STUDENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE STATES ITS POSITION
School of Commerce Ballot Fails to Approve of Honor System
Pi IS DEFECTED
BT 8Z-72; TOTIIL OF
1B4 VOTES ARE CIST
Many Reject Proposition Be
cause of Article 2; 53
Turn It Down.
METHOD OF REPORTING
CHEATING CRITICIZED
Idea Favored, But Students
Refuse to “Squeal” On
Their Classmates.
By a majority of twenty votes, majors
and special students in School of Com
merce rejected the Ijonor system propos
ed by a group of senior majors In the
school. Out of a total of 104 votes cast,
92 were for rejection against 72 for ac
ceptance.
Of the 02 votes cast for rejection. 53
voted for rejection without qualifica
tions, while 39 voiced their disapproval
because of Article 2.
Article 2, to which ohejetion was
taken, reads as follows: “All students
aje held on their honor to-report, to the
honor commission all cheating in the
School of Commerce.”
The typical reason written in by those
opposed to the system was: “I am in
favor of it. but voted no because I ab
solutely refuse to squeal on anyone I see
cheating.”
Students Voice Opinions. ‘ -
Other reasons taken from' ballots
which voted against the proposal were:
“It won’t work in just one school.”
“1 am willing to pledge myself, but not
to report others.”
“Student government should precede
the honor system.”
"Ultimate decision lies in the hands of
the faculty.”
"The change is too abrupt.”
It makes tile student commission a
tool for the faculty.”
It makes the man who won’t report
as bad as the cheat.”
Seniors Originate Plan.
The plan which came entirely from the
students, according to Dean E. C. Rol>
bius, was explained by him yesterday. It
was started by a representative group of
senior men who had come to the conclu
sion that such a system would increase
the efficiency of the school, according
lo Dean Robbins.
I he ballot box was placed in the up
pei hall of the commerce building, bal
lets being distributed* in the various
classes and at the ballot box. The voting
continued all day yesterday. The filial
result was not known until late last
night.
TRE NU IS TO GIVE TEA
Clara Taylor, Y. W. C. A. industrial
Secretary, Honored. J
Tre Nu will entertain at tea this aft
ernoon at 4:30 in the Y. W. bungalow in
honor of Miss Clara Taylor, Y. W. C. A.
industrial field secretary.
All girls who are interested in indus
na work for women are invited, and a
npeual invitation is extended to all those
o earning part nr all of their wav
through college.
Miss 1 a.vlor will speak and as she has
ad wide experience in the industrial
ul < • having recently returned from
‘U»Ma, she will have many interesting
Pgs sa.c to those present,
he practical service committee of
j1 i Florence Furnset is chairman, is
Pmg wi,1‘ arrangements for the tea.
FRESHMEN girls win swim.
lf> * n'versity of Illinois freshmen
^^nen took,first place in the interdass
0f ™tU 's ;swi>nmiog meet witli a score
„ i p,.''lltls' R)p ‘senior women came
0Ul "*’*> 30 points and the sopho
m°res third with 12 points.
Y. W. C. A. LAYS PLANS
FOR CHRISTMAS PARTY
Holiday Cheer to be Dispensed Among
Poor People of Eugene By
. Organization.
Plans for the annual Christinas party
to be given b.v the Y. W. C. A. for the
children of Eugene and other holiday
activities were discussed at the regular
.Y. \V. cabinet meeting Tuesday night.
Elsie Marsh, chairman of the social
service committee, was asked to get the
list of children from Mrs. M. S. Ady
city police matron, and make the neces
sary arrangements.
Each year the different organizations
on the campus send toys to the bunga
low which are later distributed during
the Christmas party. Baskets of good
things to eat are also made up and sent
to the families that are named by Mrs.
Ady. Beatrice Wetlierbee was appoint
ed chairman of a committee to arrange
for singing Christmas songs around at
different homes in Eugene on Christmas
morning. This is an annual practice of
the Y. W. C. A. *
JITHLETIC SYSTEM IT
BERKELEY EXKMINEE)
Dr. Bovard Approves Scheme;
Unique Tests Given
“I have been interested for several
years in the plan of physical education
^for men at the University of California,”
said Dr. John F. Bovard, dean of the
school of physical education, on his re
turn from a trip to Berkeley, where he
“listened in” at the deliberations of the
Pacific coast conference of faculty ath
letic representatives.
The Berkeley scheme of physical edu
cation for men was introduced about six
years ago, by the present head of the de
partment. Frank Kleeberger, a class
mate and personal friend of Dr. Bovard’s.
according to a statement given by the
dean today.
