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* Merry Christmas and | A Happy Jiein gear M from the staff of the... Fifty-fir at year of Publication j* %;*• -%;* iVpj*- % S > daily EMERALD Volume Kill UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1951 Nt 'JBKR .» Trial of Honor Code May Come Spring Term, Committee Head Says By Jim Haycox The University or Oregon may experiment with an honor code Ihm spring. Thin was revealed In a preliminary report given to the fcSUO senate Thursday night by E. 0. Ebblghausen, associate profes sor of physics and honor Commit tee chairman. "I think the final committee re port wit lrecommend it." Ebblng hausen said, "and it will be com plete with suggestions covering narty areas." He thought the honor (.ommittees final statement might tome some time winter term. Ebbinghauscn indicated three main problems would have to be met if and when the system was triad. They would be: 1 Education of students and faculty to the desirability of an ,'onor system. 2. A method of detecting of fenses. 3. How to punish offenders. Opinions I'avorable The first problem the committee faced, he said, was to determine If there was any hope at all, any point in attempting such a code By interviews the committee .ound that the general sentiment on the campus favored it, be ex plained. Passed by the senate Thursday evening was the first amendment to by-laws of the ASUO constitu tion. This was the outcome of re tpu-sts submitted several weeks ago by the Athletic and Social Chairmen, Jack Smith and Karla Van Loan. Report Submitted Don Collin, chairman of the sen ate constitution investigation com mittee appointed to look into the requests and make a recommenda tion, submitted a unanimous report to strike out Article VI of the by laws entitled Duties of the Cabinet. In its place the new article. The Dutias of the Appointive Cabinet Positions, reads (Sections Ii: "Duties and responsibilities of he Athletic chairman, social chair man and public relations chairman fhj^l be those assigned to them by the piesident of this association.” Smith and Van Loan had com plained in their reports that the pld Article VI did not fit what they considered their duties ought to be. Since then the Rally board, pro vided for under the Athletic chair mans duties (in the old by-lawsi. has been given it.s own constitution by th(; senate. Other transactions or the eve ning included .setting of rules or and discussion of the role political parties should play in the freshman j election*, appointment of a new student court member, Jane Slo | cum and a Dan's day chairman, Pat Gignan, and the hearing of re ports by the Student court, Ath letic chairman and Homecoming chairman. Senate Itattles The senate battleo over two points in the coming election, which must be after the first and prior to the fifth week of winter term according to the constitution. One was the • arrangement of names on the ballot, which will be left in alphabetical order, and the other was the role of two campus j political parties would take. 'No Parking' Line Appears By Parked Car Vou've lirard the one about the man who parked hi* oar and oame bark to find a parking me ter inntailed benide it and a ticket nn hin window. It almnnt happened to Anne Leslie, Carson hall senior in for eign languages. She parked her ear across the street from Carson in front of the walk leading towards the Student t'nion. Wednesday morning she dis covered Hie oar ha/I a flat tire and oould not be moved. Friday afternoon Miss Ix-slie was surprised to find that phy sical plant workers had painted a yellow "no parking” line along the curb by the car. She Mas able to get the tire fixed and the oar moved late Friday before campus police could follow up Mith a ticket. Campus Exchange May Solve Phone Problem By Phil Battens An intra-campus exchange, us ! ing regular dial telephones, to serve only living organizations and campus extensions was proposed by representatives of the Pacific , Telephone and Telegraph company last Tuesday. The company's representatives ! made their proposal as one solu j tion to the pay phone problem at an informal hearing before the Public Utilities commission in Sa-, lem. Representatives of the Uni vesity of Oregon. Linfteld college,' Oregon State college and Wiliam-' j ette university attended the mcct ing. Plan Outlined Briefly, the company's plan is | this: 1. The intra-campus exchange would enable University students 11° call other living organizations (and campus numbers from their own living group, using regular business-type dial telephones. I 2. The pay phones would be re I tained in each group for making calls off-campus. 3. Off-campus calls could be re ceived through the intra-campus exchange, but other numbers of the 60-mile Winds, Ferocious Storm Topple Tree on Faculty Club Last week's storm in the North west area reached its peak in Eu gene Tuesday, with 60-mile-per hour winds causing several trees to fall and causing damage to one campus building. A white pine tree crashed into the Faculty club game room on the southwest corner of that build ing late Tuesday afternoon, caus ing damages of at least $300, H. D. ; Jacoby, assistant physical plant superintendent, said. No damage occurred inside and no one was in jured. The Faculty club is located across University st. from the Stu dent Union. Other trees fell on campus on the northeast side of the Faculty club and on the north side of Hen e licks hall, the latter falling in the area formerly occupieid by Mary °Tiller hall. A tree opposite Em erald hall was partially pulled up, by the loots and is being taken down to eliminate any danger, Ja coby said. A tree on the grounds of State System Chancellor C. D. Byrne's (Please turn to page sixteen ) city exchange could not be called ! through those phones. Fred Scholl, genera: commercial