Daily EMERALD !' ift f fourth year (if f'ubti(ali will represent Oregon tn the Miss National Press Photographer con tent at Atlantic City, June 9 to 12. j The college to which McCall will go In !i tax-supported institu lion of J200 students and with a faculty of 7o. McCall jo a graduate of the Uni-1 veralty of Redlands, where he re-! reived his bachelor of arts degree In 1830. He received hia master of arta degree from the State Unlver-! ■“y oi Iowa in 1931 and his doc torate from the same university in 163« He has done graduate work at the University of Southern Cali fornia Pl i°r to assuming the position ! at Oregon, McCall had taught at! Whitman college and at College of' the Pacific. Stockton, Calif., wherei he headed the speech department. I McCall was contributor of a sec tion in 'History of American Pub-1 lie Address/' and also authored "Fundamentals of Speech," pub-: bailed in 1949 by Macmillan. He has written for Western Speech and Liberty magazines. A member of a number of hon orary and professional societies. McCall is currently vice-president j of Western Speech association and1 will become president of the asso ' iation in January. He is past I president of the Pacific Forensic I league and a founder of Speech1 foundation at the College of the I I acific. He is also a member of Kiwani*. Crane to Give j- Lecture Toniqht By CAROLE BEECH Emcrtld Reporter ’Literature and the History of1 Ideas,” will be the subject of three lectures given by R. S. Crane, re r tir‘*d professor of English from the University of Chicago, this term. The first is scheduled for tonight at 8 in the Student Union dad s i ,. lounge. r In his lecture Crane will at t.mpt to bring together through the history of criticism of litera ture and general information the I - conception of literature and the history of ideas. He states that there has been a great interest in the past 20 to 40 years in writing j what is now called the "history j of ideas” and that a new under standing and appreciation of lit erature has come out of this great interest. Two more lectures, on the same subject, all sponsored by the as „ sembly committee, will be given May 11 and 13. A browsing room |. lecture is also planned by Crane j Three Men Seek Emerald Editor Post Three men have petitioned for * the office of Emerald editor for the first half of next year, Dick I. Williams, publications board sec ,, retary, reported Monday after [, noon. There was only one petition . er for business manager. Petitioners for editor include Joe Gardner, Jerry Harrell and Dick Lewis, all juniors in journalism. - Jean Sandine, sophomore in liber "v al arts, is the only candidate for business manager. IThe candidates for the Emerald positions will be interviewed by , the student publications board at 7:30 this evening in the Student „ Union. * Both of the positions pay a sal - ary of $70 per month. r later in the spring. Ciane. visiting the University for spring term, holds the title of Distinguished Service Professor of English, awarded to him at the University of Chicago where he headed the English department from 1935 to 1947, Very active for his 68 years. ( rane has been kept busy since his "retirement." Since 'leaving Chicago, he has taught at four colleges, including the University of Toronto, Cornell university, Carlton college and Oregon. He has also written several articles, given many lectures! and published a book. "The Language of Criticism and the Structure of Poetry." For the future, his plans include finishing the books he is writing and teaching fall term at Stanford university. Crane is a graduate of the Uni versity of Michigan and received his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania. Before going to Chi cago he taught 13 years at North western university. He is a mem ber of Phi Beta Kappa, the Modern Language association, the Biblographical society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. For a number of years Crane was the editor of the magazine "Modern Philology,” which is now edited by George Williamson, for merly a professor at Oregon. Crane is the author of several books on literary subjects, includ ing "Critics and Criticism: Anci ent and Modern.” He was brought to Oregon this term through the efforts of Hoyt Trowbridge, professor of English. Crane stated that he is immensely enjoying his visit to the Univer sity and to the Northwest as a whole. "This is the first time I have ever been more than 100 miles west of the Mississippi and I am very enthused about your country,” he sai^. POUS OPEN 8 Voters Will Choose Officers Wednesday voting m the general elections wil begin at 8 a. m. Wednesday and continue to 6 p. m. in six booths on campus. Booths will be located in front of Commonwealth, in front of John Straub hall, in the Carson lobby, in front of the library, at the Co-op and Student Union. Students voting will be given copies of the ASUO ballot, with the names of ASUO presidential candidates and senators-at-large and their class ballot. The poll at tendants will check their class number and punch student body cards, as in the all-campus pri mary election. Copies of the ballot for the Co op board will also be handed out at the time of voting. Sudents will Hhow their co-op membership cards in order to vote for hoard members, according to G. L. Hen- i «on, Co-op manager. Candidates for the one-year po sition on the board include Bonnie! buUer, Janis Gleason, Sanford! Milkes and Margaret Tyler. Vot ers will vote for one of this group The two-year position, for which ! students vote for three candidates 1 is being sought by Dick Barker Mary Brooks, Jane Bergstrom Joyce Comer, Ann Erickson Jackie Jones, Alice Komatsu and! Pete Plumridge. In the ASUO and class elections,! preferential counting will be used. This means that students giving Proposed Amendment On Ballot \Wednesday J'T* "t* 10 ",C f,olls Wcdnc.-day will vote on a consti tutional amendment which would leave the manner of the .dec . • ' uiauiiu «JJ 1 1 party candidates up to the political parties. A »S has proposed a nominating convention as its User! ... . - - — plan to be' t the amendment is adopted. Presented below are the case. Tor the open primary, as used now, and the nominating conven-! sued by the parties. tion. The Open Primary 3. Codifies' primary rules. Dur ing the last four years the exist ing political parties used six dif ferent primary systefns. Both vot ers and candidates know the nom inaion procedure. 