Guess What . . .
. . . yep, showers today mul tonight,
del ting voider tonight with a low
if '(.1 degrees predicted. High yes
Ionlay was 18, low last night, 8H.
°JM>$ 2?%.
EMERALD
I'Hly-f- st year oj Publication
Christmas in Prison . . .
• . . doesn't Hound too pleasant, but
I hreo Oregon students found il
interesting. Their views on tho
state penitentiary- and the inmates
there make interesting reading.
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Volume I.Ill
VMVKRMITY OF OKKOON, Kl OENK, THURSDAY, JAM ARY 10, 1952
M MBKI! 55
ASUO Receives
Three Petitions
Three filled-out pcUtlonH were in
the ASUO office Wednesday after
noon, two for senator-at-large on
.he senate. and one for freshman
election?.
And a new call for petitions, for
chairman of the exchange assem
bly program, was issued by ASUO
^resident Bill Carey.
The two petitioning for the va
cant senate neat are Allen M. Co
Aen. m rnor in business. and Francis
Oillmore, Junior in Rnglish. Carey
said he expected “two or three"
more to come In before the dead
line, Friday at 4 p.m.
Me attributed the slowness of
fraobmen petititons to the fresh
tlian men's rush week now In prog
ress and thought most of the peti
tions would come in early next
week. Deadline for these Is rnid
Aight, Jan. 16.
The job of the exchange assem
bly chairman, he said, will be to
plan and organize two assemblies,
one for Oregon State college and
the other for Willamette univer
sity.
The exchange assembly program
whs ( reated this fall among the six
colleges of the Willamette valley.
Members are Oregon, OSO, Wil
lamette, Pacific university, Port
'and university, Llnfield college
and Lewis and Clark college.
Two exchanges were planned for
Oregon this year. A group from
Willamette entertained on the
campus late fall terra and one
from Oregon State in scheduled for
late winter or early spring term
WILLIAM C. JONES
“University enrollment safe.”
Student Court Issues
Warning to Violators
Approximately fid traffic vio
lators who have "forgotten” their
tickets will find out ahortly that
the student court has not.
At court meeting Wednesday
night, Chairman Mike Adams dis
cussed with the group plans to I
send each unaccounted-for violator
a warning to settle , p or appear ,
at the next traffic court hearing,
scheduled for Jan. 23. Those who
don’t do either, he explained, will
automatically have their fine
doubled.
Court members also discussed a I
proposal to invite representatives'
of western colleges to a confer
ence at Oregon to exchange ideas !
on honor systems, disciplinary!
problems and student courts.
Adams and court mprnber Fred
Kisser hope to bring the plan be
fore the first ASUO senate meet
ing, both as a discussion and a pro
posal, next week.
"The conference idea is not the
pet of the student court,” Adams
said, "but something for the
ASUO.” He explained that other
campus groups whose duties in
clude student honor and disciplin
ary problems, especially the stu
dent-faculty honor committee,
would be greatly benefited.
Kisser read the draft of a pro
posed letter which would be sent
to other student body presidents
asking their opinion of the confer
ence. It emphasized the "exchange '
of Mean" about student honor sys
tems. Adams said the Oregon hon
or code committee was in favor of
such a meeting.
Speaking of the traffic situation,
Adams explained that all student
cars on the campus must be fur
nished with "stickers." The office ;
of student affairs must be notified
immediately, he said, if the student
.•-ells his car or brings a new one to
school.
Tickets issued to cars without
the sticker must often be traced
through Salem, he related. Those
people must pay an additional fine
for f; lime to register as well as a
fine for violating traffic rules.
Rushing Continues,
3FC Regulations
Explained for Week
Freshman men who want to
make dates for the last two days
of rushing may check the cut list
today between 10 a.m. and noon
and sign up in rooms 213, 214 and
215 of the SU, the Inter-fraternity
council announced W ednesday
night.
