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VOLUME XXXIX
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1938
NUMBER 110
Final Preparations
ForJuniorWeekend
Nearing Completion
First. Event Friday to be Lawn Luncheon
With Coronation of Queen Virginia to
Follow; Jepson Concert Grand Climax
By BUD JERMAIN
With the signing of Billy Mozet’s orchestra for the junior prom,
final preparations for Junior weekend, annual three-day festival of
University students, are being rushed to completion this week for the
program opening May 6.
Including many new features this year, the weekend program will
carry on all the traditional events, with campus luncheon, the canoe
fete, the junior prom, the frosh-sonh tue-of-war. and Mnthpr«’ dov
Queen Virginia
Gets Airy Hide;
Models Styles
Junior weekend queen, Vir
ginia Regan, was up in the air
yesterday but she wasn’t hav
ing trouble with anyone.
Along with several of the
highest paid professional mod
els on the coast and northwest
style experts, Queen Virginia
modeled newest air styles in a
huge United Airliners’ mainliner
flying over Mount Hood yester
day.
The style show, first of its
kind on the coast, was covered
by representatives of Life, news
reel cameramen, and news re
porters.
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Tuition Paid By
Blood Donors at
U. of Michigan
By ALYCE ROGERS
Nearly 200 University of Michi
gan students are helping to fur
ther their education by selling
their blood for transfusions, ac
cording to the assistant director of
the university hospitals. Blood
donors are paid from $10 to $30
for each donation.
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Words at
■“Let’s be gay while we may
And take our love with laughter.
^’11 be true as long as you
But not one moment after!”
•—Indiana Daily.
Short Stuff...
The average youth speaks two
languages, English and Baseball.
. . .When a stocking gets a run—
it’s on its last leg. ... In the
spring a young man’s fancy turns
to ways of keeping other guys
from dating his girl. . . . The ab
sent-minded professor we would
like to meet is the fellow who
would lecture to his steak and cut
his classes. . . . University of Cal
ifornia women spend more for
clothes than do coeds at other in
stitutions. . . . Harriet Hassell, a
junior at the University of Ala
bama, will have her first novel,
“Rachel’s Children,” published
this month.
attracting hundreds of visitors to
the campus. „
Lead-off event will be campus
luncheon, for which students and
visitors will turn out en masse.
Underneath the campus fir trees,
Virginia Regan, queen-elect of
Junior weekend, and her four
princesses will be crowned rulers
over the weekend while Friars,
Mortar Board, and Asklepiads
pledge their new members.
Sports Take Spotlight t
Sports events will take the spot
light on Friday and Saturday af
ternoons. Webfoot fans will get
their first chance to see Coach
Tex Oliver’s football team in ac
tion Friday when they go up
against a picked team of former
Oregon gridsters in a full-length
game. The weekend will also see
Howard Hobson’s baseball squad
meet the University of Washing
ton nine in a two-game series.
End of the first day’s activities
will be climaxed by the junior
prom, biggest formal student
dance of the year, with Billy Mo
zet’s orchestra.
Another new event will be held
on Saturday afternoon when the
, University symphony entertains
(Please turn io page six)
Prexy's Wife to
Arrive Here for
Junior Weekend
Mrs. Donald M. Erb will pay
a hurried visit to Oregon’s cam
pus, her first here since her
husband’s installation as presi
dent, when she arrives May 6
for Junior weekend festivities,
President Erb said yesterday.
Since his wife is to be honor
guest at all the official Junior
weekend functions such as the
Oregon Mothers’ reception Sat
urday afternoon, President Erb
was asked if his wife would be
making speeches at the affairs
she will attend.
“Definitely not,” the. president
declared. “In fact,” he went on,
“the only condition upon which
I was able to take my position
was to guarantee my wife she
would never have to make
speeches!”
Mrs. Erb will stay only
through May 9 when she will re
turn to Palo Alto.
