n Daily
EMERALD
56th Ycar of Publication
VOL. LVI UNIVERSITY OF OREOON, EUOENE. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1954
NO. 88
I/O Debaters Score
Win in WSC Meet
Oregon's debate team won the
Columbia valley debate tourna
ment by winning every division
Friday and Saturday at Wash
ington State college.
Seventeen colleges from the
states of Oregon, Washington,
Idaho and Montana participated
in the tourney.
The tJniveraity was represent
ed by five teams. The question
Property Values
See 'No Decline'
It in being proved in Port
land that property values do not
decline when a Negro moves into
a white residential district. Shel
ton Hill told members of NAACP
last night.
Hill, industrial secretary of
the Portland Urban league, spoke
in the absence of Bill Berry, the
scheduled speaker who was un
able to attend due to illness.
“We have felt for 'some time
that the property values do not
decline when a Negro moves into
a white neighborhood," Hill said,
“but now we are conducting a
study to prove this in dollar and
cent* values.
Realtors use the decline of
value idea largely as an excuse
to keep Negroes out of white
residential areas. Hill added.
Portland's Negro housing sit
uation is better than in many
parts of the United States, he
indicated. The city is divided up
into 61 residential tracts, and of
these Negroes live in 58.
However, half of the 10,500
in the city live in two tracts.
These tracts are made up of
homes whose average age is 69
years. It is almost impossible for
Negroes to purchase new homes,
in any section of the city.
Something has been done in
the way of legislation to elimin
ate housing segregation. Hill
said. Restrictive covenants were
declared Illegal by the Supreme
Court in 1948.
debated wan "Should the US Ex
tend Diplomatic Recognition to
Communist China?”
The team of Don Micklewait,
senior in economics, and Leland
Nee, senior in art, won the men's
championship division with Six
wins and no losses.
Dave Cass,* freshmen In liberal
arts, and Wynn Dahlgren. gradu
ate student in political science,
tied for third in the men’s cham
pionship division.
Pat Peterson, sophomore in
liberal arts, and Betty Herr
man, freshman in liberal arts,
tied for first in the women's
championship division with a
five won-and-one-lost record.
Donna DeVries, sophomore in
speech, and Shirley McLean,
sophomore in liberal arts, placed
second in the same division with
four wins and two losses.
The team of Marsha Meyers
and Alice Dormer, both fresh
men in liberal arts, tied for first
in the women's practice division.
The Oregon team’s next debate
tournament will be held in Tuc
son, Arizona, later this month.
Leftermen Seek
Rule Violators
Pre-Homecoming activities be
gan Monday with the observance
of Homecoming traditions.
Names of tradition violators are
being recorded by members of
the Order of the 'O,' lettermen’s
organization.
Violators whose names will
appear in the Oregon Daily Em
erald this week will be asked to
report to the front of the Stu
dent Union at 3 p.m. Friday for
traditional punishment.
The following traditions will
be in effect through Saturday:
1. No student is to walk on
the grass anywhere on the cam
pus.
\ Students will greet each
other on Hello walk, the
diagonal walk from the corner
of 13th and University to the
; SU.
3. Freshman women will wear
green ribbons.
4. Freshman men will wear
green and yellow beanies.
5. _ Freshman men will wear
class pants (suntans). They will
not wear cords.
6. Only seniors will sit on the
senior bench located near the
statue of the Pioneer Mother.
U. S. Citizens Need
Jefferson's Ideals
i^iuzens or me united states
today need to uphold some of the
qualities of Thomas Jefferson
and the other “Founding Fath
ers'' to improve the individual
freedryn of. all mankind, John
Dos Passes told an audience of
800 at the Student Union last
night.
Dos Passos, speaking 9n the
topic. “Jefferson Today." em
phasized that modern technolog
: ical developments are putting
more power into the hand of a
few and that the US must be
careful not to allow this socialis
tic practice to get out of hand.
