Volume Mil UNIVERSITY OF OUKOO.N, IX'GKNF, Till RSDAY, MAY 22, 1952 NTMBER 128
It's All in Fun-and for a Good Cause
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'Raids' Gather Clothes
For Koreans, Dousings
. It was quite a sight.
Eras, panties and slips floated
down from Carson's five floors
into the hands of jumping, yell
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Lingerie Maniacs
Going Berserk
By United Press
Scornful coeds indicated Wednes
day they were just about fed up
with panty-raiding male students
as a new wave of lingerie-looting
swept college campuses.
Overnight, the attitude of the co
eds seemed to have changed from
one of squealing encouragement to
aroused resistance or cloistered in
difference.
At Seattle, 12 police cars rushed
to the University of Washington
I^os Angeles (UP)—Riot guns,
tear gas bombs and .worst of all,
expulsion from school was the
order of the day should IC'I.A
students carry out a coed “panty
raid" believed scheduled for
Thursday, the office of the dean
said Wednesday.
campus and broke up a raid by SCO
boys on sorority houses in the uni
versity’s “Greek Row.'*
At Washington State college in
Pullman. 250 men raided four sor
ority houses but the girls in a fifth
house drove them off with water.
Two students were arrested and
turned over to the college's dean.
Some women at the,University of
Arizona threw water on 500 men
who stormed their dormitories in a
three-hour raid which wound up
with 17 men under arrest.
The men seized faced charges of
disorderly conduct and violation of
an old Tucson, Ariz., ordinance pro
hibiting persons from publicly :
wearing clothing of the opposite j
sex. Some of the men, the police
said, donned panties they snitched
from the dorms.
Foreign Student
Dinner Today
The annual farewell dinner for
foreign students will be given to
day at 6:30 p.m. in the Veterans’
Memorial building by the Foreign
Student Friendship foundation. All
foreign students in the University
may attend.
The principal address will be
given by William C. Jones, dean of
administration. His topic will be
“Democracy: A Bond of Fellow
ship.”
Brief talks will be given by three
University students and four for
eign students. Representing Amer
ica will be Marian Briner of the
campus YWCA, Helen Jackson of
the Associated Students, and Bill
' Yeomans.
Representing their countries will
be M. S. Venkataramani of India;
Ines Pozzi-Escot of Peru; Fumiko
Noda, Japan; and Dirk Schepers,
the Netherlands.
i The welcome address and intro
ductions will be given by D. M.
pougherty, head of the foreign
j’ language department. Rev. Thom
Hunter of Westminster Foundation
will give the invocation. ‘
ing Oregon men. They yelled “We
want panties" and they got them.
They yelled “We want falsies” and
they got them too.
Violence was minimized. Some
man threw something (thought to
be a beer bottle» through a second
floor window of Carson hall. Ann
Moyes, junior in political science,
received a cut foot. Mrs. Mildred
MacMahan, a Carson hall house
mother, said that the injury was
slight.
The idea was hatched Wednes
day morning. Student leaders and
members of the administration
About three-quarters of the
first hatch of clothing collected
will be usable for the Korean
drive, YWCA Secretary Mary
Klizabcth McDowell reported
late Wednesday night. A pile
about two feet high and four feet
wide was collected from one
group. Some of the lingerie was
marked in lipstick, “Help for
the Aggies.”
met and decided to channel panty
raiding into a useful line. They
decided to collect clothes for
Korea.
The plan was that freshmen re
turning from their picnic would
start a snowball rally, picking up
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UO Talks Set
By Neuberger
Richard Neubergor, author and
Democratic state senator from
Multnomah county, will speak
twice in the journalism school here
today.
At 3 p.m. he will meet with for
eign students in journalism in room
103 and at 7 p.m. he will talk to
seniors in room 105. The latter
meeting is open to all journalism
and pre-journalism students.
Neuberger's topic at the evening
meeting will be "What You as New
Journalists Can Do to Correct
Some of the Imperfections in the
Field Today.”
He was a student at the Univer
sity of Oregon in the early 1930's
and was editor of the Oregon Daily
Emerald in 1931-32. He also at
tended Northwestern university
law school.
