Baseball . . .
OREGON’S pre-season base
ball schedule begins today, with
the VVebfoots playing Linfield
College at McMinnville. Read
about it today on page four.
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Weather...
PARTLY cloudy today and
tonight. Increasing cloudiness
Saturday, with rain expected by
afternoon or evening. High tem
perature today will be 68 degrees.
VOLUME LI
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, MARCH 31,1950
NUMBER 97
Duck Previewers'
Housing Explained
High school seniors visiting the campus for “Duck Preview”
will be assigned to campus housing through the offices of the
deans of men and women, according to Steve Church, co-chair
man for the April 14-16 weekend.
Housing, under chairmanship of Roger Nudd and Georgie
Oberteuffer, will be handled as follows:
High school seniors will specify whether they wish to stay
Ten Candidates
Set for Contest
Candidates were selected yester
► day for a new campus contest—
“Miss Fashion Plate.’’ The event
is being held on several hundred
campuses in the United States.
Oregon’s 10 contestants, voted
upon by student judges yesterday,
are:
Pat Boyle, Kathryn Carter, Mary
Gribble, Grace Hoffman, Helen
“STackson, Maxine Krisch, Molly
Muntzel, Julie Beth Perkins, Joyce
Rathbun, and Karla Van Loan.
Judges were Art Johnson,
ASUO president; Dorothy Orr,
senior reprsentative to the execu
tive council; Don Smith, Emerald
editor; Larry Davidson, Oregana
editor; and Anne Goodman, Rev
lon campus representative.
The contest is sponsored by Rev
Ion products. Oregon students will
. vote beginning Apr. 10 for the
candidate of their choice. The win
ner’s picture will be sent to New
' York, where a nation-wide winner
. will be announced.
The campus winner will receive
a year’s supply of Revlon cosmet
ics. An expense-free week’s trip to
Bermuda plus other gifts are
promised to the national winner.
Judges based their votes on new
Oregana pictures.
Grades Due Next Week
Winter term grade results will
not be available to students before
the end of next week, according to
Registrar Clifford L. Constance.
Grades are being held up because
of the short spring vacation.
in fraternities and sororities,
dormitories, or cooperatives,
but will not specify particular
living groups.
Fraternities and sororities
and women's cooperatives will
be given lists of students desiring
housing of these types, and will
make out preference lists of as
many students as they believe they
can accomodate, plus “alternates”
in case of duplication of preference.
A maximum quota of fifteen has
been set for all organizations ex
cept dorms.
Assignment will then be made,
through the deans of men and wo
men, to particular living groups. In
cases where a high school student is
on more than one preference list,
cards with the names of the living
groups interested in the particular
student will be shuffled in a hat,
and one card will be drawn. The stu
dent will then be assigned to that
organization.
System Explained
Co-chairman Church stated that
it is probable that high school stu
dents with a brother or sister in a
campus living organization will be
assigned directly to that group.
Men’s living organization prefer
ence will be given only to high
(Please turn to page eight)
Late Fees Start Monday
Saturday is the deadline for
the payment of registration
fees, according to the registrar’s
office. Late fees will be assesed
Monday.
A total of 214 students com
pleted registration Thursday,
bringing the number of register
ed students to 4549.
Junior Weekend Plans Progress;
Theme Idea Deadline Wednesday
Calling for theme ideas for
Junior Weekend, committee heads
for the annual celebration are be
ginning preparation for this year’s
festival, May 12, 13, and 14.
Deadline for weekend theme sug
gestions is 5 p. m. Wednesday. A
box for ideas will be placed in the
Co-op Friday, according to Junior
Class President Barry Mountain,
chairman for the weekend. The
theme should connect the float
parade, prom, picnic, and All
Campus Sing, the chairman ex
Petitions Due Monday
For Junior Secretary
Petitions for junior class secre
tary are due by noon Monday to
Class President Barry Mountain,
Alpha Tau Omega, or Treasurer
Anne Goodman, Hendricks Hall.
