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EMERALD
/•illy-first year of Publication
Volume Mil UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1952 NUMBER 54
IFC Finds Sig Eps
Guilty of Charge
An Inter-fraternity council tri
bunal fined Sigma Phi Epsilon $.00
Tuesday after finding it guilty of
violating IFC rushing rules.
A chnrge filed Monday and
handed over to IFC tribunal Presi
dent Norm Peterson was substan
tiated during an afternoon meeting
of the tribunal Including non-vot
ing member Ray Hawk, director of
men's affulrs. It accused the fra
ternity of illegal rushing on the
basis of a letter it sent out to 250
freshman men.
-The letter, which urged fresh
.men to participate in rush week,
| was headed by the name of the fra
, ternity and signed by the house
: president. Dick Kading. Hading
appeared at the closed hearing but
had no comment to make after
leaving it.
Bob Christ, graduate ndviaer to
I the IFC, reported the decision of
| the tribunal to the Emerald, but
i said nothing more than that the
1 Big Eps "were found guilty and
fined $50 ''
King Perry to Play
At Military Ball
The music of King Perry will
| be featured at Scabbard and
Blade's traditional Military ball
Saturday Jan. 19.
King Perry played an engage
ment on campus last year.
Traditional features of the dance
' is the selection of a "Little Col
onel," by people attending the
dance and the tapping of new
Scabbard and Blade members.
The ball, first all-campus social
event of the year, will be held in
the Student Union ballroom from 9
p.m. to 1 a m.
One-hundred and thirty-three
men have been signed up for rush
ing, which ends at 10 p m. Friday.
Cut lists will be posted in the SIT
ballroom between 10 a.m. and noon
today. Revision of date cards rnay
also be made at that time, IFC
President Dick McLaughlin said.
Vets' Dorm Units
To Remain Open
All vets’ dorm units will remain
open, H. P. Barnhart, director of
dormitories said Tuesday. He said
that none of the living organiza
tions would be closed, although a
drop in residents has forced the
closing of the vets’ dormitory din
ing hall.
Hay Hawk, director of men’s af
fairs, said that some freshmen are
now living in Straub dormitory—
upper division men’s dorm—and
that "a few more" would be moved
in to fill up the hall.
However, he said that those
freshman who do move in are be
ing carefully screened and that no
one is being forced to move from
the vets’ dorm.
"All of the counselors are being
retained." Hawk mated.
There has been no special study
hall for the freshmen last terrti -
as there was last year at this time,
with French hall in the vets’ dorm
being converted to a study hall.
Hawk said that it wasn’t plan
ned to set one up, as the fresh
men’s academic problems were be
ing handled on a more individual
basis this year.
Hawk said that, as soon as all
vets’ dorm upper division men who
desire to move to Straub have
done so, freshmen may apply to
move to the upper division dorm.
Blaze Causes
Quonset Damage
A small fire broke out in quon
set 6, located between Friendly
and McClure halls, about 5 p.m.
Tuesday but resulted in little
damage. The fire was caused by
a Bunsen burner being used to
heat some experimental materi
als.
The blaze was discovered by
Mrs. George Kittinger, wife of a
resident fellow in chemistry,
when she arrived to meet her
husband.
She ran over to the Emerald
“Shack-” and Boh Greenlee and
•lack fading, Emerald business
manager and advertising man
put out the Maze with a
rug the Kittinger's dog ••Sam”
uses to He on when in the quon
set. In the excitement, they Ig
nored the fire extinguishers at
either end of the room.
No one was In the quonset at
the time the fire started.
Damage was limited to a char
red cabinet.
Dull to Lecture
In Browsing Room
"Chinese Communism: Orthodoxy
or Heterodoxy” win to discussed
by Paul S. Dull, associate profes
sor of political science and history,
at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the first of
winter term's lectures in the Stu
dent Union Browning room.
• J. M. Fonfcett .associate profes
sor of sociology, will lead discus
sion following the lecture.
Dull, an authority on the Orient,
and a member of Oregon's Far
Eastern Studies committee, was
recently granted a leave of absence
from the University for a year's
research in Japan. He will study
Japanese political behavior
through translations of the biogra
phies of Japanese politicians and
field interviews.
(Please turn to f>atre seven)
Board Sanctions
Master's Degrees
For Five Colleges
■ 1(),< 1(M’)--Thc “tatc board of higher education
m a special session J uoday approved a fifth year master’s de
gree program m elementary education for Oregon's three col
leger of education.
The program was proposed at a Dec. 11 board meeting but
action was delayed then because of the absence of four board
members.
I hr. complete board Tucsdav
with Mrs. K. B. McNaughton of,
voted 8 to 1 for the proposal,
Portland casting the lone negative
ballot.
Three .Schools Affected
The program is to be put into
effect at the three college* at Ash
land, La Grande and Monmouth.
It had been vigorously opposed
in December by President H. K.
Newburn of the University of Ore
gon and again Tuesday by Dean
of Administration William C.
