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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FEBRUARY 10, 1947
Kansan Comments...
Pay Your Way
"You can't crawl under the tent. You have to buy your ticket and go in through the door."
This is the observation of one or K.U. alumnus who, by his own efforts, reached an enviable goal. He not only enjoys considerable financial success, but also has the satisfaction that his work is helping his suffering fellow men.
Whether these or some other achievements are your aim in life, this man's philosophy is worth remembering. After you have determined the direction you will take, there are no shortcuts.
"Crawling under the tent" scholastically is nerve-wracking—you never know when you will be caught. Enrolling in snap courses, copying someone else's assignment, applolishing, aren't getting you into the main act. And it is worse to be found without necessary evidence of learning for an important job later, than for a college examination.
Unless you pay the required price you will miss part of the show "Buying your ticket" means putting in whatever endeavor is needed to get each assignment, properly; it means taking an active part in learning, rather than sitting back passively waiting for the teacher to poun in knowledge. It means that many times you will have to put the serious part of school before the pink-lemonade part.
This week you are standing in line to buy your ticket to a new semester. It would be silly to risk crawling under the tent to get the rest of the way.
The recent final week was an unusual one if some students did not complete their courses with the aid of crib notes, copying, or some other form of cheating on examinations.
Honor System
Whenever someone is caught, his stock excuse is that he was not the only one. Why must this situation go on year after year, with everyone talking about the honor system and nobody doing anything about it?
Faculty and student representatives of the University of California at Los Angeles recently got together on this problem. They discussed the common ways of cheating, and a student committee submitted a plan for the conduct of examinations. It provided for at least one proctor to every 25 students, and disqualification for anyone not complying with rules.
A still more efficient check might be to have the honest majority of
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There is more to an honor system than asking students to be trustworthy—those who are unethical enough to cheat are unethical enough to betray a trust. But the pressure of public opinion would be greater if each student were watched by all of his fellows.
the student body responsible for reporting and preventing cheating.
KU, could use some frank discussion between students and faculty members on the matter. And the conference might take some good hints from the Law school which has worked a successful honor system for years.
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A battle royal of the six Hill bands and Matt Betton's band has been suggested to determine which band is best. We doubt if anyone will bet on Betton, although we Matt be surprised.
The prosecuting attorney of the student court stated that last Friday's traffic court session is the last until after finals. That doesn't mean that tickets won't be issued.
The Progressive party's decision to admit women students to its folds reminds us of the sideshow barker who shouts, "Hurry and get your tickets, folks, only a few seats left."
And speaking of General Marshall, you students who aren't at all sure about making Phi Beta Kappa might like to be reminded that General Marshall was 15th in a class of 34 and that William Allen White flunked geometry three times.
Two Kansas City jurors were fined for contempt of court last week because they went out to lunch and didn't return until the next day. Restaurant service seems to be bad all over.
Prof. Alfred S. Romer, Harvard university, recently explained to fellow scientists how the development of hard-shelled reptile eggs resulted in the evolution of mammals and birds. So now we know that the egg came before the chicken.
American hearts warmed once again to the stage presence of Lauritz Melchior, Danish tenor of the Metropolitan opera, when he tripped recently after wrenching the magic sword from a tree trunk in the first act of Wagner's "Die Walkure." Although his toe was broken in the accident, he note the he was singing. Some University students remember a similar admiration for his last encore in a concert here two years ago, when he put on his glasses and looked over his accompanist's shoulder to sing the very new "The House I Live In."
All-K.U. Party Can Be Fun
According to a recent editorial in the Daily Kansan, the ex-dance manager, the junior class, and the Daily Kansan all seem convinced that a campus band from K-State, Matt Petton's band, is musically superior to any of the six K.U. dance bands. Just how that decision was obtained wasn't mentioned.
In regard to "money-making," the editorial suggested that only by bringing Betton to K.U. could any evaluation be obtained. Is it too much to suggest that only by hearing all six K.U. bands and the K-State band that any musical rating could be obtained?
I feel safe in stating that all six bands at KU. are musically superior to any out-of-town group that I've heard in Lawrence this year. That includes the "name" bands that have played here. Anyone who reads "Downbeat" or "Metronome" is well aware that the only factor consistent about most "name" bands these days is the constant change-overs in personnel. Such change-overs are not conducive to effective musical performances.
The suggestions the editorial advanced for making K.U. dances more fun for everyone were good, but they only scratch the surface.
How about taking advantage of the intense competition among the K.U. dance bands, feature three of them in a battle of bands at the junior dance and the other three at the senior class party?
How about moving the dances from the Military Science building to the Community building where internession time will find food and drink conveniently available? If that can't be done, why can't a fountain be set up in the Military Science building to handle intermission hungurs? Why can't some genuine efforts be made to make the Union ballroom available for special occasions, even though present over-crowding at K.U. necessitates the use of the ballroom as a cafeteria?
Why can't adult University students be granted the same freedoms at a school dance that parents grant at home, at least to the extent of smoking at dances?
Melvin Zack, Junior Education
An all-University party, properly handled, can be good fun. Any "old-timers" who recall the 1942-3 New Year's Eve party the Bachmann band played in Hoch auditorium will testify to that.
Consider the approaching Valentine Season
(Editor's note—The editorial stated that the question of whether or not a dance featuring Matt Betton would be profitable could be settled only by bringing Betton here. There was no intention on the part of the editor to attempt to judge musical superiority.)
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Canuteson Attends Meeting Of Health Committee In N.Y.
Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of health service at the University, is in New York attending a meeting of the planning committee for the third national conference on Health in Colleges which will be held in New York City May 7 to 10. Dr. Canuteson is chairman of the planning committee.
The conference will be the first such meeting in more than 10 years. Invitations to send delegates have gone to the presidents of more than 900 colleges and teacher-training schools.
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