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\°l- * VII. I MVKKSITV OF OKKOON, KI OENK, VVKONKSDW, 0( TOBEK |ft.-,.*, NO. 10 BEGINS FRIDAY 600 Expected to Attend High School Press Meeting More than 600 high school stu dents and advisers are expected on the campus for the Oregon Scholastic Press and Oregon Association of Journalism Ad visers’ 29th Annual Oregon High School Press Conference Oct. 7 and 8. The conference is sponsored by the school of Journalism. Meetings and opening sessions will begin on Friday at noon, and will be introductory section meet ings open to all advisers, news paper and yearbook staffs Introductory meetings will con tinue until coffee hours, during which time delegates may look at two special exhibits in the Allen hall reading room. Senate to Fill Three Positions Three student positions will be filled at the first senate meeting of the year Thursday night. Junior class vice-president, junior class representative, and a homecoming chairman or chairmen will tie chosen from students who have turned in pe- ! titions by 5 p.m. Thursday. The senate meets at 6:30 and first on the agenda is election of the two jumor class officers. Petitions are available in the ASUO offi'-e on the third floor of the Student Union. They are due there at .*> p.m. Thursday, Those who wish to submit petitions for co-chairmen of homecoming should staple their petitions to-1 get her. All petitioners must attend the senate meeting for they will be Interviewed at that time. The time for selecting the homecom ing chairman will be announced | Thursday. The exhibits are representa tive Oregon high school year books an<l prints from a national photo contest. Fifty of the top photographs taken by high school students throughout the country arc included in this display. Pictures for the exhibit were selected from those submitted to the 1955 National High School Photographic Awards contest, sponsored by Kastman Kodak company. Sixteen major prize winners and a number of honor able mention photos are included. Friday evening the annual con ference banquet will be held in the Student Union ballroom. Toastmaster will be Charles T. Duncan, acting dean of the school of Journalism and director of the Oregon Scholastic Press. Greetings will be delivered by William C. Jones, University dean of administration. Principal speaker will be William K. Drips, "retired" journalist, and a vet eran of 35 years in radio and television work. “Big Picture" Speech topic for Drips, who is agricultural consultant for Port land’s KOIN-TV, will be "You’re in the Big Picture." Entertainment will be provided by the "Club Intime’' performers and David Carlson of Grant high school, Portland, at the piano. Saturday's schedule includes a series of roundtable discussions on newspaper and yearbook plan ning and policies. The discus sions will bo led by staff mem bers of the Emerald and the Orcgana, with conference dele gates acting as panel members. Advisor Meeting During this time a general meeting will be held for advisers. Subject of this meeting will be the exchanging of ideas, and the general topic is "Ideas That Have Worked For Us.” Concluding meeting will he the Derby Chairmen Announce Rules A record number of living or ganizations are participating in the Bunion Derby this year, ac cording to Joan Kraus and Joan Kainville, chairman of the derby. Thirty-four men’s living organ izations and ^3 women's organ izations will take parts. Pairing lists have gone out to all living organizations, accord ing to Nancy Shaw and Anita Allen, chairmen of the house co ordination committee. If any houses have not received their lists by tonight, they are asked to contact these chairmen. It has been reported that some men's living organizations did not attend all of the women's or ganizations last year, but chose a few that they wanted to at tend. This year a men's living organization will not be eligible for a trophy unless it attends every women’s living organiza tion. A trophy will be awarded to the men's organization with the largest attendance and the wo men’s organization with the most money collected, per member, during the halftime of the foot ball game Saturday. The periods for dancing at each women’s organization will bo limited to seven minutes, with three minutes of traveling time, instead of the fifteen minute periods that were previously planned. KUGN will broadcast the mu sic for the Bunion Derby on FM receivers, according to Jane Meador and George Simpson, chairmen of the promotion com mittee. Interviews will be made with some of the participants by KUGN, to be broadcast Sat urday night. annual awards luncheon in the ballroom of the SU, with Duncan aa shaker. Presentations of Plaques to 1955 OSP editorial page contest winners will follow. After the adjournment, dele gates and advisers will attend the Oregon vs. Colorado football game. Free tickets are being pro vided through the courtesy of the University of Colorado and the University of Oregon athletic de partments. Barnett to Show New Guinea Slides "Modern Dutch New Guinea” will be the subject of a lecture tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the brows ing room of the Student Union. Homer Barnett, professor of anthropology, will illustrate his lecture with colored slides. E. S. Wengert, head of the political science department, will lead the discussion. Barnett worked last sunyner in Dutch New Guinea for the Dutch government. He inspected the government welfare pro grams for the naitve population. Freshman Halls Choose Officers M<-n\ freshman dormitories selected officers to serve for the coming school year, in elections held this week. McC lure of Karl hall will have Hud Titus a-> president, Keith Blue as vice-president, Francis Kujioka as social chair man and Dave McKinney, intramural chairman. President of