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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 24, 1949)
VOLUME L UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1949 NUMBER LW Fairview Home Gutted by Fire Twenty-five patients confined in the treatment hospital of the Fairview Home for the feeble-minded at Salem were rescued as the two-story structure was destroyed by fire. Some of the patients were pushed down escape chutes after stairways were blocked by fire. Two firemen were injured in the blaze, which caused an estimated $300,000 damage. (AP Wirephoto) LancJC Summer 'School Holds Poetry Confab Stephen Spender, British poet •< and literary critic, will open a six-weeks series of meetings in a Poetry Conference and Work shop to be held during the first summer session at Lewis and Clark college, June 9 through July 23. Thomas Parkinson, member of the English department faculty at the University of California, Carol Ely Harper, University of Washington staff member, and ' Will E. Stafford of the Lewis and Clark English department will also act as conference leaders during the series. The workshop is the first of its ' kind to be offered in the Portland area. It is open to the public as well as to college students. Registrants will aftend two , weekly sessions. During one af ternoon each week they will meet to study and work on the ele ' ments and principles of poetry. A second weekly session will meet with practicing poets for actual poetry writing. Glen Coffield, leader of the Grundtvig Folk school, and How ard Corning, Verne Bright, and Laurence Pratt, Portland writ ers, are scheduled to participate - in some of the sessions. Fee for the entire series series of conferences and workshops is $10. Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers Lost, strayed or stolen: one ladder. An employe of Earl Hast, painter-contractor, called the office of men’s affairs yester day in search of an extension ladder borrowed by some Uni versity organization during Junior weekend. Any person having informa tion about the ladder’s present whereabouts may call 7144-J. Tightening Due On Living Rules Reiterating its announcement of winter term, the office of student affairs yesterday issued a state ment that the rule requiring all undergraduate women and lower division men not living with rela tives in Eugene to live on the campus will be strictly enforced beginning fall term. This will mean that, with vir tually no exceptions, these stu dents must live in fraternities, so rorities, co-ops, or domitories. There have been many excep tions to this old rule in the last two or three years because of the shortage of campus housing. How ever, no such shortage is expected next year. The tightening up began this term when many students former ly living off campus were moved to University housing. The move is expected to he complete by next September. The Weather Fair and warmer. High will be about 80. First Moot Trial Case Scheduled Tonight at 7:30 First in a series of seven moot trials conducted by students from the law school is scheduled for to night at 7:30 in the circuit court room of the Lane county court house. Tonight’s case, Johnson vs. Jones, involves a purely hypotheti cal automobile accident on the af ternoon of March 8, when a car driven by Stanley Jones ’ col lided with a car driven by Har old Johnson. The “accident" oc curred at the intersection at 19th avenue east and Hilyard street. Both cars were damaged and Johnson allegedly received per sonal injuries. Johnson has filed action against Jones to recover damages on his car. Jones filed counter claim to recover damages on his car. Neg ligence is charged in both in stances. Johnson will be represented by Attorneys Avery Combs, Richard Eismann, and Donald Krause, and Jones by Attorneys Edward Harms and Jack Hoffman. Vacation Petition To Be Considered1 By Board of Deans Fate of the student petitions now being circulated as a pro test to the short spring vacation scheduled for 1950 will prob ably be decided by the UO Board of Deans, which formulates each year’s calendar. According to Corlista Vonderahe, who is heading the drive for protest signatures, the petitions will all be collected by to night. They will be submitted, with a letter further expressing the views of the signers, to the administration sometime this week. Drive in Second Week “I have no idea how many signatures we will have,” stat ed Miss Vonderahe. The drive began last week, at which time peti tions headed by the following decla ration were circulated: “The undersigned do petition the administration of the University of Oregon for a repeal of the schedule as planned for the academic year of 1949-50. “We recommend that winter term final week be