Any junior women with a GPA
of 2.00 or above may apply for the
position, vacated by Anne Case,
who has withdrawn from the Uni
versity. y
plained.
The winner of the annual theme
contest will receive a free ticket to
the Junior Prom and a pre-dance
dinner for himself and his date.
Last year’s winning theme, "A
Thousand and One Nights" was
submitted by Beldon Owens, then
a freshman in pre-law.
Committee chairmen and class
officers will meet at luncheon
Tuesday noon at the Anchorage.
Names of committee heads for
this year’s celebration were re
leased by Mountain Thursday.
Chairmen include Gerry Smith,
prom; Ann Gillenwaters and Jo
anne Fitzmaurice, All-Campus
Sing; Jim Hershner and Will Ur
ban, float parade; Joe Labodie and
Eve Overback, All-Campus Picnic.
Betty Wright and Florence Han
sen, coronation; Donna Mary
Brennan, Sunlight Serenade; Stan
Turnbull, publicity; Walt McKinney
and Cork Mobley, promotion; and
Janice Hughes, cleanup.
WSSF Official
Talks on Purpose
Of World Drive
Mrs. Gladys C. Lawther, World
Student Service Fund regional sec
retary, spoke yesterday to house
representatives on the purpose and
work of WSSF throughout the
world.
The Oregon drive, beginning
Monday, is officially sponsored by
the ASUO. It will include both stu
dents and faculty.
Mrs. Lawther, who spent last
summer in Europe leading a group
on a YWCA-YMCA study tour,
saw World Student Relief in action
in England, France, Holland, Swit
zerland, and Germany.. WSSF is
the American agency for WSR.
“I hope students and faculty
realize how important their help
is in contributing to the education
of much of the rest of the world,”
she said.
She pointed-out that in much of
Asia there is only one educated
person for every 10,000 population,
while the future peace of the
world depends much on educated
leadership.
Campus collections, under Chair
man Ann Darby, will be directed
by seven captains. They are Eric
Beerman, Tom Wrightson. Gene
Harrison, Lois Williams, Lois Him
melsbach, Mary Penwarden, and
Virginia Kellogg. In charge of fac
ulty solicitation are Barbara Cler
in and Kay Kuckenberg.
Over 700 letters explaining the
purpose of WSSF have been sent
to living organizations and religi
ous groups, and to faculty mem
bers, administrators, and graduate
assistants.
Airs. Paul Robeson
To Speak Saturday
Mrs. Paul Robeson, wife of the
noted Negro baritone, will speak
in Eugene at 8 Saturday night in
the Roosevelt Jr. High School audi
torium. Subject of her lecture will
be “The Far Eastern Situation.”
Mrs. Robeson,, an author and
lecturer in her own right, recently
returned from China where she
attended the Asia Women’s Con
ference, and from Moscow where,
she attended the Women’s Inter
national Democratic Federation.
Prep Speech Contest
Begins This Morning;
Many Students Attend
Preliminary rounds in the state high school speech contest
begin at 9 this morning in Vilhtrd Hall. More than 165 students
representing 13 Oregon districts will participate in the state-wide
contest.
Contestants are being housed in campus living organizations
for the two-day tournament. Finalists will be announced at a
banquet tonight in the Carson Hall dining room.
Vodvil Meeting
Set Today at 4
House representatives for All
Campus Vodvil Apr. 14 will meet
at 4 p. m. today at the Delta Delta
Delta house to receive information
on judging of acts and elimina
tions.
The show, planned to coincide
with “Duck Preview,” when visit
ing high school seniors will be on
the campus, will include 12 acts.
Acts will be limited to five min
utes. Judging will be based on
four points: originality, whole
someness, presentation, and enter
tainment value.
Eliminations are scheduled for
Apr. 11 and 12, when finalists will
be chosen. Awards will be given
to the two groups having the best
acts and to the best individual per
former.
