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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OLUME XVI
Honor System Plans Are to Be Discussed At Meeting of Women
Agitation of Two Years Past Leads to Taking of First Action
Highly Desirable, Says Dean
Students Should Join Faculty In Eliminating Cheats, Says Miss Corbin
A plan for co-operation between women of the University and members of the Disciplinary Committee to prevent cheating in examinations, and other class-room work, will be discussed at a mass meeting of all women students in Fraser Hall Chapel, Monday January 6, at 4:30 o'clock. What rules might be necessary, and what penalties be provided will be amidst the subjects to be considered.
The meeting is to be purely for the discussion, and every women present will be given an opportunity to express her views.
For the last two years, there has been an agitation among the students for a more effective method of preventing cheating. Now every woman in the University will be given a chance to express her opinion on the matter.
Dean Patterson, when asked his opinion about the plan of the women students to co-operate with the Disciplinary Committee, elected from the senate, said:
GOOD PLAN SAYS DEAN
"I am sure that the Disciplinary Committee would be very gud if the women of the University would take hold of this movement and push it through. It would be very easy for them to co-operate with the Disciplinary Committee after the movement has been started by the voluntary action of the women themselves. A movement toward establishing an honor system must be voluntary movement on the part of the students if it is to be a success. The students would then feel some responsibility and would not think that it had been thrust upon them by the faculty.
"About two years ago an investigation, on whether an honor system should be established or not, was made by committee of faculty and students. Their decision at that time was that the time was not ripe for the establishment of such a system, but their decision would not have weight at this time. The Deciplinary Committee has been established since that time, and has been able to accomplish many tasks along the line of doing away with dishonest work in classes and excuse problems. It is sure that the committee to call up any student, and the committee would be very glad indeed if the women students could make this task of the committee unnecessary.
IS PERTINENT PROBLEM
"I think that if the women will be able to carry this matter through and establish an honor system it will be the finest thing that has happened to the University for a long time. The women of the University have proved themselves capable of establishing efficient organizations and if anyone is capable of making the honor system at K. U. a success, it is the women of the school."
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Try-Outs for Play Open to All Students
The try-outs for the dramatic club play are open for any student in the University," said Prof. Arthur McMurray this morning. "There are twelve good parts in the play to be filled and there is room for students new in dramatics to make the cast." The first try-outs for the cast will be held at 4:30 o'clock Friday afternoon in the Little Theater in Green Hall. Contestants will be eliminated at following try-outs until the final cast is chosen. The cast will be chosen upon the showing made at these try-outs.
Men Will Resume Work On Paper, Says Gleissner
Reporting and Editing Essenti tially Man's Work is K.U. Man's Belief
"The newspaper business is essentially a man's work and although the women have done well in the energy during the war, their place will be largely filled by he men who are returning from the army," is the opinion of John Gleissner, who was graduated from the department of journalism in 1916 and was visiting at the University today. Before he entered the army Gleissner was associated with the Cleveland Press, and the United Press in Washington. Gleissner was also a special publicity representative for the Committee on Public Information in Washington.
"I doubt whether the average age of the editorial staff of the metropolitan newspapers of the country is more than twenty-six or twenty-seven," he continued, "and the majority of these young men have been in the service. They will be returning soon and most of them will want back their old places on the newspapers, and it is only fair that they should have their old positions. A large number of the women who have been in the profession have been doing the work just as a war measure and will be leaving the business world anyway so that it will not be a hardship on the women for the men to be given back their old places.
"I do not mean that there will be no women left on the newspapers. There are some things on newspapers that are essentially a woman's work and there will always be a certain percentage of women in the newspaper world, but that percentage will not be exceeded to any great extent."
Quill Club will hold an open meeting Thursday night at 8 o'clock in Fraser Rest Room.
Announcements
Try-outs for the Dramatic Club play will be held Friday afternoon at 4:30 and Saturday morning at 9:30 in the Little Theater in Green Hall. Any student is eligible to try out.
