VOLUME XLV NUMBER 37
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1943
UO LOOKS TO POSTWAR
Progress Of
Union Drive
In Review
For 20 years the Student Union
movement on the Oregon campus
has been rising and falling like
an econ graph in social science
books.
1923 March 8—The project
was started by the senior class
when each member pledged $10
for ten years. This action was
proposed by John MacGregor,
chairman of the class memorial
committee and ASUO president
for 1922-23.
March 13—Delta Gamma led
with a $1,000 gift to be given to
the fund. Twelve other organi
gations each contributed $1,000.
y’ **—Susan Campbell and
To-ndricks hall took out savings
policies for the fund at $1,500
each.
November 28—Kappa Sigma
brought their total to $2,000.
1924 April 23-26—First big *
campus drive in which students
collected pledges amounting to
$219,087. When news came that
the drive had gone over the top, s
Resident Prince L. Campbell
sent his “heartiest congratula
tions and expressions of deepest
gratitude personally, and from
the regents and faculty.”
“Be assured of the earnest eo- |
operation of the regents and ad- |
ministration in hastening the ac
tual erection of the Student Un- 1
(' 'at the earliest possible
J> at,” he said.
mo
2925 APr’l 4—A new drive g
began and $67,500 was collected
in three days. These sums were j
in the form of pledges. Many j
Were never collected.
.May 14—A $5 per term build
up fee to be paid along with reg- §
ular fees was approved, the mon- 0
ey to go for students’ buildings, 1
especially for a basketball pavil- |
ion (McArthur court), a football |
grandstand, and a Student Uni- j
ion. The action was an amend
ment to ihe ASUO constitution.
May 10—The board of regents
authorized the purchase of a site
for a Student Union and later
bought the half block on 14th be- 1
tween Alder and Kincaid.
A . 1926 sPling term* -The last
campus-wide drive to collect |
pledges amounted to $1239. The
funds collected were intended for
a baseball pavilion, first on the
ifSt of student constructions.
1 933 August 26—The execu
tive council voted the state board
of higher education power to bor
row $100,000 from the public
works administration to build an
infirmary. Of this amount $20,000
was to be repaid by the income
from the $5 a term building fee.
I 935 May 1—After nine
years of near dormancy, the Stu
dent Union plan revived. J. O.
Lindstrom, University business
manager, revealed that a Union
was a financial possibility at that
with a public works admin
(Please turn to page three)
--Comments
Nancy Ames, President ASUO:
Erection of Student Union building' on Oregon cam
pus should head list of postwar projects for the Univer
sity and funds to accomplish this purpose should be
reserved now. Need for Student Union building was ap
parent twenty years ago when class of 1923 was in
school; it is imperative now to centralize the social, ;
business and other activities of a growing student body,
a university the size of Oregon should not neglect long
er this much needed improvement.
Palmer Hoyt, Domestic Director, OWI
"By the time the war is over and building is possi
ble, the students will have made their adequate contri
bution. Either the state or federal government should
assume major responsibility in financing the Student
Union.”
James H. Gilbert
Dean of the College of Liberal Arts
"It is imperative that the University of Oregon pre- B
pare to welcome into civilian life those men who are re- t
leased from the armed forces after the war. One of the I
all-important services or factors for facilitating adjust
ment of these returning men is a socializing environ- |
ment. A Student Union building would provide such an %
environment, for by entering inte-4he activities cen
tralized in such a student enterprise, the men could s
regain their sense of individuality.”
Dean Ralph \V. Leighton
Chairman, Postwar Rehabilitation Education committee
Wire received today. Hundreds have contributed
Student Union funds since class 1923 initiated program. §
These trust funds usable no other purpose since Owen |
Calloway, vice-president ASUO, 1923. investigated sev- |
eral unions and made recommendations to our class. §
The value and need for such all campus building has |
increased. The larger your student body the greater |
the necessity for common meeting place where all stu
dents have equal rights in order to preserve your demo- |
cratic traditions.
John MacGregor, ASUO President, 1033 •
“There is no building on the campus which is stu- |
dent-centered. Everything is administration-centered, |
or faculty-centered, or specific group-centered. The |
only thing which students can call their own on this £
campus is the library where the men and women can go,
but there too they see the faculty and they are under
the rules and regulations of a library committee or li
brarians. In an age when we expect so much from youth
and we want youth to assume its own responsibility,
there is a dire need for a place which the students can
call their own and can feel at home.’’
