fAGE TWO
MAROON AND GOLD
Friday, March ijjj
Maroon And Gold
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nUDAY, MARQI 26, 1065
WORDS IN MKMORII M
It Is .seldom in the long history of Elon
College tiiat the Elon faculty and the Elon
community ha.s been struck three times
within the period of a fortnight by the hands
of death, btil such has been the story within
the pa.st two weeks, during which death has
claimed Patricia Kittinger, William E. But
ler. Sr , and Mrs. Ella Brunk Smith, and
each of the three deaths has struck at the
very heart of the Elon faculty and com
munity.
The death of Patricia Kittinger, herself an
honor graduate of Elon College and the
daughter of a faculty family, left a strong
impact on the minds of the college people;
and the death of William E. Butler, Sr.,
father of Elon's veteran business manager,
also came as a shock, due primarily to the
fine contribution which his son has made
and Ls continuing to make to the progre.ss
and growlh of Elon College.
But to the older re.siden's of the Elon
College campus and community and in par
ticular to the faculty niomhers of veteran
: latus, few deaths have struck more deeply
to the heart of the college and college people
than the death of Mrs. E'/la Brunk Smith,
wife of Dr. Ix'on Ednar Smith, Sr., for .she
joined with her hu.sband in a tremendous in
fluence upon the development of the college
itself and the college community .is a whole.
She was herself a graduate of Elon College
with the Cla.ss of 1907 and was honored half
a century later when the college named her
as its "Alumna of the Year.” but it was
while i>r .Smith served for twenty-six years
as president of Elon College that she gave
most to the college and its growth. When
Dr. Smith retired from the presidencv in
1957, he paid tribute to his wife in a specini
part of his last report to the board of tru.stees.
Nothing to be said now more adequately sums
up her services than the words of Dr. Smith
hiuiwlf, which are presented below:
"I should not close my final report to
the Trustees of Elon College as President
without giving due recognition and paying
tribute to Mrs L. E, Smith for her unselfish
and untiring efforts in behalf of Elon Col
lege She has given of her time, talents and
energy, without reserve, for the college.
•- "In the dark days when we were laboring
zealoosly day after day and into the night
for the recovery of Elon College .she spared
no effort to realize our ambition and hopes
for o«ir college. During the summers of 1932,
IW, 1934 and 1935 she took care of cleaning
the buildings, putting the campus in order
and the improvements of surroundings in
general withoit a.sking or expecting any kind
or type of remuneration.
"Mrs. Smith drew the plans and specifica
tions for all the faculty houses that we have
buUt at Elon In fact, practlcallv al! the im
provements on and off the camous bear the
imprint o/ her personality and effects of
her artistic touch in making these Improve
ments. All the public programs given by the
college through the years have been built
and fa.shionad by her.
Personally, 1 could not give too great a
tribute to her interest and labors for the
advancements of our college. We owe her a
lasting debt of gratitude for her efforts and
unselfish services."
a view
from
the oak
By
MF.LVIN SHKF.VF..S
Book Store Investigation
The report of the Special Investigation
Committee on the bookstore ‘see story in
th;. isiuei which SGA President Fred Steph
enson made public three weeks ago wa-
l)rot)ably one of the best product-s of thi.-,
year'^ administration.
Drafted by Student Affairs Committee
Chairman Hon ll(xlkinson and prepared by
him ^>nd Stephenson, the report may answer
om for all the complaint of high priced
textbooks, although many students will nol
want to belie e what they read. The report
expresses the conclusion that from its iii-
vesti^ation the textbooks are priced reason
ably and in line vvith those in book stores
similar to Klon'.s.
But most everyone will agree that the
report accurately nails the real problem, that
of the attitude of the book store personnel.
The investigation was initiated by the Stu
dent Senate and sanctioned by the Student
Affairs Committee, a committee made up
of an equal number of students and faculty
meml>ers.
The committee made clear its personal
feeling toward the investigation in stating.
“We have un'iertaken this investigation and
have made recommendations in good faith
without any malice intended. It is hoped that
our study will be considered in good faith.”
The intentions of the report were ‘‘to ex
pose certain weaknesses and to recommend
wh;it we thought would be constructive and
helpful suggestions to help correct inade
quacies.”
It seems that the committee received co
operation from all areas except one, our own
book .store management. The management
‘‘did not like what the committee was doing
and refused to give certain information to a
committee repre.sentative. This action within
itself seems to point out the attitude of the
management toward the students which which
the book store .serves. On this matter, the
report said, "We cannot reconcile the exist
ing attitude of the Elon College Book Store.”
The committee is certainly to be com
mended for its outstanding report on a prob
lem which has been only too obvious to
thoie who have been customers of the store
during the past few years. The conclusions
of the repirt .seem to be well based and
the recommendations sound
Textbook Rentals
While on the topic of book stores and text-
book-s, this reported received a news release
from River Fall. Wi.sconsin, where it is re
ported that students of nine Wiscon«in State
Universities are renting textbooks rather than
buying them. The following release and the
program which it reports on may be worth
consideration:
Renting in.stead of buying textbooks is
saving students at the nine Wisconsin State
Universities well over a million dollars this
year, the Board of Regents office in Madison
reports.
