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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 27, 1949)
VOLUME L UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1949 NUMBER 120 Jimmy Zito Will Play Prom ED ANDERSON JOAN FRYDENLUND LOU WESTON ART JOHNSON Students to Pick New Officers; Political Battle Draws to Close mm - — m - rolls at Library, j YMCA, Mac Court Oregon’s perennial spring term political battle draws to a close today as candidates and platforms come up for the final test . . . the student’s votes. Three polling places will be open from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. As usual, booths will be located at the YMCA. Other polling places will be at McArthur court and the library. Serving at the polls will be members of the service honor aries, Phi Theta Upsilon, Druids, Kwama, and Skull and Dagger. “Watchers” from both political parties will be in attendance. ASUO officers and representatives, class officers, and co-op board members will be on sep arate ballots, ASUO Vice-Pres ident Sheldon Jones, in charge of elections explained. All University students—reg ular, graduate, and special—are eligible to vote for ASUO offi cers, class representatives, and yell king. Only members of the co-op will be given ballots for co-op board. In class elections, students will be given ballots only for the class they will be in next year. All eligi ble voters are listed in the poll books, with their classes as check ed with the Registrar’s records. When he enters the polls, the vot er’s student body card will be stamp ed, checked with the poll book, and he will be given the appropriate ballots. If no class is shown in the poll book, he will receive only the ASUO ballot. In explaining the preferential ballot, used in all ASUO elections, Sheldon Jones stressed that incor rectly marked sections of ballots will be thrown out. Four candidates are listed under “ASUO President,” he explained, and the voter must mark the fig ure “1” by his choice for president, “2” by his choice for second position, Third and fourth choices may or may not be marked, as the voter (Please turn to page two) Candidates Cite Political Ideals “When things come up that are «'ur business, you are going to be lcf about them—and all about them,” said Ed Anderson, AGS candidate for ASUO position num ber one at a nominating rally in Mac court yesterday at 4. Attack ing the closed sessions of the exec utive council, Anderson went on, “The student body can be the voice of the students if it publicizes its meetings. The policy of the pres ent administration seems to be “what you don’t know won’t hurt you’.” “Our aim is to wipe out social lines in campus politics,” Art John son, who is running on the USA ticket for ASUO number one, stat ed. “We have a habit of voting a straight ticket, not only in cam pus politics, but in our national elections. It is a bad habit; student government suffers because of it. Integrity, ability, and experience of candidates should be the basis for casting a ballot.” Lou Weston, USA candidate for ASUO number two position, stated her belief that the responsibility of officers is to let students know what opportunities exist for them (Please turn to page two) Here's Scoop on Student Nominee Qualifications USA Candidates Active on Campus Eelow are listed brief outlines of the campus activities of the USA candidates for ASUO top of fices. ART JOHNSON — Among the campus offices held by Johnson, candidate for ASUO president, are: freshman, sophomore and junior representative, WSSF chairman, 1948 Dads’ day co-chairman, vice president of OFCL for '49 and '50; and Frosh Glee chairman. Other activities include: Druids, Skull and Dagger, religious council, edu cational activities board, Scabbard and Blade, Jerry Huestis cup for outstanding freshman indepen dent, and Scabbard and Blade award for the outstanding sopho more in military science, delegate to the student body president’s as sociation convention last year. LOU WESTON — Candidate for ASUO second position, Miss Wes ton is president of Delta Zeta. Her offices include: co-chairman of the all-campus sing, co-finance chair man of USA, OFCL corresponding secretary, sophomore representa tive. Her other activities include YWCA cabinet, Phi Theta Upsilon, Red Cross, chairmanship for “Mes siah,” WSSF, and Homecoming promotion. The Weather Mostly cloudy today with little change in temperature. Expected high, 70 degrees; low tonight, 39 degrees. Vote Today Activities Aplenty For AGS Crew Thumbnail sketches of the cam pus activities of the candidates heading the AGS slate are listed below: ED ANDERSON — Anderson, candidate for ASUO president, is a junior representative. Among his other campus offices are: pres ident of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, past president of Skull and Dagger, chairman of the Sophomore Wbis kerino tradition committee in 1947, chairman of the noise parade for 1 9 4 7 Homecoming, Dads’ day awards chairman in 1948, general chairman for 1948 Dads’ Weekend. Anderson is a member of Druids (Please turn to page eight) Nightln Bagdad Theme of Years Biggest Dance Jimmy Zito and his orchestra will play for the annual Junior prom Saturday, May 7, it was an nounced yesterday by Dance Chair man Paul Johnston. This is the second time Zito will have ap peared on the campus this year, playing last fall for the Sopho more Whiskerino. Tickets will sell for $2, a lower price than for Junior Weekend dances in recent years. Tickets will go on sale in the Co-op and in the Educational activities office in Mc Arthur court next Tuesday. Dancers will spend "A Night in Bagdad” after entering Mac court for the 9 to 12 formal affair. The dance is the biggest of the schopl year, and highlight of the junior class activities. Intermission activities will include awarding of the Koyle and Gerlinger cups to the outstanding junior man and outstanding junior woman, re spectively. Float parade awards will be given the houses with the floats judged best in the afternoon parade. The Burt Brown Barker scholar ship cups awarded to the men’s and women's living organizations which maintained the highest grade point average during the year, will also be awarded at in termission. Tapping for Druids, junior men’s honorary, will complete intermis sion activities. The queen’s processional and re cessional will precede and follow the intermission. Jimmy Zito was a child prodigy, being featured trumpet artist with the Chicago Symphony orchestra when he was 13 years old. Before forming his own band he was featured trumpet soloist and vocalist with the orchestra of Ted Fio Rito, Tommy Dorsey, Les Brown, and Benny Goodman. Oregon Caves Jobs The campus employment office reports that an Oregon Caves rep resentative will be in its office to keep previous appointments with summer job applicants today. In addition the office has an opening in Eugene this summer for a qualified medical X-ray techni cian. Service training will be ac ceptable for this position, and summer school students would be preferred. Graduate Student in Journalism Wins National ANPA Award CLIFF JOHNSON A University graduate student in journalism has won second place in a national essay.writing contest. He is Clifford F. Johnson, of Centralia, HI. Johnson competed with 106 en trants from colleges throughout the nation in the contest sponsored by the American Newspaper Pub lishers association. Assigned topic for this year’s contest was “How Readership Surveys Affect New3, Features and Advertisements.” Johnson enrolled at the Univer sity in 1945 as a major in journal ism and because one of the few Oregon graduates to earn a degree in three years instead of the usual four. He belongs to Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalistic fra ternity and Sigma Delta Pi, na tional Spanish honorary.
