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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 23, 1947)
-■'••• ^ Nationwide Broadcast To Keynote SU Rally rtn dtsemoiy 10 De oroaacasi nationally, speeches, and student entertainment will be featured in the kick-off for the most concentrated Student Union drive to be held at the University in many years. The snowball noise parade will start from the upper campus and sorority row at 6:15 p.m. Thursday. It is scheduled to pass all living organizations, travel down Willamette street, and return to McArthur court for the assembly. Ernest Haycox, president of the Oregon Alumni association and prominent Oregon author, and President Harry K. Newburn, will speak to the assembly between 7:30 and 8 p.m. This portion of the program will be aired over the American Broadcasting company and will be broadcast later for Oregon alums in the East. Student entertainment will follow the speeches. One of the out standing features of the assembly will be the drawing of the names of one men's and one women's living organization to sing “Oregon” and "As I Sit and Dream at Evening,” respectively. ~ ’ At a meeting last night of the Student Union steering committee, composed of vice-presidents of all living organizations, Walter Darling, head of the Lane county SU drive, and Dick Williams, educational ac tivities manager, promised that the Student Union building will be started at Homecoming next fall. If the national goal of 5600,000 is reached the building will be finished in the early part of 1949, Williams said. Darling emphasized that if all funds are not raised certain features of the building will have to be omitted, but the Student Union will still be built. The campus goal has been set at 55,000. The men’s and women’s living organizations raising the most money will each receive a console model radio-phonograph. Winners are scheduled to be announced at the Junior Prom on May 10, closing day of the campus drive. ROTC Inspection Coming Up Soon Col. J. E. McCammon, PMS&T announced yesterday that on Mon day and Tuesday, April 28 and 29, a board of four officers will be on the University campus to conduct the annual war department in spection of the ROTC department. The inspection wall comprise a #ries of tests given to students during their regular class hours in the military subjects that have been covered during the year. A field inspection and review wall be held Monday afternoon April 28, from 3 to 5 p.m. and the whole corps will be present for this two hours period. Students having others classes at 3 or 4 p.m. on the above date, will be excused from these, classes to attend the field inspection, the department announced. All ROTC students should acquaint them selves with the information now on the bulletin board at ROTC headquarters, Col. McCammon advised. , This is the’ first year since the war that an inspection has been held and all students are urged to (Please turn to page seven) 'Joan of Lorraine' U Theater's Choice E. L. Clark, instructor in speech and drama, announced yesterday that Maxwell Anderson's "Joan of Lorraine” has been chosen as the next University theater production. The opening performance is set for the evening of May 23, with tryouts to be announced later this week. Unlike Anderson’s other histori cal plays such as “Winterset,” “Valley Forge,” and “Mary, Queen of Scots,” “Joan of Lorraine,” the story of Joan of Arc, is staged in the form of a rehearsal. That is, a scene is played, the director appears to discuss its interpretation with the actor, and the scene is replayed. Few stage sets and little costum ing are used. The play is distinctly different and dramatic. Ingrid Berg man is starring in the current pro duction of “Joan of Lorraine.” Weather Forecast Oregon — Fair Wednesday and Thursday, except for considerable cloudiness and low fog along the coast. Slightly warmer nights. Moderate to occasionally fresh northwest winds off coast. University Men Bow to Women In GPA Tussel Highland Takes Lead With Pi Phi Second The women of Highland house topped the field of 5 men’s and women’s organizations in the grade getting grapples of winter term, according to figures released yes terday from the office of Univer sity Registrar C .L. Avery. With a grade-point average of 2.83 .Highland house came close to 3.0, a straight B average. Follow ing the leaders were Pi Beta Phi so rority (2.77) and Campbell club (2.69), which outranked all other men’s groups. Women Have Edge As usual, the women had the edge on the men almost all along the line. Nineteen women’s groups towered above the all-University average of 2.462, but only nine men’s or ganizations fared so wlel. The GPAs for non-organization women, sororities, and women-in general were notches above the similar ratings for non-organiza tion men, fraternities, and “all men.” The rage was somewhat,clos er between men’s and women’s dor mitories, but here once again the ladies won the GPA laurels. Theta Chis Lead Fraternities “Men’s clubs” did outdo their feminine rivals. High-ranking Campbell club is the only men’s club. Second-place sorority was Alpha Chi Omega, closely nudged by the second-place non-sorority women’s organization, University house. Sigma and Omega halls were tops among the men’s dorms, with Alpha hall tagging along as the leading women's dorm group. Stan Ray hall led the veterans’ dormitories. Theta Chi was number one fraternity of the GPA parade. Williams Tours, Studies Student Unipn Buildings; Describes Methods of Middlewestern Areas A thorough study of the functions and use of Student Union buildings on a series of university campuses was completed by Dick Williams, educational activities manager, this month when he visited the University of Illinois, University of Indiana, University of Wisconsin, and the University of Minnesota. Will V. Norris, University engineer, George Wallman of Tucker and Wallman architects of Portland, who#are consult ing architects for the building, and Williams attended the Asso ciation of College Unions conven tion held in the University of Illi nois April 10, 11 and 12. Wisconsin Building Old The University of Wisconsin was especially noted, mainly because the