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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 7, 1949)
CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 24 PAGES n Daily EMERALD VOLUME LI UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, DEI EMBER 7, l!)4i* NUMBER 50 Dorothy Thompson to Speak Thursday Dorothy Thompson, world trav eler and journalist, will speak to students on “These Crucial Days” at 8 tomorrow night in McArthur Court. Doors will open at 7:30 p.m. Students are advised to bring reg istration cards. The speech, which may be broad cast over radio station KUGN, is the only event sponsored by the University assembly series this term. Miss Thompson has traveled through much of Europe, gather ing information for her syndicated newspaper column. In 1947 she went to Poland to view the nation al elections there. She has also studied European concentration camps. A graduate of Syracuse Univer sity, she was a correspondent in Vienna and Berlin for eight years,. When she took over the Berlin office of the New York Evening Post, she became the first Ameri can woman ever to hold such a position. After publication of her book “I Saw Hitler” in 1934, she was ordered out of Germany and per manently denied permission to re turn. Other books she has written in clude “Refugees: Anarchy or Or ganization,” “Let the Record Speak,” “The New Russia,” and “Portrait of a Christian.” Her syndicated column, “On the Record” appears in papers in America, Europe, India, Asia, Aus tralia, Canada, and South America. Miss Thompson has long broken a path for women in America ever since she spoke in the cause of women's rights during her college days. The journalist will arrive here from Corvallis and will continue on her speaking tour Friday, when she leaves for Los Angelos. Emerald Presents: 'Miss Holiday Cheer7 FRESHMAN JUDY FORTNER of Hendricks Hall is the Emerald’s “Miss Holiday Cheer” for the special Christmas edition. Miss Fortner, who hales from Glendale, California, has a typically healthy outlook on life at Oregon: “I like the beauty of the campus and the quality of the male population,” was her enthusiastic comment. “I came up to Oregon because of the fine weather and because I wanted to learn to ski!” The first is giving her a cold at the present w ■Sk ** \ m w • m vmmm I Wl m time, and the latter is attested t-o by her attire in the picture, taken by Emerald Photographer Gene Rose. Miss Holiday Cheer is afflicted with final examinations just like every other Webfoot. However, she expects to ring down a rousing 2.7 GPA her first term—“just see if I don’t.” Happily, a 2.7 is good rather than bad in her estimation. “Am I pleased to have my picture in the Emerald? Of course! Who wouldn’t be!” PE May Restore Students Five University coeds who had been asked not to register in the School of Health and Physical Education now have hope of being reinstated in the school, according to Lyle Xel son. director of information. Four other girls, represent ing a group of SO interested PE majors, conferred Saturday with University President Harry K. Xewburn and later in the day with R. \\ . Leighton, dean of the PE school. The conference came after a meeting of interested PE majors held on Friday. The meeting was held to organize facts on the case and attempt to see both sides of the story. PROPER ATTITUDE Nelson said that apparently ev erything was straightened out to the satisfaction of the girls. He said President Newborn told him that the attitude of the four girls ho talked to seemed “very proper.” Dean Leighton declared that judging from the four girls who were in to see him, the attitude of the ousted majors is “okay now.” Leighton said that hereafter any girls who, in the opinion of the PE school, did not have the qualifier tions that could be recommended for teaching positions, would re ceive adequate notification. (Many girls had protested the abruptness by which they were asked to change their majors.) Representatives of the PE group told Dean Leighton that the five girls would meet the qualifications asked by the school. GIRLS WANT TO TEACH They told him the girls wanted to V o teachers, they would take the curriculum as offered by the school, and they would evaluate and try to adjust their personal qualifications to meet specifications for success ful teachers. “Well, that's fine,” Leighton said. “That is the sum and' sub stance of what we ask.” ONE BACK IN SCHOOL Of the five girls contacted Tues day, only one had her registration cards signed and was definitely back in the school. Two others were not sure they would be taken back, another said she was changing her major to liberal arts, and the fifth said she was going to quit school at the end of this term. The girls had this to say: No. 1 "I think everything has been straightened out fairly well. I’m changing my major to liberal arts anyway. I was the first to be eliminated and they told me last October, so I had plenty of time to think about it.” No. 2—“Everything seems to be settled. I'm quitting school this term anyway, but apparently everybody is back in that wants back.” WILL TAKE TIME No. 3—“The situation is defi nitely not worked out but it’ll take time. The school hasn’t been too close in the past few years and we should try to work a little more unity among the students, facul ty, and the dean . . . I’ve already had my registration cards signed.” No. 4 “We understand now what is expected of us. I don’t know whether I’m in the school now or not, but I’m going to see Miss Spande (Miss Myrtle S. Spande, adviser) and find out whether I'll have to see Dean Leighton to get my cards signed.” No. 5 -“Some of the girls told me yesterday that I was back in and that's all I know about it. I’m going to have to make an appoint ment with the dean to get my cards signed.”