Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, April 28, 1952, Image 1

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    Volume LIII
n Daily
EMERALD
/■ i fly-third year of Publication
UNIVERSITY' OF OREGON, EUGENE, MONDAY, APRIL, 28, 1952^ NUMBER 111
Chi O, Sig Ep Win
First Place Trophies
At Vodvil Show
Si^ma I 'll i hpsilon won double honors in Iriilav night’s All
campus \ odvil the best men's production and the tmtstanding
individual performer. C ‘ 11 i (buega was awarded first place in
the women’s division.
Jim I’nrcell, Sig I*.p junior in architecture, was named the
Voters to Pass
On Amendment
An amendment to the ASUO
constitution will be presentefl If)
student voters in Wednesday's all
cnmpus election In addition to the
. candidates for ASUO und class of
ficers.
The ann ndment, text of whirh
appears in today'H Emerald, pro
r ^Vides for the freshmen class elec
, fions to be held between the fifth
and eighth week of fall term in
stead of between the first and fifth
- week of winter term.
Candidates for the various of
. flees were presented in an assem
bly Thursday evening. Few stu
dents other than the candidates
were present.
Hess for Prescient
An additional candidate for
ASUO president. James Hess, jun
. lor in business, was nominati d in
a speech by Bob Ridderbusch. How
, A resume of the senate rec
ords of IneuMilH-nt candidate i
appears on page 7.
ever, according to AKUO Vice
President Mei v Hampton, the nom
ination of Hess was out of order
as the deadline for petition filing,
• a step necessary for placing a
name on the ballot, was last Wed
nesday at midnight.
Hess told the Emerald Sunday
night that he had been in Eastern
- Oregon at the time the nomination
speech was made by Ridderbusch,
and "knew nothing about it," He
stated that hi- wished to make it
plain that he was "not running."
"The whole thing was more o’
, Jess a joke to liegin with," lie said.
Platforms Outlined
The candidates for ASUO presi
dent, Associated Greek students
I* Pat Dignan of the Associated
' Gfeek students and Helen Jackson
for the United students association
> outlined their platforms during the
. assembly.
Both the candidates advocated
an nil-campus primary and a con
tinuance of the work to get pay
(Pleost' turn to llji fc)
licit individual performer foi hm
rolr in "A Salesman Named Do*
Hire " Purcell played the part of
the French father, and, In Addition,
hlH recorded voicea were used for
all the parts the Impatient daugh
ter, the sauve * salesman, the
mousey shocshinc boy, and him
self.
Frart ired French
The Kig Ep production, with con
versation a steady stream of com
pound fractured French punctured
occaaioi^llly by English all sup
plied by Purcell featured the ef
forts of the salesman and the
daughter to woo, opposed by the
efforts of the father. The father,
whose drink Is poisoned by the
salesman, finally stabs himself and
all other members of the cast after
three false starts at dying from
the poison.
Chi Omega's “Hour for Toys"
portrayed a solo mechanical toy
dance by Joan Skordahl, followed
Drive Tops Goal
The World Student Service
Fund drive, which rioted Satur
day night, whs classed as ‘‘excel
lent” by eliulrman Joann Sloan
when well over $1500 of the
$2000 goal set for this year was
obtained through WSSF func
tions. This amount dors not In
elmle proceeds from the \ odvlt
show which had not been counted
Sunday. The Fgly .Man contest
was responsible for $649 of the
total, the WSSF auction, $90.50.
Other Income was derived from
house, faculty and oily donations.
by a fivc-giil can-can with a
special lighting effect achieved by
the use of fluorescent dress and
black light.
Honorable Mention
“Doll Dance,” by Kappa Kappa
Gamma, a dance by a pixie and
costumed dolls.
Honorable mention for individual
performances wire awarded to
Adeline Ehrlich, the Kappa's elf,
and AI Barzman, who played
“Stanley" in the Sigma Alpha Mu's
“A Streetcar Named Bus."
