Crucible Re-Opens
For Four-Night Run
"The Crucible." directed by Hor
ace Robinson, will re-open it* run
in the Univemity Theater tonight
and continue through Saturday.
Ticket* are on sale at the theater
box office from 1 to 5 p. m. daily.
An outstanding feature of the
production in Paul Minty'* net, the
first student-designed net lined thin
year. The setting ha* two level*
with beam* on three sides. An up
stair* level, reached by a movable
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I’tityn John iljilo
Courtrty Krgitlrr Guard
flight of stairs, provides more
acting apace” for the produc
tion.
Phil Sanders, senior In speceh,
designed the lighting for the play!
Pools of colored light, colors in
the sky, and a number of specially
designed projections have bepn
deed to create effects. Other crew
members are Helene Robertson,
stage manager; Ron Morgan, pro
perties, and Dalece Peterson, elec
trician.
Arthur Miller, who wrote “The
Crucible," also won the Pulitzer
pnze and the Drama Critics Circle
award for his “Death of a Sales
man, which was produced here
last year by the University Thea
ter.
"The Crucible,” based on the Sa
lem witchcraft trials, is Millers
latest dramatic effort. The pro-j
duction here marks the first time
the drama has been staged since!
the original Broadway run. It is i
the first time the play has been
produced anywhere by an amateur
cast.
Don Van Boskirk, senior in
speech, plays the leading role as
John Proctor. Abigail is played by
Donna DeVries, a freshman in lib
eral arts, who is making her first
eppearanee on the University
stage. Proctor’s wife, Elizabeth,
is played by Sandra Price, senior
in speech.
Randall Acclaims
Philosophy Shift
by Jerry Harrell
Ememld An nin! Newt Editor
The greatest change in the phil
osophy of nature since the time
of Galileo has taken place during
ihe lust generation, John H. Ran
dall told a University assembly
audience Tuesday in the Dads
lounge of the Student Union,
Randall, professor of philosophy
at Columbia university, spoke on
Straub Men
ProtestRuling
Residents of Straub hall con
tinued their protest over recent
events concerning dormitory pol
icy by hanging a dummy outside
Alpha hall Tuesday morning.
The dummy was marked with a
fign identifying it as ‘'Barnhart”
and was suspended from a fourth
floor window. H. P. Barnhart is
director of dormitories.
The “hanging" was in connec
tion with the decision made last
weekend to have all dormitory res
idents eat at Carson.
Herb Nill Resigns
Alumni Position
Herb Nill, assistant alumni sec
retary since last October, has re
signed his posisiton with the alum
ni association.
His resignation will become ef
fective July 1. He has announced
no plans for the future. Nill grad
uated from the University in 1951.
hile here he was ASUO vice-presi
dent his senior year, a member of
Friars and Druids, and lettered in
track.
Alumni director Les Anderson
has announced that no one has yet
been selected to fill Nill’s position.
the topic "What Man Has Made
of Nature: The Intellectual Revo
lution of Our Time."
Randall said that man's view
of nature has shifted completely
from that of the sciChtists of the
nineteenth century who saw the
world as a hostile one in which
man must struggle for existence.
“We now see the world as a
more congenial place," Randall '
said. "The world now seems to be 1
the appropriate setting for an in
telligent, moral and creative be
ing," he added.
Changes Noted
Randall spoke of the drastic'
changes which science has under- j
gone in recent years. He likened I
the scientists of the seventeenth,!
eighteenth and nineteenth cen
turies to painters of the universe \
who attempted to paint a portrait
of the world. Contemporary sci
ence attempts to draw a blue-1
print, rather than a portrait of!
nature, Randall said.
Science and philosophy in our
time attempt to give man a for
mula for life in the world rather
than merely paint a picture of the
world and the universe.
Sylvia Wingard
Named President
Sylvia Wingard, junior in busi
ness administration, was elected
president of Mortar Board, Tues
day night.
Other officers elected by the
senior women’s honorary after in
itiation were Nikki Trump, vice
president; Donna Schafer, secre
tary; Dorothy Kopp, treasurer;
Pat Adkisson, historian, and Jac
kie Wardell, editor.
Also initiated Tuesday were
Marian Cass, Floy-Louise von
Groenewald, Janet Wick and Mary
Wilson,
Crane to Discuss
Literature Trends
"Home Trends in the Study of
Literature" will be the topic of
tonight's Student Union browsing
room lecture, to be given by Ron
ald S. Crane, professor emeritus'
of Ertglish at the University of
Chicago.
Crane will speak at 7:30. Dis
cussion after the lecture will be
led by P. W. Souers, head of the:
English department.
Tonight's talk will be the last
in a series of eight browsing room I
lectures sponsored this term by,
the Association of Patrons and'
h riends of the University of Ore
gon Library and the library. It
will also be Crane's last public lec
ture on the University campus. He I
has been a visiting lecturer in the
English department this term.
Dukes, Finalists
Named by Board
Five 1954-55 yell dukes and 13
finalists for the position of song
queen were selected Tuesday night
by the raily board. Further elim
inations of song queens will be
held this afternoon and Thursday. |
The yell dukes will serve on a
rotating basis, with a different
duke sitting out each game. This
was the rally board's action to get
around the appointing of an alter
nate. Next year s dukes are>
George Johnston, Larry Cromley,
Malcolm Scott, Walter Ching, and
Monte Johnson.
