MERALD
VOLUME XLV NUMBER 55
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 15. 1944
Beavers, Ducks Clash Tonight
HALiF A DIME . . . (Photo by Mary Jo Geiser)
. . . lor a wonderful time, is the promise made by Gloria Malloy and
Jean Watson, co-chairmen of the Nickel Hop, to all soldier and civilian
students. The Hop lasts from 5:45 to 7:45 tonight.
Public Wolves
to Win Waxings
Any loud howls heard today will
not be indications that coyotes
invading the campus, but only
the male population at the Uni
versity practicing up in anticipa
tion of winning the title “Public
Wolves Number One” at the
Nickel Hop. Winners will be de
termined on a percentage basis,
whether there are 50 or 500 in the
organization, and they will re
cieve an additional prize of S5
worth of records.
Early dinner will be served in
all living organizations, and the
girl’s houses will be open to in
vasion promptly at 5:45. Each
man, as he enters the house of his
choice, will be given a ticket in
. ^change for his nickel. On this
ticket he should write his unit or
house and return it to the girl at
the door. The Hop is over at 7:45
and winners will be announced
after final tabulations of these
tickets is made. Contributions of
the Nickel Hop will go to the AWS
scholarship fund.
'Bond Girl’ Sale
Increases Donations
Oregon’s memorial fund was in
creased to $1580 by the bonds con
_tjnbuted by the living organiza
tions as an entrance fee for the
“Bonds Away Girl” contest. Re
ceipts totaling $550 in maturity
value were turned into the educa
tional activities office.
The fund, created for a mem
orial to University of Oregon stu
dents who give their lives in the
present world war, was started
last year by donations of $262.50
each by Scabbard and Blade, mil
itary honorary and the senior
class, and $500 from the interfra
ternity council.
Monday and Tuesday, BWOC's
the campus will go to the living
organizations during lunch and
dinner to promote the sale of
bonds.
There will be five “flights” of
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ASTU’s to Answer
Challenge With Win
The Camp Adair Trailblazers
have boasted that they will de
feat the ASTU Brainbusters by
at least 30 points in the game to
night. A representative, calling
from Camp Adair, claimed that
the star-studded Trailblazer five
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Service Alums
Urged to Attend
Campus Events
Alumni servicemen in town are
especially invited to all campus
events today, according' to the
alumni office. Keeping the spirit
alive, the alumni association has
arranged a short program as a
token Homecoming. A letter was
sent to all former Ducks, asking
them to come if possible, but no
special effort was made to bring
them here because of transporta
tion and housing difficulties.
The annual business meeting
will be held at 3 p. m. in Guild Hall.
•The group will consider alumni
problems for the duration and
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Late Scheduling Done
By Student Committee
All petitions for social events
were due Saturday, January 8.
Any house or organiruton
which wishes to schedule a so
cial event during the winter
term should now contact Dean
Onthank’s office and the stu
dent affairs committee, accord
ing to an announcement from
the dean < omen's office.
VOTING HAS BEGUN . . .
. . . on the above candidates for the title of “Bonds Away Girl” in the
campus bond drive. In order to count, bonds should be. bought at the
Co-op and the receipt taking fo the educational activities office. Each
$25 bond counts 25 votes.
Squads Will Battle In Igloo;
Struggle Reopens 'Civil War'
Oregons Ducks will be waiting in the Igloo tonight where
they will attempt to overthrow the Beavers of Oregon State in
the first game of this season's '‘Civil War” series. The Web
foots will have a great height advantage over the Stater's ami
are favored to win. Starting at S p. m. the game will be broad
cast over station KWJJ.
Stag Jive Tonight
To Follow Game
Dinner at the independent
houses was interrupted last night
by a cavortin’ crowd of high-pow
ered Henries who presented a typ
ical picture of a few ducks talking
over the ISA Canteen mixer to
night. The skit, made up of Ervin
Webb, Don Slater, Bill Buell, Dick
Nielsen, Rollin Wood, and Vernon
Kisabergh, gave, an "in-a-nut
shell” introduction to the first no
date dance of the year.
Gerlinger hall, scene of the
event, will probably be filled, ac
cording to Mrs. Seiffert, hostess.
