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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1948)
V ^WEATHER: Eugene and vicinity: Partly cloudy today and Friday with temperature climbing to about 70 degrees. Possibiity of rain Saturday. Dregdn WOMEN will pick up the men at the men’s houses for Friday's rally. Sec story, column 1. VOLUME L UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 NUMBER 3 Rooters Lids Make Debut i From left: Gladys Hale, Barbara Triece, Nancy Weir, Zeta Sinclair sport new girls’ rooters lids. YM-YW Frosh Mixer at Gerlinger Annex Tonight Applications for Emerald Work Being Accepted. More than 40 students applied for work on the news and advertising ’staffs of the Oregon Daily Emerald during the first two days of regis tration this week. Final applica tions will be accepted until 5 p.m. today in the Emerald quonset of , .fice, Editor Bill Yates and Business Manager Virgil Tucker announced yesterday. Previous experience on the Em erald or on other newspapers is de sirable but not necessary, Yates said. ' - Various Jobs Open * Positions are still open for re porters and copy desk and night staff workers. Those registered as 'reporters will be assigned news or . special beats to cover. Copy desk and night staff workers will alter nate daily, so that each student need devote only Sne afternoon or "evening each week to the paper. In announcing the need for more business staff workers, Business •Manager Tucker stressed that of i fice assistants will be needed, as (Please turn to page two) Executive Council^ Extends Deadline Deadline for submitting Home •coming chairmanship petitions has been extended until Monday, Bob Allen, ASUO president, announced -after Wednesday’s executive coun cil meeting. Selection of the general ’ chairman will be at Monday night’s council meeting. Personal interviews of each of i the petitioners for general chair man will be conducted at the meet ing. The petitions may be submitted to Olga Yevtich at the Alpha Delta 1 house before 4 p.m. Monday or brought to the meeting in the stu dent affairs office, Emerald hall. » Petitioners are to be sure that an eligibility slip accompanies each ■petition. Social dancing, square dancing, entertainment, and refreshments will be featured tonight between 7:30 and 10 at the YMCA-YWCA freshman mixer in Gerlinger annex. In making the announcement, Chairman Barbara Stevenson urged all to come to the no-date affair and get acquainted. Sally Terrill, entertainment chairman, has announced an enter tainment slate for intermission featuring Denny Marvin as master of ceremonies. The “Wild West Duet,” Newt Thornton and Stan Smith will present four numbers. Dancing from records will be in terspersed with square dances and broom dances. Calling will be Miss Rosamond Wentworth, associate professor of physical education, Lloyd Gillett of the Eugene public school system, and Miss Beverly Bennet. Margaret Reeve will play the piano for square dances. Several special guiests will be present including presidents of campus honoraries and faculty members. Cokes will be served. First Rally Set Friday Night Hello Dance, Reception Top Frosh Week Freshman and new students will he welcomed to the University Sat urday night by two traditional so cial events—the President’s re ception and the Hello dance. President Harry K. Newburn, faculty, administrative, and stu dent heads will be in the receiving line at Gerlinger hall from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served at the reception. Yahn to Play The music of Freddie Yahn will fill McArthur court for the Hello dance from 9 to 12. The free dance is sponsored by the educational ac tivities board. Campus clothes are in order at the stag affair. At the recejption, students will have the opportunity to meet Presi dent and Mrs. Newburn, Assistant to the President and Mrs. E. M. Pallett, Director of Student Affairs and Mrs. Donald DuShane, Director o' Women’s Affairs—Golda Wick ham and Mr. Wickham, and Direc tor of Men’s Affairs and Mrs. Vir gil Fogdall. Deans Will Attend Registrar and Mrs. Clifford Constance, Dean and Mrs. E. L. Johnson, Dean and Mrs. S. W. Little, Dean and Mrs. V. P. Morris, Dean and' Mrs. P. B. Jacobsen, Dean and Mrs. R. W. Leighton, Dean and Mrs. C. F. Weigle, Dean and Mrs. Orlando J. Hollis, Dean and Mrs. Theodore Kratt, Colonel and Mrs. F. R. Maeridian, AUSO president Bob Allen, and AWS president Beverly Pittman. Strutters Wanted A call for majorettes and band members for the football march ing hand has been issued by John Stehn, director. Applicants should apply to Stehn in room 102, Music build ing, during the remainder of the week. Oregano Calls fori Workers; Interviews Slated for Next Week Staff positions ranging from typ ists through associate editorships are available on the 1949 Oregana. Interested students will be inter viewed for business and editorial jobs next week, according to Editor Trudi Chernis and Business Mana ger Olga Yevtich. They said experience for the work is preferable, but definitely not necessary. Prospective editorial workers will be interviewed in the Oregana offices according to the following schedule: Tuesday, from 11 to 12 and 1 to 5 p.m.; Wednesday, from 3 to 5 p.m.; Thursday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Business Staff Needed Miss Yevtich said business staff applicants will be interviewed early next week, also in the yearbook of fices in the northwest corner of Mc Arthur court. Editorial jobs open include as sociate editors in charge of activ ities and schools, executive secre tary, index editor, caption