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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1947)
—- — See Column One The Weather __ _ Th c * I Cloudy with light scattered show- J 1W T ‘H“B '-OfO/Og - ers throughout the day, little tem- I IwB I— BJ kl I y 1 Head on today’s edit page Larry perature change; fresh strong H ||’l||||/|||£l Can's discussion of the University southerly winds. catalog. VOLUME XLIX UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY. OCTOBER S. 1947 " NUMBER 14 Bunion Derby Off! Too Much Adverse Criticism Attempt At Revival Fizzles Saturday Schedule Arouses Campus Ire; No New Date Set The attempted revival of the tra ditional Bunion Derby has failed. The affair, scheduled for Sat _ urday evening, has been canceled, according to a statement released yesterday from the Heads of Hous es, this year’s sponsors. ~ The ill-fated derby aroused cam pus ire when it was scheduled for Saturday evening. A poll in Thurs day's Emerald revealed that stu dents preferred to have the dance on Friday. r r Not Possible j. However, this was impossible as Church night has exclusive prior ity. Also, at the time the date was set, it was not known that Ifie , Nickel Hop would take place Fri day, October 10, which would run two similar events within a week - of each other. The only alternative, Heads of Houses decided, was to cancel the • derby since the Nickel Hop has precedence, .since.- it was scheduled in June when the student affairs committee made out the-social cal endar. So far as is known, no plans have been made to hold the derby in the future. Was Annual On ice since 1940, the Bunion Derby was formerly an annual fall _ term open house serving to intro duce informally the freshmen and transfers to their fellow students. **■ The men’s houses made scheduled 20-minute stops at the women’s ^ organizations with 10-minute breaks for moving on to the next house. Dogged by misfortune from the V beginning, when an Emerald story erred in setting the derby for Fri t day rather than the scheduled Sat urday night, opposition from the students and the impending Nickel Hop resulted in final cancellation * of plans.. i L Group to Host '47 Convention Mu Phi Alpha Sinfonia, men’s national music fraternity and cam pus honorary, has selected the ' University of Oregon as the site of ■* its 1947 Northwest Province con - vention, according to word reach - ing the local chapter. Representatives from all the ma ' J°r colleges of the Northwest will __ meet October 24, 25, and 26 to discuss means of carrying out the fraternity’s aims, including the advancement of music fn America, and the mutual welfare and broth erhood of music students. Because of his membership and ■d active interest in the fraternity, Professor George Hopkins of the University school of music has con sented to schedule a recital of French and American piano com .. Positions to coincide with the open ing of the convention. ~v UO to Observe Church Night Bert Moore Appointed Editor of Old Oregon (Photo by Kirk Braun) Outgoing Old Oregon editor, Harry Glickman, (left) takes his name plate off the desk to make room for the one of his successor, Bert Moore, who took over reins of the alumni magazine yesterday. Bert Moore, senior in journalism, was appointed editor of Old Oregon yesterday by Les Anderson, director of the alumni association. He will succeed Harry Glickman, senior in journ alism, who has resigned his post. Anderson also annouced the appointment of Jordis Benke, junior in business administration, as business manager of the ’ Progress Made On Whiskerino Plans for the 1947 sophomore Whiskerino moved forward in high gear as class officers chose com mittee heads from over 200 peti tions turned in by students, accord ing to Mike Mitchell, sophomore class president. The dance, the first major class activity of the year, is scheduled for October 25. Heading the various committees i are: decorations, Malcolm Epley and Barbara Vowels, assisted by Lu Weston, Joan O’Neil, Bob Bu chanan and Bob Weber; entertain ment, Bill Duhaime and Dick Pe rm, assisted by Denny Marsh. Tickets, Jane Daggett and Bill Green; whisker contest, Alex Mur phy and Paul Huntzinger; pro grams, Mildred Chetty and Shir ley McCarton. Patrons and patronesses, Helen Gatewood; clean-up, Pan Newton; Joe College, Dave Moore and Dick Neeley; Betty Co-ed, Virginia Virginia Thompson and Joan Fry denlund; publicity, Phyllis Kohl meier, assisted by Donna Kletzing and Harriet Huston; traditions, Ed Anderson and Skull and Dagger. All members of the committees are to meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Alpha Phi house for a short meeting. monthly publication and Sally Waller, sophomore in liberal arts, as office manager. Marilyn Turner, sophomore in liberal arts as lay out manager. Managing editor of Old Oregon until his promotion to editor, Moore is a member of Sigma Delta Chi, national journalism frater nity, and was formerly an editor of the Shacrat, journalism school publication. Ke has also been an Emerald staff