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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 29, 1948)
VOLUME XLIX NUMBER 74 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. EUGENE TH!’]«mv i wttt u-v' •*» > State Board Raises System's Dormitory Charaes * .* * * * * * * ,* * * * " » » ^ Building Plan Gets Go Ahead Monthly Board Bill Upped $3 Rent Raised $2; New Prices to Start In Summer Session Charges in dormitories through out the Oregon state system of higher education were raised by a vote of the state board Tuesday in their meeting in Portland. • Board in dorms will rise $3 per month and rent will go up $2 per term for double rooms, effective with the first summer session, 1948. This brings the monthly board bill to $45 at the Univer sity and Oregon State college and $44 at the colleges of education. Rent on single occupancy rooms will be increased $2. During the current term at the ‘ University the rent on double rooms is $48 and on single rooms, . $72. The dorm fees were raised only after extensive investigation of the rising cost of living by the state board, and will be reduced if the cost of living declines, accord ' ing to University officials. In reporting for the fee commit tee Dr. C. D. Byrne, secretary of the board, said marked increases in food and dormitory labor costs since the last increase made the new rates necessary, adding that ■ the totals still leave Oregon dormi tories at the “lower end of the scale of comparable institutions. March of Dimes Ends This Week Living organizations should turn ' in their March of Dimes contribu tion boxes to their house represen* tatives by Friday, Bob Christ, cam pus chairman for the drive, said yesterday. , Christ declared that the drive is progressing very well and urged that students turn in their last ' minute contributions before tomor row’s deadline. The two-week campaign was cli maxed last night by an enter'tain . ment program featuring the Phil harmonics trio, held in the Univer sity high school auditorium. The only charge for the entertainment • was a donation to the March of Dimes. “The program was a big suc cess,’’ Christ said, “and I wish to thank the students for their co operation.” Downtown Drive Continues Although the drive ends Friday . on the campus, donation boxes will be left in the downtown areas un til Saturday afternoon. Christ also expressed his appre ciation of the work done by the committee heads during the drive, which include: Walt McKinney and Elwin Paxson, publicity; Sam Gil lette, special events; Billiejean Riethmiller and Ed Anderson, house collections; and Jean Knight on and Roger Tetlow, dorm promo tion. I Faculty Recital At Music School l Stars Violinist George Boughton, violinist, will perform in a faculty recital tonight at 8:15 p.m. in the school of music auditorium. On the program is Bach’s solo sonata No. 6, in E major, a number the professor has taught to many pupils, but one which, he has never j played before an audience. The j sonata consists of six dance move ! ments—Prelude, Loure, Gavotte, Gigue, Minuet, and Bourre. Wade Parks, pianist and faculty member, will accompany Boughton in the Hindemitch concerto for vio lin. The comDoser of this piece, which was written in 1939, is now on the faculty of Yale university. Three Paganini Caprices, Nos. 20, 21, and 24, will also be featured with the modern Szymanowsky piano accompaniments. Written by the director of the Warsaw con servatory before the war, these j accompaniments result in a mix ture of modern and early 19th century music. Boughton, assistant professor of violin, studied music at the Jul liard school of music in New York City and at Prague, with the di rector of the German academy there. He came to the Oregon cam pus in 1945 from Southern Meth odist university. The recital is open to the public. ISA Nickel Hop Set for Friday Women’s Independent living or ganizations will be open for danc ing Friday night when the ISA sponsors its annual nickel hop. The dancing will begin at 8:30 p.m. and will continue until midnight. All campus men are invited to par ticipate in the event. Contrary to the story which ap peared in yesterday’s Emerald, Alpha hall will be included in the hop along wdth Rebec house, High land house, University house, Su san Campbell hall, Hendricks hall, Gamma hall, and Zeta hall. Ann Judson house will not participate Friday night. The women's house which turns in the most money per girl will re ceive a prize of records. Helen Koopman, sophomore in liberal arts, will be the general chairman of the event. Assisting her are John Day, Dave Crom well, Jean Nunn, Virginia Thomp son, and Beverly Decoto. ADS to Hold Luncheon Alpha Delta Sigma announces a luncheon meeting at the faculty club today at noon. It is impera tive that all pledges and members attend. To Lecture I S. N. Dicen, head 'of the geol gy and geography .department, who will speak Monday On caves. Dicken to Give Geology Talk At UO Meeting A lecture on the topographical features of “caves and karst” will be presented by Dr. Samuel N. Dicken, head of the department of geology and geography, on Tues day. Dr. Dicken will speak of his ex periences in geological surveys of cave and karst areas and of his work with the American O.S.S. during the war. His lecture will be presented to members of Sigma Xi, national science honorary, at 8 p.m. in room 103 Deady hall. One of the main features of Dr. Dicken's lecture will