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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 16, 1927)
Cussedness 1 Feeds Crime, Believes May Pathological Causes and Disease Also Build Criminals Trained Police Needed To Collect Evidence Doctors Often Unable to Hold Post Mortems THE need for expert handling of evidence was stressed by Luke S. May, Seattle criminologist, in his lectures on the handling of crim inal evidence, given yesterday in Villard hall, before students of the law school. ‘ ‘ The regrettable fact is that we don’t have officers trained to pre serve all evidence scientifically,” said Mr. May. ‘‘Never stop working on a ease, for diligence, industry, and sincerity win criminal cases. Physical evidence is better than that obtained from witnesses as it can be connected up more readily. Brain Often Diseased ‘‘Certain criminals cannot be re formed, because their brain is par tially destroyed toy various dis eases. But because some of them are diseased, do not think all of them are,” he continued. ‘‘From my experience most of the crim inals have so much pure cussedness, or desire for notoriety or a thrill, that they think of nothing else. In some cases there are pathological reasons for crime. All available psy chology should be used by lawyers and sociologists.” Mr. May cited the Spadoni case as an example of a murder where a thorough search was not made. Cites Case In this case the gun the murders used was not found until three years after the crime had been commit ted. During a brush fire near the scene of the crime, some boys heard three pistol shots. This was report ed to the police who investigated and discovered the gun about two hundred yards from the house. It was old and rusted but Mr. May fi nally got it in working order. The breech was opened, and certain marks were found which had been preserved by the film of oil in it. These corresponded with marks on the toullets taken from the victim’s body. The weapon was found to have been issued to a soldier in a Kansas regiment, who suspected a man named Spadoni of stealing it. Spadoni .was located in prison in San Francisco, where he was under sentence for attempting to poison an Italian family. He had told this family that he had killed a man in Washington. Spadoni was brought to trial and convicted. The ease was appealed, and the Italians who had testified at the first trial refused to verify their statements and even denied them as they feared the wrath of the Camorra, the secret society of which Sapdoni was a member. So the case was dismissed. Post Mortem is Difficult Only about one doctor out of a hundred is capable of conducting a post mortem examination,” said Mr. May in his lecture Tuesday morning. “They may be experienced physicians but the conditions of a post mortem are entirely different from the usual cases.” Investigators in their zeal to find evidence are often like the criminal in his commission of a crime—both are so interested in their projects that they overlook small details. "The feeble minded person with no emotions is the kind who has to be watched, ’ ’ declared Mr. May. “They should be taken care of for life in some instiution, in order to protect socfety. ” Lawyers should learn to watch the individual’s face and study the reaction of witnesses under cross examination, he concluded. Herbarium Curator’s Brother Passes Away Mr. L. F. Henderson, research fel low in botany and curator of the herbarium, left yesterday morning for Tillamook where he was called by the death of his brother, John Leland Henderson. Mr. Henderson was to meet Lew Henderson in Ore gon City from where the two were to drive on to Tillamook. The deceased was the father of both Lew Henderson and Syd Hen derson, former students on the cam pus and well known in Eugene. ! University Fails Unless It Provides For Real Scholar, Says Colloquium Committee Would Appraise Student’s Capacity At End of Sophomore Year (Editor’s note: Following is the first section of the faculty colloquium com mittee’s report on superior students and honor courses. Members of the committee were: Dr. George Rebec, chairman: Dr. J. H. Gilbert. Dr. H. D. Sheldon, Prof. H. R. Taylor, Prof. J. A. Johnston, Dean Eric W. Allen, Dr. E. L. Packard, Prof. Charles E. Carpenter, Prof. H. C. Howe and Carlton E. Spencer, secretary. The committee’s recommendations will be voted upon by the faculty next month. The report will be published in three in stallments. ) The committee recognizes that one of the chief indictments of Amer ican universities at present is the prevailing practice of adjusting cur ricula and methods of instruction to the capacities and scholastic am bitions of the average student. It is not at all surprising that courses of