UNIVERSITY OF NEBB.
LIBRARY
MAR I 19(32.
Vol. 75, No. 72
The Daily Nebraskan
Thursday, March 1, 1962
Council Re-Tables
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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.
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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.
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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-
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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.
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