ASUO Constitution Passes;
Legality Decision Due Soon
The new ASUO constitution has
been approved by the student
body, with the test of the election's
legality due this week.
The requisite 50 per cent stu
dent body vote was reached Fri
day, the third bay of balloting,
with*2615 students voting. The of
ficial ballot count revealed 2458
votes for, and 157 against the docu
ment, well over the necessary
two-thirds affirmative vote.
Polls had been kept open for
three days in order to secure the
per cent vote, or 2591 ballots,
Washke Denies
'Discrimination'
“No discrimination was used
against independents in planning
intramural schedules,” Dr. P. R.
Washke, who heads intramural
program, commented Friday on re
cent charges of discrimination by
the Independent Students Asso
ciation.
In a letter that appeared in the
Apr. 17 Emerald, the ISA said
that in the single elimination golf
and tennis schedules, independent
organizations were placed in first
round competition, resulting in
half of them being automatically
eliminated. No fraternities were
entered in this round.
Dr. Washke, who recently re
turned from conference in Dallas,
Tex., explained that in preparing
the golf and tennis schedules, the
eight second round winners in last
year’s competition were placed in
the best positions and that the re
mainder of the schedule resulted
by chance.
Dr. Washke said that “over half
the independents in the first round
this year failed to enter teams,
thus forfeiting their contests.”
required by the constitution’s en
abling clause. Donald F. Myrick,
vice-president of the law school
student body, presented a petition
Thursday on behalf of the law stu
dents contesting the extension of
the election from its original one
day status.
The petition goes to the Judici
ary Committee this week for an
official decision. ASUO Presi
dent Art Johnson stated Sunday
that the decision would be reach
ed by this Thursday.
If the voting procedure is de
clared legal and the constitution
goes into effect, spring term stu
dent elections, scheduled for May
22, will be conducted according to
the rule's of the new document.
Under the new procedure, any
student may file for election, and
balloting will be conducted under
the preferential system.
The law students objected to the
extension of the voting period on
four grounds. Voting on any oth
er day but Wednesday violated the
provision that the constitution
must be printed in the Emerald
one week before elections, they
charged.
Under the 50 per cent require
ment, a vote not cast is, in effect,
a vote against, the law students
maintained. They feel that decid
ing to extend the voting period af
ter it has been determined that the
requisite number has not voted
may set a “dangerous precedent.”
Furthermore, they charged, the
Executive Council does not have
An open letter to ‘the Judi
ciary Committee from Junior
Class President Barry Moun
tain, regarding the Constitu
tion issue has been submitted.
See story on page three.
the power to “establish substan
tive rules for elections.” Their
final assertion was that such ac
tion. is “ex post facto legislation”
and not “fair play.”
The Executive Council's posi
tion in extending the election
through Friday was that rain Wed
nesday kept many from the polls,
and that many students showed
an inadequate understanding of
the document and should be goven
a chance to vote for or against
the new constitution.
Five Princesses
Voted to Court
Imvc princesses, one of them a Queen-to-be, have been se
lected by student vote to reign over the "Melody Magic" of this
year’s Junior Weekend.
They are Mary Lou Bittman, Carson Hall; Nancy Chamber
lain, Kappa Alpha Phcta; Gloria Grimson, Alpha Chi Omega;
I at Lakin, Pi Beta Phi; and Lucille Wright, Sigma Kappa.
The remaining question, “which one is Queen?” will be an
JLllUclX. iuc court is
made up of the five candidates
getting the highest number of
votes from the field of ten final
ists in Thursday and Friday’s
vote in the Co-op.
'I'he one candidate who re
ceived the highest total will be
announced as Queen in Friday’s
Emerald.
The five court members will be
interviewed tonight at about 11:15
over Don Porter's disc jockey show
on station KUGN.
Break with Past
Co-Chairman of queen selection
Flo Hansen explained that an
nouncing the court, and Queen, in
advance of the Weekend (May 12
14 this year) is somewhat of a
break with the past. In other
years, the Queen has not been an
nounced until her coronation at the
All-Campus Sing; this year the
Queen and her court will take part
in the pre-weekend events and
publicity and enjoy a longer
“reign.”
Other candidates for Junior
Weekend Royalty were Janet
Bronson, Mary Knox, Louise Led
ing, Margaret Reeve, and Toinette
Rosenberg.
Breakage Fee Drive Starts Thursday
For Expansion of University Radio
By RODNEY MORRISON
The fate of “campus radio” at
Oregon will soon be decided di
rectly by University students.
A campus-wide drive to secure
breakage fee pledges will begin
this week, for the establishment
of a KUDK campus station and a
low-power F-M station at the Uni
versity.
The drive will be sponsored by
”Ballots for Campus Radio Awards
Available Tuesday for Nominations
Ballots for the nomination of
candidates for campus radio
awards will be available Tuesday
morning and throughout the week
at the Speech Department Office,
216 Villard.
Any University student may
nominate persons he feels deserv
ing of the five major radio awards
to be presented this year.
These include awards for the
outstanding male and female cam
pus radio performers, student
Committee to Pick
New SU Members
A joint committee of four mem
bers each from the Executive
Council and the Student Union
Board has been selected to inter
view petitioners for the positions
of representatives to the SU
Board.
Art Johnson, Ed Anderson, Gor
don Howard, and Herb Nill are the
four from the Executive Council.
Student Union Board members on
the committee are Bob Wiegman,
Bob Myers, Elizabeth Kratt, and
Les Jones.
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writer, and student. producer.
The fifth will be a general award
for outstanding achievement.
Students submitting nomina
tions are to include a short state
ment telling why they consider
their nominee outstanding.
