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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1939)
WOMEN'S PAGE: 1. Coed of Week 2. Open House VOLUME XLI TODAY'S EDITS: Drum Majoress Davenport Deal NUMBER 11 library CAMPUS Midday Send-off Planned for Webfoots Football Team Off For South Demonstration Slated to Begin At 11:45 Today BULLOIJN I Each student planning to attorn the send-off rally this morning ai 11:55 Is asked by Boh Hochuli rally chairman, to bring a news paper to be torn up for cheer dem onstrations. Classrooms, Greek houses anc dorms will be left vacant at ll:4f this morning, when all Oregor treks to the local station to rally ’round the Duck squad when they entrain for their tilt with the Cali fornia Golden Bears. The football team will be at the station at 11:55 to climb aboard the special, and student rooters will put on their demonstration be tween then and 12:10, when the southern-bound squad pulls out of the station. I On hand to pay their respects to the departing heroes will be Uni versity President Donald M. Erb, who is seldom seen at Webfoot ral lies, Anse Cornell, athletic activi ties director, and ASUO Prexy John Dick. The University band will sere nade the Ducks, and Bob Elliot and his squad of yell leaders will han dle the mass demonstration by the student body. Rally Head Bob Hochuli requested last nig'-Kt that every fan attending , bring a news paper, to be torn to bits during the send-off and thrown into the air. Living groups will pair off to go to th£ rally in the same manner as for the send-off to the Stanford game. Fraternity men will call for girls in the house corresponding to theirs on the rally committee’s list. Groups who do not know their list ing may learn rally plans by call ing Maxine Hansen, Hochuli said. Assemblies Temporarily Canceled Schools to Hold Meetings in 11 O'Clock Period All student body assemblies for the next two weeks have been can celled in order to allow depart mental assemblies to take over the regular Thursday 11 o’clock pe riods usually set aside for ASUO gatherings. First school to meet will be that of architecture and allied arts. Fu ture designers and painters are scheduled to convene in Villard au ditorium this morning at 11. Also set for the same hour today is the assembly for majors in that school of music to be held in the music school lecture room. Tonight at 7:15 o’clock an as sembly for all students who are taking speech courses will be held. This meeting, which will familiaY ize speech students with radio and symposium group activities offered both men and women, will also be held in Villard auditorium. Many departments and schools, including education, law, business administration, and pre-medics, will meet next week at locations to be announced later. Magazine File Added to Libe A few changes have been made in the library periodical room this fall, according to Willis C. Warren, head of the department. The periodical file has been labeled and reclassified for added convenience. The file now has the call numbers of the bound volumes as well as the name of the maga zine. A new magazine has been added called “Econometrica,” which deals with mathematical economics to be used with the new classes of fered on the campus. This brings the current maga zines in the library to a grand total of 925, the largest yet, Mr. Warren says. Frosh Blocs Declare Political War for Coming Elections Les Anderson, A1 Silvernail to Represent Rival Blocs in Race for President; Polls Will Open Next Wednesday for Final Vote By NORMAN FOSTER i he curtain went up last night on the popular campus production, politics, with the freshmen nominating members as candidates for officeis of the class of '43. The production, showing last night in Vil iard hall, was a double feature consisting of two campus political blocs striving for leadership of the freshman class. Those nominated by bloc A were: Les Anderson, DU, for presi Law Dean Arbitrator Resigns Longshoremen Refuse Morse's Firty-First Case Wayne L. Morse, dean of the University law school, arrived back on the campus yesterday after re signing as Pacific coast longshore men arbitrator. Morse for the past year has ruled in 41 cases of west coast labor dis putes and has now refused to con tinue his work because longshore men have refused to accept an ar bitration agreement he made Sat urday in regard to a picketed ship of the Panama Pacific line. “I am more interested' in carry ing out the principles of sound ar bitration than in any particular case,” Morse said. “Arbitration is a judicial process and the judicial system cannot survive unless the parties involved carry out their mandates.” Morse repeated his Saturday’s statement by saving' that long shoremen were guilty of “collu sive" picketing when they refused ( to go through a picket line of the ship’s clerks, affiliated with the CIO longshoremen's union, around the intercoastal passenger ship City of Newport News. The Panama Pacific case grew out of dispute between the CIO ship clerks’ association and the