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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 16, 1942)
Dormitory Workers Get Five Cent Pay Increase Wage Upped For Student Employees By AL LARSON Wages for students working in the dormitories have been raised from 30 cents to 35 cents an hour due to an increase of about 25 per cent in food costs, Mrs. Genevieve Turnipseed, director of dormitories, said yesterday. Considerable discussion of dor mitory wages took place last quarter. At that time it was an nounced that the board prices would be raised January 1 from $23 to $26 a month. The increase in wages for employed students brings the dormitory rate to the same scale as the rest of the campus. Just about as much work as needed can be provided for those living at the dorms, said Mrs. Turnipseed. Ordinarily about two and a half hours a day is the time required to pay for board. Old students are given prefer ence on assignments. Most of the work done at the dorm consists of office work, kitchen, hall and dining room duty, and assistant janitor’s work. ’Union’ Group To Add Frosh Between 16 and 18 freshmen will be chosen today to serve on the freshman student union com mittee by members of the all campus committee and by Ger ald Huestis, president of the In dependent Students* association, according'to Oge 'Yotifl^, campus student union chairmam :v. look hr. Appointments will be made ac cording to merit, Young said. Al though the students’ GPA will be considered, activities will also be given recognition. t ‘1■’ • ' H‘> v'i Job Open For Assistant To Men’s Coop Boss An opening for the position of understury to the general man ager of the men's co-op has been announced by the board of direc tors of the Students' Co-opera tive Association, Inc. Any student on the campus wishing to apply may send their letters of application to Robert Herndon, 1410 Alder, said Frank Tobey, member of the board. This action was taken because of the possibility of army service for Wilbur Osterloh, the present gen eral manager. Bands Banned There will be no more name bands at old U of O. The large local halls will now put on the show. Supervision by faculty et all will go. While the local hall managers drag in the dough. Why the campus don't get it, I never will know. But there'll be no more name bands at old U of O. - J.W.S. Janet M orris Wins Executive Post' FOURTH TERM FOR OREGON tamonz mMT&um w$mm m m CtASSGS MVTM£V£A» OR XMAS VV££K $rmim (m simm vacations basis AT 7:30 VACATION) —Drawing by Roy Nelson The temperature of the fourth term question at Oregon is shown in the above graph. Four plans have been submitted to a representa tive group of students with the pictured results. Only two students questioned did not think that the present set-up should be changed. School and Mosie. School. . . Class Changes Favored By Student Majority By BARBARA YOUNGER and BETTY ANN STEVENS Because of the national emergency, some colleges are going on a tour-term basis. Oregon is now faced with this problem. Four plans have been presented to a representative group of students. They are: (1) that Oregon should operate on a four-term basis with no summer vacations; (2) that the vaca tions between terms should be eliminated; (3) that Oregon should accept a six-day week; (4) tht Oregon should have 60 minute classes beginning at 7:30 a.m. The objection to most of these plans is that it would interfere with students who are working or putting themselves through school. It has been estimated that 65 per cent of Oregon students earn at least part of their ex penses. Cross-Section Quizzed One in every hundred students has been questioned. This sur vey is not infallible, but an at tempt at accuracy has been made. This is what some of the stu dents who were surveyed think. A freshman in architecture re marked about the six-day week, “I don't think it would interfere with social life, because Satur day night is always Saturday night.” A sophomore in business administration believes that a six day week would certainly make for concentration on school work. A junior in business administra tion thinks that vacations be tween terms are just so much “wasted time." Only 6 per cent of tho*se who were polled think that things at Oregon should remain the way they aie now. Quite a few women favored a four-term year, while most men were in favor of a six-day week in order to have vacations free for earning money. NY A Timeslips Due Deadline for NYA time cards is noon today. This was announced Thurs day night by Aida Brun, NYA secretary. All time cards for the payroll period ending Thursday must be turned in to the business office, second floor Johnson hall by 12 o’clock. Placement Examinations Scheduled Saturday Placement examinations for undergraduate students enter ing the University winter term will