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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1961)
No. 109 PART OF World t'nlversity Scnlce Week 1* this wishing well Mi the porch of the Student Union. The amount donated to the well during the week has not heen determined, but according to UTS week chairman Carol Stout, “contributions haven't been very good." Auction Nets $124.75 For WUS Treasury The most spirited bidding at the WUS auction at 4 p.m. in the Student Union Thursday came when Alpha Delta Pi beat out all competitors by paying $55 for the Fairmont Trio. TOTALLY, auctioneers Dick Sorenson and Will Rader sold $124.75 worth of talent to various Edit Board Sets Interviews Emerald Editorial Board interview* of Candida tes for of fice will be held tomorrow In 221 Allen Hall. Results of them? interviews will appear on Mon day’s editorial page. The sched ule is: ('lass Presidents — 9:00 to 10 a.m. Class Representatives — 10 to 11 a.m. Living Group Representa tives—11 to 12 noon. Senators-ut-Large — 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. ASl'O Presidents and Vice Presidents—1:00 to 2:30 p.m. No alternate times are avail able. groups in the audience. All funds will go to WUS. Colleen Nelson and Lee Coffey were sold for $6.75 to an unidenti fied group 'of girls, presumably freshmen, who wanted their serv ices to go on flying speeches for a class office campaign. MISS NELSON was introduced by Miss Coffey, a bongo drum en thusiast, and then sang a ver sion of "That Old Black Magic," entitled "That Old Black Label.” The Sam Muller Combo, minus Sam Muller, who was playing baseball, and another member who had a toothache, according to the auctioneers—was sold to Douglass Hall for $29. THE SURPRISE package turned out to be ASUO President Steve Schell and ASUO Vice President Merv Thompson, who were bought by the YWCA, iden tity unknown, for $24. Five fraternity queens, The Delt Queen, The Sigma Phi Epsi lon Swamp Girl, The DU Darling, the Sweetheart of Sigma Chi, and The Dearest Girl of Phi Kappa Sigma, were autcioned off to the Sigma Chi’s for $10. Ken Wilson, who did the bid ding, says he bought them for the house because their sweet heart, Bobby Evans, was in the group. Long Senate Meeting Concludes Year's Work By SUE HUNTER Emerald Senate Reporter Meeting for nearly five hours ast night, the current ARUO 'enate wound up a year's worth >f activities. SENATE action included: • A;proval of fraternity haz ng rules. • Recorr mendat ion for the abolishment of scholastic oligi »!lity requirements for cxtra-cur -icular activities. • Adoption of an amended Jr eater Oregon charter, giving he Senate greater control over , the organization. • Retraction of its approval I of the Student Union jazz fes tival, with a recommendation that the Senate study the proposal i further. • Approval of the ASUO budg et for next year. DICK SORENSON, I PC Pres idents Council head, presented ’ * he rules governing fraternity I hazing which prohibit “activities vhich involve physical or mer. , ' ;l abuse or which are in any way morally objectionable.’’ The rules also provide that Co-op Nominates Board Hopefuls Co-op store members met yes-. terday to nominate candidates for board positions and to ap prove amendments to the con stitution. THE 60 MEMBERS present made nominations to fill the one -ophomore and two junior board member vacancies. Sophomore nominations were Clark Stevens. Dick Imwalle, Dec Pollock. Col leen Craft, Nancy Erland Marty Frank, yane Brown. Jane Berry. Clara Larson. Mary Jar.e Mat tewson. Ted Casteel, Sara Rich ards, Sharlyn Gillis and Susan Fort. Running for the junior office are Arden Johnson. Walt Evans, Ollie Crary. Bill Hutchison, Mary Donnelly, Georgia West. Doug Van Zanten, Craig McEwen, Sue Knight, Mary McLeod. Nancy Knox, Ira Wong. John Kennedy. Nick Oatway, John Atkinson, Toni iKenow, Donalie Speer, Mary Hazzard. Tom Atkinson, Gail Brayton, Toni Acre, Esther Andrus, Mary Lou Miller and ! Kathy Quaintance. THESE CANDIDATES will be voted on in the regular ASUO election. Officers of the board are elected by the board members May 25. Unanimous approval was given by the members to the amend ments which had previously been approved by the board of direc tors. The amendments were sug gested by Co-op lawyer Otto Van <Continued on page S) Reserve Now For Jr. Weekend The Mother’* Weekend hous ing committee