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~cacm PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON Fred W. Colvig, editor Walter R. Vernstrom, manager LeRoy Mattingly, managing editor Wm, F. Lubersky, Assistant Business Manager Associate editors: Clair Johnson, Virginia Endicott. Editorial Board: Clair Johnson, Howard Kessler. George Bikman, Edwin Robbins. Darrel Ellis, Orval Hopkins, Virginia Endicott UPPER NEWS STAFF Paul Dcutschmann, news Bernadine Bowman, exchange editor. Gladlys Battleson, society editor. Paul Plank, radio editor. aging editor. Edwin Robbins, art editor. Clare Jgoe, women’s page Leonard Greenup, chief night editor. Jean Weber, morgue director Reporters: Parr Aplin, Louise Aik*n, Jean Cramer, Beulah Chap man, Morrison Bales, Laura Bryant, Lave Cox, Marolyn Dudley, Stan ITobson. Myra Hulscr, Dick Litfin, Mary Hen derson, Bill Pcngra, Kay Morrow, Ted Proudfoot, Catherine Taylor, Alice Nelson, Raehacl Platt. Doris Lindgren, Rita \Vright, Lillian Warn, Margaret Ray, Donald Seaman, Wilfred Roadman. Sports stall: Wendell Wyatt, Elbert Hawkins, John rink, Morrie Henderson, Russ Iseli, Cecc Walden, Chuck Van Scoyoc. Copyeditors: Roy Vernstrom, Mary Hopkins, Bill Garrett, Rclta Lea Powell, jane Mirick, Tom Brady, Warren Waldorf, Theo Prescott, Lorenc Marguth, Rita Wright, Jack Townsend, Wen Brooks, Marge Finnegan. Mignon Phipps, LaVern Littleton, June Dick, Frances McCoy, Lawrence Quinlan, A1 Branson, Helen Ferguson, Judith Wodcagc, Betty Van Delicti, Stan Hobson, George Haley, Geannc Eschle, Irvin Mann. Day editor: Assistant day editors: Bob Emerson Lucille Davis Elbert Hawkins Night Editors: Assistants: Bill Davenport Betty Bohnenkamp Jack Bryan Mary Notos __ Blessings of Competition “cheat,” in class rooms of the Uni versity—attention need hardly be called to him, for his kind is known to almost every one with eyes to see. During quizzes he sits with his open book at his feet, or guardedly fumbles at his carefully prepared “pony,” or furtively gazes at his neighbor’s paper. And, althought the word “cheat” carries au uncom plimentary connotation in ordinary usage, it has no such derogatory edge in its campus application. In fact the “cheat” is often one of the University’s best-known attendants and his classroom dishonesty is thought to be pardonable, if the smiles that answer his boasting after class are any indication. Dr. Frank Winthrop Farr, professor of secondary education at Oregon State college, writes in the January issue of Character in Everyday Life; that cheating in college class rooms is more widespread than is commonly believed. This is written, we judge, in a tone of academic surprise. We must say that stu dents, for their part, wore not at all surprised at Dr. Farr’s revelations as to the extent of cheating. As a matter of fact, the technique used in slickering this or that prof is as fre quent topic of undergraduate conversation. Cheating is more or less of an accepted insti tution. # * * <^JTUDENTS will hear Dr. Farr out not only in his belief in the wide prevalence of classroom cheating, hut they will concede the correctness of his explanation: dishonesty in elasswork is due to the competitiveness fea tured in our present system of higher edu cation. Student cheaters defend themselves on the ground that they must, cheat because other students in the class cheat. For. since grades are sealed from a point measured by the best performance in the class, the cheating of one student enables him to come closer to that standard of best performance, with the result that honest students are forced down the scale unless they cheat in self-defense. It looks like a sort of “passing the, buck,” hut this defense of cheating nevertheless does throw a great deal of light on the root of the matter; it supports Dr. Farr in blaming the competitiveness of the system. Cheating, no matter how flagrant it is, is not in itself a basic problem. It is only the striking, bill superficial evidence of the deep lying trouble with education. Even if cheat ing could be prevented through the severe policing of classrooms or through the estab lishment of an effective honor system, the fundamental fault in our educational struc ture which gives rise to such fraudulent scholarship would not be removed. # <* # rJ''lIAT fault lies in the fact that education at Oregon, just as in most other institu tions of higher learning in America, is con ducted on an