this kind fail to enlist the in terest or challenge the powers of those favored by unusual endow : ment. The exceptional student soon finds that his reserve powers are seldom called into action, there is little room for the exercise of un usual gifts, and requirements form ulated with reference to the average student foster habits of indifference and indolence which may even con stitute a handicap in after life. Un less the University. can supply the student of high intelligence and aptitude with opportunities commen surate with his powers and a con tinuing challenge to do his best, the institution, in its effort to accom modate the mass, is sacrificing its most precious material. The task of the committee was two-fold. In the first place, it had to devise ways and means for find ing out the student of high intel lect and ambition and segregating these as ;a .separate group With characteristics and an esprit de corps of their own. It is obvious that this process of segregation must be well and thoroughly done. Since the privileges extended Ito those identified as superior students must, in the nature of things, in volve a relaxation of requirements which now apply to students in gen eral, the honor status must not be extended to those who would regard it as a license to loaf. The faculty must be assured of inclination as well as ability. There must be a certain measure of devotion to the scholarly ideal. The student must be motivated by a desire to pursue his investigation out of a sheer love for learning and an overpowering “pride in thoroughness.” When it is understood that the status of honor student carries the privilege and the obligation of “doing more work in his own way,” it may prove unattractive to many students now loud in their demands for recotgni tion of special talent. Any program for dealing with superior students is based frankly on the assumption that a considerable part of the stu dent body would, under proper con ditions, sincerely prefer vigorous in tellectual activity to mediocre ac complishment. Only on the assump tion that the load voluntarily as sumed bv superior students will be increased rather than diminished will the faculty be willing to accept any radical departure from the pres ent uniform requirements. To facilitate the process of selec i tion referred to above, the commit tee proposes to fix the end of the sophomore year as the point where a definite appraisal of students’ ca pacity record and personality should j be made. To this end the commit tee assumes the availability of all data which the personnel commit tee and the registrar’s office can supply. A combination of high school records with the student’s record in lower division work, sup plemented by all inferences that can be drawn from mental tests and personnel records should enable uni versity authorities to predict with a fair degree of certainty the stu dent’s fitness for the honor status. By this process the faculty as a whole, or a council for the adminis tration of honors would be able to recognize students of distinction and promise and prescribe appro priate methods of treatment during the remainder of their university work. This procedure would pave the way for sectioning on the basis of ability in upper division courses or the admission of specially qual (Continued on page three) Senior Ball Tickets To be Called in Soon; Few Cardboards Left Only three days remain for the Senior Ball ticket sale. Friday night all tickets will be called in, so those intending to go to the dance should obtain their tickets at once before they are sold out, it was urged by the senior class last night. A few of the 300 tickets, which were placed on sale, remain so there is still a chance for anyone who acts quickly. If there are any ,who are hesitat ing to go to the affair because they expec.t a large crowd, or a poor floor or poor music the senior class announces that there will be a lim ited number present, the floor will be in better shape than it has ever been and a 10-piece orchestra will furnish some of the best music ever heard on the campus. ‘ ‘ Last but not least, ’ ’ says Doc Wrightman, chairman of the ball, “it is the only strictly formal all campus dance given on the campus | and for this reason alone everyone who can, should be eager to go.’’ Sixteen Members Added To W. A. A. This Year The membership of the Women’s Athletic Association has been in creased to ninety-nine members, ac cording to a report made last night at the W. A. A. council meeting. This means that there have been sixteen members added this year. The advisability of reinstating hiking as a sport to count for points in W. A. A. was discussed at the meeting. Many girls seem interest ed in it, and a committee is now trying to draw up some plan where by it will be possible to keep ac curate count of the points earned in this way. In order that the new president of W. A. A. may attend the national convention at Cornell University, Ithica, New York, to be held the second week in April, elections have to be held this term. The new of ficers will not, however, assume their official duties until next term. The following nominating com mittee was appointed: Margaret Pepoon, chairman, Miss Florence Alden, faculty member, Arliene But ler, Vesta Scholl, and Myrtle Mast. Mrs. MacDonald Tells Of Work in Journalism At Initiation Banquet Glimpses of a woman engaged in journalistic work were given by Lucille Saunders MacDonald, form er student at the University, and member of Theta Sigma Phi, nation al journalist honorary organization, in a talk at the initiation banquet which was held Sunday evening at the Osburn hotel following a formal ceremony for Wilma Lester, Bar bara Blythe and Claudia Fletcher. Experiences met in getting jobs, keeping them, and in various fields of the profession, which are open to women were described by Mrs. MacDonald who is now covering the state legislature for the Oregon Vot er. She has worked on the Portland Oregonian and has traveled in South America, Alaska, and Mexico get ting material for trade journal ar ticles and feature stories. She and her husband plan to spend the sum mer in Constantinople where she will continue writing. Formal initiation of the new mem bers was held at the Woman’s building just preceding the banquet. Besides the regular members Mrs. MacDonald, Mrs. Eric W. Allen, and Mrs. Catherine Cogswell Thorne, honorary members, and Mrs. Dor othy Hesse were present. Mrs. Al len was toast mistress for the eve ning. Short Story Contest Will Close on 20th The date for the closing of the Edison-Marshall short story con test for which a prize of $50 is being offered has been set up from the 15th to the 20th in the hope that more manuscripts will be sub mitted. “The response thus far has been very meager,” stated Professor W. F. G. Thacher, who has charge of the contest. Any original short story of which two copies have been made together with two envelopes on which have been written the name of the story and the author’s name will be received any time before the end of the week. It is hoped that a number of stu dents will take advantage of the extended opportunity. The author’s name must not appear on either copy of the story. Guild Plays Will Be Ready This Evening Sophomore Drama Pupils To Give Four One-act Presentations Tickets on Sale at Johnson Hall Office Work Will be Presented Two Nights 'TT'ONIGHT and again tomorrow night the curtain of the Guild Theatre will be drawn back to dis close four one-act plays in which the sophomore players of the Guild Theater will take part. The support of the student body has been enlist ed through speakers who have vis ited the various living organiza tions on the campus. Tickets will be sold at the box-office in the Ad ministration 'building until 8:30, the time for the plays to open. Changes Made Many changes have been made in the cast of characters. The cast for “Everybody’s Husband,’’ by Gilbert Canaan, is as follows: A Girl . Joy Ingalls A Maid . Bernice Via Her Mother . Sara Beunethum Her Great-Grandmother . .. Frances Wardner Her Grandmother .. Diana Deininger A Domino . Glenn Potts Second Play is “The Robbery Fice characters appear in “The Robbery, ’ ’ by Clare Kumimler. They are: Fielding, a butler .... Perry Douglas Edie Upton, a daughter, . . Helen Barnett Robert Hamilton, a son . ... Calvin Horn John Upton, a father, Glenn Potts Margaret Upton, a mother . . Elizabeth White One is Murder Plot “Trifles,” in which the writer, Susan Glaspell, lets her characters gather a “trifle here and a trifle there” to solve a murder mystery, is expected to be a real “taker.” The cast is: The Sheriff, Mr. Peters . . Laurence Shaw County Attorney, Mr. Henderson .... . Elmer Grimm Mr. Hale . Cecil Matson Mrs. Hale . Edna Assenheimer Mrs. Peters . Grace Gardner The last of the four plays is “The Trysting Place” by Booth Tarking ton, and has the largest cast: The Trysting Place by Booth Ta rkington. Mrs. Curtis, the young woman . .. Renee Grace Nelson Lancelot Briggs, the boy . . Dean Condon Mrs. Briggs, his mother . . Helen Hembree Jessie, his sister .... Thelma Park Rupert Smith, the young man . . Lynne Black Mr. Ingoldsby, an older man ..! . Gordon Stearns The Mysterious Voice . . Laurence Shaw Appointment Bureau Requests Registration Of Practice Teachers Those students who plan to do practice teaching next year, and who desire the services of the ap pointment bureau connected with the University school of education in