VOLUME XLIX ~ *-U.,n,rn 11Q UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE_THURSDAY, APR IL 22^ 1948 Full-Packed Schedule To Welcome Mothers Planning Mothers’ Weekend activities are, seated: Nancy Peterson and Joanne Frydenlund. Standing, Marilyn Turner, Maggie Johns, Bob Hankins, Margaret Wickenden, Bob Buchanan, and Margie Harrison. (Photo by Kirk Braun.) See Schedule Page 8 Oregon mothers will be greeted on the campus May 8 and 9 with a full-packed schedule of activities, Joanne Frydenlund, general chair man of the Mother’s Weekend com mittee, promised yesterday. The Weekend schedule, released Senior Speech Contest Slated The annual Failing-Beekman senior oratorical contest will be sponsored this year by the depart ment of speech, Dr. Roy C. McCall, head of the department, announced yesterday. The contest, open to all seniors who will be graduated at the end of spring term, will be held in the school of music auditorium on the evening of commencement. A total of $300 will be offered in awards to the three 'top winners, first place receiving $150, second receiving $100, and third receiving $50. The participants are required to prepare a 15-minute oration on a subject of their own choice, com mit it to memory, and deliver it at the time and place designated above. Any interested students should contact Dr. McCall, room 107, Friendly hall, immediately for com plete details. Staff members of the speech department will be available for advice and aid in the prepara tion of the orations. Winning speeches delivered in past years are on file in the speech offices for any who wish to read them. Huestis Talks at #Y# Dr. R. R. Huestis, professor of zoology, will discuss “Marriage and the Facts of Life’’ tonight at the YWCA at 7 p. m. This is the second lecture in the “Majoring in Marriage” series. yesterday, combines a program of Junior Weekend and special Mothers’ events designed to keep the guests entertained form 2:30 p. m. Friday through Sunday after noon. For twenty-one years mothers of the University students have been the guests of the campus honored at the combination Junior-Mothers’ | Weekend celebration. Traditionally the occasion is the highlight of the college year. Helping Miss Frydenlund plan and execute Mothers’ Weekend are sub-committee chairmen Mary Stadelman, hospitality; Margaret Wickenden, registration; Marilyn Turner, publicity; Nancy Petersoil, housing; Bob Hankins and Bob Buchanan, signs; A1 Pietschman, promotion; Marguerite Johns, luncheon; and Margaret Harrison, tea. Admission Granted On Activity Cards Students will be admitted on ac tivity tickets to a benefit program by the Eugene Women’s Choral club April 27 in McArthur court. Directed by Glen Griffith, the concert’s proceeds will purchase equipment for the Children’s Hos pital school. Guest flute soloist is John Strube. A “Piecaniny Dance” will be pre sented by students of the Illene Richmond dance studio. To para phrase an old slogan, “these chil dren dance that others may walk,” said Miss Maude Densmore, presi dent of the group. Marjorie Scobert Wilson will be the accompanist. The choral club was organized 13 years ago on a non-profit basis, and gives two ben efit concerts a year. Hello Mother This twenty-first annual Mother’s Weekend we hope to make a most memorable one for you. Arrangements have been made for you to see the campus and to take part in not only the events planned for the mothers, but also the Junior Week end festivities. We are issuing a special invitation to those mothers who never have been down for this weekend. Plan on being here Friday night for the all campus sing, if you can, since this will be one of the main events of the weekend. The 194S Junior Weekend Queen will be announced then, and the coronation will follow. On Saturday there will be the annual Mother’s tea and also the Junior Weekend parade—something that no one should miss. Arrangements have also been made for those who wish to attend the Junior Prom. It is our hope that you will all make a special effort to ^ come down. We will be waiting to see you. Bulletin _ Late tabulating by Eugene busm' essmen last night revealed the five Junior Weekend queen contestants selected by the University of Ore gon student body. Marie Lombard, chairman of balloting, announced that the final ists are Mary Joy Hamm, Mary Handelin, Mary Lou Hill, Donna Stageburg, and Nancy Swem. The name of the queen will be kept secret until the coronation at the all-campus sing on Friday, May 7. The others will comprise her court of four princesses. Annual Co-op Meeting Set For i Thursday Annual meeting of the Student Co-operative association will be held today at four p. m., Room 207 Chapman hall, when nominations for posts on next year’s co-op board and revisions of the by-laws will be made, according to Gloria Grenfell, co-op board president. Nominations for next year’s sophomore member and two junior board members for next year will be in order. The board, Miss Gren fell said, hopes that several nom inations for each position will be made and only stipulation Is that nominees must have a GPA of 2 point or above. Nominees for- the sophomore post should be mem bers of the freshman class this year and those nominated for the junior memberships should be in the sophomore class. It would be a good idea, Miss Grenfell said, if those nominated would have some knowledge of business practice and economics. Revisions which have been made to the by-laws of the Co-op clarify points in