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u OF 0 LI I CAMPUS PC Y Coed of Week Mary Louise Vincent— e Page 7 Webfoots Prepare For Trojan Battle— See Page 4 VOLUME XLIV UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1942 NUMBER 36 THE CAST FOR “WAT JH ON THE RHINE . . . . . . University production which opens tonight at the University theater . . . left to right, sitting, are •Jim Bronson, Vivian McNamee, Bobby Jbe Quigley, Bob Farrow, Maxine McNeil, Gordon Cochran, and Beverly Beals; standing, Pres Phipps, Han WesslJr, Kay Richards, Louise Rossman, and Marjory Quigley. Cast Defies Superstition; IRhine’ Opens Friday 13 By ROSS YATES The night of Friday the thirteenth, a black date for the superstitious, will tomorrow see the first performance at the University of “Watch on the Rhine”—fittingly so, according to the cast, for this work by Lillian Heilman contains all the drama needed for a sensational performance. The play will ■open in the University theater in _.__ Johnson hall at 8 p.m. Business Manager Keith Hop pes says, “Take your date to din ner before the show, come to the opening dressed! as you are for your house dance, and then ret turn home for dancing.” The pro duction will be over by 10 p.m. Cast Prepares In the meantime the cast pre pares for Friday the thirteenth, ^e murder scene is gruesome, the villain a terror. Horace Rob inson says he doesn’t know about the property people; one girl soldered a picture to the wall. Determined to have the produc tion come off perfectly, the cast walks around on ladders. Members throw themselves into the performance completely. They even come off the stage in the last act with tears in their eyes. Rally, Da nee Set For USC Game Students of the University may ^ar the UO-USC game broad cast Saturday from 1:30 to 4:30 in the main gym of Gerlinger hall. At the same time there will be dancing. The rally squad, spon sor of the affair, has announced that at the half time there will be a prize dance, with defense stamps as prizes. “This rally dance takes the place of the rally this week, and we expect to see a lot of that old rally spirit shown out there Saturday,” said Clint Paine, chairman of the raily squad. This is the second rally dance scored by the squad this year. The broadcast-dance is open to Al students on the campus. The squad hopes that more girls will be there this time than last. The dance is a no-date affair. There will be a charge of ten cents per person. AWS Petition Deadline Set for Saturday Petitions for chairmanship of the AWS auction of lost and found articles, to be held No vember 24, are due Saturday noon. They may be handed in either at the Kappa Alpha The ta house, or AWS offices in the Igloo. Ode to Millrace Millracings are out for duration, they say, And we don’t have a fete on the millrace this spring. The one thing I can’t figure out to this day Is why did they bother to fix the darn thing. —J.W.S. Writers Face Contest Finish Midnight tonight is the dead line for the literary contest, spon sored by the Emerald and the Co-op store. Any stories or poems turned in after that date will not be eligible for a prize. Entries may be turned in to Carol Greening, literary editor, .at the Emerald, up to that time. Prizes Total $5 The prizes for this contest are $5 worth of books from the Co-op store for the best poem and a similar prize for the best short story. Winners will be announced and prizes awarded before the end of the term. Originality llcquired Work by any University under graduate- is eligible for the con test provided that it is original and unpublished prior to October 1, 1942. As many,stories and poems as possible will be printed on the literary page, but every entry will be turned in to Judges W. F. G. Thacher and Alice Henson Ernst. Both winning entries will be published or republished on the literary page of the Emerald. Picking Contest Leads Sixty Students ’Back to the Farm’ Sixty students from the University of Oregon will head back to the farm Saturday to help beet and carrot farmers of the Willamette valley harvest crops. The volunteer farm workers will meet in front of Gerlinger hall at 8 a.m. with their lunches. Transportation will be furnished to the farms. The agricultural aid commit tee announced that this is to be the first organized harvesting party. Members of Delta Delta Delta, Delta Gamma, and Delta Tau Delta will compete in pick ing beets while the Pi Kaps will work alone harvesting carrots. Earnings Listed The earnings of each house with those of houses who have worked previously will be listed in the Emerald; the SAEs are still leading the field with a total of $85 earned in picking walnuts. In spite of weather conditions (Please turn to page three) OSC Game Tickets Students exchange tickets for the Oregon State game are now available at the athletic ticket omce in the Igioo. i'rice is $1.10 with athletic cards. ASUO Nominations It was announced Thursday that the date for ASUO nomina tions will be opened April 22. Elections for ASUO offices are slated for April 29.. Co-op Mail Station? Students Vote Yes By RAY SCHRICK If a postoffice mailing station were set up in the Co-op store, would you be willing to give up part of all of your dividends to defray the costs? 96 2-3% YES. 3 1-3% NO. If a student-managed station were set up at the Co-op to take in laundry bags and parcel post mail from 3 to 5 each afternoon, would you be willing to pay an approximate five cents-a-package service charge? 100%. YES. 0%. NO. Oregon students overwhelmingly favor some type of post office station in the Co-op store even if the cost means loss of Freshman Fools Coeds; Sees fCapers' Oiii'e mail capered with the seven hundred girls in Gerlinger last night. Paul McFaddin, freshman in liberal arts, deserted his fellow men, donned a "brown gown with a hip slip" and turned female for a night. Two weeks ago, a bull session in Sigma hall germinated the idea of sending a male delegate to Coed Capers. Action was started when several hall members pro cured a wig in Portland. McFad din (let’s call him Pauline) bor rowed a skirt, coat, blouse, shoes, pair of silk stockings and other feminine unmentionables from fe male friends. Six Lessons Pauline then took six lessons in lipstickery and other female black arts, cultivated a falsetto voice and a hip-swinging walk, and also attained ether feminine characteristics. Wednesday evening, Paul—er •—Pauline met several girls, vis ited the Side and was introduced to numerous people, smiled at a taxi driver and went down town free in a taxi, and attended a show—all unrecognized. Two gul lible soldiers even attempted a pick-up on the way out. (Please turn to payc jour) GATE CRASHER . . . . . . Paul McFaddin, who last night performed the almost im possible and sat through the first half of famed “Coed Capers” be fore being detected and forcibly ejected . . . Paul appears here as “Pauline” in his costume and then as he looks ordinarily. part or full dividends or a fivc ccnt service charge per package, according to a cross-section poll made by the Emerald last night. Unanimous The 30 students interviewed (13 women, 17 men) voted unani mously yes that they would fa vor' a. student-managed station, with a five cent service charge per package. They voted 29 to 1 “yes” in favor of a regular postoffice sta tion even if it meant using part. or all of student dividends ordi narily returned at end of the year. One “No” The one "no" vote was from a ,student who didn’t mail his laun dry home. Several others sai l they did not mail their laundry home, but would not object if dividends were taken to set up the station. Typical comment made by one student was, "Yes, I’d pay five cents, if it would save the walk overtown.” The poll was based on an ac curate percent of University en (Please turn to page three)