and story writers, layout editors for living organizations, artists, and layout workers. The business staff needs typists, advertisers, solicitors, collectors, promotion workers, and salesmen. House pictures will be started September 28 by Kennell-Ellis stu (Please turn to page tivo) Chest X-Rays Set For Next Week Free chest x-rays will be given at the University next week, the Health Service announced today. All students, faculty and staff members of the University are re quested to be examined by the mobile unit. Women will be x-rayed Mon day, Wednesday, and Friday from 9 a.m. to 12 noon and 1 p.m. until 3 p.m. Men will be x-rayed Tuesday and Thursday from 9 a.m. to 12 noon and 1 p.m. until 4 p.m. Women to Escort Men; Convertibles Featured Accompanied by twenty-four convertibles, University of Oregon students will leave the campus at 7 :30 l'riday night ami wend their way to the first football rally of the year at Broadway and Willamette. Between 7 and 7:15 women will pick up the Enrollee Total Near Halfway The total number of enrolled stu dents is swelling to approach the half-way mark of the estimated en rollment of approximately 5000 regular students and 400 students of the graduate school as registra tion continues through its fourth day Thursday. Over-all enrollment totals are ex pected to be slightly under the all time record enrollment of last fall term when 5905 students signed up for Oregon classes. Because of dif ficulty in processing registration cards until the end of the week, complete figures are not available at this time. Behind Scenes As the campus swarms with stu dents intent on completing the reg istration process, a glimpse behind Tests Given Today A test session for new students who have not yet taken place ment tests is slated for 8:30 this morning in McArthur court. J. Spencer Carlson, director of the counseling service advises that transfer students need come only in the morning, but that the ses sion will continue at 1 p.m. for freshmen. Freshmen wlio«have taken all tests except mathematics place ment should come to McArthur court at 3 this afternoon, Carlson said. the scenes shows a new registrar, Clifford L. Constance manipulating the strings that coordinate the many phases of registration. Appointment of Constance as registrar for the University of Ore gon became effective September 1, when he stepped into the position left open by the appointment of Curtis E. Avery, his predecessor, to the directorship of the University’s E. C. Brown Trust. Constance has been a member of the University staff for 19 years, serving as assistant registrar and associate registrar. He received his (Please turn lo page tivo) men at the men s houses according' to pairings. Assembly will be at the Fijii lot at 7:15. Rally Board Chairman Alex Mur phy has called for utmost coopera tion from presidents of all living organizations in order to insure that the greatest possible number of students take part in the first rally of the year. The rally will co incide with Eugene’s fall opening. Aiken to Talk The program of the rally, which, will take place at Broadway and Willamette, will consist of yells, band numbers, a talk by the Santa Barbara coach, and talks by Leo Harris, Head coach Jim Aiken and his assistants. Murphy has announced the com plete schedule as follows. At 6 Fri day evening convertibles will gath er at Fijii lot, and each will be as signed to a pair of houses. The dec oration committee will put on ap propriate signs. Between 7 and 7:15, the women will pick up the men. at their houses and the groups will meet at Fijii lot, where each group will go to the car assigned to it. Signs Featured Any signs put in or on the car by the decoration committee will be arranged and displayed to best advantage. At 7:30 the procession will leave for the downtown area under police escort, led by the Uni versity band. At 11th and Willam ette they will be joined by the Eagle's band', which will lead tho wray to the platform at Boradway and Willamette. After all cars are inside the two block area between 11th and Broadway on Willamette, students will leave the cars and gather around the platform. See list of pairings on page 8. Libe Gets Records Ten new record albums have been added to the shelves of the Douglas collection, Miss True Morris, head of the musio room, has announced. Although, most of the albums are classical recordings of Bach, Mo zart, and Gluck, the new entries also included songs by the popular French singer, Jean Sablon. Decision On Student Union Bids Set For Board Meeting Saturday Bids for construction of the Erb memorial student union building, and for additions to Hayward field and McArthur court are being con sidered by the University, accord ing to Lyle Nelson, director of in formation. Bids, which were opened at the state board of higher education meeting in Portland Tuesday, were higher than expected. Methods of financing the projects are under consideration by J. O. Lindstrom, business manager, and University officials. Recommendations on the bids anu finance methods will be made at a special meeting of the state board of higher education Saturday morning in Corvallis. “Definite action on the student union building and the other pro jects will be taken at the meeting,” said Nelson. Construction of the Erb memor ial building would be the material ization of a 25-year-old dream, be gun by the graduating class of 1923, originators of the drive for a student union. Low bid on the student union, which was estimated at 51.200,000, totaled 51,723,503. The Ross B. (Please turn to page two)
