Bee, 1938-02-04

              the bee dlume 18 «^^. 4 8 price five cents number 16 buffalo n y friday february 4 1938 mid-year cribbing causes protest campus leaders decry unfair exam tactics unprecedented wave of chiseling stir faculty and student bee reporter investigates examination conditions gets inside facts a wave of protest resulting from an alleged in crease in cribbing during the recent mid-year exami ntaions was loosed on campus this week aa final grades were announced evidence that cribbing which has not been an issue on the buf falo campus or many years had reared up in an increasing amount was corrobated by lectures given by several professora at their first classes of the new semester as well as by general student com ment a prominent instructor in the busluebb administration school told his class on monday that he would discontinue the use of out lines in his course because "... too many verbatim definitions and pas sages had appeared on final exam ination papers to allow him to bo lievo that they were all written without the aid of cribs other professors were quoted as having addressed their students in a simi lar manner members of the student body who volunteered their information to the bee claimed that they had observed positive examples of cribbing in examinations which in cluded criminology government accounting 101 201 and 301 french literature new view points statistics business policy freshman english business law elelmentary economics bvolu tlion genetics and chemistry to name but a few the information volunteered to the bee could not in any manner be construed as sour grapes or an effort of a certain group to alibi for low grades in fact the most violent objectors to the toleration of unfair practices in examinations are prominent campus leaders whose sole interest is the eltml committees and band selected for norton anniversary dance peck bad boy signed to play at formal affair february 11 sweet but h<jt swingy tunes formal wear and refreshments including a large birthday cake to be cut by one of the u b dignitaries will all be included on the program for the fourth an 1 nlversary dance of norton union one week from tonight the committee under the lead ership of sidney mccrosltey gen eral chairman has secured peck's bad boys of jamestown to play — a twelve-piece band that although new is going places gathered together only three years ago by jack peck while still in high school they became popu lar almost immedlatoly playing for many high school dances and the smaller affairs of the city recent ly they have been playing in the crystal ballroom of the hotel jamestown and have been engaged to play at both amherst college and colgate university thin month sidney mccroskey said natur ally a band for a norton formal must be tops it is my good for tune to say that by securing peck's bad boys the committee has land ed and has the situation weir un der control every u b student or resident should dust off his tux and bring his ideal same to help norton union oldtilmln iu fourth anniversary the dance strictly formal and lasting from 10 until 2 will be open to norton members and their guests only each member being al lowed one guest for whom he must pay 75 cents admittance to nor ton members 1b free committees named are refresh ment committee chairman anne eschelman assistants louise weber jeanne orupp jean brtell mary b griffin betty rosenblat jean coleman door committee chairman malcolm hlnkley as sistants charles roesch yorke lucci and clyde nagle publicity committee chairman helen i schroer blue masquers elect new members twenty-two white masqu ers chosen by campus dramatic organization twenty4wo white masquers were elected to membership in blue masquers by the members of the latter organization at their first meeting of the semester last wednesday night in regard to the selection of new members robert 0 swados presl dent of blue masquers said more than forty people became members of white masquers last fall of this number the twenty two people who were chosen to be blue masquers represent those who in the estimation of the club proved themselves willing and ca pable workers selelctlon was bas ed primarily upon the white mas quer's past performance and also upon bin iudirulion of future use fulness to the organization the white masquers who failed to gain admittance to tl.n club at this tlme t but who still evince an interest in its work will be given the privilege of rejoining the white masquers this semester also all other stu dents on campus are invited to try out for white masquers the blue masquers will hold a reception in the blue room of nor ton hall next wednesday febru ary 9 at 8 p m for all prospec tlve white masquers anybody and everybody interested in any phase of dramatics whatsoever whether it be acting or production work is urged to attend this meet pills cigarettes and coffee of noavail as mid years finish off crammers professor let axe fall a semi-annual judgment ' day take toll of procrastinatorc , ton asy you got your marks to c day and they were pretty bad e and now you're wondering why in i the name of nickel beer you cram i med bo hard for exams t sure we know just how we feel ' you knew just as we all did way ' back there in december that ex ams were on their way inexorable £ as the judgment day and you < would wake up in the middle of the 1 night in a cold sweat from dream ' ing about pink and blue p's big < as the china clipper that zoomed ' and buzzed around in your brain and every morning you would say i to yourself as you slashed away at 1 your beard i'll sure safta start ! in reading the textbook in that ' course today and then of course 1 you immediately forget all about < tho darned thing t and before you knew it christ mas vacation began and you said t to yourself now's just the time < to read all the assignments i miss > ed during the year i'll have plenty a of time to kill anyway but there 1 were so many thousands of other t grand things to do like toboggan t ing and skating and dances and j stuff and pretty soon you were back in school again , and you found you were all tired c out from the holidays and you bet , ter take it eabjr for awhile so you'd be in shape tor exams so you didn't wear yourself out wltb i btudy but you were beginning to worry a little about exams which were only a week away and you took little trips up to the prof's i office just to make sure he was i rootln for your side finally with exams a week i away you reluctantly began to crack a book or two but it was i pretty tough going because of the i length of time that had elapsed since you last studied so hard i which was in