The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 41, No. 25, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 12, 1954 Page: 1 of 12
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A Student Newspaper Serving the University of Oklahoma
(Year No SS
NORMAN OKIJHOMI TI'FbDAr OCTOBER 12 IM
Member AMorlafed Pm
ut-Seekers
npromptu
By MAItV IYIE nilllM
ManaRing Editor
University students with that “weekend-after" look in
r eyes moved wearily to class Monday unaware that
e 200 of their fellow Students had staged a semi-successful
r Sunday night demanding a holiday as a reward for the
victory over Texas
The crowd climaxed an hour of street-roaming and hom-
dng by congregating en masse to request a free cut day
'from Dr George L Cross
JEROME HINES
opr ba Olrbrlty Series
isso Fills -iriesBate
ijk rar Hines the Metropolitan
’ 6-foOt ' C-inch American
will open the 1954-55 Celc-
series Thursday night in
41 Jberg hall Don Wilson stu-
2 manager said Monday -Mr
-1 performance here will he
f 45 in addition to his Met
mantes that he will give
g his current tour under the
ion of Impresario S Hurok
es will lie performing to a
auditorium when the curtain
up at 8 pm Thursday The
reserved seats for the five-
manre series selling for $10
sold out shortly after ticket
biened
es liegun liis American sea-
i Soptemtier when he l'oturn-
un hi-! second series of ap-
I nces in Kuioe and South
f lea In Buenos Aires' Teatro
ho sang five performance?
lito's "Mefistofele" the first
can singer to star in the role
he Munieh Opera Festival in
iny he played the title part
i Giovanni” During the smn-
f 1M53 Hines made his first
i'nc‘R at the Edinburgh Fes-
singing Shadow in the Glyn-
rne Opera pi-oduction of “The
s JVogreRK”
t season at the Met he scored
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titions Due
l Thursday
tdllnefor student senate and
' clam officer petitions is
Thursday at the senate office
'nion Al Alschuler president
Monday '
re are 18 senate vacancies
filled in the October 27 and
ctions To date only six have
The colleges number of
cies 2nd filings are law 1
cy no filings arts and scl-
2 vacancies 1 filing and
lion 2 vacancies 1 filing
v one ietitinn for senior
officers has leen filed Of-to-
lie elected are president
resident secretary and trea-
Xninea will Ik1 listed on the
in the otilcr of filing
ancles for senators In the
ss and engineering schools
re filled liy ilte newly orga
vacancy-filling committee
ine for petitions is 5 pm
ty
Agitation for the rally began
around 10 pm when a small group
of students began gathering in
President Cross' front yard in re-
sjKrnse to a rumored series of mys-
terious phone calls Mutterlngs of
Walkout tomorrow" and “Free
ruts Monday" moved through the
group
For a time the rally showed signs
of dying before it had begun hut
led bv a couple of iron-lunged in-
dividuals the students began mov-
ing west on Boyd street A few
car-unloading returners from Dal-
las and some curious bystanders
joined the rallierNas they traveled
JeeNteff Adds Momentum
The group swung south on Elm
Avenue and possessors of cow bells
and leaner on the ear horns began
to swell the ranks The addition of
a yellow jeejister at an opjsirtune
moment gave the rally backers a
proper vehicle and with some 20
students hanging on the sides the
car took the lead imsition
A brief tour of fraternity and
sorority houses failed to muster
sufficient strength and the cars
headed for Cross center stronghold
for ''impromptu” pep rallies Vol-
Miiteers joined the procession there
and the cut-seekers turned north
toward Cross’ house
Traffic Blocked
Victory-happy students effective-
ly blocked traffic in front of the
north oval and swarmed over the
president's front yard Shouts of
“We want Cross” oiened the front
door and the students received the
information that Dr Cross was at
the home of Dr laiurence H Sny-
der dean of the graduate college
Migration toward Dr Snvder's
home 514 College avenue began
immediately The crowd by this
time had approximately 250 stu-
dents and 20 cars in the joyful cele
Oration
Cross Speaks to Crowd