The 13 finalists for song queen
are Carol Aiken, Sally Jo Greig.
Betty Anderson. Bcv Jones. Bev;
Braden, Donna Lory, Julie Miller.
Donna Aaris, Bev Bowman, Mar
cia Mauney, Donna Brewer, Patty
Fagan and Marlis Claussen. The
first six wall be asked to go!
through their routine again, be-!
sides being interviewed, "at noon
today in Gerlinger annex. The last i
seven will be auditioned and inter
viewed Thursday at noon in the
annex.
Group Circulates
Freedom' Paper
A statement expressing the
views of students interested in
fighting McCarthyism and sup
porting academic freedom on the
Oregon campus will begin circula
tion today for signatures, accord
ing to Forbes Hill, graduate in
liberal arts. June 3 was set as the
deadline for signatures, at the
group’s second meeting in the
Student Union Tuesday night.
The 11 members present agreed
to circulate the proclamations 'on
campus and in living organiza
tions. This move is being taken in
conjunction with the Green Feath
er movements on other college
campuses to defend academic free
dom. The Green Feather symbol
comes from Ann Arbor, Michigan
Eastman Kodak
Man to Give Talk
The concept of color schemes
and the ways in which color may
be applied successfully will be dis
cussed by Ralph M Evans, direc
tor of the color technology divis
ion of Eastman Kodak Co., to
night at 8 p. m. in the Science
building amphitheater.
Sponsored by the school of ar
chitecture and allied arts, the I
Evans lecture is entitled "The Ex
pressiveness of Color.” He will use
examples of color photography to
investigate the problem and to il
lustrate the points involved.
Evans, graduate of Massachu
setts Institute of Technology, join
ed the Eastman Kodak Co., in
Rochester, New York, in 1935 to
work on the development of color
processes and research on visual
effects in photography. In 1945,
he became director of the com
pany's Color Technology division.
SU Board Sets
Today's Agenda
The Student Union board will
meet today in the board room at
4 p. m. The agenda includes:
• Orientation Week
0 Hello Dance
• Movie Price Policy
0 Creative Arts Workshop
0 Directorate Chairman's re
port
0 Special Attractions reports.
where it was adopter! by student*
after a report of a textbook com
missioner ,n Indiana. The repo/t
urged that Robin Hood be banned
as subversive literature at it fos
tered communist ideals.
The movement on the Oregon
campus termed "spontaneous and
Hi ! ahfU y ,°rganized group," by,
Hi M has not adopted a name.
hvTr v.a 7'terJ statem«nt proposer!
by |7wbi[ HcCarro1* J°hn Bonneilf
and Neil Chambers says:
We, the undersigned, helive that
T tfuarantee of
thought and expression are neces
sary to any truly democratic so
ciety. It is our belief that any sys
tem or institution which tends to
decrease the freedom to discus,
ah problems must be opposed.
# «!he We be,leve thc students
of the l niversity of Oregon bene
fit from the academic freedom bf
their faculty.
... Thprefore, (1) We oppose any
investigation” of the U of O, be
cause of thc curtailment of aca
demic freedom which would result;
(2) we support the University of
Oregon in its program of free dis
cussion of all views and problems;
and (3) we stand ready to resist
any attempt to “investigate” or
intimidate members of the Uni
versity staff or student body.
In defining "resist" in number 3,
it was agreed upon by those pres
ent that this would be interpreted
as 'measures necessary to meet
the situation.”
Blood Needed
To Help Child
The grandparents of two-year
old Ruth Ida Fisher of Eugene
have appealed to the Office of
Student Affairs for blood to help
save the life of the little girl.
Ruth, a leukemia victim, needs
blood transfusions, but the Lane
County Blood Bank requires two
pints of blood to be given for
every one taken out. Any type
blood is acceptable, since the bank,
needs only quantity, according to
student affairs.
The grandparents, who did net
give their names, stressed that
anyone donating blood should bo
sur e To specify who it is for. The
bank is located in the Medical Cen
ter building on East Broadway,
and is open from 2 to 4:30 p. m.
Monday through Friday, and from
10 a. m. to noon Saturday.
Donors must be at least 18 years
old, and girls must weigh at lea-t
120 pounds to be eligible to donate.
Emerald Edits Bring Results
TH®2IV' CAME DOW N Thcre will be no Ivy on the Student Union. After an Emerald editorial com
nientuiR on the fact that one piece of stubborn Ivy was beginning a slow climb up an SU drain pipe,
» , ' !anlS SU dirPttor’ (Ieft)- "ith thp h^P of Andy Berwick, past SU board chairman, speedily
pulled it down. Interested onlooker who was visiting the campus is Linda Storr, secretary of the re
gion's steering committee of the American Association of College Unions. Berwick is chairman of the
committee^ The. ivy was growing in a corner of the west side of the Union to the left of the entrance to
the Tom Taylor lounge. "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust...'’ and even the newness, the starkness, the
2ea“j!"d HneS °f the 1 n'°n WiH suoc,,nlb slowly to age and ivy,” said the editorial. It appears that ii
the sU is to become dust, it will do so without tho services of ivy.