“Their plan” said the speaker, “is to
subject each man who registers for phy
sical education to an examination to test
hi sc' agility, his posture, and his skill in
eombat. The agility test includes the
running of a hundred-yard dash. If he
is able to make it in 11 seconds or Under,
he is placed in class 1; if his time is 12
seconds, be is placed in another class;
those who can not make it in a certain
time, say 14 seconds, are required to
continue frequent trials until they can
meet the standard. Their posture test
is unique.” continued Dean Bovard. “The
student is taken into a room and told to
step inside a small circle painted on the
floor. His attention is then directed to
some object on the wall. An attendant
presses a button and a photograph is I
made or tne student, uunng rne test,
several pictures are taken, unawares to
the student. The background, against
which the photographs are taken, is
especially prepared. It is marked off in
to squares in such a way that the de
fects of posture are graphically shown
in the photograph. The combat test is
designed to determine a student’s ability
to give and take. He is required to put
on the gloves with the boxing instructor.
The examiner notes whether he becomes
angry, or whether tie exhibits good
sportsmanship.”
The student is put through numerous
other stunts, says Dean Boyard, after
which he is shown his records and re
ceives suggestions as to the most de
sirable course to pursue. When a stu
dent has passed the tests satisfactorily,
he is permitted to choose some athletic
activity in which he is especially inter
ested.
“This plan has been severely criti
cized for some objectionable features
which it contains, hut a strong point in
its favor,” said the dean, “is the fact
that a large percentage of the men con
tinue work in the department after the
two years’ required work has been com
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M CLAIN'S HIT
SMS I. S. II. 0. HUS
GOOD FIND. TEAR
Gross Receipts for Football
Season Total $22,000;
$5,000 Cleared.
ONE-HALF COST OF
HAYWARD FIELD PAID
Basketball Gaines May Be
v Staged In Armory
This Year.
Gross receipts of more than $22,000
were taken in during the football season
just closed, according to the report pre
sented to the assembly of the Associated
Students at Villard hall yesterday morn
ing by Marion McClain, graduate man
ager. After defraying all expenses,
about $5,000 will remain to apply on the
$10,000 debt for the construction of the
grandstand and bleachers on Hayward
field.
Due to the system of bookkeeping in
vogue, he continued, find because all the
bills were not yet la, he would be un
able for some time to make, a complete
a!nd detailed report, but give the follow
ing figures approximately authentic: Re
ceipts from games, Idaho, $1170; Stan
ford. $3,000; University of Washington.
$4,500; O. A. C., $5,600; IT. S. C. $7,800
and the Oregon Frosh-O. A. C. Rooks,
$600.
Figures Still Incomplete.
Only the figures for the first two
games are audited and known to be com
plete. Known expenses for some of the
games were given as follows: Idaho,
$600; Stanford, $2,000; University of
Washington, $1,500; O. A. 0., $600, (in
cluding bands, soccer team, attendants,
ns well as the varsity squad); U. S. C.,
l$4,000, and Pacific Una verity-Oregon
Frosh, $200. About $3,500 was spent in
outfitting the team, according to Mc
Clain, who said that it cost $35 for each
of the 100 men out for football. Other
expenses, such as newspaper advertis
ing, medical and dental- bills, etc., will
come in later, he said. Salaries will
amount to more than $8,000, and adver
tising expenses for Homecoming will be
about $200.
This winter the conference basketball
games scheduled by the varsity may be
played at the downtown Armory, went on
McClain, as there would be more of a
chance to make money on the games. As
the games have been played at the men's
gym a $25 or $30 crowd is about all that
can be seated, when the student body
is accommodated. He hopes to be able
to secure the building, and expressed the
idea that if it were possible, $400 houses
might be a. possibility. This would be
used to meet, the $2000 expenses that
were guaranteed when the Pacific coast
conference track meet was secured for
May 12 at Eugene.
Debate Team Landed.
Professor William Michael, instructor
in public speaking, told of the work be
ing done by members of the debating
team that will meet Princeton at Port
land on January 1. Itemey Cox, foren
sic manager, urged as many students as
possible to attend the debate, as Prince
ton graduates, be said, were planning to
come en mass.
’'Bib” Carl, chairman of the “Greater
Oregon” committee, in a short talk, said
that any and all members of the student
body could aid in the work being done by
the committee if they would speak a good
word or two for the University while
they were home during Christmas vaca
tion.
