Sixty Minute Players . . .
I • . . are back In football. I-Jist wln
, tor's NC'AA ruling abolishes the
two platoon system and the foot
ball specialist*. More details on
1 page 3.
VOL. LV.
UNIVERSITY OF OKEGON, EUGENE, WE ONES DA ^^71^1953
Full Program ...
. . . of sophomore honors courses
Is being offered for the first thus
this year with classes offers# bs
four fields. Additional details on
page four.
No. a
Oregana Cut In Price
A fifty-cent reduction in price
from last year has been announced
for the 1954 Oregana, student
annual, by Business Manager Jim
Light. Price of the book will be
$6.25.
No advertising will be used In
this year's Oregana, said Light.
Another new feature will be the
9 by 12 inch size of the book. Al
though this is smaller than last
year's Oregana, the book will con
form in size with the annuals of
the other Pacific Coast conference
schools, Light pointed out.
The Oregana may be purchased
by students during the registra
tion process. The full price may be
paid at this time, or a down pay
ment of $3.25 may be paid now
with the balance due winter term,
said Light.
All copies of the 1953 Oregana
have been sold according to Light,
but p. few students have not yet
picked up the books which are
being held for them in the Ore
Women Rushees
Meet Thursday
Women rushees will have Jast
rninute questions answered at a
rush meeting at 6:15 p.m. Thurs
day in Gerlinger Alumni hall, ac
cording to Panhellonic President
Bally Thurston. This will be the
last meeting before rush week be
gins Friday with open house.
Deadline for rush sign-up is 5
p.m. Thursday, Miss Thurston
added. Prospective rushees rnay
•ign up in the office of women's
hffairs in Emerald hall.
The 16 sororities on campus will
•old open house Friday from 1 to
5 p.m. Rushees and any other
Women interested in rushing may
Visit the houses at this time.
J|Six rush dates are scheduled
Saturday and five on Sunday.
TJ»< re will be four dates on Mon
day. Campus clothes will be worn
for open house and the Saturday,
| Sunday and Monday dates.
Tuesday is preference day with
two rush dates set. Short silks
will be worn. Houses will hold
breakfasts for their new pledges
next Wednesday morning at 7.
gana offices on the third floor of
the Student Union.
Assisting the business manager
this year is a permanent staff of
three. Marilyn Parrish is organiza
tions manager, Sue Morris is
executive secretary and Martin
BranJenfels is sales manager. All
are sophomores in liberal arts.
Duckling Picnic
Scheduled Today
Hot dogs, potato salad, ice
cream, and cokes and a casual at
' mosphere are on the schedule for
freshmen and new students at the
annual Duckling picnic at 5:30 p.
m. today on the square behind the
Student Union and across from
i Straub hall. Members of Kwama,
Skull and Dagger, and Phi Theta
Upsilon will serve.
Following the picnic, at 7:30
p.m. in McArthur court, will be the
ASUO assembly, third in a series
of orientation assemblies. A talent
show with music from the frosh
band and a comedy skit have been
planned.
Speaking at the assembly will be
six student leaders, including A1
Karr, Emerald editor; Bob Ford,
Oregana editor; Karl Harshbarger,
University theater; Andy Berwick,
Dean's Tea Today
Date of the Dean’s tea, origin
ally scheduled for Thursday aft
ernoon, has been changed to 3
to 3 p.m. today, according to
Lucia Knepper, chairman of the
tea. The informal tea, which
honors Mrs. Go! da Wickham,
will be held in Gerlinger hall.
Campus clothes are in order.
,-SU board chairman; and Tom
W i i g h t s o n, ASUO president.
Cathy Tribe Siegmund, vice-pres
ident of the campus YWCA and a
member of Mortar Board will rep
j resent AWS, the YWCA, and wom
1 en's honoraries.
First social event for the fresh
men and other students will be the
Hello dance Saturday night from 9
] to 12. The no-date, campus clothes
! affair will be held in the SU ball
j room.
Open houses have also been
scheduled by YMCA, YWCA,
WRA, Emerald, and Oregana
staffs for next week. ,
New Appointments
i|n Several Departments
iwo cnanges in department
■ads will greet students return
ig to classes Monday. The rosig
i*ions of H. R. Taylor, head of
le department of psychology, and
lion E. 'Moore, head of the de
partment Of sociology, were ac
cepted at the June meeting of the
state board of higher education.
