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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 29, 1952)
Cost to Students . . . . ... of throe telephone systems I* explained today In an Emerald edi torial. .See page two of today's Emerald. Volume LIU m Haih/ EMERALD Fifty-first year of Publication Light Rain . . . . . . beginning in the afternoon • the unama/.ing weather foreeast for today. Clouds, too, the weather man said. High temperature for today is 52, low is 37. IMVKIWITV OK OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, JAN. 29, 1952 NUMBER C? Students Welcome 'Dad' to University Campus ti n# , —-Art French-Photo ' KU OMlMi “DAD” TO THE CAMPIS for the S.Vh annual Dad's I>av weekend are (arnllee Tate and Krnle Baldlnl. Representing the Oregon Duds in the Rev. Wesley Nfeholson, minister of First Congre gational church In Eugene. Rev erend Nicholson is secretary of the Oregon Dad s club and past president of the Eugene Dad's club. Dads' Day Chairman Urges Students To Send Personal Letters to Fathers until Dads' Day weekend Fc-b. 2 and 3, the committee has asked the full cooperation of every Ore gon student. "Invite dad personal ly to the weekend festivities." Dad's Day Chairman Put Dignan urged. Theme for the weekend is “My Heart Belongs to Dad." Postcards have been sold in liv ing organizations and on campus during the past week, but Dignan asked students to write personal letters to their fathers. Three awards will be given for the living organizations having the most dads registered, bathers of local students will be included this year for the first time. Awards include: Merrifleld Cup J. F. C. Merrifield cup, origin ated in 1950, given to the living or gunizanon wun me largest per centage of dads registered. Now held by Alpha Phi. Paul T. Shaw silver tea set, orig inated in 1929, given to the living organiaztion with the second high est percentage. Now held by Pi Beta Phi. O. L. Luargaard cup, originated in 1930. given to the living organi zation with the largest percentage I of freshman dads. Now held by j Gamma hall. Begins Saturday Events planned for the weekend will begin Saturfday morning with a meeting of the executive com mittee of the Oregon dads. At noon the annual Dads' Day luncheon will be held in the Student Union ballroom, with a business meeting immediately following. Tickets for the luncheon may now be purchas ed at the SU main desk. Saturday night is the Oregon Washington basketball game in McArthur Couit. Tickets for the dads reaeved section may be pur chased at Mac court this week, and will also be on sale at the registration booths Saturday. Every dad has been assured of a seat, and students will be permit ted to sit with their dads. Dads' Day hostess will be pre sented at the luncheon and at the game. She will be selected from three finalists by student voting, which will be held in the Co-op and the SU beginning Wednesday at 9 p.m. Polls will be open until 4 p.m. Pictures of the finalists, Mrs. Jane Carlisle Moshofsky, Mrs. La Nelle Gay Newman and Mrs. Isbel Leighty Ingham, will be on display at the voting booths. Oregon Honor Code Possibilities Discussed by ASUO Committee vjfiivitti | ui nil L/iegun i honor code and methods of report ing violations of the code were dis cussed in a meeting of the ASUO | Senate honor code committee Sat urday afternoon. “An honor code implies a posi tive and broad approach to learn ing in the University," began a re port prepared by comimttee mem bers Merv Hampton and E. R. Bingham. The report went on to say that the code is eflVisinoned | “as a strong step in the direction of developing a mature attitude toward the acquisition of knowl edge and the fostering of a genu ine pride in the academic excel lence of the school.” Agreement with this philosophy was general among committee members. Thinks Worth a Try The committee thinks an Oregon „l}onor code is definitely worth a try, although they don't claim that sucn a code would immediately eliminate all cheating. They don t even believe that it would neces sarily cause a drastic rcduct'on in cheating at the outset. But they do feel that "over a reasonable period of time" favorable results would be seen. The group reasoned that such an honor system would: < 1) decrease cheating. (2) advance the name and reputation of the University, (3 * establish a tradition of honor here, (4i secure equality of oppor tunity for all, (5) increase the area of student government, (6i pro vide higher calibre graduates, (7) build citizenship, character, per sonal integrity and self-reliance and (8) treat students as adults. Three Reporting Methods Three possible methods of re porting violations of the code were considered: 1. The detector reports his sus ( Please turn to page eight) Touring Pianists Featured Tonight Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale, duo-pianists, will be presented at 8 p.m. tonight at McArthur court under the auspices of the Civic Music association. Students will be admitted upon presentation of their student body card (cash register receipt). On their sixth concert tour of the U.S. since their debut in 1946 j in New York, Gold and Fizdale | both studied music in New York. Gold studied under Rosina and Josef Lhevinne in New York. Fiz dale’s teacher was Ernest Hutche son. The two artists have re-dis covered a number of old two-piano arrangements and have had vari ous modern composers make up new pieces for them. Working under a relatively lim ited repertoire, the two musicians strive for quality rather than