Oregon Webfoots . .. • . . hold light workout after up setting Southern Cal last Satur day. Account of Monday’s prac tice appear** on sport page three. VOL. LV. No Rain in Sight... For today and Wednesday. Soimo fog is forecast for tonight, but it is expected to lift by Wednesday. No. 3« VYING FOR QUKN Candidate Total Reduced To 27 Twenty-seven candidates for Homecoming Queen are still in the contest after first eliminations Monday night, according to Ann Blackwell, queen selection co chairman. The second interview for nomi ness will be Wednesday night in the Student Union. Dress will be campus clothes again and candi dates will be notified of the time of interviews. Judging is also scheduled for Thursday and Monday, when six finalists for the Nov. 20 and 21 title will be selected. Voting by students for the queen and her court who will rule over Homecoming weekend will be held Nov. 12 and 13. Remaining candidates include Mary Jo Carlson, Phi Kappa Sig ma and Delta Tau Delta; Mary Cosart, Kappa Kappa Gamma and Sigma Phi Kpsilon; Marcia Dutch cr, Theta Chi; Lynn Bodding, Zeta Tau Alpha; Ann Gerlinger, Kappa Alpha Theta, Sigma Alpha Epsi lon, Sigma Nu, Susan Campbell hall and Kappa Sigma. Beverly Kreick, Phi Sigma Kap pa; Audrey Mistretta, Campbell club; Janet Miller, Alpha Tau Omega; Mary Ann Moore, Alpha Xi Delta; Joann Morrison, Pi Beta Phi; Mary Louise Johnson, Alpha Omicron Pi. Jean Mangan, Pi Kappa Alpha; Jean Paulus, Sigma Chi; Nancy Randolph, Chi Psi; Ann Steiner, Phi Delta Theta, Delta Gamma and Phi Gamma Delta; Kay Partch, Alpha Phi; Sylvia'Win gard. Lambda Chi Alpha. Laura Sturges, Sigma Kappa; Shirley Soble, Phi Sigma Sigma; Barbara West, Phi Kappa Psi; Sally Thurston, Chi Omega; Aud rey Campbell, Stitzer hall; Helen Gcrshanoff, Carson 2. Joan Ware, Delta Upsilon; Patty Weitzman, Delta Delta Delta; Florence Wright, Beta Theta Pi; Jnd Mary Whitaker, Alpha Chi Omega. Students Celebrate SC Victory with Rally Homecoming Theme Selected; Activities Listed for Weekend Alums and We, ’76-'53” was selected as the official theme for the 1953 Homecoming at a meet ing of the general chairmen Mon day. Homecoming is scheduled for Nov. 20 tc 22. The theme was suggested by Paul Lasker, senior in education. All students were eligible to sub mit theme suggestions, and boxes to receive the suggestions had been placed In the Student Union and the Co-op all last week. Members of the committee se lected the theme following a half hour discussion of the some 40 suggestions received. Geri Porritt and Barbara Wilcox headed the theme selection committee. Schedule of events for the Homecoming celebration has been announced by Dorothy Kopp and Bob Pollack, general co-chairmen of the event. The schedule is as follows: Friday, Nov. 20 3 to 10 p.m.—Registration of Gamma Phi Winner Of Red Cross Drive Gamma Phi Beta won the Red Cross trophy presented to the bouse with the highest percentage of blood donors during the recent Red Cross blood drive on campus. The drive as a whole fell short of its goal, according to Mrs. Jos eph H. Jackson, head of the Lane county Red Cross. A total of 216 pints of blood wag collected from 262 persons, 584 pints short of the goal of 800 pints. A second Red .Cross drive in Which students may participate is > scheduled for Nov. 23 at the Ve't l eran's Memorial hospital in Eu gene. f alumni at the Student Union, and the Eugene and Osburn hotels. 5 p.m.—Dinner at all living or ganizations. 5:30—Noise parade. 7 to 8 p.m.—Sign contest judg ing. 7 p.m.—Bonfire rally. 8 p.m.—Reunion and open house for the classes of ’41, '42 and ’43 ♦ ♦ ♦ Float Winners To Get Cups Individual first place cups will be awarded to each living organ ization on the winning Homecom ing noise parade float, according to Walt White, parade chairman. The awards will be presented at the Variety Show, Nov. 20, at which time second and third place winners will also be announced. Floats will be judged on sus tained noise in the one block judg ing interval, 40 per cent; spirit of those on float and following, 30 per cent, and ingenuity and originality in noisemaking, 30 per cent. The parade will form on 19th #nd University with the head of the parade at 19th, and will fol low this route: West on 19th to Alder, north on Alder to 13th, east on 13th to University where floats will proceed singly past the Student Union, stopping before the judge’s stand, and continue south on University to Mac court where the parade will end. General rules are as follows: 1. Vehicles must be one single con veyance. Semi-trucks are permis sable but not extra trailers. 