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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1956)
57th year of Publication YOU. LVII. I MVKKSITV OK ORWiON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY IS, JB.VJ NO. «2 Gordon Rice Re-appointed Editor IFC to Take Action on Hell Week' Jan. 26 Inter-fraternity council will consider disciplinary actions against houses involved in recent destruction of property at its next meeting, according to IKC Presi dent K< nt Dorwin. No special meeting will be called before the one already scheduled for Jan. 26. Dorwln's announcement fol J School Majors To Hear Oregonian Editor and Writer Malcom Bauer, associate editor and editorial writer of the Port land Oregonian, will be guest speaker at the second of the journalism school assemblies which will be held Thursday at 11 a.m. in Allen 221. Bauer will address Journalism majors, pre-majors, and mem bers of the Journalism faculty, according to Charles T. Duncan, acting dean. These assemblies will be con tinued every other Thursday throughout the term. The first address to journalism students was given Jan. 5 by Dr. O. -Mere dith Wilson. The Feb. 2 speaker will be Carroll O'Rourke, account execu tive of Cole and Weber, a Port land advertising agency. On Feb. lti. the president of the Wall Street Journal, Bernard Kilgoi-e, will be here. He will give the annual Eric W. Allen Memorial address. The March 1 journalism guest will be Paul Walden of The Dalles. Walden is manager of radio station KODL and is presi dent of the Oregon State Broad casters Assn. lowed consultation with Ray Hawk, associate director of stu dent affairs, and several other IKC members. Hawk said Monday that he hoped IFC would step in and control ith own members' initia tions and Hell Weeks. Other wise, he added, the office of stu dent affairs or the University Discipline committee would be forced to deal with the problem. Pledges of at least four fra ternities were involved in mat ters which Hawk said brought bad publicity to the University during the past week, when 16 fraternities were initiating. Two fraternities, Sigma Nu and Theta Chi, have already received some disciplinary action. The University discipline committee prohibited the two men’s living organizations from holding house dances planned for Saturday night. The committee also de cided that organizations which violate the article in the Disci pline Code which states that all groups must conduct their affairs In such a manner as will reflect credit on the University must pay all costs in case of damage to property. Brittsan to Head 'Fete' Committee Darrell Brittsan was named chairman of the Canoe Fete Tuesday by Doug Basham, junior class president. The Canoe Fete will tie held May 10 during Junior Weekend. Basham also announced that there will lx* a general meet ing of I he Canoe Fete commit tee tonight at 7. Davis to Review Harpers Articles In Browsing Room "America's Next Twenty Years," a series of articles that recently appeared in Harper's magazine, will be the subject of R. M. Davis, associate professor of economics, at the Browsing room lecture tonight at 7:30. The series was written by Peter Drucker, professor of manage ment at New York university. In the series Drucker seeks to evalu ate the importance of the ecen omic problems Americans will be facing in the future. The problems Drucker discussed are derived from our expanding population, automation or a ra tionalization of the industrial pro cess, and the change in the pat tern of ownership. One of the chief problems will be chronic inflation, Drucker be lieves. He feels that unemploy ment will not be serious. Davis will summarize the ar ticles, the development in Druck er's reasoning from that of earlier works to the present, and pos aibly make some independent predictions of his own. Frederick M. Hunter, honorary chancellor of the state system of higher education, will be discus sion leader. Dad's Hostess Finalists Named Ten semi-finalists were chosen Tuesday night in the contest for Dads’ Day hostess. Interviews to select the four finalists will be held tonight in Student Union. Semi-finalists and their inter view times are: Frances Heit kemper Beckman, 7; Sonja Ed wards Bell, 7:06; Sylvia Wingard Bemis, 7:12; Donna Brewer Chris tianson, 7:18; Nancy Adams Dra per, 7:24; Alice Kihn England, 7:36; Patty Monid Keller, 7:42; Connie Becker McNabb, 7:48; Donna Hart Russell, 7:54; and Gayle Seidel Wilhoit, 8:00. Candidates are to wear short silks and heels to tonight’s in terviews. The room number for the interviews will be posted on the bulletin board. Judges for the contest are Bass Dyer, alumni secretary; Henry Fehly, Eugene photographer; and Bud Hinkson, ASUO president. Campus elections for the Dads' Day hostess will be held Jan. 31, Feb. 1. and Feb. 2. at the Student Union and the Co-op. Koenig to Lecture Here on Thursday Frederick O. Koenig, professor of chemistry at Stanford Univer sity, will speak on "Benjamin Franklin and Science," Thursday evening at 8 p.m. in the Dad's lounge. Koenig will