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TO CONTRAST PROFESSORS
Newburn Tonight
“The University Professor in
France, Great Britain and Italy,"
will be the topic of an informal lec
ture given by President Harry K.
Newborn tonight at 8 o'clock in
the Student Union Dad's lounge.
Newborn will contrast and com
pare the position of American pro
fessors to their European col
leagues, concentrating on France,
Great Britain and Italy. He will
consider such questions as the free
dom of European professors to
teach their own beliefs presented
in light of the recent Congression
al interest in academic freedom in
this country.
State control of the promotion
and administrations of universities
will be considered in the president's
address. He will also discuss such
topics as the differences between
the two continents on faculty inter
est in students and the role of
the Continental instructor in de
termining the policies of educa
tional institutions.
Emphasis on scholarship and
general knowledge versus ability to
put the subject across to the stu
dents will be discussed as a gen
eral requirement for European
teaching positions.
New bum will base material in
his speech on personal experience
during a five month stay in Eur
ope during 1952 #hile under a
Carnegie Foundation grant. While
in Europe he made an intensive
study of the educational admin
istration of European universities.
UIS Open Meet
Slated for Today
United Independent Students
will hold an open meeting today
at 4 p.m. in the Student Union
according to Don Collin, UI pres- !
ident.
On the agenda will be a report ^
from the organization committee,
consideration of possible candi-;
dates for UIS sponsorship in the ,
spring term all-campus elections
and a decision on the possible date
to hold primary elections for the
party.
The newly organized indepen
dent political party will also form- i
ulate a party platform for the
coming elections which were '
scheduled for May 13 by the
ASUO senate Tuesday night.
Each independent living organi
zation on campus is entitled to two
voting representatives for the,
meeting, Collin said. Off-campus
students were also urged to at
tend. A total of three votes is
given to these students under the i
working rules of UIS.
Annual Y Breakfast Set
The annual Junior-Senior Break
fast, sponsored by the YMCA, will
be April 19 at 9 a.m. in the Student
Union ballroom. A slogan "Let a
ticket far and wide be your guide,”
emphasizes the theme of interna
tional careers for women. This will
tie in with the World Student
Service Fund drive.
Juniors Escort Seniors
Junior women will escort senior
women to the traditional affair
held in honor of the graduating
seniors.
Ann Blackwell is general chair
man for the event while co-chair- j
men for the promotion committee
are Donna Trebbc and Nancy Sew- j
ell. Ann Bankhead, Lucia Knepper
and Namiko Ikeda are members of
the promotion committee.
Tickets on Sale
Tickets will be on sale in the
houses later in the week according
to Jean Piercy, ticket chairman.
They are 95 cents apiece. The
speaker will be announced later.
'Even The Gods' Dates
Announced by Theater
“Even the Gods,” University the
ater’s fifth production of the sea
son, will be given on the main
stage April 17, 18, and 22 to 25,
The cast, directed by F. J. Hunt
er, instructor in speech, includes
John Bree, senior in speech, Adme
tus, King of Thessaly; Sandra
Price, junior in speech, Alcestis,
Primary Election
Committee Meets
The special ASUO committee to
investigate the all-campus primary
proposal will meet in the Student
Union at 3 p.m. today.
The committee will hear the
background on previous primary
proposals and an explanation of
the pending bill. They will also
hear testimony from officials of
the campus political parties and
other interested persons. The
meeting is open to the public.
wife of Admetus; Leonard Krich
evsky, senior in speech, Eumelos,
son of Admetus.
Sally Mollner, sophomore in lib
eral arts, Charissa; Phil Sanders,
junior in speech, Sosthenes; Ben
Schmidt, junior in liberal arts,
Chremes; Gerald Smith, junior in
political science, Apollo, and John
Jensen, sophomore in speech,
Death.
Others in the cast are Joanne
Forbes, senior in speech t Jack Tan
zer, freshman in liberal arts;
George Weir, junior in law; Phil
lip Lewis, sophomore in liberal
arts; Pat May, freshman in liber
al arts, and Gaylord Mauer, sopho
more in business.
