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UNIVERSITY OF NEBB. LIBRARY MAR I 19(32. Vol. 75, No. 72 The Daily Nebraskan Thursday, March 1, 1962 Council Re-Tables r r Nolon's Favors NSA Affiliation; Campi us Editor's Note: This is the' first of a series of stories concerning the United States National Student As sociation by senior staff writer Wendy Rogers. To day's report deals with the current situation centering on a motion for the afflia tion of the University with NSA. By WENDY ROGERS "In a case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side." Euripedes. Dissension exists now with in the University community, centered about a motion made by Public Issues Chair man, John Nolon, at a recent Student Council meeting. The motion calls for the affiiitatton of the United States National Student As sociation (NSA) with the Stu dent Council. Nolon's stated purpose for proposing the issue was to "force formation of a phil osophy of student govern ment." It is desirous, he noted in a recent study session on NSA, that University students take an Interest in the mo tion, and Inform themselves as to how much the programs and policies of NSA would help or hinder the University and its student body. According to a recent state ment by Council president Steve Gage, as the resolution stands now, the Student Coun cil vote will determine wheth er or not the University will affiliate. Said Gage, "This method of deciding by Student Council vote was tested Feb. 21, at Adlai Stevenson to Talk At Midwest Model UN The Collegiate Council for the United Nations (CCUN) is holding the Midwest Model United Nations (Midwest MUN) March 29-31 to stimu late interest in the CCUN and to inform students on the realistic operations of the UN. The keynote speakers for the Midwest MUN will be Ad lai E. Stevenson, U.S. rep resentative to the UN; Dr. Frank Porter Graham, mem ber of the United Nations Secretariat; Pr. Zelma George, a former member of the U.S. mission to the UN, and Mr. John Boettiger, past president of the CCUN. There will be Model ses sions of the General Assem bly, a session of the Security Council, and various commit tee meetings. to simulate the activities, of the United Na tions. ' The Midwest MUN which will be held at Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. is designed to give the partici pants an opportunity to gain a practical view of the UN through simulated operation. The participating schools are assigned delegations which they will represent while at the Midwest MUN. The University participants: H. P. T i p.n i s, Margerethe Plum, Joel Lundak, James Degree Applications Today will be the last day applications for advanced degrees will be accepted. Students expecting to re ceive bachelors, advanced" degrees, or teacher's -certificates should apply for them at the Registrar's Of fice, Administration Build ing, by 4:30 p.m. r r Council in Dissension the regular meeting, by two Council members who tried to bring the resolution from the table to amend it. "Their amendment presum ably was to place the final decision in the hands of the students," Gage said. The motion to bring the resolution from the table was defeated 19-7. In yesterday's regular Coun cil meeting, a similar amend ment to place the final deci- Wendy Rogers, a sophomore in Arts and Sciences major ing in journalism is a member . Chi Omega. She is begin ning her second semester on the Dail, Ne braskan as a senior staff writer. She is vice - presi d e n t in charge of publicity for the All Uni versity Fund. She is also the recipient of the G o 1 d Miss Rogers Key in journalism, and re cently won sixth place in the sports division of a national journalism contest. sion on affilitation with NSA in the hands of the students was again defeated, this time by a vote of 13-12. "However," Gage said, "this question is far from set tled the resolution may be removed from the table at a later date or amended when it is taken from the table April 11." In his proposal to affiliate the University with the NSA, Moore, and Ted Munster, act ing chairman, will represent Nationalist China at the conference. Gallup Poll Notes Campus Cheating; Students Think 'Okay If Not Caught Editor's Note: This is the second In a series of stories concerned with the problem of cheating during examina tion periods at the Univer--sity. Today's report deals with faculty and student opinion on the problem and the various methods of cheating. By TOM KOTOUC Although 75 per cent of American high school and college students know that cheating on exams exists, 70 per cent say they will not report it, according to a Gallup poll taken for the Dec. 23, 1961 issue of Sat urday Evening Post. Seventy-two per cent of junior and senior college men and 78 per cent of junior and senior college women say they will not re port cheating, because, as the poll states, "American youth are not really con v i n c e d that classroom cheating is dishonest." But what is the attitude of University students toward cheating here? The consensus of opinion of many students was that cheating was "okay" if you got away with it." Most agreed that It was the teacher's responsibility to catch the cheater, and not the student's to