VOLUME XLVII
UNIVERSITY
OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY
Number 5
SEPTEMBER 26. P)45
Opera Four
To Feature
Music Hits^
Footlight Favorites, a light
opera and musical comedy
quartet, will present a pro
g-ram of popular classics to
night at 8:15 in McArthur
court under the auspices of the
Eugene Civic Music associa
tion. All students will lie ad
mitted upon presentation of
their ASUO cards.
Included in the company are
'Adelaide Abbot, coloratura so
prano, Luceille Browning, contral
to, Edward Kane, tenor, and John
Brownlee, bariton, and their ac
companist, Marcel Frank, who al
so writes their arrangements.
The quartet was formed after a
survey revealed that more music
lovers favored the better known
semi-classical compositions than
heavier works of the Masters.
Therefore their repertoire ranges
from the music of Johann Strauss
to numbers from the recent Broad
way hits “Oklahoma” and “One
Touch of Venus.”
Traveled Much
Since its inception in 1944,
Footlight Favorites have present
ed their programs in nearly every
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OLD OREGON
Students can now introduce
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the new and larger Old Oregon
magazine to parents and friends
by mailing post cards which
will be distributed tonight by
living organization presidents
through assistance of Kwamas.
Joan Hickey, of the Old Oregon
staff, and Ann Burgess, presi
dent of_Kwamas, have announ
ced a control chart will be kept
of all cards distributed 'to
houses and a record kept of the
number returned from each
organization. Parent Old Ore
gon readership is encouraged
as a means of keeping all par
ents informed of student and
University activities as well as
stimulating parent interest and
the many pre-war type of cam
pus activities planned for this
year, such as, homecoming,
dad’s and mother’s weekends,
etc.
Tryouts Open
For New Play
Tryouts for the opening play of
the 1945-46 season will be held
Thursday evening in Guild theater
in Johnson hall. This announce
ment was made by Marjorie All
ingham, business manager of the
University theater.
The tryouts will follow the first
organization meeting of the Uni
versity Theatre Guild at 7:30. This
is a campus organization com
posed of all students interested in
dramatics. Membership in the
group is automatic for any would
be actor or actress, with no pre
requisites.
Any student with grease-paint
aspirations or footlight dreams
will be eligible to try for parts in
.a sparkling 3-act comedy, which
promises to be a gay, boisterous
opener for the season. It will be
under the direction of Ottilic T.
Seybolt, associate professor of,
dramatics. The play has* a large,
mixed cast, including a variety of
characters with dialect roles—
French, Scotch, Irish and Greek.
The name of the drama will be
announced some time during the
evening.
Other plans for the coming
season will also be discussed' dur
ing the meeting.
'Come Out’ Party
Starts YW Year
The annual Frosh “Come Out’’
party to be given Thursday by the
YWCA promises an evening of
lively entertainment, Co-chairmen
Marj Sckordahl and Anne Scripter
announced today. Songs by Jean
Lichte, the Chi O trio, a skit by
the Hicks twins, and a number of
records will contribute to a varied
program. Dean Golda Wickham
will speak.
This night of friendly activity
will be attended from 6:30 until
7:30 and 7:30 until 8:30; each
house will be notified as to the
hour their freshmen may “Come
Out” to the party.
Marking the first step in a
series of activities connected with
the fall “Y” membership drive, a
record attendance is sought. Mary
Corrigan, YWCA president, urges
all freshmen to be on hand.
'O, Bring BackMy B. T. O.:
Barons Promise Revival
By BETTY BUSHMAN and PAT KECK
The B'J'O is back ! Not one, but 22, according to the gentlemen
living in the Phi Delt house—and they ,call themselves “the
Barons.” In a revolutionary campaign to improve the social
and academic standards of men’s organizations on the campus,
the Barons issue the following challenges for :
1..Highest all-eampus GPA
2. Best serenades
3. Best intra-mural football team
Gordon Halstead, sponsor for
the group, says the Barons can be
identified by their superb manners,
smooth appearance, and intelligent
conversation. Less subtle identifi
- cation will be their calling cards
bearing top hat, with crossed canes
and gloves.
_ Composed largely of returned
veterans, both fraternity and non
fraternity men, the Barons have 18
freshmen and four upperclassmen.
Discipline is based on a system
of demerits rather than “hacking.”
Fifteen demerits (not cleaning
room by 10 a. m., rowdiness, etc.),
result in no week-end dating privi
leges. Compulsory study rules are
carried out on week-nights from
7-9:30. Amazingly enough, the fel
lows make their own rules at their
Monday night housemeetings.
But the Barons know that all
work and no play doesn’t make a
BTO. Plans are underway for a
sensational house dance this term.
All social and extra-curricular
campus activities will have the
Barons’ support.
Their motto: “No more finks.”
TAU UPSILON TAPS
Members of Tau Upsilon were
tapped Tuesday by charter
members of the society and
were presented with the tradi
tional purple, red and white
pledge ribbons which each stu
dent tapped will wear during
the ensuing pledging period.
The purposes of the society
will be explained in next Fri
day’s Emerald, along with the
names of those who will be
tapped as honored pledges later
this week.
