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Freshmen Elect McCracken
Minister Avers Federal Aid
To Sectarian Schools 'Out'
i Panel Tonight
Closes RE Week
Religious Evaluation week will
end tonight with an 8 p.m. panel
discussion by ine eight speakers.
• Each speaker will talk for fifteen
minutes.
Schedule
7:30 a.m. Chapel Meditation—
Gerlinger hall, the Itev. .Math
las Iiurger
9 “The Church and Religion in
Germany”, Hal Gossard
9:30 “Judaism and the World
Crisis,” Kahhi L. Elliott Graf
man
10 “The Catholic Church and
the Tide of Communism”, the
Rev. Mathias Iturger
10:30 “A Revolutionary Time”,
Clifford K. Maser
11 Question Period
Noon Luncheon
1 p.m. “Facing the Crisis”, Kar
lin Cappcr-Johnson
•1 Colored Film: “1500th Anni
versary Celebration of Patri
archate of Jerusalem”
5:30 Dinners and Firesides
8 Closing Meeting—Each speaker
on panel to tie given 15 min
utes.
• Men's Open Rush
To Begin Monday
Men’s open rushing will begin
Monday, the office of student af
fairs has announced.
To go through open rush, which
is open to both freshmen and up
perclassmen, the man must have
both a 2 point GPA and accumu
lative grade point. Men will sign
up at the office of student affairs
in Emerald hall.
All forms of federal subside
to religious groups should be
abolished," said Wcslcv K.
Nicholson, pastor of the Ku
gene Congregational church,
speaking before about 150 per
sons in the Student Union
browsing room Wednesdav.
Nicholson s a/hlress was in
conjunction w i t h Religious
hvaluation week.
Agrees With Author
In reviewing the book. "Ameri
can Tradition in Religion and Edu
cation" by Freeman Butts, Dr.
Nicholson agreed with the author
that "all aid to the parochial
schools, direct or indirect, is an
establishment of religion and
therefore, unconstitutional."
“Increasing demands have been
made that religious schools share
in public tax as well as public
schools," he said. There is also
contention over religious instruc
tion in public schools, ;ind public
aid given to parochial schools.
Much of the controversy over
the relationship of church and
state in education, he contends,
arises out of a failure to know
clearly what our early tradition
has been.
Traces Separation
He briefly traced the separation
of church and state from its de
velopment in the I7th century to
the present.
“We began the 20th century.” he
said, “with two propositions firm
ly implanted. Namely, that public
funds shall not be granted to sec
tarian schools and religious in
struction shall not be given to pub
lic schools.”
The courts have been confused in
their rulings, he said. Twenty-four
states have passed laws prohibiting
religious instruction in schools, but
12 have passed laws requiring that
religious instruction be included.
LES ANDERSON
Who Runs the UO?
Lester E. Anderson has been University of Oregon alumni association
secretary since his appointment in 1946. He replaced Elmer Fansett,
former alumni secretary.
Anderson was appointed secretary following his graduation from the
UO. He graduated with a bachelor of science
degree.
The alumni association maintains an office
on the mezzanine of the Student Union and
has a staff of six not including Anderson.
This is the headquarters and the record cen
ter of the alumni group.
Supervision of all alumni activities and the
network of alumni directors throughout the
state are a function of the alumni office. The
office also handles all class reunions and the
publishing of Old Oregon, the alumni maga
zine.
.Oregon’s alumni association was formed
in 1880 by 12 former members of the Uni
versity. There are now 500 dues-paying mem
bers of the alumni group. However, the alumni office has records on
all alumni and the addresses of 22,500.
WESLEY NICHOLSON
No Subsidies
RE Fireside Talks
Schedule Changed
Tile revised slate for today in
cludes: Alpha Xi and Alpha Phi
at Alpha Phi, W. G. Jones; Al
pha Gamma Delta and Chi
Omega at Chi O, the Rev. Ma
thias Burger; Sigma Kappa,
Mrs. Clarence Elliot; Philadel
phia house, Bill Smith, director
of Lutheran Student house.
Gamma Phi's fireside was can
celed.
Other fireside speakers, as
previously scheduled, are: Delta
/.eta, Ivan Niven; Beta, Ward
Maeey; Kappa Sig. II. H. Wact
cher; Fiji, Karlin M. Capper
Johnson; Pi Kappa Alpha, Rus
sell Walker.
Buchanan, Maier,
Gray Win Offices
K..l.cr, I, McCracken, freshman in liberal ana, was electe.t
In .riLt '• rl McCmkw was eiectcl
on the tirst ballot with a vote of 127.
