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EDIT PAGE: 'Golden Goose' 8-Ball Band Box VOLUME XLI CAMPUS fmcrald SPORTS PAGE: Duck Tracks Intramurals Varsity Basketball UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 1G, 1940 NUMBER 56 Sullivan Named Junior Weekend Head W orld-Famous Dr.Ko o To Delve Into Future At Assembly Today New Light Cast on Chinese Problems; Popular Speaker to Head Discussion at Luncheon; Will Be Guest at Banquet By RAY SCHRICK Casting a new light on the many problems and opportunities that * face Chinese people of the present day, Dr. T. Z. Koo, noted author and lecturer, will also delve into the world of the future this morning when he addresses Oregon students in Gerlinger hall on "China of Today and Tomorrow.” Dr. Koo, the personnel office announced yesterday, will speak from 11 to 12 a.m. as special guest on a program that will supplant Tlnirs CAMPUS CALENDAR The Oregon Dames club will hold its regular meeting tonight at 7:30 on the third floor of Gerlinger hall. All married women students, and wives of men students are in vited to attend. Heads of the various commit tees for Dads’ day will meetHoday at 4 o’clock at the Journalism building. The Condon club will meet at 7:30 tonight in the men’s lounge at Gerlinger hall. John Allen will speak. WAA initiation will be held at 7 o’clock in Gerlinger alumni hall tonight. Don’t forget the $1 initia tion fee. Heart checks; compulsory for coed intramural basketball, can be obtained at the infirmary for the rest of this week. Please have them sign a slip okaying your par ticipation and bring it to your first game. Intramural managers for WAA will meet Hope Hughes at 4:30 to day in the WAA social room. If you can't come please send a sub stitute, because the “vital facts” about the swimming meets will be told. If you are interested in playing in the coed intramural basketball league and have not affiliated with a team, please call Margaret Young, 2340, today. Girls’ basketball practices may be scheduled today on the bulletin board in Gerlinger. Games start Wednesday. Watch the paper for the schedule. Interdorm council pictures for the Oregana will be taken Wed nesday at 12:30 on the library steps. Group pictures being taken, it is important that all be present. The group picture of the Panhel lenic council will be taken for the Oregana Wednesday at 12:30 on the Library steps. Theta Sigma Phi meeting to night at 7 o’clock at the shack. All members and pledges are to be there. Communion for Episcopal students will be held at 7 o’clock Wednes day morning, in the men’s lounge Gerlinger. The student executive council of the YMCA will meet in the YM hut at 5 o’clock today for its regular ! weekly meeting. Due to unusual arrangements the commission on building a life on philosophy will meet at 8:15 o’clock tonight instead of the reg ular time. Dr. James R. Branton will be host to the group. aay s regular assembly. In Native Garb The world-famous speaker will appear before University students in the native garb of the Chinese people when he describes his na tive land from the direct viewpoint of a Chinese citizen. Dr. Koo, dur ing many years of work for the Far Eastern government, has been credited with doing as much or more than many government offi cials toward creating sympathy for his people in the Orient. Dr. Koo will picture what is go ing PR _in China today and will tie this up with future plans that lie in store for the Oriental nation. . His address, the personnel office j announced, will provide an inter esting background to the problems of the Orient and life in the Far East. Will Meet Faculty Following the assembly, Dr. Koo will meet University faculty mem : bers for a luncheon engagement and will lead a discussion and ques-1 | tion period until 2 o’clock. At 4 | o'clock he is scheduled to speak for I the AWS assembly in alumni hall. ! As part of this evening’s enter tainment, Dr. Koo will be guest of j honor at a special banquet at the Anchorage. Co-chairmen «in charge of the dinner plans, Marge Mont gomery and Betty Lou Kurtz, yes terday stated that approximately 25 students are expected to attend this parting banquet on the campus for Dr. Koo. University Symphony Orchestra to Open New Concert Series Tonight Seventy Iniversity of Oregon student musicians will take part in the first of a series of symphony concerts at the music auditorium this evening. Part of the group, lirected by Rex Underwood, is shown above. Dean's Office Must Have Lists Before Friday To complete the all-campus social calendar for publication next week, all living- organiza tions who have not already turned in their schedules of events for the term are urged to do so at once, it was announced last night from the dean of wo men's office. The final deadline for addi tions to the list will be Friday. Although most living organi zations turned in their social schedules last week, there