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VOL. LV
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, MONDAY, AI'KIL 2fl, 1954
NO. 122
Friday s Vodvil Show
Closes WUS Drive
The World University Service
fund drive on campus cloned Fri
day with the annual Vodvil .show.
Total amount collected for the
"Hands Across the Sea” campaign
will not be available until all WUS
I solicitors turn In money collected
I in living organizations.
Marjatt Haavio, student from
Finland, was selected WUS hos
tess by student vote and was In
troduced at the Vodvil Intermis
sion. The foreign student hostess
was a new feature this year and
was chosen to “'promote interna
tional feeling at the Vodvil,” ac
cording to Goh.
Lowell Schuck, senior in busi
ness, won the Ugly Man contest
and was presented with the Ugly
Man mug. His sponsoring organi
zation, Delta Upsilon, received a ;
plaque.
A total of $303.39 was collected i
in the contest. Supporters of j
Schuck contributed $70.66, while
runner-up, Walt Gaffney, brought i
in $45 25.
The WUS auction Friday after- ■
noon netted $129.50. Spencer
Snow, sophomore in liberal arts.1
auctioned off several groups of;
Oklahoma Dean
Speaks Tonight
Lawrence H. Snyder, dean of the
graduate school at the University
of Oklahoma, will speak on "Hu
man Genetics and Its Modern Ap
plication” at the regular meeting
of Sigma Xi. national science fra- i
ternity, tonight at 8 in Science j
10.
Snycter is an authority on the in
heritance of blood groups in hu
mans and has published a number j
of papers on genetics. He also hasj
written a widely used textbook on !
the subject and is an expert on
genetic problems of disease.
Snyder took his B.S. at Rutgers 1
in 1922. his M.S. at Harvard in |
1924. and Sc.D. at Harvard in 1926.
He taught at North Carolina State!
and Ohio State colleges before go
ing to Oklahoma.
The Falling Distinguished Lec
ture series and Sigma Xi are spon
soring his appearance. Sigma Xi
will hold a regular business meet
ing just prior to the lecture.
Snyder will also give a biology
department seminar at 4 p. m. in
Science 30.
Monday Deadline Set
For YM Photo Contest
Monday is the deadline for en
tries in the YMCA all-campus
snapshot contest. Theme of the
contest is campus life and each
contestant may submit three black
and white snapshots.
A $15 first prize will be award
ed the winner of the contest. $10
will be given the second place
entry. All pictures entered become
the property of the YMCA.
Entries may be made at the YM
office in the Student Union. Entry
blanks for the contest have ap
peared in the Emerald and appear
again today.
Yell-King Petitions
Petitions for the position of yell
king should be turned in to the
ASUO petition box by May 12, ac
cording to Tom Wrightson, ASUO
president.
Men planning to try out for the
job should use regular ASUO pe
tition forms. They must have a
2.00 grade point average for win
ter term and a 2.00 accumulative
GPA. The yell king will be selected
at the ASUO senate meeting May
13.
campus contest finalists and fac
ulty members. Last year's auction
brought in $178.25.
Winners of the WUS car wash
were Phi Beta Pi and Sigma Kap
pa. Women's living organizations
washed cars for $1 per car and
proceeds were given to the WUS
drive.
Author Critic
Talks Tuesday
Eliseo Vivas, professor of moral
and intellectual philosophy at
Northwestern University, will de
liver a University lecture Tues
day at 8 p. m. in the Dad's Lounge.
His topic will be "Literary Crit
cism and Aesthetics."
Vivas is the author of a book en
titled "The Moral Life and the
Ethical Life,” and has contributed
numerous articles to philosophical
and literary journals.
Vivas received his A.B. degree at
the University of Wisconsin in
1928 and his Ph.D. from the same
institution in 1935. He has taught
philosophy at the University of
Wisconsin, the University of Chi
cago, and Ohio State university.
In 1928 and 1929 he served as
consul for Venezuela, the nation
of his birth, in Philadelphia.
Petitions Due May 3
For Emerald Positions
Petitions for the positions of
editor and business manager of the
Emerald for the first half of the
next school year are due noon May
3.
Candidates- will be interviewed
by the publications board May 4
at 7:30 p. m. in the Student Union
according to Richard Williams,
secretary of the Student Publica
tions board.
Petitions are to be turned in to
Williams’ office in the SU.
Soph Honors
Exams Set
A schedule of the comprehensive
exams for sophomore honors stu
dents has been released by Hoyt
Trowbridge, chairman of the soph
omore honors committee.
Exams will be as follows: his
tory, May 18; study of society.
May 20; physical science and bio
logical science, May 25, and litera
ture, May 27.
