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Were Sitting Tight
With Oregon’s last Hayward field game more than a week in
past history, and the next one nearly two weeks away, student
concern over their new seating area is not as stirred up as it
seemed to be a week ago.
But what of future student seating? As a permanent arrange
ment, seating of students from the 50-yard line to the south
goal line in the east grandstand is not very satisfactory.
Bleacher Movement Planned
But that is not a permanent arrangement, even with the
University’s decision to shelve construction of a new stadium
for several years pending study of the television-effect situation.
After the end of this football season the north bleachers
will be moved in front of the east stands, and the east stands
will be raised and moved back toward Agate street. Students
will then have seats pretty much centrally located on the east
side of the field, according to Ted Bouck, athletic business
manager.
In past years Oregon students were seated in the east grand
stand, roughly between the north 40-yard line and the south 15.
Seats for donors to the athletic program (source of funds for
grants-in-aid tuition scholarships and work project money)
were in the center of the west grandstand.
Donors and Athletes Benefit .
This year donors have been given seats in a bloc extending
northward from the 50-yard line on the east side (section N),
an additional 746 seats, making a total of 3265 when added to
the 1363 they have in B and the 1156 in C (B and C in the west
stands). This change has seated the students in sections O, P
and Q rather than N, O and P, moving us to an area between
the 50 and the south goal.
The increase in donor seating has raised the number of don
ors from 600 to about 900 (donors get number of seats each in
proportion to the amount of their donations), and the total
donations from $30,000 to $45,000, with the total expected to
increase in the future.
So the number of athletes now receiving aid is about 100,
compared to 60 last year, with most of the increase in football
and basketball.
100 Additional Seats Available
Last year the athletic department conferred with student
leaders and received their approval of the move. The students
kept in mind the proposed new stadium in giving their approval.
This year some students have complained that there will be
no new stadium—that we are therefore being gypped. But we
feel they are not giving sufficient consideration to the fact
that the construction on the Hayward field stands should be
finished by Oct. 1 next year.
As for the overflow cr o w d in the student section at the
UCLA game, the new arrangement has nothing to do with it.
Section Q seats 843, section N 746, so students have 100 addi
tional seats. The complete student section seats about 3500,
and only 3400 student athletic cards have been issued, according
to Bouck.
Non-Students Causing Cramped Seating
The^excessive crowd in the student section, then, must be at
tributed to the presence of a portion of non-students in the sec
tion. (Bouck says that the athletic department has no effective
ttfy of policing the section.) Evidently students and others
sitting in the section had a better appreciation of the importance
of a UCLA game at Hayward field than did the townspeople
of Eugene.
Now that a new stadium is not a thing of the near future,
a 10-yard move away from the center of the field puts students
. even farther at one end, and students should have good seats
—it’s our team.
The increase in the number of students who can participate
. in the athletic aid program (rather than paying additional
money to a relatively few number of “stars” as is the practice
at some schools in the country) is an offsetting factor, how
ever.
And when one considers that the present setup will last for
only a year, it seems reasonable to forego quibbling over wheth
er or not the increased donor program should have waited one
year rather than moving students 10 yards this season.
In past years an argument might have been reasonable that
students deserve central seats, period. Now we only have to
wait one year to get them, so there is little to complain about.
There's A Difference
“I didn’t say ‘bring a case an* we’d study’—I said bring
a Case Study.”
UO Radio Forum to Present
Series of Weekly Discussions
The University of Oregon Radio
Forum, a new series of weekly
discussions of current problems,
will go on the air tonight on Sta
tion KOAC at 8:30 p.m.
Sponsored by the newly-formed
University of Oregon Radio Forum
council, the program will feature
spontaneous roundtable discussions
with distinguished visitors to the
campus by council members and
Dads Award
12 Scholarships
The Oregon Dads have awarded
to twelve different students on
the campus a total of $1750, ac
cording to a report given by Karl
Onthank, associate director of stu
dent affairs, at the executive
meeting of the organization last
Saturday. Additional funds are
on reserve for awards to be made
later in the year.
Besides the scholarships, the
club gave 34 Special Honors Certi
ficates) which recognize outstand
ing students in the entering fresh
man class regardless of financial
need.
Included in the scholarship
chairman’s report were the GPA’s
of last year’s scholarship winners,
practically all of which were far
above the University average.
Half of the students had averages
above a three point.
Concert Band
Sets Auditions
Auditions for the University
concert band will be held today
through Oct. 24, according to fac
ulty members who are heads of
various sections of the group.
Students interested in audition
ing are asked to contact the sec
tion leaders I. D. Lee, brass; Rob
ert Vagner, woodwinds and Wayne
Mercer, percussion.
Instrumentation quota for the
season is as follows: four to six
flutes, two oboes, fourteen to six
teen clarinets, three bass clari
nets, four saxophones, two bas
soons, seven comets and trumpets,
five horns, five to six trombones,
three basses, one string bass, three
baritones and four percussion.
Night Staff
....Night Editor, Mary Alice Allen.
Night Staff, Valerie Hersh.
other members of the university
faculty.
Topic for the opening program
is “Some Issues Before the Amer
ican People,” in which each coun
cil member poses a question that
he feels to be vital today.
On the Radio Forum council are
Alburey Castell, head of the phil
osophy department; Robert D.
Clark, assistant dean of the Col
lege of Liberal Arts; Charles T.
Duncan, professor of journalism;
W. J. Robert, assistant professor
of business administration; Char
les P. Schleicher, professor of po
litical science; Donald E. Tope,
professor of education, and Gor
don Wright, head of the history
department.
Greeks Barred
From N Y State
(,/P) - The State University of
New York has banned national
social fraternities nnd sororities
from its 33 campuses in a cam
paign against alleged racial and
religious bias.
In a crackdown Thursday on
Greek letter societies, two soror
ities were suspended at the State
University Touchers College at
Cortland.
William Carlson, president of
the State University, said Jews
and Negroes were denied member
ship in some societies.
AmphibsName
35 Pledges
Thirty-five women were pledged
last week by Amphibian.1!, women's
swimming honorary.
The new pledges are: Lois Kath
en, Shirley Katz, Phyllis Colvin,
Sue Spear, Jerry Waltie, Marlis
Clausen, Nancy Oarrlson, Barbara
Wrightson, Carol Sonnlckson, Sue
Sears and Donna Case.
Others are Carol Aiken, Sally
Plummer, Carol Harrison, Helen
Callaghan, Shirley Bier, Donna
Buchanan, Baudelte Smith, Judy
Burdette, Carolyn Geheres, Olivia
Thnraldson, Sue Brundage, Judy
White, Jean Craig, Marcia
Mauney, Inga Shlpstead, Joan
Boiieau and Edle Lunde.
Gwen Ellis, Susan Merritt,
Louise Robinson, Betty Anderson,
Sue Shaffer, Jo Hodler and Kitty
Fraser also were pledged.
New officers elected last week
are Myra Taylor, historian and
Darlene Hammer, WRA represen
tative and reporter.
Dinner Will Raise
Scholarship Fund
The first of this year's annual
Hazel Schwering dime dinners held
at all women's living organiza
tions will be Oct. 22.
Sponsored by heads of houses,
the funds collected from this
dinner will go towards a scholar
ship awarded a junior woman dur
ing next spring’s Junior Weekend.
A schedule of pairings for ex
changes between women’s living
groups has been made and each
woman will be charged 10 cents.
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