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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1955)
56th )'car of I’ublication VOL. LVI IiMVKIlHITY OF OKKOON) EIJOKNK, TI KHIHV, MAIK H I, l»55 NO. 1)2 Work for Russians Revealed by Scientist MOSCOW IAP) Bruno Pon tecorvo, the Italian-born British atomic scientist, dissolved the five-year mystery of Ins where abouta Tuesday. He disclosed that lie has been working on atomic projects for the Soviet Union since 1950. The 42-year-old scientist, has been called by official Washing ton the second most deadly spy in history. lie made the revelation in identical letters to the editors of l*ravda and Izvestia. the Commu nist party and Soviet government newspapers. Ho said he quit the West lie cause the preparations there to use atomic energy for military purposes made him “ashamed of my profession.” Pontecorvo, who checked out for Moscow in September, 1950, has been credited with first rate knowledge of hydrogen bomb se crets. In his letter he said he was en joying “every care and attention” in the Soviet Union and was be ing permitted to work with "ex cellent" technical equipment. He described Soviet research as be ing "conducted on the widest Ticket for Two Given to Winner A ticket for two to the Junior Prom will be awarded to the per son who Bubmita the winning theme for Junior Weekend, Ju nior Class President Bud Hink- j son has announced. The theme suggestions are to be submitted by 5 p.m. today. They may be turned in at the Ju- ! nior Weekend headquarters, Stu dent Union 303. Themes must be usable for all of the events of Junior Weekend, including the terrace dance, ju nior prom, all-campus sing and all-campus luncheon. Selection of the weekend theme will be made by Hinkson and the junior class officers: Gordon Rice, vice-president, and Don Bonime and Mary Sweeney, rep resentatives. Winning themes in recent years include "Faraway Places," 1051; "Childhood Memories, V 1952; "Holidazc," 1053, and "Col lege Capers," 1954. Heal** and on a very high techni cal level." The rcmiltH of thia work, he aaid, were being prepared for publication. He acclined a former acientific associate, Nobel prize winner I. A Jtabl of Columbia University, of being a "prisoner of opinion" and naked if he atill believed that liuaaia would never tie able to produce atomic energy. Prof. Rabi ia the US repre sentative on a UN advisory board which ia preparing the world Senate Passes New Dorm Bill The Oregon legislature Mon day approved legislation to build dormitories at the state univer sity and colleges and to remove resident requirements for mem bers of the state board of higher education. The House sent to the Senate a bill to raise the $8,000,000 lim it on higher education bonds to $13.88< ,000. The bonds are self liquidating and are paid off by dormitory fees. The Senate also sent to the House a bill that would permit the nine members of the state board of higher education to lx* residents of Eugene, Corvallis, Monmouth, La Grande, and Ash land. Under the existing law, resi dents of those cities where insti tutions of higher learning are lo cated cannot serve on the board. The present law also allows one alumnus of each school to serve on the board. The new bill would raise the number to two. The Senate education commit tee also introduced a bill to re quire that all school boards have five members. Petitions Due Friday For Sunrise Service Petitions for the Easter Sun rise service chairmen are due Friday noon at the YMCA office. This service is sponsored by the University Religious Council. Religious Evaluation Week chairman petitions are due March 11 at the YMCA. These petitions are for tbe chairman ship next year. Duck Preview Petitions Duck Turned In by Friday Duck Preview positions as co ordinators, sub-committee chair men and committee members are now available through petitions, according to Bob Porter and Lucia Knepper, co-chairmen of the Duck Preview weekend. The petitions are due Friday at 4 p.m. ASUO petitions are to be used and should be turned in on the third floor of the Student Union. Four people are wanted as co ordinators of hospitality, housing promotion and program. The po sition of general secretary for the entire event is also open. Under these four areas peti tions may be submitted for both sub-committee chairman and committee memberships. Hospitality includes the com mittees of registration, trans portation and programs. Committees on promotion will be invitations, publicity and cam pus promotion. Housing commit tees will include men’s and wom en's housing. Under program are the com mittees of vodvil, exhibits, tours, exchange dinners, dance and pre vodvil entertainment. Duck Preview has been sched uled for April 23 and 24 this year. h toms-for-peace conference in | Geneva this year. Pontecorvo also appealed to his former scientific associates in France, Britain, Italy, Canada and the United States to protest against the use of atomic energy for military purposes. The US Joint Congressional Atomic Knergy committee esti mated in 1951 that Pontecorvo, along with Klaus Fuchs, German born British science worker who was convicted of spying, “ad vanced the Soviet atomic energy program" at least 18 months be yond where it otherwise would have been. Fuchs took part in British and American work on the first atom ic bomb and the committee said he "possessed insight" into the development of the later hydro gen bomb. The committee said Pontecor vo’s tasks, prior to his disap pearance, "included work upon tritium, a substance intimately related to the hydrogen