Page Two ARMOUR TECH NEWS Tuesday, lVlarch l5, l938 Amour Tech. News Student Publication of the ARMOUR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 3300 Federal St. CHKCAGO, ELLINOIS Published Weekly During the College Year l937 Mcmber l938 hssocioled Colleniole Dress “Entered as second class matter at the post office at Chicago, Illinois, under the act of March 3, 1879.” h 257 $2.00 Per Year Single Copies, 10 Cents Each EDITORIAL BOARD Editor-in-Chief ................... Managing Editor ...... . . Sports Editor ............. News Editor.. . . .Russell Kotal . .Robert Jaflce . .Howard Coyle . . .Max Ephraim Copy Editor. . . . . . .Thomas Yeakle Business Manager . . . . . . .Robert Vllinblad Faculty Adviser .................... Walter Hendricks March 15, 1938 No. 5 Vol. XXI. Are We Cheating Ourselves? The following letter from a member of the fac— ulty has recently come to our attention: “This is my third year at Armour. With respect to common honesty, three conditions have been forced on my attention: 1. Copying during examinations is much more prevalent than at other schools. 2. Cooperation on home work and use of the fraternity file system is widespread. 3. Both are more prevalent among seniors than among freshmen. l may be wrong, but it is my impression that a teacher‘s job is to teach. instead of finding classes taking this. view (and the related view that a student‘s lob is to learn), I find myself being forced unwillingly to play a sort of game with stu- dents. One might call it ”Catch me if you can," Now that is usually pitifully easy. The real ques» tion is what to do with a culprit when caught. Generally l ignore such matters on the broad ground that punishment is automatic and adequate, for these students chiefly harm themselves. and cer- tainly do not harm me. The method has several disadvantages. First, it has a tendency to cheapen an Armour degree, thereby harming all students a little. Second, it produces “unfair competition‘ among graduating seniors in their search for a job. This also harms honest students. Third, students, being human beings, tend to take the easiest path and this prevents, in some degree, Armour’s func- tioning as a truly educational institution. 1 might, of course, hale culprits before Dean Heald. But neither he nor I wish to stop seniors from graduating at this late date. Besides which, a teacher’s job is to teach and not to police. If students sincerely desire to learn lnot merely to accumulate a favorable record with the place- ment bureau) they should be self-disciplined. If a few cannot be trusted, the majority should force the few to conform to the prevailing moral code insofar as cheating is an issue. Let's have a Student Honor Commission." B. E. GOETZ. Well, there it is. The truth of Prof. Goetz' statements cannot be denied. They are a chain lenge offered us. What shall we do with it? Accept the challenge, or, as we have in the past, deplore the situation and proceed to ignore it? This question of cribbing has been thrashed out among the students in countless “bull-sessions.” There are several different types of student atti« tudes evidenced in these impromptu discussions. However, it is most surprising to notice that, what— ever the arguments offered. they are usually pas— sive. The general attitude seems to be ”Sure, it’s bad, but what can we do about it?" We, at Ar— mour, seem to accept cribbing. copying, and cheat- ing as a necessary evil. The defence usually offered by the cribbers or those who help cribbers is that the question of ethics or of pride is not involved. Quite frequently we find the attitude of professional politicians“ “you help me today and HI help you tomorrow.” The competent student who helps the incompe— tent usually doesn't give a “hoot.” In any case the cribber. whether occasional or habitual. feels he has nothing to lose and everything to gain. The tragedy is, of course. that both he and the student helping him lose heavily all of the time. There is no need to indict cribbing on ethical grounds—that is best left to the individual. It is only when we get selfish and material that we can see that cribbing cannot and must not be tolerated any more at Armour. It is our own interests which suffer from the reputation which excessive cribbing invests in a school. The incompetent who