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Oregon Emerald J VOLUME LI Pijfy-first Year of Publication ami Service to the l mversity UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. EUGENE, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 1949 NUMBER 2 Registration Figures Normal! As 2970 Complete Process! xesteraays registration lines processed 877 students, and total figures obtained last night show that 2970 students have completed fall term enrollment since the pro cess began Monday, a daily aver age of nearly 1000. With 976 students finishing Monday and 1117 Tuesday, regis tration is progressing normally, according to Registrar Clifford L. Constance. “If we get two to three thousand more through this week, it will fill the expected quota,” Constance said. Plans for this term’s registra tion were made by the administra tion on the basis of last fall term’s total for the week, which was 6148. *'*1*113 OLD SYSTEM REVIVED Constance explained that this year’s system is similar to one used up until' two or three years ago, and was revived to save time. The additional advisors’ authori zation card used last year has been discontinued, and unnecessary de lay will be avoided by giving class cards directly to departments. Last year, cards were checked through the registrar’s office. The present system will not be UO Frosh Oriented At Meeting A program of entertainment and introduction to leading campus personalities and activities was presented to Oregon freshmen last night, at the year’s first McArthur court ASXJO assembly. Master of ceremonies Bob Nel son, dubbed by student body prexy Art Johnson “Oregon’s king of en tertainment,” introduced perform ers. QUARTET SINGS The Kappa Sigma quartet, Hass Haight, Dick Shirley, Harry Gestes and ATO Carl Reusser, performed, followed by the Alpha Gamma Delta trio, Pat White, Fran Cald well, and Virgnia Ellis, accompa nied by Carolyn Williams. Giving newcomers the inside dope on outstanding activities were Kwama president Lorna Larson, Skull and Dagger head Vern Beard, YWCA president Billijean Reith miller and YMCA representative Gerald Harris. THEATER OPENINGS Openings in the University The ater were described by Gordon Erickson and Grace Hoffman, while Emerald editor Don Smith and business manager Joan Mim naugh put in a word for the cam pus newspaper .Larry Davidson and Jim Sanders, Oregana editor and business manager, extended the yearbook’s welcome to new comers. Sherman Holmes explained the work of the University Religious Council, while AWS President Marie Lombard and WAA head Bonnie Gienger joined in the wel come. Representing Phi Eta Sigma, the “freshman’s Phi Beta Kappa,” was Hank Panian. All ASUO and class officers present wTere introduced. perfected until more cash registers and IBM equipment is procured. J. O. Lindstrom, business manager, has ordered this equipment, and it should arrive in time for winter term registration. STUDENTS AT FAULT Practically all delay in picking up registration material occurred because students didn’t file enroll ment cards, Constance reported. These cards should have been filed by every returning student, so that registration material could be ready. Constance assured that machines Series Books Four Speakers Four national figures—Dorothy Thompson, Sigmund Spaeth, Nor man Thomas, and William L. Shi rer—have signed contracts to ad dress Oregon students during the 1949-50 school year, according to Dan E. Clark, chairman of the assembly committee. This series of free assemblies will be held at McArthur Court. Dorothy Thompson, columnist, lecturer, and radio commentator, will speak Dec. 8. William L. Shi rer, also a journalist and commen tator, has scheduled a speech on Jan. 25. Norman Thomas, long time lead er of the Socialist party, will talk on March 1. Closing the series April 4 will be Sigmund Spaeth, writer, musician, and lecturer. Board Created For Publications Policy and budget of student publications will be handled by a newly-created student publications board, members of which have been named by President H. K. Newburn. This group was established after the educational activities board was abolished last year. Ten members of the board of twelve will have voting power. The Emerald, Oregana, Pigger’s Guide and “any other publications which may be established” will come under the board’s jurisdic tion, according to minutes of an organizational meeting held last spring. Don Smith, Emerald editor, and Larry Davidson, Oregana chief, will be voting members by virtue of their positions. Students at large with voting power will be George E. Anderson, Marguerite Johns, and Anita Holmes. Non-voting student members will be James Sanders, Oregana business manager, and Joan Mim naugh, business manager of the Emerald. Board chairman will be C. G. Howard, professor of law. Other faculty members are Robeson Bailey, associate professor of Eng lish; D. M. DuShane, director of student affairs; R. G. Langston, assistant professor education; and C. F. Weigle, dean of the journ alism school. R. C. Williams, Student Union director, will be secretary. and staff are working rapidly on the material, and should be fin ished in time for classes. 'How to Study' Tips Distributed By Honor Men With the improvement of first year scholarship records as a final goal, the University of Oregon chapter of Phi Eta Sigma, fresh man scholastic honorary society for men, is distributing “how to study” booklets to freshmen class es in all men’s living organizations. Containing hints on work plan ning, efficient reading, note-taking, and general study habits, the pam phlet is planned to help entering students smooth the transition from high school to college. MEETING SLATED Some booklets have been distrib uted this week, and all freshmen men are to receive them before classes start, according to Henry Panian, Phi Eta Sigma president. Panian also announced that a meeting of all freshmen men with prep deciles of eight or above will be held sometime during the term. The Oregon chapter of Phi Eta Sigma was formed last March, and 18 members were initiated during spring term. Membership in the organization is limited to fresh men men who qualify with a GPA of 3.5 or above for the first