Morton will he Robert Snyder, with Cedric Archelc as vice president, Stanley Rodgers social chairman and Robert Davis intramural chairman. Hheldon Unit Shrldon’B president is Duncan Ferguson; Larry Fivecoat is vice president; and Richard Davis and Bruce Trafton will serve as so cial chairman and intramural chairman, respectively. Ned Mackey is Stafford presi dent; and his vice-president will be Buz Constance. Ron Bailey will be social chairman; and Jay Bashor will serve as intramural chairman. Young unit’s president is Bob Young; vice-president is Pete Lamoureux; Beal Bums is social chairman; and Allen Ricketts is intramural chairman. Vets’ Dorms In the veterans' dormitories, French hall president is Bill Rob inson; vice-president is Bob Toyooka; social chan-man is Terry Cox; and Kemet Spence is intra mural chairman. Tom Richardson will serve as president of Hunter hall, with Jerry Ransey as vice-president. Brian Smith will be social chair man and Pat McCart will serve as intramural chairman. Chemey’s president is Jim Rask, with Roy Rumery as vice president. Social chairman of Chemey is Hal Duncan, and Bob Huget is intramural chairman. Nestor hall, another unit of the Vets’ dorms, elected Egan Bodtker as social chairman. President of Sederstorm will be James McClellan. Preliminary Plans Approved For Architecture Building Plans for a new art and archi tecture building were announced yesterday by Sidney VV. Little, dean of the allied art and archi tecture school. Preliminary plans are being approved by the faculty now, but the detailed plans have not yet , been completed. During the sum Cheer Petitions Ready tor Frosh The rally board is now calling £or petitions for the freshman rally squad which will be due Thursday in the Student Union at 15 p.m. The frosh squad, which will be composed of rally girls and yell dukes, is new this year on the Oregon campus. All former high school rally girls and yell lead ers are urged to petition. ASUO petition forms will be used, and it is important that all applicants give suggestions which might improve school spirit. Petitioners will be interviewed by the rally board at noon Tues day. Semi-finalists will be chosen and tryouts will be held later in the week to determine the squad numbers. Rally hats will be sold tonight and tomorrow night in the mens' living organizations by members of the senior rally squad. These hats, as well as white shirts, will be the requirement for men to sit in the 50 yard line special rooting section. mer school session, faculty mem bers and architectural students developed five schemes for the building. One has been chosen as the most nearly satisfactory, and details will be completed about the middle of this month. The plans will then go to the architects in Portland for final drawings. The south section of the build ing will be demolished soon. All students will be moved into the other part of the building. The physical plant will remove all valuable materials and plants, to be saved and used at some later time. The Irish yews, near perfect specimens and extremely valuable, will be saved by the physical plant. SU Board Meets At 4 P. M. Today The Student Union hoard will meet today at 4 p.m. Items on the agenda: • Millrace report. • Directorate report. • Report* of committees: spe cial attractions, oth'-r. • Announcements: regional convention, Montana State university, Oct. 28-29. Chairmen Open For Whiskerino Petitions for the Sophomore Whiskerino chairmanships and committees are due noon Friday, Oct. 7. They may be turned in at the petition box on the third floor of the Student Union. In addition to the general sec retary, sophomore men and wo men are needed as co-chairmen for the following committees: beard, Joe College and Betty Coed contests; social; chaper ones; entertainment; programs; and decorations. All petitioners will be called and interviewed by the sophomore class officers Friday afternoon in the SU, room 313. The Sophomore Whiskerino, an all campus dance sponsored by the sophomore class, will be held Saturday, Oct. 22. ♦ «► ♦ Sophomore Men Start Beards This Saturday Sophomore men who contend they’re no longer boys will have a chance to prove their status beginning Saturday night. According to rules set up this year in conformity with an old tradition, Sunday night will be the last time second-year men may shave until the night of the Sophomore Whiskerino, Oct. 22, Progress of the beards will be cheaked by freshman women. Punishment will be meted out to all beardless men after Monday. Beards can come off the day of the dance unless the wearer is going to compete in the "most bewhiskered soph" contest, to be held during intermission of the Whiskerino. I/O Enrollment Tops 4900; Exceeds 1954 Mark by 12°/o Total enrollment of students at the university has passed the 4900 mark, according to C. L. Constance, registrar. The exact enrollment figure at the end of the first week of classes was 4, 863, a 12 percent increase over last fear’s figure or 4341. Officials have enrolled 3177 men, a 15 percent increase over last fear, and 1,686 women are enrolled, a 6 percent gain. The largest class enrolled is the freshman, with 1,485 stu dents, compared with last year's figure of 1,344. The sophomore class is next with 1,268 students; juniors, 676; seniors, 596; and 627 graduate students are reg istered. According to Constance, the school of liberal arts has the most students, with 3659 en rolled. All freshman and sopho mores except those majoring in health and physical education are considered liberal arts ma jors. The following are totals, as of last week, enrolled in each of the schools: architecture and allied arts, 197; business admini stration, 324; education, 257; health and physical education, 182; journalism, 52; law, 93; mu sic, 67; and general studies, (graduate course), 32.