56th Year of Publication
VOL. LVI
IMVKRSITV OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1955
NO. 52
Board Selects
New Chancellor
John R. Richards, vice-chan
cellor of the slate system of
higher education, haa been se
lected by the state board to suc
ceed Charlea D. Byrne. Byrne
Kubmttted hia resignation to the
•late board in December.
The atate board of higher ed
ucation accepted Byrne'a resig
nation and granted him the
year's leave of absence which he
requested. He will return to the
system in a lion-administrative
post at the end of his leave.
JOHN R. RICHARDS
Nt*w t hHiu-ftior
CHARLES D. BYRNE
Rnilxm Pont
Byrne * place will be taken by |
Richards next June 30 when the
resignation la effective.
He will retire from adminstra
tlve (Jutted for the system after
23 years of aervicc.
Directed News Bureau
Byrne came to the state In
1929 when he accepted a position
as director of the news bureau!
and head of the industrial Joum-j
allsm department at Oregon
State college. In 1932 he began
his work for the system as direc
tor of information. A year later
he took the additional duties of
secretary of the state board and
assistant to the chancellor.
Byrne was made acting chan
cellor in 1950 and chancellor
shortly afterward.
He received his bachelor's and 1
master's degrees from the Uni
versity of Wisconsin In 1921 and
1922. He got his doctor's degree
in education from Stanford uni- 1
versity in 1938 while on a leave I
of absence from the system.
Byrne Active Educator
Byrne taught at four schools
before coming to Oregon. He is a
past president of many education i
organizations and has also serv- ,
ed on the administrative boards
oi several agricultural groups. j
Richards. 45. came to the Ku- <
gene headquarters r.f the system ;
in 1953. Before that he had serv- <
ed as an assistant to tha vice- I
chancellor and director of re
search at New York university.
Richards Administrator, Teacher
Richards has been a special :
assistant in education to the Sec- 1
retary of the Army, an assistant
to the president of Wayne uni- I
versity, and economist for the '
Office of Kmergency Manage- j ,
ment and has held a number of j ’
other positions in the administra-!.
live and teaching fields. j
He attended Pennsylvania;
State college in the late 1920's ,
and early 1930's where he re- j
ceivod a bachelor of arts degree
in political science and a master j
of science degree in psychology. (
Richards got his doctor of |
philosophy degree from Chicago 1
university in 1935.
i
Dilhard to Lecture
At Press Meeting
Irving Dilliard, one of the
country’s leading editorial writ
ers, will be the 1955 Allen Me
morial lecturer. He will speak at
the Oregon Press conference here
Feb. 18 and 19 and will meet
with journalism students and
faculty groups.
Dilliard, who at the present
time is editor of the editorial
page of the St. Louis Post-Dis
patch, will be the ninth in a se
ries of Allen lecturers which
speak on campus each year. Al
ton F. Baker, Sr., chairman of the
Eric W. Allen fund, which spon
sors the annual appearance of an
outstanding journalist, an
nounced the selection of Dilliard.
In his 31 years of service with
the Post-Dispatch Dilliard has
written many outstanding edi
torials. He started his editorial
writing in 1830 and became edi
tor of the editorial page in 1949.
Besides his newspaper work,
Dilliard has distinguished him
self in several other positions and
activities. During World War II
he was advisory editor of the
Stars and Stripes in Germany in
1946. He is author of “The De
velopment of a Free Press in
Germany,” published in 1945-46.
Dilliard spent a year of study
at Harvard university in 1939
as a Nieman Fellow. He holds
membership in Sigma Delta Chi,
men’s national professional jour
nalism honorary, in Phi Beta
Kappa, national scholastic hon
orary, and in American Society
of Newspaper Editors.
Students Protest
Lenqth ot Lines
Frustration and confusion wore
the characteristics of registra
tion day this term. Most of the
students were disturbed by the
length of time spent in lines.
Evelyn Gosnell, sophomore in
liberal arts, said "I don’t mind
the line at the Student Union
now (about 15 people), but I
don't like it when it gets clear
down to the street.”
Ron Walters, fifth year archi
tecture student, added "This is
the fourteenth time I've gone
through registration and it's still
different every term. I wish they
would standardize it.”
Several students offered sug
gestions on how they thought
legistration could be improved.
Suzanne Horn, sophomore in
music and a transfer from Ore
gon State, said "At OSC all the
advisers and departments are in
Gill coliseum. That way you don’t
have tp tramp all over the cam
pus.”
Margot Casanova, junior in
business, stated “I think it
worked much better when we
registered before the end of the
term.” -
On the other side of the fence,
however, is Bonnie Brackin, jun
ior in English, who worked in the
registration lines. “Registration
would not be so bad,” according
to Miss Brackin, if students
"would be patient and read their
directions.”
John Woyat. Junior in pre
dentistry, seemed to have found
the solution, however, which
keeps a student calm during the
registration rush.
"It was easy for me.” Woyat
said. “I didn't start until after
noon.” •
Pope Pius Urges
Christians to Build
Bridge of Peace
VATICAN CITY - (AP) - Pope
Pius 'XII has urged the world to
transform the current “cold
peace” into a true peace as soon
as possible. He called upon Chris
tians to help build "a bridge of
peace” between East and West,
but warned anew against Com
munist propaganda.
Devoted to Peace
Like its 15 predecessors, the
message was devoted to peace.
The 78-year-old head of the Ro
man Catholic church recognized
that the present cold peace in
dicates ‘‘some progress in the
laborious ripening of peace prop
erly so called."
"But," he added, “it is in too
vivid contrast with the spirit of
cordiality, of sincerity and of
brightness that hovers around
the cradle of the Redeemer."
