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
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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.