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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 5, 1949)
Reporter Braves Snow, Sfush; Insoects Work on Villard Annex By Gretchen Grondahl The Oregon Seal is covered with snow and the tradition-conscious freshman who trudges through the slush north of Villard to watch con struction of the new University theater must watch his step lest he commit the unpardonable crime of treading the seal. But the frosh is rewarded for his ■frigid expedition by the sight of some sixty workmen of the James and Yost construction company, contractors, -pouring concrete for the walls of the new building, an i annex to venerable Villard. Poking through the old building, itself, h« finds it disemboweled to make waj "for the classrooms, dressing rooms small theaters, and radio studio! .which will be housed here. Worker: are now plastering the first floor and lathing the second floor of Vil lard, the University's second oldest structure. Theater to Hold 420 Poring over blueprints in the lit tle yellow box which serves as the contractors’ headquarters, the rfosh discovers many improvements plan ned for the new University theater, which will seat 420. The concrete annex which houses it will be con nected to Villard by workshops where scenes will be constructed. Stage flats will be moved through 18-foot doors to the theater. The stage floor of the large thea ter will be constructed in removable sections. Walls of both the audi [ torium and the radio studios in Vil 11 lard will be finished in acoustical plaster. Movie projection and light ing effects will be directed from the control room in the rear of the the ater. Theater in Basement Dressing, costume, and sewing rooms and a minor theater seating about 75 will fill the basement of the remodeled Villard. On the first floor will be classrooms and clinics, and the Intimate theater. Offices and conference and read ing rooms will take up second floor space, while the third floor will be taken over by the radio facilities, with two large studios. Small stu dios, practice rooms, and a record room are included in the plans. Airlanes (Continued from {'age six) "Well, it’s sort of a Dali-like surrealism, maybe. Maybe it works as a sort of psychological release for people. Inhibitions and all that- sort of thing. Anyway we get a lot of listener response and from well educated, intelligent people, too.” We again exchanged Hogan's and I wandered back down the hallway musing on the philosophi cal implications of the evening’s events. I went out to Highland and headed for the Hollywood hills. Maybe if I hurried I could catch that bull-moose and find out what he thought of all this sort of thing. Anyway a statement from him couldn’t be any more confus ing than "that Hawthorne thing.” Chicago Meet Calls Legislator Dean Ralph W. Leighton of thci school of health and physical edu cation will leave next Wednesday; for Chicago, where he will meet with nine other representativ of 3<V colleges and universities to formu late a standard system for accred i iting schools offering graduate ! work in health and physical educa | tion. Dean Leighton is the only repre j sen tat i vc attending from the Fa { cific Northwest. Other members of the committee come from Califor nia, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, and schools farther east. The commit tee, established last October, is at - tempting for the first time to es tablish regulation requirements. Yes—X.marks;the;spot where; more thanJ2,000 people died and over 70,000 werelinjured last, yearlwhenlautomobile. drivers'challenged k LIVE AND LET LIVE J the irditihorses of the rails—and lost. ^hen^yoirapproach a railroad (crossing|youlareienteringXthe railroad’sTright-of-way. To save youTfrom harm; gatesrare lowered or automaticrsignallingdevices, bells^and.blinking lights I warn lof approachingltrains. The engineer!blowsa’warning'blastTrings'his bell. That’sTthe’most the’railroadman do. The rest isIup to you. The Stop—Look—and Listen rsign meanslwhatlit says. Stop look both jvays—andlalways listen. If.a.trainlis’justlclearingithe crossing,~ wait—don’tlhurry across, there may be a hidden train com ing from the opposite direction^And when you do cross,’'keep going. Don't shift gears on "the tracks;* you may stall. Take the fewjextra secondsTneeded . to "assure Talsafe; crossing; Don’t let X mark the spot wherel/oiilfailed to be carefuL