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n Daily EMERALD Volume I.Ill l''lty first year oj Publication UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1952 NUMBER Dl Vets' Dining Hallj> [Closed; Dorm Men To Eat at Straub J By Kitty Fratar All men living in John Straulj hall and the Veterans’ dormi tories this term are eating in the Straub hall (lining room follow ing a decision made by the dormitory policy committee at a fl )cc. 15 meeting. !* Winter term drop in the number of men li\ing in the dorms itvas the reason for the closing of the Vets' Commons and the consolidation of dining facilities in Strati!) hall, II. I’. Barnhart, Old Man Winter Good to Eugene ” OUl Mun Winter has yet to get Ah<- upper hand in the Eugene area, but other parts of the state ha*e ’already felt his bite. , Eugene, recovering from a three and one-half inch snowfall that blanketed most of the Willamette A'alli-y during the Christmas vaca ,t^on, is experiencing moderate M^her now. Temperature today •^expected to rise to 40 from a low .Thursday of 34 degrees. Rain or pnow showers are predicted along With it. • » Sub-zero Temperature . Sub-zero tempo! aturcs were re ported from several places in the ‘state. Seneca in Eastern Oregon hud a low of minus 25 degrees. Themult reported a minus of 12 Thursday and Burnt 10 below. I% Students returning to school found hard going in some places. State police said chains are needed -m the Siskiyou highway south of Ashland and over the Santiarn pass. McKenzie pass is closed for "Ac winter. Trains On Schedule Southern Pacific and Greyhound Ines said trains and buses are ran ting on schedule but 8P reported tbit 84 inches of snow cover Cas S*de summit und snowplows are H-nig used. *'The weather bureau at Mahlon Jwcet airport at Eugene reported hat December was above average hr rainfall although the record 'All of 1929 for that month was not 4>proached. Records show that the lugcne area had 7.82 inches of precipitation last month, the heav efct since 1948. In 1929 there were 1* 38 inches. Bill Byrd Ascends Oregon's Mt. Hood Bill Byrd, graduate student in .’plication last year, was one of 10 persons who climbed Mount Hood Mew«Year's Day, the first time the ■gak has been climbed on that holi lay since 1947. ' Byrd was a member of a seven •irson group; he and five of the ■hers belong to Obsidians, Eu ■ne climbing organization. A ■ree-man group from Corvallis duo reached the top of Mt. Hood he same day. •director or dormitories, explained Thursday. According to the reservation fig ures as of Dee. 15 and with the subtraction of the number who for one reason or another would not be eating in the dorms, the total was too small to warrant keeping the Vets Commons In operation, Barn hart said. Committee Makes Decision The decision was made by the policy committee when it became apparent that there would not be enough men living in Straub hall. As permanent dorms have to be kept filled to meet operating ex penses, the vacancies would have to be filled from the Vet* Dorms, which is not considered permanent dormitory. Only 210 men had made reser vations for Straub which holds 277. i With the filling of Straub, only 323 men would be left in the Vets dorms. Itcasons Cited The decision to close the Com mons was made instead of forcing students in the Vets Dorms to move into Straub, something the committee did not want to do. At the first of December, the policy rommUtee thought the Vets , Commons could be kept open as they expected Straub hull would be filled to capacity, Barnhart rc 1 ported. A minimum of 350 men could (1’h'iisf turn to I'ikic otrii) Gamma Men Hep To Gals' Styles The men In (iamnui hall know all ahnut the latest styles in snoods, slips and searfs. They get a courtesy copy of Made moiselle, women's fashion maga /.ine, from a Portland depart ment store. The reason? A few years ago, before Carson hall was opened, ; women lived In Gamma hall— and apparently the Portland merchant hasn't found out about I tlie switch to men yet. ASUO Senate To Pick Member Important business at the first winter term meeting of the ASUO senate, scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Jan. 10, will be selection of a new sen ator-ut-largc to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Shir ley Korpela. Petitions for that post may now i be obtained at the ASUO office on J the third floor of the Student i Union. Deadline for returns is 4 ' p.m. January 9. Miss Korpela is the third mcm 1 ber of the senate to resign during | fall term. Previously Don Pailette i resigned his senate post, as Junior | class vice president and Jack ; Smith. Senior representative, left to become Athletic chairman on :the ASUO president's cabinet. Frosh Rush Week Starts Sunday Oregon fraternities are now pre paring for their 1952 rush week which will begin next week. Ac cording to the office of student af ■ fairs, about two-thirds of the ap proximately MO frosh men will be eligible to rush with the required 2.00 grade average. New rules governing this year's rushing will allow rushces to use their own initiative in making and breaking rush dates for the first time. Meet in SI’ Hush week will officially begin Sunday night at 7130 p.m. when all freshman men planning to rush will meet in the SU ballroom to be instructed on rushing proced ures.