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Volume I.Ill UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1952 NUMBER 58
Rev. Paul Wright
Opens Parliament
. A son of missionary parent#, who
was born In Tabriz. Iran, will give
* the opening address of the Parlia
ment of World Religions which will
TIIK KEV. PAIL S. WRIGHT
Iran to Oregon: Presbyterian
, pastor
t bo held ut the University Jan. 20
to 24.
He is The Rev. Paul S. Wright,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
church of Portland since 1941. Top
. ic of the address, at 6:30 p.m. Sun
day, is "A Parliament of World Re
ligion."
• Mr. Wright has been active in
- church social work, the Portland
. Presbyterian church having a so
cial center for underprivileged per
sona.
He was also Instrumental in rais
ing funds to purchase the one mil
lion-dollar Manucca estate on the
Columbia river to serve as a Pres
byterian conference and retreat
grounds, according to Thom Hunt
or, University pastor for Westmin
ster foundation.
Ho has boon a pastor at Crosby
and Blsmark, N.D., Minneapolis,
and Oklahoma City.
Mr. Wright is now a mcmbor of
tho board of Christian education
of the Portland Presbyterian
church, board of trustees of Lewis
and Clark college, board of direc
tors of tho Oregon Prison associa
tion, and a member of the Presby
terian general assembly’s special
church reorganization committee.
Seven Freshmen
Present Petitions
Seven freshmen have petitioned
so far for eandidary in the forth
coming freshmen election Jan. 23.
They are Ann Bankhead, for
freshman representative; Dorothy
Kopp. for freshman clasa vice
president; Kay Partch, for vice
president; Robert Summers, for
freshman class president; Hal
Swarthout, position not specified;
Betsy Thayer, for representative;
and Kai l Pctermann, for represen
tative.
Petition deadline for freshmen is
midnight Wednesday, one week be
fore the election. A nominating as
remlrly, where freshman candidates
will be Introduced and will speak,
is scheduled for Thursday evening
in the Student Union Dad's lounge.
Requirement for petitioning is a
minimum of 2.00 GPA with at least
12 hours last term.
All freshman candidates will
meet with the election committee
Wednesday at 7 p.m in the ASUO
office, according to Merv Hamp
ton, election committee chairman,
to hear information on campaign
ing and the nomination assembly.
There will be a definite limit on
campaigning, Hampton said.
Infirmary Perils
Ensnare Student
•Dm Firming, sophomore in
business administration, would
havr lieen better off If hr hadn't
gone to thr Infirmary with his
ram* of thr. fin last week.
While confined to a tied thrrr,
hr propped himself up to read a
magazine — and dislocated his
shoulder.
Pay Phone
Poll Begins
On Campus
Dick Kading, Oregon's phone
committee chairman, said Monday
he will poll campus organizations
this week to discover student opin
ion on the Pacific Telephone and
Telegraph co. plan for an intra
campus exchange to replace pay
phones for campus calls.
If the results of the poll indicate
that students favor the plan, Had
ing said he would take it up with
the University administration.
Kading, who was delegated by
ASUO President Bill Carey fall
term to seek removal of pay
phones, said he will distribute
about 100 copies of the company's
proposal together with a question
j naire asking if the plan "is suit
able to students."
The phone chairman's statement
followed an announcement that the
charge for pay phone calls will be
raised to 10 cents in ICugcne as
part of a rate increase granted by
the Public Utilities commission.
The phone company's plan would
! allow campus living organizations
; to call each other, without charge,
from non-pay phones. Calls to off
campus phones would be made
through pay phones.
Kading said the company plan
and the questionnaire would go to
members of the Inter-fraternity
council, the Inter-dormitory coun
cil. Panhellcnie, dormitories and
co-ops.
King Perry Scheduled
For Military Formal
Kmjj f crry and hi* orchestra, famous mr their KxcHsior re
cording of Stardust and well known on the campus following
their appearance at last year - Senior Hall, will make a return
engagement next Saturday night at the Military Hail.
Perry’s orcht-tra made such a hit at the Senior Hall that a
special effort was made to bring him back this year. John Holey.
Dull to Discuss
Asiatic Problems
"Problems will continue to arise
out of Asia, and that fact, the
reason, nature of the problems, and
what the United States can do
about them will be the points of
my talk Tuesday," explained Paul j
S. Dull when asked Monday about !
his assembly address today on j
"The State of Asia”.
Dull, associate professor of his-1
tory and political science and au- I
thority on the Far East, will speak I
at 1 pm. today in the Student
Union ballroom in the first of the
winter term assembly series.
Dull has just sold an article en- !
titled “Who Killed Chang Tso-Lin '
to the magazine Far Eastern Quar
terly. The story deals with the
death of a Chinese war lord who
was killed by a Japanese planted
bomb in Manchuria after his de
feat by Chiang Kai-shek in 1928.
The story is based on the records
on the Japanese war crimes trials.
Dull, who speaks Japanese, is
currently translating three Japa
nese books. They are the biography
of Kato Komei ,a liberal Japanese
politician; Volume 8 of the Diary
of Hara, the first commoner ever
, to be prime minister of Japan; and
the Memoirs of Saiongie. the elder
statesman of Japan. Saiongies
book tells the inside story of Japa
nese politics from 1928 until 1940.
