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Oregon Daily EMERALD UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, MAY 16,1950 VOLUME El NUMBER 128 Mountain, Smith to Battle For Student Body Prexy A TO, DU Bolt Greek Bloc Hats Go Into Ring For USA Alpha Tau Omega and Delta Up silon added fuel to the political fire Monday by withdrawing from the Greek Bloc and submitting candi dates for nomination for ASUO of fices on the USA slate in next week's elections. Alpha Tau Omega voted without dissent Friday night to accept a USA proposal to present Barry Mountain for nomination in the USA primaries, Joe Richards, presi dent stated. ‘Mountain was assured only of an equal opportunity to run with other students seeking the number one position as an individual can didate,” Richards added. The proposal was extended Thurs day afternoon by Art Johnson, on behalf of interested USA members. Similar action was taken Thurs day night by Delta Upsilon, who voted unanimously to authorize ac ceptance of the proposal by USA to submit a candidate in the USA primaries, according to Dick Pope, president. Commenting that Delta Upsilon no longer sends representatives to AGS meetings, he explained, “The house feels that pressure placed on two houses recently to return to AGS was unethical and undemo cratic. “We further feel, as things stand on the campus, that unless some houses and individuals in fraterni ties and sororities do take a definite stand to support USA, that we wili have nothing more than a Greek Independent split, controlled by a single, small group.” Discussing Alpha Tau Omega’s political action, Richards stated, s‘The house feels that in campus politics there is no reason for a split along Greek and Independent lines. “We feel that we are contribut ing our part to revise an antiquated party system,” Richards stated. “It is a question of principles, not of houses. The Associated Greek Students supports students for political office who are not con sidered wholly for their qualifica tions,”' Mountain commented re garding his decision to run for the USA nomination. Mountain asserted that his ma jor premise in accepting the USA proposal was “Equal representa tion for qualified personnel regard less of political affiliation,” a USA principle. The action by the two fraterni ties upped Greek representation in the USA party to five houses, which include Alpha Xi Delta, Phi Kappa Sigma, Lambda Chi Alpha, Alpha Tau Omega, and Delta Up silon. Awards, Tapping Top Gala Junior Weekend BARBARA STEVENSON DON SMITH Announcement of the Delta Tau Delta-Alpha Omicron Pi float as winning Float Parade entry and naming of Don Smith and Barbara Stevenson as outstanding junior man and woman topped a long list of- awards and tappings during Junior Weekend, May 12-14. Second place in the float parade went to the entry of Sigma Phi Epsilon-Delta Delta Delta-Nestor Hall; the Sigma Chi-Alpha Delta Pi float won third place. Announce- 1 ment was made at the Junior Prom Saturday night. Smith, Emerald editor and junior in journalism, was awarded the Koyle cup at the Prom and Miss Stevenson, a junior in English and president of Associated Women Students, was presented the Ger linger cup. Both have outstanding records in varied acth ity fields. The Prom also saw presentation of the Maurice Harold Hunter Leadership plaque to Steve Church, junior in business administration; and Burt Brown Barker scholar ship cups to Orides and Tau Kappa Epsilon for highest group grades during the past year. At Friday night’s All-Campus Sing, the William Frager Skull and Dagger memorial scholarship was given to Donald Ford, sophomore in pre-law; and the Josephine Ev ans Harpham cup for best library program was presented to Alpha Chi Omega. Tappings for Friars, senior men’s honorary; Mortar Board, senior women's honorary; and Asklepiads, pre-medical honorary, took place at Saturday’s All-Campus Picnic. ' {Please turn to Pape seven) Mortar Board Ball Installs New Look; Posies Out Mortar Board has broken away from the “moonlight and roses” tradition for its ball this year, scheduled for May 26. Mortar Board members and ball committee chairmen have chosen “Showboat” for this year’s theme. The decorations, instead of featuring roses on lattices, pastel murals, and stars, will be on the gayer side to tie in with the theme. A change has also been made in the music for the dance. This year, instead of only the usual slow waltz-time music, the Castle Jazz Band will be featured, with its jazz music and also its slower, dreamier ar rangements. One tradition to which Mortar Board is still holding is that of the turnabout sub-theme for the