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VOLUME XLIV
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1942
NUMBER 21
Tommy Dorsey Contract Nears
For Big Homecoming Weekend
Whisker Band
In Debut Today
George Carey and his 14-piece University orchestra, who
will play at the Sophomore Whiskerino Saturday night, will
be heard for the first time on the campus today at an assembly
at McArthur court, starting at 11 o’clock.
The Whiskerino will mark the first major engagement of
the Carey band and will last
from 9 until 12:15.
Typical Students
Entertainment at Saturday's
affair, the first all-campus dance
0 the year, will consist of pre
sentation of the winner of the
beard-growing contest, and the
selection of the sophomore boy
and girl most typifying Joe Col
lege and Betty Coed.
Contestants from each living
organization for Betty Coed and
Joe College will meet at Ger
linger hall tonight, where a com
mittee will narrow the list down
to four candidates. Men contest
ants are to appear at 7:30 p.m.
and women at 8:15.
Finalist Committee
The committee for selection of
finalists consists of Lyle Nelson,
head of the University News Bu
reau; Dick Williams, educational
activities director; and Ed Walk
er, head of the University ticket
office.
tAll tickets for the Whiskerino
ust be turned in to Phyllis
Horstman at the Delta Gamma
house tonight. Thereafter they
will be on sale at the educational
activities office and at the door
the night of the dance.
P-J- Serpentine
Rallies Friday
Students at the rally Friday
night before Saturday’s Idaho
game hope to decide once and for
all what the best dressed man
wears to bed, according to Clint
Paine, chairman of the rally
squad. He announced Wednesday
that the rally will be a pajama
Serpentine, starting simultan
eously from the Chi Psi and ATO
houses and converging in front
of the Johnson hall steps.
A nightshirt will be awarded
to the owner of the most original
costume along with a special
reward from a girl from the rally
Squad whose name will be drawn.
Possible donors are Betty
Biggs Schrick, Mickey Mitchell,
Roberta Madden, Brimmino
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Sophomore Petitions
Sophomore representative for
the ASl’O executive council pe
4') titions must be filed with Caro
lyn Holmes, second vice-presi
dent of the student body, at
Alpha Chi Omega, before noon
today.
Pep Assembly
To Rock Igloo
To determine which class has
the most “pep appeal,” seating at
the 11 o’clock assembly in the
Igloo today will be according to
classes. Seniors will sit down
stairs in the front, juniors down
stairs in the back, sophomores
upstairs on the right, and fresh
men upstairs on the left. Yell
King Earle Russell, as his last
official act before retirement, will
lead the class cheers, introduce
the candidates for the new yell
king, and deliver his farewell ad
dress.
Senior Class President Ray
Packouz will address the stu
dents, and ASUO President Les
Anderson will present scrap drive
awards to the wanning combina
tion, Gamma Phi Beta and Delta
Tau Delta.
Yell king petitions are to be
handed in to the secretary at
the educational activities office
at McArthur court between 8
and 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Octo
ber 22. Applicants should be
present at the educational ac
tivities office at 10:30 a.tn.,
where they will receive instruc
tions prior to the assembly.
On the musical side, six living
organizations—Gamma Phi, Del
ta Gammas, Pi Phis, Fijis, Sig
ma Nus, and Phi Delts—will sing.
Marvin Brown is to present a ban
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TOMMY DORSEY . . .
. . . who may bring his world-famous band to play the UO Home
coming dance at McArthur court, November 7.
Dr. Kossack Clarifies
Enlisted Reserve Status
Students in the enlisted reserve corps received clarification
of their status with respect to induction in a release received
Wednesday by Dr. Carl F. Kossack, armed force representa
tive on the campus.
The release states in part, “Upon graduation from the in
stitution, students who are enlisted in the Enlisted Reserve
Exit Mr. Rhinesmith
With the newest liquor laws
That prohibit imbibition
I bet that Rhinesmith’s glad
That he’s got a new position.
