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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1949)
Fiftieth Year of PuhUrntwn and Sendee to the University VOLUME L UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, AFRIL 8, 104!) NUMBER 107 Mitropoulis Leads Symphony Tonight (See Program Inside) Dimitri Mitropoulis and the Minneapolis Symphony orchestra will - arrive in Eugene at noon today for two appearances on the University campus. The major performance of the group of 90 musicians will be at 8:15 tonight in McArthur court, when they will complete this season’s - series of concerts under the auspices of the Eugene and University Civic Music association. A second performance will feature several prominent members of ‘ the orchestra led by Metropoulis, at an hour-long recital to be given in the school of music auditorium this afternoon at 4:15. Free tickets are still available for the afternoon recital at the Edu cational Activities office in McArthur court. Only students, wives, fac ulty members and University employees may receive them. . Mitropoulis, who has already led his final concert with the group in Minneapolis, is making his farewell tour with the orchestra this season, after 12 years with it. A native of Athens, Greece, Mitropoulis assumed leadership of the Minneapolis group after his debut with the Boston symphony in 1936. He first entered the United States in 1929 to direct concerts by the Berlin Philharmonic. Scores are scorned by Mitropoulis, who feels “you can’t kep your eye on music on a desk, turn pages constantly, and still command an easy, flowing performance from the orchestra.” He uses neither score nor baton. - Next year he will be one of the permanent conductors of the New York Philharmonic symphony. Antal Dorati, of the Dallas symphony, will take his place with the Minneapolis organization. The Minneapolis symphony, which also appeared in Eugene April 9, 1947, is now observing its 46th year of service. Its members have toured the United States, Canada, Mexico and Cuba. The afternoon concert at the school of music will feature an octet and a quintet. The artists in this performance have appeared together at the Library of Congress and in major cities of this country under the lead of Louis Krasner, concert master of the orchestra. This special recital is being financed by the Educational Activities " board. Students may attend the evening concert by showing their registra tion cards. Members of Kwama and Phi Theta Upsilon will usher. Faculty members or residents will be admitted only if they present membership cards of the music association. Committee Ok's : School Grant Of *29 Million The joint legislative ways and means committee in Salem ap proved earlier this week a total operating budget for higher edu cation of $29,807, 815 and an emer gency grant of $1,000,000 for a new heating plant for the University of Oregon. The state board of higher edu cation had requested a total op erating budget of $30,657,315.48 and a building program of $12, ' 175,000. The joint committee named a subcommittee to draft a finance program for new buildings for higher education and state institu tions. Mefnbers Listed Members of the subcommittee to draft a financial program for state building program are Senators Carl Engdahl and Austin Flegel and Representatives Rudie Wil helm, William Morse and W. W. Chadwick. Wilhelm will serve as chairman. The subcommittee was directed * to file a report so some action may be taken before final adjournment of the present legislature. / The committee budget proposal represents a slash of $710,000 from a total state appropriations for higher education of $21,335,012. The rest of the total operating budget, some $7,761,954 comes from sources other than state funds. These sources include: student fees, gifts, sale of products and services, research grants, and fed eral funds, including GI tuitions. Xo Reserves The present heating plant is op erated at full capacity with no standby facilities according to Ir win I. Wright, superintendent of physical plant. With a 25 per cent increase of floor area through the (Please turn to page two) Proposed New Law If a bill introduced by State Senator Walker is passed by the Oregon senate, the favorite pas time of the kiddies at Saturday matinees may be a thing of the past. The bill, if passed, would rev olutionize the movie industry, and probably cut off the main income of many a cinema. In short—it would prohibit the eating of popcorn in theaters. Sellard Elected SDX President Dan Sellard, journalism senior, was elected president of Sigma Delta Chi, men’s national profes sional journalism fraternity, last night. He replaces Larry Lau. Other new officers are: Kirk Braun, vice president; Bob Twej dell, secretary; Hal Coleman, treasurer; Chuck Grell, historian; and Fred Taylor and Vic Fryer, executive council. Other outgoing officers were Roy Williams, Warren Mack, and Dick Revenaugh. Threatens Senior Laura Olson to Head Faculty Rating Committee WAA Plans Activities PROGRAM CHAIRMEN Pat Mounts, Mary Stadelman, and Janice Neely start playing' to get in the mood for Oregon’s first