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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1947)
Atomic Age Hits University Grading Systems; Oregon Second School in West to Utilize IBM —EMERALD photo by Don Jones. Mrs. James B. Maxwell, one of the operators of the newly installed IBM system, is shown processing student cards with the key punch machine in the registrar’s office, Johnson hall. Rapid Romance Is 'Hop’ Theme Decorations for the Heart Hop are now in full swing under the direction of Mary McQueen, chair man of the decorations commit tee. Individual houses will be decorated during game time on Friday night with all five houses, which will be open to students displaying a progressive theme done in silhouettes. It begins at Susan Campbell with boy-meets-girl, and at the Pi Phi house their casual ac quaintance is carried out with coke dates and Side meetings. Alpha Chi Omega illustrates the formal prom at which the couple becomes better acquainted and ^which leads to the Chi Omega house where the boy proposes, the girl accepts, and plans are made for the wedding. Finally at the Delta Gamma house they are married and the silhouettes end with the proud parents pushing a baby carriage merrily down the street. The Heart Hop, which began 10 years ago as a leap-year dance entitled “The Lover’s Leap,’’ is now traditional on the Oregon campus occuring every year on February 14, sponsored by the YWCA. This year’s Hop will fol low the basketball game at Mac court between Oregon and Idaho. Being a strictly girl-date-boy af fair, tickets went on sale in women’s houses Monday night and voting for the King of Hearts, who will reign over the entire evening’s festivities, will take place on Wed nesday, Thursday and Friday of this week. Voting will be done in the Co-op. Tickets may also be purchased at the Co-op voting booth at 50 (Please turn to payc seven) Portland Audience To Hear UO Band June Johnson, soprano, and John ette King, pianist, will be featured soloists when the University con cert band presents a free public con cert in Portland’s Grant high school auditorium today. The concert, to be given at the request of the Portland public schools, will be open to high school bandsmen, directors, and the gen eral public as far as seating capac ity permits. The band will be under the direction of John Stehn, asso ciate professor of music. New Machine Handles 25 Grades a Minute By LEONARD BERGSTROM Pioneering a new method of handling the large amount of data required to enroll and maintain the | records of students, the University of Oregon has joined the University j of California in bringing the IBM system to the schools in the West. This is being done to bring order out of the chaos that resulted when an outdated system attempted to keep pace with the rapid growth of the student body. The IBM system was devised and is operated under the sponsorship of the International Business Ma chines company, owners of the ma chines rented to schools and business concerns that adopt the system. It is intended to handle statistical material with accuracy and speed. “There’s no question about it,” is the opinion of C. L. Constance, as sociate registrar, “this is the only way mass records and information can be handled efficiently. It is eas ier to process, requires less person nel to operate, and eliminates a great deal of human error, yet does the requried work rapidly.” IBM Used Fall Term University students began to sense the innovation during the lat ter part of fall term, particularly when the new report card, with its improvements, appeared. But few persons realized the transition tak ing place. At present there are two IBM machines in the registrar’s office— a key punch and a sorter. These are used to record enrollment data for each student by name, class, course, i course number, grade, points, cred i it hours, home address, campus ad dress, parents’ address, age, mari tal status, veteran status, major, housing, and other small details. Another machine, the tabulator, is used to compile and print up stu (Please turn to l'ci</c six) The Machine Age Here’s a bit of information In regard to computation— Personnel goes technocratic To make grade points IBMatic. —T.G.W. Fire Loss Figure Set at $135,000 Losses resulting from the fire which destroyed the physical plant warehouse on Onyx between Thirteenth and 'Franklin Wednesday night were raised to an estimated $135,000 yes terday by J. O. Lindstrom, business manager. The loss had previously been set at $125,000 and the present figures are still indefinite, C. Ken W’eidner, physical plant superintendent emphasized. A partial break-down of figures includes a $75,000 re Aftermath 's Funny Now By JEANNE SIMMONDS Aftermath of a fire . . . Workmen are cleaning up the remains of a warehouse, women are washing their woodwork trying to remove the