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UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1951
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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
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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
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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.’’
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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
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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
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