The Home Economics Club will have its picture taken Saturday at o'clock at Squires' Studio. All members, whether initiated or not, are to present.
Chancellor Chancellor F Rosedale
Chancellor
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 2, 1919.
Chancellor F. Rosedale
Rosedale to rank Strong went to
Mantine. You may to visit the School of
higher and senior students at
Rosedale. The second year class will
not be transferred to Rosedale until
April owing to the change from the
semester to the quarter system in dividing the school year. Under the two-term plan the sophomore medics always went to Rosedale at the end of the first semester of their sophomore year and took their remaining work there where the University had mental facilities to provide clinics.
Middy Dance to be Saturday
The first middy dance of this year under the auspices of the W. S. G. A. will be given in Robinson Gymnasium Saturday afternoon from 2:30 to 5:30 o'clock. Shofall will play for the dance. All women students of the University are invited.
Army influence is seen by students of Miami University in the new rules of the trustees, which require lights out in all men's dormitories and fraternities at 11 o'clock at night, and provide for supervised study for all freshmen, and upperclassmen who are delinquent in two or more courses.
Middy Dance to be Saturday
"Theory and Practice of Legislation," is the title of a new course offered at the University of Nebraska.
Task as Head of Division o
Food Administration is
Completed
Dean Templin Sends Word He Will Return To University Soon
NUMBER 48.
Olin Templin, dean of the College, who has been on leave in Washington, more than a year, is expected to return to the University within a few weeks. Dean Templin has had charge of the educational division of the Food Administration and was to have been a member of a government investigating and reconstructing commission to Russia, had not the commission been abandoned to await the results of the pence conference. Chancellor Strong received the following letter from Dean Templin today:
"The Russian expedition has been abandoned completely upon advice of those who know most about affairs in that unhappy country. It seems beat that any attempt to relieve the Russians should wait until the peace conference has decided upon the allied attitude. Mr. Walcott who was to have charge of the expedition goes to France in a few days."
Dean Templin adds that he is leaving Washington at once to join Mrs. Templin who is visiting relatives and then he expects to reach Lawrence in about two weeks.
Nine Second Lieutenants Are Out of Army Service
University S. A. T. C. Officers Complete Work and Are Discharged
Nine officers of the S. A. T, C, with the rank of second lieutenant who had been recommended for discharges, received them this morning, to take effect January 2. The order reads:
"According to the provision of Section 9, Act of Congress of May 18, 1917, and Circular No. 75, War Department, 1018, the following named officers are honorably discharged from the service of the United States and the convenience of the government, their services being no longer required;"
Lieut. Frederick F. Croxton, Lieut.
Lev F. Curl, Lieut. A. B. Cummings,
Lieut. John Carman, Lieut. Carter P.
Ulmer, Lieut. Robert Crotney, Lieut.
Otis F. Hornaday, Lieut. Ralph E.
Carter, and Lieut. John Brckett.
Fire Breaks Out
In Fraternity House
Because a P Student went to his room to study W ednesday afternoon, fire was discov on the third floor of confined A Nu fraternity house, and fi ciel to one room through the ef- work of the Lawrence fire de- sent.
No fire was of unknown origin, and a bird not spread from the room because of closed windows and doors allowing no draft. When the fire was discovered, the room was full of smoke, and the men in the house at the time were unable to enter it and bring out clothes and books.
S.A.T.C.Pay Arrives And is Being Disbursed In Green Hall Office
Read the Daily Kansan.
Checks to Be Mailed to Men Not Enrolled in the University This Quarter
Final pay for the men of the S. A.
T. C. has arrived and all former members of the S. A. T. C. now enrolled in the University may call for it at the adjutant's office in Green Hall Friday afternoon, between 2 and 5:30 o'clock. If students fail to call for their pay it will be sent to the addresses they left at the adjutant's office when they received their discharge papers. Pay checks will be mailed to men who are not enrolled in the University.
Orders have been received at headquarters to speed up demobilizing as much as possible. Only eighteen men are left to receive discharge papers and they probably will be received with the last pay. Seventeen officers have been recommended for discharge and will be discharged as soon as their papers are received from the Central Department.
