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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 11, 1950)
VOLUME LI UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, MAY 11,1950 NUMBER 125 U.O. Faculty Changes Hours Requirement For School Majors Majors in all professional schools will be required to take a minimum of 62 hours in upper-division courses to receive the bachelor's degree, as a result of action taken at a University faculty meeting Wednesday. Degree requirements previously stated that only 45 upper-division hours were necessary for professional school majors. The requirement for other majors remains at 62 hours. The action was taken to make all degree requirements uniform. Clifford F. Weigle, dean of the journalism school, who presented the motion, explained that when the 45-hour requirement was made, it was probably felt that differ ences in professional school pro grams might make conditions for their major unlike those for other students. Residence Musts Changed The faculty also: 1. Passed a change in degree re quirements making the residence requirement read “45 term hours of the last 60 presented for the de gree,” rather than “45 hours (nor mally the last 45}.” 2. Clarified requirements for the second bachelor’s degree. 3. Elected six faculty members to serve on the 1950-51 advisory Council. 4. Defeated a motion making deans ineligible for election to the Advisory Council. Present practice requires any student who has not taken his last 45 hours on the Oregon campus to petition for his degree. The new legislation will make it unneces sary to act on any such exception up to 15 hours of non-resident study. Petition Not Necessary Thus if a student takes 45 hours as a resident during his senior year, and his last 15 in corres pondence courses, he will not be re quired to petition for a degree. Explaining the action on the sec ond bachelor’s degree, Mr. Weigle said that there is some question whether there has been any legis lation on the matter since the uni fication of the state system of higher education in 1932. The faculty voted Wednesday that a second bachelor's degree may be granted, but an additional 36 term hours of credit shall be earned in residence beyond the re quirements for the first degree. Advisory Council Elected New Advisory Council members elected by the faculty are W. C. Ballaine, professor of business ad ministration; F. A. Cutlibert, pro fessor of landscape architecture; R. R. Huestis, professor of zoolo gy; Orlando J. Hollis, dean of the School of Law; E. H. Moore, head of the sociology department; and Hoyt Trowbridge, professor of En glish. The Council acts as an advisory body to University President H. K. Newburn on such matters as ap pointments to committees, promo tions, and general University poli cies. Weekend Tickets Available at Co-op Necessary tickets' for three Junior Weekend events are avail able at the Co-op. Admission to the All-Campus Sing Friday night will cost SO cents; tickets to the All-Campus Picnic Saturday will cost every one 45 cents; and admission to the Junior Prom Saturday night will be $2.40 per couple, with mothers to be admitted free. Oregana Distribution to Begin At Mac Court Booths Today More Mys/ery/ Pool Plastered Tuesday at 9 p.m. a myster ious group armed with waste paper baskets threaded its way cautiously around Fenton Hall. Its destination was the honored dunking place of Junior Week end tradition violators. They dipped the water out methodically, their work inter rupted only by occasional re treats caused by the sound of slamming ear doors and visit ing law students. After emptying the pool the dauntless band filled the outlets with plaster of paris and clay. Their retreat signified a job well done. Barry Mountain, junior class prexy, has his own idea of who the culprits are. “It seems the Phi Thetas are busy again; now all they have to do is empty the. Mill Race and they’ll be safe.’’ The physical plant has refilled the pool and the dunkings will continue as scheduled, stated Ed Chrobot, traditions chairman for Junior Weekend. USA Bigwigs Consider Tickef The United Students Association Steering committee met Wednes day evening to whip their roster of candidates into shape for the forth coming USA primary election. The committee, meeting behind closed doors at Highland House, considered petitioners for the top ASUO, class and Executive Coun cil positions. The names of the petitioners pas sed upon will not be released until Friday at the USA open primary for the coming ASUO elections, according to John Day, USA presi dent. The reason for this delay, as ex plained by Day, is that the commit tee has not reached a definite deci sion upon the petitions submitted. The USA primary will be held at 4 p.m. Friday in 207 Chapman. Pe titioners not recommended by the steering committee at the Wed nesday meeting can be nominated from the floor if 10 persons second the nomination, Day stated. The final selection of party can didates will be completed at the Friday meeting when one candi date will be picked to run on the party ticket for each office. Distribution of the 1950 Ore gana begins at 9 a.m. today in Mc Arthur Court. Members of Kwama, Phi Theta Upsilon, and Alpha Phi Omega service honoraries will hand out the books until 5 p.m. today; from 9 a.m. to 12 noon Friday; and trom 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday. "The reason for the shorter per iod on Friday is to avoid a con flict vvth the All-Campus Sing dec orators, who will be using the Court on Friday afternoon, Ore gana Editor Larry Davidson said. Students are requested to enter Mac Court by the doors at the south end, near Howe Field. Presentation of receipts is not necessary. “However,” Davidson commented, “anyone who is du bious about his Oregana payments should have his receipt ready for reference in case a checkup is ne cessary.” This year's Oregana distribu tion is the earliest since before the war. The book has been re leased around the end of May