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Bathtubs for Fish . . . , . . are only one of the now feil ium* of the Science building ns run pH* Hern by the story on page 8. Volume Mil m daily EMERALD _ /'ifly-thirdyear oj Publication I MVMVSITV Ol OKKOON, KIOKNK, WKD.NKSDAV, AI KIF 2, 1052 - Final Lists . . . ... of revised phone number** for fraternities, sororities, and coop» wlll be found on page 6. NI MBER !)» Physics, Biology Departments Move into New Quarters Physics and biology departments have moved Into the new $1,500,000 science building, with the chemis try department scheduled to move In during the Hummer. Still getting Mettled In the three 1 story (plus it sub-basement 1 build ing. the two departments were pre viously located in Deady hall. Chemistry will remuln in McClure spring term. Construction on the new con crete building, containing 100,000 stjunre feet of floor space, began approximately two years ago. The structure has many modern science facilities surpassing those available in Deady und McClure, including :f>KthtubH for fish, special animal looms, and more and more varied laboratories A lecture room in the basement holds 100 students, re sembling an auditorium in struc ture. The building, which will be offi cially dedicated April 25, is part of the University's building expan sion program. The business admin istration-social sciences wing i» now under the construction. General contractor for the new science building was Robb B. Ham mond of Portland. L. H. Morris 1 Klcetric company of Kugene was the electrical contractor, and Bu chanan company incorporated of Portland handled the mechanical ■ contracting. UO Journalists Set Deadline For Reservations Deadline for reservations for the annual Matrix Table-Gridiron Ban quet Apr. S, featuring Norman Cousins, editor of The Saturday Review, ia Monday morning, ban quet planners announced Tuesday. Invitations to the banquet, spon sored by two journalism fraterni ' ties, have been Hent out and replies and reservations must be in to the School of Journalism office by noon Monday. Cousins, who will arrive Thurs day to spend a week here as a School of Journalism visiting ' speaker, has chosen "A Positive Strategy for World Peace" as his ' topic for the banquet. The annual banquet is the result of the combination of two tradi tional functions Matrix Table, , sponsored by Theta Sigma Phi, na tional professional women's jour nalism fraternity, and Gridiron .Banquet, sponsored by Sigma Del ta Chi, national professional men's journalism fraternity. The two -groups joined forces for the first time last year, with J. Russell Wig gins, managing editor of the Wash (Please turn In f'ai/r fur) Schuster to Play Cello in Concert At Mac Court Joseph Schuster, cellist, former ly scheduled to appear when the previously named cellist, Gregor Pmtigorsky, was unable to come to Eugene, will give a concert for the Civic Music Association at 8 p.m. Thursday in McArthur Court. University students may gain admittance on presenting their stu dent body cards. Faculty mem bers mus tshow Civic Music asse ntation memberships. Schuster has performed in Eu : gene twice before. Born In Con stantinople of Russian parents. Schuster now lives in the U.S., is married to an American and has one son. Beginning his study of the cello since before he was 10, Schuster was permitted to attend the St. Petersburg Conversatory of Music 1 to study under Josef Press, giving a recital at the age of 12. After graduation he succeeded Piatigor sky as solo cellist for the Berlin '■ Philharmonic, till his objections to Hitler led him to come to this country in 1934. He was given the post of solo cellist for the New York Philharmonic till he resigned to devote himself entirely to con cert work. AGS Announces Petition Schedule And Plans for Coming Elections Plans and the schedule of peti tion deadlines for the Associated •Greek student party in the coming elections have been announced by _AGS President Larry Dean. The set-up for an AGS primary, similar to the one to be held by the ^United Students’ association, was announced at the last AGS meet ing winter term. Only candidates for the AGS nominee for ASUO • president will be voted on in the primary, due to the confusion in .volved in having all ASUO class and party candidates voted on in a primary, Dean said. Petitions Until Apr. 10 Petitions will be accepted until 'midnight Apr. 10. The AGS policy committee will meet Apr. 