Special Edition
VOLUME XL
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1939
NUMBER 2
Impressions
Of a Rushee
By JEFF KITCHEN
. . for it IS for knowledge . . .
that we come to college,” sing
most of the members of the class
of ’43 as the tin pants bridage in
vades the Oregon campus. ‘‘Not
straight ‘book lamin’ ’ perhaps, but
we’re here to learn how to handle
the world and ourselves.”
“. . . and this place we've picked ,
for our education—Oregon—how
does it strike us? We have heard
if it as a school of many sides— |1
with an angle and an interest for )
everyone that looks. You can take
it ip stride, or let it take you.” j
“We of ’43 do not propose the
latter, and so we look. The first
things we notice after the campus ;1
landmarks, when we make the big 1
step of becoming an Oregon stu
dent, are the traditions and cus-11
toms of the campus, the spirit of i ’
action, and—the girls.” |'
“Wandering over the campus ^
during the first days, many things '''
interest us. The ‘white stuff’ seep- |
ing from the mortar between the
bricks high on the art museum
arouses our curiosity. . . . The
‘squeaky’ floor in the library halls
is made of strange material’ . . .
Nearly all the coeds wear saddles
or clumpy wooden-soled shoes. . . .
We hear much of Oregon’s nation
al champs . . . especially when we
are in a ‘house’ that is the home of
one of the fellows . . . and, these
same fraternity men tell us with
a grin that touch-football is ‘in’
again.”
“When we comment of the ‘face
lifting’ going on near some cam
pus building a sophomore says,
‘They’re always at it, and it seems
like they always will be'. . . .
Greeks are still ‘Greek” to a lot of
us even after rush week . . . dogs
everywhere, grey, brown, and those
in our brogues sore from trying to
locate certain buildings. . . . Fresh
eggs (of two kinds) can be ob
tained from an institution located
at a hamlet 40 miles north on the
highway. . . . The millrace is good
(and cold).”
“Trees and houses mixed among
University buildings confuse us,
for we are still plenty green . . .
but we are getting in that stride,
and when we do get in the groove,
the class of ’43 is really going to
send. . . . We don’t figure on say
ing ‘Oregon we are here,’ they’ll
know it!”
By Eleanor Engdahl
Whee, folks, is your daughter
thrilled with this University of
Oregon place? Of course I’m still
a green freshman, but I'm begin
ning to get in the swing of it.
Rush week is sure hectic; you get
all excited and mixed up, and peo
ple go running around like crazy.
Meeting people and endeavoring to
keep the right name attached to
the right girl is really an accom
plishment. There are a lot of swell
sororities, and you meet grand girls
everywhere. I’ll bet I could have
fun most anywhere. There are lots
of girls I like ever so much who
are living in the dorms this term.
It’s such a thrill to be here at
last. I’m anticipating everything
with relish. I hear they have dances
that are super, and think of all
the kids I haven’t met yet! Yes,
and I’m really going to study, too,
when that part comes along.
The campus is beautiful! I love
it. And the weather and every
thing’s been even better than I
hoped for. Now if I just keep my
chin up when I think of home!
First Emerald Staff
Meeting Set for
Monday Night
First Emerald staff meeting of
the year will be held Monday night
at 7:30 in journalism building, Bud
Jermain, editor, announced last
night.
The main purpose of the meeting
will be to acquaint freshmen and
other newcomers with the Emerald
upper news staff and to begin or
ganization of the staff for the
year, Jermain said.
First regular publication will be
gin the same night, leaving little
time for organizing. However, all
prospective members will be giver
a chance on the staff, he said.
Registration Material
To Be Out Wednesday
New System Will Enable Many to Have
Schedules Made Out Before Friday;
Will Save Time, Constance Says
Registration material, including schedules, and white hook, will l>e
fiven out to old students of the University beginning Wednesday
norning at 8 o’clock, Clifford Constance, assistant registrar, announced
,-esterday.
All students who were registered in the University last term and those
>!d students who were not here last term but have signified their in
;ention ot returning win receive
heir material in the basement of
lohnson hall, while all other stu
lents will be taken care of at the
egistrar’s office.
This new method of issuing reg
stration material before registra
ion day is expected to eliminate
:onsiderable congestion, according
o officials.
The Red Book will no longer be
filed out by the student. A photo
itatic copy of the book will be is
lued which will serve the same
lurpose. However, any damage to
his copy will result in a new one
leing printed at the student’s, ex
lense.
