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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
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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
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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
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"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'.