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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 24, 1950)
Weather . . . FAIR and slightly warmer today. Low temperature Tues day night, 42. High expected today, 18. Low tonight, 40. VOLUME LI m Daily EMER 46ITAT SDX Issue Tomorrow ... SIGMA DELTA CHI, men’s pro fessional journalism fraternity, will issue its annual SDX edition of the Emerald Thursday. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 24,1950 NUMBER 184 Open Letter Lists 8 as TNE Members Three-Day Vole Ends at 6 p.m.; 3 Polls Open Voting on the proposed new ASUO constitution will end at 6 p.m., today, with indications being that the 50 per cent re quirement will be reached. The constitutional election be gan with the student body offi • cer election Monday. It was scheduled for three days by the Executive Council in an effort to secure the vote of 50 per cent of the student body required by the document’s enabling clause. Three polling booths—in the library, on 13th St. between Fen ton and Friendly Halls, and on 13th between the Co-op and Con don Hall—will remain open to day for voting on the constitu tion. Chairmanship Interviews Set This Afternoon Candidates for championships of six Student Union standing com mittees will be interviewed today and Thursday, according to Les Jones, chairman of the SU Board. The 44 students who petitioned for the committee heads will be notified by the Board when to ap pear for interviewing. When chos en, the six chairmen will compose a body to be known as the Direc torate of the Student Union. To expidite the interviewing*, Jones has set up three subcommit tees to handle preliminary inter views. Each of the candidates will ^ appear before one of the subcom mittees this afternoon. Selection of two or three of the candidates who petitioned for each of the chairmanships will be made by the subcommittees. They in turn will refer these candidates to the SU Board which will meet as a whole for final interviewing on Thursday. Petitioners for publicity chair man will be interviewed starting at 1 p.m. in Art Johnson’s office in Emerald Hall. There are 11 stu dents seeking this position. Chairmanship petitioners for the interview and referral committee, and the ballroom committee will appear before a subcommittee for interviews at 4 p.m. in the Student Union Office. Six applications have been re ceived for chairman of the inter view and referral committee, and nine were turned in for chairman of the ballroom committee. The third subcommittee will con vene at 3 p.m. in 4 Oregon to inter view for chairmanships of the rec reation committee and the cul tural committee. There were six and nine petitions respectively turned in for these two positions. As only three petitions were re ceived for chairman of the house views have been arranged. Jones said Tuesday that all stu k (Please turn to page sevenj (The following letter was received from the law students whose names appear below it at 10:30 last night. Donald Du Shane, director of student affairs, would neither confirm nor deny that the students named in the letter were members of TNE.)—Editor. An Open Letter to the Student Body and Art Johnson : The campus is smothered with rumor. The innocent are being accused wiith membership, the guilty are protected with the cloak of doubt . Some say that TNE is too powerful for the administration, with faculty and alumni being involved. Further it is said that the confessions were illegally obtained, hence the administration fears legal retaliation if the offenders are punished. Others con tend that TNE is harmless, not really an undesirable organiza tion after all. Yet, if the text of the confession statements are true, we have in our midst individuals who are eligible for our contempt. . . punishment? The administration refuses to disclose the identity of the members or the specific wrongs which they have committed. A question might be directed to Mr. Donald M. DuShane : As a National Officer of Phi Delta Theta, a fraternity which has an nounced that every known member of TNE will be expelled, what action will you take in regard to any TNE men in the Ore gon chapter of Phi Delta Theta? If TNE is as bad as it is reputed to be, the University should punish them. If TNE activities involve an invasion of the rights of individual students, the students have a right to know the names of their oppressors. To force this matter out in the open, to compel disclosure, wc assert that the following men were active members of TNE : (Names withheld by editor). If the TNE operates in accord with its reputation, we conclude that these men, due to their offices and activities, were members of the organization. If these students Avcre not members of TNE, if membership in TNE has odious connotations, we are subject to a libel suit. We welcome such action. Signed, Maurice Engelgau Bill Boyd Wm. Tassock Jim Hassang i ne ameraia u-aitor aoes not Deneve in publicizing or punish ing these men more than the other 17 on the University list, but the editor does feel that the entire list should be released. Verifi cation of the membership in TNE of the listed men is being sought. Proof of membership of 17 other students is being sought; when this proof has been established the names of TNE members put on probation by the University will be published. It is hoped that the University administration will show its faith in the students (who started the complaints against TNE and who have a right to know all the facts of the investigation) by releasing its list of the students placed on probation. If the ad ministration fails to release its list, the Emerald will print a list of students whose membership in TNE has been proven to the sat isfaction to the editorial staff.)