artificial plane of competition. The fact that education must, if it is to be effective, aim at the development of the in dividual is lost sight of. Instead, students are treated as though they were in some sort of prize contest, competing for grade points. Students become mere numbers fighting for a place on a scale of falsework; they pursue education, not for its own sake and for the sake of the advantages it affords both the individual and society, but for the sake of artificial honors. And in this contest, just as in love and war, all seems fair. If we would put our educational system into the business of educating, instead of con ducting a kind of glorified grade market, cheating would be eliminated. There is a great deal more to be said on this matter, and in the next few days we propose to say it. Campus Comment (The views aired in thi3 column arc not necessarily expressive of Emerald policy. Communications should be kept within a limit of 250 words. Courteous restraint should | be observed in reference to personalities. No unsigned letters j will be accepted.) To the Editor: The ANTI- BLANK, BLANK, BLANK, BLANK, BLANK ASSOCIATION has been formed to help unmarried .students to counter act the aforesaid unmentionable ASSOCIATION. It is entirely composed of students disgusted and wearied of constant mention and reference to the (Don’t Say It) ASSOCIATION, in the daily press and more especially In the campus weep sheet. The platform which has been adopted by this new organization is as follows: 1. To pray, deplore, decree and decry for one (1) or two (2) issues of the campus daily which will omit any and all mention or reference to the BLANK, BLANK, BLANK, BLANK, BLANK ASSOCIATION. 2. To p-omote a movement which will give to the Daily Campus Paper, an Editor and Staff, who will strive to issue a newspaper without self aggrandizement. 3. To arrange for the establishment of a Bac teriology Laboratory to test the mouths of un married students, in order that all kisses here after will he sterile, and that no one will be by circumstance, forced to join the BLANK, BLANK, BLANK, BLANK, BLANK ASSOCIATION. Dick Watson E. Jacoba Gene Wade R. Bould John Halliman Robert Teepe Charles Miller George Campbell Leif Jacobsen Btul Robertson Ray W. McNair K. Kavanagh Clarence Peterson Vernon F. Pomeroy Fergeson Pat Fury Phil Johnson Jack R. McCullaugh A1 Smith Garland Ganger Woodrow Robertson Andy Hurney James Parkine Lloyd Hoffman Jerry Donnell Cecil Curl Stan Davis Bob Olbekson Ken Battleson Ed Scheling Bill Van Duscn L. Terjeson Charles Heed Sam Mack Jim Hummel Bill Polk Dick Olcott Bob Morse John Sungar Russeil Guiss Hank Nilsen v^u. miu-. /viLiiuu^n !l is comniry to njmeralct policy to print long- lists of signatures whose au thors are, in our opinion, primarily after the pub licity which will attend the appearance of their names, in the case of the Anti-Blankety Blank association we unbend. Our relaxation from our habitual policy of excluding publicity is due to the compliment which the gn up pays us in calling attention to our “self-aggrandizement." That pri marily is our purpose, which we hope to achieve through the credit rebounding from the publication of a good paper. 1 Cheating 8 )-evic*<‘s (Continued from pa<ie one) dent will fold a long' ribbon of paper containing his notes into ac cordion-like pleats which may be opened to whatever notes are re quired. The magician's disappearing card trick has given birth to the idea of securing the sheaf of notes to a rubber band running up the cheater's sleeve. Upon fear of dis covery the student may release the notes and they will slip like a weasel up his sleeve. Many a student has furnished an adequate crutch for his "lame brain,” as one student put it. by writing his formulae, verb tenses, or outlines on his cuffs, fingernails, on the skin of the palm of his hand, or even on the back of the note book he lays on the floor. Of course most everybody knows of the many jittery exam writers that are ever studying through the corner of their eyes the contents of the papers of their nearby col leagues. Sometimes it is suggested to the bright boy in the “house" that he cooperates in pulling his weaker brothers up the hill Consequently it is he who signals to his friends what to put down for number eight or nine. Some students cheat with a guilty conscience, some do so with out t lie slightest scruples. Some think it is a game of matching