Oregon Da ily
ISiEMERALD
Vol. LV Unlv. of Ore., Eugene, Ore., Monday, Jan. 18, 19& No.
Collin Resigns;
Veep Job Open
ASUO Vice-Pres. Don Collin has withdrawn from school,
and his position on the ASUO senate has been declared vacant
by Tom Wright son, ASUO president.
Although Wrightson indicated that there was a possibility
that Collin s position might be filled by someone already on the
senate, petitions to fill the vacancy have been called for and are
due at 5 p.m. Thursday at the ASUO office, Student Union
304.
Under provisions of the ASUO constitution, the senate fdls
its vacancies by interviewing candidates and selecting new
members by a ballot of the full senate. Any University student
with senior or graduate standing is eligible for the vice-pres
idency. (Collin was a graduate student).
Anther senate vacancy occurred when Elsie Schiller, senior
class vice president, resigned at last Thursday’s senate meeting
to take over her new position of Emerald editor Jan. 26. Peti
tion deadline for this position is also at 5 p.m. Thursday.
Budapest String Group
To Appear Thursday
BUDAPEST STRING QUARTET
Next stop: Japan
The Budapest String Quartet
will appear in the ballroom of the
Krb Memorial Student Union,
Thursday, Jan. 21. The concert is
free but admission is by ticket
only, and is sponsored jointly by
the Student Union Board and the
Failing Distinguished Lecture
committee.
Tickets for the concert may be
picked up at the main desk in the
Student Union.
Members of this quartet are Jo
seph Roisman, first violin; Jac
Gorodetzky, second violin; Mischa
Schneider, violin-cello, and Boris
Kroyt, viola. Contrary to the Hun
garian nationality which their
name suggests, the quartet con
sists of Russians. The original
members of the quartet were Hun
garians, but by 1936 the original
members had all been replaced by
Russians.
Fitch Stresses Humor,
Faith, as RE Week Onmk
In religious experience, there is
a place for humor and a place for
faith, Rev. Robert E. Fitch told
his audience at the introductory
Religious Evaluation week dinner
Sunday night.
Speaking on the topic, "Relig
ion and the Individual,’’ Mr. Fitch
said that although both a sense of
humor and a sense of religious
faith deal with the absurdities in
life, the sense of humor can take
us only part way in religious ex
perience. When we reach the point
of ultimate desparateness in life,
faith must take over.
"No person laughs at death —
the greatest incongruity of life
unless he does so with the hyster
ical laughter of the insane,” Mr.
Fitch stated. “A person must meet
ft with a faith.”
The first speaker for RE week
mentioned four steps from laugh
ter to faith in religious experience.
The first step, "pagan gaiety,”
has no spiritual depth. It is mere
ly the sense of feeling good, said
Mr. Fitch.
"Heathen humor, the second
step, is laughing at other people’s
absurdities, but not your own,”
said the speaker. “This type of
humor looks only at the outside
of another person.”
The talent of laughing at one
self is the third step, which he
called "Christian humor.” It en
tails the realization that one is
not as important and impressive
as he would like to be, Mr. Fitch
explained.
The fourth and final point in
religious experience is that at
which a person needs something
more than laughter. Faith is the
final step, said Mr. Fitch.
Other speakers for RE week
were introduced at the dinner.
Following the theme, “What;
Tells Us of God,” Monday's sched
ule for RE week is as follows:
• 7:30 a. m. — Chapel medita
tion, alumni hall, Gerlinger,
Rev. Earl Cranston.
| 8 a. m. to noon — Speakers
In 'the classrooms.
• Noon — no-host luncheon;
honoring Rev. Robert Fiteh and
Rev. Otto Bremer, SU 110.
• 1 p. m. — Address: “What
Tells Us of God in Nature?”
Rabbi Poshua Stampfer, SU
dad's lounge.
• 2 p. m. — Address: “What
Tells Us of God in Ourselves?”
Rev. Otto Bremer, SU dad's
lounge.
• 3 p. m. — Address: "What
Tells Us of God in Revela
tion?” Rev. Earl Cranston, SU
dad’s lounge.
• 4 to 5 p. m. — Skeptics hour,
SC 213.
• P* **>• — Dinners and
fireside discussions in living or
ganizations.
• 8 p. m. — Address: “Why
Know This God? ” Rev. Archi
bald McDowell, SU dad’s
lounge.
Several organizations have been
paired for the evening fireside dis
cussions to enable each group to
hear at least one RE week speak
er, according to Gail West, fire
side chairman.
Schedule for the Monday fire
sides is as follows:
Mr. Fitch — Sherry Ross hall.
Rabbi Stampfer — Alpha Phi
' and Beta Theta Pi, at Alpha
Phi,
Harvey — Highland house.
Mr. Cranston — Alpha Gamma
Delta and Sigma Phi Epsilon,
at Alpha Gamma Delta.
Koo — Carson hall.
Mr. Bremer — Zeta Tau Alpha.
Father McDowell — Rebec
house.
Becker — Hendricks hall.
