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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 16, 1942)
VOLUME XLIV NUMBER 17 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1942 Homecoming ToHonorMen In Services By ROBERTA BOYD University men who have joined the armed forces will re formal recognition in the latest Homecoming contest, it was announced Thursday by Pat Cloud, chairman. The contest starts today and Is open to every men’s living or ganization on the campus. Each house entering the contest will trace back as far as possible and compile a list of all their alums who are now in some branch of the armed services. Prize “To the victor,” the house with the greatest number of alums in the services, will go “the spoils,” this time in the form of a service flag with the number of stars corresponding to the number of men the winning house has in the ■service. The flag will be awarded on I^lay night of the Homecoming weekend at the proposed McAr thur court rally. Reserves Honor At this rally, in honor of these alums, the various campus re serves, including the marines, army, navy (V-l, V-5, V-7), air corps, and ROTC, will be assigned separate seats and from these will sing their respective martial hymns. The names of the alums are to be compiled by November 2, and will be checked at the alumni of fice. These lists should include the alum’s name, rank (if pos sible), and class. Exec Comm Vacancy Open Position of sophomore repre sentative on the executive com mittee is open and petitions for the position will be accepted by the committee until noon Satur day, October 17, according to Les Anderson, ASUO president. The vacancy was created when Harold Locke, elected last spring, quit school this term. Petitions Sophomores interested should turn in their petitions to Carolyn Holmes, secretary of the commit tee. Applicants will be interviewed at 4 o'clock n^xt Monday afternoon in the ASUO office in McArthur £ urt. Further notice of the inter views will be given the applicants, according to Anderson. Eligibility Sophomores petitioning should have a certificate of eligibility for activities from the dean’s office. Locke was the executive com mittee representative to the edu cational activities board. In his absence some other member of the committee will be appointed at the next meeting. Homecoming Slogans Because of the recent tire short age et al, paused in the main by the war again, An apropos slogan for Homecom ing is, ‘‘Retread your way to Oregon.” —J.W.S. Activity Men Ineligible Stiffened eligibility rules adop ted by the scholarship commit tee for participation in extra curricular activities have made ineligible for office, Earle Rus sell, yell king; Ted Bush, asso ciate editor of the Emerald; and Sprague Carter, senior football manager. The new rules adopted by both the scholarship committee and the ASUO executive committee raise the required GPA of activ ity participators to a cumulative of 2.00 with the preceding term’s GPA at least a 2.00. Old Rules In the past the required GPA cumulative required for activity participation was 1.75 with the preceding term’s grade not below 1.50 for lower division students. Requirements for upper division students stood at a 2.00 cumula tive and not less than 1.75 for the preceding term. The new rules of the scholar ship committee were adopted August 31 and further amended this week. With the exception of the two clauses added in paren thesis to rules two and three these rules were adopted last spring by the ASUO executive committee. Additions The additions in parenthesis were added by the scholarship committee but are not part of the rules adopted by the execu tive committee. The rules of the scholarship (Please turn to page three) Sure Advice Scrap All Day There’s really only one way to thoroughly enjoy yourself at the noise parade. Saturday morning, crawl out of the wrong side of the bed and start the day horribly. After find ing a hard blunt instrument, re move your shoe and kick it with a swift, crunching movement. Then brush your teeth with a good depilatory but only after adjusting the cabinet door to a suitable range for the upward motion of your head. Other suggestions include dash ing to' an eight o'clock that isn’t, returning too late for breakfast, dropping your books in the mud, and flipping on your face in the FeeGee lot. Then steam down to the parade ■—grab a hammer and let go! You can’t lose . Dorm Social Council Sponsors ’Stag Tag’ All students living in dorms are invited to attend the "Stag Tag" tonight from 8 to 11 in the men's dormitory, according o Stan Ha ger, dance chairman. Sponsored by the inter-dormi tory social council, this is the first all-dorm dance of the year. Since music will be furnished- by records, campus clothes are in order. ALPHA TAU OMEGA TEAMS UP WITH PI BETA PHI . . . . . . and starts their scrap collecting-. Shown here are some of the members of each organization with two cars ready to be scrapped. Determined Coeds Arm, Slate Maleless Capers By BETTY ANN STEVENS To “shoo” unwelcome males away from the sacred pre cincts of Gerlinger the night of November 12, senior “cops,” i.e.