VOLUME XLIII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON EUGENE, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1942
NUMBER 128
Yell King Will Serve
On New Exec-Comm
In Rally Matters Only
Tlie Yell King- will serve as an ex-officio member of the
Executive Council only in matters affecting- rally activities,
the Council decided last night in approving a new ASUO
constitution which will be presented for student okay next fall.
The decision altered previous vote on a clause which would
have included the Yell King as a Council member, ex-officio, in
mi emails, memuers agreed unan
imously that he should be given
voice only when rally activities
are discussed.
Oglesby Young, sopnomore m
law, was appointed chairman of
athletic card drive sales for next
r*y^r at the same meeting. He
J was chosen from a field of three
candidates who petitioned for the
job.
Will Direct
Young will direct complete or
ganization of the card drive,
which will open at fall registra
tion. Year-round athletic cards
will be sold at the samg $9 rate
as was in effect this year. Other
candidates for the chairmanship
were Gordon Childs and Bill Far
rell.
Varsity awards in track, golf,
and tennis, and freshman awards
in Wpaqfc, golf, tennis, and base
ball ^were also approved by the
following recommendation of the
respective coaches.
Approved
Those approved included:
Varsity track, Donald Wilson,
Francis Tuckwiler, Stanley Ray,
Ralph Kramer, Zenas Butler, Rob
ert Newland, Homer Thomas,
Warren Finke, Fred Foster, Ed
win Reiner, Wilfred Ross, and
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REVIEWING KOTC . . .
. . . today will be Charles A.
Sprague, governor of Oregon.
—Courtesy Eugene News
Presidents Meet
All fraternity and sorority
presidents and rushing chair
men will meet in the faculty
room of Friendly hall at 4
p.m. Friday.
PgAA. In Peitisua! . . .
adets Parade
For Governor
The final R.O.T.C. military re
view of the term will take place
on Howe field today, with Gov
ernor Charles A. Sprague partici
pating.
Governor Sprague, accompanied
by Chancellor Frederick M. Hunt
er; Dr. Donald M. Erb, president
of the University; Col. Robert M.
Lyon, former professor of military
science and tactics, and Col.
Charles L. Sampson, the present
commandant, will receive the re
view.
Form
The R.O.T.C. cadets will begin
forming at 1 p.m., following the
ceremony of “escort of the col
ors.” The governor will receive
the review at 1:25 p.m.
Following an inspection of the
corps, a ceremony for "presenta
tion of commissions and awards”
will be ca,rried out. The governor
will make an address, at the con
clusion of which the corps of ca
dets will pass in review. About
850 R.O.T.C. students will be in
the ranks.
Three awarding ceremonies
will take place during the re
view. Five members of the Ore
gon ROTC rifle team will be
awarded the William Randolph’s
Hearst national intercollegiate
* rifle contest trophy and individ
ual medals by Chancellor Hunter.
Members of the graduating class
will be presented with lieuten
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Schrick, Biggs
Appoint 1942
EmeraldStaff
Appointment of editorial and
business staff members for next
year's Emerald were announced
at a banquet Monday night by
Kay Schrick, 1942-43 editor, and
Betty Jane Biggs, business man ■
ager.
New editorial staff members
are Herb Penny, managing editor;
Ted Bush, John Mathews, and
Duncan Wimpress, associate ed
itors; Jack Billings, news editor,
Joanne Dolph and Marjorie Young,
assistant news editors; Janet Wag
staff, assistant editor; Corrino
Nelson, literary editor; Mildred
Wilson, feature editor; Joanne
Nichols, librarian and .special as
signment reporter; Hoy Nelson,
cartoonist; Don Jones and Herb
Ezell, photographers; Lee Flat
berg, sports editor; and Fred
Treadgold and Erling Erlandson,
assistant sports editors.
Members of the editorial board
will be Schrick, Wesley Sullivan,
Betty Jane Biggs, Bush, Mathews,
Wimpress, Billings, Janet Wag
staff, and Joanne Nichols.
Women's page editor is Marjorie
Major; assistant women's editors,
Betty Ann Stevens and Barbara
Lamb; desk editors, Bush, Math
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Emerald Captures All-American
For the fifth consecutive year,
the Oregon Daily Emerald was
awarded a rating of All-Amer
ican by the. National Scholastic
Press association, it was an
nounced Monday evening at the
Emerald banquet. The rating was
based on news values and sources,
news writing, headlines and ty
pography, and special depart
ments.
All-American is an award giv
en tc seven of the top student
daily publications in the nation
this year. The Emerald was the
only college daily in the north
west to receive such a rating, ac
cording to the national board of
judges for college newspapers.
Editor Helen Angell and Man
aging Editor Ray Schrick headed
the publication which won this
rating for the fifth time. The
honor was first held here in
1937-38 when LeRoy Mattingly
won the distinction of being Pace
Maker.
Editor in 1938-39, when the
Emerald won All-American for
the second time, was Paul
Deutschmann. Bud Jermain in.
1939-40, and Lyle Nelson in 1940
41, also edited an All-American
Emerald.
Specific comments by th'
judges on the work in the Em
erald follow: ‘‘Crisp, straightfor
* ward news handling," ‘‘Editori
als are very well done - there is
an excellent variety of topics,”
“Uniformly high degree of life in
paper.”
Oregon Students Slap Japs by Proxy
Two Fliers
Help in Raid
Two University of Oregon
men were with the group that
came out of the sky April 18 to
shower Tokyo with bombs.
Lieutenant Robert S. Clever
and Lieutenant Robert G. Em
mens were the University men
wh^ participated in the attack.
Each has been awarded the dis
tinguished service cross.
The attack was the first in
the current war on the capital of
the Japanese empire. Brig. Gen.
James H. Doolittle led his 79 men
in the raid from a base which is
still a military secret.
The men who participated in
the attack had been stationed at
tb? Pendleton air base until re
cently, and, while on his way
there, Lieutenant Clever stopped
off at the University to visit for
two days.
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Swan Song
Finals are a funny time
When against the nature of the
rlime,
People reuse from out their slum
bers
And study in enormous numbers,
And thwarted Tennyson’s like me
A'quit a'writing poetry.
—J.W.S.
LIEUTENANTS ROBERT G. EMMENS AND ROBERT S. C LEVER . . .
. . . are two Oregon men who dropped bombs with Jimmy Doolittle over Japan on an air mission April 18.
— O-srtto J>v.ge»ie Register-Cnard