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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 24, 1951)
pa/s: Grab [Your Man For Sat. Ball I lie ’Talk of the Town" Sat urday nitfht will I»c the annual Mortar Hoard Hall, to take 1’laee from (J p.m. to 12 midnight in the Student I ,'nion Hallroom. Huilt around the title of “The Talk of Hie Town," the decora tions will tie on a cosmopolitan • theme. Wally fielder's 11-piece ■ hand will furnixti the dance music, and according to general chairman, Barbara <'lei in, Holder plays very “danceable music.” The last big all-campus dance of the year, this is the one time when the women do the usking and pay the bills. They aslo make cor sages for their dates out of any thing which is handy. An award will be presented dur ing Intermission to the man with the best corsage. Awards will also be presented to the men’s and the women's living organization with the best representation at the '•Tickets for the dance are on sale now at the Co-op, Carson Hall, the main desk of the Student Union, und in living organizations. Cost of the tickets is $2 a couple. Dress for the dance, is formal with dark suits, tuxes, or dinner jackets for the men and formals for the women. A feature of the dance will be the tapping of 30 new members for Kwama, sophomore women’s serv ice honorary, and their presenta tion during intermission. THIS IS IT! Today'll F.mrrald Is the final issue for this year. The Kmerald will resume publication at the Ix-glnning of next fall term. Kmerald staff mcmlM-rs are re minded of the annual Kmeruld banquet which will la* given at (1:30 pan. Monday in the Student t'nlon. Announcement of next year’s stuff and presentation of | awards will take place. :inal Showings 'Anne' Slafeo The last two .showings of “Anne |the Thousand Days" will be pre |ted at 8 p.m. tonight and Satur night. Tickets are $1 and may {obtained at the University Thea box office. Starring in the cast as Anne ftayn and Henry VIII are Avis <e and Bob Mlirsh. The play lunder the direction of F'redrick I Hunter, instructor in speech. [Pefidleton High School To Hear Newburn Speak Dr. H. K. Newburn. University president, will deliver the com mencement address at Pendleton High School graduation exercises today. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSO,\Y, MAY 24, 1951 VOLUME Lll " NUMBER 135 New Publications Editors EDITORS OK EMERALD AND OREGANA for next year are Loma ■ .arson and Bob l ook, respectively. Miss I^arson, junior in journalism, was managing editor of the Emerald this year. Funk, a junior in Eng lish, was associate editor for the 1951 Oregana. Freshman Men-to Have Own Living Units, Governing Board Freshmen men next year will have their own living units, inter hall governing board, and intra mural athletic league under a pro gram adopted in conformance with the recently approved Oregon Plan. The program, which will include all freshmen whether or not they live in the dorm, was announced Wednesday by the Office of Stu dent Affairs and H. P. Barnhart, director of dormitory foods. All five of Vets’ Dormitory No. 2 will be used to house the anticipated 450 first-year students. Other men I i students who reside in dormitories will be either in John Straub or Vets' Dorm No. 1. In addition to Nestor, Hunter, i French, Cherney, and Sederstrom I halls, which comprise the upper dorm unit, Stitzer Hall in Vets' Dorm No. 1 will also be opened to freshmen on a tentative basis. Ac cording to Ray Hawk, director of! men's affairs, iesidepts from this hall will be sent to the other five as vacancies occur there. He pointed out that this would avoid the situation that came up this year when the fall to winter term drop in enrollment caused the closing down of French Hall with out notice and resulted in its social and intramuial program being ab ruptly terminated. The propram also provides for an improved counseling system and participaton by off campus fresh men in hall social and athletic ac tivities. Hawk said that an assist ant counselor would be assigned to each hall giving the “administra tion representation on each floor and assuring better control than in the past." Counselors from among the ranks of senior and graduate stu dents will be selected before fall term and given a special indoctri nation course before assuming their duties. Applications for counselors are being accepted now in the Of fice of Student Affairs. Kugene men will be able to at tend desserts, which next year will only be scheduled among freshmen living organizations, and may com pete with dorms in the freshman in tramural league. (Fraternities, freshman dorms, and non-freshman dorms will compete next year in three separate leagues, t Neither the Interfraternity Coun cil nor the Interdormitory Council will act as representative bodies for the freshmen halls. Hawk pointed out. A special freshman governing board will be set up at the first of fall term that will be independent of IFC and IDC, he said. Livingstone Recommends Poetry/ Arf, Music to Supplement Science Iiy Adeline Oarbarlno In the last of his lectures on the University campus, Sir Richard Livingstone Tuesday night told his audience in the Student Union allroom that we must turn to e world of poetry, art, and music order to correct the defects and mgers of analysis characteristic all natural science and scientific udy. Livingstone said there is a double |t>ad to truth analysis and intui lon or imagination. Analysis, he lid, takes us only part of the way. [e must also see. 'The road that leads to reality is iad of vision,” said the noted 111 educator. And, he added, if Tail to use this road vve fail to Peach reality. f While admitting that analysis has been and will continue to be of great importance in the world, Livingstone told of the defects of imiting ourselves entirely to an analytical investigation of that which we wish to know. Danger of Analysis The danger of analysis, he said, is that it may delude us into think ing we know all about things in which reality we miss. Wo mis take analysis for knowledge. Uncorrected analysis weakens the habit of mind which leads to a greater learning, he continued. Still, said Livingstone, civilization is largely dependent on criti al analysis, and without it it would in all probably grow' weaker and col lapse. A field in which more exact an alysis of human material would help us, he declared is politics. Politics, however, he warned must not be thought of as a purely mechanical thing. Properly used, he added, the rational spirit protects mankind from the