wits with the hawkeyed professor. One student told of the time when he was so uncertain of his course that he made a pony, his first and only one, on a number of cards on which he outlined his ma terial. He felt very badly about the whole affair but he just had to have the best grade he could get. He was under mu h an emo tional strain because of his inten tions to cheat, that the cards stood out so vividly in his mind that he had no need to refer to them. Then there is the girl who read her answers out of her book which lay on the floor while the instruc tor was writing the questions on the board. But, how indignant she was when the teacher gave her a "D". “Most Cheaters Dumb” "One of my observations is that most students are dumb in their methods of cheating," declared Dr. Moore. "The evidence is registered in the inability of the dumb ones to give an intelligent presentation of the material in their own words." Dr. Smith also had an incident to relate. "1 had at one time in a class, four fellows sitting in a row. Send the Emerald to your friends Subscription only $3.00 per year Three of them copied from the fellow on the left. They all made the same mistakes he did and many more. The mistakes increas ed as they went to the right." The attitude of some of these students can be illustrated by an other student of Dr. Smith who was perfectly frank about his cheating and quite hardboiled. The student said he knew how busines: was being' conducted, how his dad ran his business, and how it was conducted in the legislature, and he intended to do the same. Dr. South said to the fellow. \ rut can t use those methods here, 1 11 break you if you do.” The fel low flunked out of school. The Oreuon Daily Emerald, offlcla, .student publication of the li -tiversitv o' Oregon. 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The workers above are bolstering crumbling Although Cairo was not innundated, the loss of lif dr< ds and an estimated million were left homeless 60-foot seawall behind which the town of Cairo, Illi and night under the direction of the army engineers had been evacuated from the town as a safety mea spots in the levee and adding earth and sandbags. 3 along the Ohio and Mississippi river was in the hun $4 *1 !Black Menace! X ? By H. RIDEM RAGGED EPISODE TWO t - “The Hangman’s Shadow” Flickering light first brought to Tom Masters a vision of three lopsided faces hovering in midair above him. Then voices —jabbering senselessly. Tom raised himself up on his elbows. Blood rushed to a sensi tive spot on the back of his head. He crept his fingers up over his hair; it was wet and sticky. A million tiny needles were driving into his brain. With the faces gradually taking more definitely human shapes, the gibberish talk from above began to slacken speed and have meaning “He’s coming around all right.” It was a big man with ! glasses. Tom could not be sure but he thought it was his biology I professor, Dr. Sokein. The voice that answered was readilv recognizable as that of one Dr. Crisslund, psychology instructor and criminologist. “My thought penetration did the trick. Wait'll I get this fiend tied ! down to my lie-detector. We'll make him confess whether he's guilty or not.” "Did you say thought penetra tion, Mr. Crisslund, sir?” Sokem put in. "I see nothing other than a purely biological reaction in, tire boy's coming to.” “Once a biologist———” Criss lund started. Tom groaned and the jaws of the third face began to move up and down. Words, excited words, came out. “Careful there, boys, he may be dangerous. Let me handle him—I know the proper tactics to subdue killers.” With effort Tom focussed his aching eyes on the last speaker. Sure enough, it was Jock, the cam pus night watchman, clock and all. The face of the clock was a blur but from the gray sky outside Tom learned that it was early morning. "Jeeps, mjn eight o’clock,” he muttered. "What did he say? What was that he said?” This time it was Crisslund who was excited. He continued, “I warn you, young man, anything you say may be used against you.” "Let me handle him." Jock said again. Sokem smiled. “The chief of police is on Ins way, gentlemen-. Perhaps it would be best that we let matters alone until he arrives.” "I'd sure like to get my lie dctector hooked up to him." Criss lund wailed. The door opened. Tom heard huge feet clomping across the floor toward him. "He's been putting up quite a fight, chief, but