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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1948
The Editorial Page
Round Four
Only Cheating Yourself
After a brief coke break, the Student-Faculty conference swung into the most controversial topic of the day—cheating on quizzes.
The general heading of the discussion, Student Attitudes, covered the moral breakdown of students as exemplified by the minority who are cheating.
One of the strongest suggestions made was that all violators should be reported by name to the instructor or dean.
Another student thought that students held no moral responsibility for courses which are required outside of their major. The statement was also made that the use of the same quizzes year after year invites the use of crib notes and quiz files.
The suggestion of more frequent quizzes seemed to be one method of easing this condition. Instead of an instructor giving only two or three tests during the semester, he should give six or eight or even more. This would reduce the emphasis that is placed on a few quizzes, and the pressure of making a grade would not be as great. With more tests, the student could have one or two bad ones and still come out with a good grade, if his other tests were sufficiently high enough to pull his average up.
One speaker said that all cheating could be attributed to the general apathy of the students. The failure of students to stop this cheating by failing to report the violators only seemed to condone and encourage such action. The competition in class work was mentioned as a "throat-cutting" attitude to get ahead.
Solutions to this problem which may or may not work were: (1) more questions than could possibly be answered during the period allowed for the test; (2) the use of different sets of quizzes so that persons sitting side by side would not have the same quiz; and (3) the breaking up of cliques of students who sit together for their mutual benefit.
It is the responsibility of every student to see that cheating is a thing of the past here. The University does not permit such action and will take drastic steps whenever a cheater is caught. Only one or two incidents of this kind would have a telling effect upon the minority who think they are cheating their fellow students—when they are only cheating themselves.
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Fair Wages?
Dear Editor:
According to the Daily Kansan of April 26, it is rumored that Ray Evans will receive around $20,000 a year for playing pro football with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
We are all justly proud of Ray and the record he made at K.U. and are glad that he has had this good fortune. I do not in any way wish to detract from him or his record, or wish to imply that he is not worth every penny of that $20,000.
However, it seems to me that in a society which pays its legislators $15,000 a year, and its athletes and entertainers $20,000 a year and more, there is something drastically out of whack somewhere. In view of the facts, we really have no right at all to complain about corruption, bungling, and inefficiency in national and international affairs. What else can we expect when we pay our statesmen and diplomats at a lower rate than we do our athletes and entertainers?
Bromleigh Lamb
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Poor Attitude
Dear Editor:
If Kansas has a losing team in any sport, as much of the blame should be placed on the student body as on the players or the coach. When the student body rides its own players, the psychological effect is terrific.
I scorched all the way through the basketball season and when I heard the fans riding their own players at the baseball game Saturday, it really burned me up. I have never seen anything like it in any high school or college. I think something should be done to improve this condition. I am sure there are many fans who feel the same way.
Ray Frisby Engineering junior
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