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VOLfME LIVl NIVKKK1I V OF OKWiON, EUGENE. THl RSnAV. FEBRUARY 19. 1953 NUMBER 77
Kenton Program
To Trim Prices
For UO Students
Stan Kenton, with his hand rated
"top in the nation” by Downbeat
magazine, will play for an evening
of music and dancing tonight at 8
in the Eugene Armory.
The concert section of the pro
gram will last until 9:30. followed
by dancing until 1 a.m. Women’s
closing hours have been extended
to midnight by the office of stu
dent affairs to allow more stu
dents to attend. All women not on
scholastic probation are eligible
tor the late closing hours.
Reduced rates for students will
be offered for balcony seats duiing
the concert, with the price to be
announced when the band arrives
in Eugene. An extra charge will
be made for dancing.
Kor his third appearance in Eu
gene in three years. Kenton will i
present a completely new band, in
eluding Lee Conitz on the alto-sax
ophone.
featuring both jazz and concert
music, Kenton aims his program
at two different audiences. In Ken
ton’s words hi.s band has gone be
yond his own technical knowledge
in its use of the complexities of
modern orchestration.
King Choice This Week
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One of those men will he selceted by campus vote this
Heart Mop, slated Friday night. At a set-together of
to right, Kd Kenney, Jim Owens, Al Babb, lion Lyman,
date's interviews on page six.
week to reign as
the six finalists in
Jim Miller and
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King of Hearts over the
the SV’ fishbowl are, left
Jim Livesay. See candi
Liberal Arts Degrees
Board Confab Subject
In an unannounced hearing held
Wednesday on campus frve mem
bers of the Board of Higher Ed
ucation heard testimony for and
against the proposed plan to allow
the state’s teaching training col
Pre-Registering
Begins Monday
Materials for pre-registra
tion will be available all day Sat
urday at Emerald hall, accord
ing to Clifford L. Constance,
registrar. Monday through Fri
day of next week students are to
consult their advisers and obtain
the necessary departmental and
school signatures.
The step-by-step procedures
as outlined by Constance are:
1. Obtain registration mate
rial in the Registrar's office in
Emerald hall Saturday or any
day next week.
2. Consult yOur adviser and
plan a program during next
week.
3. Enroll with the Office of
Student Affairs by March 7.
5. Pay fees a: the cashier's
office in Emerald hail or leave
your cards to l>c picked up and
paid for at the start of spring
term.
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legos to grant liberal arts degrees.
Although the press was not al
lowed to attend the meetings, it
was learned through the division
of information in the chancellor
of higher education's office that
the findings of the hearing would
j be announced March 10 in a re
i port to the entire board.
The plan to allow the schools
to install a liberal arts program
was proposed to the board in the
"Anderson Report on Teacher Ed
ucation." by Earl W. Anderson of
Ohio State university. Anderson
bc-Iieves that the colleges could
| offer a liberal arts course and still
i train teachers at no additional ex
i pense. ^
Opposed by the University of
! Oregon, the proposal to allow Ore
gon College of Education, South
i ern Oregon College of Education
; and Eastern Oregon College of Ed
1 ucation, to offer libe'ral arts de
grees was voted down-by the board
on Jan. 5, but decided three weeks
later to reconsider the issue and
appointed a three-man commission
to investigate the matter.
Testimony was heard from rep
resentatives from the teacher
training schools in the University
and the state colleges Wednesday
morning. Presidents of the three
education schools were to be in
terviewed in the afternoon.
What Do You Think...
... of Student Government
Kay Kemery, sophomore in history, said:
‘‘1 believe that student government is a very superficial thing
at our University. There are seemingly so few students that come
in actual eonaot with it, or are interested in its betterment, that
I see no real accomplishments that student government is fill
filling.”
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No Senate Meeting
I’al Dignan, ASl'O president
lias announced that there will
h" no senate meeting tonight.
The ASL'O senate will meet ne\t
Thursday at (i:30 p.m. in the
Student Union.
Greek Comedy
Has New Touch
"There’s a dame that goes to
Hades for her husband, but if it
weren’t for a very heroic Apollo
she’d never get back to life," says
F. J. Hunter, director of the froth
coming fifth University Theatre
production. "This creature is Al
cestis, in a brand new comedy of
Grecian manners called ‘Even the
Gods’ by Mildred Kuner of New
York."
Tryouts for this play will be
held Monday, Feb. 23 at 7:30 p.m.
in the University Theater and
again on Tuesday, Feb. 24 at 2
p.m., according to Hunter.
"Her husband, Admetus, the
king of Thessaly, loves her very
; much and is only willing to lose
her because of the pressure of
war with Sparta. The war is pro
voiced by his prime minister, an
other Gromyko. The fact that Ad
metus’s niece, sweet and innocent
Charrisa is in love with his son,
’ Eumelos, recently indoctrinated in
the party line, complicates matters
even more."