are , still a number of entries to be had before the list is completed, Dean Hazel P. Schwering said. Letter Writing Contest Set for Dads' Weekend Deadline for Entry Friday; Prizes Offered Winners Mighty campus authors will have only four days in which to send persuasive epistles home to invite their paters down for Dad’s weekend, January 26, 27, and 28, the letter-writing contest commit tee announced yesterday. Deadline has been set at 4 o'clock Friday. All letters must be in the educational activities of fice at this time, Marguerite Sap pington, chairman, decreed yes terday. Prizes will be offered to win ners in both men’s and women’s divisions. The committee has al ready contacted Hart Larson and Kauffman’s for the awards and other merchants have also signi fied their willingness to put addi tional trophies. Basis for Judging Letters will be judged on the basis of originality, composition, legibility, and persuasive appeal, Miss Sappington announced. Other rules set forth by the com mittee state that letters must be written on the official Dads’ day stationery and must not be over a page in length. (Please turn to page two) Subject of Assembly Talk A Chinese girl student shoulders a hoe for her country. Dr. T. 7, Ivoo, famed lecturer, will talk about her kind at an 11 o’clock assembly today. Journalist to Visit Campus Thursday Dr. Robert W. Desmond, profes sor of journalism in the Medill school of journalism at Northwest ern university, will spend Thursday on the Oregon campus. Dr. Desmond will speak on “The Impact pf Present World Affairs” in-room! 207 Chapman hall at 11 a.m. All who are interested arc in vited to attend. At 12:15 p.m. Sigma Delta Chi, men’s journalism honorary, and Theta Sigma Phi, women’s journal ism honorary, will hold a luncheon it the Anchorage at which Dr. Des mond will be the featured guest and speaker. Dr. Desmond is on a year's leave of absence from Northwestern and has been a member of the Univer sity of California journalism staff since September. He has also taught journalism at Michigan, Minnesota, and Stanford, and has served on the staffs of the Chris tian Science Monitor, Milwaukio Journal, Miami Herald, and the Paris edition of the New York Herald-Tribune. Jack Cossman, night watchman, has carried the same cane for fif teen years. Man Bites Dog; Nurse a Patient In Infirmary To hear of students being' laid up in the hospital may seem rel atively routine- unless one of them happens to be you. How ever ,when a nurse massages a mattress in the University health service for reasons other than changing bed covers, it isn’t too common. Miss Lou Vogel, nurse in the school infirmary, is a patient there, according to the hospital roster, and is temporarily on the swallowing instead of the pour ing end of the doctor’s prescrip tions. Mary Anderson, Oregon's drum majoress, was waiting in the health service’s receiving corridor yesterday afternoon for a heart check—nothing “seri ous,” just the routine require men for coed basketballers. Eight replacements were re corded on the sick list at the be ginning of this week. They in clude Jean Schurman, Dorothy Greer, Lou Vogel, Robert Wag ner, Robert Nehberg, Wayne Boyd, Bill Barlow, and Scott Corbett. Three “steadies” remain from last week’s number. ' 8 Bailer' Put Behind 8 Ball River There Too It is not uncommon for peo ple like Walter Winchell or Jim ; my Fidler to receive threats of bodily harm for comments in their newspaper columns, but very seldom the threats are car ried out. The well-paid columnist can afford protection, but not so with the Emerald's "8-Baller,” Jack Bryant. All he could find was a not too adequate vocabu lary. Consequently, when he was put behind the 8-ball Saturday by members of the Sigma Nu I class of pledges for some remark in his column he came, out sec 1 ond best. They decided Mr. Bry ant's column was all wet and Mr. Bryant should be likewise, so they threw him into the mill race to teach him a lesson. Jack was non-committal as to the re mark that caused his downfall. |_ New Crew Site Roads Certain, Engineers Sag Direct Highways to Link Eugene and Fern Ridge Dam - i _ Assurance that new, direct high ways will connect Eugene with Fern Ridge reservoir, possible site for future Oregon crews, was giv en by army engineers yesterday. Part of the project calls for a new road to be constructed from Eugene to the southern end of the lake and on across the tip of it on a deep fill and hundred-foot bridge. This highway, which will be paved will go out Eleventh street on the present route of road “F” anu follow the Southern Pa cific railroad almost due west to the lake, eight miles away. Another road will leave U.S. highway 99 approximately three and a half miles north of Eugene, and run almost due west to the northern tip of the lake, crossing on the dam that will impound the reservoir. This route, which will be surfaced with oiled, rolled (Please