Rushers may break dates be- j
tween 10 p.m. and midnight to
night in the office of student af
fairs. Fraternities must have the
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Finances Listed as Main Drawback
In State's Education School Chance
University Dean of Administra
tion YV. C. Jones stated Wednesday
afternoon that the effects of the
new program authorizing master's
degree work in three Oregon col
leges of education will probably
be of a financial character and will
not affect enrollment at the Uni
versity.
The program, passed at the
special meeting of the state board
of higher education Tuesday in
◄
Portland, permits the colleges of
education at Monmouth, La
'.rande and Ashland to offer gradu
ate courses in education.
Opposition to the plan by the
University, the only school oppos
ing it, was led by President H. K.
Ncwburn and Dean Jones.
"We fell that it won't affect us
at all immediately,” Jones com
mented Wednesday. "I don't think
it ever will affect us in regard to
enrollment."
He added that his apposition to
the proposal was based upon the j
fact that the colleges of education
cannot offer master's degree work
of a "comparable quality" to that
available at the University of Ore
gon unless they receive increased
approp.-iations for faculty mem
bers, library and other facilities.
This increase, Jones remarked,
will mean a decrease in the bud
gets for the University and Ore
gon State college.
The program will go into effect
this summer. The master's degree
work at the colleges of education,
according to Dean Jones, will be
available only during summer
school and in regular session even
ing and late afternoon classes.
Mrs. E. B. MacNaughton, chair
man of the -state board's curricu
lum committee, was the only mem
ber who opposed the graduate pro
gram at Tuesday's meeting. She
criticized the plan as "piece-meal"
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Accident Fatal
PIKKRK PASQI IO, left, shown
with Curt Finch when the two !
were competing for King of
hearts last year, died three days
before Christmas in a car acci
dent in France.
King of Hearts
Killed in Crash
A letter from France carried
tragic news to the Alpha Tan
Omega house Wednesday.
It told of the death of Pierre
Pasquio. popular French foreign |
student on campus last year and
1951 King of Hearts. The letter
.said Pasquio. who lived in Paris,
was fatally injured in an automo
bile accident Dec. 22. He was on a ;
skiing trip when his car collided i
with a truck in the fog. He died in 1
a hospital two hours later.
The writer of the letter, Pierre's
brother, asked the ATO's to stop
writing him letters as they dis
tressed his mother. Pasquio was a j
member and sponsored by that
house in the King of Hearts con- j
test.
Newspaper File
Again Complete
The University library's file on
Oregon newspapers will apparent
ly again be intact.
An appeal issued by the Eugene
Register-Guard, city newspaper,
for a back issue of the Oregon
Journal of July 8, 1951, missing
from the library's files, brought
one incomplete issue and promises
of five additional copies.
Portland newspapers had been
unable to provide a copy of that
issue, which was needed to con
tinue the library's reputation of
having complete files of Oregon
newspapers.
Committee Views
Honor System
The student-faculty honor codo
committee met at the home of
Chairman E. G. Ebbigbausen Wed
nesday night with Donald Du
Shane, director of student affairs,
and Mary Elizabeth McDowell,
secretary of the University's YW
CA.
Miss McDowell told the group
of her experience with an honor
code in an eastern college.
Three subcommittees were form
ed Tuesday to split up the com
mittee s investigation. One group
is considering the objectives of an
honor code as it might be applied
to Oregon. A second is mulling
methods that might be used to de
tect offenses.
The third subcommittee is study
ing the problem of presenting an
honor code to Oregon students, if
one is adopted by the group and
if it is approved by the ASUO sen
ate. The honor code committee i:i
a special subcommittee appointed
by the senate and its final deci
sions go back to the senate in the
form of a final report.
Committee members received in
formation from Stanford and Cha
pel Hill universities this week in
response to inquiries sent out be
fore Christmes. Letters asking in
formation have been sent to Reed
college in Portland and several
other midwest and eastern col
leges.
Freshman Dance
Chairmen Named
Committee chairmen for the
freshman men-spor.sored dance to
be held from 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.
