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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 25, 1948)
r ^ The Weather ^ Living Costs fcugene and vicinity: cloudy to- ■ ■ BJ B B I I |% I /i JSLtSsW ■“ BJ LB £B B B B Another in the ‘Cost of 'day with occasional showers. Bill 11111 1 1 ll ■ B 1^1 ll I B fl ■ ■ 1 B Living’ series appears on page kittle temperature change. A ^ " ™ ™ ™ " three of today’s Emerald. yOLUME XLIX UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25. 1948 NUMBER 9.1 Chairman Announces Contest ^ Committee Opens . Contest for Junior Weekend Theme *' A contest to choose the theme v;ipon which the events of Junior Weekeend will be built opens today and student suggestions will be ac cepted until next Tuesday, Hank Sinsell, general chairman of the Weekend, announced yesterday. The theme, together with the -winners’ names, will be announced next week. The prize for the best entry is $10; second prize is $5. • Plans for adapting the theme to ;.,ohe Junior Prom and other Week end events may be submitted with t|ie suggestions. Entries will be ac < epted by Hank Kinsell at the Chi ■'’si lodge, and Beth Basler at the Delta Delta Delta house. n _ The Junior Weekend committee . hairman will judge the sugges tions on the basis of originality and adaptability to thee Weekend func tions. Last year’s winners suggest ed a Gay Nineties weekend, and a Diamond Horseshoe Junior Prom cfirried out the theme. fr Work Resumes At Amazon * Strike-delayed units at Amazon Mats housing project are moving ■ toward completion, I. I. Wright, I superintendent of the physical plant, announced yesterday. Some .are already finished, and 16 units ,-»vill be completed by the first of. Vp^xt week. The first family is ^scheduled to moe into a completed liunit Friday. ' Some carpenters have been [ working for the past week, with the crew numbering 17 ‘carpenters on Tuesday, Wright said. He ex plained that this crew was made ,p of some of the “University crew Supplemented by non-union men hired through civil service. h Work was halted when union car penters went out on strike for an -tcrease of from $1.75 to $2 hour ly. The strike has continued since then with no tangible indication of a settlement yet in sight. Of the 72 units in the new pro ject, 28 have already been com pleted, plus the 16 which will be ready by Friday. Superintendent Wright expressed the belief that another group of eight will be !,-«ady in a few weeks. I infirmary Names . Twenty Patients ^ Twenty patients found their way into the infirmary this week. They are: Joanne Baldwin, Eva Moore, Mercedes Hadley, Lorraine Harris, ^Margaret Knighten, Thelma Bailey, ~>’elyn Clay, Beverly Wadsworth, Estella Allen, Mrs. Don Leslie, William Wallace, Alfred Staples, Frank Brownwell, Nevella Johan ja, Donald Miller, William Walker, Walter Buchanan, Lloyd Hickok, cal Seminary in Berlin. Since Can't Forget These Dates, Laura Dedo Misely, left, and Laura Olson are shown checking the dates of the International Festival. But neither is likely to forget since they are co-chairmen of the YWCA event. Foreign Country Folk-Dances Featured in International Tea Dances from different foreign countries will be featured en tertainment at the Gerlinger tea. part of the YWCA Inter national Festival, Saturday beginning at 4 p. m. Gerry Arnold, woman commentator from radio station KUGN, will be mis tresses of ceremonies for the afternoon, and will describe and co-ordinate the dances. \ The Monday commission will perform an Irish St. Patrick's Day dance. Tuesday’s commissions will represent Mexico and Campus Sing Heads to Meet Living organization representa tives for the All-Campus Sing will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday to re ceive instructions and recommen dations on their selections, Jordis Benke announced yesterday. The meeting will be at the Pi Beta Phi house. Miss Benke and Jerry O’Leary, co-chairmen of the annual event, have asked that the living organi zations select their songs by next week. They also issued a call yesterday for petitions for work on the sub committees of the All-Campus Sing. Applicants need not neces sarily be juniors, according to the co-chairmen. The sub-committees are publicity, decorations, tickets, and invitations. Petitions may be submitted to Miss Benke at the Pi Beta Phi house or to O’Leary at the Beta Theta Pi house. YWCA Membership To Close at Finals YWCA membership will be closed from the end of winter term until the second week of spring term, President Bjorg Hansen has announced. She has requested all women to join the YWCA to do so now. Only members will be allowed to vote in the elections April 6. ureece; the Wednesday group will present a Norwegian spring festi val; and the Thursday commis sions will present Dutch and Chi nese dances. Students, faculty members, and townspeople are invited to attend any part of the International Fes tical, co-chairmen, Laura Olson and Dedo Misley said yesterday. Written invitations to the festival have been sent to members of the faculty, townspeople and campus house presidents. Invitations