The Oklahoma Weekly (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 20, 1921 Page: 1 of 4
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VOLUME
OKI UIOMA WEEKLY, NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1921.
NUMBER
GRADE STANDARD ANNOUNCED BY FACULTY
™Oandulates Want Code Amended
IN LLtUllUNo lUUAi
Polls Located on Second Floor of
Education Building, South Wing;
Parks Nominated
The heaviest vote cast in any student
election is expected hy student council
officers in the annual mid-year election
Ki be held from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. today.
The Sooner editors and managers,
May queen, Y. M. C. A. officers, and
student council representatives will he
elected. Polls are on the second floor
of education building, south wing.
The nl(>st important shift on the stu-
dent ticket came late Tuesday when Ver
non T. Suddeth withdrew as one of the
two nominees for president of the Y. M.
A. and Ben Parks, literary senior,
Weatherford, was nominated by the Y.
M. C. A. cabinet. Parks will not receive
bis degree this year, and will return to
the university next year to take a four
year medicine course. He is tennis
champion of the university, and manager
of the tennis squads. He will oppose
Scott Squyres, literary junior, Vian.
l ilui Edmisson, candidate for junior
representative, was declared ineligible,
i>ccause be is enrolled in the school of
medicine ,and therefore is not eligible
for a literary position.
PUBLICITY AMENDMENT
TO BE VOTED ON
Students will vote in this manner:
they will sign their class, and if members
of the V. M. C. A., will also sign a sep-
irate sheet for that ticket. They will
be handed a general ballot, having the
publicity amendment and May Queen,
["hey will also be handed a special bal-
lot for their school :or class. They will
mark the publicity amendment "yes" or
"no".
The publicity amendment follows:
Students accused of violating the honor
system shall be publicly tried, and all
evidence together with the names of the
offenders and results of the trial shall
be published on the front page of the
• )klahoma Daily.'
These rules should be observed by can-
didates and others: disqualification of
an candidate affected ill result if votes
• ire solicited within 100 feet of the foot
if the steps of the education building.
No solicitation may be done in the edu-
cation building. This means that all ap-
proaches to the polls will be clear.
The polls open 9 a. m., close 12 m.,
and close 5 p. m. Complete results will
be announced by the Daily Friday.
CHALLENGERS AND
OFFICIALS APPOINTED
Registrars and challengers announced
Wednesday to assist association officers
follow : Wendell Long, Dorothy Arnold,
Travis Cash, Dorothy Prouty, Cather
me Patterson, Jerome Sullivan, Jack
Burton, Florence Monnet, Elaine Hargis
Marcelle Lively, Annazelle Monroe, Bill
< ruce. Pres. Floyd Staley, vice-pres.
I)avc McKown will have general charge
of the polls.
All students wilt vote on May queen,
and 1922 Sooner positions. Class rep-
resentatives and professional school re-
presentatives may be voted on by their
particular classes and schools. Members
of the Y. M. C. A. only vote on Y. M.
< A. positions.
Despite the fact that the next stu-
dent council officers will be called upon
to show more constructive ability than
;:i'v council since the adoption of the stu-
dent constitution, many candidates for
council offices shov.ed little interest
Wednesday in offering platforms in res-
ponse to the Daily's offer of space.
In general the sentiment seemed to be
that tliej were just running, and that
they would trust to luck if elected to
demonstrate why they were elected.
Most of the candidates submitting plat-
forms for council offices showed con-
structivc thinking, and support of the
honor system with "teeth."
Platforms follow:
I .ouis Abernathy, law—Student gov-
ernment by students or else abolition of
student government. 2. Honor system
with "teeth" and a method of enforcing
it or else faculty supervision. 3. Stu-
dent co-operative shop with lower prices
and courteous treatment. 4. Full pub-
licity of all actions of student council.
Not so much "secret diplomacy." 5.
Adequate music for student council
dances.
Kerr "Shorty" McQuown, engineering
—I favor retention of the honor system
and the adoption of measures that will
make it effective, and the rewriting of
the constitution of the student associa-
tion.
Neal A. Sullivan, junior—As a candi-
date for junior representative on the stu-
dent council, I present the following.
enforcement of the student association
laws ; rigid prosecution of honor system
offenders; constructive reorganization of
the honor system enforcement; council
control of class funds; procuring" to the
council authority for punishing violators
of the association's laws.
Don W. Brunskill. junior—A strong
support for and a furtherance of the
best interests of the junior class. A pro-
gressive policy and support of all mea-
sures brought before the council which
will be of direct benefit to the students or
the university as a whole.
Frank L. Watson, sophomore—If
elected representative of the sophomore
class, I will stand for: 1. A supervision
of student activity finances by the stu-
dent council; 2. a definition of the pow-
ers of the student council by the admin-
istrative board : 3. the general interest
of my class and school.
