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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1947)
Telephone Union Raps Strike-Break Directors Choose Portland Help Chairmen to Direct Federation Activities Committee chairmen, to work on the Portland activities of the Ore gon Federation next summer, were announced yesterday by Jordis Ben ke and Bob Chaney, codirectors of the federation’s work in that area. “These people,’’ said Miss Bcnke, “have not been previously notified of their appointments because of the telephone strike. If anyone finds it impossible to accept, he should contact either Bob or myself as soon as possible.’’ Plans Under Way The appointments made are as follows: Beth Basler and Dorothy Wightman, decorations; Bob Chapman, publicity; Hal Schick, picnic arrangements; Wayne Roec ker, phones; Marilyn Turner and Joan Mimnaugh, ticket distribu tion; Don Dole, reception; Pat King, speakers; and Sue Mercer and A1 Pietschman, games. Plans 'for the picnic are already well under way, and a big name band is one of the surprises in store for those who attend. The picnic will be held as usual in Jantzen Beach park, during the early part of August. Heads to Meet The first meeting of committee heads will be held at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 8, in Old Oregon of fices. Petitions for program chairman are still being accepted, and should be turned in to Miss Benke at the Pi Phi house before noon Tuesday, May 6. The work of the federation members is to sell the University of Oregon to prospective students. Untwisted Twisties Unveils a 'Red' Maintenance of close scrutiny over subversive movements re vealed a shocking disregard for University tradition in the vet erans’ dining hall on the night of April 30. A bold iconoclast was spotted untwisting a “twistie,” widely touted sales item now campus-vended by Phi Theta Up silon, junior women's honorary. The twistie’s soft underbelly of white meat was exposed by the action of the unprincipled student. The offender is a known sympa thizer with left-wing movements. Mortar Board Ball Chairman Named Marilyn Stratton, junior in art, was appointed chairman of the girl date-boy Mortar Board ball, Jaen Watson, Mortar Board president, announced yesterday. The formal dance is scheduled May 24 and will honor the 1947-48 Mortar Boards tapped Junior Weekend. Committee chairmen to serve un der Miss Stratton include: orches tra, Bonnie Chappell working un der Mortar Board June Johnson; program, Margaret Rauch under Pat Metcalf Chase; decorations, Marilyn Turner under Marilyn Sage; refreshments, Sally Waller under Gay Edwards; promotion, Nancy Peterson under Marge Skor dahl; tickets, Renee Cowell under Martha Thorsland; finance, Doro thy Habel under Jean Watson; clean-up, Shirley Lukins under Vir ginia Scholl, and publicity, Beth Basler under Marguerite Wright. All committee chairmen are re quired to meet with Miss Watson at 4 p.m. today in the Kappa Alpha Theta house. Series to Explain Floor Plans For Approved Student Union -■>♦ _( This article is the first of a se ries of five, designed to explain the floor plans of the proposed and ap proved Student Union building. Starting from the bottom and work ing up, this article describes the basement, and the following four stories will explain the ground floor, the first, second, and third floors consecutively each day.) In the basement will be most of the game rooms, including ten bil liard and pool tabes, six table ten nis, eight bowling alleys, six dark rooms for the Camera Club, and an artcraft shop. Storage space, dish washing facilities, and rest rooms will also be in the basement. SpOrt Tournaments Tournaments in these sports will be conducted between the students, giving them an added activity on the campus. Various exhibits of the Camera Club may also be displayed in the art lounge upstairs after the students have become acquainted with the dark room facilitie sand are organized. The artcraft room is designed to! incorporate space and facilities for the students to make dance decora tions and programs, silk screen pos ters, wood and metal working, and any other kind of craft work. As Dick Williams, educational activi ties manager, who , recently re turned from a trip visiting various Student Union buildings on other campuses, said of the University of Wisconsin, “They make everything from buttons to boats.’’ "Wisconsin Example From experience picked up on his trip, Williams said he hoped to see as much use made of the artcraft room in the Oregon Student Union building as there is in the Univer sity of Wisconsin. In Wisconsin also menus are made for the cafeteria, table mats for the committee dining rooms, linoleum blocks, -aharts for different departments of the University, and anything else that is needed and could be made by the students. It is anticipated that the Student Union building will be open from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. for all students who wish to make use of it. r Ten Designers Exhibit Work Contemporary Houses Subject for Projects “Meet the Architect”—an exhib it featuring actual designs and models of contemporary houses and how they came to be, is the next showing on the agenda for the Lit tle Art Gallery, to open Sunday af ternoon and to continue for two weeks. Ten individual projects, demon strating the work of ten California architects and firms, will be the ba sis for the exhibit. The' projects in clude the work in plans, elevations, photographs, perspective render ings, and scale models. Brought to the University under the sponsorship