Junior Weekend Tickets
VOL. I.V
! » »tSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, MAY 11,
I‘*«r the Prom, All-rumpus
luncheon and AII-campus slnR
ore now on sale at the Co-op and
the Student Union. Price* are
a couple for the prom, 47
cent* for the luncheon and H5
••cuts for the *lnj{.
Senior Class . . .
Reunion plan* and activities
are discussed by Columnist Sam.
Krear on page 2 of today’* Em
erald in hi* column "Campie*
( omment.”
vn i so
C-lark Named to Head
Department of Speech
Robert D. Clark, profeasor of
speech and assistant dean of the
college of liberal arts, Friday was
named head of the speech depart
ment. Clark's appointment was the
third change In department heads
for the 1954-35 school year.
Robert iHibin. professor of so
Ciology at the University of Illin
ois, was appointed last October as
pei manent head of the department
of sociology. J. V. Berreman, pro
fessor of sociology, Is acting head
of the department this year.
Karl 8. Pomeroy, professor of i
history, will serve as acting head
of the history department in the j
absence of Gordon Wright, who
will teach at Colombia university
n« xt year. Pomeroy Is on leave of
absence this year, studying under
a Ford Foundation grant.
Chirk's appointment is subject!
to th<- approval of the stale board
of higher education. He replaces
Roy Clyde McCall, who was selec
ted last week as president of Mo
desto college, Modesto, Calif.
t lark will continue to serve as
assistant dean of the college of
liberal arts, according to Dean El
<!on Johnson. The position is only
a part-time activity, Johmftm said
t^ark has been at Oregon since
UH., He received his A.B. degree
from Pasadena college in ]fl3l,
and his M.A and PhD. degrees'
from the University of Southern
K. I>. CLARK
Heads Speech Department
California in 1935 and 1946, res
pectively.
He was a Guggenheim fellow in
1930 and 1951. He has contributed
articles to professional speech and
history Journals, and was presi
dent of the Western Speech asso
ciation in 19-17.
Economics Professor
Plans Three Soeeches
Simeon E. Iceland, professor of
economics and dean of the college]
of liberal arts at Northwestern j
university, will make three talks;
on the Oregon campus May 17
through 19.
Leland will be a guest of the
department of economics. His spe
cial field of interest is taxation
and fiscal policy.
His first talk will be given at a
meeting of the Social Science club:
at 7:30 p. m„ Monday. His topic
will be "Current Fiscal Policy."
The meeting will be in the Dad's
room of the Student Union and the
public is invited.
Leland will speak on "The Cur
rent State of Economics," at an
economics seminar next Tuesday
at 4 p. m. in the SU.
"The Urban Fringe and Its
Problems," will be the topic of
a browsing room lecture by Leland
May 19 at 7:30 p. m. Students of
the other social sciences are invit
600 Scholarships
Awarded Students
The high school-college relations
committee has approved approx
imately 600 scholarships to be
awarded to high school seniors
and college students from five
stales, Alaska, Hawaii, and 20
other nations for the 1954-55
school year.
Distribution of the scholarships
was as follows: University of Ore
gon, 117; Oregon State college,
118; Oregon College of Education,
143; Southern Oregon College of
Education, 121; Eastern Oregon
College of Education, 69; Portland
State Extension center, 46; Uni
versity of Oregon Medical school,
6; Department of Nursing Educa
tion, 5; and University of Oregon
Dental school, 1.
Some of the scholarships were
awarded foreign students who are
already attending Oregon colleges.
M to participate in the discussion
following the lecture, according to
C. W. Macy, head of the depart
ment of economics.
Iceland was head of the depart
ment of economics at Chicago uni
versity before moving to North
western. He has served as an ad'
viser to the government on sever
al occasions and was chairman of
the Chicago Federal Reserve bank
for several years.
Petitions Due
For Art Award
Petitions for the Janet Davis
Memorial art scholarship, award
ed annually to a junior or senior
woman in the art school, are now
being accepted.
Any student wishing to apply
for this scholarship may pick up
petition forms at the office of Mrs.
Golda P. Wickham, JEmerald 208.
They must be turned in to Mrs.
Wickham by Friday.