manager for the P T A T in Ore gon, explained that this was the only compromise the company could make. He pointed out that he realized that most calls from i living organizations arc made to ] other living organizations and theroiorc felt that this plan would solve the situation. Will Consider Plan Student represer.tarrves at the meeting agreed to consider tne company's plan, but OSC and Wil lamette were plainly opposed to it. The increase in the number of tele phones in each house, the problem of getting the schools to install the extra equipment needed and the "this or nothing" attitude of the company were among the reasons cited. Oregon State representative in dicated extreme dissatisfaction with the proposal, and said they were considering filing a forma) complaint with the PUC regarding the pay phone situation. Seibert Investigates E. E. Seibert, speaking for the OSC Co-op Managers association, said that his group had investi gated other schools in the North west, and found that coin box service is not mandatory at Uni versity of Washington, Washing ton State, Idaho or Montana. "It was our understanding that the phone company said that this pay phone tariff was in force in other parts of its system," he said. Scholl answered by saying that the tariff was fairly uniform in all states and attributed the lack of (Please turn to fare thirteen) Parties to Stay Out of Frosh Elections A “gentleman's agreement" was reached Saturday afternoon be tween the president of the Asso ciated Greek students, Larry Dean, and interim chairman of the United Students association, Vir ginia Wright, that neither campus political party will participate in the coming freshman elections. The move settled the question of what role the two parties would play. Earlier debate concerning the matter had broken out in ASUO cabinet meeting Monday afternoon and in ASUO senate meeting Thursday evening. The senate did not take a stand ' ! and rejected r proposal asking the { two parties to keep "hands off." j While the majority of senators appeared to favor a "hands off" policy, some stated the senate had neither the right nor the reason to tissue such an edict. Dean said earlier that AGS prob ably would not participate but that it was not in the organization's power to stop individual houses from backing their own candidates. Deadline for petitions falls on Jan. 16, only five days after the end of rush week from freshman I men. Sen. Douglas Talks to Students —Emerald Photo by Pete Moe TAI L H. DOUGLAS (D-I1I.) discusses current problems with Ore Kon students after Tuesday afternoon's coffee hour in the Student U'ninn Dad's I»unge. Douglas later said he was impressed by the coffee hour. A former eoor.nmios proiessor at the University of Chi cago, Douglas added, "You know, l like students.’’ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Douglas Suggests Plan To Combat Corruption Paul II. Douglas, Democratic senator from Illinois, offered three suggestions at an assembly Tuesday: 1. A set of "ethical proprieties’’ for administrators, with pun ishment for the corrupted and the corrupter. “I ha\e never known a politician to corrupt himself,” Douglas said. 2. Public financial support of elections, and a limit on the amount of money spent for a candidate. Senator Douglas Discusses Politics, Elections in Confab By Al Karr "President Truman hates my guts." That's what Paul Douglas. Dem- 1 ocratic senator from Illinois, jok ingly told his press conference Tuesday morning, and the remark was indicative of the lack of pom pousness and common-language manner of the 5s-year orj Con gressman. "Maybe he's right in the weak- i nesses he sees in me,” Douglas ■ went on. He said, however, that Truman I is a capable president. The person-1 able senator has clashed with Tru- ' man on appointment of federal judges in Illinois and on other is sues. A "ruoosive" man, with a large shock of white hair, large hands, and intelligence and wit to match, Douglas spoke to the Tuesday as sembly, press conference, and cof fee hour, as well as to individuals, in that ever-present straightfor ward and friendly manner which made him popular with the Wash ington press soon after his elec tion in 1948. Three Viewpoints Discussing possibility of his own 1952 presidential candidacy, Doug las said there are three opinions of a person—what others think of him, what he thinks of himself (Please turn to fage three) 3. Disclosure of income of public officials. Speaking to a Student Union ballroom-overflowing audience of students and faculty—more than 1200 persons — the white-haired senator said he would add one more suggestion to those three— a re-emphasis of personal moral values. "We’ve been building our moral houses on sand too long,” he said. "We have to build our houses on firmer ground.” Corruption Through Concentration Recognizing the corruption in government today, Douglas voted the nation's outstanding senator in a poll of Washington correspond ents this year, asserted that where government provides widely dis cernments by Senator Douglas on the 1952 presidential race, prospects of his e&ndidacv, the Korean situation, nia\ be found on page four. tributed service functions, as in the postal service, education, fire squelching, etc., it possesses nearly complete integrity. "The corruption problem is in the action-laden areas,” he said "where government provides con centrated benefits where it can make or deny fortunes for a few,” Cororupt influence of adminis tration, he contended, is on the basis of putting the public offi cials under a personal sense of ob ligation and good feeling to the perscon desiring a loan, contract, favorable rate, or subsidy. This is done through gifts to the officials, entertainment, employ ment prior to the official’s gov ernment service and employment [Please turn to page three)
