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EMERALD
Fijty-jourth year of Publication
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UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1953
NO. 98
Women Top Men
For Duck Preview
j Almost twice as many high
school girls as boys plan to attend
the annual Duck Preview, Friday
and Saturday, April 24 and 25.
Approximately 600 seniors answer
ed invitations to the weekend
event, according to Spencer Carl
son, director of admissions.
Speaking to the Duck Preview
committee Tuesday, Carlson urged
campus living organizations to
write letters of acknowledgement
to the high school students who
will be staying in their houses.
Registration for Duck Preview
will be in the Student Union from
Duck Assembly
Heads for Salem
First stop on the route of "Web
foot Impressions of ’53,” Univer
sity exchange assembly, will be
Willamette university in Salem
Thursday morning.
Other appearances of the ex
change assembly will be April 22
at Oregon State college in Cor
vallis and May 28 to 31 in San
Jose, Calif.
Under the direction of Joanne
Forbes, the 37-member cast pro
duces entertainment from skits to
vocal solos. Neil Tardio, master
of ceremonies for the show, will
introduce TV features, piano and
vocal solos"by Don Bonime, Spen
cer Snow, Gordon Green and Nancy
Randolph, and Allison Le Roux
in a tap and solo number.
A combo of Doug Boranovich,
Harvey Hixson and Marvin Young
provide a musical exclamation
point, with Jeanette Stone and
Ken Hickenbottom in song and
tap numbers.
Turning the University library
’ into a night club the entire cast
appears for the finale.
noon to 10 p.m. Friday and 8 a.m.
to noon Saturday. Transportation
from the train and bus depots to
the SU and living organizations
will be provided by student volun
teers.
Vodvll Kicks Off
Kickoff for the weekend events
will be the All-Campus Vodvil,
“Let's Do It Again,” at 8 p.m. Fri
day. Following the show, the vis
itors will be entertained at par
ties in the living organizations.
An orientation assembly will be
held Saturday morning at 10 to
give the seniors an idea of college
life and organize them for the
educational tours. Ray Hawk and
Mra. Golda Wickham, associate
directors of student affairs, will
address the group.
Bob McCracken, freshman class
president, will speak on campus
social life, and the rally squad
will lead the seniors in a yell and
the singing of “Mighty Oregon.”
A combo is scheduled to play at
the assembly.
Will Tour Campus
Following the assembly, the vis
itors will be taken on tours of the
campus in groups of 30 by Kwama
and Skull and Dagger, sophomore
service honoraries.
Included in the tours will be
stops at the Emerald shack, jour
nalism and architecture schools,
Science building, Villard hall
(KWAX and University Theater)
Commonwealth hall, the Co-op
and the library. Senior girls will
be taken to Gerlinger hall and boys
will be shown the physical edu
cation school.
Events for Saturday afternoon
include a baseball game between
Oregon and the University of
Washington at Howe field and a
Panhellenic tea for senior girls
at the Gerlinger Alumni hall.
A special water show will be
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FIRST ELIMINATIONS
Queen Aspirants Cut
ine number of cadidate3 for
Junior Weekend Queen was re
duced to 20 Tuesday night in the
first eliminations. Quarter-finalists
will be interviewed again this eve
ning.
Those candidates whose names
begin with the letters A to M are
to report at 7 p.m., with those from
N to Z arriving at 8. Dress will be
formal.
Quarter-finalists for the title of
Housemother Plan
Vetoed by Groups
The plan to put housemothers
in Straub and Susan Campbell
halls has been dropped by the
Inter-dormitory council and the
administration.
The decision to set the proposal
aside was reached at a regular
IDC meeting Tuesday \yhen Ray
Hawk, director of men’s affairs,
and Si Ellingson, counselor for
men, heard the testimony of hall
representatives that the majority
of the men were against the pro
posal.
In the light of this testimony,
it was felt that it would be unwise
and untimely to pursue the issue
further, Hawk said.
