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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 16, 1942)
VOLUME XLIII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1942 NUMBER 106 ASUO Votes for Queen Officers Installed Today Phi Thetas JPin Pledges Recently elected members of the executive council will be in stalled at this morning’s assem bly by Judge James T. Brand of the Oregon State Supreme court. Also holding the spotlight is the pledging of new members of Phi Theta Upsilon, junior women’s honorary. All sopho more girls are requested to sit near the stage since all second year girls are eligible. After administering the oath of office, Judge Brand will speak on a subject as yet unannounced. An honor guard composed of 12 'Junior officers will be present. Judge Brand has received an honorary degree from the Uni versity for distinguished public service. He has spoken on the campus many times, according to Karl W. Onthank, dean of per sonal administration. The speaker will be entertained by the law school faculty at a luncheon following the assembly. Drop Shown In Enrollment With a 14 per cent drop, Uni versity enrollment totalled 2,799 at closing time last Saturday, registrar’s statistics show. Male registration chalked up a one per cent increase last week over the previous week. It is now only 21 per cent below the figures of last year at the same time. There are 1548 men enrolled now. Juniors Increase The junior class shows a 24 per cent increase over last year. Other class membership dropped as fol Jaws: freshman, 1 per cent; sophomore, 22 per cent; and sen ior, 30 per cent. Law and physical education en rollment maintained unchanged percentages of decrease, 25 per cent for the former and 31 per cent for the latter. in non-major fields, general (Please turn to page eight) Voting System Explained Rules for election of Junior Weekend queen and princesses: 1. Co-op will be open from 9 to 10:30 a.m. to secure ballots. 2. First eight judges’ selec tions will be announced at as sembly to be voted upon. 3. Voters will vote for only one candidate. 4. Only one ballot may be deposited by any person. 5. Voters must leave imme diately after voting. 6. Candidate receiving high est number of votes will be named queen. 7. Next four candidates will be named princesses. Wanna Be a City Editor? By G. DUNCAN WIMPRESS Would you like to be a city editor? There is a position open on the Daily Emerald which must be filled in the very near future, according to a statement issued by G. Dune Wimpress, chief city editor, last night. "In addition to the city editor job, there are four assistant ed itorships now open," said Wim press. “We will have a meeting of all desk workers at 7:30 in the Jour nalism building next Thursday night," he continued, “and I hope to see all present and po tential desk workers there.” Besides being a requisite for an Emerald certificate, work on the copy desk is excellent prac tice for the aspiring newspaper writer. Mr. George T. Turnbull and Mr. Charles M. Hulten, pro fessors in journalism, both rec ommend copy desk work to their students. “Not having worked on a desk is no reason for staying away from the meeting,” Wimpress con cluded. “We like to have as many new people as possible down on the desks and we’re expecting quite a few new ones at the meet ing. It’s reaHy not very hard work and all the kids seem to have a lot of fun.” Comely Ruler Picked Today The “Stars and Stripes" queen of the 1942 Junior Weekend will' be selected today at the all-cam pus assembly to be held at 11 a.m. in McArthur court, Bud Van deneynde, chairman of the queen’s reign committee, emphasised Wednesday. A change from previous regu lations wil call for the marking of the name of only one candidate on the ballot instead of five. The other places on the ballot should be disregarded by the voters. Distribution of ballots has been extended to from 9 to 10:30 a.m. today: to meet a large demand. They qan he se cured at the Co-op. Judges Ballot The judges for the contest re viewed the candidates last night and made their choices. Their ballots have been saved uncount ed in sealed envelopes under the care of the faculty judges. Only one ballot will be accepted from each person, Vandeneynde said, and the voters must leave immediately after voting. Just be fore the assembly time the judges’ ballots will be opened and the first eight chosen will be brought to the stage and in troduced. Girls Appointed Appointed to the Junior Week end committee Tuesday were Mary-Ellen Smith, junior in so cial science, as executive secre tary; and Patsy Palmer, junior in business administration, as queen's wardrobe mistress. The junior class party at which the queen was to have been in troduced tonight has been post poned until Tuesday. The week ly meeting time for the Junior (Please turn to page three) Queen Election Politics please let us douse, And vote for beauty, not for house. For when campus luncheop rolls around, ’Twon’t be the house that's being crowned. .J.W.S. (JO to Distribute War Information By PEGGY OVERLAND The University has been cho sen as one of a total of 140 war information centers throughout the United States, according to an announcement from the fed eral office of education. The Uni versity will serve as the