cribs his way to gradua- tion is quite dangerous to the school from which he graduates and to his fellow graduates. After he has been fired from a lob, his employer isn't likely to employ another man from the same school. The employer is soured on every, and all graduates from that school, however honest or competent they may be. Every job from which he gets fired thus reduces the number of potential jobs open to other graduates from his school. By cribbing and condoning cribbing we only jeopardize our own interests—we cut our own throats. So. let us accept the challenge offered by Professor Goetz—first. by forming a student honor commission, and, second, by becoming “honor conscious.” lf “honor consciousness." becomes firmly in— stilled in us, there will be no need for the student honor commission. In most schools where honor systems are successfully carried out, the actual enforcement is done by the students themselves. The reputation of Armour has not yet been seri- ously damaged from excessive cribbing. Let's do something about it before it is too late. Fraternity Notes amnews l T’hcck (yes, tech) with introduc— ll’l KAPPA PHI DELTA TAU liELTA lions. A very novel dance was swung on March 12. The dance, from start to finish, was one unexpected form of entertainment after another. The dance was put on by the class of ’41 in an A-l style. The ping-pong tournament has now narrowed down to eight finalists, all equally! good. “Poor" Brother Pave is trying to pick the team from these eight. PHI KAPPA SIGMA “We congratuate the following men on their formal initiation into Phi Kappa Sigma on Feb. 25, 1938, at the Medinah Club: Earl Anderson Robert Hausske Jack Clark Grant. Whitehead James Crotly _ Robert Longe Paul Heubsch Ben Lease Robert Greenberg Charles Proctor George Gardes Bruce Olsen George Lyloowslci Robert Ettt‘nger William Hoversori Ronald Smith 'We also wish to announce the pledging of Phillip Pettes, C.E.-41. Practice for the approaching bowl- ing tournament and preparations for the coming ping-pong battle with last year’s champs have been among the forms of diversion common around the “Belt” house. However, though inter-fraternity competition spurs during the week, the week-end saw a radio dance on Saturday night, and a Mothers' Club tea Sunday afternoon. Scherer passed out Tuesday because he wearing his badge. cigars last is no longer Xi While the men stand about in our rooms thinking over the enjoyable hours that were spent at our Sham- rock Party a la the pledge group; Chief Editor~in-Chief Emmerich is working frantically to feed the giant rotary presses as they turn out the Alpha Gamma News. Decorative paddles are being ex- changed between the new initiates and the graduating seniors. They’re very fine examples of woodcraft, and they certainly are appreciated. SIGMA ALPHA MU Sigma Alpha Mu is pleased to an. nounce the pledging of Paul Mayer, Ch. E. ’41. Charles User, Ch. E. ’41. Plans have been made for a Far- The pledge dance was a “scream- ant-Alumni Meeting to be held on the ing success" when at midnight, the evening of March 16th, at the chap- lights phorescent skeleton snapped out and a phos« ter house. came glowing his Paul Sang will speak on recently completed tour of down the steps, and strolled amongst Europe. the dancers. The house was original Details have been completed for in its decorations, and with the help Sigma Alpha Mu’s Annual Water of Art Janke’s orchestra, the Phi Frolic, to be held on the evening of iKaps had a time of it. March 18, at the Medinah Athletic It seems that some of the boys in v Chib- the house have found a new way to Fraters have been busy for the past while away the unoccupied moment. week polishing up their paddles in Frequent “Jam Sessions" form the preparation for the hell week and new diversement. initiation which will start next week. It seems as though one audacious freshman, Pour by name, was in want of a date for the Mad Hatters’ Ball and wishing to take one of the art school gals, went up to one in the cafeteria and inquired if that nice young thing would swing it with him. To which she replied, “Maybe you had better ask one of the stu- dents!” There are rumors that she was either a teacher or a model. Good taste, anyway, I guess. Our Swedish Smoking Swami Swanson has queer taste in pipe to- baccos, for