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Near East Topic
Of 1 p. m. Assembly
“What Is at Stake in the Near Hast” will he the topic for
today’s University assembly at 1 p. m. in the Student Union
ballroom. Fourth in a series of winter term lecturers, the speak
er will be John Badeau, president of the Near East foundation.
Badcau will also be presented at a coffee hour forum at 4
p. m. today in the SU Dad’s Lounge, Garry McMurray, a mem
ber of the coffee hour forum committee, has announced.
A resident of the Near Ivast for 20 years, Badeau is slated to
give a sympathetic interpretation of the problems of the area.
Badeau assumed his present position last July, upon his resig
nation a-> president of the American university at Cairo, Hgvpt.
With the university since 1936, Badeau served with the j
omu’n diiut oi war mror
mation on a leave of absence dur
ing the war.
He has also served on the
J'Ryptian government’s committee
for private school i and committee
to review university studies. He
also was a member of the Egyp
tian association for social studies,
associate editor of the Journal of
Modern Education, occasional ex
aminer for the Egyptian univei
*.ty and chairman of the Near
East Christian council's commit
tee on education.
The new government of General
Mohammed Naguib decorated Ba
dcau with the Order of the Nile
when he left Egypt.
Possessing a comprenensivs
knowledge of Near Eastern af
fairs, Badeau saw the end of the
British mandate in Iraq in 1932,
as well as the Assyrian revolt
which followed. He was also pres
^-nt when King Farouk ascended
to the throne in 1036 when the
Anglo-Egyptian treaty was signed.
Badeau was at hand when the
same treaty was denounced in 1951
and when the king was deposed in
1952.
Senior Ball Sales
Continue at SU
Tickets for the Senior ball will
continue on sale at the Student
Union main desk until Friday at 5
p. m., and will also be on sale at
the dunce, according to Bob Berry
and Jack McClenahan, ticket co
chairmen.
Price is $2 per couple for the
dance, which is the first all-cam
pus formal dance of the year. Dark
suits or tuxes are in order for men
and formals for women. Corsages
are optional.
Music will be furnished by the
“Jantzen Beach band” of Bill Bec
ker, which has been house band
there and at the Palais Royale and
McElroy’s in Portland. Becker’s
group has also played at many
college campuses.
Following the theme of “Winter
Wonderland,” the ballroom will be
decorated around a color scheme
of blue and white, according to
decorations co-chairmen Jane Flip
po and Dick Briggs.
Anyone interested in working on
the actual decorating is invited by
( the committee to go to the ball
Voom Friday, any time from 3
p. m. to* 1 a. m. Decorating work
will also be done Saturday from
8 a. m. to 6 p. m.
The dance will begin at 9 p. m.
and last until 12:30 a. m. Clean
up following dancing will be done
by members of Alpha Phi Omega,
men’s service honorary.
Board Rejects
Addition Bids
All construction bids on the 300-'
man addition to John Straub dor
niitory were rejected Tuesday by !
the building committee of the
State Board of Higher Kducation,
because even the lowest combina
tion of bids exceeded by $75,000
the funds available for the job.
The lowest basic construction
bid of $818,05-1 was entered by the
W. H .Shields Construction Co. j
of Kugene. Combined with other
low bids on mechanical, electrical !
and cabinet woodwork, the lowest I
total bid received was $1,184,522.;
The matter will be referred to
the entire board at its next meet
ing, March 8 and 9. Meanwhile the
building committee will be study
ing possible means of raising ad
ditional funds or modifying plan on
the dormitory project.
The four story addition to John
Straub is to be financed through
bonds and the sale of trailers pre
viously used for temporary hous
ing.
The addition, to be built of rein
forced concrete with brick veneer,
will cost an estimated $3,800 per
man for 300 men.
ONPA Confab
Begins Friday
The 35th annual Oregon Press
Conference will open at 8:30 a. m.
Friday with registration at the
Student Union. The two-day con
ference. held on the U of O campus
each year, is sponsored by the
Oregon Newspaper Publishers As
sociation and the school of jour
nalism.
According to Carl Webb, assis
tant professor of journalism and
executive secretary of the ONPA,
all students interested in journal
ism are invited to attend any of
the sessions of the conference.
Friday morning five German
newspapermen, who are attending
the University under the German
journalism program, will discuss
the meanings of the riots in Berlin
last June.
The program events for Friday
morning, all in the SU, are as fol
lows :
8:30 a. m. — Registration
9:30 a. m. — General Session.
Tom B. Purcell, Gresham I
Outlook, piesiding.
9.35 a. m. - "Notes from a Copy.
Editor's Book" Warren C.
Price, associate professor of
journalism.
10 a. m. — "Berlin, June 17,
1953, and Its Meaning," pre
sented by Eric W. Allen Jr.,
City Editor of the Medford
Mail Tribune, and Herbert
John, Franz Ooxle, Hans Bie
senberger, Jurgen Dobbcrke
and Lothar Loewe.
10:10 a. m. — "Those First 100
Days as Publisher." Robert
W. Chandler of the Bend Bul
letin.
11:10 a. m. — "How a Senator
Looks at Newspapers," State
Senator Stewart Hardie of the
Condon Globe-Times and Fos
sil Journal.
12:05 p. m. — Luncheon. W. Ar
thur Steele, Clatskanie Chief
and ONPA President, presid
ing. "The Eternal Burden of
Mankind," William C. Jones,
executive director, Western
Interstate Commis sion on
Higher Education, Eugene.