Nothing has been announced as to when the men of the naval section will receive their pay or subsistence money. Ensign Finnegan could not be found by reporters this morning.
World's Press Congress To Meet in Sydney, N.S.W.
The Press Congress of the World will convene in Sydney, Australia, on November 11, 1919, the first anniversary of the signing of the armistice with Germany which ended hostilities in the world war, according to word just received from Dean Walter Williams of the School of Journalism of the University of Missouri, president of the congress, who is now in the Orient on a mission for the United States Government.
The Press Congress of t has journalists from thir World tries in its members' four coun- organized on a perma- it was orbasis in July, tent international in a con- it at San Francisco, ed. ccs in which 658 accredit- delegate participation. It was noted that t congress should meet in a differ- country every third year, but b because of the war the 1918 session in Sydney was postponed until 19 19.
Women of Kansas Want Dormitories for K. U.
Misa Alberta Corbin will go to Topeka tomorrow to attend a meeting of the committee on "Halls of Residence for Girls," of which she is chairman. Another member of the committee who will go from here is Mrs. W. R. Stubbs.
This committee is a branch of the Kansas Council of Women which is composed of all the presidents and members of the state-wide women's organizations.
The work of this committee is the only work that the Council has undertaken and it was taken up upon the basis of its own experience, versatility, the late Mrs. Scott Hopkins.
Women's Glee Club will hold its regular rehearsal tonight at 7 o'clock in Fraser Chapel.
A LITTLE ACTION, PLEASE!
The Men's Student Council is coming back to life, but the process of revivification is evidently not fully completed. The organization met last night for the purpose of setting a definite day for class elections. After lengthy discussion, no date was determined, and, as has been customary, council members announced this morning that the class elections will be held in the "near future."
Journalism Made Big
The Council defends its dilatory procedure by saying that there is not sufficient interest in politics to announce the date for class elections now. No better method for arousing interest in an election has ever been devised, than announcing the last date on which petitions may be handed in.
One senior class ticket has been nominated and organized for more than a month. Students who are delaying the election are desirous of organizing other class tickets, and an opposition senior ticket. These things should be done, of course, if we are to have a real election, but they should be done now. No one will take an avid interest in voting for this year's class officers when the apple blossoms bloom next May. The whole matter will be a trifle out-of-date by that time.
Course at Idaho
A new course in newspaper writing is offered at the University of Idaho this quarter.
The Argenton, University of English
The Argenton, University Daily of Idaho says, "The work in news writing is of great value to all students who are preparing for any kind of work. The course helps prepare students in Engineering, Home Economics, Agriculture and Business."
All students are allowed to enroll Freshmen and sophmores are permitted to take the work if they secure permission from Professor G. M. Miller of the department of English.
Plain Tales From the Hill
These are them good old days when great hunks and gobs of black soot float airily about in the air and finally land on your nose and smear all over your face when you try to whisk it off.
“Are you going to Ad?" he inquired.
The fraternity freshmen are beginning to talk about "Hell Week." What again? We thought that happened just before the holidays.
One little girl on her way to the ward school cut through the campus north of the Ad. Building and wondered "Who had to wade through this deep snow first and break the path for us."
New Year's resolutions and New Semester resolutions come all at once this year. Or the University woman was heard to ask, "Say, is the library open on Sunday?"
"No," replied the Lovely Young Lady. "I'm going to subtract from my grade."
Four Earthquakes Leave Record Here in December
An earthquake of moderate intensity, estimated to have been twenty-one hundred miles from Lawrence, in an undetermined direction, was recorded by the University seismograph the night of December 31. The primary wave occurred at 9:15:20 o'clock and was followed by the secondary wave (doubtful) at 9:17:27, and the main shock at 9:23:32. The disturbance was ended at 11:14:00. The maximum range of the needles was two-thirds of an inch.
This was the fourth earthquake recorded here during the month of December, one occurring on Deember 4 and two on December 6.