Peace Conditioned
The world's current cold peace
he called “only a provisional
calm.” Its duration is conditioned
upon fear and the varying calcu
lations of strength and has noth
ing in it of relationships that
converge toward a common pur
pose that is right and just, he
explained.
Much of the Pontiff's message
was devoted to peaceful coexist
ence, which he divided into three
sections, coexistence in fear, co
existence in error and coexist
ence in truth. Only the third, he
said, can lead to true peace.
Winter Term
Agenda Full
By Anne Ritchey
Emerald Aitiiunt Managing Editor
Winter term, which began with
the uaual mean-registration pe
riod Monday, will end with the
| at ate high school basketball tour
i nament, aa it has for the past
i few years.
This is the term always dread
ed by fresh men and upperclass
men alike as the ' study term."
But is may not be so bad there
are many ba“ketball games here,
and numerous social activities.
Five conference basketball
games are scheduled in McAr
thur court, at least two of which
will be followed by fishbowl
mixers.
Movies Scheduled
The second annual barbershop
quartet contest, sponsored by
J the Student Union board, will be
, held after the Washington game,
j Feb. 4.
There will be Student Union
I Sunday afternoon movies every
week, beginning Jan. 9 with
"Arsenic and Old Lace.”
Other movies scheduled for
the rest of the term are “Up
Front,” "Man in the White Suit,”
"The Rise of the American
Film," "The Cruel Sea,” "Horse
j men of the Apocalypse” and "Of
Mice and Men.”
RE Week Planned
Religious Evaluation week,
i which will bring many guest
j speakers to the campus, will be
| held from Jan. 30 to Feb. 3.
Only “big” weekend of the
! term will be Dad's weekend, Feb.
4 and 5. The barbershop quartet
contest will be that Saturday
night, and there will be a lunch
eon and other events.
Two formal dances will be held
— the Frosh Sno-Ball, Jan. 29,
i and the Senior Ball, Feb. 19.
Other all-campus dances in
clude two Lemon-Orange squeeze
! dances, following Oregon State
I basketball games.
bfturcs Each Wednesday
Browsing room lectures will be
held on Wednesday nights again
this term, with one Wednesday
filled by a Eugene Civic Music
association concert in McArthur
court.
Three major art exhibits will
be featured in the SU art gal
lery. One, on Inea life, is current
ly on display.
Two others, one on sculpture
and one by LaVeme Krause, will
be up later in the term.
The national pocket billiard
tourney is scheduled for Feb. 20
to 26. Following that is the na
tional straight rail billiard tour
ney. The week of Feb. 6 to 12
features the national three-cush
ion and the national co-ed pocket
billiard tourneys.
Sport Events Here
Other sports events, of which
there are many, will be high
lighted by the northern division
swimming meet, the weekend of
Feb. 4 and 5 and the high school
basketball tournament March 14
to 18.
Two wrestling matches are
scheduled, with Portland State
and Oregon State.
University lecture speakers al
ready named include Wallace
Fowlie, R. N. Bracewell and T.
V. Smith. Tuesday afternoons at
1 p.m. are again reserved for
University assemblies.
Every weekend except closed
weekend at the er.d of the tenii
there will be Friday at Four en
tertainment in the fishbowl.
Eight are scheduled so far.
Every other Wednesday night
educational films will be shown
in Commonwealth 138. Dates for
these are Jan. 12 and 26 and
Feb. 9 and 23.
Emerald Petitions
Due Next Monday
Petitions for editor and busi
ness manager of the Oregon
Daily Emerald for the second
half ef the arademic year are
now being called for.
The petitions are due Mon
day at 5 p.m. and may be
turned into Allen 308.
Candidates will he inter
viewed the first meeting of the
student publications board
Wednesday, Jan. 12.
Soviets Banned
In Parts of US
WASHINGTON <AP) — More
than one fourth of the U. S. land
area was declared off limits to
Russians Monday in reprisal
against similar curbs against
Americans in the Soviet Union.
The retaliatory action was dis
closed by the State Department
after Secretary of State Dulles
notified Soviet Ambassador
Georgi N. Zarubin that the United
States had revised its travel reg
ulations.
The new U. S. rules, effective
immediately, apply to all Soviet
citizens in this country except
about 50 accredited to the United
Nations as employes of the U. N.
Secretariat. Officials, and their
families are affected.
The restricted area, according
to U. S. officials, covers 27 per
cent of the United States. It in
cludes about 1,000 counties in 39
states, all of the Mexican border
except Webb county, Texas, and
a 15-mile band around the Great
Lakes on the Canadian border.
For the first time, it creates
barred areas and closed cities.
The tough regulations were
clamped down, officials said be
cause Russia had shown no sign
of easing up on its restrictions
dating back to 1948. However,
they suggested that if and when
the Kremlin is ready to do like
wise, the U. S. government will
consider easing up its travel re
strietiona
Banned to the Russians are 23
Washington and 16 Idaho coun
ties. All of Oregon will be open
to travel by Soviet citizens ex
cept for Portland, which is en
tirely closed.
The Washington counties list
ed by the State Department were
Adams, Asotin, Benton, Clark,
Columbia, Cowlitz, Douglas,
Franklin, Garfield, Grant, King,
Kittitas, Klickitat, Lewis, Lin
coln, Pierce, Skamania, Snoho
mish, Spokane, Thursday, Walla
Walla, Whitman and Yakima.
Seattle, however, will be open
to travel by Russians with the
exception of its port area, whose
limits were not defined. Thus,
Seattle becomes a partially open
city within a closed area, while
Portland will be a closed city
within an open area.
Dulles’ note said the new reg
ulations "will apply until further
notice.” He said it will include
"all resident Soviet citizens” ex
cept U.N. Secretariat employes.
Also exempted are Russians tem
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