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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 26, 1949)
Fiftieth Year of Publication and Service to the University VOLUME L UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 194!) NUMBER 141 Cheating Penalties Up For Re-Consideration By Jim Knight i The discipline committee, which judges and punishes wayward students, is at present considering the penalties for cheating; for cheating is at the tdp of the list of discipline code violations that may lead to suspension. No change in the penalty is planned, according to Robert D. Clark, tchairman of the discipline committee, but a clear definition of the 1 word is being formulated. Stealing exams, taking exams for someone else, and plagiarism are the most flagrant violations. Hearings on how to curb cheating are being held by the committee. Suggestions from faculty members and interested students are being considered. Anyone caught cheating in the middle of a term is suspended for 'the balance of the term. Those caught cheating in a final exam are , suspended for the entire following term. Repeating violators may be expelled. No student has been expelled for cheating in the two years that Dr. Clark has headed the committee, but a ‘‘number” have been sus pended for a part or whole term. Many cases do not even reach the discipline committee, Clark said. Such cases are often satisfactorily settled between the student and the deans of men or women. Virgil S. Fogdall, associate director of student affairs, feels there should be a student court to handle violations—when and if students prove mature enough to accept the responsibility of reporting violators and subjecting them to a discipline code. “I would like to see a student court similar to the one the law school . now has,” Fogdall said. Violators are reported by law school students to the student court. Judgment is passed by student judges, and their decision is final. It ■ is not subject to reversal by the discipline committee. Fogdall also expressed his desire to see a campus poll conducted to learn the students’ points of view on cheating. Co-op Rebate Means Five Dollar Average far Wise Webfoots By Raymond Pope “Save cash register receipts and share in the profits,” is a slogan of the University cooperative store, which has voted a ten per cent patronage refund this year. To the 3090 Co-op members who have wisely hoarded their pur chase tallies, this will mean an average $5 rebate in cold cash by June 13. A ffest egg to many a Webfoot, the rebate will be put to a variety of uses at the close of the quarter. To the home-bound out-of-stater, the average return of S5 will pay train fare as far south as Che mult, Oregon, or north to Kelso, Wash. The student can get that watch out of hock, pay tack the fin bor rowed for the prom, or in the words of one girl on third quarter scholarship, “celebrate my first two-poinl: GPA. Close to $17,000 was returned to student pocketbooks last year when the rebate was also ten per cent. The Co-op really paid off in 1947. Influenced by one generous stu dent the board of directors voted a return of 30 cents on every dol lar. It was the highest student Co-op dividend in the nation, but the effect was damaging. While enriched students celebrated at the Side, the Co-op woke up with a financial hang-over. Mpst of the money was tied up in inventories, and the store had to borrow $30, 000 to stay on its feet. For the eight years previous to 1947, the Vebate was only five per cent. Summer Jobs-Needed; Meat-Cutter, Technicians “I am looking for an experienced meat-cutter,” said Miss Shirley Sylvester, manager of the student employment office, enumerating positions available in Eugene during the summer. Anyone desiring either full or part-time summer employment is asked to come to the employment office in the YMCA building earlier than the first week of summer school, according to Miss Sylvester. In addition to the meat-cutter, she has positions available for an X-ray technician; commissioned salesman; two couples to do restaurant work at the coast; men in Salem, Yakima, Vancouver, and Toppen ish, Washington, to work for a food-processing company; for someone familiar with Alaska to serve as a tour conductor. “Competition for both summer and part-time jobs during the year has grown considerably keener,” Miss Sylvester said. “Anything now .'Available' on a part-time basis requires that the person be here during the summer. Anyone who has filed an application and not been placed should come into the office and specify whether or not they will be ■ here during the summer.” During the year, the student employment office has placed students in part-time positions ranging in pay from 75 cents to $3 an hour, the "latter being an instructor for city driving classes. The average part time student worker puts in 15 to 20 hours a week, but some jobs re quire as little as an hour a day, while others add up to almost a 40-hour, schedule. * “Any skill a person may possess gives him an advantage over the • general applicant,” Miss Sylvester stated. “In general, part-time work falls into two categories, that which requires a skill or experience, and ordinary manual labor, with the emphasis on that which requires a ' skill.” There are usually a few more applicants for jobs than there are positions, according to Miss Sylvester, but the real problem is that the jobs are of one type and the people of another. The task of the employment office is to match up jobs with people on the basis of ability, inclination, and time available to work. Scholastic Honorary Awards Gold Key to Eighteen Seniors Mortar Board Selects Theme For Annual Ball McArthur court will be trans formed into a moon-lit rose garden for the Mortar Board ball June 4. Decoration Chairman Laura Ol son and Anne Woodworth are keeping secret the details, but they have asked women's living or ganizations to make paper flowers to carry out the motif of the tradi tional Mortar Board rose. They re vealed only that the theme is “Garden of the Moon.’’ This is the only formal all-cam pus event of the year where the men’s pocketbooks don’t take a beating. Girls will invite the men and foot the bills for the evening. The evening traditionally begins when the girls pick up their dates and present them with outsized and ingeniously constructed cor sages. The turn-about theme is carried out during the evening as the girls walk on the curb side, open doors for the fellows, and help them on with their coats. Promotion Chairman J o r d i s Benke is now devising plans for a turn-about day on which members of the senior women’s honorary will enforce their own traditions. The tentative date has been set for June 3. Tickets at $2 a couple will go on sale at all women’s living organi zations and at the Co-op next week, according to Olga Yevtich, ticket chairman. New Group Named To Faculty Senate Representatives to the faculty senates from the College of Liberal Arts were elected at a faculty meet ing Monday. Named to a two-year term were Chandler Beall, Adolpe Kunz, An drew Mousund and Pierre Van Rys selberghe. E.C.A. Lesch will fill out the unexpired term of the late Har vey G. Townsend. Phi Beta Kappa Plans Initiation For New Members on June 3 Eighteen seniors were selected for membership in Phi Beta Kappa, national scholastic honorary, at a meeting of old mem bers yesterday afternoon, Mrs. Andrew Moursund, secretary an nounced. Bearers of the gold key are Warren Webster, general social sciences; Glenn G. Morgan, political science; Robert Stuart Wright, physics; Olga Yevtich, psychology; George Ernest vviigm, uiuiugy , diiu iviuiiib Jerome Galen, law. Abraham Perlstein, chemis try : Robert George Goffard, history, Catherine Anne Wood worth, general arts and letters; William H. Buckley, journal ism; Shirley Gail Lukens, English; and Roberta Lee Brophy, journal ism. Anders H. Laurcne, chemistry; Frederich Warren Lovell, liberal Miriam Sullivan White, journalism; arts; Daniel D. Wyant, journalism; Lowell M. Campbell, psychology; and J. C. Ellis, English. Barbara Stevenson was named winner of the Phi Beta Kappa book prize, which is awarded annually to an outstanding sophomore. Initiation of new members will be held at 5:15, June 3, in the alumni lounge of Gerlinger hall. Following, at 6 p. m. the traditional joint ban quet with Sigma Xi, national sci ence honorary, will take place in John Straub dining hall. Speaker will be former governor Charles W. Sprague. The Senior Six, chosen earlier in the year by Phi Beta Kappa, will be guests at the banquet. They are Hugh Cook, Joseph Cunningham, Charlene Ellingson, John Malik, Bo nita Miller and Luster Williams. All members are welcome to the banquet, Mrs. Moursund said and should make reservations with her. Costumes Needecf For University Play The University theater is bad ly in need of costumes of the 1924-27 era, particularly those for men. Anyone knowing where such clothing may be located is asked to contact LeJeune Grif fith at the speech office. Four Foreign Students Win Scholarships Two foreign undergraduate men will be brought to the University campus by two fraternities on a room-and-board scholarship, and the University will pay their tui tion, while two graduate women will attend under similar grants. Winifried Eggert, 20-year-old student from Bayreuth, Bavaria, will be sponsored by Delta Upsilon. He will be a language student, and wants to study American teaching methods. Eggert hopes to teach in German schools, and return to his own country with some democratic standards and ideas of this coun try. Walter Billing, also 20 years old, is being sponsored by Sigma Phi Epsilon. He comes from Stuttgart, Germany, and is interested in an thropology and psychology. Wesley foundation is sponsoring a Finnish graduate student, Miss Gisela Schmidt. She has a degree from the University of Helsinki, and formerly was an English in structor in Finland. She hopes to learn more about the American ed ucational system, to study English literature, and to improve her English. She will live in the dormi tory. Madeleine Mjchel, a graduate student from Paris, France, is be ing sponsored by Kappa Alpha. Theta sorority. She fl’ill major in PE and American history. Miss Mi chel, who is a graduate of the Sor bonpe, worked during the war as an interpreter at the Paris Red Cross hospital, and speaks fluent English. First Oregon Play for Ingram 'Show-off' Director Lauds Realism By Barbara Hollands “This play is very realistic and true to life,” said Charles B. In gram, instructor in speech, indi cating a script of George Kelly’s drama, “The Show-Off.” Ingram is the director of the University theater production of the comedy which opens a one week run Friday, May 27. “The author calls it a ‘transcript of life’,” Ingram continued, "and that describes it very accurately. The plot combines gaiety and sad ness, and comes almost uncom fortably close to reality. “In fact,” he went on, “the play represents life just about as effec tively as it can be done on the stage.” Mentioning some of the devices that Kelly uses to produce this realistic effect, Ingram first re marked that two conversations occur simultaneously at various points in the action. “The language is very colloqui al,” he continued, “and several small incidents that are not essen I tial to the plot are important to I the effect. "For example, in one scene the mother and son are urging a dog, which is offstage, to go down in the basement. “And again, when the mother asks her son to throw her coat downstairs, he takes her words lit erally, and the garment comes fly ing down a few seconds later. “These arc just little things, but they add to the play’s realism,” he concluded. Ingram is relatively new to Ore gon, having been here just since 1948, and “The Show-Off is the first University theater play he has directed. In 1947 he directed “The Adding Machine” at Stanford as his thesis production, and last summer he was on the staff at the University of Idaho. When asked what some of his problems of production for “The “Show-Off” are, Ingram replied that costuming is one of the prin cipal ones at present. “The action takes place in thej (Please turn to page thi ee)