Harvey Slated For
Ballroom Program
Martin Harvey, dean of students
at Southern university in Baton
Rouge, La., will speak at a Univer
sity assembly Tuesday at 1 p. m.
on “Christianity and Race Rela
tions.”
The lecture, scheduled for the
Student Union ballroom, is being
presented in conjunction with Re
ligious Evaluation week.
Harvey traveled around the!
world in 1938 to study youth!
movements in over 60 countries!
and to speak at various national |
student conferences. He attended |
the World Missionary conference!
in India and presided as vice-chair-j
man of the World Christian Youth,
conference, Amsterdam, Holland.
While he was still in college, he
began his work with youth groups
as president of the New York
State Youth council. He later be
came president of the Christian
Youth Council of North America;
and for ten years was the Nation-!
al Director of youth work for the
AME Zion church.
The visiting RE week speaker
has a B. S. degree in religious ed
ucation, a M. A. in personnel ad
ministration and has completed
residence work ona Ph.D in the ad
ministration of higher education
at New York linivArcifv
T. Z. Koo to Speak
In Browsing Room
T. Z. Koo, fall term University
assembly speaker, is returning to
the campus to take part in Religi
ous Evaluation week and to ap
pear as the regular browsing room
lecturer at 7:30 p. m. Wednesday
in the Student Union ballroom.
"Responsibilities to One’s Self:
Spiritual Honesty” will be the topio
of Koo’s Wednesday evening talk.
On Nov. 24, Koo spoke at a regu
lar University assembly orf “Tho
War of Ideas in the Orient.”
Known internationally as %
scholar, speaker and churchman-,.
Koo has been active in the YMCA'
in this country. He is now a resi
dent of the United States and a
professor of Oriental studies at the
University of Iowa, Iowa City..
Koo was educated under tho
classic Chinese custom of Confu
cianism over a half century ago ia
his native land. Often he appear^>
before his audience in his native
Chinese scholar's robes. He also
carries a Chinese flute which ho
will play on request from his aud
ience.
Dad's Luncheon
Tickets On Sale
Ticket sales for the Dad’s Day
luncheon to be held at noon Satur
day in the Student Union ballroom
will continue until Thursday, Bar
bara Wilcox, luncheon chairman,
has announced. The tickets, at
$1.25 each, are now on sale at tho
SU main desk.
Gov. Paul Patterson will giva
the main address at the luncheon.
Acting University Pres. Victor P.
Morris will also speak at that
time.
Entertainment at the luncheon
will feature the first and second
place winners in the barbershop
quartet contest. The contest Will
be held Friday night following the
Oregon-University of Washington
basketball game in McArthur
Court.
The Dad’s Day Hostess will be
chosen from four finalists in an
all-campus election Thursday. The
finalists are Barbara Keelen Alt
man, Nancy Miller Hawkins, Elea
nor Robblee Schuppel and Cathy
Waldo Must Go/ Sav Theta Chi c
by Anne Ritchey
Emarald Faatur* Editor
Waldo and Snowbelle, the eter
nal playmates and companions on
campus, will soon come to a part
ing of the ways. Their friendship
has become one of the newest, yet
best known of Oregon traditions.
The Theta Chi's, owners of Wal
do, have finally decided to take
some drastic action to remove the
belligerent dog, who loves people
but hates all other dogs (except
Snowbelle). Snowbelle, her Phi
Psi's owners report, will remain
on campus.
Waldo Resists
According to Bob Summers,
Theta Chi house president, the
members of his fraternity have
been debatihg since the beginning
of last term about what to do with
their mascot. Recently his esca
pades around campus and down
town have caused them to decide
that he “just has to go.”
The funny thing about it,
though, is the fact that he doesn’t
want to leave, and Sunday he had
been taken to the country twice
and had returned twice. “As a
matter of fact, I think he’s down
in the basement of the house right
now!” Summers said Sunday af
ternoon.
Waldo’s academic status, which
has been the object of much stu
dent speculation, was clarified by
Summers. Waldo is a junior —
having come here and been initia
ted into fraternity life by the
Theta Chi’s' in fall term of 1951,
when he was just a pup.
Students will miss Waldo’s
strange habits, especially his
sleeping habits. According to Sum
mers, he has more than once en
tertained book-weary students in
the library, when, in a deep slum
ber complete with dreams, he has
gone through humorous contor
tions.
Trees Climbed
Another of Waldo’s amazing
abilities is that of being able to
climb trees. His familiar, huge fig
ure has more than once been seen
in the trees near Susan Campbell
and Straub halls, as he pursued
his favorite pastime of chasing
squirrels.
As stated before, Waldo's worst
fault is that of picking on other
dogs — regardless of size. This is
probably his only really bad fault,
but it’s bad enough to have made
many enemies.
He has twice attacked Thunder,
the seeing-eye dog belonging to
Genny Eachus, of University
House.
A dog of tremendous eating ca
pacity, Waldo consumes a mini
mum of four cans of dog food a
day, in addition to the food given
him by generous students in the
(Please turn to fane two)
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SNOWBELLE AND WALDO, mascots of Phi Kappa Psi and Theta Chi respectively, on one of the no.
merous coffee-dates in the Student Union.