Reviewer Sees
Assorted Monsters
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VOLUME XLVI
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1945
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Musical Events
Set for Term
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NUMBER 97
UO Enrollment
Shows Increase
Over '44 Totals
That a gradual but steady
enrollment increase at the Uni
versity is developing was made
evident by figures released
Monday by C. L. Constance,
assistant registrar. Mr. Con
stance’s totals, which are com
plete as of Saturday, April 7,
indicate a 22 per cent increase
in the spring term enrollment
of this term, as opposed to that
of 1944 spring term. A grand
total of 1742 persons has been
recorded, with 383 men and
1359 women included.
_^orty-eight per cent more men
or 383 as tallied with 259 of last
year’s totals, are now on the
campus. An increase of 16 per cent
is shown in the ranks of women,
with 1359 now registered, as op
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University House Hits Top
Few Student Tickets Still
Available for Ballet Tonight
A limited number of student tickets are still available for
the San Francisco ballet to be presented tonight at 8:15 in
McArthur court, announced Horace W. Robinson, educational
activities manager yesterday afternoon. “All reserved seats
have been sold,” Robinson stated, “but general admission
tickets may still be purchased.”
Acclaimed as one of the finest ballet groups in America, the
San Francisco ballet is composed of 26 artists, directed by
William Christensen, who formerly headed a ballet troupe in
Portland. On this first stop of the company’s annual nation
wide tour, they will offer three different numbers. The first
will be the second act of “Swan Lake,” with music by Tschai
kowsky. The second number to be presented is the perennial
favorite “In Old Vienna,” by Johann Strauss. The concluding
number on the program will be the popular “Nutcracker Suite”
of Tchaikowsky.
No seats will be sold on the main floor, in order to give ail
members of the audience a good view of the dancing. All Uni
versity students will sit in the bleachers and the general public
will be seated in the west balcony.
Aspirants for Junior Weekend
Title Selected; Voting Monday
Names of the contestants for
the Junior Weekend court were
announced Monday by Beverly
Ayer, chairman of the queen
selection committee.
Thursday at 4 p.m. the can
didates will appear before the
judging committee at Alumni
hall in Gerlinger, and are re
quested to wear short silks.
The judges will choose eight
finalists to be voted upon Mon
day, April 16, by the student
body.
Candidates chosen from the vari
ous houses are:
^fLois McConkey, Alpha Chi Ome
ga; Margaret Murphy, Alpha Delta
Pi; Marjory Earl, Alpha Gamma
Delta; Celoise Rogers, Alpha hall;
Altha Paul, Alpha Omicron Pi;
Ann Jernstedt, Alpha Phi; Dorothy
Manville, Alpha Xi Delta; Marilyn
Holden, Chi Omega; Signe Elc
lund, Delta Delta Delta; Mary
Margaret Ellsworth, Delta Gam
ma; Louise Goodwin, Gamma Phi
Beta.
Roseann Hill, Gamma hall; Ann
Van Valzah, Hendricks hall; Ruth
Shipler, Highland house; Joan Hol
stad, Kappa Alpha Theta; Janet
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Receive RiLLanl
With spring term rushing over
far another year nine campus sor
orities have pinned their colors on
thirteen pledges.
The following girls were chosen:
Pat Maulding, Mavis De Lamar,
Aileen Wendt, Gamma Phi Beta;
Mary Lou Helmer and Barbara
Patterson, Kappa Alpha Theta;
Lou Ann Harris and Shirley Thur
man, Alpha Chi Omega; Rosemary
Loder, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Jer
ry Jean Seawell, Alpha Omicron
Pi;^Dedo Misley, Chi Omega;
Aileen Koch, Alpha Gamma Delta;
Pat Reeves, Alpha Delta Pi; and
Kathleen King, Sigma Kappa.
Battle Waged,
Turner Freed
Despite the valiant efforts of
Attorney Harry Skerry, a dozen
jurors decided an assault and
battery case in favor of De
fendant Donald Turner, when a
mock trial was held by members
of the law school April 7 in the
Lane county courthouse.
