Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1938)
V VOLUME XXXIX UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1938 NUMBER 94 KORE Will Inaugurate First Permanent, Direct Campus Station Tonight Direct Wires to Music Auditorium Leased; New Hookup Parallels Projected KOAC System to Be Installed Soon Eugene’s station KOEE will install the first permanent radio hookup on the University campus tonight with the broadcast of a piano demon stration by Professor George Hopkins. KORE action in extending the facilities give§. the station, owned by Frank Hill, the first permanent direct line. Several months ago a temporary hookup with the state board of higher education’s KOAC, Corvallis, was tried and funds were voted at the recent meeting of the board to put m ft. permanent line from Eugene to Corvallis sometime this summer. As the Eugene station is a mem ber of the Mutual-Don Lee system, regional and nation-wide broad casts will now be possib.le from the campus. The hookup to be used for the first time tonight parallels the projected lines for KOAC. Leased Wires Ready Three microphones have been in stalled in the music auditorium, one in the large assembly and con cert room, another in the Carnegie room, and the third in Professor Hopkin’s studio. From the audi torium leased direct telephone lines will “pipe” the broadcasts to KORE central station on South Willamette. A series of educational broad casts will be given, with Professor Hopkin’s concert opening the series. Other programs will also be broadcast direct from the campus. College Humor Brings Forth Subtle Liners Living Paradox . . . By ALYCE ROGERS “When I have a fit,” confesses Cashew Nut, “all I do is walk back and froth.”—A coed can be sweet when she wants—The professor who comes to class two minutes early is very rare. In fact he’s in a class by himself.—They laughed when I invented dynamite, but when it went off, they exploded.— Fordham Ram.—You can lead a fraternity man to water, but why disappoint him. • • • Weather Report Wednesday: SNOW. Thursday: WET. Starting Friday: SNOW WET and the Seven Dwarfs. — Indiana Daily. Jfc # “The college man is a living paradox,’’ according to Raymond E. Manchester, dean of men at Kent State university, Kent, Ohio. He portrays the modern college man in these words: “He is liberal in his conversation but conserva tive in his action. He is radical in his opinions on politics, but elects stand-patters to the class* offices. He preaches democracy yet sup ports the most rigid campus caste system. He demands that his uni versity maintain the highest ath- J letic standards, yet in the same breath also demands a profession al football team.” Further inconsistencies, said the dean, of the college man are: “He laughs at. convention but insists upon it. He cuts classes the day {Please turn to page tlree) Hook-Up Opener George Hopkins . . . his music opens Oregon’s first permanent broadcasting facilities tonight. Chancellor Hunter To Speak at Normal Chancellor Frederick M. Hun ter will address the Oregon nor mal school assembly at Monmouth today on the “Conquest of the Constitution.” This is the same speech he has given before the Oregon and Ore gon State assemblies this year and is a part of his program of ad dressing each of the schools in the Oregon system once during the year, according to Don Johnson, secretary to the chancellor. Democracies Need Leaders Says de Lanux French Journalist Warns of Danger of Wars, Commends League Not only the United States and France, but democratic countries of all the world need statesmen who are ready to oppose “will to will, and force to force” in meet ing the problem of dictators and aggression, Pierre de Lanux, French author and journalist, de clared at the assembly held in Ger linger hall yesterday at 11 p.m. During his first year’s service for the League of Nations, M. de Lanux thought that the best way to deal with dictators like Mus solini was to "let them mind their own business and make their own speeches.” But he found that he was wrong, for in minding “their own business,” dictators teach the people of the world how to make j war. i No Leaders Seen Disagreements can still be set tled by peaceful means, he said, but as yet he does not see the men coming “who will give lead ership of a democratic type in the proper things people agree upon and wish to achieve.” America. should contribute a large share of these men, he said. “We must avoid war and sub mission to a world we disapprove of, and would not like to have our children in. We are in a state of i refusal—or I might say insurrec | tion. We don’t want to fall into> ! fighting because we have more; ships, more guns, and' more men J j than the