make this speech in commemoration of the 250th birthday of Benjamin Franklin which was Jan. 17. Koenig has been at Stanford since 1931 and is presently en gaged in writing a book on elec tro-chemical thermodynamics. He received his bachelor's de gree from Harvard in 1920, and his doctor’s degree in physical chemistry from the University of Munich, on a National Re search fellowship from the Uni versity of California in 1930. His main fields of study have been thermodynamics, the his tory of science and science and humanities. Joan Rainville Is Business Manager Gordon Rice, senior in jour nalism, Tuesday night, was re appointed Emerald, editor by the student publication’s board, to serve for the remainder of the academic year. Joan Rainville, sophomore in journalism, was named business manager to succeed Donna Run berg, journalism senior, who has held the post since last January. First Time in 4 Vrars Rice, only petitioner for the editorship, thus becomes the first editor to serve for an entire school year since 1950-51, when Lorna Larson was editor. Miss Rainville rises to man agership from the position of co •JOAN RAfNVILUB '.. Manager ' advertising manager, which she has held since the beginning of January. During fall term she was assistant advertising man ager. Other I’etitioner Other petitioner for the busi ness manager post was Birger Brandt, junior in political science. Rice was news editor during ! the second half of last year, and Frosh Variety Petitions Due Petitions for the freshman va riety show, "Carousel,” will be ! due Thursday. Auditions will be held that evening in Gerlinger annex from 7:30 to 9:30. Talented members of the class may obtain petitions in the pro gram director’s office. Student 1 Union 301. The variety show : will be held Feb. 10 before the fishbowl mixer, according to Judy Dwyer, general chairman. RE Week Starts Sunday; Seven Faiths Represented The list of seven speakers for Religious Evaluation week is now complete. Each of the theologians will be introduced at the opening assembly Sunday at 8 p.m. in the Student Union ballroom. Each speaker, who will be in troduced by President Wilson, will give a short statement of the values he sees in a Parliament of World Religions, and what he hopes this one will attain. Each speaker represents a different faith. The 1956 Religious Evaluation week has been scheduled for Jan. 22 through 26. Speakers from the major groups will speak to stu dents throughout the week. Devotionals are scheduled every weekday morning in Gerlinger hall; dinners and firesides will be held in the living organizations, and each evening there will be an address in the SU ballroom by one of the speakers. Speakers representing the dif ferent faiths are The Rev. Hogen Fujimoto, Buddhist church of Fresno, Calif., Buddhism; The Rev. Leonidas Contos. St. Sophia I Cathedral of Los Angeles, East ern Orthodox Christianity; Swami Aseshananda, Vendanta Society ; of Portland, Hinduism. A. R. Sahu Khan, Moslem so ciety of the U. S. A., will repre sent Islam; Rabbi Saul E. White, ; Temple Beth Sholom of San Fran , cisco, will speak on Judaism; Dr. Paul Tillich, Harvard university is the Protestant Christianity representative, and Rev. Archi bald M. McDowell, Portland uni versity, is the Roman Catholic representative. before that was sports editor, assistant news editor and filled several reporting spots. Won Hunter Award During his first one and one half years at the University Kice, GORDON RICE Rf-flected Emerald Editor who was chosen for the Maurice Harold Hunter award during last Junior Weekend, served as cam pus correspondent to the Port land Oregonian for the campus news bureau. He is currently a member of Friars, men’s senior lifetime honorary, and last year was in Dnrfds, junior men’s honorary. He r>was also junior class vice ; president last, ye^r and prior to that sophomore class representa tive. Also Was Salesman Miss Rainville, who has been an advertising salesman in ad dition to her office experience for the Emerald, was both art editor and editor of her high school yearbook. She was selected as Betty Co-ed at the fall term Sophomore Whis kerino dance, and is a member of Kwama, sophomore women's honorary. U.S. Politics Is Student Topic ‘‘As I See American Politics” will be the topic of the bi-weekly world issues roundtable, to be held Thursday at 4 p.m. in the men's lounge of Gerlinger hall. Lester Seligman, assistant pro fessor of political science, is mod erator for this week's program, which is sponsored by the YMCA and YWCA. Panel members will be Nau shaba Husain, Stephen Chem ytsch, Anders Ehnmark and Pier ytsch, Anders Ehnmark and Pierre DuPayrat. All University students are invited. Refreshments will be served. Wickham to Meet With UO Women All women who failed to make a 2.0 GPA fall term, or who are on pegged grades, and all women's organization schol arship chairmen will meet in the Student Union Thursday at 4 p.m., according to “Mrs. Golda Wickham, associate di rector of student affairs. All women included should attend, she said.