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Minor Record Lables Set Folk Music Trends By MFI, KIOHN Fmcralil Columnist The other clay a folk mimic fan pointed out to me that the mi nor record labels seem to be the trend setters and the major la bels the commercialize™ of a trend that has become a fad. This opinion is not without some justification, since the Ira ditional and topical folk artists were recording on labels like Folkways, Klektra, Vanguard,j I)ecca, and Tradition long before H< A. Columbia, and Capital dis-! covered the gold in folk guitar! strings. It came as somewhat of a sur prise, then, when Columbia start ed the mass popularization of top ical and protest songs by signing Hoi) Dylan several years ago. Even more surprising to folk purists was the release a year before of an album of story songs by I’ete Soeger also on the Columbia label. This was the time when “Sloop John B” and the Kingston Trio were making big on Capital rec ords and it scorned a gamble to J many people that Columbia would deviate from the popular taste to record a virtually unknown per-, former on one hand, and a high ly controversial performer on the other. If it was a gamble on Colum-! bia s part, then it certainly paid off for both Seeger and Dylan have each released their fourth highly successful album on that, label However, I am inclined to think that it. was less of a gam ble and more of a carefully cal i-ulated risk. Remember that the reaction to | ABC-TV's Hootenany was unfa vorable from the first in many1 circles and that the primary dis satisfaction came from that pro-! gram’s blacklist which excluded Seeger from -ppearing on the show (Nat Hen toff, of the vil lage Voice, was one of the leaders of the anti-ABC-TV Hoote nany movement, if you can call it Cheating, Part II What Can Be Done About College Cheating? By MARK I.ON'O ( ullcgiate Press Service What is to hi1 done about cheat ing-' Were it not for the nature of the Air Force Academy scandal, editorial writers would probably preach the honor system As it ts. they choose to question any such system that encourages ' rat ting' on one's fellows The Columbia University study on the prevalence of cheating revealed that schools with honor systems are less apt to have a j high level of cheating than those with other arrangements for con- i trol Columbia, incidentally, is; now considering an honor sys- i tern The issue is a major one at Co lumbia and has caused some pro fessors and students to attack any plan which would imply that un policed citizens behave better than those who are supervised Columbia professor Theodore dc Bary has said that lie sees no connection "between the absence of proctors at an examination and l the presence of honor ” The National Observer, of j course, sampled collegiate atti tudes and summarized that, "Most students more or less agree that it's wrong to cheat, but it's also wrong to tattle on the fellow who does.” School Has Doubts The University of Carolina boasts the Carolina Honor Sys tern, hut the school has its doubts. A professor there reports: "For the first time in my three years of teaching at USC 1 did not have a cheating student' in any of my classes I monitored all of my quizzes. In the past the stu Letters... (Continued from punr 2) children love not their parents? If the least expected politeness or respect to the parents is strictly forbidden, how are we going to believe that Confucian ism still exist in its genuine form? On the other hand, we may not be satisfied with the words of an innocent child. A few ex tracts about jen' from the Four Books translated by Mr. James Legge may serve as certain cri teria for determining whether Confucianism is being consul- j ered partially if not all in Com munist China. "Filial piety and fraternal ; submission are the roots of j ‘jen.’ "Their persons being cultur- j cd, their families were regulat ed. Their families being regu I a ted; then their states were! rightly governed.” Their may be certain Confu cian concepts that pertain to communism, but Confucianism is never part of communism, whether or not it is in mainland China If Confucius is ever con sidered parallel to Mao Tse-tung, he may be actually being used, sadly enough, as a means only to achieve political and propa gandist ends. Chi K. Wai, Junior, Gen Scl. *‘Jen’—Humanity. Main theme of Confucianism. dents were on their honor." They are still "on their hon or” at the University of Red lands, but the UR Bulldog re ported several violations during the final exams, and declared that today, “Nothing is certain in life except death, taxes, and cheat ing" That was probably the writing of a hardened senior. The starry eyed freshman still has hope for the system In a Wake Forest College survey, a "large percen tage" of freshmen endorsed the honor idea, but only five per cent of the seniors thought it effective. A junior there defined it this way: "Teachers have the honor, we have the system." Teachers Honorable Hut are teachers all that hon orable'’ Are they blameless? One is attempted to question the in tellectual integrity of a course which can lx- passed by the re cording of insignificant details on a shirt cuf! If success in such a class is measured only by the mastery of bits of information that no one would be expected to remem ber a year later, is not a “cheat sheet" in order? How current and relevant is a history course that relies on aging exams, yellowed copies of which reside in frater nity files? Cannot university professors conceive of evaluatory procedures other than examinations? Teachers are asking themselves this