All exams will be held in Fenton
3 and will begin at 7:30 p. m.
The exams are designed as two
hour tests, but a half hour extra
will be allowed, if needed, Trow
bridge said.
The comprehensives are open to
all students eligible for the sopho
more honors program and to
others who have completed at
least 15 hours and have a 2.75
or higher grade point average,
with the consent of the committee.
Students who have completed
more than 93 hours, however, are
not eligible.
Sophomore honors are awarded
to all students passing all four
exams with a "grade of distinc
tion.”
Reading lists of the material to
be covered in the tests will be dis
tributed this week to students en
rolled in sophomore honors
courses, and will be available to
others in the English department
in Friendly hall.
Met Soprano
To Sing Here
Nadine Conner, Metropolitan
j opera soprano, will appear Fri
day at H p. m. in McArthur court
in the last Civic Music associa
tion presentation of this season.
Beginning her study of voice at
the University of Southern Cali
| iornia, Miss Conner made her pro
fessional debut as a soloist over
! >ad‘o station KHJ in Hollywood.
After touring with a theatrical
company and singing leading op
eratic roles with the Los Angeles
Opera company, the soprano mar
ried Dr. Laurance Heacock, a
Compton surgeon, in 1939 and re
tired for two years.
Keturning to her musical career
in 1941, Miss Conner auditioned in
New York for the Metropolitan
and made her debut there as
Pamina in "The Magic Flute.”
j Since then she has become one of
' the Met's leading sopranos.
The concert will be free to Uni
I versity students on presentation
Actress Slated
For Assembly
Cornelia Stabler, noted charac
ter actress, will present "Person
ality Portraits,” at a University
assembly Tuesday at 1 p. m. in the
Student Union ballroom.
Miss Stabler has been heard on
< radio and television programs on
i major network shows, and has pre
; sented her one-woman show from
coast to coast in this country.
She toured Germany, France
and Belgium for the USO during
World War II.
Mias Stabler writes her own
character sketches, and serves as
i director of a summer community
theater. She received her early
dramatic training at Swarthmore
college and later took graduate
work in drama at Columbia uni
versity.
"Personality Portraits" consists
of several sketches of everyday
life of Americans, sometimes
comic or satiric and sometimes
sympathetic.
Miss Stabler says that charac
ter sketching is “just eavesdrop
ping developed into a fine art.”
925 HS Seniors
Attend Weekend
High school seniors 925 strong:
Ux>k over the campus during the !
weekend. The students were on i
campus for the annual Duck Pre-!
view weekend.
Registration figures showed an
increase of more than 200 over the
700 seniors on campus last year.
The campaign to ".Sell Oregon”
to the visiting high school students 1
| began with a "What to Take?”!
■ ',f,««'on Friday night. Various
| schools and departments of the
|University presented the courses:
! offered to students.
The seniors were entertained at
Court Named
During Vodvil
The five members of the Junior ;
Weekend court were announced at;
the Vodvil show intermission Fri
day night. They are Alma Owen, ■
Nancy Murrow, Janet Miller, Dor- j
othy Kopp and Janet Wick.
Other finalists for the court;
were Joanne Morrison, Jean Paul- j
us, Laura ftturges, Nancy Moore, I
•Shirley Katz, Ann Hopkins and;
; Anne Johnston.
, The Junior Weekend queen will
| *** determined by campus vote on j
May 12. The queen and her court;
will reign over Junior Weekend;
festivities from May 13 to 15.
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Lecture Topic
Controversial
One of the most controversial 1
issues in the United States today'
will be discussed at this week s;
browsing room lecture.
W. A. Williams, assistant pro-'
fessor of history, will speak on iso-1
j lationism in relationship to U. S.
j foreign policy, Wednesday at 7:30 I
jp. m. His topic will be "The Myth
of Isolationism.” Frederick M. j
Hunter, honorary chancellor of the
State System of Higher Education
will lead the discussion period
after the lecture.
Williams was graduated from
• the United States Naval Academy t
!and obtained both his MS. and.
Ph.D. in Russian-American rela
tions at the University of Wiscon
j K>n. He has taught at Wisconsin,
! Washington and Jefferson college
and Baird college, N. Y. A member
of both the American and the Mis
sissippi Valley historical associa
tions, Williams has been a frequent
contributor to historical publica- j
tions.
In addition to his scholastic j
work. Williams is also a jazz en-t
thusiast and has given several lec- j
Wires on this subject at the Uni- j
.versity. He once played with a!
Chicago dance band.
I
WHO HUNG HERMAN?'
Herman the Moose Found;
Now Living At DU House
Herman's been found — again! c
Herman the moose, the elusive t
trophy presented annually to the >
-sponsors of the Ugliest Man on
Campus, is now residing with his
new owners, members of Delta Up
silon.
