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n daily EMERALD Fifty-third year of Publication Volume Dill UNIVERSITY OK OREGON, EUGENE, MONDAY, KEB. 25, 1952 NUMBER 87 Student Court, Honor Group Agree on Plan Compromise Plan Rejects Duplication (Kd note: The final report of the ASl'O honor rode committer will tic printed In the Kmcrald beginning Tueaday. The report, MiKKcalnK adoption of the code, will lie presented to the ASl'O 1 senate Thursday. The student court and the honor code committee reached final agreement Saturday on the make up of the body whom* duty It will be to hear all case* of honor code violation* If the Oregon honor code is adopted. That group, originally named the honor council, will now retain the name of student court. And it will not, as first ween by code commit tee member*, be separate from the preaent student court. Separation jra* the principal objection of court members who said it created a “dual Judiciary” system when the ASUO constitution implied only one. final Report Thursday Included in the final report of the committee, which will be given to the ASUO senate Thursday night, will be the plan a student court of seven students and two faculty members. Possibly a sub committee of the court with about five students ai)d no faculty mem bers will handle traffic cases, said Mlk# Adams, student court chair man. The final decision came as a compromise between the honor committee and the court. The plan was devised by Marilyn Thomp 1 I’lcnic turn to Payr ti(jtit) Courtship Is Subject Of Second Lecture "Courtship as a Preparation for Marriage" will be discussed by Joel V. Berreman, acting head of the sociology department, in the second YWCA sponsored lecture on marriage and the family. The lecture, scheduled to begin Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Dad's Lounge of the Student Union, will be followed by a movie, "This Charming Couple." and discussion. Tickets, which cost 50 cents, are available at the door for this and the remaining two lectures in the series. • Red Cross Drive Begins Today The drive for funds for the American Ked Cross will begin today on the campus, Drive Chair- j man Joan Cartozian announced, | and continue through Mar. 7. Representatives will be collect- \ log for the drive In each living or- * ganizatlon during the week. The representatives are to report their collections each day between 5 ] and 7 p.m. Women's house collections are to be reported to Pat Booth at 5-9257 or 5-9637. Men's collections are i to be reported to Barbara Rubin, 5-9083, or Jean Mauro, 5-9252. In addition to the house collec- ■ tions, booths will be set up in the Co-op and the Student Union for contributions. Collections from Inst year's cam pus drive totaled $850, but Miss Cartozian hoped this year's drive j would top that figure. No specific ' goal has been set, Taut 100 per cent participation of students is being asked for, she said. Senior membership in the Red 1 Cross is obtained with a contribu tion of $1. Flying speeches will be given in living organizations during the week. Members of Kwama and Skull and Dagger, sophomore women's and men's honoraries, are visiting houses on behalf of the drive also. The largest part of each dollar spent by the Red Cross. 59.8 per cent goes in aid to active service men, disabled veterans and de pendents. The next largest segment, 17.1 per cent, is used in civilian emer gencies and travelers' aid. The first aid and water safety programs participated in by many students take 7.1 per cent of the dollar. The blood donor program and nursing services take 5.1 per cent each, service groups -1.1 per cent, administration 1.2 per cent and Junior Red Cross 1.1 per cent. Stanford's Honor Code System Reported on by UO Group (Kd. note: This Ih the first in a • series of three articles reporting | on the findings of the honor j committee concerning the Stan ford unhrrslty honor system.) Stanford university has an honor j system; it's been in operation for some time now. How docs it work? That's what the ASUO honor code committee here was wonder ing; so they sent three committte members and the president of In ter-fraternity council down to Stanford to investigate. And. in talking to Stanford fac ulty, administration, and students, they were told that; The honor system will survive as long as a large majoritiy of stu dents want it, and work to main- i tain it. Parents of violators are apt to , be unstable and hard to handle. The honor system is much su- j perior to proctering. It is weakest in the matter of term papers. The main power of the honor code is that it has strong penal ties. People don't cheat because they’re afraid to. Tiie greatest amount of cheat ing is done in lower division courses. The group talked to the dean of students, a professor of anthro pology, a business administratoin professor, two history professors, a professor of romance languages, an undergraduate