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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 18, 1944)
Schools Tell of Union Building This is what other schools say about their student union build ings: THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF 1 IOWA— “The most attractive feature of j our building is the large lounge, 90 by 130 feet which is really the living room of the University and 3 referred to as ‘The Hearthstone j of Old Gold.’ ” PURDUE UNIVERSITY— . . But the bowling alleys, built at the behest and with the “-foresight of the men, has become a favorite recreational center for the Purdue girls. Day and night they demand and get their share of the bowling play.” UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN— “This is the core of our campus neighborhood life. The Union lit erally has made it feasible for the campus to reach the goal of a close-knit community of students and teachers. The greatest virtues of this community life are perhaps the imponderables of the personal sat isfactions a student finds in his campus experience and the per sonal contributions of good citi zenship he learns to make in living and working well with others. They defy cataloging. . UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA— “There is a large general lounge room on the main floor and separ ate lounge rooms for men and wo men on the second floor . . . The campus postoffice with more than 15,000 student boxes is in the Un ion .. . Recreational facilities in clude a billiard room, general game room and bowling alleys . The furniture and furnishings in the building are extremely colorful and attractive. Great care was ex ercised in the selection of the fur niture both as to appropriateness "afid price.” UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING— “At least 90 per cent of our stu dent body of 2,000 are making the Union their true campus living room, as the building was intend ed. Of course this has a wholesome result. Students who formerly saw one another occasionally, now fra ternize regularly. Greeks and In dependents enjoy themselves side by side. In short, I sincerely be lieve our new building is doing much to weld our student body into a much more integrated group. I think henceforth we will be grad uating University of Wyoming men ^nd women gather than Sigma Nus or Phi Delta who attended the Uni versity of Wyoming.”—Burton De loney, Director, Wyoming Union. HEADY FOR HER DATE —Photo by Bill Goldstein . j . lovely Nancy Heber appears in a gayly-colored date dress, from Miller’s. Ked and blue cowboy chaps are cleverly appliqued on the gold dirndle skirt. Colonel McCornack Awarded Merit Honor Colonel Condon C. McCornack, 1901 Oregon graduate was award ed the legion of merit Tuesday. The award was presented on the retirement of Col. McCornack who was a member of the United States army general staff corps. The citation stated that “Colonel j McCornack exhibited the soundest; judgment in planning details in- j cident to the preparation of the two task forces which routed the enemy from the Aleutian islands.” After McCornack’s graduation from the University he enlisted in the second Oregon infantry and later served in the Philippine in surrection and the Spanish-Amer ican war. He was born at St. Hel en, California, in J880. - i Pennsylvania has more colleges than any other state in the Union. Call Us for Service For the finest repairs for plumbing and heating equipment Chase Company 936 Oak Red Cross Elects Additional Officers New officers of the campus Red Cross were announced by Carol Wicke, chairman, at a special meeting Thursday. Gloria Carto zian is vice-chairman, and Mary K. Minor was chosen as treasurer. Both girls are freshmen in liberal arts. Saturday will be the last day this term that the Red Cross room in Gerlinger hall will be open for bandage rolling. All house repre sentatives should turn in their hours to Miss Wicke who reported that the work done this term sur passed fall term by far. JOHNSON’S Around The Corner from the McDonald HEILIG CHARLES STARRETT in "Hail to the Rangers" also RUTH TERRY ROBERT LIVINGSTON "Pistol Packiri' Mama" CAMPUS CALENDAR i Father Francis F. Leipzig, pas tor of St. Mary’s Catholic church, will address the Newman club on the subject of "Juvenile Delinquen- ' cy,” at the regular meeting Sun day at 7:30 p.m. in the YMCA. There will be no more Vesper choir practices this term. Rehear sals will be resumed on the first Tuesday of spring term. Emerald, Oregana Pictures Slated Members of the Emerald fUld Oregana staffs will have their Oregana pictures taken this after noon. The Emerald editorial staff pictures will be taken at 4 p.m., Emerald business staff at 4:10, Oregana editorial staff at 4:20, and' Oregana business staff at 4:30. Individual pictures of Emerald upper news staff members will be taken Monday evening after S p.m. The following are requested to be at the shack at that time: Elizabeth Haugen, Carol Greening, Betty Ann Stevens, Penny Nichols, Norris Yates, Charles Politz, Edith Newton, Bob Stiles, Shaun McDer mott, Warren Miller, and all city and night editors. The Indiana university school of dentistry is celebrating its' twentieth anniversary this year. > Award Presented To Highland Co-op Highland house won the WAA participation plaque for the sec ond successive year, it was an nounced Thursday night at the WAA initiation dessert and instal lation. The award was made on the basis of number of sports entered, per cent of girls participating, per sistence, standing in tournaments, and sportsmanship. Intramural tournament cham pionship awards presented were: softball, Highland house: tennis singles, Gertrude Kay; tennis dou bles, Dorothy Herman; volleyball, Hillcrest lodge; badminton, Alpha Chi Omega; table tennis, Kva An derson, Orides; swimming, Lame Ducks, Orides. The basketball award was not presented because Orides and Del ta Gamma are tied for the cham pionship and must play a game to determine the winner. Junior award winners were Bet ty Bush, Lucille Yungen, Betty Lou Cramer, Mary Alice Lawson, Mary Ann Delsman, and Janice Thompson. Senior winners were Beverly Goetz and Marian Blen liinsop. Forty-eight girls were initiated into the organization at a candle light ceremony. They will wear pledge ribbons until the end oi the term, when they will receive pins. Two hundred girls were present for the dessert which was held in the alumni room of Gerlinger hall. Dr. Leona Tyler, associate profes sor of psychology, spoke on ‘'Peo ple, a Hobby,” and Beverly C-oetz gave a brief summary of the ac tivities of WAA, « DO YOU KNOW THAT the ‘‘Co-op” is owned entirely by the stu dents of the University? THAT it was incorporated by officers of the A. S. U. O. in ]920? THAT profits are shared with students at the close of spring term ? THAT profit refunds are in cash? THAT refunds are based on cash register receipts _ turned in by individual students? THAT “Co-op” policies arc directed by a board of five students and two faculty members? THAT front seven to ten students each year earn their way through school by working in the “Co-op”? THAT the “Co-op” lias a fine stock of general books other than texts? THAT our Rent Library features the best in cur rent fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry and travel ? ’Mi' THAT the “Co-op" sold more than $81,000.03 worth of books last year and is one of the four or five largest book stores in Oregon? UNIVERSITY “CO-OP”