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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1949)
'ISA to Expand Social Program; Support USA “As long as the USA supports and presents the political aims of the dormitory and off-campus stu dents the Independent Students Association will remain out of pol itics, concentrating only on an ex panded social program for non af.Ciliated Oregon students,” Fran t cis Linklater, ISA president, de clared yesterday. The ISA switched its support to the United Students Association, campus coalition party, after the spring elections of 1948 and retired from active political campaigning. “Last year the ISA began a ser ies of dances and other social events designed to present inde pendent students with the oppor tunity to get better acquainted. This year, through the sale of 50 cent memberships, we hope to ex pand these services,” Linklater ex plained. “It is extremely important that each hall and co-op on the campus have at least one representative present at the ISA’s first meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday,” asserted the new president, “in order to achieve these aims.” Machine Breakage Slows Registration Breakage of the IBM machine so important to the University’s registration process haS caused a slow-up in registration. All students whose registration is not yet completed because of this difficulty will not be required to pay the usual late fee. How to Drop Classes (Continued from page tivo) This turn-about of Lin’s may work with education, for all we know. When we’ve left the class rooms once and for all (perma ment resident of the Side), and left the profs to their memoirs of Christina Rossetti, perversity may take its course, and the classroom may become the popu lar, if illicit, place to go. But Oregon, after all, is not really the “Country Club,” the good-time school, etc.; actually everyone around here is very academic. Those people you see down at Taylor’s and Rush are just resting between ecstatic in .*• terludes with their philosophy and econ books. Some of them must be awfully tired. CLASSIFIED LOST—Phillips Bible college gradu ate key on tie clasp, initials “REO” and degrees on back. Call Osborn, 5-9380. 6 ROOMS for University men. Clean, comfortably furnished — near campus bus line. 2691 Harris— Phone 5-5623. 6 FOR SALE—Smooth completely molded ’40 Mercury club conver tible. New ’46 Mercury engine. New metallic gold paint 3.54:1 rear end. R H etc. Dial 72772 after 6. 1159 B st. Springfield. 5 LOST—Tan leather purse contain ing billfold, pen and glasses. Identification and glasses badly needed. Phone 4-5251. Mary Paulsen. 6 LOST—Will the person taking the girl’s season skipper coat from Uni-Hi please return it to the office and claim theirs. 7 It Service Honorary Eager to Help But Asks Week's Advance Notice “We’re glad to do anything of service around the University, but we must have at least a week’s no tice.’’ That’s the comment of Lorna Larson, president of Kwama, soph omore women's service honorary, about the activities of the organi zation. The girls in the white uniforms handle all sorts of tasks from serv ing at formal receptions to carry ing luggage in and out of dorms. Each spring at the Mortar Board ball, thirty freshman women are tapped to serve as Kwamas during the following year. Selection is made from petitions on the basis of activities and grades. Officers of the group, elected last June, include Marilyn Thompson, vice president; Barbara Metcalf, treasurer; and Gretchen Grondahl, reporter. Barbara Hollands, chosen secretary, is taking a year's study at the Sorbonne in Paris, while his torian Lois Sharkey will not return to Oregon until winter term. Other members of the honorary are Mary Penwarden, Donna Buse, Marian Christensen, Shirley Hil lard, Yvonne Lefebvre, Georgie Oberteuffer, Jeanne Hoffman. Sue Bachelder, Virginia Kellogg, Betty Simpson, Irene Philan, Lil lian Schott, Bernice Gartrell, Cath erine Vilas, Nancy Wright, Anita Frost. Rosemary Beatty, Larilyn Thomp son, Ann Darby, Virginia Wright, Delores Kletzing, Mary Hall, Carol Udy, Mary Fran Lorain. Campus Houses Plan Desserts Campus living organizations will hold their first desserts of the year Thursday night from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. The houses are paired as follows: Chi Omega—Pi Kappa Alpha Delta Gamma—Sigma Alpha Mu Alpha Phi—Phi Delta Theta Alpha Delta Pi—Sigma Phi Ep silon Hendricks hall—Stan Ray hall Delta Delta Delta—Delta Tau Delta Alpha Gamma Delta—Chi Psi Kappa Kappa Gamma—Kappa Sigma Alpha Omicron Pi—Theta Chi Alpha hall—Sherry Ross hall. ROTC Training Enrolls 861 Men; Increase Noted A total of 861 freshmen and ! sophomores were enrolled in Uni versity ROTC when first classes met Tuesday, said Col. Frank R. Maeridan, commanding officer. Of the 545 freshmen signed up, 275 chose either infantry or trans portation training and 270 elected the air force as their branch. This is a slight increase over the num ber enrolled last year. Upper division training for jun iors and seniors desiring reserve commissions in one of the three branches—infantry, transportation or air force—is still open to eligi ble applicants. A quota of 110 air force and 90 ground force trainees has been alloted the ROTC here. Train'ng for reserve commis sions entails a broad military edu cation course the first year. A more concentrated program is of fered the second year to acquaint the senior with administrative and technical procedures in such work as statistical control, mapping, and aerial photo reading. Interested men may obtain further informa tion at ROTC headquarters. Civil Service Quiz Information Told Examinations for probational appointments to positions of gen eral electrician; electrician (power plant equipment instaiiation); el ectrician (cable and conduit instal lation) ; and electrician helper have been announced by the Board of L'.S. Civil Service Examiners, Coulee Dam, Washington. Wages range from $1.11 to $2.28 an hour. Information and applica tion forms may be obtained from the Board of U. S. Civil Service Examiners, U.S. Bureau of Recla- { mation, Administration Building j Annex, Coulee Dam, Washington, I or at any first or second-class post office. Two Professors Attend Meets Four hundred city officials and finance officers of the League of Oregon Cities and Oregon Finance Officers Association begin their joint convention in Portland today. Attending from the University campus will be E. S. Wengert, head ot the political science department, E. L. Johnson, dean of the college of liberal arts, who is also a mem ber of the Eugene City Planning Commission, and members of the staff of the Bureau of Municipal Reserach. The convention, which will last through Saturday, includes gen eral sessions and section meetings. Among the principal speakers are Governor Douglas McKay, Mayor Dorothy McCullough Lee, Miner B. Phillipps, executive director of the Municipal Finance Officers Asso ciation of the United States and Canada, and Carl H. Chatters, ex ecutive director, American Munici pal Association. Desert Club Plans Picnic This Friday Deseret Club, composed of UO Mormon students, will hold an opening social at 4 p.m. Friday at Swimmers Delight. Students need ing rides should meet at the YMCA between 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. Program will include swimming, softball, dancing, and refresh ments. WHERE'S MY EMERALD Don't Disappoint Mom! SUBSCRIBE NOW $2 per term—$5 per year Emerald OREGON OUTFITTERS Sensational Purchase of The Northwests Foremost Manufacturers of ALL SEASONS JACKETS Sizes 34 to 46 Color Oregon Green Regular 10.95 You Save 5.00 At this Sensationally Low Price of Mail Orders Add Postage All Weather All Seasons