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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 15, 1947)
Oregon W Emerald ' VOLUME XLVIII Number 109 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, APRIL IS, 1947 SU Drive Kicks Off April 24 STUDENT UNION COMMITTEE . . . Wally Johnson, chairman, and his committee, left to right: Jim Luckey, Vernon Flake, Johnson, Nancy Peterson, Nancy Bedingfield, and Gloria Grenfell, are pictured as they map plans for the campus drive. A quota of $5,000 has been set as the campus goal. Weekend Affair Heads Named U. of 0. Moms Urged To Attend Shindig Committee heads for Mothers Weekend were announced Monday afternoon by Beverly Carroll, chair man. The three-day event will be held in conjunction with Junior Weekend on May 9, 10 and 11. Students chosen to head the vari ous committees are: Dave Dimm, promotion; Nancy Peterson, regis tration; Ann Burgess, -Hospitality; Nila Desinger, housing; Don Dole, decorations and campus prepara tion; Laura Olson, publicity. “We wish to emphasize the fact that this weekend wlil be a grand time for every student to invite his or her mother to come to Oregon,” Miss Carroll stated, “because not only may they take part in the vari ous functions we will plan for them, but they may also see the events scheduled for Junior Weekend. "Oratorical Contest Open for Seniors If you’re a senior and could use 5150, $100 or maybe even $50, pro fessor W. A. Dahlberg in Friendly hall is the man to see. He is urging that all seniors who are interested to participated in the Failing Beekman oratorical con test which is held on the campus during Commencement weekend. Students who wish to participate are asked to prepare a 15-minu'te oration on any subject of their own choice. “Since only a few seniors ever enter this contest, the chances of earning a sizeable award are great,” remarked Mr. Dahlberg. All seniors interested in an at tempt to increase their bankroll rtnay see Mr. Dahlberg, who is the acting head of the speech drama department in room 107A, Friendly hall. The entry deadline is May 1. Snake Problem Needs Solving Before Friday Crew members are struggling over the problem of making the rod of Moses in “The Green Pas tures” turn into a snake, or a •reasonable facsimile thereof. The stage production used a rubber snake, and the movies used a live snake, which was frozen in a straight position. At the proper moment two power ful lights were turned on the snake, which thawed out in time to wiggle on cue. The latter method has been dis carded as unrealistic by Bill Countryman, who is in charge of solving the problem. Recital to Present Duo, Trio Works A varied program presenting both faculty and student artists per forming together in clarinet and pi ano numbers will be presented at the music school auditorium tonight Francis Bittner, associate pro fessor of piano and Mrs. Maude Stehn will be featured pianists and John H. Stehn, associate professor of music, and Margaret Holm, sophomore student, will perform on the clarinet. The program includes duet and trio numbers and a series of pieces arranged for left hand alone by Bittner. The program is as follows: “Trio in E flat, ” Mozart, Mr. Stehn, Miss Holm, Mrs. Stehn; “Rondo in G Ma jor,” Op. 51, No. 1, Beethoven; Cho rale-Prelude “Fervent Is My Long ing,” Bach; and "Chromatic Fan tasy,” Bach, Mr. Bittner, (left hand alone, arranged by Mr. Bitt ner) ; “Duo,’ ’Op. 48, Weber, Mr. and Mrs. Stehn; “Chaconne,” Bach (arranged for left hand alone by Brahms). Emerald Bids Due Petitions for the editorship of the 1947-48 Emerald and the po sition of business manager must be submitted to the educational activities office in McArthur court before noon, April 19. Co-op Meeting Planned Today Business tolnclude Board Nominations The annual meeting of the Co-op association, of which all students are members, is scheduled for 4 p.m. today. It will be held in 205 Chap man so that all those who are inter ested may attend. Nominations for positions on the Co-op board will be made from the floor. Freshmen may be nominated for the one sophomore position,, and sophomores for the two junior po sitions. Those nominated today will be voted on at the general ASUO elections this spring. Marilyn Sage, president of the Co-op board, will preside over the meeting. Manager M. F. McClain will give the annual financial re port. Business Students To Convene Today The sixth annual student business conference begins on the campus today and will continue through Thursday, Dr. Victor P .Morris, dean of the business administration school, announced. The conference, which will serve as a “guidance clinic” for students in business, will cover the fields of insurance, retailing, wholesaling, office management, personnel man agement, real estate, public ac counting, foreign