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Daily EMERALD Fifty-third year of Publication Volume LJII UNIVERSITY OK OK KG ON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 0, 1952 NUMBER 98 Student Poll Supports Honor Code Four out of five polled Oregon students agree with the principles of an honor code ns they under* stand them and 70 per cent would definitely give their personal sup port to an honor code if adopted here. These and other statistic!* were revealed Tuesday to the honor code committee by Walter T. Martin, assistant professor of sociology, who supervised the poll among 251 students. Slxty-two per cent of those ques tioned thought an honor code would reduce cheating to.some ex tent, from "completely" to "some what." Forty-eight per cent (the majority in this case) thought a committee of "mainly students" would be preferable In handling violators. Approximately one-third said they would not report a violator, the other two-thirds chosing among three other alternatives; reporting a violation to. a desig nated agency, rejKirtlng to an in structor or asking the violator to report himself. Forty-eight per cent (the ma jority) said proctoring should be abolished and an honor system es tablished. Martin made several qualifica tions on the poll, aaying however that a Himiiar sampling* would probably have indicated approxi mately the same results, lie pointed out that the an swers were those of students who were "willing to give them when interviewed face to face by other student* with their names known but anonymity of replies assured." ; Completely anonymous replies, ; he said, would probably have giv | en somewhat different results. He i also noted that the "interviewers j were unpaid, mostly untrained, and sometimes unwilling, students." The 2.11 students were selected \ from a list of U2 names taken from the student directory. No j substitutions were made for those the interviewer!) were unable to reach. Of the 251 questioned, 46 were freshmen, 08 sophomores, 00 jun iors, 57 seniors, 30 graduate stu dents and 3 special students. Twenty-six per cent of these had a GPA of 3.00 or better, 68 per cent 2.00 to 2.09 and 6 per cent had less than a 2.00. Martin said a general trend not ed throughout the poll was "the lower the GPA, the greater pro ! portion of students" favorable to a i code. All the interviewing was done , by students and, with the excep 1 tion of a few mailed questionnaires all was done face-to-face. The questions and the answer , percentages: I Are you personally in agreement | with the principles of an honor | system as you understand them ? 'Yes, 82 per cent: no 15 per cent; j don't know 4 per cent. If an honor system were adopted | what effect would it have on the ; cheating? Tend to eliminate c-om l pictely, 2 per cent; reduce it eon | siderably, 21 per cent; reduce it somewhat, 29 per cent; r.o effect I 18 per cent; tend to increase it. | 18 per cent. j If an honor system were adoptee j at Oregon would you give your 'personal support? Definitely, 7f per cent; probably, 20 per cent; no, 8 per cent; don’t know. 4 per I rent. ! Which of the following report' I ing procedures would you he. will ing to follow? Report violator tc | the designated agency or group ir a signed statement with your narn< ! n°t to be revealed to th< violator ; Forty-four people made this first | choice. Report violator to instruc tor. Fifty-five people made this first choice. Call attention of vio lator to offense and ask violatoi to report his offense within a giv en length of time (checking late: to see if he didi. Sixty-two people made this first choice. I would not report 3 violator. Eighty-two peo ple made this first choice. 1 In this, question the students could chec k ir. order of preference. Mart.n said some students hast suggested other means.; Which procedure for handling violators would you prefer? .All i faculty committee, ft per cent; : mainly faculty committee, 20 per I cent; mainly student committee, | 4ft per cent; don't know. 3 per cent; ether. 21 per cent. Moat of these suggestions said either a c ommittee composed c f half stu dents and faculty or a’l students. In summary, w;Lh which of the I following statements about exam i ination procedure at Oregon do you agree most? Proctonng shootif be abolished and an honor sy tein established. 