IFC Sets Jan.8-11 As Mens' Rush,
Plans Change of Card Procedure
Schedules and regualtions for
this year's fraternity rush week
began to take form at Thursday’s
Interfraternity council meeting.
Tentative plans call for rushing to
start Tuesday, Jan. 8, and continue
through Friday, Jan. 11.
The tentative rushing plan was
formulated by a special committee
which asked for suggestions and
revisions from the floor. The com
mittee advocated abolishing unoffi
cial rush cards on the basis that
they don't give freshmen a chance
to think for themselves. Instead,
the freshmen would partially fill
their official rush cards Monday
afternoon on their own and then
return Monday night to complete
the cards with the guidance of fra
ternity members.
As discussion on the rush pro
gram progressed, it was cited that
some of the suggestions would
necessitate amendments to the IFC
constitution. Members were gen
erally in favor of taking such ac
tion at succeeding meetings.
Some house presidents voiced
dissatisfaction with the plan be
cause it "restricted the influence
upon freshmen of the ‘brand name’
of houses and prevented sufficient
personal contacts." A straw vote
was then taken which confirmed
the committee's original plan.
It was generally agreed that
freshmen should be able to change
the dates on their rush cards
through the entire rushing period.
However, Vice President Norm
Peterson, who presided in the ab
sence of President Dick McLaugh
lin, emphasized that the discussion
was formulating "no absolute reg
ulations we are just working out
the general outline." Only the
schedule, including 12 rush dates
which will begin Tuesday noon and
end Friday night, was regarded as
permanent.
The constitutional amendment
read in the last meeting was pass
ed. It states a minimum grade
point average for pledges wiwu
Ims usually been followed in the
past. Instead of the past minimum
cumulative GPA of 2.00 for twelve
term hours preceding pledging, the
constitution now requires a cumu
lative GPA of 2.00 for the pledge’s
| entire record.
As the amendment was passed
| with some pledges below 2.00 GPA
j not initiated, the tribunal, judicial
branch of the IKC, will meet Tues
day afternoon to discuss the situa
tion. It was indicated that the tri
bunal would ullow pledges to be
initiated.
Miss Bernice Rise, browsing
room librarian, opened the meeting
with a talk on the house library
movement. She a eked the frater
nity presidents to appoint house
librarians to facilitate house bor
rowing of library books.
President Dick McLaughlin was
attending a regional IKC confer
ence meeting at San Jose State
college.
Oregon Selected
Conference Site
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three OFCL conventions without
ever having become an official
member.
Annual dues for Oregon and
Oregon State were upped $15 after
a motion was passed to reappor
tion dues according to the size of
the school. Under the new plan,
schools of more than 1.500 will pay
$20, schools from 500 to 1,500 will
pay $10 and schools of less than
500 will pay $5. Formerly all dues
were $5.
Mitchell Elected
Don Mitchell, Linfield college,
was elected ptesident of OFCL at
the close of the convention. Other
new officers are Don MacKonzie,
OSC, vice president, and Tom
Scheidel, Willamette, social secre
tary, and Bill Frye, Oregon, sec
retary-treasurer.
ASUO President Bill Carey at
tended the convention as Oregon's
official delegate. ASUO Vice Presi
dent Merv Hampton, the second
delegate, declined to go at the last
moment.
A Saturday morning discussion
session in “College Publications”
was led by Bill Frye, ASUO senate
member, who attended as one of
the eight discusison leaders.
“Leaders — for What Purpose
and What Ends” was the title of a
speech given by Monroe Sweet
land at a Friday dinner meeting.
Sweetland said that the objec
tives of leadership should be re
vised, “even in our own democ
racy.” He claimed that American
leadership is being questioned in
other parts of the world as to its
sincerity, and asked that “today’s
college leaders, who will be to
morrow’s world leaders,” work out
a new approach during their gen
eration for selling democratic
principles to the rest of the world
One World Answer
Oxford-educated Karlin Capper
Johnson in his talk, “One World,”
said that people are viewing one
world as the answer to peace from
the wrong perspective.
“Techniques and technological
practices are much more uniform
throughout the world,” he said,
“than political and cultural prac
tices.”
He suggested that leaders get
together on this basis rather than
trying to ameliorate the present
world situation by imposing par
ticular cultural practices and po
litical philosophies on one another.
