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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 19, 1955)
56th Year oj Publication \ MVKRSITY OK OIlKfiON, KI'OENK, TI KSDAY, APRIL l», 1955 NO. 112 VOL. LVI Oppenheimer Speaks in SU Tonight Making Preview Plans ImM'i OK K I’ltKVIKn pistil* for thi* romll| HWkMd *r» (left to right | Inula Korppor, Larry Hughes, Eugene high ‘.Indent body president, and Bob Porter. MM Knepper and Porter are co-chairmen for the c\ent which honors high school aeniors. ♦ ♦ ♦ _'_ Time for Vodvil Auditions Listed Women's auditions for the WUS-aponsored Vodvil show will he held tonight in Gerhnger hali. Men's auditions will be tomorrow night. Five women's groups will be selected to appear In the Vodvil show Friday night. Women’s houses and audition times are: Delta Zeta and Rebec house. 6:30; Kappa Kappa Gamma, 6:45; Pi Beta Phi. 7; Alpha Del ta Pi, 7:15; Alpha Omicron Pi, 7:30: Alpha Phi, 7:45; Kappa Al pha Theta, 8; Zeta Tail Alpha, 8:15; Susan Campbell, 8:30; Orides, 8:45; Chi Omega, 9; Del ta Delta Delta, 9:15; Delta Gam ma, 9:30; Alpha Chi Omega, 9:45. ♦ ♦ ♦ Ruhlmon to Play For Duck Preview Doug Ruhlman's five-piece combo will play for the Duck Preview dance Saturday from 9 to 12 p.m. in the Student Union ballroom, Barbara Berwick, dance chairman, announced Mon day. "Make Yourself Comfortable” is the theme. All arrangements for the dance have been made by the SU dance committee under the direction of Don Peck, chair man. Committee chairmen as sisting Peck and Miss Berkick are Lou Ann Pearson, decora tions; Mary Jane Alexander, en tertainment, and Diane Raoul Duval, publicity. Dress for the dance will b«. dressy cottons and heels for the women, slacks and sports coats for the men. Carroll Selected For Vodvil MC Bali" Carroll, sophomore in pre-laH’, has been chosen mas ter of ceremonies for the Ail campus Vodvil, according to Helen Kuth Johnson and Chuck Wlngard, \odvil co-chairmen. Bob Sogge, senior in business, and the Baker’s Half Dozen will entertain. Eight Nominated For Co-op Jobs Eight students have been nom inated to fi)l the threp vacant positions on the Co-op board. One sophomore member and two jun ior members will be elected May 4 at the regular ASUO elections. Nominated for the one-year sophomore positions are Joyce Jacobson, freshman in business: Chuck Cowen, freshman in lib eral arts, and Lee Blaesing, freshman in liberal arts. Two junior members will be elected for two-year terms from the following candidates: Shirley McLean, sophomore in liberal arts; Lynn Adolsperger, sophomore in English; Keith Barker, sophomore in business: Linda Lundy, sophomore in art. and Nancy Adams, sophomore in education. April 22 Deadline For SU Petitions The deadline for the SU Di rectorate chairmen petitions is April 22 instead of April 15 as was previously announced in the Emerald. Petitions may be picked up on the third floor of the Student Union and should be returned to the SU box on the third floor of the building. The following committer chair men for each of the 10 standing committees are needed: Personnel, publicity, public re lations, recorded music, movie, music, dance, coffee hour forum, browsing room and art gallery. Structure of Matter Topic of Lecture at 8 J Oppenheitncr will deliver his first Condon lecture tonight at 8 p.m. in the Student Union ballroom. I lie title of hi first addresw ill he “ I he Sub-nuclear Zoo; I'he Composition of Matter." Topic of his second talk on I. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER Speaks Tonight I Imrsday is “Elements of Or der." Considered the one man in the United States who knows ail the facts of the development of the fir"t atomic bomb, Oppenheimer ha-5 been a leading opponent of government restrictions on scien tists. Completing hi- undergraduate studies at Harvard university in three year'. Oppenheimer con tinued his studies at Cambridge university in England. He re ceived his doctor’s degree from Gottingen university in Germany in 1927. From 1927 until 1929 he was a National Research fellow and an International Education Hoard fellow. In 1929 he was appointed assistant professor of physics at v.niM.TMiy oi ^aniornia ana tite California Institute of Technology. Developed Bomb Itoid 1943 untii 1945, Oppenhcimer was director of the government laboratory at Los Alamos, X. M., where the | atomic bomb was developed. He