President P. L. Campbell urged those
■who have been doing good work in their
classes to feel no fear of the coming ex
aminations, to abstain from worrying,
and to take good care of tlic-.i- health.
Special music was furnished by
bers of the men’s glee club.
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Eleven Students Punished For
Cheating; One Suspended; Two
Dismissed For Rule Infractions
Report of Actions Taken Since October 1 Is
Given; 29 Cases Handled; Attitude and
Policy Listed in Statement.
A signed report of tlie decisions of the |
student advisory committee since Octo
ber 1, 1020. has been received by the
Emerald. The committee thinks it pref
erable for the present to omit those de
tails which would result in immediate
identification of the individuals. The
committee also wishes the report consid
ered as a report to the faculty as well as
students.
In all twenty-nine cases of cheating
was handled by the committee, of these, I
11 were found guilty, and were fived pen
alties ranging from fines of from 5 to
15 hours, usually accompanied by a two
term probation period, during which the
student must average a grade of HI in J
courses or be subject to suspension, to I
the most drastic action taken, suspension
from the University until the fall of 1021
accompanied by the loss of all credit
hours made this term.
Ten eases were either “not proved”
or given a decision of acquittal. Four
were given an houorable acquittal.
Two students were dismissed from
school for infraction of University rules
involving a point of University honor.
Polioy and Attitude Stated.
The committee makes the following ad
ditional statement as to its policy, its
status, and its attitude:
“The members of the committee are
the president of the University, the dean
of men, the dean of^vomen. the dean of
the school of commerce; and the dean
of the college of literature, science, and
the arts.. This committee is distinct from
the probation committee, which is com
posed of all the deans.
“The student advisory committee is
vested by the faculty with power lo act
in cases involving breaches of University
regulations and offenses against Univer
sity honor.
“The committee was confronted this
fall by the fact that cheating in various
forms was practiced by certain persons
in the student body, in class work, quiz
zes, and even final examinations. The
members, further, were led to believe
that some of these cheats considered
cheating legitimate; that they intended
to steal as much of the B. A. degree as
they could; and that they were a menace
to tlie ethical standards of others of the
student body, which is substantially hon
est.
Committee Holds Hearing.
“The president of the University
thereupon sent to all instructors a no
tice requesting them to deal no longer
with discovered cases of cheating them
selves, but to refer to the student ad
visory committee all cases in which the
evidence seemed to justify a hearing.
“Between 80 and 40 hearings have
been held. It is the decisions in these
hearings that are handed to the Emerald
on the separate sheet.
“The committee, in beginning these
hearings, found no established precedents
in either student body or faculty to gov
ern decisions in cheating. Accordingly,
it was compelled to formulate prece
dents.
“The committee early took the ground
that has been taken by the Emerald edi
torially; and that, in fact, was re-affirm
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ed by the Emerald in its issue of this
morning, when it spoke of ‘the growing
tendency of students to regard the cheat
as an undesirable.’ The committee very
frankly and outspokenly regards the
cheat as an undesirable.
Valid Degrees Expected.
“The state of Oregon gives the state
University about $800,000 a year toward
the financing of higher education. The
state expects the University in return
to exact l.Sfi term hours of substantial
work, and to grant valid B. A. degrees.
The state will not tolerate the stealing
of any of these hours; nor will the stu
dent body tolerate it when it realizes the
facts.
“The committee believes that cheats
arc ineligible members of the campus
body, however, it felt that suddenly*to
begin with dismissals for all forms of
cheating would perhaps be unfair, in view
of the past. It has* consistently tried to
proceed along the line suggested in a
recent Emerald editorial captioned ‘not
too fast.’ It has accordingly merely fined
students a number of hours when it knew
that in other institutions under the full
honor system, the students themselves
would have inflicted the penalty of dis
missal. It has dismissed only in extreme
cases.
Circumstantial Evidence Accepted.
“The committee did vote, a few days
ago ,to convict upon circumstantial evi
dence, provided both the committee and
the department in which the cheating oc
curred were convinced of guilt. It was
compelled to adopt this policy when cer
tain individuals declared ‘upon their
personal honor’ that they had neither
given nor received assistance in exam
inations when the evidence seemed to
show clearly that they had.
“The committee has since that time
convicted three men upon circumstantial
evidence.
Ready to Turn Over Job.
“The University is ready to turn over
to the student body the disagreeable and
thankless job of disciplining cheats at
whatever time the student body is con
vinced that the vast majority of its menj
bej-s are prepared to accept the fall re
sponsibility that ethical standards entail.
But let no student for a moment sup
pose that administration of cases of
cheating is not a grave responsibility.
