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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 23, 1943)
Ducks Win Over Cougars, 6 to 2 —See Page 4 VOLUME XLIV MERALD UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE. FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1943 Conclusions . . . Of the Editor —See page 2 NUMBER 115 •NewASUO Constitution Ready forPolls ._ — see page 7 Picnic Plans Now Finished Eat all you want, but you’ll have to bring your own food to the mothers' day picnic Saturday noon, May 1, on the grounds of the old campus in front of Friend ly hall. No admission will be charged for the luncheon. All students are invited to bring fathers and moth ers. Lunches should be packed ^miply, avoiding excess contain W It has been suggested that students go together in bringing beverages, such as milk in large five gallon containers. The possi bility of securing a coke machine is being considered. Coronation The main feature of the lunch eon and the program following will be the coronation of Mary Bentley, Junior week-end queen. Pledges of Friars, senior men’s honorary; mortar board, senior women’s honorary; and Asklepi ads, medical honorary, will also be tapped at this time. Mothers Honored Mothers will -also be honored Saturday afternoon at a tea in alumni hall of Gerlinger hall sponsored by AWS, YWCA, and Eugene Mothers’ club. Registra tn for all mothers will be held im 1 to 5 p.m. Friday, April 30 on the first floor of Johnson hall and on Saturday, May 1 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Clarence Horton, general chair man for Mothers’ weekend, is as sisted by Bud Putnam, Betty Bevil, Dorothy Routt, Bob Hen derson, Edith Newton, Julian Gadbee, Mary Bentley, and Betty Lu Siegman. —Photo bv Betty SIGMA DELTA CHI OFFICERS . i . Biggs Sehrick . . . take over back shop duties and work at the press. Treasurer Mark Howard, President Ted Goodwin, and Vice President Stan Weber are shown here. Fund Collects Co-opTickets Co-op receipts for the service scholarship fund will be picked up soon, Oge Young, general chairman, announced. Young did not state a definite date but announced that Skull and Dagger and Kwama will vis it the various living organizations in the very near future. Last fall boxes were placed in each house for students to de posit their receipts in. Many of the boxes are nearly full but the committee urges that a special effort be made to raise a large total. Money from the receipts will (Please turn to page six) Superstitious Eileen Bids Woe Before First Night “Hope you fall down and break your neck,” said Nelda Rohr back, who is playing in tonight’s first-night production of “My ^ster Eileen.” She laughingly explained that it is a long standing superstition with the University theater .that this phrase be uttered just before the first entrance, to insure a good performance ior the run. Nelda, portraying “whistle girl” Eileen in the last produc tion of the year, remarked, “I saw the show with Janet Blair as the lead, three times . . . but that wms before I had the part. I just happened to like it.” Only Once Said Dorothy Weygandt, who is playing the Rosalind Russell part of Ruth Sherwood, “I saw it just cnce, from the first row.” Nelda twinklingly retorted, "So ^u have a queer slant on it.” ^Dorothy shrugged, and passed on to. “You know the dialogue is quite a bit like the stage play.” Risque ? “You mean, risque?” Nelda flashed back. “It’s quite superior, according to Horace B. Robinson, technical director, because we have six milk bottles in one act, instead of four.” Almost “living our parts,” Nel da told of going to a gym class and answering to “Eileen." and Dorothy is also troubled when she responds to “Ruth.” A dress rehearsal mishap re lated by Nelda was one in which she started to open the door "and the door knob came off and flew across the stage.” Last for Duration The play, showing four nights. April 23, 24, 27, and 28, is prob ably the last in which men will appear for the duration, including the six Sigma Chis. (Please turn to page eight) Contest Beckons All Bookworms “Find out what's between your bookends and get in the running in the student library contest,’’ say officials of the contest now in progress on the campus, spon sored by the Association of Pa trons and Friends of the Univer sity library and' the University Co-op. Prizes offered are: $15, $10, and a copy of Webster’s Dictionary of Synonyms. Winning libraries will be displayed at the Co-op following the contest. Entry Blanks Entry blanks may be obtained at the main circulation desk in the library, and all entries must be made at that desk by 6 p.m. Friday, April 30, stating thq name of the contestant, the num ber of books, and general nature of the collection. Each personal library display must be arranged in the space allotted by 10 a.m. Saturday, May 1, and will remain on dis play until 6 p.m. Sunday, May 2. Usefulnuess The libraries will be judged on the usefulness of the collection as a whole