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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1943)
VOLUME XLV NUMBER 4 UNIVERSITY’ OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1943 Army Reclassifies Pre-mets Fall Enrollment Decreases 757 A total of 1377 students registered at McArthur court by Saturday noon, Clifford L. Constance, assistant registrar, said Monday. In comparison with fall term registration for last year this is a 35 per cent drop, as 2134 students had registered by the same time last year. Material was issued to a total of 1513 students in compari son to 2593 students of last year. This is a 42 per cent decrease. Of the 1377 students registered, 1148 are women and 229 are civilian men. There are 666 new students and 711 old students. ^Before registration, Mr. Constance had estimated that there would be approximately 1500 students register and that about 200 of these would be men. Three Houses Arrive at Goal lit Card Drive Sales of athletic cards to date total 829, according to Gerd Hansen, chairman of the drive, with three houses already hav ■g^g-cne 100 per cent. The houses are Kappa Kappa Gamma, Al pha Gamma Delta, and Delta Gamma. 'it was reported Monday that several of the girls’ houses are ring 100 per cent. A follow drive is scheduled for this ek, with representatives in h living organization empow d to make sales and issue cher cards. pointments announced to N^»oy Miss Hansen include Es jer Griffith, in charge of sales to women’s dormitory units mnd IfLlfctn Sparks, in charge of sales to men’s living organizations. Prizes, for the houses to go 100 per cent, are $10 in records >r the first five and $5 in rec rds for the next five, with the ouses allowed to make their wn selection of records. Cards will he good for admit mce to all basketball games, nth some games scheduled for all term, and a full schedule lade for winter term. An esti lated $10 value is received for he $4.40 paid for the ticket, Miss lansen revealed. I3be Begins Fall Schedule Library hours announced for 'all term are: 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., don day through Friday, for the lirculation and reference rooms. )n Saturdays hours will be 8 a.m. o 10 p.m. and on Sunday, 2 p.m. o 10 p.m. The reserve room will « open 8:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Mon ay through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to p.m. Saturday, and 2 p.m. to 10 •m. on Sunday. open shelf reserves will be losed from 12 to 1 p.m. and from p.m. to 7 p.m. Reserve books dll be available 30 minutes be 3re the library closes and will e due at 9 a.m. the following loming. Books taken out Satur ay night, due at 2 p.m. Sunday. An Apology The Associated Students of the University of Oregon wish to apologize to civilian and military students alike for the inefficient manner in which the checkroom was handled at the Hello dance last Saturday night. The system employed was the same that has been used in previous years but apparent ly it will be inadequate under existing circumstances. In at tempting to render a service wc performed a disservice for which we apologize. We wish • to assure you that when check ing service is resumed by this office that it will be organized in such a way as to eliminate the problems presented on Sat urday night. YWCA Announces Year’s Activities The YWCA membership drive will be launched today with the announcement of house membef ship chairmen. The Y program, one of the major activities on the campus, will offer this year its program of forums, teas, as semblies, open house for student soldiers, and a special innovation this year—a new war program. Members of the Flying Speech squadron will visit living organ izations during dinner through out the week to familiarize new students with the Y program and to stimulate membership sales. As a special feature of the week, an all-membership assem bly is planned for Thursday un der the direction of Joan Dolph, membership chairman. A meeting for living organization chairmen is scheduled for Wednesday *at 4 in the bungalow. Due to the housing shake-up, independent women could not be contacted. These chairmen will be announced tomorrow. Other living organization chair men are Arliss Boone, Dorothy Rogers, Nancy Brownell, Bar bara Lamb, Patty Van Hoosear, Betty Ann White, Patricia Dar by, Flora Kibler, Ardis Jensen, Betty Butler, Ann Graham, Gerd Hansen, Barbara McClung, Au drey Holliday. % H&UPiJlAUtudU! <adlAaleAjtte+i! This is your chance to come over to the Emerald shack and get acquainted. Tonight at 7 :30 in room 105 journalism building (upstairs) you can meet the Emerald gang and be interviewed personally for jobs on the editorial, business, city desk, reporting, and night staffs. Assembly Set For Gl’s, Ducks With Donald M. Erb, president of the University, and Nancy Ames, president of the ASUO, presiding, the first all-campus as sembly will be held Friday eve ning at 8:15 in McArthur court. This will be one of the few all campus assemblies of the year which will include the soldiers and students on the campus and the soldiers are being excused from regular Friday night study hall so that they may attend. Half of the program will be presided over by President Erb and will include speeches by Ma jor W. S. Averill, professor of military science and tactics and commandant of University army students. President Erb and Miss Ames. The ASTP band under the direction of John Stehn is sched uled to play. The second half of the program will be presided over by Miss Ames and will include music by the ASTP glee club and swing band. Drama Devotees To Organize Group All men and women interested in the theater are invited to a mass meeting’ Thursday night at 7:30 in Guild hall. Purpose of the meeting is the organization