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VOLUME XLIV
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1942
NUMBER 5
(Courtesy of the Oregon Journal)
THIS SORT OF THING . . .
. . . has been eliminated in the sororities oil the e impus with the influx of student labor, but the
dorms are still in need of workers . . . Alpha Chi O’s Margaret Reyburn, Ityttie Horn, Jean Pim
entel, and Marilyn Campbell are shown making up for the recent lack of liouseboys.
UO Help Shortage Bothers
Director of Dormitories
Despite drafts, jobs, and the many diversions war has
fought, Oregon students came back to school this year in
large numbers—if you don’t believe it just ask Mrs. Genevieve
Turnipseed, director of dormitories.
Just to start things off, more students came to Eugene for
rush week than ever before and Mrs. Turnipseed had to look
luumo uuloiuc Lilt: uunmiuntJs
after all space was filled there
to have enough beds for rushees.
About 35 per cent vacancies
were expected. Approximately 95
fewer boys and 38 fewer girls
than last spring was the number
she expected to check into the
dorms this fall. But registration
Ghanged the picture—the dorms
are now all' filled and students
had to be turned away.
Finding students to work in
the dorms presented Mrs. Tur
nipseed with another problem. In
the midst of the unexpected
^number of dorm residents she
.d to send out an SOS to the
campus employment office.
Shipyard Money
In the face of a labor short
age Mrs. Turnipseed rolled up
her sleeves and really went to
work herself, planning meals,
cooking, and serving—and not
getting through until 10 or 11 at
night.
Heavy schedules filled with the
courses needed for the reserve
programs plus the jingle of extra
money from summer work has
greatly cut the number of stu
dents wanting work, but as reg
istration rolls on the problem
>eeems to be working itself out.
• Girls Volunteer
Girls from the dorms have vol
unteered to serve the tables not
so much from a need of the pay,
but as a convenience to the oth
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Once Is Good
Twice Better
It was half time at the Oregon
Navy game. Score 7 to 7. Feeling
was running high. Oregon stu
dents were crazed by the uncer
tainty and suspense. A large
group of men were marching out
on the field.
To Art Wiggin, Sigma Chi, it
looked like an Oregon rally. Art,
being a lcyal son of Oregon, felt
that it was time for all good men
to come to the aid of their school.
He marched out with the group.
Along with the rest he was in
ducted into the U.S. navy. It had
so happened that the rest of the
men had marched out on the field
for that purpose. The irony of it
all is that Art has already been
sworn into the Navy reserve in
V-7.
Courses Added
The following course has been
added to the schedule of classes
since the last faculty bulletin:
Scandinavian literature, life and
culture; three to four hours; GL
451, 452, 453; time to be ar
ranged 202 Friendly; Williams.
Emerald Aspirants
Hold Meeting Tonight
Ail persons interested in
working on either the Emer
ald news or sports staff should
be at the Emerald meeting to
night in 105 journalism build
ing. The meeting will begin at
7:30 and will feature short
talks by Ray Schric.k, Emerald
editor, G. Duncan Wimpress,
managing editor, Ted Bush, as
sociate editor, Jack Billings,
news editor, and Professor
George Turnbull of the jour
nalism school.
Emerald applications will be
taken at the meeting and as
signments given out on the ba
sis of these reports.
Associate Editor
Called to Colors
John J. Mathews, Emerald as
sociate editor, received his induc
tion papers Monday morning from
his local board in San Francisco.
He will fly south on Wednesday.
Ray Schrick, Emerald editor,
announced Monday the appoint
ment cf Carol Greening, junior in
journalism, to literary editor re
placing Mrs. Lyle Nelson. Schrick
also announced the editorial
board appointments for the first
time.
They include Schrick, Mrs.
Schrick, who is also business
manager, G. Duncan Wimpress,
managing editor, Jack Billings,
news editor, Ted Bush, associate
editor, Janet Wagstaff, assistant
editor, Lee Flatberg, sports edi
tor, J. Wesley Sullivan, Oregana
editor, and Joanne Nichols, junior
in journalism.
Four Sophomore, Junior
Rally Positions Vacated
Buy Bonds!
We see just scads of lovely ads.
“Buy War Bonds’ they are cry
ing.
That epithet will be the bet
That sets the Axis flying.
