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VOI.. LVI UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. EUGENE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1955
NO. 79
Lettermen Discuss UO Spirit
By Sam Vahey
Emarsld Chiaf Makeup Editor
A drastic change In Oregon's
rally board policy wax proponed
Wednesday afternoon at a meet
ing of the Order of the O, at
tended by members of the rally
board, the rally squad, and rep
resentatives of the athletic de
partment.
No definite action was taken
by the letter-man's organization,
which heard Alex Byler, one of
the atudents Invited to the meet
ing, propose four changes In the
present organization and meth
ods of the rally squad. The pro
posals were the same Myler made
last week in a letter to the Em
erald,
Byler said that there was no
lack of spirit at Oregon, but that
there was a problem in getting
students to express that spirit.
He said that students are cap
able of showing outstanding
spirit, and cited the Oregon
Htate-Oregon rivalry as an ex
ample.
DUk Orpy, tennis letterman,
advanced another theory on Ore
gon’s erratic spirit, blaming poor
leadership. He said that in high
school, the yell king and lead
ers were looked up to, and were
held in ns high esteem an the
student body president.
He said that here many of the
students do not know the yell
dukes personally and in some
cases do not even recognize them
as fellow students.
"We must, raise the prestige
of the squad," he concluded.
In answer to Grey's comments,
Betty Anderson, rally board
chairman, said that the situation \
has been discussed In rally board
meetings, and that the board is
now discussing possible candi
dates for yell leading positions.
"Next year, we're trying to get
respected, well-known students," j
she said.
Ah a possible solution to the
problem, Byler made the follow
ing propositions, conceding that
Horpe of them arc quite drastic.
1. "Get rid of the women.”
They add color, but don’t help
much with Hpirit. The men re
gard them as a floor Hhow.”
2. Select JiihI one male yell
leader to lead all the yells. One
yell king would command more
reaped and there would be more
attention focused on him. Several
y« ll dukes have a hard time get
ting co-ordinated.
3. Select only three or four
yells, which would be held over
from year to year. These yells
would be of the snappy, stacatto
variety, not drony.
4. The male yell leaders should
not sit on the women’s side of
the floor.
Patty Kagan, a member of the
rally squad, commented on the
ideas proposed by Byler.
She said that she was against
eliminating the yell girls. May
bo there's too much dancing, she
conceded; hut “we would have a
lot better pirit if people would
join with us in yelling, not just
watch us."
She also said that just, one
male yell leader could not direct
both sides of the court at one
time. Not only would it be too
much responsibility for him to
handle alone, she said, but it
would also take away a lot of the
fun which goes along with lead
ing yells.
Bill Borcber, basketball coach,
came up with a third possible
reason for the poor spirit show
ing- He said that the problem lay
partially in the very poor attend
ance shown by the women stu
dents at some of the less im
portant games.
He cited the Brigham Young
Oregon game, when only 83 wom
en occupied scats in the women’s
section. At one of the WSC-Ore
gon games last year, there were
only ,)4 women in the cheering
Mention. "Why give them seats
if they don’t fill them,” he asked.
Borcher commented that both
he and his teams have noted a
growing cynicism in the past few
years about school spirit. "This
was never a problem at the Ore
gon State games, of course,” he
added, "but seemed to present
itself when we played non-con
ference games and home confer
ence games with WSC and Ida
ho.”
“Until this year, we always
had fine spirit support for the
Washington series,” he said.
“But, now, after last weekend,
: that seems to be letting down.”
He suggested hiring persons.to
lead yells. “After all,” he said,
“the Romans were the greatest
fighters of their time, and they
paid men to do their fighting.”
Borcher had some good words
for the present rally squad, how
ever, saying their efforts were
fine.
Men to Submit Applications
For Counselors, Assistants
Men interested fn becoming
dormitory counselors for the
1955-56 academic year should
contact Bradford Blaine, coun
selor for men, or Kay Hawk, di
rector of men's affairs, as soon
as possible.
"We have Just about half the
number of applications for coun
selors that we ll need for next
year," Blaine stated. "We need
assistants as well as head coun
selors," he added.
Assistant counselors may be
undergraduate men who have
been active on the University
campus. The main job of the as
sistant is to advise the men on
fraternity life, the campus social
program, personal problems and
to assist the head counselors.
Head counselors should be
graduate students. Their job en
tails bookkeeping, personal rec
ords. disciplinary action, and stu
dent progress reports.
Assistant counselors will re
ceive one half of each term’s
Quartets to Give
Singing Invitation
Quartets from the Barbershop
Quartet contest will soon be is
suing onsical invitations to the
Senior Ball Feb. 19, according
to Ward Cook, promotion ohair
man for the dance.
This is in keeping with the
class officers emphasis that the
dance is an all-campus event, ac
cording to Don Rotenburg, senior
class president.
