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Vol. LVI. I nlvcrtlty of Oregon, K»g**nr, Tiif*. Mar. 29, 193ft. No. 97
First Greek Week
Begins Saturday
The University's first Greek
Week, sponsored by the Inter
Fraternity council and Panhellen
ic, will be held .Saturday after
noon and evening. The day's
events will center around ath
letic contests, an exchange dinner
and a barn dance.
The athletic contests will be
gin at 1:30 p.m. and will consist
of a marathon bicycle race, and
a chariot race with pledges act
ing as horses. The sororities will
participate in a tug of war and
a football game with the houses
north and south of 15th street
competing against each other.
The afternoon events will end
Preview Housing
Lists Due Today
Preference lists for Duck Pre
view housing for women are due
today at 2 p.m. They should be
turned in by house representa
tives at their meeting this after
noon.
The lists should be made out
In triplicate and should be typed
and alphabetized. Legacies must
be marked by each house. The
lists should also include informa
tion as to the maximum number
of girls who can be comfortably
housed.
House representatives should
call Mrs. Wickham's office to
find out where the meeting will
be held. Purpose of the meeting
is to eliminate duplicates, set up
rules for housing and cover send
ing invitations, according to Nan
Hagedom.
with three-legged races and soft
ball games with both fraternities
and sororities competing. There
will be no official pairing for
these events. Trophies will be
given.
Exchange Dinners Set
At 6 p.rn. the houses will ad
journ for exchange dinners. The
dinner will be from 6 to 8 p.m.
with the fraternities and sorori
ties exchanging entertainment.
The barn dance will be the last
feature of the week.
The Whisperers are scheduled
to play at the danoe, which will
be held In the Student Union ball
room The presentation of awards
for the athletic contests will fur
nish intermission entertainment.
The dress will be levis and shirts
for the men and pedal pushers for
the women.
Pairings listed
The pairings for the exchange
dinners are as follows: Delta
Gamma, Beta Theta Pi and
Lambda Chi Alpha; Alpha Phi
and Sigma Chi; Alpha Ch4 Ome
ga and Phi Kappa Psi: Delta Del
ta Delta and Sigma Phi Epsilon;
Kappa Kappa Gamma and Phi
Delta Theta; Kappa Alpha Theta
and S'gma Alpha Epsilon; Delta
Zeta. Chi Psi and Tau Kappa
Epsilon; Alpha Omicron Pi and
Delta Tau Delta: Alpha Xi Delta
and Phi Kappa Sigma.
Pi Beta Phi and Alpha Tau
Omega; Gamma Phi Beta and
Theta Chi; Sigma Kappa, Phi
Gamma Delta and Sigma Nu: Al
pha Delta Pi. Phi Kappa Alpha.
Sigma Alpha Mu and Phi Sigma
Kappa; and Alpha Gamma Delta,
Delta Upsilon and Kappa Sigma.
ASUO Senate Plans
Spring Essay Contest
The ASUO Senate is sponsor
ing an essay contest on the sub
ject, "The Role of Student Gov
ernment on the University of
Oregon Campus," and all stu
dents who desire to submit an
essay must do so before Wednes
day. April 20.
Essays, which are to be judged
on content, organization, appro
priateness, and language, must
be from 1000 to 1500 words long.
AH papers should be typewritten
and double spaced.
The purpose of the contest is
twofold. It Is intended to stir
up thought about student govern
ment at a time just prior to the
Bpring elections on campus. The
essays will also help the Senate
in evaluating its work and per
haps get some concrete ideas for
improvement. The essays need
not be favorable to the present
role of student government.
Arts Workshop
Calls for Petitions
Petitions for chairman of the
University Creative Arts
Workshop are now being calhul
for by the Student Union
hoard.
The Workshop is a combined
program of student-created
drama, music, dance, and liter
ature to be presented late in
May. Petitions should be
turned in to the SU petition
box on the third floor of the SU
Ity April 4.
There will be three prizes
awarded. The first prize is $20.
the second $10 and the third $5.
Contest judges are the three fac
ulty members of the Senate, R.
D. Horn, professor of English;
Victor P. Morris, dean of the
school of business administration,
and Donald DuShane, director of
student affairs.
All regularly enrolled Oregon
students are eligible to enter.
Entries can be turned in to the
ASUO offices on the third floor
of the Student Union and none
will be returned.
American Poet, Critic
Speaks in SU Tonight
Allen Tate, American critic and
poet, will apeak tonight at 8 In
the Student Union ballroom In
the third of thin year's Failing
Distinguished Lecturers series.
, Thc topic' of Tate's lecture . is
"Modern Poetry: The Aesthetic
Historical Mode."
Tate will also give a public
j reading and discussion of his
ALLEN TATE, distinguished poet-orltir, will lecture tonight in
t. .N,V Hn "Modern Poetry: The Aesthetic Historical
Mode.’
Spring Open Rushing Begins
April 4 for Men, Women
Oregon fraternities and soror
ities will begin their spring term'
rushing for a three week period
beginning Monday.
