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VOLUME XLIX UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY. OCTOBER 28, 1947 NUM HEE~3 1
TUmON RAISE ALMOST SURE
Sigma Chi
Sweetheart
To Appear
Special Broadcast
To Feature Winner
On KORE Tonight
See Picture Page 3
Sweetheart of Sigma Chi will be
chosen during a radio broadcast to
night over station KORE, Sam Gil
lette, chairman of the event, has
announced. Votes will be counted
while the program is in session,
and at the end the winner will be
announced.
Coeds reaching the finals are
Mary Knox, Alpha Phi; Betty Per
ry, Delta Gamma; Barbara King
and Janet Paulson, Gamma Phi
Beta; Nancy Chamberlain, Kappa
Alpha Theta.
The five finalists were chosen at
a post-fireside conference last Fri
day night at the Sigma Chi house.
The contestants for the traditional
college title originally numbered
over 50, but their number was cut
down to five after several elimina
tions.
The winner of the Sweetheart of
Sigma Chi title will reign at the
Sweetheart ball Saturday night,
and the other four coeds will be
maids of honor.
Serenaders announced.to the fin
alists the victory Saturday night,
and a dinner was given in their
honor at the Sigma Chi house Sun
day.
AWS Cabinet to Meet
Associated Women’s Students
cabinet and congress will meet on
- Wednesday at 4 p.m., Barbara
Johns, AWS president, announced
today. The meeting will be held in
the recreation room of Susan
Campbell hall. Each house is re
quested to send a representative.
Ignorance of the Law
Just Isn't an Excuse
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Like many a thief, Darrell
Robinson, end on the Webfoot
football squad, has found that
crime does not pay.
At a meeting yesterday of
the Oregon club, Eugene sports
enthusiasts, Robinson was col
lared by two uniformed state pa
trolmen waving a warrant for
his arrest.The warrant, allegedly
issued by the city of San Fran
cisco, charged Robinson with
larceny of one football in last
Saturday's Oregon-SanFrancis
co grid clash.
The end, it stated, had trans
ported stolen property across
gridiron goal lines, the case
was dismissed when he pleaded
guilty because “I just did what
I thought was right.”
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Sale of Apples
Set Wednesday
“Join the apple core” will be the
theme for Wednesday and Thurs
day of this week when the Gamma
Alpha Chi apple sale will be held
on the campus, Joan Mimnaugh,
chairman, has announced.
Booths will be opened in the Co
op, the Side, the library, Friendly
hall, and Commerce hall to sell
apples for five cents each to all
students. Apples will be served
Wednesday noon in all living or
ganization, and Thursday night
they will be sold in all womens
houses after closing hours.
Committee heads for the sale
are: finance: Marjoree Rambo and
June Fitzgibbons; house hales, Mil
dred Chetty and Marguerite Johns;
posters, Sally Mueller; schedules,
Connie Jackson and Joan Carr;
distribution, Jeannine Macaulay;
booths, Jackie Dilley; purchases,
Mary Stadelman and Mailyn Tur
ner.
Planning Yearbook Drive
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Oregana Editor Ross Yates gets a helping hand from Managing Ed
itor Trudi Chernis, while other staff members, Don Findlay, promo
tion manager, Larry Davidson, associate editor, Olga Yevtich, busi
ness manager, Warren Miller and Laura Olson, associate editors,
offer their suggestions. A special sales table has been set up in the
Co-op this week for their finished product.
UO Religious Evaluation Week
Gets Into Full Swing Today
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| Religious evaluation week goes
into full swing today with discus
sion programs scheduled for the
afternoon and guest speakers on
the evening slate starting at 7:45.
The religious week activities of
ficially started Sunday evening
when Dr. George Hedley spoke on
“Religion: What It Isn’t and Is" at
a program on the music school
auditorium.
Dr. Hedley is slated for a class
room lecture and continuation of
the daily skeptics hour at 4 p.m.
today in Gerlinger hall. “Jesus”
will be the discussion topic and all
students are invited to attend.
Leading the noon and 3 p.m.
discussion sessions at the YMCA
and YWCA will be Professor Ro
bert Dann, Rev. Charles Scott Ne
ville, Rabbi J. Aaron Levy, and
Dr. Heyden Stewart.
