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GI Bill May Be Given To Korean Veterans
The GI Bill of Rights may be extended soon to include all veterans of the Korean war.
The House committee on Veterans affairs is considering a bill to be taken up soon on the floor of the House. It will offer housing, educational, and job-training benefits similar to those granted the veterans of World War II.
Precautions will be taken in the new bill to regulate the institutions that receive aid and GI students. This will help to bar the fly-by-night training schools that preyed on unwary veterans in 1946-50.
This precaution will erase the main arguments of those who have been against extending the GI bill since they have felt that it has been misused out of proportion to its usefulness.
It is about time that the Korean veterans received some attention. It took almost a year for Congress to approve even the medical services for them that have always been available to retired members of the armed forces.
The general attitude seems to be that the members of the Marine Corps, the Army, and the Navy in Korea are not participating in a bonafide war—just because it is called a "police action"—even though percentagewise the majority of those on active duty are draftees called since the end of World War II.
Obviously the same benefits should be made available to the present young men and women that were available to those who fought in World War II. They are devoting the same time to their country at risk of life and limb, losing the same years that would have been spent either in school or learning a job, and the least the civilian government can do is help them along the road to education and productive citizenship.
Certainly, money spent for education is money better invested than money spent for war—Katrina Swartz.
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NOT REALLY AFRAID . . .
(Letter from five male students at Michigan State college to the Michigan State News.)
In reference to the many editorsials which have recently appeared in the various campus publications regarding the dating situation, we men would like to set the girls straight, once and for all.
They say, "What's wrong with the men on the campus? Are they afraid of us girls?" Most certainly we are not afraid of you, and we're sure that you'll find that nine out of 10 of us are as anxious to get acquainted with you girls as you are with us. Just how to accomplish our mutual desire for dating seems to be the issue.
You girls suggest "calling up that chick sitting next to us in class." What's her name? How are we to get acquainted without appearing overly bold? In the grill or the lounge do you expect us to just walk up and sit down without having any previous contact?
It isn't the easiest thing in the world for all men to call up relatively strange girls and many times requires some bolstering of confidence. When you are busy the night that a new man has expressed a desire for a date, why not convey to him a friendly desire for another time, or a possible Coke date, instead of a flat, ego-knocking refusal?
Before the men can fulfill their part and meet you half way, you girls must get out of your igloos . . .
An all-out campaign like friendship week actually draws resentment as would someone's telling you to "love your mother."
Making a guy feel at ease in meeting you girls is not difficult, and a casual stimulation of conversation on your part will go a long way.
OH BOY, OUR BOYS . . .
The Cavaliers Daily, University of Virginia, is fed up with politicians who over-use the phrase "our boys." It declares in an editorial
"We remember Senator McCarthy speaking here last year, and throwing in something about 'our boys.' Thank you. Senator, but we are damned tired of being yours or anyone else's boys.
"When a person can be called upon to risk his life and often lose it, we think it would be high time to consider him a man, not a juvenile member of the 'Our Gang Kids.'"
Interpretive Article
Judge Pine's Ruling Proves U.S. Constitution Still Alive
Federal Judge David A. Pine has proved that his one-time boss, the late Supreme court Justice James C. McReynolds, was wrong about the constitution.
It was Justice McReynolds who told the court, after its 1935 ruling upholding repeal of the gold standard, that "The Constitution is gone."
Judge Pine showed that the 165-year old document is still very much alive.
The kindly, soft-spoken, 60-year old jurist handed down a decision which many members of congress hailed as a landmark in U.S. Constitutional history. It not only nullified the government's seizure of the steel industry but it specifically repudiated the claims of Justice department attorneys that the President has unlimited powers in an emergency.
The ruling thrust Judge Pine, a Democrat who was appointed to the bench 12 years ago by the late President Roosevelt, into national prominence for the first time in his life.
The short, rather plump, gray-haired judge would grant no interviews to reporters yesterday. He did not consider it "suitable" while the case was still technically before his court.
But his wife and legal aides told of the soul-searching and the midnight oil-burning which took place while he wrestled with his big decision.
They said Judge Pine did most of his work on the case in his law chambers with only his secretary, Chester Sheppard, and his law clerk, Kenneth W. Parkinson, on hand. With a few hours out for sleep, they worked almost steadily from Friday afternoon until late Tuesday, when Judge Pine handed down his ruling.
One aide said Judge Pine consulted scores of law books, volumes of court decisions, writings of former Presidents, and other references. But the document he turned to most frequently was the constitution itself.
Judge Pine revised and corrected his decision "at least 10 or 15 times" before he sent the final draft to the clerk of court for mimeographing Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. Pine said she did not discuss the case with her husband at all. She said she "seldom even saw him" during the five-day period, and did not know which way he ruled until his opinion was made public.
"He's all lawyer," she explained.
Judge Pine was U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia for six years before he was appointed a federal judge in 1940.
Judge Pine is a native Washingtonian. He is an Episcopalian, a Mason, and a member of several legal fraternities.
Feature
Very Few Students Cheat On Exams,ACP Poll Says
How many students cheat on their examinations? Very few in the opinion of the majority of college students.
Students across the nation were asked by the Associated Collegiate Press National Poll of Student Opinion:
There has been a lot of talk about college students cheating on tests and examinations. In your opinion, how many students if any, make a practice of this at your school?
The results of the survey were:
1. Very few ... 51 pct.
2. About one-fourth ... 24 pct.
3. About one-half ... 12 pct.
4. About three-fourths ... 4 pct.
5. Almost everybody ... 2 pct.
No, opinion ... 7 pct.
"We have an honor system," explains a coed at Wheaton college (Mass.), who thinks that very few of her fellow students cheat. Ninety-nine per cent of the students at Wheaton, incidentally, make this same estimate of the amount of cheating done there.
A student at Regis college (Mass.), has a similar opinion but a different explanation. "There's hardly any cheating here," she says. "We're protected and wouldn't have the chance to cheat if we wanted to."
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Fither there is more cheating done at the larger schools, or students there are more aware of than at smaller schools. Baylor university, typifies big school opinion, with 35 per cent for "very few," 35 per cent for "about one-fourth" and 16 per cent for "about one-half."
Syracuse university is even more extreme. Only seven per cent of the students there feel that "very few" cheat, while 40 per cent think at least half of the student body make a practice of cheating.
A graduate student majoring in psychology in the South has this to say about cheating on her campus, "Lower classmen—nearly always, upper classmen—not so much."
And an engineering junior at the South Dakota School of Mining and Technology declares, "That majority of students don't actually cheat; however, most of them do look up old exams before taking their tests. I don't call this cheating." —Associated Collegiate Press.