Arrling at Snyder's house the
students tramjssl over flower I ms Is
mil shrublierv shouting “We want
Cross” and "Walkout tomorrow
DON SINGER
IFC workshop chairman
IFC Meet
Will Open
Some 350 social fraternity actives
and alumni will attend the Inter-
fraternity council banquet Friday
night in the Ixx-kett hotel whirh
will climax the 3-day biennial IFC
workshop oM-ning Tuesday night
Doug Fox Oklahoma City IFC
president said Monday the work-
shop will consist of seven panel
discussions conducted by IFC of-
ficers and led by various' fraternity
alumni members from over the
state The workshops will be at
7:30 pm Tuesday through Thurs-
day nights in the Union and Mon-
net hall
Piiarls Set for 2 Days
Don Singer Chit-kasha is chair-
man for the workshop assisted hv
a committee eomiwsed of Stan
Alexander Phillips Tex Eddie
Casteel Dan McXatt anil Ralph
Thomison Oklahoma City Dan
Reed Fort Worth and Al Ringer
Ardmore
Ail of the panels will meet Tues-
day night and on Wednesday the
panels will he continued with the
exception of the ones on social ac-
tivity and scholarship Thursday
night a review of all itanels will be
held in the Union auditorium
Aliniini Attend Banquet
The banquet which will climax
the workshop will have as guest
KNakcr Col Cal Chamliers former
national officer of Phi Gamma Del-
ta fraternity He is from Lufkin
Tex and w ill speak on “Resjsin-
sibi lilies of Fraternities and Fra-
ternity ' Men” Secial guests at
the banquet will include a numlier
of fraternity alumni outstanding
President Cross apis-aring in re- in lliolr fields To attend are Wil-
Regents Name
A
Rogers Board
By JO ANN WAGNER
Editor
The board of regents Monday appointed four new mem-
bers to the Will Rogers Foundation Board of Control ap-
proved distribution of the student activity fee changed the
name of the department of classical language awl literature
I the classics department and considered routine business
The four new memliers apjiuinteil
' the board to succeed memberr
Coach Says
Gene Aided
OU Victory
I who resigned in disagreement over
investment of money are 11 B
Fuqua Fort Worth J R Mont-
gomerv Iaiwton W W Rodgers
Blackwell and Miles Tolbert Ho-
bart The fifth member of the
board for a 5-year term is Felix
Simmons Ardmore the only mem-
ber who did not resign this sum-
mer Fuqua will serx'e a 4-year
term Montgomery 3 years Tslbert
2 years and Rodgers 1 year All
four are former University of Ok-
lahoma students
The regents approx-ed the distri-
bution of student activity fee
which is divided into sex’en parts
health $fk25 Oklahoma Daily $1
student activities 875 stadium
$ti55 union $727 oierations $179
and educational purposes S&3U
Contracts were awarded to two
companies Martha Ann Bakeries
Enid received the contract to sup-
ply bread and buns to university-
operated cafeterias for the period
ending January 31 1955 With a
bid of Sti7ti2i32 Steelman Con-
struction company Oklahoma City
received the contract for resur-
facing tikiti square yards of run-
way at Max Westheimer field Both
companies were low bidders
The regents approved a ‘ per-
odieal subscription list and accept-
ed a report on the condition of
finances for Whitehand hall
Cross Speaks In Chicago
The monthly tneeting was held
three days early to allow IYesident
Cross to attend national meetings
in Chicago Dr Cross will leave
Tuesday to attend meetings of the
American Council on Education
the Xational Association of State
Universities and the State Univer-
sity association
In routine business the regents
granted a year's leave of alisenre
to Isi-eal Chodos sMt-ial instructor
in modern languages
Twelve who were upimlnted in-
structors are: Francis Mark Town-
send chemical engineering Lloyd
G Baysdorfer modern languages
xnniviik v uom II' “'fx 1 — - - - - - - — -'n—
sMinse to the apeal told the rul-jliam Doenges Bartlesville alum- Jo A Hill special education uni-
liers that he had no authority toinus of Sigma Phi Epsilon Elton J versity school Greta G Puckett in-
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OKLAHOMA CITY Oct 11 M—
Gene Calame Oklahoma's injured
quart erltack helped the Sooner
