Remodeled Mac Court Sees
Side Posts Out, Balconies In
OREGON'S McARTHUR COURT, currently undergoing extensive alterations, will seat 10,000
people when it is re-opened for the 1954-55 basketball season. The remodeling, which includes the
addition of east and west balconies, will cost ahoiit $*30,000, or $10,000 more'than the original
cost of the building. McArthur court is unique among college pavilions in that no tax funds
were used for its construction.
By Jerry Claussen
Emerald Reporter
McArthur Court, Oregon's ‘Tg- •
loo" field house of the 1920’s, I
will be fit for kings of the bas
ketball court after its extensive
remodeling and seating additions
are finished’ in the near future.
Biggest improvement to the
27-year-old building is the addi
tion of balconies at the east and
west sides suspended above the
old second-floor level seats. With
- two balconies, one above the
other, added to each aide of the'
playing floor, seating capacity
in McArthur Court will lie raised
from approximately 8200 to
j 10.000. This will make it the
tenth largest basketball court in
capacity in the nation, rated
right behind Oregon State's $1,
800.000 coliseum, according to
athletic department officials
In order to place the balcon- j
Campus Briefs
• Barbara Hogard, Caroles*
Witt, Gwendolyn EUis, Joanne
Burns, William Stoner. George
Low and Elliot Carlson were con
fined to the infirmary Thursday,
according to hospital records.
f Old and new members of
the Student Union dance com
mittee are to meet Monday at 4
p.m. in the SU, according to Don
Pacvk. chairman.
0 There will be no Friday at
Four in the Student Union fish
bowl today.
• “Ic ha bod and Mr. Toad,"
will be the movie shown at 2:20
and 5 p.m. Sunday in the Student
Union ballroom. A Walt Disney
technicolor production, the film
has Basil Rathboae and Bing
Crosby as narrators. Admission
is 30 cents.
• Canterbury club. Episco
pal student group, will meet in
Corvallis Sunday at 5:30 p.m.
with the OSC Episcopal group.
Students wishing transportation
are to call Father Ellis at 5-7908.
ies above the second floor seats,
some of the upper part of the
building had to be almost com
pletely rebuilt. To take the load
of the balconies, two wooden
trusses have been placed over1
each side of the building and
attached to the old interior wood
trusses. This takes the building
weight off the side posts and j
puts it all on the corner posts
of the building.
Good View From Sides
Removal of the side posts will1
give fans an unobstructed view
from the side seats, an improve
ment long overdue for games and
other events which attract near
ly 500,000 spectators to McAr
thur Court annually. With the
comers taking about 10 times
more weight than prior to the
building changes, concrete bases
13 feet square have been put
in to help absorb the weight.
New stairs have been built
from the main floor to the sec
ond floor with new steel towers
on the four corners of the build
ing to hold stairways to the out
side and up to the new balconies.
Lower balconies will have six
rows while the top balconies will;
contain four rows of seats which
spectators may reach from an
aisle along the rear of each bal-1
cony. The balcony angle will be ;
quite steep and the view of the
playing floor will be improved. \
Cost S13 a Seat
Cost of remodeling will be
about $230,000 or $13 per new
seat. Construction of the build-1
ing was begun in the early 1920‘s, j
After several delays the concrete j
and steel structure was finally
completed in 1927, at a cost of
about $220,000.
Since that time, only one ma
jor change has been made. Be
tween 1949 and 1953, new roll
away bleachers werev installed
on the ground-floor sides of the
playing floor and theater-type
seats were put in portions of the
balcony. All original costs of the
building have come from stu
dent fees and donors, not one
cent having ever come out of
tax funds, according to Ted
Bouck, athletic business man
ager.
Work Began April 1
Although the inside is nearing
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completion, the outside stairways
will still require another month
of work in order to get the
building completely done for the
1954-55 hoop season. Work was
begun last April 1,
The revamped plant's first
formal showing will be Oct. 19,
during the inauguration of Uni
versity President O. Meredith
Wilson in conjunction with Uni
versity Charter Day. Basketball
action will begin Dec. 3 when
Oregon plays Santa Clara and
Oregon State meets California
in a doubleheader.
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Theater Announces
Cast for Bernardine'
Scott Lehner, junior in speech,
will play the leading role of Bu
ford Weldy in the University
theater’s production of "Bernar
dine."
UO Mothers, Dads
To Meet Jointly
The Mothers’ Club and the
Dads’ Club of Eugene will hold!
a joint meeting Wednesday at
7:3<) p.m. in Gerlinger hall.
Main speaker of the evening j
will be University President O.
Meredith Wilson. Officials from
the student affairs office will
discuss scholarships and student
life on the campus.
Mel Gustafson Is president of
the Dads' club, and Mrs. Paul
E, Price is the president of the i
Mothers' club.
Portland State's
Enrollment Up 743
PORTLAND - < APi - Portland
State college enrollment at the j
close of registration is 2363.
more than <14 per cent more than
last fall's total of 1620.
The stale board of higher edu
cation had expected an increase
of only about 300 students.
When the increase turned out to
be more than 700, the board
gave the college the equivalent
of eight more fulltime instruc- r
tors.
Whiskerino Ticket Sale
Begins Monday Noon
Tickets for the Sophomore
Whiskerino will go on sale at the
Co-op and the Student Union.
Monday at noon. They may also
be purchased from freshman
girts who will be giving flying
speeches at men's living organ
izations during the dinner hour
Monday through Thursday.
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"Coroner Career"—Randolph Scott
Frederick J. Hunter, assistant
professor of speech, who will di
rect Mary Chase's latest work,
has announced the rest of tin*
^a.st for the show. "Bernardtne"
jpen.s a six performance run on
Oct. 21*.
Lehner has been seen by Uni
versity audiences in 11 roles
since he came to Eugene in 1952.
Last summer he played the like
able but lazy Ensign Pulver in
"Mr. Roberts," Cato Dove In
the period farce "Forbidden
Fruit," and had roles in the other
summer productions. Last year
he played the sly and mischlev
ions Joxer Daly in "Juno and the
Paycock" and the year before he
was Harry Beaton in “Brlga
doon" and Tony Lumpkin in "She
Stoops to Conquer."
Pat Johnson, senior In speech,
will play Ruth Weidy. Miss John
son was seen last year as Mercy
Lewis In "The Crucible." I^oretta
Mason, junior in speech, will
play Enid Lacy, the "Bernadine"
if the show. Miss Mason played
Penelope Toop in "See How They
Run."
Other cast members include
3ruce Holt as Arthur Beaumont,
Jail Monte as Selma Cantrick,
Jloria Begenich as Jean Can
trick, Sonja Dalton as Helen, Joe
Malanga as Tub Grinet. Darrell
<eeney as Carney, Lowell Slick
is Dink Olson, Allen Ward as
Vernon Kinswood, Jack Baker
is McElroy, Nell Coder* as
Jibbs, Gordon Seiple as Fudge,
ind Denice Kenyon, Harvey Mad
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