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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 9, 1941)
UNION NOW! By Ann Reynolds Wednesday night the student faculty committee met for the last time unless further develop ments require their reorganiza tion. Appointed by Dr. Donald Erb for the purpose of suggesting a site and facilities for the stu dent Union building, they’ve done a good job. The work of the com mittee has included not only their own investigations but also the interests and intensive investi gation by University architects and financial advisers. In the meeting Wednesday night the committee decided to submit the list of facilities which had been drawn up after weeks of work. Guided by the desires of the students and keeping in mind that it is to be fundamentally for student use, the list for the first unit of the building had been re vised over and over again. A Record Room for Oregon Good news for record collectors —due to numerous requests for a room in which recording concerts could be held and the strong sup port behind these requests, Dr. W. V. Norris, chairman of the group, announced that plans for such a room are included in the list. Further development of this idea could perhaps lead to a University-owned collection of recordings for student use. Reed college in Portland has a system of scheduling informal swing re cording concerts in the afternoon and classical concerts in the eve ning. The most important accom plishment of the meeting was the choice of site preferences to be submitted to the board of higher education. Because of the in creasing controversy over which is the best location, the student faculty committee voted to sub mit the three most plausible in the order of preference. The Deady site of the mall was given top rating with the Sheldon prop erty and the mill-race location receiving second and third re spectively. This site preference is the selection of the committee, however, the final location will be chosen by the board of higher education. Traffic Influence Because the group considered that the problem of student traf fic was the most important point to consider, the Deady site was given first place. The main func tion of the building would be to px-ovide a place for students to go between classes and for meet ings. If the building was too dis tant from the campus, the whole purpose of the building would be lost. The main objection to the Deady location was the architec tui’al problem of entrances on three sides of the building. Since the building would be bounded on two sides with Thirteenth and Kincaid streets, and the other side by the campus, three en trances would have to be provid ed. This involves the expense of lhalls and other entrance con nections, which, it is estimated, would be one of the main costs. This problem, however, might be offset by the close location and attractive setting. When these suggestions are submitted to Dr. Erb they will be accompanied with the hope that action will be taken as soon as possible. Students should keep in mind the economic condition of the country at present and what it will be in the future. High cost of materials and con struction will undoubtedly influ ence the speed with which the project is started. Oregon ^Emerald Friday Advertising Staff: Marilyn Marshall, manager Betty Lou Allegre Norma Baker Marilee Margason Marilyn Marshall Bob Rudolph, special promotion Desk Staff: Wes Sullivan, city editor Elsie Brownell, assistant Joanne Nichols, copy reader Kent Stitzer Freeman Holmer Bernie Engel Veva Peterson Herb Penny Marjorie Major Tex Goodwin Don Ross Doris Jones Night Staff: Mary Wolf, night editor Fred Timmen Freeman Holmer Ruth Jordan Charlotte Knox Ted Goodwin bide bhow (Continued from Page four) viewed after Stimson’s inflam matory speech. He said it would be a good idea for those who ad vocate war to “see to it that at least one member of their im mediate family is in the combat force.” Coming from Rufus, who is doing a good job representing Oregon isolationists, that sounds pretty good. It is reminiscent of old Kat’s cure for war as ex pressed in “All Quiet on the Western Front,’ shown Wednes day and yesterday thanks to the educational activities board. Kat said they ought to put all the presidents and premiers, kings, generals, and statesmen out in a big field, rope them off so they couldn’t hurt the peaceful populations, strip them to their underwear, give them clubs, and let them go to it. The way Hitler and Churchill have been hurling insults at each other over the air waves indi cates they would probably put on a good show. 447 to 3 Churchill recently won a 447 to 3 vote of confidence from parliament, but during the de bate, in which he was bitterly attacked by David Lloyd George and Leslie Hore-Belisha, some interesting facts came out. Lloyd George, who, not satis fied with being a bigshot in the first World War, apparently has aspirations for this one, as serted the TJ.S. is giving only 12 per cent of her national income toward war preparations and “has got to do definitely more.” ONLY 12 per cent, my mas ters! Wow. Churchill replied defending Roosevelt’s program and point ing with pride to the help Brit ain is already getting. Then he added: “But we need a good deal more help and I expect that we shall get a good deal more.” That’s the picture. Britain’s world-wide commercial interests are at stake and we are being called upon to