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University Daily Kansan Tuesday. May 3, 1960
The Disciplinary Deans
The disciplinary panel at Friday's Current Events Forum, although arriving at no conclusions, pointed out a few general differences in ideas among the speakers.
Yet most of the conflicting views were not crystallized nor were any conclusions drawn during the one-hour session. This can hardly be blamed on the speakers. All three were well qualified. Rather, it points out the complexity of the disciplinary problem.
It is difficult to present all the arguments for or against the present system, let alone arrive at any conclusions, in one hour. If an alternative disciplinary plan is introduced — and we hope there is — it will have to be a well-researched, detailed document.
DEAN OF MEN Donald K. Alderson, the only panel member defending the present system, was approaching the essence of the disciplinary controversy at the end of the hour. He said it should be remembered KU's disciplinary procedure is not a court of law.
Dean of Students Laurence C. Woodruff made a similar statement in Friday's Kansan. He said much of the misunderstanding of the system comes when students attempt to compare the University's policy to that of the court system.
We don't propose to replace the present disciplinary system with a carbon copy of the state or federal court system. KU has different, more stringent rules and regulations than most other types of communities. The University also has more limited jurisdiction, although not as well defined, than most courts.
YET WE SHOULDN'T FORGET why we have courts of law.
Without them, the rights of the individual would never be protected.
The accused is considered innocent until proven guilty in our judicial system.
He does not have to face one person who serves as a prosecutor, judge and jury.
He does not have to fear double jeopardy.
He has the right to a specified appeal. He is judged by uniform laws. He has not have to fear double jeopardy.
He knows what to expect before the court.
He has the right to obtain a counsel.
THE INDIVIDUAL IS NOT being given any of these guarantees in KU's disciplinary system. The individual is considered more like a child who must be mothered by the righteous University administration.
He is treated as an individual. His rights are of primary concern.
We too realize the necessity of rehabilitation. As we said, a university is a unique community. But to build a disciplinary system on this principle destroys the individual's consideration for being treated as innocent until proven guilty.
The personnel deans base KU's system on a theory of rehabilitation. This becomes of primary importance and punishment becomes secondary.
THE PRESENCE OF THE ACCUSED in the personnel dean's office gives him a new classification: that of being a problem. If the dean decides the individual "seems" to be guilty, his rehabilitation begins.
Since his rehabilitation is of such transcending importance our disciplinarians obviously feel the accussed should not be brought into open court for trial. This only gives his adverse publicity which would be detrimental to his rehabilitation. So he is counselled and disciplined at the same time.
The obvious conclusion is to change the role of rehabilitation in disciplinary cases. We are not belittling the need for rehabilitation as a major factor in a disciplinary system. But let's not elevate it to such position that the rights of the individual are forgotten.
— Doug Yocom
Sound and Fury
They Don't Hate the Yanks; Just Expect More From Us
The comments of "A.B.C." ("They Hate Us") are shocking, and nearly incredible.
Neither that writer (I suspect) nor I have lived among the people of whom he speaks; so we could not know, of experience, their feelings. However, an interpretation more creditable of the human understanding and basic dignity of non-Americans can be put forward, which, I believe, would come closer to squaring with reality.
"The Mexican field worker, the Chinese farmer, the African herder," the "people who know death as a member of the family" have in one way or another heard that there is another way — that life needn't be a drawn-out series of years of pain and torment. Two superpowers — a religious one with a Communist state religion, and a secular one without an official religion or system of belief — have each in its own way shown what
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
technology and science can do in the encounter with nature, in providing a standard of living which will alleviate physical pain and suffering.
PERIAPS THESE PEOPLE who "A.B.C." says hate us find in our freedom some basis for respect, and for the self-respect that each knows in his heart he will find if he can respect himself as an individual—as a human being. That is why they are disturbed. How can a country whose citizens declare their idealistic beliefs in the basic dignity of the human being continue to destroy their fellow men? How can that society see Chessman linger in death row twelve years and not think that a "cruel and unusual punishment?"
To the foreigner who daily sees death around him, the possibilities for a better life — sustenance for the body, respect for the spirit — are seen at times perhaps in the United States.