aggressive countries,” he j | said, explaining that in “we” he i was including France and the | United States. “Russian Pcril Gone” Tracing the battle between So I viet Russia and the League for su j premacy in “organization of the world,” he said that the USSR has long looked on the league as “too conservative and too slow.” The failure of communism to take ad vantage of the depression of 1929, has convinced the Frenchman that a “real communist peril” no longer exists. Movies Now Becoming Important In Psychology Study, Says Beck Dr. L. F. Beck of the psychology department of the University believes that the use of the motion picture as a technique of research and instruction is becoming increasingly important in psychology. The major reason for this trend, Dr. Beck declared, is the fact that behavior sequences recorded cinematographically may be reproduced in the laboratory or classroom as many times as required for minute systematic analysis. Also, the movements or growth changes which occur too rapidly or too slowly to be clearly ob served are brought easily within the limits of human perception with this cine apparatus. Dr. Beck gives three reasons which account for the fact that these instructional films have not been used extensively in the teach ing of psychology. First, a great many depart ments of psychology in the United States are not equipped to, show (Please turn to page two) Wright to Speak on Mexico at Y Tonight “Socialized Mexico” is the topic Professor L. O. Wright of the Spanish department will speak on at the International Relations club meeting at 7:30 at the YMCA hut today. Professor Wright, who was born in Mexico, headed a boys’ school for three years there, together with his wife. He visited Mexico last summer. Virginia Regan Will Rule Over Weekend, Student Vote Decides Runners-up to Be Royal Court for Three-Dcy Reign; Silver's One Vote Disqualified on Two Counts by Board Virginia Regan walked off with top honors in yesterday’s election; when ASUO and Junior class card holders went to the College Side polls and chose her queen of Junior weekend from the list of five candi dates for the throne. Final tallying of the ballots showed 741 votes cast for the five girls* during the five hours of voting. Miss Regan ran up a total of t}47 ovtes out of 741 cast. The second candidate received 176 ballots. Dava Queen Virginia Virginia Regan . . . won the crown and throne of Junior week end at campus election yesterday. German Dean Is In Summer Faculty Dr. Hanse von Hentig, former dean of law at the University of Kiel in Germany, will be one of the many visiting instructors at the University of Oregon summer session beginning June 20 until July 29, according to Dr. Dan (Please turn to page two) Silver, one-time King of Hearts and Oregon basketball star, re ceived one vote. ; Silver Disqualified According to an official com munique from the election board* Silver was disqualified because, “one, he is a man, and, two, he did not come up to the specifications* of the board of review/’ Representatives from the house?* of each of the candidates watched over the counting of the "ballots* which were then given to the cus tody of the ASUO offices where* they will be kept indefinitely. Queen Virginia will reign during; the three days of Junior weekend. May 6, 7, and 8. Her royal court will be composed of the other four girls in the throne contest, Prin cesses Blanche McClellan, Bet.tyr Crawford, Jacequeline McCord and Marcia Steinhauser. Interview with queen on pago two. Dick Jurgens Will Plag for Frosh Glee Skull, Dagger to Pick Pledges; Theme to Be Snow White The distinctively styled sweet and swing music of Dick Jurgens* orchestra will be the feature at traction of the Frosh Glee, April 29. The announcement was made yesterday by Dick Williams and Stan Staiger, co-chairmen of the dance. Jurgens, the laughing trumpet eer who is one of the most popular orchestra leaders on the coast and especially in Portland, will bring his 14-piece band to the Igloo closing a trip to the East and back. The sports-informal dance will be built around' a Snow White theme, according to the frosh. chairmen. A committee meeting to work out further details has been called Thursday afternoon. Skull and Dagger men will he announced during the dance. Admission will be $1.25 with ai 50-cent reduction to class card holders. (For further details see page 3.)i Infirmary List Up; II Patients Confined The infirmary sick list has grown considerably this week. Eleven students are ill. They are: Thelma Bouchet, Barbara Jones,, (Janet Hutchinson, Rosema:; yj Diage, Roy Burnett, Ed Baxter, Verne Terjeson, Dick Seufert, Mil-* ford Smith, Ed Seufert, and Rieb-« ard Wray. .