pull her chest nuts out of the fire. Six reels of colored Koda chrome movies on South Ameri* ca recently loaned to the geology department were shown to sev eral civic organizations in Eu gene, and to geology and geog raphy classes. FRED’S CAMPUS SHOP Men’s Ilaberdashery by Wilson Brothers Across from Sigma Chi Cleaning Ph. 3141 The Passing Parade By DOC HENRY To keep to the COMPARA TIVELY safe subject of gossip, small talk, or what-have you, we offer the following: Joe Walker hung a Chi Psi sweetheart pin on Willow Coffin —AS WE PREDICTED ... and Joe Montag got his Kappa Sig pin back from Shirley Lindley— as we ALSO predicted . . . Pat Howard, Sigma Kappa, returned Bob Henderohott’s Sigma Chi cross some time ago . . . also un der the heading of OLD STUFF Anne Halderman has had Ed Feary's OAC Beta pin for a long time—we thought everyone knew . . . Larry Courtwright, Chi Psi, and Mary Word, KKG, are an other pair of steadies that missed the colm . . . Correction: Nadine Bouek, Chi O, is engaged to John Skillem, NOT John Schiller, as we said last week . . . Marguerite Sappington, ADPi, received an engagement ring on her birthday at her house dance Friday night from J. W. Reese . . . Jane Gould and Johnny Wall, DU, are together a lot... so are Marilyn Blanchard and Max Mil ler, SN . . . Kappa Sig Howard Girdlestone and a CERTAIN DG are pffft . . . and we’d STILL like to know what happened to Don Cawley’s Kappa Sig pin . . . Johnny Bubalo won a finger wave at the ball game last week and turned it over to Milo Dan iels—they’ve been twosing a lot of late . . . Bob Dent, Beta’s LAST Phi Bete, is checking reg ularly on Kappa Betty Lou Rob erts . . . likewise Jack Brownlee with Peggy Myll, Gammaphi . . . Delt King Martin and Tridelt Billie Lawrence look THAT WAY too. New steadies: Pat Tourteuotte, Theta, and Hersh Patton, SX . . . Bette Hunt, Pifi, took Bud Mc Dowell’s Phidelt pin Sat. nite . . . and Ralph Peters, SAE, plant ed his pin on Marthella Glover. Vicious circle: Bob Whitely keeping tab on Sue Sawyer, The ta, while Kitty Ritter, Pifi, keeps tab on him . . . Johnny Veatch is still patrolling Alder stret, di viding his time between the AOPi and Theta houses . . . By Van Metre took Shirley Sullivan to the Chi Psi dance—Taylor Brad ford went fishing . . . Turnabout: Lena Schlesser and Jack Lansing may still be GOOD FRIENDS, but Friday night found them both at a local spot— he with Jean Filcher, DG, and she with Chuck Hoagland, ATO . . . Ellsworth Maas and Bonnie Uhl are “batting in the league” again, as they say down Alpha Phi way. . . DON’T FORGET We have the makin’s for Better Pictures Movies or Stills Mother’s Day Cards wittihibeb Next to Register-Guard In Time With the Tunes By RUBY JACKSON Last year when the Junior Weekend theme centered around Vienna and waltzes, record sales for Strauss waltzes boomed. This year, with an oriental theme put ting Rimsky-Korsakov's Sche herezade suite in the limelight, it seems probable that a good many sets of this popular composition will be sold to students. Music stores carry the album, the price is $6.50 (formerly $12). A good deal of the music will be played over KOAC Friday at 7:30 p.m. Modern Works When Howard Barlow and the Columbia Symphony orchestra start the CBS summer concerts this Sunday, second performances of modem works will be featured from time to time. “It is less difficult for a mod ern composer to get a first per formance of his music than a second or third,’’ Mr. Barlow said. “Few works are even fairly as similated at a first hearing. Fam iliarity with the composition is necessary before its real qualities, which sometimes lie deep within the score, are apparent.” The last two sentences of this quotation can be applied to any music. Rare indeed is the person who has more than a superficial liking of a composition the first time it is heard. Music is good music when a listener can hear it twenty, fifty, or a hundred times, and each time enjoy it more. Music is good mu sic when a listener can discover some new element or quality in the score through each successive hearing. Music that does this for the listener is music that lives. A Worthy Addition Are you an ardent Benny Goodman fan ? If you are, his new recording of Debussy’s "Rhap sody” for clarinet and orchestra might be a worthy addition to your music library. Goodman rec ords this one with the New York Philharmonic orchestra for Co^ lumbia, and in a way that should please music lovers and popular music lovers alike. THIS WEEKEND: First sum mer concert of the NBC orches tra offers overture to "Mignon,” Debussy’s "Festivals,” and Cae sar Franck’s D Minor symphony* (Saturday, 5:35-7 p.m.) Sunday, the CBS summer se ries will feature Saint-Saens* Symphony No. 3, with special or gan part. As the organ is one in strument seldom used in the sym phony, this selection should be especially interesting. In ihe front line of National Defense Many of you places in the nations ou’H find the where that place J° Lh ,on. telephone industry right to life-line of d defense” nd of defense preparation, armed defense a making equip M Western Electrm we ^ would ment for use System for sev n°\be 'Twc reChing orlrs to equip eral years. W provide increased vdiephon^facUities for expanding defense iUntr«me of need, asm ea.mer^ys, ■Western Eleetliea ®“6 demonstrating manufacturing facilities are their worth to the nation. Western Electric is back of your Hell Telepbunr service