NUMBER ♦;» p What Do You Think of... ... Student Government? Koger Danielson, junior in business, said: I went to a smaller school before, where we knew everyone, and it was u lot easier to take part in student government. The government gets away from the student here. However, students don’t take advantage of the ehanees they do have . . , like voting. Of course, compared to a smaller school, its hard to know all tin; candidates here. Maybe when they’re electing officers they could run character sketches of candidates . . . that might help. Something should be done to stimulate interest. 100 PER CENT AGS to Reinstate Prodigal Houses The Associated Greek students voted unanimously Monday to re instate Alpha Xi Delta, Delta Up silon and Sigma Alpha Mu in the (ampus political party. The group also voted to giant Lambda Chi Alpha membership in the party. The first three houses petitioned AGS for reinstatement near the close of fall term. For the past few ' years they have been members of the United Students Association, coalition party of Greeks and inde pendents. Lambda Chi has never been a member of AGS, but decided to go 1 into the party with the other three houses. The Greek bloc is now com plete with every house a member. ■ At other action taken at the1 meeting. President Jack Faust pre-1 ‘ Twelve Named As Semi-finalists For King of Hearts Twelve semi-finalists for King of Hearts were selected Monday, ac cording to Norma Hamilton, sopho more Y cabinet chairman. They are Ed Kenney, Phi Kappa Psi; Ron Lowell, Alpha Delta Pi; Jim Livesay, Carson hall; A1 Barz man, Sigma Alpha Mu; A1 Babb,! Theta Chi; Mel Erickson, Delta' Gamma. Neil Trilling, Sigma Kappa; Jim' Owens, Sigma Chi; Tom Harrison, Hendricks hall; Jim Miller, Pi Beta Phi; Bill Kirby, Gamma Phi Beta, and Ron Lyman, Kappa Alpha Theta. The semi-finalists will appear before the Y soph cabinet at noon in Gerlinger hall next Monday, at which time the six finalists will be selected. sen ted the AGS policy committee's proposed plan for an open primary in the party. Under the committee's plan, every member of AGS would vote for candidates to run for student body president, class officers and senate members in the spring term elections. At the present time, candidates who run under the AGS banner are selected by two representatives! from each member house 1 As the plan was proposed the balloting would take place at a scheduled mealtime in all the houses at approximately the same time. The number of votes per house would be based on the num ber of members and pledges in each organization and the vote would be by Australian ballot. Petitions and Screening The candidates would petition and be screened by the AGS policy committee before the primary. There would be no set number of candidates for student body presi dent. but class officers would be limited to five candidates for each office and 25 candidates would be the limit running for the senate nominations, Faust said. Under the plan the election would be held in three separate stages — student body president, class officers and senate. Candi dates for student body president who were defeated could re-peti tion for class offices and senate seats if they wished, Faust said. For the student body president nomination and for class officers ! a majority of votes would be re quired for the nomination. In the election for the senate nominees, two ballots will be taken. On the first ballot, a majority of votes are needed for nomination. On the second ballot a plurality of votes will be needed for nomination. R. C. WILLIAMS Who Runs the UO? Richard C. Williams, director of the Student Union, has been at the head of the SU since 1950. He had been working on plans for the build ings since 1941. Williams graduated with a bach elor of science degree in 1941 from the UO. Since that time he has worked in planning and operating the SU except for two years spent in the Navy. As director of the SU. he is general co-ordinator of all the ac tivities which go on in the building. He is on the Student Union board and is in charge of all areas of the building including the recreational area in the basement. Before plans were drawn up for the building Williams toured other student unions around the nation so as to be better acquainted with what should be included. He then helped plan the budding and be came director of the Student Union when it opened in 1950. Williams is presently at the Uni versity of Nevada in Reno helping plan their new student union. RE Week Program Begins Second Day ♦ ♦ ♦ ^ ^ " Holy Leaders Open RE Week Speaking on “Refugees and Dis placed Persons as a World Prob lem,” Clifford E. Maser, dean of the school of business and tech nology at Oregon State college, told an