"“"Weather. . . Partly cloudy today with light showers in the afternoon. A high temperature of 54 was pre dicted for today by the Weather Bureau Sunday night. High for Sunday was 53, and the low last night was 34. Red Cross... ’] Representatives from each liv* ing organization are asked to attend a meeting which will ex plain the system of collection for the campus Red Cross drive, at 4 o’clock Tuesday in room 3 Commerce. VOLUME LI UNIVERSITY’ OF OREGON, EUGENE, MONDAY', FEBRUARY 20, 1950 NUMBER 84 Conference Starts Today With Speech by Rogers On Chinese Art, Society “Cultural Contributions of the Orient” will be considered at a two-day conference which opens here today. The conference, sponsored by the University’s Far Eastern Studies Committee, will present Millard B. Rogers, professor of art and curator of Oriental art at Stanford, and Wolfram Kber WAA Carnival Collects $670 More than 1300 students and ^townspeople took a campus holi day at ‘‘Coney Island,” scene of the WAA carnival Friday night in the unfinished gym, Elizabeth Erland son, co-chairman, announced Sun day. Gross proceeds from the carnival reached $670. Ticket receipts for the carnival were about $200, Miss Erlandson said. Paced by the ‘‘Gay Nineties Vaudeville” of Chi Omega and Phi Gamma Delta, biggest money-mak er, carnival booths earned $360. Ten percent of booth proceeds will go to WAA. “Dunk-a-Theta,” sponsored by Pi Kappa Alpha, Sigma Hall, and Kappa Alpha Theta, was judged the outstanding booth by a com mittee of four officials. A $10 rec ord requisition was awarded the organizations. Living groups may obtain pro ceeds from the carnival from Ann Darby, finance chairman, after Feb. 21. All funds must be collect ed by houses before March 7. Women's Elections Slated Wednesday Wednesday have been slated for women this week, with a fashion show and annual elections planned by the Associated Women Stu dents, YWCA, and Women’s Ath letic Association. Charles F. Berg of Portland will show coming fashions for spring and summer at the style show in Alumni Lounge, Gerlinger Hall, be ginning at 3:45. Clothes for all occasions will be featured by Berg’s own models. Following the show a tea will be held. Campus clothes will be in order for both events. Election of officers of the three sponsoring organizations will be held from 1 to 6 p. m. in Gerlinger lobby. Candidates will be intro duced during a noon assembly at 12:30. Nominations can be made from the floor at that time. All women may vote for AWS officers, with student body cards .required. Only members may vote in the YWCA and WAA elections. Ticket Sale Today Five-hundred tickets to the Oregon-OSC basketball game to be held at Corvallis Friday night go on sale today at the McAr thur Court ticket office. These student tickets will sell for $1.50 each. Tht two teams play again Sat urday night at McArthur Court, in Oregon’s last game of the sea son. 4 hard, professor of sociology at the University of California. Topping today’s schedule will be Rogers’ talk at 8 p.m. in 207 Chapman on “Art and So ciety in China,” open to the public. A gallery tea will run from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Museum of Art and a “tour” of the Oriental art collection will be conducted from 4 to 4:30 in the form of a dialogue by Rogers and Wallace Baldingcr, professor of art. Tuesday at 2 p.m. in 206 Oregon, Eberhard will lead a panel discus sion on "The Nature of Chinese Civilization.” A gallery tour of the Murray Warner Collection in the Musuem of Art will begin at 4:15, led by Baldinger. A public lecture on "Science and Society in China,” by Eberhard at 8 p.m. Tuesday in 207 Chapman will be the concluding event. The entire conference is open to students, faculty members, and the public. Childs Speaker At Press Confab Blame for increasing lack of faith in the press can be placed on the interpretive reporter who interprets the news, according to Washington Columnist Marquis Childs, who addressed the 31st an nual Oregon Press Conference Friday. Childs spoke as the Eric W. Al len Memorial lecturer, sponsored annually in honor of the late dean of the School of Journalism. He spoke to more than 200 Oregon journalists and University faculty and journalism students on “The Role of the Interpretive Reporter.” Childs also discussed the "grow ing gulf between government and the press” during the administra tions of the last three presidents. He said that by President Tru man’s efforts to stop news "leaks,” the public isn’t receiving news it is entitled to know. Voorhies Awards The conference also heard Mar shall Dana, of the Oregon Journal, who addressed a banquet on "Ore gon’s Newspaper Stalwarts.” Dana also presented eleven Voorhies awards to Oregon's outstanding newsmen. The honors were award ed the following: C. S. Jackson, founder of the Oregon Journal; Harvey W. Scott, (Please turn to patje seven) Four Piano Concert Tonight; Unique Selections Planned The Four Piano Ensemble Oregon to Host Students For Relations Meeting High school students throughout Oregon will be on the campus Feb. 24 and 25 for the third annual In ternational, Relations League Con ference. General theme is “Will Present United States Foreign Policy Pro mote Peace and Prosperity?’’ Many individual topics on interna tional affairs will be covered. Sigma Delta Chi Initiates Thirteen Five undergraduates and eight professional members were initiat ed into the Oregon chapter of Sig ma Delta Chi, men's journalism honorary, here recently. Undergraduates intiated Feb. 17 were Bob Dorang, Eugene Rose, James Knight, Dick Jacques, and John Barton. Professional mem bers initiated were Lee Jacobs, station manager of KBKR, Baker; Lionel Trommlitz, station manager of KERG, Eugene; and H. Quentin Cox, station manager of KGW, Portland. H. P. Hornish, managing editor of the Coos Bay Times; Ralph Sta ler, editor and publisher of the Coquille Valley Sentinel; Don Lynch, publisher of the Ontario Argus-Observer; Eric Allen Jr., city editor of the Medford Mail Tribune; and R. G. Hubbard, north west editor of the Portland Oregon Journal. Panhellenic, Dorm Group to Discuss Rushina x^anneilenic and dormitory repre sentatives will discuss’rushing as affected by the new freshman liv ing-in rule Tuesday night. The Greek group voted as pref erence for holding rush week dur ing freshman orientation week be ginning next year, Fran Robson, president, stated. Dormitory delegates, however, will hold out for deferred rushing until the beginning of the sopho more year, Betty Horand, Hend ricks Hall president, reported. Attending the meeting will be a committee of four from Panhel lenic, and six from the women’s dormitories. Main speakers, who will discuss various aspects of the international situation, are John Gange, direc tor of the Woodrow Wilson School of Foreign Affairs at the Univer sity of Virginia, and Mrs. Grace Bok Holmes, liaison officer for the United Nations International Chil dren’s Emergency Fund. Students will participate in ses sions in the form of "model” U. S. Senate meetings, as well as round table committees, each discussing a different phase of foreign policies or problems. Sponsoring organizations of the conference are the Oregon Educa tion Association, in cooperation with the University of Oregon and the General Extension Division of the Oregon State System of Higher Education. University students helping with the event are Clair Cordier, Mari lyn Dawley, Antoinette Kuzman ich, Glenn Morgan, Nancy O’Con nor, Elvin Oesterich, Morris Sahr, Grace Sargent, and Sally Waller. They are members of the Interna tional Relations Club. Advance Sign-up Continues Today Advance registration processes for Spring term continue today, with all steps open to non-veteran students. Registration material is available at the registrar’s office in Emerald Hall. Registration will end Mar. 4. Feb. 24 is the deadline for completing the first three steps, which include obtaining material, building study program with advisers, and enroll ing in courses with departments. A $5 late fee will be assessed students here winter term who don’t complete the first five steps in the advance registration period. Fees may be paid through Mar. 4. 'Arena' Production Slated at Mac Court 1 lie fourth concert in the Eu gene and University Civic Mu sic Association series conies to McArthur Court this evening ati 8:15 p.m., when the Four Piano Ensemble presents its unusual program. I lie ensemble will play spe cial arrangements by Stephen Kovacs, who organized the group. Kovacs’ arrangements make it possible for the pianists to play one selection on four pianos at tho same time. Arena presentation of a musical attraction will be tried for the first time before a local audience. Four Steinway grands will be placed ip, the center of the court, to be equally visible to the whole audience. system Liked The system has been used throughout the East, and has met with audience approval. It allows, in concerts of this type, for the audience to get maximum view and hearing of the performers. About 500 seats will be available* on the main floor. Bleachers and balcony seats will also be open. Nine numbers are programmed for tonight's concert, including se lections from Wagner, Mozart, and Rimsky-Korsakoff. Use of four pianos enables audiences to enjoy a wide divirsity of works not ordi narily found on keyboard pro grams. Musical Success Each of the pianists have had dis tinguished musical success pre vious to joining Kovacs in his En semble. Audrey Kooper has per formed for Arthur Fielder with tho Boston "Pops.” Sylvia Dickler has given many concerts since her first appearance with the National Orchestral Asso ciation in Carnegie Hall. Hans Heidemann made his debut at New York Hall, after recitals in Roches ter and performances with the Bos ton, Symphony. Selections Their selections tonight will in clude Concerto Grosso No. 12 by Handel; Wagner's Overture to "Tannhauser”; “Invitation to the Waltz” by von Weber; and “Flight of the Bumble Bee’ by Rimsky-Kor sokoff. Each member of the quartett is said to be an artist in his own right, and each has begun a successful career. Much of the Ensemble’s suc cess is attributed to Kovacs’ bril liant arrangements. Admission tonight will be by Mu sic Association membership card or student body card. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Squeeze Tickets on Sale Ticket sales for the Lemon-Or ange Squeeze will begin today in the living organizations on campus. The tickets are 25 cents per per son, and will be sold by a freshman representative from each house. Ticket sales in the Co-op will begin Thursday. The Lemon-Or ange Squeeze will be held Saturday night after the game in McArthur Court.