;; Robert Leeper, professor of
psychology, has been named to
succeed Taylor. J. V. Berreman,
professor of sociology, has assum
ed the position of acting head of
tl)e sociology department.
10ther new appointments an
nounced by the state board in
clude: Madge Chilcote, senior ref
erence librarian; R .E. Dodge, as
sistant professor of business ad
ministration; Eleanor Ahlers, as
sistant professor of library sci
■*ice; H .H. Clarke, research pro
sssor of physical education; E.
'onuk, instructor in physical ed
ition; Marian Perry, instructor
physical education, and W.
miner, instructor in physical
location, wrestling and freshman
Stball coach.
-dditional appointments of new
:ulty members were: J. B. Hall,
assistant professor of English; L.
T. Gibby, instructor in English;
W. H. VanVoris, instructor in
English; T. E. Marshall, instructor
in romance languages; H. F. Greg
or, assistant professor of geog
raphy; B. Yood, assistant profes
sor of mathematics; R. L. San
Soucie, instructor in mathematics;
E. C. Smith, Jr., instructor in
mathematics; J. L. Warren, in
structor in mathematics, and Wil
liam Woods, instructor in piano.
Faculty members who will re
turn to the campus this term fol
lowing leaves for 1952-53 are: J.
A. Shotwell, curator of the nat
ural history museum; W. S. Bal
dinger, associate professor of art;
M. R. Sponenburgh, assistant pro
fessor of art; W. C. Price, asso
ciate professor of journalism; L.
Staples, professor of geology; P. S.
Dull, associate professor of politi
cal science and history; W. J.
Dixon, professor of mathematics;
R. A. Littman, associate profes
sor of psychology; W. T. Martin,
associate professor of sociology,
and H. Gehlausen, associate pro
fessor of voice. ,
Airplane Crash
Kills Journalist
During Summer
William G. Gurney, 20, who
would have been a senior in jour
nalism, died July 6 of multiple in
juries received in an airplane
crash at McChord Air Force base.
BILL GI K.N'KY
Dies at Summer Camp
Gurney was to be associate ed
itor of the Oregon Daily Emerald
this year. He was a member of
Skull and Dagger, Druids and
Friars, sophomore, junior and sen
| ior men's honoraries. He had been
sports editor, associate editor and
managing editor of the Emerald,
and sports editor and associate cd
| itor of the Oregana.
j A member of Alpha Tau Omega
fraternity, Gurney was also treas
urer of Sigma Delta Chi, men's
professional journalistic fraternity.
In high school Gurney was cap
tain of the Ontario high football
team in 1919, a guard on the Snake
River Valley all-conference team
that year- and historian of his
graduating class.
Gurney was on an ROTC sum
mer camp orientation flight at the
Washington base when the plane
crashed. The plane, a two-seated,
single-engine T-6 Air Force train
er, made the takeoff, rose about
100 feet into the air, and then
fell back to the runway.
The pilot, 2nd Lt. Jess L. Rainey
of Homedale, Idaho, was killed in
stantly. Gurney, unconscious, was
rushed to the McChord hospital.
He died five hours later, at 8 p.m.
Services were held July 11 at
Beechler Memorial chapel in On
tario, with interment following in
Evergreen cemetery. Oregon
ROTC students from the McChord
camp provided a military funeral.
Gurney is survived by his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Claire Gurney
of Juntura; a brother, Norris, Jun
tura, and grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. William P. Littlejohn of
Athena, and Mrs. Minnie R. Gur
ney, San Mateo, Calif.
KOAC Schedules
Morris Interview
An interview with Victor P.
Morris, acting president of the
University, will be broadcast over
radio station KOAC at 8:30 p.m.
today. The program will be broad
cast from Salem where the state
board of higher education is to
meet with the Oregon education
board.
DRAFT POSSIBLE NOW
Air Force, Army
Make New Plans
The fate of male students en
rolling in both basic and advanced
courses of the reserve officers
training program, has been an
nounced by Col. Edwin Daily, mil
itary department head.
The curriculum studies program
of the Army branch will remain
Another Sorority
Added to Campus
A new sorority has been added
this fall to the University of Ore
gon campus. It is Phi Sigma Sig
ma, national Jewish sorority for
women. The new chapter brings
the total of women's sororities on
campus to 17.
