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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 14, 1948)
itffeit' * The Weather . Eugene and vicinity: Partly * WIStie bale ctoudy with scattered showers, Twisties will be sold Monday and clearing occasionally during the Tuesday in the annual sale spon afternoon. sored by Phi Theta Epsilon. Sec page 3. VOLUME XLIX UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE. FRIDAY. MAY 14. 1948 XUMBEI* 134 Independents Choose Candidates; ASUO Council Changes Election Date Petitioning Puts Vote On May 24 ASUO elections will be Monday, May 24, instead of Tuesday, May 25, the executive council of the ASUO decided at a special meeting Thurs day morning. The change was made after petitions bearing 500 signa tures was presented to the council by Bob Davis, representing the In dependent Students association. The petition called for the Mon day election date, because, it said, fewer off-campus students are on the campus on Tuesday than on Monday. Vote of the council was S to 1, with Sophomore Representative Lou Weston casting the negative vote. ASUO President Stanley Wil liamson did not vote. Marvin Ras - mussen, junior representative, and Bert Moore, senior representative, were absent, but Moore was declar ed opposed to changing the date. Nominating assembly will be Wednesday, May 19, in McArthur court. Petitions for office must be filed with Williamson by midnight Monday, May 17, and must bear the name and scholastic standing of the candidate, the position he seeks, and an eligibility slip from the dean of men or dean of women. The council would not approve a Wednesday (May 26) election date, because that would necessitate holding the nominating assembly on Friday, the night of the Mortar Board ball. The council also approved a mo (Please turn to page eight) Job Interviews Slated Today Two company representatives will be on the campus today to in terview job applicants, according to Karl W. Onthank, associate di rector of student affairs. Appoint ments or additional information may be obtained from the graduate placement secretary, room 6, Friendly. The following list of coming rep resentatives has been released through Onthank’s office: May 14—Mr. Aeger, Hyster com pany, Portland. Particularly men interested in selling, or generally interested in Hyster equipment. May 14—Mrs. Marjory Kafer, Girl Scouts of America, Seattle na tional branch office. Women inter ested in professional scout work, national and local positions. May 21—Mr. LaBorde, Proctor and Gamble retail sales. Men as salesmen, calling on retailers. Def inite opening for Portland area and possible other areas. May 24—John Triplett, Boy Scouts of America, personnel di vision of home office. Men inter ested in professional scout work, organization, training, public rela tions. Committee Maps Final Plans Kay Schneider, (right), Mortar Board ball chairman, puts down dance plans for a minute to pose with her committee: seated, left to right, Sally Mueller, Marge Harrison, Renee Cowell, Joan O’Neil; standing, left to right, Jeannine Macaulay, Sally Waller, Miss Schneider; top, Helen Sherman. - (Photo by Kirk Braun) Girls Now More Particular, Likely to Ignore Leap Year By HELEN SHERMAN For the Mortar Board ball just around the corner on May 21 men may get fewer invitations than ever before. At least some important signs point that way and some people think they are indicative of a new slant in relations between men and women. The story that the war has left the United States with a scarcity of right-age males isn't true. Esti show about 7,200,000 unmarried mates of U.S. census bureau in 1946 men between 20 and 44, compared to 6,400,000 women of the same age group. The men outnumber the women about two to one on this campus so the competition favors the ladies. “Ladies Night” is being held in a leap year which rounds out a cen (Please kirn to page three) Mortar Board To Issue Awards Applicants for Mortar Board scholarships are requested to pick up their blanks at Mrs. Gol da P. Wickham's office, it has been announced by Helen Hicks, Mortar Board president. The scholarships, which are awarded annually to outstanding' junior women for the senior year, are to be filled out and returned by May 19. Miss Hicks suggested that any junior woman who would like to apply for the scholarships should fill out the application immedi ately to insure consideration by the committee. Honor Groups Plan Dinner For Saturday Seventeen new members will be initiated by Sigma Xi, science hon orary, Saturday night when the Oregon Chapter of the group cel ebrates its 25th anniversary on this campus. Following the initia tion the society will meet with Phi Beta Kappa, liberal arts honorary, at a joint banquet in the Metho dist church. Later in the evening the two groups will hear Dr. Raymond B. Allen, president of the University of Washington, speak on "The Mission of Science and Scholar ship” in Chapman hall Dr Allen’s 'address will be at 8 p. m. Samuel N. Dicken, head of the department of geology and geog raphy, will be taken into Sigma Xi as an active member. The fol lowing graduate students will be taken in as associate members: Cecil Keith Claycomb, chemis try; Harold M. Davidson, chemis try; Douglas J. Donahue, physics; Maryann T. Doyle, anthropology; (Please turn in page three) Henderson Named Top Contender Bob Henderson, junior in educa tion, and Helen Nickum, junior in business administration, were se lected yesterday to be the Indepen dent candidates for the top ASUO offices. The nominations came out of a fiery ISA senate meeting punctu ated by frequent withdrawals of' petitions. Joe Conroy, junior in business administration, was the only other contestant for the No. 1 post. On the first roll call vote, he received 26 votes to Henderson’s 27, but the presiding officer, ISA Vice-Presi dent LaVerne Gunderson, found that there was a discrepancy be tween two tallies that were being taken. In the ensuing ballot, one mem ber of the organizational commit tee switched his vote, so that Hen derson was elected by three votes, A temporary flurry was created in the first ballot when Joyce Nie dermeyer, representative from Su san Campbell hall, attempted to vote contrary to instructions from her living organization. According to a decision by the rules commit tee, senators were compelled to vote in accordance with the wishes of their houses. Miss Niedermeyer amended her vote to comply. Diana Dye, junior in journalism and only applicant for No. 2 posi tion, withdrew her petition saying that she did not feel that she could support the No. 1 candidate or his platform. The name of Joe Conroy was brought up, but he refused the nomination. Confusion ensued as the rules and organizational committees at (Please turn to page seven) Current Drama Centers on UN Discussion 1 WARREN MILLER The ‘struggle for the world’ around which discussions of the little assembly, the United Nations military forces, or the Marshall plan now center is the most fas cinating part of the current drama surrounding the United Nations. But it is potentially of a secondary importance when placed in the proper perspective with the educa tional, scientific, and cultural forc es now controlled by the U.N.” This statement, made by PNCC representative Bob Allen, outlined his evaluation of the four resolu tions concerning UNESCO and public information passed by the Whitman college Pacific North west College conference. Resolution number nine states: That there shall be an equalization of the scholastic requirements of the educational systems of the world to facilitate a free transfer of students on the international level. It is the opinion of both dele gates that the active promotion of this resolution would aid the ex change of students now being pro moted under the Fullbright act by groups such as the National Stu dents association and Carnegie en dowments. An intensified move ment of students among nations is one of the most practical ways of creating international good will through personal knowledge and understanding, they said. Resolution number 10 provides that: UNESCO provide a more ac tive program of publicity directed at the individual through the me diums of motion pictures, radio and press to simulate interest in UNESCO philosophy, function and structure. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural organiza tion is destined to become one of the most powerful organs for in ternational peace, Allen stated. Where increased exchanges of (Please turn to page eight) ROBERT ALLEN j