since 1940, with the exception of last year, when1 a printers’ strike pushed publication into late sum mer. Lawyer Elections In Tie as Record Vote Recorded The law school student body pointed with pride Wednesday to the fact that 98.1 per cent of en rollment turned out to the polls in the election of law school stu dent body president. But they still didn't elect a presi dent. After the polls were closed, Bill Tassock and Jim Hafey were tied for the position. The third candi date' was Vern Gleaves. The election committee was very careful to point out that the polls were open the exact stipulated time—6 hours and 10 minutes— 8:50 a.m. until 3 p.m. The committee scoffed at the suggestion of keeping the voting going for a couple more minutes to allow the other 1.9 per cent of the student body to vote. Out of an enrollment of 106 stu dents, 104 voted. A run-off vote will be held Friday between Can didates Tassock and Hafey. With political machines in operation, the election committee predicted a 100 per cent turn out. The position of president is the only elective office in the law stu dent body. Queen Crowning Friday to Open All-Campus Sing Three Awards Await Winners, Other Events Set for Evening Crowning of the 1950 Junior Weekend Queen will mark the beginning of the All-Campus Sing in McArthur Court at 8 p.m. Friday. Tickets to the Sing are now on sale in the Co-op and will be available at the door Friday night. Price is 80 cents. The Queen and her four princesses will remain on the throne 'Clean' Campus Gets Underway Today at 4 p.m. The battle of brooms begins at 4 today when campus living or ganizations compete in the campus cleanup contest. House pairings were listed in Wednesday’s Emerald, and a map on page 7 today shows sec tors to be cleaned as well as living organizations which will clean each area. Time limit is one hour, between 4 and 5 today, and according to Chairman Jan Hughes, “there aren't any fancy rules, the winning section will simply be the one that’s neatest." Miss Hughes had several other things to say. She said, “Win ners in this contest will definitely | be rewarded. Large, sturdy, and [Violators of Tradition To Come to Justice Story on I\ 7 ! above all, serviceable trophies will be awarded at the All-Campus Sing Friday night.” She also an nounced that Jerry Kinersly will fill out the roster of judges, which includes herself, Margie Pe tersen, and Stan Turnbull. Freshman class presidents in the various living groups were urged to contact their counterparts in the organizations with which they are paired. Questions may be re ferred to Miss Hughes at Alpha Phi. Today Last Chance To Request Housing Tonight is the deadline to make housing reservations for parents for Mothers’ and Junior Weekend. Rooms in Eugene homes may be reserved by calling Carol Udy at Alpha Phi today. Price will be ap proximately $1.50 per person each night, Miss Udy said. throughout the Sing, following the coronation by Maj. Gen. Thomas E. Rilea, commanding general of the Oregon State National Guard. The five members of the Royal Court include Lucille Wright, Sig ma Kappa; Mary Lou Bittman, Carson Hall; Nancy Chamberlain, Kappa Alpha Theta; Pat Lakin, Pi Beta Phi; and Gloria Grimson, Al pha Chi Omega. Twenty Houses Compete Twenty men’s and women’s houses will participate in the Sing, with three awards to be presented in each group. Going to first-place winners for the men and the women will be en graved rotating trophies as well as small permanent awards. Houses winning second and third-place spots will also receive permanent trophies. Song leaders of first-place chor uses will be presented permanent cups. Judges for the Sing for men's or ganizations will be Miss Eleanor Tipton of Clark Junior College, Vancouver, Wash., and for the wo men, Forrest Brigham, of John Rogers High School, Spokane^ trophies to Winners The two judges, Sing Chairman Joanne Fitzmaurice and Ann Gil lenwaters, adviser, will present the trophies. Skull and Dagger, sophomore men’s service honorary, will tap new members following the 20th song. Scholarships to be presented din ing the Sing include the Hazel Sehwering scholarship to a junior woman; Delta Delta Delta awards for a sophomore and a junior wo man, and the Skull and Dagger scholarship to a sophomore man. , House Libraries Judged The Harpham cup for the best house library will be given and win ners in the campus clean-up arid Magic Melody contests will be recognized. Prizes in the song con test will be a $25 gift certificate from Laraway’s Jewelry, a white Palm Beach dinner jacket donated by Baxter and Henning’s, a white Sacony woman’s sport suit from Russell's a $10 gift certificate from the Radio Lab, and a record album from Graves Music Store. Tug-o-War Weighing-in Today; Class Presidents Ask Entrants Black smoke filled the air Wed nesday night after exactly no freshmen or sophomores showed up at a meeting scheduled for pros pective Tug-o-War entrants, and Freshman and Sophomore Presi dents Don Denning and Dick Mc Laughlin made an urgent appeal to each living group to have its huskiest underclassmen at the Co op today at 4:30 for “weighing-in." Extremely disappointed at Wed nesday’s “no show,” they empha sized the importance of all - burly frosh and sophs—190 pounds and up—shpwing up at the Co-op this afternoon, at which time evenly balanced teams will be selected for the very traditional Tug-o-War. The Tug-o-War itself will be at 4 :30 p.m. Friday at the bridge over the Millrace near the Kappa Sig ma fraternity house. Today's weighing-in will be con ducted by beauteous co-eds, they promised. It was asked that the underclassmen report in swimming trunks to be wcighed-in on a king size set of balance scales. At tendance by the student body at both weighing-in and “finals” was earnestly solicited. The Friday final event will be attended by class bands and cheer ing sections. An added goal for freshmen is that if they win the Tug-o-War they will be excused from wearing rooter's lids Satur day.