may 1937 it was hard to keep awake at night after a whole day spent over bookb and so you resorted to all sorts of keep-awake remedies there were pink pills and white pill and a liquid in a green bottle and cigarettes of which you smok ed two cartons in a week and you sat in bull sessions in the smoking room and listened eag erly for stray bits of knowledge which your mind snapped up like a hungry dog grabs a bit of ham 1 burger but the more you heard the more dismayed you became over your ignorance of the sub in no time at all the exams were upon you and you went from one exam to another with your mind enveloped in a gray mist it phi beta kappa installs chapter four undergraduate wo men numerous faculty members become charter members the installation of the buffalo omicron chapter into the ranks of phi beta kappa fraternity took place at the 28th annual dinner of tin 1 phi beta kappa association of buffalo on saturday evening jan uary 29 dr prank pierpont graves state superintendent of education per formed the ceremony and also de livered the main speech at the din ner in concurrence with the oc casion dr julius pratt professor of american history delivered the response on behalf of the charter members of the chapter elections were held for officers of the organization dr edward g schauroth was elected president of the new chapter other officei-b are dr raymond chambers vice president mr richard h wil liams secretary dr harry m oehman treasurer four girls in the college of arts and sciences were elected to the fraternity the names of the new members are mary lou carlson classics evelyn i jaeckle math ematics marie f kamery ger man and elizabeth a llndow classics at the dinner 54 other indivi duals were elected to membership of these 38 are members of the faculty of the university who had formerly beloagad to different chapters of the national fraternity at other universities five of the members are honorary these in clude dr robert t bapst buffalo superintendent of schools john lord o'brlan dr marvin farber dr marvin o h gelsinger and dr , fritz machlup the other eleven members are all alumni dr perry returns from leave in england english instructor notes difference in american and english education dr henry ten eyck perry head of the english department of the university returned early this week from england in an inter view with the bee reporter dr perry said as i was away to work on my book i spent most of my time in libraries and therefore i hail little contact with student life as to the scholastic side dr perry said i think it is a well known fact that the first two years of college h'ere are the equivalent of the last years of high school there college work is organized on a basis very like our tutorial plan studentb go from high school directly into the study of the pro fessions dr perry observed a peace dem onstration and convention super vised entirely by students he be lieves that the students as well as the general english population show more interest in politics and international affairs than we do french honorary degree awarded to dean park the university of dijon at dijon france haa awarded the degree of docteur honoris causa to dean ju lian park of the college of arts and sciences of the university official notlllcatlon of the action of the french university in making the award has just been received by dean park together with the in formation that this is the third honorary degree which dijon has conferred in its history dean park plans to go to dijon for the ceremony of presenting the diploma at a later time dean froman awarded key millard fillmore college head honored for edu cational achievement dr lewis a froman economics professor and dean of millard fill more college received the gold key award for outstanding commu nity service from the junior cham ber of commerce at the . annual banquet of that organization last monday night in the ballroom of the hotel statler the award conferred each year upon a man lesß than 36 years of age who performs an outstanding community service was presented by victor morey president of the junior chamber of commerce with more than 500 buffalo businessmen applauding morey said as head of the unl verslty of buffalo evening session dr froman has enlarged the scope of its work . . . it ia now the larg est division of the university after being feted and hailed as a bcholar author teacher and educator dean froman modestly replied the aim of millard fill more college is to serve the educa tionally underprivileged if we can be of service to these worthy individuals ... we feel highly gratified youngest age 32 of the uni versity's deans dr froman was chancellor announces faculty promotions dr willard bonner bee adviser heads list with full professorship with the beginning of the sec ond semester three promotions in the college of arts and sciences and one new appointment in the school of education were an nounced by chancellor samuel p capen dr willard h bonner associate professor of english and faculty adviser to the bee was promoted to a full professorship dr seaver r gilcreast instructor in romance languages was made assistant pro fessor and dr ellis r ott in structor in mathematics was made assistant professor the new appointee in the school of education is dr evelyn troup psychologist in the department of education of the buffalo public schools who has been made con sultant in clinical procedures for the hci-oikl semester chancellor capen also announced that mr oscar a silverman as prom tickets circulated for sale this week over five hundred tickets for the prom have been distributed among the various schools includ ing the medical and dental schools law school and those situated on campus tbe ticket price is 6.00 pre-sale and 6.60 door-sale ticket salesmen avail able on campus include dick ktl linger han searl herbie wells shelly stark harry kayser york luccl bud blckerß ralph chap man and others bob berner chair man of tickets expects a definite report on the sale by next week mayme lee agee chairman of patrons has sent the invitations to members of the receiving line which will include the deans of all the schools chancellor and mrs capen everett wesp chairman of the prom dr harold g hewitt mr james mccormack mitchell and mayor holling the orchestra contract has not been received as yet but will defi nitely be announced next week philosophy author to deliver lecture dr sellars pioneer of i realism will give fenton address dr roy w sellars of the unl l verslty of michigan distinguished philosopher and founder of the movement known among philoso phers us critical realism will de liver the next fenton