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Oregon Emerald
VOLUME XLIX NUMBER 136
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY MAY 18, 1948
Coalition Party Formed
Candidates
Selected
By ASA
Marvin Rasmussen
Gets No. 1 Spot;
Some Dissatisfied
By BOB FRAZIER
Presence of a strong minority of
disgruntled “little Greek” houses
Within the Affiliated Students’ as
sociation was apparent Monday af
ternoon in a meeting of the “Greek
bloc” which nominated Marvin Ras
mussen, Phi Delta Theta, as the
Greek candidate for ASUO presi
dent.
In every case the winning candi
date polled between 19 and 24 of
the 37 votes cast. In all but one
case the voting turned out as it was
“supposed to.” In the voting where
the “right man” won, the winning
vote was between 21 and 24.
Rumors Circulate
Within an hour after the “Greek
bloc” meeting the campus was
buzzing with rumors that the de
feated faction of the ASA would
try to form a “coalition” with un
happy Independents, who were un
derstood still to be smarting after
Joe Conroy’s defeat in the ISA
nominating assembly Thursday af
ternoon.
Marvin Rasmussen, Phi Delta
Theta, received 24 votes to 13 for
Bob Allen, Phi Kappa Sigma, and
none for Mo Thomas, Alpha Tau
Omega, in the contest for the
ASUO No. 1 nomination.
Race to Miss Swift
For the ASUO No. 2 spot Jean
Swift, Gamma Phi Beta, received
22 votes to 15 for Marjorie Weeks,
Delta Zeta.
Robin Arkley, Phi Gamma Delta,
and Janet Beigal, Alpha Chi Ome
ga, will represent the ASA on the
ballot for senior class offices. Ark
ley polled 22 votes, to 14 for Hugh!
Cook, Phi Sigma Kappa, and one
for Larry Lau, Phi Kappa Psi. Miss
Beigal drew 22 votes, while her op
ponent, Bernice Johnson, Sigma
Kappa, polled 15.
i Opposition Splits
Junior class candidates for the
ASA nomination will be Bill Du
haime, Delta Upsilon, and Sally
Waller, Kappa Alpha Theeta.
Duhaime drew 21 votes, while
his opposition split three ways,
with three votes for Norman Mor
rison, Delta Tau Delta, 11 for Mal
colm McGregor, Lambda Chi Al
pha, and two for A1 Lippman, Sig
ma Alpha Mu.
Miss Waller defeated Jeannine
Macaulay, Alpha Gamma Delta, 22
to 15. Marg Harrison, who had been
nominated to run on the ballot, was
withdrawn.
Dark Horse Wins
It isn’t so easy to explain how the
sophomore class nominees came to
be. In that contest Herb Nill, Theta
Chi, who was supposed to be on the
losing' side, nosed out A1 Bullier,
Beta Theta Pi, 19 to 18.
The names of. Robert Pierce, Phi
Kappa Sigma, and Ed Peterson,
Lambda Chi Alpha, were with
drawn before the voting took place.
But the race for the No. 2 nom
ination came off as scheduled with
Joanne Fitzmaurice, Kappa Kappa
Gamma, defeating Florence Han
sen, Alpha Omicron Pi, 23 to 13,
with one house not voting.
Kinsell Gets Nod
Hank Kinsell, Chi Psi, defeated
Olga Yevtich, Alpha Xi Delta, 21
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Audio-Visual Slates
History of Cinema
“An Outline of the Non Fiction
Film” is the audio visual movie
for Wednesday night. There will
be two showings of the film, 7 and
8:30 p.m., in room 207 Chapman.
Starting with the early “scenic
view” films, the picture shows
significant contributions to the
field of actual films. It presents
the older newsreels, and educa
tional films, and goes through the
older films to present day March
of Time and documentary films.
Student Voting
On Resolutions
To Begin Today
Students will vote today and to
morrow on the 12 resolutions for
mulated at the PNCC congress last
March.
Druids and Phi Theta Up
silon, junior men and women’s hon
oraries, and Kwama and Skull and
Dagger, sophomore honoraries, dis
tributed and collected the ballots
given to students at house meet
ings last night. Today and Wed
nesday they will assist with ballot
ing in the YMCA, the Co-op and in
interested classes. The PNCC pro
posals will be given to students in
only some classes so off-campus
students who are not contacted in
this way should cast their ballot at
the Co-op or YM.
