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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 24, 1942)
Hall Residents Form Council to Arbitrate Current Food Wars President Donald M. Erb took personal control of dormitory squabbles yesterday, heard 17 upperclassmen from hall popula tions express their “beefs” on food, labor, rent, and manage ment in a firecracker session in the faculty room of Friendly hall. Creation of an administration-backed board of student opin ion to act as a mediation group between students and manage BOOK PILES ——-— Kooks bought by money given to the World Student Service fund are shown waiting to be Europe. WSSF Drive Hits Monday The initial gun of the World Student Service fund drive will be sounded Monday when the program at Oregon officially gets under way. Feature of the drive will be a tag sale Tuesday through Thursday. Speaker during the drive wall be R. H. Edwin Espy, secretary of the student volunteer move ment. He will address a student assembly Thursday at 11 a.m. Mr. Espy will also speak Wednes day at a potluck supper at West minster house. The supper will be given at 0 p.m. and is open to the public. This year independent students will be contacted by a commit tee headed by Gerry Huestis, head of the ISA council. “This will be a good opportunity to test the efficiency ' of the council,” Huestis said. The national drive this year will be used to aid refugee stu dents in the United States as well as destitute students of for eign lands. Goal this year at Oregon has been set at $400. Desertless suppers will be a means of raising money during the drive. Co-chairmen of the drive are Bud Vandeneynde and Elizabeth Edmunds. Spike the Spiker “Spiking' a rumor a day” Is the Emerald’s diligent way Of confining hysteria To a limited area, And keeping Dame Rumor at bay. But that column I simply abhor, And the rumors therein make me sore. For they set me to worry In a heck of a hurry. ’Cause I’ve never heard them be fore. —J.W.S. ment was given official okay in the final minutes of an hour-long session in -which were uncovered chief points of student dissension in rapid-fire order. The new stu dent counsellor committee prob ably will be made up of one mem ber from each of the eight dormi tories, to be elected by popular vote. Under Erb This committee, the represen tatives present agreed, would be directly under the president of the University and would meet with the dormitory director and dietician at regularly appointed times to present student views and suggestions. In answer to a student ques tion, “Can we definitely expect action in clearing up these points which have caused so much grief for so long a time?” President Erb declared that he would co operate in every way possible to remedy permanently the out standing causes of antagonism. Undstrom Present to answer questions on dorm expenses and budgets was University Business Manager J. O. Lindstrom. Student repre sentatives present were urged by the president to formulate a list of all questions dealing with bond iimortization, fines, profit, state board allotments, salaries, etc., and present them sometime dur ing the coming week to Mr. Lind strom, who will publish state ments on all these questions in order to dispel unfounded rumors in dormitory living groups. Each of the 17 student repre sentatives exchanged his views freely on the quality of the food, its quantity, labor costs, manage ment, and other topics on which they felt students’ views were not given sufficient attention. Into Action Dr. Erb will meet with Mrs. Genevieve Turnipseed, director of dormitories, and Miss Helen Goodenough, dietician, next week, he said. Following- that confer ence, the new student group will go in action, it was indicated. Dormitory students present in cluded Tie Hutchins, president of the interdorm council, Roy Hensley, Hall Simmon, Charles Lundquist, Dan Mercer, George Pederson, Helen Holden, Helen ’■ .. *r- •• Mae Hatcher, Lulu Pali, Chester Locke, Jerry Winkler, Johnnie Kahananui, Jean Spearow, Dick Bennett, Don Lewis, and Frank Quinn. Moore Gets Post Dr. E. H. Moore, acting head of the sociology department, was elected president of the Pacific Sociological society during the annual meeting of the society held in Los Angeles in the latter part of December. 