STUDENTS OPPOSE SEMESTER SJSTEU (Continued from page one.) not always possible for a student to know what a course is like until lie has been in a class for perhaps a month. The present plan makes it possible for students to choose more of the things they want and spend less time on things they have found that they do not care for.” Students Encouraged “I believe in the three-term plan,” asserted Jinogene Letcher, snior in mu sic, “because it is more encouraging to students to have more fresh starts during the year, and it will make exam inations came before Christmas instead of after. Also it is a more progressive plan than the other. The two semester plan is good in that it lets school out early enough to allow students to com pete with others for the best summer jobs.” “I am in favor of retaining the pre sent system,” said Paul Patterson, sen ior in the school of business adminis tration, “because of the great trouble which would be necessitated by a change from the present plan. Also under the present plan, a working stu dent may drop out for a term or more and then return to school, without the necessity of remaining out until the beginning of the next semester which may be sometime off. I believe that the present system has worked very successfully.” “I tried the semester plan at the University of Washington,” said Kath erine Pinneo, who majors in dramatics, “but I personally favor the three-term year. There is more opportunity to take different courses and the breaks in the year are less marked.” Change Liked Emily Veazie says she thinks the semester plan, after it is worked out, will be a saving in time, for both the students and the faculty, that is now spent in registering. “Most of us,” says Miss Veazie, an English major, “are resenting the semester plan be* cause we hate the idea of a change.” “I am in favor of retaining the pre sent system,” said Claude Robinson, senior in the department of economics, “because it has worked very success fully, because it is more easily adapt able to tho working student’s schedule, and because of the great trouble which would bo incurred by such a change back to tho old system.” Athletes Not Benefltted Half Couch, a member of the varsity basketball squad, said that he could not see where it would benefit any of the students. “It will mean,” said Couch, “that during the middle of the basketball season some of the players will bo found to be ineligible. As it is now we know before wo start out whether all the men can play or not.” “It is easier for most students to get a fresh start on their work three times during the year than it is for them to have exams and studies hanging over their heads during the Christmas holi days, to be finished later,” said Mar garet Jackson, secretary of the student body. "After a vacation we come back i with a now zeal and interest, and I feel it is easier to take three flinals dur-1 ing the year than to take mid-terms and only two finals, as would be necessary | under the semester plan.” Change Disrupts System i “The three term plan also gives stu-i| dents working their way through col- | lego an opportunity to come the fall and winter terms and then drop out and work during the spring and summer, or to stay out any other term, should they find this necessary. Under the semes ter system, this would not be possible. A change in the system will make it j very hard for those already in college, with year courses incompleted. This ^ will be true especially of the junior class. “However, it is to be hoped that whatever action is taken at the present j time, will be final and that this ques tion will be settled once and for all.” “1 am in favor of retaining the pre sent system,” said Delbert Obertcutler, senior in physical education, “because j it 1ms proved efficient. It is easily | adaptable to the working student’s pro gram and great inconvenience would be occasioned by the change to the old semester plan.” _ . Faculty Suspected Verne Fudge, a senior in the I’uiver sitv, emphatically declared himself op posed to the semester plan. ‘ I can graduate by attending the University mile term next fall,” said Fudge. “The semester plan would neeessitate me staying an additional month with add ed expense. Because of the Christmas vacation before examinations there will be an unnecessary delay and ex pease. The plan will always work a hardship on those who are either part ly or wholly supporting themselves. 