Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 5, 1947)
Emerald 'Shack' Bows to Progress MAKING CHANGES Workmen (above lay founda tions for a chemistry Quonset hut between McClure and Friendly haUs, while others (right) re move a tree near the journalism building to make way for that new Emerald Shack. Editor States Emerald Plan For the Year Thorough investigation of cam pus problems, and detailed articles about them, will be a feature of next year's Emerald, according to Bob Frazier, 1947-1948 editor of the college daily. Frazier says he hopes to line up a crew of competent “special writ ers” to do detailed reporting and writing jobs on problems too large and too involved to be covered by the regular reporting staff. These articles will appear from time to time in the daily,- or may appear in serial form, Frazier said. In getting this kind of campus coverage Frazier said he hopes to use upper division journalism stu dents, some of them with earlier Emerald experience, who do not have time to carry out the confin ing duties of regular beat reporters. Letters Planned Another feature of the new Em erald will be the addition of “Let ters from Abroad,” of the type run in the New Yorker. The new edi tor has already made arrange ments with several recent gradu ates to write monthly letters from England, France, Japan, and Ko rea. He is interested in building up this corps of graduate writers, and wishes to learn of other alumni abroad who could write the Emer ald. The new editor also hopes tc raise the standard of writing on the daily, and to give reporters freedom to break out of the con fining journalistic style when their stories warrant it. His right-hand man on the Em erald next year will be Bill Yates, now working on the Bend Bulletin, who will be managing editor. June Goetze and Bobolee Brophy will be news editors. Walt McKinney, last year’s assistant managing editor, wi'i be <■ ssociate editor in charge of production. ■‘■■mm: m - rmmm&m,'::r • i> ■ mTmt&sa x ■ -/ 1 Barbara Twii'ord, Emerald Ad vertising manager, has announced that staff appointments will be completed on the business side by October 1, a week and one-half af er classes begin. Positions open include assistant day managers, of fice managers, layout, and contract executives. Miss Tvviford suggests that both new and returning students con tact her after September 14, in the Emerald business office. Previous experience on the Emerald or in advertising is not necessary, al though it is helpful. New policies will give students greater opportunity to work with Eugene merchants, gain experi snee, and at the same time work n a highly recognized activity on the campus. In previous years students have commented on the stuffing of the Emerald with advertising. This year, she hopes that contracts, miw.o.iai 14 lOiUi, wi.i permit fr-io °dve *;c,: '~ issues, eliminating the similarity to a shopping guide. The elimina MISS TWIFORD tion of special issues during the year and the subsequent addition . e__ .Cj'ular papers will en ■.bie the bu:iness staff to follow uch a policy, according to Bob .hapniar., business manager. Quonset Hut Erected For Student Daily “The Shack.” home of the Oregon Daily Emerald for more than 24 years, will be swallowed up this fall by the expanding - chemistry department. The offices of the daily will be moved into a Quonset hut. The new “temporary” quarters for the Emerald will be just south of the journalism building, occupying a part of the' Dean Outlines Rushing Rules Deadline for payment of rush ees is August 23, Mrs. Goldia /ickham, dean of women, recently eminded freshman girls. The $15 ce will not be accepted after that late. Oregon residents will be accep ed for rushing on a preparatory ecile of 5 or above, or a grade joint average of 2.2 on a minimum if 12 hours work the previous erm. Out-of-state students will be ccepted on a preparatory decile of ! or above, or on a 2.75 grade point iverage. Because of the housing shortage, orority pledging is limited to the umber that will bring the house membership to the limit set by the Jniversity. The number of return lg girls, according to figures urned in to Dean Wickham’s jffice May 30, will probably limit ushees to 300 out-of-town girls and' to 40 or 50 Eugene girls. Sep ember 7 to 13 is fall rush week. Summer rushing was preced ed by a Panhellenic tea in Port land July S where Mrs. Wickham spoke. Rush parties are limited in Portland and Salem to one large tea and three smaller faculty parUragiat. ThEfiut; 20-by 55 feet, wilfkoase news, -editorial and business offices, but Emerald " sports will remain in their old quar ters, as night tenants in the school of journalism lab room. The daily moved into “The Shack” in the spring of 1923 after * the present journalism building was constructed to replace the one which had burned the previous summer. Details of the new structure, which is nearly completed, have been worked out by C. Ken Weid ner, superintendent of the Univer sity physical plant, Dean George Turnbull of the school of journal ism; Richard C. Williams, educa tional activities manager; and Bob Frazier, editor of next year’s Erner- . aid. Two other Quonsets are being built this summer on the campus. One of them, just west of the new Shack, will house additional chem istry classrooms, while the other, south of Deady hall, will be used by the physics department. functions. In Eugene only two functions are a 11 o w ed each . house. In smaller towns summer rushing is preceded by the Fan hellenic tea, and individual houses are limited to one small party. Guests at the small parties must not exceed 25. Summer rush period is July 13 to August 13. A siren scent - | with all the 7”£:L. L U C1E N From S2.25 plus tax LEL0N6 1