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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1961)
Jt'DY BAKKK anil Karlyn .Mattson, a pair of UO fnnhmen are fascinated by the stnatures of ('harles B. Kyan, University art professor, now liriux exhibited in the Ktintent I'nion art gallery. The colorful display has been very popular with the students. (Photo by John C. Championi Duck Preview Sets Program for Seniors Duck Preview, produced and directed by the Greater Oregon Committee, -will feature the aca demic and social life of the Uni versity for visiting high school .seniors on Saturday. Jan. 28. The performance begins at 10 a r.i. with the registration and assignment of students to the living organization where they will spend the night. Bob Dietchle'* jazz combo will play in the fiah bowl during this time so that students may relax after they have finished register ing At 11:30 a luncheon will be held in the SU Ballroom, where Jim Petersen will be master of ceremonies, and in Carson Hull, where John Socolofsky will head the proceedings. The Beta Song team has promised to entertain. DI KING THE luncheon high school seniors will hear the fol lowing speakers from the Uni versity: Acting President W. C. Jones talking on "The Goals of the University"; H. T. Koplin, director of the Honors College, speaking on "The Honors Col lege"; Director of Admissions Dean Barkhurst explaining "Ad mission to the University of Ore gon"; ASUO President Steve Schell speaking on “The Bole of the Student"; and Jim Dorsey. Greater Oregon Chairman, dis cussing "Greater Oregon." Presidents Meet Stove Schell, AS CO presl dent, has announced tentative plan* for a meeting Including Associated Student presidents luid Deans of Students from Portland State College, Ore gon State College, and Unlver eity of Oregon concerning co ordination of eurrieuliiin in Oregon State System of High er Education, The meeting, to discuss the highly controversial Issue has a “possible date of Jan. 21”, according to Schell. To tour the cairpus at 1:15. high school seniors will divide into groups. Kwamn and Skull and Dagger plan to art ns guides. The feature attraction of the day is planned to give students the actual experience of attending college lectures. Each student will attend two lectures and toiir the department of his first choice lecture. .SENIORS MAY visit one of a variety of activities that begin at 4:15, including a water show by the Amphibians and Dolphins, a tour of the library, and an ASUO Senate meeting in the SU Ballroom. 5:00 p.m. is the first time sen iors can go to the living organi zations where they can relax, get acquainted, and eat dinner. HIGH SCHOOL seniors will (Continued on paqc .1) Senate Decides to Make Definite Stand' On USNSA By SUE HINTER Emerald Senate Reporter ASUO Senate voted Thursday night to take “a definite stand” on whether the University should join United States National Stu dent Association at its next meet ing Jan. 28. The motion, made by Merv Thompson, ASUO vice-president, passed by a vote of 13 to 10. Stating that he felt the mo tion "uncalled for.” Dan Wil liams reminded Senate that it had asked the special USNSA com Kaplan Sees Man's Maturity In Tragic Art j By PHIL COGSWELL Emerald Disk Editor "The appreciation of tragedy alls upon the fullest resources of the mature human being” accord ng to Abraham Kaplan, UCLA philosopher who spoke Thursday •vening as part of the Honors College colloquia program. KAPLAN S\'D that there is no greater display of human ma | turity than fo meet life under its own conditions. “It is the human being's supreme recogni tion of life,” he said. Kaplan, who war. making his last lecture of a series of three at the University, discussed the ‘dements, effects, and significance of tragedy. He called these the 'what,” "how,” and “why” of tragedy. KAPLAN considered the simp lest definition of tiagedy the best. He said that it was a “story : or play that has a .sad ending." He added that if it is a great work of art, the ending has to ’ | come. In tragedy, the sad ending comes with death, because “noth ing is more final.” He cited as an example, "Hamlet" which is “a <Continued on f'oqe S) mittee to poll other colleges and universities on their views of the organization. He also said that the committee had not yet re ceived results of the poll. HOWEVER, Thompson replied that the matter had been in com Absent last night were Sen ators Quentin Breen, Lee Cof fey, and Bud Snodgrass. mittee since early in fall term and that he felt students wanted Senate to come to a decision. He also stated that he felt "the Senate committee has done a very poor job” of informing both Senators and students about the issue. In other business. Senate filled four offices declared vacant for academic reasons. TOM EASTON, runner-up last spring for junior class president, was named ASUO Senator-at large. defeating A1 Wood and Jerry Lewis. Ken Smith, former freshman class representative, is the new sophomore class representative. His