V'ol. MV Daily EMERALD Fifty-fourth year of Publication \ MVKKSITV OF OREGON, El GENE, THI HSIJAV, DKCKMBKR 11, Jfl.,2 Section 1 Pages 1-8 NFMBER 44 Joe and Betty Decorate CENTER OK SE ASON \L decorations on the campus is this large Christmas tree placed in the Student I nlon flshixmI by the SC hoard. Helping to decorate the ..ire Alex Byler and Gloria Lee, recently named Joe College and Betty Coed. Today's Emerald Last Fall Issue Today's 16-page Chriitlmas edition cf the Emerald is the last issue fall term. The Emerald will eease publication until Tuesday, .Fan. (!, w lien regular Tuesday through Friday publication will tfet undenvay for winter term. Classes bet;in Monday, dan. 5. The staff of the Oregon Daily Emerald takes this opportunity to wish the Oregon student body and faculty a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. IFC Outlines Men's Rushing Men’s rush week will be held from Jan. 13 through 17 winter term, the Inter-Fraternity Council has announced. All freshmen men who will have completed at least 12 hours with a 2.00 GPA will be eligible for rush ing. Upperclassmen who plan to rush must have a 2.00 accumula tive GPA and a 2.00 for the pre vious term. There will be three rush dates a day during the week. They are as follows: from ll:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.; dinner dates from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., and evening dates from 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. The men will sign up for the rush period on Monday, Jan. 12. At that time they will sign up for not more than six rushing dates and not more than two dates with one house. YW To Hold Party For Foreign Students A Christmas party for foreign students will be held in Gerlinger hall this afternoon from 4 to 5 p.m. at YWCA headquarters. Hostesses are the YW freshmen International Relations commission. PERRY STRANDED Whiskerino Draws 800; $1 Ticket Refund Made A crowd of about 400 couples who attended the Sophomore Whis kerino in the SU Saturday night danced to the music of Jack Lough aiy and his band. King Perry, who was scheduled to play at the dance, was unable to appear. The Whiskerino committee re ceived a wire from Perry Satur day afternoon, informing *them that his train was stranded in snow in northern California and he would be unable to arrive in Eugene in time for the dance. Lougharv’s campus band was pro curred for the evening. Highlight of the “W hisker Whing-Ding” was the crowning of Alex Byler and Gloria Lee as Joe College and Betty Coed. They were chosen by vote at the dance from 12 sophomore finalists. Taking top honors for a superior beard, Trent Huls, sophomore in liberal arts, won the beard growth contest. His awards included the winner's cup and a free shave ad ministered on stage by Charlie Elliott. Eugene barber who has tra ditionally shaved the Whiskerino beard winner. Rod Inman and Milan Foster, winning second and third place in the contest, were presented with runners-up mugs. Four sophomore men were tap ped during intermission by Skull and Dagger, sophomore men's ser vice honorary. New members are Waid Cook. Ken Hickenbottom, Don Gartrell and Bob Pollock. The plaque given annually by Phi Eta Sigma, freshmen men’s scholastic honorary, to the fresh man man with the highest grades was won by Ed Toyooka, sopho more in pre-med. The dance failed to clear finan cially, according to Dick Williams. SU director. However, Bob Sum mers, sophomore class president (Please turn to page three) New Weapons to Be Shown by ROTC At Rifle Company Demonstration Today A complete infantry rifle company demonstration will be held at Hayward field at 1:15 p.m. today. This demonstration will provide an opportunity for cadets and visitors to see the basic fighting organiza tion of the army, the infantry rifle company. This company will re semble those that are currently along the line in Korea. ROTC infantry seniors of the U of O under the direction of Cadet Capt. George I. Ealer are present ing the demonstration. Cadet Sgt. Don Collin is acting as master of ceremonies and all members of the cadet regiment will participate with Cadet Capt. Harold Simmons acting as company commander. Among the weapons to be shown will be the new 57 millimeter re coilless rifle and the 60 millimeter mortar. These weapons are found. in the weapons platoon to be com manded by Cadet Lt. Robert Sun nell. Cadet Lts. Michael Lally