dance. Women ask the men for dates to the formal. Women give corsages to the men and pay all the bills— even furnish the transportation to the dance, calling for the men and seeing them to the door. Nill Beat In Vote Of Party Gerry Smith received the Associ ated Greek Students (AGS) nom ination for student body president Monday night at a two and-a-half hour meeting which produced a full slate of officers for the coming student body elections. Smith, a member of Phi Gamma Delta, was the winner of Monday's Greek poll to determine the man favored by Greek students, and de feated Herb Nill in the evening's vote of house representatives. The candidate for number one position on the AGS slate has been Dad’s Day chairman and Junior Prom chairman, among his more recent activities, and was tapped for Fri ars during Junior Weekend. Joanne Fitzmaurice, Kappa Kap pa Gamma, received the nod for ASUO secretary on the Greek slate; AGS President Hob Deuel, who conducted the meeting, expressed great satisfaction with the slate selected, stating “We believe the AGS has nominated the strongest possible group of candidates, and one which Greek and Independent students alike can sincerely back.” Nominated for senior class presi dent was Steve Church, Theta Chi, with Florence Hansen, Alpha Omi cron Pi, getting the nomination for senior class secretary. Will Urban, Phi Delta Theta, is the nominee for senior representative to the ASUO executive council. Nominated for junior class posi tions were Vernon Beard, Delta Tau Delta, for president; Shirley Hillard, Alpha Delta Pi, secretary; and Dick McLaughlin, Chi Psi, for representative. Joe Kaiser, Sigma Nu, was nom inated for sophomore class presi dency, with Mary Gilliam, Alpha Chi Omega, named to run for soph omore secretary. Herb Cook, Sig ma Chi, is the nominee for sopho more representative. Jerry Kinnersley, Phi Kappa Psi, won the nomination for yell leader on the AGS slate. Nominees to the Co-op board are Kay Kuckenberg, Delta Gamma, for the junior spot; and Merwin Gumpert, Pi Kappa Alpha, and Merle Davis, Sigma Alpha Mu for sophomore positions. Today Last Day For Oreganos Tuesday is the last day of 1950 Oregana distribution, Business Manager Jim Sanders announced Monday. Distribution will stop at 5 p.m. today and students will have to make special arrangements for picking up their Oregana after that time. Johnson Hits TNE Influence Student Body President Art Johnson yesterday opened political warfare for the United Students Association for spring term elec tions as he nominated Barry Moun tain for ASUO president and cas tigated TNE, nationally known secret political organization. Johnson and Mountain, who later was elected USA candidate, set the possible tenor of the USA cam paign by declaring that the Associ ated Greek Students were under the influence of a “political pres sure group.’’ Forcefully bringing the TN® question out into the open. John son declared bluntly: “TNE is ac tive here at Oregon and more active here than at any other campus in the country.’’ Political Chaos Barry Mountain, referring to the political situation on campus, in his nomination address, elaborated1 on Johnson’s remarks, saying, “I want clean political parties. We must work together and stick together, and clean up the whole present po litical chaos to make this an out standing campus.” The University Theater was jam med to capacity with USA mem bers, augmented by Alpha Tati Omega and Delta Upsilon, which yesterday morning bolted the AGS and yesterday afternoon officially joined the USA. Lambda Chi, Phi Kappa Sigma and Alpha Xi Delta already belong to the USA. The meeting was changed for its original meeting place in order to handle the huge attendance. Explains ATO’s, DU’s The presence of the two frater nity houses was explained by John son who told the meeting that be had invited both houses to join USA in a concerted effort to clean cam pus politics. Earlier, opening the meeting, Don Dimick, DU, former AGS polit ical representative explained the attitude of the Delta Upsilon’s in joining the USA. He told the meet ing that the political situation at Oregon was run by “pressure tac tics.” He went on to say that "We feel it should be a government not run by a few select students and a single seeret society.” Twenty One Nominated Twenty one students were nomi nated for various ASUO offices. Barry Mountain was opposed by Ron Phillips and Ed Peterson and was elected candidate on the first ballot. Two offices necessitated runoffs. Don Smith was named candidate for senior representative defeating Bob Schooling, and Don Paillette defeated Jim Haycox for sophomoie representative.