“Jefferson and his associates
did not succeed because they had
better people following them,"
Freshmen, Graduates
Elect Representatives
After a week of intensive cam
paigning, freshmen will. vote
Wednesday for officers to rep
resent them on the ASUO senate.
Also voting in Wednesday's elec
tion will be graduate students
who for the first time will elect
a graduate student representa
tive.
Voting booths will be located
in the Student Union, Common
wealth square, in front of Friend
ly hall and on the quad in front
of the library.
Pictures Planned
For Living Groups
Members of Lambda Chi Alpha
and Nestor are scheduled to have
their pictures taken for the Ore
gana today, according to John
Shaffer, photography editor.
Photos will be taken from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m.
Makeup pictures can be sched
uled only through Shaffer.
The picture schedule for this
week includes Wednesday—Phi
Della Theta 'and Phi Gamma
Delta, and Thursday, Yeomen
and Omega hall.
Polls will be open from 8 a.m.
to 6 p.m.
Very little campaigning has
been done by the four candidates
for the graduate student post
and campus politicians are
watching that contest very close
ly. Turn out of graduate students
will determine how much inter
est they have in campus politics.
Last year the graduate repre
sentative was selected by the
ASUO senate after candidates
petitioned. This is the first year
graduate students have voted for
their representative.
Freshmen campaigns have
been anything but quiet with
torch light parades, posters and
flying speeches. Twelve fresh
men men are running for presi
dent, with 22 candidates running
for the two representative posts.
Wednesday's election is under
the direction of the ASUO sen
ate election committee. Hollis
Ransom, ASUO vice-president, is
in charge of the committee. As
sisting Ransom are Loris Larson,
Bob Maier, Gordon Rice and
Mary Sweeney, all senate mem
bers. Barbara Johnson is com
mittee secretary.
ne saia. i ney succeeded be
cause they put their best into
their work."
Dos Passos explained that
‘‘self-government is the most dif
ficult undertaking the country
has ever encountered."
“We need to come to grips
with the problems right now. It
is necessary to have a powerful
enough government to protect us
from foreign attack and from
communistic infiltrations, but
we should not forget the old prin
ciple that government exists to
serve the people."
The noted novelist pointed out
that technological specialization
has become so much a part of the
Americans’ way of life that the
individual citizen in many cases
has lost sight of what is going
on in society about him.
"It is important that we come
to realize our ignorance and do
our best to correct it,” he stated.
Dos Passos declared that al
though the economic system was
much different in Jefferson’s
time than now, “man is not dif
ferent.'”
“If the country will apply the
minds that have succeeded so
tremendously- in winning wars
and stopping depressions to the
problems of democracy, a solu
tion could be in sight.”
DG Pledges
Net High Bid
A new high in the price of
pledge classes was recorded when
19 Delta Gamma pledges were
sold to Alpha hall for 60
dollars at the AWS auction Fri
day.
The Kappa Kappa Gamma
pledge class was sold to Theta
Chi for $19 and the Alpha Chi
Omega pledges were won by Al
pha Tau Omega for $17.
Each group will be requested
to serve dinner, entertain and
perform other duties for the
men’s organizations which pur
chased them. Proceeds from the
auction go to the AWS scholar
ship fund.
STUDENTS INCLUDED
Wilson Okays
Budget Board
Oregon students will have a new voice in the spending’
of money allocated for their use, as a result of the approval
last week by University President O. Meredith Wilson of a
plan to set up on campus a faculty-student budget board for
the allocation of the Student Union and educational activities
fund. Previously this function was performed by faculty
members alone, J
The board will be composed of three faculty members and four
student representatives. Preliminary action for the setting up of
he budget board, to be called the Student Union and Educational
Activities Fund Allocation board, has already been taken.
Duties of the board will be to correlate and resolve differences in
recommended budgets for the groups which come under the SU
and educational activities fund These include the SU board the
publications board and the music and forensics programs
The budget board will make a complete budget recommendation
to the president for final approval. Until this year, the budget
recommendation was made by the SU director after consulting
with representatives from the interested groups.
