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56tlt Year of Publication HHEGGLD VOL. LVI I .MVKKHITV OK OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1955 NO. 107 FIRST WOMAN Miss Bellarts, Darrell Brittsan, Gordon Summers in ASUO Race The first woman student to re veal plans to run In the A8UO primary elections made her in tentions known to the Emerald Monday along with two men can didates. Joy Bellarts, sophomore in mu- j sic. announced that she will run for sophomore class representa tive on the United Independent Students’ ticket. Mias Bellarts' said that she planned to file her petition today. The other two hopefuls both are petitioning for the Associated Greek Students’ primary. They are Gordon Summers, freshman in pre-dentistry, who intends to run for sophomore class preHi dent, and Darrel Brittsan, sopho Fulbright Award Goes to Senior Robert Summers, senior in po litical science, has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study next year in England. Summers will attend the Uni versity of South Hampton, at South Hampton, and also will study at the London School of Economics and Oxford. He also plans to spend two months on the continent of Europe. The ASUO president will be studying the problem of account ability with regard to national ized industries. In addition to this, he plans to study the origin of common law. Summers said he definitely plRns to visit Parliament while in session. He leaves America in early September. Summers plans to get married this summer and both he and his wife will make the trip. A member of Friars, senior men’s honorary, Summers is one of the Phi Beta Kappa Senior Six. more in pre-law, who will run for senator-at-large. Active In .MuhIc Miss Bellarts has been active in mufiic activities in her two years at the University. At pres ent she is singing in a Eugene all-city choir and is serving an song leader for h<r living organ ization, Highland house. She will Join the University Singers next week. In addition to her music work Miss BHlarts has also taken part Primary Petitions Due .Wednesday ASUO Vice-President Hollis Hansom urged Monday that all students Intending to petition for the ASt'O primary elec tions get their petitions in as soon as possible. Hansom said that the filing of the necessary papers "has In-en slow to date” but that he expected many more to come In on both Tuesday and Wed nesday before the final dead line at 8 p.m. Wednesday. As of Monday afternoon only five petitions had been filed and only eight candidates had made their political aspirations known. in one University Theater pro duction and waa active in the Independent Student Association convention winter term. Active Freshman Summers, who is the younger brother of ASUO President Bob Summers, is a sophomore honor student who has been in many University activities although he has only been on campus for a little more than two terms. He was a co-chairman of the special events committee for Dad’s Day and is now serving as co-chair man of the souvenir booklet com mittee for Duck Preview. Summers was also on the Queen Elimination To Start Toniaht First eliminations of candi dates for Junior Weekend queen will be held tonight in the Stu dent Union. Interviews will start at 6:4.r) p.m. Candidates are asked to wear either cottons or campus clothes for tonight's interviews, and they should be at the SU at least five minutes before their interview time. Room number will be post ed on the board in the lobby. If candidates are not at the interviews at the specified time, without notifying Anne Ritchey or Barbara Bailey, Queen Selec tion chairmen, they will automat ically be eliminated. Judges for tonight's interviews will be: Mrs. Mildred McM,ahon, house mother at Hendricks hall; Mrs. Margaret L. Kopp, secretary of Student Affairs; H. D. Fehly, owner of Fehly Studio; Joe Gard ner, past editor of the Emerald, and Hilbert Lee, tennis coach and history grader at the Uni versity. Candidates and interview times are as follows: Mary Allen, 6:45; Carol Arne son, 6:50; Barbara Bailey, 6:55; Joyce Bearden, 7:00; Jane Berg strom, 7:05; Bev. Braden, 7:10; Gwen Endicott, 7:15; Betti Fack ler, 7:20; Patty Fagan, 7:25. Betty Frey, 7:30; Shirley Ger hart, 7:35; Janet Gustafson, 7:40; Pat Hoy, 7:45; Jill Hutch ings, 7:50; Jody Klahre, 7:55; La Rae Koon, 8:00; Leila Lemmon, 8:05. Jean Miller, 8:10; Bitsy Mills, 8:15; Colleen Moore, 8:20; Phyl lis Pearson, 8:25; Joan Price, 8:45; Jackie Robertson, 8:50; Linda Schumaker, 8:55; Sue Sil verthorne, 9:00. Sue Smyth, 9:05; Pat Sykes, 9:10; Roberta Toner, 9:15; Gail West, 9:20, and Barbara Wilcox, 9:25. dance committee for the Frosh Sno-ball. He is now social chair man of Omega hall and pledge class president of Theta Chi. Much Experience Brittsan, current sophomore | class president and president of Sigma Phi Epsilon, his living or ganization, has had extensive ex 1 perience in campus poltics. As a freshman, he was presi dent of Susan Campbell hall and was a freshman class represen tative on the ASUO Senate. This year he is serving as a co-chair man of the Canoe Fete float com mittee and is an active member . of Skull and Dagger. Editor Positions Filled April 20 Positions of editor and busi ness manager of the Oregana. 