be given Sturday morning, January 17, at 9 a.m. in 207 Chapman. All new undergradu ates, including special, fresh man, and transfer students, are required to take this examina tion. Valentine Gal ToMeet Dads In order to continue the Valen tine Girl tradition set last year, the Dad’s Day committee will name a Valentine Girl for 1942 who will be the welcoming host ess for the annual Dad’s weekend. The Valentine Girl will be chosen by the Dad’s Day commit tee from contestants from every woman’s living organization. Last year two Valentine Girls ruled over Oregon. One, Dorothy Hav ens, was selected by the Ore gonian, and the other, Jean Hoov er, was selected by Life maga zine. The selection was begun when Life magazine inaugurated a con test to be run in colleges all over the country. The contest was can celled when many colleges did not enter, but the editors of Life selected Jean Hoover1 from the pictures which were sent to them.. Meanwhile, when news of the cancelled contest had arrived and before news of Life’s selection came, the Oregonian was asked to name a Valentine Girl and Doro thy Havens was selected. Thus, Oregon last year had two Febru ary sweethearts. At the same meeting of the Dad’s Day committee, Ken Christ ianson, junior in journalism, was named as publicity chairman, ac cording to Jack Lansing, Dad’s Day chairman. rf-osi ttte. A>icluo&l . . . Libe Receives Notes On Early UO History H. D. Sheldon, professor of education and history, has pre sented the University library with a collection of documents concerning- the history of the University, he announced yes terday. Also given to the library were the notes he used in writing the history of the University which was published in April 1939 by Binford and Mort under the title “History of University of Oregon.” Mr. Sheldon had worked on the history for many years and had a large collection of notes. The documents turned over to the library are mostly dated 1S93, '94, and '95. Some of these are letters by Charles H. Chap man, then president of the Uni versity. Mr. Chapman, in his let ters, describes the school as he found it in 1893 and gives a graphic account of his efforts in building it up. Letters Show Life Several letters and an original copy of an address given by Thomas Condon, a teacher here in the 1890’s, give much of the history of the school up to that date. An article by F. K. Masters, a graduate of 1880, describes the first athletics and physical edu GPA Increase For Activity Men Okayed It was the ASUO executive committee’s turn at the bat yes-_ terday in their bout with the scholarship committee on how to enforqe the student governors' proposed plan to require a 2-point GPA for activity-minded stu dents. With a recommendation that enforcement be handled through the educational activi ties office, a plan suggested by Director Dick Williams, the exec committee wound up its second endorsement of high qualifica tions. Janet Morris Named Janet Morris, senior in psychol ogy. was unanimously elected to the post of secretary-treasurer of the student body in a four-maiT contest for Bette Morfitt’s re cently vacated position on the ex ecutive committee. In the lead-off interviews to select a replace ment, the committee talked to Mary Kay Riordan, Kathleen Brady, and A1 Hunt. The scholarship measure was back before the council for its second try. Before Christmas the general proposal' had' been sent to the scholarship committee, suggesting that a 2 point (1.75 and 1.5 are the present require ments set down by the University for upper and lower division dents respectively) average be re quired of all participants in Web foot activities. The plan was “generally ap proved’’ by Dr. James H. Gil bert’s scholarship committee, but was returned to the student group for further consideration because no method had been sug gested for enforcement. Eligibility Check-up The offer of Mr. Williams, act ing activities director, to handle all activity eligibility check-ups through his office was seized upon by the committee as the ideal setup. Already that office checks on approximately 80 sty^ dents regularly each term, as well as all extra class appointments. The added duty, Mr. Williams said, would be in line with the present arrangement but on a larger scale, since he would check with heads of all student activities regularly for any ap pointments and office holders. The lists of names would then be checked with files in the reg istrar's office for eligibility rat ings. cation activities at the Univer sity. There is also in the collection much material on the early stu dent organizations and-their his-' tories. Mrs. Marian P. Watts, refef® ence librarian, will have charge of all this material. All students are welcome to use Mr. Sheldon's notes and may find them in the library by consulting Mrs. WTatts.