At the State University, students may
either rent or buy textlxxiks assigned for
their courses. Nearly all students rent their
books at a cost of $6 or $8 a semester,
rather than buy the assigned texts at an
average cost of $35 to $40. For the year,
the average .saving is about $60 per student.
Because of the rental system, there is no
market in current used texts on State Uni
versity campuses. Where there is a market
in u.sed textbooks, students seldom recover
more than one-third of the cost of new
books after completing their courses.
Assuming that all students bought text;
and sold them for one third, the rental system
results in a saving of about $40 a year for
each of the 30,000 students enrolled this
year on the nine state campuses, or $1,200,000.
For several weeks during each semester,
WSU students have an opportunity to buy any
of the textbooks they ar« using at a discount.
Very few purchase their texts, the State
Universitie* report.
“The Informer"
The above title appeared over an editorial
in the March 13th is.sue of “The Saturday
Evening Post on the Air Force Academy's
honor system, and the editorial it.self follows:
There can be no difference of opinion on
the gravity of the cheating scandal at the
Air Force Academy. It is outrageous that
exams were being bought and sold among
•scores of students — students who, inci
dentally, were being trained for the acutely
sensitive task of operating the nuclear strike
forces of the future. At the same time, we
wonder if the Academy is right in maintain
ing an "honor" system that punishes any
student who fails to inform on his fellow
student. Few children are brout'ht up to treat
tattling as s)nonymous with honor; and the
"stool pigeon,” however necessary ti Jie
police, is held in contempt by society. Rarely,
indeed, has the informer occupied a prestigi
ous place in American life. We believe the
Academy should re-evaluate Its means of
enforcing the bonor sfstect/’ '
( HOIK \M) (^L AK lET OFFER CAMPUS COM EKT
I
The Elon College Choir, which was heard with pleasure in its
.inr.u il piiiig concert in Whitley .\uditorium last Sunday night, March
21.st, is pictured above, with its more than for;y stuJint sin^;-rs Th:
!' IL Uir..!;, a .'.'■.riej ,irogr;.m that inciu;l,'d the compositions of
' i-.? ,1:., ;;.ch. /'.inL; Itlli, B'r.’tlio.eii. di Lasso, Johnson and Hansen,
I'..'- 'vith ftlk song' of England and Czechoslovaki.a, was gi.en under
ih.- direction of Prof. Wondell Banholf, pictured left, director of choral
:ini. ic in thy Elon miisic depaitmjnl. .-Mso featured in the concert was
a Rioup of selections by the Elon Male Quartet, which i; p;-Hired below,
i th Ou?.rt?!, pir'ured left tori^ht, are Randy Sm.art, Fred
. ^... Oscor Fowler and Wayne Kanoy.
JUDICIAL OBSERVER
Excellent Food For Thought
"So are they all, all honourable those who admitted cheating, 57 per
men . . .” cent had average grades of C-minus
The question of honor codes is a or lower. However, 37 per cent of
problem shared by many colleges the “A" students polled admitted
across the nation. ; cheating at some point in college.
An article which appeared in the | The stricter the classroom rules
February 5, 1965 issue of "Life" i against cheating — a teacher con
magazine revealed some startling j stantly watching, assigning seats
statistics resulting from the most i staggering seats, refusing permis-
comprehensive study ever made of sion to leave the room, etc. — the
cheating among college students, more students are likely to cheat.
The study was published recently j Cheating occurs most often on
by the Bureau of Applied Research I tests using multiple choice or true
at Columbia University. | and faLs-: questions, least often
Five thousand students from 99 when essay-type questions are used,
college and universities were quest-1 It is most prevalent in courses
oncd in confidence, and the follow- where frequent tests are given and
ing information formed part of the
report:
Nearly half of the students quest
ioned admitted they had engaged in
where the standardized tests are
given year after year or to differe.at
classes in the same year.
Cheating has a direct relationship
some form of cheating since enter- to study habits. Only 42 per cent of
ing college. | the students who study for 30 hours
Cheating is more prevalent ->t j or more per week admitted to cheat-
large schools than at sm.all schools j ng. Among the cheaters 57 per cent
and occurs more commonly in large I study only 19 hours a week or less
clas.ses than in small ones. Students in career-oriented fields
The highest proportion of cheaters like business and engineering are
68 per cent) is found among medi-^more likely to cheat than students
,x;re students who treat grades light- 'f bnijuaqe. In between are students
ly themselves but who are under specializing in the sciences or the
great pressure from their p.are/1 arts.
to get good grades. Students with The social life of the students has
poor grades tend to cheat more a bearing on thsir tendency to cheat,
often than better students. Among Only 41 per cent of the students
who said they did not play cards
or watch TV wound up in the
cheating category, while 56 per cent
of those who spend five or more
hours a week in these pursuits ad-
^mitted to cheating. Students who
date regularly cheat more than those
who do not.