OUR LEADERS, our people may not like to initiate the programs and to support the efforts that are required of one who is respected, of one who is a leader. If we haven't the guts to provide the leadership, this country hasn't the basis for drawing the respect of our fellow men about us. I suppose it is a painful process to be expected to live up to the standards of an ideal when within one knows the wrongs, the injuries, the faults that are present by reason of being human. If foreign peoples criticize us, though, it is because they think more of us and expect worthy and humane actions of us. Not because they hate us. — Emil
Short Ones
In the morning like preaches a sermon on frugality to the Chamber of Commerce. In the evening he admonishes the Congress for wanting to cut his $4 billion plus foreign aid bill. What gives?
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By Calder M. Pickett Associate Professor of Journalism
TENDERLOIN, by Samuel Hopkins Adams. Signet. 75 cents.
Remember those Technicolor movies of 15 or so years ago, (foolish question, if you're a student), when Betty Grable and John Payne or Alice Faye and Jack Oakie danced soft-shoe to "By the Light of the Silvery Moon"? Remember those success novels, in the Alger tradition, about the boy from the country who makes good in the big city? Or on a slightly higher level, remember Lincoln Steffens' reminiscences about corrupt New York at the turn of the century?
All these are in "Tenderloin," an old-fashioned novel that appeared in late 1958, shortly after the death of the writer. It is as ingenuous and naive as any novel in recent years (despite some bedroom scenes that seem a bit out of place). It is warm and human and entertaining, up to a point, and recommended to any except enthusiasts of Ka'ka. Eliot, or Tennessee Williams. For that matter, even those who like Williams might like "Tenderloin."
IT IS A SIMPLE-MINDED STORY, with conventional complications. The reader needs no special preparation to read "Tenderloin." The title, incidentally, refers to that tough district of New York City where cops and crooks and madames were in collusion, where the choicest symbolic cuts of beef, in effect, were made available for New York police in the Gay Nineties.
The hero of "Tenderloin"—if one may call him a hero—is Tommy Howatt, a candy butcher in the New York Central station who aspires to fame and power in journalism. He becomes a reporter for the Police Gazette, falls in love with a rich girl who is far above him in station, and becomes the pal of a crusading minister who wants to clean up the Tenderloin.
TOMMY IS A TYPICAL HERO of the Gilded Age, a youth whose moral values are akin to those of Jim Fisk, and who is as entertaining a character as Fisk. He has a beautiful voice that he knows has the power to charm a susceptible woman, to make her goose-pimply and ready to succumb to the wiles of Howatt.
The cover of this sexily illustrated paperback (which is really not as lascivious as Signet Books suggests) calls the book "a raucously hilarious, unabashedly sentimental Valentine to the wicked New York of the Gay Nineties," "Wicked," the publishers say. The word has a different connotation than, say, evil.
"Wicked," implies "gaily evil" rather than "sinisterly evil." Yet "Tenderloin" is more than wicked. The venality of New York's cops isn't too funny after awhile. Nor is the cynicism of the reporters and the leaders of society
When the Rev. Breckholst Farr sets out to expose corruption in the Tenderloin, he is setting out on a laudable mission. But only the unimaginative, the dullards favor such a crusade. Keep things the way they are, almost everyone suggests. Maybe society can't be improved, maybe the racketeers always take over again, after the heat has been off for a year or so. That is what Lincoln Steffens learned when he was exposing "The shame of the cities" 60 years ago.
BUT FARR IS RIGHT, and so was Steffens right in trying to show the evils of a boss-run, big business-run society. "Tenderloin" quits being funny when press and police cooperate to ruin the career of the idealistic minister, or expose the long-dead and entirely unimportant past of the mother of Adams' heroine. Then the book no longer is "raucously hilarious, unabashedly sentimental."
But it's still worth reading, for it conjures up such figures as Diamond Jim, Lillian Russell, John L. Sullivan, Richard Harding Davis, Charles A. Dana, the Vanderbilts and the Rockefellers, Steve Brodie and William Dean Howells. One can almost see those garish orchid tights that Betty Grable used to wear in her musicals, the straw hats and loud blazers that Jack Oakie and John Payne wore as they tripped across the stage of the old Palace, dancing to "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" or "Shine On, Harvest Moon."
Dailu Hansan
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