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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, April 20.1955
Seven Hear Debate Over Honor System
Viewpoints ranging all the way from support for to definite appeal of the UVO honor system were expressed last night at a forum conducted by the Forensic league before an audience of seven students.
On the forum panel were Bachman Sellers, graduate student; Fred Krey, second year law; Norman Scott, fourth year architecture; John Herrington, journalism junior; Robert Laughlin, college senior; and John Eland, college sophomore. Robert Kimball, college sophomore, was moderator.
Sellers and Krey supported the proposed system. They said that the student body should be wholly self-governed, and that students at KU were adult enough to accept such a responsibility.
"Better student governments and higher academic standards have resulted at schools having honor systems," said Krey. "No matter how high or low the standards are now at KU we believe the proposed honor system can raise them."
Eland and Laughlin opposed the UVO system but believed that a better system could be worked out
Laughlin said that honor could not be regulated. He said that an honor system is a system that leaves students on their own during quiz periods. "In the proposed honor system we are not putting people on their honor. We are doing the exact opposite. We are policing," he said.
Eland pointed out what he considered to be flaws in the system as it now stands. He said that a person accused another jeopardizes his own honor if he fails to prove his charges. He believed that this would result in non-enforcement of the system. He also said that the judicial system set up by the proposed plan gave an accused person no say as to who his jurors would be, whereas in another system the accused can oppose the seating of any juror.
Scott and Herrington took stands against any honor system.
"A person can't legislate morals." Scott said. He believed that an accused person under an honor system would suffer whether or not he was proved guilty.
"We are dealing with peoples' lives and futures," he said. He did not believe that such a responsibility should be left in the hands of the students.
"An honor system, any honor system," said Herrington, is an insult to a person's integrity." He said he thought that basically most people were honorable and that regulation did not have to be applied to keep them that way.
Flower Paintings Shown in Museum
An exhibition of drawings and paintings of flowers will be on display in the upper gallery of the Museum of Art, until the end of the month.
The paintings and drawings are in oil, pastel, gouache, and tempera, and were executed by such artists as Emilien Etting, Fred Meyer, Gladys Rockmore Davis, and Anatole Shukin.
The styles included range from traditional realistic works of Anatole Shulkin's oil painting entitled "Margigolds," to "Fish and Peonies," an oil abstraction by Miron Sokole.
Limestone Quality Test Report Made
A report. "Evaluation of Acid Etching of Limestone," has been released by the State Geological survey. It is based on a study of limestone samples from eastern Kansas and from a well drilled in Stafford county.
The report will be of interest to quarry operators looking for a quick, inexpensive, but accurate method of determining the overall quality of limestone.
The report describes the procedure used in acid-etch tests and gives their location and chemical composition.
Oil Field Brine Control Cited
Control of oil field brine was cited recently as the most vital single part of the Kansas stream pollution abatement program by Dwight F. Metzler, director of the State Board of Health's division of sanitation and of the state water laboratory at KU.
Prof. Metzler spoke at a joint meeting of the Kansas sections of the American Water Works association and the Federation of Sewage and Industrial Wastes associations, meeting at Hutchinson.
Oil refining produces so much salt. Prof. Metzler said, that there is not enough water to dilute its untreated municipal and industrial wastes. The quantities of salt brine produced with oil exceeded 65 million gallons of distilled water to dilute it to the maximum recommended standard established by the U.S. Public Health service.
"More progress has been made in stopping pollution in the past two years than during any similar period in Kansas history." Prof. Metzler said.
The Appalachian Trail is a footpath extending for 2,050 miles from Mount Golethorpe in Georgia to Mount Katahdin in Maine.
Members of the University A Cappella choir will begin a heavy spring schedule of performances tomorrow when they present a 40-minute program at a Shawnee-Mission High school assembly.
The 105-voice choir directed by D. M. Swarthout will give a program consisting of early classical numbers, Russian folk songs, liturgical selections, contemporary works of Canadian and British composers, and Negro spirituals.
Choir to Launch Spring Schedule
A similar program will be given May 10 at a Topeka High school assembly. On May 15 the choir will appear in its annual full concert program in Kansas City, Mo., at the First Baptist church on Linwood blvd.
As a feature of the University of Kansas Music week festival, the choir will give its final home concert May 3 in Hoch auditorium.
Ketzel Will Give Talks In Chanute
Clifford Ketzel, assistant professor of political science, will present two talks Friday at the Neosho United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization council in Chanute.
His topic will be "Cultural Affairs and Foreign Policy" and "The Individual's Responsibility in International Affairs."
Prof. Ketzel will take with him as his guest Abdur Rashid, Deputy Commissioner of Peshawar district in Pakistan, and participant in the Foreign Leader program of the International Educational Exchange service of the United States Department of State.
Chi Omega Fountain To Be Dedicated Sunday
The Chi Omega fountain will be dedicated and presented to the University at 2 p.m. Sunday in the fountain circle.
Gretchen Guinn, journalism junior and president of Lambda chapter of Chi Omega, will present the fountain, and Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy will accept it.
the Rev. Andrew W. Berry, Episcopal student minister, will give the benediction.
Mrs. C. Y. Thomas of Kansas City, Mo., will give the greeting from the alumnae. The Rev. Albert G. Parker, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, will give the invocation, and
The fountain, built as a memorial to founders of the local chapter, was designed and constructed by Erkins studio in New York City.
United States soybean exports in 1954 reached on all-time high of 43,219,000 bushels.
At certain times of the season parasites are quite common in fish.