For not only is this the first such
affair at Oregon, but, judging
from reports from the houses and
the army, barracks, it will be an
overwhelming success. No admis
sion will be charged.
*- Girl’s houses will go en masse to
the basketball game, and to the
mixer afterwards. Attire is strict
ly campus clothes, for informality
and comfort. Girls are requested
to leave fur coats at home, and
the soldiers are asked not (o bring
overcoats, as there will be no fa
cilities for cheeking.
Owen Bailey and his thirteen
piece all-soldier orchestra, has
been practising for days to be in
top rhythm and W. R. Baker,
master of ceremonies, will see
that everybody meets somebody.
“This dance is developing info
a really big social event," ex
claimed Hoyt Franchere, fa
culty adviser of the ISA. “I'm
definitely in favor of it, and I
know it will have a good backing,
by both civilian and soldier stu
dents and faculty.”
in men- 40 years of basketball
rivalry the Webfoots and the
Beavers have proved some of the
most torrid hoop hostilities in the
northern division, Pacific coast
conference. They will open the
series with both teams hoping for
the first sweep in many years.
Oregon's 1937 team was the last to
win all four games. OSC accom
plished the feat in 1933. In the
last S seasons Hobby’s men have
won 18 as against 14 for Slats
Gill.
The Beavers have recently lost
frank Marshik, 6-foot-6 fresh
man from St. Mary's high ami
dohn Hendricks, alternate with
Marshik at. center. Another nun
that will not see action is George
Sortie, guard from St. Mary’s, lie
is ineligible for the Oregon series
because he transferred from Ore
gon last fall.
The Webfoots with Borrevik at
6-foot-9, Bray at 6-foot-4, and
Mayther at G-foot-2 should have
complete control of the back
boards. At the present time Glen
Patton, Jr., at 6-foot-l from Junc
tion City, is the only man on the
Beaver squad taller than the
Duck guards. With their tall men
gone the Beavers should have
more speed; and with Bob Reiman
and Allan Anderson, a couple of
six-footers who are capable ball
hawks, they will still be able to
make the game a terrific battle.
The starting lineup for Oregon*
will not be announced until game
time. Borrevik is an almost sure
starter, but Mayther has shown
"ell in scrimmage and may start.
The forwards will be either Dan
ner, Bray or Oaviness. The prob
able starters at guard will be Phil
lips and Hamilton, but Hemvood,
Koch, and Wimberly, who scored
18 points in the last full-game
scrimmage, may see action.
Dr. Breen Praises Liberal Arts
In First Lecture of Forum Series
By FLORA KIBLER
"Liberal Arts are the heart o£ this University; arts as
actual results of creation, liberal—freeing the mind from ignor
ance”, Dr. Quirinus Breen stated last night. Dr. Breen, as first
speaker in the ASUO-sponsored forum series on Oregon’s
higher educational system, emphasized knowledge and imel
-lectual activity for its own sake.
Houses Pile Into Drive
With Stacks of Scrap
Partially spurred on by the war
board's prize of six records to the
house turning in the most scrap
and with special emphasis on pa
per, coeds filled a large truck with
bundles of paper, cans, and waste
fats in Friday’s drive, ana collect
ors were only able to cover half
of the houses.
Alpha Delta Pi, Gamma Phi,
and Hilyard house have turned
in the most scrap as yet, but the
winning house will not be an
nounced until the scrap from the
remaining houses is collected
Monday afternoon at 2 in the same
truck with University women
again assisting in the drive.
He touched on a subject which
has lately been growing in the
minds of many Oregon students,
that of the apparent oblivion and
deadness of this campus in re
gard to actual knowledge. Dr.
Breen spoke of a now-legendary
history group which flourished
on this campus a year or so ago.
It included students Nick Rjasa
nvsky, Don Treadgold, Pete Ho
ward, Gordan Torrey, who were
so enthusiastically interested in
some learning that they’d "rather
talk about it than eat.”
"The trouble with this campus
is that we’re too provincial , . .
most of us have not yet come to
intellectual maturity,” he said.
"Our generation needs to be bad
gered about knowledge, like the
gadfly of Socrates. People njrjf
temporal or sensual things, but
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