The Janet Davis scholarship is
awarded on the basis of grades,
individual need, and merit as
shown by previous work in the art
school. The amount of the scholar
ship varies from year to year, last
year’s award being $79.50. As
soon as it is known, the exact
amount will be announced.
Janet Davis was an art student
and a member of the class of 1949
who was killed in an airplane
crash before her junior year. The
scholarship was started by her
sorority sisters at Kappa Alpha
Theta and is awarded annually to
a woman majoring in art.
Willamette Stages
Today's Assembly
Thl* Willamette tmivmlty rx
j change assembly, with a cast of
! over 75, will appear in the Stu
dent Union ballroom at 1 p. m.
today.
Included In the assembly are
the Kchool band, the ROTC chor
us, singers, dancers, and mono
logues, according to Gloria Gee,
chairman of the Oregon Ex
change assembly.
A joint coffee hour for the
cast of 'the Willamette assembly
and Oregon’s assembly will he
held In the SL' following the
performance.
Miss !>■<■ said that the Wil- '
lamette group has Is-en sched
ubd to up|M*ar on television in
Salem, and added that the as
sembly is “loaded with talent.”
Queen Vote Set
For Wednesday
The Junior Weekend queen will
be ‘elected by campus vote from
S a m. to 5 p. m. Wednesday, ac
cording to Ward Cook and‘jack
' Boettcher. co-chairmen. Voting
booths will be placed in the co-op
and the Student Union.
Princesses running for the queen
title are Alma Owen, Janet Wick.
Janet Miller, Nancy Murrow and
Dorothy Kopp.
The princess elected queen, and
her court, will reign over Junior
Weekend events this weekend.
She will be introduced at the Jun
; ior Prom Friday night.
Daily Ordered To
See Psychiatrist
John Daily, senior in mathema
tics who was found guilty of
threatening to extort money from
a Eugene housewife, has been or
dered to receive a psychiatric ex
amination as part of a presen
i tence investigation.
Judge William G. East issued'
the order to Daily, who was in
court with his lawyer. Daily ap
proved the request. Daily faces a
maximum two-year penitentiary
sentence, or he could be placed on
probation after the pre-sentcnce
investigation.
Daily was found guilty of threa
tening to extort money through a
series of telephone calls in Decern- j
ber and January to a Eugene
housewife.
Yell King Petitions Due
Wednesday at 5 p. m.
x f?tjlions for yell king are due
Wednesday at 5 p. m. in the peti
tion box on the third floor of the
Student Union, according to Tom
Wrightson, ASUO president.
The senate has set up a screen
ing committee to interview all the
yell king applicants. The commit
tee will recommend two or three
candidates to the senate when it
Parade Meeting
Today at 4, SU
Financial statements for the
Junior Weekend float parade must
be turned in today at a meeting of
all house float representatives.
The meeting will be held at 4 ;00
p m. in the Student Union.
It is very important for a rep
resentative from each house to at
tend the meeting, as the order of
march, assembly, dismissal, and
tne parade route will be discussed,
according to Mary Wilson and
Ann Hopkins, co-chairmen.
Along with the financial state-!
ment, which cannot exceed $70. |
Mi.ss Wilson and Miss Hopkins are I
asking each group to hand in ei-1
ther a written description or draw-1
ing of their float.
The parade will begin at 3 p. m
Saturday. The floats wall assemble
at McArthur court at 2:15 p. m..
and any float arriving after 3
p. m. will be disqualified. The
floats should be completed by noon
in order to allow ample time for
assembly, advised the co-chair
men.
Prizes for the first, second and
third place floats will be awarded
at the All-Campus Sing. Each will
receive a permanent trophy, with
the first place winner receiving
the additional rotating trophy.
Clean-up Reps
Meet Today at 4
There will be a meeting of all
house representatives for the all
campus clean-up, today at 4 p. m.
in the Student Union, announces
Lj nn Bodding, clean-up committee
chairman.
At the meeting, the houses will
be given the number of the area
they are assigned to clean. All
houses are urged to send a repre
sentative, Miss Bodding said.
Cleanup, Dance to Set
College Capers' Rolling
i Plans are well underway for
this Junior Weekend. "College Ca
pers," to be held on campus this
weekend, according to Jim Light,
junior class president and general
chairman of Junior Weekend.