An annual feature presented
for members of the 4-H market
ing club, this year’s case was
one in which George Luoma, sec
ond year student in law, at
tempted to sue Donald Turner,
first year law student, for dam
ages resulting when Turner
threw a baseball bat which hit
Luoma. John Hathaway, second
year student in law, was attor
ney for Turner.
Kenneth J. O’Connell, asso
as judge.
ciate professor of law, presided
Movie Series Prints
All-Oriental
An all-Oriental program will be
presented through the movie series
Wednesday in 207 Chapman hall.
The first showing begins at 7:30
and the second at 9. The program
will consist of a film on China,
“The 400 Million,” and three films
on Japan entitled “The Land,”
“The People,” and “Dream of an
Empire.”
Following the first showing the
YMCA and YWCA will inaugurate
a series of movies forums in room
204 Chapman. W. S. Baldinger,
associate professor of art, will lead
the discussion. Mr. Baldinger has
made a study of the Far East, par
ticularly of its art. Doug Moore,
YMCA president, and Mary Corri
gan, YWCA president, invite all
| students to attend.
PETITIONS DUE
No petitions for chairman posi
tions for the seventh war loan
drive, May 8-12, have been turned
in, Carol Wicke, war board chair
man, said Monday.
The deadline has therefore been
extended to 4 p.m. Wednesday, at
the Alpha Delta Pi house. The war
board will make appointments at
the Wednesday meeting. Upper
classmen may petition for the gen
eral chairmanship, while those of
publicity, finance, auction, and
coke day are open to upperclass
men and sophomores.
Runner Up: Highland House;
Campus GPA Rises to 2.527
University cooperative house topped campus grades winter
term with a 2.93 GPA, a tabulation released Monday by the
registrar’s office revealed. Highland house ranked second with
2.83; and Hilyard house, third with 2.739. Leading sorority in
the scholastic rating was Delta Gamma with 2.68; highest
dormitory was Susan Campbell, seventh, with a 2.6344 GPA.
Houseboys Eye
Favorite Dish
For Butlers Ball
Campus houseboys will stage a
contest to select their “favorite
dish” from each dorm, co-op, and
sorority during the coming two
weeks. After the individual con
testants are selected, a board of
judges composed of a houseboy
from each “eating” organization
will pick the final winner and an
nounce her name at the “Butler’s
Ball” April 21. Each girl to be
selected will be presented with a
small token of recognition by the
houseboys of her organization.
As the result of today’s tapping,
the following candidates can be
revealed: Alpha Phi’s “meatball
five” selected Marylin Moore as
their “favorite dish”; the “biscuit
bouncing six” of the Chi Omega
selected Pat Davis as their most
savory dish; and the “hash-slinging
six” of the Theta’s tapped Nancy
Rivenlmrgh as the most select item
on their menu.
No Photos Necessary
Because the choice selections of
the “Butler’s favorite dish” contest
are carefully chosen in the pri
mary selection, no photographs
need be submitted by the contest
ants.
Tickets for the “Butler’s Ball”
will go on sale late this week at
$1.80 per couple.
Three Seniors Present Recital;
Expressive Program Enjoyed
By BETTY JANE BENNETT
Three talented senior piano students, Betty Jones, Elizabeth
Schaefers, and Alfhild Wahl, presented a varied and well
polished recital in the music school Monday evening. Miss
Schaefers opened the program with the Mozart “Pastoral with
Variations” and played it with a musician’s feeling for the
lovely tneme ana gay urnameiaa
tion. She followed with “Praelud
ium” by Macdowell. De Falla’s
“Serenata Andaluza” was played
with spirit as Miss Schaefers
seemed to thoroughly warm up to
her keyboard.