helping them to obtain positions, are requested to register with that bureau immediately. Some appointments are already being made for positions for next year, and the season is close at hand when the majority of next year’s placements will be made. So far two have received definent ap pointments through the bureau, al though calls are coming in from various schools constantly. W. M. Bennet, who has been doing grad uate work in the school of educa tion here this year, yesterday re ceived his appointment as princi pal of the Burns, Oregon high school, and Mary Benson, who re ceived her public school music cer tificate here last year '^nd who is now a junior in the school of mu^ic, has accepted the position of school music supervisor in Cot tage Grove. As it takes several days to com plete a set of papers after a can didate hag registered, students are urged to file their registration pa pers with the appointment bureau at the earliest possible date in or der that their credentials may 'be completed and ready to send out to prospective openings when needed. >• i Scene From "Trifles ' Grace Gardner and Edna Assenheimer (seated) who appear in one of four plays to be presented in Guild Hall for two evenings, beginning tonight. Curtain at 8:30. Girls Will Begin Basketball Tilts This Afternoon! Games to Start at 4:45; ' Season’s Schedule Is Listed The girls' basketball season will be opened today when the sopho more second team will meet the sophomore first, the junior second, the junior first, and the freshman second will meet the freshman first. All games will begin promtply at 4:15, and Miss Shelly, coach, has issued the warning that if the girls want to get home in time for din ner, it will be a good idea to be there on time—everybody, every game. If a girl is unable to play she must arrange for her own sub stitute, or notify the captain of her team the day before the game is to be played. That a girl did not know the game was to be played, will not serve as an excuse for her absence, as all members of all teams are expected to watch the schedule, which is posted in the gym and will also come out week by week in the Emerald. The following schedule has been arranged: First week: Wednesday, Feb. Id, freshman first and second, sopho more first and second, and junior first and second teams. Thursday, freshman third and fourth, sopho more third, fourth and fifth, and junior third. Friday, freshman first and second, sophomore second, fourth and fifth, junior second and third, and senior first. Second week: Wednesday, Fob. 23, freshman first, second and fourth, sophomore first and second, junior second and third, and senior first teams. Thursday, freshman third and fourth, sophomore second, third and fifth, and junior first teams. Friday, freshman second, sophomore first, third, fourth and fifth, junior second and third, and senior first teams. Third week, Monday, Feb. 28, freshman first, second and third, sophomore second and third, and junior first teams. Tuesday, fresh man third and fourth, sophomore first, fourth and fifth, and senior first. Wednesday, freshman second, sophomore second and third, and junior first and second teams. Thusrdav, freshman first, third, and fourth, sophomore first and fourth, and junior third. Friday, freshman second, sophomore second and fifth, junior first arid third, and senior first teams. Fourth week: Monday, Mar. 7, freshman third, sophomore second, and junior second and third teams. Tuesday, freshman third, sophomore first and third, and junior first. Wednesday, freshman first ajnd second, junior second and senior i first. Election Announcement Pi Sigma announces the elec tion of: Professor William Smith Thelma Alley Joanne Ackerson Justine Ackerson. Extension Asks For Additional Courses, Room Report Just Submitted To President Shows Big Growth Increased office space is asked by the Extension Division bureau in its annual report for 1926 just sub mitted to the president. Recommen dations arc also made for increase of correspondence courses in busi ness administration. There is scarcely room for the students who have completed courses to take their final examinations, the report points out. “After one o’clock when both our half-time employees and our two full-time readers are here, the problem is a serious one.” Additional courses in accounting, business English, business admin istration, business law, investments and banking are asked because, ac cording to Miss Mozello Hair, di rector of correspondence study, there is more demand for these courses than for those in any other one subject. An increase of 14.5 per cent is shown in enrollment at the Port land extension center over the en rollment of 1925. Registration last year numbered 4,514 as compared to .