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EMERALD
VOLUME LII
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1951
NUMBER 56
IFC Tables
Senior Ride
Discussion
The Inter-Fraternity Council in
actio* Thursday evening tabled
discussion of senior rides until Jan.
18 following a presentation of the
problem of senior hazing by mem
bers of the University administra
tion.
General agreement, was reached
by the council that the practice of
senior rides should be moderated.
A policy of individual house re
sponsibility was suggested by the
group and house representatives
were urged to present to their liv
organization the dangers re
sisting from hazing extremes.
Dr. F. N. Miller, director of the
•Student Health Service, acquaint
ed the council with several in
stances in which seniors taken on
senior rides came perilously close
to death due to poor judgement
upon the part of underclassmen.
Dr. Miller expressed the opinion
that without the availability of
modern drugs such a tragedy
might have takdi place.
Cautions Against Alcohol
The use of alcohol was caution
ed against by Miller. Alcohol in
itself is unlikely to cause death,
he explained, but the combination
of alcohol and exposure can be ex
tremely dangerous to the body.
Dr. Miller pressed upon the group
the necessity of outlawing or in
some manner controling the senior
ride tradition.
Ray Hawk, director of men’s
affairs, called upon the IFC for
tempering action concerning sen
ior rides. Hawk suggested that the
harassing of senior by underclass
men might take the form of con
structive work.
common sense .Needed
“There is a need for the exercise
of common sense,” Hawk declared.
He emphasized that internal regu
lation would be required for the
successful solving of the problem,
not restriction by the administra
tion.
Injurious publicity resulting
from isolated cases of excess was
listed by Dr. Donald DuShane,
Director of Student Affairs, as a
major reason for control of senior
rides.
The Inter-Fraternity Council
will renew discussion of the sen
ior ride problem at its next meet
ing Jan. 18, at Pi Kappa Alpha.
Jr. GOP, Solons
Will Study UO
Salem Caravan
Don Collin, president of the
campus Young Republicans, will
ask representatives of the state
Young GOP organization and state
legislators Sunday what they think
of the proposed campus trip to
Salem.
Collin is going to Salem Sun
day to attend a meeting of the
Young Republicans’ state execu
tive board. He will be accompan
ied by Ed Peterson, senior in
music and regional representative
of the executive board in the Third
Congressional District.
The campus group discussed the
plan for a student trip to the state
legislature, proposed in an Eme
rald editorial Monday, at its meet
ing Thursday night.
Members are enthusiastic about
the plan, Collin reported. However,
no definite arrangements can be
made until several problems are
investigated and the reaction of
officials in Salem is learned, he ex
plained.
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Board Opens SU Facilities
To Campus House Dances
Student Union dancing facilities have been thrown open to
house dances under a new policy approved Wednesday night at
the regular meeting of the Student Union hoard.
Several stipulations went into the policy, which was drawn up
after a fall term request by Pi Kappa Alpha that thev be allowed
ballroom facilities for their annual Dream Girl dance.
At that time there was no established poliev concerning use of
Nevada Gets
A-Bomb Test
WASHINGTON — UP) — The
Atomic Energy Commission an
nounced plans Thursday to test
atomic weapons on a closely guard
ed bombing range in Nevada.
The experiments will mark the
first nuclear explosions in the Unit
ed States since the first A-Bomb
was tested in New Mexico in 1945.
The commission’s- announcement
said President Truman has author
ized it to use part of the 5,000
square mile bombing and gunnery
range reservation of the Air Force
near Las Vegas, Nev.
Accessible Site Chosen
It. added:
“The use of the Las Vegas bomb
ing and gunnery range will make
available to the Los Alamos
(N. M.) scientific laboratory a
readily accessible site for periodic
test work with a resultant speed
up in the weapons development
program. Test activities at the new
site will include experimental nuc
lear detonation for the develop
ment of atomic bombs—so-called
A-Bombs—carried out under con
trolled conditions.
“Full security restrictions of the
Atomic Energy Act will apply to
the work at the new site and dur
ing test periods the AEC section
of the reservation will be closed to
all persons except those directly
connected with the experimental
programs.”
Precautions Taken
Close attention has been given
the problems of radiological safety
and security, the AEC said, and
"all necessary precaution, includ
ing radiation surveys and patroll
ing of the surrounding territory
will be undertaken.”
