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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 15, 1951)
YOI.I'MK Ml I NIVKItSirV OF OKMiO.N, Kl'OK.NK, I I KSD.U, M.tV 15, 1051 .NUMBER 128 Heads of Houses Presents 'Plan' Revisions to Council •*>’ Marge Klllott I leads of Houses, r council com posed of the president* of v'.', worn <n'« living organizations, unani mously accepted the recommenda tion of a committee that was re cently appointed to study the Ore gon plan. Previously Heads of Houses de feated the Oregon plan as a whole iri a 2'i, to 5 vote. The Oregon plan was formulated last month by a group of students who studied living-in and orienta tion programs at Stanford Unlver ^ ity and then Incorporated some of the Stanford program to suit the University's dormitory situa tion. K< commend;, lions from the Heads of Houses were written up in th ■ form of a letter and sent to Students, Grads Win Foreign Study Awards Seven Oregon students and re cent graduates have been tentative ly granted awards under the Full bright Act, according to J. D. Kline, foreign student adviser. Three of these, Bonita Miller, a recent graduate, Gordon Erickson, graduate in speech, and Elizabeth Krait, graduate in foreign lan guages, are definitely winners of the grants, which pay for travel and study expenses for one year's study abroad. Four others must receive State Department approval before their names are released, but Kline said that probably all will get that ap proval. This in an unusually large number for one university, Kline said. Panian Extends Petitions Date The deadline for Student Union committee chairmanship petitions Vhas been extended to 5 p.m. Wed nesday, according to Hank Panian, chairman of the Student Union Board. The petitions were previously due Friday. However, due to Jun ior Weekend activities many people did not have the opportunity or lime to petition, Panian said. Only IS petitions were turned in for the 31 positions. "I know that there are a number of students who are eligible for committee chairmanships fresh men, sophomores, juniors, and sen iors, who have served as commit tee members,” Panier said. “ X hope that they, and everyone else who is interested in Student Union work, regardless of their previous service and of their class, will petition,” he stated. Persons who will be sophomores next year and who have served on Student Union standing committees this year will be eligible for Student Union board membership next year,” he said. The qualifications for committee chairmen are a 2.00 GPA and in terest in the Student Union. Posi tions are open for chairmanship of the art gallery, Browsing Room, concert, dance, house, interview and referral, movie, music, publi city, recreation, and workshop ^committees. Petitions may be picked up in the office of Program Director Olga Yetvich, room 301, third floor of the SU, or in the office of the Student Union Board chairman. I the Executive Council to he dis | cussed at their meeting last right. Consolidated Freshmen I nits Heads of Houses approved con solidated freshmen units, hut questioned tile Idea of freshman dormitories. It was the feeling of i the committee that possibly there would t«- opposition from the up Iterclass independents who should have a choice of dormitories. Further recommendations on this issue were: 1. Upperclass women would select their own unit and floor officers as well as the freshmen women. 2. Upperclass women would have no jurisdiction over the freshmen women; this would be entirely up to the resident assistants, the spon sors, and the freshmen themselves. Another recommendation was I that more provisions be made for co-op women concerning social and intramural activities. ( ounsHing System Heads of Houses stated in its letter that an adequate counccling system is needed and that coun eeling has been the weak spot of this year's living-in plan. They I pointed out that is no assurance in the Oregon plan that the ad ! ministration will give financial aid. They suggested that the resi dent assistant's job and the spon I son's job should not be "played up" ; as an activity. They added that "It will be difficult for the soror ity women to give up their 'activity women' as well as the dormitories; Livingstone To Lecture At 8 Tonight “The University and the Need | for a Philosophy of Life" will be | the topic discussed by Sir Richard Livingstone. British educator, at 8 p.m. tonight in the Student i Union ballroom. The public lecture will be the second in a series of four to be presented by Livingstone and is built around the general theme of "Education and the Spirit of the Age.” The lectures are being spon sored by the University Lecture Committee. Livingstone’s final two lectures on "Science” will be given Thurs day and May 22. Deutschmann Awarded Prize By Denver Post Paul Deutschmann, instructor in journalism on leave of absence from the Denver Post, has been awarded a $100 prize for the outstanding reportorial job of feature writing in Denver in 1950. The award was made by the Den ver Press Club in recognition of a series of 10 articles written by Deutschmann on slum housing con ditions in Denver. Deutschmann wrote them shortly before coming to Oregon in September. Deutschmann, assistant city edi tor of the Denver Post in 1950, was editor of the Oregon Daily Emerald in 1938-39, and a graduate of the School of Journalism. He was city editor of the Eugene Register Guard before going to the Denver Post. • ■ < - consequently, we feel it is very im portant to choose qualified persons! even though they have not done! activity work on campus. Such de- ! partments as the sociology and ■ psychology departments would be able to reccomend qualified persons j suitable for the jobs,'' In the Oregon plan, it is stated that possibly room rent may bo paid to the resident assistants and the sponsors. Heads of Houses pointed out that it would cost a sorority woman more to live in a dormitory under that provision than it would to live in her house, because not only would she he pay ing hoard to the dormitory, hut also she must still make certain financial obligations to her house if she is to stay active in her sorority. Hushing and Pledging Heads of Houses feels that if there is a strong counseling sys tem it would be more feasible to have the freshmen women inter ested in rushing also make that adjustment at the beginning of; fall term. They also recommended that the orientation program should be completed before rushing! starts, and that rushing be com pleted before classes begin. The reasons written in the letter for taking this stand on rushing (I'lcasc turn to faijc seven) Carothers, Gould Receive Ore-Nter Orientation Jobs 'I lie AS! <) Executive Council in action Monday evening: 1. Xanied Jean Could, junior in business, orientation program chairman for next fall term. -■ Selected \\ ayne Carothers. freshman in business, as busi ness manager for the 1951 Ore-Xter, orientation booklet. 