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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1941)
EDITS: Emerald Workers 'Let Down Hair' SPORTS: Les Steers Plans Longest lump Yei VOLUME XLII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1941 NUMBER 130 Colonel Lyon To Announce ROTC Choices 'Big 50' Will Sign Contracts Before Coming Vacations Fifty sophomores who will take the advanced military course next fall will be announced after the final drill May 29, according to Col. Robert M. Lyon of the military department. Twenty al ternates will also be announced. The “big 50” will sign con tracts before leaving for summer vacations in conformance with a requirement from the selective service, which will defer ad vanced ROTC students since they may serve as officers upon graduation. Alternates will re ceive letters to their selective service boards requesting them to grant temporary deferments until their status is determined next fall. Principals and alternates must meet in Room 1 of ROTC head quarters at 3:15 p.m. May 29 for final instructions. They will be given their physical examinations prior to the opening of the Uni versity next fall. The advanced course in mili tary requires five hours a week and is a three-credit course. Com pletion of the course plus a six weeks’ summer camp between the junior and senior years qual ifies the student for appointment as second lieutenant in the in fantry reserve. Qualifications met by the suc cessful candidates include : a GPA of 2-point or better, superior military grades, the filing of an application describing the -candi date’s activities and interests, (Please turn to page two) New Address Asked OnLastNYA Checks NYA checks for May 16 to June 7 period will not be issued until after the close of school, so it is especially important that each NYA worker put the ad dress to which he wants his check sent on his last time card. Work must be completed on or before Saturday, June 7, and time cards must be signed by student and supervisor and turned in at the payroll office by 5 p.m. Mon day, June 9. To avoid delayed payment, stu dents are urged to do this before they leave the campus. Time cards not signed will not be hon ored. They should be turned in at the payroll office, not at the NYA office. Students interested in applying for NYA work next fall should leave their name and address with the NYA secretary, 112 Johnson, so that blanks may be mailed to them during the sum mer. Pome No. 150 All the houses have their pooches entered in the Dog Daze show. They’re primped up and put in their prime. As I contemplate this action, I wonder which house Is in line for the gravy this time. —J.W.S. Richardson 'Sues' To the Tune of $255 By FRITZ TIMMEN Don Richardson, law school senior, is seeking; heart balm damages to the tune of $255.10 from Robert Recken in the last of this year's moot trials at the Lane county court house Thursday evening at 7:30. Richardson invited a young lady to come to the campus from Portland for Junior Weekend and went to considerable expense to Saturday Sees Canine Capers Johnny Lee's Men Play for 'Dog Daze' At Informal Affair By HERB PENNY Last social event of this term, the Frosh Glee, will bark off Sat urday evening in the Igloo. The dean of women’s office has an nounced that 1 o’clock permis sion has been granted for this year’s final campus dance. "In the Glee,” said Dance Chairman Oglesby Young, "the freshmen want to show the rest of the school what they can do. Decorating will be done entirely by freshmen. In this dance every one is cooperating. "Both ‘majority’ and the ‘reg ular” freshmen classes will back the Glee,” Young announced. "This dance will be the first co operative effort of the two class es.” Johnny Lee Music for the Glee will be fur nished by Johnny Lee, who will be playing for the first time at Oregon. Lee’s orchestra will come from Portland. The annual freshman dance will last from 8:30 to 12 Satur day evening. Tickets are $1. An informal affair, short silks will be in order for the coeds. Theme for the dance will be "Dog Daze,” and will be carried out by an election of the most popular dog on the campus, who will be named "King of Campus Dogs.” An impartial committee will choose a panel of six campus dogs from which the dog king will be selected. The committee will be named later. The selection will be made during intermission. '41 Club Selects Executive Board New executive board members of the ’41 club, educational or ganization, were elected Tuesday at the last yearly meeting. Those elected to executive posi tions include: secretary-treasurer, Pat Lawson; publicity director, Pat Vandeneynde; board mem bers, Bette Christensen, Joanne Riesch, Bernard Somers, Betty Dolan, Nina Ray McCulley, Fran cis Wise, and John Lund. UO Play Production Noted by Magazine A scene from the University’s production, “Idiot’s Delight,” pre sented here last spring, is men tioned in the Eighteenth Tribu tary Theatre yearbook, a record of dramatic activities published by the,Theatre Arts magazine for its July issue, according to ad vance notices. The yearbook is a survey estk mating the mounting influence of the tributary theater on Amer ican drama. prepare for her entertainment. Reeken wrote her a letter, without Richardson's knowledge, that caused her to remain in Portland. When Richardson dis covered the action, he immediate