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Let's Call Time
University officials have worked out
rather elaborate time schedules for final ex
aminations at the end of each term. A two
hour exam period is set aside for each class
hour.
Unfortunately, quite a few professors
seem unaware of the tight scheduling
needed to squeeze in all the exams. Most
instructors, of course, begin their exams
on the scheduled hour. The University re
quires it. Many professors, however, do
not feel obligated to limit their exams to a
two-hour period.
Some students are allowed to write three
and four hours on their final examinations.
Professors often do not call a halt to exam
writing until two complete exam periods
have gone by. We think this is unfair.
True, the professors may receive papers
more legible and better organized if they
allow their students to write for an unlimited
time. Essay type answers can be outlined
before the student even starts to write. The
students may be able to spend a half hour in
“organizing his thoughts’’ before he even
puts pen to paper.
But what of the student who can only
write for two hours because of another
exam immediately following? He must
finish his paper in two hours and be forced
to compete in grading with those who have
spent twice the time on their answers. It is
hardly fair to expect him to give as good
answers in the fleeting two hours as has
the student with an unlimited time in
which to fill his bluebook.
The officials who make the schedules for
final week well might consider the possi
bility of setting time limits on term exami
nations. If three hour exams are necessary,
then they should be so scheduled.
The Law
On page three of today’s Emerald the
rules, regulations and procedures of the Stu
dent Affairs committee and the University’s
Discipline code are printed.
These two documents include the rules
which govern student behavior and social
events on campus. The Emerald is publish
ing the two so that students can become
more familiar with what acts can bring
disciplinary action by the Office of Stu
dent Affairs or the Student Discipline
committee.
All conditions which could result in dis
ciplinary action are not covered in the two
documents because certain state laws also
apply to student conduct. In addition, an
nouncements by Student Affairs, such as the
one which resulted in the suspension of a
student because he discharged firearms in a
dormitory, can supplement the list.
We urge all students to read the code and
the listing of regulations.—(P. K.)
Added Service
An added service was provided at the end
of last term by the University library. In re
sponse to student request, Librarian Carl
W. Hintz opened the reserve book section
and first floor study rooms of the library on
the Friday evenings of the two weekends
preceding final week.
Since the library is normally open sev
en days a week for a total of 81 hours, this
concession was definitely above and be
yond the library’s obligation to provide
adequate service for University students.
Hintz, however, announced that the extra
hours were being offered only on a trial
basis.
Student response to the gesture might
have appeared disappointing to the library
staff. Barely 35 students showed up on the
first Friday evening the library was open.
The expected larger crowd made an appear
mice on the Friday immediately preceding
final week.
One must remember that the scant
crowd on the first Friday could be attrib
uted to the coinciding opening of the bas
ketball season with a double-header at
Mac court, a stone’s throw away. A few
more students were thinking about exam
inations on the second Friday the library
was open.
If the library is to continue this added
service (and we hope they will), it would
seem that the doors should remain open on
Friday and Saturday evening of the week
end immediately preceding finals, rather
than the Friday evenings of the two week
ends before exam week.
On behalf of the students who found this
service a great benefit for pre-final week
studying, we wish to thank Hintz and the
entire library staff for their responsiveness
to student opinion and their generous con
cession to those who so desperately needed
a place to study.
The TV Devil
Seen much TV lately? We watched it
quite a bit during vacation. It's a fine thing,
especially for sports events—that Rose Bowl
game was great. But having had TV in our
home town for over a year and a half we've
gotten sort of used to the thing—it no longer
holds the fascination it once did.
A lot of people haven’t seen much TV yet.
A lot of those people are on this campus, and
quite a few of them live in fraternity houses
that have or are going to install a TV set.
We wonder at the effect this will have
on grades of some of these people. From
all reports we have heard TV doesn't help
much.
Sure, we’re adults—supposed to be able
to determine for ourselves when we have
time to play and when we have to study. But
do we? Let’s face it, there are plenty of us
who don't budget our time properly, who
waste the whole term and end up with a GPA
that leaves much to be desired.
