Oregon
Fiftieth Year of Publication and Service to the University
VOLUME L
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1!V4»
NUMBER 63
Faculty
Members
On Tour
President Newburn
And Five Others
. To Visit Oregon Towns
A group of six University of
" Oregon faculty members pro
posing to further the availibility
- of the University’s educational
service will leave today on a
. speaking- tour through several
Oregon towns.
The group includes President
Harry K. Newburn; Dr. R. C. Mc
Call, head of the speech depart
. ment; Theodore Kratt, dean of the
music school; Les Anderson, Ore
gon alumni secretary; Lyle Nelson,
' director of information; and Don
ald M. DuShane, director of student
affairs.
They are to attend University of
Oregon day in Klamath Falls today
' and a Lion Club banquet tonight.
Dr. Newburn will join the group
in Medford Wednesday where he
will talk on a subject concerning
education at the University.
On Thursday the members will
conclude the tour in Grants Pass
where they will attend a joint
meeting of the Oregon alumni and
Oregon mothers and Dads’ asso
. ciations.
Greek Houses
To Stay With USA
In statements made to the Emer
ald yesterday, representatives of
’ seven Greek houses stated their
houses would remain with the
. USA.
These groups, along with the Phi
Psis, had withdrawn from the
- Greek bloc (AGS) last spring in
a move to “guarantee that our
members may vote according to
‘ the dictates of their own con
sciences.’’
The representatives expressed no
desire to follow Phi Kappa Psi
back to the Associated Greek
Students organization. They said
house members were satisfied to
Stay with the USA party.
Houses contacted by the Emer
ald included Phi Sigma Kappa,
Zeta Tau Alpha, Phi Kappa Sigma,
Tau Kappa Epsilon, Lambda Chi
Alpha, Alpha Xi Delta, and Delta
-Zeta.
Annuo! Frosh Glee Canceled
Financial Flop, Says Council
The Frosh Glee will not be held this year. At a special meeting last
night, the executive council voted unanimously to call off the traditional
freshman class function.
Financial statements of the past three Frosh Glees influenced the
negative decision. Dick Williams, educational activities manager, re
ported that the 1946 dance had broken even; the 1947 dance lost $100;
and the 1948 dance went in the red $190.
Judging from the figures, Williams said that the dance will probably
lose money again this year. Since the present sophomore class is in the
hole over $500, the council decided that it would be a protection for
this year’s freshman class to wait until next year to undertake its first
class function.
Ticket sales for the Glee have averaged 394 for the past three years.
Average income has been $558 and average expenses, $655 making the
average loss $97.
More specific details of the dance show that in 1946 the freshmen
sold a total of 323 tickets at $1 each bringing in a net income of $323.
Total expenses were $323. The dance broke even.
The following year 501 ticketts at $1.33 each were sold making a net
income of $775. Expenses totalled $875. The dance showed a loss of
$100.
The 1948 Glee income totalled $575. 357 tickets were sold again at
$1.33 each. Expenses tallied $765 and the dance lost $190.
When the student union is finished, it is hoped that the Frosh Glee
will be made an affair for members of the. freshman class and their
dates only, Williams added. This will be done with the class approval,
he said.
Phi Sigs' Moonlight
Girl Finalists Picked *
Phi Sigma Kappa’s annual [Moonlight C'.irl contest became
reality for '49 with the announcement, today, of six finalists
names by Art AY ah lets, chairman of the house nominating com
mittee. Chosen from photographs of candidates sponsored by wo
men's living organizations are: Molly Muntzel, Kappa Alpha
Theta; Leona Anderson, Alpha Delta Ji; Jeanette Houf, Alpha
Chi Omega; Jeanne Merrion, Gamma Hall; Mar_v Handelin,
Alpha IJhi and *\lartha Cleve
land, Gamma Phi Beta.
“Our choice of six girls was
made especially difficult by the
fact that all candidates are very
photogenic’’, Wahlers c o m -
mented in making the announ
cement.
Following initial choice of fi
nalists, an introductory banquel
will be held January 23 by the Phi
Sigs for their six guests of honor
Results of the final voting bj
members and pledges will not be
known until the winter term for
mal on January 29. All six finalists
however, will be invited to attend
Elaborate plans have been made foi
presentation of the Moonlight Gir
to her Phi Sigs.
A trophy, symbolic of the Moon
| light Girl, is given the winning
' girl and retained in thee possessior
or ner sponsoring living organiza
tion for one year.
The contest began only last year
with, the active promotion of the
national Phi Sigma Kappa. The na
tional Moonlight Girl, chosen then,
was sponsored by the University of
Texas chapter house Psi Deuteron,
U. of O. chapter of Phi Sigma Kap
pa, picked the former Ann Phette
place, sponsored by Gamma Phi
Beta.
IRC Plans Initial
Meeting of Term
The International Relations club
will hold its first open meeting, of
the term at 7:30 tonight at West
minster house.
The club will act on resolutions
passed at the IRC conference last
term, discuss the conference, and
make plans for the coming term.
Ticket Sales Begin
For Senior Ball
Tomorrow inCo-op
Price Tag Placed at $2.40; Representatives
Will Sell Ducats in Living Organizations
Ticket for the Senior Rail will go on sale Wednesday and
Thursday in the Co-op, Ticket Chairman Janet Bcigal announc
ed yesterday. Wally Heider and his orchestra will play for the
dance January 22 at McArthur court.
The tickets, which sell for $2.40. are also being handled by
representatives in the men's living organizations.