Opposition to the installation of
housemothers was advanced on the
theories that one housemother for
Straub would be on an “imper
sonal basis in such a large hall;
that it would invade the privacy
now enjoyed by the men, and that
the social graces are not stressed
enough in the dorms to necessi
tate a housemother.
Advantages to the plan, as ad
vanced by Hawk, were that house
mothers would allow women in the
lounges of the hall and that their
presence would give parents a bet
ter impression of University envir
onment.
THE DOME—IT'S DONE!
By Bill Gurney
Emerald Managing Editor
Oregon now has a geodesic shelter. It’s worth see
ing It’s a futuristic looking, transparent dome that
was carefully assembled Tuesday afternoon on a plot
of grass at the corner of Franklin blvd. and Onyx
st., near the Science building. *
The dome, 18 feet high and 36 feet in diameter,
is a plastic-skinned, wood-framed manifestation of
a “prototyping experiment in production engineer
ing” supervised by visiting Designer-Engineer R.
Buckminster Fuller.
Weighing only 1000 pounds, the dome covers an
area of 930 square feet, and encloses 18,300 cubic
feet. Tiie extreme lightness is possible because of
the nature of materials used and the system of
construction. The basic structural units interlock
and support each other.
The “Fuller Project” is the first of its kind west
of the Rocky Mountains. It is one of a series of
similar prototyping experiments Fuller haS done at
such universities as Yale and Minnesota.
Fuller, a short, husky, gray-haired gentleman,
perhaps approaches the Renaissance ideal of versa
tility in marf^-he has lectured on such diverse sub
jects as our economic system, the need for world
cooperation, and industrial production methodology.
Ho is most noted for his Dymaxion philosophy,
* ba:ed on efficiency — “getting the most for the
least.” The dome embodies Dymaxion principles, and
- is eased on Fuller’s unique “energetic geometry.”
Just eight days ago, Fuller arrived on campus.
Quickly, he organized eight specialized groups of
architecture students. He conducted seminars to ex
plain his Dymaxion system, told of construction ex
periments with the 96-foot diameter geodesic dome
now being erected for the Ford Motor Co. at Dear
born, Mich.
The basic structural unit was developed—a 3%
pound diamond-shaped frame of plywood covered
with Mylar “D”, a tough, durable, transparent plas
tic developed by du Pont. Goodyear Pliobond adhe
sive was used to bond the plastic to the frame,
while a new Bauer and Black tape, Polyken 361,
sealed the joints. These materials were used for the
first time ir. such a construction.
That the whole project was completed in only
2600 man hours is a tribute to detailed planning
and "production engineering” so each operation
was made most efficient.
Pete Van Djik, fifth year architecture student,
was student chairman of the project.
After five design modifications, the basic struc
tural unit went into near round-the-clock produc
tion by the corps of dedicated Oregon students.
Then, Tuesday afternoon, they started to shape
assembled sections into the dome itself. Quickly,
photographers, reporters, and students gathered
in droves. Franklin boulevard traffic acted slightly
disconcerted at the sight of the Buck Rogers-like
plastic surfaces shimmering in the sunlight.
What will be done with the dome? That's up to
the school of architecture. Suggested purposes: A
new home for the Emerald, storage space for the
architecture school.
Another drawback to the pro
posal was that Straub was not
built to include an apartment for
a housemother.
Heavenly Space
Topic of Lecture
E. G. Ebbighausen, associate
professor of physics, will give an
illustrated lecture on “Space Be
tween the Stars” in the Student
Union browsing room tonight at
7:30.
The lecture has been scheduled
in place of a lecture by Walter
Van Tilburg Clark, author. Clark
will speak on April 22.
