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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUE@DAY, NOVEMBER 29. 1938
Kansan Comment
Is Ghost Writing Disease Or Merely a Symptom?
The appearance on the University Campus of circular letters from a vague person named Smith marks a new low in the American college ghost-writing racket. It strongly, emphasizes the need for a realistic approach to the problem.
Listing a New York City address and telephone number, and pointing to a Master's degree, the helpful Mr. Smith offers a complete service, including everything from psychology to military science, from art notebooks to doctor's theses. Apparently nothing daunts this ubiquitous wreak. In brusque and business-like manner he speaks of writing "original themes and book-reports in a minimum amount of time and of high standard"—and urges the student to "write for cost-estimate immediately."
The service is supposed to be chiefly planned for those who are "too busy" to do their own work. It is nice of Mr. Smith to make this delicate distinction. He hares his inner feeling thus: "I prefer to work for men who are capable of doing this work but choose, as a modern business executive, to delegate it, and thereby place greater emphasis on other phases of their activities."
Now this is an admirable point of view indeed. It turns the ghost writer into a veritable social worker. To the person who finds his time weighted down with playing intramural football, or sipping cokes, or drumming up useful friendships in political parties, this pronouncement should come as a ray of sunshine. Now one can put away nearly all the responsibilities of the classroom and concentrate on these really important things!
That is reducing the situation to an absurdity. But there is no reason to believe that the situation can have any other end-point but a terrible absurdity. This particular ghost himself repudiates the idea of a mere emergency measure for the harassed but capable student. He makes large references to "steady customers" and proclaims that "those who are loyal to me throughout the entire year receive prompt service and the minimum charge."
"Every man today has a ghost" is the phrase blazoned at the top of Smith's letter. It is an effective slogan, even though grossly inaccurate. But calling ghost-writing a widespread practice does not make it an ethical practice. Burglary is frequent nowadays, too.
Yet to say that the thing is wrong is not enough. The student who does the hiring isn't much concerned about the ethical aspect of his action. He cocks his eye at the shrewd comparison with a "modern business executive" and turns over his responsibility with alacris. Is he actually simple enough to believe that a "business executive" lets other people do his thinking? Maybe he is. At any rate, he's simple enough to want to lose part of the education he pays for. Pitifully eager to escape an immediate task, he is indifferent alike to the harm he does others and the harm he does himself.
Such a comparison is not far-fetched. Ghost-writing is unquestionably a form of burglary, wherein the student steals an academic grade or credit that doesn't belong to him. Furthermore it seems nothing short of ridiculous to withhold blame from the person who bires himself out to steal. The whole practice is fraudulent from beginning to end.
To declare evasively that "there ought to be a law against it" may be a good suggestion. It's easy enough to stop with that. But the problem is not that simple.
--represented, in a sense, an effort to substitute individual interest and thought for the old rote-method. Therefore, such retrogression is unfortunate. But the professors cannot be blamed.
There's another side, for instance. There is the unreasonable professor—and his tribe is large—a petty autocrat that requires a nine-hours' load for three hours' credit, bluntly ignorant that there are other courses on the Hill. To what extent is he responsible for the appearance of ghost-writing—and what can be done about it?
To what extent is the grading system responsible for the current mess? The student who heads for a ghost-helper is obviously working—or trying to pay—for a grade.
To what extent is the situation a result of unlimited attendance at state colleges? President Hutchins of Chicago is an effective critic of that condition—of students who are sent to the university to spend time, to make friends, or to find a mate. In this bracket, ghost-patrons abound.
There are innumerable embarrassing questions that might be asked. The situation casts a great, baleful question-mark on the whole modern system of education.
Of course, the inevitable result of the furor will be a general return to dependence on final examinations. Term papers
Yet the problem must be attacked much more fundamentally than that if it is ever to be eradicated. Ghost-writing is less a self-made evil than it is a symptom. Some very important corrections will have to be made—and soon—or we may perhaps be confronted by the ridiculous picture of empty libraries and a student body waiting for the mail!
When you are backing your car the chances of an accident are 13 times as great as when you are moving forward, the National Safety Council says.
Are you 13 times as careful? The motorist who looks to see whether a pedestrian is walking behind him or a child is playing in the path of the car may save a life.
Winter driving brings the danger of carbon monoxide, warns the Kansas State Highway Patrol. The careful motorist will start his car with the garage doors open and will warm up his motor after he backs out of the building. It is also well to use caution on long trips during the winter by driving with one window open part way.
In the month of December last year 60 per sons lost their lives in motor vehicle accidents in Kansas, and this was the highest monthly toll for the entire year. The toll for December, 1936, was 63 deaths. Bad weather and holiday traffic combine to cause many deaths during this month.