The play is a comedy with mod
ern dialogue, based on an old Greek
legend of Alcestis. It was produced
for the first time at the University
of California at Los Angeles in
November of 1952. The UO pro
duction will be the second presen
tation of the manuscript.
AWS Proxy Back
From Conference
Associate Women Students
president Judy McLoughlin re
turned Tuesday from a 300-girl
National AWS conference at Ohio
State university in Columbus,
Ohio.
The conference, held March 30
through April 4, featured work
shops with AWS presidents from
48 states. Principal speaker at the
conference was Author Margaret
Culkin Banning.
Miss McLoughlin participated in
a workshop on the National Stu
dents Association during the con
feemcc which she described as
organized like a political conven
tion."
Resolutions for planning AWS
activities throughout the nation
were passed during the session and
brought back by each delegate.
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Judy, Suitcase Lost
Without Each Other
A suitcase that chased Judy
McLoughlin from Portland, Ore.,
to Columbus, O.. on a Greyhound
bus is now waiting for her in the
East.
On Miss McLoughlin's recent
trip for an Associated Students’
conference, her luggage was sent
on a bus, while she expected it via
Railway Express. Meanwhile, she
spent the entire week, minus the
baggage, making numerous calls
to the Express agency. It was only
after arriving home that she found
out that it had been at the bus
depot in Columbus all the time.
An airmail letter sent yester
day, should bring the wandering
suitcase back to Oregon.
Millrace Committee
To Confer Tonight
The millrace committee, com
posed of students and townspeople,
will meet at 7:30 in the Student
Union, according to Dave Todd, a
representative of the group.
Purpose of the meeting, Todd
said, was to organize the clean
out of the millrace and hear a re
port from Oren King, city man
ager. Cleanout of the millrace is
scheduled for April IS.
Representatives from all cam
pus living organizations are urged
to attend the meeting, Todd added.
Petitions Called
For Phi Theta
Petitions for Phi Theta Upsilon,
junior women’s honorary, arc be
ing called for by Pres. Judy Mc
Loughlin and Vice-president Joan
Walker. Deadline for the submis
sion of petitions will be April 17
to either officer at Rebec or Kap
pa Alpha Theta.
Any sophomore women with a
2.4 GPA or higher is eligible to
petition for membership in the
honorary. Twenty women will be
chosen on the basis of grades and
campus activities.
Miss McLoughlin emphasized
that quality of activity, not quan
tity, will be the deciding factor in
choosing the members who will
serve next year. On the petitions,
activities are to be grouped in to
three seetions—campus activities,
women’s organizations and miscel
laneous.
Holi-Daze' Theme
For Jr. Weekend
I foli-daze” has been selected as the theme for Junior Week
end it was announced Wednesday night at a general chair
[heme •ka" i“nio>r iAngtoh, Sggef,/d the
theme.
Tlie theme will be carried out in all events for the weekend
! with some of them using particu
FRESH, VITAL
Thacher Recalls
Lost Generation
The early crop of Oregon writ- |
era who went on to fame and for- :
tune were all products of an age, :
known as "the last generation,”
W. F. G. Thacher, emeritus pro
fessor of English, told a browsing
room audience last night.
Reminiscing on student writers
he had taught during the 1920's, j
Thacher described them as "a
group, fresh and vital, cut loose !
from the Victorian period, and
charged with energy and inspira
tion."
It Sold
Edison Marshall, who now has
30 novels to his credit, is the man
who "blazed the trail" for writers
at Oregon in 1914. Thacher said
he was never more than a medi
ocre student, but he wrote short
stories and he had checks to prove
it.
Marshall advanced from pulp and
slick magazines to the historical
novel. Although he won the O.
Henry prize for one of his short
stories, Thacher said, “he never
nourished any hope about the su
perb quality of his writing. It sold,
that was the main thing."
Robert Ormand Case and Ernest
Haycox next appeared on the uni
versity scene, entering the uni
versity about the same time. Both,
from the start, "were resolved to
become writers of fiction."
