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.Committee
Honesty in
Cheating in examinations at the College is being studied by the
subcommittee on academic honesty of the Senate committee on
student affairs. ■• , ' - -V
The committee’s report on its findings will not be ready, until
at least next month, Gerhard E. Ehmann/ associate professor of
education and chairman of the
corqmittee, said yesterday, point
ing to a pile of responses from
other schools and organizations
to questions, about what they have
done on academic honesty.
Says Cooperation Needed
This material is being studied
by.the five members—three fac
ulty and two students —of the
committee. They will hold an
other meeting, Ehmann said, be
fore their report goes to the stu
dent affairs committee.
The question of cheating is not
only a question of student morals,
but also a question of proper de
visiftg, administration, and grad
ing of examinations, Ehmann said.
The problem of cheating must be
solved by the cooperation of both
students and faculty, he said.
The committee is studying
what is being done on this and
other campuses and will make
recommendations for action that]
it hopes will lessen the degree of
cheating at the College.
Committee Named
Five Judges
Named for
Talent Show
' Five judges have been named
to select the winners of the 13th
annual all-College Talent Show,
sponsored by the Penn State
Club.
The judges for the show, to be
held at 8 p.m. Friday in Schwab
Auditorium, are William W. Ham
ilton, assistant professor of speech;
Warren S. Smith, associate pro
fessor of dramatics; J. W. Dun
lop, associate professor of music
and director of the Blue Band;
Frank J. Simes, dean of men; and
Patricia A. Thompson, assistant
to the .dean of women.
The judges will choose five fin
alists from the ten contestants
and will select the first, second
and third places from audience
applause.
Featured in the talent sliow are
Michael Belgio, tenor; Peggy
Crooks, soprano; McNally and
Mayberry, dance duet; Tony Mar
co, .trumpet soloist; Mellow Aires,
comedy quartet; led Garbrick
Trio, instrumental group; Celeste
McDermott, tap dancer; the Col
legians, quartet; the Apple Broth
ers, comedy act; and Morton
Akins' and his five man pop bot
tle act.
First prize is $25, second prize,
$l5, and third prize, $lO.
Dick Marsh and his hand will
play before and after the talent
show .and during intermission.
John Matkowsky will he emcee
for the talent show. General ad
mission tickets are on sale /for
85 cents at the Student Union
desk in Old Main.
Violator Sent
Before Dean
The case of a student who com
mitted his third offense was sent
to the dean of men by Tribunal
last night, with the recommenda
tion that he be put on office pro
bation for the rest of the semes
ter.
The student was reported illeg
ally parked in the service drive
of Hamilton Hall. He explained
he was ill at the time and had
intentions of taking the vehicle
to pick up his ROTC uniform.
A second case involving illegal
parking in a West Dorm service
area resulted in a second offender
being fined $2 and put on a two
week probation. He said he lived
in Hamilton Hall but had a park
ing permit for the Nittany area.
Chairman James Schulte pointed
out that despite the inconvenience
of such an arrangement, it is nec
essary to give preference to com
muting students for campus per
mits near classrooms.
The court heard nine first and
three second .offenders. A''total'of
$l5 was levied’ in- fines and two
violators .were given warnings.
STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 18, 1953
Reviews
Exams
Widespread reports of sales of
final examinations for the fall
semester are still undergoing in
vestigation by the School of Lib
eral Arts.
Other members of the Senate
committee are Edwin W. Gamble
Jr., instructor in music; Carolyn
McElroy, eighth semester educa
tion major; William Walters,
eighth semester journalism, ma
jor; and Henry L. Yeagley, asso
ciate professor of physics.
ASAE Movie Tonight
A full-length color film, “Ven
ezuela Moves Ahead,”, wi 11 be
shown. at. the American Society
of/Agricultural Engineers meet
ing at 7 tonight in 105 Agricultural
Engineering. The meeting is open
to the public.
Speeches, Services
Mark RILW Today
The Rev. Haromon M. Gehr, .minister of the Universalist Church
of the /Restoration, Philadelphia, will address the Penn State and
Centre County Unitarian Fellowships at 8 tonight in Thompson
Hall lounge.
