UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, MONDAY, APRIL, 27, 1953
NO. 106
Junior Prom Activities
Begin Moms' Weekend
Leading off the events of the
annual Mothers’ weekend will be
the special activities planned for
mothers at the Junior Prom, May
8, according to Barbara Wilcox,
general chairman of the weekend.
For the first time plans are be
ing made for card games, other
activities and refreshments to be
provided for the mothers during
the dance.
Registration for the mothers will
begin at 8 a m. Saturday in Ger
linger hall and continue until 5
p.m. Last year, 506 mothers were
registered in the competition be
tween living organizations for rec
ord albums. First places for the
highest percentages registered
went to Alpha Delta Pi and" Phi
Delta Theta.
Breakfast For Mothers
The annual Mothers club meet
ing-breakfast will be held at 9 a.m.
Saturday. At noon the mothers will
be guests at the traditional all
campus luncheon.
Both the students and their
mothers may attend the Mothers’
tea in the Alumni lounge of Ger
linger between 2:30 and 4:30, ac
cording to Miss Wilcox. They will
also attend the float parade at
4 p.m.
Sing Is Highlight
Highlight of the weekend • for
the guests of honor will be the
Petition Deadline
Extended by SU
Petition deadline for the ten di
rectorate posts on the Student Un
ion committees has been postponed
until Wednesday, according to Tom
Brand. Petitions are to be turned
in at SU 310 or the SU third floor
petition box.
Functions of the open committee
chairmanships are: art gallery—
art exhibitions in the art gallery;
browsing room — Friday evening
coffee hour, creative arts program
and campus workshop; coffee hour
forum—series of coffee hours fea
turing guest speakers.
Dance—fishbowl mixers and oth
er dances; house — adopting rules
for building use; movies — Wed
nesday educational series and Sun
day feature movies; music — “Fri
day at Four” and community
sings; personnel — selection and
operation of the program staff
members; publicity — weekly
schedules, Emerald coverage and
posters; recorded music — super
vision of the music listening room
and the care and purchase of new
records.
700 Seniors Listed
For Duck Preview
A total of 700 high school sen
iors were registered for the annual
Duck Preview weekend last Friday
and Saturday, according to figures
released Sunday by Les Anderson,
alumni secretary and advisor to
the Duck Preview committee.
Although the registration num
ber fell far short of the expected
1000 visitors, Anderson estimated
that counting the seniors who did
n’t register there were from 850 to
900 high school guests at the Uni
versity over the weekend.
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All-Campus Sing Saturday evening
in McArthur court.
Plans for Sunday morning in
clude special services in local
churches, dinner in the living or
ganizations, and at 3 p.m., the Sun
light Serenade.
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Fund Nets $178.25
In Friday Sale;
MC Even Sold
The WSSF auction Friday aft
ernoon on the SU terrace netted
the WSSF fund $178.25 from the
sale of campus beauties and beasts.
The proceeds from this year's auc
tion far exceeded last year’s total
of $60.50.
Five Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
finalists, bought by Phi Delta
Theta for $47, brought the highest
I price of the auction. The finalists
and other auctioned groups served
dinner Friday night for the living
organizations buying them.
Auctioneer Spencer Snow, fresh
man in liberal arts, put five
i Kwama's on the platform to start
the sale off. Beta Theta Pi took
the group for $6.25 despite at
tempts by the Kwama's to buy
themselves off the block.
$35 Buy Ugly Men
Carson hall led the bidding for
the six Ugly Man finalists (minus
Waldo) to buy them for $35. As
sisting auctioneer Snow, finalist
Wes Ball took over the micro
phone to bid up the sale.
A pair of culinary professors
also was purchased by Carson for
$23. Clad in chef’s attire, E. R.
Bingham, assistant professor of
history, and H. T. Koplin, instruc
tor in economics, offered them
selves as waiters for the evening.
Quartet Gives Sample
After presenting several samples
of their talent, the Susan Camp
bell Uncalled Four Quartet was
won by Alpha Chi Omega for
$23.50.
The masculine charm of the six
Joe College finalists brought a top
bid of $25.50 from Delta Gamma.
Eight dollars purchased four mem
bers of the Homecoming court for
Alpha Tau Omega.