Future members who were
tapped Tuesday are: Joann Hol
stad, Becky Fish, Toni Johns,
Jack Puffinbarger, Kaye Hoff,
Orin Weir, and Hal Ford.
Coordinating
Group Set up
An end to confusion and duplication of campus activities
was in sight Friday when ten representatives of women's cam
pus organizations met to discuss and plan for a 'Women's Co
ordinating council. '1'he Council has a two-fold piirpose; to co
ordinate actions and plans of these croups serving the 1'nivor
sitv. and, to encourage a max
imum number of girls to get
into activities with a minimum
of burden for each girl.
A complete calendar of its
activities will be asked of ev
erv organization. These will
be compiled and made into a
master calendar which will
aid in avoiding conflict. Through
the help of the Kwama Freshman
council, records will be kept, also,
of the amount and quality of work
done by the girls. In this way, ac
tivities may be distributed more
evenly.
TENOR EDWARD KANE will be one of the attractions at
tonight’s concert in McArthur court. Four “Footlight Favorites”
will offer a program of quartets, trios, duets, and solos to members
of the Eugene Civic Music association and students who hold
ASUO cards.
Webfoot Spirit to Explode
In Year’s Opening Assembly
By MARYANN THIELEN
Unwrap all your Oregon spirit that’s been stored away dur
ing the summer for the all-university assembly tomorrow at 11
a. m. in McArthur Court. It’s traditional for all students, new
and old, to attend this annual opening assembly and find out what
gives for the coming year. Ed Allen, president of the stducnt
body, will be on hand to direct
the assembly and to explain
the events scheduled for this
fall. Allen w i 1 1 introduce
President Harry K. Newburn,
who will also talk to the stu
dents about plans for the forth
coming' school year. This will
be l)r. Newburn’s first general
assembly, and it will be opportun
ity for all upper-classmen to meet
Oregon’s new president.
The university band will supply
some rousing good music for the
assembly, although from last re
ports, they could still use more in
struments. The band will close the
meeting with the playing of
“Mighty Oregon.’’
This assembly is the first of
many that will be sponsored by
the ASUO in McArthur court on
Thursdays at 11:00 o. m. There
will be business meetings, student
talent shows, and student body
meetings.
For the benefit of sutdents who
have had to sit in the back and
were unable to hear, a public ad
dress system was installed just
previous to spring commencement.
According to Dean Onthank the
new system has the power to
“blast the walls out of McArthur
court.”
Chem Expert to Speak
Dr. R. Katzen will speak on
“Acid Hydrolysis of Wood” at the
first fall-term meeting of the
chemistry seminar. Dr. Katzen is
the chemical engineer with the
Willamette Valley Wood Chemical
company of Springfield.
The meeting will be held on
Tuesday, October 2, at 4:15 p.m.
in 103 McClure hall.
This council was suggested by
AWS President Signe Eklund and
Mary Corrigan, president of the
YWCA, and will meet again on
Tuesday, October 2, at its monthly
meeting. A permanent chairman
will be elected and the calendaja
will be collected.
Council Members
Members of the WCC include:
Mary Corrigan, YWCA president;
Signe Eklund. president of AWS;
Gay Edwards, head of WAA;
Micky McCandless, Panhellenic
president.; M argery SkordahJ,
president of Phi Theta Upsilon;
Ann Burgess, president of Kwama;
Janet Douglas, president of Mortar
Board; Charlott Calder, head of
Orides; an officer of the Inter
dorm Council: Barbara Lucas and
Glang, assistant dean of women,
Dean Golden P. Wickham, Mrs.
and Miss Lois Greenwood, execu
tive secretary of the YWCA, ad
visers.
Fibs Begin
This Week
Sponsored each year by the
Educational Activities board as one
of its projects for student enter
tainment, the Wednesday night
movies ere due to begin this week.
Because of the Civic Music asso
ciation concert scheduled for this
evening the free movies will not
be held until 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
After the first week the regular
Wednesday night schedule will be
resumed.
These movies, which are open
to students, faculty members, and
townspeople, are of diversified
subjects and include latest docu
mentary films, recent Hollywood
features, new editions of the
March of Time, besides appro
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Today's World
UNITED A U 1' OMOBIL E
WORKERS (CIO) Union and
Crysler Corporation opened con
ferences in Detroit on Union
demand for a 30% wage in
crease. '
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THE NEW YORK City strike
of elevator and building service
men spread gradually, effecting
slowly increasing parali/.ing
office, business and industrial
activity.
A VIOLENT UPRISING of
annamite (Indo-Chinese) Inde
pendent forces occurred in Siam
and British fired mortars and
heavy machine guns in efforts
to halt disturbances.
* * *
GENERAL DWIGHT D.
Eisenhower ordered the removal'
of all Nazi office holders from
civic or key industrial positions
in the American occupation
zone.
THE NAVY DEPARTMENT
announced in Washington that
any enlisted man with 3 or more
children under 18 years of age
will he released at his own
request.
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PRE S I I) E N T T R U M A N
SIGNED legislation aholishing
war time and putting the na
tion’s docks back to standard
time effective 2 a.in. Sunday,
September 30.