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
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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.
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