Other highlights were the spot
portrayal of “Mitch" by Ron
Abrams in "A Streetcar Named
Bus," Campbell Club’s perennial
t / '/('inv turn to pane three)
Kleinsorge Lauds Science Building
In Friday's Dedication Ceremonies
Oregon's new science building in >
the most important single addition j
ever added to the University cam- \
pus.
That's what Dr. R. E. Kleinsorge, i
(halrman of the building commit
tee for the state board of higher
education, said Friday during dedi
cation ceremonies for the $1,600.
000 structure which will house
Oregon's biology, chemistry and
physics departments.
An audience of about 200 per
rons gathered in the main lecture
room of the newly-opened building
heard a list of distinguished speak
♦ ♦ ♦
Dr. Waterman Relates Background
Of National Science Foundation
me National science foundation. (
in one sense, is a symbol of science !
in our national life, just as the j
new Science building is a symbol
of man's aspiration toward the !
still-beckoning horizons of science.
Alan T. Waterman, director of the j
foundation, said Friday night in
the puncipal address of the week
end's science building dedication
ceremonies.
Waterman, rrlating the back
ground. purpose and activity of the
foundation, told of its being born
fiom a call by the late Franklin D.
Roosevelt for a suggestion to chan
nel the national scientific efforts
into peacetime uses for the ad
vancement of national welfare.
Roosevelt had said. “New fron
Kapell to Play
Tonight at Court
The lest Civic Music association !
concert of the season will be the |
performance of William Kapell.
pianist, at S p.m. today in Me- |
Arthur court. Students will be ad- j
mitted upon presentation of stu-;
dent body cards.
He started his career officially
in 1942, playing the new Khatcha- i
turian number, “Soviet-Armenian
Concert,” which he performed so i
many times afterwards that he was l
nicknamed “Khatchaturian Ka
pell." a name he had trouble living i
down thereafter. Kapell has also
done his share of touring of Eu-1
iope. Australia, New Zealand and:
South America.
British Historian Arnold Toynbee
To Lecture Here Tuesday, Thursday
Tuesday and Thursday will be
significant days for students,
scholars and townspeople who be
lieve there is something more to
history than a date, a place and a
battle.
For on these two days, at S p.m.,
Arnold J. Toynbee, world-renown
student of history himself, lectures
at McArthurco urt. On Tuesday it
will be "Encounters Between Civil
izations” and on Thursday, “The
Lessons of History.”
“A Study of History”
Toynbee, who will be sponsored
by the University lectures and 75th
anniversary committees, is in the
United States at present to con
tinue work on his "A Study of His
tory,” an undertaking which has
b#en compared to both "Tire De
cline and Fall of the Roman Em
piro” and "The Decline of the
West.”
He is currently working at the
Institute for Advanced Study at
Princeton. The first three volumes
of "A Study of History" were pub
lished in 1934; the second three in
1939.
History Philosopher
The British historian, "A man
of tremendous significance . . . and
probably the greatest living philos
opher of history," according to
Gordon Wright, acting head of the
history department here, has visit
ed the United States several times
on lecture engagements in recent
years.
One of his recent books accord
ing to the Journal of Modern His
tory, "suggests the enormous
scholarship, the faculty of looking
at the past with innocent eyes and
from fresh angles, the power of
striking, poetic and suggestive
statement" by the author.
The historian, said Science and
Society, is "not concerned with hu
man society in general, but with
that peculiar manifestation of it
which we call civilization.”
He advocates, according to Time
magazine, that "the pressure of
outside challenge produces a civili
zation's strongest responses.”
Other Factors Important
He has said that psyhic and
spiritual factors are more import- j
ant in history than material fac- i
tors, the magazine continues, and 1
that "active working Christianity”
is necessary to combat commun- j
ism.
Toynbee docs not believe a third I
world war is imminent and that
Russian pressure may stimulate
the West to improve along its own
lines.
