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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1942)
University President Leaves For East—Column 3 Noise Parade Tradition Returns To University VOLUME XLIV UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1942 NUMBER 14 NoiseFiesta toBoom Again for Drive Doctor to Tell MS-Brazilian Relationships Students who wonder what’ for eign visitors think of our coun try when they come from South America will have their ques tion answered this morning when Dr. Hernane Tavares de Sa speaks at an all-campus assem bly in McArthur court at 11 o'clock. All 11 o’clock classes will be excused today and will meet at 11 o’clock Thursday. Studies vs. Schools “A Brazilian Discovers the United States’’ is the title of Dr. Tavares’ speech. Dr. Victor P. Morris, faculty chairman of the International Relations commit will introduce Dr. Tavares in the absence of Dr. Donald M. Erb, University president. Dr. Tavares is making a tour Of the United States to study classes and laboratories in schools here, and to lecture on subjecsljp* -concerning Brazilian American relations. His tour is sponsored by the Institute of In ternational Education and West minster college at Pulton, Mis souri. Lectures Scheduled Last night Dr. Tavares spoke at a meeting sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi. At noon today he will address the Eugene Rotary club at a lunch eon at the Osburn hotel. Wednesday the Brazilian will give a lecture under the auspices the University scholarly lec hes committee of the faculty. Dr. Rudolf F. Ernst, chairman of the program committee, will pre side at the meeting in the faculty room of Friendly hall. Tri Delts Slate Freshman Tea Members and pledges of Delta Delta Delta will entertain all freshman girls at a tea today from four to six p.m. Time schedule for organizations is as follows: 4 to 4:30, Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Omicron Pi, and Alpha Phi: 4:30 to 5, Alpha Delta, Chi Omega, Delta Gam ma, Gamma Phi Beta, and Ori (Please turn to page three) Weekend Comment If your friends aren't back from Portland yet Don't get weak and nervous. They’re probably in a restaurant, Still waiting for some service. —J.W.S. Crowd Ban Lifted The army order restricting Crowds of over 5000 on the west coast has now, in effect, been eliminated, according to a state ment by Secretary of War Stim .*• n, made public by Senator Mc Nary of Oregon. The regulation requires official approval of such gatherings, but it has been waived so many times that it is practically void. Courtesy Old Oregon. 1'O‘s TRADITIONAL NOISE PARADE . . . . . . will be held this Saturday. Contrary to the one from a former year shown above, this year's parade will be held without any motor drawn vehieles in accordance with the national war effort. All liv ing organizations are invited to join the parade and to bring their noise-makers and scrap metal. Man-drawn wagons are permissible. Dr. Erb Travels East _. For Alum, NASU Meets (See picture, page 3) Dr. Donald M. Erb, University president, left the cam pus this week and will leave Portland by train today for a three weeks business trip in the East. Dr. Erb will go first to New York for some business ap pointments there and to attend the meeting on October 19 of Oregon alumni living in New York. Dr. Allen Eaton, director Women Picked For Coed Event Heads of committees for Coed Capers have been selected, and are “beginning to get organized,” according to Janet Ross, chair man of the woman’s all-campus event, to be held November 12 at Gerlinger. Committee heads are as fol lows: decorations, Miki Camp bell; finance, Florence Colley; properties, Mary Jane Terry and Mary Riley; cleanup, Bernice Granquist; publicity, Betty Ann Stevens; concessions, Lora Case and Nelda Rohrback; tickets, Jenelyn Gaston and Betty Bevil; heads of houses—costumes, Alva Granquist; patronesses, Martha Jane Switzer and Carol Smith; advertising, Mary Bentley and Kay Jenkins. Girls in individual skits will be selecter later, Oregana Pics Today: Officers and Tri Delts Pictures of class officers for the Oregana will be taken today in the photograph studios in the basement of Johnson hall, J. Wes ley Sullivan, editor, announced. Sophomore officers wTl report at 3 p.m., juniors at 3:30, and seniors at 4 p.m. Class officer pictures will be cancelled in case of rain, Sullivan stressed. Pictures of the Delta Delta Delta house will be taken down town today in the Kennell-Ellis studios. Procedure will be the same as for other houses, and rain will not cancel the pictures. oi the department oi arts ana social works of the Russell Sage Foundation, in charge of the meeting. To Washington On October 20 Dr. Erb will go to Washington, D. C., and on the 22nd, 23rd, and 24th of this month he will attend the annual meeting of the National Asso ciation of State Universities in Chicago. In Louisville, Ky., Dr. Erb will attend the meetings of the As sociation of American Medical Colleges on October 26 and 27. He will return to the campus No vember 2. Mr. Schenk on Trip Harry M. Schenk, assistant professor of journalism, will go as far as Chicago with Dr. Erb. While there he will attend the Newspaper Associations Mana (Please turn io page three) PledgesNote; Flit