VOLUME XLVJI
UNIVERSITY OF
OREGON, EUGENE,
FRIDAY,
JANUARY 4.
Number 51
1946
Ducks Anticipate Crowded Winter Term Date-Books
Social Calendar Reveals
influence of Returning Men
Increased enrollment, the growing ratio of men to women
on the campus, and the reopening of fraternities has resulted
in the most crowded calendar of winter term social events for
several years. House dances, open houses and firesides will
keep nightlife-happy Ducks busy with dates; basketball games,
concerts, ski trips, carnivals, and other all-campus activities
mean that no student need spend a dull moment between classes
apd sessions at hitting the books.
The winter term social schedule,
as yet incomplete, was issued
Thursday by Marge Skordahl,
head of the Women’s Coordinating
Council which works in coopera
tion with Dean of Women Golda
Wickham to list and regulate
extra-curricular affairs.
| Changes Possible
“Modifications of the calendar
will be made from time to time as
petitions come in,” Miss Skordahl
stated, emphasizing the advis
ability of early determination of
dates of events in order to extend
all activities throughout the term
and avoid over-crowded evenings.
Petitions for changes or addi
tions in the calendar must be
submitted to the coordinating
council at the dean of women’s
office a week before the pro
posed event.
Living organizations may still
petition for firesides and desserts
if their quota of social events has
not been filled. At present each
living organization is restricted to
three open houses, one fireside,
and one house dance per term.
Rules Amended
However, if popular demand
justifies changing these provisions,
this rule may be amended to suit
conditions. Formerly the council
had decreed that only five open
♦-iiouses were to be scheduled on the
campus for any one night, but
there is a possibility this rule may
also be retracted.
Several houses have announ
MARGE SKORDAHL
Head of the Women’s Coordin
ating; Council.
ced afternoon open houses this
week—events not previously
scheduled in the calendar—and
it is expected that there will be
no objection to this innovation.
Social events by the fraternities
and by other living organizations
which have net been listed will be
published in the Emerald upon
approval by Mrs. Wickham and
the council.
The calendar as it stands at
present follows:
WINTER TERM SOCIAL CALENDAR
FRIDAY, JANUARY 4
Friday, January 4
Winter rushing
Campbell club dessert
YWCA-YMCA open house
Saturday, January 5
Winter rushing
Senior ball
Sunday, January 6
Town and Gown
Alpha Omicron Pi founder’s day
banquet
Monday, January 7
Heads of Houses meeting
Basketball-Oregon vs. Idaho, here
Amphibian initiation
Tuesday, January 8
Basketball-Oregon vs Idaho, here
Kwama meeting, 6:30
Amphibian tryouts
WAA ex council meeting
Rally squad meeting
Wednesday, January 9
YWCA activators
Campbell club faculty dinner
Alpha Omicron Pi open house
Hilyard House‘open house
Zeta Tau Alpha open house
University house dessert
Highland house open house
Gamma hall open house
WAA cabinet meeting
Phi Theta meeting
Thursday, January 10
Concert—Salzedo Ensemble instru
mental quintet
Rally squad meeting
Friday, January 11
Interdorfti informal dance
■*" YWCA-YMCA open house
Saturday, January 12
Basketball-Oregon vs. OSC here
'""Alpha Chi Omega fireside dance
Ski club trip
Sunday, January 13
Alpha Delta Pi tea
Town and Gown
Gamma Phi Beta faculty dinner
Ski club trip
Monday, January 14
Tuesday, January 15
Amphibian tryouts
W.A.A. ex council meeting
Wednesday, January 16
Hawthorne house open house
Alpha Gamma Delta open house
Alpha Delta Pi open house
Kappa Alpha Theta open house
Susan Campbell open house
Delta Gamma open house
Aider hall open house
Rebec faculty dinner
W.A.A. cabinet meeting
Thursday, January 17
Campbell club faculty dinner
Mortar Board donut sale
W.A.A. tournaments start
Rally squad meeting
Friday, January 18
Kappa Kappa Gamma tea
Alpha Xi Delta brother’s dinner
Basketball-Oregon vs. O.S.C.—
there
Mortar Board donut sale
Saturday, January 19
Outing club breakfast
Basketball-Orego'n vs O.S.C., here
I.S.A.—all campus dance
Pre-nursing field trip
Sunday, January 20
Judson house tea
Town and Gown
Monday, January 21
Open rushing begins
Heads of Houses meeting
Amphibian pledging
Tuesday, January 22
Alpha Gamma Delta faculty din
ner
Kwama meeting 6:30
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Winter Formal Ducats Slated
For Sale at Co-op Until Saturday
Classrooms Bulge;
2274 Register
Working Wednesday night
until the wee hours of the morn
ing, University employees found
that 2274 students had com
pleted registration the first day,
an increase of 50 per cent over
the same period in 1945.
More than 300 other students
had secured materials for regis
tration and had not been able to
finish. Additional students
arrived on the campus yester
day to begin registering, but no
totals have been released to
date.
