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CAMPUS SPORTS Duck-Bear Game Review EDITS Class Cards For Frosh? VOLUME XLIII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1941 NUMBER 19 Class Card Rehash Due Senior President Held Ineligible Spring Grades Place Officers On Probation Senior Class President Bob | Cherney and Treasurer Mack Hand have been declared ineligi ble _ to hold office because of isprSig term grades, Virgil D. 1 Earl, dean of men, revealed Mon day night. According to Rule 3 under scholarship regulations, the con stitution reads: “Scholarship pro bation automatically removes a student from any such office (ASUO), and prevents him from participating in any such activ ities while he is on probation.” Cherney applied to the com mittee of scholastic standing, but was not removed from probation. Hand did not take any action in * connection with his case. Their probation and ineligibil ^^simultaneously began at the end of the spring term and the offices have been technically va cant since that time. According to Cherney his posi tion will be filled automatically by the class vice-president, Pat Lawson. The executive commit tee of the class, composed of the new president and remaining class officers, will meet to ap | point a new treasurer, according i to authorization given them by | their constitution. Dr. Erb Gets Defense Job Fiorello LaGuardia, United States director of civilian de fense, has announced the ap pointment of Dr. Donald M. Erb to the commission on colleges and civilian defense. Dr. Erb plans to go east in November and will at tend a conference of committee members in Washington, D. C., at which recommendations for the civilian protection of universi ties will be submitted to the di rector’s office. Board Will Consider Young’s Resignation Halfred Young, professor of voice, has submitted his resigna tion in order to go into business in Eugene. The resignation will be considered by the state board of higher education at their next meeting, Tuesday, October 28, and if accepted will go into ef fect immediately. Mr. Young has been with the University since 1936 and is con ductor of the choir at the First Christian church in Eugene. Portland Weekend It rained and rained at the foot ball game. The prices in Portland are really crime. You could hardly move at Jant zen Beach. But didn’t we have a wonderful time ? —J.W.S. Track Removal Begins Oregon Beautification By FRITZ TIMMEN Because of the signing- Friday of a contract approving- the moving of the Southern Pacific railroad tracks across the millrace and authorizing engineers to prepare specifications for early start of actual work, students may soon see the face of the campus front yard in a state of change. Final plans will probably be placed in the hands of the Oregon state highway commis sion at their November meeting, with work to start soon after ward. The moving of the tracks will place the railroad right-of-way between the present millrace and the Willamette river, the change to reach from Eighth avenue to Judkin’s point. South and east bound Willam ette and Pacific highway traffic will be routed over a new via duct to be constructed in con junction with the Judkin’s Point change. Condemnation proceedings have been ordered on all property in v o 1 v e d in the right-of-way change. Millrace Moved All areas not used for highway and railroad rights-of-way to be landscaped and parked and given over to use by University stu dents. The millrace channel is to be moved about 50 yards further north, widened, and straightened to provide better facilities for future canoe fetes. At a point east of the Anchorage, bleachers to accommodate about 5000 and auxiliary wings for an additional 1000 are planned. Sufficient space is to be allocated for construc tion and dismantling of floats. Committees Meet There will be a meeting' of all Homecoming commit tee heads today at 4 p.m. at the University news bureau. Annual Press Meeting Slated The first session of the 17th. annual high school press confer ence will be held Friday morning, October 24, at 9:30 in room 12 of Friendly hall. The presiding offi cer of the conference, Thorn Kinersly, will introduce Dr. Don ald M. Erb, president of the Uni versity, at that time for a wel coming address. The entire program of the con ference will be divided up into separate sections, each one tak ing up one phase of the news paper business. Friday afternoon a business manager’s round table, a section for editors and man agers of annuals, and the mimeo graphed paper section are sched uled. Saturday morning the news and editorial session will be held. Officers Named Election results of the new of ficers for the following year will be announced and officers intro duced at the annual press confer ence banquet at the Osburn hotel Friday evening. At the conclu sion of the dinner the conference will adjourn to Hayward field to witness the football clash be tween the Washington Babes and the Oregon Frosh. Awards for the winning high school papers will be announced at the final general session Satur day morning by Robert C. Hall. BUSY MAN Russ Hudson, , Homecoming chairman, rushed weekend plans one step nearer completion last night when he announced a new list of workers for the alumni celebration.—Courtesy The Ore gonian. Slogan Contest Begins Today Emblazoned before the eyes of alums the weeks before Home coming will be the prizewinning slogan depicting the spirit of the annual alumni fete. The contest will get under way today with the installation of boxes in the Side and Co-op for depositing slo gan entries, Ray Packouz, slogan chairman, announced Monday. There will be a $5 prize for the writer of the winning entry. Deadline for entering slogans is noon Thursday, October 23. The entries will be picked up each day, said Packouz, and, in case of duplicate entries, the one first submitted will get the award. Short Slogan W Slogans should be short and (Please turn tq pai/c eight) Frosh By-Laws To Draw Vote Of Class of '45 The 50-cent class card, that much-mauled and loudly de bated issue, is due to be re shredded tonight when the freshman class meets in the music auditorium at 7:30 to adopt by-laws to their consti tution and to nominate offi cers for class positions. Elections will follow one week from today, October 28. Polls will be open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the YMCA hut. Scholastic eligibility and dec laration of intention to run must be filed by any person wishing to run for a class office, before he may be nominated, according to Jim Frost, ASUO first vice president. Scholastic Rating A written statement of the candidate's scholastic eligibility must be obtained from the dean of men or the dean of women. The declaration of intention to run is merely a personal state ment from the candidate saying that he plans to run for a certain office at tonight’s meeting. These two documents should be submitted together to Mary Gra ham, educational activities secre tary, in her office in McArthur court before 5 p.m. today. Per sons failing to turn them in to Miss Graham should submit them to presiding officers at the assem bly tonight before 7:30 p.m., Frost said. By-Laws Printed Members of the freshman by laws committee met last night and recommended a series of by laws to be attached to the class constitution, which the classmen adopted September 25. The by laws, as approved by the commit tee, appear on page 8 of today’s Emerald. Only dissenting opinion from the committee’s otherwise unani mous endorsement of these by (Please turn to page eight) WHAT, NO 'T' FORMATION? Oregon’s rally squad formed its own “team” for last Saturday’s game in Portland. The forward “wall” includes, from ?ft: Russ Hudson, Chuck Mallory, Bud Steele, Earle Russell, Max Miller, Dick Igl, and Bill Bergtholdt. In the “backfield” are, from Ir.'t: Jo Ann Supple, Betty Jane Biggs, Adele Canada, Barbaralee Jacobs, and Pat Howard. (Courtesy The Journal.) [