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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, April 19, 1955
Discoveries Live On
The man's name had become trite as a synonvm for genius.
The present generation is unable to appraise his accomplishments. He was too far ahead. Albert Einstein will mean more to future generations than to his own.
One of his earliest equations was proved with the initiation of a new era—the atomic era. Einstein would have been the last to see this new age begun in the way it was. His abhorrence over the event at Hiroshima was the abhorrence of a sensitive, brilliant and far-seeing member of the human race.
Can the rest of the human race look as far ahead?
Can the rest of the human race see the release from scarcity afforded by the discoveries of this century's foremost genius? Can it forge ahead to utilize them? Can it reform its political and cultural attitudes fast enough to keep up with a science outrunning it by decades?
Or will it destroy itself before it really understands the genius which is before it?
Ron Grandon
Letters
Politician Replies to Charge
Dear Editor:
Hey youl—reader—read this letter too. It may clean up a lot of things for you.
1. ) It is claimed that the two campus political parties do not disagree sharply on any single issue, Mr. Grandon's point is well taken. It is interesting to note, however, that the platform of the Party of Greek Organizations was published about 10 days after the Allied-Greek-Independent platform. I congratulate POGO on their fine platform. Maybe it's just a coincidence that they follow AGI opinions. But 9 or 10 of POGO's platform planks coincide with as many AGI planks. No clash, true, but is this a condemnation of both parties?
2. ) There is publicity on campus to the effect that you, the voter, should vote for the candidate rather than the party. While this is often a fine idea, it is also true that party affiliation is important. A quick look at the record of AGI and its spiritual predecessor FACTS reveals that it established the Student Labor board, Hospital Liaison committee, the Student Housing committee, and an active Social committee, etc.
Party energy, plans and effort are important in these endeavors. March 20, the Student Labor committee met with the University Budget committee to present the report favoring the 65-cent minimum wage. It plans to meet with
Group to Elect Officers
Alpha Phi Omega, honorary service fraternity, will elect officers at 7:20 p.m. today in the Oread room of the Student Union. Nominations will be opened at the meeting.
On the basis of their Maren 1 intentions, Canadian farmers plan substantial increases over 1954 in the acreage of oats, barley and flaxseed this year.
the chancellor also. Futile? Possibly—but not a loss cause.
We hope this goes a little way towards shouldering our responsibility.
Yours,
William R. Arnold
college senior,
president, AGI
Are Americans Blindly Generous?
Dear Editor:
It was a very great pleasure to note from a recent issue of the Kanasan that KU ranks high in the student exchange program of the various American universities. Let us hope that the rank will go even higher with mutual benefits to the visiting students as well as to Americans of the Mid-west.
In this connection the following extract from an article entitled "U.S. Attitudes Towards Alien Students," reprinted in last week's "Asian Student." may be of interest to the Kansan readers.
"A final additional sign of the American general but perhaps subconscious attitude that student exchange is a one-way street is the huge discrepancy in volume between organized exchange programs designed specifically to benefit other peoples and those designed to benefit us. Only the tiniest fraction of incoming exchange programs is based on the notion that we can be the prime gainers, or that we have something to learn. A portion of our outgoing exchange is for the purpose of making it possible for Americans to learn from other peoples. But most of it is set up to permit Americans to go abroad and impart their skill, knowledge, and wisdom. We often say that we can learn and gain as much from exchange as the people we exchange with. But if we believe
this, if we truly believe that the great purpose of exchange is the fullest possible intercommunication between ourselves and the peoples of other countries, if we are actually as willing to examine other peoples' values as we are anxious to have them accept ours—if these things are true, then I find the discrepancy in volume difficult to explain.
"I do not know that we can do anything major and immediate to improve our behavior in all these related matters—or whether we should, when it is so complexly bound up with instincts and motivations that are in themselves decent, generous, and liberal. I do think we could relax a little about our anxious hopes and expectations and goals. Perhaps the place to begin this relaxation is in the government, where it is felt necessary to justify appropriations for exchange in terms of tangible and measurable national benefits. Pressure to formulate these goals and self-consciously to seek their achievement is a pernicious thing for many reasons—principally because it can scarely fail to create what is sensed by student visitors as a split between his own objectives and ours. In addition, this pressure encourages attempts to manipulate the attitudes of visitors, which is both dangerous and an unforgiveable presumption.
"It seems to me it would be a wonderfully helpful thing if we would clearly identify and be content with the single goal of being sure that student visitors satisfy their own individual goals, whatever they may be. We ought to have the rational faith that visiting students will assess us properly—and in the main more favorably—if we bring ourselves to "leaving the chips fall." I think if we can do these things, we can be sure what a visitor means when he says, we 'are so very kind.'"
Honor Plan Misunderstood
In recent issues of the Daily Kansan much criticism has been written on the Honor system proposed by the UVO. We feel that these criticisms are based primarily on misunderstanding. In few cases could it be anything else.
In the debate on the proposed Honor system there is also considerable misunderstanding regarding the words "dishonorable" and "condemned." A full reading of paragraph six of the proposed system will clear this matter. There has been much said about drinking, sexual immorality and transfer of athletics tickets as dishonorable and coming under the jurisdiction of the Honor committee.
Finally, an honor system would increase the academic standard of this University many fold. KU has a good standing with both academic and non-academic parties outside of this University, but an honor system would raise that standing even higher.
If the instructor were not there, this student would be awakened to the fact that he is cheating only himself and his fellow students.
These elections and the resulting national publicity for our University, to say nothing of the expense of the second election that came out of the students' pockets, were extremely undesirable at any school—especially our own. The Honor system would assure honest elections and make the student government more representative of the student body. Consequently, more responsibility would be delegated by the administration to the student government. It would result, in other words, in government by students, for the students.
Some say we do not need an honor system, but the elections of last year proved otherwise.
These are not the facts. They are simply to be "reprehensible and heartily condemned by the honor committee but which still cannot be brought safely under the honor system." It is clear by this sentence that the matters would not be handled by the honor committee under the proposed system.
Also, today, if a student is caught cheating in class what happens? Most of the time that student gets an "F" on that particular exam and nothing more. If a faculty member does not present the situation to the administration (in most cases he does not) then the student is not punished further. He is allowed to play the "game" of trying to cheat the instructor again, by another method which he hopes will meet with success. Though it is a fallacy, this cheater feels that he has lost to the instructor, not to himself or to his fellow students.
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The proposed honor system would not be a "spy" system as charged. We can assume that when an individual reaches college age he has attained some maturity in life. True, many of us depend on our decisions from our parents and other older people. However, college is a good place to learn that the world is not the bowl of cherries that we sometimes like to think it is. The best teacher is experience, the experience of looking out for ourselves and doing as much as can be done to contribute to the group we live in.
Can anyone honestly say they are accomplishing this by cheating in a class room, or by sitting idle and watching someone else cheat? Now is the time and the opportunity for the students of KU to accept the responsibility that is theirs in the University community.
Howard Foster
Business junior
The world bread grain production in 1954 was about 249,000,000 short tons, or about 11,000,000 tons less than in 1953.
Some sportsmen consider the eyes and tongues of fish asliccies.
. . .
Celluloid inventor John Hyatt also invented the roller bearing.
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