center for the entire state of Oregon, according to the report. These centers have been set up throughout the nation on the basis of about one to every mil lion population. As the Oregon center, the University will re ceive all publications dealing with civilian defense, civilian mo rale and other material pertain ing to the war effort, and will make them available to all per sons and organizations in the state, according to Howard R. Taylor, chairman of the Univer sity defense council. Taylor also announced that Dr. Hugh B. Wood, professor of education at the University, has been made chairman of the war information service. Already a number of defense publications have been received at the Uni versity library where they are on display for all students to see. These and others received from time to time will be catalogued, and bibliographies compiled for use of state agencies. VAUGHN CORLEY . . . . . . to coach or not to coach. Time Cards Due NYA time cards are due in the pay roll office, Johnson hall by 12 noon today, April 16, ac cording; to word from the NYA office. Nickle Hop HeadsNamed Nickel Hop chairman,.. Virginia \\&}s and Dorothy Clear, an nounced the selection of repre sentatives from each women's living organization yesterday, as follows: Alpha Chi Omega, Nelda Rohr bach; Alpha Delta Pi, Betty Ann Stevens; Alpha Gamma Delta, Dorothy Patterson; Alpha Omi cron Pi, Dorothy Flanery; Alpha Phi, Jean Taylor; Alpha Xi Del ta, Ruth Van Buskirk; Chi Ome ga, Carolyn Martin; Delta Delta Delta, Irene Gresham; Delta Gamma, Phyllis Horstman. Gamma Phi Beta, Neva Haight; Hendricks hall, Francis Green berg; Hilyard house, Bernice Da vidson; Kappa Alpha Theta, Nancy Sullivan; Kappa Kappa Gamma, Phyllis Collier; Pi Beta Phi, Janice Bubb; Sigma Kappa, Margaret Ambler; Susan Camp bell hall, Dorothy Hansen; Uni versity house, Ora May Watson; and Zeta Tau Alpha, Virginia McMahon. The "Hop” will be held at each of these organizations Wednes day, April 22, from 6 to 9 o'clock and will be an informal affair. Proceeds go into the AWS treasury, a part of which is do nated each year to scholarships for deserving University women. The advertising committee, un der Marilyn Campbell, is making signs which will be placed in the Side, the Co-op, and other build ings on and near the campus. Time Goes on Infirmary Stops Never let it be said that nurs ing is all drudgery and toil. Even the gauze girls have their fun, as was witnessed at a recent birthday party held by the in firmary staff honoring Miss Lou Vogel and Miss Gladys Samel. While their patients upstairs ants met in the big dining room were eating their dinners, the six for the birthday party—replete nurses and seven student assist with frosting" names on a birth day cake, and gifts. New Mentor Offered Rank in Navy University Athletic officials may have to consult their lists o? potential head football coaches* for the second time in a week if Vaughn Corley decides to have ;v part in the navy's new physical! fitness program, it was reported?* today. Appointed head UO football* coach at a meeting of the athletic board Monday night, Corley bat* received orders to become a lieu tenant junior grade in the naval reserve. Air announcement said! to have come from the 13th na val district office said yesterday that Corley will go to Seattle, Monday, April 20, to be sworn in as a lieutenant, junior grade, ami leave for Annapolis for training. When contacted last night by the Emerald, however, Corley de clined to say what action he would take until he had a con ference with Webfoot officials. It was understood that the na val appointment was optional and that Corley’s previous commit ment to the University may au tomatically cancel the naval ap pointment. Having applied for* the position several weeks ago, his place upon acceptance would! be in the navy’s new physical fit ness program. Corley is the successor of “Tex.” Oliver, who left as head foetbSIT 1 coach of the Ducks to become lieutenant commander in the Unit ed States naval forces. OreganaJobs Filled Today Wes Sullivan, editor of the* Oregana, will be >in his office in, McArthur court this afternoon: from 1 to 4:30 to receive appli eants for staff positions on tho new yearbook. Posts for which aspirants will be interviewed include: two as sociate editors, managing editor „ four division heads for activities, schools, men’s and women’s de partments; executive secretary;! promotion director, sports editor, and two assistant managing edi tors. Photo Staff Students with professional pho tography equipment and previous* experience are eligible for posi tions on the photography staff. "The photography staff will bo. as large as the number of compe tent photographers I can find,” said Sullivan. These member'! will work with University pho tographer J. Warren Teeter un der a new system that will en able houses to get better pictor ial coverage of events by notify ing the staff previous to the oc casion. Emerald Editor Petitions Due Petitions for the position of Emerald editor are due in the educational activities office thi1-! Friday, April 17. Applicants will go before the board Thursday, April 23. • Petitions for business mana gers of both the Emerald andi Oregana are due Friday, April 24. They will l\e interviewed Thursday, April 29.