same period in 1937, was reached Monday with a total of 2829 students enrolled at the University, it was announced yesterday toy C. L. Constance, as sistant registrar. There were 2563 registered for the same period last year. There are 281 men, or an in crease of 18 per cent, over spring term for last year. Only five more j women are registered, however. The largest class, as usual, is the sophomore, which shows an in crease of 14 per cent; the seniors show an increase of 19 per cent, freshmen, 7 per cent, while the juniors show a decrease of 3 per cent. Grads Increase Graduate students have in-! creased 20 per cent, professional students show a decrease of 13 per cent, while special students have increased 15 per cent. The business administration is the largest school on the campus, boasting of an enrollment of 777 students, a gain of 21 per cent over last year. The physical edu cation department shows a larger (Please turn to page two) ;V w ▼ t Vr'r'T -vw ^ w * Students Should Study for Work In a Democracy By ALYCE ROGERS U. S. college and university stu dents should be given a broad training for active participating in a democracy, and not a special- j ized training for work in govern mental agencies. This was the conclusion reached by more than twro-score college and university presidents after a symposium on civic education at the University of Cincinnati re cently. 13 !3 9 Novel Pins ... College men need no longer hes itate to ask a coed for a date for fear that she is “going steady” if a recent fad for novel wooden “yes” and “no” pins continues. A University coed, wearer of one of the laconic emblems, ex plained the significance of the pin-wearing fad which has swept the University of Missouri cam pus. It seems that a coed wearing a “no” pin is a one-man woman while she who wrears the wooden “yes” is not limiting her dates to a single admirer. 0 S3 ?-* Our 1938 1. Legs by Barclay. 2. Body by Fisher. 3. Complexion by Lux. 4. Necks by the hour. —Detroit Tech. < Peace Speaker 1.... Kirby Page ... to speak at second assembly Thursday at 10, On world affairs. Kemler Announces Novel Queen Contest Selection Committee To Name Weekend Royalist Is New Queen-picking, 1938 style, is the system detailed yesterday by Zane Kemler, junior class presi dent, for choosing the girl who for three days will rule the campus as queen of Junior weekend, May 6, 7, and 8. Under the new system a selec tion committee plays an important part. The committee is composed of five boys and five girls, picked at random, and three members of the art school faculty. Each house will put up a girl candidate, and this list, together with any girls which the commit tee feels ought to be added, will appear before the committee this Friday. Out of the total number, five girls will be selected by the committee to be put up to a pop ular vote at the first of next week, probably on Tuesday. ASUO mem bership will constitute eligibility to vote for the queen. “The aim of this system, pat terned somewhat after the one by which Miss Oregon was selected last year, is to find the girl who has the poise as well as popularity to best exemplify the office,” Kemler said. Publication Petitions Due Saturday Noon Applications are now in order for the positions of Emerald editor, Emerald business manager, Ore gana editor, and Oregana manager, according to an announcement re leased yesterday from the educa tional activities office. Applications must be filed in the educational activities office by noon on Saturday, April 2. Information on the applications should include the name of the applicant, the position petitioned for, previous experience, including high school or other experience, and what the applicant would do if given the appointment. Although petitions will be re ceived this weekend for the posi tion of Emerald business manager, the appointment will not be made until May to give the committee an opportunity to view the work. Plans Formed To Broadcast Over EOAC Committee Headed By Dahlberg Will Study Local Angles The scheduled reestablishment of broadcasting from the University campus through KOAC, provided for by the state board at its last meeting, brings renewed and in tensified1 activity here as plans take for the development of this new phase of university activity. A new committee headed by W. A. Dahlberg of the speech de partment last week began func tioning as a general radio commit tee to study the various angles of j campus radio broadcasting and to formulate some kind of policy for University radio contributions. Public Relations Subcommittee Other members of the committee are Dr. Dan E. Clark, Karl W. On : thank, Dean Eric W. Allen, Dean ! J. J. Landsbury, and Dean Victor j P. Morris. Dahlberg’s committee j is a subcommittee of the larger public relations committee. Additional details on campus broadcasting on page 8. Yeomen Nominate Officers at Meeting Four men were nominated for the presidency of the Oregon Yeomen, i independent