University Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 16, 1955
UVO Backs Proposed Campus Honor System
Some University students may object to the fact that this honor system is the one that is in effect at the University of Virginia at this time.
The following editorial was written by Francis Bachman Sellers, a first year graduate student, on behalf of the University Veterans Organization and the UVO-proposed
We did find it necessary to eliminate some of the offenses covered at Virginia and to adapt some of the procedural features to the situation here.
The principles of honor outlined in this system are the same here as in Virginia or in any other state in the United States.
The student should examine this honor system according to its own virtue, and not according to whether the author was a Kansan or a Virginian.
"Do I owe more allegiance to the community in which I live than to the members of this community who choose to be dishonorable?"
In judging this honor system, a person must ask himself this question:
If you answer is "no," you should read no farther as your allegiance is to a minority of the students. If your answer is "yes," you should be willing to support your ideals with action.
Many students seem to object to the necessity of reporting infringements.
At the present time the professors and instructors of the University are attempting to enforce the laws of this community. These people are paid by you, as individuals, to perform this function.
Now take a look at the student under the present system. If a student infringes on the laws of this community, he has no way of knowing to whom he is responsible. It might be up to the professor of the class concerned; it might be up to the chancellor and the dean to simply rule on the case of the student with no right whatsoever to a trial as defined under the proposed honor system. It probably will come as a surprise to many students to know that a person might even have to stand trial before the Disciplinary committee, composed not of members duly elected by the student body, but appointed by the Disciplinary Selection committee of the ASC.
Under the honor system (procedural features; paragraph six), every student has his legal right to a trial by persons whom he has elected.
All decisions of the honor committee naturally will be reviewed by the chancellor and or any other administrative reviewing committee that the chancellor may designate, to insure that the facts of the case justify the penalty. This gives official sanction to the decisions of the honor committee. If the chancellor or any other interested party can present new evidence, the case will be completely re-tried.
It is becoming increasingly evident that the students, as responsible members of this community, must either be willing to assume their responsibility or give up all rights to it.
The results of an unstable division of student government authority between students and faculty is in evidence on this campus at the present time.
If the students do not feel that they are mature enough to assume their responsibility, then they wholeheartedly deserve the deplorable state of affairs that now exists.
—Bach Sellers
(Eds. Note: The Editorial Board has stated its case time and time again and sees no reason to go through the entire gruesome procedure for the umplethum time merely to answer this editorial. We do wonder, though, if the "state of affairs" at the University is as "deplorable" as this editorial would lead one to believe? It may be that they are immature individuals, but rather because they are mature enough to see the shortcomings of the proposed system?)
One Man's Opinion
This Thursday will not be like last Thursday, nor next Thursday—not the same old conversation, nor the same old clothes. Because this Thursday is St. Patrick's Day. We will wear green clothes and remind people who are not wearing green that it is St. Patrick's day. People who have Irish-sounding names will have something different to talk about.
This is a small amount of change, but it is something to break the monotony of the long spring semester.
This celebration of the birthday of the man who chased the "snakes" out of Ireland is about the same thing to the Irish as it is to us, and much more. It breaks the monotony of cold winter months with their celebrations that bring back for one day the spirit of the real, almost mythical Irish population.
On St. Patrick's day the Irish are the Irish that you expect them to be.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
We all change for one day. Not much, but variety is where you can find it. —Jack Fisher
Daily Hansan
Editorial Editor  Gene Shank
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EDITORIAL EDITOR
Editorial Editor      Gene Shank
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"Spread out carefully girls—no one saw him leave with the others."
The campus looks so serene and quiet from a distance. That's where it should be—from a distance.
Hoch auditorium, the scene of many basketball triumphs, certainly gets the nomination for forgotten man of the week.
Honor never really dies even though systems do—unless, of course, they are combined long enough to kill them both off.