opponents were Walt Evans and Ron Buel. William Sparks, former mayor of Greenville, Ky., was appoint ed married students representa tive over Jan Wyers. VICTOR VFW, graduate student from the University of Califor nia, is the foreign students rep resenlative. Bjorn Kumm peti tioned against him. Answering a question by Lee Parker, Steve Schell. A3UO pres ident, explained how the trip of the rally girls to the Liberty Bowl was financed. Senate originally passed a mo tion recommending that Budget Board, a student-faculty commit tee headed by Acting President W. C. Jones, allocate $1043 of Student Union funds to send the rally squad to the game. How ever. the board granted only $500. stating that the money was to be used for the transportation of the yell duke and Rally Board advisor and sending a motion to the University president ask ing that the Athletic Department give the money to send the rally girls. US' TOTAL, the Athletic De parment contributed $1,500, SI.000 more than their original grant of $500 to the Rally Board. Reporting for the student re lations and communications com mittee, Sue Brouillard said that the committee had decided to study KWAX. She said that there ■ appears to be "a lack of student | participation" in the activities jof the radio station. According to Miss Brouillard, Dr. Scott Nobles, faculty senator, i has talked with speech depart ! liient faculty members and will (Continued on page 3) World Mews In Brief Silence Urged PALM BEACH. Florida (UPI> — President-elect Kennedy has been urged to remain silent on disarmament until an agreed na tional policy has been hammered out inside the new administra tion. A series of five special task force reports dealing with for eign policy and State Depart CPA Pawn Computation Changes Account For Lower Grade Average The h 11-University grade point average for fall term was 2.44. A year ago the grade point aver age was a 2.60. Yet, a compari son cannot be made due to a change in the basis of computa tion. In the past years the all-cam pus average had been calculated for all students attending the A complete listing of grade point averages for all living organizations and off-campus students Is on page seven. University—both undergraduate and graduate students. Also, the sorority and fraternity house averages were formerly computed to include the graduate grades and exclude the freshman pledge class grades. THIS YEAR the all-University I average was calculated without i : graduate students’ grades, and the house grades were computed without the freshman pledge grades. Dean of Men Ray Hawk said ' today that the change in compu tation was made because the re 1 suits are clearer and more fac j tual. There is a duplication of grades when the dormitory averages are formed because the freshmen who are.pledges have already had their grades averaged into the house grades, but this duplica tion gives the houses a more ac curate average. ACCORDING to Hawk, the only figures offering some basis for comparisons are the all men’s average of last year and the all men’s average of this fall term. Last fall the average was a 2.32 and this year a 2.36 which shows only a slight increase of .04. Hawk said that the rise may be due to a gradual tightening of the scholastic standards over the past few years, and, to the fact that professors are demanding more from the students and the students in return are produc ing better work. THE TOP men's organizations were: Campbell Club, Canard Chib, and Chi Phi Colony. The top women’s organizations were: Orides, Rebec House, and Delta Gamma. The all-women’s aver age was a 2.53 and the all-men's average was a 2.36. The top sororities were Delta Gamma and Alpha Xi Delta and the top fraternities were Chi Phi Colony and Tau Kappa Epsilon. The women’s dorm average was 2.33 and the men's dorm average was a 2.22. ment operations was presented to the incoming chief executive. The President-elect is spend ing the time between now and the Jan. 20 inauguration at his headquarters in Palm Beach, Florida. Ike Gives Message WASHINGTON (UPI)— Pres ident Eisenhower gave his last State of the Union message to Congress yesterday. Among many things, he said the US reached •‘unprecedented heights” during the last eight years of Republican rule. The President acknowledged he was leaving incoming Presi dent Kennedy some explosive foreign and domestic problems. However, Eisenhower declared they could be solved if Kennedy tackles them with what was termed "steadfast resolution.” Investigation Ordered ATHENS. Georgia (UPI) — Attorney General William Rog ers has ordered an investigation into Wednesday night’s riot at the University of Georgia. Rogers says he wants to learn if any Federal laws were vio lated in the riot on the campus at Athens, Georgia. Meanwhile, Federal Judge W. A. Bootle voided a state law pro hibiting state funds going to an integrated school. Bootle will hold a hearing to day on a request that he order the University to lift its sus pension against the two Negro students.
