Mistakes Tolerated
In USA - Commager
“In a democracy, people have
the right to make mistakes,” Hen
ry S. Commager, professor of his
tory at Columbia university, said
at the Student Union coffee hour
forum Monday.
Commager criticized the lack of
vigor in the legislative branch of
the government since it allows the
judicial branch* to make too many
decisions.
The people, through their legis
lators, should take the necessary
action on major issues and end the
deplorable habit of running to the
courts every time they want a de
cision, he continued.
Commager also stated that pres
sures for conformity are greater
today than at any time in the his
tory of the country. In reference
to conformity and censorship in
the writing of textbooks, he said
that the situation may develop to
where “no first-rate or honest man
will write a textbook.”
The noted historian also pointed
out what he considered to be a
fundamental reversal of principles
and practices in our domestic pol
icy the past year. The government,
he elaborated, has been shuffling
off authority in areas where it
should -maintain authority and has
invaded fields such as education,
religion, civil rights, and freedom
of speech and press—areas which
the Bill of Rights excludes from!
governmental authority.
Rights, Atomic Age
Are Contest Topic
The Bennett prize of $75 will be
awarded the University student ;
submitting the best essay on the ■
subject, “The Bill of Rights and 1
the Atomic Age,” according to
Robert W. Smith, associate pro
fessor of history.
Essays must be turned in to the
department of history. Common
wealth 209, by May 10. The con
test is open to both graduate and
undergraduate students.
Choice of approach to the topic
is left to the applicant, but the
committee suggests a length of
between 3000 and 4000 words.
James C. Miller, graduate stu
dent in business administration,
won the contest in 1953 with an
essay on “Civil Rights as a Prin
ciple of Free Government.”
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0 Two showings, at 7 and 0
p. m., of public education film
will be held this evening in Com
monwealth 138. Films to be shown
are "As Our Boyhood Is,” "The
Undefeated" and “Our Coming •
Generation."
0 Petitions are due at 5 p. m.
Friday for operator of the Stu-1
dent Union embossograph mach-1
ine. The position pays $1 per hour.
ASUO petitions are to be used, and ,
they may be returned to the AS- j
UO box on the third floor of the 1
SU, according to SU board Treas
urer Bob Koutek.
0 The YWCA cabinet will meet
at noon today at Gerlinger hall to
hear Mrs. Gladys Rawther. a re
gional YWCA staff member,
speak.
0 The Panhellenic executive
council will meet in the Student
Union at 4 p. m. today. President!
Carol Wenner has announced.
0 A meeting of the Red Cross
board will be held in the Student
Union at 4 p. m. today, according
to Mary Wilson, president.
0 Petitions for master of cere
monies of the Vodvil, April 23, are
due Friday, according to Helen R.
Johnson, program chairman. Peti
tions should be returned to the
ASUO box cm the third floor of the
Student Union.
0 The honor code committee
will meet at 4 p. m. today in the
Student Union, Chairman Gordon
Rice has announced.
0 Askleplads, pre-med honor
ary, will meet at 7:30 p. m. today
in the Student Union, according
to Bill Haney, secretary.
0 The Hawaiian club will meet
tonight at 8 p. m. in the Student
Union, according to Lorna Mur
akawa, president.
0 Gladys Lawther, World Uni
versity Service regional secretary,
will be available for firesides and
classroom talks Thursday and Fri
day, according to Gail West, WUS
education chairman. Living organ
izations, religious foundations or
other groups who wish to hear
Miss Lawther should call Jean
Sandine or Lloydene Hurt at 5
1803.
0 Cottons and heels are to lie
worn at the Heads of Houses in
stallation tea, Monday, from 3 to
5' p. m. at Gerlinger hall. Newly
elected officers of the group are
Nancy Moore, president, Ruth Jo
seph, vice-president, and Alma
Owen, secretary-treasurer.
Vodvil Hostess New
To This Year's Show
A new feature, a World Univer
sity Service hostess, will be in
cluded in this year's WUS Vodvil
show, according to Ted Goh, WUS
general chairman.
The hostess, who will be intro-1
duced at the annual Vodvil, will
be selected from among the for
eign students on campus, accord
ing to Jean Fay, hostess selection
co-chairman.
“This new feature is being intro
duced this year in order help pro
mote international feeling at the
Vodvil show','’ Miss Fay said.
Students will vote on hostess
candidates April 21 and 22, the
same days that voting for the Jun-!
ior Weekend queen will take place.
9 Petitions for sub-ohairmar
for Junior Weekend promotion are
due today at 5 p.m. on the third
floor of the Student Union, accord
ing to John Vazbys, promotion
committee chairman. Positions
open on the committee include an
assistant- promotion co-chairman
for Junior Prom and for the all
campus sing, and cq-chairmen for
special stunts, invitations and fly
ing speeches.
Red Cross, Kwama, SU
Petition Deadlines Listed
Red Cross board petitions are due
at 5 p.m. Monday, according to
President Mary Wilson. Regular
ASUO petitions are to be used. •
Positions open on the board for
next year include president, vice
president, secretary, treasurer,
blood drive chairman, disaster
chairman, Roseburg project chair
man, promotion and publicity chair
man and special events chairman.
The petitions may be turned in
to Miss Wilson at Delta Gamma,
Carol Huggins at Kappa Kappa
Gamma, or Sally Ryan at Alpha
Chi Omega.
• * •
Petitions for Kwama, sophomore
women’s service honorary, may be
turned in to Janet Gustafson at
Kappa Kappa Gamma, Dorothy
Iler at Carson hall, or to any
Kwama member until 5 p.m. Fri
day.