quantity. They have made it a Northrop Pictures University Study As Source of Unity "Only through university study which can enable us to find basic underlying unity in our own culture, can we then teacli western civilization correctly," said F. S. C. Northrop, pro fessor of philosophy and law at Yale university, in his talk, “The University in the Contemporary World," Monday night. A crowd of about 300 people heard Northrop say that tne uni Precedent Found For Phone Stand Discovery of a precedent for Oregon’s stand against pay phones and a meeting between Dick Kad ing, UO telephone committee chairman, and Oregon State tele phone committee heads were the major developments in the war of the pay phones this weekend. Kading said he met with mem bers of the OSC co-op managers’ association, which is leading the anti-pay phone fight there. '‘We'll be working closer to gether in the future,” Kading said. "If a hearing on the pay tele phones is held before the Public Utilities commission, all interested parties—and that includes OSC will be asked to attend. We want I to present a united front.” Kading also said he would write the phone company, and request them to hold in escrow any money collected from the pay telephones here since the beginning of fall term. If Oregon should win its case, he said, it’s possible that this money would be returned to the houses. The OSC students told Kading of a successful fight waged by University of Illinois against in stallation of pay telephones, which could serve as a precedent for any decision here. The University of Illinois, which apparently has had similar troubles with the telephone com pany there, was able to work out a solution. The company agreed to let living organizations have busi ness phones, if the houses would abide by certain regulations. In a lettr-r dated Oct. S, 1051. and signed by the assistant deans of men and women and the man ager of the Illinois Bell telephone company, the stipulations were set forth as follows: “Houses desiring service such as business phones will: ”1. Request such service from Illinois Bell Telephone company. ( Please turn trrtage eight) versiues must ao uiree uiinga. They must throw all their en ergy into the pursuit of theoretical’* and abstract sciences and the pur suit of the cultural sciences. The universities must follow through ir* finding basic concepts of other cul tures in the world and they must connect the theory of the humani ties with the theory of natural ’ science. Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima amt Korea are three events which point up the unique character of the times which the universities r.ow face. Two of the events concern Asiatic countries, Northrop said, and in our time Asia has arisen and Asians demand the right to build their own institutions, draw ing upon their own resources and i the resources cf the west. Past Haitits Unreliable The habits developed in the uni versities in the past for dealing with experiences will hardly due for handling situations that may arise in the future. Northrop said. For instance, he said, between 50, 000 and 100,000 atomic bombs, if dropped, would eliminate mankind from the earth, due to radio-activ ity. 1 The universities must equip peo : pie to be able to formula an intel ligent foreign policy. To do this, they must shift. Northrop said. A cure for the misunderstandings among nations would be acquaint ance and Knowledge. Northrop said. Too often people tend to raeas ; ure a country against their own , ideals, which they themselves sel i dem realize, he added. Impression of Nationalism Newspapers are tending to give the impression of a new rise of nationalism in the world. No: throp I said. It is not so much a rise in na 1 tionalism as a rise of nations with , common ideological cultures acting together and tending to act as one group with the same mentality. It is this that is giving rise to an Asia for Asians. Northrop stated, and the resistance to the British • in the Near East, i An example of this. Northrop j believes, is that Pandit Nehru and , Muo Tse-tung feel closer together (I'Icgse turn to f>a<ie three) Atomic Energy Exhibit Begins Today at S(J Viewing the ‘'atom's footprints" t through the Wilson cloud chamber will be cnly one of the sights at i the Atomic Energy exhibit schcci- | uled to begin at 1 p.m. today in the student union, remain open until 9 p.m. and to continue through Wednesday and Thursday. Wednesday’s showing will be from 1 to 9 p.m. and Thursday's from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free to this exhibit, ■ which comes directly from the ; Atomic Energy commission’s Oak Ridge, Tenn, laboratories and i which is considered to be the r.a- I tion s most complete atomic en- j ergy display. The show includes a j section on civil defense and is di- j tected at the non-technieally train- j ed person. The Wilson cloud chamber shows the paths of atomic frag ments just as a person can see a car's headlights on a foggy night and can judge its speed and dis tance. Through photographs and study of these "atomic footprints” men have learned much of what they know about these fragments. A 30-foot series of pictures tell ing the story of atomic energy from the mining of uranium-bear ing ores through the entire pro cessing stage, to the production of weapons and the by-products for peacetime uses will be presented. A model of the uranium chain reactor in the Oak Ridge national laboratory will also be on display. Panels telling the use of th cradio (!'lease turn to (age eightJ