Committee Recommended Board
The plan for the budget board was an outgrowth of discussion
by a special presidential committee appointed last March by
President Wilson to consider the duties of the SU director and
the whole area of the educational activity program in relation to
the fees supporting the program.
The committee recommended to the president two weeks ago
the creation of a budget board. Final approval of 'the plan was
received from the president last week.
All seven members of the budget board will be appointed by
the president. The student representatives will include the ASUO
president and three members-at-large, to be nominated by the
ASUO president after consulting with the ASUO vice-president
and any of the groups which will come under the board’s jurisdiction.
Slate Submitted to (Groups
A slate of candidates for the budget board will be submitted
to the interested groups for approval or disapproval. Each of the
groups will have the veto power over any candidate for membership
on the budget board. Once the candidates have been appointed,
the interested groups will have no further control, over the budget
board members.
The ASUO president will make final recommendations for student
members-at-large to the University president, who will then make
the appointments. In making his recommendations, the ASUO
president may not include any of the candidates rejected by the
groups to which the slate of candidates was presented for approval.
Student membership on the budget board was originally proposed
by President- Wilson in setting up the presidential committee. The
'committee’s original recommendation for the budget board, sub
! mitted to the president last spring, was accepted in principle by
; the president but sent back to the committee for clarification.
rrrsiwni Accepted t'lan
Final recommendation for the budget board was submitted to
| the president’s office two weeks ago, after the committee had
made some revisions in the proposed membership of the board. The
plan was accepted without reservation by the president.
Faculty members of the presidential committee include Donald
; DuShane, director of student affairs, chairman; George Hopkins,
| professor of piano; C. G. Howard, professor of law; J. L. Lindstrom,
University business manager, and Gordon A. Sabine, dean of the
school of journalism.
Original student members of the presidential committee included
Andy Berwick, former SU board chairman; Sandra Price Rennie,
former SU directorate chairman and now SU program director;
Janet Wick. AWS president; Elsie Schiller, former Emerald editor’,
and Tom Wrightson, former ASUO president.
Appointed to the committee this fall were: Joe Gardner, Emerald
editor; Bob Pollock, SU board chairman; Hollis Ransom, ASUO
vice-president, and Bob Summers, ASUO president. Berwick and
Miss Wick, the only student members still in school from last year's
committee, continue to serve.
Students Select Representation
The plan for selection of student representatives on the budget
board was drawn up by the student members of the full 'com
mittee, serving as a subcommittee under the chairmanship of
Gardner. The subcommittee recommendation was approved by the
full committee and submitted to the president.
A second recommendation of the presidential committee last
spring was the creation of a student-faculty Student Union and
educational activities governing council, which would make policy
decisions for the SU program.
The SU director, under this setup, would have been responsible
to the governing council and would have concerned himself with
the details of the program and the building administration, rather
than with policy matters.
This plan was rejected by President Wilson because of the
impossibility of having a faculty member (the SU director has
faculty status) responsible to a faculty-student group. In recon
sidering the plans for the governing council this fall, the presi
dential committee decided that the proposed governing council
would have the effect of pyramiding the board of control in the
SU organization, and the plan was abandoned.
Tickets Now Available
For Homecoming Dance
Tickets for the Homecoming
dance may be purchased today
at the Co-op, the main desk of
the Student Union, or from the
social chairman of each men’s
living organization.
Ticket Chairman Margaret Ty
ler has announced that the so
cial chairman selling the most
tickets will be admitted to the
dance free. Tickets are $1.65 per
couple.
Men also will be able to pur
chase tickets from freshmen
women following flying speeches
which are being given at men’s
living organizations tonight
through Thursday during the
dinner hour.
Alumni have been urged to at
tend the dance and tickets will
be available to them when they
register at the Osburn and Eu
gene hotels or the Student Union.