1952~The Year
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BASKETBALL COACH BILL BOKCHEK took over the reins as Ore
gon’s cage coach, making ~his Northern Division debut against Wash
ington State college Jan. 7. Oregon won 59-45, went on to win the
series, and to finish third in-division standings with an 8-8 record.
And as the year drew to a cIttse. Boreher’s second year as basketball
mentor saw his tiggtr’trtth a 5-5 pre-season record.
SMOKE SIGNALS were just one of the innovations on eanipus as students expressed dissatisfaction
with installation of pay telephones in living organizations by Pacific Telephone and Telegraph co. After
opposition by the Emerald, action by the ASUO se late and administration, and student discontent, and
after a PT L T proposal for a campus exchange a i an alternative was junked, the compuny removed
exclusive pay phones front fraternities, sororities anJ co-operatives the last of February. During the
summer, per administration promise, exclusive pay phones were removed from dormitories.
A MOCK C’ONV ENTION, Republican style, highlighted spring term
political events. Combos of living organizations represented the states
and territories, and keynote speaker was Gov. Val Peterson of Ne
braska. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was nominated. Other political
speakers came to the campus last spring, including campaigners
Gov. Earl Warren of California; Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee,
Harold Stassen, and Paul Hoffman (for Eisenhower).
DADS’ DAY HOSTESS
was Mrs. LaXelle Gay
Newman, for the annual
event, Feb. 1-2. Based on
the theme, “My Heart Be
longs to Dad,” the 25th
annual Dads’ Day drew
more than 600 University
dads. Arthur XV. Priaulx,
Portland, was elected
president of the Oregon
Duds’ club.
TtllL ASL O SENATE proposed the establishment of an academic honor code to the student body as the
group closed out its first year in existence. (It had replaced the executive council under the new con
stitution.) The students, on April 23, voted narrowly for the code, but the margin was considered in
sufficient acclaim for an honor code at Oregon.
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A PARLIAMENT OF WORLD
RELIGIONS was a big; event
winter term, held Jan. 20-24. One
of the top speakers was Bashir
Minto (above), president of the
U. S. Moslem society. Others In
cluded Rabbi Julius Nodel, Jew
ish leader; Swaml Devatmanan
da, leader of the Portland Ve
dan center; Henry S. Tatsunii,
expert on Buddhism, Taoism and
Confucianism;
SPEAKERS in 1952 included Walter Reuther (right), president of
l iiLhI Auto Workers, and Arno!,I Toynbee, internationally famous
British historian. Also included on the winter and spring term portion
oi the outstanding 75th anniversary schedule were F. S. C. Northrop,
lale professor of philosophy and law; James S. Pope, editor of the
Eouisville Courie r-Journal; Norman Cousins, editor of the Saturday
Review; William Grede, president of the National Association of
Manufacturers; Bernard DeVoto, writer; K. G. Gustavson, chancellor
of the l niversity of Nebraska; Alex Inkeles, Harvard research ex
pert, and Oregon’s own Paul S. Dull, associate professor of political
science and history and Far East Expert.
JACK HUTCHINS, outstanding
distance man in track, paced
Oregon’s cindermen by winning
the 880-yard run in both the
Northern Division and Pacific
Coast Conference meets. The
team, however, met ill luck in
the ND meet, finishing third.