VOI« LV ■ LETS something; you pick up-sometime (lur ing the 'lay, -can the headlines, read the campus briefs, and maybe wrap your books in when it rains. 1 he campus newspaper is something you criticize and cont - plain about and, in the case of the EmeraUl, wonder "what in ■ the world is wrong with that paper. Four pages, all ads, and no new>. And occasionally*, somebody does sav, "Food paper - today.” f I That s all a journalist can expect from the readers of any newspaper. And it's all we want really. Hut what «l<> we. the Emerald staff, think our campus news paper is <»n this, our fifty-fourth birthday? In the first place, the Kmerald isn't an activity in the minds of the staff. It's a way of life. We’re having coffee in the SU. We overhear a conversation that sounds like it might he “nevt s.” We just don't finish our coffee and go away. We listen a little longer and then start checking sources. We're on our way home from the press at midnight. We’re tired. Our feet hurt. But somebody's decided to stage a torch parade and it looks exciting. We don’t just shrug our should ers and go home to bed ... or study. Even though we're not a regular reporter any longer, we run after the parade to see what’s going on. It could make “news.” And that's the primary reason we publish the Kmerald—to gather the news, process it and serve it up to the reader for. we hope, consumption and digestion. And on the editorial side, we're similar to the "gadfly" in Greek philosophy. We goad and prod where goading and prod ding seems necessary. \\ e try to keep our fingers on every cur rent of thought and action in this campus world of ours. We digest an awful lot of opinions on one thing and another and then come up with our opinion. A campus paper should be a leader in campus thought and reaction. Not only are we trying to shape opinions and get action, but we’re trying to pick up little shreds of conversa tion, big mouthfuls of gripes and bits of half-formed opin ions and shape a pattern of college life. Hut a campus newspaper is more than a news gatherer or an opinion molder. It is a source of public relations to the outside world. A lot of alums and people who will never sec Eugene read the Kmerald. \\ hen they get a chance, they let us know what they think of the University. An awful lot of that is based on what they’ve read in the pages of your-Oregon Daily Km erald. Fifty-four years is time enough to build up an awful lot of tradition. Fifty-four years means countless numbers of people, now adults and older, went through the University as Emerald staff members. Fifty-four years means a lot of memories stored in the yellowed pages of past Emeralds. And on our birthday, we sit in our office and wonder about oui future. \\ e re optimistic. \\ e know we vc got some terrific people working on our staff, we think we’re on an uphill grade. And we think we re headed in the right direction. Crowned, Then Tubbed Is The King of Hearts' Fate Who will ho this year's King of Hearts? Ho will bo chosen from one of six finalists, and will ho crowned Saturday night at Chi Omega by YWCA president Cathy Tribe Slegmund. Dick Bruce, Bob Berry, Wes Ball, Bruce Purvine, Ron Griffiths and Milan Foster are the finalists. The King will be selected by the I vote of all women buying tickets. Tickets for the girl-aak-boy dance, “Heart of My Heart," will continue on sale at the Student : Union and the Co-op until 5 p.m. i today. Bonlme, Viles Entertain The dance will begin at Chi Omega, with entertainment sched uled at 8 p. m. and crowning of 'he king to follow. Scheduled en tertainment includes Don Bonime, playing the piano, and Pat Viles, playing the guitar. Also appearing will bo Jeff Davis, playing the banjo. Andy Nasburg, sophomore in business, will serve as master of ceremonies for the program, and will introduce the candidates for King. Following the crowning ceremonies the "King” will sit in a regal "throne.” After that will be tubbed by the other candidates on the Chi Omega front lawn. Following the entertainment and crowning ceremonies, dancing will be held at Chi Omega, Kappa Alpha Theta, Zeta Tau Alpha and Pi Beta Phi. Decorations Vary Each house has its own theme for decorations. Chi Omega’s is "You Belong to My Heart.” Dec-! orations at Kappa Alpha Theta! will center around "Candy1 Hearts,” and Zeta Tau Alpha's theme is "With A Song in My Heart.” Pi Beta Phi wilj featwo "Heart to Heart.” Immediately following the crowning ceremonies will be the presentation of gifts, donated by Eugene business firms, for the King and the other five finalist:}. Gifts and donors include a bottlo of shaving lotion from Claypool’f: amber headlight disks from Pa cific Auto Supply, and shirts flora Fennell’s Bill Baker's, KirchofC and Scott and Penneys. Gift certificates w;il be presen ted the finalists by Miller’s and Oregon Outfitters, for $5 and $3 respectively. Joe Richard’s store is donating a tie clasp, and the Drug Center’* gift is Tussy cologne for men. The Heilig, Mayflower and Lane thea ters, which are all under one man agement, will give ten movie passes. Lecture Rescheduled The Condon lecture, scheduled (or Thursday rvpnln?, was can rrllrd because of the illness of (ho speaker, Ralph Burhsbaum, professor of zoology at the Uni versity of rit'tshurgh. Buchs baum was to have spoken in the Student Union ballroom on the topie ‘‘Man Studies and Under stands the Sen.” Buehshaum's leeture has been rescheduled for Monday evening, it was announced Thursday eve ning. UIS Sponsors Social Affair; Greeks Welcome Independent students will ga ther in the basement of Carson hall tonight for the first annual "Basement Bounce" sponsored by United Independent Students. All campus Greeks have been invited to the social function from 9 until midnight. "Special secret entertainment" has been planned and Sam Vahey, sophomore in business, will serve as master of ceremonies, according to Loris Larson. UIS secretary. Admission is 35 cents to the "stag, no drag" affair and campus clothes are in order. Decorations, centering around a Valentine theme, are being done by members of Rebec house, under the direction of Shirley Knox, freshman in liberal arts. Tickets All Sold For Corvallis Game All students and adult tickets tor the Oregon State college bas ketball game in Corvallis Feb. 27, have been sold, the athletic busi ness office announced Thursday. The last of the tickets was sold Tuesday. Student and general admission tickets will be on sale at Gill coli seum at 8 a. m. the day of the game. Prices for the ducats are 81.50. Aggie Campus Leaders Stand up Senate Meet Where are the Aggies? This, (juestion was one of the principal matters to come before the ASUO senate at its Thursday night meet ing. Don Foss, Oregon State college : student body president; Dick Da vis, editor of t* OSC Daily Bar ometer; and Paul Fillinger, chair man of the board of the OSC Memorial Union, were scheduled to attend the senate meeting to i discuss common problems shared by the University and Oregon State. ASUO President Tom Wrightson tried to contact both' Foss and Davis after the senate had finish ed its busines meeting, but neither i could be reached. Sam Vahey, chairman of a sen-' ate committee to study improved means of student identification for athletic contests, reported that j the committee had met with Leoi Harris, Ted Bouck and Art Pitch man of the University athletic department. After discussion of the question of photographs on athletic cards and other plans, the Senate de cided to invite Athletic Director Harris to attend a senate meeting to discuss the problem. The Senate approved the ap pointments of Janet Gustafson, Sam Vahey, Olivia Tnaraldson, and Maeua-Louise Hair to tho tally board. The four were recom mended by flally Board Chairman Sally Stadelman. The Senate also approved a rec ommendation of the University Religious council that Ted Goh to appointed chairman of the World University Service drive. Gcii Porritt and Gail West were named assistant chairmen. Jim Light, junior class presi dent, was appointed to study a proposed memorial scholarship n honor of the late Judith Ellefson. Kaufman Brothers department store, where Miss Ellefson was employed, plans to make a contri bution toward an emergency fund ta aid worthy girls in order th d they might have more time for ac tivities and study. Patterson Guest At OSBA Luncheon Registration and business ses sions opened the Oregon State Broadcasters associations annual convention this morning in the Student Union. The meeting will run through today and will conclude Satur day at noon, at a luncheon in the SU. The luncheon and all other sessions are open to interested students and faculty members. Saturday morning’s sales clinic, scheduled for 10 a .m., will be of special interest to students, said Robert E. Summers, assistant pro fessor of journalism and secretary of the OSBA. Featured at the clinic will be P. T. Royston of Kelly-Clark Co. in Portland, speaking on “Pro blems of a Distributor in Rela tion to Radio Advertising,” Other speakers will be Dick M.*» guile of station KFJI, who w tl speak on "High School Athletics —Answer to a Sales Problem1;'’ and James Mount of station KXL, whose topic is "The Portland Story.” Governor Paul Patterson will bo a special guest at today’s lunch eon. Two of the German newspa permen attending the University* Lothar Loewe and Franz O exits. ^ will present "Reports on Gei many.” The Eugene hotel will be the lo cation of tonight's banquet, to be held at 6:30. Walton Purdom of San Francisco will be featured speaker, and his topic is "Advet tising’s Liveliest Dead Duck.” Pre ceding the banquet a hospitably, tour will be held, beginning at the hotel at 5:30.