No More Positively no more stealing of silverware, makeup, and vital parts of electric light systems . . . no more locking up of worthy members on sleeping porches . . . no more smearing of sticky sub stances on important furniture . . . i.e., no more walkouts by women’s living organizations was the edict of heads of houses Mon day afternoon. Housemothers, who also met, heartily supported the measure. Violators of the edict will go before the disciplinary committee, and rushing and pledging priv ileges will be taken away for a year. University All Out for Metal In Last Parade for Duration By BETTY LU SIEGMAN The traditional glory of an Oregon noise parade will re turn to the campus for a one-day stand, the last for the dura tion, Saturday in an all-University drive to raise scrap iron and steel for the nation's fighting forces. Plans for the noise parade received okay of Dean of Men Virgil D. Earl Monday and were announced by Sigma Delta Navy Draws Paul Washke (See picture, page 3) Paul R. Washke, professor of physical education at the Uni versity for the past 13 years, left Monday evening for the Uni versity of Arizona, where he will become a naval lieutenant (s.g.i, upon the completion of an exten sive training course. Working under the Gene Tun ney program of physical fitness, Washke expects to be an admin istrative assistant under some branch of the navy’s physical pro gram* Mrs. Washke did not accom pany him to Tucson but will await the. arrival of more definite plans before she joins her husband. While at the University, Wash ke was organizer and director of the intramural program, and an outstanding figure in national societies of physical education. Faculty Series Opens Season Sigurd Nilsson, bass baritone, will open the faculty scries of recitals tonight at 8:30 in the school of music auditorium. Mr. Nilssen has been a professor of voice at the University since 1940. He is a graduate of the Whit man Conservatory of Music. Featured on the program will be the University string quartet, who will accompany Mr. Nilssen in the song “Vaaren” by Grieg. Quartet arrangements are by Rex Underwood, director of the University orchestra. To begin his. concert Mr. Nils son has chosen a group of 17th century English airs, among which is “I Attempt From Love’s Sickness to Fly," by Purcell. He also since "Si, Tra i Ceppi,” from the opera “Berenice,” by Handel; several songs by Schumann and Hugo Wolf, “Don Juan’s Sere nade,” by Tschaikovsky; a group of Noiwegian folk songs, and sev eral selections by modern com posers. Margaret Steinmetz will accompany Mr. Nilssen at the pi ano. The concert is free to all. 'Hobby' Needs Talent; Asks for Hoopsters All men interested in var sity basketball are requested by Coach Howard “Hobby” Hobson to meet Thursday eve ning at 7:15 in room 101 in the physical education building. There will be a short meeting followed by a basketball mov ing picture. Freshman hoopmen are meeting every afternoon at 4:30 in McArthur court, any new material will be welcomed. Chi, national professional journal istic fraternity, and the Emerald, co-sponsors of the campus drive. Ex-Homecoming Tradition Long a. Homecoming tradition, the noise parade was dropped last year. The spirit of noise will re new under the cry “all out" for scrap iron and scrap steel in the newly opened "home front.” All men’s and women's organ izations will be paired for the Saturday parade, run in coopera tion with a city-wide celebration, and prizes will be awarded to the pairs making the most noise. UO Drive Saturday The regular scrap drive day is Sunday for Eugene-at-large aa well as the University campus,,> but most of the Oregon scrap is, expected to be turned in to a city pile following the Saturday pa rade. Today at noon Kwaina, sophomore women’s service honorary, and Sluill and Dag ger, sophomore men's service honorary, will go around to ev ery living organization on •t he campus to explain about the individual houses’ part in the scrap iron drive. j Motors Not Allowed Representatives of the various living organizations will draw for the house that they will be paired with, at 4 p.m. on Wednesday. Horses, wagons, carts, or any thing else along this line may bo used for transportation, but no motors or motorized vehicles will be allowed. Until last year noise parades had been an annual feature of UO homecoming. ^ Registration Nears 3,000 The second week of late regis tration increased the University population 110 students and brought the total number to 2,925, or 14 per cent below the number enrolled last year during’ fall term, according to figures from the office of Clifford Con stance, assistant registrar. There are 10 more freshmen, on the campus this year than were enrolled in the class of '45 at this time last year. All other classes have shown a decrease with 21 per cent fewer sophomores this year, 28 per cent fewer juniois, and 13 per cent fewer seniors. Men are still outnumbering women at Oregon by moio than 7 per cent, with the males exactly 387 ahead of the girls. Social Events Deadline Set for 5 Wednesday Deadline for the recording of all social events in the office of the dean of women has been set at Wednesday afternoon at 5. This includes house dance* desserts, but not firesides.
