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vtUNj Oregon Daily EMERALD Vol. LIX i VIVERSITV OK OREGON, Kl (.FA I„ MO.MIA V , A I KII. 21, 1958 No. 110 APATHY OPPOSES) Ferguson Seeks ASUO Top Spot Duncan Fergtron announced bis candidacy for A8UO student body president to the Emerald Sunday night. Ferguson follows Bud Titus In publicizing his In tention to run for the office In the April 30 elections. Currently Junior class repre sentative and chairman of the Canoe Fete, Ferguson also Is a member of Druids and chairman of Greater Oregon. He was a member of Skull and Dagger last year, and belongs to Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Senate leadership I'rged Included In his statement to The Emerald were the following remarks: "After thinking It out very thoroughly I felt that the University has some needs that have to be met. 1 feel that one of these needs particularly preva lent Is apathy in student govern ment." As one of the reasons for apathy, Ferguson cited the "lack of leadership in the Senate." "One of the ways to advert t! is," he explained. "Is through such things is a student leader ship conference, which would in clude members of the Senate and other student leaders.” Part of the job of the student body president. Ferguson felt, b to combat this apathy toward government. He referred to Ar ticle IM, Section 4 of the ASl.’O Constitution, which provides that part of the president s duty is "to Inform and recommend to the Senate matters concerning stu dent welfare" as one method of activating the Senate. "I'd like to see more A8UO backing to the frosh workshop and related activities. One area that is ofen neglected completely is the ASUO cabinet. I feel that this is one of the most important groups on campus, and can help raise student Interest," he con tinued. Greater Oregon Emphasized "It's Important that all stu dents support Greater Oregon, I)! M AN KEKGt SON Seeks I’mMenry but the program is important enough to require more than that: it needs an effective organization, with organized student participa tion," Ferguson said. He named several improvements he felt should be made in the pro gram, which included: More campus and general pub licity for the program. Better publications to send to the prospective University stu dent. Fxpansion of the Greater Ore gon program into Washington and California. Better local summer programs. More effective visitation pro gram with emphasis on the aca demic side of University life. Ferguson also felt that it-was necessary to better orient foreign students to the University. He said this could be done by having them visit campus living organi zations and student organizations such as the ASUO Senate. "The ASUO could give a greater boost to campus activities, such <Continued on page 3) Goal Nearly Reached During WUS Week World University Service's an nua! fund drive collected approxi mately $1500. the week's goal, ac cording to Walt Grebe, W'US co chairman. Butch Alford was named Ugly Man at Saturday’s Vodvil Show. Alford, a Beta Theta Pi sopho more in Journalism, won a year's possession of Herman the Moose with a totul collection of $200.66 during the week-long contest. BI TCH ALFORD Chosen Only Man Another $400 was contributad to the fund from the profits of the Vodvil Show, attended by some 800 people. Kappa Alpha Theta was awarded the annual house solicitation trophy with a total donation of 76 cents per person. Campus personalities, auctioned off to the highest bidder at last week's Friday at Four, added various sums to the fund drive lotal. Joe College finalists were sold to Susan Campbell Hall for $16. Delta Tau Delta and Phi Gamma Delta bought the Bi tty Co-ed fi nalists for $15. Tau Kappa Epsilon bid $5 for the Homecoming Court, while the King of Hearts candidates also went to Susan Campbell Hall for $15. Chi Omega bid $16 for the Sig ma Phi Epsilon quartet, and Rose Bowl stars Chapman, Stover, Shanley, Tourville, Grottkau and Wheeler were sold to Gamma Phi Beta for $16. High bids for the day came from Delta Gamma and Delta Upsilon. DU bid $42 for the rally squad, while DG bid $56 for the Cruisers. Jones Explains University Stand On Picket issue The University's position on an alleged picket-line violation at a Portland department store was clarified this weekend in a letter by William C. Jones, acting dean of the school of business admin istration, to a Portland union executive. Jones' letter went to Jerry Thorn, international representa tive of the Retail Clerks Interna tional Association. Incident April 7 The union had complained that 60 University students, as part of a retailing class project, cross ed picket lines surrounding Lip man Wolfe in Portland April 7, The letter said that the Uni versity “regrets