VOI,. LV I NUKRKITY «>!•■ OltK'.ON, K( (iKNK, THIKSDA V, APRII, 22. 1954 vo I9n Southwell Named Oregana Editor BUT NOME ON THE FLOOR High Schoolers to Fill Houses floor thin weekend, unless Univer sity students have sleeping bags!" according to Hi Ellingson, director of men's affairs. All houses are filled to capacity, he continued, estimating that 1300 to 1400 high school Mentors will register for Duck Preview. Registration will begin at noon Yell King Bids Called by ASIIO Petitions fop yell king for 1954 55 are now being called for by AHUO President Tom Wrightson. The deadline is Wednesday, May 12 at 5 p. m. Any male st\ident, regardless of year in school, who has a minimum of a 2.00 accuinmulative grade point average and 2.00 for winter term, is eligible to petition. Regular AHUO petition forms should be used, says Wrightson. The king will be selected at the 1954-55 AHUO senate meeting, Thursday, May 13. The senate has expressed the opinion that the position of rally king should be one highly respec ted by University students. For U»i» reason, they will consider not only each candiidate’s yell leading ability, but also his leadership ability. Board Interviews Seven at Meeting Interviews of candidates for sophomore member-at-large of the Student Union board was the main item of business of the board meeting Wednesday. Those inter viewed were Sonia Edwards, soph omore in liberal arts; Barbara Johnson, sophomore in art; Bar bara Wilcox, sophomore in speech; Valeria Cowls, sophomore in lib eral arts; Bob Porter, sophomore in pre-law; Jack Socolofsky, soph omore in pre-law and Lucia Knep per, sophomore in English. The board has one sophomore and two junior member-at-large vacancies. The board fills the ap pointive position if it feels that a person has done particularly out standing work in the program. The sophomore member's term is for two years, while the junior is for one. In other business Klaras Deit meicr reported on the annual Stu dent Union awards banquet which has been set for May 20. Addresses from Dick Williams, SU director, and Andy Berwick, board chair man, will be features of the eve« ning YW Soph Cabinet Sponsors Dessert A dessert for freshmen women sponsored by the sophomore cab inet of the YWCA will be held to night in the Carson living room from 6:15 to 6:30 p. m. AHUO President Tom Wrightson is scheduled to explain the voting system. The Duckling counseling program will be explained, and Ann Stearns will sing and play the piano. , Ten cents will be charged for refreshments. * 1 luuy in me student Union, and will be handled by members of Hkull unci Dagger. Each visitor registering will pay a fee of $5. which will include all expenses of the weekend. Included In the material will be tickets to the vfxlvil show and Sat urday-night dance, according to Bob Maier, registration chairman, i he nigh-school students will also be assigned housing when they register, he said. If any of the guests go directly to the house where they are slay ing before registering, members of the house should make sure they register before the deadline, Maier sard. Saturday morning from 9 a. m. to noon registration wifi be con tinued. Transportation to houses will be furnished by members of Alpha Phi Omega, men's service honorary, according to Jerry Far row, weekend co-chairman. The WUS-sponsored auction will be held at 4 p. m. Friday in the fishbowl, and dinner Friday will be from 5:30 until 7 p. m The "What to take?" sessions, to be held in each department, will be held from 8 p. m. to 9:30 p. m„ and the WUS-sponsored vodvil show will be at 10 p. m„ in Mc Arthur court. Adviser meetings, also in each department, will be hel^ from 9 a. m. to noon Saturday. The orien tation assembly will be in the SU ballroom from 10 a. m. to 10:30, and will be followed by campus tours led by members of Kwama and Skull and Dagger. Educational exhibits in each de Co-op Meets at 4 P.M. Nominations for members of th> next years Co-op board will be made at today’s annual meet ing of the group. The meeting will be held In Condon hall at 4 p.m. Names of the nominees for the board will appear on the May ASl'O general election ballot. , Some Venus' Ducats Left A few scats are still available for next Monday and Tuesday’s production of "One Touch of Ven us," according to Dick Hiatt, Uni versity theatre box office mana ger. All the other /nights of the eight performance run have been nearly sold out, he said. The