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Index Nportft . U'wk'ii calendar l’hoto pun*". 4, 5 Oregon® Emerald Weather Clear and cold Vol. LX1 UNIVERSITY OF OKKilON, EUOENE, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 29, J9W» No. 90 I World Mows In Brief Higher standards BARIGOCHE. Argentina lUPI) President Elsenhower and Ar gentine President Frondizi have issued a Joint “declaration of Bariloche.'* In it, they pledged to work for higher living atandarda and democracy for the Hemis phere. Warm greeting slated HA NTIA GO. Chi le (UPI i Fast-Growing Santiago. Chile, ia preparing a warm greeting for Preaident Elsenhower today. Chil ean leader* nay the Preaident’a visit is an opportunity for their country to show its gratitude for American economic aid. Train leaves rails MAPLKTON. Ore. (AP) Seven cars loaded with logs left the tails on the Eugene-Coos Bay line of the Southern Pacific east of here late Saturday night. None of the cars overturned and no one was injured. Oficlals said a defect in one of the cars was the probable cause of the accident which caused a three-hour delay of the night freight from Coos Bay lo Eugene. Action considered ATLANTA (UPI) Two Southern Governor* have indi cated they may consider action against Negro college students who lead segregatio n sitdown protests. In Washington, the Southern bloc Ik preparing for a long battle in round-the-clock sessions on civil rightH legislation. Mundt predicts WASHINGTON (UPIt Sen ator Karl Mundt say* Vice-Presi dent Nixon will *et up separate form advisory council for his I960 presidential platform. The South Dakota Republican added that a few men have al ready teen named to start retting up a program "entirely Independent” of President Kisen hower's. Police to assemble PORTLAND (APi Policemen from 18 Oregon cities will as semble in Portland Monday for a one-day school on the theory and practice of law enforcement. Among the instructors and lec ture!-* will be agents of the Fed eral Bureau of Investigation. (Cvntin iuJ on page 3) FINAL EVENT in February's month-long Festival of Arts pro gram will feature dancers, singers, and actors from the Festival Company of Norway. The Eugene Civic Music Association is sponsoring the performance which begins tonight at 8 in McArthur Court. KAY RUSSELL Winter Carnival Queen Russell named Carnival queen Kay Russel], Gamma Phi Beta sophomore from Yakima, Wash ington, was named queen of the fourth annual Winter Carnival at Mt. Hood Saturday. MISS Rl.SSELL. who was i picked by University students to represent the school earlier in the term, was chosen in competition j with 13 other candidates from , Pacific Northwest schools. A libera] arts major. Miss Rus sell was selected on the basis of poise, appearance, and a two minute speech. She is the first University con testant to win the queen’s crown. THE THREE-DAY long Carni val included cross-country races, snow sculpture, dancing, snow shoe racing, a fashion show, mu sical entertainment, and queen I selection. “It was a very successful week i end," according to Carter Boggs. ! Winter Carnival co-chairman for ! the University. The races were sponsored for the first time by the Pacific Northwest STki Association, and Carnival officials hope to eventu ! ally procure NCAA sponsorship for the events, in order to attract j more top-flight collegiate skiers ior the competition. “GAINING PSNA sponsorship for this year's program was a big 3tep toward getting NCAA sanc tion for future years," Boggs added. I *_._ Wilson to speak at dinner Thursday The final event in the “Puri tanism in America ’ program will be a dinner at the Student Union Thursday evening at 6:30 p.m. PRESIDENT O .Meredith Wil son will speak on “The Precipi tates of Puritanism in America." The three-day program, being held from March 1 through 3. is sponsored by the English and History Departments. The cost of the dinner will be $2.25 per plate which will be col j lected at the table. However, I reservations must be made by 5 p.m. Tuesday. They can be made by calling the History De partment at Ext. 358. Festival Company of Norway to perform at University toniahf By JANET MIS FI JOY Emerald Staff Writer The Eugene Civic Music As sociation will present the final event in the Festival of Arts to night at 8 p.m. in MacArthur Court. The program will feature the Festival Company of Norway with a top professional cast from that land. THE COMPANY is the same one that has entertained thou sands