of the educational activities board, the show original ly open at the Gump galleries in San Francisco. Since that time it has been shown at the Los Angeles county museum and the art mu seums at La Jolla and San Diego. The ten exhibitors are: Joseph Allen Stein, Mendelsohn-Dinwiddie Hill, John Funk, Joseph Esherick, Fred Langhorst, Anshen & Allen, Harvey Park Clark, Howard MOise, Francis Ellsworth Lloyd, and Mario Corbett. A student committee will work with W. S. Hayden, associate pro fessor of the school of architecture, in the assembly and presentation of this exhibit. Coed Phone Operators Cause Hard Feelings By MARGUERITE WRIGHT University coeds who are working as part-time switch-board operators for the strike-bound Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company in Eugene are causing hard feelings among the strik ing employees and may be exposing themselves to violence if a riot breaks out in protest to the "scabbing,” Harold Plumb and Morton Turnbull, co-strike directors, told the Emerald Thursday. When asked for comment, Dr. Earl M. Pall'ett, assistant to the president, said he had no know ledge of any such action by students. If it is being done, he said, it is on a personal basis and has no connection with the University. Lewis Eadc, manager of the telephone edmpany, told the Emer ald, “We definitely are not re cruiting people; these girls volun teered.” But union officials claim that University women were asked to work for the company by H. J. Boyd, district plant maintenance supervisor for the company and husband of the Alpha Gamma Delta housemother. Local union leaders Thursday sent a telegram to the national office of the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority "protesting that members of the local chapter were taking part-time work on local telephone switchboards,” according to an Associated Press story. “We believe it is beneath the dignity of a sorority house to be come involved in a labor dispute of this kind,” the strike directors told the Emerald, pointing out that “houses. . whose members are strikebreakers will be tagged as scab houses.” AGD Denial Beverly Howard president of the local chapter of Alpha Gamma (Please turn to page seven) Lambda Chi Alpha Forms Local Group Plans for the establishment of a [ campus chapter of Lambda Chi Al pha moved one step nearer comple i tion this term when ten University men were initiated into the frater nity at a special ceremony conduct ed at Corvallis by the Oregon State chapter April 18. The Oregon colony was formed under the leadership of Bob Huff man and Jack Puffinbarger after several years of effort by local al umni and the Oregon State chapter. The men initiated were Rod Bright, Bev. Bryant, Bill Davis, Harry Granger, Wally Keylock, Malcolm MacGregor, Denny Mar vin, Dave Mortimore, Clay Myers, and Jim Semb. The newly initiated men and Huffman and Puffinbarger bring the colony's membership to 12. In addition to the members, the col olny has eight pledges; Stan Ar thur, Marc Beach, Floyd Carlson, Jeff Ehlen .Bill Lewellen. Tom Pat ton, Gordon Tovani, and Mel VaJt Lom. The colony has planned various activities with the Oregon State chapter in order to further inter chapter cooperation. This includes two exchange banquets and a beach I trip. Chess Club to Attempt Inter-Schoo! Federation Some of their games last for three months, some last for 15 minutes, some are played across thousands of miles, some are played across an 18 inch board. But regardless of time or dis tance the members of the University chess club advance their game as one of the world’s most fascinating. This little-publicized but highly active group of chess en thusiasts on the campus banded together late fall term for the immediate purpose oi local cness competition and with an eventual goal of holding tournaments with other western universities. The club now numbers 25 members, is ad vised by Hugh Smith of the law school, and meets every Tuesday for intraclub competition. Plan Competition The club is now sufficiently or ganized that they are casting an eye to the future and hoping to work with other colleges in this area in the formation of a chess federation such as Yale, Harvard, Columbia and other large eastern schools have done. But the group is by no means ly ing dormant waiting for this organ ization. They have defeated the Eu gene city club in match play and two club members, George Swift and Hugh Noland, tallied half of Salem’s points in a recent Salem Portland match. They are also scheduling individual tournaments with Pacific coast colleges. International Play Many international chess tour naments are carried on by wire or mail and the college group is keep ing well abreast of this develop ment. Radio or mail tournaments are carried on much the same as a person-to-person match except that each move is forwarded to the op ponent, possibly in a foreign coun try, and his counter-move is radioed back. Some of these matches last for several months but chess enthu siasts declare that the time or dis tance merely enhances the interest. Classes Held The local club has available for these radio contests a “ham” sta tion owned by club member John Paisley. Meetings are held every Tuesday , at 7 p.m. in 207 Commerce for the , purpose of studying and playir.g j chess. George Swift, club president, conducts classes for beginners and encourages anyone interested in the . game to attend one of the meetings ' or classes. University chess club directors are, left to right, Ted Odland, George Swift, John Laxson, Carol AIzner, and Hugh Noland.
