VOLUME XLYlu Number 125
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE. WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1947
Exam Cheating
Gets Attention
Of Authorities
Student Board Plans
To Better Conditions
Evidence that student cheating
in examinations may be viewed as
a problem on the University cam
pus was contained in the May 6
issue of the Faculty News Bulle
tin, distributed on the campus yes
terday.
The Faculty Bulletin announced
that the student discipline com
mittee would appear before a
faculty meeting tonight to present
the restuls of “a survey of the
^extent of student cheating."
“In light of the serious situation
revealed by the survey,” the Bul
letin report continued, “The com
mittee has made the following
recommendations:
“1. That the faculty be urged to
give tests which would be set up
and administered in such a way
that cheating would be minimized.
Long-Range Plan Suggested
“2. That a long-range student
program be conducted to change
the attitude toward cheating.
“3. That regardless of the non
disciplinary penalties for cheating
. . . offenses should be reported to
the dean of men or dean of women
for disposition under the student
discipline code.
“4. That publicity be given to
withholding the name of the stu
dent but giving a description of
the nature of the offense.”
This investigation comes after
several months of attention to the
cheating problem by the adminis
trations of other colleges. College
dailies in all parts of the nation
Sfve been attacking it on their
campuses. The first big cheating
expose came when Life magazine
ran a picture article of the prob
lem at the University of Texas.
Neuberger to Talk
At Matrix Banquet
Richard L. Neuberger, one of
Oregon’s leading free-lance writ
ers, will be guest speaker at the
annual Matrix banquet sponsored
by Theta Sigma Phi, national wo
men’s professional journalism fra
ternity. The banquet will be held
at the Eugene hotel May 15 at
6:30 p.m. Guests will represent
persons prominent in their particu
lar field throughout Oregon, all
junior and senior women in jour
nalism, and alumnae members of
Theta Sigma Phi.
Neuberger was a former Univer
sity student, and was sports editor
i of the Emerald his freshman year.
He has the distinction of being the
only Emerald editor while a sopho
| more. A former Oregonian office
' boy, he was also elected to the
lower house of the Oregon state
legislature.
Neuberger has written for such
papers as the New York Times,
and for such magazines as Colliers,
the New Republic, and the Satur
day Evening Post. His fields of
writing and lecturing have in
cluded economic and political sub
ject matter. Neuberger’s topic for
the Matrix Table wall be “The Free
dom of the Press.’’
City Plans on Display
A model of the projected Ferry
street bridge in Eugene and high
way improvements is now on dis
play in the main hall of the busi
ness administration school. The
model, made by the creative design
department of the Eugene voca
tional school, shows the improve
_ments to be made in the mill race
basin just north of the campus, and
in the planning of highway routes
through Eugene.
Exec Council
Names Awards
Joan Mimnaugh, freshman in
journalism, and Arthur Matsuda, j
freshman in liberal arts, were
awarded the $75 ASUO scholar
ships, Tom Kay, president of the
student body, verified yesterday at
an executive council meeting.
Awarded for the highest scholas
tic record during the freshman
year, the scholarships are granted
in $25 divisions each term. Miss
Mimnaugh’s fall and winter accu
mulative of 3.81 and Matsuda's of
3.89 qualified them for awards.
The executive council also ap
proved the appointment of Bob
Frazier and Ross Yates as Emerald
and Oibgana editor respectively,
and Bob Chapman as Emerald busi
ness manager by the educational
activities board two weeks ago.
McArthur court has been added
by the council to the YMCA as a
polling place in the coming elec
tions on May 27. Official poll books
will be compiled from the regis-j
trar’s office. However, due to pre
registration and the recently in
stalled IBM machines in the office,
the books will be one term behind.
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Positions Available
On Business Staff
Seventeen Emerald business staff
positions are open for appointments,!
according to Bob Chapman, Enter- 1
aid business manager for 1947-48.
The staff vacancies will be filled
from student petitions and any stu- !
dents interested may obtain peti-!
tion forms from the educational ac- j
tivities office, the journalism school
office, or the Emerald business of
fice. The petitions should be turned
in at the business office by May 15.
The jobs open include: advertis
ing manager, day manager, layout
manager, circulation manager, of
fice manager, national advertising
manager, secretary and promotion
manager.
Experience in newspaper business
and advertising fields will be con
sidered, but is not essential, Chap
man said.
Announcement of staff appoint
ments will be made at 'the Emerald;
banquet on May 23.
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Traffic Blockades
Gone Temporarily
Students crossing Thirteenth
avenue today and tomorrow should
develop the habit of looking both
ways before stepping into the traf
fic because the usual protection of
the traffic barricades will be lack
ing.
D. L. Lewis, physical plant super
intendent, explained that the clos
ing of Eleventh avenue for high
way repairs necesssitates the rout
ing of so much traffic through the
campus that the use of the barri
cades would create hourly traffic
jams. Lewis further announced
that by routing traffic through the
campus today and Wednesday the
street would be free for school use
during Junior Weekend.
French Film Scheduled
The French language film, “La
Guerre ties Boutons,” will be
shown tonight at 7:30 in 207
Chapman hall. The free movie,
sponsored by the educational ac
tivities board, will have two con
tinuous showings.
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$5000 Goal
$1058.00
BACK YOUR
STUDENT UNION
Poetry Contest
Ends Saturday
Students planning to enter the
annual poetry contests should
leave their entries with the secre
tary of the English department
before noon Saturday, Alice H.
Ernst, associate professor of Eng
lish and head of the contest, an
nounced yesterday.
Two awards will be presented to
winners, the Julia Burgess prize of
$25 to upper division students, and
the Walter Evans Kidd lower divi
sion prize of $15.
