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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 10, 1939)
VOLUME XL UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1939 NUMBER 120 John Dick Captures ASUO Number One Position Governor Visits Campus Today Students Will Meet Charles A. Sprague At II o’Clock Assembly Chief State Executive to Install New Student Body Officers in Gerlinger; Classes Excused Still keyed up from a hectic month of political tenseness, hundreds of Webfoots will hear Governor Charles A. Sprague this morning make official th« “X" a majority of them marked on yesterday's ballot tc make John Dick the ASUO's chief executive for next year. “Biggest crowd of the year” was the prophecy made last night by administration leaders for this morning's installation assembly, when Oregon’s chief executive declares Dick and his triumvirate of exec council members legally ASUO "rulers of destiny” for next year. OREGANA TO MAKE DEBUT Handout System Told for Coming Out Party of 1939 Yearbook Within a few hours of the time when the 1939 Oregana will be placed in the hands of its various purchasers, the entire distribution program was revealed last night by Dick Williams, Oregana busi ness manager. Beginning at 8 tomorrow morn ing, the handing out of the books will go on all through the day, and if there are any buyers who have failed to collect their copies the setup will run on through half the next day, Friday. The line will form at the student entrance of the Igloo tomorrow morning. A special dispensing cage has been moved out into the hall, the cash cage used during regis tration for the collecting of fees. It is from this the books will be issued. Enough books are on hand for all who call for them, Williams said. All except 283 copies are al ready here, and they will come in by tomorrow morning, the Ore gana office has been promised. If there is any doubt in anyone’s mind as to whether an Oregana has been ordered, the thing to do is check tomorrow, Williams said. Faculty books rate special con sideration in the dispensing plan, it was announced. The faculty either wins or loses, for it must wait until Saturday for its Ore ganas, but on the other hand these will be delivered. Only request made by Williams was that those who have ordered would collect their yearbooks to morrow so the distributing would ^ not have to run on into Junior Weekend. The real reason for the pre-weekend distribution, Williams said, was to prevent the two af fairs from merging. Infirmary Patients Now Number 14 Fourteen students were recover ing from colds, poison oak, ath letes’ foot, and other illnesses in the campus hospital yesterday. Listed on the infirmary registry were: Seth Smith. Katherine Can non, Dorothy Hangston, Jerry Huntley, Pat Tuller, Ted Olsen. Helen Zawodsky, Stella Ingle, Eileen Dement, Beverly Young, Peggy Snow, Margaret Spliid, Bill Cardinal, and Nick Matich. Crown Prince Olav of Norway f will be granted an honorary de gree by the University of Wiscon sin during his visit in the United States. The assembly is set for historic Gerlinger hall at 11 o’clock. Classes Excused All University classes will have administration - sanctioned vaca tions at that time to get a first official look at John Dick, Verdi Sederstrom, Roy Vernstrom, and Jeannette Hafner, the quartet a majority of ASUO card holders named last night as their choices for new Oregon student govern ment heads. Also on hand to add his words of commendation to Oregon’s new ly-chosen student representatives will be University President Don ald M. Erb, who will act as master of ceremonies. ASUO Prexy Harry Weston will make his final assem bly appearance, and officially hand the reins over to the basketball famous Dick this morning. Governor Sprague’s visit this (Please turn In page four) Shock Bench Shows Coeds Not So Quiet The lady said “Ouch!”—and that wasn’t all. Feminine artists no doubt thought their masculine col leagues far politer than usual yesterday when they saw empty, inviting benches in the art court, and boys sitting on the grass. That was before the girls sat. The benches were wired. The girls became animated . . . the atmosphere, interesting. “Some of the sweetest little girls say some of the most sur prising things,” was the com ment of one of the masculine torturers, as he glanced over his scrapbook collection of the spon taneous utterances. Junior Women Select Pledges Phi Theta Upsilon Chooses 26 Coeds For Membership Phi Theta Upsilon, junior wo men’s service honorary, took it •upon themselves yesterday, to be one of the first women's honorar ies on the campus to select new members for next year. Formal pledging took place at an all-wo men’s assembly yesterday after noon in Gerlinger. Twenty-six prominent University women were honored at the assem (Please turn to page jour) Lowry Wins Senior Class Presidency Swift, Rogers, Winslow Voted Into Office as Politicians Apply Last Minute Touches to Campaigns Winding; up three years of class politics, the juniors elected senior class officers yesterday. A muddled bloc ticket composed of Phil Lowry, Theta Chi, president; Alice Swift, Gamma Phi, vice-president; Alyce Rogers, Alpha Gam, secretary; and Bob Winslow, Chi Psi, treasurer; was balloted into senior office. The results were: Phil Lowry, 61, and Burton Barr, 