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1054 No. 104
Local Independents Set
For Regional Conclave
1* A regional convention of the In
dependent Student* association
Will he attended this year by Ore
gon studentm, according to Hollis
■ Ransom, United Independent stu
1 dents president.
f The convention Ik to be held Fri
r day and Saturday at Oregon State
college. Students may either ur
*>>iange for housing there or may go
L the groups leaving from here
i Friday at noon and Saturday at
1 7:30 a, m„ he said.
. The conference will Include cam
Ipua tours, a luncheon at Saekett
hall, a banquet In the Memorial
•' Union, a mixer dance and a prob
lem group discussion.
The delegation from Oregon will
■ be responsible for leading a dis
1“ cushion on "Is organization neces
sary for participation in student
government?" The entire delega
tion will participate in this pro
| gram, ilansom said.
Deadline
SU Board
The deadline for petitions for
| openings on the Student Union
board is Apill 7. according to Vir
ginia Dailey, SU boaid assistant
I chairman.
I Positions which will become va
I cant this spring are one-year
I terms from the law school and the
I graduate school, and two-year
I terms from the schools of journal
I ism, business administration, edu
I cation, and the college of liberal
I art.).
1 Petitions may be picked up on
I the third floor of the SU, and may
I be turned In to the board chair
I man s office. SU 310.
II In addition to the six positions
to be filled by petition, three mem
ber-at-large positions will be fill
I ed through nominations from with
I in present SU personnel.
| Petition
’Set for
Interested students should con
tact Ransom at 4-8381 before
Thu today noon, and may receive
further details on transportation
and the discussion group from him.
Other items of business at a
UIS meeting held Tuesday includ
ed planning for the all-campus
elections to be held May 5.
A platform committee was nam
ed. and it consists of Russell Cow
ell, Bob Patterson and Germaine
LaMarchc. Rules for the primary
elections, to is- held April 14, were
explained, and will be further dis
cussed at the party's next meeting
Monday, Ransom said.
Petitions for AGS
Offices Due Apr. 7
"Determining the party platform
and raising the money are the two
main points to remember in the
coming elections." was the open
ing statement of Associated Greek
Students president Bob Glass at a
meeting Tuesday.
Glass emphasized the fact that
petitions for those intending to run
for offices are due April 7, and
urged all house representatives to
remind members of their houses of
the date.
A motion to reduce each house's
dues from $3 to $3 was made,
causing a discussion of the distri
bution of the party's funds. Bob
Summers suggested that the
change would require a change in
the constitution, and Dorothy
Kopp, secretary, verified this.
The party's platform will be
made up at a meeting of the policy,
committee which will be held Tues
day at 4 p. m. at Kappa Alpha
Theta, Glass announced.
Capacity Audience Hears
Wilson Defend Intellect'
win ume mere 18 a tendency
to hold intellectual minds and the
practice of thinking in disregard
and it is the duty of a university
to combat such ideas, to "honor
the intellect” and clarify the is
sues of the day, O. Meredith Wil
son, new University president said
Tuesday.
Wilson, speaking to a capa
city audience in the Student Union
ballroom, compared the Univcr
>oty s task to that of the small
SU Board Meet
Slated for Today
The Student Union hoard will
meet today at 4 p. m. in the
hoard room. The agenda for the
meeting includes;
• Treasurer’s report with bud
get changes.
0 Special attraction request.
0 World University Service..
0 Kmhossograph report and
discussion.
0 Review of art gallery pro
gram.
0 Directorate chairman's re
port.
0 Board petitioning report.
0 Special events report.
Wickham to Attend
Three Meetings
Mrs. Golda P. Wickham, director
of women's affairs, has left the
campus to attend the convention of
the National Association of Deans
of Women in Washington. D.C.
She will be in Washington from
April 1 through 8, representing the
Oregon Deans association. She will
also attend a social function given
by Mrs. Dwight Eisenhower.
The national convention of As
sociated Women Students will be
attended by Mrs. Wickham, Janet
Wick, AWS president, and Rose
mary Hampton, AWS vice presi
dent. The meeting will be held in
Tucson, Ariz., April 8 through 12.
On April 13, Mrs. Wickham will
give a talk to Oregon mothers and
dads in the Long Beach, Calif.,
area.
[Prize Winning Pianist
i Presents Concert Toniqht
GRANT JOHANNESEN
In Mac Court, the sound of tinkling ivories
Pianist Grant Johannescn, who
will be heard in concert at S to
night in McArthur court, was the
first American artist to win a
first prize at the International
Piano Festival in Belgium. The
award, based on the unanimous
decision of the judges, was made
in 1949.
The concert, presented under the
auspices of the Eugene-University
Civic Music association, is free to
all University students upon pre
sentation of student body cards.
Johan nesen also bears the dis
tinction of being the only one of
the younger generation of pianists
to be featured on the "Telephone
Hour.'’ He appears regularly on
this radio program, as well as per
forming frequently on the "Stan
dard Hour" from California and
“Piano Playhouse."
Born in Salt Lake City of Nor
wegian parents, Johannescn began
his musical career at the age of
five when he began imitating the
piano teacher around the corner,
and by the age of eight was com
posing musical scores and putting
on theatrical entertainments.
Since his New York debut ten
years ago, the young artist has
toured Europe and South America
in addition to this continent. He
has performed with such famous
orchestras as the New York Phil
harmonic, the Boston Symphony,
the Conservatoire Orchestra of
Paris, the Colon Orchestra of Bue
nos Aires and the Netherlands
Philharmonic of Holland.
chil'l in the fable "The Emperor’s
New Clothes," which he used as a
topic for his talk.