Ballots will be turned over to a
classification committee which
will compile all available data on
each name submitted and file the
name in one of the five groups.
Final selection will be made by
radio stations sponsoring four of
the awards — KASH, writing;
KERG, male performer; KORE,
female performer; KUGN, produc
tion—and John Wald, Richfield
Reporter, who is sponsoring the
achievement prize.
Awards will be presented at a
banquet the latter part of the
month. They will be on display
in the Co-op sometime soon.
The University Department oi
Speech is presenting these awards
to campus radio workers with the
hope of increasing competition and
bringing University radio classes
closer to commercial-type broad
casting, as well as to show appre
ciation to students for their work
Kappa Rho Omicron, campus ra
dio honorary, and has the official
sanction of the University admin
istration, the ASUO Executive
Council, and the Department of
Speech.
Life for KDUK
A new lease on life for radio
station KDUK is thus a direct pos
sibility. The dreamed-about but
now defunct campus station first
went on the air for two weeks just
a year ago this month. Technical
difficulties and FCC regulations
caused KDUK's downfall in May,
1949.
Revival of KDUK and addition
of the F-M unit will depend on suc
cess of the solicitation drive. Ex
pansion plans for University ra
dio facilities are now in the ten
tative stage, and work will begin
if enough money is made available.
$2000 Goal Set
A goal of $2000 in breakage fees
has been set by Kappa Rho Omi
cron. The drive begins Thursday
and Friday in all radio classes in
the Speech Department. Campus
Sing Eliminations
Slated This Week
Eliminations for the All-Campus
Sing May 12 will be held Wednes
day for women and Thursday for
men. They will begin at 7 p.m.
each night in McArthur Court.
Judging will be based 20 per
cent each on tonal quality, inter
pretation including audience ap
peal, diction, and musical arrange
ment, and 10 per cent each on
stage appearance and attention to
song leader.
Twenty groups, 10 men’s and 10
women’s will be chosen to appear
in the finals. A list of songs to be
be presented is on page seven.
wide solicitation starts next Mon
day.
Money obtained from pledged
breakage fee deposits will be set
aside in a special radio fund. The
money will be used for technical
research and equipment for KDUK
and the purchase of a transmit
ter for the low-power F-M sta
tion.
Special Fund
This special radio fund will be
set up in the speech department,
with a special group of interested
radio students serving as a con
sulting and advisory board in the
spending of money.
KDUK will be in operation as
soon as technical problems can be
solved to meet FCC standards. Lo
cal technicians believe the campus
station can be on the air by next
fall.
The low-power F-M transmitter
will be purchased and the license
applied for immediately after
funds are available.
Statement from McCall
In a statement approving the
breakage fee drive, R. C. McCall,
head of the speech department,
said, "placing KDUK on a satisfac
tory operating basis and adding a
new low-power F-M unit would, in
my judgement, provide many ad
vantages to all students.
"I believe that such campus sta
tions, aimed directly at the campus
audience and ready always to
serve the entire student body,
can mean much more to the indi
vidual student and to the student
body as a whole than can now be
appreciated.”
Weather . . .
Cloudy with light rain today
Mostly cloudy with showers Tues
day.
Noted Novelist
Talks Tuesday
Archie Binns, Northwest author,
is scheduled to speak on “The
Writer and His Material” in a
special lecture Tuesday evening- at
7:30 in the library browsing room.
Mr. Binns arrived in Eugene
Sunday and will spend the week on
the campus speaking to creative
writing classes, according to Robe
son Bailey, professor of English,
and director of the Advanced Writ
ing Program.
The author, who now lives in
Menlo Park, California, was born
in Port Ludlow, Washington. At
IS he joined a lightship crew, and
from his experiences wrote “Light
ship.”
In 1937 he retraced the wagon
tracks of the Oregon Trail and out
of the experience wrote “The Land
Is Bright.”
Writing "always of simple peo
ple in the grip of fundamental
emotion,” Mr. Binns has written
several books about the North
west, including "Backwater Voy
age,” “The Laurels Are Cut
Down,” "The Land Is Blight,
“Mighty Mountain,” “Northwest
Gateway: The Story of The Port
of Seattle,” “The Roaring Land,”
and “The Island.” His latest nov
el is “You Rolling River,” a story
of life on the lower Columbia in
the 1890's.
Mr. Binns received his bachel
or’s degree from Stanford Univer
sity. He worked as a correspon
dent for Scripps-Howard newspa
pers in Washington D. C. and has
written for “Esquire” and “Yacht
ing” magazines.
'Magic Melody'
Deadline Today
Today is the last chance to turn
a flair for music into a possible
$25 gift certificate.
By 5 p.m., all entries in the mu
sic contest for the Junior Week
end “Magic Melody” must be turn
ed in to Chairman John Epley,
Phi Kappa Psi, or placed in a spec
ially marked box in the Co-op.
Prizes for both the lyric and mu
sic contests, which are to be given
at the All-Campus Sing, include a
$25 gift certificate from Caraway’s
Jewelry, a white Palm Beach din
ner jacket donated by Baxter and
Henning’s, a white Sacony Wo
man’s sport suit from Russell’s,
a $10 gift certificate from the Ra
dio Lab, and a record album from
Graves Music Store.
The music must conform to eith
er first or second place lyrics in
that issue. Music contest win
ners will be announced this week,
Epley said.
Contest judges are Steve Stone,
chairman, and Treva Rice, Curt
Finch, Arnie Martin, and Faye
Schick.
No Council Meeting
The ASUO Executive Council
will not meet tonight, President
Art Johnson announced Sunday.
Numerous investigating commit
tees will be ready to report at
next week's meeting.