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VOL. LVI UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, KF.rTF.MBF.R 21, l«54
NO. I
Preliminary Meetings
Scheduled For Today
Preliminary meetings with ad
visers and the traditional Hello
Dance will highlight today's new
student activities.
Transfer students will hold
their second meeting of the week
at 3:30 p.m. and at 7:30 pm.
All new students will meet with
their faculty advisers and ar
range for their first Individual{
conferences.
The dance will be held In the
Student Union ballroom between
9 p.m. and 12 midnight. The
dance is sponsored by the SU
Board under the chairmanship of
Don Peck, dance committee
chairman.
Open House Date
Changed to Wed.
The Oregon Dally Emerald,
campus newspaper, will hold
open house in the new “Shack,”
SOI Allen, Wednesday evening
from 7 p.m. to » p.m., Instead
of nest Tuesday as listed in the
new student week program.
■Staff members will explain
the operation of the campus
daily to interested new stu
dents. Persons Interested in
working on the Emerald may
apply for positions at that
time.
The next edition of the Em
erald will be Friday. Regular
five times a week publication
will begin Monday under a fall
term publication schedule call
ing for 49 editions.
Distribution of the Emerald
will be shortly before noon at
campus living organizations,
the Co-op and the Student
Union.
The dance is an informal no
date affair and open to all (stu
dent*, with a special invitation
to new fre*hmen, according to
Handra Kennie, HU program di
rector. Music will be by Darryl
Renfro's band.
Wednesday'* schedule of events
includes the Duckling picnic at
5:30 p.m. on the lawn west of
Htraub hall and the Oregon Daily
Emerald open house from 7p.m.
to 9 p.m.
A meeting of transfer students
at 1 p.m. will open Thursday’s
activities. At 3 p.m. the Asso
ciated Women students will hold
a dean's tea in Gerlinger hall.
Campus clothes will be in order,
and new women students will
have an opportunity to meet Mrs.
Golda P. Wickham, dean of
women.
The SU and the YMCA will
hold open houses from 7 p.m. to
10:30 p.m.
The President's reception will
be held in the Dad's lounge of
the 8U between 8:30 p.m. and
10 p.m.
On Friday Oregon’s 16 sorori
ties will hold open house from
10 a.m. to 12 noon and from
1 to 3 p.m.
Saturday’s football game with
Stanford at Multnomah stadium
in Portland will end the week’s
activities.
The Oregana will hold an open
house Wednesday. Sept. 29 at
its office In the Student Union.
New students interested in work
ing on the yearbook may meet
with the editor, business man
ager and staff.
Thursday, Oct. 7 has been set
for the Joint YWCA, AWS, WRA
New Student Tea. The tea will
be held in Gerlinger hall from
3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
ASUO Insurance Plan
Has 24 Hour Coverage
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MARY LOU GLASS, Eugene freshman, buys the first ASUO
insurance policy from Bob Summers, ASUO President, and Doug
Johnson, chairman of the insurance committee. This is the sec
ond year the accident insurance plan has been offered on campus.
The ASUO insurance plan, now
being offered for the second year,
will pay up to $500 on any acci
dent, Bob Summers, ASUO presi
dent announced today.
The plan, started on the campus
last year, will cover University
students on a 24-hour basis for all
student activities except inter
scholastic sports.
Students may sign up for it dur
ing registration week at a cost for
the 12-months period of $4.50.
Cost for one term is $1.50.
Included in the coverage are car
accidents, skiing, drowning, in
tramural sports, skating, scuffl
ing and criminal attacks, Sum
mers said.
The insurance would pay for
doctor and hospital bills, surgery,
x-ray treatments, nurses and am
bulance fees.
Chairman of the ASUO insur
ance committee is Doug Johnson.
Larry Kauffman is secretary
treasurer and Buzz Bradley vice
president.
Ellingson Named
Director of SU
New director of the Student
Union is Si Ellingson, former
counselor for men.
Ellingson replaces Dick Wil
liams, who resigned Aug. 17 to
accept the position of personnel
manager for the new Bon Marche
department store in Eugene.
Ellingson, an Oregon graduate
in history, returned to the cam
SI ELLINGSON
New SU Director
pus in 1949 as a graduate assist
ant and accepted a fulltime posi
tion with student affairs in 1051.
Bradford Blaine, a Stanford
graduate, was appointed this
summer to replace EIHngson in
the Office of Student 2 Affairs.
Freshman counselling, program
ming and dormitory assignments
are handled by Blaine. He will
also assist Ray Hawk, associate
director of student affairs.
Prof. Snarf Back
Worthal and Profssor Snarf
are back! Dick Bibier’s popu
lar cartoons, “Little Man on
Campus,” begin their sixth
straight year in the Emerald
with the publication of today’s
issue.
Bible features service of Elk
hart, Kansas, is only supplying
80 cartoon mats this year, with
the result that the Emerald
will not be able to publish a
cartoon daily. “Little Man on
Campus” will be a three-times
a week feature of the campus
daily, however.
UO Fall Term
Admissions Up
An estimated 2,000 new stu
dents will be encountering Ore
gon’s registration lines for the
first time this week as 1954
Orientation week gets into full
swing.
Director of Admissions, J.
Spencer Carlson said that pre
liminary admissions figures are
up 25 to 30 percent this fall. The
estimate of 2,000 new students
includes some 1,300 freshmen
and the remainder transfers,
graduate students and special
students.
