Campus Vodvil Opens Duck Preview Events Only two weeks remain before Duck Preview, the annual event to entertain high school seniors, will be held on the Ore gon campus. The weekend is scheduled fqr April 24 and 25. Sunny Allen and Bob Summers, Duck Preview general co chairmen, have been working with their committee heads on -I the plans for the weekend since Meeting Notices For Jr. Weekend Several meeting notices and calls for workers were announced Wed nesday night by the Junior Week end chairmen. The promotion committee will meet at 4 p.m. today at Pi Beta Phi. Chairman Carol Lee Tate has appointed the following as sub chairmen: posters Shirley Soble; all-campus sing, Nancy Reine; queen’s contest and Sunlight Sere nade, June Browning; terrace dance and traditions, Allison Le Roux; luncheon and float parade, Bev Braden; distribution, Bob Glass; prom, Janet Woods. Work ers for the committee are still needed, Miss Tate said, and urged interested people to contact these sub-chairmen. Junior Prom committee chair men will meet at 4 p.m. today in the Student Union. The float pa rade committee will meet at 4 in the SU today also. The all-campus clean-up committee is to meet at Pi Beta Phi at 4:30 p.m. today. Workers for the all-campus committee are still needed, Chair man Cathy Tribe announced. Those wishing to help on that committee should contact her as soon as pos sible. last term. First event of the weekend is the All-Campus to be held Fri day evening April 24. Informal parties at various living organiza tions will follow the show which has for its theme “Let's Do It Again.’’ Events planned for Saturday, April 25, include an orientation as sembly, tours and exhibits on the campus in the morning and a base ball game between Oregon and the University of Washington in the afternoon. Exchange dinners will be held in the living organizations that evening. The annual Duck Preview dance will be held in the Student Union ballroom Saturday evening begin ning at 9 p.m. Jack Lowry and the Eugene All-Stars will play for the dance. Thacher Recalls Lost Generation (Continued from page one) The period which these writers entered was one of opportunity, the speaker said. Writers were in great demand and "everybody was doing it.” But the qualities of good writing were not forgotten. "Of the many who desperately wanted to write, Thacher said, “very few were chosen.” Architecture Topic For Fuller Lecture “Architectural Search,” which will deal with the ways in which men are seeking new means to en close more space for human needs, will be discussed tonight at 8 p.m. by R. Buckminster Fuller, visiting lecturer in the school of architec ture. Fuller, who is the inventor of Dymaxion architecture, will speak in Science 123. While on campus, Fuller is con structing a geodesic dome as a research project in spherical truss ing and the use of low-grade lum ber. He is being assisted by 40 stu dents in the project which will also utilize a new plastic material called mylar, which is being used for the first time in the project. Creative Arts Date Is May 15 The date for the annual presen tation of the Campus Creative Arts Workshop program has been set for May 15, according to general chairman Valerie Cowls. To be held in the Student Union, the program will feature readings of poetry and short stories, pre sentation of music, dance, art, drama and all types of original creative work produced by stu dents on campus. Those who would like to submit work for use on the program are now welcomed to do so. Work may be turned in to Miss Cowls or to SU Program Director Donna Buse in SU room 301 by May 1. Final decisions will be based on faculty criticism. Further details may be obtained from the general chairman. No United Drive Slated for Campus, Committee Says By Joe Gardner Emerald Assistant News Editor There will be no united fund charity drive on the Oregon cam pus. At the end of last term the ASUO senate unanimously accept ed the report of the Campus Chest Policy committee as presented by John Talbot, chairman. The recom mendation of the committee was to keep the present system of inde pendent charity drives. The committee had been making an evaluation study of campus chests—the name generally applied to single annual charity drives ir colleges—since last fall term. Ac cording to the report, it was the first such evaluation made in the country. In the course of their study the committee corresponded with char ity agencies, the National Students association and several colleges which already have campus chests Working with Talbot were senate members Joan Marie Miller and Bob Summers. H. T. Koplin, in structor in economics, served as faculty adviser. The two main conclusions of the detailed nine-page report were: lj There is no need for unifying char ity drives on the campus, and; 2) Oregon’s independent drives have been more successeful than uni fied drives in other colleges. At the present there are onlj three charity drives conducted at Oregon during the academic year Community Chest, fall term; Rec Cross, winter term, and World Student Service Fund, spring term Solicitation for the March oi Dimes is made at one basketbal game during the year. A strong recommendation was made in the report to keep WSSF separate from other drives. Sep arate consideration in the reporl was given to this phase of charitj drives. With an independent WSSE drive and only one March of Dimes solicitation, the committee noted that only two other charity drives were held on campus, the Com munity Chest and the Red Cross. "From here,” reads the report, “there is an alternative of com bining these two remaining char ity drives and adding several more worthy agencies, at the same time keeping WSSF separate” or con tinuing the three independent • Campus Briefs • There will be a 12:15 meet ing of the WRA cabinet today in the WRA room in Gerlinger hall. • There will be WRA initiation tonight at 6:30 in Alumnae hall in Gerlinger. All those girls who have received invitations or those who have participated in an intra mural sport are eligible for init iation, president Mary Jordan an nounced. • Roger Aiken, campns repre sentative of the Student Move ment’s Campus Crusade for Christ, will present a program in discus sion and song on "The New Life” at Sigma Chi tonight at 6:30. 