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V OLL ME XIA III Number 95 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1947 Choral Union Program Set —— —« .. .a (Emerald photo by Don Jones) CAMPAIGN BOSSES . . . Headed by David Dimm and Barbara Johns, co-chairmen, the campus Red Cross drive for funds is now in Jpll swing. The committee includes: front row, left t > right: Margaret Rauch, Diar.e Mead, Marian Battey, Nancy Bedingfie'.d, and Phyllis Litzenberger. Back r m: Mary Anne Hansen, David Dimm, Barbara Johns, and Dick Logan. Red Cross Drive Gains Speed; Dance, Show, Movie on Agenda The University Reel Cross drive moves into the fourth day of its entertainment-packed week today with the record ol student responses reported high. 'I'he drive has been gaining momentum with the coopera tion of individual students and living organizations, accord ing to Barbara Johns, campaign co-chairman. She revealed that one house has voted to add $1 to each, member's board bill to be donated to me drive, and another living organization has pledged $1.50 per person. Funds Used Locally Miss Johns pointed out that 76 per cent of all funds collected in this drive will be used locally. The Red Cross out-door rally dance is scheduled for tonight at the library plaza with Herb Wid mer and company furnishing the music, provided Oregon doesn’t "mist.” The hop is a stag and ^ill living organizations are urged to turn out en masse. Entertainment Slated Side ..entertainment ..sponsor 1 by the Red Cross Wednesday at 4 p. m. will feature songs by a campus male quartet, with Bud Hurst acting as MC. Thursday the Side goes Hawaiian when a trio of Hui-o-Kamiana men, Ki hei Brown, Eric Rabe, and Bill Seal, sing a beach-boy song, "Out In the Cold Again.” A Red Cross film, “Facing Tomorrow,” will be shown suple mentary to the regular movies scheduled for Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. in 107 Chapman hall. 'Yellow Jacket' Tickets Tickets for the Chinese costume play, “The Yellow Jacket,” may be purchased at the University tick et office in Johnson hall starting >n{(ay .Office hours are 10 a.m. to jj *noon and 1 tb 5 p.m. (The play will run March 6, 7, 8, ’ .il, 12, 13, and is under the direc tion of Mrs. Ottilie T. Seyboit. Mock Press Trial Set for Seminar A mock libel trial, involving Ben nett vs. the fictitious Eugene Reo ord-Globe, will be held by the law of the press seminar in Judge Warren C. Price’s circuit court in room 105, journalism building Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. The case involves an alienation of affections charge brought by a fic titious University professor against his graduate assistant. The story was printed in the Record-Globe, but the case was later dropped. The present libel case is being brought against the newspaper by the grad uate assistant for defamation of character. Jonathan K. Kahananui will be the attorney for the plaintiff, and Betty Mack Lynch and Vernon White will handle the defense. Ted Goodwin will act as court clerk and George Holcolmb will be sergeant at-arms. The jury will be composed of four men and four women chosen from the journalism school. Class Cards Requested The home economics depart ment has requested that all class cards for spring term be turned in by Saturday at the latest. The offices in Chapman hall will be open all day Friday, March 7, and Saturday morning. »"•«. lifting!' ___W--.V ■- ^ . Seminars Scheduled For Math, Chemistry The mathematics and chemistry ] departments hold their weekly sem i inars today at 4 p.m. Roland McCully, graduate stu dent in chemistry, speaks on “The Folarographic Behavior of Lignin” at the chemistry seminar in 103 Mc Clure hall. .. .Miss Shirley Anderson, instruc tor in mathematics, talks on “Jen sen’s Inequality” at the mathemat ics seminar in 204 Deady hall. Orientation Meeting A meeting of all married students now living in or about to move into the Amazon housing project has been called for 7 p.m. Wednesday in 103 Fenton by Oge Young, manager. Young will explain what tenants may do toward decorating and equipping their apartments in addi tion to what the University has al ready done. He will also describe plans for. future improvements. I —-— McArthur Court Concert Tonight Features 180-Voice UO Chorus A program of wide interest and variation will highlight the first large post-war concert of the Universitv choral union to be held tonight at 8:15 p. m. at McArthur court. Under the direction of Donald \\ . Allton, the choral union, composed of 180 voices, will present a program including sacred songs, Negro spirituals, folk songs, and a bit from "Alice in Wonder ---- I land.” Support Urged For F.E.P.C. The. people Of the Northwest are perpetrating "spiritual lynchings’’ against Negroes, Edwin C. Berry, executive secretary of the Portland Urban league, said last night in his appeal for the support of the house bill 385, the fair employment prac tices bill now before the Oregon state