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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1947)
The Weather n Our Phones Eugene and vicinity, partly cloudy I I T1 TO 1*1 ("I Following are the Emerald phono today; light variable winds; warm ■ ■ K ■ I mi numbers: editor’s office, Sol; news with little temperature change. U1IIIIIU1 M office 858; business office, 354. VOLUME XLIX Eugene, Oregon — Tuesday, September 23, 1947 . No*’ Increase In Tuition Proposed All-In-One Campaign To Begin United Fund Drive Opens September 29; Success Expected The Campus United Fund drive, campaign promise of ASUO Presi dent Stan Williamson, will begin September 29 and run through Oc tober 4. A relatively new idea on university campuses, the drive will consolidate the Red Cross, Community Chest, March of Dimes, and World Student Service Fund into one, so that students will not be hounded for contributions to in dividual drives throughout the year. Using totals from previous year’s drives, students will be asked for $4 each. The money will be appor tioned to the four organizations, leaving a small amount for an emergency fund. Students giving $1 or more will receive a small tag with a yellow “O” on a green back ground showing that they have contributed. To Award Cup A permanent silver cup will be awarded to the living organiza tion contributing the highest per capita amount by drive co-chair men John Gilbertson, interfratern ity council president, and Nancy Bedingfield, heads of houses presi dent. House vice-presidents will be in charge of collecting from their house members, and will get their information at a meeting at 12:30 today in the Susan Campbell hall recreation room. To insure the success of this unique drive, off-campus students will be contacted by members of the men’s and women’s service honoraries. Arrangements are also being made to collect between class hours from students not wearing the “O” tag. Faculty members are not to be approached for fundj. Percentage Thermometer Enthusiasm and competition will be aroused through a large per centage thermometer in the Co-op and posters on the campus. The drive must be a success, ac cording to co-chairmen or the coun cil will have to allow separate or ganizations on the campus to make up their quotas. “A successful drive will mean that students can forget about contributin to nation al drives for the rest of the year,” Williamson said. To Be Annual The campus United Fund drive, whrfch has been used successfully at the University of Washington, will become an annual part of the University campus with rotating chairmen. Council members this year be sides Williamson, Gilbertson and Miss Bedingfield are Bob Frazier, Emerald editor; Barbara Johns, AWS president; Barbara Williams, Panhellcnic president; Howard Lemons, inter-coop president; Ray Johnson, Co-op board president, and Maryann Thielen, president of interdorm council. Arnall, Georgia Political Figure, Tops List of Assembly Speakers Leading off the University of Oregon's 1947-48 general as sembly will be Ellis Arnall, one of the most controversial Southern political figures in years and former governer of Georgia. He will speak at McArthur court September 29, at 7:30 p.m. Arnall was in the middle of a bitter political controversy in Georgia last winter when Herman Talmadge tried to take Newburn Ok's Student Posts Names of students approved by Dr. Harry K. Newburn, University president for faculty committees, were announced yesterday by ASUO Student Body president, Stan Williamson. Heading the list of faculty com mittees on which students serve was the student affairs committee. This committee sets up rules, reg ulations and procedures for the so cial functions of the school. It sets the rules but rejects all disciplin ary action. Controls Social Life Under its control comes hours, social calendar, social life in liv ing organizations, all campus danc es, rallies, parades and other extra curricular activities of the Univer sity. Stan Williamson, Barbara Johns, and Nancy Bedingfield are the stu dents serving on this committee which is headed by Earl Pallett, assistant to the president of the University. — The student body president rec ommends to the president of the University, the president of AWS, the president of Heads of Houses and himself as members of the student affairs committee. Dr. Newburn Approved Stan Williamson, Barbara Johns, Howard Lemons, Bob Frazier, and Ross Yates were approved by Dr. Newburn as members of the edu cational activities board. The board is headed by Dr. Pallett and ad ministers most of the functions at the University. Recommendation is by custom of office. Bob Frazier and Ross Yates (Please turn to page two) State Board Okeys U O Building Fund Additions to the University li brary and music school were pro vided for last week when the state emergency board approved the ex penditure of $100,000 for prelimin ary costs of construction of five college buildings for the state board of higher education. A total of $750,000 will eventual ly be expended on the library and $195,000 on the music school. Uni versity officials said last week that the funds just allotted will pay fees to architects and engineers who have been employed for some time. Other projects include two build ings at Oregon State college and an administration building at the University of Oregon medical school in Portland. The funds will come from the $4,000,000 state board of higher ed ucation building fund. away the governorship to which his father, Eugene, had been elected in November 1946. Talmadge died a few days before he was to take office. Talmadge Elected Arnall wanted to turn his office over to M. E. Thompson, lieutenant governor of the state, but the leg islature elected young Talmadge, who led an armed group to give his forces control of the state capitol. Later Thompson was ruled legal governor by the Georgia suprAne court. The great improvement made in Georgia’s political system during the four years he was in office is credited to former Governor Arnall. He did not, however, succeed in ending the system of tabulating votes by county units. This was partly the cause for Gene Tal madge’s re-election. Adamic Slated Another speaker in the series will be Louis Adamic, distinguished Yugoslav author of “My America” and “My Native Land.” His speech November 4 will be on the subject “Tolerance Is Not Enough.” Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stef ansson will talk about “New Fron tiers of Science” on November 20. Perennial candidate for president on the Socialist ticket, Norman Thomas will speak April 6 on an unannounced subject. He said ear lier this year that he would not run again for president. Dan E. Clark, head of the history department, is chairman of the University assembly committee. He has announced that all four of the speeches will begin at 7:30 p.m. Warren Smith Asked to Speak Dr. Warren D. Smith, former head of the geology and geography department, has been asked to be principal speaker at the annual convention of the Oregon Coast Highway association at Gearhart Ostober 6 and 7. He will speak on ‘‘The Oregon Coast from Geologi cal and Historical Episodes.” Dr. Smith has just returned after spending a month on the Oregon coast doing work on the Indian land •cases for the government. He has prepared a manuscript on a book covering all phases of the Oregon coast. 0 ADS to Meet AWS cabinet and council will meet this afternoon at 4 p.m. at the dean of women’s office to se lect a campus social chairman. Barbara Johns, AWS president urges that all cabinet and council members be. present at the meeting. Registration To Date Reaches 5401 Total At the end of the regular reg istration period unofficial totals showed 5401 students had com pleted the process. This unofficial number does not include some students who took out registration materials late Friday afternoon or Satur day morning. More registrants are also expected throughout this week. Daily Aspirants Meet Tonight The first Emerald organizational meeting of the year, open to all students wishing to work on the student daily, will be held in the news room of the Emerald quonset hut tonight at 7:30. The “shack” is situated just south of the jour nalism building. At the same time students in terested in working on the business staff may meet in room 105, jour nalism building. Editor Bob Frazier, Managing Editor Bill Yates, and News Edi tors June Goetze and Bobolee Bro phy will explain the jobs open on the news side of the Emerald. A few reporting jobs are open to freshmen, according to the news editors. Most new Emerald workers will be placed on the Copy desk and night staff. Positions Open On the business side positions are open for layout managers, of fice and circulation assistants, and contact executives to work with merchants downtown in prepara tion and placing of advertising, ac cording to Bob Chapman, business manager. Staff appointments will be com pleted by Chapman and Barbara Twiford, advertising manager, be fore October 1. Experience in publication work is not necessary and hours can be arranged to fit the students’ sched ules. During the year the staff will work with members of the retail advertising classes which are en gaged with a project basis with downtown merchants. Appointments Made Business staff appointments al ready announced by Chapman are Marilyn Turner, national advertis ing manager; Billijean Riethmiller, circulation manager; Bob Chaney, Virg Tucker, Sally Waller, Winnie Carl, and A1 Ruedy, day managers; Marge Huston Foster and Bob Beclitle, promotion managers. At the meeting the operation of the office will be explained and stu dents may sign up for the phase of work which interests them. Phi Thetas Name Three for Group Betty Jean McCurry, Pat King, and Marcia Summers were tapped for membership in Phi Theta Upsi lon, junior women’s service honor ary, during the dinner hour last night. They will take the places of three members who did not return to the University this fall. The girls will be initiated into the organiza tion next week. Raise of $5 Given Nod By Council Student Union Need Felt By ASUO Body As a last resort to assure a stu dent union building “in our time” the executive council of the ASUO last night went on record as favor ing a $5 increase in university tui tion for 10 terms only. The plan, which would go into effect winter term, came after an executive council investigation into “the state of the union.” The council's expression of sen timent is without legal force, and is merely an expression of the opin ions of the student leaders. Other student bodies will be contacted for opinion soon. Such a tuition increase could be made only by the state board of higher education upon the recom mendation of the chancellor and the president of the University, neither of whom will recommend the increase without a “substantial demonstration” by the students that the increase meets their ap proval. Must Know Sentiment The. president and the chancellor must know student sentiment by late October if the plan is to go into effect winter term. The council estimated this move would provide the $300,000 neces sary to make up the deficit between the $1,200,000 now in sight and the $1,500,000 needed to construct a student union building contain ing 93,000 square feet of floor space. The $300,000 will be needed for furnishihg and equipping the new building the new building. The council’s investigation showed that if the money were not raised it would be impossible to go into the "working drawing” stage. The council’s investigation indi cated that if the $300,000 were not raised the whole student idea might have to be pigeon-holed. As a result of this, they feared, many of the pledges secured during the sum mer’s campaign, might not be ful filled. Expressed Regret The council expressed regret at having to ask the students to make up the deficit in this manner, but expressed the view that there was no other feasible means of raising the funds. The Oregon "dream building” which was to have 150,000 square feet of floor space according to or iginal plans, was scaled down to ■ 93,000 as building costs went up and last summer’s drive failed to produce the hoped-for revenues. The 93,000 figure is as far as the building can be cut and still retain the essential features of a student union building. (An investigative article on stu dent union funds will appear in Wednesday’s Emerald.)