I he total vote in Wclncolay's election was 559, The prei
1 2 U r’UT f»<• election was therefore
, •'kCracl<e" tecetvetl 15 more than necessarv before an,
transfers were made ' y
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nc»» »e„ eL ' “d R‘Cha"1 °™* feshraen in bus!
ness, were chosen representatives.
Senate to Hear
Report Tonight
On Frosh Election
The ASUO senate will hear six
reports on subjects ranging from
the millrace to campus parking
when it meets tonight at 6:30 p.m.
in the Student Union.
Don Collin, senator at large, will
report to the senate on the fresh
men election after checking the
election financial reports of the
candidates. The senate will also
hear the report of the ASUO con
stitution committee on the ASUO
budget for the coming year.
Mike Dally, senator at large and
chairman of the millrace commit
tee will tell the senate in his re
port that the city has done noth
ing to improve the millrace since
last spring and that, as it looks
now, nothing will be done until
next spring. He said that the Uni
versity must start work on the
proposed millrace park before
much work will be done on the
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Buchanan was elected vice-pres
ident on the eighth transfer of
votes when he received the quota
of 112. Maier was elected repre
sentative on the thirteenth trans
fer of ballots.
Gray was chosen representa
tive over Sue Shreeve by a vote
of 88 to 86. Gray, Miss Shreeve
and Garry McMurry were the on
ly candidates left after the four
teenth transfer of ballots.
McMurray’s ballots were redis
tributed to the other candidates
and after the transfer Gray waa
two votes ahead of Miss *Shreeve.
Gray was elected even though he
didn t receive the quota since he
and Miss Shreeve were the only
candidates remaining.
Only four ballots were improp
erly marked and thrown out by
the election committee. Many of
the ballots were exhausted before
the last representative was elect
ed. Some ballot showed only one
choice and therefore could not be
transferred.
Most of the ballots contained,
only four to six choices and in the
final transfer were exhausted
since three officers were elected
and many candidates eliminated
and all the choices or. the ballot )
were elected or eliminated.
What Do You Think of...
... Student Government?
Jim Sandefer, junior in liberal arts, said:
“Student leaders put in a lot of time and effort, and they have a
lot of responsibility with very little appreeiation. Considering that
(hey re going to sehool, and that government is extra-curricular,
they do an excellent job.”
TV for Schools Highlights Meeting;
Board Okays Straub Addition Plan
The Ford Foundation will ex
tend its offer of $100,000 toward
an educational television station
GO days from the original deadline
of Jan. 31, according to Charles
D. Byrne, chancellor of the state
system of higher education.
That’s what Byrne told the state
board at its meeting this week.
Television, new campus build
ings and sewage disposal in Eu
gene and Corvallis were the big
items of business discussed.
Tuesday, the education commit
tee of the house of representatives
of the Oregon legislature was
scheduled to hear a proposal from
a citizen's committee proposing
two TV outlets. The board has
recommended one outlet to be lo
cated on Mary’s Peak.
Another Transmitter
The proposal of the citizen’s
committee differs in that in ad
dition to the Mary's Peak trans
mitter a relay station be built on
Council Crest in Portland so that
the broadcasts will reach some
1,100,000 persons. This station
would greatly expand the audience
able to receive the telecasts.
Although there was no word
from the Ford Foundation, Byrnes
said that there may be a slight
possibility of the foundation add
ing the 5100.000 set aside for
CHARLES D. BYRNE
XV7 and Education
Portland public schools to the orig
inal fund set aside for the higher
education station. At present a
channel is being held for the Port
land schools, but no decision ha*
been reached as to whether the
schools will make use of it or r.ot.
Meeting as a committee-of-the
i whole, the board was mainly con
| cerned with building and finance
: business scheduled for approval
Tuesday. The University of Ore-,
gon was given permission to al
low Church, Newberry and Rohr,
architects, to proceed in drawing
i plans for an addition to John
Straub hall.
Flans Not Approved
Although the board approved
i the expansion plan, it did not ap
prove the financial plans for the
addition as advanced by H. K.
i Newburn, president of the Univei
i sity. The University has $450,000
j hi its dormitory reserve fund' and
i the estimated cost of the dorm
I will be §1,250,000. Newburn said.
The estimated cost for the dorm
i breaks down to §4,100 per man.
i Calling the veteran's dorm in
, adequate, Newburn told the board
j that the need for the dorm a
based on present enrollment and
not on the expected increase . a
the next ten years. If plans a; e
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