Brutus in the Bushes
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Smokey Whitfield ... as Brutus Jones, the leading role in “Emperor Jones” to be staged Saturday
night and two nights next week in the University theater in Johnson hall.
Stronger Sex
Put on Spot
At Arizona U.
By HOPE DONDERO
Four men students at the Uni
versity of Arizona are being used
as guinea pigs by Miss Ina Get
tings, director of women's physical
education. The boys have been
placed in a girls’ archery class and
are being given the same amount
of instruction and time for prac
tice to determine whether girls
can develop motor and muscular
skill and proficiency in a sport in
the same time and with the same
opportunities as boys. The boys
were not told of the experiment
when they were registered for the
class.—The Y News.
Want to Go?
We hope this doesn’t give the
Junior Prom chairman any ideas
but Prom tickets are selling for
$10 a couple at Northwestern uni
versity in Boston, Mass.
Ode to an Ostrich
There was an Arabian sage;
One hundred and ten was his age.
He kept an ostrich
Which ate bottles and sich,
So he kept him shut up in a cage.
The ostrich so ravenous grew
That he bit the steel bars in two.
He ate up the cage
And with it the sage
Saying any old seasoning will do.
—Indiana Daily Student.
Work Buzzes Along
On Basement Walls
Of Humanities
Feverish activity on Thursday oi
workmen constructing the Human
ities building gave ample evidence
of satisfactory progress.
The laborers were pouring ce
ment in the forms for the basement
walls of the building. The work is
expected to be completed by Tues
day, according to officials.
When this task is finished, the
men will start on the first flooi
and keep going until the building
framework is completed.
According to Dr. Will V. Norris
University technical adviser, the
work is progressing at a very sat
isfactory speed.
Whitfield to Be Gaily
Clad As 'Emperor'
Costumes and Set
For O'Neill Play
Said Remarkable
A flashing blue and crimson uni
form with silver braid trim, white
trousers . . . even shining patent
leather boots ... in these, Oregon’s
inimitable actor- singer - boxer,;
Smokey Whitfield, will come be
fore the University theater audi
ence as the resplendent “Emperor
Jones” in the Saturday night open
ing of the Eugene O’Neill play, i
just before the Senior ball.
The University theater players
will contribute and hour and a
half of the most intense drama
presented on the Johnson hall
stage for many months as a send
off for the “Oregon Premier.”
Sets Used by Opera
Costumes and set for the play
are both remarkable, the first be
cause they are the ones used by
the San Francisco Civic Opera
company in their version of “The
Emperor,” and the second because
it successfully creates from the
bare boards of a small stage, the
illusion of night in a limitless
jungle.
ine selected 190 persons who
will see the openeing of the show
(seating capacity in the theater
is limited) will be amused to know
the characterization of the four
artificial trees and a stump used
to create the jungle.
They Have Names
Members of the stage crew call
them “Esmerelda,” “Madame X”
(the last one built at the work
shop), a particularly tall and slen
der one ceremoniously called “Mr.
Sponsoon,” “Joe” and the stump,
“Joe, Jr.” All of which is, of
course, mere delightful fantasy on
I the part of those who work behind
| the scenes in staging University
theater productions.
Another light on the subject of
“The Emperor Jones” is the atti
tude of the members of the Uni
versity business office, whose
quarters are just above the theater
. . . they are, they would tell any
one who might ask, slowly going
nuts! It is the drums! Slowly, then
more quickly and intensely, but
constantly for hour upon hour, the
drums beat and beat and beat . . .
and Mr. Lindstrom’s staff has de
veloped a severe case of jungle
fever!
Hayward Stands
Get Root Supports
The sizeable task of building
trusses — supports for the roof —
faced workmen Thursday rebuild
ing the Hayward field grandstands.
The grandstands are being en
larged to hold more spectators, and
to provide a more suitable playing
field for the Webfoot gridsters in
1939.
A press box which will rank with
the finest on the Pacific coast is
among the plans for the project.
Facilities will be enlarged, and a
wash room will be available for
I the members of the press.
The work is expected to be com
pleted in plenty of time for Ore
gon’s first home football game.
W. G. Beattie in
Eastern Oregon
Professor W. G. Beattie, director
of the social welfare in the exten
sion school, is in eastern Oregon
this week to organize classes in
La Grande and Ontario. Mr. F. G.
Macomber, professor in education,
and Beattie will teach these new
classes with professors in the East
I ern Oregon normal school.