1 can understand.” said Fudge, “why the semester plan will bo of advantage to the faculty. They will not have so much work to do if it is adopted. And that gives rise again to the question: Whom is this University fort Is it for the students or for the professors? “Under the three term plan,” said John Anderson, senior in the school of journalism, “a self-supporting student is enabled 10 stay out one term and dur ing that time and the summer months may earn enough to put himself through two terms of school. Under the two semseter plan, it is probable that the self supporting student would be able to attend but one term a year as he would be unable to earn enough dur ing the summer vacation to put him through the entire school year.” Registration Nuisance Rolf Skulason, a senior majoring in law, very tersely said, “Registration is a nuisance and the less we have of it the better. I am in favor of the two semester plan.” “One of the great objections to the two semester plan,” said Bon Wood ward, associate editor of the Oregana, “is that under this plan the vocations, instead of coming after examinations, where they should come, would come Shortly before examinations, and who wants to come back from a two week Christmas vacation and have exams staring him in the face? Of course,” he went on to say, “the two semester plan has its advantages but it is doubt ful whether these advantages are suf ficient to justify the change.” Ted Osborne, noted campus musician and also one of the foremost contribu tors to Lemon Punch, was one of the 'champions of the two semester plan. “The two semester plan works fine at the University of California,” he said, band a great number of the students fet that institution are self-supporting. I see no reason why the plan would iiot work to a good advantage here at Oregon.” Change Expensive “A great many of the courses, es pecially in the science department,” said Ralph Poston, a member of the men’s glee club and a major in zoology, “have been adapted to the three term plan and the change back to the two semester plan would involve a great deal of time and expense.” Lelaine West, president of the Y. W. and a senior in the romance language department, says, “I am not in favor of the semester plan. I believe that As much work can be done under the 'three-term plan as under the proposed semester plan. The present system also enables students who are working their way through school to work part of the school year and yet get in two thirds of a year’s school work. The three term system enables students to take short courses which they may desire to take before graduation.” Walter Hompy, an employee of the Co-op, said that if there was a very great saving to be made by the semes ter plan he would favor it. When ques tioned as to the effect he thought it would have on the business at the store, Ihe said, “The more terms we have the more business the Co-op will get. Lets keep the present plan.” Semester Plan Favored Ellen McVeigh, English literature major said, “I think the semester plan Is a good idea. It is used in almost all of the large colleges and has been a success. I think it will be just as suc cessful at Oregon as soon as the stu dents get used to the new order of things.” In regard to the way in which the two semester plan will effect the Uni versity high school, Principal Benja min said: “For those students who are doing supervised teaching on the cam pus, and in other Eugene high schools, the two semester plan will be much more convenient. At present, in order U> do practice teaching for one semes er in the high school, which ends lanuary 27, the student must plan the mine schedule for the fall and winter ;erm. But the last two months of the vintor term will leave vacant the hours ’ormerly spent in practice teaching. In the other hand, there are regular eachcrs in the high school who are tak ng University courses. They cannot •image their schedules at all during the •car because when the high school ichedule changes, the University has ilready begun a new term. At Christ ens time, students teaching in the high ichool were forced to return to the •ampus a week earlier than their fel ow students.” Another Plan Offered The discussion of the proposed re- f urn to the semester system has given ise to a new plan that is being talked | >f. Dr. John Straub has proposed that 'lasses be held on Saturdays and much I >f the vacation time during the school ■ear be eliminated, making the actual j time during the school year much short er and thus giving students twenty-two weeks during the summer to work. However there seems to be universal approval of the present plan, and many believe that the professors who voted for the change have a desire to avoid work. P. H. DATER WILL SPEAK TO TECHNICAL SOCIETY ■“Forestry from an Engineer’s Point of View” Is Topis of Lecture; Work in Connection with Roads P. H. Dater, chief engineer of the United States forest service in the Or egon-Washington district, will speak on Forestry from an Engineer’s Point of View” before the Technical society at 7:.10 tonight in Heady hall. It is through the courtesy of Mr. Nel son F. Macduff, forest supervisor for , the Cascade National Forests that the Technical society will have the privil ege of hearing Mr. Dater. Mr. Dater is from New York. He did his first en gineering work on the New York State Harge canal. Later he came to Portland, where his bffices are now located, as city engi neer. He held this office fr two or three years. Mr. Dater’s work is prin cipally in connection with the state roads which receive federal aid and the National forest roads which connect or /form a part of the state roads. He now represents the Federal Water Pow er commission in the Northwest. 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