Newborns Go
To Europe
President and Mrs. Harry K.
Tewburn left Monday en route to
Europe where the University presi
dent will study under the Carnegie
it- ant which he was awarded in the
spring of 1951.
The grant gives Newburn the
opportunity to observe and learn
about the organization and admin
i tration of state supported univer
sities in France. Italy, Germany,
England and Scotland.
The Newburns will be in Wash
ington Monday for a meeting and
\ ill leave from New York on Jan.
9. arriving in London the following
i ty. The next day they plan to
leave for the Continent by car.
First they will travel through
France and Italy, then back
tirough France and into Switzer
land. occupied Germany. Belgium.
Holland, England and Scotland.
They will return to the Oregon
campus in time for commencement
i> June.
The Masonic Building in Wey
r outii. Mass., originally a church,
v as built of beams cut for the
V. S. Frigate Constitution but re
jected by government inspectors.
Peculiar Pilferer
Robs Fraternity
Burglars have funny ways.
This one took the hard way.
Aeeordlng' to police reports, he
entered the Chi 1’sl fraternity
house through an unlocked up
stairs window, sometime during
Christmas vacation, picked up a
large-size radio-phonograph and
hauled it into the basement.
There he removed the record
player and radio, speaker and
all. from the cabinet, grabbed 30
records and left.
Chi Psi memlters suspect he
worked in the dark because lie
overlooked another easy-to-car
ry phonograph and a portable
radio.
Xo other entries were reported
by living organizations during
the vacation.
Picture Window Proves
Hazard For Birds
BELLEVILLE. 111. — (U.PJ —*The
Armin Gantners installed a large
picture window in their home to
get a full view of placid Lake St..
Clair.
The window has proven to be a
traffic hazard for birds.
Recent casualties included a
covey of eight quail. Five of the
birds were killed when they flew
against the window. The other
three, crippled by the impact, man
aged to fly away.
The birds apparently are blind
ed by the reflection of the big
window.
Doctors for an insurance com
pany say three out of every five
persons would like to reduce but
only one out of five has seriously
tried to do it.
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Campus Telephone Exchanges
Proposed by Phone Company
A formal proposal for installing1
special intra-campus telephone ex
change has been sent by the Pa
cific Telephone and Telegraph
company to the University of Ore
gon, Oregon State ami Willamette
university. The plan was offered by
the PT&T as a partial remedy for
the pay telephone problem.
The proposed exchange would be
set up as follows:
1. Students in living organiza
tions could call any other living
organization or campus number
from a regular dial telephone.
2. Incoming calls from off-cam
pus phones could be received
through this exchange; however,
calls to downtown points or other
off-campus phones would have to
be placed through the present pay
telephones in each living organiza
tion.
3. The company estimates that
this service would cost $3.50 per
month in sororities and fraterni
ties, and $3 per month in dormito
ries for each telephone installed.
The installation charge would he
$3 per phone.
4. The additional private branch
exchange equipment which would
have to be installed on the campus
would not increase charges for
each line in excess cf $1.25 per
month over the above figures.
If incoming calls are to be re
ceived from non-campus phones
over these special lines, the Uni
versity would have to install addi
tional equipment to handle it.
Adoption of this feature of the
service is left to the discretion of
the University, phone company of
ficials said.
Also, the phone company will
furnish individual flat rate busi
ness service to individual rooms In
living organizations for use of the
resident of that room.
This proposal was first advanced
at a meeting of Oregon. OSC and
Willamette students with the tele
phone company and the Public
Utilities commission in Salem last
month.
Student Wins Rhodes Scholaship
A fraternity dishwasher won a
Rhodes scholarship last month and
Thursday was back in the kitchen
again scrubbing pots and pans.
Alexander Riasanovsky. gradu
ate student in philosophy, was one
of four students selected in a com
petitive district oral examination
Dec. 15 to attend Oxford college in
England on a Rhodes scholarship.
In winning the award Riasanovsky
duplicated th performance of his
brother. Nicholas, who won a simi
lar award in 19-45.
