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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 1949)
VOLUME LI UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2,15)4!) NUMBER SO Final Vote For Hostess Scheduled Selection of the Homecoming Hostess and regulations concern ing the sign contest are among items Teported by members of the various Homecoming committees. Homecoming Hostess will be sel ected from a group of six candi dates by student vote in the Co-op today and tomorrow, according to Betty Wright, selection committee member. Finalists are Janet Mor rison, Marguerite Johns, Coral "Kneeland, Grace Hoffman, Barbara Buddenhagen, and Carol Bartel. TO CONTACT CHAIRMEN Sign chairmen in each living or ganization will be contacted this week to prevent duplication of signs, says Steve Church, sign con test chairman. Church emphasized that the $30 limit on total cost will be enforced. New cups to be award ed this year to winning men’s and women’s living groups will be on display soon in the Co-op. Registration of alums for Home coming will-be held Friday after noon and evening until 8 and Sat urday until game time, announces Chairman Ann Case. PAIRINGS REMAIN SAME Same pairings as for the noise parade will be used for gathering wood for this year’s bonfire, ac cording to Herb Lombard, chair man. The bonfire will follow the noise parade and will be held in the center intramural field. The barbecue for alums Satur day will begin at 11:30 a.m. in McArthur Court, says Ron Brown, chairman. Using student volun teers for serving, the committee expects to serve over 600. Price will be $1 per person. Aiding Brown on the barbecue are Don Paillette and Betty Boner. Radio Auditions Set Radio tryouts for male and fe male voices to participate in a ra dio broadcast at the Homecoming game will be held at 8 p. m. tonight in the radio studio of Villard Hall. Students selected will speak on a five-minute broadcast during half time. Marks of Haltoween Pranksters Show on U.O. Campus, Houses Halloween pranksters opened up with an overloaded bag of tricks Monday night and left conspicuous evidence of their visits about the campus. University high reported the loss of two blocking dummies, one of which was found Tuesday prominently displayed on the heating plant roof of Northwest Christian College. Contrary to a sign posted in front of the Oriental art museum, no one should expect to learn the samba or see graceful ballerinas in action there. The sign read “Sandy McTavish School of Ballroom Dancing— Acrobatics and Tap.” Humorous pranksters evidently thought the girls ought to keep the public informed about their pets. At Hendricks Hall they planted the sign, “No Horses Allowed on Bridle Path,” and Delta Gamma found “Rabbits for Sale” in their front yard. Sororities seemed to be victims of most of the Halloween celebrating, but Vince (Weepy) Dullich of Phi Gamma Delta had sand poured in his gas tank and air let out of the tires. Alpha Gamma Delta and Tri Delta reported rubber tires had been set afire on their lawns and Gamma Phi Beta had to call on the fire department to put out a blaze someone had started in a barrel on their front porch. Girls in the Alpha Phi house were startled about 1 a.m. when they heard the fire bell ringing. They discovered the fire escape had been pulled down and tied securely to a saw horse. Hoses and water tanks were used on several of the houses. Alpha Omicron Pi complained that persons with water tanks had climbed lad ders in order to water down the upstairs rooms. The study room of Kappa Alpha Theta was drenched by jokers who thrust a hose through the window. Even cars found their way into some peculiar positions. One of them was parked in the yard of Alpha Xi Delta and another was pre cariously placed on the Gamma Phis’ front porch. A wheelbarrow on the second-floor fire escape had the Alpha Xi’s wondering, but how the front room furniture in the Theta house was upended will probably be a mystery for some time. Means to Leave For Singapore Paul B. Means, University pro fessor of religion, will leave in December for Singapore to study religious trends of Southeast Asia. “Singapore,” Means believes, “is the great melting pot of ideas, and peoples; the cross roads of the Orient where people, cultures, and ideologies mingle.” He plans to do research on the Mohammedan religion, noting the effect of modem trends as repre sented by their leaders and peri odicals. Means, with his wife and daugh ter, will sail aboard the U.S. India Mail from Seattle on a “slow boat to China” cruise which will last seven weeks. During his eighteen months stay in the Malay Peninsula, Means will tour the nearby islands to study political influence on religion. U.O. Building Program Featured by 'Old Oregon' A picture story of the Univer sity’s building program as well as student-authored articles and al umni news, is featured in the Nov ember 1949 issue of Old Oregon, alumni magazine released yester day. Latest developments in the con struction of Carson Hall, Erb Memorial Union building, and the theater addition to Villard Hall are shown pictorially. Henry N. Weiman, visiting pro fessor of philosophy, outlines his ideas on the role of education in the solution of world problems in his article, “Education for Today.” In "Grid Era Nears End,” Fred Taylor, former Emerald sports edi tor, describes a possible change in college football next year when the players with three to five years experience are gone due to the graduation of many veterans this spring. A biographical sketch of Oswald Harrison Villard, New York journ alist, was written by James W. Frost, graduate of ’47. Villard, the son of Oregon’s early benefactor, was a generous con tributor to the University prior to his death September 29. In recent years he secured several valuable documents for the library and the school of law. Beverly