And these are just the people that you’ll
find in the living rooms watching TV. House
scholarship chairmen used to bemoan the
fact that these “borderline cases’’ would take
off for a movie at the drop of one of those
proverbial hats. Now they don't even have to
leave the house — just go downstairs and
watch the TV set.
Don’t get us wrong. We think TV is the
coming media. It has a great future and
great possibilities. But we question its
value to a campus living organization. And
we hope that those houses installing sets
will consider that bad aspect of the baby
media as well as the advantages of owning
a set.
We’re afraid it’ll show in their grades if
they don't.—(J. W.)
Footnotes...
It’s always good to get back to campus
at the beginning of each term to see the
old familiar faces and drink the old familiar
coffee, which the SU conveniently warms
over from what was left the preceding term.
If their final week free coffee doesn’t move,
they can always reheat it and sell it the
next term.
* * *
We’ve heard it said that there are a few
curs enrolled at Oregon, but Monday both
Snowbelle and Jim Dandy, campus mascots,
joined the registration lines in the Student
Union ballroom. Wonder if they are offi
cially enrolled in the UO student body.
* * *
Who is the mysterious person who studies
so late at night in Deady hall? Light is on
almost each night in one of the windows of
top floor room until even the Emerald is
locked up.
Interpreting the News
U. N. Chiefs Mission
May Alter Red Policy
By William L. Ryan
AP Foreign Nowt Analyst
The fate of Dag Hammar
skjolri's mission to Peiping prob
ably will illuminate to some ex
tent the future of Red China's
policies.
If the U. N. secretary general
succeeds in producing the prom
ise that American fliers impris
oned by Red China as spies will
be released, it will surely mean
that Peiping is of a mind to
make a big play for United Na
tions recognition.
Such a gesture would be con
sidered by the neutralist world to
be highly conciliatory and to bol
ster Peiping's claims to U. N.
membership. However, the move
would lose its value if Peiping
should continue its noisy saber
rattling over the Formosa issue.
The Red Chinese regime is to
talitarian nnd thus has a flexl
ibility in maneuvering. With such
flexibility at its command, Peip
ing would gravely disappoint the
Indians and others of the world's
neutralists if it continued to
threaten the peace of Asia by
words and deeds.
Such a course could only be
looker! upon as the willing sur
render by Red China of a golden
opportunity to push her claim to
U. N. membership.
Thus, if the Americans are to
be released, the move must be
followed up by other Peiping ges
tures which would nail down the
benefits thus acquired in the in
fluencing of world opinion.
India's Prime Minister Nehru,
a leading neutralist spokesman,
seems to be reasoning along such
lines. Here, to the Indian way of
thinking, might be a chance to
achieve something significant in
the quest for peace, a chance
which should not be booted by
Peiping.
If Nehru seems to lx> Hulking
lit H am marsk Juki's mission, tt
may be that he thinks the secre
fury general should offer some
lure to Peiping to make the
wanted gesture more attractive.
Yet the release of the Ameri
cans itself in the present circum
stances has many attractive
prospects for the Red Chinese
To the Indiana it might went in
credible that Peiping could over
look such an opportunity to make
powerful propaganda.
Surely, the Indians may re
flect, a gesture by Peiping now
would make it extremely diffi
cult for the United States, short
of using Its veto power, to keep
He<l China out of thy United Na
tions.
Peiping has had things pretty
much its own way on this issue,
which now reaches a climax with
the arrival of the world organi
zation's representative, hat In
hand, to plead for release of the
Aran leans. Peiping has made
face.
The cool reception apparently
given Hammarskjold In China,
plus the background music sup
plied by Moscow in advertising
its faith In the Chinese spy
charges against the Americans,
both can be part of the window
dressing toward making the ges
ture look magnanimous.
If there is no Peiping response
to the plea, then neutralist lead
ers can only reckon that the Ked
Chinese are not too interested in
recognition by the U N.
If that should turn out to be
so, Asians would he more nerv
ous than ever and murh of I h<
blame would rub off on Peiping.
From a standpoint of logic,
therefore, it would seem the
chances for release of the Amer
icans were rather good. The cost
would still be high.
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