NO. I2fi 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 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 (Please turn to page eight)