of a theater society which will serve as a nucleus for all production plans. Pre-Meteorology C.O. Promoted to Captain Notice was received here today from the war department of the promotion of First Lieutenant Charles D. Cable, commanding officer of the pre-meteorology detachment, to the rank of cap tain as of September 28. Captain Cable came here with the pre-meteorology students in May, having been commanding officer of a similar group when they were stationed at the Uni versity of Washington. In civil ian life he was a corporation law yer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Staff Members Will Attend Reception Members of the faculty, house mothers, and other members of the University staff will be the guests of President and Mrs. Donald Erb at the annual presi dent’s reception for the faculty Wednesday night. The reception will be held in the alumni room of Gerlinger hall from 9 to 11 p.m. AAFTTCto Complete Work; Take Flight,Scientific Study Army pre-meteorology students training at the University of Oregon were screened and reclassified over the weekend, it was announced here Monday by Captain Charles D. Cable, com manding officer of this detachment. As a result of the reclassification, students here will con tinue their course to its completition, most of them later being given study in other types of advanced scientific and flying Casaba Players Turn Out Early For Hoop Season Although none of last year’! varsity basketball team is back 32 boys signed up for this year'; basketball team at a meeting Monday afternoon, Coach How ard Hobson revealed Monday. Two of these, Bob Hamiltoi and Edgar Allan, are sophomores who have had experience on th< frosh team. The freshmen hac the biggest turnout with 24 rep resentatives. The other students are transfers or students wh< have gone to Oregon but hav< not played on the basketbal team before this year. Coach Hobson stated that thej are planning to have some non conference games during fal term in the latter part of Novem ber and the first part of Decem ber. First practices will begir Thursday at 4 p.m. training, previously tney nave been scheduled to be sent to ad vanced meteorology schools. The move was made here and at other pre-meteorology schools because it has become apparent that too many men are being trained in meteorology work for army needs, Captain Cable said. It does not mean, however, that there will be no further meteor ology training. 1 The need for such officers on or near the date of the completion of the course will dictate as to the number of students in the detachments who will continue in meteorology,”' Captain Cable 1 said. Officers here to screen and re i classify *the students were Cap tains F. P. Dunn and A. M. i Doane of the army air force* i training command headquarters at Fort Worth, Texas. New Order The war has brought many changes, We’ll get used to them some day, I guess, But right now my history class Looks like a meeting of AWS. —W.R.L. Campus Housing Eased After First Hectic Week Affairs are getting back to normal for incoming students after a weekend of scrambling for a place to stay. During reg istration the housing committee worked overtime finding ac commodations for students, Mrs. Alice Macduff, housing sec retary, reported. The shortage of rooming space was attributed to the large number of women arriving on the campus without previous Fall Lecture Program To Feature Scholars The University of Oregon may be given the opportunity to hear some .of the outstanding scholars of the nation if the committee in charge of arranging the annual faculty lecture series realizes its ambitions, according to Dr. R. H. Ernst, committee chairman. “While we are unable as yet to release any definite informa tion, we have high hopes of pre senting the students with an ex ceptionally brilliant program,” Dr. Ernst declared. "The pur pose of these lectures is to pro vide both students and faculty with a chance to listen to the foremost scholars of the Univer sity faculty and of the whole country. As a sample, our first speaker will be Dr. Frederick M. Combellack, who has just re turned to the campus after a year’s research at Harvard on a Guggenheim fellowship. Dr. Com bellack will lecture upon certain aspects of Homer which he stud ied in his work.” The committee members in clude Drs. L. P. Artau, F. H. Black, H. R. Crosland, and L. S. Cressman of the University fac ulty, and Russell U. Moore, prin cipal of University high school. Names of the various speakers, as well as the dates of the lec tures will be announced later. nousing reservations, witn civii ion men in the minority on the campus, accommodations for for them were made with less difficulty. Registration figures show a greater number of women students than had been antici pated, a contributing factor to the temporary housing shortage. Six girls made their beds on a dormitory floor one night when all other space was taken. Last week four additional fra ternity houses were taken over as women’s <Jormitories, making eight dormitories in addition to 14 sorority houses, three co-ops and an annex now in operation. Men are occupying two fraternity halls and a co-op. Army trainees are being housed in three dormi tories, and three fraternities. An other fraternity house is being reserved for junior ROTC offi cers whose return is expected in about a month. By Monday evening the situa tion was reversed and a small waiting list of rooms was on Mrs. Macduff’s desk. She ex pressed confidence that housing difficulties are over and added that all students have now been taken care of. War Board Meets The campus war board will meet at 4 p.m. today In Nancy Ames’ office in McArthur court. Jean Frideger, head of the hoard asked that all members elected spring term last year be present.