2. The voters will get a demo cratic and unhindered choice to select the party s slate. Screening committees are eliminated, which means the voters are not choosing : between the choice of the politici ans. 3 Prohibits candidates seek ing office of class president from receding the representa tive nomination. 4. Defines the minimum hour re quirements to qualify for class of- i fice. The constitution of four years i ago included these requirements. ‘ but they were dropped from the present constitution. 3. Cross filing is not permit ted. A candidate can seek the nomination of only one party. 6. A candidate can run for only one office. This protects the can didate who petitions for the offices from the advantage attained by a candidate who move* down from office to office. The Nominating Convention 1. Pull dress convention, pat terned after our national political parties' nominating conventions. 2. Convention would be run by policy committee of AGS. with i he help of all AGS representa tives. 3 Delegates would be seated in each designated section, while other parties would be allowed to sit in the remaining space a\ailable. 4. One representative from! e\ery 10 men and one representa tive for any fi action of 10 over ■ a number divisible by 10. These I figures would be based on the of-' fice of student affairs official tab ulation. 5. Nominations: would be from the floor, allowed two sec onds and be of a specified length to be decided by the plan ning committee. 6. The platform would be form-) ed by a special committee and would be presented to the con vention after the nomination of' candidates. At the time of presen tation any qualified AGS member could move for the addition of any plank which he feels is needed. Ail planks to the platform, both those presented and those from the floor, would have to be ratified by the delegates to the convention. Douglass Resigns To Take OTI Job by Joe Gardner Emerald Newt Editor W. M. Douglass, assistant busi ness manager of the University, has resigned his position effective May 15, it was announced Mon day by the office of J. O. Lind strom, business manager. Doug lass resigned to become business manager of the Oregon Technical institute at Klamath Falls. A 1949 Oregon State college graduate in business, Douglass has held his present job with the Uni versity since September, 1952. He was formerly head accountant at OSC. Douglass will be replaced by Walter McLaughlin, a University graduate in business of 1949. Mc Laughlin has been a field auditor for the state system of higher ed ucation, working under the con troller’s office in Corvallis. He has aJso been affiliated with Morgan and Bertelson, an auditing firm in Salem. The assistant business manager serves as director of family hous ing. controls accounting and con tracts for scientific research on the campus and is office manager for the University business office in Emerald hall. He also corre lates accounting procedures and systems at the University, con trols non-expendable property equipment and acts in the capa city of business manager when that official is out of town. Douglass told the Emerald that it was with regret that he was leaving the University and the pleasant association with Lind strom and other members of the business office. Douglass is mar ried and has two children. number one votes to senator-*.t*. large and representative candi riates will not vote for ASUO am* r;Iass president. When the votes are counted, i i* number one votes for president a .* placed together, with other num ber one votes not counted until th<* presidential candidates have be* r» selected. In other words, the highest vof® given to a senator or representa ive candidate, whether it is num ber two or fifty, will count fiifc for that candidate. Also important for preferential counting is that students number their ballots completely, in order of their choice. The reason for lrt \iVsat,When votes are count ed, ballots for the candidates w.-* he least number of votes are au tomatically given to the Candida:® iot0SC nUmb€r ,s next on that bal If a ballot is marked with on* one number, and that candidate’% ba ^ t,ranSferred fir9t' thO ballot is useless for electing an other candidate. 6 Members of the election com mittee, which wiil be in charge ** polling places and who will court* oailots, will be the same as for th® ad-campus primary. They include Kitty Fraser. Ee-a Schmidt, Doug Basham, Sa"V Craawfonrd.N°rm WeW> *Cd Counting of votes will begin a-» soon as polls are closed, at 6 d. m and results of the election will tiy announced in Thursday s Emerald. I Mystie Booths Set Wednesday .three thousand “Mysties” w it go on sale Wednesday in pink ar.£ aqua booths located throughout the campus. Sponsored by Theta Upsilon, junior women** honorary, and run by freshman women, the sale proceeds go f< *« scholarships for University wo, men. Outside booths will be open for business Wednesday and Thursday at 9 a. m. Booths will be iocat.il in front of the Co-op, Carson ha I, the Student Union, Common, wealth, square, the library. Hen uiicks hall, John Straub hall a^tl Friendly hall. All living organizations hav* been invited to order “Mysticsv to serve as dessert either Wednesa day or Thursday night. Deliveries of the “Mystics” will be made at dinner time by freshmen girls. Although the identification ot the "Mystie” is not made until th<% day of the sale, the price is it)* cents. ^ This year’s sale is headed bjr Sally Jo Grieg and Betty Ander son. Freshman women wishing f* assist in booth sales of the “Mys ties are asked to contact No* Hagedorn or Mary Sandebei*. booth sales chairmen. The sale -of the mystericu* 'Mysties” will end Thursday. Job Opportunities Open to Students A Central Intelligence agency; representative, Tom Culhane, wM interview today for secretafie.** and administrative positions. Hjf is " interested in foreign language ma jors, business or political science majors who may qualify for the administrative posts. W. C. Ludders, of Jantzen Knit ng mills, will also be on the cam pus today. He will recruit accoun tants and people for general ad ministrative jobs. Students interested in these jot* opportunities should call the grad late placement office in EmeraU* aall for afternoon appointments.