President-elect Arrives at UO It was family day at the Hugene Municipal airport Thursday morning with the arrival of President elect O. Meredith Wil son, his wife and six children. Margaret, three years old and the youngest of the Wilson children, was the first to come off the plane, clutching a stuff ed yellow duck. 1 he duck had been given to her during the plane s half hour stopover in Portland earlier in the morning. flight behind Margaret were Meredith (Introduced as Met) M, Connie, 12; Mary Ann, 11; John, 6; David. 4 and their smiling parents. Mower* Presented Victor P. Morris, acting president of the University since Harry K Now bum's resignation in September, and Mrs. Morris were there to greet the family. Sally Stadelman, rally board chairman, presented Mrs. Wilson with a huge bouquet of red and white carnations on behalf of the ASUO. Wilson was wearing rubbers when he stepped off the plane. "I put them on in New York. I thought I might need them in Oregon,” lie said, smiling ruefully. The weather at the airport was bright and sunshiny, if a little crisp. Family Escorted Gathering up their six children, the flowers and several -beanbags'. the Wilsons were escorted to their new home at 2335 McMorran St. Three children went with each parent in separate cars, followed by five cars of students and administration members. A police motorcycle escort brought the caravan into Eugene and across town to then new residence. Up since 3 a. m. Thursday morning, the family looked tired. David slept on the way In from the airport. The Wilsons left Salt Lake city at 6:15 a in. and arrived in Eugene at 10:30 a. in. on a United Air lines flight from Portland. It « good to be here." Mrs. Wilson commented as she caught her breath after arrival at the house. "Everything has just been post poned until we arrived in Oregon.” Children Explore The children were off upstairs to explore their new home. They ran through the upstairs, exploring, opening and closing doors and de manding to know w'hose room was whose. The official student welcoming group included Tom Wrightson, ASUO president: Andy Berwick, Student Union board chairman; Elsie Schiller, Emerald editor; Janet Wick, newly installed AWS president; Bob Summers, ASUO senator; Jim Light, junior class president, and Miss Stadelman. A group of Campbell club men also were at the airport to welcome the new president. Over 200 Meet Wilson University students got their first chance to meet new University - President O. Meredith Wilson at an informal reception in the Dad’s lounge of the Student Union Thursday between 4 and 5 p. m. An intermittent stream of approximately 200 students wandered in and out of the room, shook hands with Wilson and sipped coffee served by the SU hospitality girls. The reception was sponsored by the SU board and the ASUO. Flanked by ASUO President Tom Wrightson and SU Board Chair man Andy Berwick, Wilson talked to students individually as they introduced themselves. He seemed interested in each person, sometimes * inclining his head to catch a name. Wilson wore a brown suit with a conservative bow tie. The new president appeared interested in campus activities, asking several questions about events planned for the campus and discussing subjects ofdnterest to individual students. . Only'a few figures from the administration appeared at the rccep . and no faculty members attended the function planned primarily ■ to give students a chance to get acquainted with Wilson. A faculty 'v luncheon is planned for March 13. Last Mixer to Be Climax ; Of Red Cross Fund Drive Last fishbowl mixer of the term, sponsored jointly by the Student Union dance committee and the ' Red Cross board, will be held to night from 9 to 12 as the climax of . the campus Red Cross fund drive. ' Entertainment will be furnished by Barbara Williams, singer, the Phi Kappa Psi trio and Stan " Smith, master of ceremonies. A - six-piece campus band, “The f. Counts,” will provide music for ' the no-date affair. An award will be made at the ‘ mixer to the house collecting the j" most money during the week's i~ drive. The prize wiH be based on the quota of 25 cents per each liv ing organization member. Houses who made quotas during the week were Pi Beta Phi. Kappa Kappa Gamma, Sigma Kappa, Chi Omega, Alpha Xi Delta, Pi Kappa Alpha, Sigma Chi, Pi Kappa Phi, Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Delta Pi. Beta Theta Pi, Chi Psi, Alpha Phi, Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Sigma Kappa, Gamma Phi Beta, Sigma Nu, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Theta Chi, Delta Tau Delta, Delta Zeta, Al pha Tau Omega, Sigma Alpha Mu and Phi Kappa S igm a, .'Richard IT Begins Run By Dave Sherman Emerald Reporter Curtain time tonight at the Uni versity theater will reveal to first nighters the product of a term'H work by Howard L. Ramey, in structor in speech, and tofr stu dents who constructed the settings for •Richard II," the Shakes pearean history opening at 8 to night. The setting and lighting were designed and executed under the supervision of Ramey, technical director of the theater. The open ing scene uses a row of arches across the back of the stage and other seen we use another row of arches closer to the audience. John Jensen, junior in speech, did the painting on all the scenery. Flint Castle, which looms on the right side of the stage for the first scene in the second half of the play, was one of the most difficult pieces of scenery to put together. The many different pieces of scenery and their detailed pers pective painting make this the most difficult job of staging for < I'lcosc turn In page eight) Last Issue Today Today’s issue of the Emerald Is the last regular publication of winter term. A special edi tion will lie published next Thursday. Changes in Elections Passed by Senate hr ASK) senate I hursday night passed a proposed consti tutional amendment for freshman .lections, held a graduate student amendment up for the opinion of the constitutional < omimtlee and adopted a hy-lavv governing the balloting meth ods for the spring term primary election. i hr freshman elections amendment will he placed on the bal ;; or the Bencral Mudem body election, May 5, The amend meut would divide the freshman ballot into two sections one for president and vice-president and the other for two renre Lecturer Traces Mayan Evolution A night and an insight into the development of Mayan culture was j given Thursday evening by Alberto ! Ruz. a member of the staff of the National Institute of Anthropolo-1 gy and History at the National; Museum in Mexico City, in a lec- j ture given before a small audience } in the Student Union ballroom. Ruz traced the development of the Mayas through its four peri- j ods of history, ending with the peak of decadence reached at the time of the arrival of the Span iards. His lecture was illustrated with colored slides. In the early period the sedentary life of the Mayans led to the de velopment of ceramics and scul pture, with the emphasis on sim plicity and vigor. The Mayans were not a wholly peaceful nation. Ruz mentioned, for they were re quired to fight their enemies in self-defense. "The Mayans created a brilliant (ivilization lasting more than 1000 years, yet that history has been almost totally lost," Ruz reported. Vestiges of the past still remain, however. •sentatives. The senate originally passed tho graduate student amendment, but after further consideration de feated it pending an opinion of tbo constitutional committee. The pro posed amendment would have tho graduate member of the senate selected by the senate in Octobe r rather than elected in the spring term election. The constitutional committee will be asked for an opinion cr* when the election, if any, ahoukl be held. The by-law governing the pri mary election contains the follow ing six provisions: Each political party w'ill have a separate ballet for president, senators-at-largOj and class officers; the ballot will be divided into four parts, on