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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 5, 1949)
< STATE OF THE UNION address by President Truman today at 10 a. m. over 4 major networks. Emerald OREltlON wins Northern Division basketball opener from Idaho. 50 48. at Moscow. See story on Sports page. Fiftieth Year of Publication and Service to the University VOLUME L UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1949 NUMBER 50 1 Fund Push Scheduled By WSSF Oregon students will have the op portunity of contributing to the World Student Service Fund be ginning January 10, acording to Art Johnson, general chairman. This is the only official fund drive on the Oregon campus, according to Johnson. Dollars from campus con tributions will go to buy books, medical supplies, food, clothing, and housing for students and teachers in war-devastated countries. Last year Oregon students rais ed $1,661 says Stan Turnbull, pub licity chairman. This year we're go ing to better that mark. WSSF is the only American source of help to University groups abroad, and we want to make sure that not a single class of foreign students is lost through lack of supplies or care. In addition to Johnson and Turn bull, workers on the Oregon cam paign are Gretchen Grondahl, as sistant publicity; Maggie Johns, promotion; Kathryn Littlefield, posters; Helen Sherman, radio; Joanne Frydenlund, stunts; Ed Peterson, speaking team; Joe La toodie, pff-campus organization con tacts. Barbara Ness, off-campus indi vidual contacts; Suzie Michel, cam pus organizations contacts; Billi jean Riethmiller, Greek living or ganizations contacts; Jeannine Ma caulay, independent living organi zations contacts; elma Snellstrom, treasurer; and Donald M. DuShane, faculty adviser. Theater Fund Given $1500 From 3 Donors Offices of President Harry K. Newburn have announced three gifts of $500 to the Ethel Sawyer Theater fund by anonymous don ors. With this $1,500 addition, the total fund amounts to $5000. The gifts are largely a result of the campaigning efforts of L. Elizabeth Hansen, Portland. Miss Hansen began the fund with a gift of $1000 in 1942, and has worked consistently since then in behalf of the fund. The fund was established in the memory of Ethel Sawyer, brows ing room librarian at Oregon unitil her death in 1942. An exponent of the theater, Miss Sawyer preferred productions of the fresh and novel type, two of which have been pro duced in recent years by the Uni versity as Sawyer productions. The Sawyer memorial production for this year is “The Glass Menag erie.” Entrance Exams To Start Thursday Entrance examinations for fresh men and transfer students register ing for the first time this term will start Thursday. The mathematics and English test will be held this Thursday in room 3, Fenton hall, at 1:30 p. m. The Ohio exam will be held next Tuesday, January 11, in room 3 Fenton at 1:30 p. m. Transfer students are required to take only the Ohio test. r tli AKIAliAliU Met Soprano to Sing Tonight in Mac Court By Anne Goodman Metropolitan opera soprano Florence Quartararo, who be gan her professional career by appearing on a Bing Crosby pro gram. will sing tonight at 8:15 in McArthur court. The concert will be the fourth on the Eugene and University Civic Music association series. Recently returned from a European engagement, the at tractive 26-year-old singer is in her fourth season with the Met. Veterans Required To Sign Pledges All veterans enrolled for the winter term mast sign winter term pledge cards to avoid inter ruption bf veteran’s status, ac cording to James D. Kline, assis tant registrar. The cards serve as proof that the veteran is actually on the campus this term. They may be signed at the veterans’ counter in the office of the registrar. Kline states that those vete rans who completed registration prior to the Christmas vacation probably did not sign their pledge cards. Students who have not signed their cards by 5 p. m. Thursday will be subject to pos sible interruption in veteran’s status, with resultant delay in G. I. checks. Personnel Men Set Interviews Personnel manager and assist ant personnel manager of the Arm strong Cork company will be on the Oregon campus tomorrow to interview men for their training program, according to Karl W. On thank, director of graduate place ment. They will interview men for the positions of sales trainee, foreign accountant and clerk. The training program will start in late June, and the interviews will be made of men graduating in either March or June. xn J.CJ1U out- auui5ULULtju xui ncicii Tranbe 1 at the Hollywood' Bowl. Since then her rise of fame has been marked by five other replacements of well-known sopranos at the last moment. Each time the critics praised her highly. She has replaced Nadine Conner, Licia Albanese, Stella Roman, and Bidu Sayao. After auditioning for the Metro politan, the native San Franciscoan received a $1,000 Caruso award, be sides a two-year contract with the opera. The young soprano had never sung a public performance before appearing on the Bing Crosby show. The first classical singer Crosby had ever introduced, she was book ed for four additional engagements after the first performance. Soon after she was signed to an RCA Vic tor Red Seal recording contract. In a rehearsal of “Carmen” dur ing the first student matinee Of the season given