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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
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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.