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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 17, 1947)
VOLUME XLVIII Number Ilf UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, APRIL 17. 1947 ■Queen Sue to Grace 'Gay Nineties' Oregon's 'Gibson Girls' WHERE’S SNOW BELLE ? . . . Without the floppy-eared St. Bernard who stole the show yesterday, Queen Sue Ferniinen and her court of Junior Weekend princesses, left to right, Pat Davis, Janis Peterson, the queen, Sallie Timmens, and Jean Barringer, will rule the Gay Nineties festivities. UO Enrollment Drops to 5272 Spring term total enrollment at the University as of April 12 dropped to 5272 from winter’s total of 5608, registration figures avail able in the office of C. L. Constance, assistant registrar, showed Wednes day. The figures for both terms sum up enrollment as it stood after the closing day of registration, two weeks from the beginning of the term. Enrollment still remains 40 per cent above last year’s spring regis-1 tration. Although the spring term nose-1 dive was the first notable drop for this school year, the trend shows only a return to normal, Constance pointed out. Last year was unusual for its continuing increase in total registration each term. The decrease in registration be- ( tween similar periods of fall and winter terms this year was only from 5682 to 5608. The actual num ber of students in attendance in each case was somewhat lower. Vet Total 3093 The University’s postwar influx of veterans has reached a total of 3093 this term, 112 of them women. This heralded return of the male to collegiate greenswards has given the men an almost two to one pre ponderance over the coeds—or 3476 to 1796, as the figures show it. The junior class, an ever-rare species, is now virtually twice its size last year, even at a measly 384 (Please turn to page eight) Student Union Fund Gets Advance $85oo Donation Advance gifts totaling $8500 have been received for the Student Union fund, it was announced yesterday. The three gifts, $5000, $2500, and $3000, are the first to be received in the advance gifts by Lane coun ty. Person to person solicitation in the Eugene, Lane county district has started in the campaign to raise $200,000, the dates of the actual drive being May 1 to 16. Alumni groups in all major cities in the country have been organized and the remaining funds of the $600,000 will be raised, insuring the Univer sity of the building. The Student Union is designed for more than a student and social cen ter; it will be a community center, a home for the students. The ASUO drive, to be officially launched April 24 at an assembly in McArthur court, will raise $5000 and will end May 10, the winners of the contest between the living organizations being announced then. -!_--- i ■ I Friday's Nickel Hop Promises j Records to Winning Dancers The Nickel Hop, one of the high lights of the AWS preview weekend, will be held Friday night from 9 to 12. Each women’s living organiza tion on the campus will be open for dancing. The price is five cents for every 15 minutes of dancing. All men are invited to participate in the evening’s festivities, and are urged to visit as many different houses as possible in the course of the evening. Two record albums, to be given as prizes to the men’s or ganization which has participated most in the dance, and the women’s house which has collected the most nickels, are being donated by the Jaquith Music company. The prizes will be awarded on a percentage basis. Each time a man enters a differ ent women’s home he will chalk up a tally for his living organization. Therefore, by visiting as many wo men’s houses as possible, each man will chalk up more tallies for his organization. * The women’s house will receive and album of records by Paul Wes ton entitled “Music for Dreaming”; the men’s house will receive an al bum by Eddie LeMar entitled "Man hattan Moods.” The albums will be awarded next week. Coeds assisting co-chairmen Beth Basler and Laura Olson are Jean nine McCaulay, Carol Becker, pos ters; Jackie Wachhorst and Mar jorie Harrison, collections; and Jane Daggett and Carol Nickerson, priz Snowbelle Gets Second Place in Majesty's Court Hail Sue I, queen and ruler of 1947’s Junior Weekend! The charming blonde candidate, a junior in psychology and presi dent of her living organization, was yesterday voted to Ore gon's growing list of royalty, taking the regal position of queen of the Weekend, to be held May 9. 10. and 11. Ruling over the event with Sue will be Jean Barringer, Pat Davis, Janis Petersen, and Sallie Timmens, the four candidates named in yes terday's elections when student voters narrowed the field from eight finalists, selected last week by representative judges. Snowbelle’s 203 votes put her in second place in the count. Sr.owbelle, whose publicity agents tout her as the only female on the campus who can boast blonde, brunette and red hair rolled into One lovable, affectionate candidate, was disqualified from the Junior Weekend court, late last night when she was found to be academically ineligible. Snowbelle is a second-term sophomore instead of a social junior, as the rides of the contest specified. Despite the horrified cries of the Phi Psis, at whose house the smooth-shaven canine lives, it was deemed that Snowbelle had spent too much of her time at. the Co-op, Side Taylor’s, and too little at the Labe, to be awarded a JC. The loose-jowled beast, whose regal manner and so phisticated air qualified her for the stately position, hail no comment to offer, except a word of thanks for well wishers who sent flowers, words of congratulations, anil condolences. Sue, whose home is in Klamath Falls, is a five-foot four-inch coed, bubbling over with pep and enthusiasm for the University, her studied, and activities, and her queenly new status. Thrilled to receive the honor, and full of praise for her court, Sue's immediate reaction was to sink into a chair and sigh, “I just can't be lieve it’s really true.” Her activities on the campus include a major part in the forthcoming campus production, “Green Pastures.” Sue, a versatile young lady, holds a solo air license, can earn a living running a linotype, and is interested in personnel work after graduation. She is a member of the Student Religious council, and also belongs to the Independent Stu dents’ association. Interested in modern dance, she has been a member of Orchesis. Queen Sue and her court, will mount their thrones May 10 when thq prime minister, unannounced as yet, will crown the queen. Lecture Series Presents PolishDIipomat Tonight Speaking on “England as Seen Through the Eyes of a Continental European,” Dr. Wladyslaw \V. Kulski, Polish scholar and diplomat, will be presented tonight at 207 Chap man at 7:30 p.m. Representing the Institute of International Education under the sponsorship of the University lecture series, Dr. Kulski will also speak Friday evening on the “Comparison between the United Nations and the League of Nations as a Guarantee of World Peace.” The Polish.author and diplomat was Polish minister pleni potentiary in London from 1940 to 1945 and later was a member ot tne League ot Nations. During the war was a member of the Polish delegation for the negotia tions with the Czechoslovak gov ernment in meetings of the inter allied committee of foreign min isters representing nine European governments then in London. Dr. Kulski was trained at the faculty of law at the Warsaw uni versity and the University of Paris, receiving the degree of Doc tor Juris at the University tif Paris. (Please turn to page eight) Jane Daggett, Beth Easier and Laura Olson, Nickel Hop co-chairmen, listen to the records to he awarded to the winning men's and women’s organizations after the annual dance.