All this may have happened
long ago or only yesterday. In any
event these characters will come
to life in the first production of
spiing term in the University
Theater, he added.
Any University student who is
interested in the play may tryout
for a role. No previous experience
is necessary.
Moll Condemns
Obscure Poetry
E. G. Moli. professor or English,
damned as "mere affectation” the
use of obscure symbolism in mod
em poetry, when he lectured to
a capacity browsing room audience
on “Poetry as Contemporary Art”
Wednesday.
A nightmarish fear of the com
monlace has led modern poets to
a deliberate dislocation of imagery,
he stated. Comparing the field of
poetry to a face, he noted that
"they eyes are always beautiful
but the nose, at the present time,
is very prominent.”
Moll defined “contemporary
poetry" as written in a style cur
rently fashionable. “It involves
more than the mere time element,
since Masefield, writing at the
present time, could hardly be
called a modern poet,” he stated.
^liting “lack of eloquence” as a
sore spot in current poetry, he re
marked that “lovers of older po
etry will look in vain for this qual
ity in the works of present versi
fiers.” Moll also attacked “unin
telligibility” and lack of rhyme
and metre, as characteristic
"warts” on the body of modern
poerty. To point up these defi
ciencies of modern poets, he read
selections from Milton’s “Paradise
Lost.”
Mimeographed copies of a poem
by Brinnin entitled “The Worm in
the Whirling Cross” were distribu
ted to the audience. Moll then read
and analyzed the poem, which
seemed to be a “graveyard” con
taining many of the chief bones
of his contention.
According to Moll, the poem
“eliminates all non-poetic hand
holds which enable the reader to
scale the wall of the poet's mean
ing."
"How are we to know, unless
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Press Conference
Opens Tomorrow
Heading the program of the thirty-fourth annual Oregon
fress Conference Friday and Saturday will he Henry Luce
editor-in-chief of Time Inc. and Jerome R. Hcldring. chief of
the Netherlands Information Service in the United States,
fmee will deliver the annual Eric \V. Allen Memorial nrl.
cfress and talk to conference dele
gates and journalism majors dur
ing his stay on campus. Heldring
will be here as a guest of both
the conference and the political
science department.
The conference, sponsored by
the Oregon Newspaper Publish
ers Association and the school of
journalism, will open Friday morn
ing at 8:30 with registration in
the Student Union. Henry M.
Fowler, from the Bend Bulleton
will be the presiding officer at
the conference session.
Fifty Years Ago
Harold Hughes, the first Allen
Memorial Fund-Eugene Register
Guard fellow and city editor on the
Astorian-Budget, will tell dele
gates how a “Newspaperman Goes
Back to School” at 9:55 a.m. He
will be followed by George S.
Turnbull of the Albany Democrat
Herald and former dean of - the
journalism school, who will tell
the conference about "Newspaper
ing a Half-Century Ago.”
A panel of newspapermen will
discuss “This Changing News
paper Business,” at 10:30 am.
and at 11:39 a.m. Chancellor
Charles D. Byrne will give the
conference “An Inventory of
Higher Education in Oregon."
At the Friday luncheon, attend
ed by delegates and University
faculty members, Luce will deliver
the Allen lecture to both students
and those attending the luncheon
in a school of journalism assembly
at 12:45 p.m.
Press and U.X.
“Ho-.v U.S. Papers Handle For
• eign News" will be the subject of
Heldrir.g's talk at 2:30 p.m. He
will be followed by Charles A.
Sprague, former United States
delegate to the United Nations
and editor of the Oregon States
man, who will speak on “The
Press and the United Nations’’
at 3 p.m.
Winding up the afternoon events
will be a panel composed of a
labor leader, professional man,
farmer, retailer, public official,
housewife, student and an edu
cator who, under the guidance of
Charles Duncan, associate profes
sor of jouralism, will discuss news
papers “As Readers See Us" at
3:30 p.m.
Today ard Tomorrow
At the annual banquet Friday
night in the Eugene Hotel, dele
gates will hear the Eugene Glee
men sing under the direction of
Theodore Kratt, dean of the
school of music, and hear Gover
nor Paul Patterson talk on “Tq
day and Tomorrow in Oregon. ’
Saturday morning events, which
will all be held in the Eugene ho
tel, include group breakfasts. th<?
semi-annual meeting of the ONPA
and a talk by Alton F. Baker of
the Eugene Register Guard on
"How We Planned the Register
Guard Building" at the lurch
which will end the conference.
A Special on Safe:
Buy Your Oregana
Continuing today and Friday
is the special opportunity sale of
the 1953 Oregana,
This late sale is made possible
because of the number of cancel
lations of orders this year, ac
cording to Jim Light, business
manager.
Oreganas may he purchased
at booths in the co-op and the
Student Union. Students order
ing th<> books may either pay a
down payment of §3.75 or the
lull price of §6.75 at this time,
Light said.