today urged I'nivorsity students to make hotel and motel reservations for the May 12-14 weekend im mediately if their parents are planning to attend. Since there are only a few rooms now available in Eu gene for the weekend, the hous ing committee has asked cam pus sororities to accommodate as many mothers as possible, according to Jeanette Cuendet, committee chairman. t "fraterinty activities will be fanned so as to allow adequate ' time for classroom participation and outside preparation.” FRATERNITY presidents and | chapter advisors can be required ; to present signed statements to ; the administration guaranteeing that the rules have been followed. Failure to comply with the rules : can mean charter suspension on recommendation of the IFC Tri I buna), which has power to inves tigate suspect infractions. Commenting on the rules, which have been approved by Acting President W. C. Jones, i Donald DuShane, dean of stu i dents, said that they represent ! 'a large step forward for the fra i ternity system at the University.” HE INDICATED that hiS of | fice would ask for signed state ments following each initiation period. Jim Paulson moved that the i Senate recommend to the stu dent activities committee that all eligibility requirements for elective and appointive ASUO of fices be eliminated. THE VOTE on the motion was a tie. 13 to 13, and the deciding affirmative was cast by ASUO President Steve Schell. The issue came up during a • discussion of athletic eligibility requirements sparked by Steve Hintz’s motion that athletic eli j gibility be governed by rules sim i liar to those governing other ex ; tra-currieular activities. Hintz’s i motion failed. SPEAKING in favor of Paul son's motion. Dan Williams stat i ed that he felt the individual should accept the responsibility for deciding if he should continue to participate in extra-curricular j activities at the risk of flunk ing out of the University, should i his giades drop. The Greater Oregon proposal (Continued on page 3) festivities Come May 8 Juniors Plan Fete, Kourt' By Jl'DY BABICH Emerald Contributor With planning for Canoe Fete and other Junior Week activities in the final stages, the class of ’62 is praying for fair weather and a good gate. According to Tom Herman, class president and general chairman of the May 8-14 observance, the juniors have added some new features to the 1961 program. ONE OF THE new feat .ires, "the Kangaroo Kourt.” is being kept under wraps by Junior Week oficials. Designed to enforce tra ditions during the week, the “Kourt” will be staffed by junior men, who will begin patrol Mon day, May 8. Monday marks the beginning of the program with an ROTC-exeeuted flag raising ceremony at the Student Union at noon. The Millrace Olympics will be held Tuesday afternoon and will feature traditional canoe races and jousting and the annual frosh-sophomore tug-of-war. The tug-of-war winner will be chal lenged by the juniors and the de feated underclass will wear bean ies and ribbons the rest of the week. Ashore the juniors will sponsor sack races and a bring your-own-pie eating contest for representatives of campus living organizations. WEDNESDAY, the junior hon oraries, Phi Theta Upsilon and Druids, will exchange uniforfns for the day. Thursday, class mem bers will paint the "O” on Skin ner’s Butte. Friday will be “Bermuda Day’’ for the juniors, who also will pre sent the “Friday at Four” enter tainment in the SU Fishbowl. THE 50T1I ANNUAL, Canoe Fete Friday night, depicting the theme “Command Performance." will begin with an original over ture written especially for the Fete by John H. Hendrickson, audio-visual librarian, and record ed by the University Symphonic Band. Canoe Fete Chairman Brent Smith said today the stu dent body's cooperation with Fete officials has been "outstanding,” and said that "on paper” the floats promise to be among the best in Fete history. Saturday’s schedule begins with the annual Mother’s Breakfast and business meeting in the Stu dent Union. The Mother’s Lunch eon, which starts at 11 a.m., will feature entertainment and tap ping ceermonies by campus hon oraries. AT 2:15 ,P.M. the varsity foot ball team will tangle with the alumni squad at Hayward Field. The Junior Week finale, the All-Campus Sing, will be held Saturday night in McArthur Court. Awards for individuals and living organizations also are | on the program.