If Carlson's estimate proves
accurate, there will be 254 more
freshmen entering the University
this year than last fall when the
frosh numbered 1,046. Carlson
said that he expects total enroll
ment to exceed 4,000 by the end
of registration week. Enrollment
at that time last year was 3,919.
Tests will take up most of the
new students’ time during the
first part of the week. Examina
tions started Monday and will
continue through Wednesday.
New students may pick up regis
tration material in the Student
Union any time during the week.
Registraiton material for old
students will be available Wed
nesday. Saturday is the last day
to pay fees without penalty.
! The first, registration step
after securing the cards and fill
ing them out is to build a study
program with the help of the
faculty adviser Preliminary
meetings with advisers will be
held tonight.
After the study program has
been filled out and approved by
the adviser, it is necessary to fill
out an instructor’s card for each
course and take it to the ap
propriate department office. The
department will stamp the regis
tration card of the student. If
changes in the approved pro
gram are necessary they should
be made and approved by the
adviser before the completion of
registration.
The next step is to fill out the
student affairs card, the news
bureau card, and the multiple set
of cards. The student is then
ready to deliver his registration
material to the student affairs
desk in the registration line.
Students who have automo
biles on campus must register
with the ASUO traffic court.
When the above steps are satis
factorily completed, the student
will be given a fee assessment
card. Final step is payment of
fees in Emerald hall.
Summer Job Accidents
Claim Lives of Students
Two University students were
killed in summer job accidents
only one week apart. They were
Doyle Higdon, 20, killed August
13 in a dynamite explosion near j
Cottage Grove, and Don Lewis, 20, j
drowned when the tug boat on
which he was working sank below
Bonnville dam August 20. Both
men would have been juniors this
year.
Mr. Higdon was working as a
logger in the woods 15 miles
New Allen Hall
To Open for Class
Eric W. Allen hall, the new
home of the University’s school
of journalism was completed
earlier this summer and will
be open for fall term classes. It
is the newest building on the
campus.
Named for the first dean of
Oregon’s journalism school, the
$600,000 building is one of the
j few in the United States de
signed and built for journalism.
The brick-faced structure can
accommodate 517 students.
Business and editorial offices
of the Oregon Daily Emerald are
located on the third floor of the!
building.
Formal dedication of Allen hall
is scheduled for October 9, ac
cording to Gordon A. Sabine,
dean of the school of journalism.
Senior Class President
Post Vacated by Glass
ASUO President Bob Summers
announced Monday that Bob
Glass, senior class president, will
not return to school this fall. He
will attend the University of Ore
gon Dental school at Portland.
A replacement for Glass will
be chosen by the ASUO senate
at its first meeting of the 1954-55
school year Oct. 5.
Other vacancies to be filled by
the senate are on the student
faculty assembly committee and
the rally board. Geri Porritt, who
was appointed to the assembly
committee last spring will study
in Mexico this year. Maeua Hair,
rally board member, is not re
turning to school this fall.
The senate will also select a
general chairman for homecom
ing. Petitions for the homecom
ing chairmanship must be turned
in prior to the senate meeting.
Summers said that he had not
received definite notice, but he
, believed that Tom Arata, sens-1
tor-at-large, will not return to
i school. Arata is the only non
j partisan member of the senate.
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northwest of Cottage Grove, when
he and a companion, Paul Hausot
ter, 34, were killed by a dynamite
blast. Mr. Higdon had planned to
quit work and return to the Uni
versity for football practice the
following week. He would have
been a guard on the 1954 team.
In addition to playing guard
on the football team, Mr. Higdon
threw the javelin for the track
team and had played frosh base
ball. He had an academic scholar
ship to the University and was a
member of Phi Eta Sigma, fresh
man men's scholastic honorary.
He also was an ASUO senator-at
large in 1953-1954, a member of
Druids, Skull and Dagger, Com
mand Squadron, and was rush
chairman for his fraternity, Beta
Theta Pi. He was an economics
major and had planned to enter
the law school. A graduate of Cot
tage Grove high school, he was
valedictorian of his class.
Mr. Higdon was buried in Doug
lass, Kan., and is survived by his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Hig
don, and two sisters in Cottage
Grove high school, Phyllis and
Sue.
Mr. Lewis and four other em
ployees of the Larson Construc
tion company of Astoria were
killed when their 47-foot tug was
sucked into the turbulent waters
below Bonneville dam. One man,
Merle L. Tobias, 49,Survived.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Lewis of Portland, Mr. Lewis had
attended the University two years
and was a liberal arts major. He
was a member of Sigma Alpha
Epsilon and had participated in
intramural sports. Lewis’ father
formerly was resident engineer at
Bonneville dam for the corps of
engineers.
Lewis was buried at the Port
land mortuary. He is survived by
his parents and a sister, Jean, a
1953 graduate of the University
of Oregon school of journalism
now living in Portland
Dubin,Pomeroy,Clark Begin
New Departmental Dufies
Three new department heads
will take over their assignments
this week.
Robert Dubin, formerly profes
sor of sociology and management
at the University of Illinois, will
begin his duties as the head of the
sociology department. Dubin re
places J. V. Berreman, professor
of sociology, who served last year
as acting head of the department.
Dubin was graduated from the
University of Chicago and re
ceived his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees
there.
Earl S. Pomeroy, professor of
history, will serve as acting head
of the department of history in the
absence of Gordon Wright, who
will teach at Columbia university
this year.
Robert D. Clark, professor of
speech and assistant dean of the
college of liberal arts, will be the
new head of the speech depart
ment. Clark replaces Roy McCall,
who left Oregon this year to be
come president of the Modesto
college, Modesto, Calif.