fifty fourth. year of fublicaiian
VOL. I.V L'NI. OF OltK., EUGENE, WKDNE8., APR, 21, 1954 NO. 119
AGS Seeks End of Primary
Tickets on Sale
For Vodvil Show
Tic lo tM for th<* annual Vodvil j
Khow will be on sale today, Thurs
day and Friday In the Student
Union, co-ops, and living organi
zations, Price for college students
\ Is 50 cents.
Acts from five men's living or
ganizations qualified Tuesday
night for the WU8 sponsored Vod
vil show. They are Alpha Tau
Omega, "From Here to Frater
nity"; Beta Theta PI, "Beta Bar";
. Phi Delta Theta, "The Sledge";
Phi Kappa Sigma. "Peter and the
, Wolf"; Sigma Nu, "The Clem
Filler Story.”
* High school seniors on campus
for Duck Preview weekend will be
f admlted free to the Vodvil Friday
i night from 10 to 12 pm. in Mc
■ Arthur court, according to Edna
(Hurniston, Vodvil chairman.
Houses participating ate asked
by Miss Hurniston to turn in a
list of members participating In
w ,he shits. A trophy will be pre
[. sented to the outstanding individ
j ual performer.
UIS To Disclose
• Platform Thursday
The platform of the United In
i' dependent Students will be an
nounced at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at
S an informal coffee hour sponsored
\ by UIS in the Student Union. A
( question and answer session will
I follow.
I Planned primarily to Introduce
I candidates and present the UIS
* plalfomi for the forthcoming
I A8UO election, the coffee hour
p will also give voters a chance to
p talk to individual candidates and
I ask questions about the policies of
the party.
kl All students are invited, UIS
i* President Hollis Ransom has an
. nounced. with independents espe
, ciaJly urged to attend to "meet
• your candidates."
Iliad' Characters
Topic of Lecture
Helen of Troy, Achilles,
Hector, and other characters
from Homer's epic “The Illiad”
will he brought to life at to
night’s Student Union brows
ing room lecture at 7:30.
"Homer's Illiad: Ladies Dead
an.! Lovely Knights" will be dis
cussed by F. M. Com be Hack, as
sociate professor of classic lan
guage;: and nationally know Hom
eric scholar. At the beginning of
his talk Combellack plans to ex
plain the reason for the subtitle
"Ladies Dead > and Lovely
Knights," which is a quote from
William Shakespeare.
Combellack will not discuss the
entire "Illiad," but will analyze
only a few of the most significant
scent-!; arid the personalities of the
main characters. The epic is the
poetic version of the fall of Troy,
and the capturing of the beautiful
queen Helen, based on classical
Greek mythology. *
"I want to make people see the
finer qualities of the characters,"
Combellack said Monday. Most
people do not see Helen. Hector
and the rest as individuals, but as
simply part ®f the epic. Conse
quently they do not get as much
meaning out of the work as they
might. Combellack said.
A discussion of Homer's method
in relationship to all his writings
also will be included in the lecture.
Before coming to the University.
Combellack taught at Stanford
and the University of California.
He is a Stanford graduate and ob
tained his Ph.D. at California. He
also has done graduate work at
Christ Church, Oxford, England,
In 1942 Combellack received a
iGuggcnheim fellowship for the
study of Homeric style and in 1952
was editor of the publication
"Classical Philology."
SU Board Meeting
Scheduled Today
The Student t'nion Hoard jvill
meet at 4 p.ni. today in the hoard
room, Chairman Andy Berwick
has announced. Following is the
agenda for the meeting:
^ Wl’S radio program;
§ Interview and selection of
junior and sophomore memhers
at-large;
• Directorate chairman's re
port—Sandra Price;
0 Banquet report— Klaras
j Deltmelre;
• Special events report — Boh
Pollack.
Co-op to Nominate
Board Members
The annual meeting of the Uni
versity Co-op store will be held
Thursday at Chapman 207. Nom
inations for student board mem
bers will be received from the
floor at that time.
Election of board members will
| be held at the same time as the
, ASUO elections. Four student
board members will be elected.
Political Convention
Amendment Offered
1 Assg';,‘>''1 '-reck Sliulcnts T,i«.lay afternoon approve*
.1 plan to abolish the all-campus primary, ami offered in its
place a constitutional amendment which would make it ros
"r thc l)arty a nominating convention, patterned
alter a national political convention.
Af,S also went on record as favoring the formation of the,
Xorthue.t federation of Collegiate Leaders, re-establishment
|° 1 1C (> entertainment commission and revision of ASUO,
senate procedure to include use of standing committees. They
! approved two proposed constitutional amendments concern
ing the election of freshman class officers and the selection of
the graduate student member of the Senate.
The amendment suggested by AGS in place of the primary
cad- tor thc addition of section VI to article VI of the ASUO
constitution. I he party has already circulated nctitinn* tr.
tain the required 200 signatures
to place the proposal on the bal
, lot for the general elections May
5.
Amendment Proposed
Proposed by party President
Bob Glass, Bob McCracken, Bob
Pollock and ASUO Presidential
; Candidate Bob Summers, the sug
gested amendment reads: “Each
j political party shall present a slate
' of candidates for the general elec
: tion. These candidates shall be se
lected as each of the several par
ties chooses. This amendment shall
i become effective September 3,
. 1954, and shall take precedence
over any article or section of this
! constitution dealing with candidacy
! for office, including section V of
| this article.”
The amendment aroused con
siderable controversy and heated
debate among the AGS represen
tatives before its final passage.
