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Nadine Conner
To Sing Tonight
Nadine Conner, Metropolitan
opera soprano, will appear to
night at 8 in McArthur court in
the laat Civic Music coricert of
this season.
The program will feature arias
from Beethoven's "Ftdelio" and
Donizetti's "Don Pasqusleworks
by Mozart, Bellini, Rachmaninoff
and Grelg, and a group of French
•wngs by Dvorak and Daniel Wolf.
J
NADINE CONNER
Sings Tonight
Also included will be a group of
Spaninh numlxrii on the piano,
played by Mila Conner'* accom
panist.
Since her Metropolitan debut in
N»-w York in 1941 Mias Conner
ha* performed as. leading soprano
m many well-known rides. One
of her most popular is that of
MUni in the Met'* new English
version of "La Bohcme” premier
ed in 1952. An incident displaying
her versatility and command of
that role occured while she was
Dance, Feast Set
For Annual Luau
A fishbowl mixer and a tradi
tional Hawaiian feast will high
light the annual luau, annual cele
bration sponsored on campus by
the University's Hawaiian club.
The mixer will be held in the
Student Union fishbowl from 9
p. jn. to midnight tonight and will
be open to the public. Dress is
campus clothes.
Intermission at the mixer will
be presented by members of the
Hawaiian club. Marcella Wahine
will sing Hawaiian songs and Ma
deline Lung and Helene Robertson
will present hula dances. There
will also be a loud shirt contest.
The feast will be held Saturday
< vening at 6 at the Springfield
Veterans’ Memorial building and
will be open only to members of
the club and their guests. Those
attending are to wear Hawaiian
costumes. A dance with intermis
sion entertainment will follow the
feast.
Hawaiian students from Wash
ington, California, Idaho, Colora
do and other Oregon schools have
been invited to attend. The clut
is having 1500 baby orchids flown
in from Hawaii for the occasion
General chairman of the luau is
Hank Wedemeyer.
On the menu for the feast are
roast pig, chicken, cocoanuts,
sweet potatoes, salmon and poi.
preparing election* from the
English Miml for an Opera Guild
luncheon. Lucia Albanese was to
sing the same selections in Ital
ian, hut she had to cancel and Miss
Conner sang both the English
and Italian. •
In addition to her operatic roles,
the soprano also sings in concert,
radio and television and records
for Columbia.
A member of Phi Beta, national
professional music and speech
fraternity. Miss Conner will be
entertained by the campus chap
ter and alumnae at a buffet supper
following tonight s concert at the
home of Mrs. Jack Bryan, alumnae
adviser.
University students will be ad
mitted to the concert on presenta
| tion of student body cards.
But it Really Hadn't
Entered Our Minds
Princeton West Virginia The
West Virginia National Guard has
bought a new armory. The place
formerly housed a plant of the
Maiden Form Brassiere company.
The deed specified that the Na
tional Guard must not -- for the
next 25 years — manufacture
brassieres or other ladies’ under
garments in their new building.
Reasons for Aid
Explained to IFC
An explanation of the recent fi
nancial aid to Lambda Chi Alpha
fraternity by the Oregon State
Board of Higher Kducation was
given by Ray Hawk, associate di
rector of student affairs, speaking
at meeting of the Intcr-fratcrnity
council Thursday evening.
Hawk re-emphasized his earli
er statement, which appeared in
the Km era Id Wednesday, that the
board's action in purchasing the
$22,000 first mortgage on the
Lambda Chi house would not set a
precedent. Before similar action
towards any other fraternity could
be taken, all the factors involved
in the case would have to be
weighed, Hawk stated.
He cited the action as proof
that the University was taking
an active interest in protecting
the fraternity system. He also ex”
plained that the money to pur
chase the loan came from the state
systems endowment fund rather
than from state tax money.
In other action, IFC discussed
admitting high school seniors to
athletic events free but took no
action. A critique of Duck Preview
was also held by the group.
Next IFC meeting wUl-ba^u Phi
Delta Theta on May 20.
Senate Approves Cut
For Booths in Election
me Ahuo senate voted Thurs
day night to cut the number of
j voting booths to six for the gener
al election May 5. Seven polling
places were used during the pn
| many election.
j The booths will be located at
Carson hall, the Student Union,
the square in front of Common
wealth hall, the Co-op, on the
quad In front of the library, and
in front of John Straub.
Following a report by Rally
.Board Chairman Sally Stadelman.
j the senate voted to invite mem
bers of the rally squad, the Order
j of the 'O' and the coaching staff
i to serve as an advisory board in
the selection of the yell king.
The senate passed two resolu
tions suggested by Wes Ball,
Chairman of the insurance com
mittee. Ball's recommendations
were that the same contract be
Breakfast Features
Jones as Speaker
Featured speaker at the YW
I CA junior-senior breakfast at 9:15
j Sunday morning will be W. C.
j Jones, executive director of the
Western Interstate Commission of
| Higher Education.
Jones, who was dean of admini
stration here before taking his
present position, will speak on
“Humanities Eternal Quest.”
Sylvia Wingard, junior in busi
ness, will be mistress-of-ceremon
ies for the annual breakfast. The
program will include the presen
tation of seniors by Mary Wilson,
and a harp solo by Carol Harrison.
Tickets for the event are $1 and
are on sale at the Student Union
main desk or the YWCA office in
Gerlinger hall.
requested from Mutual of Omaha
next year, and that the Insurance
club under L. H. Trueblood, as
sistant professor of business ad
ministration, be re-activated for
next year.
The Insurance club was organ
ized to aid in carrying out the in
surance plan and to offer insur
ance experience to business stu
dents. but was not active during
the past year.