The combined meeting
Accident Victims
Reported Improved
Two faculty members involved
iii a two-caf collision Feb. 8 near
Dubois are reportedly improved,
although still confined to their
beds. ■
Dr. Donald G. McGarey, asso
ciate professor of education, who
suffered a hip injury, was moved
to Geisinger Hospital, Danville,
for observation and x-rays.
William'Lockhart, graduate as
sistant in the School of Education,
who sustained a fractured nose
and lacerations, was moved from
the Maple avenue Hospital in Du
bois to his home. He will be con
fined to his .bed for at, least a
week due to-a deep cut on his
knee, his wife reported. ,
Pitt-State Grid Movies
To Be Shown March 5
Films of the last Pitt-Penn
State football game will be shown
at 7:30 p.m. March‘s in 119 Os
mond,' according to Richard Craf
ton, chairman of the Blue Key hat
society committee sponsoring the
showing.'
The movie was originally, set
for tomorrow but was changed at
the Religion-in-Life-Week com
mittee’s request. A charge of 25
cents a person will be made. Re
ceipts will go to the Campus
Chest. 1
FOR A BETTER
Excuse Problem
To Be D iscussed
Goldin Sees
Essential to
By PEGGY McCLAIN
If man is to have a stabilized
society, he shall need religious
institutions. Rabbi Judah Goldin
said last night at the final of a
series of Religion-In-Life Week
lecture discussion panels. We
cannot indulge in intellectual con
cepts of religion without'relating
these concepts to some religious
institution, he said.
. Rabbi Goldin spoke to a small
audience on “The Student in the
Church and Synagogue.”
. The concept that a student faces
a problem in relation" to ' his
church is overemphasized, the
Rabbi said.. There is a problem
of an individual’s relation to his
religion. Man makes use of reli
gious institutions to relate him
self with this problem. Students
are included in this relation, but
are not exclusive possessers of it,
he said.
The Rabbi said that as a church
or synagogue is made up of hu
man beings, so will it suffer from
all the limitatons that'other hu
man institutions possess. The
heartbreak is not that the church
is. less than superior to other com
munities, but that-it does not al
ways produce the best results
from its raw material, he said.
In speaking of the laws and
discipline that sectarian institu
tions impose on their members,
the Rabbi said there is no organ
ization in this wbrld which, when
taken seriously by its constituents,
does not carry “do’s” and
“don’t’s.” When a tradition tries
to interfere with its people’s lives,
is being held in accordance with Religion-
In-Life Week. The meeting is
open to the public. •
• The Rev. Gehr has held the
offices of president of the Uni
versalist Ministerial Association
for two terms, secretary of the
Pennsylvania Universalist Con
vention, and the chairmanship of
the .Pocono Convocation on Faith
and Order. He has been associate
editor of “The Journal of Liberal
Religion” and contributor to the
“Cr'ozer Quarterly” and “The
Christian Leader.”
Ash Wednesday services of the
RILW program begin at 6:45 this
morning with services at the
Grace Lutheran Church and mass
es at Our Lady of Victory Church
at 6:30 and 8 a.m. Services will
be held at St. Andrew’s Episcopal
Church at' 7 and 10:45 a;m.
' A discussion on “The Student
in the Church” will be held by
Professor Robert Mickey of Frank
lin and Marshall College and
Professor Mark Ebersole of El
mira College, from 4 to 5 p.m.
today in Hamilton Hall lounge.
Andrew W. Case, professor of
fine arts, will speak to the New
man Club on “Religious Prob
lems” at 7:30 tonight in 107 Wil
ard.
Union lenten services .will be
held at the Presbyterian Church
at 8 tonight.
RILW fireside discussions will
continue in fraternities and dor
mitories from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Lead
ing tonight’s discussions will be
Professor Ebersole at Tau Kappa
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INN STATE
Rabbi Judah Goldin
Dean ■ of Aggadah
it proves interest in their wel
fare. A religious tradition that
seems relaxed will evaporate, he
said.
