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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 2, 1948)
* WEATHER—Showers today. Be coming partly cloudy Friday. Mod erate southerly winds. High today * 48. Oregon Emerald Fiftieth Year of Publication and Service to the University UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. EUGENIS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1948 OREGON basketball team drops season opener to Willamette 55-43. See additional details, sports page. VOLUME L NUMBER 53 No U.O. Trains to Texas, Lemons Savs . Hopes of students for UO-spon sored Cotton Bowl transportation dropped last night with the an * nouncement that the University will sponsor no transportation fa cilities. Howard Lemons, athletic busi ness manager, in a statement made to the Emerald late yesterday, said that "the University has consid * ered all the advantages and dis advantages of sponsoring game transportation, and has decided * against such a move.” "Any such venture would de « pend on student response,” Lem ons stated, "and since the financial situation of most students would not permit such an expense, we feel that the chartering of trans portation facilities would be too risky.” Lemons pointed out that many students are depending on a vaca tion job for transportation money, and that because of just such a precarious outlook on the part of most students, the University can not enter the conducted-tour busi ness. However, news came earlier this week from Portland that the Ore gon Journal is planning to send a special train to Dallas. The train would leave sometime after Christ mas and return immediately after New Year's. In conjunction with this an nouncement of the UO stand on transportation, Lemons also noted that the band will not be sent to the bowl game. “The decision not to to send the band resulted from the many. complications which would arise if the group were to be sent,” Lemons explained. Ticket preference policies as an nounced by the athletic business office put Oregon students at the top of the list. Each student will be limited to two tickets, for which he may apply after Friday, Decem ber 5. One ticket must be accompanied by the student's winter term reg istration card when entering the stadium at Dallas. In the event that the student docs not yet have his card, he will be given a letter of identification at the ticket office. The second ticket must be stamped “student" and the bearer must ac company the holder of ticket num ber one into the stadium. The ticket precautions have been taken in order to discourage "scalpers" who find multiplied prices an easy way to finance their own trips to the Cotton Bowl. Second choice on tickets will be given to contributors to the ath letic department grant-in-aid fund. Third place preference goes to all alumni of UO, while the general public living within the limits of the Pacific Coast conference foots the list. No persons outside the states of Oregon, California, Washington, Idaho, and Montana, except alumni, will be permitted to order tickets from the UO office of the Univer sity of Oregon. Faculty Ponders Term Switch Registration Ends Saturday at Noon Only 3000 students have completed registration for Winter term, according to assistant registrar J. D. Kline. Advance registration closes this Saturday noon, with regular registra tion scheduled for only one day—January 3. To complete advance registration students must pay fees to the cashier, go through the student affairs check, and pass through the registrar’s check. .These are the final steps, after the advisor has been consulted and the departments have stamp Pfl flip 1 n rl i v i r111 a 1 ’c r*1acc r*oi-r1o ’— ---— cu me muiviuuai s ciass caras.. “Nearly 6000 sets of registra tion material were issued dur ing advance registration,” Kline explained, “and unless great numbers register this week, there will be an obvious jam-up in Emerald hall on registration day, January 3.” Late fees will be imposed upon registrants starting January 4. This amounts to $1 per day, up to a maximum of $5. “It will be impossible for the cashier to accomodate 2000 stud ents on one day,” Kline continued, “and a large number of students will unavoidably be forced to regis ter late even though they appear in person on the 3rd.” There will be no waiver of cata logue regulations governing regis tration, so all students not able to reach the cashier on January 3 will be subject to the late fee. The cashier’s office will be open today and tomorrow from 9 am. until 3 p. m., and Saturday from 9 to 12 noon. “Although student-veterans will have late fees paid by the Veterans’ Administration,” he said in a statement, “all student veterans ef fecting registration after January 3, must, according to government regulations, be interrupted as of the close of the fall term and be re-en tered as of the day of winter term registration. Such students will suffer loss of subsistence for the in tervening period.” Places in classes cannot be held for unregistered students to the disadvantage of registered students after the start of winter term. Clearing with advisors and depart ments does not guarantee a place in class unless all registration steps are complete. Rare Coed Sought; Has 2 Left Hands The coed on the campus with two left hands has been requested by Mrs. Mary Lothian, secretary of the journalism school, to pick up the beige gloves left in the school yes terday. Mrs. Lothian discovered the gloves were both for the left hand when trying them on. She will keep them until tomorrow, and then turn them over to the physical plant's lost and found department. Pallett