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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 28, 1941)
EDITS: ~AII Out For Blackout VOLUME XLIII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1941 NUMBER 24 Oregana Wins Again! Tops List of Annuals _ Honor Equals ‘Pacemaker’ In Eminence By JEAN SPEAROW Honor Roll of Distinction is the latest award the Oregana can add to its bulging collec ^f^a. News of the Oregana’s new triumph was announced by Emerson Page, business manager of this year’s publi cation. Just when Wilbur Bishop, edi tor of last year’s All-American Oregana, was covering his lay outs with tears of frustration be cause the “pacemaker” honor is no longer to be awarded and therefore there were no fields left for him to conquer, up came the National Scholastic Press associ ation with a new honor classifica tion to take the place of the q£solete “pacemaker.” Oregana First This year’s Honor Roll of Dis tinction lists the Oregana first out of the three schools in the largest enrolment category to re ceive the honor. Last year the Oregana was picked as one of the ten books in the Book-of-the-Year club. Only two other books, the Royal Purple of Kansas State college and the Belle Air of Villanova, repeated this year on the Honor Roll of Distinction. Quotations The following quotations were tu<jfcen direct from the yearbook scorebook which quotes one of the judges: “Everything consid ered, the best this veteran ob server has ever seen in a college annual.” As to organization of the book, the scorebook had this to say of the Oregana: “It is splendid be cause of a grand general plan, concept, and design; and because of the finest, most steadily sus tained job of putting together pictures and type elements I have ever seen done by students.” CPTDeadline Expires Soon All men who desire to be in cluded in the spring term pri mary civilian pilot training course, must have their applica tions in by Saturday noon, J. C. Stovall, coordinator announced yesterday. Applications may be secured in room 107 Condon hall. This early deadline is neces sary, Mr. Stovall explained, be cause the office needs time to rate the applicants and notify them, if accepted, before Christ mas vacation. Actual classes will begin February 1. Primary CPT includes both ground school work and 35 hours of actual flying which leads to private pilot’s license on com pletion of the program. Six hours upper-division credit hours are given for the course. Petition Date Moved; Senior Posts Still Open Would-be senior class officers may still petition for class vice-president and treasurer positions, Pat Lawson, senior class president, revealed last night. Because only four eligible peti tions were received Saturday, the interviewing council, which met yesterday, decided to allow more seniors to petition for Science School Report Awaited Whether or not the University of Oregon is to be allowed to offer major work in the ‘‘pure sci ences” may be determined today when the Oregon state board of higher education, meeting in Ash land, releases its official report. The board convened yesterday, but the report will not be avail able until today. Interested parties have asked the board to grant the University the privilege of offering major work in the sciences, now offered only by Oregon State college. At the present time the Uni versity is allowed to grant de grees in the social sciences and in professional schools derived from them; while the state col lege is allowed to grant degrees in the ‘‘pure sciences” and in the professional schools derived from them. Erb to Attend Defense Meet University President Donald M. Erb will attend a meeting of the newly organized commission on colleges and civilian defense in Washington, D. C., November 13. The meeting was called by Fiorello H. LaGuardia, director of civilian defense, who will act as chairman of the commission. University and college presi dents from all section of the United States will be present in the capitol for this initial gath ering. He will go directly from the forty-sixth annual meeting of the national association of state uni versities in Chicago to Washing ton. While in the East he will visit New York and Boston on University business. the vacant offices. Deadline for petitions is 5 p.m., Wednesday, October 29, in the educational activities office at McArthur court. New applicants will be interviewed at 4 p.m. Thursday, October 30, in the of fice of Dean of Men Virgil D. Earl in Johnson hall. Appointments will be made later this week by President Law son and Class Secretary Dorothy Jean Johnson, in accordance with the senior class constitution. They will act on the advice of the in terviewing council, composed of Miss Lawson, Miss Johnson, Dean Earl, and James H. Gilbert, dean of the college of social science, senior class adviser. The vacancies in senior class officers were created when Bob Cherney, former class president, and Mack Hand, former class treasurer, were placed on proba tion because of their spring term grades. Miss Lawson, then vice-presi dent, automatically moved to the presidency. Miss Johnson could have moved into the vice-presi dency, but preferred to remain as class secretary. Although the class president and other remaining officers are authorized by the class constitu tion to fill the vacant offices without asking for petitions or granting interviews, Miss