foundation i lecture on thursday february 10 at 8:30 p m in norton hall the i subject of his lecture which will be open to the public is natural . law and natural rights critical realism dr sellars . first book was published in 1916 i he was a contributor to essays , iu critical realism published in , 1921 and is the author of phll ! osophy of physical realism pub lished in 1932 two of his works those on the essentials of logic and principles and problems of i philosophy have been extensive ly used as textbooks in american colleges and unlversfties also , well known are the next step i in religion and religion coming . of age which are significant in the movement of religious human ism i dr sellars received his a.b and . his ph.d degrees from the univer . sity of michigan has studied at the hartford theological seminary the universities of wisconsin and i chicago and spent a year studying in france and germany he has been teaching at the university of michigan since 1905 and has been professor of philosophy there since 1923 dr sellars son wilfred sellars , was a graduate assistant in phil • osophy at the university of buf falo during the academic year ) 1933-34 and received the master dr gulick to speak at mid-year exercises commencement program to be held feb 28th dr luther h gulick director ' of the regents inquiry into the 1 character and cost of public edu r cation in the state of new york > will deliver the principal address - at the 38th annual university day - convocation and mid-year com j mencement exercises of the uni versity tuebday february 28 at 1 11:00 a m in edmund hayes hall , his subject will be the sclen t tide approach to social problems ) noted for his activities in the - held of public service dr gulick f is director of the institute of pub lic administration has served on 1 the new york bureau of municipal - research and from 1933 to 1935 he was director of the research commission of inquiry on public service personnel at the mid-year commencement the university will grant degrees , and certificates to approximately 1 90 students and confer the chan cellor's medal on some outstanding buffalonian as a mark of honor for ' distinguished civic service or other " notable achievement i rare and first editions on exhibit at lockwood on tuesday february 1 at 3:30 ; p m the friends of the lockwood ■ memorial library entertained the - undergraduate students in the en ' glish department of the university m buffalo at tea following the ' opening of a new exhibit of srst 1 and rare editions of the english • poets mr oscar a silrerman as ' sislan professor of english spoke ■ briefly on great books in their : original form the exhibit was opened to the ' public on tuesday and will con tinue until march 18 with the ex ' hibltion rooms open from 9:00 circulation campaign progresses rapidly recipients of cash prizes to be announced in next issue the bee-bison circulation cam paign now that exams are over is gathering momentum rapidly and will continue until the contest deadline next wednesday noon the awards to be announced in next week's bee will be granted saturday on the basis of 10 to the organization turning in the most subscriptions 5 to the next holiest and eight prizes to indi viduals — 6 to the person selling the most f $ afnd 2 for second and , third respectively and five 1 sub , scriptlons to the bee and the bison charter subscriptions will re ceive subscriptions to the specta i tor new national collegiate month 1 ly in addition to the collegiate di gest famous rotogravure section ot the bee the bison jubt out is one that was postponed until now because i of exams and therefore was sold for the regular price of 15 cents the coupon books will be used to purchase forthcoming issues of ' which there will be five during this i semester research economist delivers initial policy lecture of second semester dr willard thorp discusses use of business indi cators and cites methods of forecasting the businessman's use of busi ness indicators was the topic of an address delivered by dr wil lard thorp director of economic research for dun and bradstreet to the members of the economic and industrial policy course of the school of business administration at their llrst meeting of the second semester last tuesday in the nor ton hall auditorium in order to facilitate the presen tation of his subject dr thorp spoko not as a research economist but rather as the head of a fic tional corporation in my capacity as president of the amalgamated golf club manufacturers basically i have three jobs he said the first has to do with the op erating of my company secondly i must keep abreast of current de velopment in the golf club and other industries and also of devel opments by competitors thirdly i must make guesses this last is the hardest job of all that is where it is easiest to go wrong m particular problem is guessing what business is going to be — 1 e what our market is going to be in the future mr thorp explained that it was not possible to judge on the basis of last year's experience because ' other factors are constantly changing so what can i do in order to figure out what business will be hko this year there are several alternatives open to a businessman in that pro dicunient first he can bee other businessmen talk to them and ob tain their ideas and opinions about business along this same line he can listen to supposedly well-in formed speakers or he can sub scribe to trade paper's and statisti cal services in order to obtain an ' idea of conditions in the business world but concluded mr thorp businessmen who talk about business conditions are not very reliable sources of informa tion because they talk to other businessmen and you can't trust the judgment of business groups and business people because they are affected by mass psychology secondly an employer may seek information from his salesmen in an effort to forecast business but salesmen too are not good sources of business news for you never can believe a salesman anyway be cause of his tendency to exagger ate it is a salesman's job to exaggerate he must be optimistic in believing that business is good so that he can make sales but when he returns to the home of fice he must tell his superiors how bad things are and paint a gloomy picture in order to make his poor contlnued on page 4 continued on page 4 continued on page 4 continued on page 4 continued on page 4 continued on page 4 continued on page 4 continued on page 4 . continued on page 4 the lockwood memorial i.idr ary subscribe to the bee and bison now all new oandldatet for the bee staff 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