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Vol. LVI. University of (>r«*Kon, Kii*rnr, Frl., April 1, 1955. No. 100
Election Planning
Started by Senate
.Spring term elections are Juat
around the corner. The deadline
for umpiring politician* to pe
tition to be on the primary ballot
ia less than two weeka away.
April 13th at 6 p.m. will be the
cut off date for the campua par
tiea, the Associated Greek Stu
dents and the United Independent
Students, to have their candi
dates file for the primary ballot.
The election, to be held April
20, is the forerunner of the all
campus general election, held on
May 4,
Preparing for campaigning and
electioneering, the ASUO Senate
last night approved two rules
that would supplement election
restrictions already enforced by
the University. The new rules
state that there will be no cam
paigning on the day of election
and secondly, that there will be
no signs or posters visible on
election day. •
{enforcement. Senate Vice
president Hollis Hansom said,
would have to be merely "moral
restraint.” This means that each
candidate would be responsible
for seeing that the rules are
obeyed.
Rules concerning qualifica
tions for candidacy, electioneer
ing, and campaigning will be
published next week. Meanwhile,
Hansom reported that it will take
about 200 students to run the
election. Party presidents Bob
McCracken of the AGS and Len
Calvert of the UIH are expected
to provide many of the people
needed to run booths, give in
formation regarding the pref
erential Mystem, and to do the
physical labor needed.
The Senate also interviewed
and approved the lone petitioners
for Mother's Day co-chairmen.
Karen Kraft and Margaret Ty
ler, sophomores in business.
The group heard a suggestion
put forth by Si Kllingson, Stu
dent Union director, which would
get an automatic player attach
ment for the chimes. These would
cost about $1700, and Kllingson
proposed that the money be ob
tained from signing over of
breakage fees by freshmen, soph
omores and juniors. The Senate
selected a committee to study
the idea.
In other action, the Senate
heard a report by Duck Preview
co-chairmen, Lucia Knepper and
Bob Porter. They reported good
progress although difficulty was
encountered because of a foul up
between Student Affairs and the
Athletic bureau over the date of
the weekend. The Athletic bu
reau, thinking it was the 16th of
April, scheduled a ball game with
Oregon Slate then.
The weekend is April 22, how
ever, and Porter and Miss Knep
per have had to make other ar
rangements for Suturday after
noon. Plans now call for football
movies and a football scrimmage.
Oregon's Traditional
Sunrise Service Set
The traditional University Eas
ter sunrise service for students
and Eugene townspeople will be
held Easter morning at 6:30 in
McArthur court. Rev. Gene Lau
bach of the Methodist board of
education in Portland will de
liver the Easter sermon.
Sponsoring organization for
the service is the University Re
ligious council. Co-chairmen for
the event are Roger Danielson
and David Utecht.
The United church choir of Eu
gene, composed of choir mem
bers from most of the churches
in Eugene, will provide the mu
sic for the occasion. Mrs. Mar
jorie Wilson, organist and choir
director of the First Methodist
church, will direct the choir. Mrs.
Nell Murphey Dickson of the
First Christian church will be or
ganist.
Opening the sunrise service
will bo Ron Christensen, L’RC
president, who will give the in
dication. Rev. Robert Ellis, ad
viser to Canterbury club, Episco
pal student group, will give the
opening prayer. Vern Stenberg.
adviser to the Lutheran Student
association, will lead the respon
sive litany. The Epistle lesson
will be read by Victor P. Morris,
dean of the school of business.
Following the sermon by Rev.
Laubach. Christensen will lead
the congregation in a prayer of
thanksgiving. During the serv
ice, the anthems, "Holy Radiant
Light" by Gretchaninoff and "Joy
That Overflows the Heart" by
Milton Dieterich, assistant pro
fessor of music, will be sung by
the choir. Selections from Bach
will be heard for the prelude,
postlude, and offertory music.
Rev. Stanley Barlow of West
minster foundation w’ill give the
benediction.
Scheer Gives Reason
For Refusing UW Bid
The action of six physiologists
who refused to appear at a sym
posium at the University of
Washington this summer was not
intended as a reflection on Wash
ington’s teaching staff, Bradley
Scheer, professor of biology, de
clared today. The letter, signed
by Scheer, and five other lead
ing physiologists was a protest
against the administration’s re
fusal to allow Robert Oppen
heimer to speak on the Washing
ton campus, he said.