Ninety per cent of the students —
including many who admit to cheat
ing — said they are opposed to the
practice on moral grounds. Over
half of the students — again in
cluding some cheaters — believe it
is far worse to cheat than to report
another student for cheating. Of
those who hold this view, 16 per
cent would report even a close
friend to the authorities if they
caught him cheating, and 51 per
cent said they would either ignore
a friend or turn him down if he
asked for help during an exam.
Cheating is most prevalent at
schools which try to control it by a
joint student-faculty system of mon
itoring. It is slightly less common
at schools where the faculty alone
tries to cope with the problem. And
it occurs far less often at colleges
with an honor system, in which the
students themselves do the policing
and enforcing.
I
the
other
view
By
RICHARD GCNKLE
Of the many suspected violations turned
into the Honor Court this year, only two have
gone so far as a trial. Does this mean there
has been a decrease in cheating, or scuttle
butt has it in some circles, that it is ban'
to receive a conviction in the Honor Court
I will answer the convictions point by point.
Many of us are in classes which are rather
large, and sometimes all of the seats art
taken up. This situation presents a problem
when a quiz or test is to be given. If .
vacant room cannot be found at the time
the test is to be held, we are left no choicr
but to take ihe test in crowded quarters, and
the chances for violations and suspicion in
crease under such conditions.
Careful investigation by the Honor Court
has shown many of these suspicions to be
groundless. A thoughtless or careless student
will often bring into the classroom materials
other than a pen, pencil and a bluebook.
These very actions are a cause for suspicion.
Many a student has checked his mailbox
before a test and has then taken a letter
with him into the test. A folded letter can
look very much like a stack of note cards,
and so can a pack of tissues and the like.
Many an unpleasant situation could be avoided
if all students would heed the Honor tkiurt
rules and refrain from taking into a test
anything other than a pen or pencil and
bluebook.
Some violations do take place during a
test and are ignored by fellow students, for
some of the students feel that it is not right
to tattle on a fellow studen. They have been
taught not to tattle tale since they were small,
and it goes against the grain to report a
violation. Their silence only hurts themselves,
for by allowing an offender to get away with
cheating they cheapen their own grade and
the degree from Elon C’ollege. If the cheater
gets an "A” and the other student gets only
a “C” on the course, then the other student
has only himself to blame for being lower
on the totem pole. His grades will be looked
at by future employers, and those grades
will speak in part for the student’s lack of
initiative and success here at Elon.
Sometimes there is a case in which the
professor turns in a student. He has pond
ered this question for hours to the point where
he is almost sure of guilt. Sometimes the
professor is right in suspecting guilt, but
sometimes he makes a mistake too, or per
haps the evidence is not conclusive. Natur
ally the professor may feel resentful if the
Honor Court does not see eye to eye with
him. and that is a quite human trait. If he
is a big man, then he will accept the decision
in good faith, but if he is a small man he
may take the decision personally. The same
can be said of any one who is very sure
of himself.
One of the things in particular that inter
ested me was the fact that the majority
of the cases investigated by the Honor Court
inx'olved freshmen. It thought it was reveal
ing that most of the freshmen involved had
not read the Student Hand Book. They knew
little about the Court or the operation of the
Student Government Association. They were
apathetic and for the most part were headed
for the “other” Dean’s List.
We need a little better orientation system,
not only for the Honor Court but for the
Student Government Association as a whole.
At William and Mary the Honor Court is
presented to the students in such a way as
to make a lasting impression. During the
orientation there, students are led in small
groups into a candle-lit room, where a mem
ber of the Honor Court proceeds to explain
the traditions and the spirit of the Honor
System. The high point of the ritual is when
the student takes the oath and signs his
pledge card. At Carolina the Honor Court
holds a mock trial for the freshmen. Our
Honor Court plans to hold a mock trial some
time this semester.
Another device used by other college Honor
Courts is a pamphlet. Some of the pamphlets
are very simple, while others are more elab
orate. One of the best ones I have seen was
issued by the Honor Court at Brigham Young
University. It is a profusely illustrated booklet
of some fifteen pages done in several colors-
Perhaps we should consider this particular
device as a permanent part of the Honor
Court System. We could start out with a
simple pamphlet, working up to a more elab
orate one in time. Various ideas on the sub-.
been expressed in discussing this
problern. Another idea that may deserve con
sideration is the sending of a letter to all
^udents during the summer in which the
onor Court and Honor System are explained.
me colleges a«d universities have bad con
siderable success with such a plan.
Daffynitions ^ |
sta'lT^f ^ - A person oW enougfi t.
vonna ^ ^^^e programs on TV and
youi^ enough to enjoy them.
~ Something that cost $10 a
years ago and now costs $15 to fix.