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Volume LIII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1953 NUMBER 114 Oreaon Daih/ PAT D1GNAN Torchlight Parade < To Boost GOP Taft y i'lie “ J aft for President” committee will static a torchlight j parade at 9:00 tonight, the last of four student demonstrations! before ‘‘Operation Politics,” Oregon’s mock Republican nomi-! rating convention Friday. Because of women’s rushing, the parade will start at 9:00| p.m. not at 8 :30 as scheduled. Houses representing states in support of Taft will meet at 16th | and Alder arM tour the campus. Demonstrations held during the week include a Gov. Warren rally on Monday, a torchlight parade by ' r T'ritrt'rtti'ir- ” . -v.. rst*. GOV. VAL PETERSON I To Keynote Mock Convention ( Eisenhower supporters on Tuesday ^nd a "Stassen for President” rally |on Wednesday. During the past two weeks the ) symposium committee under the leadership of chairman Jim Crit tenden has recorded forums for radio stations KASH and KUGN.: The forums described the organi-! zation and purpose of “Operation | Politics.” Val Peterson, governor of Ne braska and keynote speaker at the convention, will arrive in Eugene: early Friday. A reception will be held for Peterson by the planning committee. Peterson, who was elected in the fall of 1946, is serving his third term as governor of Nebraska. Present chairman of the National Government conference, Peterson is also president of the National Couoncil of State Governments. Forty-eight years old, Peterson has been active in politics since 1934 when he was campaign man ager for Republican congressman Karl Stefan. A veteran of World War II he is presently a colonel in the air force reserve. Leaflets and a sound truck will announce the Governor’s parade at 4:30 p.m. Friday and the con vention at 6:30 p.m. The Governor's parade starts at the Southern Pacific depot and terminates at McArthur court, feene of the actual convention Fri day night. Featured in the parade will be (/’lease tarn to pat/e seven) Queen Finalists Selected by Vote Members of the Junior Weekend court—and the five finalists for Junior Weekend queen—are Bar bara Booth, Pat Johnson, Jo Mar tin, Joan Renner and Nanette Sil vcrthorne. They were selected in a two-day vote which ended Wednesday night. The Junior Weekend queen will be chosen in an all-campus vote Wednesday and will be revealed at the time of the coronation cere monies, at Junior Prom intermis sion, May 9. In charge of voting is Pat Gus tin. Others handling arrangements for the court are Joan Priaulx. flowers; Sally Hazeltine and Bar bara Keelen, coronation; Anne Gentel, dresses; Joyce Jones, judg es and eliminations; and Kathy Tribe, pictures. Campus Sing Finalists Listed Ten men’s and ten wc&nen’s liv ing organizations made the fnials for the all-campus sing and will compete for the trophy at the sing program May 10. The finalists are Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Campbell club, Delta Up silon, Sigma Chi, Sigma Phi Epsi lon, Alpha Tau Omega, Delta Tau Delta, Lambda Chi Alpha, Theta Chi and Hunter-Minturn. Finalists in the women’s groups arc Alpha Phi, Ann Judson, Delta Gamma, Carson hall, Chi Omega, Delta Delta Delta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Pi Beta Phi, Sigma Kap pa and University house. AGSCleans-up On Positions "She was a worthy opponent. It was damn close." I Iiat was \\ hat Pat Dignan had to say about his election as ASLO president following Wednesday's elections at an Asso ciated Greek student celebration on the Willamette river \\ ednesday night. Dignan won the election with 1012 first place votes to Helen USA Loses All Prexy Posts To Greek Party The election results at a glance: ASUO President—Pat Dignan ; (AGS), vice president — Helen Jackson (USA). Senate-at-large — Mike Lally, Jody Greer, Francis Gillmore, Bill Frye, Mary Alice Baker, Don ! Parr (AGS); Don Collin, Judy McLoughlin, Ben Schmidt | (USA). Senior class—Tom Wrightson i (AGS), president; Dick Davis ! (USA), vice president; Jane | Simpson (AGS) and Merle Davis I (USA), senate representatives. Junior class — Bob Brittain (AGS), president; Tom Shepherd (USA), vice president; Joan Marie Miller (AGS) and Bob Simpson (USA), senate repre sentatives. Sophomore class — Bob Sum mers (AGS), president; Milan Foster (USA), vice president; Janet Miller (AGS) and Mary ; Witaker (USA), senate repre I sentatives. Constitution amendment — passed 1600 to 390. Co-op board—Ann Bankhead, Barbara Keelen, Joan Radema eher. Toynbee, Philosopher and Historian, Sees Hope in Western Civilization's World Position By Jim Haycox A philosopher and historian whose outstanding work has been the study of civilizations, Arnold J. Toynbee sees hope for the west ern world. It's not necessarily on the down grade, he remarked at a press breakfast Tuesday, and though there are things that could drag it Toynbee’s Thursday night lec ture, originally scheduled for Mc Arthur t;ou*t, has been