Many people have felt in the
past that the dance is only for
seniors and their dates, Roten
burg said. This is not the case, he
stressed, and pointed out that it
is the only major all-campus
dance of this term.
“Dreams of Tomorrow” is the
theme of this year's dance and
the decorations will be some
thing "new and different, in
keeping with the theme,” accord
ing to .Loris Larson, class repre
sentative and chairman of the
decorations committee.
room awl board fees for their
work. Head counselors will re
ceive $900 per year, from which
their room and board fees will be
subtracted. The remaining
amount will be cash.
Counselors begin their work
with a three day orientation pro
gram in September and remain
in "their official capacity until
June.
Blaine and Hawk can be con
tacted in the office of student
affairs on the second floor of
Emerald hall.
Senate to Discuss
Test File, Millrace
The A8CO Senate will nwt
tonight at 6:30 in the Student
Union.
Agenda tor tonight's meet
ing in an follow*:
0 Committee reports — test
file and essay contest.
0 Dad’s Day final report.
0 Millrace discussion.
0 AWS finances.
0 Discussion panel — "The
Role of Student Govern
ment.’*
KRGA May Play
'The Investigator
Radio station KRGA tentative
ly plans to go ahead with its
scheduled broadcasting' of the
record “The Investigator,'' ac
cording to Bob Crites, senior in
speech, who works part time at
the station.
The planned playing of the 45
minute recording has been under
fire ever since its announcecment
last week by Glen Stadter, man
ager of the station.
Crites said that KRGA will
have a car with loudspeaker go
ing through the city today mak
ing the final announcement of
whether or not the record will
be played. Tentative time for the ;
broadcast has been set for 4:45
p.m. today.
A final decision on whether or
not the disc will be played will1
probably not be made until after
Stadler meets with William L.
Browne, Portland detective cap
Met Basso Jerome Hines
Sings in Concert Toniqht
Jerome Hines, the Metropoli
tan's leading basso, who will ap
pear tonight at Mac court, has
been called the one operatic sing
er who looks better without his
make-up. As a basso, Hines ha
bitually plays kind old men or
wicked villains obscured by
pounds of grease paint, false
hair, and occasionally a false
Btomach.
The six-foot six-inch basso is
the first American ever to sing
the title role in "Boris Godoun
off," and has starred in many
other operas in his nine years at
the Met.
Hines was born in Hollywood,
Calif., in 1921 where his father
was a motion picture producer.
His first singing experience was
with a junior high glee club. This
career ended in failure when the
director asked Hines to leave
because he couldn’t carry a tune.
Hines got a fresh start on his
singing career while a freshman
at UCLA when he sang in "Pina
fore” with the Los Angeles Civic
Light Opera company. By the
time he received his B.A. in 1943,
he had appeared as a soloist with
the Los Angeles Philharmonic
and at the Hollywood Bowl,
where he won the Young Artists’
competition.
In addition to his singing ca-,
reer, .Hines writes for The Na
tional Mathematics magizine in
JEROME HINES
his special field, the operation
al theory of mathematics.
In 1946, Hines won the Met
ropolitan’s $1000 Caruso award
and signed a contract with the
Met. Since then, he has appeared
at the Metropolitan in over 30
leading basso roles.
tain, chairman of the American
Legion’s Subversive Activities
in Oregon, who plans to be in
Eugene today to help settle the
matter.
The conflict arose last week
when Stadler announced that the
record would be played orr the
air. American Legion officials
objected to the record, which is
a satire on the investigating
methods of Sen. Joseph McCar
thy (R-Wis.), contending that
the Communist Party would get
some of the funds from its sale.
Stadler said he would go ah tad
with the playing of the record
unless the Legion presented him
with proof of its charge by noon
today.
One of the two Legionnaires
who first protested to the plan
said Tuesday night that the two
were speaking for themselves -
and not the Legion as a whole.
Stadler replied that he regard
ed the calls as a Legion request,
adding, ‘ I would not have con
sidered any request made on an
individual basis."
ROTC to Drill
In Front of SU
A military retreat ceremony
will be presented by the Army
ROTC drill team, this afternoon
at 4:45 pjn. in front of the Stu
dent Union.
The drill will include the fol
lowing sequence of events: for
mal guard .mount, sound off,
sounding of retreat by the band,
lowering of the flag while the
band plays the national anthem,
and a passing in review by the
troops. Cadet Colonel Emerson
Harvey, senior in pre-med, will
review the troopa
Regular Army personnel will
act as a color detail during the
ceremony when the flag is low
ered. This retreat ceremony will
be the first ever to be presented
at the University.
An Army tradition, guard
mount dates back more than 150
years. Originally the ceremony
was much more elaborate than
the present day drills. Tradition
ally a retreat is an evening cere
mony, as the word comes from
the French retraite, referring to
evening. The use of the bugle
during retreat also dates back
to the French army of the cru
sade period.