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
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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.
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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.
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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.