The symposium on the physi
ology of marine invertebrates
has been tentatively rescheduled
for the University of Oregon,
Scheer said. The decision was
made at the request of A. W.
Martin, professor of zoology, at
the University of Washington.
An earlier refusal of seven sci
entists to appear at Washington
forced the University to cancel
a medical school symposium
scheduled for April 7 and 8.
Other scientists have with
drawn from a zoology sympos
ium, also stating their reasons
as the administration’s action
against Oppenheimer.
Greek Week All Furt This Year;
Serious Events Planned for Fall
"We would like to remind
everyone that there are no seri
ous events in this year’s Greek
Week. The Greek system does
have a very definite, serious side,
both in what the fraternities be
lieve and stand for, and in the
events which they carry on
throughout the year to benefit
the school and the community,"
stated Ward Cook, IKC's chair
man of Greek Week.
Cook also said, “It is our in
tention to add a serious side to
next year's Greek Week as we
will then be more familiar with
the problems involved in putting
on such a weekend, and have
Funds for WUS
Due in SU Today
Today is the last day that
house representatives may turn
in their money for the World
University Service drive in living
organizations. Money is to be
turned in at 4 p.m. today in 319
Student Union.
All houses which have con
tributed to the privc and the
amounts they have given arc now
listed on the train in the win
dow of the SU fishbowl. Prizes
of records will be given to the
men’s and women's living organ
ization turning in the most
money. Winners will be an
nounced during the Duck Pre
view vaudeville show.
Tomorrow' is also the last day
for houses to turn in their pref
erences for WUS fireside speak
ers. The firesides will be hold
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day of next week and houses are
to indicate which night they want
their speaker. Preferences and
times should be turned in to
Evelyn Diamont at Alpha Delta
Pi, or Luella Adams, Chi Omega.
Boys and* girls houses will be
paired for these firesides.
Other WUS events planned
for spring term are a car wash
April 14th, the auction and vau
deville show to be held during
Duck Preview, and the Ugly Man
contest.
The auction has been changed
from Friday, April 22, at 3:30
p.m. to Saturday, April 23, at
3:30. It is the only afternoon
event being held Saturday of
Duck Preview weekend. Twelve
entries will be auctioned off.
Houses are urged to begin sav
ing their money now.
Petitions for SU
Due by Wednesday
Petitions for next year's Stu
dent Union Board vacancies are
due Wednesday. The forms may
be obtained from the SU box on
the third floor of the Student
Union.
Positions are open for one
member from each of the follow
ing schools:
1) School of Architecture and
Allied Arts—a sophomore.
. 2) School of Music—a sopho
more.
3) School of Liberal Arts—a
■sophomore.
4 > Law School.
5) PE School—a sophomore.
6) Graduate School.
Those positions which must be
filled by sophomores are two
year terms.
Prom Petitions Due
Petitions for sub-commitee
chairmen of the Junior Prom are
due Tuesday at 5 p.m. at Junior
Weekend headquarters on the
third floor of the Student Union.
Sub-chairmen are needed for
decorations, programs, tickets,
and clean-up committees.
timf* to explore the many possi
bilities for a serious side to Greek j
Week. We also believe that next.
| year's Greek Week should be
planned for fall term, when there
are leas aetivities.”
Starts at 1:30
Greek Week on the Oregon
! campus will start at 1:30 on the
intramural field with the fra
; ternities and sororities partici
paring in five athletic contests.
The feminine Greeks will join
in a sack race, and a tentative
touch football game has been
planned, but at time of publica
tion it was not definite. A char
i lot race featuring pledges act
ing as horses, and a bicycle mara
thon will be the contests entered
by the men’s houses.
Both men and women will par- I
ticipatc in a three-legged race,
which will be run in four heats
with the winners competing for
the crown. Jeannette Dimit wilj!
Judge the race. Prizes or trophies
will be given all winners at the
barn dance in the evening.
Softball Games Set
The afternoon's events will be
climaxed by mass softball games.
In the event of rain, the games
will still be held on the intra-,
mural field.
