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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 14, 1942)
P£GE2: 1046 Students Vote Tomorrow Oregon LIBRARY U. OF ORE. MERALD PAGE 4: pq Webfoot Nine Loses, 2-1 VOLUME XLIII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1942 NUMBER 125 Boyle Given French Prize At Banquet Kenneth Boyle, senior in Ro mance languages, was awarded the French Republic prize for excellence in French language and literature at a Pi Delta Phi banquet Wednesday evening. -*The prize, consisting of a sil ver medal, is awarded annually to the outstanding student in French language and literature. The award was made at the in itiation banquet by Dr. R. P. Bowen, head of the Romance lan guages department. The Pi Delta Phi award was given to Beverly Ferry, senior in Romance languages, at the ban quet held in Gerlinger. Initiation ceremonies conducted the follow ing new members into the group: Marian Campbell, Mary Earl, Elene Douglas, Philip Reiter, Doris Cleeton, Lila Furchner, Al lege Meek, Betty Friedman, Mary Louise Vincent, Dora Jane Hus Torr Jeanne Parker, Merlin Dow, Robert Forsyth, Nicholas Riasan ovsky, Mrs. Laurence LeSage, Mr. Gerald Spring, and Mrs. Nina Riasanovsky. Stehn Names House Heads Tohn Busterud and Margaret Ann Jackson have been appoint ed by John Stehn, director of band, tc direct housing, registra tion, and sale of tickets for the 2000 high school music students who are already coming into Eu gene in small groups. Fifteen bands, ten orchestras, and ten choruses will be heard during the regional contest of the national school music festival which will be held on Friday and Saturday of this week. About 300 soloists, both instrumental and vocal will compete. Judges for the contest will in clude: Dr. Theodore Kratt, dean |f the music school; Rex Under wood, professor of music; Sig urd Nilssen, professor cf voice; Miss Maude Garnett, associate professor of public school music; John Stehn, director of band, and Aurora Underwood, associate professor of music. Chairmen of committees are; Boyce Gaddes, Jack Plummer, Phyllis Gray, Verne Sellin, Lois Ginther, Dean Forbes, Ralph Mc Kenzie, Elizabeth Walker, Gene vieve Graves, and Mary Ander son. ROTC in Khaki Today For Col. Scott Review All military students are re quired to wear complete ROTC unifcrms throughout today. Col. William R. Sectt, infan try, is today inspecting the Uni very ROTC unit. He wii'l visit classes this morning and at 1 :20 will review the cadet corps. Courtesy Eugene News H ... t ft ^11* U.S. Army Air Corps Photo. THE TWO SIDES . . . • • • of the army air reserve corps cvm, given Wednesday, shows, above, the candidates taking physi cal tests and, below, intelligence tests. Nearly 82 per cent passed. Student Vote To Determine Final Status The yell leader will become a i ex-officio member of the ASUO Executive Council if a constitu tion partially passed by the Ex ecutive Council yesterday re ceives approval of students at large at a coming campus-wide vote. A four-to-three count approved the yell leader as a non-voting' member. Lcs Anderson, student body president, cast the deciding “aye’’ to break a three to three tie. The final vote was: Margo Dibble, Carolyn Holmes, Nancy Riesch, and Lcs Anderson, yes; Hal Locke, Wes Sullivan, and Ray Schrick, no; Walt Dickinson, Max Brown, and Jim Bennison, absent. Those in favor of adding the yell leader as an ex-officio (non voting) member contended that even though many affairs whicln come before the committee do not affect the yell squad ac tivities directly, almost an action has either a direct or indirect ef fect on rally spirit. They also emphasized the all-importance of school spirit, which the Execu tive Council must promote as part of its work. Those opposing the move wero in favor of including the yell leader as an cx-officio member, but only in affairs which directly concern yell activities. They maintained that the yell leader is chosen on an entirely different set of qualifications from other ASUO officers and therefore is not necessarily qualified to voico opinion on such questions as class cards, and scholastic eligibility which are farther removed from the more specialized rally work. The discussion was high point (Please turn to page eight) Air Corps Board Says UO Men look Goodf “The boys looked good today.” This wry the greeting extended Lieut. James A. Carvin, public relations officer for the traveling Air Corps examining board which is visiting the University campus this week. “The University deserves a pat on the back,” continued Lieuten ant Carvin. “Sixty-one applicants were given the mental test. Of these fifty passed the examina tion. This is a high percentage of 82. Usually in a group of this size from twenty-five to forty per cent fail.” Applications for enlistment are being accepted from men 18 to 23 years of age. If a student is inducted into the reserve he is deferred until he completes ins college courses. The men who passed the men tal tests today will be given the physical examination tomorrow. The board will remain in Eugene as long as it is deemed necessary, however, as soon as it appears that there are no more applicants they will depart. Mental examina tions will be continued tomorrow. The board, consisting of: First Lieut. William A. Miller, presi dent: First Lieut. Lawrence G. Gilbert, Second Lieut. Robert M. Tuttle, and Captain Donald M. Corgill, medical officer, is under the command of Lieut. Co. Wil liam A. Matheny senior officer in charge of Aviation Enlisted Re serve in Oregon. Regarding the University’s re action to the program, Colonel Matheny said, “I am highly grati fied at the response received from the University of Oregon. I would like to urge all men in terested in the program to appear for examination.” ISATopsOff Cabinet Marian Schaefer, freshman in business administration, is now sophomore representative of the ISA cabinet it was revealed last night when the independents’ sec ond election in two weeks was completed. Miss Schaefer tied for the sophomore position in the first election held last week and a. run-off election between her and her opponent was held yes terday. With the election of the sopho more representative the complete ISA cabinet for the coming school year is ready to function, according to Leighton Platt, newly-elected president of the cabinet. Other new members of the cabinet are A1 Larsen, president of the ISA; Platt, president of the cabinet; Alene Gardner, sen ior representative; Norman Mannheimer, junior representa tive and Miss Schaefer, sopho more representative. Freshmen will elect their rep resentative sometime next fail, according to Platt. The new and old cabinet will meet Friday afternoon in Chap man hall to discuss plans for next fall. The ISA is an independent or ganization that was organized during the school year by Gerry Huestis. Cocktails Eating cocktails with a fork Is really out of tune. It would be much more practical To eat them with a spoon. Spearing bits of fish or fruit Has gone to a pretty pass, And I always hate to leave that sauce . At the bottom of the glass. J.W.S,