question, and one at Saint Bona venture University agreed that mid term exams are a “gross absurdity." A student there as serted that, “If a teacher does not know his students in a small school like ours well enough to judge them through class partici pation, he is not worth his salt.” Size Requires Tests But the punch card shuffling in a large university requires that tests be administered to a thou sand students at a time, and that they be graded by—yes—a com puter. Mass education may be unfor tunate, but it seems to be a neces sity Where can the student find the personal challenges that build integrity when his grade might be altered more by a faulty ma chine than a sympathetic profes sor? Cheating usually is not a re sult of the "extreme pressure” college students supposedly suf fer. (Students are free of "pres sure” to the extent that most can waste at least forty hours a week.) Though a University of Wiscon sin study found cheaters to share a background of maternal over protection, it is most likely that cheating is not the result of com plex psychological difficulties Though university education is becoming a “system” that can be "beaten" by cheating, this is more a convenience than a cause. Students cheat because they are lazy. The San Jose College Spartan , Daily interviewed the students and was told by one that, “I cheat. to please my parents." "Are your ! parents happy about your cheat ing?” asked the Daily. “My par- j ents are happy with A's and B’s," | was the reply American Way? After all, pout college edito I rials, isn’t cheating the American ' way of life? What about doctored expense accounts, inaccurate tax returns, and Senator Ted Ken nedy’s ghost writer at Harvard? j One of this country’s most im-1 portanl industrialists was thrown out of college when he turned in his senior paper and inadvertent-1 !y included with it the bill from its real author. College students do cheat, and some claim to do so patriotically. Consider this assertion of Wayne ; State Daily Collegian writer Ron Seigel: “With more and better cheat- i ing, students will have time to join political groups, to study conditions in the slums, and to j investigate agencies like the De partment of Public Lighting.” The Department of Public Lighting evidently needs investi gating because someone there | cheats There are two solutions to that problem: The Department of Public Water can "rat" on the Department of Public Lighting. > or the city manager can conduct a survey in both departments. And the local paper can write i an editorial. Drakes To Meet The Drakes have scheduled a meeting for 6:30 Wednesday in the SU. They plan to discuss a function for this term, including a dance and free kegs. All mem bers are urged to attend. Annual Polar Flight TO EUROPE $450°° • Eugene to Eugene Transportation • First Night Hotel Accommodations • Also Available: Low Cost Tours, Group Fares to Japan ONLY A FEW SEATS LEFT 344-3871 Evenings Only that.) Also remember that the wide spread acceptance of folk mu sic, although it was mostly non-1 topical and non-ethnic, indicated > a significant change in record buying tastes. To Columbia’s peo ple, these indications become a commercial directive and they became the trend setters rather j than the trend followers, a unique j position for a major record com pany in folk music. RCA Cashes In RCA Victor, notably short of j good folk artists, has tried to cash in on the "ethnic-kick” (not my own phrase) by reissuing old performances on their Vintage series, starting with Woody Gu thrie’s Dust Bowl Ballads, and more recently with reissues of Lead belly and John Jacob Niles. The following recordings lead me to believe that the major rec ord companies have finally taken some initiative in folk music and have come of age: Bob Dylan, Another Side, Co lumbia CL 2193 (3 98); CS- 8993 (4.98); Times Are A-Changin’, Columbia CL-2105 ( 3 98); CS 8905 (498) Pete Seeger, I Can See a New Day, Columbia CL 2257 (3.08), CS-9057 (498); Wc Shall Over come, Columbia CL-2101 (3.98), CS-8901 (4 98) Woody Guthrie, Dust Bowl Bal lads, RCA Victor LPV-502 ( 4 98) Leadbelly, Midnight Special, RCA Victor LPV-505 ( 4 98) John Jacob Nives; Folk Balla deer, RCA Victor LPV-513 (4 98) Leadbelly, Ledbetter’s Best, Capitol, T-1821 (4.98) Although this is not a com prehensive listing of ethnic folk music available on the three ma jor labels, it does list the most sig nificant of recent releases, all within the last year. The last four must be consid ered collector’s items and their appeal is certainly more limited than the Seeger &. Dylan record ings. Seeger’s best album, inci dentally, is “I Can See a New Day” and Dylan’s best is one of his earlier ones, Freewheelin’, Columbia CL-1986. CS-8786, Au gust 1963. As the better of the two Lead belly reissues offered above, I choose the Capitol recording which contains some rare piano pieces performed by this great folk singer. 1. Now that graduation's getting close, have you given any thought to the kind of work you'd like to do? I want to work for Tlie Good of Mankind. 2. I might have suspected. I'll probably grow a beard. 3. Is it required? It helps. And I’ll certainly need a pair of sandals. 4. What do you expect to earn? All I ask is the satis faction of knowing I'm helping to Build a Better World. 5. I’ll be doing much the same thing. I’ve also lined up a job that affects society in a positive way. And if I do good, I’ll move up, and my decisions will be even more important in the scheme of things. But where’s your beard? What about sandals? 6. 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