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n Daily EMERALD VOLUME IJI UNIVERSITY OK OREGON, KUiKNE, THI IlSDAV, FEBRUARY 22, 1931 NUMBER S3 Basketball Rally at 11 in Ballroom Loscutoff Declines Yo-Yo Exhibition^ ,A rally assembly, first and by far the most import ant of tin- current basketball season, will be held in the Student Union ballroom at 11 this morning. To day’* class schedule will be re-arranged as follows: First period: 8-8:35 a.m. Second period: 8:45-9:20 a.m. Third period: 9:30-10:05 a.m. Fourth period: 10:15-10:50 a.m. Art Larsen, president of the Kugcne Duck Club, will speak; Coach John Warren will introduce the basketball team; and Team Captain Will Urban will give a brief talk. Bashful Jim Loscutoff has declin ed to give a Yo-Yo exhibition. Ballteam to Play Do-or-Die Games Oregon and Washington approach this weekend’s crucial scries deadlocked for the Northern Division lead. A split would leave both teams in the same position. A double victory for the Webfoots would mean a single victory over Oregon State the following week end would cinch the title. A double victory for the Huskies would virtually eliminate Oregon from title contention. The rally squad will be on hand to lead several yells, among them a new one. Music will be furnished by the University band. ASUO President Barry Mountain will conduct the ~ rally. Sign Contest To End Soon ^ign contest Judging for Dads' Day Weekend will be held at 4:45 p.m. Friday, Jeanne Hoffman, Chairman of decorations, announc ed Wednesday, The signs will be judged on the following : originality of theme, 25 per cent; color, 10 per cent; senti ment, 15 per cent. Fifty per cent will be the basis of judging, Miss Hoffman said. Rules for the contest, which were submitted by Miss Hoffman, arc as follows: 1. Signs are to be two-dimension al. 2 Material expenses are not to exceed $10. 3. No movable parts are to be used. Judges for the contest are G. L. Henson, manager of the Co-op; Mrs. Bobbie Chambers, Dads’ Day Hostess of 1050; F. H. Heidel, in structor in art; and Olga Yevtlch, program director of the Student Union. All of the 700 Dads' Day lunch eon tickets have been sold, accord ing to Wednesday's report. Present equipment permits no more tickets to be sold. "Events such as the business meeting and the basketball games are still open,” Karl Onthank, as sociate director of student affairs, announced Wednesday, "e v e n though some dads may not be able to attend the luncheon.” Dads' Day Mixer Fixed for Ballroom Curt Finch and his quintet will furnish the music for the mixer scheduled for the Student Union ballroom Saturday night after the Oregon-Washington gamp. Admission for the no-date dance will be 20 cents and dads will be admitted free upon presentation of a Dads’ Day button. The theme and decorations will follow the general weekend theme —"Dad - King For A Day.” Danc ing will begin directly after the game and will end at 12:30 a.m. Special cut-in dances will be in troduced. Four acts of various types of entertainment will be pre sented. Members of the orchestra are Bill Fletcher, drums; Chuck Peterson, bass; Robin Gilbert, piano; Dave Carlton, tenor sax; and Curt Finch, brass. Registration Ends Friday Afternoon Friday is the deadline for re gistering with department clerks for classes for spring term, Registrar Clifford L. Con stance said Wednesday after noon. Students still have until Mar. 3 to complete the remaining <*tepg in the advance registra tion process and file their cards with the registrar’s office. Cast of 'Good by' Set for Opening Gerry Hettinger, two-time win ner of the University Theater "Neut" for acting, will lead the cast of the centrally staged pro duction, "Goodbye, My Fancy," directed by Ottilie Scybolt. Box office for the production opens Monday. The comedy hit will play eight performances be ginning next Friday. Miss Hettinger, who won the award for best supporting player] in 1947-48, and for best actress in 1948-49, will play the role of a U. S. Congresswoman who returns! to her alma mater to accept an honorary degree. The Broadway production of the Fay Kanin comedy starred Made lame Carroll, with Sam Wana maker and Shirley Booth. Donn Doak, last seen in “Othel lo," will play the middle-aged col lege president; and Ed Ragozzino, also of the "Othello" east, will play the Life photographer that competes with the president for the love of Agatha. Beverly Gratton, who up to this time has been busy in the back stage aspect of the theater, steps before the footlights in "Goodbye" as Grace Woods, witty secretary to the Congresswoman. Others in the cast include Sand ra Price, Sue Perry, Barbara Bak er, Kathleen Wisdom (Miss Wis dom is also assistant director to Mrs. Seybolti, Jo Ann Curry, Helen Neuber, Joanne Forbes. LaRue Daniels, Eric Mathews, Ted Thomp son, Helen Johnson, Sue Polsky, Paul Wexler, Bob Chambers, and David Ward. The play will be the first major University Theater production to be presented in the theater’s own intimate in-the-round theater in Villard Hall. Central staging of the production will allow the audi ence to sit on all four sides of the acting area. This type staging necessitates deviations, naturally, from the reg ular techniques of production. The last centrally staged production of the theater was “Midsummer Night's Dream," which was done arena style in McArthur Court as the spectacle production of the 1947-48 season. Radio Tryouts Open Tryouts for “The Impertinence of Reason," a radio remedy, will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. Friday in Studio A, third floor Villard, ac cording to D. Glenn Starlin, in structor in radio. 