47, for presi dent; Peggy Robbins, 52, and Alice Swift, 53, for vice-president; Alyce Rogers, 96, and Paul Deutschmann, 12; Bob Winslow, 53, Charles Hill way, 47, and Bob Dent, 1. Junior class politicians were not to be outdone by ASUO political hopefuls on election day. Cars carrying candidate propaganda bore juniors to and from the polls. Sororities and fraternities were contacted by phone in an effort to swing ASUO bloc power in back of senior office candidates. The junior class ballot counting committee was composed of Chuck Skinner, Anne Frederiksen, Bud Nestor and Scott Corbett. YW Advisory Board Holds Dinner Party Tonight; Last Meet Honorin'? the old and new YWCA cabinets, the YW advisory board is holding a dinner party at the home of Mrs. Clarence Chase, Chase Gardens, this evening. Cars will leave the YW at 5:30 o'clock, Bettylou Swart, president, said. The dinner will also mark the last meeting of the advisory board. Mrs. Lester Beck is in charge. Sigma Delta Chi pledges meet today 105 Journalism at 4:30. Im portant weekend plans to be dis cussed. Business Is Beginning to Pick Up Around Here ... Junior Weekend Head Men Hal Jahn and Walt Miller, general and assistant chairmen, respectively With Junior Weekend now only two days off, th «e boys are beginning to move faster and faster They’ll probably feel much better in a few days when it’s all over. Meanwhile they have worked ; , banner program for the three days. NOTICE Although the round table at i 3:15 this afternoon with Gov | ernor Sprague has been called off because of his scheduled de parture immediately after luncheon, Sigma Delta Chi will hold its weekly meeting this af ternoon at 4 in 104 Journalism. Considerable important busi ness is scheduled for the meet ing. f New ASUO Heads 1 These four students were ehosen to head next year’s executive council. They are, left to rignt: Roy Vernstrom, second vice-president; John Dick, president; Jeannette Hafner, secretary, and Verdi Seder stroin, first vice-president. Deutschmann Pays Penalty; Takes Bumps Newspaper editors of fifty years ago certainly had things easy. All they ever got was a mild horse whipping now and then. But nowa days things are decidedly different. For example the case of Paul Deutschmann, editor of the Daily Emerald. Last night Deutsch en joyed the pleasures of a millrace bath, a ride in a wheelbarrow, a Sigma Chi hosing, and a starlit walk home from the McKenzie bridge. It seems that friend Deutsch had planned to dine at the DU house after the election to settle up a few bets and so forth on the po litical situation. He dined all right! And in royal style! During the meal Deutsch was made the ob ject of numerous songs. Upon re (Please turn to paye four) Junior Weekend Plans Nearly Finished; Luncheon Starts Festivities Friday Water Carnival Offers Contests In Afternoon One department of Junior Week ' end which will be in a class by itself is the water carnival, suc cessor to what has heretofore been labeled the burlesque canoe fete. Plans announced yesterday for the event indicate it will be a new angle in weekend offerings. The thing is to take on new color this year, according to Chair man Russ Iseli, shedding the bur lesque-mock-canoe theme in favor of water sports. Set for 2 o’clock Friday afternoon, the program will offer canoe racing, canoe jousts, clown diving, swimming races, a novelty frosh-dog race, and novelty log-rolling competition, for which the juniors hope for feminine com petition. Humor Planned Not all the mock-canoe fete will be lost, however, it was stated. Leadoff spot will go to a single mock float on a grand scale, the theme of which is not to be re vealed until the actual moment of exposition. In the log-rolling, which is still a dark horse, the juniors have their hoping equipment set for something like a couple of years ago, when a pair of coeds issued a blanket challenge to anyone who would “burl” with them on the swift waters of the raceway. More Entrants Invited Ituss Iseli, chairman for the car nival, last night admitted he was still willing to take on more en | trants for the various events, for which prizes are being offered. The call includes swimmers, would-l>c canoe racers, and log-rollers. Probably the funniest piece of horseplay on the program is likely to be the frosh-dog race, a project still in the formative stages. Isel and his boys dreamed it up, anc now they are moving heaven an< earth to make it click. The plai . as it stood at last report was b ■. have a few freshmen swim in tan a dem with their house dogs in sor (Pleast turn to page four) All-Campus Menu Promises Plenty Of Eatables Only tivo more days until Junioi Weekend! And 48 hours from today noon Junior Weekend will be on its merry way to the rustle of a flock of paper spoons and the murmur ing of an opening-day crowd en gaged in partaking of all-campus luncheon. With preparations so energetic as to be practically feverish the juniors yesterday added more links to their finished chain of plans for their largest class concerted effort, announcing plans for cam pus luncheon and for the Friday afternoon water carnival. I*at Heads Luncheon The luncheon, number one on the weekend program, was com plete yesterday as t.o commissary, with Chairman Patsy Taylor bring ing in the menu and reporting all the pickles, the