11 to screen petitions for all positions Vxcept ASUO president. All presi dential candidates petitioning will i)c placed on the primary ballot. The presidential primary will be held Apr. 14. The winning party “nominee must have a majority, Dean said, and it is possible that •several primaries will have to be held until one candidate does get the required majority. Remainder on Apr. 17 The remainder of the slate for the party will be made Apr. 17 and final approval vote will be made ] Apr. 22. The all-campus election is | scheduled for Apr. 30. | It has been proposed (hat the I person who is second to the party : ASUO presidential nominee be au tomatically made the candidate for I senior class president. Final ap proval on this proposal and the pri | mary set-up will be made at the first AGS meeting of this term. Amendments Adopted Several amendments to the AGS constitution have also been made. Living organizations petitioning for reinstatement in the group will be subject to a two year disci plinary period instead of the for mer one year period. During this time, the organizations will be al lowed no candidates for ASUO or party offices. A two-thirds vote of approval for reinstatment must bo obtained instead of the former ma jority. The waiting period between the meeting at which the petitions for reinstatement is made and the next meeting at which it is voted upon has been definitely set at two weeks. Previously, the constitution stated that the petition must be voted upon at a meeting following the one at which it is presented with no time limit set between meetings. PE Department Short 624 Pairs Of Gym Shorts Strong in short. William W. Strong, men’s gvm basket superintendent for the I'nlverslty, has reported the loss of #24 pairs of men’s gym shorts and 55 pairs of white gym trous ers. Traditional polley, inaugurat ed during the depression years, Is to eharge students twice the cost of any equipment lost by them. The policy apparently is still in effect, because Strong stated Tuesday that the shorts cost the physical education department $9JiO per dozen (about 82 cents apiece) although students are charged «1.50 per pair for losing them. Strong stated that the extra | charge Is a "fine for losing state ! property.” I 31 ROTC Seniors To Get June Duty Thirty-one air force ROTC sen iors will be ordered into active military service within 120 days after graduation this spring ac cording to Col. Emory L. Bruns, ! head of the Oregon military de : partment. On a nationwide basis an esti mated 5000 graduates of the AFROTC will be ordered into ac j tive service after graduation. Those to be called include all newly commissioned graduates without prior service who receive their degrees before June 30, 1952. An additional 1600 students will have completed Air Force ROTC ; instruction by that date but will not be commissioned in the air | force reserve until they complete educational requirements. The ma jority of these officers will be or dered to active service before May 1, 1953. Delays in reporting will be granted to students who have been accepted for graduate study in cer tain technical fields needed by the air force. There are no plans at present to call graduates with prior service. LATEST RESULTS ON PRIMARIES Unofficial returns from the Wisconsin and Nebraska presi dential primaries as tabulated by Associated Press at 11 p.m. Tuesday: Wisconsin (2366 out of 3261 precincts reporting) Republican: Robert Taft. 215,662 Earl Warren 148,983 Harold Stassen 111,632 Democrat: Sen. Estes Kefauver is way ahead of two “favorite son” candidates. Nebraska (269 out of 2058 precincts reporting) Republican: Robert Taft 5,434 Harold Stassen 4,380 Gen. Dwight Eisenhower o, 200 Mrs. Mary Kerry (unofficial MacArthur supporter) 745 Gen. Douglas MacArthur 94 "Justice, Truth, Honesty, Integrity . . . Gustavson Advocates These Basic Principles R. G. GUSTAVSON ( hrist would not be lost ♦ ♦ ♦ Speaker Attacks Accrediting Plan By Phil Battens The accrediting system :a a threat to the freedom and liberty .of American education, i That's what R. G. Gustavson, j chancellor of the University of Ne i braska, told a press conference in , the Student Union Monday. ; “Accrediting did do some good," I he said, "but it is now a threat; it ■ attempts to control personnel and ; courses. Education, to be effective has to be free." Minimum Standards j (Universities, colleges, and their ' departments and schools are ae 1 credited — that is, certified that (certain minimum standards have j been met—by different national ae ! crediting organizations in almost jail fields of education.) | Gustavson added that the ac . crediting system has turned educa | tion into a guild organization. ! where various departments jockey j for position and special privileges. I He cited law and medicine as two i examples of this, j "American education as a whole has narrowed itself,” he said. "The i trend has been towards speeializa | tion in education.” Too Much Specialization I He feels that science students, for example, should study more of the humanities and arts; that stu dents get too much specialized knowledge. As a former member of the U.S. ' national commission of United Na tions Economic, Social and Cul-, tural organization (UNESCO),' Gustavson was asked what he thought of the commission s work. He replied that he thought the State Department exercised too much control over the group. "We've been accused of being an arm of the State department," he j said. He cited a recent UNESCO I conference in Mexico as an ex ample; Hungary wished to be ad mitted, and the rest of the orga nization was in favor. But the j State department said *no ": the! j United States was forced to ab stain from voting. I-— Jr. Weekend Posts Open A call for petitions for Junior ! Weekend has been issued by the Weekend chairmen. Special peti tions may be obtained in the boxes on the third floor of the Student Union or in the Junior Weekend office, room 303. Junior Weekend will be held Mav 9, 10 and 11. By Kitty Fraser The problems of physiffs arwW chemistry in the next 50 years wilK be solved, Chancellor Ft. G. G ;Stav son of the University of Nebraska said Monday afternoon but the reaV challenge of the next 00 years it** whether or not we will 'be able col lectively to build a society in whiclv* the basic principles of justice, truth, honesty and integrity will be realized.” Tracing the developments irv science since the turn of the cen tury. Gustavsor.. rpeakmg to a crowd of over 500 in the Student Union ballroom, pointed out that the great scientists of the past would be lost in trying to under stand the recent developments in their field without study. Confucius Not Lost But if Confucius of Christ wero to return .they would not be lost, he said, as the basic principle® of human needs which are threat<*ne«^ by the present scientific discov eries were realized even during "their times. "Win these discoveries be use**1 for furthering man's position or destroying it?” he asked. The an swer lies, he continued, in ''.vbeth jer mankind can take the bask les Isons of the p-eat and the get d in [the humanities and apply them to 'the present.'1 Atom Bomb Cited Gustavson cited the discoveries in the various fields of science, in cluding the atom bomb and-growth studies in chemistry. He said of the atom bomb. "Man has p]amt' in his hands one of the most de structive machineries ever invent ed. "Is it going to be tapped to study the problems of metallurgy and medicine,” Gustavson queried? "Are you going to work out meth ods of international control.or are we going to find ourselves in aiv atmosphere of fear in which sci ence has never prospered?” be asked. Genes and Chromosomes Gustavson, an internationally known chemist, presented some of the things chemistry is studying ir» the field of molecule virus study and genetics. He cited cases where through alteration of gene aadt - chromosome patterns in grains a neb trees, the grain and forest produc tion had been greatly increased. Instead of going out after more land through conquest, the yiehf* of the present area of land- hatV been increased by peaceful means* of science, he illustrated. 3638 Register; Four Days Left Students who have not paid their fes for spring term may pick up their cards from the registrar’s of fice ami pay fees at the cashier's— office until Saturday noon The cashier’s office hours are 8 a.m. to • 12 noon and 1 to 3 p.m. There is no penalty' fee for day by day delay of payment of fees* during the rest of this week, bi t on April 7 a $5 penalty for late pay ment of fees will be assessed amJ. will increase SI per day thereafter. Regular registration for new students is being held the rest of this week and April 14 is the last day to register or change courses. The total count Tuesday of stu dents have gone through the office of student affairs in advance ami regular registration was 3,638.