Miss Jones played Bach’s exact
ing “Italian Concerto” with accu
rate fingers, making up somewhat
for a lack of feeling sensed espe
cially in the first and third move
ments. Agility on the keyboard
was shown by Miss Jones in her
treatment of the Chopin “Ber
ceuse.” Poulenc’s “Toccata” was
well suited to Miss Jones’ rather
dry but accurate style and she pre
sented a puckish type of humor
and built up to a colorful climax
in this work.
Chopin’s Nocturne
All the subtlety and delicacy of
Chopin’s “Nocturne No. 27, No. 1”
was well brought out by Miss
Wahl. Miss Wahl played “Two
Arabesques” by Debussy with this
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Today's World
FOUR ALLIED ARMIES
drove toward the Elbe river ap
proaches to Berlin as the badly
sliced up enemy fell back
through scores of burning Ger
man towns. The German Weser
river defense line was complete
ly smashed.
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INTERLOCKING JAPANESE
pillboxes, blockhouses, and caves
held U. S. army troops on Okin
awa to a standstill except for
minor advances under a hail of
gunfire.
SECRETARY OF STATE
STETTINIUS announced the
United States has resumed “nor
mal diplomatic relations with
Argentina in conjuncjtion with
the 19 other American republics
represented at the Chaultepec
conference.
All-University average was
2.527; women, 2.58; and men, 2.31.
Women’s clubs received a GPA of
2.741, compared to non-organiza
tion women, 2.6341; women's sor
orities, 2.573; and women's dormi
tories, 2.47.
Non-organization men appeared
on the list with a 2.38 GPA, top
ping men’s dormitories, who re
ceived a 2.19 GPA, and men's clubs,
1.8966.
Individual house grades, with,
ratings in parentheses, follow:
Alpha Gamma Delta (5), 2.66;,
Kappa Alpha Theta (6), 2.65; Su
san Campbell hall (7), 2.6344; Pi
Beta Phi (8), 2.633; Orides (9),
2.627; Alpha Omicron Pi (10),
2.61; Alpha Chi Omega (11), 2.60;
Alpha hall (12), 2.59; Delta Delta
Delta (13), 2.566; Hendricks hall
(14), 2.561; Alpha Delta Pi (15),
2.55; Sigma Kappa (16), 2.528;
Rebec house (17), 2.523; Kappa
Kappa Gamma (18), 2.50; Alpha
Xi Delta (19), 2.490; Chi Omega
(20), 2.4889; Alpha Phi (21),
2.4888; Gamma Phi Beta (22),
2.4880; Gamma hall (23), 2.38.
Sherry Ross hall (24), 2.294;
Omega hall (25), 2.288; Sigma hall
(26), 2.26; Zeta hall (27), 2.09;
Campbell co-op (28), 1.94; Mary
Spiller hall' (29), 1.903; Alder hall
(30), 1.8971; Esquire house (31),
1.86.
Annual Senior
Speech Prizes
To Total $300
All students who wish to enter
the annual senior Failing-Beek
man-Jewett oratorical contest to
be held Saturday, June 16, or who
wish information on the nature of
the contest are asked to get in
touch with Mr. W. A. Dahlberg,
director of speech and dramatic
arts.
All seniors who participate in
the commencement exercises are
eligible for the contest, in which
the participant must deliver a fif
teen-minute oration on any sub
ject of his own choice. Three prizes
will be awarded: for first place,
the Failing prize of $150; for sec
ond, the Beekman award of $100,
and for third place, the Jewett
prize of $50. There will be six final
contestants.
Mr. Dahlberg has agreed to help
all interested seniors in the selec
tion of their trophies and in the
drafting and presentation of the
speeches. Subjects have varied in
former years from such selections
as “Teaching for Poetry Apprecia
tion” to “World Peace” and "Child
Psychology.”
Librarians Meet Today
All old and new members of the
House Librarians should attend a
very important meeting today at
4 o’clock in the Browsing room of
the library, announced Nancy
Boles, president of the group. Elec
tion of officers will be held and
several important business mat
ters will be discussed.