Six Hundred 'Suckers’ Send $20,000 Off Campus Annually
By HELEN ANGELL
Six hundred fifty trusting Webfoots annually re
peat. “I pledge myself,” and think they're joining the
“one and only.” In reality, however, there are exactly
122 “royal orders" recognized on the campus by the
University administration, a survey completed yesterday
showed.
Of the 122 organizations, 71 are national groups, and
besides these “all-Americans,” Oregonians themselves
manage to take credit for 51 other local “clubs,” “as
sociations,” or “honoraries” which all require certain
dues.
‘Suckers’ Is the Name
“Suckers!” was the pseudonym Dean of Men Virgil
D. Earl tacked on college students yesterday as he
looked at figures compiled from reports of the 71 na
tional groups, which showed that Webfoots pay out a
cool $20,000 every year in initiation fees alone to their
treasuries.
Men’s Greek fraternities get the biggest “rakeoff"
from the Oregon campus, the survey revealed. The 238
fellows initiated into fraternities here last year reached
into their jeans to hand over a total of over $11,000 in
initiation fees, and of this amount, according to the
dean of men, at least $8500 traveled eastward to the
national treasuries of the groups.
Sororities in Same Glass
Second to the top in the list of “payer-outers” are
the 15 University sororities, whose 123 new members
last year paid approximately $5500 in initiation fees.
Around $4000 of this sum left the coast area to go into
the national headquarters of each of the girls’ houses.
Honoraries Trail, lint, Oh Roy!
Although they trail in third place when judged on
the amount of money collected from their new members,
the 31 national honoraries on the campus initiate more
new members than either the fraternities or sororities.
Their average yearly increase of 290 pledges “fork
over" with approximately $3700 in fees at the time of
initiation.
The present setup, which Dean Earl commented on
as being a “little too much organization,” averages an
organization for every 25 students. The dean professed
no opposition to fraternities and sororities, for as a
fraternity man himself, he considers them a "worthwhile
part of college life.” However, there is a state, he sug
gested, where the point of diminishing returns is reached
anil that point is where a campus finds itself sending
a large percentage of its wealth to the national treas
uries of groups whose purposes on the campus are per
haps duplicated by others, or Which might retain the
same ideals by keeping some of the money at home, f
Got Any Bridges to Sell?
"Where on earth do you find 82 organizations besides
Greek living groups on the campus?" the casual ob
server asks. To answer him 82 conscientious proxies
chime, "We’re here!" They're all listed, too, in the Uni
versity records- all 51 of the locals such as Kwama,
Phi Theta, ASUO, AWS, Amphibians and others; and
the over 30 such groups with national backing.
Here’s a Few of Them
The national groups include chiefly departmental
honoraries, such as Sigma Delta Chi and Theta Sigma
Phi of the journalism school, Scabbard and Blade of
the military department, Phi Delta Kappa of the edu
cation school, and Mu Phi Epsilon of the music depart
ment. In addition, high GPA's help students to make
Phi Beta Kappa, and Mortar Board. Dozens of hon- !
ovaries for students outstanding in the fields of service, '
discussion, social welfare, writing, and religion are also
included in the extensive list.
PE, Law Lead List
The physical education and law schools take the lead
in the number of honoraries per school, with six groups
named as off-spring of the activities of each. Three of
those in each school are local and three are national.
The business administration school boasts five honor
aries, two of which are national, two local, and one in
ternational.
Most expensive groups are Phi Beta, national music
and dramatics honorary, and Phi Delta Phi, national
law group.
Figures were not available for the survey of amounts
paid out after initiation or the total dues of the remain
der of the members already within the organization, so
figures used refer only to initiation fees for one typical
year.
Fraternities Change
Quota Filling System
New Plan Will Aid in Pledging Number
Named by Administration With Complete
Information on Returning Members
Changes in rushing rules resulted last night when the interfratern
ity council met and passed a plan which will help each house fill its
administration-named quota more accurately.
Under the old setup the houses were told the number of men they
could pledge before it was known how. many members would return.
Information on the number of returning men will be given the dean
of men the second day of rush week, and the quota may be easily
figured. I
System Nearly Same
Under the preference pledge sys
tem, to be used again this year, the
houses will list in order the men
they prefer, as will the prospective
pledges. From a comparison of
pledges’ cards to houses’ lists, the
pledges will be named. If a rushee
does not get the house of his first
preference, his second or third
choices will be checked against
house lists. Hitherto, a rushee
could register his other choices,
but need not take them if his first
was not granted. When all choices
have been checked a list of men
pledged to each fraternity will be
posted.