Bob Glass, AGS President, Jim
Duncan, sophomore class presi
dent. and Gary West, freshman
class representative will represent
the University of Oregon at a
meeting of the Oregon Federation
of Collegiate Leaders tonight.
Third Political
Group to Arise
The shadow of a third political
party appeared on the Oregon
campus Thursday afternoon when
lorn A rata, junior in sociology, fil
ed as an Independent for the po-:
sition of senator-at-large in the
A8UO general elections Wednes-!
day.
A rata is supported by a group
of students who plan to form a po
litical party next fall. No name,
for the new party has as yet been
selected, A rata said, nor has the
group elected officers.
Under provisions'of the ASUO
constitution, parties not represen
ted in the primary, held April 14,
may not place candidates on the
ballot for the general election.
However, students defeated in the
primary or even students who did
Deadline Today
Deadline for candidate to file
in the ASl C) general elections is
noon today, ASl'O vice-presi
dent Boh Funk has announced.
Candidates defeated in the pri
mary or even students who did
not run in the primarv may file
for office as an Independent.
All petitions must lx- turned
in at the ASl O office. Student
Union 301. by the deadline.
not run in the primary may peti
tion to have their names placed*
on the ballot for the general elec- j
tion.
Arata did not run in the pri
mary election in which the repre- I
: sentatives of the two present po
litical parties. Associated Greek
Students and United Independent
Students sought nomination. By
late Thursday afternoon, he was
the only candidate who had filed
as an Independent for the general
elections.
Arata has a cumulative grade
point average of 2.4. His winter
; grade term GPA was 3.0.
Ten students signed the plat
form which Arata submitted to
the Emerald. They are Vishnu
Wassiamal. Emery Barnes, Nona
Glaze.-. Robin Lamson, Forbes
Hill. Robert Staliwood, Bob Moore.
, Bob Hooker, Donald White and
James Gilbert.
Those signing the platform
statement are the nucleus of the
new political group, Arata said.
They do not represent any one
1 group, but are members of both
■ Greek and independent living or
ganizations.
In endorsing Arata's candidacy,
the group issued the following
: platform as statement of their po
litical goals:
; “1. The maintenance of aca
demic freedom through militant
opposition to any restriction i
(such as negative loyalty oaths)
which have the effect of limiting
the freedom of speech, belief and
thought to the detriment of the
educative process.
“2. /'he establishment of a stu
dent-faculty academic affairs com
mittee to investigate and recom
mend on problems of academic
life.
"3. The formation of an asso
ciation of the student employee,
on this campus for the purpose ot
guaranteeing them the advan
tages of collective representation.
4 cn<i of discriminatory
practices in all campus organiza
tions.
' 5. To make known to the peo
ple and legislators of the State
of Oregon and the nation the at
titudes of the students of thr>
University regarding significant
issues and their relationship t>
university life.
"6. The perpetuation of the all
campus primary. VVe believe that
nominating conventions patteme*!
after national pohtica! conventions
would tend to restrict student pai -
ticination in campus politics to a
few strongly organized political
groups.
' 7 An intelligent and construc
tive re-appraisal of the student
adviser programs in the donna
with a view to strengthening aD.f
increasing the efficiency of sai l
programs.”
McArthur Court
To be Site of Sing
McArthur Court will be avaii
Hble for the All-campus Sing-. May
15, Ann Gerlinger. chairman, her
announced. There has been some
question whether or not construc
tion would be going on in the
building at that time.
Wednesday and Thursday havo
been set for sing eliminations, in
the student Urion ballroom. Wo
men s tryouts will be Wednesday,
mens. Thursday. Time and oi
der of appearance for each singin j
group will appear later in tho
Emerald.
Each organization song leader
should bring to the elimination j
a list of the participants from hii
organization, Miss Gerlinger said.
Don Hunter, of the audio-visual
department, will make tape re
cordings of each song entry at
the eliminations. Song leaders wiil
be able to hear these at the audio
visual studio in the library.
Convention Proposal Latest
In Series of Primary Plans
The new convention plan pro
posed by Associated Greek Stu
: dents is the latest proposal in a
! series oi changes Oregon's- pri
mary-election system has under
gone in the past three years. The
open primary, direct primary,
nominating convention and direct
house voting have begn used.
The open primary was used for
the first time this year. Last year
United Independent Students had
its own open primary, while AGS
was having a direct primary in its
living organizations. A variation
of the proposed convention system
was used by United Students as
sociation in 1951.
An initiative measure, the open
primary was passed in last spring
term’s general elections by a vote
of 1199 to 411. AGS last week
#
obtained enough signatures to
place an addition to article VI of
the ASUO constitution on the bal
lot next Wednesday.
Convention Suggested
As proposed, the AGS measure
would nullify the section regard
ing the open primary and allow
political parties to choose their
slate of candidates in any manner.
AGS has suggested a nominating
convention as their method to be
used if the addition is passed.
Last spring term a special com
mittee of the ASUO senate in
vestigated the all-campus primary
plan and recommended to the sen
ate that the primary proposal be
referred to the students. Members
of the committee which submitted
the plan were Don Collin, Merle
Davis, Milan Foster, Dick Gray
and Bob Summers.
Summers last week announce *
his support of his party’s move to
abolish the open primary in favor
of a system which would allow
them to hold a nominating con
vention.
In a roll call vote at a senato
meeting last April 30, Summer)
voted against referring the plan
to the students in the general elec
tion.’ Also voting against the pro
posal, twhich was defeated when
it failed to obtain the necessary
two-thirds vote, were Gray, Tom
Wrightson, Mary Alice Baker, Boh
McCracken, Francos Gilmore and
Mike Tally. Thirteen members o>i
the senate voted in favor of the
measure.
The amendment appeared on tho
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