THIRD BIG NAME
I Jack Fina's Band to Play Tonight
1’KO.M I)h( ORATION'S are given a look over by co-chairman and committee members. Watching Alice
Kelt (left) manage a pair of scissors on a palm leaf are (left to right) Tina Fisk, decorations chair
man, Ann Dlelschneider and Judy McLoughlin, dance co-chairman. The decorations were made in the
workroom on the Student l nion third floor and the ballroom decoration process began Thursday.
Committee Hears
NAACP Plea
The student affairs committee
listened Thursday afternoon to J.
V. Berreman, professor of sociol
ogy, read a 13-page statement re
garding the recognition of a Uni
versity chapter of national Asso
c’ation for the Advancement of
Colored People.
Petitions by the student NAACP
group for university recognition
had been previously turned down
by the committee. No motion to
recognize the group was made
Thursday.
Berreman, advisor of the
NAACP group, made two main
points in his statement, according
to Donald DuShane, committee
chairman. The first was the de
fense of a campus NAACP chapter
recognition and the second, the
University policy in general of
recognition of such groups.
Fall Rush Week Plans
To be Stated by IFC
Complete plans for a proposed
fall term rush week will be pre
sented to the Inter-Fraternity
Council Thursday for approval be
fore presentation to the adminis
tration.
Stressing the importance of co
operating with the University, the
council felt that there were several
'Sing' Tickets on Sale
Students should get tickets to
the All-Campus Sing for them
selves and their parents today,
Sing co-chairman Jean Mauro has
urged. Tickets, priced at 90 cents,
are on sale at the Student Union
main desk and the co-op.
Sixteen houses wil participate in
the Sing slated at 8 p.m. in Mc
Arthur court.
Mothers' Registration
Opens Special Events
Registration from 2 to 5 p.m.
today on the second floor of the
Student Union will launch the
events of the annual Mothers’
weekend, according to Barbara
Redford, registration chairman.
The Mothers will also register from
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. Two
trophies will be awarded to the
living organizations having the
largest percentages of mothers
registered. ,
The Mother’s Executive board
will meet at 12:15 p.m. today in
the Student Union to go over plans
for the weekend.
At 5:30, the mothers are to at
tend the living organization din
ners with their sons or daughters.
At 9 p.m. they will be guests at
the Junior Prom in the SU. A spe
cial lounge has been reserved for
the mothers and numerous events
have been planned for their enter
tainment, reports Marilyn Lun
dell, hospitality chairman. A spe
cial section at the all-campus sing
Saturday evening has also been
reserved for them.
ways in which fall term rushing
would help both the University
as a whole and the houses. Work
ing with this as a base, the spe
cial committee will present the
sample plan at next week’s meet
ing.
Ray Hawk, director of men's
affairs, told the group that start
ing next fall, returning veterans
to the University will be allowed
to pledge and live in fraternities
fall term, regardless of their class
hours.
A report was also given on plans
for the Western Regional Inter
Fraternity Council meeting which
Oregon will co-host with Oregon
State College Inter-Fraternity
council next October. The confer
ence will be held at OSC Oct. 23
and 24.
Saturday's Parade
To Form at 3:30
Floats will assembly at the 4th
a-nd Willamette starting point at
3:30 p.m. Saturday for the Junior
Weekend float parade, Sally Has
eltine, float parade chairman, has
announced. Positions will be de
termined by order of arrival.
The parade will start up Will
amette to 13th, east on 13th to
University, up University to Mc
Arthur court with departure time
scheduled at 4 p.m. Motorcycles,
the queen and her court and the
University band will be at the head
of the parade.
Judges will be stationed al< ng
the parade route and winners will
be announced at the All-campus
Weekend Queen Coronation,
Other Awards, Set at Prom
tnffifhJu- Jack -Flna at the annual Junior Prom tonight
»2£* third.t,me in two years that a big name band has
p ayed for a major campus dance. Other headliners who have
placed here recently were Dick Jurgens for the 1952 Senior
-ball and Skmnay Ennis for the 1952 Homecoming dance The
dance is the first big event of the Holi-Daze, 1953 Junior Week
rJiCtV°^ber,°m are n°w on saIe at $288 per couple (40
cents tax). 1 he tickets can be obtained at the Co-op and m
men s living organizations until 5 prm. this afternoon. Thev
Junior Weekend
Schedule of Events
Friday
4 p.m.—Frosh-Soph Tug-o-war
behind Kappa Sigma.
9—Junior Prom in Student
Union ballroom.
10:84—Prom intermission.
