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VOLUME LI Fifty-First Year of Publication and Service to the University I XII LKSIT\ OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8,1949 NUMBER 13 Rally Set For Team Welcome Third in this year’s series of wel coming rallies for the Webfoot grid team is slated for Sunday noon, rally board chairman Art Ross an nounced yesterday. Sound equipment will start rounding up houses at 11:30 a.m. Because a large number of stu dents will be attending church ser vices, the rally will not be the paired snowball type used last week, but a regular rally with each house furnishing its own transportation. The train bearing the team back from Pullman is due in Eugene at 12:10 p.m. Churchgoers are reques ted to come to the Southern Pa cific depot immediately after ser vices. “The rally will be over about 12:30, leaving adequate time for students to make 1:00 Sunday din ner in their living organizations,” Ross stated. Bob Stageburg, rally duke, will head the six-girl rally squad Sun day in the absence of Jim Crismon, 0 who followed the Ducks to Wash ington State. "It isn’t necessary to wait for the sound truck to come to your living organization,” Ross ex plained. "Students may go on down to the depot.” “We had a big turnout at the rally last Saturday and we’re hop ing for another good showing this week,” the chairman conclu ded. AWS to Auction Guys and Gals Tentative plans for this year’s AWS Auction, scheduled for Oct. 39, include auctioning off one class each of a men’s and women’s living organization to entertain in other houses. This plan was utilized last year when Alpha Phi freshmen and a group of Phi Gamma Delta'enter tainers were rented to the highest bidder. The two organizations were chosen by lot. Main portion of the material up for auction will be items from the lost-and-found and campus living organizations. The Auction is held annually in front of the College Side. Proceeds go to the Associated Women Stu k dents. General chairman is Kathy Lit tlefield; committee chairmen are Diane Ford, posters; Gretchen Grondahl, publicity; Ruth Dexter, decorations; Mary Hall, program; Ann Darby, collections; and Vir ginia Kellogg, cleanup. Committee members will be an nounced next week. Chest Drive Goal Near; Students Lag The campus Community Chest had less than $250 to go to reach its $4000 goal late Friday after noon. Minturn Hall leads men’s houses in contributions, while Delta Gam ma is first for the women. Only houses to respond 100 per cent by Friday’s report were Rebec and Al pha Delta Pi. Total contributions for the stu dents stands at $297.76. Only 23 houses have turned in their reports at this time. On the faculty side, the picture was brighter, with all but six cam pus groups reporting by Friday afternoon, according to Paul R. Washke, head of the faculty drive. First Fun Night Attracts Crowds To Gerlinger More than 300 students enliv ened Gerlinger Hall last night making the first Fun' Night this term a success. Groups of 120 couples at a time danced to “Birdie in the> Cage’’ and other square dances from 8 to 10:30 p.m. These were called by Margaret Logan, physical educa tion instructor. Piano accompani ment was provided by Wally Bul lard, music graduate. Students also waited their turn to play ping pong on the sunporcli, and volleyball and badminton in the outdoor gym. Many took ad vantage of the Gerlinger pool. The event, which was no-admis sion, no-date, was arranged by the Women’s Athletic Association. They plan to hold more such, re creational evenings during the year. Co-chairmen for last night were Joan Carr and Janet Frye. Dough nuts and cokes were sold. Visit Planned By Mademoiselle Representative Darcy Friedman, assistant col lege board editor of Mademoiselle magazine, will visit the University of Oregon Wednesday and Thurs day, Oct. 12 and 13, to tell Oregon coeds how to compete for one of 20 Mademoiselle guest editorships. Women students interested in hearing Mrs. Friedman speak should leave their names with Mrs. Golda P. Wickham, director of women’s affairs, in her office in Emerald Hall as soon as possible. The 20 college “Guest Editors” will be brought to New York City next June to help write and edit the 1950 August College issue of Mademoiselle. They will be paid a regular salary for their month’s work and round-trip transporta tion to New York City. A full calendar of activities de signed to give the “Guest Editors” a head start in their careers has been planned for them in New York. During her visit to the Univer sity campus, Mrs. Friedman will also talk with English and jour nalism professors about Mademoi selle’s annual fiction contest, and will look for campus news that might be reported in the maga zine’s feature articles. Journal Publishes Foreign Data The Oregon Journal is publish ing a “Program of Information on World Affairs” designed for class room and individual study. Charles P. Schleicher, professor of political science, expressed the belief that the program is worth students’ attention. Schleicher is a member of the Journal’s advisory committee. The program centers around an annual guidebook with study out lines and reading references on 26 major world topics. Background articles on the topics appear in the Sunday Journal. Game Broadcast The Oregon-Washing ton State College football game will be broadcast this afternoon over station KORE, 1450 k.c., start ing at 1:45. Damp, ehilly weather is expected in Pullman for the game. Court to Hear Suspect's Plea The Co-op burglary case goes be fore the Circuit Court Tuesday when James Cameron, accused of the entry, will make a plea of guil ty or not guilty. In a preliminary hearing before the District Court Friday the state introduced three witnesses — twe Eugene policemen and G. L. Hen son, manager of the University Co op store. Sufficient evidence that a crime had been committed and that the defendant was seemingly guilty of the crime was produced by the state's representative R. K. Rod man, deputy district attorney, Cam eron was bound over to the Grand Jury by Judge Chester N. Ander son. The defendant has informally waived Grand Jury action, however, and will appear before the