Miss Reigal emphasized yesterday that the annual Senior
Ball is not for seniors only. It is
an all campus dance, open to all
students.
The dance is traditionally for
mal, and flowers will be op
tional.
Patty Pritchard,
Patty Pritchard, vocalist with
Heider’s orchestra, was formerly
with Ted Weems. She is currently
staff vocalist at KNBC in San
Francisco.
Heider's orchestra has been
featured at the Terrace room of the
Fairmont hotel and has recently
played for college dances at Cali
fornia, St. Mary’s, Stanford, and
San Francisco university.
Miss Beigal yesterday released
names of house representatives
who are in charge of ticket sales.
She asked that those houses that
have no representatives contact
her.
House Representatives
The house representatives are:
Dick Steinoff, Alpha Tail Ome
ga; Norm Weekly, Campbell club;
Tom McLaughlin, Chi Psi; A1
Pietschman, Delta Tan Delta;
Clark Austin, Delta Upsilon.
John Lamb, Franch hall; Charles
Snyder, McChesney hall; John
George, Merrick hall; Bob Christ,
Phi Delta Theta; Don Linstedt,
Phi Gamma Delta; Rich Hopper,
Phi Kappa Psi; Sam Plunkett', Pi
Kappa Phi; Bob Webber, Pi Kappa
Alpha.
Don Sharp, Sigma Alpha Epsi
lon; Leon Benveniste, Sigma Alpha
Mu; Lester Williams, Sherry Ross
hall; Fred Young, Sigma Chi; J.
Brown, Stan Ray hall; Mayo W.
Goffard, Sigma hall.
Herb Luck, Sigma Nu; Bud Bar
num, Sigma Phi Epsilon; Ronald
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New Drive
To Raise
SU Funds
Alpha Phi Omega
Back Calendar Sale
Starting Tomorrow
A new fund-raising' drive for
the student union will be initiat
ed tomorrow with a calendar
sale sponsored by Alpha Phi
Omega, national service frater
nity, with the cooperation of
Kwama and Skull and Dagger.
Members of these organizations
will sell the "University of Oregon”
calendars for $1.50, with profits
going to the memorial union.
The calendar, in note book form,
has black embossed leather covers.
In addition memo space for every
day in 1948, they include several
pages for addresses, note space, ami
photographic scenes of the Univer
sity.
WSSF Donations
Fall Below Mark
Although the total will be sub
stantially below last year’s quota,
students probably contributed over
$1000 in this year’s World Student
Service Fund drive, Art Johnson,
chairman, said yesterday.
The actual total has not been
counted up, but is expected to bo
completed sometime this afternoon.
She Bears and Valentines Worry Columnist
By Hal Boyle
NEW YORK, (AP)—Is a house
wife more sentimental than a
showgirl ? Is a blonde warmer than
-a brunette or redhead ? What does
a lady bear do in a bar? Yes, a
real lady bear.
These pressing problems of ro
mance and animal behavior were
- settled in a single action-filled af
ternoon on the pseudo-scientific
front.
(Gad, and to think, when I was
in college, my journalism instruc
tor wasted time with such que
ries as, “if you owned a smal.
.. weekly newspaper and your lead
ing advertiser got arrested for
stomping a young orphan to
* death, would you print the story
—or ask him for an ad?”)
But to get back to the thermal
nature of women and the barroom
habits of she bears:
Six beautiful girls—A house
wife, a business secretary, a col
lege freshman, and three broad
way showgirls—were the subjects
of the first test.
J. Harry Lange, 56-year-old
salesman for the Hallmark greet
ing Card company, read a senti
mental, novelty, and humorous
valentine card.
Their reactions were recorded
i a “sentimeter,” which is the
nickname for ‘ a continuous-bal
ance electronic potentiometer.”
The machine scientifically records
temperature changes of one-tenth
of a degree in one-five hundredth
of a second.
Well, guess what? The house
wife registered “hot” on the sen
timental greeting but “cold” for the
novelty and humorous approach
es. But that’s no news. Any hus
band knows a wife can't see any
thing funny about love.
The secretary, on the other
hand, registered no change at all.
This may have been because she
had been taught never to mix
business and pleasure. Or it might
be explained by the fact that
Lange, after all, was to her only
another bald-headed married
stranger.
The reaction of the blonde
showgirl to a lovey-dovey valen
tine was only “lukewarm." The
brunette, Norma Thornton, of
Iowa City, la., registered "warm
hot.” The red-haired lass, Abbe
Marshall, was clocked at "semi
boiling.”
But the blonde—Judy Sinclair
of Philadelphia—remarked:
"If they’ll give with a fur coat
instead of a valentine, I’ll burn up
the darn machine.”
Then Lange himself climbed on
the seat. As one showgirl read
him a valentine, the other two
suddenly threw their arms around
him and kissed him. He zoomed
the machine’s pointer to "boiling.”
And who would that surprise?
Everybody knows about bald
headed men.
Oh, yes, the bear.
Well, on the way back to the
office I saw a crowd outside a
bar. X went in and there was a
trained Russian bear, standing
behind the bar and wearing a
white apron.
The hear was Russian. She Was
named Laura and weighed 375
pounds. She was drinking a mug
of beer from Rita Colton, a tele- o
vision actress. One of the regular
patrons was grumbling about the
whole business.
“Give the bear a check,’’ ho
he grumbled. “Nobody lets me lap
up beer free.”
And I kept thinking about the
decline of press agentry in old
New York.