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BA Conference Features
Special Speakers Todav
The tenth annual student busl
neaa conference, sponsored by the
school of business administration,
will be held today and Thursday
in the Student Union,
Classes in the school of busi
ness will 1m* dismissed at 11 a. m,
today and all afternoon today and [
Thursday. Any studeat may attend i'
the conference, and freshmen and
sophomores are especially urged ,
to attend, according to Joan Ba
slnski and A1 Stanley, student
chairmen.
The purpose of the conference is
to acquaint students with the op
portunities in particular fields.
The conference will open with :
an assembly in Commonwealth 138 ,
at 11a. m. Acting President Victor 1
P. Morris will be the assembly
speaker, An infort al cafeteria
unch in Student Union 110 will
'ollow the assembly.
The afternoon program will con
list of speakers, and discussion
groups. At each meeting, stu
lents will have an opportunity to
jucstion the speakers. All of these
neetings will be held in the SU.
The program for this afternoon
vill include:
1:30 - 2:45 p. m.
Public Accounting, SU 214
Real Kstate, SU 333
Foreign Trade and Shipping, S
U 334
Credits and Collections, SU 315
!:45 - 3J5 p. m.:
Coffee Hour, Dad’s Lounge
1:15 - 4 :30 p. m.
Advertising, SU 334
Pre-game Rally Slated
For Tonight in SU
Basketball season's final pre
game rally will be held tonight at
6:30 in the Student Union ball
room.
Tonight's rally, which in de
signated to arouse spirit for the
final Oregon State basketball ser
ies, will feature talks by team
member*, music from the pep
band, introduction of the squad,
and two new yells.
The rally will start with a com
petitive yell, and Yell King Tom
Gaines will introduce Basketball
Coach Bill Borcher. Borcher will
give a short talk, and then intro
duce the members of 1953-54
casaba squad.
Players To Talk
Following this, two players,
guards Barney Holland and How
ard Page, will speak briefly.
The rally board is encouraging
students to bring any kind of
noisemakers they can find in or
der to fill the ballroom with as
much noise as possible.
The rally will conflict with some
social functions which have been
planned for tonight, but many of
the houses which have scheduled
deserts are going to the rally to
SU Board Meeting
Slate Announced
The Student Union board will
meet at 4 p. in. today in the SU
board room, according to Andy
Berwick, hoard chairman. Items
on the agenda for the board in
clude :
• Joint Oregon - OSC Student
Union meeting.
^ Discussion of semi-monthly
meetings for the isiard.
0 Treasurer’s report.
0 Review of dance committee
program.
0 Directorate chairman's re
port
0 Special evenfts report on
bridge and billiards tourna
ments.
0 Special attractions report
on YIt. Angel Choir and George
Shearing concerts.
0 Report of hourd selection
committee.
0 Announcement of joint
board-directo ate meeting March
3.
gether first, and then return to
the houses.
Tonight will be the first time
that pairings for the rally have
been made according to campus
geographic location. The five com
P ting areas are the Millrace, Hill
top, Campus, Upper Alder, and
Lower Alder.
A trophy will presented to the
group which makes the most noise
in the competitive yells. This cup
will have the names of all the
winning pouses engraved upon it,
and these houses will share the
trophy during the school year.
Concert Tonight
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Features Soloist
Featured soloist in tonight’s
University symphony concert will
be Mrs. Jane Thacher, professor
emeritus, of piano. She will play
Grieg’s "Piano Concerto in A Min
or" at the concert beginning at
8:15 in the music school auditor
ium.
After the concert, Mrs. Thach
er will be honored at a recep
tion given by the music school fac
ulty. The reception will be held
in Gerlinger hall, with Acting
President Victor P. Morris and
Theodore Kratt, dean of the school
of music, giving short talks.
Both the concert and the re
ception will be open to the public.
Besides Mrs. Thacher’s perform
ance, the University Symphony or
chestra will play one movement of
Beethoven’s "Symphony No. 1 in
C Major." Dean Kratt will conduct
the orchestra.