was chairman of the <icncral Advisory committee to the Atomic Energy Commission from l‘M5 until 1953. Me also ha- been director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, X. J. | Oppenhcimer is a fellow of the American Academv of Arts and Sciences, American Physics society, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical so I cicty. OSC, Portland Lectures Scheduled lie will repeat his two lectures at Oregon State college on April 26 and 28 and at Portland State college on May 3 and 4. The Condon Lectures were established in 1944 by the ()re ,gon State Board of Higher Education. The Lectureship was named in honor of Thomas Condon, the first professor of j geology at the L'niversity. 1 he purpose of the lectures is to interpret the results of significant scientific research to the nonspccialist. $50 COST LIMIT Rules and Pairings Listed By Canoe Fete Chairmen Rules for construction of the Canoe Fete floats were an nounced today by Sally .lo Greig and Darrel Brittsan, co-chairmen of that committee. A $50 cost limit has been placed on each float. The 16x18 foot barges will be given to the houses and are not to be con sidered as part of the cost. According to the rules estab lished by the float committee, decorations may overlap the barge as much as is necessary, and may be as high as the build ers want. Floats are to have no musical accompaniment of their own and the method used for pro pelling the barge must be noise less. Barges will be distributed April 30. Floats must be complet ed by 10 a.m. May 14. Judging will be based equally on design, color, originality, and quality of workmanship. Queen’s Float The Queen's float and the comic float will not be in com petition. This year’s winning float will have the honor of building the Queen's float next year. Awards will be given to each house in the first, second and third place pairings. Representatives have been se lected from each of the 44 houses working on the floats. The 15 pairings and representatives are Delta Upsilon, Alpha Chi Omega —Rob Wadman, Jim Erdman, Valerie Hersh; Lambda Chi Al pha, Chi Phi, Ann Judson—Jerry Maxwell, Walt Lovell. Beaudette Smith, Anne Bond; Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Kappa, Zeta Tau Alpha — Jim Larpenter, Jean Merker, Celia Clogston. Gamma Phi Beta, Phi Kappa Psi, Jack Cady, Gail Harrison; University house, Alpha Tau Omega, Kappa Kappa Gamma Jerry Jones, Jean Miller, Linda Lundy; Sigma Alpha Mu, Alpha Omicron Pi, Phi Kappa Sigma, Kappa Sigma—Stan Blauer, Rog er Miller, Pete Plumridge, Amos Bowles, Abbie Andrews; Sigma Chi, Chi Omega, Highland house —Andy Nasburg, Crystal Hack er, Barbara Harris; Theta Chi, Delta Zeta, Orides—Bob Kam- j merer, Clara Fry, Mary Lou Johnson. More 1‘airings Phi Gamma Delta, Tan Kappa ; Epsilon, Carson. Alpha Xi Delta —Jack Lally. Joe Ross. Jane Flippo, Carol Rosendall, Nancy Mahan; Sigma Nil, Phi Sigma Kappa, Alpha Delta Pi—Don Si mon, Les Wolfe, Frank Beeman, Jackie Pond; Alpha hall, Delta Delta Delta—Dave Lobb, Carol Gerlach; Beta Theta Pi, Alpha Phi Don Peck, Shelly Doggett; Campbell club, Kappa Alpha The ta—Elmer Jones, Les Ramsey, Mary Jane Rudd; Philadelphia house, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Del ta Gamma, Rebec house — Dick Proctor, A1 Burns, A1 Racker, Phyllis Stalsberg, Pat McCor mick; Sigma Phi Epsilon. Pi Beta Phi—Tom Moreland and Marlis Claussen. These representatives will meet regularly with Miss Greig and Brittsan to discuss progress on the floats and any problems that come lip during planning and construction. WUS Wash Scheduled Postponed last week, the WUS car-wash has been re-scheduled for Thursday afternoon from 1 to 4 p.m. Members of many sororities will wash cars for one dollar, do nating all proceeds to the World University Service. Pairings are as follows: Pi Beta Phi and Zeta Tau Al pha at Sigma Kappa; Kappa Al pha Theta and Alpha Xi Delta at Chi Omega; Delta Zeta at Delta Delta Delta; Alpha Delta Pi and Delta Gamma at Alpha Omieron Pi, and Alpha Phi at Gamma Phi Beta. Ugly Man Contest Vote Starts Today Voting for Ugliest Man on Campus starts today in the Student Union and the Co-op. The amount of donations put in glass jars for the candidates will determine the winner of the annual contest. All pro ceeds will go to the World Uni versity Service fund. The winner will be announced Criday night at the Vodvil show.