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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 24, 1950)
SofJvo*nQ*ie> 'It/ildatn His Second Year--No Longer a Gay, Carefree Youth by /lob tyutth. There comes a time in the life of every sophomore when it becomes impossible to keep on pretending that one is still young, that one can keep on living without coffee, penicillin shots, and two strong freshman to propel one about campus. One must, after all, give up the illusion of youth sometime. 1 he sophomore year is as good a time as any — particularly since small ingra cious freshmen have begun making small ingracious comments about our few remaining vestiges of youth— i.e., afternoons at the Side, evenings d r o p p i ng water bags, mornings spent in bed. We are getting old, and it is time 1 A L fl / \ £ X • £ R C i that our friends and acquaintances became aware of the fact, and started treating us with some re spect and consideration. We would like, for in stance, to have the freshman who sleeps in the bunk above us quit stepping on the small of our back when he gets out of bed in the morning. It is the only back we have, and we’ve always been more or less fond of it. We would also like to have people quit referring to the night after rush week which we spent sitting morosely under a wash-basin. It was just one of our moods—that was all. We wish people would quit telling us jokes. We never could understand jokes very well, and lately it has become well nigh impossible. Our only solu tion to this problem has been to meandering around with a half-comprehending smile on our face all the time. This is supposed to give people the illusion that we understand everything they say, and more, too. In order to gain a reputation of dignity and wis dom we are willing to give up quite a few things. We will cut ourselves off of cheeseburgers and chocolate cokes at 3 a.m.; never more will we play “Floating Down That Old Green River” five times / in a row. From now on were sticking to bacon and-tomato sandwiches, coffee, and such dignified melodies as “Flow Gently, Sweet Afton.” We may even quit singing. Dignity will be our by-word from now on. We will sit at home of an evening playing Canasta, drinking milk, and smiling our ancient and indul gent smile at passing freshmen. We will be iden tified by bedroom slippers and gray hairs in our cowlick. And it may come to pass, in the dim future, that spring will come; that we will begin taking vita min pills, and become rejuvenated; that we will jmip }nqs oj uaiuqsaaj aqt uo }Jip qSnoua jaS tie yaps for a time. ^ Until then we are going to be awfully durned dignified. We think. About Cheating—'Let's Put a Bite Into Our Snarl /J Jtettel To the Editor: Are all Business Administration students going to be forced to meet competition? By this I mean, are we who are in the BA school going to have to embrace the practice of cheating to get a grade? This problem is probably not peculiar to this school, but as I am a BA major I am more familiar with their problems. It seems likely that those of us who refrain from this practice are, in the im mediate future, going to have to adopt the policies and practices of a cheat in order to assure our selves of a grade we otherwise honestly would have received. What is really aggravating is the attitude of the cheaters. They think the whole situation is funny and that they hqp-e succeeded in pulling a fast one on their professor. Of course, in reality they were pulling a fast one on the non-cheaters who are let ting them get away with it. There are numerous reasons why cheating has increased among the students in this school, but the concensus of those who just recently have fal len into the fold are, “Well a guy just has to meet competition.” In our BA school cheating is prevalent because of overcrowded classrooms, student attitude, and some professors laxity toward the practice, etc. How many people do you know personally have been caught cheating? Now, how many people do you know have cheated? I am sure that the great range between these two figures will impress you with the seriousness of the problem. It could well be that a good deal of the trouble lies with overcrowded conditions, etc., but this is not the point. The point is that if the practice of cheating is to be held to a minimum the professor and the student must assume a hard-boiled atti tude. The professor must assume that every stu dent is capable of and will cheat. The student should openly express his disgust for this practice. After all, this is supposedly an adult student body. Some of the students are not acting like adults, and like the rotten apple, if drastic steps are not taken by all, this immature attitude will slowly but surely infiltrate into greater sections ui me student body. ' Lets face the facts, students are not going to stop cheating of their own volition. Why don’t we as students and adults make a sincere effort to bring cheating under control? Lets cooperate with the professor who is mak ing a real effort to bring cheating under control and educate the lax professor in our desire that he too, cooperate with us. Why don't professors, whenever possible, dur ing a test, spread the students out by using the fa cilities of additional classrooms? Why give the same tests over and over? Why don’t they obtain the services of more proctors ? How about forming an organization who will act as proctors during the quiz period? Five such proctors would be none too many in some of the classes I have attended. If we must be watchdogs, let’s put a bite in our snarl. Larry Marsters Senior, BA. A Good Idea The Interfraternity Council took a wise step last week when it decided to have members meet with representatives of the Interdormitory Council to discuss rushing procedures under the deferred living situation. It was probably not an easy decision on the part of the group, but it was certainly just one. An arrangement satisfactory both to the fraternities and to the dormitories may result from discussion between the two groups. And each group will undoubtedly be better able to un derstand the other’s problems in adjusting to rushing pro cedures. It is through steps like these that the students may show ability in running their own affairs. n Daihf EMERALD The OREGON DAILY EM KRAI D, published daily during the college year except Saturdays Sundays, holidays and final examination periods bv the Associated Stuoents, University of Oregon. Subscription rates: $2.00 a term, $4.00 for two terms and $5.00 a vcar. Entered as second class matter at the [lostoftice Eugene, Oregon. Dot* A. Smith, Editor Joan Mimnavbh, Business Manager Barbara Hey wood, Helen Sherman, Associate Editors. Glenn UlLLEsrilt, Managing Editor Don Tiiomi'Son, Advertising Manager Assistant Business Manager: fork Mobley. Zone Managers: Sue BacheUler. Shirley Ilil Qffice Manager: Karla Van Loan. . Barlara Stevenson, Jeanne Hoffman. National Advertising Manager: llonme Bnkc- lard, Barbara \\ illiatus, \ trgiuia Kellogg, Gn&tch&Uf, Old Vet How to Rationalize In 10 Easy Lessons Ltf. Steve Jloy Now what do you think of rain now? Not so bad is it? The discomfort of wet feet does n't stack up with the cold and wet feet re sulting from the slush we had last week. Congratulations are in order for the pre med students who were told last week of their admittance to the med-school in Port land. I wonder how many of us would be tempted to let down after learning that we had reached the goal of our stay at the Uni versity? Those I know went out and had one beer and came back to hit the books harder than ever. Seems they want to take all the knowledge available with them when they climb .lie hill. Guess nobody gets the boot up there. You just drop by the wayside when the pressure gets too heavy. Some people would say that might be the right way to run any school of / higher education. It's food for thought. Sure would make a diploma mpre of a prize would n't it? Maybe grades aren't much good after you get out of school anyhow. A friend of mine told me that a friend of his who graduated last June has been looking for a job since, and only one of the dozens of people he has seen has asked to see his grade transcript. The same guy told me that OSC doesn't show job applicants grades to any employer except those seeking research workers. Xow if this information is straight scoop, it is wel come to my ears but I wonder if it isn't a lit tle strange for an employer to disregard how adept a student you are. Maybe they know cheating is rampant. Xow that our weekly lesson in rationaliza tion is finished I find so’m I.