Ebbighausen, a member of the
staff here since 1946, will describe
something of the condition of the
space between the stars of the
galaxy. This space is, on the whole,
he explains, of extremely small
density but the space is so large
that the total amount of matter is
considered equal to that in the
stars themselves. The matter is
made up of atoms, all of the chem
ical elements, dust particles (rang7
ing insize from a few atoms to me
teorite size). It is scattered
throughout space, some in dense
clouds but mostly diffused
throughout the galaxy.
The temperature of space and
what matter floating in space
means as regards formation of
stars will also be discussed by Eb
bighausen. He will use slides to
illustrate his talk.
The lecture is open to the pub
lic and a discussion period will
follow.
queen and their nominators include
Joyce Balsch, Alpha Delta Pi, Au
drey Campbell, Kappa Kappa Gam
ma; Carolyn Dickey, Pi Beta Phi
Pat Gustin, Alpha Chi Omega and;
Beta Theta Pi; Sally Hayden, Or
ides; Pat Hunter, Alpha Omicron
Pi; Barbara Keelen, Alpha Tau
Omega; Molly Martin, Kappa Al
pha Theta; Virginia Means, Chi
Omega; Joan Marie Miller, Phi
Kappa Sigma and Sigma Phi Ep
silon; Lorna Murakawa, University
house; Dorothy Peterson, Carson
hall.
Sandra Price, Pi Kappa Alpha;:
Virginia Rabick, Philadelphia
house; Donna-claire Ringle, Susan
Campbell hall; Diane Stout, Theta
Chi and Phi Kappa Psi; Carol Lee
Tate, Phi Delta Theta; Cathy
Tribe, Campbell club and Alpha
Phi; Joan Walker, Chi Psi, Delta
Tau Delta, and Phi Gamma Delta; ■
and Marjorie Williams, Phi Gam
ma Delta.
The semi-finalists will be an
nounced in Thursday’s Emerald,
Students will vote upon therr^next
week.
Honorary Petitions
Due 5 p.m. Frida/
Sophomore women petitioning
for membership in Phi Theta
L'psilon, junior women’s service
honorary, are to have their ap
plications turned in to Pres. Judy
McLoughlin at Rebec house or
Vice-Pres. Joan Walker at Kap
pa Alpha Theta by 5 p.m. Friday.
Any sophomore woman with a
minimum 2.4 GPA is eligible to
petition for membership. Peti
tion froms may be obtained from
the office of women’s affairs.
Some Frosh May Sing
In Fraternity Groups
Freshmen whose dormitories
are not entering the all-campus
sing are eligible to join their
Greek letter organization chorus
or that of another dorm, accord
ing to an announcement made by
Mrs. Golda P. Wickham, director
of women's affairs, and Si Ellick
son, counselor for men.
Over-Capacity Crowd
Sees OSC Entertainers
Oregon State's traveling assem
bly, “College: the Chance of a Life
time,” or "What Am I Doing
Here?” played to a standing room
only crowd in the Student Union
ballroom Tuesday afternoon.
“Halls of Ivy,” sung by a male
quartet, set the mood for the hap
py-go-lucky, hilarious musical re
vue of collegiate life. A twelve
piece band, “The Mid-nighters,”
provided background music for the
show, varying their numbers from
dreamy mood music to hot jazz
with the trumpets hitting the high
spots.
The featured radio skit satiriz
ing adventure programs for the
“kiddies” brought down the house
with the adventures and romances
[of Junior Birdman, Herman. Love
call of an island native and a new
twist to commercials added to the
entertainment appeal of the skit.
Among the acts were Denny
Sheets; with a solo number “Let’s
Have a Love Affair,” who pre— _
sented the moonlight and butter
fly side of college life. Kate Stef
fen took the enthusiastic audience
back to the “bath-tub brewing
’20’s” with her rendition of the
Charleston.
Paul Fillinger, writer and di
rector, acted as master of cere
monies for the assembly show.
Wes Grilley took over the job of
producer for Lynne Zimmermann, ,
who was ill with yellow jaundice
and unable to make the show.