Story-Teller
Haycox, he said, wrote from the
heart and possessed one of the
best critical minds of the time. He
was the first of a group to launch
an independent career, and dur
ing the early years his great am
bition was "to make" the Satur
day Evening Post. "He learned to
master the westerns, and became
one of the great story-tellsr of his
day,” Thacher said.
Three women writers, whom he
had as students, also became well
known in the world of letters. In
1916, a girl from Cottage Grove,
Opal Whitely, entered the univer
sity, exciting much publicity and
attention, by what he called, her
“innocent non-conformity.”
Opal’s Diary
She wrote several short stories
on “nature" for creative writing
classes and later sold “The Diary
of Opal” to the Atlantic Monthly.
The manuscript was submitted in
a shoe box written on shreds of
wrapping paper, and caused quite
a stir in the New York offices of
the magazine. An earlier book,
"Fairyland About Us," she fi
nanced by grants of aid from
Theodore Roosevelt, Queen Eliza
beth, Andrew Carnegie, and John
D. Rockefeller.
Kressman Taylor, known on the
campus as Catherine Taylor, suc
cessfully published “Address Un
known" which introduced her to
the literary world, and since then
has written several short stories.
Another woman, Nancy Wilson
Ross, was instantly recognized as
a sensitive and ercetpive writer.
She is of the psycho-neurotic
writing group, and is the author of
the well known “Westward the
Women.”
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lar nohdays for decoration themes;
others to use a general theme.
Clean-Up
Preceding the all-campus cele
bration, traditionally the biggest
of the year on the Oregon campus,
will be the campus clean-up at 4
p.m., May 7. A terrace dance will
follow the work party at 4:30
p.rn. on the Student Union terrace.
Official weekend events begin
with the annual tug-o-war between
the freshman and sophomore men
which takes place at 4 p.m. on May
8>The rope will stretch across the
millrace, the losers to end in the
water.
Coronation
Coronation of the queen will
take place the evening of May 3
during the Junior Prom, slated to
begin at 9 p.m. Scheduling of the
Prom for Friday night instead of
Saturday as was dene up to last
year proved quite successful an<*
it was decided to continue the pol
icy.
Events for May 9 will include
the scrubbing of the seal, painting
of the "O” on Skinner's Butte by
the freshmen, and the all-campus
luncheon beginning at 11:45 on the
Old Campus. The float parade wiil.
Song Leaders to Meet
Song leaders from all living
organizations entering the all
campus sing competition for
Junior Weekend ane to meet at
4 pan. today in the Student
Union.
Directions and rules for the
sing will be given out and
song leaders are to turn in the
titles of their songs. Duplica
tions will be decided by a flip of
a coin, Co-Chairmen Jean Mauro
and Sally Palmer said.
For further Weekend news,
see page eight.
be held that afternoon and the day
will wind up with the all-campus
sing' competition at 8 p.m. in Mc
Arthur court. The weekend will of
ficially close with the Sunlight
Serenade on May 10 at 3 p.m. at
the music school.
Leading up to the weekend, song
leaders meet today and living or
ganization pairings for the float
parade will be made next Tuesday.
Selection of the Junior Weekend
queen will begin Tuesday also with
the first eliminations of candidates
for the title. The second elimina
tions are to be held Wednesday and
the semi-finalists are to be an
nounced next Thursday.
Name Withheld
\ oting for the five junior wom
en who will make up the court
will be April 22 and 23 and an
nouncement of the court will be
made at the Duck Preview all
campus vodvil April 24. Voting on
the queen will be held May 6 and
her identity will be withheld until
the night of the Prom.
Selection of the ten men’s and
ten women’s living organizations
to compete in tile all-campus sing
will be April 29. Traditions for the
weekend are to be enforced be
ginning May 5.
Chairmen Needed
For Mothers' Day
A call for chairmen and com
mittee members to work on Moth
ers- Day, May 8 to 10, has been
issued by Barbara Wilcox, general
chairman.
Positions open are publicity, pro
motion, tickets, housing and hos
pitality. Petitions should be turned
in to Miss Wilcox at Hendricks
hall .