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PAGE 2: -^Youth Work— The Future Oregon u. OF o. LIBRARY CAMPUS PAGE 4: PQ Frosh Out Of Varsity VOLUME XLIII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1942 NUMBER 69 Election Plans Announced UO Yell King To Be Chosen Tomorrow After unsuccessful attempts at selecting a yell-king last term, University students will watch candidates pull out their bags and cricks at a student body assem bly Thursday at 11 a.m. According to Jim Frost, ASUO ^ice-president, candidates must bresent their statements of in ention to run and scholastic elig bility in sealed envelopes to Mary Uraham at the educational ac civities office by 5 o’clock today. Special Election The new king will be decided ipon at a special student body election to be held from 12 to 5 b.m. Thursday. Frost will con :act all candidates to instruct ;hem before the assembly. Earle Russell, who was de clared ineligible to continue as ,'ell-king at the end of fall term, vill have another chance to com pete for the position if his grades lave improved to the minimum !-point. Big Events Students who receive spe cial notices today as a result of the “Of Thee I Sing” au dition last night should attend the tryouts to be held tonight at 7:30 on the stage of the Guild hall theater in Johnson hall. Others interested in work ing on the program should jhone John Busterud, chair man. Ail ISA senate and cabinet members will meet this after noon at 4 o’clock in room 204 Chapman to discuss various plans to be carried out this term. The Emerald" business staff will meet at 8 o’clock tonight in the business office, journal ism building. Applications will be accepted at that time for business staff positions. The reporting, copy desk and night staffs wil meet Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in room 104, Journalism. (See Big Events, Page 3) CAMPBELL. . . . meet head AMOTION Skill-W or -six to-, t> p l or »K v O rpxC ?Xj , ' 1" mmMBK tio ■) -r came xr iom-: Ht,;t; wtso Ae*x HWwnJ v«>>xn,Ja Csoetol »/ >--: )n?as v$> W’xve? ! .ms 0- ' > 0 ovX x< THE MAYO RIAL STAMP . . . . . . is given the “MacArthur Day” proclamation by IVIaycr Elisha Large with Mary Jane Rabbe and Mary Mercier assisting. —Courtesy the Oregonian. SDX Honors Noted Soldier In honor of General Douglas MacArthu.r, Sigma Delta Chi will present the first all-campus dance of spring term at 9 oclock Friday night in McArthur court. Art Holman's orchestra will play. Tickets for the informal dance, which includes a 45-minute be tween-halves variety show, are $1.10 today. Purchased Thursday or at the door, they will cost $1.25. Tickets Tickets are on sale in all men's living organizations and may also be purchased from SDX pledges, who are now honoring General McArthur and signifying their pledging to the national professional journalism fratern (Please turn to page three) Defense Assembly Set To Organize Houses Each living organization on the campus will be efficiently surveyed and organized into an integral part of the University defense set-up as a result of today’s one o’clock assembly in room 5, Commerce building. This plan will be carried out through individual air-raid wardens, who, with student com mittees and leaders, are to attend the meeting. ASUO President Lou Torgeson will occupy a prominent Psychological Before the war when every store Sold sugar by the sack, I never ate much sweets and stuff, And I took my coffee black. But now ’bout all I think about Is candy bars and toffee, And I have the queerest craving' for Some sugar in my coffee. —J.W.S. Thursday at 11... Spring- term's first ASUO as sembly is planned for Thursday, March 26, at 11 a.m. in McAr thur court, Barry Campbell, chairman, announced Tuesday. Yell leader tryouts, the main feature of the program, will be directed by Jim Frost, vice-presi dent ot the student body. Con testants will lead one school yell and an individual one. SDX skits Two skits wall be presented by Sigma Delta Chi. They will tie in with MacArthur Day which is being set aside by the city of Eu gene and celebrated Friday at the University by a Sigma Delta Chi-sponsored all-campus dance. The introduction of newly ejected AWS, WAA and YWCA officers will be part of the pro pi am. The pledge cup, aw-arded for the fraternity having the pledge class with the highest CPA, will be formally presented to Phi Gamma Delta by Porky Andrews, president of the inter fraternity council. Introductions Campbell said that he hopes there will also be time to intro duce the new president of Heads of Houses and members of the baseball team, but that this de pends upon the number of con testants for yell king. spot on me piauorm anci wm explain the Student faculty de fense coordination, urging' coop eration among the different de fense committees. It is hoped that correctly functioning rela tionships between these groups may be facilitated by getting all defense workers together at the assembly, according to Steve Worth, who, is making the ar rangements. In addition, duties are to be allocated representatives at this time. Air Raid Groups Tom Pickett, ISA represent ative, and Robert Jones, of the IFC, are to load their groups, which will coordinate air raid wardens, get them supplies, in form them by bulletins of inno vations, and inspect all houses to see if adequate organization, instruction, and materials are be ing provided. They will also handle publicity. Yeomen, represented by Dave Knox and Warren Phillips, will provide transportation for all groups. In case of emergency they will fipo maintain a central offfee Where persons may call at any time and will move food, clothing, medical supplies, and equipment as we'l as personnel. Scabbard, Blade Scabbard and Blade will have (I’lcasc turn to payc three) Class Card Sale Slated; Poll Date Set By MARJORIE MAJOR Complete plans for spring* elections were formulated at a meeting- of Ted Yaw, freshman class president; Barry Campbell, sophomore class president; Pat. Cloud, junior class president; Jim Frost, first vice-president of tha ASUO; Lou Torgeson, president, of ASUO, and Dick Williams, edu cational activities director, held yesterday. The sale of class cards foi* all three classes will terminate 5 p.m. on April 2, it was decided. Class Sards may be purchased from the booth between the Ore gon and Commerce buildings cn March 31 and April 1 and 2 from 9 to 3 2 a.m. and 1 to 5 p.m. Complete List A complete polling list of eli gible voters for all three classes* will be available to all those in terested in the educational activ ities office on April 6. This list, will be a Complete and ' correct, list to be used as a door checJ* at the nominating assemblies. All nominations by the sopho more, junior and freshman classes and the ASUO will taker place Tuesday, April 7. Class and ASUO elections will be held tbe> folowing Tuesday, April 14. ASUO inaugurations are sched uled for a regular 11 o’clock as (Tlcasc turn !c page three) Houses to Vie ForSing Title By MARY WOLF An all-campus sing contest wilt be held April 25 under the spon sorship of the ASUO executive committee. Initiated as a per manent campus function Inst year* by Gleeson Payne, ASUO presi dent in '40-’41, the sing will be under the sponsorship of the ASUO executive committee thi:* year. Prizes will be awarded to the* winning men and the winning' women's living organization cho ruses entered in the contest. Dean Theodore Kratt of the mu sic school will arrange for th*i judges. Last Year Last year Delta Ten Delta ar«l Gamma Phi Beta- won first places of the men’s and women'•» houses in the fir.a I competition which took place in connection with tho Circle, i . Un G’s Lemon Squeeze. Judged as second and third place winners of "r- wom en’s houses in last y< a; ’s con test were Pi Beta Phi mil Delta Gamma. Phi Delta Tin : nd Sig ma Nu were cl:- sen s-icl ar.ct third of the r.r.r’s living organ izations. Houses are urged to f -ganize their choruses inn n ely so that they will be i ady ' > hand in their applications l f >ve tho deadline which will s -on be set.