Plane Motors
To Roar Here
U. of O. Students
Will Have Chance
To Study Flying
Students and townspeople of Eu
gene will soon become accustomed
to the roar of airplane motors as
the result of the selection of the
University of Oregon as one of the
schools to teach flying to students
under the new federal civilian pilot
training program.
About 40 students will be ac
cepted for the training after in
tensive examinations which will in
clude physical check-ups, survey of
scholastic records, advancement
and general fitness.
Other requirements for admis
sion to the course are: American
citizenship, completion of freshman
year, no solo experience, being
within the age range of 18 to 25
years and, payment of a forty dol
lar fee separate from the regular
University fee.
The course will be divided into
two parts with a total of from 107
to 122 hours of instruction. Ground
work will consume 72 hours, time
being used in two evening classes
a week with each class two hours
long and offering two credits a
term.
Flight instruction will be offered
for a period of 35 to 50 hours.
Students successful in complet
ing the course will receive private
pilot certificates for competency.
Anyone interested in the pro
gram should contact C. E. Spencer,
professor of law, at Fenton hall
between September 28 and 30.
Oregana Waits
1939 Rating
Oregana headquarters were yes
terday looking both back and
ahead, awaiting the national rat
ings on last spring’s yearbook and
putting the finishing touches to
the “dummy” for the 1940 edition.
Editor George Knight and Busi
ness Manager Dick Williams have
already been on the job for some
time, although no staff lineups
have been made as yet. The staffs
will be organized immediately as
soon as registration is completed.
Present plans call for a book
along much the same lines as last
year, with the new larger size,
same type cover, and many of the
best features of the 1939 edition.
A regular feature of registration,
advance sales of the yearbook will
begin Friday and carry through
Saturday. After registration and
after the ASUO membership drive
the real w’ork of promoting and
building the book will begin. Dis
tribution is a traditional spring
term event, usually about Junior
weekend time.
Freshmen: Meet your president
at the President’s Assembly
Wednesday.
Assembly
To Honor
Women
Setting in motion their fall term
program to find places in the activ
ity field for freshman women, the
Associated Women Students will
entertain newcomers at a mass as
sembly of all women students
Wednesday afternoon.
Anne Fredriksen, AWS prexy,
will handle the gavel at the first
all-women event of freshman week.
“We have arranged this mass
meeting as a starter for our ori
entation schedule, through which
we want to find a place in activ
ities for all interested girls,” Miss
Fredriksen announced last night.
Scheduled to appear at the meet
ing, which is to be in the music
building at four o’clock, are lead
ers of various coed' honoraries and
clubs. They will explain their pur
pose on the campus, and give in
structions for girls who desire en
trance into these groups.
To be introduced are Aurelie
Wolcott, pan-hellenic president;
Majeanne Glover, Phi Theta head;
Bettylou Swart, YWCA; Jeanette
Hafner, president of Mortar Board;
Margaret Van Matre, WAA prexy,
and Mrs. Hazel P. Schwering, dean
of women. Heads of the employ
ment administration, housing, and
religious groups will also speak.
Pat Taylor, chairman of the af
, fair, will do a take-off on the col
lege freshman, and as an addition,
music numbers have been arranged.
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I Eve Morris Named
Housing Secretary
Appointment of Mrs. Eve Mor
ris as Housing Secretary for the
University of Oregon was an
nounced yesterday by Karl W,
Onthank, dean of personnel ad
ministration.
She will replace Marcella B
King, who resigned to take ovei
the position of Summer School
Secretary which was recently va
cated by Mrs. Shirley F. Wright
Emerald Opens
Shop As First
Sheet Appears
This morning's issue of the
Emerald marks the first fall ap
pearance of the campus daily.
It will also appear both Thurs
day and Friday of this week.
Although these first three is
sues are in the nature of special
editions, with special staffs,
regular publication will begin
Monday, to be continued five
days weekly throughout the
term.
New students interested in
working on the Emerald, as well
as holdover staff members, are
invited to the first staff meeting
Monday night, when organiza
tion plans will be made and the
system for the year outlined.
Many Added
To Faculty
This Year
Large Enrollment
Requires Increase
In Staff Size
Nearly a score of new faculty
members will greet University stu
dents when the school year gets
fully under way. This year, which
is expected to be the greatest
since the University was founded
more than 60 years ago, will have
16 new names on the faculty roll.