changed to the Student Union ballroom. The time, 8 p.m., and the title, “The Lessons of History”, will remain the same. down, there’s “no reason to let them go on.” Western civilization is on the de fensive now, but we don’t want to "dominate the world of the future,” ^ ,be observed. We may regain the initiatiye, he added, if we have something to offer the rest of the world. If there were more of the “Chris tian outlook” in western politics, he said, the situation would be im proved. “Communism is more like a re ligion,” he explained; “a very bad religion but a real one.” We must reestablish a “Christian outlook” into our own ideals of democracy. Political Unity Needed Toynbee, like Henri Barzun, vis iting author here last week, sees a definite need for a political unity in the west but, unlike the French man, doesn’t confine it to a Euro pean federation alone. He said he had "no particular blueprint” for such a union of na tions but emphasized the pere mount importance of political unity and said the United States would “play a central part in it.” | “Europe and America could be part of the same community,” he said, and possibly we could turn India and China in our direction. He holds, however, that, because its industrial power that could turn the balance of power in favor of Russia or the U.S., Europe is the more important to us. Toynbee doesn't think Asia will become a third power in the world, owing to the differences among the people there. Furthermore, he thinks Communism may have done some good in China but that “Rus sia will never assimilate the Chi nese.” Chinese Are Convertors The Chinese have a long history of adopting things from the out side, he explained, and then con verting them to their own particu lar needs. “I would think they’d make Com munism over in the same way,” he said. v The domineering character of the Russian communists, compared with the “lighter-handed” West, may be a point in our favor, he noted. Tact Difficult for Reds “Tact is difficult for the Rus sians, by nature autocratic,” he ob served. In his own words, he came prac tically from one end of the West ern world to the other—from Lon don to Eugene. But such a jaunt for him was nothing particularly new. Toynbee explained he’s been making regular trips to the United States since the war and is here for about three out of every eight een months. His purpose has been to study and complete the final volumes of his masterpiece, “A Study of His tory.” That job is finished now as far as the writing goes, he said, and the last four volumes will be published in 1954. jacKsons 8S9. Miss Jackson waa the United Students association. ; candidate for president and will automatically become vice-presi dent. 2021 Votes Cast In addition to Dignan’s and Miss# - Jackson’s total, there were 12k* | other first place votes cast for ! other candidates, making the total vote 2021. Fifty-one per cent of the eligible voters, according to the last registrar’s figure of 3988, cast ballots in the election. Dignan’s victory means the sec ond year in a row that the Asso cited Greek student candidate ha*^» won the election for president over the United Students association ; nominee. Clean Sweep in Classes AGS made a clean sweep in the class office elections. Tom Wright son won the senior class president post with 271 votes over the USA candidates, Dick Davis, who had*< 148. Jane Simpson (AGS) had 46* fiist place votes in the representa tive contest over Merle Davis (USA) with 32. Eob Brittain (AGS) won the junior class presidency with 2S7 number one votes over Tom Shep herd (USA) who had 135 votes. Joan Marie Miller (AGS) had 48 , first place votes over Bob Simpson (USA) who had 25 in the represen tative contest. Bob Summers (AGS) took the sophomore class presidency with. ■' Please turn to pif/e scve/i) 'Under the Big Top' Junior Prom Theme Theme for the Junior Prom, Alay 9, will be '‘Under the Big Top,” Prom Decorations Chairman Paul Lasker announced Tuesday night. Closing hours for the Prom will be 2 a.m. The dance will be held-. from 9 p.m. to 12:45 a.m. Corona tion of the Junior Weekend queer* will be held during a 10 p.m. inter mission. Music for the dance will be pro vided by Johnny Reitz and his or chestra with Marcelaine as featur ed vocalist. Reitz’ band has beer* called “The Alost Talked About Band in the Northwest” by pro moters in this region. A team of Junior students under the direction of Tom Wrightsor*, ticket chairman, will compete ii selling tickets this year. Ticket sales will begin today. They are be ing sold for $2.50. All-campus salesmen who will contact houses and individual students on campus are Dick Davis, Stacy Hertsche, Mel Erickson, Bill DeLand, Ji * Watkins, Bart Cross, John Whitty, Merv Gumpert and Dick Morris. The salesman who sells the most tickets will receive $10; the sales man who comes in second will re ceive $2.50. Previously house rep resentatives have handled ticket selling for their own living organi zations.