All proceeds from the Vodvil
will go to the World Student Serv
ice Fund. Last year profits totaled
$550.
Emerald Meeting
Slated Today at 4
Emerald activity opportunities
for students will be outlined at a
brief meeting this afternoon at 4
in Room 105 Journalism. All stu
dents interested in working on the
Emerald in any capacity during
Spring term may attend this meet
ing.
Experience is not needed for a
number of jobs on the newspaper.
Some jobs are still open for those
students who have had journalism
experience.
After a general meeting, special
sesions for reporters, copy desk
workers, and night staff workers
will be held.
r inahsts will compete again
Saturday. 'I'lie finals for after
dinner speaking will be held fol
lowing the dinner at John
Straub Hall, and* will be broad
cast over station KOAC from
7:30 to 8:30 pan.
Trophies will be awarded at that
time to state winners by Dr. K. E.
Montgomery, assistant professor of
speech and executive secretary of
the Oregon General Extension Divi
sion, which is sponsoring the con
test.
Towns sending representatives to
the contest are Burns, Pendleton,
H^rmiston, Milton-F reewater,
Heppner, West Linn, Estacada,
Sandy, Oregon City, Klamath Falls,
Malin, Bonanza, Salem, Albany, In
dependence, Dallas, Woodburn, Eu
gene, Sutherlin, Springfield, Co
burg, Ashland, Illinois Valley,
Grants Pass, Medford, Coos Bay,
Coquille, Beaverton, Morgan, Sher
wood, Hillsboro, McMinnville, Wil
amina, Tillamook, Newburg, North
Bend and Portland.
The debate section has been di
vided into two units for "A” ami
“B” schools. Six rounds of debate
will be held for each unit. In all
other divisions there will be two
rounds of eliminations.
A complete schedule for the two
day contest is printed on page three.
Applications Asked
Of Degree Seekers
Students who wish to receive
degrees in June must file applica
tion cards with the registrar's of
fice by noon Saturday, the office
reported Thursday.
Lists for graduates in June will
be made up on Apr. 1. Students
who have not applied before that
date will not be on the list.
Millrace Expected Back in Business Again Soon;
Water Pageant Revival Still Thought Impossible
By JOHN EPLEY
After a forced winter’s hiberna
tion, Oregon’s famous Millrace will
come out into the spring sunshine,
at least temporarily, about Mon
day, Apr. 10. But lingering hopes
for revival of the Junior Weekend
water pageant must take a back
seat for several more years.
Junior Weekend Chairman Barry
Mountain stated he sees little
chance of reviving the pageant
this year. Tentative plans for the
weekend do call for use of the Mill
race in a frosh-soph tug-of-war.
The biggest obstacle now pre
venting revival of the pageant is
that the area around the Anchor
age must be cleared and prepared
to accomodate a large crowd. This
project is now under the long
range supervision of Lou Weston
and Warren Davis.
Their plans call for landscaping
and eventual construction of
bleachers and an amphitheater to
use for the pageant. It’s doubtful,
however, that even the landscap
ing can be completed this spring.
Other obstacles are the high
way noise which would interfere
with the program, and new bridges
over the Millrace which would pre
vent passage of high floats.
Famed in “days of yore” for the
colorful canoe fete of Junior Week
end, with glamorous co-eds adorn
ing many elaborate floats, the Mill
race was restored with due cere
mony last fall, after four long
years of rest.
Later it had to be drained to j
allow for construction of a retain
ing wall and refitting of the Broad
way outlet gates. Then came the
startling news that the Millrace
was polluted by sewage.
Finally the gates at Judkins
Point were closed again for the
winter, keeping the Millrace bed
high and dry. These gates have re
mained closed, because seepage
was hampering construction of the
new University heating plant.
Now there is trouble again.
Although the concrete foundation
for the heating plant has been
laid, a tunnel still must be built
under the Millrace for steam pipes.
So the on-again-off-again Millrace
must be closed down again this
spring, but not until Junior Week^
end is over.
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