2. The recognitions number given to the floats at the time of the draw ings for pairings, plus the names of the organizations must appear on both sides of the float. Five point penalty for each missing sign will be imposed. 3. The jparade. will start at 6 p.m. and will'be -over by 8 p.m. at the Eugene hotel. 8 p.m.—Variety show. Saturday, Nov. 21 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.—Registra tion of alumni at the SU and the Eugene and Osburn hotels. 9 a.m.—Frosh traditions (Paint ing the “O” at Skinners Butte and scrubbing the Oregon seal at the SU). 10:30 a.m.—Oregon Alumni as sociation meeting, Johnson hall. 11:30 a.m.—Barbecue luncheon. 12:45 p.m.—Pre-game ceremon ies (Order of the O march at Hay ward field). 1:30 p.m.—Game, Oregon ver sus Oregon State college. 2:30 p.m.—Half-time entertain ment. 4 p.m.—After-game reception. 5:30 p.m.—Dinner at all living organizations. 9 p.m.—Homecoming dance, SU ballroom. Sunday, Nov. 22 1 p.m.—Dinner at all living or ganizations. AWS Will Auction Pledges Thursday Three freshman sorority pledge classes will present entertainment and will be auctioned off to the highest bidder at the annual Asso ciated Women Students’ auction Thursday at 4 p.m. at the Student Union. Tryouts for the women’s pledge classes will be held Wednesday from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Student Union. The three to be auctioned off Thursday will be chosen then, according to Paula Curry, chair man of the auction. Many other articles will also be presented for bidding, said Miss Curry, Money raised by the -auc tion will' be used for the AWS scholarship fund. « by PatGildea Emerald Associate Editor An outburst of Oregon spirit bewildered students, was cheered by professors and set the campus dogs in an uproar Monday when a student rally upset afternoon classes to celebrate the 13-7 foot ball upset over USC. “They'd all like to yell, but I don't think they know the yells,” commented one bystander watch ing the milling crowd in front of Johnson hall. No one seemed to know how or why the campus should "get the spirit” 46 hours after the victory. Professors seemed shocked when morning class attendance showed no more than the usual “after Portland week-end” drop. Some reported they didn't think any students would show up for classes Monday. The adherence to schedule was all dismissed as typical Oregon apathy and the noon demonstra tion caught the campus by sur prise. Gathering in front of Johnson Frazier Talks To Press Club Robert Frazier, Eugene Regis ter-Guard reporter, will be the featured speaker at the second meeting of the newly-organized University press club tonight. Organization of the club will be completed at the meeting, sched uled to begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Student Union dads’ lounge. This will include election of officers and distribution of press cards (at no charge). Frazier will speak on the topic, “You Have to Know Something about Everything” (to be a news paper reporter). He has recently returned from a year at Harvard on a Nieman fellowship. Frazier is one of the Register-Guard’s top reporters; his articles have in cluded a series on state institu tions in Oregon and a recent ser ies on the state’s police systems. Meetings of the press club, spon sored by Sigma Delta Chi and Theta Sigma Phi, men'6 journal ism fraternity and woipen’s jour nalism honorary respectively, are open to all interested students. Free refreshments will be served. ► ♦ hall, after a snowball car parade originating from Phi Kappa Fsi, Gamma Phi Beta and Sigma Na houses, about 300 students were chanting yells at 12:40 p.m. Traf fic on 13th, between Alder and University, was halted. “No classes today,” cheered the students at the empty administia— tion offices. One lone janitor watched from the steps. Students then jammed into parked cars for the next stop, th