The council passed a resolution
to sponsor intramural cups to be
rotated each year to the winning
teams. There will be a cup for
every sport, and a campus champ
ionship trophy.
Interfrat Sing Slated
The interfraternity singing con
test will again be held this year, it
was decided.
The council passed on the plan
submitted by the house managers’
council to pro-rate the receipts
from the state high school track
meet this spring to houses enter
tain the athletes. No mention of
the plan had been made to the
athletic activities department,
Anse Cornell director, said last
night when questioned about the
two councils’ move.
Coed Rifle Team Ends
Triumphant Season
By HAROLD OLNEY
Satisfied sighs will probably be heard when Sergeant Harvey G.
Blythe’s coed rifle team stack away their rifles for another year. And
since the coed marksmen have established themselves as the fourth
best coed rifle team in the nation perhaps their satisfaction is justi
fiable.
According to the scorings received by Sergeant Blythe this week the
coed rifle team has been defeated only three times, which would place
them in a somewhat mythical
fourth place. The Oregon girls
were defeated by the University of
Missouri, University of Washing
ton, and Coe college. They fired 16
matches, each time competing
with several schools.
In last week’s match the coeds
bested the scores of their closest
competitors by a margin of 9
points. They scored 497 points.
The University of California and
Ripon college at Ripon, Wiscon
sin, each scored 488 points.
The University of Pennsylvania
scored 486 points while the Uni
versity of Georgia trailed them by
| one point with a score of 485.
Washington university at St.
Louis scored 469 points.
Only two of this year's regular
team will graduate. Marjorie Bates
and Ruth Ketchum are the gradu
ating members.
Fifteen coeds will be awarded
letters this year for their work on
the rifle team. They are: Lucile
Brauns, Louise Woodruff, Mar
garet Allen, Lillian England, Bar
bara Stallcup, Thelma Bouchet,
Opal Myers, Marjorie Schnell
bacher, Catherine Miller, Mary
Ann Nevins, Ruth Ketchum, June
Bennett, Margaret Pollard, Bar
bara Pierce, and Marjorie Bates.
Over-Emotion Is
Threat to U.S.,
Editor Declares
Ripe Field for 'Isms/
Says Dana With
Dig at Dictators
Naming over-emotionalism as
the greatest threat to American
ism and as the ripest field for de
velopment of the radical “isms"
prevalent in the world today,
white-haired Marshall Dana, as
sociate editor of the Oregon Jour
nal, yesterday addressed students
and faculty members at the annual
Washington’s birthday assembly.
Four elements were set forth by
the newspaper man as the quali
ties which make up Americanism.
He named the right to think, co
operation between men, responsi
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National Honoraries
Lose Campus Favor
BA Honorary Turns
Old Charter for
Local One
National honorary stock on the
campus took a dive yesterday when
it was learned in connection with
a survey of honoraries at the Uni
versity that at least one old-line
national had turned in its charter
within the last few weeks in favor
of local organization.
Tau Delta Chi is the new name
that members of Alpha Kappa Psi,
national business administration
honorary, adopted in doing away
with their national rating, effec
tive the first of January. Accord
ing to Luther Seibert, fraternity
officer, the change was made be
cause of the “difference between
national membership costs and the
value of the organization."
Until the change to local status
Alpha Kappa Psi was listed as
most expensive of all honoraries
on the campus, in figures on rec
, ord in the dean of men’s office.
GRAD WORKING IN LA
Milo Lacy, graduate of last June,
is now working with Proctor and
Gamble company in Los Angeles,
reports Miss Janet Smith, employ
ment secretary.
Hoopmen Motivated by
More Than Win Spirit
Tonight, Dr. Beck Says
It will be a highly motivated Oregon team that tangles with
Oregon State tonight, according to Dr. L. F. Beck, of the psychology
department.
Aside from the fact that Oregon is within reach of the north
west basketball championship, which is a powerful motivating force,
there will be the motive of rivalry between schools which in itself
fires the boys to action.
“This institutional rivalry tends to motivate the team, but it
does not necessarily make for more skillful performance,” Beck
said. “Sometimes with anger or other extreme emotional conditions
nicely coordinated skills break down, and the player may go to
pieces.”
Dr. Beck is of the opinion that more finesse would probably
be shown in a contest between Oregon and a team like Washington
than in a game where more institutional rivalry exists.
The Oregon team is also highly motivated because of certain
personal relations which exist between the players, Beck said.
“After playing together for three or four years the boys like to
capitalize on the cooperation which they have been trained to give
each other.”