bomb." Tritium is one of the two forms of heavy hydrogen which can be used in a hydrogen bomb. Before working at Britain's Harwell laboratories, Pontecorvo had been engaged in secret work on Canadian atomic projects and during World War II visited American atomic plants. WUS Projects Told by West World University Service proj ects for the remainder of the school year have been announced by Gail West, general chairman. The house solicitation drive j began Monday and will continue through Friday. The men's and women’s houses which contribute the most in this drive will be I annoupced at the vaudeville' show during Duck Preview weekend. WUS has planned firesides fea ' turing foreign ^tudents now at I tending the University as speak ers. They will be held at various living organizations early in April. An all-campus auction is being planned for April 22. This will be held on the Student Union terrace. Important people on campus will be auctioned off and required to serve dinner to the highest bidding house. The last event of the year planned is the vaudeville show and carnival to be held April 23. It will be made up of skits en tered by various campus living organizations. The carnival will be held after the vaudeville show. Booths will be handled by for eign students who will be selling articles from their own countries. Proceeds from all these proj ects will go to help students in other countries. Miss West has also announced several committee chairmen. They are: publicity, Donna Run berg; speakers, Alice Kihn; so licitations, Jean Sandine and Kathy Holloway: faculty solici tations, Glenna Pearl; auction. Martin Brandenfels; promotion, Gordon Ross; firesides, Evie Dia mont and Luella Adams, and car nival Marlene Grassechi and Margi Harman. Women Select AWS Officers Women voter* will elect one of three Junior* president of the Associated Women Students to 4ANK BKROSTHOM I'hi Th«-ta Secretary JANET GUSTAFSON H«'<I Cross Board Member SALLY RYAN Journalism Major I day. Jane Bergstrom, Janet Gus tafson and Sally Ryan are com peting for the top women’s post. Runner-up will be declared vice president. Balloting will be from 1 p.m to 5 p.m. in the Student Union lob by. The preferential system of voting will be used to assure one j of the candidates a mapority of the votes cast. Each voter must ! present her student body card. All three candidates are mem bers of Phi Theta Upsilon, junior | women’s service honorary. Miss Bergstrom, junior in art, is Phi Theta secretary and sec i etary of the Unive^y Co-op board. She is also a member of the Student Union personnel board. She was recently named ! co-chairman for this year's Jun ior weekend all-campus sing. Miss Gustafson, a junior in I speech correction, is, president ■ of the Red Cross board and a member of the rally board. She was hfwama president last year and her class representative on the ASUO senate. Associate editor of the Emer ald, Miss Ryan is a journalism major. She served on the AWS cabinet this past year as inter j collegiate AWS representative, is a Carson hall counsellor and member of the Student Union board. University Theater ComedyOpensRun "The Contrast,” the first early American comedy, will begin its i run at the University theater this Friday. This play is the Univer ! sity theater’s offering to the Fes : tival of Arts program whose theme is “The American Herit age.” "The Contrast” is as popular in 1955 as it was in 1785 when Roy all Tyler wrote it. The appeal of the play has caused it to be re peated again and again since its first production. The 1790 edi tion was dedicated to George Washington. A new stage curtain has been especially designed far "Con trast” to give an early Amer ican atmosphere to the stage. The construction of the set tings for “The Contrast” has amounted to a remodeling job in the stage area. Most of the play will take place on a stage built | out over the orchestra pit and literally "in the laps of the pa : trons in the front row.” i Tickets are on sale at the I theater box office now. Canadian Poet to Give Assembly Talk Today Earle Birney, well-known Can adian poet, will deliver today’s University assembly lecture at 1 p. m. in the Student Union ball room. He will speak on the topic "Canadian Poetry Today — Neg lected Stepchild.” Birney has had several volumes of poetry published, of which the best-known is “Trial of a City.” | The author has also published a I novel entitled, “Turvey.” His work [ is noted for its humorous qualities ; and its description of the North j west and outdoor life. At the present time, the poet is | a professor of English at the Uni j versity of British Columbia. He j also writes radio and television plays and speeches for the Canad ian Broadcasting corporation. Birney, now 51, was born in Cal gary, Alberta. He received his B.A. from British Columbia. He ' also holds a M.A. and a Ph.D. from Toronto University. He was at one time editor of the book, “Twentieth Century American Foetry.” The Canadian has been the re cipient of several writing awards, the most recent being the Royal Society of Canada medal for poetry. His first honor was the Stephen Leacock award for humor in 1953. In both, 1942 and 1945, he received the Governor Gen eral’s medal for poetry. Birney was also awarded first prize in the International poetry ! awards in 1951 and a Canadian I government overseas fellowship in | 1953. The speaker will be on the cam j pus through arrangement made under the Northwest College Lec tures and Concerts association. A coffee hour forum will be held for Birney today at 4 p. m. in the Dad’s lounge of the SU.