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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1944)
VOLUME XLV NUMBER 112 ! UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1944 GOING ALL OUT . . . . . . lo welcome mothers to the campus for next weekend the Mothers’ day committee displays their greeting;. Left to right, Mary Bush, Marguerite Wittwer, Dorothy Rogers, Chairman Gloria Malloy, Janet Barringer, Roseann Leckie, and Joyce Whittle. Clean-Up on Calendar _ Coeds m Jeans to Scrub Campus Despite possible protests from A1 Young, the air corpsman who leers at jeans, Dean Hazel P. Schwering has given her official consent and next Thursday all coeds who are helping clean up the campus in the spic-and-span cam paign before Junior Weekend, may wear slacks and denims. In an effort to present a picture of the University in shipshape ap ple-pie order for the benefit of the large numbers of visiting parents expected May 5, 6, 7, Gloria Mal ^-loy and Bob Smith, co-chairmen of the clean-up campaign, have or ganized a program which will uti lize the energies of every girl will ing to work. The campus will be divided into Sections for which each living or ganization will be responsible. Members of the houses will be de (Please turn to page four) Thieves Inactive; No Clues Found, Say City Police Since the robbery of four cam pus living organizations Monday k. night, no activity of thieves has been noted, but doors have been more carefully locked at night. And as a member of one of the robbed houses, Alpha Chi Omega, fcaid, “We get leery in the middle of the night.” Police are working on the case, tut have found no clues other than those discovered Tuesday morning at the Alpha Chi Omega house. There a window to the second floor gunroom was wide open, and foot prints were found on the ground beneath a cedar tree just outside the window. • A total of $284 was stolen from Alpha Chi Omega and Kappa Al pha Theta on 15th street, Hillcrest lodge on 19th street, and Sigma Kappa on Alder street. Nothing to Stop Fall Of Auction Hammer Rain or shine, come what may, Bob “Joe College” Smith and Ralph Rathjen will be on hand at the College Side Wednesday afternoon at 4 to auction off dozens of articles—lost and for gotten at various places on the campus. These articles have accumulated at the Co-op, the Side, and the lost and found office in the physical plant. Now the associated women students QasuHesi Jtiti Suutj, In GlcM Professors spoke louder, stu dents pricked up their ears. . . . Some campus listeners wondered Friday if the group of Mexican nationals contracted for summer work in the region had arrived ahead of schedule. Others were reminded of evenings when Spanish students in the ASTP filled the air with strains of “Alla en el Kancho Grande” and other south of the border hits. Emerald reporters Friday night solved the question with a call to Dr. L. O. Wright, Span ish department head. No Latin serenaders—no ghosts—Friday's “ethereal” tones were produced by one first year Spanish class traditionally learning some of Mexico’s favorites. Finding that singing in lan guage classes both improves pro nunciation and gives a taste of the living language to an other wise grammatical first-year course, Dr. Wright has taught songs of Mexico in his beginning classes for a number of years. Most popular among tunes (as measured by gusto in singing them) are “Las Altenitas”—bet ter known to Americans as “A Gay Ranchero” and “Rancho Grande.” will sell them to the highest bid ders. Mary Riley, AWS president, and Signe Eklund, chairman of the sale, called off the auction last Wednesday under the impetus of threatening skies, and empty pockets. Chief attraction from the Co-op collection of three boxes of articles are a few fountain pens,* and there also are books, textbooks, and notebooks. From the Side will come such items as bandanas, jackets, (Please turn to page four) Prom Next Saturday Promises Fun, Sun, Flowers. Formals f With the accompanying promise that there will be good .veather for Junior Weekend (she has an '‘in’’ with the weather -nan), Phyllis Horstman yesterday announced the final piano :or the biggest all-campus dance of the year—the Junior Prom. The dance will begin at 9 o'clock and will run until 12, Satur - day night, May 6, at the Igloo, Miss Horstman said. It is to Swimmers to Tell Secrets "The Story of a Lifeguardess” vill be told by the members of Amphibian, women's swimming' lonorary, next Friday afternoon Tom 3 to 5 in Gerlinger pool. Details of the story to be told ire a secret, said Charlene Browns, Teshman in liberal arts, a mem ser of the committee in charge. 