But he led several students a
merry chase over the campus be
fore he decided to settle in his new
home.
Herman was to have been pre
sented to Lowell Schuck, winner
of the Ugly Man contest at Friday
night’s Vodvil show. He had been
seen in the Student Union Fri
day during the World University
Service auction.
Sunday afternoon, several mem
bers of Alpha Xi Delta spotted
Herman on the lawn of a Eugene
home. The Alpha Xi's ransomed
Herman from three college stu
dents who live in an apartment in
the home. The three — Jerry Ohl
sen, junior in chemistry; Jerry
Petersen, sophomore in liberal
arts, and Dave Rosenlof, junior in
hemistry— exchanged Herman for,
Ji invitation to dinner with the I
ilpha Xi Delta's Tuesday.
The three first said that they
ad gotten Herman from the per
ons who stole the trophy from the
>U Friday. Later they stated that
hey had found the moose head
loafing in the Millrace.
Herman, complete with purple
•ow, was presented to astonished
nembers of Delta Upsilon Sunday
iy the Alpha Xi's. The presenta
ion ceremony included a poem ad
Iressed to Ugly Man Lowell
Ichuck from Alpha Xi Delta.
Herman had been found about a
reek before his latest disappear
nce hanging from the letter “W"
>n the front of Commonwealth
tall. The physical plant, after Her
nan was released from his plight
>y a night watchman, held the
noose head for ransom because
onsiderable damage was done to
he front of the building. But the
nystery of “who hung Herman ”
tas not been solved.
the annual VodviJ show Friday
from JO p. m. to midnight.
Saturday began with" adviser
meetings for students interested irt
talking over a tentative program
for their freshman year, with. de.
partment representatives.
An orientation assembly Satur
day morning featured speeches \,y
University President O Meredith.
Wilson, ASUO President Ton*
Wrightson, Basketball Player Bar
ney tlolland, AWS President Janet
Wick and Danforth Graduate Jo
Hutcheon. The seniors were intro-*
duced to the University band an.*
rally squad.
Tours of many of the building*
and departments on campus fol
lowed the assembly. The visiting
seniors saw educational exhibits in
many departments.
The students had three event*
to choose from Saturday aftemocrv
— the Amphibian water show z,
track meet and a baseball gam©
with the Salem Senators.
Exchange dinners between pair
ed living organizations were fea
tured Saturday night.
The "preview of life at Ore
gon-’ wound up Saturday night
with a semi-formal dance in the
Student Union ballroom. Tommy
Fox and his band furnished musicv
ASUO Candidates
Hold Coffee Hour
Candidates for ASUO president*
will speak at a Student Union
ASUO coffee hour at 4 p. m. Tues
day, according to Bob Funk, AS
UO vice-president.
Funk has urged all candidate sf
to attend the coffee hour. All can
didates present will be introduced.
Any student planning to run a*
a non-partisan candidate on the
ASUO ballot May 5 must file hi*
petition by midnight April 28. Pc-,
titions should be turned in to
Funk.
Shirley Ann Knox will replace
Tom Shepherd as U1S candidal a
for senator - at - large. ShepheM*.
withdrew from the race last wee'e.
Miss Knox was second in the vot
ing for senator-at-large in the
primary election.
Bolling booth attendants a. a
needed for the general election
May 5. Funk said. Interested per -
sons should apply at the ASUO
rffices.
Forum to Feature
Satire Discussion
Satire — The Writer s Scalpel,’*
will be the topic of the University
of Oregon Radio Forum which will -
be broadcast tonight at 8:30 over,
radio station KOAC.
Carlisle Moore, associate profes
sor of English, will act as moder a
tor. Participants will be Jame<j
Hull and R. C. Gordon, both assis
tant professors of English.
Program director for the forum
Chailes P. Sohleicher, professor
of political science.
2 Oregon Co-eds
In Contest Finals
Two University of Oregon coed*
are among the ten finalists in th*
Miss Oregon Press Photographer
contest.
Eunice Peckcnpaugh and Loret
ta Mason, both sophomores ire
speech, will be judged in the final*
of the contest at the Oregon Pies*
Photographers’ Ball at the Mult
nomah hotel in Portland May 1.
The winner of the state contest
will travel to Atlantic City in Junes
for the national competition.
The contestants will stay at the.
Multnomah hotel the entire week
end of the contest. They will bo
guests at a luncheon Saturday g.nH
will be introduced at a banquet
preceding the ball.
The contestants will be servo*,
breakfast Sunday morning before
leaving Portland. All expenses w d*.
be paid by the Press Photogia
phers’ association.