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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 11, 1938)
Chicago Director Likes UO Public Administration By ROD ORANGE The University of Oregon is doing a “bang-up” job in it’s promotion of public administration, Clifford W. Ham, executive director of the American municipal association of Chicago, said yesterday afternoon during a short visit to the University campus. I Oregon’s bureau of municipal research and league of Oregon cities under the direction of Herman Kehrli are doing much to advance public administration and munici pal research in this part of the country Ham said. The presence of universities in towns presents many problems to the municipalities and no few ad vantages, he said, continuing, “from a strictly municipal stand point, a university is always an industry of large importance in any town. It offers no employment problems and it has no peaks and valleys of business prosperity like other large industries. “The problems presented are large and often serious,” he said. The large campii cannot be taxed yet they have the same services as other tax paying organizations, such as: sewage disposal, sanita tion inspection, in some universi ties police supervision, and of course, light and water. “Always, almost without excep tion, the universities are growing,” he said, “not only in enrollment but in property expansion. New streets are constantly having to be made and old streets and property con demned.” Demonstration to Replace Recital of Women's Dance Master Dance and the dancing classes will present a demonstra tion of the modem technique Fri day afternoon at 4 o’clock in Ger linger. No admission will be charged. The demonstration is being given instead of the usual formal recital because the different groups were kept busy working on “Peer Gynt” number. Techniques, rhythmics, compo sition devices and some finished compositions by Master Dance will be given. Miss Paasikivi, dance instructor, believes this type of a demonstration will do more to acquaint people with modern dance technique than a recital. National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 Madison Ave., Xew York, X. Y. ' Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Represented for Xational Advertising by .San Francisco 1937 Member 1938 Associated Collegiate Press Bruce Curry, Xatl. Adv. Mgr. Assistant, Jean Kneass. Dorthea Wray, Circulation Mgr. Chuck Skinner. Wed. Adv. Mgr. Assistants: Leo Young. Barbara Lspy, Maxine Glad, Thurs. Adv. Mgr. EMERALD REPORTERS Kod (.(range Lyle Kelson Elizabeth Jones Bud Jermain Sadie Mitchell Betty Thompson Bill Scott Gene Snyder Glenn Hasselrooth Pat Erickson Priscilla Marsh Gordon Ridgeway Bud Updike Cathy Taylor EMERALD SPORTS STAFF Bill Norene, George Pasero, Doug Parker, Eva Erlandson, Dorothy Burke, Joan Jen ness, Chuck Van Scoyoc, Lyle Nelson, Ehle Reber, Larry Quinlan, Milton Levy, Bill Phelps, Eugene Snyder. Preliminary Round Of Contest Finished The preliminary round of the singing contest sponsored by Phi Mu Alpha, music honorary, was completed last night when Beta Theta Pi and Phi Delta Theta sang hopefully f)or the beautiful cup awarded each year to the men’s living organization doing the best group singing. The four best houses in the con test will be announced this week, and a meeting will be arranged for the purpose of judging the best of these houses which will receive the cup, said Harold Faunt, chairman of the committee arranging for the competition. Zane Kemler Will Be Interviewed on Emerald oi Air Zane Kemler will be interviewed tonight on the Emerald Reporter program at 10:30 over station KORE. Subject of the discussion will be the worthwhileness of ex tra-curricular activities, the finan cial success of Junior weekend, and Kemler’s feelings on being chosen Koyl cup wimier. Last night over the Emerald program, Dr. Robert Horn, asso ciate professor in the English de partment, was interviewed on his impression of Helen Jepson while on her fishing trip. Chinese, Japanese Art Seen in Libe The textile arts of 15th century China and Japan are represented 'in the new display in the show cases in the main lobby of the Uni versity of Oregon library, the con tribution of Professor N. B. Zane of the art school. The bits of antique textile design are illustrative of Oriental weaving and applied enrichment during the period of the 15th to the ISth cen turies. FRATS PLEDGE SIX Six pledges to fraternities were announced yesterday by the dean of men’s office. Elmer