trade and ship ping, traffic and transportation, ad vertising, private accounting, sales management, and banking. Finalists' Pictures Due The eight finalists for Junior Weekend queen and court are asked to submit pictures of themselves to Barbara Johns, head of elections, by noon to day. The photographs are to be displayed in the Co-op to morrow when the voting will take place. Assembly, Radio Show To Launch $5,000 Race A campus assembly and a nationw ide radio program w ill officially launch the $5XXX) Student Union drive on the campus April 24, said \\ ally Johnson, head of the SU committee, Monday. The assembly will consist of talks by several Student Union leaders in the country, the principal speaker being Ernest Hay cox, president of the Oregon Alumni association and a principal promoter of the nationwide SU campaign. During the assembly, the names of one woman's house and one man's house will be drawn from two bowls on the stage. These two organizations will be asked to sing before the audience without previous notice, the men singing "Oregon” and the women singing “As I Sit And Dream.” Each living organization will need to have full attendance at the as sembly for this reason. Big Prizes Offered The«drive will be conducted on a contest basis, each living organi zation competing against all others. On May 10, during a Jun ior Weekend activity, prizes will be presented to the respective man’s and woman’s house turning in the largest amount of funds per capita. A radio-phonograph com bination is the prize for the wo man’s house and a fully equipped card table is on schedule for a man’s house. "It is our job to make the noise to show the .enthusiasm of the stu dents. If we give to our cause, though the amount may be small, it will help. People naturally are looking to the University for in terest,” said Wally Johnson. Alums Reminded The radio program to be pre sented from the campus station April 24r will be mainly a reminisc ing for the alums and reminding them again of the campaign. It will consist of speakers and local talent to be announced later. All remaining funds for the building, totaling $600,000, are planned to be raised and the cor nerstone of the long awaited-Stu dent Union will be laid during Homecoming next fall. Bill Russell, chairman of the Eugene and Lane county drive, has headquarters in the lobby of the Eugene hotel, the quota for the county being one-third of the total amount. Similar groups have been set up in each county in the state and individual professions have been organized to operate more effectively. Alumni groups in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Wash ington D. C., Hawaii, and any sec tion where Oregon alums are active has set up headquarters, constituting a nationwide cam paign centered on the Student Union. -} Marriage Lectures Continue Tonight Deane Seeger, Eugene city man ager, and Dr. Victor P .Morris, dean of the school of business adminis tration, will be the featured speak ers this evening at 7:15 p.m. in room 3 Fenton hall in the third of the cur rent “Youth and Marriage” lec tures. Seeger will speak on “The Con tributions and interests of the Com munity Regarding the Successful Marriage.” Dr. Morris’ topic will be "The Economic Considerations of Marriage.” Seeger and Morris were original ly scheduled to speak last week but a switch in the program brought Dr. J. V. Berreman, associate pro fessor fo sociology, to the speaker’s platform last Tuesday. The series, co-sponsored by the general extension division and the E. C. Brown trust, will be held each. Tuesday evening until June 3. Robert Over to Portray Noah In 'Green Pastures' April 19 By JANICE KENT Robert D. Over will portray Noah in the Negro interpretation of the Old Testament, “Green Pastures,” to be staged at McArthur court on April 19. The actor’s last major role was that of the 15-year-old Nels in “I Remember Mama.” In “The Green Pastures” he assumes the age of 60 to play Noah. Over feels that Noah is a particu larly human character, very sus ceptible to the vices of his time. Nevertheless, God calls upon Noah to assist Him in beginning the hu man race anew, instructing Noah to build an ark that will withstand the floods and keep his family safe. Noah’s sinning, gambling neigh j bors ridicule the crude ark until the rains come and they are not able to find shelter from the floods, throughout their 40-day and night confinement to the ark, only Noah retains faith in God and his mission. When the waters subside, Noah sees his reward—for his kin, alone, inhabit the earth. Over, who is a sophomore in dra ma, said that he will spend the summer months as a director for "Oregon Trail," the Lane County centennial celebration. i 'nnnpnrpnrnwmi—Mnmnnnnnnimnrifflrfffrrrf—-''-'•'T'-y riirinnrrwinpnnriprinripn-r - -nr ROBERT OVER