VOLUME XLV NUMBER 105 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, AFRIL 20, 1944 Northwest Leaders To Hold Meet Here Student leaders from Northwest colleges will meet on the .^Oregon campus sometime in May for the annual Pacific Coast student leaders’ conference. Student body presidents and mem bers of the executive councils of the various schools will meet to discuss student leader problems. Last year the conference was held in Reno. This year it is split into two sections because me one section was too unwieldy a group. Announcement of the conference was made at the executive council meeting Wednesday afternoon. In order to make the council completely independent of the edu cational activities board, it was decided to charge students a §1 fee for a student operating fund. The fee will be entirely voluntary and will be collected at registra ^tion. This method will eliminate the necessity of using educational ac tivities funds to finance the execu tive council. Previously, the board allotted about $250 to the council. The amount collected will go to ward traveling funds, supplies, telegrams, telephone, awards, war board activities, student union work, and other council activities. Acting President Orlando J. Hol lis approved the idea before it was brought before the council. This method of acquiring money to fi nance the council is approved by the constitution. The money will be kept in the University business af '■jiice. Members of the council discussed a letter from UCLA inviting them to a recreation convention and de cided that they would be unable to attend. Open House Tonight Open house will be held to night from 9:30 to 10:15 in the following houses: Lombardy lodge, Pi Beta Phi, Kebec, Sigma Kappa, and University house. Training Offered By Red Cross for Staff Assistants Training for Red Cross staff assistants will be given in a course to be offered in the Red Cross chapter office down town at 7:30 every Wednesday night. Anyone interested in this training, which qualifies women for Red Cross secretarial and office work, should call Carol Wicke, 1309, by Monday. Miss Wicke also announced that a senior life saver who has signed up for the Red Cross water safety course to begin on the campus April 24, should call 1: if she wishes to be chairman of the Red Cross committee in conjunction with this course. She also reminded coeds that committee chairman positions still open are nurses’ aide, scrap book, nutrition, home nursing, and surg ical dressings. Thursday’s bandage rolling schedule is Casablance lodge and Alpha Chi Omega. Delta Gamma and Delta Delta Delta are sched uled for Saturday. This term band age rolling is open Tuesday and Thursday from 3 to 5 and Satur day from 9 to 12. Those who do not already have cotton dresses and bandanas at the Red Cross room are reminded that they should take them when they go. Prominent Psychologist To Teach Summer Class Dr. Maria Rickers-Ovsiankima, the celebrated Russian psy chologist who will become a member of the University faculty during the 1944 summer session, has an exceptional record of education, experience, and research in psychology behind her. She was born in Russia and received her doctor’s degree in 1928 frofn Geissen university in Germany. She was a student of Dr. Lewin, who has inspired many of the great developments in Gestalt psychology, which ad vocates the importance of one’s personality as a whole, rather than scoring on tests and other highly analytic methods. Dr. Lewin was "^pe of three great European psy chologists driven to the United States by nazi policies. Dr. Ovsiankima is an expert on Rorschach, the ink blot method of analyzing personality which is known as a "projective method." This method was originated by the Swiss psychologist. She translated his book on this method, and her self initiated a manner of scoring. She has done considerable re search at the state hospital for the insane at Wooster, Massachusetts, and for a number of years has been teaching a course in abnormal psy ’Vchology at Wheaton college for girls in Norton, Massachusetts. At Oregon she will teach an introduc tory psychology class, a persona 1 (Please turn to fage four) Singer Wins UO Praise By NORRIS YATES The simple charm ancl technical virtuosity of Bidu Sayao, Metro politan opera soprano, captivated a large audience last night in the last of the concerts in McArthur court sponsored by the Greater Artists series. While Miss Sayao proved her self capable of fully portraying a wide variety of moods, she seemed at her best in her expression of the naive, the simple, and the sparkling qualities found in most of the songs and arias of a well chosen program. In a number of pieces, such as the aria, “Batti Batti, bel Mas etto,” from Mozart's “Don Giovan ni,” she displayed the ability to vary her style of phrasing with the nature and mood of the melody. In the Mozart number, as well as in others, she showed great under standing in the use of rubato, per haps even overemphasizing this tricky aid to expression. Miss Sayao’s command of each and every type of mood was well portrayed in the group of five short songs which she sang di rectly after the intermission. These numbers ealled for expression ranging from solemnity and pathos to an almost abandoned gaiety. Miss Sayao’s interpretation of all these pieces left nothing to be de sired. In place of the two arias from Donizetti's “Daughter of the Regi ment,” which were scheduled on the program, Miss Sayao rendered the famous “Un Voce Poco Fa,” from Rossini’s “Barber of Seville,” and the “Gavotte” from "Manon” by Giacomo Puccini. In both of these difficult numbers, as well as in the rest of the program, Miss Sayao’s -winning personality wdiilc on the stage added to the effective ness of her presentations. Mr. Milne Charnley, her accom panist, displayed a smooth and velvety style of phrasing and a quiet finish of technique that drew forth considerable favorable com ment from the audience. In performing the last section of her concert, consisting of a group of songs in English, Miss Sayao combined brilliant light-hearted ness with restrained gaiety. The crowd showed its apprecia tion of Miss Sayao’s singing by calling her back at intermission and at the close of the concert for a total of three encores. Judge Hay to Talk AtASUOInstallation A native of Scotland and educated in the public schools of Edinburgh, Judge Arthur D. Hay, Oregon supreme ecu; t member to address the ASUO installation of new officers assembly this morning at 11 in McArthur court, is reported Nx have a “delightful mixture of Scotch wit and wisdom ’’ Judge Hay is a 1911 graduate of the University-of Oregon Smoker Plans Forge Ahead Plans for the all-men's smoker to be held Friday night at 8:30 in McArthur court were rounding into shape last night with the an nouncement that Paul McBride, sophomore in liberal arts, will demonstrate his agility on the parallel bars and that Irving “Babe” Puziss, sophomore in lib eral arts, and William E. Van Vac tor, graduate assistant in English, will stage a weight-lifting contest. Mr. Van Vactor claims that he will lift at least 10 pounds, five in each hand. Faculty representation in the German band so far consists of Hoyt Franehere, instructor in English, baritone sax, and Charles Bubb, instructor in mathematics, trumpet. John Stehn, University band director, reports that he ex pects to have little trouble in se curing a full complement of faculty “sidemen” by Friday night. Concerning other faculty contri butions to the program, negotia tions are under way for Dean Theodore Kratt, of the school of music, to prove to the doubting masses that he can play three har monicas at the) same time. Also, W. F. G. Thaeher may be asked to don his mandarin robes and con tribute his celebrated rendition of the Chinese dialect to the program. Cigars and cigarettes will be sold at the smoker by Skull and Dagger, sophomore men's service honorary. Girl Scout Leaders To Interview Coeds Miss Gwendolyn Elesmore and Miss Marie Dixon of the Portland Girl Scout office will be oil the campus Friday, April 21, to inter view young women interested in camp counseling. Assistants are needed for such positions as craft supervisor and assistants, water front assistants, and canoeing di rector. The interviews will be held from 9:30 to 12 and from 1:30 to o in the dean of women's office. The women will be here Friday instead of Thursday as previously stated. Student, Co-op Displays at Library Build Up Interest in Book Collections Interest in student collection of hooks is being- built up through the undergraduate student library con test beginning May 6, and through variously priced collections on dis play in the library. Already two en tries have been made in the con test, and among over 30 prospects, at least 10 students have promised to enter the annual contest spon sored by the Association of Pat rons and Friends of the University of Oregon library, and the Co-op store. Entries in the contest must be made at the circulation desk in the library by May 4, and winning libraries will be displayed at the Co-op for a few days following the contest. The personal library of Edith Onthank, third prize winner of last j year, is now being exhibited in the ' circulation room. Her collection has been built up oyer many years,; and she is closely acquainted with each book. Predominating are sci ence and art, particularly sculp ture and painting, books, as Miss Onthank is an art major. Since she is also interested in nature, she is proud of her copy of “Leonardo's Notebook” since it lies between art and nature. She has a few children's book, too, poetry, biography, essays, and novels. Cen tering around the Bible, she has several books on Christianity. Books from the Co-op store have been grouped by interest in library < ascs, but not necessarily in ar rangements that will please every one. For instance, for $5 the fol lowing books are obtainable: “The Iliad of Homer,” “The Odyssey oi Homer,” “The Works of Plato,” “Four Famous Greek Plays,” and “Aristotle’s Politics.” A collection, which sells for §10 includes seven historical, political, and scientific books, such as Gib bon’s "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” in two volumes. The $15 selection consists of eight volumes, including "Rubens Paint ings and Drawings.” Eleven books, featuring English literature and "The Complete Etch ings of Goya” make up the group which sells for $25. i Law school and has been an acts'. t» member of the Oregon Dad's asso ciation for several years. His tv, •> sons, John, '39, and Douglas. e> ,’42, and daughter, Margaret, 37, also attended the University. He will be introduced by Or lando J. Hollis, acting president • V the University, and will speak, on the topic “The Undergraduate Stu dent and the World at War.” * Marie Rogndahl, winner of si e western regional division of its* Hour of Charm contest for the “Undiscovered Voice of America” will entertain the assembly by; singing “Voices of Spring” 'iy\ Strauss. Accompanying Miss Rogn dahl is Ruth Baker, a graduate student. The same platform ; mV setup will be used as was us> d last, night for Bidu Sayao, the Bra zilian operatic star. Tapping of new members of lt iii Theta Upsilon, junior women’s honorary, is to be a featured part of the program. Classes for It a.nv will he dismissed. Gene Vandeneynde, president of the Oregon Dad’s association' wifi accompany Judge Hay up from Salem and will be a guest on the platform during the installation of the new ASUO officers. Newly-elected ASUO and c1 officers will be installed at the assembly and out-going- officer^ will leave student administration. Religious Confab Set for Weekend The annual spring conference of the intervarsity Christian fellow ship will be held on the cajnpan Saturday, April 22 and 23. Speak ing on his experiences in Yunna province at the time of Ja par-wo bombing and occupation of that territory will be E. A. Crapuch ettes, a missionary who has recent ly returned from China Inis.) d Mission. Registration will be held Satur day afternoon at 1 in Gerling* e hall. A buffet dinner and progi ■ r will be held at 5:00 followed b/t Mi-. Crapuchettes’ talk. Early morning communion service will held Sunday morning and Mr. Cra puchettes will again address tb<* group Sunday afternoon at 2. . Discussion groups, firesides, fueV sings are all planned for the inter varsity meeting. Dean E. F. Lawrence of the school of architecture ancf all;,. $ arts, will present a bust of Levi T. Pennington, president emeritus ol’ Pacific college to that college ■ April 28. The bust, designed by the ? tr* Oliver Laurence Barrett, assoc. a'!-> professor of sculpture at the Uni versity, will be presented on fho behalf of friends and associates of Mr. Barrett who have made it possible to have the unfinish* bust cast in plaster. Miss Jean Sutherlin, instructor in sculpt. <* at the University, made the t. .*• and Fred Collins made the casting. Mr. Barrett started the piece of sculpture a year before his dealt* late last summer and the last stndjjj was done just a week before died. 1 Pacific Pennington