Closing the auction, Snow put
himself and his guitar up for sale.
His musical services were won by
Kappa Alpha Theta for $10.
Librarians to Enter
Recreational Books
For Silver Award
House librarians are asked to
submit their recreational reading
lists before Friday in order to com
pete for the Josephine Evans Har
pham silver cup, according to Ber
nice Rise, browsing room librarian.
The cup is awarded annually
during Junior Weekend to the liv
ing organization which stimulates
the greatest interest in recreation
al reading and the house library
program during the current year.
It has been previously awarded
to Rebec house, Delta Delta Delta,
Alpha Chi Omega and University
house. Tau Kappa Epsilon is in
current possession of the cup.
Weekend Court
Named Friday;
Final Vote May 6
The Junior Weekend Queen will
be selected from the five finalists
by an ail-campus vote May 6, ac
cording to Joyce Jones, queen se
lection chairman. The other four
will be members of the court.
Finalists who were elected in
elections held Wednesday and
Thursday and introduced at the
All-Campus Vodvil Friday night,
are Joan Marie Miller, Phi Kappa
Sigma and Sigma Phi Epsilon; Di
ane Stout, Theta Chi and Phi Kap
pa Psi; Carol Lee Tate, Phi Delta
Theta; Cathy Tribe, Campbell club
and Alpha Phi; and Joan Walker,
Chi Psi and Phi Gamma Delta.
Approximately 1115 students
voted in the election, reports Miss
Jones. This number is con
siderably higher than last year’s
figures.
Pictures and interviews with the
five finalists are scheduled to be
run in the Emerald before the
election.
Browsing Room
To Feature Nagy
In Tuesday Talk
Ivan Nagy, assistant professor
political science, who returned re
cently from research work on in
ternational affairs at Columbia
University, will talk on “The En
forcement of Political Orthodoxy”
in the browsing room at 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday.
Nagy was awarded a Ford Foun
dation faculty fellowship during
the year 1951-52 for research work
at Columbia university on the sub
ject “Citizen Participation in
International Affairs.” His talk
Tuesday will concern the problems
of individual participation in gov
ernment and the enforcement of
political doctrine.
The browsing room lecture is
scheduled for Tuesday evening in
stead of Wednesday for this week
only, Bernice Rise, browsing room
librarian, has announced.
Ducks In Front
In ND Baseball
Coach Don Kirsch’s baseball
team stretched Its lead in the
Northern Division race to two
full games last Saturday by edg
ing the Washington Huskies,
4-3, on Bari Averill’s tenth in
ning home run.
Sophomore Norm Forbes went
the entire ten innings for the
victorious Ducks and gave up
only six hits and one earned run.
Bud McCartney, who pitched
two-thirds of an inning for the
losers, was tagged with the loss.
Oregon came from behind in
the eighth frame when third
baseman Pete Williams drove in
two runs with a long fly that
went to the edge of the bank in
left field. Details on page three.
Office Hopefuls
Submit Petitions
Three Seniors Planning Graduate Work
Enter Race; UIS Primary Wednesday
n cTh u-ith "Ih,t0T ncASU° presidePt? That’s the h'S question
now, with the LIS primary coming Wednesday and Am
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Sund'ilSTtthinHSti0f president!al h°pefuls in both parties as of
v-rrlTy'n! m£,udes three seniors who will return tor graduate
\.ork. J hey have all either turned in petitions, or told the
cina me) pian to:
In UIS:
Don Collin, senior in economics,
UIS president, senate member,
junior cla-ss vice-president last
year.
Tom Shepherd, junior in law,
recently named junior class pres
ident, IDC president.
Vodvil Prizes
Won by Tri-Delt,
Sigma Nu Skits
Sigma Nu’s “Let’s Dial In,” and
Delta Delta Delta’s “As Time
Goes By,” copped the top awards
in Friday night’s All-Campus Vod
vil. Second place went to Phi Del
ta Theta for “The Shooting of Dan '
McGrew,” and to Delta Gamma for
"Fundamentals II.”
The Phi Delta also scored with I
the selection of narrator Don Holt
as the outstanding performer, and
Jim Light as winner of the Ugliest
Man on Campus contest. Light
was presented with the Ugly Man
mug and Herman the Moose, tra
ditional symbol awarded to the
Ugly Man’s living organization.