The commission added that it
will continue to use the Eniwetok
proving grounds in the Marshall
Islands of the Pacific Ocean.
There was no explanation offer
ed on what the AEC meant by
“experimental nuclear detonation.”
Discussions of the proposed hydro
gen bomb have brought out that
these vastly more powerful ex
plosives might be set off by a
“conventional” A-Bomb.
Group Secures
Cheating Data
Questionnaires have been sent
out to teachers and women’s liv
ing organizations by the Student
Disciplinary . Committee to get
“specific information’’ about cheat
ing at the University of Oregon.
The questionnaires are also to go
to men’s organizations today.
“The Student Diciplinary Com
mittee wants to revise its policy
and practice in handling cheating
cases,” said J. M. Foskett, profes
sor of sociology and chairman of
the committee.
“We decided to get specific in
formation and data to use as a
guide,” he said.
Questionnaires from the wom
en’s living organizations are. be
ing returned now and those from
the teachers are already in the
hands of the committee.
the ballroom by campus liv
ing organizations. Permission
was granted, however, for the
fraternity to hold its dance in
McArthur Court, and the SU
board voted to investigate the
possibility of allowing future
house dances in the new build
ing.
Okay If No Conflict
According to provisions of the
policy living organizations may
use facilities of the SU ballroom
providing there is no confliction
with any program sponsored by
the SU board, the SU administra
tion, or the University administra
tion.
Approval of requests for use of
the ballroom will not be confirm
ed by the SU administration until
three weeks prior to the date de
sired for reservation.
Director Dick Williams told
board members that every effort
would be made to assure availabil
ity of the ballroom on nights that
house dances were scheduled, even
going to the extent of checking
the possibility of moving a con
flicting activity to another area in
the building.
Board to Decide
Conflictions arising from two or
more organizations applying for
use of the ballroom on the same
night would be settled by the SU
board. First consideration would
be given the organization having
the most limited facilites.
The board wll also consider joint
use of the ballroom. If the needs
of the organizations are considered
to be equal, the policy will work
on a first come, first served basis.
House dances must be approved
by the Office of Student Affairs
before any requests to hold them
in the ballroom will be accepted.
Dull Says China
Reflects Soviet
Chinese Communism reflects
completely Soviet Communism, Dr.
Paul S. Dull, associate professor
of political science and history,
asserted Thursday night in a
speech before the institute on
"Crisis In Asia,’’ held at Heed
College, Portland.
Joining Dull in the discussion
on Asia was Anna Louise Strong,
author, lecturer, ex-Seattle
newspaperwoman, and well-known
American communist sympathizer.
Dr. Strong told Portland newspap
ermen in an interview Wednesday
that Russia never has had ambi
tions or interests outside the So
viet’s boundaries.
Dull elaborated on his remarks
by saying that he doubted if Mao
Tse-Tung, Red China’s leader, is
a puppet of Moscow. But Mao, Dull
continued, is an avowed Marxist
and has consistently followed the
Stalinist line in foreign policy.
Dull summed up the question by
saying that Mao’s goals, as he has
stated them, are the goals of the
Soviet Union, and when both have
adopted the same international
interpretation of the same book, it
will be necessary for Stalin to di
rect.
Living Hall
Problems
Considered
A nine-man committee has been
appointed to study the problem of
men's living organizations, which
has arisen from the national emer
gency, University president H. K.
Newburn announced. Faculty, stu
dents and alumni will make up the
committee.
Dr. Paul Kleinsorge, professor
of economics, will head the group,
which is composed of Carlisle
Moore, professor of liberal arts;
Paul Dull, professor of political
science; William Harber, senior in
liberal arts; A. T. Goodwin, junior
in law; Howard Lemons, athletic
business manager; Donald Du
Shane, director of student affairs;
and Edward F. Bailey and Stan
ley R. Darling, alumni.
The committee will study the
problems which the men’s houses,
particularly fraternities, will have,
as more and more men are called
into the armed forces. Dr. Klein
sorge said that the committee will
try to find some way to help out
the groups and that they will “keep
the fraternities going if at all pos
sible.”