A free lance writer, he has had
three books published and has
contributed several articles to na
tional magazines including Harp
ers ,the Saturday Evening Post,
Life, Colliers and Readers Digest.
He is also a special writer for the
Portland Oregonian.
Netiberger, who has filed for re
election, has been a member of
both houses of the Oregon legisla
ture and his wife, Maurine, is pres
ently a Democratic member of the '
house of representatives.
Saturday Last Chance
For Oregana Pickup
Saturday noon will be the last
chance students may have to pick
up their Oreganas, Business Man
ager Chuck Isaak has announced.
The yearbooks are available in
the Student Uniop office on the
mezzanine. Office hours are 8 a.m.
to noon and 1 to 5 p.m. except Sat
urday when the office closes at
noon.
Co-op Cops Cups
In Comical Coup
f'lrls at the Rebec house con
sider themselves just as good—
but certainly no better—than
anybody else. Person or persons
unknown, however, apparently
rate them much higher.
For Tuesday morning they dis
covered on the front porch of
their house ten trophies, eight
gold-plated and two silver. These
are now displayed on the mantle
piece at Rebec.
Any fraternities missing tro
phies / A call to the Rebec house
—plus one moderately good ser
enade—may return same.
Students Asked
To Check Status
Those students who are seeking
deferment from the armed services
should check with the registrar’s
office immediately, Clifford L.
Constance, registrar, stated Tues
day.
At the end of spring term the
University will send in a report to
the local draft board. These reports
will show the students’ rank in
their respective classes and the re
port W'ill be sent only for those stu
dents who specifically request the
registrar's office to do so.
The registrar s office now* has a
supply of the new form No. 109
which is provided by selective ser
vice for this purpose. Students who
wish this report sent in should go
to the registrar’s office. Emerald
hall, and fill out two copies of this
form.
The rank, order and critical GPA
will not be known to students until
the year’s computation is made at
the end of this term.
'Happy Festival'
Tickets on Sale;
Girls Ask Boys
It will Ijc I’iesta J'cliz or “Happy I'estival" Saturday at
the Mortar Hoard Hall, with I tick Sell wary and his orchestra
Playing from 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. in the Student Union ball
room .
I ickcts for the semi-formal dance fformals for the girls,
suits for the men) are now on sale in the Co-op, SC and4
wuiuen s jiving organizations at
$1.80 per couple. This night is on
the gills the gal makes the date,
pays the expenses and provides her
fella with an original corsage.
Sport Shirt Prize
The man wearing the most
unique and outstanding corsage
will be the winner of a sport shirt
to be presented during intermis
sion by Marilyn Thompson, mis
tress of ceremonies and president
of Mortar Board, senior women's
honorary.
Another intermission event will
be the announcement of Oregon’s
LMOC Least Man on Campus.
Dancers will elect the favorite from
the six finalists, Ron Abrams, Sig
ma Alpha Mu; Dick Blenkinsop.
Phi Sigma Kappa; Bob Cracknell,
Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Mel Erick
son, Alpha Tau Omega; Paul Lar
son. Phi Gamma Delta, and Gus
Renwick, Phi Kappa Psi. Pictures
and qualifications of the six are on
; display in the Co-op.
Kwama to Tap
Kwama, sophomore women’s ser
vice honorary, will tap 30 freshmen
to membership during intermission
and several scholarships will be
awarded.
Carrying out the South Ameri
can theme for the ball will be color
ful three-dimensional decorations.
, Other attractions will be the use of
black light for a special number
by the orchestra and a drum solo
! by Bob Hughes.
Gretchen Grefo is general chair
man of the dance. Committee heads
include Jean Mauro, posters: Mar
cia Eagelson. Co-op promotion:
Harriet Vahey, flying speeches;
Ann Carson, tickets; Laura Pear
son, intermission entertainment:
Ann Blackwell, chaperones and in
vitations; Sue Fitzgerald, decora
tions; Lorna Larson, publicity; and
Joanne Hewitt and Lillian Schott,
programs.
'Seagull' to Close
Theater Season
A story ot upper-middle class life in Russia in the davs before
the revolution, Anton Chekov's “The Seagull,” will open Fri
day night at 8 pm. as the University theater's last production
ot the season.