Mrs. Thacher was a member of
the music school faculty for 30
years, and this concert will be her
first appearance since her retire
ment in 1950,
Faculty Club Elects
L. W. Staples, acting head of the
geography and geology depart
ment, was elected president of the
faculty club last week by a vote
of the club’s board of directors.
Other officers are vice president,
D. E. Clark, professor emeritus
of history, and secretary, G. N.
Belknap, University editor. J. O.
Lindstrom, Business Manager, was
re-elected treasurer.
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Production Management, SU 333
Lumber and Lumber Products
SU 21-f
Program To Continue
Thursday’s program will begin
at 12 noon with an informal cafe
teria lunch in S,U 110. The rest of
the program will include:
1:30 - 2:45 p. m.
Accounting for Private Indus
try, SU 214
Life Insurance, SU 315
Retailing, SU 333
Traffic Management, SU 334
2:45 - 3:15 p. m.
Coffee Hour, Dad's Lounge
3:15 - 4 :30 p. m.
Market Management, SU 315
Casualty and Property Insur
ance, SU 334
Personnel, SU 214
Mt. Angel Concert
fickets Available
Tickets arc still available for
the Mt. Angel Seminary ehoir
coming to the Student" Union
ballroom Thursday at 8 p. m.
The price is 50 cents, and the
tickets may be purchased at the
8U main desk.
The members of the choir arc
from the Mt. Angel Seminary lo
cated forty miles south of Port
land. AH of the men are studying
for the priesthood, and some of
them are former University of
Oregon students.
This appearance of the Mt.
Angel choir is sponsored by the
SU board.
Racial Problems
Exist, Panel Says
°y Jerry Harrell
Emerald Reporter
Raaal discrimination docs exist
on the University of Oregon cam
pus, especially in fraternities and
sororities, but there is little that
can be done at the local level to
end this discrimination. That was
the conclusion reached by a panel
of student leaders sponsored by
the campus chapter of National
association for the Advancement
of Colored People in the Student
Union Tuesday night.
The panel members were Bob'
Summers, former president of
Theta Chi; Bob Pollock, president ^
of Sigma Chi; Robin Lamson, vice- i
president of NAACP; Jerry Ma- j
lone, Westminster foundation;
Wilma Wittenfeld, vice-president
of Panhellenic; and Elsie Schil
ler, president of the Co-op council.
Ur. Robert Clark, assistant dean of
the college of Liberal arts, served
as mediator.
Discrimination Exists
Beginning with the questions, |
Do we have a problem of racial
and religious discrimination on our I
campus?" and "What can be done '■
to eliminate it?", the group reach-!
ed the conclusion that a certain I
amount of discrimination does
exist on the campus and also that
there is little that can be done im
mediately on the local level to end
discrimination.
Citing concrete examples of dis-1
crimination on the campus, Lam
son said that a girl had been ex
pelled from her sorority because
she married a Negro, and that
Negro friends have told him that
many of their white acquaintances
speak only when they are with
other whites who have no personal
race prejudice.
Crusading Not Answer
The panel agreed with the coun
ter of Pollock. He stated that the
problem cannot be solved if local
chapters of fraternities b-»ak thru
affiliation with the national. He
said that more can be accomplish
ed by taking their convictions be
fore the other chapters of the fra
ternity in national workshops and
conventions, and that discrimina
tion will be ended sooner through
teaching and exchange of ideas
than by hasty action and ciusad
in g on the part of individual chap
ters. ^
Lamson concluded by stating*
that a problem does exist in the*
eyes of NAACP, and that fra-,
temities and sororities must tako
the initiative in ending discrimin
ation by searching the means an.fc
taking their beliefs before the na
tional groups.
Teaching Is
In answer to the question: “Hc'Y
ao you reconcile your personal
belief in democracy with the un
democratic stand taken by your
living organization with regard to
discrimination ?”, Pollock answer
ed that teaching is the only wax
discrimination can be eliminate<».
Lamson said that negro friend-*
have told him that the University
of Oregon is a "tough nut to
crack, and that they have gcno
to Portland State or other insti
tutions rather than "start trouble '
by coming to Oregon.
