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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1957)
Greater Oregon Group Seeks Students Help BY WAI.LY SUM I >| Emerald Mlaff Writer Oregon student leaders are facing an uncomfortable fact: high school students are begin ning to shy away from the Uni versity. Not only la the "country club" myth beginning to be be lieved, but also, Oregon State College has been “acoutlng" bet ter thun we have. Two things have brought the jiroblem to attention. One la the re-examination of Oregon stu denta’ accompliahmenta In sell ing the University. This was brought on by the end of Duck Previews. Second, OSC students have during the past few years car ried on an informal rush-type program to get the best high school seniors. OSC has been selling itself better each year This year's figures on percen tage change in freshman enroll ment are dramatic proof: OSC, up 13'- ; UO down 5'/. Urogram Begun The ASUO senate has made somewhat of a "crash” program the year-old Ureater Oregon Committee has begun. A kick off dinner for the district chair men has been held. The purpose of the committee says Chair man Duncan Ferguson. "... is to contact and encourage cam pus visits by the outstanding senior students of the states high schools. The college pros pects among the best athletes, scholars, and leaders are to be Invited here to see what Oregon rally is like. This approach is to la* more )>ersonal and friendlier than was Duck Preview. This kind of personal selling has paid off handsomely for OSC, and it is time we at least made up our recent losses in freshman en rollment." Structure Explained The CJ.O.C. central planning board numbers five under the chairmanship of Ferguson. A boy and girl are chairmen of the men's and women's "visitation and contact" committees, of which there are eight working in eight geographical districts SINGER' ELECTRIC 3 SEWING H U MACHINE ^. • . for us© in your own' homo. Only 6.00 per month. Comultj your telephone book under SINGER-SEWING MACHINE COMPANY STI DKNTM OF OICF.GON: The (ri>*Ur Oregon ( om mlttee hi-clnn fundlmiln^ dur • •it; thin < hrlstmas viualinn, hut the cimimlttw In only the skeleton of the program. Von, the students, must literally provide tlx* ‘muscle.’ And a lot of ‘muscle’ will Itr needed If wo ari* to kH the host of the HO,000 hit'll school students. The G.O.C. cannot he some thing that happens only on the third floor of the HU.* If you hcllrvc in the Oregon idea, you will spend one hour ot the two-week vacation In au attempt to get the names and addresses of outstanding high school seniors. Write the data down along with the name of the student’s Important ac tivity. f riends on high school faculties are usually glad to help. When you return, give your list to the G.O.C’. regional officers. Their names will he announced soon. The committee cannot con tact all 225 high schools. You must help. The time to make Oregon greater Is now; the place is in your own home town. —Duncan Ferguson, Chairman, G.O.C. ThU makes a total of 16 stu dent* la boy and girl per dis trict » attempting to contact as many high schools in ther dis tricts as possible. The word “contact" here is vi tally important and is where the campus must enter the program. The first contact the committee makes with high schools is through students already here at Oregon from those schools. Once the contact persons are chosen, they will receive full committee backing means of various publications, mailings, and arrangements for visitations. The contact persons, pre ferably underclassmen, theoreti cally should number 225, the number of high schools in Ore gon. They will gather names of possible college students from high school leaders in citizen ship, scholarship, and athletics. This is the ground work; after it the real job begins salesman ship by the students. v Visitations Heart of Program Once the prospects are known, they will receive a flow of mail ings. visitation invitations, and letters. The contact person works on the more personal an gles such us coke dates and oth er individual meetings designed to sell Oregon. Revival is planned of the Ore gon Days picnic, an affair that was very successful for ten times during and shortly before World War II. Some prospects will get letters from the department Congratulations to the Team and Coaching Staff University of Oregon Manerud-Huntington f uel Co. 997 Oak St. Dl 4-1211 Dl 5-6262 heads encouraging student** to visit Oregon. Most important in Greater Oregon Is the visitation pro gram. A year-round flow of high school seniors to tho campus Is planner!. They must see an Oregon different from the one that f>uck Preview showed. The Preview made the visitors go on a high-pressure social marathon of dances, as semblies, games, dramas and other activities. Major Problems lasted The committee fears that two problems may arise. The first is that the visitors, boys especially, will find their visit to be more a drinking party than a serious look at Oregon. Drinking more than anything else gives (and has given t the "country club" impression. Getting liquor is not a problem to students of any ; college and the high school stu dents know it. "The student who remembers Oregon as a party and not as a college, isn’t likely to come back Only if the living groups, es pecially the fraternities, realize this will they find themselves with bettor members next year,” : commented Chairman Ferguson. There may develop the problem that the Greeks will sell them selves instead of the college. On this point Ferguson urged the houses to ponder the question: "Would you enroll in a college just because a group you had visited for a day or two was there ?” Asian Flu Due For Return Attack The possibility of a second wave of Asian-type influenza was outlined in a letter from the Ore gon state health department to Dr. F. N. Miller, director of the student health service. Miller advised students who have not received a flu inocula tion or are in need of a second shot to come in as soon as pos sible to take advantage of a more powerful vaccine available at the health service. Miller added that parents' con sent was preferred for students under 21, but was not absolutely necessary. He also advised get ting inoculated before Christmas vacation. TOURNAMENT OF ROSES PICTORIAL Complete coverage of events. Color photos of all floats Awards—Game Highlites—Team Photos—Marching Units—Rose Bowl History. Reserve your copy now. Mail $1. cash for January 3rd mailing. Carrol N. 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