Senior Ball Set for Saturday Night in Ballroom
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VOLUME L1V
See Story Columns 4 and 5
Valentine's Day . . .
. . . history and similar holidays
in foreign countries are de^
c rilied on page 7 of today’s
Emerald.
/■ijly-joiif lli year of Publication
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY,
FEBRUARY 13, 1853
NUMBER 7*
Group Plans 'Heart Attack'
Members <.f tiic »nlor Ball committee get
In Id In tlx si hallrn >m Saturday night,
ais-i Mike Dally. Seated, left to right, arc
l«.rf*s Farris i. .tlrmuirs of tin* committee
lyn Silva.
together to complete plans for “Heart Attack' t:i he
Standing, left to right. are Dick Davis, Joan Marie .Miller
Franca Oillmore, I uni \\ rightson, Jane Simpson and Do
not pi< lured are Laura FearsOn, Harriet Valley and Caro
AWS SENIORS PROTEST
Senate Plans Investigation
The legality of nominations for
officers of the Associated Wom
en Students was questioned in a
letter read by Jane Simpson, sen
ate secretary, before the ASUO
senate during its meeting Thurs
day night.
Signed by 20 senior AWS mem
bers, the letter expressed the feel
ing that the nominations were not
carried out in the spirit or the
letter of the AWS constitution.
The clause cited in the letter reads
as follows: "At an executive coun
cil meeting at the first of the win
ter term, the president shall ap
point a nomination committee
which shall include all senior mem
bers of the executive council."
Miss Simpson made it clear that
methods of nominations rather
than personalities involved were
being questioned in the letter. A
committee to investigate the nom
nations was then appointed by
Pat Dignan, ASUO president.
Members of the committee are
Mary Alice Baker, chairman, Bob
McCracken, Mary Whitaker and
Janet Miller.
Voting Kxplalned
A detailed explanation of the
preferential voting system was
given to the senate members by
Donald M. DuShand, director of
student affairs. According to Du
Shane, the system has the follow
ing advantages: 1> eliminates a
series of election runoffs; 2i as
sures majority control; and 3) as
sures minority representation.
Tom Shepherd, junior class vice
What Do Y©rj Think...
... of Student Government?
Malcolm Montague, graduate student in law, said:
“I think it is a very good thing, hut it’s restricted too much |*y
the administration. Although the student officers are sincere in
their desire to serve the students, the University puts too
obstacles in their way.”
many
Annua! Mystie Safe Set fer Next
"Have a Golden Krispie Mystie”
lias been chosen as the slogan for
-the annual mystic sale sponsored’
by Phi Theta Upsilon, junior wom
en's service honorary. The sale is
•scheduled for Thursday and Fri
day of next week.
According to tradition, the item
to be sold is kept a secret until
the time of the sale. Chairmen for
the event are Marilyn Fairish,
freshman in( liberal arts, and Do
reen Gienger, freshman in educa
tion. The sale is to be held in con
junction with Women's Day,
Feb. 20.
president, brought up the com
plaint that it was almost impos
sible for dormitory groups to
schedule exchanges with sororities.
Speaking for Gamma hall of
which he is social chairman, Shep
herd stated that sororities had
turned down all offers of ex
changes with the dormitory. “This
is the type of thing that causes ill
feeling between independents and
Greeks,” stated Shepherd.
Senators-at-large Jody Greer
and Francis Gillmore said that, as
far as they knew, sororities had
formed the general policy of ac
cepting the first offers they re
ceived without making any dis
crimination. Dignan questioned the
advisability of further discussion
on this point before the senate and
asked Shepherd to refer the ques
ton to the Heads of Houses.
.Hccommendatibns Accepted
Earlier in the meeting the sen
ate accepted the recommendations
of the executive committee of the
rally Board as presented by At
Goldenberg, chairman, for new
board members. New members are
Elynor Robblee, Peter Williams
and Terry O'Brien. Action of the
screening committee in choosing
the new members was questioned
by several senate members, but
lhe movement to accept them car
ried by a vote of twenty to two.
A special senate investigating
committee to inquire into the
queston of abolishing the Military
Kail and the Mortar Board Ball
and the problem of too many
campus activities was appointed
by Dignan.
Springtime Theme
Rules Annual 'Ball7
It will be ~prin-tinie in the Student Union ballroom Satur
da) night at tlie all-campus semi-formal fiance, “Heart At
tack."