Krueger, freshman and Miss Oregon of 1949, is pictured on the magazine cover, posed in front of the nearly-completed Car son Hall. Be-Ribboned Mums Go on Sale Tonight The chance to look like an alum by wearing a mum at the Portland game is still open to all students (female) who ean convince students (male) to ord er one for them before Thursday night. The water - proof ribboned, green-O’d chrysanthemums are offered today and Thursday in three prices at the Co-op by Theta Sigma Phi, women’s pro fessional journalism honorary. They are to be paid for upon order and picked up Saturday at Lubliner Florist in Portland. Hinz Named Program Head Appointment of Bob Hinz as program director of the University radio studios was announced today by W. H. Ewing, head of the Radio Division of the Speech Department. Hinz succeeds Norm Lamb, who graduated last spring. As program director, Hinz will have the primary responsibility for supervising the programming and personnel o f campus station KDUK. He will make all lower staff appointments on the station with the approval of faculty mem bers. Faculty members will maintain a greater degree of control over the situation on KOAC where they will still supervise production of most of the programming. They will however, relinquish some of the duties concerning student per sonnel used on the state station schedule. Hinz’ appointment will be for the remainder of the school year, Last spring, he was chief announ cer for KDUK, and has appeared over many University KOAC pro grams. Paramount Rally Ticket Cut Slated For Flashcard Fund I wenty percent of the net take, or approximately 14 cents on each ticket to Friday night’s Portland rally, will revert to Ore gon students, for use in building up a flashcard section at foot ball games, rally board chairman Art Ross revealed Tuesday. 1 lie rally is scheduled for Portland’s Paramount Theater. Doors will open at 7 :30 p. nr. h richly, and the 45-minute campus entertainment show will start at 7:45. Webfoots Plan Rally for Team Thursday Night Since Oregon’s gridiron team has never been to a pre-game rally this season, an all-campus rally is slated for Thursday evening at 6:15 p.m. in front of John Straub Hall. Tying in with this week's con centrated “Beat Washington" cam paign, all Webfoot rooters will cheer the Duck squad as they fin ish eating in Straub’s cafeteria. “Beat Washington” rally signs will be made by .all campus liv ing organizations today. Signs can be on paper or cardboard, and must be ready for Thursday night’s spirit rally. Paper “Beat Washington” badg es will be distributed to students today. Coach Jim Aiken, all members of the team, backfield and line coaches will be present to hear the campus spirit behind them. Living organizations arc urged by the rally board to have early buffet dinners, so that all mem bers may be at the rally at 6:15. Free Football Films Scheduled Thursday Football films of Oregon-Univer sity of Southern California games played during 1948 and ’49 will be shown Thursday at 7 p.m. in room 101 Physical Education. Students and faculty will be ad mitted free. Another showing will be made at 9 p.m. if there is an overflow crowd. Other movies in this series, spon sored by the Student Union office, will be announced later. “Pinky,”a first-run motion pic ture starring Jeanne Crain,Eth el Barrymore, Bill Lundigan, and Ethel Waters, will follow the Oregon rally. The 85-cent ticket price will admit Webfoot rooters to both rally program and movie. Living organization representa tives are now selling tickets. The Paramount Theater will refund the 20 per cent only on tickets sold on the campus. HOUSES COMPETE Highest percentage of rally tick ets sold will win the members of some campus living organization free passes to a Paramount show during some later week. All living organizations which have not chosen ticket salesmen arc requested by sales chairman Jerry Kinnersley to do so and con tact him at Phi Kappa Psi by 5 p.m. today. Entertainment chairman Gay Baldwin yesterday revealed more of his list of top campus talent scheduled to appear at the rally. “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles,’’ bop style, will be the contribution of Dick Barber and Jack Dalk. HILLBILLIES PERFORM Bob Chambers and Kay Keller, roundly applauded at the combina tion Millrace-Idaho game rally, will present a hillbilly routine. A new Kappa Kappa Gamma song and dance routine will be pre sented by Georgie Balaam, Mary Dunson, Joanne Gary, Betty and Marilyn Hillman, Barbara Need ham, Emily West, and Eva Moore. Working out a “Hellzapoppin” act are Bob Nelson, Bill Lance, Bill Harber, and Rod Bright. The Delta Delta Delta and Kap pa Sigma quartets will join forces in “Coney Island Baby,” and sing other numbers separately. Prof. Paul Dull to Open University Lecture Series Paul S. Dull, associate professor of political science and history, will speak on “'The Chinese Way of Thinking” Nov. 8. This will be the first of this year’s University Lecture Series, according to R. H. Ernst, professor of English, who is chairman of the University Lectures Committee. Dull is considered an authority on the Far East and has been studying the subject since 1933. He visited China in 1938. Dull received his doctor of philo sophy degree from the University of Washington in 1940 and then I attended the Harvard-Yen Ching institute of Harvard University on a Rockefeller post doctoral fellow ship. At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, he was a language officer in the Marine Corps at the University of Hawaii. After discharge from the Marine Corps he was in the psychological warfare branch of the Office of War Information. He was head of the Japanese intelligence division and editor in charge of programs directed toward Japan. Dull came to the University in 1946 and is coordinator of Far Eastern studies curriculum.