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Fiftieth Year of Publication and Service to the University
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1949 NUMBER 111
VOLUME L
Davidson Gets Oregana Post
Faculty Cancels Credit Grants
For Veterans in Military, P.E.
Motion Does Not
Effect Gl's Now
Enrolled in School
The faculty yesterday approved a motion abolishing the
granting of health, physical education, and military science
credits to veterans of World War II. The action was taken at the
faculty meeting yesterday.
The motion does not effect veterans now enrolled at the Uni
versity. Those who entered the service prior to March 31, 1949
are likewise not effected.
The statement issued by George Kelknap, secretary of the
Vernon Nash
Speaks Tonight
'World Peace'
Dr. Vernon Nash, national vice
president of the United World
- Federalists, will be on the Univer
sity of Orgon campus this after
i noon and tonight to discuss world
government and world peace.
Highlight of his visit will be a
talk tonight at 8:30 in the music
school auditorium. It is to be spon
sored by the Student Federalists
and the International Relations
club.
Dr. Nash will also be a guest at
a shop talk sponsored by Sigma
Delta Chi, journalism fraternity,
in the journalism building at 5
p.m. This informal session is open
to SDX members only.
He will be interviewed on KORE
and will address the Eugene Active
club in the afternoon. A banquet
is scheduled in his honor at 6 p.m.
by the Eugene Council on World
Affairs and the United World Fed
eralists of Eugene.
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faculty, read:
“The faculty approved the
following motion: that, in order
to return the status of credits
in military science and in phy
sical education to ;the basis ac
cepted prior to World War II,
no credit shall be allowed for any
military service entered upon after
March 31, 1949.”
Belknap, in explanation, further
commented: "Since the war we
have granted six hours credit in
health and physical education. Vet
erans were exempt from these two
courses and the basic course in mili
tary science.
“In addition we granted on a slid
ing scale 6 to 24 hours in miliary
science.”
The approval of the motion
means those who entered military
service after March 31, 1949 are
normally required to take six hours
military training, one hour of heal
th education, and five hours of phy
sical education courses to obtain
their junior certificates. '
Col. F. R. Maerdian, head of the
military science department, told
the Emerald just before attending
the faculty meeting, that he ap
proved the new proposal. He declar
ed that he believed the present
training in the service was not on
the college level and does not ade
quately equip the men for military
service.
“Younger men are coming in
now,” he said. "Most of them are
high school graduates and some of
them are only grade school gradu
ates. They haven’t had the prelimi
nary training nor the educational
back ground that the soldier should
have.”
This was the only action taken by
the faculty at yesterday's meeting.
They voted to postpone action on a
motion which would allow graduate
students to register in University
courses for less than the minimum
number of term hours listed in the
catalog.
No Swimming Caps!
THIS VIEW of a one corner of the men’s pool, taken earlier this
week, shows that most of the swimmers are not wearing bathing
caps. Girl at top right (inset) has hair whose length State Board
of health says clogs drains and creates unsanitary conditions. Four
male law students were recently barred from the pool because they
did not have bathing caps. (Photo by Kirk Braun)
Investigation Reveals
Swimming Minus Caps
By Kirk Braun
A clean-cut case of discrimination against University students in
general and law students in particular, was revealed this week when
investigation uncovered the fact that outside groups are being allowed
to swim in the men’s pool without bathing caps.
The investigation was prompted by a letter to the Emerald re
cently in which four students of the law school protested hat they
had been prohibited from swimming in the pool without first donning
swimming caps.
Earlier this week, a group of some 40-odd students from the
Cresswell grade school, most of whom were girls, spent an evening
swimming in the men’s pool. Half of them wore bathing caps. A life
guard, employed by the University of Oregon, was on duty at the
time and made no move to enforce the regulation.
The State Board of Health, which has the power to regulate swim
ming pools, specifically states that “women entering public pjools
must wear bathing caps.” Reason is given that stray bits of women's
hair, due to its length, clogs the drains in pools.
As to the regulation regarding the wearing of swimming caps
by men, a local rule, the physical education department claims this
is a precaution against “hair oil which floats on the water and clogs
up the drains.”
• • •
New Business
Manager to be
James Sanders
Larry Davidson to
Assume Editorship
Of Yearbook Next Fall
Larry Davidson was named 1900
Oregana editor by the Educational
Activities board last night. The
junior in journalism will replace
Trudi Chernis, this year's editor.
The board also appointed James
A. Sanders, junior in history, busi
ness manager of next year's Ore
gana.
Davidson began work on the an
nual in his freshman year on the
layout staff, became assistant edi
tor of schools last year, and is now
managing editor. A member of
Druids and Skull and Dagger,
class honoraries, he has been ac
tive on Junior Weekend, Red Cross,
March of Dimes, and other com
mittees.
The new editor has had consid
erable experience in the journal
ism field as editor of the Molalla
high school paper and of a weekly
news sheet in the service. He is a
member of Sigma Delta Chi, men’s
national journalism fraternity. The
24-year-old is affiliated with Tau
Kappa Epilon.
There will be no radical changes
in next year’s format as it has be
come somewhat standardized and
traditional over the years, David
son reports, but he plans to intro
duce some new ideas. He hopes to
have more pages in the 1950 an
nual.
Sanders served on this year’s.
Oregana staff as advertising man
ager. He has also worked on sales
and circulation for the yearbook.
The new business manager was
recently elected president of Mc
Chesney hall for next year.
Also petitioning for the position
of business manager was Henry
Panian, junior in history.
Radio Carries
Dieterich Hymn
Religious music written by Mil
ton Dieterich, University instruc
tor in cello, will be broadcast from
the rim of the Grand Canyon in
Sunday morning Easter services
over radio station KGW in Port
land and other NBC stations from
5:50 to 5:30 a.m. PST Sunday.
Presented as a portion of the
traditional Easter service will be
"Joy That Overflows the Heart,"
a religious anthem written toy
Dieterich last year. The Arizona
state college choir, directed by Ell
don Ardrey, will perform the num
ber.
The anthem will also be sung in
Eugene Easter morning by the St.
(Please turn to page eight)
Quake Raps at Door to Catastrophe
SEATTLE—(AP) — The earth
shrugged today beneath the feet
of the Northwest’s frightened peo
ple, killing seven, injuring scores
and causing damage in unguessa
ble millions.
It was the worst earthquake in
the region’s 138 years of settle
ment.
Frightened thousands fled
swaying buildings to be sprayed
by tumbling bricks and shattered
glass. It hurled two small, unoccu
pied houses into Puget Sound from
Fox island, near Tacoma, Wash. It
tumbled chimneys from near the
Canadian border south into Ore
gon.
Sixty miles south of Seattle the
capital city of Olympia took the
brunt of the shock. A woman died
of a heart attack; a man was
smashed down by falling bricks.
Tumbling bricks also killed a
school boy of Tacoma and a col
lapsing corner of a school building
wall crushed the lifp from a boy in.
Castle Rock, Wash. The front of a
building fell on a man in Centralia,
Wash., crushing him fatally.
Scientists at the. University of
Washington said it was a quake
of No. 8 intensity—Next door to
catastrophe on the scale which
rates no. 12 as total destruction.
A woman was so frightened she
leaped into the Duwamish river,
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