term, or a 3.5 cumulative during their first year. BASED ON GRADES Eligibility is based on scholar ship, and election to Phi Eta Sig ma is recognized as the highest scholastic honor that can be won by a first-year student. After the freshman year, members continue to serve as officers and advisors to the group. Glenn Allen, past-president of the society, was awarded a $500 Standard Oil scholarship for sen iors this summer and Stan Pier son, last-year’s vice-president, won the Burt Brown Barker grade scholarship last year. FOUNDED IN 1923 Phi Eta Sigma was founded in 1923 to encourage and reward high scholastic attainment among fresh man men, and is generally recog nized as the freshman counterpart of Phi Beta Kappa. It is a nation-wide organization in 65 leading universities, and be longs to the Association of College Honor Societies. Ticket Office Open For Late Students Student athletic cards, good lor admission to the football game here Saturday with Idaho, may be se cured Friday evening as well as Saturday morning before kickoff time, Athletic Business Manager Howard Lemons disclosed yester day. The ticket offices at McArthur court are open each day from 8 to 12 and from 1 to 5 o’clock. Friday night they will be open from 6:30 to 8:30. Saturday morning the cards will be available beginning at 8 o’clock at the 15th Street ticket office at the stadium. V!/7/race May Fill Tomorrow Says Eugene Official A full millrace became virtu ally a reality yesterday after noon, as City Manager Oren King declared “we have all the water we need to work with.” At present, King said, the mill race is being kept to a lower level, and is running faster to clear the bed of debris. Fifty cubic feet of water per second is now being diverted from the Willamette River into the race bed. The stream is expected to be at its proper level in time for the combined millrace-Idaho game rally to be held Friday night. King expressed hope that houses on the banks of the mill race would continue to beautify the area and complete the “fine job they did last summer.” The water is being diverted into the millrace by the use of headgates, not pumps, as re ported in Tuesday’s Emerald. Vets, Wives Can Sit together at Game Veteran's wives will be able to sit with their husbands in Section Q at Saturday's football opener against Idaho, the athletic ticket office made known yesterday. The ladies will be able to purch ase tickets at the 15th Street offi ces at Hayward Field from 8 to 12 o’clock Saturday. The price is S1.80. Regular students will sit in sec tions M to P, inclusive, with the males occupying sections M and N, and females sections O and P. Raceldaho Rally Slated Friday Eve Led by members of the tem porary rally squad, trucks and sound equipment, a combina tion millrace-Idaho game rally will snowball Friday night from the Delta Delta Delta house to the millrace, beginning at 7 :30. Houses will not be paired off for the rally. Men’s and women’s liv ing organizations will join the parade as it passes their homes. Independent men and women whose houses are not on the parade route will meet at 19th and University at 7:30 sharp. PARADE ROUTE From the Tri Delt house, the parade will move down University to 19th; down 19th to Alder; down Alder to 11th. Alder street between E. 10th and 11th will be blocked off for a street dance. Student officials yesterday em phasized that rooters must keep off the lawns of residences sur rounding the street dance site. Street dances have been taboo in the past because of damage done to the grounds of private homes. If care is exercised, it may be pos sible to have more such events in the future. COURT IN CANOES At the millrace, opening cere monies will include the descent of last year’s Junior Weekend court down the race in canoes. The tra ditional tape will be cut just above the bridge in the blocked-off area. Additional entertainment to be presented will be announced in tomorrow's Emerald. Fifty-Nine Instructors Join UO Faculty for 1949-50 School Year Oregon faculty ranks were swel led by fifty-nine persons this fall, according to the offices of Harry Newburn, president of the Uni versity of Oregon. New faculty members in the School of Architecture and Allied Arts include Stanley Bryan, How ard Sebold, Frederick Heidel, Richard Prasch, Allen McNown, A. M. Vincent and W. S. Baldinger. Journalism added one new mem ber, Raymond Johnson. BA INSTRUCTORS Business Administration school classrooms will see Woodside Mon egan, Dwaine Rideins, Saville T. Ford, Betty Carkin and Jessie May Smith, while education has added Leonard Roos and James Caugh lan. The department of military sci snce and tactics has named Lt. Col. John Cunningham, Major W. E. Hanes, Capt. R. C. Worden, Sgt. John Jameson, M. Sgt. E. T. Akin md Sgt. Lon Weaver to its staff. New to Health and Physical Ed rcation are Howard Meredity, Evelyn Hudson, and Marjorie Murray. LARGE INCREASE The largest increase in staff is n the College of Liberal Arts vhich has appointed the following .0 academic positions: L. Mildred Wilson, home econ omics; F. W. Bliss, Jr., John Church, Rose Coleman, Merrel D. Clubb, Jr., Donald DeBrodt, Rob ert DeMaria, Debrah LeSage, and Ezrel A. Wages, Jr., English; Ber nardo Gicovate, W. A. Roecker, W. H. Myer, and Raymonde Richard, foreign languages; W. H. Ewing, Herman Cohen, Roy Hudson, R. L. Montgomery, speech; A. S. Lock ley, biology; Van Gaertner, chem istry. Jacob Gair, John Dart, S. C. Sargent, geography and geology; J. C. Gysbers, Fred Young, math matics; Shang-Yi Ch’en, F. E. Dart, G. P. Hoyt, physics; H. S. Piquet, P. B. Simpson, economics; E. S. Pomeroy, E. R. Bingham, history; Alburey Castell, Arthur Pap, philosophy; V. A. Ostrum, Ivan G. Nagy, political science; W. R. Hubbard, psychology; V. S. Lewis, John James, sociology; W. S. Loughlin, anthropology. LIBRARY ADDITIONS The Bureau of Municipal Re search and Service has added Ed gar J. Davies to its staff, while the library will have Perry Morri- r son, Lillian Pankrantz, and Gert rude Stalper. David H. Williams will work in the business office, H. P. Barn hart in the dormitory offices, Jer ry Lillie,R. D. McClure, and Robert Sullivan in athletic activities, and Olga Yevtich in the student union offices.