steamship line over a new contract. The clerks threw a picket line in front of the Panama Pacific pier last week, and prevented the load ing of the ship, City of Newport News. Henry Schmidt, San Francisco president of the International long shoremen’s association, told Dean Morse that he had advised the men to go through the picket lines but they had refused for their personal safety. Morse said the longshoremen’s action necessitated this resigna tion in the interests of self respect and the future of arbitration. The Temple university school of medicine had 2,000 applications for j 110 vacancies in its freshman class. dent; Jeannette Neilson, Susan Campbell hall for vice-president; Ruth Graham, AOPi, for secretary; ; and Glen Williams, Canard club for treasurer. Bloc B put up A1 Silvernail, Chi | Crooks, Gamma Phi, for vice-pres j ident; Helene Wilmot, DG, for sec retary; and Pat Riley, Kappa Sig ! for treasurer. Who’s for Whom? Because of apparent uncertainty as to just whose side who was on, political bigwigs declined to reveal | the members of their respective blocs. The Kappas appeared to be one of the "fence sitter oners,” what with one bloc claiming that they had the Kappas “sewed up” politically, while the other bloc asserted that they had “things well in hand.” Verdi Sederstrom, first vice - president of the associated student body, was in charge of last night’s meeting. Sederstrom appointed Jean Maloney to take the assem bly minutes. Sederstrom pointed out that anyone wishing to nominate a can didate after the close of the meet ing, could do so by filing a petition signed by 30 members of the class of '43 with him before Friday mid night. for president; Dotty Lou \ niaru racked Villard hall was packed to ca pacity with politically - minded freshmen last night. The meeting evidently aroused so much interest that even a few of the campus poli ticians attended, supposedly to see that their contingent didn’t “do them wrong.” The freshman class will vote on their candidates next Wednesday, October 18. The polls will be locat ed in the YMCA hut and fresh men may vote between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.. Voters must possess class cards. Libe Reserve Hits New High The general reserve department of the library set an all-time record Tuesday by issuing 1,592 books during the day. M. H. Douglass, head librarian, attributes the rise to the fact that students study more at the begin ning of the term. Even that grand total does not come near touching the whole number of books in the library. Students would have to draw nearly 300,000 to take out all the books. Directs Season's Opener Horace Robinson . . . planned new lighting effects for “Our Town,” Pulitzer prize play, which will open at 8 o’cloek tonight in the Uni versity theater. Curtain to Ris§ on Premier Of Pulitzer Prize Winner, 'Our Town/ Tonight at 8 Stage Settings in New University Theater Drama Unusually Informal; Sell-Out Predicted for All Three Performances The University theater curtain will go up at eight o’clock tonight on the “first nighter" performance of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer prize play, “Our Town.’’ A few seats left for Thursday night, a complete sellout for Friday, and still a slight choice for Saturday’s performance is the record set at the box office located in Johnson hall. Exchange tickets plus twenty-five cents entitles students to a IC3CI VC scat, LU 3CC Lllirj Ul timclUC success of small town life. Ex change tickets may be secured at the ASUO office or at any living organization by holders of student body cards. Opening Informal In keeping with the simple stage setting, Mrs. Ottilie T. Seybolt, director of the drama department, announces the opening will be in formal. The scenes in "Our Town” are laid in the small New England town of Grover’s Corners with familiar home-like atmosphere. The part of the country prac titioner, Dr. Gibbs, will be taken by Robert Horn. His wife will be por trayed by Florence Shumaker. The part of the editor, Mr. Webb, is being played by Henry Kom with the role of his wife being taken by Dorothy Parks. Larson Leads Ed Larson will be seen in the juvenile lead as George Gibbs play ing opposite Mary Staton as Re becca, the editor's daughter. The romantic note of the play is hinged on their courtship and marriage. “Our Town” is directed by Hor ace Robinson, associate professor of dramatics, and assisted by Hel ene Parsons. Other members in the cast are: stage manager, Horace Robinson; Rebecca Gibbs, Mary Margaret Gedney; Simon Stimson, Jerry Lakefish; Mrs. Soames, Gerda Brown; Constable Warren, Dan Willis; Si Crowell, Dickie Moore; Sam Craig, James Parsons; Joe Stoddard, Kenneth Griffith; Joe Crowell, Lee Everett; Howie New some, Lester McDonald; Professor Willard, N. B. Zane; baseball play ers, Don Rest and Elmer Rice; dead woman, Betty Jane Quigley; dead man, Jim Davidson; Joe Cot ton, Howard Speer; townspeople, Janice Jones, Ray Dickson, Betty Fiksdahl, and Mary Booth. Majoress May Twirl At Initial Home Game Military