Campus Opinion
Editor, Daily Kansan:
If any student feels he is receiving discourant service in the library, he will confer a great favor on the Library Staff if he will make his complaint directly to the Director, giving full particulars.
The Library cannot proceed on vague, anonymous rumors; if anything is a wrong it must have the student's permission.
Sincerely,
C. M. Baker,
Director of Libraries,
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 36 Tuesday, Nov. 29, 1938 No. 52
Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 3 p.m., preceding
regular publication days and 11 a.m. (many other
days).
ASME: The A. S. M. E. will meet Thursday, December 1, in room 206 Marvin Hall. A picture entitled 'Glass - Servant to Man' is to be shown. Everybody is invited.-C. E. Godwin. Secretary.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION; The regular weekly meeting, open to all students, graduates and faculty members who are interested in Christian Science. Room C3 Myers Hall—Richard MacCann, Secretary.
FENCING CLUB. FENCING TEAM. There will be 12 fencing teams at the FENCING team today at 5 p.m. All members should be present. All candidates for the men's fencing team should report for practice at 5 p.m. to Coach Jim Report - Kalman A
MEDICAL APTITUDE TEST. The annual medical aptitude test given by the Association of American Medical Colleges will be given on December 2 at 23C in room 101, Snow Hall. All premedical students who pass the exam should either at the University of Kansas or elsewhere should take it at that time, since, due to a recent action, the Association is discontinuing giving supplementary tests in the spring. A fee of one dollar will be collected from the University of Kansas and is regarded the test may be secured from the under-signed-Parke Woodard, Room 8A. Frank Strong Hall.
GERMAN TABLE. The German table will meet to the Union Building Wednesday. Anyone interested in speaking German meet at 5:30 in the main lounge—M. Moyer.
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION FACULTY: There will be a meeting at 3:30 this afternoon in room 115 Fraser
TAU SIGMA. There will be a regular Tau Sigma
meeting tonight at 7:30 at Hoboken gymnasium. -Ar-
tur.
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Forty-Year-Old K-Book Reveals University Strides
Yes indeed, time marches on.
case anyone has any doubts on the
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年 1989-1900, owned by Fred Els-
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ce him.
By Mary Jane Sigler, c'39
This 40-year old "Students" Hand-book," was published by the University Y.M.C.A. and W.Y.C.A. These organizations have sponsored the K-Book through the years, with the assistance in recent years of the Men's Student Council and the Women's Self-Governing Association. The first handbook came out in 1889.
A comparison of the 1899 book and this year's copy reveals the tremendous progress that has been made by the University in forty years—in enlightening its faculty and curriculum, in increasing the number of its buildings, and in the growth in number and size of its academic and social organizations. Changes and improvements in the town of Lawrence are also readily apparent.
Since 1899 the University faculty has increased manyfold, as has the number of courses offered to students. In the list of professors of that year are several names familiar to this year's students. A few are still teaching, and others have received awards for their work; however, are familiar in name only, because of the buildings named for them.
Miss Carrie Watson, librarian emirna, comes under both classifications, for she is still active in the library which is named for her. E F. Engel, professor of German, Carl Preyer, professor of piano, William Burdick, professor of law, M. E Rice, professor of physics, and A T. Walker, professor of Latin and Greek, are those who are yet teaching. Miss Eugene Gallo, E. M Hopkins, Miss Hannah Oliver, James Naismith, M. W. Sterling, W. C. Stevens, and Olin Tempin are retired professors living in Lawrence. Professor Tempin is secretary of
notes 'n discords
by John Randolph Tye
If we had only known before his holidays that the medical students were looking for stiffs, we could have caught back a splendid assortment.
Since the Dies committee has summoned Gypsey Rose Lee to testify, the investigating body can be set to get down to fundamentals.
The Kansas Players, we understand, were considering producing one of the fame is Nativity mystery plays - The Nativity - during the Christmas season. There was some debate whether or not the play was intended to finally decided to settle the matter by a toss of a coin, Jesus lost.
A columnist on The Minnesota Daily, Ted Peterson, writes that it's against the law in Kansas to eat snakes and reptiles in public. We hate to say it, but Peterson has said that a law should be passed law in Kansas to sell any drink that will make one want to eat snakes and reptiles in public.
It would have been a good thing for the country if President Roosevelt had thought of his New Deal experiment in a university labor-education didn't been allowed to leave until he had the thing worked out properly.
We pause to ask how one disguises between the students and the student teachers at The Oread Training School.
