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Theme Announced
For Vodvil Show
The World University Service
Vodvtl show will follow the theme
"Hands Across the Sea," the same
theme being used for the WUK
fund drive. Vodvil Chairman Edna
Humiston has announced.
Any campus or living organiza
tion is eligible to enter an act in
the show, which will be held at 10
pm. Friday. April 23, in conjunc
tion with Duck Preview weekend.
Entry deadline ia 5 p.m. Mon
day, April 19. Entry blanks are
available at the YMCA office, Stu
dent Union 319.
Eliminations for women's acts
will be held April 19, while men's
eliminations are schedule for Tues
day, April 20.
Workers Named
Sub-chairmen for the Vodvil in
clude Audrey Lawson, tickets;
Helen Johnson, programming;
Phyllis Earn, Judging and awards;
Valarie llersh, programs; Sally
Cummins, promotion; Gene Mur
phy, stage and lighting; Norma
Crowley and Janice Boyes, decora
tions, and Karen Kraft, secretary.
A carnival will be held in Mc
Arthur court before the Vodvil
show. Souvenirs from many for
eign countries will be sold, ac
cording to Ingrid Meijling, carni
val chairman.
Visits Planned
Students speaking on WUS will
visit various living organizations
from 15 to 21, according to Gall
West, education sub-chairman.
Firesides will also be scheduled at
houses on these dates.
Other events of the WUS fund
drive, April 19 to 24, include an
auction Friday afternoon of the
drive, a car wash April 20, and
the Ugly Man contest.
A weekly program concerning
WUS will be broadcast over
KWAX every Wednesday night at
8:15, according to Anne Hill, WUS
publicity chairman.
Campus Cop Victim
Of Road Incident
J. I’. ‘'Jens'’ Jensen, campus po
liceman. was the victim of two
men who stopped him on the high
way north of Harrisburg Wednes
day night and knocked him out,
taking his wallet and about $12
Jensen received a call from a
man about 9;30 Wedensday night
infoiming him his wife was seri
ously ill in a Salem hospital. On
the way, hr was flagged down by
two men by a stopped car who re
quested a flashlllgbt. Upon re
ceiving one. he was hit. He re
ceived a badly bruised eye and
foot. His glasses were al. o broken.
Jensen returned to Eugene and is
recovering at home. A check with
the hospital revealed that they did
not make any call concerning his
wife ar.d that her condition was
satisfactory, state police head
quarters in Eugene reported.
Blood Drive
To Close at 4
The second blood drive of the
year started this morning in Mc
Arthur Court, reports Mary Wil
son, president of the sponsoring
Red Cross Board. The drive will
last through 4 p.m. today.
The total number of donors is
expected to surpass the 262 from
whom 216 pints of blood were col
lected fall term. Arrangements
have been made to handle 300
donors at the rate of 80 per hour.
It is not necessary that donors
have appointments to donate.
A plaque will be awarded to
the living organization which has
the largest percentage of donors.
The award was won fall term by
Gamma Phi Beta.
the top-ranking men's living or
ganization in the drive will be en
tertained by six members of
Kwama. Members of Scabbard and
Blade and Command Squadron will
serve the women's living organiza
tion which has the largest per
centage of donors.
Students under 21 are to pre
sent parental permission slips at
the time they donate. Those who
have previously donated blood here
have slips on file, Miss Wilson
stated.
Where fs Herman?
Who 18 the ''Ugliest Man on
Campus'’ and where is Herman,
the Moose head traditionally given
to the winner of the UMOC con
test ?
These are two questions current
ly bothering members of Alpha
Phi Omega, national men's ser
vice fraternity and sponsors of the
UMOC contest, held annually in
conjunction with the World Uni
versity fund drive.
Tuesday has been set as the
Duck Preview Housing
Information Due Today
AH house preference lists and
quota lists for Duck Preview
housing are due today at 5 p. m.
in the alumni office of the Stu
dent Union, according to Bob Por
ter, chairman of men's housing.
The housing policy this year will
provide for placement of the high
school seniors where they want to
stay, as much as possible. Hous
ing will be bused on the quota
system as devised by the houses,
according to Jerry Farrow, co
chairman of the weekend.