Gerlinger Poll
Opens at 12:30
'ccrs .or three women’s organizations on campus will be
Iccad today m the annual winter term women’s election day
Wmg or the officers of Associated Women!* Students
|W7”m T Kccrcat,on association and the campus YWCA wdl
lt0m 12:30 “ « P- «• *«'a> in the lobby of Cel^
OnZT "°meu arC C'igiWc ‘° vvtc «k« AWS Of,
ncers. Only active members of WRA and the YW can vote for
officers ot those groups. In addition, WRA members will be /
voting on a new constitution for the organization
An assembly to introduce the candidates will be held at It-25
p. m. in Alumni hall of Gerlinger. Open nominations for AWS
* • * officers may also be made at thi»
j time.
KOSKMAKY HAMPTON
JANET WICK
Circus Characters to Swim
As Aqua-gals Stage Pageant
by Mary Alice Allen
Emerald Reporter
Circus animals, trapeze artists
and clowns will invade the men's
pool tonight and Friday at 8 p. m.,
when Amphibians, women's swim
ming honorary, stages its annual
water pageant.
Ticaets for the event cost 80
cents and may be purchased from
any Amphibian member who is in
the show or at the booth outside
the pool on both performance
nights.
“Under the Big Top" is the
theme of the pageant, which will
be a water version of a real circus.
Decorations will create the effect
of a huge circus tent with ele
phants and fluffy cotton candy for
added detail, according to Sally
Stadelman, Amphibian president
and general chairman for the
event.
“Popcorn and Lemonade” will
open the show, which will include
ten acts, intermission entertain
ment and the grand finale. A mer
ry-go-round will be featured in
the second number. Some of the
other numbers will include “Lovely
Lady,” "Be a Jumping Jack” and
'Picnic in the Park." In the lat
ter act the swimmers will charac
terize monkeys.
Master of ceremonies for the
svent will be a side show barker
ilayed by Scott Lehncr, sophomore
n speech. Lehner will “call" th
audience to each act. Exhibition
livers and clowns will entertain
luring the intermission.
Preview Chairman
Petitioners Wanted
Students interested in petition
ing for general chairman of the
annual Duck Preview weekend,
fVpril 23 and 24, have been asked
:o contact Donald M. DuShane, di
rector of student affairs, for in
formation about the weekend.
Deadline for submitting peti
tions for the chairmanship is next
rhursday at 5 p. in., Tom Wright
son, ASUO president, has an
aounced. Petitions are to be turn
ed in at the ASUO office, Student
Union 304.
Two of the numbers will feature
unusual lighting effects. "Black
light” will be used in one. The
swimmers’ costumes are phosphor-'
escent. When the lights are turn
ed out, the swimming suits seem
ingly move about the darkened
pool by themselves.
Another lighting effect is pro
duced when the cast uses "body
lights.” Small lights are attached
to the swimmers arms and legs.
As they swim around in complete
darkness, only the flickering lights
can be seen.
Helium filled balloons will be
released out into the audience in
"The Greatest Show on Earth.”
This number will be performed
to the music from the Cecil B.
DeMille movie of the same name.
“Three Ring Circus” is the title
of the grand finale in which the j
entire cast will participate. Per
formers will begin the act in the
actual formation of three big
rings, with acts going on in each.
By the end of the number, the
whole cast will be swimming to
gether in one big circle.
flairs Announced
Prepared slates of candidate*
for the offices have already befit
released by the three women,
groups. Of the two candidates fee
wilf ^nt .1D CaCh or&anization, one
‘l1 ** e>ccted president and th*
other will become vice-president.
Nominated for AWS president
are Janet Wick, junior in history,
and Rosmary Hampton, junior ,i_
speech. \VR* presidential hopeful*
are Sally Stadelman, sophomoie
in sociology, and Nikki Trump,
junior in business. Mary Wilsorr
junior in speech, and' Camilla
Wold, junior in English, are can
didates for the YW presidency.
Other candidates for AWS of
fice are: Jane Bergstrom, sopho
more in art, and Saliy Ryan, soph
omore in pre-journalism, nomin
ated for secretary; Olivia TharalJ
son and Margaret Tyler, both
freshmen in liberal arts, sergeant!
at-arms; Valerie Hersh and Mar
cia Mauney, also both freshmen
in liberal arts, reporter; and Ed
na Humiston and Donna H if
treasurer. ' *
Judy Counts, sophomore in lib
eral arts, and Doris Liljeberg. jun
ior in physical education, are run
™ng WRA secretary. Seeking
the VVRA treasurer position a o
Prudence Ducich, sophomore in
art, and Charlotte Martin, soph
omore in physical education.
Other VVRA candidates aie»
Darlene Hammer, sophomore in
physical education, and Delore*
Schleichert, sophomore in liberal
arts, nominated for custodian; an»|
Carol Harrison, junior in physical
education, and Kathleen Morrison
freshman in libera] arts, sergeant
at-arms.
^ VV Candidates Named
Running for second vice-presi
dent of the YW are Carol Cross,
junior in business, and Joan Hav
land, junior in sociology. YW sec
retarial candidates are Hope Hol
gerson, junior in business, ami
Rose Warner, junior in philosophy.
Other YW candidates are: Gail
West and Meta Jean Frink, soph
omores in business, nominated for
treasurer; Nan Hagedorn anil
Betty Anderson, freshmen in lib
eral arts, sophomore commission
chairman; and Annie Laurie
Quackenbiish and Jean Fay, fresh
men in liberal arts, sophomore
commission secretary.
Jr. Weekend
Planning Set
The first step in the 1954 Junior
Weekend planning will begin Mon
day at 4 p. m. when houses’ repre
sentatives will meet with Jim
Light, junior class president and
chairman of the event.
Light has requested that all liv
ing organizations have represen
tatives present, preferably junior
The representatives will act as
a liason between the junior cla"*
officers and their living organiza
tions, Light said. Petitions for
weekend committee will also bo»
distributed at this time.
Approximately 200 workers wil*
be needed to handle all the detenl j
of the weekend, Light reported.