J
tiers ot me mind are before us,
and if they are pioneered with the
same vision, boldness, and drive,
with which we have waged this
war. we can create a fuller and
more fruitful employment and a
fuller and more fruitful life."
Waterman pointed out that un
til the passage of the act creating
the foundation in 1950 there had
never been a federal agency to de
velop an over-all national science
policy, to encourage and support
basic research as distinguished
from applied or special purpose re
search and to encourage national
science education.
”.\t tract and Hold"
"One of the most serious ques
tions confronting education today
is the need to attract and hold an
adequate number of teachers in
every field," Waterman stated.
Waterman said the fellowship
program is important not only as
a long-range effort to increase the
number of highly-trained scien
tists who play so important a part
in today's world, but also as a
means of alleviating quickly what
appears to be a critical and cur
rent shortage of scientists and en
gineers.
Effort Two-fold
The effort is two-fold, he said,
providing financial assistance in
the form of fellowships and a pro
gram of research education design
ed to strengthen the teaching of
science.
Turning to the research field, the
foundation director said his orga
nization is the only federal re
search for its own sake in the fields
of science.
"It is important to realize." Wa
terman asserted, “that in the na
tional interest, whether in normal
times or during an emergency, the
frontier of science itself must be
pushed forward.”
Purpose of the foundation, he
said, is "to promote the progress
of science: to advance the national
health, prosperity, and welfare; to
secure the national defense, and
for other purposes.”
eis including Gov. Douglas Mc
Kay. Alan Waterman, head of the
National Science Foundation, aruf*
Charles D. Bryne, chancellor of the
state system of higher education-•
laud the building as a step for.vaid
in the educational process.
McKay described the building a*1
partial fulfillment of higher educa
tion s debt to society, a means to
an end with the ultimate goal to
produce better citizens.
Waterman said that the new
building would aid in filling tho
great need for scientists in re
searcb. teaching and administra
tion in "one of the last frontiers'*
the world has’’—science.
Chancellor Bryne said that the
building was "not an expenditure
but an investment which will re
turn laige dividends to the State
of Oregon." He called it "the first
real science building the Univer
sity has ever had" and stated that,
in its production of scientists anil
research, it might well assume a
value 100 times greater than its
original cost.
Other speakers at the dedication,
which was carried over Eugene
radio stations, were Edga: W.
Smith, president of the state bear**
of higher education: and William
'C. Jones, dean of admiistratibn.
750 Prep Seniors
Attend Preview
Approximately 750 high school
seniors attended Duck Preview
weekend this year according to
figures released by Sally Haseltinc,
registration chairman for the
weekend.
About 500 Oregon high school
! seniors attended Duck Preview last
year.
Oregon State reported that 1550
high schoolers attended that
school's preview weekend Friday
and Saturday.
675 Completed Kegistration
Miss Haseltine stated that 675 cf
the visitors completed registration,
and that there were probably a
number of others who did r.ot go
through the process of signing up.
Most of the events scheduled for
the weekend were well attended.
At the luncheon held at neon on
Saturday, nearly S25 high school
ers and University freshmen were
served. The entertainment provided '
was well received by the group.
Campus Talent Exhibited
Campus talent was the source of
the luncheon entertainment, with
the University Singers opening the
program. Individual numbers were
presented by Ed Kenney. Marnion
ett Magoon and Elaine Potts, who
was accompanied by Bud Elliott.
■ Please turn to I'ni/e three)
Warren Demonstration Today
Prelude to Mock Convention
Warren for president!
That'll be the keynote today in
the first large scale demonstration
for Oregon's mock Republican po
litical convention which takes
place Friday night.
Today at noon houses who repre
sent states backing Gov. Earl
Warren of California for the Re
publican presidential nomination
will tour the campus in cars in a
noon hour rally to boost their can
didate.
The Warren tally is the first in a
series of rallies and torchlight
parades planned to lead up to tho
actual convention Friday.
Tuesday night the Eisenhower
forces will stage a torchlight pa
rade starting on “Sorority Row"
and proceeding through the cam
pus.