The Oregon Daily Emerald is published five days a week during the school year
except examination and vacation periods, by the Student Publications Board of the Univer
sity of Oregon. Entered as second class matter at the post office, Eugene, Oregon. Sub
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Opinions.expressed on the editorial pages are those of the writer and do not pretend to
represent the opinions of the ASUO or of the University. Unsigned editorials are written
by the editor; initiated editorials by the associate editors.
JOE GARDNER Editor_ JEAN SAXDINE, Business Manager
DICK LEWIS, JACKIE WARDELL, Associate Editors
PAUL KEEFE, Managing EditorDONNA RUN BERG. Advertising Manager
JERRY HARRELL, News EditorGORDON RK^. StHTr^EVlitor
Chic/ Desk Editor: Sally Ryan Office Manager: BUI Main waring
Chief Makeup Editor: Sam Vahey Nat’l. Adv. Mgr.: Mary Salazar
Feature Editor: Dorothy Iler Circulation Mgr.; Rick Hayden
Ass't. Managing Editor: Anne Ritchey Ass't. Office Mgr.: Marge Harmon
Ass’t. News Editors: Mary Alice AUcn, Layout Manager: Dick Koe
Anne Hill, Bob Robinson Classified Adv.: Helen R. Johnson
Ass't. Sports Editor: Buzz Nelson_^ Morgue Editor: Kathleen Morrison
A Rare Opportunity
Most students will agree that studies, social life and extra
curricular activities all have their proper place in this im
•portant business of acquiring a college education. To these
three items, we would like to add a fourth—educational
opportunities outside the classroom
included in this category are lecture assemblies, art
exhibits and concerts. Participation in these events is not
secured by making them a house function or by the threat
of failing a course. The only prod to taking advantage of
these educational opportunities is the individual student’s
own conscience.
Oregon’s first annual Charter Day celebration, today and
tomorrow, is the year's biggest outside academic offering.
At great expense and after long and careful planning, the
University is staging a presentation of the highest scholastic
order. Charter Day, which this year will include the inaugura
tion of O. Meredith Wilson as ninth president of the Univer
sity of Oregon, is to become an annual event, rightfully the
high point of the academic year.
A concert by one of the world’s finest musical groups, the
Griller string quartet, will open the two-dav celebration this
evening. Three outstanding speakers, including one of the
world’s greatest living biologists Dr. Julian Huxley, are being
brought to campus as special Charter Day speakers. Over
300 distinguished guests, a rare gathering in the academic
world, will participate in the inauguration ceremonies.
Charter Day will not succeed in its purpose, however,
if students fail to participate in the program. The concert,
the speakers, the inauguration ceremonies are not being
presented to impress faculty members The entire program
has been planned to offer students a stimulating educational
experience.
Three years ago, the University celebrated its 75th anni
versary with a high-level program such as the one being
offered today and tomorrow. Student participation was indeed
disappointing.
If the University’s first annual Charter Day sees a repetition
of this lack of student interest, the Oregon student body will
have lost a great deal of prestige. On the other hand, whole
hearted -participation by the students will prove—to the ad
ministration, to the faculty and to our visitors—that we at
Oregon realize there is a great deal more to a college education
than going to a house dance, making a class honorary or
passing a course.
A Waste of Time
We’re disappointed in the ASUO senate. In our opinion,
the hour and a half spent in interviewing some nineteen pe
titioners for three senate vacancies at last Thursday’s senate
meeting was a colossal waste of time.
Last year the senate was also criticized for spending so
much time with the mechanics of maintaining its full mem
bership. After lengthy debate and a full committee report,
the senate passed by a vote of 16-4 the proposal of Bob
Summers, then a senator-at-large, to set up a screening
committee for applicants for senate vacancies and major
campus committee chairmanships selected by the senate.
The screening committee was to meet whenever there were
more than five petitioners for a position. The group, composed
of the ASUO president and two representatives of each po
litical party, would screen the applicants to no less than two
and not more than three candidates for a position.
Provision was also made to safeguard the right of the
individual senator. The screening committee would bring to
the senate meeting copies of all the petitions, including those
it had rejected, and any senator could challenge the commit
tee’s decision.
The plan, however, was passed as a resolution and was
not binding on future senates. The present senate, at its
first meeting last spring, rejected the screening committee
by a vote of 12-5.
Thus the door was left open for the parade of petitioners
wl|ich confronted the senate last Thursday. And more im
portant business had to wait its turn. We think there is good
reason for students to be disappointed in their legislative
body.
Marine Officer
Interviews Men
Capt. William P. Heim of the
marine corps officer procurement
office will visit the University
Wednesday and Thursday to dis
cuss the marine corps officer
candidate program with interest
ed students.
Two programs are now open to
undergraduates. One, the platoon
leaders class, is open to fresh
men, sophomores and juniors. It
provides for a reserve commis
sion upon graduation from col
lege and draft deferment until
graduation. Two six-week sufh
mer training periods are the
only training required.
The second program is known
as the officer candidate course.
After graduation from college,
the candidate attends a ten-week
course at Quantico. Va., and re
ceives his commission upon suc
cessful completion of the course.
For detailed information con
cerning the advantages and re
quirements of these programs,
all interested students are in
vited to contact Captain Heim
in the Student Union during his
visit.