turn to page two) Other Appointments^ For Big Spring Event ToBeAnnouncedSoon Chairman Will Begin Work Immediately; Prize Contest for Selection of Theme First Item on 'Biggest Weekend' Schedule Plans for Junior Weekend, traditional spring term event, were put in motion yesterday when Jim Pickett, president of the class of ’41, announced the appointment of Lloyd Sullivan as general chairman. Sullivan has been prominent in student affairs and is a member of the University co-op board. He was a member of Skull and Dagger, sophomore men’s honorary, and was treasurer of the sophomore class. He will take over the duties of planning for the year’s “Biggest Weekend” immediately. Other committees and sub-committees will be appointed within a few weeks, enabling the class to get an early start in preparations Class President Pickett said. Capability and Interest These appointments will be made on the basis of ability and A junior class meeting, the first of the term, will lie held to night at 7:80 in the assembly room of Villurd hall, President Pickett announced last: night. Selection of a vice-president will lie part of the business of the meeting. The group will also hear a short message from Uoyd Sullivan, netily appointed Junior Weekend chairman. interest in the work and will not be political appointments,” Pick ett said. "Sullivan and I will re ceive any requests for positions on the various committees and will make our selections from these,” he said. This year’s appointment is the earliest in the history of Junior Weekend. It was necessary to ap point a chairman at an early date in order to get the complex ma chinery of weekend preparations in motion, Pickett explained. Theme Contest First First on the docket for the new chairman will be the selection of a suitable theme. This will be done in an all-campus contest, spon sored by the junior class. A prize of $10 will be given to the student suggesting the best theme. “We are making it an all-campus contest because we feel that Jun ior Weekend is an all-campus event and all members of the stu dent body should have an interest in it,” Sullivan said. PE Annual 'Mix' Set Wednesday; To Feature Swim Refreshments, dancing, and games will glorify the physical education mix Wednesday evening. PE majors, both the gals and boys, are coming with dates or friends to this annual get-together. After the ice has been “broken" and melted, when everyone feels liko diving into a clear pool of cool water, they will do just that. A short swimming meet will fol low the dry-land activities, ac cording to Beverly Steele and Co chairman A1 Sandner. Faculty and students are to meet at 7:30 Wednesday in the AWS rooms at Gerlinger. Drs. Smith, Staples Attend Conference Dr. Warren D. Smith, head of the geology and geography depart ments, and Dr, Lloyd W. Staples, geology instructor, attended the annual meeting of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurg ical Engineers, which was held in Portland last Saturday. The order of business consisted of a dinner’ followed by a program having to do, mainly, with the zinc industry. Since, according to Dr. Smith, there are possibilities for the zinc industry in Oregon, the topic was of general interest. Weekend Head Lloyd Sullivan, named Junior Weekend chairman. University Band to Tour Oregon Cities A tour of three northwestern Oregon cities will take the 55 mem bers of the University of Oregon band and Director John Stehn north from Eugene early in Febru ary. Details of the bookings were announced Monday by Mr. Stehn. Guest conductors from the vari | ous high schools visited will direct i the band. Expenses, including tra : vel by bus, will be paid from the I sale of tickets to the concerts, for which Robert Carlson, former ! Northwest high school champion ' cornetist, will act as soloist. The itinerary is as follows: Mon | day evening, February 5, McMinn ville high school; Tuesday, Febru ary 6, assembly programs at Lin | coin, Franklin, and Grant high j schools in Portland; Tuesday even ' ing, concert in the high school at 1 Salem. i Programs will be selected from a wide repertoire, including Dvorak’s Slavonic Dance No. 7” and finale .from his "New World" symphony; "Scenes from the Sierras” by David Bennett; “Pavanne" by Morton Gould; "Perpetual Motion” by Strauss, "Siegfried’s Rhine Jour ney” by Wagner; "March” from “Love for Three Oranges” by Pro kofieff, and the finale from Tscai kowsky’s fourth symphony in F minor. The band will return to the campus early February 7, Mr. Stehn said. Studio Players Group Revived; Will Hold One-Act Play Tryouts The University theater is reviv ing the Studio Players group and is holding general tryouts for a group of one-act plays to be pro duced this term. Tryouts are open to any student not already registered in the Guild Hall players or the technic of act ing class. They will be given in room 103, Johnson hall, at 4 o’clock today.