men's campus organ i ization, at a meeting in alumni hall i last night. Elections will be con ducted next Monday evening at 7:30 in the alumni hall in Gerlinger. The presidential nominees are Harold Draper, John Luvaas, Gor don Link, and Hubard Kuokka. Other nominations were as fol lows: Vice president — Ken Pickens, Charles Carpenter, Phil Heid, and George Luoma; secretary — Max well Doty and John W. Pease; trea surer—Don McAfee. The Yeomen and Orides are plan ning a Swedish dinner in the Ger linger sun porch April 8. Special entertainment and dancing will fol low. Eats Free Tonight Tex Oliver . . . honored guest at alumni banquet in Portland to night. ) Fees Income $1000 Over Year's Budget, Prexy Hall Reports Surplus Is Due to Increase in Ticket Sales; Graduated Card Setup Is Satisfactory to Educational Activities Board The Associated Students are almost $1000 over the budgeted fee?* income for the year, President Barney Hall revealed in his report os the spring term card sales drive made to the educational activities board last night. Spring term’s drive netted 1453 members or 56.7 per cent of tho undergraduate student body. The $1000 surplus, 3 per cent over the budget for the year, means nearly $400 additional income for the edu cational activities board and about $600 for the athletic activities v-v.v-rr i board. Legal Civil War Scheduled for Court 40 Field The second year class in the law school is at it—at the throat of the third year students. A challenge, placed by the second year students on the third-floor bulletin board, was issued yester day defying- the elder class to take a beating in basketball from the younger legal aspirants. Terms of the proposed annual classic included: time, Thursday afternoon; place,-west court of the men’s gym; referee — the third year class can have its own. The challenge was closed with the admonition that acceptance must be made by dawn today. The press was assured that it would be accepted before the deadline. 5 Pledges Named | By Alpha Kappa Psi The local chapter of Alpha Kap pa Psi, national commerce honor ; ary for men, announced recently | its pledge list for spring term. The new pledges are: Bcy'o Chilcote, | Ralph M. Severson, James Selder, | Arthur William Lamka, Jr., Louis J. Healy. The new officers of the honor ary for spring term are as fol jlows: President, Luther R. Sei bert; vice-president, Bill Blacka by; secretary, Henry Spivak; treasurer, Ken Marple. roe Setup Approved The present fees setup of $7, $5* and $3 for fall, winter, and spring term has been satisfactory, the board indicated. It will be retained if the athletic activities board agrees and the student executive committee ratifies the boaicFsi recommendation. The board extended a vote of appreciation to President Hall and the ASUO drive committee, head ed! by Kirk Eldridge, which lifted the membership total for spring ter mbeyond the figure expected# (See additional details on page two.) House Managers Make Koch President Karl Koch was elected pres!-* dent of the house managers’ coun cil at the dinner meeting of that* group last night at the Del R.ey; cafe. The meeting, the first of the term, was attended by newly; elected and old members of tho council. Other officers named are Dunn, vice-president, and Ivan. Clark, secretary-treasurer. The council will change mem bers at the next meeting. It if* believed that one of the first ac tions of the new council will be to study a! cooperative buying plan for all the living groups which was* suggested several meetings ago. Koch has served as manager of Beta Theta Pi for the past year. ,Bob Goodfellow is the retiring president of the group. Library Browsing Room Will Be Furnished Soon In just six more weeks the much heralded University of Ovegan browsing room in the new library will be finished down to the most complete details of furnishings and decoration, according to informa tion released yesterday by Miss Ethyl R. Sawyer, browsing room Ji brarian. Part of the ojective in finishing the room in record time is to make it available as the scene of traditional senior commencement activities, Miss Sawyer pointed out. The tomato colored leather chairs, which were returned to the fac tory last week to be restuffed, will be restored to their places and th.a suite completed with more chairs, davenports and lamps. Additional tables are also a part of the finished scheme of furnishing. Wall decorations have not yet been determined, but the decora tion committee of the art department of the University under the di rection of Miss Brownell Frasier, professor of interior design, are con sidering woodcarvings to hang over the fireplaces at each end of tho room, as a tentative part of the plan it was understood. Only the imported Oriental rugs will fail to complement the har mony of the room. The rugs are being made in China, and aside frorni the long process of their manufacture, the national distress of t.o.€> Chinese will probably delay delivery.