0 Ray Siegenthaler, Eugene insurance agent, will speak to an Oregon Insurance Society meeting today at 7:30 p.m. in the Student Union. p Members of the all-campus luncheon committee for Junior Weekend are to meet in the Stu dent Union at 10 a.m. today, ac cording to Cathy Tribe, chairman of the group. q Phi Beta will meet at 6:30 p.m. today in the Student Union. drives per year. It was the latter proposal which the senate ac cepted. In evaluating the success of campus chests at other schools, Talbot's committee compared the results of such drives at five oth er Pacific coast colleges with the independent drives at Oregon for the year 1951-52. The figures are as follows: Per student Washington State college....53c Oregon State College.52c U. of Southern California... 40c University of Washington. 30c San Jose State college.15c Collecting approximately $400 each for Red Cross, March of Dimes and Community Chest, plus $1,900 for WSSF, Oregon had a total of $3,100 for the same year. The average per student was 77 cents or 24 cents more per student than the highest figure from the other schools. The report further noted “that not all of the campus chest sys tems have proven successful.” A case in point is the University of Southern California, whose campus chest collections fell from $10,100 three years ago to $4,500 last year. Lack of interest in the campus chest was blamed as the biggest reason for this decline. Committee members stated in the report that “in the unification of the charities, a great deal of educational value was lost.” Giv ing of time and energy to support voluntary agencies was cited as an educational value “as import ant, if not more so, than the ac tual collections. Conclusion of the report was that “little, if anything would be gained by a campus chest and much might be lost.” The commit tee urged that more emphasis be given to the three drives now on the campus rather than setting up a united fund or campus chest. Banquet to Feature Ex-Warden Library Contest Offers Awards Students who collect books for a hobby will have a chance to add to their collections by entering the annual Library Day contest on May 9. Awards totaling $200 are offered in four categories for the best library. Categories include undergradu ate and graduate divisions and general or specialized libraries. First prize in each section is $25.00 in books, second prize $15, and third prize $10.00. Entries must be submitted by 12 noon, Friday, May 8, to Bernice Rise in the Student Union brows ing room. Prizes will be awarded May 16 at a banquet of the Asso ciation of Patrons and Friends of the University Library. Winners will select their books at the Co-op. Judging is based on the selection of titles as they reflect the broad ening interest of the collector, not on the total number of books or their monetary value. Eighty en tries were received last year, in one of the largest contests in the coun try. Campus Calendar Noon Drain* Staff 111 SU Coop Bd 112 SU 1:00 WSSF 110 SU SK>0 SU Art Gal 110 SU ASUO Prim Comm 31S SU 4:00 Pan Hell Exec Coun 111SU Jr. Weekend Float 112 SU U1S 11SSU Jo urn Srs 114 SU WSSF Sol Trng 214 SU Jr Prom 315 SU Lvng Org Song Ldrs 334 SU Women’s School Dad’s Lounge SU 6:15 YMCA Cab 319 SU 6:30 Druids 111SU Phi Beta 214 SU YVRA Init Gerl 2nd FI ASUO .Asbly Reh Gerl Annex 7:00 Biol Cl 110 SU Phi Alpha Delta Gerl 3rd FI 7:30 Chess Cl 112SU Ore Ins Soc 113 SU Millrace 215 SU YM Inq Grp 315 SU Chi Chap PDK 334 SU 8:00 Dr. Newburn Lect Dad’s Lounge SU Fuller Lect 123 Scl lr Tickets are now on sale at Tay lor's Coffee Shop and Herman’s Men’s Store for the Young Demo cratic convention banquet which will feature cx-Warden Virgil O’Mnlley as the principal speaker. Tickets are 53.00, and they will include the banquet which is slated for Saturday, 7 p.m., iri the Col onade room of the Eugene hotel, and a reception at the hotel on Friday night. Any interested person is invited to attend, according to Charles Grover, president of the campus group who are hosts for the event. O'Malley, who was ousted from his position as warden of the Ore gon State prison, has been ac cused by the board of prison con trol of failure to maintain disci pline among the convicts. Activities for delegates and tick et holders will begin Friday night at 9 p.m. with registration and a reception. Committee reports, a report by State President Ed Rid derbusch, election of new officers, and adoption of resolutions are in cluded in the convention program for Saturday. Why not catch up on your stud ies? It has been proven that hard ly anyone studies spring term, so there isn’t much competition. Only 200 fans witnessed Babe Ruth’s professional baseball de but in 1914 at Baltimore. il r HEIUG Starts Sunday, April 12 “Meet Me at the Fair” with Dan Daily Diana Lyun Starts Wednesday, April 15 “Hangman’s Knot” with Randolph Scott Donna Reed also “Golden Hawk” with Sterling Hayden Rhonda Fleming ENDS TUESDAY, APRIL 14 “La Ronde” Starts Wednesday, April 15 “Importance of Being Earnest” with Michael Redgraves ' Joan Greenwood A special corsage for that special girl! Your thoughtfulness will be mirrored in the sparkle of her eyes . . . orchids are the finest and least extravagant corsage flowers available. Call Flowers Unlimited Flower Fone 4-6244 193 E. Broadway