worker and colum nist. Last spring he received one of the T. Neil Taylor awards for thesis writing. Glickman, a former president of Sigma Delta Chi, will be graduated from the University in January. Moore said that announcement of the complete staff including ed itorial assistants and feature writ ers will be made in about a week. “The new staff will continue our policy of publishing a magazine which appeals to the whole Web foot family, alumni, faculty, and students,” Anderson promised. Moore commented that he hoped to keep the publication up to the standard of last year when its circulation increased more than 50 percent under the editorship of Glickman. The 1946-47 Old Oregon was rated among tHe top five alumni publications in the nation by the National Alumni associa tion. Johnson Hall Plans New Switchboard Plans for the 1947-48 Piggers' Guide were disrupted yesterday with the announcement of the in stallation of a new campus switch board in the basement of Johnson hall. The change is expected to be completed by December 1. According to Miss Vera Morgan, telephone office supervisor, most campus telephone numbers will be changed when the new board goes in to aHow for the 200 additional extensions that it is designed to handle. The editors of the Piggers’ in tend to put out an accurate direc tory and the work will be held up until all the new numbers have been assigned and tabulated, Helen Sherman, editorial assistant of the guide, said yesterday. However, the staff still intends to make the November 1 deadline as was or iginally announced, she said. YWCA Honors Foreign Ducks Foreign students on campus are to to be guests of honor at a tea sponsored by the international af fairs committee of the YWCA from 2:30 to 4:30 Tuesday afternoon, ac cording to Co-Chairman Laura Ol son and Dedo Misley. This is the first event of the year which allows the opportunity to meet foreign students. The inter national affairs committee mem bers have announced that they plan the tea to be the first of a series of social affairs to bring greater understanding between peoples of different nationalities, j Campus clothes are in order and refreshments will be served. Jean Lichty, a Y junior adviser, is sing ing “Musetta’s Valsc Song” from "La Boheme” by Verdi. Since the files in the registrar’s office are as yet incomplete, it was impossible to send out invitations to all foreign students. Miss Olson requests anyone who was over looked to please attend. The tea is open to all members of the student j body. Crowded Evening Planned By WALLY HUMPHRIES See schedule page 6 In observance of Church night, the campus religious organizations are tonight planning open houses, dances, and vaudeville shows to introduce themselves to the stu dents. Starting times have been varied so that students having no specific denominational preference may visit several of the meetings dur ing the evening. Snows Planned Westminster house and Canter bury club have arranged complete vaudeville shows while other groups have talent acts planned. The Christian meeting will in clude a magician and the N..C..C. quartet, known for their novelty numbers. Wesley House . will present a “Football Party,” complete with teams, football fieldj coach, water boy, rally squad, etc. The Baptist’s are using a “Ship Party” as their theme. Dancing is the main attraction at the Newman club party, as many others, including Canterbury club and Plymouth club. Sings Scheduled Singing is also one of the main events, especially at the Lutheran rpeeting which will also include several skits. Oregano Schedule: Phi Delis, Fijis The following living organiza tions are scheduled at Kennell-EI lis studio for 1948 Oregana pic tures: October 3: Phi Delta Theta, Phi V Gamma Delta. October 4: Villard. October 6: Phi Kappa Alpha, Sherry Ross. October 7: Sederstrom hall, Sig ma hall. AWS Week Activity Calendar SlatesfMonday as 'Hello Day' j Monday will mark the opening day of the first AWS week to be held on the campus, Barbara Johns, president, announced. The event, sponsored by the Associated Women Students, is scheduled for October 6 to 10 with several of the women’s activities on the campus participating. October 6 has been designated live off-campus and eat on-campus be sold for ten cents each by rep resentatives in each women’s liv ing organization and from a booth in the Co-op. These tags will admit the student to each event of the week, including the all-campus as sembly Thursday night. All women are requested to wear the tags all day Monday. Chairman in charge of Monday’s activities are Helen Sherman, Jean Swift, Marguerite Johns, and Mary Stadelman. YWCA to Have Day Tuesday will be YWCA day with Bjorg Hansen, president of the YWCA, in charge. Plans for that day include a cabinet meeting in the committee room of the YMCA at noon with Miss Lu Hansen, chairman of the Pacific Northwest region YWCA and life chairman of the national student YWCA, and Miss Marilyn Seefield, Pacific Northwest regional delegate to the (Please turn to page eight)