Honorary Plans Meet Tonight; To Air ROTC Plans Fall activity will begin to night for Scabbard and Blade, military honorary, when the group holds its first meeting of the year. The meeting was called by Harry Milne, captain of the local chapter, and is set for 7:15 at the ROTC building. Armistice day plans will be discussed, Milne said, to work out the part of Scabbard and Blade in the observance. Milne also urged that sum mer camp pictures be brought to the meeting for comparison and classification. Concessions Picked for AWS Fete Drawing Held by Trudi Anderson, Booth Chairman A real “grab bag’’ drawing yes terday afternoon in the College side decided what houses would be paired off to build booths for the annual AWS carnival, set for Oc tober 28 in the Igloo. The drawing was held by Trudi Anderson, booth chairman. The results of the drawing were: Alpha Chi Omega-Phi Psi, Alpha Delta Pi-Phi Delta Theta, Alpha Gamma Delta-Chi Psi-Zeta hall, Alpha Omicron Pi-Sigma Nu, Al pha Phi-Alpha Tau Omega, Alpha Xi Delta-Canard club, Chi Omega Kappa Sigma, Delta Delta Delta Campbell Co-op 1, 2, Delta Gamma Phi Gamma Delta, Gamma Phi Beta-Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Girls’ University Co-op-Sigma Chi, Hil yard Co-op-Sherry Ross hall, High land Co-op-Sigma Alpha Mu, Hen dricks hall-Alpha hall, Kappa Al pha Theta-Sigma Phi Epsilon, Kappa Kappa Gamma-Delta Upsi lon, Pi Beta Phi-Phi Sigma Kap pa, Sigma Kappa-Beta-Pi Kappa Alpha, Susan Campbell-Delta Tau Delta, Zeta Tau Alpha-Gamma hall-Sigma hall, Orides-Theta Chi- i Omega hall. Dr. Preus to Speak To Lutheran Students Dr. C. K. Preus of Minneapolis, Minnesota, educational director for the Norwegian Lutheran church, will come to the campus Thurs day. He is conducting a series of con ferences in the West and will speak to the Lutheran Student association and others who are in terested, on "Fate in Action," at the YWCA at 5 p.m. Year-Old Dispute Believed to Be Near Peaceful Conclusion One Time Opponents 'About Face' On Much Discussed Majoress Idea; ASUO's Okey Will Mean Adoption A virtual one year silence on the widely controversial subject of whether Oregon should have a drum majoress was blasted last night when the AWS council, chief 1938 dissenters, gave their official sanc tion of a girl band leader. The majoress question, which last year peppered the Emerald with black headlines during the football season, was brought before the council by John Dick, ASUO proxy. The council listened to his case Many Plan Game Trek To California Low Rates Featured For 2-Day Outing to Golden Gate Area Trade was brisk at the ASUO rally train booth in front of Com merce building yesterday, as a steady stream of students kept the Southern Pacific clerk busy with questions concerning rates to the California game this week-end. Rally heads were cheerful last night over the success of the first football train that has ever been scheduled to take students to a California game. Nearly 300 plan to go south via the special. Special feature announced by Leith Abbott, SP representative, was that for students buying tour ist class tickets for $14.10 may se cure berths for Friday night for $1.00. Two students will be per mitted to share berths at no ex tra cost, he said. If fans travel by chair car or coach, they will have to pay only $13.80 for a round trip ticket. The rally special leaves the Eu gene station at 12:10 Friday noon, and arrives in Berkeley at 6:48 Saturday morning. Students may return to Eugene either Saturday or Sunday and will reach the home station Monday morning at 7 :f)0. “We are especially anxious that students make reservations as soon as possible,” Abbott said, “for al though we can provide for them, it would help us in preparing equipment for the trip if we knew just how many were to go.” The Hendrix college news bu reau last year sent out 800 stories about the school's activities and personalities. Opinions of Faculty Differ on Grade Publication By DOX GOODALL A partial survey of faculty opin ions made yesterday concerning the repeal of the legislation prohibiting the publishing of living group grade averages revealed a wide range of opinion on the advisability of the move. Comment on the subject ranged from a free-for-all attitude propos ing that publicity be given not only to living group averages but to in dividual student grades also. At the other extreme, a complete black out of publicity was advocated be cause the faculty member believed that public grades built up a com petitive spirit that caused a boycott of the stiffer courses and an unfair load on the so-called “pipe" courses. H. R. Taylor, head of the psychol ogy department and author of a | report on the subject of prohibition of grade publicity pointed out that a survey had been made and the re port had favored the rescinding of the ruling. “The ruling passed last year by the faculty senate prohibiting the publishing of grades did not have the desired effect and only added to the confusion which existed before,’’ Taylor reported. J. H. Gilbert, dean of the