No restrictions have been made
on subject matter, but if shorter
lyrics are entered, no more than
five nor less than three may be
submitted as a unit.
Rules for the contest specify
that entries must be typed in tri
plicate and enclosed in a manila
envelope indicating for which con
test the work is intended. The
author's name should not appear
on the manuscript, but should be
enclosed separately in a sealed en
velope bearing the titles of poems
submitted.
Any regularly enrolled student
of the University is eligible to
enter.
SU Second Floor
To House Offices
(This is the fourth article in the
series explaining the floor plans of
the student union building.)
The second floor of the building
is largely devoted to the alumni of
fice and places for the alumni rec
ords. This is tlie only outside ad
ministrative office in the building.
At least 10 student offices are
also on the second floor, including
ISA, ASA. WAA, Panhellenic,
ASUO president's office, and other
offices for particular student ac
tivities. The Oregana and Old Ore
gon offices will also be on this floor.
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Summer Living
Shortage Seen
The ever-present problem of find
ing sufficient and suitable housing
for students is going to loom even
larger this summer than it has dur
ing the school year, said Mrs. Alice
Macduff, University housing sec
retary.
Mrs. Macduff explained that the
great number of married persons
who wish to attend the University
summer session, and the large
group of teachers wishing to take
only enough hours to keep up their
certificates, will form a group for
which it is particularly difficiit to
find housing.
There are now several hundred
teachers in the state who are teach
ing on emergency certificates which
are good only for one year and
which must be renewed by taking
University work. These people,
many of whom are married and
have children or other dependants,
constitute a large part of the
I group requesting summer housing.
Many Graduate Students
Another large percentage of
those in need of housing for sum
mer term are graduate students
working for advanced degrees. Most
of these students have dependents,
and although they may be veterans,
they cannot be accommodated in
veterans housing units now avail
able.
She further stated that within
the past few days she has received
54 letters requesting summer hous
ing. Of this group 39 were families
of two or more who need more than
a single room but who are willing
to take anything with cooking fa
cilities.
Mrs. Macduff issued an urgent
appeal for all householders who
could possibly make room for these
students to notify the University of
any vacancies. She emphasized
that many of them have been try
ing for three terms to find housing.
Emerald Hall
To Alleviate
Office Jams
Building Includes
Class, Lab Space
The new building going up on
Thirteenth avenue near the infirm
ary is not the student union. It is
Emerald hall, newest of the Uni
versity’s classroom structures.
Plans for the new building were
announced yesterday by Dr. Earl
M. Pallett, assistant to the presi
dent, who indicated that it would
be ready for occupancy sometime
this summer. The building was ob
tained from Camp Adair through
the federal works agency, which is
I having it moved and erected on the
J campus. Dr. Pallett said,
i The new building will make avail
; able general classroom space to
i help care for the expected record
! enrollment next fall. Laboratory
rooms for the speech clinic, reading
clinic, and University testing bu
reau, also will be provided. This will
j release space now occupied by these
j offices for classroom purposes, Dr.
[ Pallett said.
Personnel Offices Here
In addition, most of the person
nel services dealing with student
| affairs will be centered in the new
building. When completed, it will
house the offices of the dean of
men and dean of women, the busi
ness office, registrar’s office and
the veteran administration office.
The front section downstairs will
be divided between the registrar's
office and the business office. The
entire back section, except for a
small space to be occupied by the
business office, will be for class
room purposes.
Dr. Will V. Norris, University su
pervising engineer, said that ap
proximately 24,000 square feet of
space will be available in the new
building. He said that the building
is of an emergency nature to help
take care of the urgent need for ad
ditional classroom and office space
on the campus.
Gay Nineties’ Seen in Eugene;
All-Campus Lunch Due Friday
Float Parade Rolls
Campus roads will be trans
formed to Gay Nineties days at
4 p.m. Saturday when the annual
Junior Weekend float parade
travels through Eugene and Uni
versity routes. Many gay and
colorful themes have been utilized
this year, according to Warren
Smith, float parade chairman, and
the men’s and women’s living or
ganizations, working in pairs, will
produce a variety of the era's
characteristics and personalities,
he added.
Convertibles
The queen and her court will be
escorted to the picnic ground by
members of Druids, junior men’s
honorary, who have arranged for
convertibles, interspersed through
out the paarde, to carry the girls.
Members of Skull and Dagger,
sophomore men’s honorary, will
escort the judges to the stand in
front of Johnson hall, although the
judging of the event will take
place in front of the City hall.
All houses are requested to sub
mit itemized expense lists to
Smith at the Delta Upsilon house
by 5 p.m. Friday.
The judges will consider origin
ality of design, amount of effort,
and originality of theme.
The University marching band,
under the direction of John Stehn,
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No Friday Lunches
Maryanne Hansen, chairman of
the Junior Weekend all-campus
luncheon, announced yesterday
that none of the, living organiza
tions on campus are expected to
serve a Friday noon lunch. Instead,
all students are requested to eat
at the campus luncheon to be held
on the old campus beginning at
12 noon. All visiting mothers are
invited.
Tickets for the luncheon will be
distributed to individual living
organizations beginning today on
a basis of one for each member
normally eating lunch at each
organization.
Luncheon tickets for students
nof eating at living organizations
and for Junior weekend guests
may be secured from the educa
tional activities office in McArthur
court, beginning tomorrow morn
ing at 8:30 a.m.
This year’s luncheon marks the
return to a pre-war Junior Week
end custom featuring the Junior
Weekend Queen, Nina Sue Ferni
men, and her court in a proces
sional and coronation. At 1 p.m.
the various honorary society tap
pings wil begin with Mortar Board
at 1 p.m., Friars at 1:15, Scab
bard and Blade at 1:30, and Askel
paids at 1:40.
At 1:50 the recessional of Queen
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