Tickets for the play will be on sale at the theater box office
the rest of this week and next week from 1 to 5 p.m. dailv.
Belief Mistaken,
Writer Maintains
The popular belief that Anton |
Chekov’s plays consist mainly of
unrelieved gloom is as mistaken as
it is widespread, according to Hen- j
iy Popkin in the March issue of i
Theatre Arts magazine.
Popkins cites the failure of many
of Chekhov's characters to be seri- i
ous when they really try. As an
example of this he gives a scene
from the current University Thea
tre play, “The Sea Gull.’’ He says
that Masha s pose in the beginning
of the play is surely intended “iron
ically by Chekhov; asked why she
wears black, she answers: “I am in
mourning for my life.”
Popkin also attacks the theory
that Chekhov is a “progressive”
dramatist. He says that it is the
failure to see the irony in the Chek
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Tickets are $1. Good seats are still
available for Friday's performance,
the theater reports, and a limited
number of seats can be obtained
for the Saturday staging.
Production dates for the play are
Fiiday and Saturday of this week
and May 2S, 29 and June 4 and 5.
‘‘The Seagull" takes place on the
country estate of Arcadina, a fa
mous actress, played by Beverly
Brunton, junior in speech. Her son,
Trepleff, played by Mike Heming
way. feels a sense of insecurity be
cause of his mother's fame and de
sires to become a writer.
Trepleff, in love with Nina, a
neighbor girl, played by Sandra
Price, writes a play starring Nina.
Nina falls in love with Trigorin,
Donn Doak, a famous writer with
whom Trepleff's mother is in love.
Nina leaves Trepleff for Trigorin,
who later returns to Arcadina. The
son, in despair over the complica
tions of his life, adds an unusual
twist to the end of the play.
Others in the cast of Russian
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UO Thieves Take
More Than $1700
More than $1700 has been stolen
from living organizations since the
first of the year, the Emerald"
learned Wednesday.
And Eugene police believe the
robberies to be “inside jobs."
In addition, $374 was stolen from
five millrace fraternities April 14,
the money later returned to Direc
tor of Men's Affairs Ray Hawk and
eventually to the men from whom
it was stolen.
Nine living organizations have
lost the $1700 in property and cur
rency, Detective E. G. Bunch said.
The largest loss was by one soror
ity—two rings valued at more than
$800 together.
One reason for the “epidemic,”
Bunch asserted, is that the thieves
are protected either by other stu
dents or by the students who catch,
them.
The $374, all currency, was
stolen from Kappa Sigma. Sigma
Mu, Phi Kappa Psi, Chi Psi and
Delta Upsilon, then turned over to
Hawk April 17 with a note saying
'I am returning the money because
I couldn't live with myself . .
Hawk turned the money over to
the police, who gave it to the house
presidents.
Dougherty Talks
On Moliere Play
Woman's place is in the home.
That was the sentiment that
prompted Moliere to write Les
Femmes Savantes, “a sharp satire
on the social foibles'' of his day.
The play was discussed Wednesday
night in the browsing room of the
Student Union by D. M. Dougherty,
head of the foreign language de
partment.
Last of Moliere's Plays
Les Femmes Savantes, written in
1672, was the last of Moliere’s*
great plays. The growing move
ment in France in education for
women is" the target for the rapier
like wit of the playwrite, said
Dougherty, and in this play his
irony is clothed in a masterful in
terplay of dialogue and situation.
"Highly integrated dramatic ac
tion was given by Dougherty as
one of the elements that has made
this play good theater. It's per
formance record of about 1500
i times in the famous Coruedie Fran
1 caise attests to its success.
Daugherty Gives Resume
Before launching into the play,
Dougherty gave a resume of Mo
liere's theatrical career and the
events that led to the writing of
Les Femmes Savantes. Although
.the play is a satire on women's pre
ventions toward education, Mo
liere s attitude is really one of op
timism. He shows confidence in
woman’s nature and defends her
originality.
After Dougherty’s talk, in place
of the usual discussion period, a
reading of act three, scenes one and
three, was given by graduate as
[ sistants and members of the ro
mance language department. Mim
eographed copies of the material
to be read had been distributed to
the audience of about 75 people.