Circuit Court, attorney William Roberts, who was appointed by the court to represent Cameron, reported Fri day. If Cameron pleads guilty at the Tuesday arraignment, he w.ill b.e sentenced immediately. If he pleads not guilty a date will be set for a trial. Local police Friday had not yet received a report on Cameron from Seattle in connection with a Uni versity of Washington burglary nor an FBI report on his finger prints. Class Registration Ends Noon Today Noon today is the deadline for registration and addition of clas ses to students’ programs. Those students who have not yet completed these processes should do so immediately in Emerald Hail, stated C. E. Con stance, registrar. Weather... Partly cloudy today, fog in morning. Word Gets Out DU Fraternity Houses Kappa By Gretchen Grondalil There’s a Kappa living in the DU house. What’s more, until the other day the DU’s didn’t know it! Yes, the Delta Upsilon frater nity’s pet skunk, Honeybun, is making the headlines again. Seems that Honeybun's keeper, pledge Gus Garrlgus, took his charge on a visit to the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house. We don’t know how Gus got along, but Honeybun made such an impression that the girls sol emnly voted her an honorary Kappa. Post office department officials were considerably puzzled when they received the skunk's letter, notifying her of the move. They questioned the probability of any “Miss Honeybun” living in a cam pus fraternity house. Anyway, the letter finally ar rived Thursday, causing consider able excitement among the good brothers. According to latest reports, Honeybun is still happy at the DU house—and the DU’s are quite happy to have a Kappa living in their midst. Just to soothe all raised eye brows: there’s been no stink raised about a. sorority girl living in this fraternity house, because the DU’s report that Honeybun is com pletely deodorized. Action Postponed On Local Group No action was taken on the for mation of a campus chapter of the State Employees Association at a meeting of a faculty-civil service group Thursday night in Fenton Hall. Forrest V. Stewart, executive secretary of the State Employees Association, explained to the 15 present the purposes of the state organization. It was decided to have a later meeting and attempt to have more civil service people in attendance. At present there are two chapters of the organization in Eugene to which University em ployees can belong. Dirty Race Said OK For Winter Kieth Fennell, local businessman and vice president of the Millrace Park Association, stated Friday that he knew of “no immediate need for the chlorination of the millrace.” “We’ve got the millrace now,” pointed out Fennell, “and it is too late in the year for swimming any way. The pollution doesn’t inter fere with canoeing.” Fennell felt that the best solu tion of the new problem of a sew age-contaminated race would be to wait until the situation is eventu ally overcome by a new disposal plant at Springfield. NEXT YEAR "Anyway,” decided Fennell, “it’s something to work on for next year.” Evidence that the University at least will be working on the prob lem before next year was the ac tion of the ASUO Executive Coun cil in appointing Warren Davis to head a new millrace committee. (Davis, working in co-operation with Lou Weston, will attempt to deal with the contamination prob lem. Meanwhile, Dr. M. V. Walker, president of the Millrace Associa tion, expressed-surprise in the re sults of the County Health Boards Monday night meeting. The board turned down the chlorination plan on the assumption that such a process would be uncertain and ex travagant. I’LENTY OF CASH “There are sufficient funds avail able to chlorinate the millrace,” stated Dr. Walker. The millrace association has had engineers esti mate the cost, which would be ap proximately $2000 per year. "However, our funds are not ours to control. The City Council must make all decisions pertaining to the millrace money.” The money was raised last year in the drive for millrace restoration. Only about one-fourth of the money was ac tually used in the restoration it self. Sabine Attacks Reading Public as 'Lazy'; Newspaper Week Talk Defends Journalism By Ken Metzler Lazy newspaper readers drew verbal fire from Gordon A. Sabine, assistant professor of journalism, in a speech Friday. Mr. Sabine spoke before a group of Eugene businessmen at a Cham ber of Commerce luncheon. His ad dress was titled “How Stupid Can You Get?” and was presented in observance of National Newspaper Week. He said too many readers skim the headlines of the daily news paper and then turn to the sports page or the comics. “If you do skip the comics or sports how in the devil can you know what is going on in the world?” he asked. “Some people read so little that all they get is a fool's glimpse of the world.” Although the newspaper must, compete with the multi-fold activ ities of its readers, Sabine charged that large numbers of people do not know how to read a news paper: “It only takes 30 minutes of the reader's time to get the main trend of the day’s news.” He pointed out that the news paper is arranged in a manner con ducive to efficient reading. Its important news is all presented in one section. Headlines give the essence of a story in just a few words. Sabine asked readers to analyze what they are reading and pay particular attention to the quoted source of the story. He admitted newspapers make mistakes. “But so do those in other professions. However, the errors i of no profession are as glaring as those of the newspaper.” And no profession is so abused by the public as the newspapers, Sabine added. “The public doesn’t argue with professional men in other fields. Wo don’t tell a lawyer he is a dope or a pastor that his sermon is all wet. We don’t tell a doctor to move over and let us handle this opera tion. “Yet that is precisely what the readers do to the highly trained, men who put out the daily news paper. They lambast and cuss up anyone who has the smallest finger in the publication of a newspaper.” However, they have a constitu tional right to do this and whether their criticism is just or unjust, their voice will be heard, Sabin® declared.