Egyptian Temple
To Highlight Talk
A concentrated documentation,
on a particular temple in southern
Egypt destined for immediate de
struction will highlight the brows
ing room lecture tonight.
"Architectural Sculpture of th*
19th Egyptian Dynasty,” will bo
discussed at 7:30 p. m. today m
the Student Union browsing rocnx
by Mark R. Sponenburgh, assi-j
tant professor of art.
The temple, situated on the Nile
river banks in Nubia, will be com
pletely inundated by the river wa
ters with the construction of a.
new dam for irrigation.
Sponenburgh surveyed this par
ticular temple for the Royal Ar
chaelogical Service of Egypt and
the American Research Center last
winter during his leave in Egypt
under a Fulbright scholarship.
The lecture will be illustrated
by colored slides of the temple*,
and other sculpture of the sam^
Egyptian period. Discussion lea<i
er will be S. VV. Little, dean of the*
school of architecture and allici*
arts.
Historian Reveals Failure
Of British Foreign Policy
British foreign policy between
1919 and 1939 failed in its main
objective — the preservation of
world peace, Sir Ernest Llewellyn
Woodward, noted British historian,
told a University assembly audi
ence Tuesday at 1 p. m.
Mistaken views held by the Brit
ish people during this period could
account for the breakdown of the
attempt to maintain equilibrium
in Europe, the speaker explained.
One belief held by the British
government during the period be
tween the two world wars was
the feeling that there was no im
mediate threat of war in Europe.
In all previous major wars, the
aggressor had been defeated by a
coalition and since Britain herself
had learned a lesson from history.
Sir Llewellyn said, she believed the
rest of the world should have.
War Thought Foolish
“In 1914, Britain had not fought
a major war for 100 years. She
considered war outmoded, immoral
and foolish, and couldn't visualize
a civilized nation starting war at
this time,” the British historian
said. This was a second reason
for his country's foreign policy
failure.
He cited the fact that Britain
and other European countries re
alized too late the danger of the
force of the propaganda spread
by the German leaders. These
countries felt that the civilized
hatred of war was enough protec
tion against the propaganda.
“It is easy to look back now
and say that Britain should have
changed its foreign policy of ap
peasement before the outbreak of
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Present Environs
Influence Historian
A historian is naturally influ
enced by his present surroundings
because he “doesn’t write in a vac
uum, but writes as a person,’’ Sir
Ernest Llewellyn Woodward ex
plained to reporters at a press con
ference Tuesday morning.
Emphasis changes in history as
in everything else, the British
historian said, adding that the
current emphasis on economic fac
tors would no doubt change in fu
ture years.
“Common honesty and common
sense” are needed by the historian,
Sir Llewellyn added. To avoid bias
does not mean he avoids a point
of view, it just means he avoids
conscious distortion of the facts
to support his point of view, he
said.
Winston Churchill is a “most
extraordinary chap,” Sir Llewellyn
declared, commenting that Chur
chill's memoirs are more than a
personal history.
They contain “in fact a great
deal more objective history.” The
man's personal willfulness does ap
pear, however, especially in the
first volumes, Sir Llewellyn said.
war in 1939," the assembly speak
er commented. "But at what point*
should British foreign policy has*
changed ?”
A favorable time for thi»
change, he believed, would have*
beert in 1936, following the de
militarization of the Rhineland*
and not in 1938 at the ill-fat*:^
Munich conference.
When making conclusions cod—
cerning the policy of any govern
ment the historian must consider
chances of fate that might pos
sibly have changed the who!*
course of events. It is probably
too soon to grasp the significance
of all the factors involved during
this period between two major
wars, the lecturer said.
Lesson Learned
"The price of liberty is eternal
vigilance,” the speaker quoted
citing what the British people have*
learned from the failure of them
foreign policy.
British leaders have also growo>
more wary than they were i-fV
years ago of slogans and catih
words. They now realize that
Gresham s law — that bad moneys
drives good money out of emula
tion — applies in politics as well
as in economics, he mentioned.
Sir Llewellyn’s appearance at
the University was his only speak
ing engagement on his current
schedule. He is at present doinjf
research work at the Hoover li
brary for a proposed book about,
the history of England in his cwn*
time.