PAGE SIX 24 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1950 The Editorial Page- Mixup At K.U. Editor's Note: Tuesday's Topeka Daily Capital contained the following article on its editorial page: Officials at the University of Kansas are entitled to the sympathetic understanding of the public with respect to a mixup in seating at Saturday's K.U.-Nebraska game. The officials are doing everything they can to make amends and to make certain that it does not happen again. Kansans and Nebraskans who had reserved seats months ago, including some who had traveled as far as 400 to 500 miles, arrived to find students sitting in the seats they had purchased. The section occupied by students was roped off and they insisted that it was their section. Students simply commandeered seats which had been sold to the general public, and they kept them. University officials are engaged in making apologies and in sending out money refunds—all they can do in the circumstances. It was an unfortunate incident which caused bitter feelings, but the public has every assurance that it will not be repeated. The students broke down a gate, got into the stadium early, took over seats to which they were not entitled, and held them. They did not seem to realize that, in doing so, they were antagonizing some of the best friends and supporters K.U. has. Anyone with a football ticket held in advance of the game expects his seat to be waiting for him. If another individual occupies it, the ticket holder has the right to expect ushers—or even policemen—to eject the trespasser. Without this assurance and this protection no one would be safe in buying tickets. Then, too, the University of Kansas is like every other tax-supported institution in that it must depend upon the understanding and goodwill of state legislators and the general public. Among several victimized at Saturday's game were Kansas lawmakers. They will be asked to appropriate money at the next session of the Legislature for K.U. athletic projects. But some of them are certain to remember what happened last Saturday. More money is needed to complete the K.U. fieldhouse project, for example. The fieldhouse should be built, because it is badly needed, but the student demonstration last Saturday will make it doubly hard for fieldhouse boosters to obtain the necessary money from the next Legislature. Probably the overstatement of the week was one contained in a letter to the editor (which cannot be printed because of its anonymity). "You are the most influential man at K.U." was the jist of the writer's generous flattery, but it seems obvious that he does not read the Kansan frequently enough to notice the masthead. Americans can hardly condemn the Communists in East Germany for requesting 14,000,000 Protestants and 4,000,000 Catholics to sign a pledge of "loyalty to the state" to preserve their "religious freedom" when loyalty oath strikes a familiar note here at home. Little Man On Campus "This would be an excellent theme if it weren't for two typographical errors. You left the quote marks off the beginning and end." Poetic Passage Dear Editor: Letter to the editor, that's for me. "World in Crisis" Oh, how we hate thee. To K.U. we came Just to hear one side. One side only, from that our fame Our minds are closed. To all but one, We are opposed. Thinking we do shun. Grandpa did it for us We just have fun! Went to a lecture called "Crisis." What? Something Grandpa didn't say? it seems there are two sides to this. Shame on you "Liberals," "Com- mien" and the rest mies" and the rest. Our minds are closed to all but one As we say, that's the best. Another view we will not take. But sides there are two, And a decision we must make. Decisions we do abhor. Only one side—right; That and only that forevermore. What have the speakers wrought? What know they of world affairs? How dare they tax my brain with thought! What they say cannot be Grandpa told us only one One side only, that's democracy. How dare these speakers abuse free speech We want only one side—ours. Others will cause us "Red" to screech. Another side there cannot be. One view, one view, that's for us; Anything else is heresy. Letters to the editor are so bold "Name withheld by request" Protects us from other names untold Now at poetry, I ain't so hot, But sign my name, I will; Unlike the brave ones who will not brave ones who will not EARL. D. SCHIBLER Business Senior The nearest relatives of the beautiful birds of paradise are the plain crows. Daily Hansan University Member of the Kansas Press Assn. [Not affiliated] Press Assn., and the Associated Collegiate Press. Represented by the National Ad- missory Service 420 Madison Ave, New York City. Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Adv. Room K.U.376 Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor Business John Hill Forrest Bellus Asst. Managing Editors ... Faye Wilkinson Lloyd Holbeck Bill Stratton City Editor Francis Kelley Assistant City Editors Dewayne Oglebee Charles Price Armani Lewis Marion Klewley Photograph Editor Edward Chapin Society Editor Patricia Jansen Asst. Soc. Editor Janet Agan Melanie Latu Sports Editor Ray Soldan Assistant Sports Editors Bob Nelson Ashley Seeman Telegraph Editor Robert Sigman Asst. Tel Editors Marvin Arth Deser Marvin Marks George Hess Editorial Assistants William Graves William DeLay Advertising Manager Gerald Mosley National Adv. Man Dick Nash Classified Ad.Mgr Charlotte Gesey Promotion Manager Sam Eitel The Sounding Board Honor System's Merits Editor's Note: Third in the Kansan's weekly series of questions answered through "The Sounding Board" is the following article by Dean F. J. Moreau. First, the question: How does the law school operate its honor system, and what do you think of the possibility of extending the system throughout the University? The School of Law has been under the honor system for many years. The basic rules or principles under which this system operates have been reduced to writing, and a copy of such document is always on the law school bulletin board. It places each law student upon his honor at all times and specifically says that he is to be free from faculty supervision during the taking of examinations. It expects each student to live up to the system and to aid in enforcing compliance by others. It makes each student realize every unreported violation weakens the system. The system is in charge of a committee of five students which is made up of the presidents of the three classes, a delegate-at-large elected from the senior law class by all the students in the school, and one member selected from the staff of the law review. Five specific provisions state some of the fundamental violations of the system. These are as follows: DEAN FREDERICK J. MOREAU 1. No person shall give or receive, directly or indirectly, any help during an examination, or conduct himself so as to give an appearance of giving or receiving such help. 2. No examination paper shall be taken outside of the law school building during the period in which such examination is being given. 3. It shall be the duty of the faculty and the governing committee of the honor system to see that each year the fundamentals of the honor system are carefully explained to the incoming students. In each fall semester of each year, not later than two weeks before finals, there shall be held a law school convocation, at which time there shall be again carefully explained the principles of the honor system as applied to the taking of examinations. rules and regulations shall be posted in a public place, and it is suggested that the faculty authorize the librarian to enforce said rules and regulations strictly, with especial attention paid to the infliction of fines for keeping books out after the due date. 4. A complete set of library (a) Taking a book out of the library without having signed the card, in addition to being a violation of the library rules, is hereby declared to be a violation of the honor system, and punishable as such. 5. Any unauthorized and wilful taking of another student's book from the law school premises shall be considered as a violation of the honor system. These provisions are not meant to be all inclusive. The honor committee enforces smoking rules in the law building and frowns upon any conduct that is considered improper or involves bad manners. It is our opinion that the system works very effectively. During the past 20 years, I recall two instances of cheating in examinations and one instance where a student handed in work that was not his own. Our librarian reports it is a very rare instance when a book disappears from the library. In my opinion, there are certain factors which make the system effective in the low school. In the first place, the group of students is small, rarely exceeding 200. Secondly, all students are people who already hold a degree or are very close to it. Thirdly, our group solidarity makes it possible for us to talk about these things; and in the fourth place, legal judgment corresponds with moral judgment in 98 per cent of the cases, and one would naturally expect that those who are training themselves to decide issues rightly among people would be inclined to do what is right in their own relationship with one another. At any rate, in our experience a dishonest act in the law school is the rare exception. If there have been in the past who came to the school with other ideas, they soon yielded to the environment. I have been asked whether I feel that the system would work effectively where a large group of students is involved, and I am inclined to doubt that it would. In large groups the relationship between students and teachers has a tendency to become impersonal. A teacher will meet a student in one course only, and there cannot be the personal acquaintance which exists when a student meets a teacher in five or more courses. Many law students are instructed for three straight years by the same teacher. Also, in the early years of college, the flunker and the careless are present. Generally speaking, such people never find their way into the law school; they are eliminated or drop out by the wayside. Everyone in the law school has passed the English proficiency examination. The point is that the need for cheating doesn't exist as it does in the first years of University work. 1V T Top ita; C Sch the ciat pecs sam pro spe Mu C sor supe tary Fri vers obse com tion. do fesso "Desg Graw will the D M De whic To sary new must to in This do. De coun incre prec elect cong the Th the seas Newton tor pros colle lican so, trol this; has a policy