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Volume xlix university of oregox, eugene Tuesday, January is, 194s number 62
McNeil Resigns Top ISA Post
Conroy In
After Chief
Quits Job
- Ex-Vice-President
Calls for Petitions
To Fill Empty Chair
Don McNeil, junior in journal
ism, announced his resignation as
• president of the Independent Stu
dents association effective yester
day. McNeil stated that his resig
' nation was due to personal not po
litical reasons.
Assuming the duties as president
of the organization will be Joe
_ ‘Conroy, junior in business admin
istration, who was recently elected
- vice-president of the ISA. The vice
presidential vacancy must be filled
immediately, Conroy said, and in
terested persons are asked to bring
petitions to the senate meeting
Thursday night or give them to
Conroy at Sherry Ross hall before
the meeting.
The position of senior men’s rep
resentative to the organizational
committee is also open, Conroy an
nounced, and will be filled at the
.Thursday meeting along with the
positions of junior representatives.
Petitions for these posts should be
-given to Conroy or brought to the
. meeting.
Conroy announced that his policy
will be to make the organization of
* the Independent students more
.compact beginning first with the
_ organizational committee and the
senate.
The next meeting of the senate
|- is scheduled for Thursday at 6:45
i jj.m. in room 105 Commerce hall.
•All New Students
invited by Newman
All new students, as well as
.members are invited to the New
man club meeting at 6:45 tonight
in the YMCA, Cy Laurie, president,
"has announced.
Rev. Francis Leizig will give a
.welcome talk, and plans for the
_ communion breakfast Sunday will
.be discussed.
* __ Refreshments will be served af
ter the meeting.
ISA Head
JOE CONROY
YWCA Outlines
Winter Term's
.
Event Schedule
Monday marked the beginning of
the YWCA winter term member
ship drive under the leadership of
Nila Dessinger, membership chair
man.
All Y house representatives are
meeting with Miss Dessinger at 4
today to learn the details of the
drive. Memembership is expected
to increase from the 818 of fall
term.
Winter term the YWCA spon
sors an International Festival,
which includes meetings and par
ties honoring students of foreign
countries and will also sponsor the
Heart hop. This is a progressive
girl-date-boy dance annually held
on Valentine’s day. Y membership
is required to participate on com
mittees for these functions.
Miss Dessinger said that only
Y members can vote in the election
of officers held winter term.
Freshman commissions are con
tinuing with their service projects
and the sophomore commission is
planning more meetings in voca
tional guidance.
Dues are $1. The drive closes
January 19.
■Tyler Studies Show Quality
■Of College Education Improved
Results of a researeh project by
•Dr. Leona E. Tyler, assistant of
psychology, show that returning
students that took advantage of
'educational opportunities are def
- initely superior to those that do
.not. The bulletin was entitled “Col
lege Ability of Former University
' of Oregon Students Returning to
-College After the War.’’
The study was a sequel to a per
sonnel research bulletin published
"in May, 1943, showing that the war
* emergency was operating selec
tively on the student body, there
fore better students were remain
ing in college for longer periods of
'time.
Three Groups Studied
.-•-Comparisons were made in
terms of first-term GPA and Ohio
psychological examination scores
of three groups of men and three
groups of women.
Students who entered the Uni
versity of Oregon in 1942-43 and
who dropped out before the fall of
1944 and did not return constituted
the first group. Students who en- j
tered in 1942-43 and who were still i
in attendance in 1944-45 were the
second. Students entered in 1942-43
who dropped out before the fall of
1944 but returned to the Univer
sity in 1946-47 made up the third.
The average first-term GPA and
psychological-test score for each
of these groups is given individual
ly for men and women. The test
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Theater Dedicates Satire Play
To Former University Librarian
By PAT KING
“The Adding Machine,” first production of the University
Theatre for 1948, will be dedicated to the memory of Ethel
Sawyer, former University of Oregon librarian. Miss Sawyer
was interested in the furtherance of the campus theater. Under
the direction of Horace W. Robinson, the play will run Feb.
6 through 14.
An expressionist drama by Elmer Rice, it ruthlessly satires
New Enrollment
Tops All Other
Winter Terms
A new high for winter term reg
istration. was reported yesterday
by Clifford Constance, associate
registrar .Five thousand five hun
dred forty-eight students complet
ed registration by Saturday noon.
Last year’s winter term total was
5,255. Registration was down from
last term when 5,905 students were
enrolled.
Complete figures for this term
will not be made until January 17,
last day for registration.
It’s Men, 2-1
Oregon men outnumber the
women by 1,972, or 2.1 men to each
feminine student. The report
showed 3,760 male and 1,788 fe
male registrants. Last year's stu
dent body was composed of 3,511
men and 1,744 women, or about
two men per each coed.
Division of students by classes
showed freshmen numbering 1,500;
sophomores, 2,239; juniors, 589;
seniors, 731; and graduate students,
382. Special and auditing students
total 107.
Registrants for last year’s winter
term totaled freshmen, 1,888; soph
omores, 1,937; juniors, 377; seniors,
663; and graduate students, 271.
Schools Listed
The largest single increase over
a year ago in registration in vari
ous University schools came in the
college of liberal arts, where 2,159
students registered. Last year’s
liberal art majors numbered 1,891.
Other majors listed were: busi
ness administration, 1,337; archi
tecture and allied arts, 637; law,
427; journalism, 371; health and
physical education, 226; music, 198;
and education, 149.
New Students
This term’s registrants include
222 new students, those never be
fore attending the University. Old
returnees, who were not registered
for fall term, number 128. The re
mainder are “continued” students.