"Dormitories will not we used
this year,” Farrow said, “except
when the houses are filled to ca
Mother's Weekend
Petitions Called In
Petitions for Mother's Weekend
chairmen are due Tuesday to Gen
eral Chairman Donna Lory at Pi
Beta Phi or the Junior Weekend
office in the Student Union.
Chairmanships open include
housing, Mother’s breakfast, tea,
hospitality, tickets, awards, publi
city and promotion. Special events
will be held for mothers of stu
dents in conjunction with Junior
Weekend, May 11 and 15.
parity and space is needed.”
Speakers Named
Speakers for the orientation as
sembly to be held Saturday morn
ing, April 24, were announced
Thursday by Barbara Bailey and
Carol DeVilbiss, co-chairmen of
the assembly program.
They include ASUO President
Tom Wriglitson, University Pres
ident O. Meredith Wilson, star
basketball player Barney Holland,
Danforth graduate Jo Hutchon and
AWS President Janet Wick.
The University’s band and rally
squad will be present at the half
hour assembly, which will begin at
10 a. m., the chairmen said.
500 Register
Official figures on the number
of students registering for the
weekend so far has not yet been
compiled by Spencer Carlson, di
rector of admissions, but it was
"well over 500” early this week,
he said.
Donna Lory and John Vazbys,
invitations co-chairmen for the
weekend, have urged that students
write personal letters to high
school seniors as soon as possible.
Pamidilets on Oregon and regis
tration slips to include in the
letters may be obtained from Miss
Lory at Pi Beta Phi or from Vaz
bys st Campbell club. '
deadline for nominations f^r the
UMOC title, according to Harlan
Heyden, chairman of the contest.
Nominations are to be turned in
to him at Pi Kappa Alpha or by
calling him at 5-6866.
There are no qualifications listed
for nominees for the title. Tra
ditionally, however, living organi
zations nominate men with few
activities and low grades.
Last year's winner, Jim Light,
was an exception to this rule. For
his pains, he received Herman and
the “Ugly Man" mug. His spon
soring organization received a
plaque.
A milk bottle for each nominee
will be placed in the Co-op and
the Student Union next week,
Heyden said. Students will put
money in the bottle of their favor
ite candidiate and at the end. of
the week, the nominees with the
most money will be named as
semi-finalists.
The contest will continue
through April 23, when the winner
will be named at the All-campus
Vodvil show.
Politics' Topic
For Englishman
A British author and states
man, Kenneth Lindsay, )S current
ly in hugene to deliver several
lectures both on campus and in
the city.
Mis main appearance at the Uni
versity will he Tuesday at 1 p.m.
when he will address a Univer
sity assembly in the Student Union
ballroom on the topic "Politics in
I he Atomic Age: Challenge to
Universities." He will appear in a
coffee hour forum at i p. m. the
same day in the SU Dad's lounge.
Lindsay will speak on "Berlin
• o Geneva at 10 a. m. Monday in
Commonwealth 133.
Today and Saturday, Lindsay is
attending a joint meeting of
Northwest and Western Political
Science associations in Corvallis.
He is to speak on the topic "The
British Political Deadlock." Thurs
day evening Lindsay addressed the
hugene Council on World Affairs
on the same topic.
Honored at r»inner Meeting
Monday evening he will be the
guest of honor at a dinner meet
ing of Pi Sigma Alpha, political
science honorary, and the Inter
national Relations club. He will
also be the guest at a luncheon
sponsored by the assembly com
mittee Tuesday noon.
While in the area, Lindsay will
participate in a panel discussion
1 o be tape recorded for radio re
lease. Topic of the discussion will
be "The New U. S. Defense Stra
tegy."
A member of Parliament for
English universities from 1933 to
1930, Lindsay has held several
important positions within the
British government. He was Civil
Lord of the Admiralty. 1935 to
1943, and Minister of Education.
1937 to 1940.
Oxford I'ninn President
Lindsay was president of the
Nan Hagedorn Joins
Political Hopefuls
An addition to the list of can
didates run in Thursday's Emerald
is Nan Hagedorn. AGS. freshman
in liberal arts, who is running for
sophomore representative.
Miss Hagedorn's cumulative
grade point average and last
term s GPA are both 3.23. Virgin
ia Johnson, who was listed as a
candidate for senior representa
tive, is running for senator-at
large.