Wallace E. Robertson, sophomore—I
believe that a successful honor system
would reflect credit on the university and
students but at the same time its fail-
ure should not keep us from discarding
it, for Yale. Harvard. Columbia, and
other large universities do not use it and
apparently elo not suffer any stignia.
Dorrance Roderick, editor, 1922 Soew-
er—If elected editor, I will make the 1922
Sooner in reality every Sooner's Soon-
er, a typical Sooner publication and tru-
ly representative of the University of
Oklahoma.
Carleton E Merritt, editor, 1922
Sooner—I submit the following platform
in running for office as editor of the
Sooner: A yearbook that will follow,
establish, and perpetuate Sooner tradi-
tions; an impartial and unbiased atti-
tude taken toward all university organi-
zations ; the best Sooner that can be
edited, at the minimum of expense to
the students.
Tom Holland, business manager, 1922
Sooner—Two things should be empha-
ized in the Sooner business manage-
ment : 1. the least possible cost to the
individual student; 2. extension of the
school's influence by securing advertise-
ments from elistant towns, and by ';iv- ■
ing more complimentary copies. A fin-
ancial statement should be published.
Kathryn Kull, assistant editor- 1 be-
lieve that student candidates for office
should be experienced in the particular
department fe>r which they are candi-
dates. I am on this year's Sooner staff,
and have had experience on the < )lda-
homa City staff. 1 am enrolled in the
school of journalism.
Harry Melton, assistant editor—My
platform: to help edit: 1 a yearbook
that will be the pride of every Sooner,
2, one that will further and strengthen
our time honored traditions; 3. a Sooner
that will not only serve as a treasured
keepsake of old friends and by gone
days, but will also widely advertise our
state university.
Francis Chilson, assistant business
manager if 1 am elected assistant busi-
ness manager of the Sooner for 1()22, 1
shall endeavor to cooperate with the
business manager and the editors oi that
publication in making the improvement
f the annual next year as marked as
has been the growth of the university
from year to year.
(iuy Brown, assistant business man-
ager—It would be presumptious to set
myself forth as the proper architect of
platforms, so 1 leave that to the man-
ager, but 1 offer my "nails" to hold his
planks in place: cooperation with the
manager, fidelity to the student body,
every effort toward a better Sooner.
Jack Foster—
I am showing the student body that
the freshmen class can uphold the honor
system better than any other class in
school, and will fight for a system with
'teeth.' "The freshman class first, last
and always," is my motto.
VALUE OF MARKS
IS DEFINED FOR
ALL UNIVERSITY
Student Tickets
Admit to Concert
'International Review" Will Be Fea-
ture of Glee Club Concert
Friday Night.
Admission to the university glee club's
annual concert, which is to be given in
the auditorium 8 p. m. Friday, will be
50 cents, Prof. W. G. Schmidt, director
of the club, announced Wednesday.
Student tickets will be good.
Among features to be presented are,
"A Song of the Camp," which is the
story of a night in the trenches during
the Crimean War. In this number the
glee club is assisted by Floyd Haynes,
cornetist, and Dorrance Roderick, solo-
ist. Walter's Prize Song from the Mci-
stersingers," by Wagner, is also \ery
good, acorrding to Prof. Schmidt.
The International Review, which is
similar to a negro minstrel show, will
he a feature. There will also be a piano
solo by Ivan Lelirer and a vocal solo
by Joseph Benton.
SPONSOR CHOSEN
BY COMPANY "D"
Werdna Rives, Oklahoma City, Made
Sponsor of Unit of Local R. O. T.
C., Captain Announces.
APRIL 1 TO BE
DEBATE DATE
First Triangular Contest With Texas
and Arkansas Scheduled; Industrial
Court Question.
April 1 is the date set for the first
triangular debate between the univer-
sities of Texas, Arkansas, and Okla-
homa, according to announcement made
Wednesday by Prof. Josh Lee, debating
coach.
The question for the debate is "Re-
solved, that the several states should es-
tablish courts of industrial relations sini-
iliar to that of Kansas." J. Keene Hor-
ner and Claude Monnet wilt debate on
the affirmative side of the question with
Arkansas here, ami J. C. Looney and
William Haddad will debate on the nega-
tive side at Austin, 1 exas.
This is the first triangular debate to
be arranged between lexas, Arkansas,
and Oklahoma and will probably be an
annual affair, as in the debate with Kan-
sas, Colorado, and Oklahoma.
I COUNTY UNION
HAVING EFFECT
MARTHA FINLEY
SPONSOR OF '
B'
Former Faculty Member
To Address Geologists
C. H. Taylor, consulting oil geologist
of Oklahoma City, will give a talk on the
resources and possibilities for oil about
the great granite uplift of the Wichita
Mountains at a meeting of Pick and
Hammer club today, 7 :30 p. m., 308 ge-
ology building.
