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No 41
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Duck Star to Crown
Queen at Friday Rally
The Homecoming bonfire Bally
featlvitieii will begin Friday at
6:30 p.m. with three serpentines
being led from different sections
of the eampuN. Men'll houses are
to meet at the women'll houses
with whom they are paired at
6 15.
One serpentine covering the
“cliff dweller*" area, will tie led
by the pep band starting at the
Sigma Alpha Mu house. The rally
•quad will lead another serpen
tine starting at the Alpha Omi
cron PI house and a third will
start at the Beta Theta Pi house,
led by “Sii|>er Duck." The fresh
men are being asked to form their
serpentine at 6:30 and go to the
Bonfire.
Morris to frown (furen
Bud Titus will be the master of
ceremonies for the evening's pro
gram and will Introduce the
Bike Stunt Pay-off
To Be Held Monday
The bike-ruling Hlunt for the
"losing" study body president
will t>e performed Monday, ac
cording to ASUO president Jim
Lynch.
Lynch has a bet on with OSC
student body president Charlie
Dunn. The president of the losing
school in Saturday's Civil War
football game will ride from the
rival campus back to his own on
a bicycle, wearing a jacket from
the rival school.
Originally, the 40-mile trip
would have been performed Sun
day.
Lynch reported that Dunn was
already loosening up his leg
muscles for the journey.
Orange Geese Left
On University Lawn
About 15 orange-tinted and
beribboned geese were myster
iously deposited on the University
campus sometime Tuesday night,
early-riaers discovered Wednes
day.
A sign on the Student Union
lawn reading "Typical Oregon
Duck" speculation has it, may
tie the prank in with an old Ore
gon State joke that the "Oregon
Ducks are a bunch of silly
geese."
The Eugene and the Sheriff's
office have been notified and are
trying to find the owners of the
geese.
Meanwhile the geese are pen
ned up at the physical plant.
Voting lor Queen
To Be Held Friday
Balloting for Homecoming queen
will be held Friday from 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m. at the Student Union
and Co-op, according to Jolene
Banasco,
Five princesses have been se
lected to the court. One of the
five will reign over Homecoming
festivities this weekend.
Candidates are Ann Cavanagh,
Sue Mautz, Sue Helfrecht, Laurie
Scott and Mary Jo Fourier.
Homecoming court at 7:05. Foot
ball captain Jack Morris will then
crown the 19.07 Homecoming
queen.
Skeetii Manerud, president of
the Alumni Association, will give
a Hhort talk and introduce a few
members of the 1920 Rose Bowl
football team. A novelty act will
be presented by the rally squad en
titled "California Here I Come!”
About 7:40 Coach Len Casa
nova will speak and will intro
duce his assistants and the seniors
on the team.
I>ucks to Burn Beaver
The burning of a 10' by 15'
, paper mac he beaver will climax
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Family Concert
Set for Sunday
The University-ivugene Sym
phony Orchestra will present a
special Family-Homecoming con
, cert as the final event of Home
, coming Weekend, on Sunday at
; 3 30 p.m. in McArthur Court,
This will be the first regular con
| cert of the symphony’s fourth
| year.
University of Oregon students
are admitted to all the symphony
concerts on student body cards.
In addition, for this concert stu
dents who have members of their
family visiting for Homecoming
may take those family members
to the concert as their guests
free of charge.
Families should enter with stu
dents through the student en
trance, and sit in one of the un
reserved sections.
Special Program Chosen
Conductor George Boughton,
assistant professor in the school
of music, has chosen a special
program for this occasion. Fea
tured will be Saint-Saens' "Cello j
Concerto No. 1 Op. 33," with
Jerome Jelinek as soloist. Jelinek,
new assistant professor of cello,
comes to the campus from a year
of study and performance in Eu- '
rope on a Fulbright Award. He
also spent three years with the ,
U.S. Naval Academy String Quar- j
tet at Annapolis, and a number of '
years with the Detroit Symphony I
Orchestra.
South American Selections
The remainder of the progr&m 1
will consist of some rhythmic j
South American music by Gina
sters called "Creole Faustus Ov
erture," Mozart's "Haffner Sym
phony No. 35," and "A Night on j
Bald Mountain" .by Moussorgsky. I
The 58-piece orchestra is com
posed about half of University
students and faculty, and half of
amateur and professional mu
sicians from towns of western
Lane County.
No Emerald Friday
The Emerald will not publish
a regular edition on Friday.