The five present members will
live in Carson hall for this year,
according to Shirley Sobel, senior
in architecture and president of
the new chapter.
The four other charter members
of the Oregon chapter are trans
fer students from the Phi Sigma
Sigma chapter at the University
of Washington. They are Shirley
Katz, junior in education, Leslie
Schwartz, junior in sociology, and
Shirley Grcenblatt and Joan Lin
ger, sophomores in liberal arts.
The chapter will hold rushing
next week, probably in Carson
hall, according to Miss Sobcl.
Women interested in the sorority
may register for rushing at the
office of Mrs. Golda Wickham,
associate director of student af
fairs, Emerald 209, Miss Sobcl
added.
Music Auditions
Friday, Saturday
Music students in the University
will begin a full program of ac
tivities Friday with auditions for
new members in some of the mu
sic organizations.
The University Singers will be
gin auditioning for this year’s new
members in Music 207 this Friday
from 11 to 12 noon and 1 to 5 p.m.,
and Saturday from 9 to 12 noon
and 1 to 3 p.m. Membership this
year will be limited to 30 regular
and 8 to 12 alternates.
Old members of the group are
asked to see visiting associate
professor of music Clyde Keutzer
at the music school during the
auditioning hours.
Other organizations in the mu
sic school include the University
band, the symphony orchestra and
the choral union. All students,
whether or not enrolled in any
music course, are eligible to parti
cipate in one or more of these
organizations, and are eligible to
take both vocal and instrumental
lessons.
One music course, introduction
to music literature, has been ap
proved as satisfying the group re
quirement in humanities and will
be open to all students.
Grades, as well as one hour cred
it, will be given this year for
participation in the organizations.
Robert Vagner, associate profes
sor of music, has stressed that
early contact with the directors
of the organizations is important
for students who plan to partici
pate.
essentially the same for all cadets,
whereas the Air Force will initiate
its new program of generalized
studies. The basic military science
program will remain a part of the
University’s academic schedule,
and prerequisite to all male stu
dents who physically qualify for
military service.
-Those who arc planning enroll
ment in the advanced program,
however, will be affected by the
recent cuts in the reserve officer
quotas which were announced this
summer.
Deferments Dropped
The Army has planned to ac
commodate all seniors who are
qualified under fulfillment of the
ROTC contract. Juniors on the
other hand, will be subject to two
basic changes. First, there will be
no assurance of branch assign- •
ment if they receive commissions
after completion of the course.
Secondly, only those who are
needed will receive commissions;
others will obtain a certificate of
completion from the department.
They will then be placed on active
draft status.
Draft deferments, applicable to
S all cadets in both the Army and
Air Force, will not be given on the
| basis of enrollment in ROTC. De
! ferment quotas will be set later
and assigned only to those stu
dents meeting the requirements.
To those Air Force juniors who
were previously accepted into the
advanced program, a certain num
ber will become ineligible under
the new system of qualifications.
With tiie notable exception of vet
erans and two science specialty
j students, cadets must pass the
physical tests for flight training.
Seniors to Continue
Air Force seniors will continue
the pr ogram under all the terms of
their contracts, receiving the draft
deferment, monthly pay and entire
academic credit. However, those
seniors who do not physically
qualify for flying will not be ten
dered commissions. They will in
turn be awarded a certificate of
completion for the course then be
coming eligible for the draft.
Those who are not commission
ed and are drafted may, after
two years of service, become eli
gible for a reserve commission.
The remaining facet of the re
vised program in this university is
the grouping of the drill sched
ule. Both the Army and Air Force
units will have field exercises at
the same hour, Thursday at 1 p.m.
University Theater
Honors Thespians
Awards of the traditional
"neuts” campus equivalent of
Hollywood’s Oscars, highlighted
the annual University Theater pic
nic held last spring term. Best
actor and best actress awards
went to Jim Blue, senior in liberal
arts, and Jeanne Gottfredscn, j
graduate in speech, for their lead
roles in the UT production of
“Dcalth of a Salesman.”
The supporting actor award
went to John Jensen, sophomoie
in speech, for his role in “Even,
the Gods.” Jeannette Stone, sen
ior in music, won the supporting
actress award for her role in the
musical production “Brigadoon.”
The award given in the non-acting
field for contribution of time and
eifort went to Dave Sherman,
freshman in journalism.