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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 4, 1949)
All-campus Dances Financial Outlook Gloomy,- Attendance Off (Continued front page one) 1946, lost money in ’47, lost more iin ’48 and has been canceled this year. Dance Dates Conflict The 1947 Junior Prom was a aold-out success and while the 1948 prom was a success, it did not come up to expectations. Mortar Board ball, the last big dance of the school year, was a success in 1947 and made some money in 1948, although nothing in comparison with the '47 affair. No class has ever left the cam pus owing money lost on dances. It usually makes enough on Junior Weekend to pay the deficit. A cam pus organization losing money on a dance must make it up to hte educational activities board, which pays the bills. “There’s a reason for every date” in the schedule of all-campus danc es, explained Williams. The stu dent affairs committee schedules all of the dances at the beginning of the school year in September. Sometimes there is a choice of dates, but the choice is always very narrow. There must be a minimum of two weeks separating the dance, and three weeks is a much more desirable margin, since it takes that much time to promote a suc cessful dance. The Homecoming dance is, of course, set for Homecoming week end which is in October or Novem ber on alternate years. The Whis kerino alternates with the Home coming dance, and is scheduled a month before or a month after, accordingly. The Junior Prom is held on Jun ior Weekend, which in turn is al >■’!!-.II" 1 - ..~!= ways planned for Mothers’ day weekend. Winter term dances, the Senior ball and the Military ball, must be worked in with the northern divi-s; sion basketball schedule which, this year, had filled every Friday and Saturday except for the first two weeks of the term. The usual policy is to hold the Senior ball on a weekend when the basketball team is in Seattle. This year the only dates available for the Mili tary ball were February 26 and March 5, a week before final ex ams begin. When the Frosh Glee is held, it falls in April, two or three weeks before the Junior From. Mortar Board is held on the last open weekend of spring term. Once the dates are set for the dances, there is no possibility of changing them, even for a “big name” band, because of the con flicting dates for house dances and other events. Name Bands Hard to Get Williams has tried to contract a major band for almost every dance this year, and was unable to do so for the reason that large bands will not come to the Northwest to play for college dances unless they can be sure of a reasonable number of midweek dates on the projected tour. College dances are only the “cream for major bands, while it is the private promoters who fur nish the “bread and butter” en gagements. “Only when prviate promoters feel that they can make a go of a big-name band in the Northwest will the colleges be assured of big name bands being in thei rarea,” claims Williams. ri WHATS WRONG WITH YOUR DANCING? Poor Posture? Lack of Grace? No Variety? No Confidence? Old Style? Weak Lead? Let JACKLYN’S solve your problems. Come in for a Free Guest Lesson and Dance Analysis. See how easy it is to learn the New Dances or “Brush Up” your old ones. RHUMBA SAMBA TANGO FOXTROT WALTZ SWING MAMBO ~ Also TAP AND BALLET Hours—Mon. thru Fri.—10:00 A.M.—10:00 P.M. SAT.—10:00 A.M.—6:00 P.M. flacULftt'i Dance Studio' 24 W. 7th Ave. Phone 235-W SPRING HAS SPRUNG! —Time to get that spring wardrobe in shape. Trust those shrinkables, and al terations to us. This year, only one name band had an available date for one of the University dances. Ted Weems was turned down for the Senior ball because he asked for $1500. “Since past experience indicated that the Senior ball was going to lose money anyway, it seemed un necessary to lose a lot more.” Law Fraternity Holds Initiation Eleven men were initiated recent ly into Phi Alpha Delta, national professional law fraternity. The first year men are James W. Belsey, William H. 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