56th Year of Publication
VOI,. LVI
I MYKKXITY OF OREGON, EFOENE, TI'KSDAY, MAY 24, 1055
NO. 137
Bostic Group to Play
In Ballroom Wednesday
The Karl Bostic Jazz group
will appear In a concert Wednes
day at 8 p.m. in the Student
Union ballroom under the aus
pices of the SU board.
Bostic, who has enjoyed na
tionwide popularity among Jazz
enthusiast a and is currently on
ft tour of the Pacific Northwest,
will have with him his record
ing group of seven musicians Hnd
a vocalist.
Tickets for the concert are
still available and may be pur
chased for 75 cents at the SU
main desk or nt Thompson's mu
sic store in downtown Eugene.
Marshall Is Chief
Counsel for NAACP
Thurgood Marshall, chief legal
counsel for the National Asso
ciation for the Advancement of
Colored People, will speak at 1
p.m. today In the Student Union
ballroom.
Soph Honors
Ends Third Year
By Anne Hill
Emcntd Auiilant Ntwt Editor
The Sophomore Honors pro
gram will finish its third year on
the Oregon campus Thursday
with th»* last comprehensive
exam this year.
Two exam*, one in history and
one in study of society, were
given to freshmen and sopho
mores taking the courses last
week. The other two, literature
and physical science or biologi
cal science, are being given this
week.
The Honors progranj was |
started at the University fall
tyrm of 190>i when only (our
courses were taught. These four
w«-re literature, biological scl-!
ence, physical science and his
tory. Study of society was added
to the curriculum the following
year.
The top 20 percent of the fresh
men class is eligible to take the j
courses. Sophomores who have
not completed 93 hours may also
enroll In the program. Customar
ily, two courses are taken each
year.
Ijower Division Program
Sophomore Honors is a lower
division program In general edu
cation. It is concerned not with
specialized training but with the
Student's cultural growth and i
the brorfd foundations of liberal 1
study. Although many colleges
have special programs in general
edueatlon, they are not designed,
as the Oregon plan is, for su
perior students along. ,
The program has two main
aims. The first is to offer a more
stimulating and profitable ex
perience to superior students.
Barbara Wilcox
Wins Ad Contest
Barbara Wilcox, junior in
speech, won a three-minute ad
vertising speaking contest laBt
weekend which will entitle her
to appear at convention in Port
land.
Miss Wilcox spoke in the an
nual Ayres speaking contest
sponsored by the Advertising
Association of the West. The
contest was part of the weekend
meeting of District No. 3 which
was held in Eugene.
Hhe will speak in the finals at
the annual AAW convention in
Portland during the last part of
June.
Miss Wilcox is head of the
Bon Marche College Board and
a member of Phi Theta Upsilon.
Too oftjn the most promising
students are lost in the crowd.
The second atm is to experi
ment with new methods of teach
ing.
Twenty people have completed
the program so far. Fourteen of
these finished the program last
spring and six more this fall.
The names of these people will
appear on commencement pro
grams.
Several more people will prob
ably finish the program with the
exams thiR year.
Change*, Considered
Some changes are being con
. sidered in the program by the
Sophomore Honors committee,
i according to K. S. Ghent, chair
man of the committee.
One of these changes is in the
present arrangement of letting
students who have not taken the
courses take the comprehensive
exams and thereby get honors.
The commltte is considering ar
ranging conferences for these
students with instructors
throughout the term to see how
they are progressing.
I Several high school students
have shown interest in the hon
ors program for more capable
students.
"We think this program serves
a good purpose in attracting out
standing students to the Univer
j sity,” Ghent said.
Druids to Meet,
Elect Officers
New /members of Druids, jun
ior men's honorary, will meet at
4 p.m. in the Student Union to
day to organize, and elect of
ficers. Offices to be filled a>?
president. vice-president and
secretary-treasurer.
Newly-tapped Druids are Doug
Basham, Darrel Brittsan, Bill
Mainwaring, Thil McHugh and
Don Peck.
Orchestra to
Give Concert
The last major group musical
event to be sponsored by the
school of music this year will be
Wednesday evening at 8:15 in
the school of music auditorium
iwhen the University orchestra
will perform.
The program will be presented
entirely by students with the
exception of Ira Masters, assist
ant orchestra leader, who will
direct the orchestra in two num
bers. Nelson Tandoc will lead the
orchestra in “Symphony No. 8,
\ Opus 93,” by Beethoven.
Audrey Mistretta is featured
contralto soloist in the perform
ance of Saint-Sacns’ “My Heart
at Thy Sweet Voice” from "Sam
son and Dalila," and Donna Pet
erson, pianist, will be presented
in the soloist spot for Schu
mann’s “Concerto for Piano and
Orchestra, A Minor, Opus 54.”
Subject, of his talk will be seg
regation.
Since 1938, Marshall has been
special counsel for the NAACP.
He is in active charge of legal
cases to secure and protect full !
citizenship rights for Negroes. ,
Marshall has appeared before
the U.S. Supreme Court and fed
eral and slate courts, particular-1
ly in the South. He has argued
or prepared briefs in all NAACP j
cases affecting constitutional
rights of Negroes since 1938. He ,
has won 11 of 14 cases in wjpieh J
he has appeared before the su
preme court.
Segregation nf Schools
His most recent victory was
the Court's decision of May 17,
1954, which held that "separate
but equal’’ facilities in education
were unconstitutional.