Lloyd, Keaton Star
In Vintage Movies
Two old time comedies, “Grand
mas’ Boy” and “Sherlock Jr.” will
be shown in room 207 Chapman
hall Wednesday in the first show
ing of pictures sponsored by thte
audio-visual department. Movies
will be shown every Wednesday
night throughout the term.
“Grandmas’ Boy” is directed by
Sam Taylor and Fred Newmeyer
and stars Harold Lloyd. “Sherlock
Jr.” is directed by and features
Buster Keaton.
industrialism and its flattening
destruction of personality and hu
man differences. Discarding pho
tographic realism, the play relies
on abstractness and mechanization
to dramatize the type rather than
the individual.
Dream Struck
Paul Bender, sophomore in lib
eral arts, heads the cast as Mr.
Zero, an Everyman particularized
as an American clerk in a big
store. He adds figures and has
dreams which collide and mingle
with his cinema - nourished
thoughts. His wife Mrs. Zero,
played by Geraldine Hettinger,
junior in music, is also cinema en
tranced.
Dick Rayburn as The Boss is the
personification of all conceivable
bosses rolled into one. It is he
who dismisses Mr. Zero and re
places him by adding machines, an
act which Inspires Zero to murder.
L’Affaires Listed
A good half of the cast is cata
logued under the brisk classifica
tions of Messrs, and Wives Number
One, Don Smith and Donna Bren
nan; Number Two, Dick Monnie
and Sally Nicols; Number Three,
Dick Nelson and Ruth Foreman;
Number Four, Elton Allen and
Mary Ellen McKay; Number Five,
Gene Gillard and Donna O'Brien;
Number Six, Paul Wexler and
Chriss McCarroll.
LeJune Griffith as Daisy De
Vore, Louise Clouston as Judy O'
Grady, Stan Smith as Young Man,
Alan Button as Shrdlu, and Nor
man Weekly as Lt. Charles com
plete the cast.
A bitter and relentless view of
life as a grinding machine ‘and as
a standard existence, the play has
a racy humor and satire that give
it a marionette nightmare-sense
of humanity strung on wire.
Dates for ticket sales and season
ticket reservations will be an
nounced shortly.
Execs Call
3 Greeks
1 Non-Org
Vacancies Filled
From Large List
Of Student Petitioners
Who Won:
Bert Moore and Dave Silver,
senior representatives on the
ASl'O executive council,
Marvin Rasmussen, junior rep
resentative on the council.
Lou Weston, sophomore rep
resentative on t h e executive
council.
The executive council of the
ASUO last night appointed four
students to vacancies left on the
council by the scholastic ineligi
bility of persons who were elected
to the positions spring term. In
each case the vacancy was filled by
a representative of the political
party to which the ineligible can
didate had belonged. The ineligibil
ity rulings had left openings for
three Greeks and one Independent.
The following petitions were re
ceived and considered by the coun
cil for the senior positions:
Malcolm McEwan, Dan Garza,
Dedo Misley, Winston Carl, Bert
Moore, Nina Sue Fernimen, Tom,
H a z z a rd, Robbieburr Courtney,
Hal Schmeckel, Sallie Timmens,
Dale Harlan, Dave Silver, and Clell
Conrad.
Person', submitting petitions for
the junior position follow:
Larry Lau, Marvin Rasmussen,
Beverley Pitman, Clay Meyers, Re
nee Cowell, Robert H. Berkley,
Betty Jean McCourrcy, Pat King,
Nancy Peterson, Bill Yates, Paul.
McCracken, Janet Biegal, RalpV).
Haley.
Sophomores submitting petitions
were Marie Lombard, Norma
Stearns, Perry Holloman, Ed An
derson, Norm Morrison, Larry
Davidson, Mary Lou Weston, John
d: Doyle, Marguerite Johns, Wil
liam H. Green, Jcannine Macauley,
Donna Kletzing, Billijean Keith
miller, Walter V. McKinney, Betty
Lagomarsino.
The council will meet again to
night to appoint a chairman of
Dads' Day and to take care of
other business.
Illness Calls Johnston
Because of family illness, Miss
Faith Johnston of the clothing and
textile department is absent from
the University, but will return
within two weeks. Mrs. Mary Hu
ser and Mrs. Ruth Thurston are
substituting in her classes.
Co-op to Sell Tickets
Senior Ball tickets will be on
sale at the Co-op Wednesday.
The charge will be $3 per couple.
Two Best Booths to Win Prizes
At Friday WAA Carnival in Gym
Prizes will be awarded to the
men's and women’s houses spon
soring the best booth at the WAA
earnival Friday night. A commit
tee of five judges will pick the
winner and the decision will be
announced at 10 p.m. Oregana pic
tures of the booth and festivities
will be taken after the announce
ment.
Carnival Held Indoors
This year’s carnival is being held
in the indoor main gym, rather
than in the outdoor gym, as last
year. Co-chairmen, Bep McCurry
and Genevieve Siskey stress that
this will mean much more room for
concessions and will also allow
space for dancing on the adjoining
sunporch.
House booth representatives are
requested to attend a meeting at
7:30 tonight: in alumnae hall. The
$2 booth rental fee is payable at
this time. Booth preferences are to
be turned in and themes will bo
assigned at the meeting.
Booths will be set up Friday af
ternoon after 3:40. Property chair
man Mary Stadelman announces
that there will be a limited number
of standards, curtains, tables,
screens, and poles on hand for use
by the houses.
There is a change in pair of
houses for the booths. Sigma hail
will work with Sigma Kappa, rath
er than Delta Tau Delta.