EMERALD
VOL. I.V
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE,
TUESDAY, AI'KIL 27, Itt.Yl
NO. 123
ASUO Coffee Hour
Planned for SU Today
«*< uir'igm imo Hiuaem govern*
me-nt, with a chance for the audi
ence to participate, will be offered
today In the Student Union at the
ASUO Coffee hour at 1 p. m.
Featured speakers will be the
two candidates for ASUO presi
dent, Hollis Ransom of United In
dependents and Bob Summers of
Associated Greek students.
I he two will present their own
views, according to Bob Funk, AS
UO vice-president, and will a ns
j Wf‘r student questions following
their talks.
All interested students are in
vited to attend the coffee hour.
Funk said. Free coffee will be
served, and room number will be
posted.
In addition to the two speakers,
all candidates running for any of
1 fice in either party will be intro
duced. Funk said. The candidates
will also participate in the dlscus
I sion*.
Assembly Data, Route
Set for Float Parade
I he* route to be followed by the
combined Junior Weekend Float
parade anil Armed Forces Day
parade w»* announced Monday by
. Mary Wilson and Ann Hopkins, co
chairmen.
The parade will assemble at 2:15
p rn.. May 15 at McArthur court,
and the parade will begin at 3
P. ro. Any floats arriving after 3
p. m. will be disqualified.
The floats will pass the judges'
stand at the Student Union and
then follow East 13th ave. west
to Willamette at., north on Wil
lamette to Bro/idway, east on
Broadway to High st., south on
High to East 13th ave., east on
13th to University, and will dis
band on the original site
Twenty-two floats, three cars
with the Junior Weekend court, a
sheriffs posse, four humorous
skits, 25 marching units, and five
bands will march in the parade.
All ROTC men will be expected
to march In the parade, but "A
leasonable amount of the men will
be excused to work on the floats,"
• Colonel E. B. Daily said.
Daily, head of the military sci
ence department, urged all living
organizations to submit the names
. of their men who will be working
on the floatH.
Sub-chairmen for the parade are
Kaye Duri.o, judg- ; Germaine La
Marche, bands; Jo Kopp, queen's
coutt cars; Jerry Kroebe, line-up
and trophies; Joanne Jolly, con
tact, and John Jensen, humorous
skits.
'Reserve a Room'
Students Asked
Students should make hotel or
j reservations now for their
mothers who are planning to come
down for Mother’s Weekend, May
14 to 15. according to Donna Lory,
general chairman.
Students are urged to write
letters home this week inviting
their mothers if they have not al
ready done so. ’Although the
j weekend will be publicized in home
newspapers, the most successful
appeal is through personal letters
from students to their mothers,"
j stressed Miss Lory.
During the weekend the mothers
will attend the annual mothers'
breakfast, a tea. and the Junior
f Weekend events.
Sketch Actress
Performance Set
Cornelia Stabler, character aet
fenH of radio and television, will
present her one-woman show.
•Personality Portraits,” at a Uni
| versity assembly at 1 p. m. today
dn the Student Union ballroom.
The stage for "Personality Por
traits” is set with a table and two
: chairs, and all roles are played by
CORNELIA STABLER
The art of ea\ evJrnpping
Miss Stabler. She defines charac
ter sketching as "eavesdropping
developed into a fine art. *
Titles of the character sketches
include "Showing the Home
Movies,” “The Bird Bath,” “Re
membrance of Things Past.” and
i “After the Ball.”
Miss Stablers show has been pre
sented from coast to coast in the
United States and in Europe for
the USO during World War II.
She received her dramatic train
ing at Swarthmore college and Co
lumbia university. During the
.summer, Miss Stabler directs a
summer community theater.
298 Sign Petitions to Place
Election Amendmenton Ballot
by bally Ryan
Emerald A»»i»t»nt Newt Editor
A total of 298 students signed
the 13 petitions returned to the
ASUO office for the Associated
Greek Student - sponsored elec
tion amendment, AS*UO President
Tom Wrightson said Monday aft
ernoon? Only 200 names are need
ed to place an amendment on the
ballot.
The names are to be checked to
be sure they are tho.se of regis
tered students and that there are
no duplications.
