Daily EMERALD \ 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. —-— 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