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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.
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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.