Jones, acting in Newbura's ab
sence.
The board also went on record
in favor of a statewide survey of
teacher training and asked Chan
cellor Charles D. Byrne to bring in
the framework for such a study at
the Jan. 22 board meeting.
Increased to Five
The new program increases the
number of Oregon campuses at
which students may do master's
degree work from two to five—the
University of Oregon, Oregon
State and the three colleges of
education.
The UO Medical school in Port
land gives master's degrees, but
they are subject to the approval of
the University of Oregon.
The University was the only in
stitution which opposed the mas
ter’s degree program for the col- ,
leges of education.
Roqntwted Survey
According to Dean Jones, he and
President Newburn were only ask
ing that a survey of teacher train
ing in Oregon be made before
adoption of the proposed program.
However, the survey, if it is
made, will follow the program's
adoption.
The University officials’ opposi
tion to the program was based
on the following points:
1. The increased cost for opera
tion of the colleges of education
would cause a reduction in the
budgets of the University and
OSC.
(Please turn to po<jc sei-et
Carey Postpones
Initial Meeting
Bill Carey, ASUO president,
Tuesday, postponed the first win
ter term senate meeting for a fuiV
week and extended the deadline for
petitions to the vacant senator-at
large position. His reason: no peti
tioners.
He explained that the principal
reason for the senate meeting',
originally scheduled for this Thurs
day evening, was to interview peti
tioners and select the new mem
ber. With no petitions as of Tues
day, he said, there wouldn’t be
enough business to warrant calling
the group together.
He set a new date for the sen
ate, Thursday, Jan. 17 at 6:30 p.gi.
and extended the petition deadline
for senator to Friday, Jan. 11 at 4
p.m. Petition blanks may be ob
tained from the green ASUO box
on the third floor of the Student
Union and returned to the ASUO'
office, also on three.
'Pefticoaf Fever*
Opens Tonight
Tickets are still available for
"Petticoat Fever,’’ reopening to
night in the arena theater, Room
104 in Villard hall.
Popular demand has brought
"Petticoat'’ back for four perform
ances this term, tonight through
Saturday. Tickets are $1 and are
sold at the main theater box office
from 1-7:15 p.m. and at the Arena
boxoffice after 7:15 p.m.
Commission Suggests Float Fete for Millrace
(Kd. note: This is the third in a
, series of five articles on the mill
r%ce. In the previous articles. Km
{ entld reporter Boh Southwell has
pointed out the past and present
state of the millrarc and the plans
for improving it. Today the ques
' tion of what the inillraee would be
used for is explained.)
—
By Bob Southwell
* If the Millrace should ever re
sume its former rapid flow, how
would the University use it?
* Canoeing used to he a popular
student pastime, but the Anchor
age cafe, which rented 30 to 40
^ canoes, has gone out of business.
Canoe fetes used to highlight Jun
* ior Weekend, but the area in which
I the fetes were presented was torn
up when Franklin blvd. was con
structed.
^ The campus planning commis
sion, headed by Dean S. W. Little
? of the architecture school, isn’t
! worrying about the past. Instead,
T it has already drawn plans for re
constructing the canoe fete area
* and spent $4,000 grading that area
fall term.
JWork Needs Student Interest
Little said that his commission
^ is working on the assumption that
"the city won’t do much more
work on the millrace until students
“ take more of an interest in it. li
the students will inaugurate a mill
race float parade, then the city
and University might find a way
| to develop the stream”.
» On the assumption that student
interest in the millrace will revive,
the commission is planning to com
Eugene Kcgistcr-Giw.nl I'hoto
IN THE DAYS when the Millracc was full, floats like the one pictured above were really “floats”. Aided
by the current and student swimmer-propellers, the canoe fete entries were an important part of Junior
Weekend events. Pictured in the background of the above picture is the student-filled stands erected
on the Millracc bank.
/
plete its landscaping job and per
haps build a sidewalk along the
area between the physical plant
bridge and the Rose Court motel.
Its long range plan provides for
bleachers, a sound shell and light
ing for the future canoe fetes.
The area being developed is Uni
versity property bordering Frank
in blvd. directly across from the
architecture building. Aside from
an altered course of the millrace,
moved north to accomodate the
new highway, it is exactly' the
same site which housed pre-war
canoe fetes.
Canoe Fetes Planned
Little is planning the area for
such canoe fetes as Oregon used
to have. He explained, "The
bleachers would bo set between the
highway and the Millrace. Directly
across from the bleachers will be a
sound shell for the band to sit in.
The whole area will be planted and
landscaped, of course."
Little realized, however, that the
area will still be much different
than the pre-war plan. Since a
metropolitan highway now tra
verses the region, car parking
space will be a problem.
Float Size Limited
The new bridge leading to the
physical plant would limit the size
of floats, since they would be con
structed up stream from the low
bridge. "That would provide a
challenge to the ingenuity of stu
dents in planning their floats to
fit under the bridge,” Little said.
Thursday The fourth in the
millrace series.