In addition to Oregon, OFCL
members include Eastern Oregon
College of Education, Lewis and
Clark college, Linfield college,
Marylhurst college, Multnomah
college, OCE, OSC, Pacific univer
sity, Reed college, Southern Ore
gon College of Education, Port
land university, Vanport college
and Willamette university.
NIGHT STAFF
Night Editor: Paul Keefe.
Night Staff: Judy Harris.
'Readers, Writers Get Tips
From Noted Novelist's Talk
A reader gets out of a novel only
! what he brings to it in terms of
! background and personal exper
! ience, Elizabeth Bowen, Irish nov
i elist, told a large audience in the
I Student Union browsing room Fri
I day evening.
Readers should try not to "re
j sent new modes of expression.”
Miss Bowen said, for art will al
ways move ahead of actual life.
"Reading, too, can be creative,”
she said. "The writer is handling
his side of the creative book, but !
today no book can be complete un- ;
til it has been read.”
The present group of young ,
writers, who are being watched j
expectantly, will have their best
work published in the next ten
years, the novelist stated.
Young novel writers of today
seem to have a tendency toward
autobiography, Miss Bowen told
newspaper reporters in a press
conference folowing her browsing
room talk.
Asked for the reason behind this
tendency, Miss Bowen said, “I be
live it is because the world is con
fused, the older people can’t ex
plain why, and the young hope to
obtain the answer by examining
their own experience.” She added
that when young persons are in
terested in their own character,
but as they get older they tend to
analy'ze others more and to explore
experience.
Miss Bowen, on her sixth trip to
the United States, talked to writ
ing classes during the day. She
read rome student manuscripts and
remarked she was impressed with
their variety and the fresh, orig
inal way they were written.
There are no creative writing
courses in English colleges, she
said, as she observed here. This
was Miss Bowen's first visit to the
Pacific Northwest. She said it was
“very exciting” for her.
The internationally famous
writer said she was first interested
in art. but saw her real impulse
was to write and started writing at
the age of 19. Since then, she
stated, she has written continu
ously novels, short stories and
some critical work. She prefers
short stories, since, she asserted,
she feels they are "fairly com
plete."
Miss Bowen said mi i h is ex
pected from the young post-war
novel writers ir the future, but
they have not yet made their
mark. The older writers are still on
top, she said. Writing, however,
she interjected, is not comparative.
Even after writing a successful
first novel, it is stld difficult to
make one's mark as a novelist, she
emphasized. So it was with her
first novel, she explained, and so it
is with all young novelists.
The book trade is now pretty
well organized, she stated, making
it easier for the few top writers to
make their mark, but making it
harder for the majority. Writing
departments in colleges, she said,
do much to help young novelists to
get a start.
Apple Sale Opened
Today by Honorary
The annual Gamma Alpha Chi
apple sale begins at 9 a.m. today.
Apples will be sold at the Student
Union, library, and co-op.
The sale will continue through
Wednesday, with the booths being
open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.rn. The
applies are 10 cents apiece.
Apples will be sold in the frater
nities Monday evening by pledges
and members of Gamma Alpha
Chi. The majority of the women’s
houses have contracted to buy
applies to serve at a meal some
time this week.
General chairman for the sale is j
Denise Thum. Jean Lovell is fi- j
nance chairman; Delores Parrish,
sales chairman; Jody Greer, pub
licity and promotion; and Arlene
Zialkowski, distribution. Jo Sloan j
is working under Miss Greer on
posters.
This project is carried on each :
year by the pledges of Gamma
Alpha Chi, the national women’s
advertising honorary.
During seven years as a head j
coach, Clarence “Biggie” Munn
completed this record: 44 wins, 15
losses, 3 deadlocks.
Harris Selected
For Chem Prize
William Harris, junior in chem
istry, has been selected by the
chemistry department staff to re
ceive the Orin Fletcher Stafford
scholarship amounting to $1,000.
Awarded annually to a student
beginning upper division work in
chemistry, the scholarship is fi
nanced through gifts from an an
onymous donor. It is named in
memory of the late Orin Fletcher
Stafford, member of the chemistry
faculty from 1902 until his death
in 1941.
Qualifications for the scholar
ship include, “a superior scholastic
record, aj)titude for advanced
work in chemistry, good character
and a need for financial aid.”
Four hundred Goiiars of the
award is paid during the junior
year and $600 during the senior
year.
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