school of social science and chairman of the scholastic committee, made the 1 original motion before the faculty senate to repeal the prohibiting rul ing and bring back the former sys-1 tern. Acts as Stimulus “I believe that publishing living group averages acts as a decided stimulus to better scholarship and at the same time acts as an improv ing agent on groups with low scho lastic standings,” Gilbert pointed out. The case of Stanford university and its policy of publishing the name of each student and his grade point average was recited by Gil bert as showing the lengths to which some schools carry grade publicity. ‘‘I had my say last year. Since the majority of the faculty favors the old system of publishing grades, I will follow that sentiment,” com mented W. D. Smith, head of the geology and geography depart ments. Smith favored the action taken last year prohibiting grade publicity on the grounds that it cut down the competitive spirit in mak ing grades. Morse Votes Ves W. L. Morse, clean of the school of law, voted in favor of the repeal believing the prohibition ruling had not gained the desired ends. “It is my opinion that the living organizations are inclined to pres sure their members into following certain devices aimed at raising the grades of a particular house when the procedures may not be at all to the best interests of the individual concerned,” Morse stated in ex plaining his stand. A recommendation to the effect that the faculty senate give further consideration to the problem of grades was proposed by Morse dur ing the course of the interview. Suggests New System The fact that grades are difficult to apportion and are often not indi cative of a student’s ability was highlighted by V. P. Morris, dean of the school of business adminis tration. At the same time Morris expressed the wish that a more sat isfactory system be worked out to replace the grades now used to clas sify student ability. “As long as the University gives out grades at all, I favor the fullest publicity. If a professor does an ; honest and intelligent job of grad ing there is no reason why the j grades should not be fully’known,” Morris asserted. Faculty sentiment expressed throughout the survey revealed dis- j satisfaction with the grading- sys tem and a common wish for a bet ter method. Aids “Pipes" Generally conceded was the harmful effect of grade publicity since it often causes living groups to exert pressure on individual stu dents causing them to enroll in the easier courses to the detriment of their educations. Also pointed out was the fact that “pipe” courses to one student were difficult to anoth er depending on inherent ability. Included among suggestions giv en during the interviews were those proposing the complete abolishment of the grade system and an exact opposite which would refine the present system such as is done in primary and preparatory schools. Ill ItXVUl VJL U. gill 1COUCI ttuu by majority vote, gave their ap proval of the plan. Goes to ASUO With the Associated Women Stu dents’ “Okey” in his pocket, Dick this noon will take the issue to the ASUO executive committee meeting, where student body lead ers will give the majoress their support or kill the proposal. If the executive committee puts its stamp on the plan, It will move back to the student affairs com mittee, which Monday started the movement through its gauntlet of governmental groups. The student affairs body will make the final decision today, so that the major ess will have plenty of time to get ready for the Gonzaga game. All ready to slip a girl into the spot at the head of the band is Les Harger, present drum ma jor. Mary Anderson, a frosh coed, has been training for the spot and will be ready to take over the reigns, Harger said last night. (Picasf turn to pat/e four) CAMPUS CALENDAR Amphibian tryouts tonight at 7:15 p.m. in Gerlinger pool. Anyone who is interested may come. A bathing cap is all that is nec essary to bring. Actives, wear your white suits and be at the cage at 7 p.m. for instructions, please. , Frosh basketball practice will be at 4 o’clock today instead of 4:30, McArthur court. The Presbyterian young people and friends will meet at the West minster house Friday evening at 8 o’clock. Vespers today at 4:45 in Alumni hall,Gerlinger. AVVS carnival booth house rep resentatives will meet at the side at 4:00 and must be ready to turn in their ideas of themes and have the concessions worked out on pa per. Phi Theta will hold a meeting at 5 p.m. today in Gerlinger hall. Christian Science organization meets tonight at 8:00 in the Y. W. C. A. hut. All students and faculty members interested are invited to attend. All living organizations must have their social events for the term scheduled with the dean of women by 5 o’clock today. Organizational meeting of the Newman club, Catholic student group, will be held Sunday at 7:30 in the men's lounge in Gerlinger hall, Allen Kahn, president, an nounced today.’All Catholic Stu dents and their friends are invited to attend the meeting, Kahn said.