to the owner, and its value as a nucleus of an inter esting library for future years. Consideration will be given to well-edited and effectively piint ed books, as well as to rare edi tions and fine bindings, but this will net be a major factor in the decisions. Required text books shall be excluded. Each book must bear a defin ite mark of ownership, but neith er the total number of books nor their money value will be a de termining factor. Prize winners of former years may exhibit libraries, but are in eligible for prize awards. The contest is being run in con nection with Library day which w'ill be held May 1 and 2. Frideger Petition Submitted; Juniors Enter Dark Horses; Judiciary Cancels Write-ins By JACK L. BILLINGS Politicians began to mumble among themselves Thursday morning at the nominating assembly when Jean Frideger was not nominated for an executive council position. Even Les Anderson was astounded when he called for “any other nomi nations, ’ after Oge Young, Martha Jane Switzer, Nancy Ames, and Jean Page had been nominated, and no one rose to nomi Nominations Same As Predicted Exactly the same as published in Wednesday anil Thursday's Emerald, the following; students were nominated at the assembly Thursday morning: Greek Woe—for executive coun cil, Ogc Young, Martha Jane Switzer, Jean Frideger; for sen ior representative, Bill Farrell, Kay Jenkins; for junior represen tative, Jim Mann, Phyllis Horst man; for sophomore representa tive, Bob Mueller, Virgania Wright. Coalition—for executive coun cil, Nancy Ames, Jean Page; for senior representative, Helen Hol den; for junior representative, Audrey Holliday; for sophomore representative, Charlotte Calder. The following students are run ning for class offices: Freshman — Nancy Brownell, Stan Williamson, Barbara Blair, Esther Quier. Sophomore — Art Damschen, Marian Gage, Ruth Van Buskirk, Ted Klehmet. Junior—Barbara Lamb, Doro thy Routt, Bud Putnam, Bill Macy, Sue Sawyer. Both Putnam and Miss Sawyer were nominated by petition after the regular class nominating as semblies. The deadlines for all late petitions are now' past for all classes. Captain Good Wins Medal for Heroism The' Japanese ack-ack that brought down the plane of Don Good, ex-University student, also gave, the young air force captain a "couple of days of rest and re laxation," according to a letter to his parents here. Shot down over the ocean, the flier, who was awarded the silver star with oak leaf cluster for he roic action as a bomber pilot, said that he "went for a swim, and then had a few days cruise in an auxiliary ketch.” While resting, Good got in "some pretty good fishing,” read a book, and just relaxed. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Good, Eugene. After a bout with malaria fe ver during which he was hospit alized, the flier has recently re turned to action again. iia.Lt- 1VJ.1SS r I lueger. «e naa tKT declaration of intention to run and certificate of eligibility before him at the time. It was cleared up soon after. The Greek bloc man who was to have nominated Miss Fridegcr didn’t arrive at the assembly un til after nominations for the top four positions had been closed. Nomination Legal To make everything legal, Miss* Frideger’s supporters immediate ly drew up a petition, got 50 sig natures, and turned it in to the educational activities office with the other necessary papers early in the afternoon. Thus her name will appear on the ballot with the. four other candidates for the first four positions. Politicians will have until mid night tonight to enter dark horse petitions. These must be turned in to Les Anderson or the edu cational activities office with a petition signed by 50 members of the ASUO, a declaration of inten tion to run and a certificate oJ’ eligibility. A peculiar situation has tinn ed up in the battle for senior class president. The juniors had until 5 p.m. Thursday to submit dark horse petitions for senior class president and before the deadline two petitions were turned in - one for Bud Putnam to legalize his nomination from the floor in the junior class nominating as sembly Tuesday, and one for Sue Sawyer, who was originally sched uled to run for this position, but. pulled out at the last minute. Full House This makes five candidates run ning for positions in the senior class for next year: Barbara Lamb and Dorothy Routt for the Coalition Bill Macy, Bud Put nam, and Sue Sawyer for the Greek bloc. Somebody won’t get an office. Write-in candidates for the* ASUO and class ballots were de clared illegal Thursday afternoon "by the judiciary committee, there by freezing a plan by Coalition politicians to write in the name of Mickey Riley for senior class president. This would have made six candidates for the position. Poll Books Prepared Poll books for the ASUO elec tion Tuesday are being typed, ac cording to Richard C. Williams, educational activities manager.' The list will include 1924 names, Williams said last night. Grad (F lease turn to page eight)