The new faces appearing in the
line-up are replacements for those
on leaves of absence or for those
who have resigned. Many were also
added because of the increased en
rollment. -
[ New members will include: James
Rodney Branton, head of depart
ment of religion; William O. Hall,
acting director of the bureau of
municipal research; Dr. Theodore
Kratt, noted conductor, dean of the
[school of music; Dr. George F.
Lussky, professor of German; Dr.
j Beatrice Aitchison, whose career
includes service with the Interstate
Commerce Commission; Dr. Law
rence S. Bee, assistant professor
of sociology; Homer G. Barnett, in
structor of anthropology; Sven V.
Duncan, William L. Thompson, in
structors in speech; Hugh B. Wood,
professor of education; J. L. C.
Ford, assistant professor of jour
nalism; Carl Fredrick Kossack, in
structor in mathematics; Robert
Motherwell III, instructor of art;
Mary Shafer, instructor in home
economics; Lloyd Staples, instruct
or in geology, and David E. Thomp
son, instructor in architecture.
Advisers will be in their offices
all day Thursday. Plan to see their
then.
A Berry of Solid Gold
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John “Buck” Berry, Tex Oliver’s latest nugget. Berry, halfbac
transfer from Compton J. C., would like nothing better than to whe
the U8C Trojans.
Rush Week Ends; Fresh
Assembly Wednesday
<—aMMF va-^-fcsBLL-aES.
Rushing
Is Nearly
Finished
Registration,
Advising to Be
Main Features
Of Freshman Week
Going from one phase of their |
pre-registration activity to the |
threshold of another, freshmen will
today step the last mile in rush
week, learn the outcome, and im
mediately focus their attention on
their freshman week events.
Zero hour for rush week mara
thoners is set for noon today, the
last official date rushees can have
under rushing rules. At one o’clock
the rushees will leave the scene
of their final "glad—handing," file
their bids, and get ready to move
to their permanent quarters. To
morrow they begin the real work
of getting into the University of
Oregon.
Records fell in this year a edi
tion of the annual function, with
jj74 prospective Greek-letter
pledges going through the mill, al
most a 10 per cent increase over
last year.
The most surprising increase
was recorded in the coed depart
mentT" which soared more than 20
per cent above last year’s figure.
The male end of the scale showed
a drop of about 4 per cent. The
figures showed 349 girls this year,
compared with 273 last year, while
for the men it was 325 this year
against 340 last year.
An unusually fine crop of
rushees was reported from all
houses, who indicated a conspicu
ous predominance of “nuggets.”
Rush week began officially at noon
Saturday, has occupied almost ev
ery free hour since that time. Sev
eral hundred members of the 17
fraternities and 15 sororities came
to the campus several days early
for rush week.
The unexpected quantity of good
material caused many of the
houses to set about hanging theii
quotas to accommodate the influx,
The dean of men's office was three
deep throughout the period, as was
that of the dean of women. Inter
fraternity headquarters in Johi:
i Straub hall handled the men with
out more than a few hitches.
The program for freshmen from
here on in includes various infor
mal pledge festivities tonight
placement and other examina
tions tomorrow through Friday
and registration Friday and Satur
day. There will be assemblies to
morrow and Thursday nights, t.h<
first honoring President Donald M
Erb, and the second for ASUC
introductions.
Freshman Has
Embarrassing
Experience
Marion Cloud, member of th<
class of ’43, was recovering las
night from what he termed "ai
embarrassing experience.”
Although there is more mone;
there is also more demand. Ai<
will be granted on ability as showi
by high school and college record
Those who are unable to gain NYi
aid should not feel badly as a tota
of $250,000 is earned by Univer
sity students throughout the schoc
year. This is eight times as muc
| as is given through the NYA.
A penny saved Is a penny earnet
k Save with an ASUO card,
p Walk softly and go far with a
|ASUO card.
Welcomes Freshmen
Dr Donald M. Erl), president of the University of Oregon, wilt main
the welcoming- address to the class of *43 when the fresh assemble at
the music auditorium Wednesday evening.
Cute Frosh Girls Provide
Problem for Sororities
“Honestly, we're in so much of
a daze that it’s going to take us
weeks to wake up,” moaned the
usually full of vim, vigor and vi
tality coeds of mill race row.
