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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 26, 1947)
\ \ OLt ME XL\ III Number 118 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY. APRIL 26. 1947 'Freshmen to Dim Lights Tonight in Mac Amateur Artists to Display Talents At Annual Odeon Program Sunday ► By Virginia Thompson Tomorrow's the day! Amateur artists tomorrow will have a chance to strut their stuff before a critical world at 3 p.m. in the music auditorium, as the an nual Odeon show, long under pro duction, becomes an actuality. This year’s talent show is under the sponsorship this year of a stu dent committee headed by Beverly Slaney, Phyllis Perkins, and Bob Litten, publicity manager. Music, both lohg-hair and twen tieth century, will compete with the spoken word for the spot light on . tomorrow’s stage performance. Jan I Kok’s “Fugue for String Quartet’’! will open the program, followed | by a group of readings. Home-grown interpretation pf sixteenth century polyphony is promised from the first-year coun terpoint class, to be directed by the student composers. The final round will include original rear rangements of the keyboard by stu dent pianist-composers. Creative talent will run riot in the Little Art gallery in the form of paintings, handicrafts, carving and sculpture, and lithographs, done by the students in art. The art department extends the general invitation to come up and see their etchings immediately fol lowing the program in the music auditorium. The exhibit is to con tinue through Friday of next week. Nor is the literary bent to be neg lected. This year’s Odeon magazine, edited by Phyllis Perkins, lists 15 contributors to the pamphlet. Orig inal stories, poems, and essays will be included in the 1947 publication. Judges Named For Float Fete With the naming of the judges for the Junior Weekend float pa rade May 10, the final plans for the event are clicking into place, War ren Smith, committee chairman, ^announced yesterday. Judges will include Mrs. Harry K. Newburn, wife of the University president; Ernest Haycox, president of the al umni association; Deane Seeger, Eugene city manager, and W. A. Dahlberg, director of speech and drama on the campus. The judging will be done from the city hall steps at Eleventh and Willamette, and the winning float will be identified, so students will know the top float as the parade comes through campus roads. Themes for floats must be sub mitted to the educational activities office by Monday, Smith pointed out, or the living organizations will not be eligible for the contest. Respect for Trees Urged by Dean Hall Political and advertising cam paigns menace campus trees, warns George Hall, acting dean of men. The normal life of the trees faces disturbance from the nailing and tacking of posters. Holes left in the bark are the initial break through for many tree diseases, as well as borers, spiders, and other tree enemies. In urging the public announce ment by the dean, Landscape En gineer W. R. Matsler of the Uni versity engineering staff, point ed out to him that the contin ued posting of publicity may re sult in the lost of many trees. Maples are especially vulner able to disease and if attacked must be remvoed in order to pre vent the spread of the disease. It was further urged that stu dents retain their traditional re spect for the blooms of shrubs, trees, and flowers borders. Cam pus tradition dictates that these should not be picked. Sing Finalists Narrowed to II All-Campus sing eliminations, held last night in the school of mu sic auditorium, narrowed the field of 19 contesting women’s houses to 11. Houses which qualified to com pete in the Sing May 9 are as fol lows: Alptja Chi Omega, “Dearly Beloved;” Alpha Delta Pi, “In the Still of the Night;” Alpha Omicron Pi, “Beyond the Blue Horizon;” and Alpha Phi, “Listen to the Lambs.” Delta Gamma, “The Song Is You;” Judson house, “Sweet Li’l Jesus Boy;” Kappa Kappa Gamma, “Mam’selle;” Kappa Alpha Theta, “The Nightingale;” Hendricks hall, “My Lovely Cecila;” Orides, “When Day Is Done,” and Pi Beta Phi, “Were You There?” These houses and the 11 men’s groups will compete for the two trophies, awarded annually, at the Sing. 'Best in the Country’ Union Plans Presented Union Association by UO Supervising Chief By JIM WALLACE Will V. Norris, University super vising engineer, returned to the -#■ campus yesterday from the annual meeting of the American Associa tion of College Unions at Urbana, Illinois, where he presented a pa per that contained the plans for the Erb Memorial Union. Attending the meeting with Nor ris were Dick Williams, education al activities director, and George Wallmann of Lawrence, Wallmann and Tucker, architects for the Ore gon building. Meets With Specialists After the meeting, Norris met with Porter Butts, director of the University of Wisconsin union, and Livingston Elder of Hare and Elder, architects of New York. Butts and Elder, recognized as leading stu dent union specialists in this coun try. are the consultants for the Ore gon student union building program. The group ironed out remaining details of the building and accord fe, ing to Norris, arrived at a solution for all the important things con cerning the building. Norris stated that the architects