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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 9, 1950)
Pi Kappo Phi Chooses 'Rose' Norma Allen, senior in history, became the first “Rose” of the local chapter of Pi Kappa Phi at the annual Rose Ball held Apr. 29. Her picturs will be sent to the fraternity’s national headquarters where a national winner will be picked. Miss Allen received a bouquet of roses and an appropriately engrav ed gold bracelet for her selection. Are Your Clothes Clean for Junior Weekend FOB FURS AND C R R M E- N T S’ We use the POLARIZED PROCESS for Fur Care. Your furs are gently but thoroughly cleaned; all moth larvae is de stroyed and the original soft, (luff-luster is restored. Our re frigerated storage vault, right in our own building, gives you the positive protection your furs should have. 1420 Onyx 643 E. 13th Ph. 4-3013 Constitutional Election Declared Illegal by Judiciary Move (Continued from page one) ment to continue for a reasonable time. It is a question of fact in each case whether a reasonable time has been allowed. However, the major itay of the Committee feels that the Executive Council may allow bal loting to continue for more than one day, provided the Council sets a definite time before the balloting commences.” (Galen explained that the com mittee had treated the document as an amendment because the proced ure followed for its adoption was the procedure set forth for amend ments in the present constitution.) ‘‘A minority of the Committee is of the opinion that a fair construe Drives First Day Nets $500 (Continued from page one) versity ‘community’ can hear KDUK. “The FM station would also cover the campus area, hut an FM radio would be neded,” Vaughn continued. "Houses could purchase an FM tuner for their regular1 radio or a table model FM set for about $30 or $40.” If at least $2,000 is raised during the pledge drive, work will begin As part of KDUK drive pro motion, an original 30-minute radio script by Jack Vaughn, senior in speech, on the history of radio at the University of Oregon will be presented at 5:30 p.m. today over station KERG. immediately on expansion of Uni versity radio facilities. This will include technical re 'search to revive KDUK, and the addition of a low-power FM sta tion. Radio expansion plans are now in the tentative stage, depend ing on the drive's success. Money from pledged fees will be placed in a special radio fund in the speech department. Research will begin and equipment purchased as soon as money is available. Kappa Rho Omicron, campus radio honorary, is sponsoring the drive which has the official sanc tion of the administration, the Ex ecutive Council, and the speech department. CHARLIE BARNET'S MOTHER wouldn’t let him play at the Junior Prom until he bought her a box of CHOCOLATES The World Famous SAMPLER 1 lb. $2.00 2 lbs. $4.00 Other Whitman’s Assortments Ideal For Gifts Get YOUR Mother a box of the delicious chocolates at FENNELL’S ('.us says: “Come in and get a new SUIT to go with your ^ box of candy." tion of Section II in the light of precedent and other provisions of the Constitution discloses that the framers of the Constitution in tend to restrict balloting on pro posed amendments to one day. “The minority states its reasons as follows: (1) The terminology used in Article VII is in most part singular in nature; (2) No elections under prior ASUO Constitutions extended over more than one day. In the absence of express provisions to the contrary, it must be pre sumed that the rfamers of the con stitution did not intend to change this common practice; (3) The fact that voting under the pi’esent Con stitution has never continued for more than one day is indicative of the practical construction of the constitution by those who have worked under it; and (4) Section V of Article IV sets out in detail the election procedure to be followed in electing officers. Under that sec tion, elections are explicitly limited to one day. “Since Article VII does not con tain any procedural rules govern ing balloting on proposed' amend ments, the framers must have in tended the same procedural rules to govern voting on amendments that govern elections of officers. “This brings us to the second question. Was the action of the Exe cutive Council in this case proper? Originally, only one day was set for balloting. After it was discovered that the amendment had failed to pass due to a failure of 50 per cent of the students to vote, the Coun cil decided to allow the voting to continue for two more days. This action on the part of the Council can not be condoned. “The Executive Council does not have authority to manipulate the voting so as to reach the result which it, as a group, deems desir able. Whether or not the Council acted in good faith in this particu lar case is immaterial. It is the con duct, not the intent with which it takes place, which makes this bad. “Under a constitutional form of government, no group can be al lowed to have the power to manip ulate voting as it sees fit. The dan gers inherent in allowing such prac tice are patent. Government muse be conducted by those elected to po sitions of responsibility according to both the letter and spirit of the fundamental law adopted by the electorate. “For student government to be a success, it is essential that the ba sic principles of constitutional gov ornment be followed, and any de parture from those principles must be condemned. “Therefore, it is the unanimous opinion of the Judiciary Committee that the second question must be answered in the negative. The Exe cutive Council, having set only one day for voting on the roposed amendment, is bound by its deci sion. No change can be allowed af ter balloting has commenced. “The amendment voted upon by the student body on April 26, 1950, was not adopted because 50 per cent of the students did not vote on that day.’’ The committee acted after hav ing considered oral arguments and written briefs rpesented Thursday by counsel for Don Myrick, law school student body vice-president, who presented the petition contest ing the extension of the election, and for the ASUO Executive Coun cil, which extended the voting to three days. The Executive Council’s action was taken after polls had closed for the first day of voting and it was discovered that 50 per cent of the student body ha dnot voted. At the end of the three-da yperiod, the 50” per cent requirement was surpassed by 23 votes. How jobs were created How hundreds of businesses were helped How a new source of oil was tapped The story behind deepwater oil A few years ago, a test well proved there is oil under the great Continental Shelf that extends out into the Gulf of Mexico, and although the well did not produce much, it started one of the most unusual—and expensive—drilling programs in history. So far, in the search for underwater oil, seven drilling platforms have been built, similar to the one above, as far as 10 miles offshore and in water as much as 65 feet deep. They are set on tubular steel pilings driven 250 feet through the ocean’s bot tom, for they must be strong enough to withstand Gulf hurricanes. The story behind this operation is the story of risk... and of determination to do everything possible to find oil for the grow ing needs of motorists, farms and industries. Each underwater field costs millions of dol lars more than any of equal size drilled on land, and although, oil h^.b*&e%6>und, not enough has been produced yet to repay more than a small fraction of the costs. Meanwhile, the money being risked is creating many jobs, spreading to hundreds of large and small businesses . .. and help* ing to keep our economy free, competitive and strong.