In that fable only a small child
saw through the fraud and realiz
ed the emperor wore no clothes.
Today. Wilson said, "our streets
are full of emperors without
clothes and ministers who arc un
willing to tell them."
Questions Answered
Wilson declared that in this
complex society a university exists
for the purpose of seeing that
questions a child can not answer
are clarified.
Iri his fust speech to University
students, Wilson offered "the pos
sible blasphemous suggestion" that
a bachelor's* degree is not enough.
Frequently the wearer of the EA
President Gets
Little 'Quackers'
The two small ducks which AS
UO President Tom Wrightson pre
sented to University President O.
Meredith Wilson at' Tuesday's as
l sembly were five days old. '
The little "quackers" are the
idea of the rally board. Since there
are two of them, lone W’ould get
awfully lonely by itself and would
grow slower, according to a local
feed store man) the rally board
declined to name them, leaving
that ceremony up to President
Wilson's six children.
The names "EnT’ and "Lem"
were written on the two oyster
boxes in which the ducks were pre
sented. however, only as a sugges
tion. The names stand for Emer
ald and Lemon, Oregon's school
colors.
The two fowls were acquired in
Portland over the spring vacation.
Although many duck eggs were
being hatched at that time, for
the Easter trade, most of the little
things hadn't come out of their
shells yet. The Wilson family's
ducks happened to hatch before
schedule, though, as the eggs were
hatched by a mother hen.
The two ducks have been abiding
the last three days in the room of
Tom Gaines, yell king, at Campbell
Club. The ducks are hearty eaters,
devouring half a pound of Albers
special growing mash in their first
four days.
They adapted quickly to a stren
uous campus schedule, staying
awake until 1 a. m. every night.
They catch up on their sleep dur
ing the day, however, says Gaines.
Ducks make fine pets, accord
ing to people consulted about the
Ducks' diet, and become very at
tached to their owners. They are
also very messy, the consultants
were quick to add.
Petition Deadlines
Set for Two Events
Petitions are now being called
for for chairmanships and com
mittee positions for two spring
term campus activities.
The petition deadline for Moth
er's Day general chairman is 4
p. m. Thursday, according to AS
UO President Tom Wrigbtson. The
applications are to be turned in at
the ASUO office, Student Union
304. The chairman will be selected
by the ASUO senate Thursday
! night.
Mother's Day will be held May
15 and 16 in conjunction with Jun
ior Weekend.
Petitions for workers for Duck
Preview weekend, April 23 and 24,
are due Thursday at 5 p. m. in
the SU petition box. Approximate
ly 60 committee workers for the
weekend arc needed, according to
Jerry Farrow and Don Boniine, co
chairmen of the event.
Committees which will need
workers are invitations, promo
tion, orientation assembly, trans
portation and program. A sub
chairman for registration is also
needed. Students petitioning for
positions should specify the com
mittee on which they wish to work,
the co-chairmen said.
is as transparently ignorant as I
hod had no education at all,”
said
Wilson said there is often *
marked difference between the eat.*
alogue description and the "lev^l
of education” of graduates. It i -*
| the responsibility of both faculty,
and student body to “re-examine
jthe intentions and ultimate pro
ducts, he said. The more concern
ed the student is with play an 1
entertainment, the more he contri
butes to the "ultimate fraud,” tha
president warned.
In our time, Wilson told his audi
ence, there is a threat to the free
dom of people of all races ami
I creeds, a threat to the proposition.
hat it is possible to solve profc
dems of government by reflection
iand choice rather than dependin '
, on chance.
.Jefferson Cited
Citing also the Jeffersonian pre
position that a nation can not bn
both ignorant and free, Wilson
•‘aid that a society which refers to
thinkers as "brain trusters” ar. I
cf-g heads and regards intellec
tuals as inclined to be commun
I ists has little chance for demoo
! racy.
A trained intellect will honor
democracy, Wilson declared, add.
ing that the strongest expressic n
of faith in democracy is belie *
that the intellectual mind will un
hold it.
A university’s function is to
make all men less shallow by
teaching them to think and ex
press a clear conviction cf the c
; senses, Wilson said.
Sorority Picnic
Leads to Arrest
Of Eight Womea
Eight members of Sigma Kappa
sorority were arrested Monday eva
jning on Fox Hollow Road during
a picnic for outgoing sorority cf
jficers.^A sheriffs deputy charge*!
I seven of them with illegal posses
i sion of liquor, and the eighth witA
! givfng liquor to a minor.
Each was fined S10 and assess- >\ .
•S5 court costs. Judge Chester M.
Anderson, in a lengthy lecture, tol.V
them "You have hurt your house;'
| you have hurt the University, ar «l
I You have failed to remember yoi*
have an obligation to yourselves
and your parents.”
The judge said it was the bigge-1
case of its kind to come through
his court in three years.
These charged with illegal pos
session were Beulah May Johnso n,
sophomore in art; Joyce McGee*
junior in business; Joyce Meppe *
sophomore in education; Ronere
Miller, sophomore in business j
Carolyn Jean Piercy. junior in psy
chology; Barbara Wilcox, sopho
more in speech, and Janet Wil
liams, sophomore in liberal arts.
Vanda Randall, senior in Eng
lish, was charged with giving
liquor to a minor.
All are officers of Sigma Kappa.
A representative of the dean cl
women’s office was present ir|
court. She said that the girls will
be interviewed and probably place.*
on probation.
A spokesman for the sheriff ?
office told the Emerald Tuesday
that his office had had "quite \
few” complaints from people living
in the Fox Hollow vicinity con
cerning parties being held in drive
ways. He said that this was "per
haps not such an obnoxious party,”
but that some action had to bo
taken in view of the numerous
complaints.