Leaves President's Office for Teacher Placement In order to make more effective use of the school of education by tying it up with the high schools of the state, the University Tuesday appointed Earl M. Pallett director of teacher placement, effective Jan uary 1. Pallett, who now holds the posi tion of assistant to President Harry K. Newburn, was named to this new position because of the critical tea cher shortage. It will be his job to find out what the state’s secondary schools need and how the school of education can train teachers to fill that need. According to President Newburn, Pallett will continue his present du ties in his present offices in John son hall until July, 1949, or until a new appointment is made. Pallett is now in Chicago attend ing a meeting of the National Insti tutional Teacher Placement associ ation. While in the East he will visit teacher placement bureaus in the University of Wisconsin, State University of Iowa, and University of Minnesota. Coming to Oregon in 1927 as reg istrar, Pallett was appointed acting dean of men in 1928. In 1931 he was named executive secretary and reg istrar, and was appointed to the as sistant president’s position in 1946. Steps Proposed In Special Report Action on the motion will he taken by the faculty senate on De cember 29 and by the entire faculty on January 5, 1949. If passed, approval of the state, board of higher education will be asked at its January 25, 1949 meeting. The change from a term to a semester system, if approved, will take place in the fall of 1950. Pros and cons of changing from a term to a semester are discussed in a report by a special faculty committee, issued Wednesday, i'lve report was released follow ing its acceptance by the faculty at the regular monthly meeting. The committee, chairmaned by Paul B. Jacobsen of the school of education, was instructed to investigate procedures I suitable for changing the academic schedule from a miarter to Carnival Petitions Extended to Friday An extension of time has been made for women students to turn in petitions for the WAA carnival, according to Bep McCourry, WAA president. They may be given to her until this Friday at the Delta Gamma house, or to Anne Goodman at Hendricks hall. Petitions may be made out for general chairman, or chairman of decorations, finance, refreshments, clean-up, booths, publicity, posters, properties, arrangements, tickets, or dance. Libe Characters Given Frown Lovers, Snoozers Cancel Quiet By Gene Rose Pity the poor student that goes to the library to study! You can accomplish practically everything there but studying and most people do just that. For amid the silence that is expected to reign at all times, various distractions manage to pre-occupy your atten tion. After a few trips to the “libe,” you also probably will agree to the difficulty of studying. At any rate, you can’t miss meeting some of the characters that make studying a futile tasks. No one makes more noise than a couple of dizzy blondes (except maybe three blondes). Certainly you’ve seen them verbally pick last night’s date or the rival sorority girl to pieces, with no concern for the attention they are getting. Fre quent scowls and frowns momen tarily cause abatement, but never silence. They fall in the “gossiper” class. Less noisy but far more dis tracting are the “lovers.” In the library they find the complete ecstasy of being together with at least a pretense of studying. The “sweet-nothings” the lovers whisper into each other's ear can hardly be classified as bosterous. Yet, these two catch more than casual glances of interest as to the j final outcome of their romance. ■ There lias to be a “wanderer.” He simply can't resign himself to studying. After opening the book, he searches the room for familiar faces, squeaking his chair hideous ly against the floor or drumming his fingers on the table. Five minutes later he's up for a smoke or just a breath of fresh air. Anything to escape those books. Then, back to the desk. He’ll mas ter that assignment now. He spies a friend across the room and he’s up again, dragging the chair across the floor ad infinitum. Why don’t people eat at home or in their own living organiza tions? Noise of a person loudly munching on an apple or rattling (Flcase turn to page 7) a semester system. Because the committee was not asked to propose action it did not make a recommendation tor or against a change, but merely the steps which would need to be taken. Besides Jacob son, the members were O. K. Burrell, L. S. Cressman, W. J. Dixon, Donald M. DuShane, K. T. I',Hickson and C. G. Howard. In its deliberations, the commit tee collected information from many sources. Consultation with student leaders was carried out through the executive council of the ASUO and the office of student affairs. Student reaction, accord ing to the report, was “apprecia tive of being consulted, combined with an active interest in the rea sons behind the proposed change.’* ‘'The council fASUO),” the re port continues, “did not feel very strongly one way or the other, but their first reactions seemed to fa vor the term system, largely be cause they were used to it and also because final examinations are out. of the way before the Christ maa recess begins." The University operated on a ter mbasis from 1876 to 1896 when the semester system was adopted. The semester system was then fol lowed until 1917 when a change was made in favor of the term set up to permit greater flexibility for men entering the armed forces. In 1935 the faculty voted to re turn to the semester system as it did again in 1939, but the action (Please turn to fayc ciyht)