So swamped that they have
not had time to tabulate the
number of later registrants,
University officials said that
the final number might be sur
prising, perhaps even surpassing
the all-time high of 3476 in 1941.
E. M. Pallett, registrar, stated
that in other years of high en
rollment, more students had
lived in private homes in
Eugene. However during the
present housing shortage many
of the houses that would norm
ally have been available for stu
dents have already been filled.
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Senior's 'Music Box Ball' Promises
Gala Entertainment, Decorations, Band
Inaugurating Oregon’s all-campus social calendar is the
“Music Box Ball,” annual senior formal presented the first of
each winter term by the senior class. This year’s gala affair
promises to surpass any all-campus dance since male enrollment
depleted to an all-time low because of the war.
Art Holman Returns
Returning veterans and new students to the University will
M. M. ELLSWORTH
Chairman of the Music Box Ball
Extension Courses Open:
NumerousClossesOffered
Extension courses, the majority of which offer college
credit, with some providing either graduate or undergraduate
credit, are being offered as a public service to meet the interests
and needs of the community, as announced by the Oregon
general extension division.
These courses will be given for eleven weeks, from January
7 to March 26, and may be taken without credit.
Art Classes Open
Courses offered in the art de
partment are as follows: interior
design elements, an introduction to
the scope, aim, and technique of
interior design; lower division ap
plied design, consisting of lectures,
demonstrations, and class problems
involving the handling of clay,
glazing, and firing; lower division
applied design; weaving, including
the setting up of the loom for
various types of weaving, and
study of pattern, color and texture
in woven articles; lower division
architectural design, an introduc
tion to modern ideas of design and
construction in home planning.
The educational department is
offering an adolescence course:
growth and development of the in
dividual, which concerns the
processes through which the nor
mal human being reaches maturity
and a course on unit construction
dealing with the adaption of the
unit method of instruction for
teachers and principals.
Russian Offered
First year Russian is being of
fered by the foreign language de
partment. Oregon history, a brief
survey of the building of civiliza
tion in the Oregon country and
contemporary Russian civilization,
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Phi Theta Offers
Four Scholarships
The awarding of four scholar
ships to be given before the end of
the school year by Phi Theta f)psi
lon has been announced by Marge
Skordahl, president of the junior
women’s honorary. According to
Miss Skordahl they will be large
enough to contribute a substantial
amount toward their receivers’
education.
The Phi Thetas have earned the
money for the scholarships by
ushering at concerts and taking
tickets, and by alternating every
other week with the Kwamas when
ushering for the AWS teas. They
have also servrd for the student
religious council.
Their winter term activities will
continue the same jis those of the
fall, the exception being that
ushering for basketball games and
doing the book work for them will
take the place of the football
games. They also plan to work and
revise the Phi Theta constitution.
On behalf of her fellow members
Miss Skordahl wishes to thank all
women who helped the Phi Thetas
last term.
nave tneir first opportunity In'
dance to the music of Art Holman
and his orchestra, a favorite of
students on the campus. Saturday
evening’s program will be aiig
mcnted with a special intermission
feature, according to Bob Smith;
chairman of the entertainment
committee.
Corsages will be in order for
this first formal of the school year
and tickets for the dance are on
sale at the co-op for $1.20 a couple
all day Friday and Saturday
morning.
McArthur court, home of Ore
gon’s “Tall Firs,” is being trana.-'
formed into a scene of new sur
roundings for the occasion. Decora
tions promise to be original anil
striking in theme, though strict
secrecy prevails as to their nature.
Chaperones Announced
Patrons and patronesses for the
dance as announced by Bernice
Granquist, chairman of the patrons
committee, include: President and
Mrs. Harry K. Newburn, Chancel
lor and Mrs. Frederic M. Hunter,
Dean of Personnel and Mrs. K. W.
Onthank, Assistant Dean of Men.
and Mrs. George Hall, Mr. and Mrs.
J. Alan Wickham, Mr. and Mrs.
Burt Brown Barker, Captain and
Mrs. William Glang.
Dean and Mrs. Orlando J. Holli.3,
Dean and Mrs. Victor P. Morris,
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Lomax, Mr. and
Mrs. W. P. Riddlesbarger, Mr. and
Mrs. J. M. McGee, Mr. and Mrs.
Alton Baker, and Mr. and Mrs. Ed
ward Bailey.
Tickets have sold rapidly since
being placed on sale Wednesday
and students wishing to attend
.should buy them before the dance
so as to avoid a long line-iip at the
door.
Weekly Free Shows
Resumed This Term
Two features of special intercut
to students of history and govern
ment will open this term's weekly
movie series January 9. These
films are sponsored hy the "educa
tional activities board and held in
207 Chapman hall from 7:30 to
10:30 p. m. with two continuous
showings.
The first feature, “Territorial
Expansion of the United States
From 1783 to 1853,” presents the
growth of the United States from
colonial times up to its present
size, depicted chronologically. In
sequel to this film, “Territorial
Possessions of the United States,”
which covers from the year 1853
to the present, continues the
growth of our country through the
acquisition of Alaska the insular
possessions, and the Canal Zone,
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