Trip Possible
Hinging on the balloting turnout
of students is a possible trip to the
United Nations asseembly for one
of Oregon’s PNCC representatives.
The delegates are chosen, said Rep
resentatives Warren Miller and Bob
Allen, on the ability they displayed
at the congress and on the number
of votes in proportion to the size of
the student body cast by their col
lege.
Results of the Oregon vote will
be sent to the PNCC executive
committee at Whitman college,
Walla Walla, Wash., this year’s
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Assembly
Scheduled
Tomorrow
Nominations Slated
For Class, ASUO
Officers for 1948-49
Nominating assembly for ASUO
elections will be held tomorrow
night at 7:30 in McArthur court.
Stan Williamson, ASUO president,
will be chairman of the meeting.
Nominations for ASUO positions
number one and two; representa
tives on the executive council from
the senior, junior, and sophomore
classes; and number one and two
positions of the senior, junior, and
sophomore classes will be accepted
from the floor.
Students to be nominated must
have filed petitions and have a per
son ready to speak on their behalf.
Those nominated at the assem
bly tomorrow night will have their
names on the ballot for election on
Monday, May 24, ASUA election
day.
Polls will be open from 8 a.m. to
5 p.m. Monday at Mac court and
at the University YMCA. All reg
istered students can vote, accord
ing to Warren Miller, first vice
president of ASUO.
The official poll book, compiled
in the registrar’s office, will be
used in checking names of voters,
students may vote for the top four
ASUO positions, and for represen
tatives and top positions of their
respective classes.
“Students must vote 1, 2, 3, 4 in
the preferential ballot system,”
warned Miller. “Ballots marked x
are automatically invalid.”
French Club to Elect
Officers for the coming year will
be elected' at the French club meet
ing at 7:30 tonight in Gerlinger
hall. Dr. David M. Dougherty, head
of the foreign languages depart
ment, will speak on “La Langue
Francoise.”
Warren Miller toJHead
Greek-Independent
Group; Slate Named
A Coalition of (ireek and Independent students, in the ru
mor stage since last week became a reality late last night with
the organization of the L uited Students Association. Warren
Miller, first vice-president of the ASUO, and an off-campus in
dependent. was named president of the group.
Candidates supported by the new group follow :
ASUO No. 1. Hob Allen. Phi Kappa Sigma; ASUO No. 2,
Diana Dye, Hendricks hall; senior representative on the execu
tive council, Olga Vevtich, Alpha Xi Delta; junior representa
tive on the executive council, Larry Davidson, Tan Kappa Ep
silon; sophomore representative on the executive council, Kelly
Campus Booths
Open for Final
Day of Twisties
Today is the last day of the twis
tie sale. Chairmen Anne Goodman
and Ann Morton said yesterday
that the first day sales were “very
good.” Promoting and convincing
students about the tastiness of
twisties, the general chairmen ate
15 twisties yesterday.
Sponsored by Phi Theta Upsilon,
twisties are a symbol of spring
term. The sugared bars are similar
to donuts to sell for 5 cents each
or 50 cents a dozen.
Prompting people to buy twis
tiees, boths are located in the li
brary, Co-op, the Side, Villard, be
tween Commerce and Oregon,
Friendly, music school, art school,
and Fenton. The YW is also open
for sales during noon.
Every campus living organiza
tion has cither had twisties some
time yesterday or will have them
today. After hours sales arc being
made in the girls’ living organiza
tions again tonight concluding the
twistie splurge.
Freshman women are in charge
of the affair. Chairmen of com
mittees are: Ruth Landry, posters;
Jackie Hinds and Barbara Mess,
booth sales; Donna Mary Brennan
and Joan Wagenblast, house sales;
Barbara Hamilton and Carolanne
Wall, distribution; Connie Jackson,
publicity; and Jean Armstrong,
cleanup.
Dewey Says Stassen 'Surrendered' in Debate
Over Outlawing of Communism in United States
PORTLAND, Ore., May 17—
Presidential candidates Gov. Thom
as E. Dewey and Harold E. Stas
sen Monday night formally debat
ed the issue of outlawing commun
ism before a nation-wide audience,
and Dewey, near the end of the ar
gument, claimed victory on the
grounds that Stassen had “sur
rendered.”