'March of Dimes’ Drive’ Begins at Game Tonight Defense Dance SwingsTonight Students will dance for campus defense tonight in Gerlinger from 9:30 to 12. Sponsored by Skull and Dagger, sophomore men’s service honorary, the dance is being given to raise money for campus defense committees to use as they see fit. Bob McFadden’s orchestra will play. Admission price is 75 FILLS POST —Photo by Kennell-Elas Barry Campbell, Class presi dent, has announced the appoint ment of Dorothy Routt as secre tary of the sophomore class. Miss Routt replaces Pat Sutton who did not return to school this year. cents a coupie including tax. A program at intermission will feature Dick Clark in an imper sonation of President Roosevelt, and the AOPi trio will sing. Mem bers of the trio are Yvonne Torg ler, Fenny Mullen, and June Marie Wilson. “All-out cooperation of the en tire student body is urged, be cause this is one way in which every one can help in a cause vital to America,” Bob Ballard, chairman, has said. Ballard was appointed by Frank Lockwood, president of the honorary. Other committee mem bers are Jim Thayer, promotion; Oge Young, decorations, Ran Potts, patrons; Jim Harrison, floor; A1 Sellars, clcan-up, and Jim Bennison. Registration Drops Latest registration figures re leased by Clifford L. Constance, assistant registrar, still show a steady 13 per cent decrease from last year at this time. Enrollment stands at 3020, compared with last year’s 3462. Complete total for winter term, 1940-41, was 3476. In order to equal this figure 456 students would have to enroll before the end of the term. USC Faculty Man Slated For First Love Lecture Dr. Paul Popenoe, director of the Los Angeles Institute of Family Relations, has agreed to address the assembly and forums of the love and marriage campus lecture series which begins February 12. During recent years Dr. Popenoe has devoted much of his time to the promotion of education for marriage and family life in the high schools and col leges of America. His eight books on various aspects of these prob lems have become almost text books, and his lectures have made him a recognized leader in his field. Dr. Popenoe last appeared here four years ago when he led a similar series with great success. He is a lecturer in biology at the University of Southern Califor nia and has at various times con ducted love and marriage classes for single terms. On February 12, at the general 11 o'clock assembly, sponsored by AWS and Panhellenic, will be ad dressed by Dr. Popenoe. A wom en’s forum at 4 o’clock and a men’s forum at 7:30 will also be led by Dr. Popenoe. All campus men and women are invited to their respective forums. The following week, informal discussion will be arranged for each living organization and the independent groups. These will be led by interested faculty mem bers and townspeople. Student representatives will be selected by each group to complete ar rangements for their organiza tion. UO-OSC Vie In Polio War At Hoop Tilts A shortage of dimes is expected on the Oregon campus tonight af ter students have contributed to the “March of Dimes” program during the Oregon-Oregon State game. The five societies aiding in the collection urge that all at tending the game bring dimes for the drive. But other coins, nickles, quarters, and half dollars, plus bills will al laid in the same cause. ^ Dimes wil also be collected dur ing the Oregon-Oregon State game Fcbruary7. The school con tributing the largest amount of money will take the entire amount and contribute it, under the name of the winning school, to the infantile paralysis chair man of Lane or Benton county. Efforts are being made to make the contest an annual affair. The program is part of the annual president’s ball drive to collect money to fight infantile paralysis. Societies aiding in the drive are Kwama, Phi Theta Up silon, Mortar Board, Skull Dagger, and the rally squad. Lt. Reed Dies; 'Chute’ Fails First Lt. James O. Reed, ’39, member of the crack Oregon swimming team in 1934-35-36, was instantly killed Thursday when his parachute failed' to open after he had bailed out at Chan ute field, 111. Thursday’s jump was Lieuten ant Reed’s second. He jumped in October, 1939, while on his way to a University homecoming, landing in the woods on the Mc Kenzie, east of here. He set a national collegiate swimming record in 1935 in the individual medley that stood until last year. He was also Pacific coast collegiate backstroke cham pion. Record Programs Programs of recorded music are being given each Monday and Wednesday afternoon by Dr. Arn old Elston, assistant professor of music, in the Carnegie room on the second floor of the music building from 3 to 5 o’clock. Programs for each week are^ posted on the bulletin board in the music building. Each Wednes day from 4 to 5, a request pro gram will be given. Anyone in terested is invited to attend.