The evening's activities will
begin with exchange dinners be
tween the fraternities and soror
itirs at. 6 p.m., lasting until 8
p.m. After the dinner the Greeks „
will exehangc entertainment. At
8:30 the fraternities will provide
transportation, and the groups
will go en mass to the Greek
Week bam dance which will be
held in the Student Union ball
room.
The Whisperers will play for
the bam dance which will feature
the presentation of the awards
for the athletic contests and stu
dent entertainment. The dance is
not a date affair, and all Greeks
arc urged to attend.
The dress for the day’s events
will be levi’s and shirts for the
men, and pedal pushers for the
women in the afternoon and cot
tons in the evening.
Fraternity and sorority fresh
men are included in the whole
day's events and will be expect
ed to participate.
Doug Basham and Mary Rae
Bergeron are the general chair
men for Greek Week. Carol Wen
ncr and Cook are the Panhellenic
and IFC chairmen. Working un
der these chairmen are Sue Sil
verthome and Lan-y Kromling,
bam dance; Mary Gerlinger and
Bob Campbell, athletic contests;
Pam Rabens and Jim Woodyard,
exchange dinners, and Valerie
Hersh and Don Thurber, pub
licity.
Test Files Removed
Pending Opinion Poll
The file of past final exam
inations and midterms which has
been maintained and kept in the I
reference room of the library, has j
been removed for a three-week1
ExplanationAsked
By Senate Group
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Senate Foreign relations com
mittee Thursday moved into the
; center of the politically-explo
jsive question over release of the
Yalta papers.
Without objection, the com
mittee voted to “request" Secre
I tary of State Dulles to explain
i behind closed-doors all the con
troversial circumstances sur
rounding the March 16 release of
l the papers.
I
Sen. George (D-Ga), commit
tee chairman, said that a major
i point of inquiry is why informal
memoranda and off-the-cuff re
• marks by the Big Three wartime
leaders- Roosevelt, Stalin and
j Churchill—were included in the
! formal documents published by
; the State department.
One such comment was Roose
| velt’s expression of hope that
| Stalin would propose a toast to
i the idea of executing 50,000 Ger
| man officers. Another was
! Churchill's Comment that he did
not care much for Poles him
self, but that the House of Com
mons would scrutinize the handl
ing of the Polish question.
Sen. Capehart (R-Ind), a com
mittee member who was absent
when the committee adopted the
motion by Sen. Morse (D-Orei,
said he could see no good rea
son for asking Dulles to testify.
Capehart said: “I'm for pub
lishing all of those informal re
marks, everything that a Presi
dent says, particularly in the
presence of foreign people."
The committee’s decision came
just one day after the State de
partment, breaking an official
silence of two weeks, defended its
decision to release the docu
ments. It was apparent that sen
ior committee Democrats were
unsatisfied with the explanation.
period pending tabulations of
campus reaction to them.
The test files had been a part
of the Oregon Honor Code, set
up in 1961 and abandoned fall
term because of lack of student
interest in the system. The ASUO
Senate November il voted to
abandon the committee, but the
test files portion remained.
Determining Opinion
Loris Larson was appointed
chairman of a Senate test files
committee, and she and her com
mittee members have set up a
system to determine campus
feeling toward the files, in order
to recommend whether or not
they should be continued.
Comments will be solicited
from each living organization on
campus, which are to be tabulat
ed by the president of each
group. Answers should bear the
name of the organization, the re
action, “yes” or “no” of each
group, with the president’s name.
Comments Solieited
Additional comments by any
individual member should be in
cluded with the living organiza
tion's answer.
All comments are to be placed
in the ASUO suggestion box» lo
cated by the front door of the
University Co-op, within the next
three weeks. If there are not suf
ficient answers in the box by the
deadline the files will be auto
matically discontinued.
Living organization presidents
will be contacted and reminded
to solicit opinion from their
groups, and the responsibility
for this will lie with each presi
dent.
Off-Campus Opinions
Off-campus students are espe
cially urged to submit comments
in the box, and they need not be
signed but the committee would
prefer that they be signed and
would include the student's phone
number. This is in order that
more complete tabulation of stu
dent opinion concerning the files
may be made.
Deadline for answers from liv
ing organizations, as well as
from off-campus students, is
April 22. The committee would
like to have answers as soon as
possible.