in geology, and a senior woman. In general, the faculty members seemed to be in favor of the honor system; the two students, al though in favor of it, felt that there is a good deal of cheating go ing on. Also, they're a little cyni cal about the whole thing; "The honor pledge doesn't mean too much," said the senior woman, "It's signed almost automatically as a part of registration. You can't complete registration until you sign it." And the geology major said: "The tradition of honor doesn't enter the picture too much; the season I don't cheat is that I'm afraid of what would happen if I were caught." But both of them feel that the honor code is a good idea, and would hate to be under any other system. The professors generally agreed that the honor pledges didn't have much significance except as a re minder. One professor wasn't sure whether the honor system worked or not. The only way to judge, he says, is by the number of violations re ported. But suppose they're high: does that mean the system works be cause everyone's keeping a look out for violators, or that it has failed because so many have been caught cheating? • Allen Fund Gets $1000 Annual UO Scholarship One of the largest scholarship offered by the University, the $1000-per-year Elic Allen memorial fellowship, was announced Friday night at the Oregon press confer ence banquet by Journalism School Dean Gordon A. Sabine. Donated by Publisher Alton F. Baker of the Eugene Register Guard for the Guard Publishing co., an annual $1000 will go into the Allen memorial fund, and will be available to any journalism stu dent chosen according to value of the study to him and promise of the individual to the journalism profession. There are no other restrictions of any kind on the fellowship. It will be awarded only during years when its administrators feel a qualified student is eligible, and only the amount he needs will be given. Sabine also announced Sunday the decision to make available $300 from the Allen fund to aid a gradu ate student next year. YWCA to Elect New Officers Nominations -for next year's YWCA officers have been an nounced for the election Wednes day. Jane Simpson and Jackie Wilkes will run for president, Mary Alice Baker and Delores Parrish for sec ond vice-president, Marian Briner and Sue Lichty for secretary and Mary Ellen Burrell and Carolyn Silva for treasurer. Nominated for upper class com mission chairman are Sharon An derson and Joan Cartozian. Norma Hamilton and Mary Wil son are the nominees for sopho more commission chairman. Candi dates for the vice-chairmanship ai-e Sue Fuller and Jean Piercy and for secretary, Ethel Reeves and Laura Sturges. The slate for Associated Women students and Women's Recreation al asosciation officers will be an nounced the day of the election, Wednesday. Candidates for offices in the three organizations will be intro duced at 12:15 p.m. Wednesday in Gerlinger. Nominations may be made from the floor at that time. The polls will open at 12:30 p.m. and remain open until 6 p.m. in the downstairs hall of Gerlinger. A style show featuring fashions from Russell's, Eugene department store, will be held at 4 p.m. Wed nesday in alumni hall of Gerlinger. Houses Will File Phone Complaint Three University of Oregon liv ing organizations a fraternity, .a sorority and a co-op house—will file a formal complaint against pay telephone service with the Public Utilities commission this week. Dick Kading, ASUO telephone committee chairman, announced this at a meeting of the phone group Friday. The formal com plaint has been drawn up, will be signed by the houses involved, and presented to the PUC on Monday or Tuesday, ho said. OSC's complaint, which was supposed to have been filed last week, is still in the‘hands of their lawyer in Salem, lie also told the committee. Therefore, he said, UO’s complaint may get to the PUC before OSC's does. Reufher Speech Set for Tuesday Walter Reuther, prescient of the United Auto Workers union and ! vice president of the CIO, will ; speak to Oregon students on •’The 1 Common Denominators of Demo- i | cratic Survival' at 1 p.m. Tuesday ] in the ballroom of the Student j | Union. When he was fifteen, Reuther , left high school to become a tool■ and die maker apprentice at the j Wheeling Steel corporation. He was fired for organizing workers against Sunday and holiday work , and left for Detroit, i In Detroit, after working for , Briggs, General Motors and Cole man Tool and Die, he finally went to work in the tool and die room for the Ford company for six ; years. Again he lost his job be cause of labor union activities. During his stay in Detroit, Reu ther continued his high school j studies at night. He entered Wayne I university for three years where ' he organized a social problems club. He gave the members first hand experience taking them to the picket lines when strikes were in progress. After losing his lob with