—Editor. Past Trouble Causes Elimination Of Pre-Mortar Board Traditions Pre-Mortar Board Ball traditions, which have been held for the last two years, were dispensed with this year. The reason for discontinuing these traditions is that last year pun ishment for the rules set up for Mortar Board’s Ladies’ Day caused some disorder on me campus. Mortar Board last year declared a Ladies Day on Thursday before the Mortar Board Ball. The special rules for this day were: 1. All men were to wear knick ers. 2. No man was to wear shoes on the old campus. 3. Xo cigar smoking was al lowed on old campus. 4. Xo student was allowed to walk on the sidewalks. o. Xo one was to say “Hello,” particularly on the Hello Walk. 6. All freshmen were to wear green hair ribbons. Punishment for the violation of these rules was a water bagging in front of the side. Punishment was administered to the violators by Kwama members in Skull and Dagger Sweaters, Phi Thetas in Druid scarves, Mortar Board Ball committee chairmen wearing let termen sweaters, and the WAA, AWS, and YWCA cabinet mem bers. Last year while the punishment was being given by the women in front of the Side, two men ap peared on the scene and drenched the coeds with a stirrup water (Please turn to page sevenJ University Official Explains Methods Of Oregon TIME By KEN METZLER A University official said Tuesday that Theta,Nu Epsilon, secret illegal political organization, was detrimental to the Uni versity for two reasons—its secrecy and its methods. The Greek letter fraternity was broken up by the University through signed statements from each member of the organization on the campus. The official said that 9 or 10 fraternities on the campus had Five to Receive Radio Awards At Presentation Five outstanding students in University radio work will be one trophy richer tonight, following the radio awards presentation ban quet at the Anchorage. Tonight’s banquet starts at 5:45 p.m., and tickets are still available at the speech department office, the Anchorage, and at Fennell’s. Tickets will also be sold at the door. The achievement trophies are now on display in the front win dow of the Co-op, and will be pre sented to the winners at the ban quet. Twenty - three radio students were nominated for the awards, and five winners were chosen by Eugene radio station and the Rich field Reporter, sponsors of the con test. Luke Roberts, education director of station KOIN in Portland, will be guest speaker at the banquet. Jim Morris, KOAC program direc tor, will act as master of ceremon ies. The award for the outstanding female performer of the year will be made by KORE. The outstand ing male performer trophy is spon sored by KERG. The leading radio writer will be honored by KASH, and KUGN will make the award to the outstanding student in radio production. The Richfield Reporter is spon soring the outstanding achieve ment award. TNE members, one, two or per haps three to a house. He said that a majority of the members of a “TNE house” don’t know their house had a member. Some didn’t even be lieve TNE existed. TNE Methods Told Its methods, he said, are like those of most secret organizations —threats, hints of reprisals, spreading of rumors. The official declared that the membership of TNE was comprised of students whom the other mem bers considered a “good guy,” with each member having his own defi nition of a good guy. Way It Mas Done He said a new member was taken into the organiation along the fol lowing pattern: He is being considered by TNE for a campus political office and told that some of the “boys” are having a meeting. He is invited to come along. Often the person is invited more and more and more often uptil he is considered a regular member. He begins to get a feeling of power on the campus without clear ly seeing what the consequences would be. The official commented that sometimes the person does not like what he sees in TNE and turns it down, but keeps quiet about it to avoid the disapproval of the mem bers. TNE Procedure Its methods were something like this: When the plans of TNE were made the orders were sent out. The (ricasc turn to pane seven ) Irate Official Dooms Oreganas Not Claimed to Homecoming Fires Business Manager Jim Sanders of the 1950 Oregana issued a threat today that 500 Oreganas now sit ting in the Student Union office of the new Erb Memorial Union will be donated to the Homecoming bonfire committee for next fall if they are not picked up by their owners immediately. Among the owners Sanders has discovered 5/6 of the Senior Six, the Business Manager of the Emer ald, president of the AGS, and an incredible number of campus wheels. The current request out of the manager's office is: Please stop reading your room mate s copy and pick up your own. Any student who can't find the Erb Memorial Union is asked to go to the University Infirmary and walk directly across Thirteenth street, or better yet stay at the In firmary for an examination. Un quote. Hours 8 to 5 any day. At last report, Sanders had suc cessfully delivered one more copy of the Oregana to one Larry Dav idson, intimately connected with the 1950 staff. It seems that Dav idson neglected to pick up his copy until four days after general cam pus distribution had ceased.
