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VOLUME XLVIII Number 26
UNIVERSITY OE OREGON, EUGENE,ERID.W, OCTOBER 25, 1946
University Students
To Present Views
—See Story Cols. 4 and 5
LEGAL, CONFUSION ...
JyThe 1941 ASIJO election resulted in the burning of el ection ballots and the calling of a new election. Wayne
Morse, then law dean and now Oregon’s junior senator, is shown touching a match to the ballots. The elec
tion at that time was declared illegal because of what was named in an Emerald editorial a “constitutional
technicality.” Confusion over the season for the illegality was attributed, in part to the fact that Oregon
students do not understand their own elections. An Emerald survey Thursday shows that only 23 per cent un
flprstand t.hpir plpptions.
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Majority of University Student Body
Ignorant of Present Balloting System
Twenty-three Per Cent Understands Voting;
Partial Comprehension Shown by 47 Per Cent
Only 23 per cent of the Oregon student body understands the
preferential voting system under which their student officers are
elected, it was learned Thursday after a campus poll taken by the
Emerald. There were 61 students of the 269 polled who showed
an understanding of the system.
Of those polled, 127 students, or 47 per cent, showed a lack
of understanding of the preferential system and 81 students, or
30 per cent, showed a partial under
standing.
Students Tested
i The two questions asked were de
signed to test the students’ actual
knowledge rather than their opin
ions'. The Emerald poll was:
“Under the preferential voting
system used here at the University,
A is running for first position and
B for second position on the Greek
ticket. Y is running for first posi
tion and Z for second position on
the Independent ticket. A receives
1000 votes and Y 900 for first posi
tion. B receives 1000 votes and Z
900 for second position. First ques
tion: Who will get the second posi
tion? Second question: Will any of
the people running fail to be on the
executive committee?”
Correct Answers
The correct answers are: first
question, Y; second question, No.
Students who answered both
questions correctly were credited
as understanding the preferential
system and the organization of their
student government. Students who
answered only one question cor
rectly were credited as having a
partial understanding and those
who answered neither correctly
were in the group that was labeled
as having no understanding of the
preferential system and their stu
dent government.
Began in 1937
The preferential voting system,
or proportional representation, was
set up in 1937 by the ASUO execu
tive council. It works in the follow
ing manner:
The voter indicates the order of
his preference by rating the names
of the candidates in 1-2-3 order. Al
though he may mark as many
choices as he wishes, the student
voter usually is advised to vote for
only two since each party makes a
practice of nominating two candi
dates.
Usually Four
Occasionally “dark-horse” candi
dates complicate the election but
usually there are only four persons
running for the four student offices.
This is the case under the sample
questions and therefore all the per
sons nominated will receive an of
fice which carries with it a seat on
the executive committee.
Tabulation of the ballots is more
(Please turn to page eight)
UO Religious Group
Chooses Officers
Officers were elected for the
newly-revised University Religious
council in an organizational meet
ing held Thursday night. The coun
cil has received the approval of
Harry Newburn, University presi
dent, as a unifying group embrac
ing all faiths on the campus. It is
composed of representatives from
each religious group plus members
at-large.
New officers of the council are:
Kelly Hamilton, student president;
Dave Seaman, adult chairman; Ver
na Appling, student secretary; Lois
Greenwood, adult secretary; and
Shirley Mulhauf, treasurer.
Priority for Dorms
Ends November 2
Students living In temporary
housing this term have been under
a special priority system, with No
vember 2, the deadline, to apply for
dormitory reservations for winter
term. After that date reservations
will be made in the order in which
they are received.
All applications should be made
at the dormitory office in John
Straub.
With the opening of a second vet
erans’ dormitory winter term, the
University will be able to house
more veterans than during fall
term. Plans have been made to give
the men larger and more comfort
able quarters than existed in the
one unit this term.
The University also expects to
have the cafeteria, which is being
built between the two veterans'
dormitories, completed for the be
ginning of winter term.
Students not at present enrolled
in the University must obtain an
eligibility slip from the registrar.
UN Delegates Receptive
To Student ‘Peace' Plans
By Lois McConkey, Emerald Correspondent
NEW YORK, Oct. 23 (Special)—Are influential United Na
tions delegates interested in the opinions of American students?