Rev. Neville is the rector of the
Episcopal church in Corvallis, and
has worked in or near the Univer
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Above left is Barbara Borrevik, student chairman of this year’s Re
ligious Evaluation week, which began on the campus yesterday. Be
low are Rev. Charles Scott Neville (left) and Mre. Gladys Lawther,
two of the many guest speakers scheduled to address students at
living organizations and special Evaluation week functions.
Amazon Project
To Be Finished
Plans to complete the last 100
units of the veterans housing pro
ject in Amazon flats were released
Friday by I. I. Wright, superin
tendent of the Oregon physical
plant.
University and public housing ad
ministration officials will meet
Saturday to discuss final arrange
ments.
Last summer, a deficiency ap
propriation of about $130,000 to
bring the total number of units at
the student housing project to the
authorized 250 was approved by
congress.
University authorities have re
ported that grading, landscaping
and other work in connection with
the project will be completed as
soon as actual housing construction
is completed. There “final touches”
have been delayed to prevent un
necessary repetition of effort.
Nyland Chosen Joe;
Handelin Gets Betty
Carol Handelin and Harry Ny
land were chosen Betty Coed and
Joe College last Saturday night at
the annual Sophomore Whiskerino.
Winner of the whisker cup and free
shave by rcampus barber Charlie
Elliot was Bill Rooney, sophomore
in law.
Miss Handelin, sophomore in art,
from Coos Bay is affiliated with
Alpha Phi. Nyland, also a sopho
more in art, is from Portland, and
is a member of Delta Tau Delta.
Approximately 800 couples at
tended the dance.
Carnival Petitions Due
Petitions for the position of
chairman for the WAA carnival are
now being accepted. Sophomore
and junior women who are mem
bers of the WAA are eligible. Pe
titions may be picked up at the
dean of women’s office in Emerald
hall, and must be turned in to Bar
bara Borrevik at the Delta Gamma
house by November 6.
State Board
Committee
Gives OK
$5 Increase !
Proposal Gets
Final Vote Today '
PORTLAND, Oct. 27, (Spe
cial)—Approval of the $5 per*
term increase in the incidental
fee at the University of Ore
gon, to be earmarked for stu
dent union purposes, was given
Monday by the finance com
mittee of the state board of
higher education. The recom
mendation will go to the full
board Tuesday, where its ac
ceptance, in light of the finance
committee’s action, is virtually
a certainty.
In making its recommendation
the finance committee took cogni
zance of requests by the executive
council of the student body, and
of a campus poll in which well over
two-thirds of those contacted sup
ported the proposed action.
Ncwburn Approved
The requests were transmitted
to the board through and with the
approval of University President
Harry A. Ncwburn.
By its action the committee also
recognized the vital importance in
the University’s educational pro
gram of a student center building.
The building will permit the Uni
versity to offer a better, well
rounded educational experience to
its students.
It is estimated that the fee,
which will run for 10 terms, will
provide about 15275,000, based cn
present enrollment figures.
Religion Profs
To Join Faculty
Two visiting professors of re
ligion will present courses on the
! campus winter and spring terms,
Dr. P. B. Means, head of the re
ligion department, has announced.
Dr. Edgar J. Goodspeed, profes
sor emeritus of New Testament
and Biblical Greek from the Uni
versity of Chicago, will give a
series of 12 lectures winter term
for a two-week period. The topic
of his talks will be the "Founding
of the Christian Church.”
Dr. Henry N. Wieman, professor
of religion at the University of
Chicago, is scheduled for spring
term. He will conduct two three
hour courses for upper classmen
titled the “Philosophy of Religion”
and “Contemporary Crisis of Our
Civilization.”
Dr. Means said thtere was a
possibility of awarding regular
college credit for these courses in
cluding the two-week series by Dr.
Goodspeed.
The Iowa Plan, which would in
corporate three professors of re
ligion, one each from the Catholic
church, the Protestant church, and
the Jewish church. This plan was
introduced at the University of
Iowa. Although it is still being
considered, action on such a plan
is not being taken at the present,
Dr. Means said.