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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 2, 1951)
Disasters Evil, Unpredictable; j Red Cross Donations Aid Relief By Norman Anderson Have you ever seen a disaster? No? Well talk to some of the old timers of Galveston, Tex, which was wiped out by a tidal wave. Or to some of the thousands caught in the Mississippl-Ohio Riv er floods of 1927 or 1937. Best of all. try some of those caught In the Texas City holocaust of 1949. They can tell you what a disaster is. A rough estimate of the extent of a disaster runs something like this: Thousands of people without homes, without any of their per sonal belongings such as clothes, beds, and they have no food, be cause all the grocery stores have been destroyed along with their homes. There are no means of com munication; telephone wires arc down, lights are out, gas mains and water mains arc non-existent, de stroyed along with everything else. Fires usually rage practically un checked through whatever is left etanding. Cries of pain, and moans from the injured seep into every living peison's hearing. Dead bodies, of those you love and those you don't even know, lie everywhere. Coupled with a disaster is the frantic worry of relatives, unable to learn anything about their loved : ones caught in the midst of na- ; ture’s most horrible tragedies. This is a disaster. This and much ! more is whnt the people of San | Francisco in 1900, Tillamook, Ore- , gon, way back when; Ecuador, during the tragic series of earth quakes several years ago, all ex perienced. And it is this which the Red i Cross is called on to cope with I throughout every year. To them | falls the task of supplying food and shelter, of helping the medical j profession ease pain, and of giv ing aid and comfort to the frantic \ relatives and worried ones who es cape the worst of the disaster. All this costs money, money com ing from people like you and me who part with a dollar which may come back to us in ways we never realize. This is the reason the Red Cross conducts an annual fund raising campaign every year. KWAX Positions Open Positions on the KWAX business staff are open to students with typing or filing experience, accord ing to Denali Groth, KWAX office manager. Workers are badly needed, said Miss Groth, to complete the staff and start organization of the of fice. Interested students may con tact Miss Groth at the third floor studios, Villard. Women To Choose Officers Monday New officer*), ii name change, anil u now constitution will be vot ed upon by University women Mon day in the annual women'* elec tions. Twenty officers to head the As sociated Women Students, Young Women's Christian Association, and Women's Athletic Association will be chosen during the after noon balloting. Candidates will be introduced at an assembly at 12:15 p.m. Monday in Alumni Hall, Gerlinger. Voting will begin immediately after the meeting and continue until 6 p.m. A style show of spring fashions will be held at 4 p.m. IFC Nixes Rush Plan ('Continued from pa<je one) presentatives that he hoped fresh man pledges would prove during the remainder of the year that they are capable of living In unity with dormitory men. He cited the Uni versity of Michigan as a school where fall pledging and a living-in poltry have been co-ordinated. DuShane pointed out to the group that under the program now in force fraternities have some additional source of Income, and a contact with freshmen living in dormitories. Ray Hawk, director of men's af fairs, indicated as advantages the value of "pledge recruiters" who may be invaluable assets in tin fraternity rushing program, and the increase of the Greek-Inde pendent ratio made possible through the present pledging sys tem. The IFC members explained that they desired attendance of fresh men at house meetings and their presence at work parties In order to know the member whom they had pledged. One IFC representative com plained of the "half-breed frater nities" which he declared were re- j suiting from the severing of pledges from their houses. Members of the committee ap- j pointed to review dissatisfactions of the compromise with the I DC and disclose positive issues arc Norm Peterson, Chuck Olsen, Dar- j rel Liska, Bill Harber, Bill Carey, and Norm Kaplan. The IFC in other business agreed j to a regulation limiting the num- j ber of freshman pledges and initi- j ates to 30 men for each fraternity.! Previous limit was 25. The next regular meeting of the | group is scheduled for Mar. 29. need an extra Blouse? then run—jump—ride or fly to Hadley’s and you’ll he thrilled to find so many new pretty styles awaiting your selection. We are Ivugetie Headquarters for Famous GRAFF SHIRTS Tailored-Dressy Plain or Frilled 3.95 to 8.95 Reduced Rates For Faculty? 'Yes'-Students Ify Helen Jarkmin II wan the issue at Wednesday's Student Union Hoard Meeting and today's Inquiring Reporter question that is, "Do you think family members should be admit ted to Student Union sponsored programs at lower prices than townspeople ?” The SU Hoard may have been primarily against the proposal but that wasn't the answer given by the students asked the question today. In fact only one answered negatively. As far as the progrumH which the SU might sponsor are concern ed, they would Is* mostly musical entertainment such as the Hazel Scott show'. Joy Southward freshman in liberal nrts "Yes. They have so much to do with the University that they should be allowed in at the same prices as students." John Braun senior in archi tecture "As long as the students contribute to the upkeep of the SU and faculty members don’t, then I think they are on the same status as townspeople.” I’at Howard freshman in libe ral arts "I think they should. Alter all, they are part of the Uni versity family just as the students are.” Hank Wedemeyer freshman in pre-med "Personally, I'd say yes They are connected with the University and therefore they are entitled to its benefits as well as the students." I). E. Clark head of the his tory department "I think it would be a good psychological view to make the faculty seem more a part of the University family; however, there are practical prob lems to be worked out such as some method of identifying facul ty members w'hen they come to buy tickets. It's pretty easy to identify non-students, but to separate facul ty from townspeople would be more difficult." Joyce Winn freshman in edu cation "Yes! They have more to do with the school than towns people do. I do feel they should have to pay the same fees to wards SU maintainance that stu dents do, however. r: U. S., U. N., World Crisis (Continued from pane one) conference Ih tlie University Inter national KelatioriH Club. Committee members arc Frank W. Neuber, co-ordinator; Mrn. H. L. James, meals and banquet; Lillian Berg strom, chairman, housing and re gistration; Helen Jean Neuber, literature; and Lloyd Lease, trans portation. Delegates will be housed in Uni veraity sororities, fraternities, and cooperatives. Special attraction for confer ence students are a guided tour of the campus leaving at 4 p.m. Fri day from the HU and the Inter national Featlval sponsored by the YMCA, YWCA, and Cosmopolitan Club Saturday afternoon. Correction... The WAA swiniminK meet will be held .Saturday in Gerllnger pool, not the men’H pool as Thursday's Kmerald stated. You won't be running around in circles if you take the time to study all the angles. Forest F.aston freshman in liberal ai ts "I do. They want to know what students arc doing and what’s going on on the campus, and should be- included the same as stu dents in campus affairs. I think th< matter of faculty fees for SU up keep should not be taken into ac count.” Twenty-One Held In School Infirmary Twenty-one student* were in the Infirmary Thursday. Women con fined were Arden Alexson, Marion Churchill, Melita Moyer, Carolyn McLean, Joyce Rohm, and Patricia Schofield. Men were Eugene Lehman, Bill Wright, Bill Kirby, Rvein Falk Pederson, Lea Collier, Jim Mead, John Chaney, Jim Hefty, Jim Hyde, Alvin Reiss, Bob Wilcox, Lloyd Koenig, Clark Davis, Dick Hamp ton, and Joe St. Martin. 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