*&>r m Daihf ‘'EMERALD j'oitat /• ifly-fourth year of Publication 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 y—-■--- * mwimm »wn"imii'i —I «———i^——^ 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 _ 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. r 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.” •o 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 (Please turn to page eight > 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 books may either pay a down payment of §3.75 or the lull price of §6.75 at this time, Light said.