report him. But most agreed that the thing that "really 'hurt them about cheating" was to watch a group of stu dents nearby cheat in an otion Nolon had moved that the resolution be tabled until Ap ril 11 so that students and Council members may study the proposal. The date was also proposed so that "an objective study committee could prepare a study guide to aid the Coun cil members and any inter ested students in making up their mind." April 11 was also about the only practical date available. An earlier date would not give the study committee suf ficient time to prepare a com prehensive report. A later date would create a conflict with the spring general elec tion. Gage pointed out that the conflict in the second reason would be of two types: The actual campaigning for the spring election would have detracted from the time and objectivity available for consideration of the resolu tion," and, "If the final decision of affiliation with the NSA were to be decided by the student body at the spring election, then sufficient time for adver tising the issue to them and sufficient time for all inter ested students to become ac quainted with the study to be decided by the Student guide prepared by the com mittee would not be avail able." Another alternative, Gage explained, would "be that the resolution be placed on the ballot for a student vote in the Spring Election, after the resolution has been acted on by the Council. On or before April 11 the Council could act on the mo tion as it now reads it could pass or not pass it, or It could amend the resolution so as to refer it to the stu dent body for final approval. The consensus of opinion among Council members, Gage said, is that they want more information before they take action of any type." exam while they did not, and they received a lower grade on the exam than the cheaters. "I know of several cheat ing syndicates on campus," said Roger Dodson, presi dent of Residence Associa tion for Men. "Individuals in these groups spend much of their time in the undergraduate Syndicates For Campus Cheating departments procuring copies of hour exams and finals which they offer for sale." Students obtain copies of upcoming hour exams from wastebaskets when careless instructors, assistants or secretaries toss dittos or poor copies of the exam when running it off, Dod son said. "Sometimes students will wait around an office for hours until the professor or secretary with whom the instructor has left the exam leaves. Then the student rushes in the office and copies off the questions of the exam." Dodson also told of groups of individuals who will "ghost write" themes or papers for a fee. Students at the Univer M , i , A I lAti ltf :'!'. ; j - f :j b t I z tin ?U" ta n . ' Wm ft m it v I i I $ Mmm CAN HEAR Freezing cold weather the last few days sent temperature marks to rec ord low levels for so late in the winter. Also, the frigid readings slowed down campus activity with students and faculty remaining indoors and venturing outside only long enough to get back inside. The usual sidewalk gossipers were no where to be seen and crowds gathered around the warm, steaming coffee pots in the Student Union most of the day. While the academic members of t h e campus community tried to keep from going anywhere near the outside, the Uni- niprivag3 1153 IJS JZ&?3 j . I j iff vi'fp i If-1'- J;-i .. ' KEEP MOVING . . . IT'S COLD OUT HERE sity have devised elaborate methods of cheating, as re vealed through student in terviews. One popular method in philosophy and economics is to fill out essay questions in a blue book ahead of the exam, assuming that the student has in some man ner learned what the ques tions will be. Another is for two stu dents to drop their exams on the floor at the same time, exchanging exams as they pick them up. Each will have filled out only those answers which he is sure of (used in multiple choice exams.) Girls who have a sudden need for Kleenex during an exam often have to rum mage through their purses for quite a while to find it, at the same time studying crib notes which they have stuffed in the purse. Students who take consid erable pains to unwrap chewing gum during a test may 'be concentrating on the notes that they have written on the gum wrap per. One student told of re moving the workings from a wrist watch and replac ing the watch crystal with a magnifying crystal. Dur ing the language exam he unrolled the scroll on his v.atch stem "until he came to the word he did not know. Another student suggested the use of a miniature cam NSA Motion THE COLD SNAP, SNAP .versity maintenance crews remained on the job. Most apparent of this activity was the Power Plant which appeared to be working overtime as black clouds of smoke and white clouds of vapor rose into the almost motionless air. Weather reports kept reminding stu dents of what their cold faces already told them and gave far from encouraging reports about today. One of the unex plainables that crop up during times like these is the Union report that there was a marked up swing in purchases of fro zen products (ice cream, etc.) yesterday. era to photograph exams which the department kept for the next year, selling negatives of the exams