Oxford union, 1910 to 1922, and <
member of the first Oxford de
bate team to the United States m
1922 and 1923. He has also heM
the posts of Director of Migration,
chairman of the National Ban!*
9 ague and first secretary of Poli
tical and Economic Planning.
While Minister of Education,
Lindsay founded the Youth Serv
ice. He has also been a delegate'
to the Hague and the Strasbourg*
conference.
Lindsay is author of "Social
j Progress and Educational Waste ’
and "English Education.” He r»
a contributor to the Manchester
Guardian, Observer, Fortnightly,
and Spectator.
Defense Continues
In John Daily Trial
A series of alibis was use I
Wednesday in defense of John Da
vid Daily, senior in mathematics,
on trial for a charge of trying to
extort money from a Eugeni
housewife. '
Attorneys for Daily built their
defense on two main points:
1. They say Daily was else
where on days which the housewife
claims the extortion attempts were
made.
2. The defense claims that Daily,
had two scabs on the side of hi-j
face on two occasions when be
was identified by state witness* j
who did not mention the scabs.
Key witness in the trial 53
Richard Bray, graduate assistant
in geology, who testified that he
was drinking coffee with Daily rn
Jan. 18 at the time police were
chasing a man the state says Ja
Daily on Skinner’s Butte.
Earlier in the week, 12 Univer
sity of Oregon students were sub
poenaed to appear as witnesses
i in the trial.
Shortly after Daily was arrested
Jan. 2S, the ROTC department w: i
asked to verify that Daily was a
his 2 p.m. ROTC class on Jan. t,
8 and 11. days on which some of
the actions in the case were sup
posed to have taken place.
Perry Halstead and J. E. Garlat,
graduates in geology, both testified
Wednesday that Daily had notice
able scabs on his face at the time
; of identification. Daily said that
he scraped his face on the wf li
during a handball game Jan. 11.
Henry S. Commager
To Lecture Monday
Henry S. Commager, professor
of history at Columbia university,
will lecture on "The Conduct of
Publication Date Set in May
For Oreaana, Savs Ford
The 1954 Oregana will roll ofl
the presses sometime in May, ac
cording to Bob Fora, Oregana edi
tor. This year’s book, now at a
Portland printing firm, will be one
inch smaller in width and heighl
than last year’s Oregana.
Several other changes have alsc
been made in the format of the
yearbook, since no advertising was
included this year. A thinner paper
is being used and a “bigger per
sonality section” was planned. Full
page pictures of Koyle Cup Win
ner Hon Lowell, Gerlinger Cup
Winner Joan Marie Miller and
Sigma Phi Epsilon "Swamp Girl"
Sharon Snyder are included in the
1954 Oregana.
Of the 368 pages in the book,
I there are 360 pages of layout pic
tures and captions. The 1953 Ore
gana carried 352 layout pfeges in
1368 pages. Four of the extra
pages are devoted to sports.
The Oregana cover is being de
! signed by Lincoln and Allen, Port
i land printing company and will
feature a modernistic design, ac
cording to Ford. Printing of the
book will be done by Sweeney,
| Krist and Dimm Lithographers in
Portland.
A few copies are still available
and may be ordered in the Ore
gana business office, according to
Jim Light, Oregana business mana
ger. Students have bought 2568
copies so far this year, said Light.
I Foreign Policy" Monday at 8 p.nu
I in the Student Union ballroom.
Commager’s lecture here will bo
one of three he is giving in the
i Pacific Northwest. Other college*
j he will visit include Reed college,
j Portland .and Washington State
i college. The widely-knowm educa
i tor and writer is being sponsored
■ at the University by the Failing
Distinguished Lecture Series com
| inittee.
The author-historian has writ
j ten several textbooks. His book ca
! American documents is used by
(United States history classes ct\
| campus.
Other books by Comm&ger in
clude. “America in Prospective,'*
| “The Heritage of America” and
"The Rise of the American Na
I tion.”
The Failing Distinguished lec
turer holds degrees from the Uni
versity of Chicago and the Uni
versity of Copenhagen. Before as
suming his present teaching posi
tion at Columbia, Commager
taught at the history department
at New York university.