'Defer Pledging' Say Outgoing IDC Officials The Inter-Dormitory Council Tuesday evening recommended to University administrative officials that rushing and pledging be de layed until the beginning of the sophomore year in view of the deferred living plan. The statement favoring deferred pledging was issued by the out going members of the council in a letter to Donald DuShane, di- i dector of student affairs. The IDC | is composed of house presidents of all dormitories. New members of the council will be elected by in dividual dormitories spring term. The letter, which was signed by Bill Clothier, president of the IDC, stated: "IDC strongly recommends that rushing and pledging be delayed until the beginning of the sopho more year. From the dormitory, viewpoint deferred living can nev er achieve the results desired by the University until rushing and j pledging activities are also de ferred on the same time schedule." inter-Fraternity Council Presi dent Bill Harber, contacted Wed nesday, said he had no knowledge of the IDC recommendation. "The Council feels," the dormi tory president declared, "that it is asking too much of a freshman to live as a dormitory resident and think as a fraternity brother. It is asking too much of the dormitory system to serve only as a place to cat and a place to sleep for pledges while they are in training for their fraternal life.” The council expressed the opin ion that through thp elimination of freshmen pledging “the hodge podge of conflicting interests and activities during the freshman year" could be removed. "Un pledged freshmen will then be in the position of having to prove themselves as outstanding candi dates in order to be pledged to the house of their choice rather than take a pledge pin for grant ed.” the council said. In respect to fraternities under the living-in program the IDC let ter stated: "The fraternities have every thing to gain after the first year of operation under a completely deferred plan. This attitude is held by a large number of national fra ternity officers. Any sort of com promise which would separate de ferred living from deferred pledg ing Is a compromise of long-range ideals by short-sighted planners." I Mt. Angel Choir To Sing Friday The Mount Angel Choristers of the Benedictine Monks of Mount Angel Abbey will present a pro-' gram of Oregorian chants at 8:15 p.m. Friday in the Music School Auditorium. The choral group is sponsored by the School of Music ar.d the Eugene Knights of Colum bus. Tile evening program will be a full recital of the most ancient of choral singing by the forty voice choir and will feature remarks by the chant master, Father Nichol son. The first time that Gregor ian Chants have been presented on stage in this area make it a very rare occasion, according to Don ald W. Allton, professor of music. Father Nicholson, through his ten years’ of study of the chant, has helped to bring back the cor rect interpretation, which was a comparatively lost art for centur ies. Ho studied piano and theory with the Toronto Conservatory of Music, and organ under Oscar Bak er and Arthur Bevin of the London Royal Academy of Music. The Eugene Knights of Colum bus are backing the program fin ancially for the people of Eugene, and plan to entertain the choir at dinner before the concert. Allton arranged for their appearance at the University. Following intermission, the choir will continue to sing the chants used daily in Catholic High Mass and other sung devotions of the church, including “Sanctus" (from the 14th century from “Missa cum .Tubilol- Mode V; "Kyrie” (14th century from the Sunday Mass of Advent and Lent!- Mode VI; "Cre do VI” (from the Uth century)-— Mode IV; "Laudibus Cives” (Vesp er Hymn for Feast of St. Bene dict)- Mode I; "Te Beata Sponsa Christi” (Vesper Hymn for Feast of St. Scholastics)- Mode II; "Ex sulet Caelum” (Vesper Hymn for Feast of Apostles and Evangelists) ■—Mode I; "Vcni Creator” (Vesp er Hymn for Feast of Pentecost, commonly called "Charlemagne’s Hymn”)—Mode VTII; and "Salve Regina" (Hymn to the Virgin Mary)—Solemn Tone, Mode I. Classics Talk Set fessor of classic languages, will discuss "Ancient Classics in the Modern World” at 7:30 p.m. Fri day in the Library Browsing room at the Student Upion, Falf'5l" Rolls May Decline The University will have an en rollment of 4.624 students in the fall term of next year, according to an estimate by the Oregon State System of Higher Education. The estimate appeared in the Feb. 17 issue of the Oregon Voter. According to the same source, Oregon State College will hav* 5,250 students next fall. This re presents a drop of 10.8 per cent over this fall s enrollment for both schools. Oregon's estimated enrollment is broken down as follows: Women students.1.712 ROTC: Air Force. 392 Army. 495 Veterans . 905 Physically exempt from draft 663 118-year-olds not drafted ... 180 Deferred technical or scientific or assigned to school. 277 Total estimated enrollment.... 4,624 This would mean that there would be 1.712 women and 2,912 men enrolled—a ratio of 1.7 men to every woman. The present ratio is about 2.1 for every' woman. Total enrollment in all Oregca schools of higher education has been declining steadily since the peak y'ear of 1947-48, when sonm 19.000 were registered, according to the Oregon Voter. New Committee Added toSU Board Another step in the planned ex pansion of the Student Union Directorate was taken Wednesday night when the SU Board voted to establish an 11th standing com mittee. The new committee, which wi 1 handle all SU music programs, was created from members of the cul tural committee. Petitions for chairmanship in the new group will be called for early next week. Board members decided to change the name of the cultural committee, headed by Barbara Bates, senior in art. to the Brows ing Room committee. Approval of a no-credit, no-grade course in student government was also voiced byr the board. The course is to be offered spring terra with a schedule to be arranged later. Bowling Pictured By Free Movies Free bowling movies will be shown at 4:30 and 7 p.m. today in the Student Union recrea tion area in the basement. The movies, “Bowling Fund amentals^ and “Bowling for Strikes" are being shown by the recreation committee of the SU Board.