by the Met, Miss Quar tararo’s voice led New York Tintes’ Howard Taubman to write “Aston ishing assurance . . . Miss Quarta raro who is also good to look at, seems to have what it takes . . .She may lie the find of the season.” The singer, who was a Navy in terpreter during the war is now making her second concert tuor this season under the direction of Im pressario S. Hurok. Honorary to Meet Plans for the forthcoming Mili tary ball, slated for February 23. will be discussed at a Scabbard and Blade meeting tonight at 6:30 in the ROTC building, according to Carl S. Miller, president. Semester Change Gets Faculty Vote I'acuity members will vote on the proposed change to a so tiiester system at a meeting today at 4 p. m. If passed, the change will he recommended to President New bum. hrom President Xewhurn the recommendation must go to the Chancellor’s office, and from there to the state board of higher education for final action. Paul H. Jacobsen, .dean of the school of education, headed Faculty Votes To Post Grad List Early The faculty senate voted unani mously December 9 to post the list of candidates for graduation ten days or two weeks before the date set for commencement. This prac tice will be employed to avoid the last-minute rush and mistakes which resulted when the list was posted the Saturday morning be fore graduation. The decision was made after a delegation from Mortar Board pre sented the problem to the board and suggested several possible so lutions. The senior women's honor ary spent fall term collecting infor mation and interviewing deans. According to the board’s plan, all seniors listed will go through the graduation ceremony. A spokesman for the board explained that al though there may be some students who do not make their spring term grades, these students will be al lowed to participate in graduation. They will not receive their degrees, however. The registrar’s office will at tempt to make the list as accurate as possible. Since the last-minute rush will be avoided the office will have adequate time to check each student's record carefully. If, how ever some eligible students are omitted from the list through the fault of the University, their names will be added. USA to Pick Frosh Nominees Nominees for Freshman class of fices will be selected by the United Students Association at a general meeting Tuesday, in room 3, Fen ton hall, at 4 p. m. Candidates for the nominations will be chosen from petitions turned in to the USA nominations commit tee last December. In line with the party’s newly adopted constitution, the steering committee will recommend candi dates from the petitioners. Further nominations will be ac cepted from the floor, provided that the nominee's petition was turned in when scheduled and that he is backed by 10 members. The nominations will be voted on at the following general meeting under majority rule. USA nominations committee co chairmen Virginia Woods and Art Wahlers announced that a large and representative number of peti tions were turned in. Discussion Stated “Christian Teachings'' will be the topic for discussion when Mrs. Turnipseed's group meets tonight at 7:30 in Friendly house. a. iuiinniu.ec lo investigate pro cedures suitable for changing the. academic schedule from a term to semester system. The committee’s report, without recommendation, was issued December 1. Main advantages of the semes ter system are listed as decrease of time lost in registration, reduction of the cost of registration, and the theory that the semester plan fa cilitates better teaching and course arrangement. Final examinations after Christ mas is one of the main student Ob jections to the change, the report said. Three other major colleges oi> the Pacific coast, Stanford, Oregon, State and the University of Wash ington, use the term system. Ac cording to a survey conducted in 1944, 622 of the nation's colleges had a semester calendar and 99 a term calendar. From 1876 to 1896 the University operated on a term basis, when tho semester system was adopted until 1917. Irj 1985 and 1989 the facility voted to return to the semester sys tem, but the action was never pre sented to the state board of higher education. B A Professor Resigns Jan. I Dr. E. G. Daniel, professor of business administration and eco nomics, resigned his position on the faculty, effective January 1 of this, year. He will leave the teaching profession to enter business with the firm of Hess & McFau! of Port land. Remaining in Eugene, Daniel has taken a. position as investment counselor with the firm, and will work in investment securities. Ho will be firm representative in Eu gene and the southern Willamette valley. Daniel is an Oregon graduate, re ceiving his BA here in '29, and hia MA in ’31. He taught at Eastern , Oregon College of Education for three years. He earned his PhD at Harvard. Daniel returned to Oregon in 1941, and has been teaching at the University since that time. Dr. Cykier Series Speaker Tomorrow Dr. Edmund A. Cykler, associate professor of musicology in the Uni versity school of music, will be the first speaker on the winter term University Lecture series. He will speak tomorrow night at 8 p.m. in room 207, Chapman hall. “Musicology: Some Contribu tions" will be the subject of the lec ture. The University lectures aro sponsored by a faculty committee headed by Dr. Rudolf H. Ernst.