connection with the method by which faculty members are to be elected and the term of office. The revisions also specify that there will be a monthly meet ing of the board instead of the three meetings per year, which the old by-laws required. G. L. Henson, who has been ap pointed as new manager of the Co-op upon the retirement of M. F. McClain May 1, will explain the new system of paying the patron age refund. The change has been made, according to Miss Grenfell, in order to make the refund more accurate and fair. Under the new system the amount to be returned will not be decided by the board until after a complete audit has been taken early in the summer All Co-op members are urged to attend the meeting as it is the only meeting of all members for the year. The election of next year's board members will be made at the same time as the student body elections later this spring. Vets Ceiling Raise Passed By House The house passed and sent to the president today a bill raising the ceilings for veterans going to school and those taking on-the-job training. Under the bill veterans without dependents would be allowed to get $210 a month in combined wages and government subsistence allowance. The limit for veterans with one dependent would be $270, and for veterans with two or more dependents, $290. Petition Asks Ousting Of PCC Athletic Rep Sophomore Track Man Charges Dean Hollis } Of 'Uncooperativeness' in Eligibility Ruling ORLANDO HOLLIS Closs Lecture Billed Tonight Goethe will be the lecture sub ject of Dr. A. Closs of the Univer sity of Bristol, Eng^ind, tonight at 8 p.m. in room 207, Chapman hall. Dr. Closs’s lecture is the second in the University spring lecture se ries. Dr. Closs, who holds the degree of Ph.D. from the Unversty of Ber lin, is a noted German scholar who has written quite extensively. His most recent book, “The Genius of the German Lyric,” was reviewed by the English critical journal “Spectator” in these words: “For minute and careful research and as a chronicle of knowledge, there is nothing to compare with it in the history of English song . . . the book is written in admirable Eng lish . . . for the student of German literature it would be very valu able.” Dr. Closs has a number of me dieval manuscripts which he will publish soon. Before becoming pro fessor of German at the Univer sity of Bristol, Dr. Closs held lec tureships at the University of Vien na and the University of London. Goethe, the lecture subject for tonight, was a German poet, dram atist and novelist who is best known for “Faust,” a philosophi cal poem with which he was oc cupied throughout his entire life. Some of Goethe’s other works in clude “The Sorrows of Werther,” “Iphigenia in Tauris,” “Egmont and Hermann and Dorothea.” To night's lecture is designed espe cially for students. Addresses Asked Houses are requested to turn in their addressed seals for the special Mothers’ edition to Marilyn Turner at the Pi Beta Phi house or the Emerald ad office by noon today. Those who have not filled out seals may do so at the Emerald at that time. Two thousand copies will be sent to mothers, postage free. By BOB FRAZIER A petition requesting the resig nation of Dean Orlando John Hol lis as Pacific Coast conference ath letic representative has been cir culating among members of Uni versity athletic teams since Mon day afternoon. A1 Pietschman, sophomore track man who told the Emerald last night that he would assume re sponsibility for the petition, said there were “10 or 15” petitions cir culating among athletes in the liv ing organizations, and that there were “quite a. few signatures” by Wednesday night. No Statement Dean Hollis told the Emerald Wednesday afternoon that he had no statement to make. The petition charges Dean Hollis with being lax in reporting athletic ineligibilities before the last min ute, and speaks of his “uncooper ativeness with Coach Jim Aiken in the eligibility question.” Pietschman told the Emerald Wednesday night that he didn't, want to see any "mud-slinging.” He said he planned to take it to President Newburn, if a sufficient number of athletes’ signatures were obtained on the petitions. ' Athletes See Paper The petitions were being circu lated among athletes only. Pietsch man said that a copy would be at the Order of the O meeting today. Leo A. Harris, athletic director, gave the following statement to the Emerald Wednesday night: “This petition, if it can be called such, was circulated without tho knowledge or consent of the ath letic department. In my opinion, as director of athletics, Mr. Hollis is completely competent and has al ways acted with the best interests of the athletic department in. mind.” Coaches Content Athletic coaches, who were re ported to be telling their players not to sign the petition, told tho Emerald they could find nothing wrong with the eligibility rulings made by Dean Hollis. Pietschman said that if the coaches felt this way he (Pietsch man) was “very surprised.” “There has been a foul-up some where,” Pietschman said, “and ev erything points to Hollis.” He said the petition grew from a letter he wrote the Emerald, and which was printed April 7. Float Deadline Set; Themes Due Friday A Themes for Junior Weekend floats must be in to the education al activities office Friday, Mo Thomas, parade chairman, an nounced Wednesday. Thomas said themes already turned in are listed in the activi ties office to avoid repetition. I About 18 of the 26 float themea j have already been submitted.