dangers of ignorance and (Please turn to page seven) ! Six Senior Men In Speech Contest Six senior men will compete for cash prizes in the Senior Oratorical contest at 8 p.m., June 8 in the Music School. Speakers will be Morris Sahr, senior in political science; Robert Peterson, senior in speech; Rich ard Dahlberg, senior in physics; Earl Peden, senior in history; 3. K. Farris, senior in law; and Ivan Hoy er, senior in speech. First prize will be $150, second prize $100, and third prize $50. The Weather... Partly cloudy Thursday and Fri day. High Thursday, 66, low Thurs day night, 50. Ernst, Turnipseed Retire in Summer After Long Service Charles P. Taft Main Speaker For Graduation Charles P. Taft, prominent Cin cinatti lawyer and civic leader, will be the speaker for commence ment exercises June 10. Taft is the younger brother of Senator Robert A. Taft, Republican from Ohio. “The Rock of Our Salvation" has been announced as the title of his address. Taft has been active in national affairs, being a member of the three-man President’s committee on War Relief Agencies in 1941. In 1943, he became a special ad viser to the State department, and after that department's reorgani zation in 1944, he became director of the Office of Wartime Economic Affairs. The commencement exercises will be held in McArthur Court beginning at 2 p.m. At present, 1,566 graduates and undergradu ates have applied for degrees. Instructions for the degree candi dates will be issued to them, ac cording to Registrar Clifford L. Constance. The commencement procession will begin to form at 1:30 p.m., Constance said, and no late arrivals will be admitted. Vacation Next Wed. A one-day vacation will be ob served by the University Wednesday for Memorial Day. Classes will resume as usual Thursday, the Registrar’s office reported. R. H. Ernst, professor of English, who has taught at the University for 28 years, anti Mrs. Genevieve Turnipseed, for 21 years director of University dormitories, will be retired this summer from the Uni versity of Oregon. Both members of the University family are retiring under the pro visions of a state law which re quires retirement of educational em 1 ployees at the age of 65. The re ; tirements are subject to the approv al of the State Board of Higher Education. Ernst, who has specialized in j comparative literature, came to Oregon in 1923 from the University of Washington. His subjects have included English drama and intro duction to literature, a survey of world literature. After receiving his B.A. from Northwestern College in 1904, Ernst earned his M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard. Enjoyed Students “X will miss my student con tacts,” Mrs. Turnipseed said Wednesday. “They were so enjoy able.” Her future plans are indefinite, ■ Mrs. Turnipseed has reported, but | she intends to spend time reading, j studying, and doing civic work at ! her home at 1874 Emerald St. She is also interested in taking some classes at the University. Coming to Oregon, from State Teachers College, Madison, South Dakota, in August, 1930, Mrs. Turnipseed assumed control of the University dormitory system. At that time Susan Campbell, Hend ricks Hall, John Straub, and Friendly Hall were the only dormi tories on the campus with a total ; of 500 students housed in the four , units. Today 1600 students live in j University dormitories. H. P. Barnhart, present dormi tory foods director, will replace Mrs. Turnipseed. 'Put Another Nickle in 'Theme Will Return; Pay Phones Ahead A change-over in the University j telephone system will be completed i during the summer, according to ' Louis S. Eade, commercial man I ager of the Eugene office of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. Under the new system, group liv ing organizations, including dormi tories, cooperatives, fraternities, and sororities, will have pay phones for social calls and a flat-rate phone for house business calls. This policy is necessary under the tariffs filed by the telephone company, Eade said. Flat-rate ser vice cannot be supplied to such living groups, according to the tariff ruling. Having pay phones for social calls is not new, since 19 houses on the campus are now working un der this system, Eade pointed out. The change-over should have been done before, he said, but lack of facilities made it impossible until now. University extensions in dormi tories will also be changed tc coin collectors, Eade said. An ex tension will be retained for house officials for dormitory business. Under Lock and Key The flat-rate phone in frater nities, sororities, and cooperatives must be located in the room of the house manager, president, or house mother, and must be under lock and key. Use of the phone will be at this official's discreation, Eade stated. The rate on these phones is $1C plus tax. This is the flat-rate foi a business phone. A guarantee of 25 cents a day is necessary foi the pay phones. The plan is tc have extensions on the various floors, but only one coin-collector The chief advantage of the new system will be the fact that the students, not the house, will be paying for their personal calls Eade pointed out. I/O Alumni Plan Reunion for June 9 * Alumni Day on the Oregon carrf ! pus will be. Saturday, June 9, the day before Commencement, with a number of activities for the day already planned. Registration will begin at 9 p.m. Saturday in the Student Union and ■ the semi-annual business session of | the Alumni Association is planned for 11 p.m. in the Dad's Lounge. A luncheon will be held in the ballroom of the SU at noon with representatives from each year’s j class scheduled to speak. Silver and Golden O certificates will be pre 1 sented to members of the classes ! of 1901 and 1926. Class pictures : will be taken on the SU steps following the luncheon. New campus buildings will be ! inspected by the alumni at 3 p.m. | followed by the president's recep tion. Class reunion dinners are scheduled for 6 p.m. The Half Century Club will meet and initiate new members who | will include all graduates of the University up to 1901. --- Draft Deferment Tests*Readied Students taking selective service tests this Saturday are to report at 8:30 a.m. to Fenton Hall where room assignments will be given, according to J. S. Carlson, director of the counseling center adminis tering the test. All those taking the test must have tickets for admission, the official document with their selec tive service number and the desig nation and address of their draft board, and a pen or pencil, Carlson announced.