Runner up to Light was Waldo,
Theta Chi mascot.
Tri-Delt garnered its first award
of the evening—a chamois cloth—
as the co-winner of the World Stu
dent Service Fund car wash. Shar
ing honors with the Tri-Delts was
Delta Zeta.
Chairmen Chosen
For 1954 RE Week
Barbara Swanson, junior in so
ciology, has been selected as gen
eral chairman of next year's Re
ligious Emphasis Week, accord
ing to Russ Walker, executive sec
retary of the event.
Assisting Miss Swanson in plan
ning the event, which will be the
week of Jan. 17, will be the fol
lowing chairmen:
Pat Adkinson, vice chairman;
Ann Blackwell, secretary; Bob
Hastings, treasurer; Shirley Soble,
book displays; Janet Wick, lunch
eon; Pat Hartley, classroom; Sonia
Edwards, hospitality; Gail West,
firesides.
Jean Peterson, personal confer
ence; Dorothy ller, publicity; BUI
Walker, worship; Nan Mimnaugh,
promotion, and Phyllis Pearson,
Sunday night dinner. Faculty ad
visor to the group is P. J. Powers,
assistant professor of Romance
languages.
Sing Meeting Tuesday
A meeting of all song leaders or
house representatives of living or
ganizations entering the All-Cam
pus Sing will be held Tuesday
at 4 p.m. in the Student Union.
At this time, each organization
is to submit three copies of their
song and a list of participants, ac
cording to Barbara Swanson, con
tact chairman for the sing. Elim
inations for the sing will be held
Wednesday night at 7.
Ben Schmidt, junior in speech,
senate member, IDC president last
year.
In AGS:
Jack Faust, senior in history,.
AGS president, Theta Chi presi
dent.
Paul Lasker, junior in educa
tion, recently named junior vice
president.
Tom Wrightson, senior in busi
ness, senior class president.
Spiking rumors that he was an
AGS aspirant, Bill Frye, senior in
journalism, told the Emerald Sun
day he definitely is not in the
race.
Frye is now an ASUO senate
member, and ran for the AGS<
nomination last year.
Petition instructions for botb:
parties:
UTS petitions for all offices are •
due today at 5 p.m. They may be
turned in to Elsie Schiller at Uni
versity house, Collin, UTS presi
dent, Germaine LaMarche, Orides;
Shepherd, Gamma hall, and Paul
Ward, Campbell club, and the first
floor of Gerlinger hall.
UIS petitioners for the ASUO
presidential nomination will speak
briefly in an open meeting Tuesday
at 7 p.m. in 123 Science. Candi—
didates for other offices will be
introduced.
AGS petitions for all posts are
due by 5 p.m. Tuesday to Faust
at Theta Chi or Pat Ruan at Del
ta Gamma.
Freshman candidates will be in
terviewed by the AGS policy com
mittee from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Tues
day and Wednesday evenings at
Delta Gamma.
All candidates, from both parties
and those running independently,
must turn in ASUO petitions by
10 p.m. May 6. Proposed consti
tutional amendments will run in.
the Emerald May 4, 5 and 0.
Burt Barker Cup
Missing for Month
Information leading to the re
covery of the Burt Brown Barker
scholarship cup, taken from
Gamma hall about Mar. 18,
been requested by the office of
student affairs.
The cup was reported missing
following the state high school
basketball tournament on cam
pus, according to George Eaier,
hall counselor. The police and the
office of student affairs were'
notified of the theft.
Annually awarded during Jun
ior Weekend, the cup was pre
sented to Gamma hall last year.
Friday Deadline
For Press Contest
Deadline for submitting essays
in the Peter Pauper Press essay
contest is Friday according ten*
Bernice Rise, browsing room li
brarian. The contest is sponsored
for Oregon students by the Peter
Pauper Press of New York.
They are offering ten books from
their “collector’s edition” as first
prize, and five books as second
prize. The winners will be an
nounced during the All Campus
Sing, Junior Weekend.
Essays are to be submitted to ■
Miss Rise in the Student Union
hrowsing room or to Carl Hintz at
the University library, she said.