Although Dull is an expert on
the whole of Asia. Japan is his
main field of interest. He is plan
ning to leave for Japan Aug. 15 by
freighter to study the political be
havior of the Japanese people. He
was recently given a travel grant
by the social science research coun
cil to help him with his study.
Dull had originally planned to
live in the Tokyo area while in
Japan, but he is now considering
working with the University of
Michigan at its Japanese study
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Petition Deadline Extended. . .
UO Students, Administration Leaders
Give Reasons For School Disinterest
By Jim Haycox
- What's behind the apparent lack
of student interest in student gov
ernment ?
It may not be quite as bad as it
seems.
• Lack of publicity.
Student government isn't big
enough to interest most people.
. These were the chief answers
given by eight student and jadmin
* ' istra.tlOh leaders when the Em
, CVSld naked them that current
question.
* Virginia Wright, ASUO senator
• and interim chairman of the United
, Students association, remarked
that “when you get mixed up with
• elections you often find yourself
mixed up with campus politics and
many students are disgusted with
• them."
"And student government hasn't
really many important things to
• do,” she noted. "At least it seldom
involves the things that capture
„ the imagination.” She also wonder
ed if activities in student govern
ment were sufficiently rewarding
_ to draw student interest.
Dean Says Publicity Needed
Larry Dean, president of the As
• sociated Greek students, thought
publicity and promotion were lack
* ing.
"If someone went into freshman
dorm and gave student government
publicity, it might help," he said.
“More personul contact is needed.
Too many pass up particiaption be
cause they don't know anything
about this business."
“If you gave the freshmen a
good start," he concluded, "they
would keep the interest up during
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VlUUlNiA WK1UH1
. . many students are dis
gusted ...”
their sophomore, junior and senior
years."
Barbara Williams, Heads of
Houses president, believed that
i people in politics and student gov
ernment tend to keep things too
much to themselves.
“People in politics very seldom
offer things to those not in poli
tics,” she explained. “They are apt
to keep things in their own little
groups and exclude the outsiders,
perhaps because its just the easiest
way of doing things.”
•Early Start or None at All*
She also said most students had
no knowledge of their own gov
ernment and would hesitate to
"jump into something blind.”
"Those who are in the swing of
things have been active since they
were freshmen," she explained.
Merv Hampton, ASUO vice
president, said that student partici
pation was comparatively great,
but that interest was admittedly
'sadly lacking."
“The reason for lack of interest
is that the student leaders—the
oarticipants—haven’t made it so,"
he said. "They are essentially a
azy group of individuals whose
main worry is getting their names
in the paper occasionally.”
Student government can be fas
cinating, he ended, but only when
the leaders "decide to do something
beside sit on their titles.”
‘Full Schedule Responsible’
Donald DuSliane, director of
student affairs, indicated that
students outside of classroom ac
tivity."
"We have a full program that
puts a lot of demand on student
time," he explained. “This week,
for example, we have had or will
have a number of attractions for
BILL CAREY
. . to advise and suggest . .
some of the apparent disinterest
might be caused by an already full
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president ot scabbard and Blade,
military honorary which is spon
soring the dance, announced.
A letter sent to him after the
dance by Olga Yevtich, program
director of the Student Union, so
well expressed the favorable stu
dent reaction that he has reprinted*,
the letter and used it in his nation
al advertising, Epley said.
All students may attend the
dance and uniforms are not re
quired for men, but are optional:
Suits will be in order for men not
in uniform and women will wear
formals. Flowers are not in order.
An entirely new method of stag
ing the orchestra and decoratioi*
will be used for the ail-campus
KING FERRY
To play for military ball.
dance in the SU ballroom. The en
tire room will have a false ceil
ing and the orchestra will be placed'
on a separate stage consisting of
risers beginning almost at floor
level. Bobby Massingill and Jina
Hanns are in charge of decoration.
The permanent stage will be
used for the intermission ceremo
nies, which will include commis
sioning of the “Little Colonel” by
Maj. Gen. Thomas E. Rilea, adju
tant general of Oregon, and the
tapping of new members of Scab
bard and Blade.
Separate ballot boxes with the
name and picture of one of the five
“Little Captains” will be placed*
near the ballroom door. Each ticket
has two stubs so that each person
attending the dance may vote for
their choice for "Little Colonel.”
All votes must be in by 10 p.m. the
night of the dance so that they car*
be counted by intermission.
Tickets are $2.25 per couple.
They may be purchased from any.
Scabbard and Blade member or at
the Co-op from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.
and from 2 to 4 p.m. this week.
They may also be purchased at the
dance.
Eight Candidates
File for Senate
Eight petitions for the vacant
senator-at-large position on the
ASUO senate were filed in the
ASUO office before deadline time
at 4 p.m. Monday.
Petitioners are Allen M. Cohen,
senior in business; Charles Carter,
graduate in education; Pat Dig
nan, junior in law; Raymond Fry
man, senior in business; Francis
Gillmore, junior in English; Bob
Metz, junior in business; Roger
Nudd, senior in liberal arts; and
Kaare Sandegren, special student
in political science.
The eight will be interviewed
by the senate Thursday evening.
The meeting starts at 0:30 p.m.
and, according to Bill Carey, ASUO
president, interviews will begin
about 6:45 p.m.