ly ordered his lawyers, Clyde Angerman and Bob Tavens, to bring suit against Reeken. The itemized list of damages to be asked is: clothes, $45; phone calls to Portland. $2.10; flowers, $5; tickets, $3; mental anguish, $200. Hugh Collins will act as coun sel for the defense. Brock Miller will serve as clerk, Dave Remen teria as bailiff, and Floyd Hamil ton as sheriff. Orlando J. Hollis, professor of law, will preside. Students who wish to serve on the jury are asked to turn their names in to Miller before Thurs day afternoon. Famous Musician To Lecture Here Two lectures, one on the class ical theme and the other on sym bolist and impressionist arts, will be given by Dr. Arnold Elston, musician, Wednesday at 3 in the music school and at 7:30 Thurs day in Friendly. Dr. Elston, wrho has attended many American schools of music as well as several universities in Europe, says he considers the classical theme, his topic of Wed nesday afternoon, the type of theme characteristic of Beeth oven. It is called classical because those who followed Beethoven used this musical structure. In Thursday’s lecture the spe cific arts to be discussed arQ im pressionist painting, symbolist poetry, and impressionist music covering roughly the period from 1870 to 1900. Torgeson Appoints ASUO Committee For Coming Year By MARY WOLF Main ASUO committees were outlined and members appointed by the newly-elected president of the student body, Lou Torgc son, at the first executive com mittee meeting of new officers last night. Committees are: class activi ties organization committee, ex ecutive council student card drive committee, and rally and yell squad committee. Members of the class activi ties committee are Jim Frost, ASUO second vjee-presidenlt; Torgeson, and three class presi dents. The purpose of this com mittee is to organize a program of class activities. Class budgets will be worked out with the ac tivities office. Faculty advisers, already appointed, will sit in on these meetings. Joe Gurley, manager of the 1940 drive, Bob Calkins, ASUO first vice-president, Frost and Tqlrgeson are members of the student card drive committee. They will promote the sale of athletic cards next fall. Rally and yell squad commit tee members are Becky Ander son and Bob Lovell, senior rep resentatives to the executive council; Les Anderson, head of the rally squad; Earle Russell, yell king, and Torgeson. Formerly the rally and the yell squad worked together. The com mittee’s purpose is to carry out the idea of this year’s executive council to separate the two. They intend to draw up plans on different activities which the two will carry on as separate units this year. Missing Student Found in Nevada Laurance Moore, Oregon stu dent missing since February 28, was found Tuesday in Las Vegas, Nevada, Portland police report. No details of his disappearance and discovery were included in dispatches. Bond of $200 was posted when he disappeared. DR. GALLUP JR. WW,VWVjVW«V.V.V, Courtesy Kegister-Guard Polling public opinion is the side job which Dean Eric W. Allen’s editing class has taken over the past few weeks. Directors of the poll, shown above, are Bill Fendall, left; Betty Keller, seated, and Frank Meek. Kwamas Name New Members Soph Honoraries' 'Girls in White' To Initiate Sunday Next year's "girls in white" will receive final initiation into Kwama, sophomore women’* service honorary, at 8:45 Sunday morning at the Pi Phi house, ac cording to Marge Dibble, presi dent. Kwamas were "tapped" at tho Mortar Board ball Saturday on basis of "outstanding activities^ high scholastic rating, and dem ocratic spirit." Following the formal ceremony, new members will be honored guests at a breakfast at the An chorage. Mrs. Hazel P. Schwering, dean of women, and Mrs. Alice B. Mac duff, assistant dean, will con gratulate the girls on their achievements. Miss Dibble, Mary Ellen Smith, vice-president, and Nancy Riesch, secretary-treas urer, will also speak. Kwamas for next year include: Grace Babbit, Mary Bentley,. Marge Curtis, Phyllis Gray, Neva Haight, Rhoda Harkson, Rylla Hattan, Kay Jenkins, Betty Kin caid, Barbara Lamb, Elaine Mc Farlane, Micky Mitchell, Robs* DuPuy, Mary Robinson, Janet Ross, Dot Routt, JoAr.n Supple, Mary Jane Terry, and Yvonne Torgler. Medical Honorary To Show Movies Today in Chapman Asklepiads, pre-medics’ honor ary, will sponsor the showing of three reels of film tonight at. 9 in 207 Chapman. The movies wiJl portray human reproduction and development, the heart and how it works, and blood vessels and the circulatory system. Dr. A. L.. Alderman, assistant professor of zoology, will lecture. Tickets, which cost 20 cents, may bo obtained from members of the honorary and at the door. ASUO to Sponsor Special Rail Rates For homegoing Ducks the ASUO is sponsoring special stu dent rates on Southern Pacific trains leaving June 5, 6, 7, and 3. A booth will be situated be tween Oregon and Commerce buildings during the final week. Both one way and round trip for ticket sales and information, fares will be available at reduced prices. Parties of five or more may obtain special rates on Cali fornia bound trains, it was an nounced. Round trip tickets will be valid until September 30. Pay Slips All students who have done work in the activities office in May, are requested by Miss Mary Graham, secretary, to come in immediately and sign their payroll slip.