and Mel Streeter and Cadet Capt. Rob ert Lausmann will command the three rifle platoons. The demon stration will last approximately thirty minutes. It is open to the public and visitors will be seated in the west grand stand. AGS Modifies 2-year Penalty lhC Af!SOC,atc'! r'reek Students voted Wednesday after noon to remove the two year disciplinary penalty which applied to three houses currently allied with the United Students Asso ciation. f he three houses, Alpha Xi Delta, Sigma Alpha Mu and , ta ^’lon, wcre once in the Greek bloc. Lambda Chi Alpha l :c ot.ier LSA house was never a member of AGS and the Jan. 28 Date For Freshmen To Go to Polls The election of freshman class i' officers will be Wednesday, Jan. 28, Helen Jackson Frye, ASUO vice-president, announced Thurs day evening at the ASUO senate meeting. The deadline for petitions for officers will be Jan. 21 and the nomination assembly will be held i Jan. 22. Polling booths for the election, will be located in the Vets' dorms, Carson hall. Student Union and the Co-op. Only freshmen are elig ible to vote in this election. Pat Dignan, ASUO president, an-' . nounced to the senate that the deadline for Dads' day petitions would be Thursday, Jan. 17. The previous deadline was Wednesday. December 10. The senate heard a report bv Don Van Allsburg, Oregon State college student body president, which outlined an insurance plan , for covering all students in the i Oregon state system of higher edu- ; cation. Van Allsburg stated that. ; several companies have been con tacted and asked for the rates for : health and accident insurance. Senate Backs UO Ski Team The senate voted Thursday eve ; ning to recommend to the athletic j department that a ski team be formed this winter and also voted to continue a committee to look into the problems of forming a team. The University has no ski team at present. Bob Brittain, junior class presi dent, reported that $867 had been allocated by the athletic depart ment for a ski team but that there are no plans for a team. Last year's team was coached by Gene Harlow, who is not with the athletic department this year. 1 Brittain reported that the cost for last year's team was $933, which j paid for expenses to two ski meets. He said that a budget of $867 could | provide expenses to four meets in addition to equipment and prac i tices. ' The money for the ski team last ; year, Brittain said, was apparently | not handled too wisely and he saw no reason why a team could ! not be formed and entered in sev ’ eral meets. Dick Thomas, a member of last j year’s team, told the senate that (Please turn to fage six) resolution does not apply to them. Hie resolution passed reads: "He it resolved that this body shall not consider the adopted Article III. Section 2, to be re troactive. and the organizations which lost recognition pridr to the fall 1952, shall be subject .to a one year disciplinary per iod." • Two Year Period The resolution lifts the two year disciplinary action imposed by AGS last spring under which a re turning house can vote in the party but is not allowed to have candi dates up for AGS or ASUO office. Prior to the vote on the resolu tion. which passed 23 to 2. much discuss:on of the measure took place. Some members felt that if the houses wanted to go back into AGS they should come in under the tv.o year rule as they were given a. chance to go back into the party last year under the same agree ment as stated in the resolution. Last year Alpha Tau Omega, which had previously bolted the party to the USA side, went back in AGS under the one year penalty period. The two year rule was then put into effect. Strong Argument One of the arguments advanced in the meeting in favor of the reso lution was that the party was pun ishing the houses for something 'they didn't do." When the houses left the bloc, they left with the or.c year rule in effect. Therefore. :t "as argued, the two year punish ment should not apply to them. As far as the individual housed are concerned, none of them have taken any definite action in the matter of politics. Ann Gentle, president of Alpha. Xi, said that AGS had not con tacted that organization and that nothing had been decided withi i the house.” She felt that under th* t'vo year rule AGS was “keeping people in the party and not letting any others in who might want in. ’ Provides Clarification Delta Upsilon also has made no decision. Bob Metz, president, sa>