Law son and Miss Johnson thought the procedure being followed, that of requesting petitions and interviewing the applicants through an unbiased council, would be more fair. ALL SET Jim Frost, ASUO first vice president and director of elec tions, announced that all was in readiness for freshman elections at the YMCA house today. ROTCto Give Blackout Help In preparation for Friday night’s blackout, 30 senior ROTC students have been instructed for service as police reserves for campus duty by O. L. Rhinesmith, campus police officer. Their chief job will be to see that University property is not damaged by prowlers taking ad vantage of the darkness. According to instructions, those reserve police will be responsi ble for life and property within their area as well as for the suc cess of the blackout. They will be prepared to report anyone driving a car during the period between the alarm signal and the all clear. Officers will be identified by cards and white arm bands. They will have a pencil and pad and will take names and ad dresses of those not cooperating with blackout regulations. Operating in pairs, they will be stationed at campus buildings from 8 p.m. until the all clear is s o u n d e d after the blackout. Householders will be warned to turn out all lights and those not complying will be reported. L/oe, ’ Betty ’ Contestants Named by Organizations There is now a potential Joe College and Betty Coed in almost every men’s and women’s living organization on the campus, according to Rylla Hattan and Maurice Saloman, co-chairmen of the Whiskerino contacting committee. This list will soon be cut down to five men and five women, who will compete at the dance itself for the titles of “Joe” and “Betty.” 'Sweetie' fyinoititi Nontext Five “finalists” in the contest for the title, “Sweet heart of Sigma Chi” were chosen Monday night by mem bers of the local chapter, according to Art Wiggin, social chairman in charge of the contest. The five are: Dorothy Hayden, Hendricks hall; June Williams, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Mary Jane “Rabbe, Pi Beta Phi; Dorothy Engel, Alpha Phi; and Marian Lock man, Delta Gamma. Final selection will be announced in a radio broadcast at the end of the week. At the beginning of the contest each women’s living organization was represented by two candidates. At a dinner last Thursday this list was reduced to ten and last night five final candidates were chosen. The present list, received yes terday, reads as follows: Wcmen’s Groups Alpha Chi Omega, Anne Voder berg; Alpha Delta Pi, Dorothea Godlove; Alpha Gamma Delta, Norma Baker; Alpha Omicron Pi, Yvonne Torgler; Alpha Phi, Kay Jenkins; Alpha Xi Delta, Virginia Gilmour; Chi Omega. Helen x\lc Keen; Delta Delta Delta, By 11a Hattan; Delta Gamma, Evelyn Mitchell. Gamma Phi Beta, Betty Kin caid; Highland house, Bonnie Townsend; Hilyard house, Ann Reynolds; Kappa Alpha Theta, Mary Belle Martin; Kappa Kappa Gamma, Mary Robinson; Pi Beta Phi, Lora Case; Sigma Kappa, (Please turn to page three) Frosh Polls 0 • » •• •1 o At Y House Freshmen go to the polls at the YMCA house today from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. to vote for class offi cers, after more than four weeks of political bickering. Persons voting must pi-escnt cards of the Class of 1915 and their education al activities cards, Jim Frost, di rector of elections, declared Mon day. Open Today Freshman class cards will be sold until noon today at the educational activities of fice for 55 cents. The addi tional five cents is charged because of the new 10 per cent government tax on things of that sort. Candidates Candidates are: For president: Fritz Gieseekc and Ted Yaw. For vice-president: June Hitch cock, Winston Kelker, Thom Kinersly, and Bob Pendergrass. For secretary: Gerd Hansen, Dorothy Patterson, and Mary Jane Wilson. For treasurer: Louis Fclsheim and Stan Hager. Voting Rules Only members of the election board and card-holding freshmen will be avowed at the polls, Frost said. Voters will enter by the west door of the house and leave by the east door. The polls will be open during1 the noon hour, but will close promptly at 3 p.m., Frost empha sized. Levine to Begin Lecture Series First in the scries of University lectures by world-renowned scholars will be Rabbi Raphael Levine, who will speak October 30 on “The Jew in the Modem World.” Rabbi Levine has spent the last nine years in England, where he lived through and witnessed the most severe phases of the war and carried on extensive work on behalf of refugees. He has re turned to America to lecture ami work. “This lecture is for everyone and especially for those interest ed in the particular problems dealt with by the speaker,” an nounced Professor Rudolph Ernst, chairman of the lecture series. “There will be eight lectures in all, each by world-famous schol ars and experts in their respec tive fields.” Rabbi Levine is sent out by the Jewish Chautauqua society which sent here Rabbi Stephen Weiss of New York several years ago. The lecture will be held in 12 Friendly hall at 7 ;30 Friday evening. Efficiency Oh would that I were Mr. Iickes With power to commend or de ride. In communique I would rise up and say, In manner befitting’ my pride, “All you papers that print near cantonments Or in towns collegiate reside, Don't put the funnies on one page And sports on the opposite side. —JAV.S.