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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.