There is a general motivating force that operates between the
coach and the team, Beck observed. “Loyalty to the coach and loyalty
to the institution they represent is a very powerful driving force,”
he said. “Then, too,” he added, “the game itself provides some in
centive to win."
Trudi Art Appeals to All,!
UO Dance Teacher Says
Trudi Schoop’s dancing technique is universal, and it appeals to
people of all ages, was the comment made by Pirkko Paasikivi, in
structor in dance. "She is understood and enjoyed by everyone, even
those who do not know a great deal about dance,” she said.
Miss Paasikivi praised Trudi for her skill in pantomime. “Panto
miming is a very difficult art,” she said, "and Trudi Schoop does not
have to force her gestures. She is
very natural in her interpreta
tions.”
It’s What They Do
Trudi Schoop, who comes to
McArthur court Thursday even
ing, March 2, for another in the
University’s greater artist series,'
admits she is much more intent on
what people do than what they
say.
The flicker of an eyelash, the
angle of an elbow when reaching
for sugar, the way one sits on a
chair in his mother-in-law’s par
lor — these are the things she
watches for in people.
“Body rhythm is an expression
I of character,” she ,saio. “What
writing is to the graphologist,
symptoms to the physician—that
I is what movement means to me.”
Pu-Yi Interview Won
By Noble Successor
The first newspaper man to interview “Henry” Pu-Yi, former
emperor of China when he escaped from his palace prison in 1924,
is one of the many achievements of Dr. John Gilbert Reid, who has
been recommended by the University administration to succeed Dr.
Harold J. Noble, associate professor of history. Pu-Yi is now Kang
Teh, emperor of Manchuria.
Dr. Noble has known Dr. Rei dfor ten years. Dr. Reid will make
his first appearance on the campus
Saturday and will be introduced
to the history classes next week.
Dr. Reid was the youngest white
child in the legation in China dur
ing the Boxer rebellion. An Amer
ican citizen, born in London, Dr.
Reid was taken to China when he
was six months old and educated
in a German school in Shanghai.
, He speaks Chinese fluently, Dr.
Noble said.
Dr. Reid is author of “Manchu
Abdication and the Powers,” now
used for reference work in Far
East history courses. He has also
written a biography of “Henry”
Pu-Yi.
“Unmarried, attractive and has
a very interesting mother, who
takes an active part in his social
life,” is the way Dr. Noble de
scribes Dr. Reid.
Webfoot Victorg
Will Clinch Lead
For Huskg Clash
Game Is Last Home
Appearance of Five
'Tall Timber' Boys
By GEORGE PASERO
Hoop fans call it civil war.
Coaches call it mayhem.
And still others just call it Ore
gon versus Oregon State and let
it go at that.
Nevertheless, Willamette valley
basketball followers would walk
many a mile and plunk down a
dollar unhesitatingly just to see
the cage forces of Oregon and
Oregon State battle.
Tonight they’ll do just that, for
the Duck and Beaver tangle in
a dramatic windup to their four
game series of 1939 at McArthur
court. Game time is 8 o’clock, and
the warning has been issued that
old McArthur will be jammed to
the rafters.
Ducks Need Win
Oregon State's Orangemen set
the stage for the season’s highlight
last Saturday when they dumped
the Ducks by an amazing 50-31
count at Corvallis. And at the Ig
loo tonight, the Beavers are set to
employ their rough-and-tumble,
galloping style of basketball in an
attempt to ring up their fifth
straight win.
Adding to the general din of a
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'Persian Garden' Set
For Wednesday Night
Liza Lehman’s exotic song cycle,
“In a Persian Garden,’’ will be
presented in its entirety next Wed
nesday evening at 8:30 o’clock by
four students of Halfred Young,
professor of voice in the University
of Oregon school of music.
Virginia Tooze, Portland; Bar
bara Ward, Burlingame, Cal.; Le
land Chase, Eugene; and George
Saunders, Gladstone, will sing the
four leading roles of soprano, con
tralto, tenor, and bass, respective
ly. Zoe Brassey, Boise, Ida., Mr.
Young’s regular studio pianist,
will accompany the quartet.
The words for the cycle are tak
en from Omar Khayyam’s “Rubai
yat.” Miss Brassey is a student of
George Hopkins.
The public is cordially invited to
attend.
FRANK SHORT ILL
Frank Short, instructor of jour
nalism, is recovering from an ill
ness, and will be back at work in
e few days. He was reported to
have been running a high temper
ature, although the exact nature
of his illness was not determined.