Freshmen Elect Smith
•Nineteen Vie
por Queen Title
Nineteen candidates remain in
the contest for Homecoming
Queen after Wednesday's elimina
tion, according to Marcia Tamie
sie, co-chairman of the queen se
lection committee.
The next elimination will be a
coffee hour today at 7 p.m. in
^the Student Union. Candidates are
to wear dressy casuals or wool
Presses and heels and should all
be there at 7 p.m. as there are no
Separate appointment dates.
The nineteen candidates are as
follows: Mary Cosart, Kappa Kap
pa Gamma, and Sigma Phi Epsi
lon; Mary Jo Carlson, Phi Kappa
Bigma and Delta Tau Delta; Mar
cia Dutcher, Theta Chi; Ann Ger
linger, Kappa Alpha Theta, Sigma
' Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Nu, Susan
Campbell, and Kappa Sigma.
Beverly Kreick, Phi Sigma Kap
pa; Jean Magnan, Pi Kappa Al
pha; Audrey Mistretta, Campbell
Club; Janet Miller, Alpha Tau
Omega.
Jean Pauls, Sigma Chi; Nancy
Randolph, Chi Psi; Anne Steiner,
Phi Delta Theta, Delta Gamma,
and Phi Gamma Delta; Laura
Sturges, Sigma Kappa.
Sally Thurston, Chi Omega; Syl
via Wlngard, Lambda Chi Alpha;
Barbara West, Phi Kappa Psi;
Patty Weitjsman, Delta Delta
Delta.
Mary Whitaker, Alpha Chi Ome
ga; Florence Wright, Beta Theta
Pi, and Helen Gershanoff, Car
son 2.
Students Celebrate
With Victory Rally
Plans for the victory rally for
the Oregon-University of Southern
California game last Saturday
have now been completed, accord
ing to A1 Goldenberg, rally board
chairman. The rally is scheduled
for 6:30 p.m. today in the Student
Union ballroom.
Pairings for the rally were list
ed in Wednesday’s Emerald. Mem
j bers of men’s living organizations
are to go to the women’s living
organization with which they are
1 paired and then proceed in a group
i to the ballroom, Goldenberg said.
Speakers at the rally will be:
Len Casanova, head football
coach; W. M. Hammer, freshman
! football coach; and George Shaw,
, Barney Holland, Walt Gaffney and
, Dick James, team members. A
musical group from the University
| band under a student director will
play Oregon fight songs at the
1 rally.
KORE To Broadcast Sigma Chi
Sweetheart Interviews Tonight
| Tonight marks the cliWiax of
|he Sigma Chi Sweetheart con
test with the selection of the 1953
Sweetheart of Sigma Chi.
Radio station KORE will broad
cast directly from the Sigma Chi
house from 10:40 to 11 p.m. Dur
ing the program the five freshman
candidates will be interviewed,
Patty Fagan 1952-53 Sweetheart
Will speak, the “Sweetheart of
Sigma Chi" song will be sung,
and, finally, the name of the new
1953-54 Sweetheart will be an
nounced. Virg Parker, University
of Oregon graduate will be master
of ceremonies for KORE.
The following girls comprise
^the Sweetheart court of 1953:
Donna Aaris, a green eyed bru
nette from Portland, represents
Kappa Kappa Gamma. She is a
member of this year’s rally squad;
her talents include singing and
dancing. Donna's major is interior
decorating.
Carol Aiken is a Delta Gamma
pledge from Roseburg, Oregon.
At the University she swims for
the Amphibians and is a member
of the Student Union music com
mittee. Carol, a liberal arts major,
is no stranger to the University;
her father was head football coach
here in 1950 and before.
Marcia Cook, a blue-eyed blond,
represents Pi Beta Phi. As a
member of the rally squad she has
been busy shaking pom-poms the
past few weeks. Marcia is from
Finalists for the title of “Sweetheart of Sigma Chi” pictured above
are Marcia Cook, Carol Aiken, Donna Aaris, Connie Long and Sally
Jo Greig.
Portland and is majoring in liberal
arts.
Sally Greig, representing Car
son 4 has become a part of many
activities during her first weeks
at the University. She is an Emer
aly reporter, a member of the SU
music, YWCA service, and home
AWS Auction to Feature Sale
Of Sorority Pledge Classes
The pledge classes of Kappa
Kappa Gamma, Pi Beta Phi and
Alpha Chi Omega will be auction
ed tomorrow at 4 p.m. by the
Associated Women Students, ac
cprding to Paula Curry, chairman
ojt the auction.
\ Fraternities will bid for the
services of the pledge classes for
evening. Such chores as serv
ing dinner and cleaning up the
pouse will be done by the women,
She said.
Neil Tardio will be auctioneer
for the event, to be held in the
fishbowl. The pledge classes to be
auctioned were chosen Wednesday
by a judging committee consist
ing of Sally Cummins, Paul Lask
er, Bob McCracken and Paul Cur
ry.
Money collected from the auc
tion will be used for the AWS
scholarship annually awarded dur
ing spring term, Miss Curry said.
Last year $100 was collected from
the event.
coming’ publicity committees. This
brown haired, brown eyed Pi Phi
pledge is a journalism major.
Connie Long is last, and, though
not least, littlest. This five foot,
one inch brunette is an honor stu
dent from Billings, Mont. She is
an Alpha Chi Omega pledge, and
is majoring in elementary educa
tion.
The new Sweetheart will be for
mally crowned at the Sweetheart
ball which will be Saturday at the
Sigma Chi house from 9 to 12 p.m.
1500 Hear Late
Brubeck Concert
An enthusiastic, capacity aud
ience greeted the Dave Brubeck
Quartet in the Student Union
ballroom Wednesday night.