“Mr. Stassen has surrendered
and is no longer in favor of outlaw
ing the communist party,” Dewey
said during the rebuttal period of
their hour-long debate.
Stassen and Dewey are in the
final week of a red-hot campaign
for the Oregon Republican 12-man
delegation to be decided May 21 at
the state primary election. Their
debate, long under negotiation, was
held in the main studio of radio
station KEX, Portland, and was
broadcast over three national net
works (NBC, ABC, MBS).
Dewey claimed Stassen had
backed down and surrendered his
position that communist organiza
tions should be outlawed. Dewey
opposed Stassen’s stand on the
ground it is “immoral, unconstitu
tional and totalitarian.”
The debate quickly resolved into
a basic argument over the Mundt
Nixon bill for registration of com
munists. Stassen said Dewey had
never expressed himself for or
against the Mundt-Nixon bill.
“If Gov. Dewey will agree to the
Mundt bill, I will be satisfied that
we are agreed that communism si
outlawed,” Stassen said.
Then Dewey jubilantly asserted
in his rebuttal that the Mundt bill
“does not outlaw communism” and
that it is “perfectly harmless.”
After the debate, Dewey and
Stassen—surrounded by their po
litical advisers from New York and
Minnesota—shook hands three
times for the benefit of photogra
phers.
“That was quite a discussion,”
said Stassen.
“It sure was,” replied Governor
Dewey.
In response to a post-debate
question, Stassen said: “If Gover
nor Dewey would come out for the
Mundt bill, then the issue would be
agreed.”
Governor Dewey responded:
“Never before have I experienced
a debate where my opponent sur
rendered in the middle.”
Dewey also charged that Stassen
“has not adhered to the subject of
the debate,” because the former
Minnesota governor had opened his
20-minute affirmative speech with
a discussion of other national flec
tion issues.
r arris, Sigma Phi Epsilon.
Senior Class
Senior class No. 1, Hans Wold,
Campbell club; Senior class No. 2,
Bernice Johnson, Sigma Kappa;
Junior class No. 1, Malcolm Mc
Gregor, Lambda Chi Alpha; junior
class No. 2, Sue Mitchell, Zeta hall;
sophomore No. 1, Hon Cairns, Phi
Sigma Kappa; sophomore No. 2,
Ann Morton, Delta Zeta.
The new party nominated no
candidate for yell king, but ex
pressed approval of both Marv Ho
renstcin, and Steve Gann, the
Greek and Independent candidates
With its aim of "cleaning up
campps politics,” the group met
outside Eugene last night for a
first organizational meeting, but in
the future will try to keep all po
litical dickering "above board.”
Support Solicited
The new group does not aim to
attract houses as such, but solicits
the support of individuals within
the houses who may believe in tho
principles of clean politics which
the group espouses.
Spokesmen for the group said
they wished to base their campaign
on the presence of the “secret bal
lot,” and emphasized that “we don't
hate Greeks and we don't look
down on Independents.
Impetus for the new group was
furnished by an Emerald editorial
Saturday morning, in which tho
daily called for “some honest guy
in the back row” to pick up the Em
erald's suggestion that campus pol
itics be based on opinion rather
than upon “dwelling place or cost
of jewelry.”
Editor Visited
All weekend Emerald Editor Bob
Frazier was visited by little dele
gations of disgruntled Greeks and
by rebellious Independents who
were still smarting from the defeat
of Joe Conroy in the ISA nomin
ating assembly last week.
All persons in the new organiza
tion represent themselves alone and
do not presume to speak for their
houses, it was emphasized at the
meeting last night.
Conroy last night said the new
party was a “good idea” which he
could support in some fields. How
ever, he reaffirmed his party loy
alty on other candidates.
Tfie Male Animal'
Ducats Go on Sale
Tickets for' the University thea
ter production, James Thurber’a
"The Male Animal" to be present
ed May 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, and 29,
are now on sale in Johnson hall,
Bob Over, box office manager, an
nounced.
The box office hours are from ID
a.m. to noon, and from 1 to 5 p.m.
On Friday, opening night, the box
office will remain open until
tain time at 8 p.m.
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