Combining the themes of St. Valentine’s day and spring,
decorations chairman Harriet Vahey and her committee v.ill
be working Saturday to transform the ballroom into a pre
view of hugene springtime.
l-ormals for the women and .-nits for the men is the dress
Beaux Arts Ball
Set tor Tonight
A Friday-the-thirteenth "Ca
tastrophe” will explode tonight at
9 p.m. in Geringer annex, accord
ing to Bud Oringdulph, junior in
architecture and allied arts, and
general chairman of the affair.
More formally known as the Beaux
Arts Ball and sponsored by the
Associated Students of Architec
ture and Allied Arts, the dlfnce
will feature the music of Ralph
Brevic's quartet.
Both students and faculty mem
bers will be in costume for the
ball, and Jim Dobson, junior in
architecture and allied arts, re
ports that na holds will be barred
in the line of attire.
Admittance to the Bohemian
type affair will be by ASAAA stu
dent body cards, which may be ob
tained from Oringdulph or J. Car
son Bowler, senior in architecture
and allied arts, in the east wing
drafting room of the art school.
tor the affair, scheduled to be
gin at 9 p.m., with Johnny
Keitz and his orchestra play
ing the music. Flowers are not in
order for the dance.
Reitz is no newcomer to col
legiate dances. Ke appeared here
last year at the Junior Prom and
at the University of Washington
tarsity ball. He also appeared
this year at the Seattle Univer
sity's Homecoming dance. Marce
laine Moore, vocalist with the
band, will sing novelties and bal
lads during the evening. Reity.’
records will be played in the co
op today. Tom Wrightson, general
chairman, said.
"Heart Attack" programs for
the senior ball feature a couple
silhouetted against a white back
ground and surrounded by red
hearts, according to program co
chairman Laura Pearson and Do
lores Parrish.
Ticket sales will end in the co
op today, but tickets may be pur
chased at the SU main desk or
at the door Saturday night. Price
is S2.50 a couple.
Official chaperones for the ball
are Capt. ar.d Mrs. H. A. Buckley,
ricase turn to page eight)
Ballet Russe Presents
Classic Dance Tonight
The Ballet Russe, de Monte
Carlo Concert company, appearing
tonight in McArthur court under
the auspices of the Eugene Civic
Music association, will present four
numbers of the authentic classic
repertory.
The concert, which will begin
at S p.m., is open to all students
on presentation of their student
body cards or a Civic Music mem
bership card.
Directed by Sergei Denham,
linked by legend and experience
with Serge Diaghileff, who
brought the Russian Ballet from
St. Petersburg in 1911, and danced
to music re-arranged for two pi
anos, the Concert company is
making its premier tour, playing
in over 110 towns and cities never
before visited by an important
ballet company.
Heading tonight’s performance
will include excerpts from Tschal
kowsky's “Swan Lake," followed
by “The Blue Bird" and “The En
chanted Princess," also'-by Tscli&j
kowsky.
Third number on the program
i will be ‘Cirque do Deux" or Cir
cus for Two, a comic number set
to the music of Charles Gounod’s
opera “Faust.” It was designed
by Brooklyn-born dancer Ruth
anna Boris for the Ballet Russe
de Monte Carlo in 1947. and has
been performed by that company
in its coast-to-coast tours of this
country and Europe for the pa.rfl
five seasons. "Cirque de Deux" is
a burlesque of the airs and graces
of the" TO?8iarl*t rained ' dancers,
translated into terms of the circ us.
Leonide Massine's "Gaite Par
isienr.e," concluding number on the
program, was first given in Monte
Carlo and afterwards in New York
in 193S. The music is a selected
medley of favorite airs from thr ee
works of Offenbach; "La Vie Fa, -
■sienne" “La Belle Helen" and
"Tales of Hoffman. Scene of
“Gaite Pari Bienne-is the famous
Cafe Tortoni. from which the
name of the ice cream is taken,
in Pa-is during- the Second F:m
pire. The audience spends an eve
ning there, fijsnt the time the scrub
girls are busy with their br :shcs
cleaning up before th«- guests ar
idve until afjei the rousing can
tan the customers drift away,
two by two,, to the strains of "Bar
carole" at the. evening's end. Cos
tumes and props by Count Etienne
de Beaumont complete the peiiod
piece.