Events start rolling Thursday
with the All-campus cleanup at 3
p. m. and a Terrace dance at the
Student Union from 4 to 6 p. m.
The traditional frosh-soph__ tug
o-war will take place at 4 p. m.
Friday on the millrace in back of
the Kappa Sigma house. Corona
tion of the Junior Weekend queen
will highlight the Junior Prom,
to be held Friday night in the
Student Union ballroom.
The "O” on Skinner’s Butte will
receive a new coat of yellow paint
at 9 a. m. Saturday, with the
freshmen men supplying the labor.
They also will scrub the Oregon
Seal in front of the SU.
The old campus will be the site
of the All-campus luncheon at
noon Saturday. Presentation of the
Junior Weekend court and honor
ary tappings are planned during
the luncheon.
Spectacle of the afternoon Sat
urday will be a combined parade
of Junior Weekend floats and arm
ed forces groups. The parade will
leave Mac court at 3 p. m., passing
by the Student Union on its way
downtown.
Sixteen living organizations will
compete in the All-campus Sing,
at Mac court Saturday evening,
beginning at 8 ■ p. m. Numerous
awards, scholarships and tappings
will be made at Sing intermission.
The weekend festivities come to
a close Sunday with church ser
vices in Eugene and dinners in the
living organizations. The Sunlight
Serenade at 3 p. m. in the open
ah' amphitheatre will wind up the
weekend.
meets Thursday. The screening
committee will consist of the ral!/^
board, president of the Order of
the O, several coaches and mem
bers of the senate.
The 1954-55 yell king will be
chosen by the senate at its Thurs
day meeting. The outgoing sen
ate has recommended that the in
coming senate seek the advice cT
the letterinen and coaches in
choosing the yell leader.
Petitions for the rest of the ral
ly squad will be due soon, accoi cl
ing to Rally Board Chairman Sally,
Stadelman. The senate approve-t
at its last meeting selection of the
entire rally squad sometime beforo
the end of spring term.
This way. the rally board felt,
the rally squad would have an cp
portunity to get organized befei a
the end of school, and could meet
during the summer to prepare for
the fall football season.
Petitioners for the position of
yell king will be interviewed by
the screening committee and wMI
also be asked to lead some yell".
All applicants are asked to wear
yell attire to the screenin'
meeting. 3
SU, Co-op Selling
Prom Tickets Now
Junior Prom tickets are now c#t'
sale at the Co-op and Student
Union, The price is $2.50 per
couple and the sale will continue
through Friday.
Highlighting the intermission cf
the Junior Prom will be the coro
nation of the queen and the
queen's dance. Presentation of th®
Gei linger and Koyl cups arnl
Druids tapping are also on sched
ule for intermission.
The orchestra of Ernie Field*
will provide the music for the
Junior Prom this year. Fields’ rec
ords for Gotham recordings an<>>
has been among the top ten band*
in the nation, according to some
of the national polls.
Closing hours for women Frida/
will be 2 a. m. The dance will bo
held in the Student Union ball
room from 9 p. m. to 1 a. ro.
Theme for the dance is ''Tradition
al Review.”
Junior Traditions
In Effect Now
Junior Weekend traditions a; a
back again as evidenced by the
sudden blossoming of rooter's lkl*
and green hair ribbons.
This series of ten rules, an
nually observed at this time for
the purpose of staying out of the
millraee, went into effect Monday
morning and will continue until
the freshman-sophomore tug-of
war in back of the Kappa Sigma
house this Friday at 4 p. m.
If the freshmen win the event,
traditions are officially over fee
the week. If the eophomores win,
however, traditiohs technically
continue to the end cf the year,
said Bob Glass, committee chair
man.
Names of violators of Juniqc
Weekend traditions will be turned'
into the Emerald and their name*
will be printed. They will be pun
ished by the Order of the "O,” who
will dunk them in the millraee. lit
past years Fenton pool has also
been used but it will probably bo
entirely replaced by the millraco
this year, says Glass.
The Order of the “O” will also
conduct the freshmen’s painting cf
the “O” on Skinner's butte.