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VOLUME LI UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, MONDAY, MAY 22, 1950 NUMBER 182 Three Candidates Dropped From Today's ASUO Election Polls Open Today at 8 ASUO, Class, Constitution, Co-op Ballots Before Voters Polls will open today at 8 a.m., climaxing a campaign marked by charges and counter charges of subversive pressure and political opportunism, in the most heated election on the Oregon campus in several years. « Students will be confronted with four ballots when they go to the polls to vote for next year’s stu dent body, class, and Co-op offi cers, and the constitution. Separate Ballots Six polling places will be located at Gerlinger Hall, the Library, the Education School, and on 13th St. The names of the three candi dates who have 'withdrawn their candidacy will appear on the ballots today, because ballots were already printed. Votes for these candidates will not count, but will not invalidate the rest of the ballot. between the Co-op and Condon, Oregon and Commerce, and Fenton and Friendly. Separate ballots will be issued for ASUO officers, class officers, members of the Co-op Board, for adoption of the proposed constitu tion. Only Co-op members will vote for the Board, while members of the individual classes will vote for their own officers. Booths will remain open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Only the constitu tional election will continue for three days. Other elections will be closed Monday, as ruled by the ASUO Executive Council last Monday. . Supporting the new constitution, submitted a second time for ap proval are Art Johnson, ASUO president, the Executive Council, AGS, USA, and Don Myrick, lav/ student who contested voting' pro cedures in the last constitutional election. No Vote for Graduates Student body cards will be nec essary for identification in voting, and will be stamped as each stu dent votes. Graduate students may not vote, according to last Thurs day’s ruling by the Judiciary Com mittee, Ed Anderson, ASUO vice president in charge of elections, stated. Votes for Will Urban, Gerry Smith, and Dick McLaughlin, three j Please turn to fane seven) Bottles Break 2 Windows Of Officials Whiskey bottles were hurled through the windows of two Uni versity officials—Donald M. Du Shane, director of student affairs, and Virgil S. Fogdall, director of men’s affairs — around midnight Friday. Notes were stuffed into both bottles, the contents of which were not disclosed to the Emerald. DuShane said, he notified police immediately after finding the bot tle, but it was too late to protect Fogdall’s home, as a bottle had al ready been sent through his won dow. DuShane’s and Fogdall’s names were written on the respec tive bottles. DuShane feels the vandalism was “not necessarily related’’ to the campus furor over TNE. He thinks it was “probably the act of a dis f Please turn to finer seven) Press Use for Campaign Printing Job a Mistake, Officials Declare More excitement was added to the political situation Friday when two members of the United Students Association discov ered that some Associated Greek Students campaign material had been printed in the University Press. No action is being taken, since it was just “a mistake,” ac cording to University Business Manager J. Orville Lindstrom, A\ ho has jurisdiction over the press. However, the action was con TNE Rumors, Exposes Not New at University Almost every year—just about election time—rumors of the exis tence of Theta Nu Epsilon, secret political organization, come before the student body. This year, however, probably marks the first time definite proof —a sworn notarized list of the members—has existed. Rumors and “exposes” of TNE have made the headlines of the Emerald and have gone out on the Associated Press wires several times before. The most notable previous ex pose of TNE is still within the memory of most seniors on the campus. That happened when the Emer- ' aid under the editorship of Mar- j guerite Wittwer-Wright, carried the huge headline, “OREGON TNE PROVED.” That was Nov. 6, 194G. The basis of the expose was a blank membership card found on the campus. The news story, written by Herb Penny, then Emerald news editor, said: “The existence of T N E as a national underground campus po litical organization has already been established . . . the discovery of the card at this University is the first definite proof that TNE is active at Oregon. “The card bears the name ‘So ciety of 1870,’ TNE's ‘cover-name.’ It shows seven devils and a serpent surmounted by crossed keys. The greek letters for TNE appear be low the devils and on the forhead of the skull.” Mrs. Wright editorially paral leled TNE with the Fascist regime under Hitler. “The German political philoso (Please turn to page sevenj i traiy to university regulations, ■since only University material is supposed to be printed at the press, Mr. Lindstrom stated. Type forms for a leaflet pro moting Vern Beard, AGS can didate for junior class presi dent, and for imitation TNE mem bership cards dropped from air plane during the between-class “Wally Wardboss” demonstration Friday morning were found at the press by Dick Neely and Don Dim ick. Permission Granted It was discovered that the ma terial had been set up and run off by Abbott Paine, part-time stu dent employee at the Press, in his spare time, with the permission of Press Superintendent Fred Beard (no kin to Candidate Beard, ac cording to the Superintendent’s secretary). “I didn’t realize what he was printing,” Mr. Beard said after wards. “Of course I should have looked into it, but I didn't and I gave my okay.” It will never hap ( Please turn to page seven) Deans Recognize TNE's Existence; Report Expected Students will go to the polls today after a weekend which saw the lid blow oil the campus political-TNK situation with the fol lowing developments: 1. hor the first time in 14 years, the University officially recog nized the existence of Theta Xu Epsilon, illegal secret society, on the University campus. Withdrawn From Race GERRY SMITH WILL URBAN DICK MeLAUGHLIN Weather . . . Continued Fair and warm for elections. 2. .1 liree Associated Greek Students candidates— Gerry Smith, Will Urban, and Dick McLaughlin — were officially withdrawn from today’s ASUO election by AGS Sunday. Students will go to the polls to day after a weekend which saw the lid blow off the campus politi cal-TNE situation with the follow ing developments: 1. For the first time in 14 years, the University officially recog nized the existence of Theta Nu Epsilon,illegal secret society, oh the University campus. 2. Three Associated Greek stu dents candidates — Gerry Smith, Will Urban, and Dick McLaughlin —were officially withdrawn from today's ASUO election by AGS Sunday. 3. The University Board of Deans authorized a “vigorous investiga tion’’ of the entire situation by the Office of Student Affairs with the intention of taking- appropriate action when the investigation ends. 4. A statement from the Univer sity to the effect that a full report on the situation will probably be issued today. First Since 1936 This was the first official recog nition by the University of TNE’s presence on the campus since 1986, when a T N E chapter was dis banded by the administration. The Board of Deans met behind closed doors for nearly four hours Saturday morning, examining evi dence which implied the active ex istence, on campus, of TNE. How ever, they did not disclose what action would be taken at the close of the investigation. uouei's statement A statement, submitted and signed by Hob Deuel, AGS presi dent, with the full concurrence ol' the three candidates withdrawn from the election reads as follows: “In the interest of good student government, I am withdrawing the names of three AGS candidates from today’s student body elec tions. They are Gerry Smith, Will Urban, and Dick McLaughlin. Since all these candidates have been subject to charges and coun ter charges regarding mpmhership in Theta Nil Epsilon, I do not think it is fair to them or to their party to continue them in this election.’’ The statement was brought to the Emerald offices, by Lyle M. Nelson, director of information, Sunday. Deuel and McLaughlin were not available for comment before Em erald press time Sunday night. Both Smith and Urban refused to comment on the withdrawal. The statement issued regarding the investigation Saturday morn ing follows: (Please turn to payc sei en)