AGS has proposed the amend
ment to allow political parties to
choose their slate of candidates in
any manner they choose. At the
same time the suggested amend
ment was passed, AGS offered
plans for a nominating convention
as their proposed method.
Addition Called For
The amendment calls for the
addition of section VI to article
,VI of the ASUO constitution. It
reads: “Kach political party shall
present a slate of candidates for
the general election. These candi
dates shall be selected as each of
the several parties chooses. This
amendment shall become effective
September 1, 1904, and shall take
precedence over ai)y article or
section of this constitution dealing
with candidacy for office, includ
ing section V of this article.”
unuea students association in
1952 proposed a campus-wide
ASUO sponsored primary election.
They also expressed a desire for
open membership in both political
parties, in a statement in their
voter’s pamphlet.
The re-organized USA, United
Independent Students, supported
the open-primary in 1953, with a
request to "place nominations for
ASUO offices on an optimum of
democratic methods with an all
campus primary.”
Follows Lead
AGS followed the lead of UIS
a week later with the announce
ment in its party platform that
“AGS is in favor of the all-campus
primary. We feel it would allow
the parties to maintain their indi
viduality and at the same time
would provide a more expedient
method of filling party slates.”
Early in the term, the ASUO
senate refused to refer the open
primary plan to the student body
on the spring term general elec
tions ballot. A two-thirds vote of
the body, 14 .to 6, was necessary.
The proposal failed on a roll call
vote, 13 to 7.
In last springs general elec
tions, the constitutional amend
ment was placed on the ballot
when the 200 students required
by the initiative procedure signed
.1 petition to place the proposal on
the ballot. The amendment, with
the support of both political par
ties, passed by a vote of 1190 to
Summers Approves
Bob Summers, the AGS candi
date for ASUO president, has come
Iou*- *n favor of his party's move,
jin the U1S platform, announced
IIast w-eek, UIS continued support
i of the open-primary system, used
for the first time in the April 14
i primaries.
I LIS favored “the continuance of
' the all-campus primary in its pres
ent form because it is an effective
means to give the individual stu
dent more of a voice in the selec
tion of suitable candidates."
USA used a general nominating
assembly, similar to the one sug
gested by AGS, in 1951. The as
sembly, open to all students, was
held in McArthur court. Only those
with USA membership cards could
vote. Nomination procedures pro
vided for nominations from the
floor, provided there were 10 sec
onds to the nomination.
Approximately 275 USA mem
bers, including the nominees, at
tended the assembly. Merv Hamp
ton defeated Virginia Wright, who
was nominated from the floor, by
26 votes. Hampton was defeated
in the general elections by Bill
Carey, the AGS candidate.
One Vets
To Come
Dorm
Down
by Dorothy Her
Emerald Atiietanf Newt Editor
One of the two Vet’s dorms will
be torn down this summer.
Approval for the razing of Vet’s
dorm No. 1, which includes Mer
rick, Nestor and French halls
was given to the University by the
State Board of Higher Education
Building committee Monday. Offi
cial approval by the entire board
is expected today.
Vet's dorm No. 2 will not be torn
down but kept for use at least
through next year in case of peak
student loads in the near future.
This was the recommendation of
| University President O. Meredith
Wilson to the state board.
Termed Fire Traps
Both the dormitory units, now
used to house freshman men, have
been termed fire traps by Eugene
hue Chief Ed Surfus. Tn an inves
tigation in February, the Vet's
dorms were rated as the most dan
gerous group of buildings in the
city, from the point of view of fire.
Their danger as fire traps lies in
the fact that they are constructed
of plywood. If they caught on fire,
j "thc-y would burn down in about
two minutes,’’ according to Fire
\ Chief Surfus.
The two buildings were pur
| chased twelve years ago from the
federal government as surplus
structures and have been regarded
as “temporary" the whole time.
They were used to house 600 stu
dents during the enrollment in
crease following World War II.
Men Object to Mice
Residents of Merrick, Nestor
and French halls issued a com
plaint to the office of student af
fairs in March about the presence
| of mice in the dormitory. The of
j fice of student affairs said action
Vivas to Discuss
Literary Topic
‘ Literary Criticism and Aesthe
' tics'' will be discussed by Eliseo
Vivas, writer and teacher of phil
| osophy, in a University lecture to
! night at 8 p. m. in the Dad's
I lounge.