Senior Play Contest
To End January 15
The usual prize of $50 will be awarded the winner provided the play is produced. All manuscripts for the Senior Play should be turned in by January 15, Professor MacMurray. Several students have signified their intentions of entering the contest and a good live contest seems assured, according to Professor MacMurray.
The original play contest under the direction of the public speaking department, will be held this year following the customs of previous years, Prof. Arthur MacMurray said this morning. The contest is open to all students of the University.
Changes in Enrollment To Be Made Saturday
Applications to enroll in the University this quarter are still being received. The students making these applications will enroll Saturday morning. At the same time students who wish to make changes in classes will do so at the places designated for enrollment.
After Saturday definite figures up on the total enrollment in the various schools and departments will be given out, according to Registrar George O. Foster. The School of Education has enrolled to date 160 students, an increase over last quarter.
Enrollment Saturday
Students who have not enrolled or who are obliged to make changes in enrollment may do so Saturday, January 4, from 9 to 12 o'clock A. M. in the following offices:
Freshman, Fraser 104; Sophomore men, Fraser 305; Juniors, Ad. 204; Seniors, Fraser 202; Specials, Fraser 204.
Men's Student Council Postpones Fixing Date For Class Elections
Reason for Delay is Lack of Accurate Class Lists So Far
Tickets To Appear Soon
Candidates Must Hand In Petitions to Herschel Washington, President
No definite date for the class elections was set at the meeting of the Men's Student Council Wednesday night, but a report of the meeting said that the election would be in the "near future." Included in the election of officers of the different University classes will be the election of members of the Student Council sufficient to fill up the vacancies in that body, the Council decided.
The reason given for not setting a date for the election was that much preparation is yet needed before the event can take place. Accurate lists of all students in all classes and of all men in the schools of the University participating in the election of council members, must be bad before the election. These lists are checked off as the students come to the polls to insure against a person voting more than once. Because enrollment details are not available now these lists cannot be had.
CLASSES HAVE TICKETS
"The classes are well on the way to getting out tickets, I understand," said Herschel Washington, president of the Student Council. "It behoves them, however, to speed up arrangements as the election will be shortly. Interest seems to be picking up in politics."
How many student council members are to be elected cannot be determined yet, according to Washington. The normal membership of the organization is eighteen. The number of members is based on the enrollment in the University, and cannot be fixed till definite enrollment figures are available. Each school is represented by one man for each 100 students enrolled in the school, or fraction of 100.
There are six old men back on the Council this quarter, but more are expected to enroll late. There probably will be eight or ten vacancies on the council to fill. Just what schools these new members will come from cannot be determined until enrollment statistics are compiled to find out how many representatives each school may have. Some schools will not elect new men, probably, because they are already represented on the council by old men. All schools—College, Engineering, Law, Medicine, Pharmacy, and Graduate—are entitled to membership. In college and engineering, there usually are several members because of the large size of these schools.
The secretary-treasurer elected last spring, Farrell Lobaugh, is not in school this year. This position may be filled by election by the students, according to Washington. If this is done it will be by election by men of all students.
PETITIONS MUST BE IN
The members of the council who are in school now are: Herschel Washington, president; George DeVoe, vice-president; Ed. Mason, Robert Albach, Marvin Harms, and Homer Engles. With the reorganization of the council, it hopes, according to Washington, to be acting under normal conditions and resume normal activities. The organization was shot to pieces the first quarter by the absence of the members in military service.
Petitions must be got out by candidates for offices, both in the class and the council elections. Fifty signers are necessary for the petition of an aspirant to a class office, and twenty-five signers for a candidate for student council membership. These must be filled out and handed in to President Washington at a date a few days before the election, this date to be set later. The petition and the date must pay in seventy-five cents to the president of the council. This fee covers costs of election, ballots and the like.
Achoth to Initiate
Aechth will hold induction Saturday, January 4, for Romana Hood, Gladys Michael Shale, Emma Houghton, Ruth Cuthbert, Lora Gore, and Ruth Syster.