Saturday
9 a.m.—Painting of the O on
Skinner’s Butte.
9—Mothers’ breakfast and
meeting in SU ballroom.
11:45 — All-campus Luncheon
on Old Campus.
2 to 4:30 p.m.—Mothers’ tea
at Gerlinger hall.
4—Float parade leaves down
town.
8 — All-campus Sing at Mc
Arthur.
Sunday
3 p.m.—Sunlight Serenade at
music school amphitheatre.
Traditions Violators
Told to Report Today
Fifteen tradition violators were
reported to the Emerald Thursday
evening by Barney Holland, Junior
Weekend traditions chairman.
These students are to report to
Fenton hall at 12:25 this after
noon.
Following is a list of the traditions vio
lators: Carol Dwyer, Margo Casanova, Kent
Dorwin, Max Anderson, Peggy Brandon,
Bev Jones, Carol Hanson, Mich Hammer
stead. Carmen Hughes, Sonia Edwards, Di
anne Ramsey. Sue Silverthorne, John Keller,
Andy Xasburg and Dick Beckman.
Tug of War Slated
OnMillrace Today
“The freshmen will get a taste
of sophomore superiority when
they get hold of that rope,” Bob
Summers, sophomore class pres
ident, stated about this after
noon’s tug-o-war.
The tug-o-war is scheduled for
4 p.m. today behind the Kappa
Sigma house.
“After soundly drenching a
mass of blubber in last year’s
tug, this year’s overhand grab
session shouldn’t be much of a
strain for our muscle-bound
’56ers,” Summers added.
Summers said that- the- report
of an imported goon squad was
only to make “McCracken’s for
mation of freaks” feel at home
on the banks of the MiUrace.
win also be sold at the door to the
dance tonight.
Dress for the dance, to ife bald
in the Student Union ballroom. -
from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., is formal,
Proper attire is formals for women .
and suits, tuxedoes or white din
ner jackets for men. Corsages are •
optional.
2 a.m. Closing Set
Women’s closing hours have been
extended to 2 a.m. for tonight. The
late hours were approved by the
office of student affairs last week.
Highlight of the Prom inter
mission will be the crowning of
the Junior Weekend Queen by Sec
retary of State Earl T. Newbry.
Members of the court—Joan Marie
Miller, Diane Stout, Carol Lee
Tate, Cathy Tribe and Joan Walk
er-will be introduced, and the;
queen announced.
Other intermission activities will:
include tapping of the new mem
bers for Druids, junior men’s hon
orary, and the awarding of the
Gerlinger and Koyl cups.
Wickham to Award Cup
Mi’s. Golda Parker Wickham, as
sociate director of student affairs,
will present the Gerlinger Cup to
the outstanding junior woman on...
campus. Mrs. George T. Gerlinger,
donor of the cup, will be unable -
to attend. The outstanding junior
man on campus will be awarded,
the Koyl Cup by Charles W. Koyl,
class of 1911.
“May Day” is the theme for the
dance and this will be carried out
with flowers and maypoles decor
ating the edges of the dance floor.
A big maypole will be set in the
center with streamers from the
smaller ones leading to it.
'O' May Be Painted
Saturday Morning
Oregon’s O will be painted Sat
urday at 9 a.m„ according to Bar*
ney Holland, Junior Weekend tra
ditions chairman, if the cement is
dry in time.
Holland reported Thursday eve
ning that the cement had been:
poured by Bob Simpson and other -
members of Delta Upsilon.
Tradition violators who do not
show up for punishment will be •
rounded up by members of the Or
der of the O members Saturday -
morning. The violators will be -
taken to Skinner’s Butte to paint? -
the O.
Spry 'Mom' to Come to Campus
To Attend All Junior Weekend
An 81 year old mother, Mrs. Al
bert Gardiner, of Newberg, Ore.,
will arrive today for a visit with
her coed daughter, Mrs. Ernest
Watkins, a fifth year education
major, and to attend the Junior
Weekend festivities.
“She’s amazingly spry,” says
Mrs. Watkins, who is a bona fide
student, returning to the Oregon
campus after 36 years. As Mary
Alice Hill, Mrs. Watkins gradu
ated from Oregon in 1917. She has
returned to work on a certificate -
for substitute teaching.
Mrs. Gardiner will travel by bus
because she “feels more independ
ent that way,” says Mrs. Watkins..
“She’s very active,” she states.
Mrs. Watkins’ mother will prob
ably be the oldest mother of a><
student on campus this weekend.
She will sit at the head table dur
ing the breakfast Saturday morn
ing.