Intramural Teams_
. . . divided into twelve "A” and
"B'' leagues. For a complete list,
Bee Sports page 3.
Partly Cloudy....
* . . with widely scattered *h*we/«|
is forecast for the Eugene area, by
the weather bureau for today. 'iW
high today will be 56, the low to
night, 40.
VOL. LV
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UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
.EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6,1954
No. 5ft
emerald Editor
Will Talk to Club
"Confessions of a Campus Edi
tor" by A1 Karr will be the sub
ject of the University press club
meeting at the Student Union
Thursday at 7:30 p. m.
In general Karr will discuss the
problems of editing a campus pa
per as they relate to the Emerald.
He will discuss the methods of
handling various campus stories
such as those dealing with O.
Meredith Wilson and J. Kelly Far
ris.
Also under discussion will be the
problem of the Emerald as a four
page paper, and the story behind
the editorial policy of a campus
paper.
Karr has worked almost four
years on the paper. He started as
. u reporter, then went on to copy
. desk editor, sports desk editor,
! sports columnist, night staffer, as
„ sistant wire editor and chief wire
editor. He also held the positions
!of assistant news editor, person
nel manager, managing editor,
makeup editor, associate editor
and finally editor.
The meeting is open to the pub
% lie. Charter members are especial
ly urged to attend as the general
£ policy of the press club will be
I discussed and suggestions for fu
ture speakers will be taken. Rc
Ireshments will be served.
The meeting will be held on
Thursday instead of the usual
Tuesday due to conflicting sched
ules.
Grad Students'
Coffee Hour Set
A graduate student coffee hour,
f sponsored by the YMCA and YW
| CA, will be held Thursday at 4
p. m. in the Student Union, ac
| cording to Russell Walker, execu
: tive YM secretary.
At the coffee hour, which Is
open to all graduate students,
plans for future graduate student
iocial eventa will be discussed.
. Graduate students who have
Worked on the program so far, in
clude, among others, Virginia Nye,
graduate student in English;
lionise Smith, graduate in biology,
‘•I’d Catherine Black, graduate in
foreign languages.
Dinner Ticket
Sales to Start
Tickets for the Religious Evalu
ation week dinner Sunday, Jan. 17,
will go on sale Thursday in living
organizations, religjous founda
tions and the YMCA office in the
Student Union.
Students may purchase tickets
for $1, while the price for non
students will be $1.50. No tickets
will be sold after Friday, Jan. 15.
Speaking at the Sunday evening
dinner on “Religion and the Indi
vidual” will be Robert E. Fitch,
dean of the Pacific School of Re
ligion, Berkeley, Calif. The pro
gram will include music by the
University singers.
Eight religious leaders including
Fitch will be on the campus Jan.
17 to 21 for RE week. These men
will speak in classrooms, at living
organization firesides, and at as
semblies.
Another Senate
Vacancy Occurs
• ■
The fifth vacancy for the year
on the ASUO senate has been
creafted this term by the failure
of Marilyn Parrish, senator-at
largc, to return to school. She
was married during the Christ
mas vacation.
Petitions for the vacancy have
been called for by ASUO Pres.
Tom Wrightson. Any student
with an accumulative GPA of a
2 point Is eligible to apply for
the post. The petitions are
available in the ASUO office,
or the office of student affairs,
Student Union 304 and are due
by 5 p. m. Jan. 14 in the ASUO
office.
The first senate meeting of
winter term will be held Jan. 14
and petitioners for the senate
vacancy will be interviewed at
that time, Wrightson said.
Ball Predicts Upturn
In Insurance Sales
wes Ball, chairman of the AS
UO insurance committee, predic
ted Tuesday that skiing, "plus the
marked upturn in accidents due
to winter storms" will create ad
ditional interest in the ASUO all
expense accident insurance plan.
Ball reported that new students
desiring accident coverage, plus
those who did not sign up during
fall registration, may do so at the
insurance desk in the business of
fice lobby this week.
ASUO President Tom Wright
son has reminded students that the
plan has been adopted by the sen
ate because it pays all the expen
ses of any one accident up to $500
for such items as hospital bills,
doctor bills, surgery, x-ray, nurs
es, ambulance service and other
needs.