scheduled March 20 to March 24, and that spring vaca tion be held until April 3. We also recommend pre-registration.” Nelson Otives Reasons Object of the shorter spring va cation, according to Lyle Nelson, UO director of information, is to en able school to end one week earlier. “It is a choice between a shorter spring vacation or a longer school year,” explained Nelson. President Newburn, to whom the petitions and letter will be submitted, was not in town for comment. Due to the president’s absence, the next meeting of the Board of Deans, originally scheduled for May 26, will probably be postponed a week. The petition may be consider ed at that time. That's Better.. • DETROIT, May 23 — (JP) — innocent in court to operating an unsanitary restaurant. She denied a health inspector’s charge that a rat > an over meat in the refrigerator of the cafe. It was only a mouse, she said. Registrar Outlines University Future Things are going to get a little less crowded around here, fcut we’ll never have the elbow-room dad had. That’s one of the facts that C. L. Constance, registrar, extract ed from his big black book re cently for an inquiring reporter. This particular black book con tained no telephone numbers, but it did have some interesting fig ures. For instance: Oregon’s enrollment, now hov ering around the 5500 mark, will pjrobably never drop to pre-war level of less than 4000 students. “We anticipate enrollment to continue to drop somewhat as veterans graduate and leave,’’ Constance said, “but before long the increasing population of the state will force it up again.’’ As for next year, 1300 duck lings are expected—the same size as last year’s freshman class. That's a lot coming in, but there’s also a lot going out. ‘‘Last year’s graduating class was the biggest in history,” Con stance said. “This year, it will be possibly bigger.” Nor is the typical college stu dent even yet the “Joe College” of yesterday. Over 40 per cent of the student body is still veteran, and this percentage is expected to drop only gradually. Nor is the typical college stu dent even yet the “Joe College” of yesterday. Over 40 per cent of the student body is still veter an, and this percentage is expect ed to drop only gradually. Two classifications of students are expected to increase in num ber. The answer is not those on probation and those with pegged grades, about whom no predic tions are possible, but the foreign and graduate students. This year Oregon has about 50 students with homes outside the United States. There will un doubtedly be more next year be cause of the growing interest in foreign students and because more scholarships are being made available. Graduate enrollment is glow ing steadily. This year there were approximately 30 per cent more graduate students than in 1948. “One reason for this,” Con stance pointed out, “is veterans’ aid. Students can continue school (Please turn to page two) Olga Yevtich To be Assistant SU Director The appointment of Olga Yev tich, graduating Oregon student, as assistant to the student union di rector was announced yesterday by Dick Williams, educational activi ties manager and student union di rector. Miss Yevtich would begin her du ties September 1 provided Mr. Wil liam's appointment is approved’ by the president of the University and the State Board of Higher Educa tion. A graduate in liberal arts and psychology, Miss Yevtich worked part time in the educational activi ties office during both her fresh man and sophomore years. Assum ing editorship of the Piggers’ Guide as sophomore she went on to be come business manager of the Ore gana for two years. At present she is a member of the educational activities board and the faculty rating committee; editor of Ore-Nter, campus guide; and a member of Mortar Board, senior women’s honorary. Scholastically she rates a 3.G0 and has received so mesort of scholarship every year. She has also been treasurer of her sorority, Alpha Xi Delta, three years, and a member of Phi Theta Upsilon. During the summer she plans a "vacation with pay” working for the National Park service at Crater Lake. Miss Yevtich is a graduate of Cleveland (formerly Commerce) high school in Portland. Business Staff Jobs Open on Oregana All aspirants for major and mi nor postions on the 1950 Oregana business' staff are asked to meet in the Oregana offices in McAr thur court at 6:30 p.m. Wednes day. Jim Sanders, next year’s busi ness manager, stated that jobs will be open in circulation, promotion, advertising, and secretarial work. All interested students, regardless ' of experience, are urged to be pres ent. New Sorority Pfedge Patricia Johnson of Beaverton last week pledged Delta Zeta soror ity. Miss Johnson is a freshman in business administration.