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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
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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
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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.
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EMERALD
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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
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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.