I quieted him down," Jock addressed the new comer. "Let's hook him up to by lie detector." Crisslund pleaded. "I've got the whole thing figured out for you. Mr. Bargeman. Now we only have to break him down and get a confession. I . . . ." ' Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Not so fast here. This is a case for brains. I will handle this. What happened ?” Bargeman a s k e d. Three voices spoke as one. "He attacked me. I was mak ing m.. usual rounds and I heard a cry ....'' Jock. "Somebody hit him on the head ."Sokem. "He's a homicidal maniac. My tie-dctector, now. will . . . . " Crisslund. “This knife,” Bargeman stoop ed over beside Tom and same uj with a blood-smeared dagger “Has it been moved?” Tom shook his head, and as hi stared up at the gory object hi; mind started to hum. From tht knife, his eyes darted down tc quickly scurvey his clothes. Thej were smeared a dirty crimson. “Who is this boy?” asked Barge man. “Tom Masters,” Jock informec him immediately. “He’s a killer all right. I've been watching him for a long time.” Bargeman looked across the floor. “And the stiff? Anybody here recognize him?” “Recognize him ? Why, Gawc man, it’s Col. B. V. D. Brophy!’ Jock pointed to a corpse lying in a pool of dried blood. Bargeman’s chin dropped. Hi slowly turned and looked down at Tom. “Tom Masters," he said witl awful severity, “you are undet arrest for the murder of B. V. D Brophy." (TOM MASTERS IS APPAR ENTLY CAUGHT IN THE WEB DENCE. CAN HE PROVE THE PRESENCE OF THAT DARK FIGURE WHICH STRUCK HIM AS HE STUMBLED ONTO THE SCENE OF THE CRIME? WATCH FRIDAY'S EMERALD FOR EPISODE THREE OF “BLACK MENACE") Tune ’er Out... By JACK TOWNSEND Tonight's Best Bets 5:00 p. m.—KGW—One Man’s Family. 7:30 p. m.—KGW—Gladys Svvar thout. 9:00 p. m.—KGW—Fred Allen, Fred Allen, in trying to make up to Jack Benny and his ancestory, will dramatize the important mo ments in the musical family of Benny. Allen has had his own pri vate genealoists, who have been shielding the Allen family skele tons for years, look up the Benny pedigree. Fred says that it is really something to study. . . . but listen in, and hear Fred and his cast portray the hectic moments of the Benny tribe—KGW—9:00. And again the flower of this column, the apple of our eye, the super of the superists, Deanna Durbin, comes before the public eye. This time she will be the feature of the News through a Woman's Eyes program. — KOIN —i :30: There’s a good program on in the Bay Region this evening, if you can bring in KSFO on that one-lunger of yours. Entitled, Call ing All Cars, and sponsored by an oil company, it gives some of the stirring moments encountered by the police forces of the Pacific coast. Incidentally the fugitive in tonight's crime classic went to the same junior college we did and to make matters worse was in one of our classes, but don't hold that against us, please. KSFO—9:00. Graeie Allen and George Burns will be with us again this eve ning and according to advance reports Graeie has arranged an other one of her demented Real Names Fool Hollywood Hollywood wasn’t excited when the marriage of Astrid thristoffor .on and Douglas Blackley was announced in Tijuana. Mexico, but those proved to In' the true names of Astrid Alhvyn and Hobert Kent, both film players. IGUESSO’S QUACKS Dignified senior coun tenances broke into smiles of anticipation last night when somber Margi lee Morse relat ed prospects of no senior exams spring term. Such ruling, says Igucsso II, would fit in well with current Emerald campaign against cheating. * * * Come another letter to the col umn. This critical commentator would in a few words of scientific skepticism completely wreck daily "Quacks” feature of pretty girls with sparkling eyes. Follows the letter: Dear Iguesso: Noting your daily “bright eyes” feature, I would like to point out statements made by optometrists concerning the phenomena. Eye specialists maintain that the brighter the eye, the more near-sighted the person is. Sincerely, Your Reader. Nuts to a ranting reader who would deprive a poor columnist of his daily attempts to gain good will of leading campus coeds* Comes more comment, and this time its a nomination to surpass all nominations. Mentioned was a lad for the clean-cut c ilegian class who has ONE of the features of the pretty gals with sparkling eyes class. Said collegian was Bill Cum mings, who Saturday sported one sparkling eye doing double duty, while