just the other day he was using sawdust: and cut up rubber bands in his tobacco mixture. Odd. Professor Potter’s urn-Passionate Pupils in Physics are in a state about about the way locomotives go; DJ NG, DING, DING, DING, D-I N-G.. We have at long last (me and the duke) found out a definition for Bumham’s “nosey parker.” It’s the same as a quidnunc. Maybe it’s just as well that so so many men in the department are cultivating mustacbes, because after seeing how terrific the other guy looks, they can tear home to remove their feeble growth. T’heclc with conclusions. BOZ-ART. Eta Kappa Nu»— (Continued from page one) Many noted men representing the business world, included patent lawyers, research directors, business men, and electrical engineers, spoke and discussed topics at. this meeting. Attending this conference were delegates from numerous college chapters, members of alumni groups, and professors and instructors of electrical engineering. The confer— ence took place in the Auditorium Hotel, and the Saturday meeting at which Dr. Poulter spoke was held in the Blue Room. 'li‘he Slipslzicli . l Cleave to the slipstick; let the slapstick fly where it may. i How the devil I get into situations like this I don't know! As for as an exhaustive survey mmbles me to as- certMu no one reads this column and the freshmen who inadvertently DO limit at it immediately turn a. mild shade of olive green and hastily leave the room to complain bitterly to the dorm. It’s not the big rocks—- it’s possible to see them coming, it’s the incessant rain of BB shot and paper wads that’s making a jitter- iirg wreck out of (i once noble smell men. (Yeah—AI have also been in~ formed that I must be a. mm‘al leper.) ’1: >11 HI: I try hard to make the gags suit— able. to the environment. Here is an illustration of the birth of a riotous— lv funny joke. Joke (as told by a gentleman who was obviously apprehensive): Every man has his woman, but; the icemau has his pick. This is then modified to road: Every man has his woman, but the engineer has his slide rule. And yet no one gets the Point. They say it isn’t funny any more in that form. . .. ,, This verse is unique in that it is not. labeled, “Pome.” Both beautiful and? dumb Must my] true love be. Beautiful, so I'll love her. Anal dumb, so she‘ll love me. ,, . I have just. been told that this is as old as a certain word starting with “H” that is censored in this column. I wouldn’t know. They are picked with absolute impartiality— any copy of the Armour News dated four years ago is chosen and the column sent; to the printer with instructions to simply reverse the or- der of the jokes. ll’- 5i: ii: Potter: “Ye gods! What kind of a derivation is this!” Student: “I took Sohuster 6; Lee, sir.” Potter: “Hmm, very concise, isn’t it?” it direct from 5i= ’7‘ its There is no cooperation in wooing the muse around this institute. “Do you know my good gags, Jess?” “No, do you?” Now, I Lisle you, what kind of a joke is that—And don’t bother to am Hillel”. ll: 21% * Elected as most popular CLEAN gag by on overwhelming: majority. (The only one anyone knows.) “WHO WAS THAT LADY I SE 1N YOU WITH?" »‘ V ' ,‘s‘ig‘llllll/ . , ‘i-s v“ ' , a” \' l on pipefuls cf fragrant tobacco in every Z-oz. tin of Prince Albert A.D.T. Alarm System Explained to REES. The Fire Protection Engineering Society had the pleasure of hearing Mr. McGinis of the American Dis— trict Telegraph Company (A.D.T.) at their meeting in‘ C-Miesion last Friday morning at 10:30. Mr. Mc- Ginis described the many interesting services that the A.D.T. system of— fers to the property owner. Among these services are watchman check. ing, burglar alarm control, sprinkler system supervision, and bank vault alarms. The speaker first described the origin and development of the com-r pany and thou told how the company is organized at present. Among the devices that are used to detect out of the. ordinary occurrences are the heat sensitive instruments for detecting fires. These devices will record the presence of excess heat due to fire in the space of only forty-five sec- onds. They are operated on a. rate of rise principle by the expansion of air that is contained in a tiny copper tube eight hundred feet long. The expanding air operates a thin diaphram which breaks an electric circuit. The stoppage of the