Chairmen Request
Homecoming Title
Two tickets to the Homecom
ing dance and a merchandise gift
will be awarded to the student
who submits the winning Home
coming theme. The contest closes
at 5 p.m. Wednesday.
Theme suggestions may be left
in boxes in the Student Union
or the Co-op. Any student is
eligible to submit a theme and
there is no limit to the number
of themes one person may turn
in.
Suggestions should pertain to
all the activities of Homecom
ing weekend, Nov. 12 and 13,
according to Barbara Bailey and
Shirley Brown, theme contest
co-chairmen.
International Affairs Essay
Contest Deadline Extended
oiimcnis imeresiea in imer
imtional affairs have until De
cember 15 to submit essays in
the Foreign Service journal prize
essay contest, -it was announced
today.
The essays, to be written on
"The Organization of American
Representation Abroad," may
win up to $1000, or a full fellow
ship, amounting to $1750, at the
school of advanced international
studies of the Johns Hopkins
university in Washington.
Students constitute one of four
categories of entrants outlined
in the contest announcement.
Other categories embrace former
and present state department
Freshman Council
Chooses Officers
Dick Hyder of Cherney hall is j
the newly-elected president of j
the freshman social council. Mary i
Jo Basche was elected secretary
of the group.
The council is composed of the
social chairmen from all fresh
man living organizations and is a
part of the new freshman leader
ship training group.
Katherine De Pue, head resi
dent at Straub hall, and Bert
Ferris, head resident counselor
for Vets dorms, are advisers for
the program.
Shell to Interview
Chemist Prospects
The Shell Chemical corpora
tion will hold interviews for pros- j
pective employees Wednesday, j
Interviews are especially for j
chemistry and chemical and me- j
chanical engineering students at ‘
bachelor and master degree j
levels, interested in employment
in the laboratories and various
technical departments of Shell
Chemical plants. The work is in
connection with the manufacture
of chemical derivatives from pe
troleum and natural gas.
lampus briers
0 Tryouts of Amphibians,
women’s swimming honorary,
will be held tonight at 7 p.m.
at Gerlinger pool. Members and
pledges will meet for a business
meeting at 7:30 p.m. according to
Olivia Thoraldson, Amphibian
president.
0 Deadline for Religious
Notes news has been changed
to 5 p.m. Wednesday. Items about
religious organizations on cam
pus for this column should be
turned in at the Emerald office,
301 Allen.
f Two students, Joanne Burns
and George A. Lo, were confined
to the infirmary Friday, accord
ing to hospital records.
0 The advertising staff of the
Oregon Daily Emerald will meet
in the Emerald office, Allen 301,
today at 4:30 p.m., according to
Jean Sandine, business manager.
0 Names of candidates for
Homecoming queen must be
turned in to Mary Sandeberg at
Gamma Phi Beta or Peggy Gath
ercoal at Kappa Kappa Gamma
by 5 p.m. Tuesday.
0 The Student Union dance
committee will meet at 4 p.m.
today in the SU, according to
Don Peck, chairman. Old and
new members are urged to at
tend.
0 Sigma Delta Chi, men’s pro
fessional journalism fraternity,
will meet Tuesday at 12:30 p.m.
in Allen 302, according to Jerry
Harrell, president.
0 Deadline for petitioning for
Homecoming committees is 5
p.m. Tuesday, according to Betti
Fackler and Dick Beckman,
Homecoming co-chairmen. Pe
titions may be turned into the
ASUO petition box on the third
floor of the Student Union.
0 Gamma Alpha Chi, nation
al women’s advertising honorary,
win meet at i p.rri. i uesaay in
the Eric W. Allen seminar room
in Alien hall.
0 All Homecoming committee
chairmen are to meet at 4 p.m.
today in the Student Union, ac-,
cording to Betti Fackler and
Dick Beckman, general co-chair
men for the event.
«nd foreign nervier personnel,
personnel of other government
agencies and competent persons
other than thorn* in the» first
three categories. A total of $3850
will be awarded in prizes after
the contest closes. The content
wan originally to have closed
October 15.
Full detail* of the content may
be obtained by writing to the
Foreign Service Journal, Content
Committee, 1WJ8 G Street, N.W.,
Washington 6. D.C.
'Education' Topic
Of KOAC Forum
"What In Progressive Educa
tion" is the subject of a panel
discussion for tonight’s Radio
Forum, heard every Monday
night at 8:30 over Station KOAC.
The moderator of the panel is
Donald K. Tope, director of the
Kellogg project at the Univer
sity. Other panel members are:
Beatrice Hurley, professor of
education at New York univer
sity; Frank Costlin. clinical
counselor and assistant profes
sor of psychology at the Univer
sity of Illinois, and Robert Fra
zier of the Eugene Register
Guard.
Campus Calendar
Noon Fest of Art 110 SU
Spanish Tbl 111 SU
URC 112 SU
Delta Theta Phi 113 SU
4 :00 Public Relations 312 SU
Dance Com 313 SU
RE Wk Exec 318 SU
Oregana Staff 334 SU
PE Club Tea Gerl Hal!
YW Frosh Comm
Gerl 1st FI
6:30 Co Ed Using . 110 SU
7:00 Chides Initiation
Gerl 2nd FI
7:30 Block & Tackle 313 SU
8:00 Grllier Quartet Ballrm SU
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