Two houses, Alpha Chi Omega and
I Gamma Phi Beta, voted against
' the proposal. Absent from the
imeeting were Alpha Gamma Del
l ta, Alpha Omicron Pi, Kappa Sig
I ma, Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Gam
ma Delta. Phi Sigma Kappa, Pi
Kappa Alpha and Pi Kappa Phi.
Criticize Open ITimary
The proponents of the amend
ment objected to the open primary
particularly on the ground that it
eliminated defeated candidates
| from running for another office.
(Please turn to page four)
Summers OK's It
Bob Summers, the AGS nomi
j nes-'i {f)r ASUO president, support
| the stand of his party for a
[nominating convention in a state
ment issued Tuesday evening to
i the Emerald.
Summers’ statement read: 'Ot
i is felt that in view of declining’
I student interest and in view of tl**
present system whereby defeat ia
the primary is final, that there i»
I sufficient reason for AGS to e>
I amine other methods of nomina
tion.
"The convention plan as pro
posed by AGS on the surface m: yt
i ^eem to smack of dirty politic
However, this definitely would net
be the case provided adequaio
i safeguards are adopted. The?o
safeguards would be of the fol
lowing nature:
“1. Convention delegates would
be required to vote in accordant o
with the .desires of their eonstit
iuents. Insurance of this would lie
|in fact these delegates would
be required to vote personally by
the roll call method.
"2. Proportionate representation
from the organization would in
sure a maintenance of the status
j quo as to the weight different
cragnizations carry at present id
! ASUO elections.”
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Voting Begins for Weekend Court
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ior Weekend began today at 9
a.m. and will continue until 5
pm. Booths, located in the
Student Union lobby and Co
op, will also be open Thursday.
Pictures of the twelve final
ists are displayed near the vot
ing booths.
The finalists are:
Nancy Moore, sponsored by
Carson 4. She is currently pres
ident of Carson hall and presi
dent of Heads of Houses. She is
a counselor on Carson 4, and is
a member of the Student Affairs
committee.
Shirley Katz, sponsored by Phi
Sigma Sigma, Sigma Alpha Mu
and Carson 2, is president of Phi
Sigma Sigma. She is a member
of Amphibians" and the University
Symposium squad, and is on the
University Religious council.
Ann Hopkins, who is sponsored
by Kappa Alpha Theta, was in
the Homecoming court for 1953.
She has been a member of Kwama
and Phi Theta, and is float co
chairman for this Junioy Week
end. She is a member of Kappa
Alpha Theta.
Nancy Murrow, candidate of
Gamma Phi Beta, is a transfer
frttni the University of Wash
ington. She entered Oregon this
winter term, and Is currently
house song leader. She was in
♦he sophomore women's honor
ary at Washington.
Jean Paulus, a member of Alpha
Chi Omega, is being sponsored by
Phi Gamma Delta and Theta Chi
in the queen race. She is a past
treasurer of her sorority, and is
currently song leader. She was
Five Will Be Finalists
Twelve tin allots for Junior Weekend queen awai't the results of campus-wide balloting today and Thurs
day which will select five finalists for the Weekend court. The twelve women are: (standing, left to
right) Janet Miller, Ann Hopkins, Dorothy Kopp, Joann Morrison, Laura Sturges, Jean Paulus, Anne
Johnston, Nancy Moore, Shirley Katz, and Janet Wick. Sorted are Alma Owen and Nancy Murrow.
secretary for the AWS congress,
and was vice president of Univer
sity Ski Quacks.
Alma Owen, sponsored by Alpha
Chi Omega, Sigma Nu and Sigma
Phi Epsilon, is also a member of
Alpha Chi Omega. She is house
president, and secretary of Heads
of Houses. She was promotion
chairman for the AWS Christmas
tea.
Joann Morrison, Chi Psi’s can
didate in the queen race, is a mem
ber of Pi Beta Phi. She is stan
dards chairman of her sorority
and attended Portland State last
year. She was on the SU danco
committee her freshman year,
when she attended Oregon.
Janet Miller, a member of
Kappa Kappa Gamma, is Camp
bell club’s candidate. She was in
the Homecoming court in 1933,
and was a treasurer of her houso
fall term. Cast year she was in
Kwama, and she went to Port
land State last term.
Anne Johnston is the Sigma Al
pha Epsilon candidate for the title
of Junior Weekend queen. She is
a member of Kappa Alpha Theta,
and is Homecoming float chair
man for her house. She attended
Portland State last year.
Dorothy Kopp, also a member
of Kappa Alpha Theta, is the can
didate of Carson 3, where she waa
a counselor this year. She is eui'*
rently house president and chap
el one chairman for the Junior
prom. She is a candidate for AG-3
senior class representative, and
is AGS secretary. Miss Kopp is a
Phi Theta and was Homecoming
co-chairman.
Laura Sturges, Sigma Kappa,
is her house's candidate for
queen. She is Emerald editorial
assistant, and was associate edi
tor for this year’s Oregano. SIh»
is publicity chairman for Junior
Weekend, and is in Phi Theta
and Theta Sigma Phi.
Janet Wick, a member of Fi!
Beta Phi, is the candidate of Alpha
hall, Lambda Chi Alpha, Halo
Kane, Phi Sigma and Pi Beta Phi.
She is president of Phi Theta tbi-j
year, and is now president cl*
AWS. Miss Wick is general ehaii-*
man of the prom, and was secre
tary of Homecoming. She was also
chairman of the community chest
drive last fall.