The plan covers all accidents in
curred in auto accidents, skiing
and intramural sports. Benefits
are paid in addition to those paid
by family or other plans.
The coverage extends 24 hours
a day for a full year, including
all vacation periods, if the insur
Revenue Agents
Checking Tickets
f Students who attempt to enter
Tlhiversity of Oregon athletic con
tests on borrowed athletic cards
may find themselves confronted by
ents from the Bureau of Inter
1 Revenue, in addition to the
al Lane County Sheriff’s Posse
mbers.
he Revenue men, who attend
rting events as a part of their
tine work, have become invol
because of the federal admis
ins tax on tickets to athletic
mts.
he admissions tax, which is 20
per cent of the admission price, is
paid in some form by everyone
entering the contests. However,
jSlfcce Oregon students are admit
ted at reduced prices, the 20 per
'cent which the revenue bureau col
lects from student admissions is
•mailer than the 20 per cent col
lected from the more expensive
general admission tickets.
1 Four men from the Eugene of
of the bureau worked the Ore
-Idaho game Tuesday night,
a spokesman for the bureau
told the Emerald Tuesday after
noon that an undetermined num
ber of agents would be on hand to
night.
Seven men from the office at
tended the Oregon-OSC double
header at McArthur court over the
Christmas vacation, and were par
tially responsible for the check
that resulted in some 150 athletic
cards being picked up for viola
tions.
The bureau spokesman empha
sized, however, that the only ac
tion that department would take
in case of a violation would be to
ask the person using the card il
legally to purchase the correct ad
mission ticket, pay the additional
tax, or to leave the stadium.
The athletic department will
continue to stamp all cards that
are found to be used illegally with
a "violation” stamp. If these
cards are used illegally again, they
will be taken away from the stu
dent, according to Ted Bouck,
athletic business manager.
ance is purchased for one year. It
may also be purchased for one
term. Faculty members may also
purchase the coverage, according
to Wrightson.
The only limitations on the
policy are a maximum of $50 for
dental treatment of injured sound
teeth. The policy does not cover
interscholastic sports, injuries
covered my Workmen's Compen
sation insurance, air travel on
non-schcduled airlines, injuries
sustained in warfare, eyeglasses
and free services of the school
health service. Tt does cover
charges above the amount of free
service allowed by the health ser
vice.
Dad's Day Hostess
Nominations Open
Nominations for Dad’s Day hos
tess are now being accepted by
Kay Partch, chairman of the sel
ection committee.
Each living organization is ask
ed by Miss Partch to" submit one
candidate to her at Alpha Phi
by 5 p. m. Tuesday. The candi
date’s phone number should be
included.
The candidates must be stud
ents or former students of the Uni
versity. They must be married and
if not now students, their husbands
must be attending the University,
Miss Partch said.
'LEGAL GYMNASTICS'
Farris Criticizes
Discipline Action
By Dick Lewis
Emerald Assistant News Editor
“Any further monkeyshines
from the student-faculty discipline
committee will result in appro
priate action — even as far as go
ing to the governor.”
This is the retort of J. Kelly
Farris to the action of the student
faculty discipline committee on
Dec. 8, which placed him on dis
ciplinary probation. This action
took place after Farris had chal
lenged the legality of the student
court, with the result that his case
went to the discipline committee.
The decision against Farris was
unanimous.
“They (the committee) have
slipped to a new time low; they
know it, the students know it,”
said Farris. It is his position that
he was not treated with legal fair
ness, for he has never admitted
any of the chaiges against him,
nor (in his opinion) has anything
been proved against him.
In pointing out that 'the com
mittee did not procure legal ad
vice in dealing with his case,
Farris claims further mistreat
ment. The controversial law stu
dent feels that he has public op
inion on his side, stating: “Most
people are disappointed that a
student can’t voice a criticism
without getting slapped down.”
Spokesmen for the discipline
committee put an entirely new
light on the question.
“Irrelevant legal gymnastics” is
the interpretation of Farris’ ac
9 'Venus' Roles
Set for Casting
Five leading roles for men and
four for women are now being cast
for “One Touch of Venus” accord
ing to Frederick J. Hunter, direc
tor. Tryouts for these and the six
non-singing roles, four men and
two women, will be held Thursday
at 7:30 p. m. on the main stage of
the University theater.