Taylor was formerly a professor in
the department of geology here, and
since leaving to take up his present work
five years ago has appeared before geolo-
gy students here a number of times. He
is well-known as an expert on oil ge-
ology.
Werdna Rives, literary senior, Okla-
homa City, has been chosen sponsor for
Company "D", R. O. T. C., William A.
Atkinson, company commander, an-
nounced Monday.
Miss Rives attended Central State
Normal at Edmond before coming here
in the fall of 1918. She is a member of
the Gamma Phi Beta sorority.
TO PLAY VOLLEY BALL
Volley ball will take the place of bas-
ketball playing in girls' gym classes im-
mediately after the finals, Miss Ima
James, physical director for women, an-
nounced today.
Hobart Girl, Formerly "Straight A"
Student in University of Washing-
ton Is Appointed.
Martha Finley, '24, Hobart, has been
chosen sponsor for Battery B of the R.
O. T. C., J. Howard Lieber, battery com-
mander, announced Friday.
Miss Finley came to Oklahoma this
year from the University of Washington.
There, out of a class of 800, she was
among the first five percent in scholas-
tic standing.
Ruby Gist is sponsor for Battery C.
Announcement in the Daily a few days
ago that she was sponsor for Battery
B was erroneous and should have saiel
Battery C.
TOM HOLLAND
Recognition of signal service which
the county union has rendered to the
University of Oklahoma and the state
general is contained in comment by
practically all newspapers of Oklahoma
since members of the state editorial as-
sociation visited the university.
More than forty counties of the state
have organized county clubs, presidents
of which make up the County Union.
Tom Holland, Anadarko, junior lawyer,
was elected president, and Ruth Sprague
.awton, secretary. These, with three
other members of the Union to be ap-
pointed by Holland will serve as an exe
cutive board to cooperate with President
Stratton D. Brooks in the interest of tile
university over the state.
Banquets and other entertainments at
which high school seniors were guests
were held by many county clubs during
the Christmas holidays. Holland ex-
pects to increase interest in the county
club movement until after the annual
interscholastic track meet this spring.
"B" and "B-" Are Average Grades
and Are Expected to Make Up One
Half of Grades Given
PERCENTAGE BASIS USED
"Grade Is Not a Gift," Says Dean
Gittinger, "An Undeserved Mark
Robs Rest of Class".
Standardization of grading in the col-
leges of arts and science, of fine arts,
and of engineering, and in the school of
education was announced Wednesday by
Dean Roy Gittinger, registrar.
This grading schedule was adopted
tentatively by the arts and science fac-
ulty about one month ago, and has now
been accepted by faculties of the other
three schools mentioned.
Far Reaching Step
This is one of the most far reaching
decisions relative to the standardization
of grades adopted by the faculty in re-
cent years. The object of the new sys-
tem, according to Dean Gittinger, is to
define the meaning of the different
grades in such a way that a grade recei-
ved from one instructor shall mean ap-
proximately as much as the same grade
received from another instructor.
This system is expected to eliminate
the condition found in many classes-
that it is easier to receive "A" in some
classes than it is to receive a "B" in
others. This condition has not been en-
tirely the fault of the instructors since
no definite meaning has been attached
to the grades.
Here is the System
The new system is this:
"A" is a mark of distinction, and is
given to the relatively small numebr of
students whose work approaches perfec-
tion.
"A-" is given to those whose work is
clearly above the average.
"B" is given to those who do average-
work, and are among the upper\half of
such.
"B-" is given to those who do average
work and are among the lower half of
such.
"C" is given to those whose work is
below average, but clearly above passing.
"C-" indicates work considerably below
average, and only slightly above pass-
ing.
"D" means conditioned because of
poor quality of work. No credit is
granted for a course in which a condi-
tion has been made except upon reex-
amination, and then no grade higher
than "C" is given. A mark of failure is
recorded for any condition not removed
itliin one year.
"1" means incomplete and is a neutral
mark. An instructor giving this grade
must slate upon the reverse side of the
report card the reasons for giving it.
Incomplete work may not be made up
after a year.
' means failure. A student who
has failed in a required subject must if
possible, register for it again the first
time it is given. A student failing in
any course cannot receive credit for it
until it has been taken again in class.
'W" indicates withdrawal from the
course.
On Percentage Basis
The standard of grades which should
be received over a period of years, and
which has been determined here by scien-
tific investigation is: the graeles "A" and
'A-" should in the long run be given to
not more than 25 percent of those whose
semester grades are other than "W" or
"I", and the grade "A" to ne>t more
than five percent; "B" and "B-" similar-
ly should be given to 50 percent of the
class, evenly divided between the two
grades; "C", "C-", "D", and "F" should
be given to about 25 percent, and in the
end, about 15 percent should receive "C"
and 10 percent "C-" and "F".
This new standard is a guide and not
a requirement, Dean Gittinger said.
"It indicates the distribution of grades
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