Page 2 University Daily Kansan Friday, March 4, 1955
To the Editor:
I should like, by means of this letter, to express my personal appreciation and that of the University to all of the students and faculty who took part in the half-time pageant on the occasion of the dedication of the Fieldhouse.
All of the participants should know that their efforts and sacrifices were not in vain. From all quarters we have heard the most enthusiastic comments concerning the effectiveness of this enterprise. The success of the Fieldhouse Dedication was in a very large measure due to the selfless activity and participation of these men and women, and we are deeply grateful.
Sincerely.
Sincerely,
Franklin D. Murphy,
Chancellor.
Dust Bowl Days Feared As March Winds Arrive
(Editor's note: It has been 20 years since wind erosion sent "deserts on the march" in the dust bowl of the southwest. Now the plains again are stricken with drouth, and soil conservation men are saying about some of the particles between the drouth and the valley floor they saw. The area of the parches of the old dust bowl describes how the area is entering a period of crisis.)
The first of March means the beginning of a crisis in the douth-strenchen high plains of the Southwest.
March is a month of high winds. Unless general rains occur soon, the only winds will be ill winds.
Those who live from the land in the 26,000,000-acre great plains stretching across six states know they could lose a year's income in the next 30 days.
The Agriculture Department has alerted farmers that conditions are ripe for another dust bowl in the region from New Mexico across the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles into Kansas, Colorado, and Nebraska.
"If we can just get through March," says Tom Elder of the U.S. soil conservation service at Woodward, Okla. "we've just about got it made. March is the month we dread more than any other."
But despite recent years of drouth, soil conservationists have high hopes there will be no return of the "black blizzards" of the 1930's.
Below-normal rainfall has left vast areas of ground bare of foliage. There is little to hold down the soil in the windy month ahead.
The best thing that could happen in the critical month of March would be rain and a minimum of wind, Mr. Elder said. But if the rains don't come, there is still hope.
"Right now the boys are doing an awfully good job of emergency tilling," he said. "They bring up the clods from underneath to roughen up the surface. It hasn't blown yet nearly as much as we expected this year."
It takes several days for a good "duster" to develop. Winds shift back and forth whipping the topsoil into dunes of fine abrasive silt, which digs like a sandblaster when the big blow comes.
Soil conservationists are worried about the parallel between conditions in 1937, the worst dust bowl year, and 1955. Both years came at the climax of long drought, and in each case there was little vegetation to hold down the soil.
In 1937, dust storms struck 117 times—an average of once every three days.
Will 1955 be a repeat performance?
"The potential is there," a soil conservationist said. "It just depends on the wind . . . the rain . . . and of course, the farmer himself"—United Press
For Single Senior Co-eds:
Ed. note: The following editorial is taken from: The Daily Texan, Anstin, Texas.
Once again, we come to this week's message to the weaker sex: Girls, are you juniors or even seniors and still not pinned, not engaged, not married? Why, what have you been doing up here—studying? Well, here's some parts of a speech given by the director of marriage at Southern Cal which should hold interest for you.
"In college, she has cultivated cultural tastes that she cannot meet as a young housewife, particularly if she suddenly must meet her needs on a restricted budget," Dr. Peterson said.
According to Dr. James Peterson, "an educated woman who gets married may have difficulty changing her tastes and attitudes to fit her new life.
"Women in their early years of marriage continually complain about 'going to seed' and being bored. Their college training fails to teach them," he said, "that being a housewife is hard, time-consuming work. Add children and the work is endless."
The problem is magnified by the long standing conflict between the wife who needs recreation and change in the evenings and the husband who is tired from working and wants to enjoy his home.
A miserable young housewife is the one who was panicky in her senior year in college because she wasn't pinned or engaged. So much importance is placed on being engaged by the senior year that the woman may accept the first proposal she receives so she won't be considered an "old maid." She hasn't thought about the serious responsibilities of marriage and she may learn too late that she doesn't love her husband.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
(Ed. note: No time for tears.)
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Sections of Proposed Student Honor System:
The following is a proposed Honor System for the University of Kansas. The kansas system is the system by printing it—it is merely presenting excerpts of it in its objective form.
The Honor System requires that a man or woman shall act honorably in all the relations and phases of student life. Lying, cheating, stealing, or breaking one's word of honor under any circumstances are considered infringements of the Honor System. The penalty imposed in such cases will be at the discretion of the Honor Committee up to and including dishonorable dismissal from the University depending upon the degree of adjudged guilt.
The pledge in classes on quizzes, examinations, and all work done in class, means that the work which the student hands in to his professor is his own, which he himself has done in accordance with the requirements of the course as laid down by the professor
The Honor System requires furthermore that, when a student sees another student in suspicious circumstances, he shall investigate the matter as secretly and as speedily as possible, and if he finds evidence of guilt, shall accuse the suspected student to his face . . . Loyalty to the student body demands that one make this investigation. This can in no way be construed as spying or tale-bearing . . .
A student may not drop a charge upon the agreement of the accused to resign from the University, if a breach of honor is suspected, the ultimate result must be the quasi public dishonorable dismissal in every case where the accused is believed to be guilty. Furthermore, if a student leaves the University "under a cloud"—for example, after issuing a bad check, jurisdiction is retained by the student body to investigate the case, and, after making every effort to induce the suspect to return and face the charge, to report to the proper Dean and to the Registrar that such absent student is no entitled to an honorable dismissal.
It is always advisable to associate two or three fellow students, if possible, in making an investigation. All materials having any connection with the case should be summarily taken possession of by the investigators, if need be against the wishes of the suspected person, as a means of protection to all interests concerned. It is important to understand that the investigating students are the first to pass on the guilt or innocence of the suspected person; if they believe him to be guilty, they shall immediately notify the accused and the Honor Committee of their belief; the right to appeal to the Honor Committee rests alone with the accused . . .
It is also important that every student should exercise the greatest care to keep himself from suspicion of evil. Such practices as leaving the examination room for any length of time unaccompanied, or taking an examination alone, or bringing text and note books into the examination room, or carelessly glancing towards another student's papers are heartily condemned by the Honor Committee. . .
One of the greatest dangers to which an Honor System can be exposed is that of being "overloaded." To avoid this, and to preserve inviolate a precious heritage, it is essential that the Honor System shall concern itself solely with those offenses which are classified as dishonorable by the public opinion of the student generation involved . . . Numerous examples should be cited, but it should be sufficient to mention only a few, such as drinking, sexual immorality, breaches of administrative regulations, failure to pay honest debts, breaches of civil contracts, and the transfer of athletic season tickets.