other eye was a decided dull black. Expained Cummings to a ques tioner, "I zigged when I should have zagged.” ■pvUCK TRACKS . . . Most-envied man on Oregon’s campus is Sergeant Harvey Blythe. Feminine rifle team has match scheduled in Seattle with U. of W. and the Sarge is going to take the eight girls. . . . The old, abandoned Chi Psi house will yet be the ruin of Thetas three. Yesterday observed were a Theta trio inside the wreck with a man with a black patch over his eye. The BLACK MEN ACE isn't the only column with a mystery. . . . Today’s feminine nominations for outstanding representations of manhood, etc., included Tom Tongue, Bill Hall among the old sters, Johnny Hainan, Wally Jo hansen among the undergrads. . . . Sparkling eyes observed late ly belong to Alpha Phi's Betty Coon, Kappa’s June Brown. . . . Quack, thirty, quack. dramas. You can expect the us ual goofiness that goes to make all of her plays a success (at least she says they’re successes. —IvOIN—8:30. Gosh here we are nearly through the column and nothing interesting yet, let's see what the press corps has sent us. Ole Maestro, Ben Bernie (what, again) remarked on his program the other night that he would; gladly trade California's orange blossoms for a suit of red flannels. Today he received a pair from an eastern fan, size 66. Bernie wears size 40. There will be no orange blossoms for the sender, as Bernie is burned about the size. Whoa, stop, halt, take a rest 'til tomorrow. Cook for a Frat (Continued from page one) coed jump out the second floor window of her sorority house. She had just had a fight with her boy friend who lived in a fraternity across the street. After he had gone home and was standing on the porch, she rushed to the win dow of her room, pulled back the curtains, screamed, 'I'll jump out of this window if you don't.’ He still defied her. In one leap the pretty coed was sprawling on the lawn below, writhing in pain with a broken arm. “Another time,” she narrated, “I had just come to work in the morning r.nd the boy who built the .ire in the fireplace rushed into the kitchen telling of a man stu dent who was asleep on the daven port in the front room. The house mother ran into the front room and screamed to the girls upstairs as she saw the still form of the young man. “Of course the girls came clam oring down to hasten the intruder's departure. But he was senseless. A quick call to the police station brought officers. Finally the man was roused from his drunken slum ber and afterwards had to leave school. DR. BOSSING ILL Dr. Nelson L. Bossing, professor of education, is ill at his home with the flu. He was stricken last week and probably will not return to his office until the latter part of this week. Subscription only S3.00 per year. Pd. adv. Campus Comments Edgar C. Moore, Theta Chi, movie critic of the Emerald, boasts of having a Gamma Phi pin in his room. We don’t know whether to believe him or not. * * * Eric Merrell’s layaway plan gives you opportunity to buy your spring clothes now and have them laid away until you need them. * * * Did you know that Bemadine Bowman's, Hen dricks hall, nose is only one and a half inches long. Journalism must be the wrong calling for her. She hasn’t much nose for nev/s, but you know the old say ing: “No nose is good nose.” Springtime is cord time . . . Prospective juniors get yours early. Eric Merrell has just re ceived a new shipment of Cam pus Cords. * * * Bob Henderson, University theater star, was not I disturbed in the least the other morning in econ class when Vic tor P. Morris came over and de livered a personal lecture to his sleeping ears. * * * Keep the spring sun out of your eyes with one of Eric Merrell’s new spring hats, three and a half and up. * * * If a stray blue, overcoat belt is found wandering around the campus, it probably belongs to Chuck Skinner, DU, who lost one last Saturday evening com muting between the Side and the j Tri-Delt house. Incidentally he ' offers a reward. This weekly column sponsored by— ERIC MERRELL —the Universitv Man's Store William’s Stores, Inc You’ll want a really lovely gift for "the object of youraffections.’’ We suggest... Because its famed quality will win her. Because she'll love its sheer ness, its dull, rich beauty. Because the charming gift wrap is a Val entine in itself. We’ll be glad to assist you in making your selec tion. 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