, The danger of religion as a fash
ion is predominant today, .Rabbi
Goldin said. People are prepared
to discuss their religion from a
philosophical viewpoint. However,
they are embarrassed when faced
with the question of committing
themselves to the laws of that
institution’s discipline, he said. 1
Identification with a church or
synagogue should, not serve as an
ideal end, but as a representation
of faith, the Rabbi said.
Open Houses
Set for May 2
By ISC Board
The College’s undergraduate
schools, with the exception of the
Schools of Agriculture and Home
Economics, will hold their com
bined open houses May 2, accord
ing to agreement by student
council presidents at the Inter-
School Coordinating Board.
The agriculture open house has
been set for April 25, to supple
ment a livestock show planned
for the same date. The home eco
nomics open house' will take place
April 17.
Suggestions for the joint school
open house made by the board
called for separate booklets to be
printed for each school open
house, and circulars publicizing
each open house to be sent at the
sam,e time to high schools invit
ing juniors and seniors to attend.
The changing of the ISCB con
stitution so that a ninth member
representing,, the proposed new
business school, would be accept
ed on the council was also dis
cussed. Douglas Schoerke, presi
dent of the Liberal Arts student
council- was named to make plans
to be presented to ISCB concern- :
ing the tentative establishment of
a constitution for the business i
school student council. ]
Architectural Engineer
Awarded Scholarship
Robert Passmore, fourth semes
ter architectural engineering ma
jor, has been awarded the Class
of 1941 scholarship for $lOO.
Passmore is the first student to
receive the grant, which is given
on the basis of scholarship, char
acter, and financial need.
Church
Society
Regulations
Are Questioned
By Students
The problem of class ex
cuses for students confined to
their rooms while ill will be
brought before the Senate
committee on student affairs
at its meeting tomorrow after
noon, Wilmer E. Ken worthy,
director of student affairs,
said yesterday.
. Students have been question
ing the practical application of an
undergraduate regulation that al
lows official excuses for illness
to be issued only to students con
fined in the Infirmary.
Students may be excused by in
structors, according to the regula
tions, for illness not requiring hos
pital confinement. Such excuses
are on an individual be
tween student and instructor and
depend on the student’s presen
tation of his case and the instruc
tor’s policy.
Glenn Extends Help
Kenworthy said he did not be
heve that the new rules, insti
tuted last year, are ineffective.
The rules, having been passed by
the College. Senate, had the ap
proval of instructors who are
members of the Senate.
director
of the College Health Service, told
students sent to their rooms to re
cuperate to report to him if they
had trouble in getting excused by
instructors of classes missed dur
ing the illness, Kenworthy said.
He added that he has heard of- no
case in which a student has not
been excused.
Kenworthy also said the Col
lege Health Service is admitting
all students who are sufficiently
ill, m their opinion, to require
hospitalization. Those who are ill,
but not enough to require confine
n»fn t in ihe Infirmary, have been
told to go to bed in_ their rooms.
Instructors Not Burdened
i. The ruling that no excuses be
issued students sent to their
rooms is not a Health Service rul
mg, but an undergraduate regu
lation set down by the Senate;
Kenworthy said that having an
instructor rule on excuse-or-no
excuse for illness was not putting
too much of a burden on the in
structor.
Previous to adoption last year
of the new rules on excuses, the
College Health Service granted
excuses to students for any ill—
ness, whether requiring hospital
confinement or not. These excuses
did not have to be honored by
instructors as in the case of the
present day official excuses issued
to Infirmary patients.
FFA to Hear
First President
Leslie Applegate, first national
P£ e sident of the Future Farmers
of America, will be the main
speaker at the FFA silver anni
versary banquet at 6:30 p.m. Fri
day m the Nittany Lion Inn.
The banquet, sponsored by the
Penn State chapter of the FFA,
the only collegiate chapter in the
sttae, will be held on the eve of
FFA Week honoring the 25th an
niversary of the organization’s
founding.
Applegate, now an apple grow
er from Freehold, N.J., was na
tional president from 1928 to 1929.
Approximately 200 guests are
expected at the banquet, includ-
i n ® Feteroff, state adviser
for FFA, and LaVerne Applegate,
daughter of the guest speaker and
a student at the College.
Students may obtain banquet
tickets at the Agricultural Educa,
tion Building.
FIVE CENTS