are now concen trating their efforts on working drawings for the building. Regarding the necessity of omit ting certain features of the building if sufficient funds are not collected,, Norris said that, “we know what we want to include but what we can do will depend upon haw much things will cost and how much we can raise.” He stated that those two factors would determine what features will be included or omitted but empha sized that he was in favor of bend ing all possible efforts to the fund campaign in order that alj the fea tures that have been planned for the building may be included. Norris declared that the build ing, if completed as planned ,will be a very fine union building and a credit to the University. He said that all who examined the plans at the recent collegiate meeting had nothing but praise and compliments for the new building. During his travels, Norris said that he had visited the finest stu dent union buildings in America, in cluding those at the University of Colorado, Iowa university, Illinois medical school, Tulsa, and Oklaho raa university and declared that none were any better than the Ore gon Erb Memorial Union will be if the building is constructed as planned. Field Trip Vacancies Available for Summer Several vacancies are still open in the archeological field trip which will be conducted in eastern Ore gon during the first term of sum mer session, Dr. L. S. Cressman, head of the anthropology depart ment, announced yesterday. Students desiring to enroll should confer with Dr. Cressman in his of fice in room 202 Condon hall. Up per division standing is preferred and nine hours credit will be given, Dr. Cressman said. Issue Plans Altered Due to a necessary change in plans, the special edition of the Emerald devoted to Mothers Weekend will not appear until April 30. However, all other plans will be the same, and the free mailing privilege will be in effect Wednesday. —EMERALD photo by Don Jo is, “DANCING IN THE UAKiv Rehearsing dance steps for tonight's FrOsh Glee are freshmen Gloria Albertson, Emerald Cover Girl, and Fred Zolezzi. Glee couples will dance to the rhythm of Freddie Keller and his orchestra at the annual affair. Students Set To 'Dance in Dark' At First Extravaganza of Term By AL PIETSCHMAN It's the freshmen’s night this evening. At 9 p.m. spring term’s first big dancing extravaganza, the Frosh Glee, featuring Freddie Keller and his band, begins in McArthur court. “Dancing in the Dark’’ is the theme for the first-yearmen's semi-formal hop. Couples will be treated to a special show of lighting and novel ideas on the dance floor, according to Art Johnson, chairman of the event. Skull and Dagger Tap Included in the evening's enter tainment is the tapping ^f twenty five freshmen by Skull and Dag ger, sophomore men’s honorary. Tapping ceremonies will start shortly after 10 p.m. The Frosh Glee workers point with pride to their decoration of the large pavilion in the Igloo after last night’s trial run of the lighting. Work was started on special yesterday afternoon and a shimmering crescent moon was moved into place directly above the band stand. Lights Tried Headed by Wes Nicholson, the decoration crew installed all the lighting fixtures that will be used tonight to create the theme “Dancing in the Dark.’’ Last night the switches were turned on and a select number of Glee planners were given a preview of what the school will see tonight. Prizes jdonated by various Eugene merchants will be awarded to lucky couples during the dance by Jim Bocchi, chairman of ticket selling. Tickets will be sold at the door, according to Bocchi. The price is SI .60 per couple. Annual Dinner to Honor Matthew Hale Douglass The annual dinner of the Asso ciation of Patrons and Friends of the University library \£ill be held Saturday evening, May 10, at the Osborne Hotel. The dinner will honor the former librarian, Mat thew Hale Douglass. Any member of the University student body, faculty, or commun ity is invited to ttend. Twistie Sale Due April 30 to May I For the first time in two years the Phi Theta Upsilon "Twistie Sale” will hit the campus on April 30 and May 1, under the direction of freshman Cochairmen Carol Becker and Helen Sherman. The Twistie Sale which offers a glorified doughnut to customers for the price of five cents is sponsored by Phi Theta Upsilon, junior wom en’s honorary. The funds obtained from sales will be used to maintain a scholarship for a junior- woman during her senior year of college. It is traditionally handled by freshman women as a service for their “big sister” upper classwom en. This year’s committee includes Joan Mimnaugh and Janice Kent, finance; Bettye Jo Bledsoe and Alicia Orcutt, publicity; Barbara Vowels and Marjorie Peterson, house sales; Norma Sterns, distri bution; Mildred Chetty, booths; and Biliijean Riethmiller, schedule. The goal of the sale is two "twiisties” for every student on campus with sales beginning Wed nesday morning and ending Thurs day night. Theater Tryouts Set Tryouts for “Joan of Uor raine,” next University theater production, will be held at 3:30 and 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Guild Hall theater. Edwin L. Clark, instructor in speech and drama, will direct the production which will be staged late in May. J