1 editor of the Ore-N-Ter and edi ! tor and business manager of the | Pigger's Guide will be filled at i the publications board meeting April 20. ■ j The meeting had originally ’ been scheduled for tonight, with the petition deadline Friday. Deadline for petitions has been moved up to April 15. Salaries of the jobs are $636 each for editor and business man ager of the Oregana, $150 for Pigger's Guide editor and a per ' centage commission for the busi j ness manager usually amounting to between $150 and $250. Ore N-Ter editor is not a salaried po ! sition. Petitions should be turned in j to Jack Weber, board secretary, in his office in Allen hall before April 15. Date Set By Whitty Deadline for entries to the ASUO senate-sponsored essay contest is April 20, according to John Whitty, contest adminis trator. Subject is to be ‘‘The Role of Student Government on the Uni versity of Oregon Campus,” and all regularly-enrolled students at the University may enter. Essays are to be 1000 to 5000 words long, typewritten on one side of the paper only, and double-spaced. Judging will be on the basis of organization, con tent, appropriateness to general topic, and English usage. First prize is $20, second is $10 and third is $5. All prizes will be given in cash. In addition, the winning essay will be printed in the Oregon Daily Emerald. Essays need not be favorable to the present role of student government, Whitty emphasized. Judges for the contest are the three faculty members of the Senate, R. D. Horn, professor of English; Vistor P. Morris, dean of the school of business admin istration, and Donald DuShane, director of student affairs. Oxnam Talks At Assembly Hisliop (i. Bromley Oxnam, head of the Methodist church in the Washington, DC. area and one of the nation's leading c Imrchmen, will discuss J he Nature of the Contemporary Crisis'' at a University assembly today at 1 p.m. in the Student Union ballroom. Oxnam wae a central figure in the 195.3 controversy over Communists in the American clergy. Representative Donald L. Jackson accused him of “serving Cod on Sundays and the Communist front the rest of the week,’’ in a charge made from the floor of the house which touched off the short-lived BISHOP G. BROMLEY OX NAM, controversial figure in accusation of American clergy in 13.53, discusses “The Nature of the Contemporary Crisis” today at 1 p.m. Faulkner to Meet English Classes Novelist William Faulkner has been scheduled to meet with two English classes Wednesday and will lecture at an English de partment luncheon. At 11 a.m. he will meet with the creative writing classes in Student Union 315 and at 1 p.m. ip Commonwealth 138 he will visit the Twentieth Century Lit erature class. In both classes Faulkner will primarily answer questions rather than lecture. The English department lunch eon is scheduled for T2 noon but the sit has not been announced. Houses Asked To Send Details Living organizations who have : received letters from high school ! seniors confirming that they will ! be coming to Duck Preview should immediately write a sec I ond letter informing the visitors ; of all details. Any additional guests recently placed in houses must also be contacted. All living organiza tions will receive complete in formation concerning the week end to refer to for these letters, according to Jeanne Scales, hous ing co-ordinator. -rviiit:! luau clergy. Testifying at his own request before the House Un-American Actvities committee, Oxnam ask ed that the inaccuracies and mis representations about him be withdrawn, declaring that he had never knowingly associated with a Red-front group. The commit tee cleared the Bishop and re ported “no record of any Com munist party membership or af filiation by Bishop Oxnam.” In 1954 Oxnam again drew fire from the committee when Har vey Matusow, self-styled former Communist, named Oxnam as a leading member of Red front groups. Oxnam was again cleared in February of this year when Matusow retracted all his pre vious testimony, saying that it had all been lies. WCC President President of the World Council of Churches from 1948 to 1954, and a former president of De Pauw university, Oxnam is presi dent of the board of governors i of Westminster Theological Sem | inary and chairman of the Meth ' odist Commission on Chaplains. Before he became bishop of the Washington area, Oxnam served j as bishop of the Omaha, Boston ! and New York areas. He also j served on the National War La | bor Board as a special mediator | in labor disputes, and was a member of the President's Com i mittee on Higher Education. Eight College Degrees Oxnam, who holds eight col ! lege degrees, was awarded the ! Cross of the Royal Order of I Phoenix by the Greek govem , ment, and a citation for merit I orious personal service from the US Navy in 1947. Author of the book “I Pro test," Oxnam has also written widely on clerical subjects. Vodvil Show MC Petitions Called Petitions are being called for master of ceremonies for the Duck Preview Vodvil show. They are due at 5 p.m. Wednesday, in the Student Union petition box on the third floor. Act auditions and eliminations i for the show will be held next 1 week. Eliminations for women’s I houses will be April 19, and for 1 men’s houses on April 20. ASUO Senate to Sponsor Student Government Panel A pane] discussion on student government will be presented fol lowing the ASUO Senate meet ing Thursday evening in the Stu dent Union by four students and three faculty members. Students also have been invited to attend the Senate meeting. Appearing on the panel will be Don Rotenberg, president of the senior class; Bob Schooling, co-chairman of the conoe fete steering committee; Bob Funk, former ASUO vice-president, and Andy Berwick, chairman of the Student Union board. Bill Bowerman, assistant di rector of athletics and ASUO vice-president in 1934, and Les Anderson, director of public services and ASUO president in 1942, will represent the faculty. The discussion will be moderated by Herman Cohen, assistant pro fessor of speech. Freshmen women may be ex cused from the dormitories to attend the discussion. Free coffee will be served. Thursday’s panel is a part of the education in student govern ment portion of the Senate’s pub lic relations program.