box office will be open all week from 1 to 5 in the afternoon. Tickets are $2 each. "One Touch of. Venus,” a mod ern musical comedy, will open Fri day under the direction of Freder ick J. Hunter. Featured in the cast are Larry Swanson, senior in mu sic, and Verla Thompson, sopho more in speech, who play the leads. Paul McMullen, graduate in speech, and Audrey Mistretta, jun ior in music, have leading support ing roles. The show contains much of the music of Kurt Weill, paired with the lyrics of Ogden Nash. "Speak Low” is the most popular song from the show. Other musical pieces include "West Wind,” “Way Ou West in Jersey,” "The Trouble With Women,” “One Touch of Venus," “Very, Very Very,” and "Wooden Wedding." partment will also be- featured Sat- i urelay morning' following the as Mimbiy. This will be partly a con tinuation of the “What to take?" fissions, and will include addition al exhibits. launch in the houses will be at 1 p. m. Saturday, followed by three events beginning at 2 p. m. They are the Amphibian water show at the men's pool, a track meet, and a baseball game with the Salem Senators. Shepherd Drops From UIS Slate Tom Shepheard, senior in politi cal science, Wednesday night is sued a request to Bob Funk, ASUO vice-president, that his name bo' removed from the senator-at-large ballot for the May elections. Shep herd received the UIS nomination ; for the post last week with 35 votes fourth highest total received by the UIS senator-at-large can didates. According to section nine of the ASUO primary amendment to the ASUO constitution, if a nominee: presents a written resignation to the vice-president by noon of the! fifth day prior to the general election, his name will be with drawn and the name of the person who was last defeated for that position shall have his name placed on the ballot as nominee. The name of the person last de feated for the position is in records in the office of student affairs ac cording to Funk, and was ’ not available Wednesday evening The defeated UIS senator-at mrge candidates were Carole Beech, Shirley Knox, Pat McCann and Roberta Stenkamp. Emerald Increase In Budget Approved Bob Southwell, junior in busi neH« Wednesday evening was named editor of the 1955 Oregano by the publications board. Bob McCracken, sophomore jn liberal arts was selected as business man ager. Only other petitioners for the two posts were Paul Keefe for editor and Alan Oppliger for busi ness manager. Southwell served as associate Voting Ends Today For Junior Court Voting for the five finalists on the -lunior Weekend court ends at 5 p. m. today. Booths, with pictures of the 12 candi dates displayed nearby, are lo cated in the Student i nion lob by and Co-op. I ho members of the court will be introduced at intermission of tlie All-Campus Vodvil show Friday night. The 12 candidates for the Jun ior Weekend court are Anne Johnston, Ann Hopkins, Dorothy Kopp, Shirley Katz, Janet Miller, Nancy Mur row, Nancy Moore, Alma Owen, Jean 1‘aulus, Jo anne Morrison, Laura Sturges and Janet Wick. WUS Hostess Vote Voting for the World Univer sity Service hostess will be held today along with Junior Weekend Queen selection, according to Jean Fay and Sharon Snyder, WUS hos tess co-chairmen. Booths for both the Junior Weekend Queen and WUS hostess selection are located in the Student Union lobby and the Co-op. Pictures of the foreign student candidates are on display near the booths. Candidates are Ana Klu gatch, Argentina; Namiko Ikeda, Japan; Miyeko Ohno, Japan; Judith Pederson, Denmark; Derae tria Pujante, the Philippines; Omneyo Souelem, Egypt; Agnes Weitz, Germany, Gertrud Wirgler, Austria; Marjeha Haavio, Finland; and Ingrid Meijling. Sweden Selection of a foreign student hostess for the Vodvil show this year is an attempt o “promote in ternational feeling at the Vodvil,” Ted Goh, WUS general chairman, said. Barney Talks Tonight On Travels in Russia College Editor Dave Barney, re cently returned from three weeks in the Soviet Union will give his Impressions of Russia when he speaks today in the Student Union at 7:30 p. m. The public is invited. As editor of the Reed college Quest, Barney was selected along with six other American student editors to visit Russia. They ar rived in Moscow Dec. 28 and spent five days in the Russia capital be fore continuing on their 5000 mile tour of the country. Although the editors received what is known in the west as the "red carpet, champagne