A picture of the applicant must
accompany each petition, Miss
Gustafson has emphasized. Regu
lar ASUO petition forms are to
be used.
Activities are to be listed in the
order of their importance. No sug
gestions are to be included, ac
cording-to Miss Gustafson.
The honorary will tap 30 fresh
man women at the All-Campus
Sing during Junior. Weekend.
Those selected for membership
must have at least a 2.00 grade
point average for fall term and a
minimum of a 2.00 GPA for winter
term.
Petitions for chairmen of the
Student Union standing commit
tees are now being called for. Po
sitions as chairmen on the follow
ing committees are open: art, gal
lery, browsing room, coffee hour
forum, personnel, recorded music,
publicity, music, public relations,
movie and dance.
Deadline for petitioning is April
25. The petitions may be turned
in to the SU board chairman’s;
office on the third floor of the SU
For further information, call Andy
Berwick, SU board chairman, or
Virginia Dailey, assistant chair
man. _.
Eliickson to Talk
On Atomic Power
"The lecture will deal almost
entirely with prospects of atomic
power plants for the generation of
electricity,” Ft. T. Eliickson said
Tuesday, refering to the browsing
room lecture which he will give
tonight.
Speaking at 7:30, Eliickson.
head of the physics department
and associate dean of the graduate
school, will explain potential con
structive uses of atomic power.
His topic will be "Prospects of
Atomic Power."
The main constructive use of
atomic energy is the generation of
electricity from nuclear energy, in
stead of from hydro-electric en
ergy, Eliickson said. He comment
ed that it is only just recently
that the Atomic Energy commis
sion has been able to get any Idea
of the cost or the possibilities of
economically creating electric pow
er from nuclear reactors,
Eliickson plans to outline the na
tion’s atomic resources and to
pose and answer the question, “Is
it necessary to develop such re
sources ?”
Previous to coming to Oregon in
1948, Eliickson was with the Of
fice of Naval research. He has
taught both at Fteed college and at
Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.
He holds an A.B. from Fteed col
lege, an M.A. from Oregon State1
college and a Ph.D. from the Uni
versity of Chicago. A paper of
Ellickson’s was presented at Cor
nell university in 1946. He has
written numerous articles for mag
azines in the scientific field and
has been awarded various research
contracts since 1941.
Professionally, Eliickson belongs
to many associations including the
American Physical society, the
American Association of Univer
sity professors, the New York
Academy of Sciences and the Ore
gon Academy of Science.
Annual Meeting
University of Oregon Co-operative Store
•- to be held
Thursday, April 22 at 4:00 P.M.
Room 207, Chapman Hall
Nomination for membership on
The Board of Directors will be held.
U of O Co-op Store
House Chaplains To Hear
Discussion of Anglicanism
Third in a series of talks on
comparative religions will be de
livered Thursday at 6:30 p. m. in
the Student Union at the weekly j
meeting of House Chaplains, Jo,
Hutchon, Danforth graduate and
organizer of the group, has an -!
nounced.
Anglicanism will be discussed |
by Rev. Robert Ellis of 8t. Mary’s J
Episcopal church in Eugene at the
meeting. Previous topics of discus
sion have been Catholicism and
Judaism.
In succeeding weeks the group
will hear discussions of Calvinism
(including the Presbyterian, Con
gregational and Unitarian I
churches) Methodism and other!
liberal faiths, the Christian church '
and other conservative faiths anil!
the Assembly of God and penta-1
costal faiths.
The meetings are open to mem
bers of House Chaplains and other
interested persons, Miss Hutchon i
said.
Election of officers will also be
on the agenda for the meeting
Thursday. The following have been i
nominated: president. Maurice;
Bell, Sigma Phi Rpsi'.on; vice-!
WUS Topic of
Aussie Speaker
• An Australian student lender.
Benjamin Barg, will speak on!
World University Service at a
coffee hour today at 4 p.m. in th<
Student Union.
Cladys Lawther, regional aeci-e
tary for WUS. will also be on cant
pus for the coffee hour. Miss Law
ther recently returned from India
where she studied student groups.
She will remain on campus until
Friday, speaking at fireside:
Thursday and Friday evening-.
Barg, who spoke in classrooms
and at firesides Monday and Tues
day, has been on a world tour since
last May. He sent two months in
Indonesia, Malaya, India and Cey
lon observing the work done by
WUS in these countries.
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president, Joan Hn viand, 0«|
Omega; corresponding secretary,
Owen Kndlcott, Orldes, and Myrla
Thomas, Alpha Delta PI; recording
secretary, Bonnie Brackin, Gam
ma Phi Beta, and treasurer, Dick
McDaniels, Barrister Inn.
Campus Calendar
8:00 ASUO Vote Terrace SU
Ugly Man Contest
Soda Bar SIT
9:00 Air Cadet Team 110 SU
Noon Led Com 111 SU
Er Tbl 112 8 U
3:00 Duck Prev Prog Com Hds
111 SU
•1:00 Panhel Exec Coun 112 SU
Hon Code Com 113 SU
Red Croas Bd 114 SU
Pi Delta Phi 334 SU
SU Bd 337 SU
iVUS End Cof Hr
Dads rm SU
0:00 ASUO Elect Com 214 SU
6:30 Druids Jr Wknd Office
Queen Sel Int 333 SU
Queen Sel Wait 334 SU
7:30 Askleplads 111 SU
SDX 112 SU
Alpha Delta Sigma 113 SU
EUickson Lect 201 SU
Sq Dance Ger Anx
Educ Movie 138 CW
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