President Newburn said, in an
nouncing the committee’s appoint
ment, “It is apparent that during
this period of emergency involv
ing heavy mobilization of our
young men, fraternities in particu
lar will face serious problems. It
is our thought that we should do
everything possible to assist them
by providing whatever advice and
assistance we can.”
Work on the problem will be
gin next week with the commit
tee’s first meeting on Jan. 18. Com
pletion of the study, with recom
mendations, is expected before the
end of the school year.
WAA Chooses
Carnival Heads
Joan Skordahl and Breda Lynch
were selected Wednesday by the
WAA executive board to co-chair
man the WAA carnival for Feb.
16, according to President Bonnie
Gienger.
Miss Skordahl, a junior in hist
ory, and Miss Lynch, second year
business administration major, will
choose committee heads next week.
The carnival, sponsored annual
ly by the WAA, gives all campus
living organizations and clubs a
chance to sponsor booths and con
cessions, and permits each group
to keep 90 per cent of the profits.
The rest goes to the WAA.
Mountain, 16 Others
Enlist in U.S. Air Force
Barry Mountain, ASUO presi
dent, and 16 other students en
listed in the Air Force Cadet pro
gram when a temporary recruit
ing service was set up Tuesday
through Thursday in the Student
Union.
Mountain, who will take pilot
training, and 10 others obtained
four-month determents, which
will enable them to complete the
school year, according to the Air
Force recruiting team.
Other students getting defer
ments are Howard Hull, Jr., David
Hall, Lester Cutting, William
[ Shumway, Max Ingerson, Don Na
lion, Robert Manning, John Mar
tel, Robert Jones, and Garland
Treynka.
Those going into training im
mediately are Robert Nelson, Al
bert Corneliusen, and Dale Amer
man.
Three students, John Bartholo
ma, Raymond Jungers, and Nor
man Fugitt, will receive second
lieutenant commissions through
the University ROTC.
All applicants were required to
take qualifying aptitude and phy
sical tests. The latter were admin
istered by Drs. Marian H. Miller
and Squire Bozorth of the Univer
sity faculty.
U.S. OK's
War Half
Proposal
LAKE SUCCESS—(AP)—
The United States Thursday
accepted a U.N. committee
plan for an immediate cease fire
in Korea to be followed by im
mediate negotiations on all Far
East problems by the U.S., Brit
ain. Russia, and Red China.
Warren R. Austin, chief Ameri
can delegate, told the political com
mittee of the U. N. General As
sembly that he would vote in favor
of a set of principles laid down by
a three-man cease fire committee.
He said the principles provide a
restatement of the general policies
which the U. N. has followed and
of the requirements that there
must be a cessation of hostilities
before any negotiations can be un
dertaken.
He pointed out that the state
ment said there must be a formal
cease fire or a lull in hostilities.
Three Give Support
Austin spoke after Britain,
France, and Norway had support
ed the statement of principles laid
down by Lester B. Pearson, Cana
dian foreign minister.
Austin said there must be a time
limit for the Chinese communists
to give their answer but he did not
set a deadline.
If the last effort fails, he said,
he feels the U.N. will be firmly unit
ed in further steps to resist aggres
sion.
It was understood here that the
proposals laid down by Pearson
had the backing of the British
Commonwealth conference in Lon
don.
Ben C. Limb, South Korean
foreign minister, also accepted the
principles.
The cease-fire committee pro
posed :
Safeguard Against Offensive
1. An immediate cease fire with
safeguards againSt being used by
either side for a new offensive.
2. If and when a cease fire is
obtained, further steps to restore
peace will be considered.
3. All non-Korean armed forces
will be withdrawn by appropriate
stages from Korea and arrange
ments will be made for the Korean
people to express their own free
will in respect of their future gov
ernment.
4. Temporary arrangements shall
be made in accordance with U. N.
principles for the administration
of Korea and the maintenance of
peace and security.
b. As soon as agreement has been
reached on a cease-fire, the Gene
ral Assembly shall set up an ap
propriate body which shall include
representatives of the government;*
of the United Kingdom, the Unit
ed States of America, the Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics, amlj
the People’s Republic of China
with a view of the achievement ol'
a settlement, in conformity with
existing international obligations
and the provisions of the United
Nations charter, of Far Eastern
problems, including among others,
those of Formosa (Taiwan) and
of representation of China in the
United Nations.”