Rushing requirements for men
and women are subsequently the
same, except that women must
.sign up to rush before this Friday
at Student Affairs office in Em
erald hall. Men can sign up at
any time during the period with
a deadline of April 25. An'addi
tional restriction for men is that
sign up must be at least one week
(five class days) before pledging
takes place.
Open rush procedure is on an
informal basis. All interested per
sons, when they sign up indicate
what houses they are interested
in. The houses then issue all
invitations to dinner to the
rushee, with the whole schedule
on an individual basis.
The fee for those who have not
rushed previously is $5 00.
Dates for the rushing period
are as follows:
Monday, April 4, first day of
rushing. Saturday, April 9, first
day pledging can take place.
Women's rushing will end on
Monday, April 25. This is the last
day men can sign up for rushing.
Men s rushing will end on Satur
day. April 30.
All people who desire to rush
must have a 2.0 in their last term
of school, or have a 2.0 accumu
lative GPA.
Term Cards Not Issued
Athletic cards for spring
term will not be issued and will
not be necessary for attend
ance at baseball games and
track meets. Regular student
body cards may be used.
AT NEW YORK COLLEGES
RO Lovalfv Oath Under Fire
A compulsory ROTC loyalty
oath, enforced at many colleges
all over the country, has come
under fire from a student group,
according to the Syracuse Daily
Orange, the newspaper of Syra
cuse university.
In a recent edition the paper
reported that the National Stu
dent association, at a New York
regional conference, passed a res
olution calling for elimination
or change in the loyalty oath
provision.
The present oath, in operation
at most colleges and universities,
requires that ROTC students in
the basic course state that they
have never belonged to any or
ganization on the Attorney Gen
eral's subversive list.
The Daily Orange had this to
say on the matter:
“As many colleges, including
land grant schools, require the
basic ROTC course for all en
I rolled physically fit males, the
group felt that the oath was
interfering with college adminis
tration’s freedom of choice of
students.”
The paper also brought out
that the association thought that
"the present oath was negative in
its approach." It suggested a
simple oath of loyalty to the
United States government and
Constitution.
The main problem in the past
has been that some of the organ
izations on the Attorney Gen
eral’s list have been recognized
on several campuses until re
cently. Now many of these or
ganization members arc being re
quired to sign the loyalty oath.
Represented at the conference
>vere NSA member colleges from
New York state with the excep
tion of New York City.
According to the University
ROTC department, Oregon is
currently using the loyalty oath
program and is requiring fresh
men to sign it upon entering the
basic course.
roetry at 4 p.m. in the Dari’s
Lounge.
During his career, Tate has
been a free lance writer, profes
sor, lecturer, and editor of sev
eral literary journals. He has lec
tured and read poetry at many
American universities and in for
eign universities such as the Uni
versities of Rome, Lege, Louvain,
Sorbonne, London and Oxford.
Since 1952, he has been senior
fellow in the school of letters at
Indiana university.
His writings include Works on
Stonewall Jackson, and Thomas
Jefferson, several volumes of his
own poetry, and many editions of
poetry and criticism.
Tate entered the editing field
as editor of 'The Horn and
Hound” from 1930 to 1934. In the
past 15 years, he has been editor
of “The Swanee Review” and ad
visory editor of “The Kenyon Re
view,” both distinguished literary
journals.
GPA Disqualifies
Board Chairman
The disqualification of Bob
Pollock, senior in economics, as
Student Union Board chairman
was announced Monday by the
office of student affairs. Pollock
iailed to attain the required 2.0
grade point average winter term.
Andy Berwick, senior in busi
ness, will assume the position of
board chairman. Berwick, now
assistant chairman, was chair
man of the board last year.
A new assistant board chair
(man will be elected at the Wed
nesday SU board meeting, ac
cording to Berwick.
Berwick will also take over
Pollock's ex-officio duties as a
member of the ASUO cabinet,
the student affairs committee
and the Eugene-Umversity Civic
Music association board. He will
serve until elections are in
May. for next year's board of
ficers.
Berwick termed Pollock’s res
ignation as board chairman a
“great loss to the Student Union
and to the University of Oregon.’’
"Pollock has contributed ac
tively to the board program for
the past four years and certainly
has been one of the most out
standing students in the SU
board’s history,” he added.
Berwick currently is serving
on the SU advisory board and
executive committee. He was the
first student chairman of the
executive committee for the re
gional student union conference.
His other activities include
membership in Friars and chair
manship of the Millraee council.
He is also a former president of
Beta Theta Pi and is on the mili
tary education committee.
Five Law Students
Make Honor Roll
Five University law students
made the law school honor roll
for winter term. John R. Gill
was the only third-year law stu
dent. Second year students are
William E. Hurley and Elizabeth
S. Risley, First-year students are
Edward N. Fadcley and John H.
Kottkamp.
The law school honor roll is
based on the cumulative grade
point average covering all work
done at the University law school
and includes those students hav
ing a 3.0 or higher accumulative
GPA and carrying a full study
nogram.