vJkayama Newspaper
Tells of Clothing Drive
ine newspaper in Okayama, Ja-;
pan, has given considerable publi- !
city to the efforts of Paul Dull, j
associate professor of political!
science and history, and his class-!
es in Far Eastern government and i
history in collecting clothing to
send to the poor of a section of
that city.
During the last weeks of fall
term, around 428 pounds of cloth
ing was collected and shipped to
Japan. The newspaper story em
phasized the gratefulness of the
people for the contribution of Uni
versity of Oregon students to im
proving relations between Japan
and the United States.
The clothing is due to arrive in
Japan Jan. 17 and will be taken
into Okaydma and distributed as
MoonlightGirl
Deadline Set
Deadline for the*submisaion of
pictures of candidates for Moon
light Girl of Phi Sigma Kappa
has been se* for Friday, Phill
Noee, president of the organiza
tion, has announced.
All women’s living organizations
have been invited to submit the
name of a candidate. A picture of
the candidate must accompany the
nomination.
Five finalists for the title will
be chosen on the basis of the pic
tures by the members of the fra
ternity. The five women will be
guests at an informal dinner at the
house Tuesday.
Announcement of the Moonlight
Girl will be made next Saturday
evening at a fireside. Winner of
the title last year was Beverly
Kreick, senior in business.
The organization which sponsors
the winning candidates will be pre
sented with a rotating trophy. The
new Moonlight Girl will be award
ed an individual trophy which may
be kept permanently.
soon as possible after that date.
Dull Is also planning another
shipment of clothing for this
weekend following the requests of
students who wished to collect
Items during vacation. Wednesday
afternoon, the contributions had
come in quite slowly and Dull hop
ed they would pick up by Friday.
He hopes to make the project an
annual one.
A group of wood-block prints
have been made and sent to Dull
by the deaf mute children of a
Japanese school in appreciation of
some of the clothing which they
will be receiving.
YWCA Seeks
NewMembers
“Stop and Join the YWCA” is
the theme for the campus YWCA
membership drive which opened
Wednesday and will continue
through next Wednesday.
Upperclass cabinet members
will go’to all women’s living or
ganizations on campus Thursday
and Friday to explain the winter
term events sponsored by the Y
and to tell how to join the Y.
House representatives are Nan
Mimnaugh and Anne Hill, Alpha
Chi Omega and Zeta Tau Alpha;
Martha VanCamp and Germaine
LaMarche, Alpha Delta Pi and Al
pha Xi Delta; Gail West and Geri
Porritt, Alpha Gamma Delta and
Alpha Omicron Pi; Barbara West
and Sylvia Wingard, Gamma Phi
Beta and Alpha Phi; Hope Hol
gerson and Carol Cross, Delta
Delta Delta and Delta Zeta; Ger
ry Yeager, Kappa Kappa Gamma;
Camille Wold and Cathy Tribe
Siegmund, Chi Omega; Mary Wil
son and Patty Fagan, Pi Beta Phi
and Delta Gamma and Jane Pat
terson, Ann Judson. Representa
tives will be appointed later for
Kappa Alpha Theta, Sigma Kap
pa, University House, Rebec House
and Orides.
RE Week Dinner
Tickets On Sale
Religious Evaluation week din
ner tickets are now on sale in the
living organizations, religious
foundations and the YMCA office
in Student Union 319, according to
Barbara Swanson, RE week chair
man.
Students may obtain tickets for
$1 until Friday, Jan. 15. Price for
non-students will be $1.50.
Robert E. Fitch, dean of the Pa
cific School of Religion, Berkeley,
Calif., will speak on "Religion and
the Individual," main theme of
RE week, at the dinner.
The eight RE week speakers
this year will appear in several
classes as guest lecturers and will
also hold personal conferences. In
terested students may sign up
now in the YMCA office for the
conferences, according to Jane
Bergstrom, personal conference
committee chairman.
Karr to Speak
At Press Club
Emerald Editor A1 Karr will be
the guest speaker at the regular
monthly meeting of the University
Press club tonight at 7:30 in the
Dad's lounge of the Student Union.
Topic of his talk will be "Con
fessions of a Campus Editor.”
Included in the talk will be dis
cussions on editing a campus daily
as they relate to the Emerald, the
handling of special stories and the
problems of the Emerald as a four
page paper, itarr will also discuss
the editorial policy of the campus
paper.
The meeting is open to the pub
lic, and refreshments will be serv
ed. The meeting, usually held on
the first Tuesday of every month,
is being held on Thursday this
month due to conflicting schedules
according to Dick Lewis, Press
club president.
Activities of 1953 in Review
uy joe uiraner
Emerald Newt Editor
. The year 1953 was a big one for
. the Oregon Daily Emerald, both in
. coverage of news and in growing
production problems. With a few
exceptions, the “big stories” that
the Emerald ran were concerned
with campus events, and the cam
u. ini, tne r>rneraiu was reduced to
four eight-pagcrB per week, a re
duction from the five eight-pagers
printed in previous years. Grow
ing production costs and decreas
ing enrollment in the University
were the reasons for the reduc
tions.
The Emerald returned to a five
day publication schedule at the be
per weak, a publication schedule
which still holds.
The important news stories as
covered by the E'merald in 1953
are listed with no attempt to rank
them according to importance.
1. The Death of Stalin: This
story was one of the rare breaks
in covering international news
that comes to a campus newspa
rho Eric \V. Allen building for the Journalism school
McClure hall was torn down.
was started during the summer of 1953 after
pus daily was induced in size from
an eight page early morning pa
per to a four page noon publica
tion.
