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.