3ut she promises the memoirs of i lady lifeguard will be most in ieresting and entertaining to vatch. Special group swimming acts di vide the program, and diving ex libitions performed by individual nembers of the group will also be presented. Other members of Amphibian ,vho are in charge of the program ire Doris Trask and Pat Ferguson, announced Milo Woodward, senior in liberal arts, president of the honorary. The Amphibian show will be part of the campus-wide entertain ment which will be presented by various groups during Junior Weekend. The public is invited. Miss Brayton to Give Libe Record Concert The recorded concert in the browsing room for April 30, will be presented by Virginia Locke Bray ion, a senior majoring in history, rhe program will begin at 4 p.m. ind is as follows: Brahms, Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, 1st Movement; Mendel ssohn, Violin Concerto in E Minor; Tschaikowsky, Symphony No. 5 n E Minor, 2nd Movement—An lante cantabile. Request program: The following songs sung by Nelson Eddy—Hills >f Home, Fox; None but the Lonc y Heart, Tschakowsky; The Pil grim’s Song; The Lord’s Prayer, Malotte; Nauges, Claude Debussy. Hostess for the concert will be Mrs. Arthur Miner, Mu Phi Ep silon patronesses; Mrs. J. Murry (I'lease turn to page jour) Rallying Students Meet Junior Weekend Court A heyhall snowball rally which . began at Casablanca and Gamma < Phi, met at the library, whipped ■ j through it, picking up stray air j \ corps men and pre-meds, ended up , last night at Gerlinger for a good ' show. Chuck Pelly of the rally squad t was mistress of ceremonies to the , spirited crowd which almost filled ( the gym. ■ The air corps band played sev- . eral numbers which got every- j thing off to a good start. Rallymen Ralph Rathjen and Bob Smith led ( some good yells—though they ran i into a little trouble with the split | yell, when Smitty forgot the "e” ] in Oregon on the first try. Beverly Carroll, Jean Bar.er, 'arolyn Wells, and Betty Sailor (resented a clever satire on push mtton radio tuning, which includ d several good punches for Junior Veekend. Margery Priest almost slipped ip and sang “Minnie the Mer naid," but the the last minute hanged her mind and gave an un jinatra-like rendition of “Curb tone Clitic," which was well ap ireciated by the crowd. Alpha Oraicron Id was the house hosen to sing when their name »as pulled from a small-sized bar >er's mug. They sang “Deep in ify Heart.” (Tlcasc turn to patjc jour) be a formal occasion, and flowers may be worn. The theme of the weekend, "Ano ther Goose Goes to War,” will bo carried out in the decorations of the dance, which will be under tho direction of Mary Riley, junior in liberal arts, and Folly Gordon-, junior in architecture and allied arts. The costumes of Queen Anita and her court with hoop skirts and fancy furbelows, will also carry out the fairy talc scheme. During- the program, Queen Anita Fernandez and her court, Princesses Peggge Klepper, Elaine Wilson, Frances Colton, and Phyl lis Horstman. will be presented to their subjects by the president of' the junior class, Marion Gage. Also taking place during tlio dance will be the annual presen tation of the Gerlinger cup to tho outstanding junior woman by Dean Hazel F. Schwering. Mrs. Sehweir ing will also make scholarship awards. Burt Brown Barker, prominent Oregon alumnus, wilt present the Koyl cup, traditional award to the outstanding junior man of the year. Refreshments will be served dur ing intermission to the patrons ar.it patronesses. Mothers and fa the i s watching- the proceedings of the dance from the balcony above will also be served. Marty Beard, junior in liberal arts, is in charge of serv ing. The patron and patroness com mittee is chairmaned by Alva Granquist, junior in journalism, and the program committee list (Flcajc turn to page four) Building Plans Under Discussion Building committee members cf the state board of higher education will meet with University official* this weekend to discuss future con struction plans for the campus. Among the building plans to bo considered will lie the proposed Student Union which has beets recommended for number one posi tion on the University constructions list by Acting President Orlando J. Hollis. State board building committee members to meet on the campus this weekend are, Dr. R. E. Klein sorge, Silverton, committee chair man; Robert W. Ruhl, Medford, and Leif S. Finseth, Dallas. Tbo building committee will consider University building needs to bo presented later to state board of higher education members. Five Coed Journalists Pledged to Honorary Five outstanding women in jour-* naljpm were pledged Friday after noon to Theta Sigma Phi, national women's professional journalism honorary, at the annual spring term informal pledging. They are as follows: Ruth Kay; Collins, junior, Louis Montpgv sophomore; Margaret McGee* sophomore; Aleanor Patterson, sophomore, and Ruthe Forman, junior. The girls will be formally pledged sometime later this term*