The patient crowd of 1500, com
posed mostly of students, waited
for almost 45 minutes for the mu
sicians to appear. Their bus had
broken down somewhere between
Eugene and Seattle, causing the
delay.
Basham, Brittson, West
Capture Minor Offices
Don L. Smith was elected pres- i
ident of the freshman class fol- <
lowing Wednesday's election.
Doug Basham was chosen vice
president, and Darrell Brittsan i
and Gary West, representatives, i
All are liberal arts majors. i
None of the candidates received i
a quota of 125 votes needed for i
election on the first distribution
of ballots. A total of 622 valid .
ballots were cast in the election.
There were eight invalid ballots, i
not counted because the voters
Meeting Scheduled !
For IFC Members
The Inter-fraternity Council will !
hold its regular meeting tonight
at 6:30 in the Student Unidn. IFC
members who drove to the West- i
em Regional Inter-fraternity con
ference meeting at Oregon State
college are to turn in their ex- I
pense records at the meeting, ac- |
cordmg to Con Sheffer, president,
bring house managers to the meet
ing .along with a list of expense i
from the Corvallis WRIFC meet- :
»ng. j
No Senate Meeting !
There will be no senate or
Mill race meeting this week,
ASUO Pres. Tom Wrightson has '
announced. The meeting of sena
tors with city officials to dis- '
cuss the Millrace problems has ]
been postponed to Wednesday at ‘
6:30 p.m.
The next regular senate meet
ing will be next Thursday at 1
6:30 p.m., Wrightson said.
Senior ROTC Unit
To Receive Trophy
During the halftime period of
the Idaho-Oregon game Saturday, !
the seniors of the Army infantry *
. ROTC unit will be presented with *
the City of Tacoma trophy by Ta
coma Mayor Harold Tollefson.
The trophy is an annual award i
donated by Tacoma to the school
which achieves the highest overall j
standing in the ROTC summer
camp at Ft. Lewis, Wash. This ,
year Oregon gained the top rat- .
ing over 26 other universities ,
which had infantry units in this ,
area's summer camp.
Last year the trophy went to
the unit from the University of .
Hawaii. It is a rotating award, ,
becoming the permanent posses- j
sion of one school only after it has
been won three consecutives times.
Saturday’s ceremony will have .
full color guard with the Army
drill team participating. '
Seniors with especially high
standing at summer camp and
who contributed greatly to Ore
gon’s winning the award are Don
Hedgepeth, Charles Soderberg,
Orlando Mathias, Navarre Davis, 1
Bob Brittain, John Miewald and '
Robert Shirley.
marked them with "X's” instead
of numbers.
Smith received the quota on the
third redistribution. Easham did
not reach the quota until 20 can
didates had been declared out of
the running and their ballots dis
tributed according to the other
choices marked on the ballots.
Neither Brittsan nor West had
a quota but had more votes than
John Lundell on the last distri
bution.
When contacted by the Emerald
Wednesday night, Smith said that
he was “happy about it” an<*.
would work for a "big year.” He
had no comment on plans for fix
ing the “O” on Skinner's Butte
a project which the ASUO senate
plans to give the freshman class.
Education Leaders
Hold Conference .
William C. Jones, executive di
rector of the Interstate Commis
sion for Higher Education, and
approximately 75 other Western
leaders in higher education met m.
Albuquerque, New Mexico, Sat
urday, Sunday and Monday to dis
cuss interstate cooperation in
higher education.
According ot Jones, "The West
ern Interstate Commission for
Higher Education arises out of a
compact of sovereign states, ap
proved by Congress and recently,
approved by the President.
“It has such program and re
sponsibilities as are given to it by
these sovereign states in the com
pact. The major program at the
present is the exchange of stu
dents in medical sciences between
the states on a contract basis.”
The program includes exchanges
in medicine, veterinary medicine
and dentistry.
A search is underway to fiDd
specialized professional fields in
other possible areas for interstate
cooperation, Jones stated.
IRC Holds First
Panel Monday
The International Relations chib
will hold its first meeting Monday
at 8 p.m. in the Student Union.
“America as Europe and Asia
Sees Us,” a panel discussion by
Paul S. Dull, associate professor
of history and political science,
and Ivan Nagy, assistant profes
sor of political science, will be
featured.
This first meeting of the year
is co-sponsored by IRC and Pi Sig
ma Alpha, political science hon
orary. The club and its meetings
are open to any student or Eugene
resident, according to Bob Maffin,
IRC president.
The organization is planning
monthly meetings featuring pan
els, discussion and speakers e-a,
world affairs.
Party Scheduled for Friday
To Celebrate SU Anniversary
The Student Union’s official
birthday party commemorating
the third birthday of the build
ing and the fourth of the SU board
will be held Friday at 4 p.m., ac
cording to Sonia Edwards, chair
man.
Andy Berwick, SU board chair
man, will be one of the featured
speakers at the cake-cutting cere
mony, and free coffee will be serv
ed to all attending. SU hospitality
girls will also distribute cake.
Music for the party will be fur
nished by the Beta Theta Pi and
Phi Delta Theta combos, accord
ing to Miss Edwards. Other enter
tainment has not been selected as
yet.
A fishbowl dance, beginning at v*
9 p.m., will provide the evening’s
entertainment, according to Phyl
lis Pearson, dance chairman. A
combo will play, and there will
be decorations commemorating tho
official birthday, she said.
Serving on the committee fop
the dance are Alice Belt, decora
tions, Patrick Henry, set-up, Den
Hazelett, entertainment and Stew
Johnson, band.