—J.W.S.
Houses, Hostesses Plan
For Homecoming Rush
By ROBERTA BOYD
Patriotic and pretty are words symbolic of this year’s
Homecoming Hostess, Martha Jane Switzer, who will greet
all visiting alumnae coming to their alma mater for the annual
fete. Assisting Martha Jane as official “hello girls’’ are Caro
lyn Loud, Gaynor Thompson, and Phyllis Horstman.
With the announcement of the official hostess by Patsy
Palmer, hospitality chairman,
came the appointment of Jean
Taylor as sub-chairman of regis
tration.
Committee
The committee in charge of
registration under the direction
of Pat and Jean are Connie Full
mer, Mary Riley, and Arliss
Boone. This committee will con
tact the various women’s living
organizations to elicit the help of
students during Homecoming reg
istration. They will need girls to
register alums, give out identi
fication badges, programs and ar
range housing facilities.
^ Registration
Registration will be Friday,
November 6, from 1 to 8 p.m.,
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corps, ana wno are pnysicany
qualified, will be assigned to ac
tive duty as follows: a. Those
who are members of the ROTC
advanced course and who proper
ly qualify for appointment will
be commissioned in the Officers’
Reserve corps of the army in ac
cordance with faculty regula
tions.
Active Duty
b. “Those who are not active
members of the ROTC advanced
course will be ordered to active
duty and sent to the nearest re
placement training center of the
arm or service of the army for
which they are qualified. Upon
completion of the normal course
of training thereat, and if other
wise qualified and selected, they
will be ordered to proper1 officer
candidate schools. Upon success
ful completion of this latter
course they will be commissioned
as second lieutenants in the army
of the United States.”
Dr .Kossack interpreted this as
meaning that all lower division,
students who enlist in the enlist
ed reserve corps are classified as
“unassigned.” At the completion
of the sophomore year, those who
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Famed Band
Yet Unsigned
Despite Story
By JOHN J. MATHEWS
"Tommy Dorsey will probably
play for the Homecoming dance,”
announced Dick Williams, educa
tional activities manager late last
night. Ending two weeks of con
flicting rumors, Williams’ state
ment was that negotiations are
still under way, and that a final
announcement should be avail
able not later than tomorrow.
Supporting the possibility that
the famed Dorsey band will head
line the dance are placards
placed in local stores by George.
Durgan, advance agent for the
orchestra. Williams emphasized,
however, that no one can possi
bly know the outcome of arrange
ments still in progress.
The dance scheduled for the
second day of the annual Home
coming celebration, will be the
night of November 7, after the
Oregon-UCLA grid clash.
"We will be very lucky to sign
Dorsey,” said' Pat Cloud, Home
coming chairman. The chief value
in securing a name band will bo
in having an attraction big
enough to eliminate the necessity
of expensive and time consuming
decorations.”
The entire weekend has been
so planned as to require a mini
mum of student preparation,
Cloud pointed out. He reminded
that, since these are serious war
times, the University is fortu
nate to have any Homecoming
celebration at all, and said the
committee in charge is deter
mined not to abuse its privilege.
Prep Scribes
Arrive Today
Delegates to the 18th annual
Oregon High School Press asso
ciation conference will invade the
campus tonight, fully prepared'
for a weekend of serious busi
ness crowded in with activities)
and entertainment galore. Ap
proximately 126 representatives
of 49 high school newspapers arc.
expected to be on hand for the
confab.
Highlight of the conference will
be the contest in which awards
will be presented to the out
standing high school news-sheets
of the state. Awards will be given
for the best all-around paper of
the state, the best paper in
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Yell King Petitions Due
The deadline for yell leader
petitions has been extended
from o p.m. Tuesday to 10 a.m.
today. Petitions must be sub
mitted to Les Anderson, stu
dent body president, in the
ASL'O room in McArthur court
or at Delta t'psilon.