“This rush week has been the
! worst ever,” they declared, “with
| /So many darned cute girls and us
1 knowing that we can’t pledge them
I all.”
i Fraternity men commenting on
the past week praised the great
j number of good rushees and the
' frankness which dominated rush
i week.
“This crop of rushees is much
wiser than the bunch we were in,”
they declared; “we don't even try
to feed them a lot of ballyhoo. Also
the majority of them are financial
ly better off and don’t claim they
need jobs in order to pledge.”
Both fraternity and sorority
leaders have voiced their opinions
on the quota system which limits
the number they may pledge.
‘‘This quota system is unfair!"
declared Virginia Twoze, ‘‘and you
can quote me.”
“It’s not right,” chipped in Ro
berta Lemon, "because it hurts
the representation from small
towns and also hurts the chances
of upperclassmen who wish to
pledge.”
"It causes a lot of broken
hearts,’ ’explained Helen Angell,
"but I think it will work out all
right in another year; any new
plan must have modifications as
this one must, but basically it is
good.”
NYA Increases
Appropriations;
Many More Apply
An expected 10 per cent increase
in enrollment at the University of
Oregon has brought an increase in
the NYA appropriation for the U.
of O. This year between $30,000
and $40,000 will be available for
students through NYA. An in
creased proportionment was also
a factor in the larger fund.
It seems Marion applied to the
University for admission as a
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Change of Major
Necessitates Blank
From Registrar
Any student contemplating
a change of major must secure
-egular blanks for that purpose
it. the registrar’s office before
Friday, Clifford Constance, as
sistant registrar, warned yes
:erday.
The office will be open all
lay today as well as Wednes
lay and Thursday, Mr. Con
stance said. Failure to secure a
.hange of major petition before
Friday will cause considerable
oss of time to the student, he
taid.
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freshman and was accepted. He
received, along with his other
blanks, a card temporarily lodging
him in one of the girls’ halls for
r ush week and a copy of "Sorority
Handbook."
Finally located in Omega hall
last night he was considering per
manently affixing a “Mr.” to his
signature.
Get your registration material
early and avoid congestion at Mc
Arthur Court.
New Building
Is Planned for
Northwestern
With housing facilities for 700
students, a building 210 feet tall
and costing $1,700,000 is con
templated on Northwestern uni
versity’s Chicago campus. It
will include among other de
partments or apar tments, shops,
libraries, dining rooms, lounges
exercise facilities including bowl
ing alleys and squash courts,
and a recreational roof garden
at the tenth level. This city with
in itself will be used exclusively
I as a university dormitory,
i Y News.
Erb Will
Speak to
Meeting
Newcomers Will
Meet UO President
for First Time
At University
The University of Oregon’s cur
rent crop of freshmen, nearly back
to normalcy after the five crowded
days of rush week, will tomorrow
night continue their getting ac
quainted when they gather in the
music auditorium to meet Dr. Don
ald M. Erb, president of the Uni
versity, in the annual “president’s
assembly.”
All freshmen will be on hand for
this first introduction as a group
to the man whose influence they
will feel for the next four or five
years of their lives. Freshmen
classes have for years been intro
duced to the president of the Uni
versity in assemblies like this one.
Dr. Erb to Welcame
Dr. Erb will deliver his first per
sonal welcome and will tell his new
est charges some things about the
University and their life here. The
address will be neither long nor
j formal. __
,: The whole program, including
the address, should take not more
! than an hour, Dean of Personnel
. Karl W. Onthank said yesterday,
j “Very simple and very important,”
I was Dean Onthank’s classification
of the program, which is set to be
gin promptly at 7:30.
Dick to Be Present
John Dick, president of the
ASUO, will also be on hand, al
though he will be only presented
to the assembly, deferring his re
marks until he presides over his
own assembly the next night, also
for the freshfnen.
Mortar Board and Kwama girls,
two most outstanding women’s
service groups, will usher. John
| Stark Evans of the music school
I will play the organ while the au
jdltorium is filling.
Branton Takes
Over Duties
As Religion Head
Dr. R. J. Branton, who ha9
trained beth abroad and in this
country, will head the department
of religion this year.
Courses for the current school
year will be limited to the three
credit upper division sequence: ori
gins of religions, great religions of
the Orient, and great religions of
Palestine and Arabia.
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