Riasanovsky, who washes dishes
at his fraternity, Sigma Phi Epsi- j
Ion. graduated from the University
last spring in philosophy. He plans
to study in the honors school in
the ‘ Modern Greats” program of
fered at Oxford. The scholarship
will allow him to atend Oxford for
two or three years according to the
quality of his work and personal
preference.
Rom in Manchuria
The 23-year-old award winner
was born in Harbin, Manchuria. He
attended school in China until tin
fifth grade when his parents
moved to Eugene where he finished
his elementary and high school
education. Riasanovsky served for
18 months with the 188th para
chute infantry during World War
II and was stationed in Japan.
At the University Riasanovsky
is a member of Phi Beta Kappa,
national scholastic honorary and
Scabbard and Blade, national mili
tary honorary. His accumulative
GPA for his undergraduate years
was 3.58. He played the part of
Lodovico in a University theater
production of “Othello” last year.
Riasanovsky lists his hobbies as
reading science fiction, playing
chess, bridge nnd basketball. He
enjoys classical music.
Only Oregon Candidate
Riasanovsky was the only candi
date from the University of Ore
gon for the scholarship originally
founded by Cecil Rhodes, an Kng
tishman who made a fortune in
South African gold and diamond
mines. He was among two chosen
from the state and one of the four
finalists in a field of ten in the dis
trict examinations. The scholarship
will pay ull his expenses while
studying in England.
His brother, Nicholas Riasanov
sky, entered the University at the
age of 14 and graduated at 18 with
a GPA of 3.83. He is now teaching
history at the University of Iowa.
Riasanovsky's mother is the
author of the novel, "The Family"
published under the name of Nina
Fedorova, and winner of an At
lantic Monthly magazine story
prize of $10,0000. She has also
written another novel, "The Chil
dren.” and five or six short stories.
Riasanovsky's father, V. A.
Riasanovsky, has written books on
Mongolian law and Chinese law
and recently completed a work en
titled "A Survey of Russian Cul
ture," written in Russian.
The family recently moved from
Eugene to San Francisco.
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Freshmen Object
To Electioneering
By UO Politicos
By Jean Lewis
"Do you think political parties
I should participate In the coming
freshman elections?" was the
question asked freshman students.
Out of the eight students Inter
viewed five were opposed to hav
ing political parties. Their reasons
were that they arc not necessary
and that the freshman don't know
enough about them. Three students
thought they should have party
elections because the freshmen
could thereby become better ac
quainted with the parties and the
election process.
Howard Hopkins freshman In
business "I think I'd leave po
litical parties out of It because
freshmen don't know what politi
cal parties stand for anyway."
l*at Kyan freshman in liberal
arts "Yes. It would help fresh
men to get acquainted with cam
pus lire and learn more about poli
tics."
raid Hales freshman in liberal
arts "No, they don't mean any
thing and there's no need for them
where freshmen are concerned.”
Arllss Harder freshman in mu
sic "No, I think the freshmen
I should be left alone to do their
own deciding.”
Ardys Van Osten freshman in
liberal arts "Freshmen don’t
know enough about political par
I ties."
Dick Davenport s- freshman in
liberal arts "There should be po
litical parties so that freshmen can
get to know how they operate and
what they stand for; they are a
good deal if they are used right."
William Hrundshess freshman
in liberal arts "No, because there
are no Greek organizations."
Tottsle lloss freshman in politi
cal science—“There should be po
litical parties so that the freshman
j can better understand the election
process and so they will have the
experience when they are ■ opho
mores. Also it is a basis for under
standing the national political
party process."
Tourists Get Clipped
In Roadside Zoos
HELENA, Mont. (U.fb "Free
roadside zoos" with dice games
operating in the back gave some
of Montana’s tourist trade a black
eye this year, the Montana Auto
mobile Association said.
Tourists were lured into the
“free zoos" and then clipped in
crooked dice games operated on
the side, the association reported.
Individual losses at the zoos in
DeBorgia and near Ennis ran as
high as $200.
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