If the response Troy Strong and 1 have received to the resolu
tions made by the Northwest Pacific college students for presen
tation to the United Nations assembly is any indication, the an
swer must be affirmative. .
Sterling Fisher of the National Broadcasting company sug
gested a national congress of college students, along the lines of
the Pacific Northwest College congress, be organized. Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt, Trygve Lie, Norwegian secretary of the
United Nations assembly; Ben Cohen of the state department;
Senator Arthur Vandenburg and Senator Tom Connally, Amer
ican delegates to the assembly; Helen Gahagan Douglas, and
Warren Austin, U. S. representative to the United Nations, all
approved the suggestion and encouraged us to stimulate student
interest in the United Nations.
The New York Times and the World Telegraph are giving us
ample publicity. Friday we’ll have a full page in the Telegraph.
Olaf Paus-Grunt, head of the UN educational service, gave 11s
passes to the opening of the UN assembly, and we viewed this
impressive spectacle from backstage.
Warnings Given', Fines to Follow
Autumn doesn’t last forever,
neither does ice cream nor ny
lons.
Among other nice things that
won’t last forever is the good hu
mor of the campus policemen
when it comes to illegal parking
on the east side of Kincaid street
between 11th and 13th.
A few tickets have been handed
out to day-long violators of the
no-parking rule, but most “tick*
ets” have turned out to be warn
ings.
Comes the big change and a lot
of people will be digging deep to
pay traffic fines.
Apologies are hereby presented
to anyone trying to get rid of hia
money, but couldn’t it be put to
better use by the Student Union ?
Christian Ethics Educator,French Secret Underground Agent
Schedule Forums At YWCA to Mark Religious Emphasis Week
Religious Leader
Is Author and Lecturer
Dr. Buell Gordon Gallagher, one
of the speakers scheduled to appear
on the campus during Religious Em
phasis week, is a nationally promi
nent educator, writer and religious
lecturer, He has been professor of
Christian ethics at Pacific School
of Religion in Berkeley, California,
since 1944.
DR. BUELL G. GALLAGHER .
Noted Author to lecture
A native of Rankin, Illinois, he
received his A.B. degree at Carleton
college at Northfield, Minnesota in
1925. The next year he was an in
structor at Doane college, Crete,
Nebraska. In 1929 he was ordained
a minister in the Congregational
church. During the following year
he studied at the Long school of
economics in England.
College President
For the next ten year, Dr. Galla
gher served as president of Talla
dega (Alabama) college. This is the
only Negro college in the deep south
on the approved list of the Associa
tion of American Universities.
Gallagher’s book, “American
Caste and the Negro College’’ at
tracted the attention of educators
and students of racial problems,
when it was first published in 1938.
Dr. Gallagher has also contributed
many articles to religious and edu
cational publications.
Racial Problems
He is one of the founders of the
council for social action of the Con
gregational Christian churches.
His efforts toward solution of racial
problems in America resulted in his
appointment to the board of direc
tors of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored Peo
ple.
Speaker Experiences
Several Nazi Arrests
A five-year record as a secret
service agent in the French under
ground forces is a part of the ex
periences Dr. Gabriel Nahas, who
will speak during Religious Em
phasis week, brings to his work with
the World Student Service Fund.
Among those hastily mobilized
during the last weeks of the battle
DR. GABRIEL NAHAS . . .
Former FFI man to speak.
of France in 1940, Dr. Nahaa re
turned to his native Toulouse and
immediately took part in the or
ganization of a clandestine paper
edited and printed by student
groups of the city.
Arrested in December 1941 by
Vichy police, but released one month
later, he resumed his underground
work, this time organizing secret
army cells among the students of
Toulouse university. ,
Being wanted by both the Ger
man and Vichy police, he changed
his identity in 1942, and undertook
the job of arranging for an “under
ground railroad” passing over the
Spanish frontier for the benefit of
British pilots shot down in France,
Aided Maquis
Having finished his medical stud
ies during this time, Mr. Nahas, in,
1944, worked with the Maquis of the
Toulouse area, organizing a health
service unit and serving as a doc-<
tor. He was arrested three times by]
the Gestapo but escaped. With the
Maquis he took part in the libera
tion of southwest France. j
Dr. Nahas is now visiting Amer-i
ican colleges under the auspices ofi
the World Student Service fund toj
tell American students the back*
ground and present condition olj
Europe’s students.