football team Is-al Texas Saturday
without even putting on a uniform
head coach Bud Wilkinson dis-
closed Monday
Wilkinson told the Oklahoma
City Quarterback club that Calame
had fqtcnt the (Hist two weeks as
the almost constant companion of
Jimmy Harris his sophomore un-
derstudy drilling him in the art of
calling signals for the Sooners’
split-T attack
Extra Help Given
It was Harris who stepped Into
the ouarterhack slot midway in
the Texas Christian game ' Sep-
temher 25 when the experienced
Calame was sidelined with a brok-
en shoulder bone ami pulled Ok-
lahoma together for an uphill
triumph
Since that time Wilkinson said
Calame has x'lrtuallv lived at Har-
ris' side working with him on the
practice field and spending addi-
tional time talking with him
Harris Scores TD
With Sooners enjoying an open
date October 2 Harris was starting
a ' college game for the first time
against Texas in the Dallas Cotton
Bowl After recovering from a case
of first period jitters the Slender
sophomore settled down and drove
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Editor's Page
Editor comments on “impromptu”
pep rally Sunday guest column
from former Daily editor Gary
Coe and state silitics Binr
-Quiz Justice?
‘Sharp’ Profs Use On-the-Stairs Method
By KK EDWARDS
Say what you will about teach?
ers who give grades by throwing
test iers on the stairs and giv-
ing good grades to those on the
high steH) and lad to those on the
low steps Some may prefer sit-
ting up all night with a red pen-
cil but a really sharp prof knows
the on-the-stairs method is the
only way
THE on-the-stairs method at least
has the advantage of fairness
Everyone has an equal chance of
landing on the top or Imitum stair
Writing on tissue paer to make
the test paMr float higher is sel-
dom very effective
And throwing the papers is ' a
definite art It taket a practiced
professor to sling them in such a
manner hs to insure a good well-
rounded curve Weak-armed pro-
fessors are apt to end up with all
the aM'rs lying in a heap on the
Iwllnm stairs which means if they
are fair graders that all students
must receive a low grade Tlds is
w hy many professors have graders
— persons chosen fur their strong
pitching arms
F course the professor may
stand at the TOP of the stairs
and let the jwpors slide gently
FALL WHERE THEY MAY— Course It Fraser professor of law
lets go with a roimI swing to spread the qtiix piipcrs up und down the
stairs as lie gnod-nalnredly puses fur our photographer to illustrate
the on-the-stairs method of grading tests (Photo liy Frank Wirgrs)
down Not tint gently however or
they may not slide far enough and
be will be forced to give all HIGH
grades
Simple as the stairs metbod may
seem many ethical difficulties ate
presented to the consciencious
teacher For instance: suppose a
paper first comes to rest on one
stair and then blows to a different
stair? Or supimse the test is writ-
ten on more than one jwge and
each Kigc lands in a different area?
What if the teacher steps on one of
the paM-rs leaving aa great black
footprint? Should he count off for
neatness? These arc only a fpw of
the problems that arise when the
stairs method is used 1
strain incurred hy (tending over
to pick up the thrown luqiers Ex-
perleneed professors recommend
simply leaving the paiers where
they iie to lie swept up by the jan-
itor Students eager to check over
the mistakes may lie put off with
a few well-chosen references to
mythical graders For example
'You'll get your aprrs back as
soon as that blanketv-blank lazy
slob of a grader finishes with them
1 can’t imagine what's taking him so
blankety-blank long ” Teach-
ers admit at such explanations rail
often bold students otf until the
semester is over
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Wagner, Jo Ann. The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 41, No. 25, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 12, 1954, newspaper, October 12, 1954; Norman, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1809317/m1/1/: accessed June 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.