At the beginning of the 1952 fall
ginning of winter term, 1953, How
ever, the Monday through Wednes
day papers were cut to four pages
On April 13, the Emerald was fur
ther reduced to five four-pagers
per. The report of the Russian dic
tator’s illness and the subsequent
[report of his death exactly coin
j elded with the end-of-the-term
publication schedule of the Emer
aid.
2. O. Meredith Wilson: The res
ignation of University Pres. H. K.
Newburn, coming after the Emer
ald had ceased publication spring
term, was not covered in the cam
pus daily. The appointment of the
Ford Foundation executive as
president of the University was
carried in the Emerald hours be
fore any other paper in the state
printed it.
3. ASUO elections: One of the
closest campus elections in years
occurred May 13, when Tom
Wnghtson, candidate of the Asso
ciated Greek Students, was elec
ted ASUO president by 15 votes
over Don Collin, United Indepen
dent Students candidate.
4. NAACP approval: of the Ore
gon chapter of the National Asso
ciation for the Advancement of
Colored People by the Student Af
fairs committee came on May 28,
after months’of controversy.
Plans Halted
5- J- Kelly Farris: The challenge
of the legality of the student traf
fic court by Law Student Farris
on Oct. 21 and the placing of Far
ris on disciplinary probation by
the student discipline committee
on Dec. 10 are still making news
on campus.
6. Buildings: Announcement
that plans for a new Oregon sta
dium had been halted on account
of the uncertainty of the effect
that television would have on at
tendance came on Sept. 17. Final
approval for a new men’s dorm fa
300-man addition to John Straub
hall) was given by the Oregon
.State Board of Higher Education
on Nov. 21. The other big physi
cal change on campus was the raz
ing of 53-year-old McClure hall
to make way for the $600,000
school of journalism building pres
ently under construction.
7. Defeat of USC: The surprise
upset of the University of Oregon
football team over the University
of Southern California on Oct.31
in Portland was celebrated the fol
lowing Monday by a spontaneous
rally which halted almost all clas
ses for the day.
8. Men’s rushing: For the firsi
time in four years, fraternities on
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Menuhin Concert
Scheduled Friday
i'icuuiiiu, noted violinist
appearing at McArthur court Fri
day night at 8 p. m„ can claim
the title of “the artist represent
ing the entire world.”
He was chosen as such when in
vited to play at Carnegie hall at
the United Nations' first anni
versary celebration of the Declar
ation of Human Rights, along with
several other famous personalities
representing other countries.
As an American artist during
the war, Menuhin gave more bene
fit concerts for the Allied armed
forces, Red Cross and civilian
charities in more war areas than
any other concert artist. He gave
more than 500 concei ts, and at the
request of Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower, followed our army into
France and Belgium and was the
first concert artist to play in lib
erated Paris, Brussels and Ant
werp.
After the war he was again the
first to appear in benefit concerts
in Berlin, Bucharest, Budapest,
Moscow, Pi-ague, Vienna and in
all Displaced Person camps.
In 1950 and 1951 Menuhin re
visited practically every important
world center on every continent
where he had played before, ana
in addition, in the fall of ’51, made
his first tour of Japan. There his
original schedule of- five concert-u
was doubled when tickets sold out
two months before his arrival.
Tomorrow’s concert is presented
by the Eugene-University Civic
Music association and is free to
students on presentation of stu
dent body cards.
Perry Conference
Opens January 12
The Perry Centennial conference
on Far Eastern studies to be held
on campus next week will feature
a program of speakers, lecturers
and special exhibits and tours in
the Murray Warner Museum of
Oriental Art.
The program will open with a
talk by Donald S. Willis, assistant
professor of Oriental languages,
at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday in Common
wealth 138. Topic of Willis' talk
will be “Perry and the Changing
Mind of Japan.’’
Second speaker of the confer
ence will be Wallace S. Baldinger,
associate professor of art, who will
appear as the browsing room lec
turer Wednesday evening in the
Student Union.
Baldinger, also scheduled for
7:30 p. m„ will speak on “Art and
the Common Man in Japan.” Dis
cussion leader will be Paul S. Dull,
associate professor of history and
political science. The talk will be
illustrated with colored slides.
Nebutaka Ike, librarian for Far
Eastern publications at the Hoover
Memorial library at Stanford uni
versity, will speak on "Japan: One
Hundred Years after Perry” at
7:30 p. m. Thursday in Common
wealth 138.
Fourth and final lecturer of the
conference will be Jiro Harada,
now a staff member of the Tokyo
National museum, who will speak
at a coffee hour lecture Friday
evening at 7:30 in the SU brows
ing room. His topic will be "The
Ait of the Priest and of the
Gentlemen in Japan.” Harada lec
tured on Japanese art and culture
here before World War II and re
ceived an honorary doctor of lit
erature degree from Oregon in
1936.
Held to commemorate the cen
tennial of the voyage of Commo
dore Matthew C. Perry to Japan
in 1S53, the conference will also
feature a special exhibit of Japan
ese color prints designed to show
the state of mind in Japan before
and after the Perry expedition. A
special guided tour of the Ait.
Museum will be held Thursday.
Pre-Med Students
Meeting Tonight
Members of the medical school
admissions committee will discuss
applications for the medical
school, qualifications for the study
of medicine, and any questions re
lated to the study of medicine and
pre-medical studies at a meeting
of medical school applicants to be
held in Science 123 at 8 this eve
ning.
The admissions committee will
interview candidates who have ap
plied for admission to the 1954
class Friday and Saturday. Ap*.
pointments for the interviews may
be made in Science 121. Candidate-*
must take their fall term grade
reports to the interviews, A. H.
Kunz, chairman of the pre-medi
cal and pre-advisory committee
has announced.
All students interested in the
study of medicine, particularly the
wives and prospective wives cf
medical students have been invited
to attend tonight's meeting.