women's Play Day, scheduled for Saturday, April 9. Elimination Scheduled For All Campus Sing A single judge will name the winners of the all-campus sing in this year's Juninor Weekend. Co-chairmen Lou Weston and Sally Waller said this will eliminate conflicting decisions by three or four judges. Eliminations for all women's organizations will be held April 22. Men’s groups will sing the first round on April 23, according to the co-chairmen. Only winners of these rounds will compete in the Junior Week end songfest on April 6 in McAr thur court. Raymond Moremen, assistant professor of music at UCLA, will judge the fest. He is “one of the foremost choir directors in Los Angeles,” according to E. A. Cyk ler, associate professor of musi cology in the University. Professor Moremen directs the UCLA choir and a city church choir. Dr. Cykler said he has di rected music groups in several Cal ifornia colleges. Entrants in the sing will observe the following rules: 1. No professional musician or faculty instructor for director. 2. At least 16 voices must sing (Please turn to pai/e two) Jumbo Vodvil Trophy at Co-op A two-foot trophy, to be award ed permanently to the house pre senting the best act in the Ail Campus Vodvil April 15, will be on display with two smaller tro phies in the Co-op today, Art John son, general chairman, announced yesterday. Trophies for second and third places, 16 and 12 inches high re spectively, will be displayed with the first place award. EHS Gets ‘Teaser’ This morning at Eugene high school a teaser skit to boost ticket sales for the show will be present ed by Stan Smith and Newt Thorn ton. singing cowboy ballads. The program, scheduled for 9:30, was arranged by downtown sales chair man Willie Dodds. “More intriguing skit ideas have been turned in,” Velma Snellstrom, program chairman, stated yester day. Lambda Chi Alpha has slated a “Short Jean Symphonette, a Ger man band act. The “Maharajah of Magruder” will appear by the courtesy of Mc Chesney hall, and the Pi Beta Phis plan to present ’23 Skidoo.' “The Cats’ Meow” is the theme submitted by Rebec House, while Gamma Phi Beta claims that “It’s the Syme the Whole World Over.” ADPis Go Western I Perhaps the most interesting information about any of the acts was a note concerning the act of Alpha Omicron Pi, received in the Emerald office yesterday: "The AOPis present Tex Callous and his "Saddle Sore Six" singing a traditional American ballad while walking down the streets of Laredo on the lone prairie looking for Ragtime Cowboy Joe who was bitten by the blue-tail fly while saddling Old Paint on the top of Old Smokey along the Santa Fe Trail in the Red River Valley, but Joe had gone back to his home on the range with his. cow boy's sweet heart Sioux City Sue to find his boots and saddle. I U of Colorado Sets Example For UO System Laura Olson, senior in journal ism, has been named by student body president Bob Allen to head the committee to formulate a fac ulty rating plan. Miss Olson yesterday announced the members of her committee, all graduating seniors: Robin Arkley, business major and class presi dent: Shirley Lukins, English ma jor; Bob Goffard, history major; Warren Webster, majoring in gen eral social science; Trudi Chernis, journalism major; Olga Yevticb, psychology major; and Herb Kar iel, business major. "All of the members of the com mittee desire to work out a system of rating which will be as impar tial as possible," Miss Olson stated. "The general idea of the plan is not to harm any individual faculty member, but to help him in the presentation of material, stimula tion of enthusiasm and other points. Katins Done This Term "The preliminary planning is be ing taken care of by this commit tee. Actual rating of teachers by students will be done this term on the basis to be selected by the com mittee,” the chairman said. Colorado Plan Example “The system used by the Uni versity of Colorado in rating in structors is the best I've seen,” she remarked. “It will probably be followed, at least in part, at the University of Oregon.” The Colorado plan embodies, among other points, the following bases for rating an instructor, probably on scale from one to ten: (1) Master of subject; (2) Abil (Please turn to page eight) Far East Author To Visit Campus The founder of the first school of journalism in the Orient, Dr. Vernon Nash, lecturer, journalist and author, will come to Euger>o next week under the auspices of the student and Eugene chapters of the United World Federalists, the International Relations club and the Eugene Council on World Affairs. Educated at the University of Missouri and Oxford, on a Rhodes scholarship, he served as an officer in the British army during the first World War in India and East Af rica. In 1924 he founded the school of journalism at Yenching univer sity, Peiping, China. Since then Dr. Nash has traveled in 20 countries and written a num ber of books. One of these is on journalism, entitled “Educating for Journalism.’’ Another is entitled “The World Must Be Governed” and deals with the idea of a world government. Dr. Nash is vice-president of the United World Federalists.