If you think the present generation of oldsters is critical of college students, wait until you meet the criticism of a generation that is just burguing. A trio of Hill Lothario's was called to order at a movie Sunday night by a serious young man of seven. "What's the matter with these guys?" he asks. "Can't you set like gentlemen once in awhile?" Abashed the collegiars were silent for a few moments, but a remark by one of them about the
. . .
--the University Endowment Association.
Then there was a dear old lady—a cross-word puzzle addict—who made a nuisance of herself trying to find a seven-leter word meaning William the Conqueror that began with a B.
University Has Tripled Buildings
Nearly every building on the Campus is represented in this early-day faculty list. These educational leaders who will live forever on the Hill because of the buildings named for them are E. H. S. Bailey, professor of biology; L. D. Lyche, professor of physics; L. D. Lyche, professor of zoology; O. M. Marvin, professor of engineering; Chancellor F. H. Snow; and Miss Watson, librarian. Fraser hall and Strong Frank hall were both named for chancellors.
In 1899 there were only two honorary fraternities on the Hill, Phi Beta Kappa, scholarship, and Sigma Xi, science. There were six social fraternities and three social sororities. Today there are 42 honorsary and professional organizations and many other academic societies. Nineteen social fraternities and 10 social sororities maintain houses.
The University has tripped the number of its buildings, there now being 30. The handbook states that the number of students in 1898 was 1.097. This year's registration total is more than four times that figure.
Advised give to new students in the handbook shows that human nature has changed much less in 40 years than has the University. A part of this worthy advice is: "You should always be careful when you work, be out every night, or neglect your physical needs." Another, not so applicable today is not to "carry more than 20 hours of bench work." In the "notes" at the back of the book is additional counsel for the young student which is yet timely.
In the "notes" at the back of the book is additional counsel for the young student which is yet timely. Some of these notes are:
Speak up like a man for your University.
Remember that clothes don't make the man.
Don't waste too much time in University politics
Don't ignore the beautiful view from the Campus. Stand quite still and enjoy it once in a while.
Don't be envious of the freshman who ripens early. If you're a good man we will hear from you in time.
charm of the little boy's girl friend — a sweet young thing almost out of kindergarten—caused the seven-year old to fly into another rage. You do trouble with you college boys. All you think about is kissing and loving!"
...
We were called on the carpet yesterday by an irate sophomore. "Why don't you try to really say something nice about people once in a while?" he demanded, splitting no hairs but only an infinitive.
We tried to make the young man understand that even though we would like to, it was an impossibility. It all goes back to the way we were raised. Dawn in our country it's against tradition to like anything James Melton recently gave a concert there; afterwards he complained that the audience was the coldest he had ever appeared before. He needn't have got excited for our town has coldest winter ever. Tibbett to Ernestine Schumann-Heink Like Queen Victoria, we refused to be amused. It is our only claim to fame, along with being a taxless city and the home of the man who composed that "By the Waters of Minnetonka" thing. They claim in the famed Hedgerow Theatre near Philadelphia, there is a sign in the dressing-room which reads: If you think you're good, wait until you play Chanute.
Student thrill-seekers were satisfied yesterday when they viewed a pile-up of 34 Union Pacific freight cars derailed about two miles north of Lawrence on the railroad's main line.
Students Crowd To See Derailing
The accident occurred between 2 and 2:30 o'clock yesterday morning when a broken bike derailed a car causing the pile-up. Union Pacific officials reported last night they were not sure when the wreckage was cleared off the roads but that one line would be见 them by midnight.
The cars were piled in a hopelessly langed mass and large cranes have been maneuvering for more than 12 hours, trying to clear a single track. Approximately a quarter of a mile in length up and will require time to repair.
Yesterday afternoon many students went out to the scene and watched railroad men untangle the ropes from the wood. Many people with candid cameras were busy getting shots from all angles.
Merchandise and other products in the cars were truckie do Lawrence for reshigment but some of the merchandise was a total loss.
POLICE had a problem keeping the traffic moved from the scene of the wreck. Through the course of the day thousands of people visited the scene. Cars were seen from 12 different counties.
Union Pacific and Rock Island trains were re-routed over the Sante Fe tracks to Topeka.
Yoemans to Teach in Missouri
Dean Moreau Resumes Duties
Prof. H. E. Chandler, director of the teacher's appointment bureau, announced yesterday that Louise Yeomans 38, has been appointed to English staff of the Central State Teachers College at Warrenburg, Mo.
Dean F. L. Moreau of the School of Law returned to his office today after a week's absence. Dean Morreu for a time was confined in the University of Kansas hospital at Kansas City.
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It will be Duke's first trip to the Rose Bowl and the fourth for Coach Wallace Wide, who has never been defeated in a Rose Bowl game. While at Alabama, Wide brought back two wins and a win from Padena.
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