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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (June 4, 1949)
This is the last issue of the 1948 49 Emerald. The staff hopes every one makes A’s on the finals, has a nice summer vacation, etc. We’re happy, how about you ? Fiftieth Year of Publication and Service to the University VOLUME L UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1949 NUMBER 148 I Ike Carpenter's Band Plays at Mortar Board Formal Tonight * * * Tickets ora Sale At Houses and Coop until Noon By Gretchen Grondahl Wearing fanciful corsages and self-conscious grins, camp us Joe Colleges will be escorted tonight to the annual Mortar Board ball to dance to the rhy thms of Ike Carpenter, begin ning at 9 p. m. in McArthur court. Interest in the event has been built up throughout the week by Ladies’ Day, backfiring water bagging, and ticket sales in wo men’s living organizations. Ducats will be available in the Co-op till noon today, and at the door tonight at $2 a couple. IKE CARPENTER . . . entertains tonight Carpenter's orchestra, called by the 1948 Disc Jockey Poll “the new band sensation of the year” will bring eleven pieces and three vocal ists to Oregon. Featured will be Johnny April, who may be heard on the weekly coast-to-coast ABC ra dio network program “Hawthorne’s Adventures” and on RCA Victor records. Intermission features will include the tapping of thirty freshman wo men for Kwama, sophomore wo men’s service honorary, and the ^Warding of Kwama and Panhellen ic scholarships. With the theme “Garden of the Moon,” the ball will be presented in honor of the members of Mortar Board, tapped during Junior Week end. Libe Water O.K. By Coralie Nelson It won’t poison you! The seemingly erratic conditions of the water in the library are due to the work of installing plumbing connections for the addition. Wa ter was turned off for a short pe riod on Thursday evening, but is expected to be on over the week end. KDUK Plans for Larger Audience ise pauenu, people, jvlmjiv is coming: Aitnougn definite plans have not yet been made, the station will broadcast next fall to a larger audience than is now receiving the words and music of the “voice of the Duck.” Among the plans under discussion are the use of FM, and the extended use of the oscillator system which is presently employed. Under th# former plan, living organizations would have to purchase frequency modulation sets, or connections for their present radios, to pick up the station. The cost of FM; attachments is around $25. Under the oscillator plan, each house would be taxed about $35 next year. Five dollars would go for the installation of an oscillator. A wire supplied by the telephone company would connect the receiver with the Villard hall studios, at a cost per house of $3 per month. Although these are the only two possibilities ad vanced thus far, KDUK officials said that other plans would be considered. The only definite state ment that they would make at this date was that listeners at John Straub and the Vets dorms would not be the only ones to hear their patter next fall. Law School Weekend Abolished The traditional law school week end has been discontinued indefin itely. Law school student body mem bers were informed of this action Thursday afternoon by Dean Or lando Hollis. Hollis told the Emerald yester day that the law school faculty as sumes sole responsibility for the action. “It was our own decision and not dictated by University officials,” Hollis stated. He said that the action taken was considered by the faculty members to be in the best interests of the University. The decision came after numer ous complaints had been submit ted concerning this year’s week end festivities. Personal observa tion by the faculty members was another factor which influenced the action, according to Dean Hol lis. A bright spot remains. Hollis said, that next year, the faculty would be happy to have students submit suggestions for a new ac tivity. 34 ROTC Students Get Commissions By Bob Funk Thirty-four seniors will graduate next Thursday from advanced RO TC in a formal review, at which time they will be given commis sions as second lieutenants in the United States Army and Air Force reserves. A total of twenty-three men will enter the Air Force reserve, while nine infantry students and two sen iors in transportation will enter the army reserve. In adition, nine other ■students have completed the ROTC course and will be commissioned up on graduation. Plans Plenty of Fishing FRANK EVANS, Emerald linotype operator, works at his machine for the last time. He retired last night after 20 years of service to the Emerald. Linotype Operator Ends 20 Years of Emerald Work By Lorna Larson Last night marked the end of 20 years of service to the Emerald and the University for Frank Evans, University Press linotype operator. Evans, known to all Emerald workers just as “Frank,” was re tired last night by the University at the age of 65. He came to Eugene in March 1929 from the Oregon Statesman (Salem) and has worked here ever since. When asked about his plans after tonight, Frank said, “I don’t care to loaf, but neither do I care to work steady.” He probably will do part time work for the Eugene Register Guard as a linotype operator. Lots of fishing, part of it at the coast, is included in his immediate plans, as is a trip to see the Port land Rose Festival parade. In 1907 he saw Portland’s "first- Rose Fes tival celebration. Coming to Eugene0 in 1929 be cause “opportunities around the University looked good for the edu nation of the girls," Frank liked the town and has no plans for leaving in the future. His twin daughters both graduated from the University in 1939. “I think they’re swell,’’ said Frank of the students he has worked with for the last 20 years. "If I didn’t think this I wouldn’t be here now." Among the many im portant journalists he remembers is students are Richard Ncueberger, well-known Portland writer, and Malcolm Bauer, city editor of The Dregonian. Born in Sauk Center, Minn., he started work as an apprentice in a print shop there at the age of 15. “I just went up there on an errand and they offered me a job,” he said. The retiring linotype operator has not spent all of his life working in,print shops. Among various other oorupations, he has served as a bookkeeper for mining and lumber ing companies. In 1910 he was fore man of the Medford Mail Tribune Deans O.K. Pre-Signup Next Year The board of deans Thursday reaffirmed its position with re spect to the 1949-50 University calendar and in so doing left the spring term vacation period as presently scheduled, from March 22 to March 27. Action came on a petition, signed by ap proximately 975 students, submit ted by Corlista Vonderahe, a soph omore in sociology. In her letter submitting the peti tion Miss Vonderahe said: “Upon referring to other West Coast schedules, the University of Wash ington, Stanford, and Oregon State College, it has been found that the University of Oregon attends clas ses for a longer period of time than the other schools.” She said that students need a longer vacation period to permit, them to rest between winter and spring terms. In adition, she added that many students use the spring vacation period to seek employment for the summer months. Miss Vonderahc's letter and the petitions also asked a return to pre registration as the case is now. The deans pointed out that it is the in tention of the University to con tinue pre-registration next year as requested by the petition. Chief reason given for continuing the calendar as originally planned was the necessity of ending the school year on June 10, coupled with, the further desire of the deans to keep as nearly as possible the same number of class days in spring as in winter term. Closing the regular term on June 10 permits one week between the regular academic year and summer session. Students Must File Petitions Students desiring membership on the 19*19-50 rally board must have petitions filed in the student body president’s office in Emerald hall by 5 p. m. Monday, Art Johnson, president-elect announced yester day. Applicants must be members of the present sophomore or junior classes in order to qualify for mem bership on the board. The 1919-50 executive council will conduct interviews with each of the candidates Monday night in. student body president's office be ginning at 7:30 p. m. The board, composed of three members of the student body at large, one member of the executive council, and the presidents of tha sophomore service honoraries, is re sponsible for the administration of rallies. Rating Committee Seeks Addresses By Ken Metzler All faculty members unable lo' pick up their ratings at the Reg istrar’s office June 20, and not previously contacted, are asked to send their summer mailing ad dresses via campus mail to: Fac ulty Rating committed, ASUO president’s office, Emerald Hall. The committee asks that faculty members pick them up if possible. ’