‘1,941 the year previous. Regis tration in extension classes outside of Portland numbered 128 as against 94 for 1925. An increase of nearly 20,000 in attendance at lectures, making a total of 76,171 present was also shown. The correspondence courses show an increase in the number of courses completed from 617 in 1925 to 786 in 1926. The number enrolled re mained about stationary becauso of the fifty per cent increase in fees. A total of 1,238 students, varying in age from 14 to 82 years of age were enrolled in 1,673 course regis trations. Teachers have the largest representation in the 'enrollment, students second, and housekeepers and homemakers third. Portland IScwswriting Classes Publish Paper The Portland Center Star, a news paper edited by the newswriting classes of the Portland Center, is off the press and is being circu lated among the students. The Star gives the students an opportunity to get practice while still studying for newswriting, and is a collection of the best work done by the Portland Center journalism Students. Luke S. May to Speak To Journalism Class Luke 8. May, noted Seattle crim inologist, will speak before the editing class, in the school of jour nalism, this morning at 10 o’clock. He will answer questions which any one cares to ask about crime, crim inals, court and prisons. All journalism students are in vited, and asked to have in mind any questions, so that they may state them clearly and concisely to Mr. May. Free Casaba Party Will Be Held Tonight Oregon Five to Entertain Multnomah Hoopers At 7:15 Ex-Oregon Stars Now Playing on Winged ‘M’ Ridings Out of Line-up With Bad Foot Probable Line up Oregon Multnomah Gunther .F. Ankeny Epps F. Cherry Okerberg .C. Oovans Milligan .G. Buono Westergren .G. Hobson rT'MlK Associated Students of the University of Oregon are stag ing n party tonight. The entire pub nc is invited to arrive at 7:15 at McArthur Court where the Web foots basketeers will play the Multnomah club hoopsters. The big point is that it is all free. Last Saturday the Weibfoot ca saba men played tne winged “M” in Portland and Epps swamped them 42 to 28 with Swede W'estergren, Duke Okerberg, and Grord Ridings taking a rest in Eu gene. Don McCormick, from last sea son ’s frosh squad, played better ball against the clubmen last Saturday than he has at any other time this season. He played the floor like a veteran and collected 12 points for himself, which was three more than his closest competitor, Keith Em mlons, also of last year’s frosh team. Ex-Team Mates to Meet The Multnomah team should be well versed in the Reinhart style of basketball as two members have played under Oregon’s present coach. Hobby Hobson, forward and field captain on last year’s varsity is wearing the club colors, and Russ Gowans, members of the Oregon team in 1925, is playing the pivot position. Hobson not only won his letter three times in basketball while at tending Oregon, but he also took three baseball letters away with him. He was generally conceded to be the brains of the Oregon ma chine last year, and his flashy floor work has been mlissed by Reinhart this season. He was teamed (for two seasons with the three Ore gon veterans of this year, and it is possible that he will bother them more than he will the younger men whom he does not know so well. Russ Gowans played center and forward for two seasons under Reinhart. His first year as a reg ular was during the season of 1924. He was considered one of Rein hart’s first and greatest finds. He took a forward berth when Oker berg started playing varsity ball in 1925. Benchmen May Be Used Reinhart will probably start his first string line-up tonight, with the exception of Gord Ridings who pull ed a tendon in his foot when he played against the Aggies on last Friday at Corvallis. Ridings has been going around the campus on crutches since that time but prob ably will be in condition for the return game with the O. A. C. hoop ers which is to be played in Mc Arthur Court February 22. In all probability several bench men will get into the fray tonight, because this will be a good time to get the youngsters used to work ing together under fire. Epps will perform) in Ridings’ place. Full House Wanted According to the architects who designed McArthur Court, it has seating capacity for 8,000 persons, and the students want to see what it will look like when it's full. Jack Benefiel, graduate manager of the Associated Students has is sued invitations to all high school und grammar school students. This invitation includes their parents, friends, and chance acquaintances, Mr. Benefiel said. Every one is in vited to come whether they have re ceived a ticket or not, as all the doors in the biulding will be open.