All students are eligible to try
out for these roles; no experience
is necessary, Hunter said. “One
Touch of Venus” was written by
S. J. Pereleman and Ogden Nash
with the music by Kurt Weill. The
local production will open on the
main stage of the University
theater April 22.
Further tryouts will be held
Jan. 11 and 13 at 7:30 p. m. on
the main stage. ‘
President Makes Bid
For Bi-Partisan Aid
<-T“l— Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhow
er made a bid Tuesday for bi-par
tisan backing on key foreign and
defense programs coming up in
the new session of Congress which
opens today.
Eisenhower gave Democratic
Congressional leaders an outline
of parts of his coming State of
the Union message on foreign pol
icy, foreign aid and national se
curity. Congress has taken a tra
ditional bi-partisan approach to
these issues in the past.
The Democrats, however, got no
look at the President’s plans for
handling a number of potentially
explosive domestic problems, such
as taxes, social security, budget
balancing, farm and labor prob
lems, Hawaiian statehood and a
proposal to limit treaty-making
powers.
The President may also need
some Democratic help on these
programs, since both major parties
have almost equal voting power in
Congress.
House Democratic leader Sam
Rayburn and other Democrats
wopld not comment when asked
il' they believed Tuesday’s meeting
represented full cooperation with
the Democrats by the President.
Eisenhower will 'publicly outline
his program, at . least in general
terms, when he goes before Con
gress Thursday to deliver the
State of the Union message.
tlons by J. M. Foskett, chairman
of the committee. Questioning the
“real motives” of Farris, Foskett
asks if Fanis’ motive was to de
termine the constutionality of tho»
student court; "why did he wall*
into the committee meeting wav
ing the alleged parking notice?- hv
a defiant attitude; why did he de
mand that the court prove the, ra
ther obvious fact that the car >•«.
question was his; why did he de
mand a jury trial; and why
he bring up the question of ex—
tort ion ?”
“The facufty is not interested
in a lot of legal haranguing . .
the faculty is all powerful in dis
ciplinary problems,” said Ray
Hawk, director of men’s affairs,
and member of the discipline
committee, in justifying the ac—
tion of the committee in dealing
with Farris.
Hawk stated that the committee
had not obtained legal advice iivr
this specific case because they
felt that they had complete juris
diction. In the matter of proe#,
Foskett stated that “full and suf
ficient proof is in the hands of fho
discipline committee.” Hawk said:
“It would be an awful thing if I
had to run around the University
with a speed graphic and take pic
tures of every little student who
does something wrong—it verges
on the impossible.
After the committee’s decision
to prohibit Farris to park his car
on campus, he sold the car to his
wife* for ten cents. However, tho
exact terms of the ruling, accord
ing to Foskett stated:
1. Farris is placed on disciplin
ary probation for the balance of
the year.
2. Farris is denied the use cf
University parking facilities fer
the balance of the year-. This is in
terpreted by the administration to—
mean that Farris can not park ary
car on campus.
Ken Poole, special lecturer at
the law school and practicing
lawyer—who has given Farris
some advice on his case—terms
the committee action: “arbi
trary, unfair, and not setting a
good adult example for students
to follow.”
“'What could Farris have . beerv-.
punished for?” asks Poole. “Thero
was no evidence whatsoever.” '
Poole, who says Farris was- cor
rect in all matters of the law, has*
advised Farris to drop the case at
this point. He feels that FarTe*-*
has directed sufficient attention to
the court pointing out:
1. The court is not legal.
2. The methods of enforcing tho
laws are too arbitrary.
Poole feels that if Farris were-",
to carry the case any farther it
would not do constructive goo*;
and would only be for personate
reasons.
Farris was lauded by Porte fce
his action in questioning authority.
“People today tend too much to .
accept authority because it is au
thority . . . students in particular
should always be questioning, net
accepting it,” concluded Poole.
Lights Change ^
The new traffic lights instaWwt
on 13th avenue at Kincaid, Uni
versity and Onyx streets during
the Christmas vacation involve
only a minor change in traffio
flow through the campus, I. I.
Wright, head of the physical plant
has announced.
Vehicles traveling west on I3tlv
will be detoured around the cam
pus via Onyx and Highway 99 dur
ing the 10 minute breaks between
classes.