Dr. Samuel II. Jameson
Professor of Sociology
"\\ e would appreciate further information on the
status of the Student Union plans. In the meantime, we
strongly urge that no change be made in the initial pro
posal for it, and that plans for its postwar construction
be expedited as much as possible. If there is anv amount
still due on the pledges we made toward a Student
Union at Oregon, we will be glad to forward the amount
when definitely assured that construction of the Union
is to become a reality after the war."
Owen M. Callaway, ASUO vice-president, '23
Aulis Anderson Callaway, ”23
Oregon students of my generation who put over
Student Union drive have been keenly disappointed
(Please turn to page three)
Peacetime Plans Make
Student Union Building
Necessity On Campus
By ANN LEO and MARJORIE MAJOR
During the past several months, student leaders and faculty
members have been discussing the prospect of the greater Uni
versity of Oregon which is certain to emerge when this war is
over. Students have been concerned with what changes will
take place in student government and social life. Officials have
puzzled over the questions of increased enrollment and the
consequent lack of space and facilities. The problems of social
rena mutation nave become very
close and urgent as the months
go by, and the men already dis
charged from military service be
gin to come back to the campus.
The confusion which resulted
after the last war when returning
service men caused bad upsets to
the status quo, the problems
which resulted when students,
(whether ex-service men, those
who attended during the war pe
riod, or new students) had to
suddenly shift gears from a war
time frame of mind and action
into a peace-time set up, have
prompted the establishment of a
rehabilitation committee under
Dean Ralph W. Leighton. This
committee is facing adjustment
problems before they occur and
working with the other agencies
on the campus, in Eugene, and
throughout the rest of the state
which are working on similar pro
grams.
Much of this problem of cen
tralization, unification, and a
smoothly working student pro
gram after the war will also fall
on students in the next year, and
even now. That is why the pro
posed building of a. student Un
ion is under so much discussion.
Architectural plans and actual
lists of items and rooms to be in
cluded in this building have been
drawn up and waiting for sevexal
j'ears. Sites have been discussed
and narrowed down to two main
possibilities. Finances remain as
the barrier which student leaders
are determined shall be threshed
out and cleared up now. so that
Don't Miss—
Financial Statement
Of Student Union
—Page Three
when building materials are
available, no valuable time will
be lost.
In the detailed survey conduct
ed by members of the executive
council and the Emerald, not one
dissenting voice was heard on
the question of whether or not
this is the time for Student Un
ion planning. Only a portion of
the comments received are print
ed this issue, but they will all be
published along with new com
ments in ensuing editions.
A great deal of action is with
in the range of the State Board
of Higher Education (see editor
ial, page two). It will be neces
sary to the success of this cam
paign that presidents of honor
ary groups, Panhellenic, Heads
of Houses, AWS, social organi
zations, and forum groups offer
plausible suggestions as to how
additional revenue can be raised
for Student Union. Individual
students or groups may contact
Nancy Ames, ASUO president if
they wish to help.
what is a student
union building?
What is a student union ?
♦ It is a student-owned, stu
dent operated, and student-inhab
ited building where campus ac
tivities, whether faculty or stu
dent, may be centralized.
♦ These activities are: (1) op
erating, (2) service, and (3) rec
reational.
♦ The offices of your ‘'oper
ating'' activities will be housed
in this building. Your student
body activity- headquarters, your
publication offices, your educa
tional activities offices, your
own reception center, your sem
inar and committee rooms will be
included.
♦ ‘'Service” facilities such as
banquet rooms, kitchen and kit
chen service, fountain and cafe
teria, the co-op store, postoffice
and an assembly room are ne
cessities.
♦ The above are facilities
most needed by the students.
However, they are only a FEW
of the possiv»iiit»,3«
♦ This building would .proba
bly be constructed in units, using
architectural plans which are in
tegrated so that the completed
structure would be unified and
convenient, even though these
units are built one at a time.
Sick President
Boosts Union
It isn't often that a. university
president becomes so enthusias
tic. over a student drive for funds
that he rises from a sickbed in
order to make a speech that will
further it. Yet that is just what
President Prince Lucian Camp
bell did 10 years ago for the first
Union drive.
At that time the students put
forth tile greatest money-making
effort in the history of the ASUO.
The drive was progressing favor
ably, but it was facing a crisis.
Only 580,000 had been raised,
with the time half gone. How
could the flow of contributions
be speeded?
The answer to the problem
came when the big doors at the
back of the auditorium opened
and President Campbell entered.
Everyone knew that the presi
dent had until quite recently b> cn
sick on a hospital bed in Port
land with a protracted attack of
flu.
President Campbell did look.
pale and a little stooped. And he
spoke seated in a chair.
"The work that, you are doing
today makes history,'1 he said.
"It is not just a matter of the
(1'lease turn to {'aye three)
20th Year of Student Union Work