^ Registration will follow on Monday with rushees filling out their rush cards without fraternity influence from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. and completing the cards from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. under fraternity influence. Rushing will start Tuesday noon and end Friday night with three dates per day. The first date will he from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.; the second from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.; and the third from 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. The rushees may break dates each evening from 10 p.m. to 12 midnight in the office of student affairs. Fraternity drop lists will be posted every morning at 10 a.m. Compile Lists Friday Rushees and fraternities will compile their preference lists Fri day night after 10 p.m. and pledge results will be posted Saturday morning. An assembly opening rush week is a new procedure this year. Ac cording to Dick McLaughlin, Inter Fraterntty council president, the assembly is intended to "clarify rushing procedures for the fresh man men interested in rushing." Thursday night's IFC meeting resulted in banning fraternity men Irom that audience. At Phi Delta Theta President Norm Peterson's (Please turn to page set ib Few Present at First Day ot Classes; About 50 Rer Cent Is Average Figure By Al Karr C lass attendance Wednesday, first claes flay of winter "as "nly about 50 per cent of enrollment, an’ Emerald shows. Attendance in many classes fell far below that figure, t semie classes; were well-attended bv comparison. ter; it, slirv ' y bor-ylv .Several departments and schools \ termed attendance "poor", and ; some said the figure was unusually low as compared to past initial day attendance for winter term, i though a few said the low per- j centage is common. Chief cause of the low figure, ' the departments and sehools indi cated, was the starting of classes in mid-week the day after New Year's Day. Dess Than 50 Per Cent One class in political science was attended by 6 of 18 students, an other by 10 of 25. Still another was attended by 20 of 45 enrolled. Ten persons showed up for a geology class in which 18 register ed; 23 were present out of 50 in an economics class. Typical school of journalism classes were attended by 13 of 21, 1 of 7, and about 25 out of 40. Other factors influencing the low figure, it was indicated, were conflicts caused by late registra tion, registration changes, ten dency for instructors not to do much the first day, and particular problems, such as the confusion caused by the move of four de partments from Oregon hall to Susan Campbell and Gerlinger halls. System “Termed'’ Silly Many department heads were displeased with the System of be ginning winter term in the middle of the week. One termed the practice "silly," and said it is un fair to the students who do attend to have the split week. He said he began his own classes Wednesday, but would have to begin all over the next time his class met. At least a day's delay after New Year would be more sensible, he asserted. Class attendance in that department was generally below the 50 per cent figure. Another department head said the poor attendance, which he called "common", was a result of the split week. "I don't like split weeks," he said, "because they up set our weekly Jab schedule.” The department has a system of lab oratories, he said, which a split week upsets by putting students in Monday and Tuesday labs behind the others. "I wish whoever sets classes would figure out how many (Please turn to page scz'cu) 3,730 Registered For Winter Term; Fee Payments Slow Payment of winter term regis tration fees is progressing "rather slowly" as the third day cf classe.