to next years students at a considerable profit. Elaborate steps have been taken by professors at the University to prevent stu dent cheating. . In the department of chemistry, copies of a fi: Superior Students Not Hurt nal or hour exam are not run off until a half-hour before the test is given, said a graduate assistant in the department. The master copy is usual ly kept behind three locked doors in a safe until the in structor is ready to run off the exam. In the mathematics de partment, after questions are typed by the secretary, all notes are destroyed and copies of the exam are tak en home by the head of the department or stored in a safe, said a graduate stu dent. ' In a number of student interviews, most admitted that it was the poor student who cheated to remain in school. A lot of "dry labbing" in science and business organ ization goes on, said one student, and others agreed. "Although some students consider the use of a test file cheating, I do not," said another student. "It is the professor's responsibili ty not to use the same fi nal over and over when such a practice invites cheating. By refusing to make up a new final every semester, the professor is both lazy and unjust." Just because we are Uni versity students we are not excused from our obligation to society, said one stu dent. Some, however, must be lieve they have no social obligation when they refuse to use their minds and de velop their creative ability, instead of developing their ability in fraud and plagiar ism, he added. Most students admitted that the cheating student did not hurt the superior student's grades by his ac tions, but hurt the average or medium student who hovered between a 4 or 5 on a test scale. "The scale especially hurts students in basic ROTC when so many cheat by exchanging answers be tween one section and an other." Interviews with ; Maj. George B. Haag, Comman dant of Cadet, AFROTC, showed that average grades rose with each suc cessive section taking a test in basic ROTC. Pro, Cons Of Affiliation Under Study In Committee By MIKE MACLEAN The Student Council voted 13-12 Wednesday not to take u motion on Student Council affiliation with the National Student Association (NSA) from the table until April 11. Last week a similar motion was defeated 19-7. The motion was made by Herbie Nore, representative from Arts and Science Col lege. 'My intent was to amend the motion so a campus vote would be held on whether to affiliate with NSA," said Miss Nore. The Council did, however set up a study group, with one Council co-chairman and one non-Council co-chairman, to make an objective study of the pros and cons of. affili ating with NSA. Jeanne Garner and John Abrahamzon are the co-chair men. Other members are: Stephen Abbott, Roger Ander son, Nancy Butler, Vicky Cull en, Bob Cunningham. Kathy Madsen, Larry Roos, Darrel Rogers, Doug Thorn and Tom Wright. Council member Chip Kuk- lin gave a short talk to the members on People-to-Pec-ple. "We have the intial en thusiasm, now we have to keep it," said Kuklin. "This is a movement, an idea, a concept, not an organization. Through education we hope to make it a national move ment," he said. The Student Council elected Bob Grimit as the new Coun cil representative from the Law College. Gnmit will be re placing Larry Myers who was removed from the Council for unexcused absences. Grimit emphasized a need to revamp the system by which the Council representatives are selected. It was announced the Col legiate Council for the Unit ed Nations has filed a letter of intent with the Council. This letter now makes it leg al for them to act on this campus as an organization. Gage said. Don Witt, chairman of the elections committee, an nounced two upcoming elec tions. They are the March 7, May Queen primary and the March 14, AWS election. He also stated that the commit tee would try to borrow or rent election booths and bal lot boxes to improve campus voting conditions. Steve Gage, president, asked for applications for a committee to study the prob lems connected with student representation on the Coun cil. These applications can be made by any Umversity stu dent. Students interested in applying should write a re quest and put it in the Stu dent Council box on the first floor of the Student Union, or call Gage at his home ad dress. A. E. Sheldon Fellowship Hits $15,000 The $15,000 mark has been reached in grants contributed to the University Foundation in the memory of Addison E. Sheldon, former director of the Nebraska State Historical Society. The late Mr. Sheldon, who served as director of the Ne braska Society for 40 years, -spent his life writing and gathering history of Nebras ka. The fund was established and is being increased an nually by his daughter, Ruth Sheldon, formerly of Lincoln and now of Washington, D.C. The fund which maintains the Sheldon Nebraska History Fellowship has already made several contributions to the history of the state. They in clude: A master's thesis (and a doctoral under way) by Henry G. Waltmann of Wav erly, la., on the subsistence policy of the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail agencies and. work on the Interior Depart ment and Indian policy of the War Department. i