Saturday in the Student Union
ballroom have been announced by
General Chairman Bob Summers.
Chairmen arc decorations. John
Tonack: entertainment Hal Swar
thout; promotion. Alex Byler;
program, Tom Gutzler and Bob
Glass: and guests of honor, Ed
Toyooka.
The dance will be along a “Win
ter Wonderland" theme, Summers
said, with the title actually being,
"Frosh Snowball." No admission
will be charged for the semi-formal
affair.
Johnny Lusk and his six-piece
band will provide the music, and
entertainment will be presented
during intermission.
Calling it "one of the biggest
events of the year for the freshmen
class," Summers said that if suc
cessful, the dance will become an
annual affair.
Interest Shown by Living Groups
UO Students Want Millrace to Flow Aqain
By Bob Southwell
Should the millrace bo restored?
A cross section of individuals and organizations which
have shown interest in the stream during pasht years were
recently asked this question, and results of the informal
I .poll indicate that interest in improving the millrace runs
. high although money available for such a project runs low.
. .Most opinions express optimism on the millrace issue,
though initiative to lead a drive to improve the stream has
not yet been shown.
Student Ui on Director Dick Williams called a halt to
’ wistful think ng about the millrace in terms of its past
beauty and u e. After explaining that he considers a well
developed stream an asset to the University anti towns
people, he added, "I think the matter should be viewed
objectionally, instead of emotionally.”
Williams ldsls Four Hensons
Williams listed four reasons why a canoe fete might be
impractical for future years: 1. Because of the extensive
traffic along f’ranklin blvd., which borders the canoe fete
area. 2. Beca se of the inevitable noise in an area paral
leled by a red oad and a highway. 3. Because of the pol
'uted water ’ hich now flows through the millrace. 4. Be
cause of the inadequate room between the highway and
” fr
millrace to accommodate the canoe fete observers.
Williams pointed out that the cost of improving the mill
race would probably be prohibitive, anyway. But yet he
would like to see the millrace restored: "I merely think
somebody should decide for once and for all if a canoe
fete would be practical, feasible anti desirable."
Speaking for the administration, Director of Tublic
Services Lyle Nelson displayed a more optimistic attitude
toward the issue. When asked if the millrace should be
restored, he replied, “The administration has already com
mitted itself with a $5,000 appropriation to improve the
canoe fete area.” In addition, another $10,000 has been re
quested for the project from the State Board of Higher
Education.
Indicating an intense interest in the millrace, Nelson
advised University students to "keep up the pressure to
get something done on the. stream and the city and Uni
versity will probably follow."
Alumni Interested
Les Anderson, University alumni director, is definitely
interested in seeing the millrace develop, but he said, "I
definitely think the city of Eugene is obligated to sell the
$20,000 in bonds to improve the millrace promised us in
lO'-tp. I think it could do a lot for the students if devel
t
oped." Anderson's alumni group donated $4000 to the $20,
000 fund to improve the race in 1P<P.
A resident on the millrace. Dean S. W. Little of the
architecture school takes the same attitude Anderson does.
He is intensely interested in seeing the race restored, ant!
takes a participant's part rather than the observer’s in
working on the issue. But Little seems quite disgusted
with the city's passive stand on the project, and would
like to see the $20,000 bond issue sold for financial help,
rhi 1‘si's •‘All the Way”
Vein Stolen, president of Phi Kappa Psi, spoke for his
house. He explained that the Phi Psi’s, living or. the mill
race, used to use the millrace a lot more than they do
now. "These clays only a few hardy souls venture to swim
in it, until we start throwing the pledges and rule break
ers in." He considers the millrace a “part of the campus'’
and commits his house as being “all the'way" for restor
ing it.
Beta Theta Pi President Ken Ball cited several games
which his boys use for the millrace. "We would certainly
be interested in cleaning out the stream; we have contrib
uted in the past by working and would probably contribute
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