If all the guys that advertise
Will also do the buying.
-- J.W.S.
Enrollment
Hits 2400;
Annuals Sell
With late registration contin
uing to increase the number sub
stantially, enrollment reached the
2400 mark Monday, according to
Clifford Constance, assistant reg
istrar.
This number still trails last
year by 21 per cent, but late reg
istration shows signs of improv
ing the situation.
"We have every reason to be
lieve late registration Tuesday
and Wednesday will bring the
percentage drop to a much lower
figure,” Constance said last night.
Oreganas Selling
Oregana sales were continuing
at a high rate and business man
ager Jeff Kitchen said the high
est percentage ever sold had been
signed for.
Students still wishing to buy a
year book may buy them at the
registration desk on the second
floor of Johnson hall. Kitchen
stressed the importance of stu
dents buying their books now as
the budget determining the num
ber of books to be printed will be
made out early next week.
Price Increase Seen
"It will be to everyone’s ad
vantage if all orders for the Ote
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Four vacancies on the rally
squad resulting from the failure
of members to return to school
will open spots on the squad for
three freshmen and one junior.
Petitions for the positions must
be filed with the educational ac
tivities office with Carolyn
Holmes by 5 p.m. Friday, accord
ing to Les Anderson, student,
body president.
Petitions for homecoming? •
chairman must also be filed at.
that time. Homecoming- will take
place on the weekend of Novem
ber 7, at the time of the UCLA:
game.
Former members of the rally
squad who did not return thj
year were Jane Williams, Judy
Eccles, Barbara Hannum, all
sophomores, and Neva Haight, .n
junior.
Records Won
By Four Groups
Four winners in the contest for
the first organizations to be hun
dred per cent purchasers of ASUO
athletic cards have been an
nounced by Og Young, chairman
of the card sale.
Sigma Alpha Mu, Chi Psi lodge.
Delta Gamma, and Kappa Alpha.
Theta are the winners of $H>
worth of phonograph record-;
each. One more fraternity, onr
sorority, and three independent
organizations can still win
worth of records by going ICO
per cent on the card sale.
Winners
Winners of the contest to sell
the most cards at registration
are Earle Russell and John But:
terud. Each will receive $5 in
trade at the College Side.
Approximately 1900 cards hav ->
'already been sold. “This is tho
highest percentage of cards sold
during registration in the last
five years,” Young reports.
Oregon’s Jack Bellinger
Safe After Jap Torture
The feelings of a curious tour
ist caught looking into the crater
of a volcano at the moment of its
eruption must have occurred to
Jasper (Jack) N. Bellinger, ’34,
on the infamous night of Decem
ber 7, 1941. It was his lot to be
two days out from Tokyo, on a
Japanese ship, the Tatutu Maru,
when Pearl Harbor exploded and
echoed around the world.
Back to Yokohama went Bel
linger to be booked as an Amer
ican spy and imprisoned by the
Japanese prosecutor. After six
months of solitary confinement,
a barley and rice diet, and third
degree methods, used by the Jap
anese to obtain a confession, Bel
linger returned to the United
States late in August on the dip
lomatic exchange ship, Grisholm,
with U. S. Ambassador Grew and
his party.
Oregana, Emerald
The circumstances leading up
to his internment read like fic
tion.' He was graduated from the
University in 1934 with a B.A.
in journalism. While on the cam
pus he was associate editor cf
the Oregana, news editor and a
member of the editorial board oi’
the Emerald, and member of Sig
ma Delta Chi, men’s professional
journalism honorary. In 1932 ho
applied for the editorship of tha
Emerald but was nosed out by,
Richard L. Neuberger, ’33.
During the year he was on tho
editorial board of the Emerald,
Yosuke Matsuoka, graduate
of the University law school, re
visited the campus to give hi:*
only speech while in the United
States after representing Japan,
at Geneva in 1932. Matsuoka’:*
speech, explaining why Japan
had withdrawn from the Leaguo
of Nation's, was wired all over
the world and was a big event
for the University.
Matsuoka Interviewed
As fate would have it, it wan
Jack Bellinger’s job to interview
the sneaky gent from the Orient.
At that time Matsuoka was not
foreign minister, but a member of
the Imperial Diet and a big1
enough figure to warrant a major
splash in the newspapers.
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