SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
COMMENT
The not-so-comic bit of skullduggery portrayed on page one of this issue of the Kansan is, we are sorry to say, a real reality.
It seems that there are some people among us who have no respect for the rights and privileges of others, nor any self-respect for themselves.
The guilty party, or parties, whoever they may be, should perhaps feel proud in that they have appropriated for themselves a new "book case" or a "combination radio stand and tea table" at no extra cost.
and tea also.
However the cost of constructing such distribution boxes must be borne by the Department of Journalism, a part of the University, an instrument of the State of Kansas. The latter is mostly made up by you and me -- John Q. Public's, all of us.
And so we've been robbed! Not the Department of Journalism or even the University -- but the students of the 1938 summer session.
In offering a reward of $10 (see classified ads) for information leading to the recovery of the distribution boxes, the Summer Session Kansan is attempting to do its small part to maintain present conveniences for the student body.
Wings No Longer Needed
Oklahoma is building a prison. A prison without walls, without bars, without any obstacles to prevent escape. Its dormitories will have no locks, and its guards will carry no guns. It will be run on the "Honor System". Prisoners here will be "on their own," expected to keep an eye on one another.
At Sing Sing prison in New York a series of travel talks for prisoners will be given by an inmate, now serving a term for grand larceny.
Two swell ideas, but--agreed with the definition, whether examination cheating resulted in loss of campus social prestige, whether there should be increased faculty proctoring, whether the student would be willing to report a person whom he saw cheating, and whether he would be willing, personally, to stop giving and receiving information during examinations.
We hope no prison tries to use them both at once.
An Honor System Will Work
From the Daily Trojan.
Discussion of an academic honor system is oftimes looked upon as just so much claptrap. The one who would institute the honor system is called a dreamer, or he is called impractical, or he "doesn't know what it is all about." Yet, few efforts have been made to find out by actual experiment what campus opinion is on the use of the honor system in examinations. One of these few efforts was made recently at New York State Teachers college, in an attempt to see if the college is ready for the honor system, and if not, why not.
Defining the honor system as "a system under which the following conditions exist: (1) There is no proctoring during examinations or tests; (2) A pledge of honesty must be attached to all examinations and tests; (3) All entering students must pledge support of the honor system before they can be admitted; (4) Each student pledges to report all violations of the system," the student governing body circulated a questionnaire to discover the student attitude.
Points covered in the questionnaire were whether the student
This all brings the honor system out of the ethereal distance in which it is so often regarded and gives it a tangible nature that admits of sound rational discussion. With such a basis as this, any university student body could consider the value of the honor system not as a faraway ideal but as a system possible of realization.
If at first the scheme seemed to expect too much of the student, then the information gathered in a questionnaire could be used in effecting a gradual change of student attitudes to the point where adoption of the honor system would seem not a revolution but a natural move.
Footnote on Man's Progress
From the Detroit News.
One line of the story about the Spanish Insurgent offensive along the coast toward Valencia says briefly, "Sagunto is in ruins."
We fancy that some such message may well have gone out from Sagunto 2,100 years ago, for it was the city of the valiant in the Carthaginian wars. Hannibal laid his greatest siege there, and nearly lost his life in doing it—Sagunto lost 50,000 people, its entire population. When further resistance was impossible, they burned their treasures and rushed into the enemy's camp, impaling themselves on his spears.
This second destruction of Sagunto is only a footnote to history because it was never more than a village after Hannibal sacked it. If it is indeed a ruin, we suggest that the Saguntans give up, and leave it that way. Its wreckage would be the perfect memorial to war, and far more appropriate than the piles of bronze and marble that usually arise after the peace.
arise after the palm.
War is a shambles, now as in Hannibal's day. We should be permitted to remember it that way. Its triumphant memorials may beautify a landscape, but the dead do not feel triumph over the dead.
Campus Opinion
Editor Summer Session Kansan:
For the past six summers I have been reading the Summer Session Kansan. During that entire period I don't believe that I have ever seen a letter in the Campus Opinion column that expressed an intelligent view on any significant question.
Were a person, who did not know the average age of summer session students, to read those letters that did appear he would certainly conclude that they were written by youngsters in their teens.
It is a sad thing that in times when American principles and ideals are in danger and when their perpetuation depends on the intelligent instruction of our youth that the instruction is in the hands of teachers who seem to be incapable of concerning themselves with anything more profound than the weather.
In all sincerity I ask—what's the
matter with Kansas teachers? Are they really intelligent individuals who just "let down" during the summer because they're on vacation, Can it be that long contact with adolescent minds in the class rooms cause them to be unable to think in other than adolescent terms? Is it that being for a long time under the pressure of small town public opinion and narrow minded school boards warps their mentality? Or can it be that Kansas teachers are people of little intelligence to start with?
I ask these things because I believe Kansans are entitled to know the answer. Kansas children will never learn to think intelligently if their teachers are not capable of such thought.
A Kansan
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Friday, June 24, 1938
John Callahan calls attention to fact that voters absent from the state do not lose vote.
Douglas county voters who find it necessary to be absent from the state at the time of the primaries, Aug 2, need not lose their votes on that account. Under a new law, they may cast their ballots by making the necessary arrangements beforehand.
It will be necessary for them to make an affidavit in duplicate at the office of the county clerk to the effect that they will be absent from the state on Aug. 2, and give the address at which mail will reach them.
One copy of the affidavit is retained by the county clerk, who will forward a county ballot. The other copy goes to the secretary of state, who will forward a state ballot to the voter. The voter marks his ballots in the presence of a Notary Public and returns them to the county clerk.
WANT COLUMN
Vote for JOHN CALLAHAN for Clerk of The District Court
COURSE in Radio Broadcasting,
including the presentation of five
programs, will be given this summer
by Martin Maloney and Catherine
Holmes. For information call 3099.
SUBSCRIBE for the Topeka Stade Journal. Tom Bateman. Phone 1612. 15c a week. 1606 Tenn. -8
GIRLS: Cooperative plan, room and board, or board only. 1406 Tennessee. -8
FOUND: Roll of currency on campus, Monday, June 13. Identify at the Education office, Fraser 103. -8
TEN DOLLARS REWARD — The
TH. DOLLARS REWARD — The Summer Session Kansan will pay a reward of ten dollars for information leading to the apprehension of the person guilty of taking from the campus the Kansan distribution boxes. Call 25 or communicate with The Editor. -10
WILL THE PERSON who found a Waltham wrist watch in the men's lavatory in the basement of Administration Building please leave it at the Fine Arts Office and collect the reward. -6
BOY WANTED to wait tables at 1409 Tennessee for board during Summer Session. Apply immediately. -2
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AT THE DICKINSON
Loretta Young and Joel McCrea are starred in 20th Century-Fox's "Three Blind Mice," featuring Pauline Moore, David Niven, Stuart Erwin and Marjorie Weaver. Starts Sunday at the Dickinson.
AT THE GRANADA
Mickey Rooney and Freddie Bartholomew in "Lord Jeff." Their greatest adventure starting Sunday at the Granada for 4 days.