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Editorial Opinion
Let Honor Prevail
The alternately praised and maligned classroom honor
system may get a tryout in the Mineral Industries College,
if the faculty approves.
The MI Student Council’s plan for an honor system
has been accepted by the administrative committee of the
college and will now go to the faculty for its final test.
The plan is not as liberal and ambitious as some honor
systems which have been proposed, but it Is a significant
start. The system would affect only juniors and seniors
and would be pui Into operation by curriculums within
the college.
Under the proposal, a professor would leave the room
during an examination if 85 per cent of the members of
the class agreed to the system.
The idea of an honor system probably arouses as many
hot arguments as almost any academic question possible.
Nobody seems neutral about it —either its the only decent
thing to do or else its a nice but completely unworkable
pipe dream.
Many will say that the honor system can be made to
work in some situations, but that the size c f the University
prohibits it here.
But the honor system can work here, if approached
realistically. It’s worked at other schools; and even on this
campus a professor will occasionally walk out of a class
during an exam and nothing drastic will happen. People
aie likely to be honorable if they are put on their honor.
Now here's a chance to try it out on a large scale, if
the MI faculty will approve it. The faculty members have
nothing to lose, and the result would shed considerable
light on a problem which has been kicking around too
long without adequate trial.
CPA Must Learn to Fly'
All-University Cabinet on Thursday looked somewhat
like a mother bird pushing out of her nest a fledgling
which should be learning how to fly.
Cabinet formally disassociated student government
from the Central Promotion Agency, an organization
designed to distribute publicity on request and at cost for
other campus groups.
In its fewer than half a dozen years of existence, CPA
has been anything but successful. Even Emanuel Green
berg, director of CPA, tacitly admitted this when asked
Thursday.
Greenberg asked Cabinet to approve a constitution
which mentioned no connection with student government,
but also requested that CPA be retained as a part of stu
dent government so as to have financial backing.
The constitution—CPA never has had one before—
would aid the organization in avoiding mismanagement
which had existed, Greenberg said.
Evidences of this mismanagement brought to light
at Thursdays Cabinet meeting include the facts that the
organization has not tried very hard to make itself well
known, and thus has suffered from a lack of business; that
the organization has no faculty adviser; that the organiza
tion does not have well-organized office hours.
A new constitution will give CPA a new chance to
piove itself worthy of existence. As an independent organ
ization it must make the most of that chance-or go out
of business.
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TOMORROW
Student Movies, 6 30 pm, HUB assembly
hall
Swedbodjen, 10 30 a.m , 212 HUB
Stamp Club, 2 p.m , 213 HUB
Greek Week Committee, S p m., 217 HUB
Newman Club, 7 pm., 218 HUB
Christian Fellowship, 2pm, 218 HUB
Freshman Class Advisory Board, 12 *.30 p m.,
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hall
Elections Committee, 3:30 p.m., 212 HUB
Campus Party, 2 p.m., 216 HUB
Float Parade Committee, 1 '3O pm, 212
HUB
MONDAY
College of Education Faculty, 4pm, HUB
assembly hall
Christian Science Organisation, 7 p.m..
HUB assembly hall
Christian Fellowship, 12:30 p.m., 218 HUB
UCA Display, 3 am.-11 a.m. HUB card-
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Alpha Phi Omega, 8 p.m., 214-216 HUB
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Chemist Will Lecture
Dr. Henry J. Welge, senior re
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will deliver a series of lectures
here to graduate students in tha
department of petroleum and nat
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—— Words to Spare
The Dreadful Ways
Of Bouckes Rabble
By Dick Drayne
intellectually curious—is often not easy on this campus
of engineers and agriculture students. But the greatest
danger is gradually emerging from a new source— tha
Boucke Brigade, spearheaded by their avant-garde on tha
front steps.
These business students, quite full of themselves it
seems, have taken the modern
business administration build
ing to be their personal strong
hold, talking of it constantly
and peopling its front steps
with their most ardent protec
tors
THANK YOU,
. CHARLIE
I BROWN.,
These bourgeois Boucke Men
congregate on the buildings'
front steps br
tween ea c
class, bravini
even rain am
snow to carr
through thei
meaning 1 e s
ritual. The
have eve
dared to si
up a certai
sort'of cliqm
perhaps
protect them
from the ma- dra\ne
ture glances of liberal arts stu
dents.
Needless to say, lhey try to
assert their superiority over
visitors not with logic but with
ridicule and abuse, since time
immemorial the devices of the
bully and the roustabout.
These are obviously would-be
merchants trying to reinforce
their shallow self-conceptions—
of this there can be no question.
Without the brilliant back
ground and immense erudition
of the student of the liberal
arts, these jackanapes can only
attempt to manufacture a struc
ture of meaning around their
own shallow studies, the Phil
osophy of the Adding Machine
and the Doctrine of the Stock
Market.
Alas, the attempt is rather
pitiful—it seems to the more
sensitive like trying to build
a cathedral of cinder blocks.
The student of the liberal
arts can only greet this child's
play with some mixture of tol
erance and contempt: the con-
Too many meetings are held each month for no
better reason than it has been a month since the last one.
—Bill Vaughan
Little Man on Campus wdm m-
To be a student of the liberal arts —that is to say, to ba
"Oh, he's our most popular history teacher, all right, bul
I hear hit students don’t learn much from him."
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1959
trast between his way of life
and that which he finds among
Boucka Men is too terribly
noticeable to be ignored.
Picture the scholar emerging
from the stately hollows of
Sparks Building with a subtle
but unmistakable air of self
confidence and poise. Equipped
with the learning of ages, tha
knowledge of the Ancients
seemingly clinging to him, tha
liberal arts student stands as
the symbol of the Compleat
Man. Admiring glances follow
him as he walks quietly down
Pollock Road, lost perhaps in a
deep and challenging question.
And as he arrives at Boucka
Building, as he sometimes must
through quirks of the Schedul
ing Office, what is it that greets
him? A great group of boister
ous rowdies, crowded on their
beloved steps waving and
shouting, standing as a living
affront to good taste. As ha
walks up the stairs he lives in
fear of being bodily harmed by
the constant pushing and shov
ing of the buffoons about him.
And when he finally enters
the building, where the less
violent congregate, he is sur
rounded by a swarm of little
people with dollar signs in their
eyes, running around often
without coats as though they
lived in the building. Even the
vulgar garishness of the struc
ture itself makes him wince.
But as the scholar walks on,
he knows within himself that
when the classroom days have
fallen behind him and he is
making his way in the world,
he who is contributing to the
advancement of the modern
mind will be able to laugh in
scorn at the Boucke Man, who
is doomed to sitting about doing
nothing but ... ah, nothing
but . . , ahhh . . . making
money.
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