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VOLUME XLIII
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1941
NUMBER 30
Homecoming
Rules Named
By Lettermen
Final announcement of rules
for Homecoming week, effective
Monday, November 24, through
Friday, November 28, was made
today by Jim Rathbun, Order of
the “O” president. All offenders
will be punished daily, the boys
by hacking on the steps of Fen
ton hall, and the girls by ducking.
The rules are:
1. No walking on the grass in
the area between Kincaid street
and University street, and Elev
enth and Thirteenth.
2. Say “hello” to everyone met
Pfr “Hello walk.” This walk runs
from Fenton hall past Deady to
Vi Hard.
3. Freshman girls must wear
green ribbons in their hair. This
is to be observed every day, and
corresponds to the wearing of
the frosh pants by freshman boys.
4. Only seniors will be allowed
to sit on the senior bench which
faces the library behind Susan
Campbell hall.
5. Freshmen must wear their
tin pants.
6. No smoking on the old part
of the campus. This is the area
mentioned above.
%7. Sophomores will wear either
their moleskins or blue jeans.
8. Freshmen will wear rooters’
lids.
UO Dads' Day
Petitions Due
Prospective chairmen of the
annual Dads’ day fete and of the
love and marriage series should
submit petitions to Lou Torgeson,
ASUO president; Bette Morfitt,
Ajjj^UO secretary, or the educa
tional activities office by 5 p.m.
Tuesday, November 25, Torgeson
announced last night.
Certification of eligibility
should be handed in with the ap
plcations or before interviews of
the petitioners by the executive
council. Interviews axe tentative
ly scheduled for Wednesday, No
vember 26, and appointments will
probably be made Thursday.
Dads’ day has been set for^Feb
ruary 14, 1942, Torgeson de
clared, while the love and mar
riage series will open in winter
term. The love and marriage se
sies committee will be apponted
at the same time as the chair
man, he said.
UO-OSC Game
Record Set
By Houston
In the past 37 years Oliver
Houston, class of 1910, has at
tended 32 Oregon-Oregon State
games. That’s a lot of games for
anyone's money and Mr. Houston,
now in legal work in the secre
tary of state’s office, will be on
hand for the Homecoming game
November 29.
Mr. Houston, who played var
sity football, missed two games
while a soldier during the World
^Tar, and three while he was do
ing graduate work at Yale.
Houston named the Oregana and
was senior class and Order of
the “O” presidents.
CREAM OF THE TOP
Phi Beta Kappa, national scholastic honorary, chose the students above as the “senior six" last
week. Prom left are Alice Luvaas, 3.52 GPA; Nicholas Rlasanovsky, 3.79; Milton Small, 3.71; Robert
Lovell, 3.72; Walter Ivrause, 3.73; and Avis Marie Klemme, 3.68.
BUG-HAPPY
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As a hobby Borys Malkin, young Polish naturalist, collects bugs
and mounts them in cardboard boxes. His collection totals 50,000
bugs and are all dried, labeled, and mounted. Malkin was born in
Russia and lived in Poland until 1938 when he came to the United
States. The following year his country was invaded by the German
army.
Refugee Invades Dorm
With Pet Insect Horde
Found: 18,000 bugs in the men’s dormitory!
But it’s not so bad as it sounds. They’re all dead, dried,
labeled, and mounted in dozens of innocent-looking cardboard
boxes in the Gamma hall room of Borys Malkin, young Polish
naturalist, studying at the University under a National Refugee
service scholarship.
For company he brought with
him this advance guard of his
collection of over 50,000 beetles,
most of which are in New York.
Born in the little White Rus
sian town of Witebsk, near Minsk,
on November 20, 1917, Malkin
moved with his parents to War
saw, Poland, in the autumn of
1918. His grandfather still lived
in Witebsk when the German in
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Fire Hazard
Checkup Set
For Monday
Cleaning up the attic and the
basement will probably be among
freshman duties next Monday
morning as all campus living or
ganizations are in for a fire-haz
ard checkup early next week, ac
cording to W. E. Nusbaum, Eu
gene fire chief.
Jack A. Hayes, deputy state
fire marshal, will conduct the in
spection from “top to bottom’’ of
all sororities, fraternities, co-ops,
and any other buildings in which
students are housed’. While in
specting for genera] conditions,
particular notice will be made of
exit markings, fire escapes, wir
ing loads, furnace. insulations,
and fuel storage.
A similar checkup was con
ducted by Deputy Hayes on the
Corvallis campus this week. Rec
ommendations will be made as
to what changes should be made.
CPT Applicants
Report Today
Students listed below are asked
to report to the civilian pilot
training office today or Monday
concerning their applications for
spring primary CPT. Franklin
Sherwin, ground school instruc
tor, will interview the applicants
at 107 Condon hall between 1 and
3 o’clock.
The twenty men requested to
report today are: Harold Morgan,
Ralph Crawford, Jack Lakefish,
Edward Parry, George Anderson,
Robert Davis, Robert Parker,
Philip Hunt, Ernest Hinkle, Wil
liam Rapson, Donald Barker,
Wendell Gronso, Charles Nelson,
Gordon Read, Francis Jordon,
Jack Perry, Clyde Lee, Joseph
Montag, Frank Hardy, and Ber
nie McCudden.
Vacation
Calls Ducks
From School
By mid-afternoon today the
campus will be virtually de
serted as students leave for
the four-day Thanksgiving
holiday. Although the “week
end” doesn’t start officially
until the end of classes today,
many jumped the gun by leav
ing as early as last night.
Classes will meet as usual to
day, according to Karl W. On
thank, dean of personnel admin
istration. Unless classes arc dis
missed by the individual instruc
tor, role will be taken until tho
end of the day. There are no
classes scheduled for Thursday qjt
Friday, November 20 and 21.
Regular hours will begin again,
at S a.m. Monday.
Special round-trip railway tick
ets may be purchased at a booth,
between Oregon hall and com
merce building. The special rates
are available to Portland, and
southern points. Other rates are
being arranged for students who
plan to attend the Oregon-Wash
ington game in Seattle Saturday.
No Cokes
Most campus coke emporiums
will close their doors tonight and
not open again until Sunday. The
Co-op store will be closed all day;
Thursday and Saturday after
noon.
Meals will not be served this
weekend in most campus living
organizations.
The men's gym and the men’s
pool will be closed from Novem
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ISA Schedules
Mass Meeting
McArthur court has obtained
for the mass meeting of indepen
dent students Tuesday, Novem
ber 25, it was announced yester
day by Gerald Huestis, chairman
of arrangements for the gather
ing.
It is hoped that before Thankiy
giving vacation all independents
will have received a copy of the
ISA constitution and statement
of purpose, Marvin Gorrie, pub
licity chairman, announced.
The declaration of purpose and
the constitution will be read at
the meeting, and nominations
opened for senate and cabinet
members to govern the associa
tion.
Independent students interest-*
ed in running for an office must
submit their petitions to one of
the members of the election boa id
before Tuesday night, November
25.
Members of the election board
are Marvin Gorrie, Marion Grill
ing, Gerald Huestis, and Wini
Greeen.
All petitions must have the
signatures of 50 students to be
acceptable in accordance with,
required student election proced
ure.
Boarder s Lament
I don’t mind eating lima beans
Or navy beans with pork,
But I hate the squeal
A string bean makes
When you cut it with a fork.
—J.W.S.