current flow permits a relay to register an alarm in the central office of the company. In addition, a siren is started on the outside of the build“ ing to let the fire department quickly locate the piece of property needing aid. Mr. McGinis also told of the elab- orate precautions that are taken to insure proper operation of the equip- ment when the time comes for it to function. The trouble alarms proved to be of emisiderable interest to all of the members. F ire Discovered in Chopin; Extinguishetl Without Loss A small fire broke out in Chopin 105 last Friday afternoon. Dr. Per, lin’s soph co-op calculus class was alarmed when Steve Cibira, a stu— dent, no’cicod smoke issuing from a small hole in the floor. With the aid of a janitor the basement door was broken open, but fire wasn’t discovered in the basement. The fire was confined to an area between the floors, and broke through the floor in one place only. The cause of the fire is problematical and may have been caused by crossed wires or a cigarette dropped into a crack in the floor. In any case it could have become extremely dan- gerous. It is rumored that careless- ness on the part of the co-op stu» dents caused the fire. WELL iT LOOK‘S LIK’E ' BEEN PAUL. SEEMS AVIFU LLY HAPPY V 4 ii i , {il‘ “@722 lam/x AND’l on’t find it the mellowesh plus postage. copyrixm, was, R. J. Reynold): 1'9me (:0. ’23 (”if THOSE WORDE MEAN “TWO THiNG‘S: THE SPECIAL NO-BITE ‘ PROCESS ASSURES PRINCE ALBEQT’E: MILD. RlCH TASTE, HE CQI A JUST RIGHT FOR SMOOTH, COOL. SMOKING! I'M SURE GLAD l STARTED my PIPE- SMOKING CAREER WITH PRINCE ALBERT. THAT MEANS emeritus, assimilation SMOKE 20 Windmill? PlPEFlJLS of Prince Albert. 1 pocket tin with the rest of the tobacco in l: to us at any time within a month from this date, and we will refund full purchase price, (Signed) R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co” Winston-Salem, North Carolina l Fraternity Grgarlized by Sophomore lilo-ops Lost October a group of sophomore cooperative students organized the Aloha chapter of Kappa Alpha Pi, notional fraternity. Although Lin- heard of by most of the students and Faculty, the organization has become very popular among the co~op Stile dents. The twelve charter members of the Armour chapter organized the group last October, lot and are proud to say the brotherhood has increased to twenty, and six new men being pledged. While striving hard to be recog- nized by the Institute, they have en— deavored to keep the dues low enough so as to enable even the financially unfortunate to join. However, mem- bership is limited to co-ops. Charley Slraight’s Music-- (Cantiimed from page one) moral comprehension. (To the soph~ omores), the very fact that the fresh men did not have any organization, and were. floundering in their plans while the sophomores were sure of themselves and carried out their pro- gram with finality indicates without a doubt that the freshmen will wear green caps regardless. And behind the scenes, the sophomores are sure of this fact. But the freshmen——well this tall thin lad again got up and waving: his arms in a semicircle this time cried: “Are we going to wear green caps or are we going to let the sophs think by some remote chance however slight, they are a mite stronger?" One third of the room cried yesl Another third cm‘ed no! Prof. Krathwohl to Speak at Central Y.M.C.A. College Professor Krathwohl will speak this Friday before the Men’s Mathe- matics Club on the subject of “Ef- fective Teaching- with Color.” The meeting will be held at the Central Y.M.C.A. The use of color in teaching is merely an application to a new field of what the business world has real- ized for a long time. Color enables a person to grasp the salient points immediately without a great amount. of detail. The variation of color af- fects the way in which a person will react to the image. Brighter colors causes a desire to continue, while dork depressing- shades serve to minimize the object which they represent. Professor Krathwohl has for many years used colored chalk in his classes at Armour. That he has been eminently successful in his methods is evidenced by the interest taken by the students in his mathe- matics classes. THAT’S RlGHT, JUDG OT PRINCE o WELL‘IOU won‘t Be DiSAbPoiNrEo Juer 'tHE BACK OF "THAT TIN MP CUT P CKS W Rustler“