audience in the Student Union Monday morning that it was impossible to exaggerate the tragedy of refugees. leaser, representing the Society of Friends during Religious Eval uation week, was one cf the speak ers who opened the first day of talks on the subject of “Man in the Atomic Age.” During his talk he cited stories of tragic cases he came in contact with during his 13 month stay in Austria and Germany as a representative of the American Friends service committee. , Eastern Tradition “The Eastern Tradition in Chris tianity" was presented to a later audience by the Very Rev. Geo rges Florovskv, a priest of the Greek Orthodox church. Dr. Flor ovsky stressed that his church, while being ancient, should not be rejected as archaic. The real threat of communism is the spreading of fear among a free people, the Rev. H. C. Me serve told his audience Monday afternoon. Meserve. a minister of the First Unitarian church of San Francisco, suggested that Amer ica offer the people of the world something to believe in rather than maintaining a defensive at titude toward communism. In his | speech “Liberalism versus Com munism,” he indicated the role of (Please turn to page three) Luncheon to Honor Religious Leaders Luncheon scheduled for today : by the Religious Evaluation week | committee will honor two guest ■ speakers, Rabbi L. Elliot Grafman. spiritual leader of Temple Israel1 at Long Beach, Cal., and Rev. Mat thias Burger, professor of scripture and religion at Mount Angel sem inary. Scheduled for noon in SU 111, the cafeteria-style luncheon] is open to the public. Speeches, firesides, and discus sion' periods will highlight the sec ond day of activities emphasizing the purpose of religion in campus! life. Schedule: 7:30 a.m. Chapel meditation— Gerlinger, second floor. Adult leader: Rabbi Grafman 9:00 a.m. “The Kremlin and the Eastern Church'’ Dean Georges Florovsky 9:30 a.m. “A Spiritual Interpre tation of Germany” Dean Hal C. Gossard 10:00 a.m. “Church and State in the Catholic Tradition” Father Burger 10:30 a.m. Question period Noon Luncheon 2:00 p.m. “Judaism and the Po litical Order” Rabbi Grafman 2:30 p.m. "Religious Foundations of Democracy” Rev. H. C. Meserve 4:00 p.m. Religious films: “One 1 God, the Way We Wor- j ship Him” "Brother hood of Man” 6:00 p.m. Fireside dinners and discussions 8:00 p.m. “Church and State in Protestant Thought” Rev. Paul Wright YMCA Leader Tells Of Global Tensions A Dad's lounge audience of about 60 beard Hal C. Gossard, YMCA and education leader, dis cuss the tensions between the United States and Russia, in the 9 a.m. address Monday. Opening the addresses and dis cussions on the first full day of Religious Evaluation week - theme of the day was "Man in the Atom ic Age”—Gossard described three tensions between the two pow ers: 1. Conflict between the two economic ideologies of commu nism and free enterprise. 2. Strains caused by the dis placed peoples of the earth. 3. Tension created by the de sires of the impoverished peoples for a better way of life. We arc not actually fighting the idea of communism, Gossard said, because ideas cannot be defeated by force. “It's only in the force of time that man will make his deductions ...” Ideologies are settled only by the test of time, he asserted. Instead, we are fighting the political activities of the commu nists, activities which have pro duced the present “cold war.’’ Gossard enumerated the differ ences between our philosophy and that of the communists. Their so- : ciety, he said, is that of a dictator- , ship, where man is the slave of the state. Ours, however, is a de- ! mocracy or free state, where the state belongs to man. Under Russian \communism, stated, expediency is foremost, force is the method, and morality is based upon what a person does for or against the economy. Under our concept, he said, reason is up permost, persuasion is the meth od, and morality is based on hum an relations. Communism, Gossard asserted, is impersonal, but our democracy stresses the secredness of the human personality. Gossard said he believed a war (Ph ase turn to page three) Rabbi Presents Jewish View ''Man is a partner of the Hey One, blessed be he!" This quota tion from Holy Scripture best ex presses the Jewish view of man, according- to Rabbi L. Elliott Graf man, who spoke last night in tho-* Student Union in conjunction with Religious Evaluation week. Rabbi Grafman from the Tempi*. Israel in Long Beach, Calif., talked* on the subject of "Judaism as a \ iew of Life." He called this \,e it of life "a philosophy of faith fath ered by the experience of the Jew ish people.’’ The fact that the Jewish year begins on the anniversary of t * a - birth of Adam reveals the essentia*^ respect for man held by those