200 Drawn
By Strikers
On Campus
Uni Hi Students Join
In Protest Against
War; Oxford Oath
Administered
Presenting their views on war
and peace and methods by which
war might be averted, student
speakers led a demonstration
“strike” against participation in
any war by the United States yes
terday morning at 11 o’clock.
About one hundred students
joined in the protest against wvar.
(Please turn to page six)
Double Nomination
Likely at Assembly
Today mGerlinger
Johansen, Kemler File Notices; Weston and
Husk Are Expected to Enter Race Shortly;
Before Deadline Saturday
By BILL PENGRA
Emerald News Editor
The possibility of a two-man nominating assembly faces the’
ASUO this morning at 11 o’clock in Gerlinger hall, after it waa
learned last night that only Wally Johansen and Zane Kemler)
had secured their eligibility okay from the dean of men’s office
and filed notice with ASUO Vice-Prexy Noel Benson of their;
intention to run for the executive committee positions.
Although campus politicians have rumored the names of
various candidates who might run
for several weeks, these two were
the only ones who had prepared to
be nominated up to last night. It
is believed that Harry Weston, one
rumored candidate, and Ron Husk,
dark horse candidate, will throw
their hats in the ring some time
this week.
Saturday Deadline Set
Deadline for late nominations
was set for Saturday, midnight,
as stated in the ASUO by-laws.
Late nominations may be made by
petitions signed by 50 ASUO card
holders and must be accompanied
by written declarations of inten
tion to run before being filed with
Benson,
Prexy Barney Hall said last
night that the use of a faculty
parliamentarian would probably be
required this morning to define the
by-laws when unqualified nomina
tions are made.
Nominations will be made for
positions on the Excomm rather
than for president, vice-president,
and so on. Elections will be held
next Thursday.
Who's the Fairest of Them All?
From this group of freshman girls “Snow White” will be chosen Friday night, they are: tront row,
left to right: Dorothy Burke, Aloha Allen, Jean Nasser, Maxine Reetz, Rosemary Harrison and Vera Carl
sen; second row, Eleanor Swift, Betty Nock, Betty Jane Norwood, Aida Brun, KaroJyn Kortge, and
Barbara Stallcup; third row: Sue Cunningham, Joan Hoke, Betty Buchanan, Ann Waha, Eleanor Johnson,
and Sadie Mitchell.
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Swing Session
Follows ASUO
Assembly at 11
A '‘swing session assembly"
will follow the ASUO nominat
ing- meeting this morning at J1
o’clock in Gerlinger hall, ASUO
Prexy Barney Hall announced
this week.
With music being furnished
by Babe Binford’s orchestra,
campus entertainers will bend
their efforts to provide a real
swing club for student "jitter
bugs."
Buck McGowan, Joan Van
Cleve, Pat Taylor, Lloyd Magi IT,
Don Kennedy, and Smoky
"Dark Gable" Whitfield will
feature new songs, sweet swing
songs and comedy.
Band Members to
Have Storage Room
No longer will the Oregon band
members have to carry their uni
forms with them wherever they, go,
for they will soon have a new room,
in which to store their instrument!#
and suits.
Carpenters are now busy re
modeling the upstairs of the ROTC5
building, and making a special
band room, where all band equip
ment will always be available.
Frosh Assembly
Plans Changed;
Meetings Today
A frosh nominating assembly
will be called in Villard hull to
day at 5 pan. to nominate candi
dates* for sophomore offices, it
was announced last night by
Gleason Payne, class president,
Payne announced the change
in the frosh election plans last
night from the previous plan of
a nominating-electing assembly
May 5. Elections will be held
May 5 by secret ballot.
The frosh meeting will follow
the junior meeting at 4 p.m. a«
announced by Zane Kemler in
Villard.
Sophomores will meet tonight
in Villard at 7:30 to nominate
junior officer candidates, Dic.i
Litfin said last night.