46 per cent; present procedures for conducting examin ations should not be changed, 27 p>er cent; a stricter system cf proc torir.g examinations should be es tablished for all classes, 14 per ; cent. OSC Prexy Reviews Politics, Telephones By Jim Haycox Dorm Black, OSC student body president who appeared In the Tuesday's talent assembly briefly ' as a "pony poet," chatted about student government, politics and (her 500 students attended the exchange assembly present ed by Oregon State Tuesday af ternoon anil appeared highly en tertained by the series of song, dance and instrumental numbers. Particularly outstanding was I>I< U Horne who was master of ceremonies and nlso did a mono logue on the radio programs found on a “push-button" radio. Other niimlMTH included a ‘‘Six- Foot - Four" barbershop quartet, a hula dance, a piano duet, a trumpet solo, a like duet, a modern dance number and a ean-ean line. the telephone situation at a lunch 1 eon given the entertainers just be * fore the show. No political party at OSC is formed along strictly Greek or in dependent lines, he said, for it would be "a good way to kill a *. candidate you were trying to pro mote." "We've found a good plank in a GOP Senator To Speak at UO Mock Convention Either Sen. James H. Duff, Re publican from Pennsylvania, or Sen. Leverett Saltonstall, Republi can from Massachusetts, will be the keynote speaker for the Ore gon mock Republican convention May 2 and 3. Just which one will be the speak er is to be definitely announced Wednesday or Thursday by Ralph H. Cake, Republican national com mitteemen from Oregon. Sen. Duff is a known supporter of Dwight D .Eisenhower for the Republican presidential nomina tion. He is a former governor of Pennsylvania. Saltonstall has been in the U. S. Senate since November of 1944, when he filled the unexpired term of Henry Cabot Lodge and was re elected in 1948. He had been gov ernor of Massachusetts from 1939 to 1944. candidate's platform is to promote Greek-independent co-operation." he explained. The interests of all the students can't be served where a competitive and unfriendly spirit exists, he said. Not Much Sense Remarking that he had followed the campus political scene here last spring and "managed to see some of the statements made in the paper" by the candidates, he added that it hadn't made much sense to him. The political setup on his cam pus, he remarked that there is only one "long standing" party, the Free-Staters. Other groups spring up from year to year to bark indi vidual or groups of candidates, he said. Black himself was supported by one of these new groups, the Beaver party, when he ran last year. "Real Showmen" Speaking of the now-defunct Peasant party. Black said it was "the product of some real show men” and died out when they left school. But even these people wanted their candidates to win. he stated, and planned to do a good job if they did. Oregon State will hold its gen eral election April 23 and which will be preceded on April 16 by an all campus primary. There is no such thing as a closed patty pri mary there he said, as will be the method used by the Fnited Stu 1 dents association and the Associ ated Greek students. Dues Bill Coining I p The OSC student senate, the stu dent governing body on the cam pus, is fairly similar to Oregon's, he added. It is composed of 30 people and includes nine senators, three student body officers, the four class presidents and the presi dents of IFC, AWS. Panhellenic, AIS (Associated Independent stu dents), the Memorial Onion and of the campus religious council. Right now, he said, OSC's sen ate is working on a bill to create a student dues of $2. One dollar of this would go to the classes and fifty cents each to the student body and the Barometer, the cam pus newspaper. The bill, however, has not yet been passed, he. noted, and if it does it would still neces sarily be a voluntary measure ow ing to provisions in Oregon law. Speaking about the present, tele phone situation (with pay phones (Please turn to f aye three) Six Student Union ! Board Posts Open ! Petition* for membership on the' 1952-53 Student Union board are now being called for by this year's i board. Six positions are open, i One representative each from ] the schools of education, journal- [ ism and business and from the col lege of liberal arts will be chosen to serve for two years. Persons j petitioning for these offices must be sophomores with a minimum of three terms at Oregon. One member from the law school and one from the graduate school; : will be chosen to serve a term of 1 one year. Candidates will be selected for i previous service to the Student; j Union and scholastic standing— general