Vivas, professor of moral and in
tellectual philosophy at Northwes
tern university, is the author of a
book entitled "The Moral Life and
the Ethical Life," and has con
tributed numerous articles to liter
ary and philosophical journals.
Vivas served as Venezuelan con
sul to the United States in 1929.
He was born in Colombia of Vene
zuelan parents and received his
education in the United States.
Vivas received his A. B. degree
at the L7niversity of Wisconsin in
1928 and his Ph. D. from the same
university in 1935.
He taught philosophy at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, the Univer
sity of Chicago, and Ohio State
university before going to North
western.
Jr.-Sr. Breakfast
Planned for Sunday
Sunday is the date for the an
nual Junior-Senior breakfast spon
sored by the YWCA, according to
Nancy Heine, general chairman.
The breakfast will be held in
the Student Union at 9:15 a. m.
Traditionally, all juniors in wo
men's living organizations escort
the seniors in their organizations.
Tickets are on sale for $1 in each
living organization and at the SU
main desk. A 'May' theme will be
carried out for the breakfast.
Speaker will be William C.
Jones, executive director of the
Western Interstate Commission of
Higher Education.
Committee chairmen for the
breakfast include Gwen Ziiniger,
tickets; Joyce Bearden, publicity;
Sayra Story, programs; Nancy
Cottingham, invitations and Jackie
Robertson, decorations and cater
ing.
had been taken by the Lane Cou/v*
ty Rodent Service to nd the budd
ing of mice.
However, H. P. Barnhart, direc
tor of dormitories, said there wa.*
no "cause for alarm.” He blame*"
the presence of the mice on pack
ages of food being left open in the
rooms.
The construction of the new Vir
gil D. Earl hall was expected to
make possible the elimination cf
the Vet’s dorms entirely. The new
$1,250,000 men’s dorm, now under
construction, is an addition to the
present John Straub hall and will
house 328 students. Construction
of the new building is expected Xo
be finished by September, 1955.
Work was begun in March by tho
W. H. Shields Construction Co.
Deferred Living Approved
Approval for the construction of
the building was given by the*
State Board of Higher Educaticn
>n November, 1953. In sanctioning
a new men's dormitory the state
board stated firmly that it v/aa
approving for all time the defer
red living policy of the Univer
sity. The investment means that
the ruling that freshman meiv
must live in dormitories, rather
than fraternities, is no longer ex
perimental, but has the tacking
of the state board.
The University will advertise for
bids to tear down Vet s dorm No.
the unit nearest Alder street^
according to Orville Lindsrtrom,
I University business manager.
After the building is remove-*,
the area will be landscaped.
Genetics Discussed
Monday by Snyder
The practical application of tho
study of genetics to public health
was discussed Monday night
Laurence H. Snyder, dean of th©
University of Oklahoma graduat©.
school, at the regular meeting of
Sigma Xi, national science honor
ary.
Snyder broke down the applica
tion of genetics into four cate
gories prevention, diagnosis,
prognosis, and inheritance of blot-i
: groups.
uenetics. he stated, "has most
Ito °^er >n the field of prevention.
When one member cf a family has
a known inherited disorder, other
members of the family can to
treated before they are harmed. *
In diagnosis, Snyder stressed tho
importance of the family history.
Prognosis, he explained, was tho
giving of information to families*
of the chances of appearance of
genetic traits.
The study of blood groups, he
pointed out, has been invaluable
in making transfusions.
Quote Wrong,
Says Ransom
The statement in Friday’s Em
erald concerning the United Inde
pendent Students' platform was in
correct in part, according to Hol
lis Ransom. UIS candidate for AS
UO president.
Speaking before a Monday meet
ing of UIS members and candi
dates, Ransom said he had been
quoted as saying "the party ha i
'workable solutions to all the is
sues involved.’ ”
"I would like to repeat that wo
have solutions to most of the prob
lems presented in the platform, ’
he said. In other business Lent
Calvert, Sam Frear Ray Westen
house, Carol Eldridge, Jackie War
den and Russ Cowell were namerf
to an organization committee for
the general elections, May 5.