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VOLUME XLIX UNIVERSITY OF~OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, XX)\UvAIB1CK~2l7~F)47 NUMBER 4^
Campus Preparing to Receive
Over 3000 Homecoming Alums
Assembly
To Follow
Fire Rally
'Dux Apoppin' Show
Features Music, Skits
And Lots of Laughs
“Dux Apoppin” is the theme for
the talent assembly that will take
place in McArthur court immedi
ately after the bonfire rally to
night. A variety of numbers have
been arranged by Oregon students
to make this one of the best pro
grams of its kind ever to be pre
sented by and for an Oregon stu- I
dent body, according to Mo Thom
as, Homecoming chairman.
A feature of the assembly will
be the awarding of cups to the
winners of the Homecoming sign
contest, the noise parade, and the
organization donating the most
fuel for the Frosh bonfire.
Awards will be made by Bill
Bishop, master of ceremonies.
Attractions of the program will
be a jazz band, the song stylings of
Lynn Renick, a quintet under the
direction of Helen McFetridge,
skits specially written and ar
ranged for the occasion, and sev
eral novelty numbers by Sid Ro
sen. Among those working on the
skits are Curt Cutsforth, Luwayne
Engwall, Frank Rausch, and Pete
Dunn.
Rumors Flying
It has been hinted by Glenn
Walker, chairman of the pro
gram, that additional talent of an
undisclosed nature will be on hand
to add to the entertainment. Al
though not officially scheduled,
their part in the laugh fest has
been virtually assured, he said.
It is also rumored that a photog
rapher from Varsity magazine will
be on hand to take pictures of the
show.
Libe to Close Saturday
The University library will be
closed from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sat
urday, November 22, because of
Homecoming.
Today's the Day
Zata Sinclair, pretty Delta Gamma sophomore, who begins her reign
today as official hostess for the 1947 University Homecoming. She
will appear at all functions during the weekend.
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Oregon Alumni Urged to Attend
Annual Homecoming Reception
All students are urged to remind
their weekend guests to attend
the annual Homecoming Faculty
Alumni mixer to be held tonight
Campus Sweepers
Swing into Action
The campus will get a pre
Homecoming face-lifing today
from 1 to 5 p.m. when men’s and
women’s living organizations take
part in the all-campus clean-up.
Organizations should furnish
their own rakes, brooms, and gar
bage cans and complete their en
tire section by 5 p.m.
from 8:30 to 10 in Gerlinger hall.!
The informal reception is being!
held to give the returning alumni
an opportunity to renew their ac
quaintance with their former pro
fessors, and to become acquainted
with new faculty members. The
mixer will include comments on the
Homecoming game by Jim Aiken,
head football coach. The reception
line will be headed by President
Harry K. Newburn.
All Oregon alumni, their chil
dren, and parents of students are
invited to attend. All faculty mem
bers will be there.
Paul McCracken is in charge of
the committee.
Explorer Describes 'Land of Future'
By JIM WALLACE
“The North is the land of the
future,” emphasized Dr. Vilhjal
mur Stefansson in his speech at
McArthur court last night. He con
tinued by saying that although the
Arctic regions introduced new and
unsolved problems to man, they
are far from being worthless and
disagreeable as many people think
they are.
Stefansson pointed out that a
popular misconception is that the
history of mankind traces a west
ward movement. This movement,
said Stefansson, has only held true
of European nations in the last
400 years.
The overall travel of the human
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race has been from the tropics to
ward the poles; the center of civil
ization has ever been moving
northward, he continued.
This misconception of westward
wovement, with its easy transition
of customs, crops, arid techniques,
coupled with current beliefs that
the Arctic is cold, barren, and un
inviting region has halted expan
sion in a northerly direction thus
cutting the human race off from
thousands of square miles of habit
able land, he said.
Stefansson stressed that the So
viets are currently the only people
actively colonizing the Arctic. He
pointed out that their thinking re
garding this area is diametrically
opposed to that of the Americans.
They have the same “let’s go atti
tude toward the North that our
people had toward the West in the
last century, he explained.
The Soviet governmnet is care
ful to further this attitude, con
tinued the famed Arctic explorer.
They publish glowing stories about
the Arctic regions rather than
building up the accidents and
storms as is done in the United
States, he said.
Stefansson explained that this
method has been so successful that
the entire Soviet nation is taking
to the North. They want to de
velop the Arctic and have such a
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NOISE PARADE, FIRE
HIGHLIGHT FIRST DAY
Hundreds of University alumni will begin arriving on the
campus today for the first of three crowded days of Home
coming activities. Chairman Mo Thomas estimated last night
that over 3000 alumni would attend this year’s celebration,
which will follow the theme “Return! Recall! Recapture!—
Oregon Spirit.”
Included in today’s schedule of events are the judging of
Homecoming signs, the noise parade, the bonfire, a pre-game
rally and variety show, and a faculty-alumni mixer.
Homecoming signs at the various living organizations will
be judged at 6 p.m. Contest Chairman Wally Turnidge has re
quested that all signs be completed by 4:30 p.m. Judges for the
contest ai*e Verv Vater, Don Kirsch, Dick Williams, Doris
Hoiland, and Mrs. Ethel Lawrence. Cups will be awarded to
the best signs in both the men’s and women’s divisions.
Parade Starts at 6:30
The noise parade, directed this year by Ed Anderson, will!
begin wending its way down University street at 6:30 p.m. An
derson has requested that all entries form in front of McArthur
court not later than 6 p.m.
The parade will proceed from McArthur court down Uni
versity to 19th avenue; down 19th to Hilyard; down Hilyard
to 15th; up 15th to Alder, where the University band will join
the procession; on to Kincaid; down 13th, past the judges’
stand in front of the Side; back down Hilyard to 19th; and
from there to Amazon flats.
Judges who will decide which entry in the parade is the
noisiest are Vergil Fogdall, Miss Frances McKenna, and James
Stovall.
Following the parade, the traditional bonfire will be lighted
at Amazon Flats, 19th and Ferry. A special rally under the
direction of Yell King Johnny Backlund and his rally squad will
be held around the blaze. The fire—nearly 70 feet high—is be
lieved to be the largest ever built at the University, according
to Perry Holloman, chairman. The torch will be set to the fire at.
7 :15 p.m.
At 7 :45 p.m. the Homecoming scene will shift to McArthur
court for a pre-game rally and variety show entitled “Dux
Apoppin.” Arrangements for the affair have been under the
direction of Glenn Walker.
The first day’s schedule will end with a faculty-alumni mixer
at Gerlinger hall. All alumni and faculty members of the Uni
versity have been issued a cordial invitation to attend.
They Shall Not Pass
Lucky for the two in the convertible they are not from Oregon
State as they are stopped by two student guards—part of a cordon,
thrown around the campus this week to protect it against Aggie
vandalism.
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