^ begins, Clifford Constance, regis trar, said Thursday. At least 3,730 students had de posited their Student Affairs* card* • at that office by 3 p.m. Thursday. Constance pointed ,ont that only 69S students had completed regis tration and payment of their feesr* during advance registration. Fersons Who fail to pay their fees by Monday will be charged on Tuesday. An additional dollar for each succeeding day will be charged until fees are paid, regis tration officials said. Looking hack to fall term regia i Iratior.. Constance pointed out that because most students completed all registration steps during orien tation week, this term's registra tion is extending late: into the term. Last day to freely add or drop classes is Jan. 16. Greenlee Takes Over As Business Manager Bob Greenlee, senior in journal ism, takes over today as Emerald business manager. Greenlee ha* worked for the Oregonian, selling classified ads, and for a Boise, Idaho, advertising agency. I "We need more staff workers irv the Emerald advertising depart ment," Greenlee said. "There are jobs open for people interested in selling ads, making layouts, and general work.” He urged, anyone interested in this work to contact him any afternoon at the Emerald shack. Greenlee replaces Abbott Paine who resigned as business manager at the end of fall term. Activity Point Ruckus, Opening of KWAX, MacArthur's Dismissal . . . Emerald's Top News Stories Came Early in 1951 By Cretchen Grondahl 'NowHwi.se, 1951 wont in like a lion and out like a lamb X) the Oregon campus. $A glance at the Emerald files for the year 1951 finds Me winter and early spring term rocked by a series of Knificant, controversial and even sensational issues, /Tale fall '51 was relatively quiet. 'At any rate, lumping the year together for good or bad, he Emerald herewith revives an old custom of presenting he campus year in review—“The Ten Top News Events t 1951.” Since bases for judgment differ some events ■ected for their significance, others merely for their lgh campus interest we make no attempt to rank our n events; they’re in chronological order. *'j. The abortive attempt to establish an activity point ytteni for Oregon women. ^Announced by Associated Women Students .Tan. 22 as ?gily to go into effect, Oregon’s ill-fated activity point Mtem met immediate campus opposition. The idea was to spread women’s activities around by mlting each woman to a total of 25 .term points dc jBjjdned according to the importance of her office. «*^Rlwks were long and loud, be; rotest Feb. 5 by Kwaraa, sopL PP ng with a formal e women's service honorary, to the ASUO Executive Council. The upshot was that AWS took its plan to the women through house speeches: but opposition was so pronounced that the whole plan was allowed to die; as far as we can determine, no statistics were ever compiled on the house votes. 2. The debut of KWAX, Oregon's FM radio station. After numerous postponements, complete with prema ture banner headlines, KWAX finally hit the airwaves Apr. 4 with comparatively little fuss by the student body. KWAX marked a big step ahead for the University’s radio enthusiasts, however; quite an advancement from the old KDUK, which could be heard only by a few dormi tories. Anybody can hear KWAX with one important qualification: if he has an FM radio. 3. Tile dismissal of General Douglas Mae Arthur. At first glance this doesn't look like a campus news story; but the Emerald made it one, sending three corre spondents to San Francisco to meet the general after his Apr. 11 dismissal. Through this move, unusual Among college dailies, the Emerald was able to publish exclusive dispatches from San Francisco ami campus interest soared; whole class periods were devoted to discussion of the pros and coca of the firing-, and professors, veterans and "the student on the street" were queried on their reactions. 4. The Stanford Flan. Attention focused on this student attempt to unsnarl the "deferred living” situation from the time a commit tee was appointed to study Stanford's system Apr. 12 through discussion, revision and final acceptance of the modified plan. Eleven student leaders made the trip to Stanford to study that institution's method of handling its dormitory freshmen. The plan which they presented called for fresh man dormitories, deferred rushing for men and women, and greater use of student sponsors in the dormitories. In the ensuing discussion, women’s organizations objected to deferred rushing; this provision was removed for wom en while retained for men, and the plan, in its basic essen tials, went into effect his fall. 5. The Loscutoff-Barclay episode. • Rumors multiplied and remultiplied following the an nouncement of the suspension of two of Oregon's basket ball stars, Jim Loscutoff and Curt Barclay, May 1. No details were released by the University administration, (Please turn to page eightj