of people at the Interna tional Festival held each year in Bergen, long the center of Nor wegian culture. Its dancers, singers, actors and instrumentalists are drawn from the nation's best and have been welded into a remarkable per forming group. The program is perhap best characterized by its vitality. Many of the dances wall display astonishing acrobatic agility. The music ranges from vigor ous folk melodies to the haunt Sophomore honors exam schedule listed for Spring The Spring term comprehen sive examination schedule for sophomore honors courses was issued recently by the Univcr : sity. FOLLOWING are the list of examinations and their schedule of times: Study of Society, Wednesday. May 18. Biological Science. Thursday. May 19. Physical Science, Thursday, May 19. History, Tuesday, May 24. Literature, Thursday. May 26. In each case the examination will be held from 7 to 10 p.m. in rooms to be announced later. A student who takes one of the comprehensive examinations may, if he chooses, be excused from the spring term final ex amination in the corresponding course. In this case his spring term course grade is based on his comprehensive examination. Glaciologist slates 1960 Condon talks Robert P. Sharp, director of the division of geologic sciences at California Institute of Tech nology. will give the I960 Condon Lectures in Oregon. THE THREE SERIES of lec tures, at the University of Ore gon. Oregon State College, ar.d Portland State College, will be on glaciers, a field in which Sharp is regarded as an authority. The series will be opened at the University of Oregon on March 29, with a talk on "Streams of Ice." On March 31. his second talk will be on “The Dynamic Blue Glacier of Mount Olympus, Wash." Colored slides wiil illustrate both talks. THE TALKS will be repeated in Corvallis on April 5 and 7. and in Portland on April 11 and 12. The Condon Lectures, sponsor ed annually by the Oregon State Board of Higher Education, inter pret to the public the research findings of well-known scientists. , ing works of Edvard Grieg, Nor way's greatest composer and founder of the Bergen Festival. An unusual feature of the Fes tival Company of Norway is the inclusion in its programs of chor eographed. legend-dased dramas in the tradition of “Peer Gynt.” Every artistic 1 esource is brought into play. The staging demands high-order acting ability inter woven with the dance and music. A LEADING role with the Festival Company of Norway is played by one of the foremost actors of that country, Toralv Maurstad. Sharing honors with him will be Erna Skaug, lyric soprano of the Bergen Festival. Seventeen other performing artists round out the Festival Company of Norway, among them the dancers Omulf and Dorthe Oiseth and Brit and Aksel Stokke, husband-and-wife exponents of the country's most demanding folk dances. The Regisseur of the Festival Company of Norway is Barthold Halle. A SPECIAL treat will come with the playing of the Har tianger Fiddle, often called the national instrument of Norway. Though it looks like a more gaily designed version of the con ventional violm, it produces a heady and deeply expressive tone Three of Norway’s leading players of the Hardanger Fiddle will be on hand to add a touch of gaiety to the proceedings. Discussion of Puritanism Tues. Perry Miller, professor of Am erican Literature, Harvard Uni versity, will discuss “Puritanism 1 — a Civilization in Transit’’ at Tuesday’s University assembly. The assembly will be at 1 p.m. in the Student Union. MILLER RECEIVED his bach . elor of philospohy aryl masters degrees from the University of Chicago in 1928 and 1931, re spectively. At Harvard, he has been a professor of American literature since 1916. FROM 1942-45, Miller served as Captain and Major in the U. S. Army. He was a professor at the Seminar of American Studies at Tokyo, Japan, in 1952, and in 1953-54 he was a member of the Institute for advanced study. Miller is a member of the Massachusetts Historical society, the Colonial Society of Massa chusetts. the American Anti quarian Society, the Modem Language Association, and the American Philosophical Society. He has also written several books. Freshmen scheduled for advisor meetings Freshmen advisors will hold nuttings with their advisees Tuesday at 7 p. m. Meeting plat es are listed in spring term time schedules which may be picked up at the registrar's office. Spring term advising for all i students will be held March 1 through March 11. i .—