"The committee desires to thank the
Emerald for what it considers its fair
and thoughtful attitude. It desires to
express appreciation also to the frater
nity houses and the individuals who have
sent in declarations of support. The
committee understands perfectly that the
student body is at heart sound, and that
the ultimate fate of the cheat will he
ostracism.
(Signed),
STUDENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
Summary Given.
Summary of decisions by student ad
visory committee since October 1:
Case I.—Student was charged with
copying from neighbor at right in u week
ly quiz. Decision: honorable accpiittal.
Case 2.—Student asked neighbor a
question and recorded the answer, in a
(Continued on Page 3.)
PLEDGE ANNOUNCED.
Delta Theta Phi announces the elec
tion of Forrest R. Wilson, of Joseph.
I _ —-—
Phi Delta Theta announces the pledg
i *n8 of Knute Bigerless of Silverton, Ore.
' CAMPBELL VISITS PORTLAND.
President P. L. Campbell will leave to
day for Portland, where he will spend
[ the remainder of the week transacting
University business.
Y. W. HEAD TO ARRIVE SOON.
'Mrs. George Bohler, who i,s at present
attending an industrial conference in
West.Virginia in connection with the Y.
W. 0. A. plans to join her husband, in
structor in the physical training depart
ment of the l. Diversity, in Kugene about
December lu. Mrs. Bohler has had a
great deal of experience in Y. \V. C. A.
work and has offered her services to the
campus association.
on DEBTORS
TO MEET REED MEN
ON FORUM TONIGHT
Affirmative Team to Argue
With Portland Pair
In Guild Hall.
NEGATIVE SPEAKERS
WILL GO TO 0. A. C.
Cox, Iseminger, Hoeber and
Armstrong Will Speak
For Oregon.
The first triangular varsity debate of
the season will be held tonight when Ore*
gon’s affirmative team will meet Reed
College, in Guild hall at the same . time,
the negative team will clash with O.: A.
C. at Corvallis and the negative team
from O, A. C. meets Reed at Portland.
The question which is to be the sub
ject of the contest is, ‘‘Resolved that the
aid given to American shipping by section
28 of the Jones Bill (Merchant Marine
Act of 1920) is to the beat interests of
the United States.” This bill protjdea
for preferential rail roads for export
shipments provided they go in American
vessels.
Ralph Hoeber and Remey Cor com
prise the affirmative team which will
meet James Gantenbein and Lewis .Tones,
the negative team from Reed college at
8 o’clock tonight in Guild bgll* Every:
one is asked to support the team in this,
their first encounter. No admission trill
be charged.
J. Kenneth Armstrong and Boyd Isjs
minger will defend the negative at O. A.
C., against Chester Woiner and John
Gray.
. The judges which will decide the win
ning team here are, Frank Ira White,
of the staff of the Portland Chamber of
‘Commerce, H. Harmon, debate coach of
Lincoln High school and Father E. V
O’Hara of Eugene.
Tickets for the Prineeton-Oregon de
bate to be held in Portland January 1.
will he on sale next week at the co-op
erative book store and at the vopipus
houses on the campus. The price of ad
mission to this big east-west contest will
be only fifty cents. Professor Michael,
debate coach, urges the Oregon students
to prove their support of the team in this
meet, as the Princeton alumni of Port
land will be aetive in backing their team
and will need a demonstration of Oregon
spirit. . ,j
Oregon will he represented at fhis
meet by Remey Cox, John Canoles and
0. Carl Meyers.
WOMEN’S EDUCATIONAL
CLUB GIVES DINNER
Fourteen New Members Honored With
Affair at Anchorage; Aim is
Scholarship.
Tlio Women’s Educational Club enter
tained fourteen new members at dinner
at the Anchorage, Friday evening. Mies
Lillian Pearson, president of the organ*
izat.ion acted as toastmistress.
The club was organized last year on
the basis of scholarship and professional
spirit. Members are selected from all de
partments of the University, the reqnire*
nieots being that the women maintain '•%
scholarship average above three
and that they be planning to enter the
teaching profession. Only junior and
senior women are eligible.
Eleven women from last year’s mem
bership list are on the campus this year.
The new members are:
Marjorie Hoiaday, Irene Whitfield,
Mildred Hawes, Janet Frasier, Beatrice
Hensley, Luelle Copenhaver, Ulalah
Stratton, Alice Lighter, Marvel Skeeja.
Alice Thurston, Edith Pirie, Isabel Zim
merman, Germany Klemm, Marcile Car