be a discus sion of the evolution of karst (roofless caves) and the develop ment of limestone formations. He made an intensive study of this subject while on a Kentucky geo logical subject in 1937, and while serving as a specialist with the wartime O.S.S. It was while serv ing with the O.S.S. that Dr. Dicken prepared a detailed report of cave and karst formations in Germany. (Please turn to page three) Oregon Plan* Phone Changes Early Monday Campus extension telephone numbers will be changed to a new system effective Monday morning, announced the University telephone exchange yesterday. The telephone company will be gin work on the new system Sat urday morning which will affect nearly all of the campus exten sions. During this installation time there will be unavoidable disrup tions and students are urged to maye only necessary calls to the University extensions. If, however, calls are necessary they should be placed by dialing the campus oper ator “O.” Several new extensions are to be installed within the next few weeks. The numbers of these new units will be listed in the dormitory correction which will be available to students in the latter part of the week. A revised faculty directory, in corporating the new numbers, is being printed this week. It will be available at the office of G. N. Bel knap, University editor, at 10 Friendly hall Tuesday morning. Climbers toHold Classes Tonight Obsidian mountaineering school will hold its first class tonight at 8 at the YMCA. Lectures, demonstra tions and pictures will comprise their classes. Use of equipment, rock climbing 'technique, care of equipment, camping, use of the rope, and knot-tying are among the courses taught. Records of attendance v/ill be taken in to consideration in deter mining qualifications for different climbs. Following the first few classes, classes will he held at Coburg caves. Willis Caldwell, chairman of the climbing committee, advised that all persons planning to climb this summer with the Obsidians should take advantage of this op portunity. $3,500,000 Earmarked For Oregon Program to Include Science Building, BA School Addition A $3,500,000 building prograta for the University was approved Tuesday by the state board of high er education. Included in this total are con struction of the long-planned sci cnee building, of an addition to the school of business administration, and of a heating plant and connect ing tunnels. Another major project is the women’s dormitory, which will bo financed from a bond issue. A re vision of plans to increase the ca pacity by 99 will permit financing the project. It was abandoned last year when bids exceeded resources. Bid opening was set for March 16. Other Needs Named Die program for state education al institutions provided for $12, 000,000 of “emergency” needs and another $12,500,000 in “immediate” needs. The $3,500,000 allocated for the University was designated as emergency needs. Total needs for the University were listed as $8, 675,000. The board also approved prelim inary plans for an addition to the music building at an estimated $195,000. Approval also was given the appointment of an architect for the proposed speech and drama unit to be made in Villard hall. Dr. R. K. Klcinsorge, chairman, of the board's building committee, said need for early construction of dormitories, class room and labora tories was urgent. He said that a fifth of the money allocated for buildings by the leg islature has already been used for emergency buildings, Solon Will Speak At Faculty Dinner Judge Janies T. Brand of the Oregon supreme court will deliver the address at the annual dinner of the faculty club on February 7. Brand has just returned from Ger many where he served as judge in war-time trials. The free dinner is open to ail members of the faculty club who have paid their 1948 dues. Faculty members who wish to join may send $5, the annua] dues, to J. O. Lindstrom, University business manager and treasurer of the club. Hall Urges Tax Surpluses for Schools M Governor Hall, speaking in Eu gene last night, proposed that Ore gon's income tax collection sur pluses be used for construction gf college buildings urgently needed on state school campuses. He suggested that voters take initiative action and place the plan on the November general election ballot to enable the state to use the $14,000,000 which he said was “now gathering dust in the state treasury.” He said that unless the voters took action, the state would be prevented from using the reserve money possibly until November 1950, when an amendment to the state law probably would be pro posed in the 1949 legislature and referred to the voters the follow ing year. Earlier this week the state board of higher education approved $24, 500,000 building program and asked the state for $12,000,000 for emergency projects needed at once. Reasons he gave were that the college enrollment is up 76 per cent from prewar peak of 9902 in Ore- J gon schools. There are now 17,410 in attendance. From 1930 to 1945, said Ha.ll, the state ’spent only $100,000 for buildings on campuses. Hall said that excess tax collec tions in the income revenue fund were expected to grow to an esti mated $31,900,000 by June 1949 and about $45,000,000 by the end of the biennium June 1949. “This is the sum expected to be on hand for no other reason than because of restrictions upon the use of income tax funds which the present law provides,” Hall said.