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56lli Year of Publication YOU. LVI UNIVERSITY OF OKKliO.N, EUGENE, FRIDAY, MAIUTI 4, 1055 NO. 05 Ml MU FOIt Til K MIBITAItY BALL will be provided by the 534th Air Force band from MeC'hord field In Tacoma (abo\e). The Airmen feature twenty piece* and have toured the Northwest and part* of Canada visiting Air Force Installation*. They have also appeared on KIN<j-TY In Seattle. Military Ball Will Be Held Saturday The ROTC Military Ball, last held in 1953. will return Satur day night as Army and Air Force cadeta and datea turn out at the Student Union ballroom tor the announcement of the Little Col onel at intermiaaion. A formal affair, with ROTC uniforma in order, the ticketa are selling to military personnel for *1.65 at the ROTC depart ^ment for the 9-12 p.m. dance. The aervice with the most ticketa sokl on a percentage basis will have its candidate named Little Colonel. The four finalists for the Air Junior Weekend Luncheon Monday Junior Weekend committee chairmen and junior class of ficers will hold a "kickoff” lun cheon for Junior Weekend Mon day at noon In the Student Union. A discussion of genera! plans and policy for Junior Weekend will be held at the luncheon, to give an over-all picture of the weekend to the leaders. Force are Pat Leonard, senior in speech; Ruth Joseph, senior in speech; Joan Hunter, senior in education and Janet Wick, sen ior in history. Army finalists are Alma Owen, senior in speech; Marcia Dutcher, senior in journal ism; Charlotte Britts, senior in muaic and Diane David, senior in foreign languages. • March 10 Paper Last This Term The last Emerald Issue of the term will be Thursday, March 10, and will he a Id-page paper with a special feature section. Deadline for all feature copy Is 8 pail. Sunday, with news and women's page Items due Monday at 4 p.m. Religious notes will be due Saturday at 3 p.m. Advertising deadlines arc Sunday at 3 p.m. for ads in the feature section, and 3 p.m. Tuesday for regular advertis ing. Today’s paper Is the last un til the special edition. Debate Team Travels To Linfield Contest Oregon's debate team, looking forward to the possibility of a bid to the West Point tourna ment, left early Thursday to com pete in Tournanfent of Cham pions at Linfield college. The tournament, which is the second largeat in the Western United States will continue through Saturday. Debaters rep resenting schools in Montana. Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Idaho, Nevada, California, Wash ington, and Oregon, will com pete. It is at the tournament of Champions that the two schools who will represent the North west at the National Invitational Debfite tournament at West Point are announced. The Invitational is held sometime during spring term. Oregon received a bid last year. Five Teams Entered Oregon is represented at Lin field by five teams. Competing in the junior women's division are Pat Peterson and Betty Hen man; und Donna De Vries and Shirley McLean. Loretta Mason and Marsha Meyers are entered in the senior women’s division. Entered in the junior men's division are David Cass and Erik Hansen. Don Micklewait and Le iand Nee are competing in the senior men’s division. Red China is Topic “Should the United States Ex tend Diplomatic Recognition to Red China?” is the national topic being debated at the tournament. The topic for the student con gress is "How can our education al system best meet the needs of our society?" WUS Money Due; March 9 Deadline Wednesday, March 9 has been set as deadline for World Uni versity Service house solicita tions. All WUS house representatives will meet that day in the Stu dent Union at 4 p.m. and will turn in money collected. IFC Okays Alum Council The Inter-fraternity council | Thursday night approved an alumni committee report calling for the setting up of an alumni IFC to aid houses on business and financial problems presented to jit. The alumni council would be composed of five or more men. at least three of which would be | University of Oregon graduates. The council would be appointed I by the executive council of the Oregon Alumni association on the recommendation of several interested groups, including the local IFC. Flan Needs Approval The plan must still be approved by the Oregon Alumni associa tion. The group would function only at the request of the cam pus IFC. The IFC also heard a Greek Week committee report from Chairman Ward Cook, and re commended unanimously that the weekend dance be an informal barn dance. Dates would be op tional. Cook reported that houses, but not individuals, would be paired for the exchange dinners, without individual sign-up. Half the groups would eat at the soroirty and half at the fraternity. Easter Egg Hunt In other action, the IFC voted approval of an Easter Egg hunt for Eugene children April 9 to be sponsored by the junior class and the Eugene Active club. Bud Hinkaon, junior class pres ident, reported that the Active club would furnish