the i Ford company. Reuther and his ' brother made a tour of eleven • countries in Europe ar.d Asia. Dur I ing the trip they worked in facto ries. observed the operation of automobile plants and machine shops and studied labor movements in the countries visited. Returning to the United States in 1935, Reuther began to organize the auto workers. Under his lead ership, West Side Local 174 of the i UAW rose from a membership of 78 in 1936 to 30,000 in 1937. I Reuther was elected president | of UAW in 1946, at the union's j tenth annual convention. A few months later, at the eighth convention of the CIO. Reu j ther was elected to the post of ! vice-president. Bonham Verifies Marines' Device Of'Propaganda' Fowler Elected Conference Head Prendmt Trjraar/s charge ct some months ago that the US. Marine corps has a propaganda machine of its own equal to that of Joseph Stalin's “was none truth than fiction,'' a foimer marine combat correspondent recently re turned from Korea said Friday. "A well-organized and hard working department of public in formation starts the marine corpse legends. some of which are true,” Donn Bonham. 26. a marine corps reservist who returned in Decem ber to his job as editor of tho Sweet Home New Era after a year s active duty in Korea, ‘tated. Bonham was the opening speak er for the annual Oregon p*r ess conference held in the Student Union Friday and in the Eugene* hotel Saturday. It was sponsored! by the Oregon Newspaper Pub lishers association and the school of journalism. The conference, attended by more than 100 Oregon editors anA publishers, elected Henry N. Fow ler, editor of the Bend Bulletin, conference president, succeeding Ralph P. Stulier, editor and pub lisher of the Coquille Valley Sent inel. Carl C. We bb. assistant profes sor cf journalism at the Univer sity, was re-elected secretary of the conference. Verne McKinney, co-publisher of the Hillsboro Ar gus, was re-elected to the boards l Please turn to fiatje eiftht) Seniors Break Even On Ball—Rodway Attendance figures for Satur day night's senior bail will not be available until today. Senior Class President Dave Rodway said Sun day, and will be announced ia Tuesday's Emerald. Rodway did say that he thought they “broke even or a little bit over ' on the dance. Dick Jurgens furnished the mus ic for the dance and student com ment on the band was very favor ; able. People Should Know Goings-on, Says Pope of Courier-Journal "All the news of government belongs by right to the people, and it can never be the function of of ficials with a job at stake to de cide what the people should know," The occasion was the 33rd an nual Oregon press conference, the time was Friday afternoon in the Student Vnion dads’ lounge, and the speaker was James S. Pope, ex ecutive editor of the Louisville (Ky.) courier-journal and Times, giving the Eric Allen memorial lecture. Pope, chairman of the Commit tee on Freedom of Information of the American Society of Newspa per Editors, told state newspaper f men that if they would tell peo | pie how much they haven't been 1 told, vast areas of submerged | knowledge would begin to rise : above the surface. Pope has led the fight of the na tion's newspapermen against news I suppression by President Harry Truman and other government of ' ficials and agencies. Those most to blame for allow ing denial of public access to mfoi - mation are the newspapermen themselves. Pope said. He called ' for more “senior editors" — the term used by Allen, late dean of the Oregon school of journalism, to help produce a world "in which a free newspaper can continue to be | sold". "I believe he (Allen) might | agree today that the successful be velopment of a challenge to our very existence as free people was* a result of too many people being uninformed, ' Pope stated. He said his committee and coun sel have tried to persuade agency and depaitment heads that "they should always have the informa tion, that officials must not decide what is to be released and.what is not. "And we always make it clear,’* j'he added, "that right of access i» not a press right but a public 1 right." Pope explained that here are many roadblocks to overcome be cause of some past leg,.! decisions. He cited the opinion of one attor ney-general that the records of the i combined departments of corn met ce and labor art "acquired by the- government for the purpose of administering its own affairs." "The truth is. of course, that ia a democracy the government has no affairs of its own,” he asserted. ' We know all too well some gov ernments that do." The Louisville editor ad tied "hat secrecy is corrupting, referring to the Reconstruction Finance corp oration, Department of Justice aneV Bureau of Internal Revenue, which one year ..go wPre named the "most consistently secrecy-mii deti outfits' by Washington corre spondents and now are publicly known to be scandal-ridden. (Piccse turn to fc<,c six)