building has been on the campus for over 20 years, has been devel oped fully, and the students are well educated toward it. The Stu dent Unions on the other campuses were built between 1939 and 1941 ^and have not been used to their fullest extent as yet. “It was most inspiring to see all types of students availing them selves of all that a Student Union building has. It is utmost of all SU buildings to carry on functions that will appeal to any type of student,” said Williams speaking of the Uni versity of Wisconsin. Attendance Averages 13,000 The enrollment of the University of Wisconsin totals around 19,000 students and the average attend ance of the Student Union per day is 13,000 students. Fourteen thou sand meals are served to students each day. "In proportion to enroll ment, we hope to do the same thing with our Student Union," Williams said. The SU at the University of Wis consin incorporates a lounge, a browsing library, student offices for every campus activity, a soda bar, recreational rooms with many varied game facilities, a barbershop, dining room, a cafeteria, meeting and assembly rooms, and generally every type of convenience grouped into one central building. It would be impossible to exclude any type of student or any student function. Several dances may also be given at the same time in different sec tions. Defects Prove Helpful Will Norris has profited by other buildings’ defects and has incor porated in our Student Union all of the desirable functions and servic es within the amount of funds on hand and anticipated,” Williams said. The students and faculty will have to be educated toward the SU before complete use of the building can be reached ,but the advantages : of the building will be realized with I out much effort, Williams asserted. Young Egyptian Leader To Speak of Country nwnni\nwnnwns I ■■ \ vwwwm .VTOWTOTO'wailllu l\\w\s«h AHMED HUSSEIN Oregonian Man Visits Campus j C. V. Bernhard, news editor of j the Portland Oregonian and an out ; standing authority on journalism, I yesterday and spoke to L. L. Jer main's afternoon class in copyedit | ing. Coming to the campus at the re quest of Jermain, an instructor in journalism, Bernhard also visited with George S. Turnbull, dean of the school, and with his son Jim, a University student. Described as one of the men most responsible for the high regard held for the Oregonian, Bernhard spoke on principles of newspaper make up and copyediting, and outlined the Oregonian's policy in news editing. After his talk the journalist an swered a great many questions from the students. Bernhard for many years news editor of the Oregonian, is a grad i uate of Washington State college. • He is a. member of Sigma Delta Chi, | national men’s journalism honor ! ary, and Phi Delta Theta, social j fraternity. ' Women's Houses Asked To Advance Dinner Time All women’s houses except dormitories are asked to plan their Schwering memorial fund exchange dinner Thursday for 5 instead of 5:30, it was an nounced Monday by Pat Spen cer, president of heads of houses. The earlier hour will facilitate students attending the noise parade and assembly, Miss Spencer pointed out. House presidents are also urged to contact the presidents of the living organizations with whom they will exchange to make arrangements. Independent Petitions Requested on Thursday All independent students' peti tions for ASUO, class, or ISA ofices are due Thursday, May 1. They are to be written on regu lar ASUO petition blanks and signed by 20 Independent stu dents. They should he given to Si Ellingson, Campbell club, or to any member of the ISA organi zation committee. 'Young Egypt' Party Head Slated Tonight Ahmed Hussein, leader of the Young Egypt party, arrived yes terday at the Eugene airport and left immediately for Corvallis where he was scheduled to speak to the Oregon State student body. He returns this morning to Eugene, and will discuss “The Situation in Egypt” at 7:30 p.m. in McArthur courtt. Sponsored by Dr. V. P. Morris, dean of the business administration school, and the One World club, Hussein will be introduced by Si Ellingson. Assiz Sidky, Egyption student in architecture at the Uni versity, will make preliminary re marks. I he young Egyptian lawyer will cover Egypt in relation to British control, the surrounding territor ies, and what the Young Egypt movement has, and hopes to, ac complish. He will be guest of honor at a tea sponsored by the Wesley foun dation at their house, 1347 Onyx | street, from 3 to 5 p.m. today. All students, faculty, and townspeople wishing to meet Hussein will have the opportunity at that time. Prior to his speech, Mr. Hussein will be the dinner guest of the Egyptian students from the Uni versity and Oregon State, and the One World club officers at the Os burn hotel. Blind Musician To Play Tonight Pierce Knox, blind xylophonist, will be presented in a concert to night at 7:30 in Guild hall, John son. The free program, which is open to the public, will also fea ture a demonstration of the Braille system of writing, and an explan ation of how Braille bookr are made. | Knox, who is regarded as one of I the most phenomenal musicians of Jail times, was once awarded' first | place in an American high school national music contest. He played for Ripley’s “Believe it or Not” exhibitions at both the New York and San Francisco World's Fairs. Included in his numbers are "Hungarian Rhapsody,” “Gypsy Airs,” “Stars and Stripes For ever,” "Flight of the Bumble Bee,” as well as modern numbers. The concert program is directed by the National Transcribers So ciety for the Blind of Palo Alto, California, an organization em ploying the blind to make Braille books for other blind persons. According to Dick Williams, educational activities mana,ger, only 2Q0 will be allowed to attend the program, as the hall seats only that number, and no one will be permitted to stand. Varied Sports Movies To Play in Chapman Sports will be highlighted tonight in the free movie series with “In side Baseball,” "The Keystone of Golf,” and "Johnny Farrell.” The educational activities board spon sored movies will be shown from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. in 207 Chapman ^»all.