and caviar tour," they wefe still able to speak with literally hundreds of Russian people, and thus form a compre hensive picture of today's Russia. With the exception of airplanes and factories, the visitors could photograph anything they pleased. Barney will show moving pictures of his trip. In Moscow Barney visited the new Moscow university. This huge 36 story building holds 18,000 stu dents. Six thousand students are housed in the wings of the giant building. Barney had the opportun ity to speak personally with many of the students. The seven editors even spent New Year’s Eve in the Kremlin at a party sponsored by young Moscow communists. Leaving Moscow the party trav eled to Baku on the Caspian sea. Then they went by train to Tiflis, the capital of the Georgian repub lic. Their next stop was the great industrial center of Kharkov in the Ukraine. From Kharkov they went to Odessa, a seaport on the Black sea. This city was just recently opened to foreigners and Barney's party was the first group of American's to visit the city in many years. From Odessa they went to Kiev and then back to Moscow. Although their time was strict ly limited, the editors had op portunities to sample many typos of Russian life. They visited farms, factories, schools and the ballet! They were able to form opinions on Russian economics, politics, ed ucation and culture. When the group left Moscow on Jan. 19, they flew out of Russia via Minsk, W arsaw and East Ber lin. Barney, who is sponsored joint ly by the University Press Club, the International Relations club and Pi Sigma Alpha, political sci ence honorary, was born in Eu gene. He spent two years at the University of Oregon before en tering the army. Majoring in poli tical science at Reed, he is 27 years old. editor of copy on the 1054 book. He was assistant copy editor in his sophomore year, and ha» worked as an Emerald reporter. McCracken took over the po-t of sales manager of the annual winter term upon the resignation of Martin Brandenfelds. The publications board also ap proved a recommendation from a subcommittee on fnince to request an. increase in Emerald funds for the corning year to pay salaries to* our additional staff members. Th^ reqUe*t for a" additional ™'25,f ,ub^ct to the approval jf President O. Meredith Wilson The additional funds would sup ply salaries for the Emerald man agm£ editor, advertising manager news editor and office manager! he requested increase would com 4 from a re-allocation of the educa tional-activity fee. Schuck Leads Ugliest' Men of contestants for the title d Ugltet Man „„ CMpJ, „„" toui of $13.93. * The ten finalists for the titlo were determined Wednesday night by Alpha Phi Omega, men s sefv >ce raternity, sponsorers of tho event. Proceeds go to the World University Service fund drive. The winner will be announced at Fri day night’s Vodvil. r/£hZ fina,lsts are, in order CkSSon A‘Pha Phi’ $1524l ?13S0 w ’, P’ Kappa Pb»; Th3rf?’ Johnston. Phi Delta Theta, $11.34; Walt Gaffney. Chi D"!.e5a’n 5872 Hie for sixth) ji Don Monte, Orides, $8.38; Jerry A pha Tau Omega, $8.3 f' and Trent Huls, Gamma Phi Beta and Sigma Phi Epsilon, $7.25. Vodvil Tickets On Sale Today Tickets for the World Univer sity Service Vodvil show Friday in . IcArthur court are now on sal* in the Student Union, the Co-ow and living organizations. Prico for college students is 50 cents. High school seniors will be ad mitted free to the show, "Hand* Across the Sea," as a part of tha Duck Preview weekend. Edna. Humiston, Vodvil chairman has announced. The annual Vodvil will begin at 10 p. m. Friday and will featuvo acts from five women's and five men's living organizations. Doors to McArthur court 'Will open at 0:30 p. m. and the WUS carnival will be held from 9:30 to 10 p. m. preceding the Vodvil show. Souvenirs from several foreig* countries will be on display aha many articles will be on sale. Debate Team Wins At Corvallis Meet Defeating four other Pacific coast schools in a “round robin ’ the University of Oregon debate team took first place in the^ Pa. cific Forensic league tournament Tuesday at Corvallis. Winners for Oregon were Bid Cheek, junior in political science, and BrucC Holt, sophomore ia speech, who make up the Univer sity's second debate team. The first team of Don Mickelwait, jun ior in economics, and Karl Harsh barger, senior in speech, are now at West Point, Newr York, compe ting in the National Invitational Debate tournament.