ability as evidenced by participation in other fields of campus activity will also be con-! i sidcrcd. Petitioners will be interviewed . by a joint committee of four mem bers of the SU board and four j members of the ASUO Senate, af ter the petitions are approved by: the deans of the various schools '■ irom which representatives are' needed. Paul S. Dull, senior faculty ( | member of the Student Union | board, will be chariman of the joint interviewing committee. Final appointment of board | i members will be made by the! i president of the University. Jr. Weekend Group to Meet Living organization representa tives for the Junior Weekend float parade will meet Thursday, accord ing to Committee Chairman Jan Owens. Drawings will be made and rules for the parade will be explained at the meeting, scheduled for 4 p.m. in the Student Union. Names of candidates for Junior Weekend queen may be turned in to room 303, Student Union, be ! tween 1 and 5 p.m. any day before Monday. Both men's and women's living | organizations will select candi dates. The girls selected must be of junior standing, have made a 2.00 GPA last term and have a 2.00 accumulative GPA. Judging will be based on personality, appear ance, poise and voice. Editor Lists Ideas Needed for Peace ith the ulea that man owns himself, with oi:r hitman re sources and our history, we can devise a positive strategy for peace and get connected up” with the world’s peoples, nter national crisis, and, more importantly—man. Xornian Cousins, editor of the,Saturday Review and a r.iulti versed humanitarian, rt»)d that to 200 Matrix-Taf !e-< Gridiron an inspiring and dynamic portray- ■ al of the world situation todav. - l “Platform For Sanity” . By “creating out of the United j Nations a platform for sanity"— a framework for a positive basis j for peace, we can provide a defi- ; nition of hope, become the cham- ; pion of man, the 39-year old jour nalist, internationalist and govern mentalist declared. And. in a ques tion-and-ang’.ver session, he told how each individual can use his wide radius of effective action to help bring about this basis. Eloquently displaying four men-' tal photographs obtained in Asia. ; Cousins laid the foundation for his ; assertion that we need to get con nected up with world issues. The four photographs were: Zero Center 1. Hiroshima. "This is the city ' of man in our time,” Cousins said. Here is the 'spot called zero cer.- j ter"—where the A-bomb hit. He i said the people are not resentful or vindictive toward the Ameri- j cans because of the bombing, as people are elsewhere. But they gave him a letter signed by 105 000 persons, he said, asking the people of the United States to realize the value of the situation to the world and to America. "The l Please /urn !r six) 9 Women Win Awards At Dinner Nino women—three high f.hoo# students, three townspeople and three University coeds—were hon ored by Theta Sigma Phi, women * professional journalism fraternity, s.t Tuesday’s Matrix Table-Grid iron banquet and four more were tapped for membership in the fra ternity. Named as outstanding freshman woman :n journalism was Laura Sturges. Kitty Fraser was selected as the outstanding sophtrnoie woman in the field. Honored a? “Women of Achieve ment-' were Mrs. C. A. Barnes, Mrs. Jess Hayden, Mrs. F.. D. Clark, all of Eug<#ie. and Jean Gould, senior in business. Presented awards for outstand ing achievemeftt in high school journalism in 1952 were Sally < Please turn to fagf eight) "Che faster Story *=—= “But Jesus said unto him, Judas, betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss?” -Luke 22:48 Ill I 3X THK Garden of Gethsemane at the top ot the Mount of Olives Jesus prayed alone and apart from His .Apostles who slept. As Judas approached with the guards, hi heard these words from Jesus: "My Father! If it be possible, let this cup pas~ •••« m met Nevertheless, not as I will, but as Y< u will." When Jesus had finished His prayer and returned ' ■ the disciples, Judas stepped forward and stood directly in t’ront of Jesus saying, "Hail, Master!" As was the custom of Christians . : the time to greet ach other with a hiss, so Judas kissed the Master on the cheek. At the signal, tin Roman soldiers came forward and their prisoner held His hands out to them to be tied. The disciples became afraid for their own safety and fled from the place as fast as their legs would carry them, leaving Jesus who had been betrayed by a hiss for 50 pieces of silver to face the captors alone'.