E. Mallory , and L. Pierce Mallory have joined | Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Roy Terry, : Sigma Pin Epsilon; Phil Hoffman, 1 Kappa Sigma; Charles V. Brown, Sigma Chi; and Wendell Kaufman, Beta Theta Pi. THREE GIRLS PLEDGE Shirley Schrenk, Junction City, Jeanne M. Hughes, Roseburg, and Marijane Skillern, Eugene, recent ly pledged Sigma Kappa. Please Pick Me Up! I’ve been waiting for four days for you to call. My name is the “Oregana Streamliner,” and I can be had any day from 2 till 4. I’m young, colorful and good to look at. I’d like to meet my new owner, so please pick me up at the EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES BLDG. Concrete Floor Laid For Transformer Campus Earthworks To Get Power Lines; Additional Men Continuing the trans former vault project on the upper cam pus, an augmented crew of WPA workers yesterday laid the con crete floor of the vault and pro ceeded to string the underground lines which will replace the old • pole system of power transmis sion. Three separate cables are being buried in the ditch which runs from the vault to Deady hall, one for power, one for lights, and one for clocks and bells. The clock and bell cable holds five lines, while the light cable holds three. The cable being used is triple wrapped for permanence, and is expected to last indefinitely. Its innermost wrapping, next to the wire, is of rubber, which in turn is sheathed in lead, the outside covering being a composition of . asphalt and jute covered with talc to keep it from sticking in the spindles. Next digging in line is from Deady to Villard, which will be done as soon as the ditch now open i* completed and covered, campus supervisors of the project said. When the job is completed there will be no power lines above ground in the whole upper campus circuit. The work is part of the Univer sity tunnel project, which in its entirety employs between 60 and 70 men. Wesley ans' Annual Conference-Outing Will Be Saturday The annual Wesley club coast retreat will be held this weekend at the Oregon folk league social center near Florence, Grace Mar tin, committee head, said yester day. “Understanding Ourselves” is the theme of the conference - outing. Lynn Wood, Salem minister, will be discussion leader. Cars will leave Saturday morn ing, noon, and evening, and Sunday morning. Students wishing to at tend may register today and to morrow by calling Hayes Beall. GRAD TO TAKE EXAM Paul Hayman, a graduate assist ant in the school of business ad ministration, will take his oral examinations for his master's de gree Thursday afternoon at 4. Supervising his examination are the following: Victor P. Morris, W. P: Riddlesbarger, D. D. Gage, N. H. Cornish, Jessie Bond, all members of the BA school faculty, who will ask the oral questions which comprise the examination. Bill Hayward's (Continued from page five) been competing in three and four events each meet, will draw a lighter load this weekend, while several other Duck runners will lay out of their favorite events. Travel Alone Don Barker and “Blazing” Bob Mitchell, Oregon’s distance “twins,” will seek their track for tunes independently Saturday. Bar ker will confine his efforts to the two-mile, while Mitchell will face Oregon State’s best in the mile. Hayward was especially pleased with the showing of Ken Shipley, latest addition to his troupe of thin-clads, who tied for first place in the high jump with his team mate, Bob Fitchard, at 5 feet 8 inches/ Shipley jumped 5 feet 10 inches in the Sigma Delta Psi meet the Thursday before the Cougar clash, and Hayward expects him to go even higher before the end of the season. Survey of Working, Made by Secretary By MURIEL BECKMAN With nearly 70 per cent of its 3120 students either wholly or partly self-supporting while in college, the University of Oregon apparently has an intense interest in labor problems. A survey made by the University employment bureau revealed the-.'O results: At fall term registration. 