Marshall’s other victories in
clude the right of Negroes to
vote in primary elections in the
South and the right of Negroes
Coffee Hour
Today at 4
A coffee hour forum will be
held today at 4 p.m. in the Dad’s
Lounge for Thurgood Marshall, j
legal counsel for the NAACP and |
today’s University assembly j
speaker.
The coffee hour is sponsored
by the Student Union coffee hour :
forum committee. Free coffee!
will be served.
Weekend Hours
Given By Libe
Changed library hours for the
coming holiday weekend have
been announced for the general
library, the art museum library
and that of the architecture
school.
The iqain library will be open
Saturday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
will be closed all day Sunday
and will be open from 9 a.m. to
5 p.m. Monday.
The art museum’s library will
be closed completely all three
days. The architecture school’s
library will be open Saturday
from 9*a.m. to 12 noon, and will
be closed the remainder of the
weekend, including Monday.
. . . CAMPUS AS A BACKGROUND . . .
Oreganos to Be Distributed Friday;
Feature Innovations In Look, Content
By Anne Ritchey
Emerald AtlitOnt Newt Editor
The 1955 Oreganas, featuring
innovations in both content and
appearance, will be ready for
distribution Friday. Business
Manager Bob McCracken has an
nounced that students need give
only their names, and may pick
up copies at the Student Union
from 8 to 5 Friday.
"With the campus as a back
ground, with the faculty as a
guide, students of the University
this year evolved a story of ’55
. . .” so reads the book's pro
logue, written by Editor Bob
Southwell.
Continuity . . . Cartoons
One of the many elements of
continuity expressed within its
pages is done through the device
of cartoon work, featuring build
ings and figures throughout.
Some of the figures are of the
■ symbolic Oregon Duck, others
I are of individual students and
, faculty. But they are in each
section equally, treading a path,
so to speak, across the campus
and cross-sectioning all the ele
ments of it.
Silent Historian . . .
From the cover, which has a
simple Oregon seal on embossed
white leather, to the back of
the book stands as a reflection of
the campus and a silent historian
of the year’s events.
Most dramatically showing this
purpose is a section called “Cam
pus in Retrospect," where ran
dom pictures of campus life,
catch characteristic moods of
that life and symbolize it.
A new approach to student
government, representing it as
more than just another activity,
is the section entitled "Student
Administration." Included in this
all-important section are all of
ficial bodies of the ASUO, with
living-organization groups in
cluded.
The introduction presents the
year in narrative form, begin
ning with the arrival of Presi
dent O. Meredith Wilson and his
family. Events, and not places,
are emphasized here, the book's
editor points out.
Graduates are pictured in al
phabetical order, not catagorized
according to department of ma
jor. And each school, in the fol
lowing section, features its two
lop scholars from the 1956 class.
Narrative Style
The book is organized in the
"narrative yearbook style,”
Southwell explains. All events
are merged, and are presented
chronologically beginning with
fall term and including each
term’s athletic events separately
in this way.
Probably one of the most de
lightful and unique features is
the emphasis on individuals,
gained by using cut out figures
. . . for example, each president,
of each group, is cut out from
the background and thus stands
alone.
traveling between states to be
free from local Jim Crow laws.
A graduate of Howard univer
sity law school, Marshall v/a»
admitted to the Bar in 1933, in
Mainland. In 1934, he became le
gal counsel for the Baltimore
City branch of the NAACP. From
1936 until 1938, he served as as
Bob Summers, 1954-55 ASUO
president and a member of
the University Assembly com
mittee, deserves considerable
credit for the fact that Ore
gon students will have an op
portunity to hear Thurgood
Marshall in TWsday’s assem
bly.
It I>. Horn, chairman of the
committee, reported that Sum
mers suggested early in the
year that students would be
interested in hearing Marshall.
Marshall was invited to lec
ture here, then arranged a
speaking tour of the entire
West coast, Horn said.
sistant special counsel for the
NAACP. He was appointed full
counsel in 1938.
In 1951, Marshall w»ent to Ja
pan and Korea to make a first
hand investigation of court-mar
tial cases involving Negro sol
diers.
Marshall holds honorary Doc
tor of Law degrees from five uni
versities and colleges.
Concert-Lecture
Russian in Theme
"An Hour of Russian Songs”
will be presented tonight in a
recorded concert-lecture by Her
bert Bowman, assistant profes
sor of Slavic languages.
The informal discussion and
listening session is free and will
begin at 7:30 p.m. in the music
listening room of the Student
Union. Coffee will be served aft
er the program.
Plans are being made for the
new high fidelity system to be
used for the recordings during
the discussion, according to
Craig Clark, chairman of the
SU recorded music committee.
Final Browsing
Talk Wednesday
"Anthony and Cleopatra” is
the title of this week's browsing
room lecture to be held Wednes
day night at 7:30 in the browsing
room of the Student Union.
The speaker for the program
will be E. C. A. Lesch, professor
of English. The discussion leader
will be P. W. Souers, head of the
English department.
This will be the last browsing
room lecture in the series given
this year.
Registration Ends
For Conference
Registration for the Y-spon
sored Seabeck conference, to be
held on Hoods Canal this sum
' mar, ends this week.
The conference is an inter
denominational Pacific North
west college conference to dis
cuss local, national and interna
tional affairs with Christian
prospective.
Registration blanks are avail
able at the YWCA or YMCA
offices and the fee is $10 until
June 1.