have also been sent to foreign students at Oregon and Washington univer sities and colleges. Foreign students on the Univer sity campus will participate in the Saturday afternoon discussion pe riod schedule to begin at 2 p.m. at the “Y” bungalow. They will dis cuss “Advantages and Disadvan tages of American and Foreign Systems of Education. Both formal and Social.” Speakers include Captain Hsu Kai Yu, graduate student in jour nalism; Peter Linde, graduate stu dent in chemistry; Fely Corcuera, graduate student in finance and banking; Herbert Weiss, freshman in liberal arts; Carlos Martinez, sophomore in business administra tion; and Agnar Nygaard, a stu dent from Oregon State. Joan O’Neil, chairman of the Saturday afternoon discussions, will be mod erator. Saturday morning discussions will be on the topic “Can World Government Preserve World Peace.” The discussions will begin (Please turn to page i'-ht) Increased Fee Rumors Declared Premature; Termed'Last Resort' UO Officials, Executive Council Studying Methods for Increasing Athletic Revenue By JIM WALLACE There will be no raise in student fees this year or next to increase the athletic budget, administrative officials announced yesterday. It was emphasized that although various methods for raising athletic revenue are under consideration, a tuition boost at any time in the future would definitely be a last re sort measure. In explaining the situation that had given rise to the tuition boost rumor, Leo Harris, director of athletics, said that the department’s expenses had exceeded the income for the past two years. Methods of balancing the budget, either by increasing revenues or cutting down expen ses are being studied and must be found, declared Harris. Emphasized by both administra tive and athletic officials was the fact that any tuition increase, if and when it came, woud have to come from the students. Williamson Denys Claim Stan Williamson, speaking for the executive council, declared that no such proposal had even See story page 7 for explana tion of athletic department ex penses and other possible meth ods of raising revenue. been suggested by that body. He also stresed the fact that if such a proposal were made, it would be the result of student demand rather than council action. The main interest of the coun cil, said Williamson, is presenting to the students the problem of the athletic budget with its various consequences and letting the stu dent body decide which course it wishes to follow. He agreed with the administration that any fee boost is now a last resort consid eration. Harris continued his explanation of the athletic budget by saying that he would willingly appear be fore any group and explain, but not advocate, any proposal to in crease athletic revenue. He said that his job was to operate the athletic department on what the University, and in the ultimate view the students, allot him. Harris Cites Choice The choice, asserted Harris, lies between raising more money for athletics or cutting down on ex penses. If the cut comes, he con tinued, it will mean, among other things, sending traveling squads second-class, sending smaller squads, and less participation in the minor and non-paying sports. Harris said that although the 1947 football season made money there would be a demicit of about $15,000 in the athletic budget by the end of the year. He added that a similar condition existed in 1946. Action must be taken to balance this budget in some way, he con tinued. Forger Suspended Forgery of his name to a Uni versity dining service meal ticket has led to the suspension of a Uni versity of Oregon student, revealed Vergil S. Fogdall, acting dean of men. This is the second of such of fenses. 'Brotherhood' Speaker Rabbi Leo Trepp Rabbi to Open Special 'Week' Rabbi Leo Trepp of the Sinai temple of Tacoma will inaugurate Brotherhood week on the Univer sity campus today, when he deliv ers the first lecture of the three day observance. He will speak on “The Philosophy of Saadya” in al umni hall, Gerlinger at 4 p.m. to day. He will .give a second lecture, “The Philosophy of Martin Buber, a Modern Jewish Mystic,” Thurs day at 7:30 p.m. in room 207, Chap man hall. i* rencn I'niiosnpncrs Dr. Trepp received his education at the Universities of Wuerzburg, Frankfort, and Berlin. His thesis for Ph.D. degree was “Three French Philosophers and Their Concept of God." He was ordained in the Rabbini cal Seminary in Berlin. Since cince coming to America, he has been affiliated with the Jewish Theologi cal Assembly of America. Week Jointly Sponsored Brotherhood week is sponsored by the University religious council, the University lecture series, ami the department of religion. Nation al Brotherhood week was estab lished by President Truman in an effort to see that some sort of ob servance was carried out on each college campus in the nation. The Rev. Francis J. McConnell, bishop of the Methodist church in the Portland area; and Father Leo J. Linahen, J.C.D., of the chancery office of the archdiocese of Port land, will speak on the campus Thursday and Friday.