—16 determined female members of the senior class, will guard all entrances to the strictly male-less Coed Capers. Garbed in borrowed, strayed, or stolen Order of the "Q” regalia, the following newly-appointed girls will police the dii-^aiiipuo cvciiL. Carolyn Smith, Mary - Ellen Smith, Marge Dibble, Nancy Riesch, Corrine Nelson, “Goldie" Puziss, Abbie Jane White, Nelda Christenson, Marilyn Marshall, Jean Smith, Connie Averill, Floz ence Cooley, Barbara Hampson, Mary Anderson, Betty Biggs Schrick, and Mildred Wilson. “Women in War Work" is the tentative theme of the Capers, according to Janet Ross, chair man. Complete details will be an nounced later. Prizes will be awarded to the living organization appearing in the most outstanding costumes. Last year Hendricks hall re ceived the first prize. Awards will also be given for the class pre senting the best skit, a contest which the sophomores won last year. Bookstores Feature Displayed at the Co-op store this week is a novel by Sally El liott Allen, wife of Dean Erie W. Allen of the University school of journalism. Published by Liveright company, the story concerns the affairs of a cultured cabinet maker who has a home ly philosophy and a conventional wife. Sketched in the story are de scriptions of Mexico where Mrs. Allen has traveled. The author has long been active in Eugene's Very Little Theatre, and has also headed Mortar Board, Pot and Quill, and Matrix Table at the University. Sleepy Duck Gets Shuteye Night might be the ideal time to sleep—when it's dark, and there aren't any bright lights to bother you, but who won't wel come a few minutes of “shuteye" in the daytime—if he can find a suitable spot? Some brilliant Oregon student seems to be making the best of the situation, and c^en seems to have the solution to Old Sol’s disturbing rays. He merely set tles down in the reference room of the library, dons a pair of dark glasses—and he's off to slumberland!!!! Battleship Oregon To Enter Scrap The battleship Oregon, which public school students of Oregon once saved from the junk pile lost its fight for life Tuesday, when the navy officially requested that it be turned into scrap. Plans are now being made to hand the 50-year-old Spanish war relic over to Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox in Portland on December 7, the first anniversary of Pearl Harbor. The old vessel will yield approximately 10.000 tons of metal—one-tenth of Ore gon’s quota in the nationwide drive. Copper, Iron, Noise Parade Due Saturday With only one day left to ‘‘get in the scrap'’ until the deadline Saturday at 10:30 a.m. Eugene's dump grounds might well ho raided along with houses’ old scrap cans, pails, lawn mowers, trophies, and even fraternity and hobby pins. Judges for the noise parado will be Virgil D. Earl, dean of men, Miss Janet Smith, employ ment secretary, and Warren. Price, assistant professor of journalism. Noise and Scrap They will decide which pair of houses makes the most noise and contributes the most scrap. Prizes for the affair are two $25 defense bonds, each awarded to the winning men's and wom en's house. Attach Signs "Each house should see that it. has its own sign attached to its own junk during- the parade,” re minded Kay Schrick, co-chair man of the campus scrap drive. The University band will also march in the parade which starts at 10:30 a.m., and will form on Fifth street near the Oregon Electric depot continuing up Wil lamette, turning left on Thir teenth and over to Pearl street where all scrap will be dumped. Scrap Parade Rules Outlined What to use in the scrap iron noise parade: 1. One motor - driven truck ; or car. 3. As many non-motor driv en wagons, bicycles, carts, or ; trailers as can be lined lip. Buies for the noise parade: ' 1. All noise must be “hand , generated.’’ 3. All scrap used to create noise must be. thrown onto the scrap pile at Thirteenth andl “ Pearl following the parade. 3. Judging will be based 50 ‘ per cent on noise, and 50 per , cent on scrap volume turned in. 4. Violators to rules one and two will be disqualified. , UO Grad Assists In Prison Camp Mrs. Marjorie Murdock Hoo ver. a University of Oregon grad uate in 1938, is one of the staff members helping to administer the American prison camp in Japanese-held Manila, according to word1 received by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Murdock of Booth. First news of her safety was brought by Jennifer White, AP correspondent, who returned on the Gripsholm. She went to tho Philippines in 1941, and there married William S. Hoover. Ah the time of the occupation of tho islands, Mrs. Hoover was em ployed by Francis B. Sayre, high, commissioner of the Philippines. Mrs: Hoover is a member of Alpha Phi and of Phi Beta Kap pa, national scholastic society. •