5. Jleard an explanation of the activities of the Student Dis cipline Committee presented by J. M. Eoskett, chairman of the committee. 4. Received recommendations of Heads of Houses in respect to changes in the Oregon Plan. 5. Listened to a report given by the Rally Board concerning their plans for next year. The council approved the appointment of Miss Gould as orien Union chairman and recoin-. mended that Fred Baltz and! Hetty Moshotsky, sophomores j in liberal arts who also petition ed for the position, be appointed as assistant to the chairman.' Xancy Allison, who was inter-' viewed by the council last week, withdrew her petition because 1 ot the short period of time re-; maining to work on the orien tation program and conflict with other activities. The orientation chairman , will work with the Office of Phi Beta Kappa Elects 24 Honor Students Alpha of Oregon chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, national scholastic honorary, will initiate 24 new mem bers. The initiates were selected at a meeting Monday afternoon. Mrs. A. F. Moursund, secretary of the Alpha chapter, announced at the same time she released the names that Alice Maier. sopho more in liberal arts, is this year's recipient of the Sophomore Book Prize, awarded annually by Phi Beta Kappa to a sophomore out standing in grades. Miss Maier will receive $25 worth of books. A summary of the requirements necessary for admittance into the honorary were given by Mrs. Moursund along with the names of the new members. New members are: Michael Callahan, Robert Fear Foreign Student Forum Thursday The YWCA committees of Inter national Affairs and Public Af fairs arc sponsoring a forum on “Where I Think the United States Falls Down" with five foreign stu dents at 4 p.m. Thursday, in Alumni Hall in Gerlinger. The five foreign students are Heinrick Marschik of Germany, Maire Parkkali of Finland, Yoshiko Seki of Japan, Arne During of Sweden, and Ingeborg Yedcler of Norway. Don Collin, sophomore in liberal arts, will serve as mod erator. Anyone interested may attend, and tea and cookies will be served. Houses sponsoring foreign students, members of the two YWCA com mittees, foreign students and mem bers of the Foreign Student Foun dation will receive announcements. Committees planning the event include: Mary Lou Stanbery and Diane Ford, invitations; Shirley : Olsen, arrangements; and Lois 1 Reynolds, publicity. [ rien, Arlo Giles, JoAnne Gilmore. James T. Hart, Shirley Henson, Virginia Huston, Delores Insell, Barbar Jeremiah. Robert I. John |son. Robert Katter, Ruth Landry. i David Lanning, Ida Lesser, Arthur Matsuda. Lucille “McKenzie, ; Janet Patterson. Alex Riasanovsky, Juanita Smith, Ralph E. Thompson, : Leslie Tooze. Roberta Tussing, William R. Williams, and Peter W. Wright. Minimum requirements include a 3. GPA for all courses under taken at the University, or a GPA of at least 3.5 for the last five terms at the University. Emphasis is placed on a cur riculum based on courses chosen from all fields. Students eligible for selection, regardless of college or major, must have earned at least 50 per cent of their credit hours in courses considered liberal in character. Student Affairs in attempting to set up a more complete and im proved freshman orientation plan « for next fall. Carothers was sole applicant for the position of Ore-Xter business manager. The job involves solicita tion of donations to be used toward publication of the student edited booklet which is designed to ac quaint new students with the Ore gon campus. Discipline Procedure Outlined J. M. Foskett, chairman of the ( Student Discipline Committee, out | lined for the council the procedure 1 followed by the committee and the policy under which it operates, i Foskett spoke briefly of the his torical background of the disc - plrne committee, describing it" growth from an all-faculty group to the present committee composed of five faculty members, two non voting administrators, and three students nominated by the student body president and approved bj the president of the University. The committee operates under a Discipline Code, Foskett explained, which was drawn up in 1946 and .approved by the University presi dent. "The committee operates primarily as a policy forming group,” Foskett said. The discipline group delegate authority to the Office of Student Affairs, Foskett went on to e> i plain, and that office may handb all cases, operating within the Dis j cipline Code, with the exception of those in which possible or rec ommended suspension are involved. These cases must be referred to th-' Discipline committee he said. Th" Office of Student Affairs frequent i ly confers with the committee in respect to discipline cases so as to co-ordinate policy. "The faculty is held responsible for all student discipline,” Foskett (Please turn to page two) Cdii0.n4.al 9+itnoductia+t 'We Are the Great Revolutionaries' If you care about your future... if you’re really alarmed about the one-way world street down which the East and West are driving in different directions... you’ll read the middle section of this morning’s Emerald. You’ll read it once, twice, and maybe more. You’ll pass it on to friends who need help and hope and a hand to grab. This is the “Authentic Revolution,” written by the editor of one of America’s finest newspapers, The Christian Science Monitor. And moving quietly, with the impact of a small truck, it pre sents a powerful philosophy for the men of the Western world. It tells what we can do. It points a way out of the maze, even if that way is nothing more than a ehange in attitude. Listen to the thesis: “The struggle for the salvation of free society in our time will be lost unless we in the West_and particularly we in the United States—awaken to and project the fact that we are the great revolutionaries in world history, and that our revolution is basically a spiritual one which we have already proved in action.” Now read it, and absorb it, and read it again.