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7>*{& Oregon® Emerald Vol. LXII UNIVERSITY Ol OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, I960 No. I Women finish rush Tuesday with 507 pledges Women's fall formal rush end ed officially Tuesday with 507 girls pledging In what is a rec ord number for both those rush ing and pledging. Seventy-three of those pledging were upper classmen. AIX THOME who went through preference night received a bid, according to Panhellenlc Presi dent Judy Baxter. The total of pledges was 67 per cent of the 752 that began rush. This was five per cent over last year’s to tal of pledges. Most houses did not meet their quotas because these were fig ured on a 75 per cent basis, while the 67 per cent pledged. The only major change In this year's rush period over last year's was an alteration In the record procedure, which elimin ated much of the paperwork. "THE WHOLE rush week event went very smoothly," Miss Baxter said. She reported that there were very few and very minor rushing infractions, com pared to last year and that the rushees on a whole were more co operative. Mias Baxter also noted that a major difference In this year's rush was the more even distribu tor of invitations among the girls. Voluntary ROTC not yet in effect The State Board of Higher Ed mation has not yet acted upon the faculty's recommendation for the revision of the University Defense Department contracts to place military science on an op tional basis. Consequently, the military sci ence requirement for lower-divi sion men will still be in effect for students entering the Univer sity this fall. The present require ment is six terms of military science. BIO MOMENT FOR ALPHA PHI sorority pledge, Starlett Wise, left, was her arrival at sorority house door. She was greeted by President Nancy Drew, and presented with her lapel pin which identifies pledges. (Emerald Photo by Dave Sands) Men's rush registration addressed by Ray Hawk ‘•Fraternities have personal!* , ties as different as people," com mented Dean of Men Ray Hawk ! at the kick-off meeting or Inter fraternity Council rush last night at McArthur Court. "THE GREEK LETTER organ izations are not just a group of Greek letters," Hawk comment ed, “They may be all Greek, but they're not all the same.” Hawk cautioned rushees to sel ect a house that fits their indi vidual personality, because “you don’t choose a house for just three years but for life." The dean of men also suggest ed that rushees shouldn't "buy the first package you see." He advised men to select a house as if buying a car, looking it over completely, every nut and bolt. He said that "the most embar raising question that you can ask a house is its GPA." Hawk concluded his remarks by commenting that "no house is sanctified in heaven. Don't bank on only one blue chip, make a second choice on a house.” L. A. "Bud” Mangles said Tues day afternoon that although he "couldn’t make an educated guess” about how many men had signed intend-to-rush cards, he commented that there would be a "certain increase” in rushees over last year. About 750 rush ees is a normal crop. Rush officially began last night as rushees signed up for six house dates Wednesday and Thursday. Friday morning men will narrow their initial choices down to three fhore visits, two Friday and one Saturday morning. (Continued on t'agc 9) Selection of University president possible within next few months By JIM BOYD Emerald Managing Editor The selection of a new Univer sity president is possible within three months, Chancellor John R. Richards said today. ABOUT GO CANDIDATES are now being considered for the po sition. A committee consisting of University faculty and State Board of Higher Education mem bers will cut this list to about four candidates within the next several weeks, the Chancellor said. These candidates will then have to be interviewed by the State Board of Higher Education for the selection. Bat even though a new presi dent may be selected, it would be very unlikely that he would take office on the campus this yoar, according to Richards. THIS WOULD LEAVE W. C. Jones as the president during the Interim. Richards said that he expected Jones to provide a continuing and strong leadership for the Univer sity during his interim appoint ment. Jones, who served as O. Mere dith Wilson’s Dean of Adminis tration, has also been the presi VV. C. Jones University President dent of Whittier College, Califor nia. AS FAR AS THE FUTURE president is concerned, Richards said the prime requirement is that he “should be capable of becoming a true leader of the scholarly community.’’ This is especially true since the new president will have to con j tinue the development of excell : ence while also providing for a ! doubling of the University’s abil- j ity to turn out graduates. This ability and ambition will be necessary since the University is expected to grow to a school of 12,000 to lo.OOO students by 1970. This growth will occur dur | ing the next president’s expected | length of tenure. UNIVERSITY faculty mem bers and deans included on the selection committee include: Chairman C. W. Macy, I. M. Niv en, W. C. Ballaine, F. A. Culh bert, E. G. Moll, E. A. Cykler, Earl Pomeroy, Dean R. D. Clark and Jones. Rooming situation looks good', says Rousing director £uGENf°REG0Nj¥J DAN PFAFF ' Staff Writer The housing situation for University students “looks good —better than expected.” That’s the word from off-campus housing director Richard McDaniels, who said Tuesday that although there are still people contacting his office for living space, there are a num ber of rooms, apartments and houses still available for stu dents. At the same time, however, the living situation for mar ried students on campus is more critical. Mrs. Betty Butler, in charge of married students housing, said only two units are still available in the Amazon pro ject- and they arc reserved. The University has four mar ried student projects—Amazon, Agate, Skinner’s Butte and re cently completed Westmoreland. McDaniels said the main prob lem with off campus housing now is that most of it is some distance from the campus, and would not be suitable for students without transportation. Most of the living space still available is more expensive than most students care to pay, he added, although he has some less expensive apartments and rooms listed. McDaniels said he could make no estimate as to how many stu dents still have no place to live, but he didn't think the situation was critical. Assistant business manager W. N. McLaughlin agreed gener ally with McDaniels, but said it was too early to know how many students, if any, cannot be hous ed. McLaughlin explained that early in August all married stu dents living in the Agate project were required to move in order to make room for additional sing le students. Later in the month it was learned that the housing would not be needed because the number of students who finally required living space was smaller than estimated, so married stu dents were allowed to return to the project. The assistant business mana ger said the Agate project inci dent was unfortunate, but was simply the result of a miscalcula tion by the dormitory board. He said the board made the decision because its members thought the anticipated record 7,450 enroll ment would require the addition al space. He said the amount of publicity given the housing shortage at Oregon no doubt "scared” some students away. And he also noted that a greater number of stu dents than anticipated were "skipping”- reserving housing at several schools in order to be certain of living space. The board made allowances for such actions, he said, but was able to make only approximate estimates of the number of students who would not finally enroll. But, McLaughlin added, enroll ment still may reach the antici pated figure, with a number of graduate students still expected. He said early next week the busi ness office should have some spe cific figures on student housing. SAM leads men in spring grades Men’s pledge class grades av eraged 2.337 at the end of spring term. Sigma Alpha Mu was first with 2.666. Second and third were Tau Kappa Epsilon and Sigma Phi Epsilon with a 2.615 and a 2.578, respectively. MRS. EILEEN WALKER will take Mrs. Golds P. Wickham’s place as dean of women this year. Mrs. Wickham is now on a world tour. Mrs. Walker, the wife of University YMCA Di dector Russ Walker, has also been the assistant dean of wom en here in previous years. New student list reaches 361% By GAYLE CHARLES Emerald Staff Writer Fall term registration at the University opened officially Sun day with an estimated 3600 new students admitted. New student registration will continue this week as incoming freshmen learn placement test results. REGISTRATION material packets for returning students will be available in the base ment of the Student Union for the rest of the week, moving to the registrar's office after Sat urday. After that date penalty fines will be a .sessed for every day late. The registrar’s office reports that fall term registration will terminate on October 10, and that students dropping or adding courses should plan to do so be fore October 19. Students with questions on reg istration procedures should con sult the Time Schedule of Class es booklet, which contains a com plete list of dates, classes, fees and the normal registration pro cedure for the entire year, 1960 61. The bookie, is available at the registrar’s office. Students have been requested to fill out all the IBM cards con tained in the packet legibly, and to avoid folding or damaging the cards. THIS year a new card has been added to the regular material— i student body identification card to be used by the student for voting privileges and as valid identification containing year of birth. The registrar’s office re ports that or. the fall term iden tification cards, errors in class (Continued on page 3)