mountain of potato chips, the cubic yard or less of ice cream, the tubs of punch, and all the other paraphernalia of a campus luncheon, has been ordered. No lack*jf eatables will be on hand for the lawn picnickers Friday, if the food schedule is any indication. The weekend goes royal with a capital R at the luncheon, when Maxine Glad, “Queen Alice,” re ceives her crown, in one of the most unique coronation ceremonies seen here. The coronation is set for 12:30. Begins at Noon The lunch itself will begin “ai 12 sharp," Chairman Taylor said with the serving being handled bi Kwama, Phi Theta Upsilon, an< freshman girls. Skull and Dagge men will also be in on the serving Four tables will be used, and i is hoped that the long queues o hungry people will not have long t wait to get their plates filled 1 Introduction of tickets this yea i is expected to do away with re > peaters, those who go through th - line more than once, by hook o t crook. (Please turn to farjejaur) All Quiet on Political Front as Students Settle it all at Polls - Sederstrom, Vernstrom, Hafner Win Executive Committee Posts; Campus Celebrates Victory By NORMAN FOSTER It’s all over now, except for purposeful congratulations, empty beer kegs, broken campaign promises, vacant aspirin boxes, and vivid memories of parades, propaganda, and paint. Because yesterday, campus voters rang down the curtain on the year’s political scene by electing students to membership on the ASUO executive committee. John Dick, Sigma Nu, member of the Oregon championship team, was elected to the highly coveted position of student body president. Verdi Sederstrom, Sigma Chi, will back up Dick in the job of first vice-president. Roy Vern strom, Delt, was balloted into the position of second vice president. Jeanette Hafner, Kappa, is the new ASUO secretary. All four students are members of the ASUO executive committee. They will be installed today at 11 by Governor Sprague. John Dick has been prominent in campus activities, both athletically i and politically. Two years ago he j was president of his class and a “big gun” of the freshman basket ball team. Last year Dick was the alternate for Dave Silver on the varsity basketball team. He played first string ball for Oregon’s na- | I tional basketball championship I team this season, and was elected to western all-star rating. As soon as election returns were made official last night, victorious ; houses began celebration plans. Most of the houses having- winning candidates forgot study rules and quiet hours for the evening. The Sigma Nils held open house honor ing John Dick. Refreshments were poured for those attending. Yesterday’s activities marked the close of political hostilities un til next fall. Campus politicians are turning their thoughts from bloc "deals” to textbooks and classrooms. Spring dew with the aid of streetcleaners is gradually erasing painted sidewalk propa ganda. Campus conversation has swung to talk of finals and vaca tion instead of who’s going to be elected for what. Peace once more reigns supreme on the campus and piggers are once more worrying how to get their pins back before I summer. j Foods Classes Hold Dinner Thursday The foods classes under the di ' rection of Miss Mabel A. Wood, I head of the home economics de ' partment, is giving a dinner for • the minor faculty Thursday eve t ning at 6 o’clock in the home eco f nomics building. > The minor faculty is composed • of those members who teach sub r jects in which no credit is given - on this campus. e r Yeomen will meet at 1 o’clock I today at the meadows to work on the queen’s float. Mothers Banquet Satu relay President Erb, Mrs. Weston, Rev. G. H. Swift To Speak Final arrangements for the Mothers’ banquet, slated for Sat urday night, as part of the Junior Weekend program, are nearing completion, announced Bettylou Swart, banquet chairman, last night. All students are urged to bring their parents to these fes tivities in their honor. Fried chicken will constitute the bill of fare, and the program will be broadcast over station KOAC. President Donald M. Erb, will be the featured speaker of the eve ning, and the invocation will be given by Rev. G. H. Swift of Salem. Toastmistress duties will be per formed by Mrs. C. H. Weston, pres ident of the Oregon Mothers. She will also present the attendance awards to the winning class, as well as read the installation of new officers. Greetings from the Oregon Dads, State System of Higher Education, Associated Wo men Students, and ASUO will also constitute part of the program. Music Offered Musical numbers will be offered by Virginia Tooze, Barbara Ward, George Sanders, and Leland Chase, as well as a selection by the win ners of the Interfraternity sing contest. Phi Beta trio will play an introduction and finale. The Alice in Wonderland theme will be carried out in the table dec orations, under the direction of Jean Kendall. Figurines of well known Lewis Carrol characters will grace the main table, and flowers will decorate the rest of the dining room. Martin Reig heads the ushers. A sellout is expected, according to Miss Swart, as tickets for the affair may be purchased in Port land as well as in the dean of men’s office. Admission is $1; 75 cents of this money is the price of the dinner, and the other 25 cents will , (Please turn to paye join)