scorch, and, now that the near ness and the panic are no longer imminent, people are recalling their actions and situations during the fire. A doctoral dissertation product of a year’s toil, was nearly lost when R. D. Millican, assistant pro fessor of business administration and journalism, dashed from his Emerald street pre-fab—baby un der one arm and thesis under the other—to save two of his most pre cious possessions from the fire. The baby was deposited safely in a neighbor’s house, but the disserta tion wasn’t found until early Wed nesday morning, when someone no ticed a soggy mess of papers near his garbage can - a potential PhD's manuscript. Some of the girls in Susan Camp bell hall will be sitting on the floor for awhile, it is rumored, for Susie had sent some 16 chairs—to be re paired - to the warehouse the day of the fire. $ if- •!• A sword and its owner were soon parted Tuesday night when E. L. Clark's possessions w,ere distrib uted freely up and down Emerald street. The sword, a Japanese war souvenir, was rushed to the house of a friend to be cared for until the danger was over. Clark is an in structor in speech and drama. # * * A telephone, handily ripped from the wall of one of the pre-fabs, was filed in a displaced refrigerator along Emerald street, keeping cool until its owner should come to claim it. * * * When Mrs. George Pegg, running (Please turn to /’<;</<’ seven) Herb Widmer s Orchestra Scheduled to Play For Birthday Ball at Gerlinger February 22 i JOK C OISliOV The newest highlight added to the social calendar came Wednes day when it was announced that Saturday, February 22, is the date for the Birthday Ball. The event is being sponsored by the Inter dorm council. Dale Harlan and Joe Conroy, co-chairmen for the ball, announce that Herb Widnmer’s orchestra has been booked for the semi formal dance to be held at Ger linger from 9 to 12 p. m. The dance, originally scheduled for February 8, was postponed until this date so that a known campus band and a larger dance floor could be obtained. Chairmen Sell Tickets Tickets will be sold by social chairmen of all resident halls be ginning Tuesday. Residents and guests are advised to secure tick ets early in the week because of limitations on the number of (Please turn to page seven) DALE HARLAN placement value on tne building, which was moved to the location on Onyx in 1936 and converted from a gymnasium to a ware house. Expendable Stores Burn Expendable physical plant stores including janitorial and electrical supplies, paint, plumbing, and steam line valves, which were de stroyed, accounted for an approxi mate $30,000 of the total. Loss of additional, nonexpendable equipment totaled $20,000. This included plumbers lathes and tools, the plumbing and welding shop, the athletic department's truck, the pipe-shop pick-up truck, power lawnmowers, electrical ap paratus, and general maintenance equipment. Included in this category is the physics department’s loss of three rectifiers, with a replacement value set at $3,900, according to Dr. A. E. Caswell, department head. Recently purchased through the war assets administration, the apparatus originally cost the Uni versity only $500 or $600. Further break-down of depart mental losses is unobtainable, pending further investigation and the filing of individual claims by the departments, Mr. Weidner said. Furniture Destroyed Amazon flats’ furniture, ru mored to have been destroyed in the blaze, was taken from the warehouse two weeks ago, accord ing to the superintendent. Settlements will be handled by the state restoration fund, the in surance which covers all state owned buildings and equipment at their full value. (Please him to f>ae/e seven) f All Tickets Sold For Dad’s Day Dorm Luncheon Dean Karl Onthank, dean of personnel administration, an ministration, announced today that tickets for the Dads’ luncheon at John Straub hall Saturday have been completely sold out. “How ever, there will be so many other activities that students and dads -an participate in during the day, that no student should discourage lis father from attending Dads’ Day,” he added. Because of the limited seating arrangements in John Straub rail, selling of tickets for the lun cheon was limited. There are >till many tickets for the basket rail game available to dads when hey register Saturday. Bob Wallace, chairman for Dads’ day, said that many Eugene •cstaurants have promised to co rporate in arranging special cl br iers over the weekend for st cl ients and their dads. A series of vesper services will regin this Sunday with a special rrogram dedicated to Oregon Dads. The student program will cake place in the music building it 4 p. m. All students and father s ire urged to attend. Tickets will rot be required. These programs vill be continued every Sunday for Jniversity students if sufficient nterest is shown.