92S students stated that they were 100 per cent sett-supporting, ot these, 741 were men, and onyl 187 were women. What kind of work do they do? Most of them work during the summer months, at clerking or of fice jobs, in canneries, in the har vest fields, or at resorts. During the school year the boys are in considerable demand for throwing in, stacking, and chopping wood, and both boys and girls do house work. Odd jobs such as tending fur naces, mowing lawns, spading, do ing repair work, taking care of children, aid waiting tables, are chief sourcse of income. In 1937 1837 such oc|d jobs were filled through the University employ ment office, headed by Miss Janet Smith. Setting the price per job arbitrarily at $1.50, this makes a total of $2,755.50 paid out to work ing students. All this is entirely aside from any jobs the students may find for themselves, or repeat jobs from employers who may have liked a boy or girl's work so much he didn’t bother to call the office, but went directly to the student. Grad Gives Opinion One girl, who recently graduated after working for every cent of her college expenses, when asked whether she thought working had been a handicap to her, stated: “Students working their way through school think they are miss ing something, but they probably aren’t.” She cited the example of girl who borrowed enough money to pledge a sorority and is still paying it back, some years after graduation. Less optimistic were two fresh man girls who are working part time at jobs through the school year. Both agreed that, although paying one's own way gave one a sens of money values, to work part time during the school year took away much valuable time and did not allow them to be as active in school as they would like to be. Miss Janet Smith, employment secretary, refraining from express ing her personal opinion, gave in stead that which she had heard from graduates who had worked their way through. “I have asked people who have had a hard time, and they all say the same thing: Tarty Girl' Mary Eloise Spann . . . one-time sweetheart of the Republican par ty has filed suit for $5,000,000 in Los Angeles, charging assault against Studio Music Director Milton Beecher. that they would advise any other student to do as they have done.” The worker, said Miss Smith, is a better, more mature person when he is through. She believes stu dents .should work whether they have to or not, for the sake of ex perience. Summer Work Believed Best General opinion among the stu dents seemed to be that the ideal situation was for h student to work during the summer months and devote himself entirely to school dtiring the winter. A faculty member who earned every cent of his way through col lege by working in all his sparo time—and some that wasn’t spare* —commented, in looking back oi* his college days, “On the whole,> those who do work pay more at tention to their studies. They know what it is all about. On the other hand, I think it would bc( probably, very desirable for a stu dent to quit school and' work en tirely for a while, and then coino back to school.” He believes that there is more to college than stud ies, and that is just what tho working student misses. Many Earn Nothing At the opposite end of the wage earning scale are those who do pot contribute at all to their own sup port. Here the women far out number the men, there being 664 of them as compared to the 287 men. From there the ratio of men to women is in inverse propor tions; the higher the per cent 'of self-support, the lower the num ber of women. At each extreme- - the 100 per cent and the 0 per cent brackets—the percentage^ of students as compared to the whole* was almost identical, about 30 per cent. Among the meen. judging from records made by students who have graduated in the past two years, the highest GPA occurs most consistently around the' 50 per cent bracket. Women’s grades vary considerably, having no • fo cal point around which they clus ter. NYA Has Helped Since the Roosevelt administra tion, the National Youth Adminis tration has stepped in to lent! a hand to the working student. L$u:t spring 288 University students didif NYA work, earning a total of $9,450 for the term. But, no matter what a sage pro fessor has to say about the dis advantages of working while in ' school, no matter how much a hard-working boy or girl says ho is missing from college life, stu-* dents will continue to work their | way through. In fall term them ! were 2,170 of them. Some, cf course, worked only during tho { summer, but when any one of the 2,170 plunked down a nickel for a i‘‘coke’’ at one of the college re i freshment stations, he thinks of I the drops of perspiration he onto shed for that five cents, and en | joys his "coke" all the more for; 1 it. » - EHJ&SAM GETS JOB j Herbert Ehrsam, ex-’40, has se j cured a position with the Portland i offices of the Pacific Telephone* and Telegraph company. Dr. John Clouse, University of Miami, has revealed that the nun'-* ber of students majoring in phy* sics has doubled in the last fivo years.