if, inadvertently, it has become involved in such a situation and apologizes to both labor and management for any embarrassment which it may have caused.” Jones added that the class had carried on the project in other years as well, crossing picket lines then without incident. ‘No Purchases Madr' He told Thom “The students did not enter the retail estab lishment to make any purchases but only to observe retailing merchandising procedures.” The letter concluded: "It is dif ficult for us to understand why sixty students, coming from all parts of the state of Oregon, should be deprived of this edu cational experience, since the project has no relationship to the aspects of the labor problem involved.” Ballot to Carry Four Amendments Four proposed amendments to the ASUO Constitution, printed on page 6 ot today’s Emerald, will go before the student body in the April 30 ASUO elections. Two of the changes passed two-thirds votes at Thursday night's ASUO senate meeting. The others were submitted by petition (signed by the required 200 students) Sunday to ASUO vice-president Don Kalberer. Ke-apportion Urged The longest proposed amend ment would re-apportion senate positions on a living group basis and would do away with class representatives. It provides for seven class.fi Indonesian Crisis Topic of Speech The Browsing Room lecture this week is Ernest Henry George Dobby, professor of geography at the University of Malaya. He will speak on the "Geographical Background of the Indonesian Crisis" Wednesday evening at 7:30 in the Browsing Room. Dobby. born and educated in Britain, is now on leave from the University of Malaya, holding the position there of Dean of Arts and Professor of Geography. He has served as Lecturer in Geog raphy, Raffles College, Singa pore, Reader in Geography, Raf fles College, and as Head of the Malaya-Indonesia Section, Po litical Intelligence Department, Foreign Office, London. He received his B.A. in 1932 (Continued from page one) rations of living groups to divide 23 representatives between them. Only persons in the particular living group would be allowed to vote on their representatives, and or. no others. This electing of representatives would be conducted apart from the presidential election—on a separate ballot. Class Keps Out The amendment would also provide for freshman class elec tion of four representatives, and would add an article allowing a president and vice-president only from each class. The other petion-based amendment would re-state por tions of the preamble to the Con stitution, stressing the “en couragement of freedom of the press, freedom of speech, free dom of religion and the essential quality of all races in the human family.” One of the senate-ratified amendments calls for a separate ballot for presidential candidates, with the provision that their names also appear on the ballot for senator-at-large. At present, all candidates for president ana senulor-at-large appear on the same ballot. Vote Total Changed The amendment would also eliminate candidates for class presidencies from further con sideration (once defeated for the higher office) as class represen tatives. And the fourth amendment would reduce the number of vot ers necessary to pass amend ments from one-third to one fourth of the student body. Tuesday Talk to Feature Humorist, Ogden Nash Ogden Nash, poet humorist, will I ‘trip the light fantastic' in verse I as he speaks about his life and ! writings Tuesday at 1 p.m. in the Student Union ballroom. The talk, called “An Afternoon with Ogden Nash,” will include readings from some of his books of verse. According to some critics there are at least three Ogden Nashes —“the skylarking humorist," the literary craftsman, and the ser ious social satirist. Nash has written several books of verse since he started tickling the language in the late 1920’s. He wrote "Parents Keep Oyt” (subtitled: "Elderly Poems for Youngerly Readers”). His most recent book is “The Private Din ing Room.” After a year at Harvard, Nash spent a year at St. George's School in Newport, Rhode Island, where he says, “I lost my entire nervous system carving lamb for a table of fourteen-year-olds.” He continues, "I next went to New York to make my fortune as a bond salesman and in two years sold one bond to my godmother. However, I saw a lot of good movies.” Eventually he began working | at Doubleday Page publishing house, where he first began writ- j | ing his distinctive style of verse. Nash wrote the lyrics and was ; | co-author of the musical, “One i | Touch of Venus,” and was lyricist1 for "Two’s Company,” which starred Bette Davis. For three years now he has been entertaining on the tele vision program, "Masquerade Party.” Ogden Nash Speaks Tuesday in Student Union
