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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1965)
University Began In 1872 The University of Oregon wan established by an act of the Oregon Legislature on Oct 19, 1872, Lane County legislators offered the state a campus and buildings worth $50,000, and Eugene was chosen as the site, <.<!>ll™rVmion °,n I>,afJy Hall, the first campus building, was begun in 1873, I he building is still in use, housing the mathematics de partment and the computing center. The opening of the University was delayed by the depression of 1873; the first session began on Oct. 10, 1870. The first class of five was graduated in 1878, one of its members was Judge K. S. Bean, w bo went on to become Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, John Wesley Johnson was the first president of the University, who presided over a faculty of four. Today the University is an institution of over 11,000 students and 7(KJ faculty members The College of Liberal Arts offers instruc tional departments in 18 fields, with majors available in 10. The Honors College, established in 1900, offers accelerated instruction in liberal arts to a group of 400 5(H) students per year. There are seven professional schools on the Eugene campus: Architecture and Allied Arts; Business Administration: Education; Health, Physical Education and Recreation; Journalism; Law; and Music. Three other professional schools, Medicine, Dentistry, and Nurs ing, are located in Portland. The Eugene campus covers arc area of 187 acres. There are 0 dormitory complexes, 19 fraternity houses, 10 sorority houses, 5 pri vate co-operative houses, 2 religiously affiliated co-ops, and 5 com plexes to house married students. Students from more than 50 foreign nations attend the University each year. Where UO Students Live (Fall, 1964) CO-OPS 2.5% SORORITIES 6.5% FRATERNITIES 8% DORMITORIES 27% OFF CAMPUS 56% Hulteng, Price Get National Posts Two faculty members of the' School of Journalism were elec ted at the annual meeting of the American Association for Edu cation in Journalism (AEJ), held at Syracuse University in New York. They are Warren C. Price, pro-' fessor of journalism, and John L. Hultcng, dean of the school of Journalism. Price was elected chairman of the history division, one of the ten divisions of the AEJ. He was also elected to the organization's Committee on Professional Free dom and Responsibility. Hultcng is the new vice-presi dent of the American Association of Schools and Departments of Journalism. The association con sists of the deans and directors of the accredited schools of journalism. While at Syracuse, Hulteng at tended meetings of a joint com mittce of newspaper publishers and journalism deans which is developing programs of cooper ation between newspapers and schools of journalism. He is co-; chairman of the committee, which represents AEJ and the Ameri can Newspaper Publishers Asso- j ciation. ROTC Prof Transferred Staff Sergeant John W. Thomp son, Jr, an instructor in military science at the University, has been transferred to the United States Instructor Group at the Presidio in San Francisco. In tlie new position he will in struct high school students in the Reserve Officer Training Corps (Junior ROTC). At the Univer sity he has served as instructor and administrative assistant since January 19(54. His transfer was effective August 28, 1965. “If of O Win Cjo (fay &ade” I > •» ifiayBlade U. of O. CHECKBOOK COVER FREE U.ofO. PEN! Available only at the U. S. Bank and per sonalized for U. of 0. students, this checkbook features the famous duck in yellow and green. Made of handsome crystal-white vinyl plastic, both it and a colorful U. of 0. pen are FREE when you open a convenient, low-cost Special Checking Account at U. S. Bank. OREGON CAMPUS BRANCH 13th and ALDER mm HEAD OFFICE: POWTLAN# UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK OF OREGON Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