the eggs, but tjjat the dyeing would have to be done by the houses. The living groups would also have some re sponsibility for supervising the children. More Weekend Petitions Asked Duck Preview petitions for co ordinators, chairmen and com mittee members are due today at--4 p.m. Petitions are to be turned in to the ASUO box, Stu dent Union third floor. Positions open are for co-ordi nators of housing, promotion, hospitality and program. Com mittee chairmen are needed for men's and women's housing, transportation, registration, pro gram, exchange dinners, dance, vodvil, assembly, exhibits and tours, and pre-vodvil. Other chairmen are needed for public ity and campus promotion. The Contrast' Opens Toniaht "The Contrast," a comedy by Royal! Tyler, opens a five-day run tonight on the main stage of the University theater. The play ie directed by Frederick J. Hunt er, assistant, professor of speech. Settings for the comedy have been designed and painted by John Jensen, senior in speech. The show has three scenes all in different homes and one other on the street. Scene changes arc made by using shutters, similar to the manner done in the period | when the play was first pro duced. Tapscott I'lavs Lead Leading men's roles in the show will be played by Mark Tapscott, junior in speech, Irle White, sophomore in speech, Fhillip Sanders and Gordon How ard, both graduates in speech. Top women’s role will be play ed by Wilma Sundahl. graduate in speech, Audrey Mist ret ta, se nior in music and Pat Johnson, • senior in speech. Supporting roles will be played by Jick Baker, junior in liberal arts, Delece Peterson, sophomore in speech and Sally Guinn, fresh ; man in liberal arts. With Festival of Arts "The Contrast" is being given on campus in connection with the Festival of Arts, currently in progress. The play is the first comedy written and produced in America by an American author. It was produced in 1787 at the i St. James theater. T5v! University theater has partially remodeled the front of its stage to look like the St. James setting. Costumes, de signed and constructed under the supervision of Wilma Sundahl, MARK TAPSOOTT L»ad in “Contrast” are typical of Che period of the play. Tickets for the production are available at the theater box of fice any afternoon between 1 and 5. Price is one dollar each. The play runs Tuesday through Thursday of next week. Folk Dancer Lecfures, Demonstrates in SU Lloyd Shaw, nationally known ; folk dancer, will give a lecture ! and demonstration on folk dance Tuesday in the Student Union ballroom. This event is part of the Fes tival of Arts program which will close March 11. Shaw has been putting out records for American dancers since shortly before his retire ment in 1951 as superintendent of Cheyenne Mountain School, Colorado Springs, Colo., with which he was affiliated for 33 years. While still at the school he organized dance teams and took his students on tours from coast to coast to demonstrate the val ues of the American dance. Al though he has a great interest in all types of dances, he is par ticularly an authority on square dancing. . , Some 17 University dance stu dents will assist Shaw in his demonstrations of old and new couple and square dancing. Call er will be Helen Mawson, a Eu gene dance instructor. The participating students are: Mike Noee, Roger Danielson, Lawrence Hansen, Lynn Hus I band, Jackie Meadows, Dixie Miller, Don Schwartz, Marlene Sledge, Beaudette Smith. Ronald Spicer, Mary Lou Sunderland, Helen Johnson, Jim McLennan, James Choat, Marjorie Gotter, Gerald Chlsen, Madelene Lung, Janet Kneeland, David Roberts and Louise Robinson. Senior Class to Name Permanent Officers A permanent class president, j secretary and governing board of five persons will be elected by the class of 1955 at the senior class meeting Tuesday at 1 p.m. in the ballroom of the Student Union. Nominations for the offices j will be made from the floor, ac cording to Don Rotenberg, class president. It is important that all seniors attend the meeting, which is during the assembly hour, Rotenberg stressed. Also on the agenda for the meeting will be announcements concerning graduation. The ordering of graduation announce ments, caps and gowns and nec j essary clearance with the regis trar’s office will be explained, Rotenberg said. Also on the program will be an explanation of the alumni rec ord of the seniors and of the ac tivities of the University's alumni association by Les Anderson, alumni secretary. Karl Onthank, director of the graduate place ment service, will explain the functions of his office. Plans for a spring term senior class picnic will also be discussed during the meeting, Rotenberg stated. The agenda for the senior class meeting Tuesday is as follows: 1. General announcements, graduation announcements, caps and gowns, commencement tick ets, clearance with registrar's of fice. 2. Alumni record, Les Ander son. 3. Graduate placement, Karl Onthank. 4. Election of permanent of ficers.