Staff members will work as
usual today and Friday on the
32-page Homecoming paper.
Alumni Trophy
To Be Presented
For Attendance
Announcements about the
trophy to be presented to the
alumni class with the largest per
cent of registered Homecoming
atendance have been made by Lo
lita Watson, chairman of the
Homecoming Hospitality commit
tee.
In order for an alumni class to
win the trophy, it must register
in the Student Union lobby on
the second floor Friday, Nov. 22,
from 2-6 p.m., or on Saturday,
November 23, from 9-12 a m. and
4-6 p.m. Registration will be held
it three times only.
The trophy will be awarded at
the Homecoming Dance. Satur
day, Nov. 23. the chairman said.
This tradition started at the Uni
versity's 1956 Homecoming.
Sign Contest Details
Stated by Chairmen
An^ Homecoming sign which
exceeds the $60 cost limit, will
be disqualified, according to the
Homecoming sign chairmen. The
total value of materials caused
in the sign includes rented, bor
rowed. used or purchased goods
and any materials the house may
already own. The total value of
the sign will be considered by the
Judges.
The sign committee requests
all living organizations to have a
detailed list of materials used,
their costs and the store receipts,
ready by 5 p.m. Friday. The
judges are at liberty to ask for
these at any time.
All signs must be finished by
5 p.m. Friday.
Anyone wishing further infor
mation is requested to phone
Chuck Bordenkircher or Gil Rodg
ers at DI 5-9050.
IN THE FIRE
Rally Men Burn
Scarred, Split 'O'
Oregon's much-beaten, but still
sentimental keepsake, the huge
wooden "O” was burned by Uni
versity students Wednesday night.
The 20 by 40-foot letter, stolen
from its -long-time Skinner's
Butte resting place three weeks
ago by Oregon State students,
was set afire about 6:30 p.m. by
SU Board Elects
New Secretary
Dana Peterson was elected Stu
dent Union Board secretary Wed
nesday. She replaces Dorothy
West, journalism school repre
sentative who resigned her po
sition but will stay on the board.
The board voted to change the
title of the Barbershop Quartet
Contest to the Quartet Contest
in order that entrants may sing a
j variety of songs.
Two SU committee chairmen.
Joan Williams, art gallery, and
Betty Bullock, personnel, will be
absent from office. An acting
chairman will fill Miss Williams’
position. Petitions will be called
for to fill the personnel chair
manship vacancy immediately.
Dick Firman reported on the
meeting of the Married Students
Programming Committee to bring
married students closer to SU
activities.
Firman also reported that the
Council on Student Travel felt
that a travel bureau on the UO
campus would be justifiable.
The creative arts committee
plans to decorate the three center
windows facing the Hello Walk
for Christmas, according to
Sharon Rafferty, chairman.
male members of the Rally Squad.
It didn’t burn well.
ASUO President Jim Lynch
told a crowd of about 200, mostly
freshmen, "We have had the "O’’
analyzed and have decided it has
been too contaminated by OSC
possession; that’s why were
burning it."
The "O,” held in hiding in Cor
vallis, was returned to campus
Tuesday night by members and
pledges of Tau Kappa Epsilon
fraternity in agreement with
members of the OSC chapter who
originally stole it.
The decision to burn the letter,
still painted yellow but split into
several big pieces and many loose
boards, was made by Lynch and
Yell King Dick Stables late Wed
nesday afternoon.
Soaked with Gasoline
Freshman men. and women,
joined by several handfuls of up
perclassmen, carried the pieces
to the intramural field-parking
lot adjoining Hayward Field.
Stables and his yell dukes soaked
the remains of the letter with
gasoline and led the crowd in
yells and fight songs as the "O’’
burned.
But the burning was slow.
Twice the arsonists had to pour
on more gasoline.
White In Order
For Homecoming
White shirts will be the "order
of the day” for Saturday’s foot
ball game with the farmers at
Hayward field, according to the
Homecoming committee.
Students have been requested
by the committee to wear white
at the game to present a more
colorful cheering section.
1*0 UK IN G GASOLINE on the bonfire burning the Oregon “O'* last night
I ell Oulu* trank Weigel and UO students cheer i.i the background at the
The men’s rally squad deckled to burn the broken letter because it was
possession, i Photo by Phil W'ollcott).
is Dick Stables, yell king,
intra-mural practice field,
“contaminated” by OSC