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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
DECEMBER 17,1946
Kansan Comments
Quiz Files II
Several indignant readers have written the Daily Kansan protesting a recent editorial regarding quiz files.
These letter-writers, independent students living in unorganized houses, feel that they don't have scholastic equality with students who have access to quiz files, that fraternity and sorority members have a monopoly on quiz files, that the use of a quiz file is an open sesame to scholastic success.
A quiz file is a collection of papers, notebooks, and examinations. It serves the same purpose as does the condensation of a book or questions at the end of each chapter in a textbook. If a quiz file were an automatic pass to "A" grades, Phi Beta Kappa keys would be as common as discharge buttons.
The writers err, of course, in two of their points. Both Greek and independent organized houses maintain quiz files; only the student in an unorganized house doesn't have access to a file. And the use of a quiz file is no guarantee of high grades.
With one point, we thoroughly agree. A quiz file is a definite aid in some courses, and unorganized students sometimes are handicapped because they don't have access to a quiz file.
The present Daily Kansan editor thinks the University should maintain a permanent, easy-to-use quiz file on the campus, either in the library or in each department of the University. Samples of laboratory reports, themes, standard assignments, and standard examinations should be included.
There is nothing revolutionary about the idea. Many universities and colleges maintain a quiz file for students use. And one of the toughest schools in the world, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, has a printed booklet of sample examinations.
If the University would maintain its own quiz file for the use of all students, it would accomplish two jobs. Everyone would have the same study and review material, and everyone would find out how much of the class material he has yet to learn.
Optimists
Candidates for the title "Most Optimistic" are those professors who give assignments for their students to complete over the Christmas vacation.
A few students will get the assignment. Their standing in the class will go up (with the professor); they are the ones who stay a day after the vacation starts and come back a day before vacation ends.
Most students, however, will take out of Lawrence like startled jack-rabbits as soon as their last class is over. Few of them will return until the last possible moment. Their grade points will drop off faster than the needles on the discarded Christmas tree.
Professors are right in expecting the Jan. 6 class to be another class day. So much material has to be covered that day; if it isn't, the next class will have to make up the deficiency. The day after a vacation shouldn't be used as a second orientation period.
It's not that students don't like to go to school. It's just that they like to relax. If professors want to
be realists, they'll forget long assignments for Jan. 6. That would be a good day for class discussion on a topic which can be thought out during the ride back to the University.
Want A Guest?
Thanksgiving time, a number of University students invited out-of-state and foreign students home with them. A good time was reported for all concerned.
It's now near Christmas time. Perhaps you find you're going to have a little more room than you need for your Christmas celebration. Perhaps you'd like to have a guest Christmas time.
Willis Tompkins, assistant dean of men, will be glad to help you in finding someone to go home with you Christmas. Why not give him a call?
Dear Editor---
Editor's Note: Every "Letter to the
author" must be withheld from publication upon
request, but the editor must know who
makes all letters must be limited to
220 words.
To Professor Crafton
Perhaps I might be able to help Professor Crafton to ascertain the reasons for reduced attendance at dramatic functions. These are they:
ONE. Most students are sick and tired of seeing the same group of students performing at each play. None is particularly outstanding. Granted, there is a solution to this problem; I hope it can come about.
**TWO.** Tickets are excessively inconvenient to obtain for the average student who is not willing to walk there. There is a solution to this, too.
THREE. Fraser theater itself is a decrepit, outmoded deterrent to the proper enjoyment of any production. No immediate solution.
FOUR. Productions usually occur at inconvenient times, i.e., when some other school function is scheduled.
Personally, I think the productions are excellent and for the most part well-chosen. Being fortunate enough to be selected for a part last year, I have had the opportunity to observe the work of Mr. Crafton and the department at first hand. They are doing a magnificent job against nearly unsumountable odds. I sincerely hope the present poor attendance does not discourage them.
Name Withheld College Senior
"Big Blowhards"
I have recently noticed a small editorial in the Daily Kansan and also in the Kansas City Star, about a Los Angeles mother and her two daughters having birthdays on the same day. Maybe you haven't heard, but something like the same conditions are here at K.U.
I was born on my father's birthday, and both of us were born at exactly six p.m. Neither one of us have been late to dinner since, because dinner is always served at six p.m. at home.
You also went on to say that the mother probably waives her seniority when it comes time to blow out the candles. Dad and I never worry about the candles, because both of us are just a couple of big blow-ards, anyway. What we worry about is who is going to cut the cake and just how big to cut the pieces. Brother, seniority really rules then.
Things don't stop there, either. My brother was born just three and one-half hours late of having the same birthday as my father's mother. I call that coming pretty close.
P.S.G.L. Senate Meets
Bob Burwell Engineering freshman
The jurisdiction of student government will be reported on by a committee headed by Austin Turney, College sophomore, at the Progressive Student Government league senate meeting at 9:30 p.m. tonight in Battenford hall.
A three-year-old boy was clawed by a leopard in the N.Y. zoo, but he probably didn't mind. Think of the fun he can have telling his playmates, "Oh, those scars? Got in a fight with a leopard. Nothing much to it, really."
Jaytalking ---
The problem of who is to pay for the student directory could be solved simply by merely waiting to see to whom the printer sends his bill.
Ad in the personal column: "I have always been responsible for my own debts." Now, let's have no more misunderstanding on that point.
Robert Ripley reports Korean bakers pound their dough with mallets to make the bread digestible. Sunflower wives, please note.
"Tm in good spirits now, cried the mouse as he slipped into the punch bowl.
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