senate. Berry spoke at the Community Center under the auspices of the Eugene YWCA. He urged that letters, wires, and phone calls in support of the bill be sent to the Lane county delegation at once since a house committee hearing will be held on it today at 1:30 p.m. According to Berry, the bill states in part, "that it shall be deemed il legal in the state of Oregon to dis criminate against people for jobs for which they are qualified and which are created by their own money.” In a comparison of Hitler’s Neurnberg code with the laws of the United States, many parallels have been found concerning inter marriage, the place of non-Aryans in the society, job discrimination, and residential segregation, Berry said. "V : can no longer afford the lux ury of racism,” Berry said. “We have to get our head out of the sand because our time is running short. Any time Americans decide to end all this foolishness, it will be over.” Berry cited several places in the United States—Chicago, Milwau kee, Louisville, New York—where the free employment practices bill has workd. “We can learn by their experience if w will,” he said. “This is not a bill for Negroes, or Jews, or Catholics. It is a bill for Americans.” Comp Regisration Set Registration for section 216, spe cial composition classes for A and B grade students who wish to write on special subjects, must be made through the English composition department instead of individual I teachers. Cards should be obtained today and tomorrow in room 12, Friendly. Ray Johnson Elected State AVC Chairman Ray Johnson, junior in pre-law, was elected state chair man of the American \ eterans' committee at that organiza tion's first annual convention of the Oregon council, held in Portland Saturday and Sundav. Johnson, who was elected by a unanimous vote of the 112 delegates attending the convention, is also chairman of the Eugene chapter of the AVC. Another Cniversitv student Kieth Bacon, was elected secretary, at the convention. He is a graduate student in political science. The convention also elected Bruce Bishop, freshman in journal ism, as editor of the organization’s proposed publication, the Oregon State Bulletin, which is scheduled to make its first appearance in April. Carl Maxey, junior in pre law, was chosen by the convention as state finance officer. A former University professor, Vaughn Albertson, now teaching at Vanport, was selected state vice chairman for the AVC. Bishop, Maxey, and Jeane Nunn, sophomore in journalism, were elected to serve on the state planning committee. One of the resolutions passed by the convention condemned all racial discrimination in state supported schools. i he choral union, now a picked group of voices selected from try outs of over 500 students last fall, presents a tonal balance of mascu line and feminine voices. Tonight’s concert will be the first major ap pearance of the group this year. Virginia Walker, soprano, and Wayne Sherwood, bass-baritone, will be featured in incidental solos in the fourth part of the program. Program I ■ “Now Thank We All Our God’’.j. s. Bach "Here Yet Awhile” (From the St. Matthew Passion) .J. S. Bach "God Is a Spirit” . .C. Albert Scholin "Hospodi Fomilui.G. V. Lvovsky II “Song of the Fates” .Johannes Brahms III “A Hope Carol”.David S. Smith “O Softly Singing Lute.Felix Borowsky “The Year's at the Spring” .Noble Cain IV “Waters Ripple and Flow.Deems Taylor Incidental solos: Virginia Walker, soprano; Wayne Sherwood, bass baritone. “And the Music Dies"..Albert Noelta Choruses from “Alice in Wonderland".Irving G. Fine The Lobster Quadrille Father William V “De New-born Baby”, Negro Spir itual arr. by Noble Cain “He’s Gone Away," Southern moun tain song, arr. by J. W. Clokey. key. “Oh John,” Negro Spiritual arr, by C. W. Reynolds. “I Hear America Singing”.Robert B. Reed Crombie, Halloek To Attend PNCC Catherine Crombie, senior in po litical science, and Ted Halloek, senior in journalism, will attend the second Pacific Northwest College Congress at Reed college March 6 to 8 as representatives of the Uni versity. Resolutions drawn up by repre sentatives of 37 Pacific Northwest colleges will be presented to the University student body for ratifi cation in an assembly to be held some time next week, according to Halloek. Sponsored by the Portland League of Women Voters, Reed col lege and the Northwest Institute of International Relations, the con gress will be divided into six see itons: international, political, end legislative problems; disarmament and atomic energy; world economic problems; social problems and hu man rights; dependent peoples; end student aims in future college con gresses. Miss Crombie will attend the section on social problems and hu man rights and Halloek the discus sion on disarmament and atomic energy. Among the keynote speakers will be Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, recently named chairman of the section on human rights and civil liberties of the United Nations.