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University Daily Kansan
Friday, April 24, 1959
The Newest Injustice
Certainly this type of party was contrary to any standards of maturity expected of college students. There is no question that someone must account for it. But the students involved must not be condemned, for after the party wore off they repented and apologized by honestly paying their debt. There the case should have closed. Honor had returned, and the students learned a lesson, regaining their self-respect.
The party was held in a rented apartment during which furnishings were damaged or destroyed. This irrational action could have been serious were it not for the fact that the students involved paid for their misdeeds. According to the landlady, the students paid $115 to cover the costs. In return there was an agreement between the owner and the students that the owner would not prosecute.
Wednesday, nine students left the University. They were suspended on the grounds that they were connected with a boisterous party.
But our active and well-meaning University administration did not think so. As far as it was concerned, the students embarrassed the University, and did not act like good college students. (Just what is a good college student, anyway?) Therefore, it concluded that they should be punished. The administration became properly angered, and ruled on a matter which had been
ended as far as the students and landlady were concerned.
This type of event would receive no critical review had the principles involved related to academic matters, University property or physical harm. But we question administrative authority in reopening problems which, apparently, have been settled. Further, we question the ends the administration expects to achieve by dealing out swaths of punishment in such a slipshod manner.
To show a couple instances: Two students, who left the party before glass and other furnishings were broken, were suspended because they did not bother to halt the festivities. Two other students were placed on probation because, according to their report, they lived in the apartment the previous semester, although they had no connection with the destructive party.
The punishment is inconsistent. A week ago, a senior running for election to the All Student Council beat up a freshman party worker for tearing down one of the candidate's illegally-placed posters. Nothing happened in that case, although the deans were informed.
Exactly where does our administration stand when it punishes students who have paid their debt and then excuses an attack on a human being? We wouldn't dare guess. —John Husar
Editor:
Once again the powers of the University have disciplined a large group of University students by expelling them from the University. One begins to wonder just how far the authority of the University extends in regard to the policing of the student body.
1. for one, have not seen any sort of statement of what are considered grounds for dismissal from school. Perhaps it would be a service to the student body if the Daily Kansan would attempt to tell us just how far we can go before we are expelled from the University.
Obviously the criteria of the law does not apply. It appears that some sort of super-governing body can serve as prosecutor, judge and jury in deciding which actions are acceptable and which are not.
Once that the criteria which the University uses to discipline students is determined, it would be fitting for some sort of examination of what should be the role of the University in disciplining students. I am appalled at the prospect of seeing an administrative official or board of an institution supposedly devoted to education passing judgment on the conduct of University students outside of the class room and away from University property.
...Letters ...
I would like to urge that an investigation into the disciplinary powers of the administration be held and that the students be informed as to what is expected of them both on and off University property so that we can attempt to escape the wrath of University discipline.
Kenneth Megill Vassar junior
Editor:
We would like to share some thoughts with you concerning the senior gift. We feel the senior gift committee has shown little insight into or understanding of measures which would advance the development of our University.
After several years of study if we do not understand what contributes to an educational institution's fulfilment of its aims, we have deliberately avoided our responsibilities as students. It is our opinion that above all things a university needs outstanding teachers to carry on its mission.
We would like to suggest that the senior class of 1959 give yearly, $1,000 to be used for ten distinguished visiting professorship grants. This sounds impossible, but with a graduating class conservatively estimated at 1,750 and a donation of $5 per senior we could establish a fund of $8,750 which invested at four per cent interest would not only cover the cost of the ten grants, but would also provide several hundred dollars for a handsome plaque.
We think that this is the worthest gift a graduating class could give. We would appreciate all the support that you can voice at the forthcoming senior class meeting next Thursday.
Phil Friedeman
Great Bend senior
George Klee
Hickman Mills, Mo., senior
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"FLOSSY SAYS TO AMUSE YOURSELF IN TH GAME ROOM SHE'LL BE DOWN IN A FEW MINUTES."
Worth Repeating
"You don't have to be highly educated or world-traveled or wealthy to become important. The most important individual in history lived only 33 years, never traveled more than 100 miles from home, moved in an area smaller than Connecticut, but still transformed civilization."—Oren Arnold, "Presbyterian Life"
. . .
"The poor earnest American spends his day importuned to keep to the right, to curb his dog, move to the rear, watch where he is going, dim his lights, throw trash here, not smoke there, fasten his seat belt, face the front, not stand in this place or park in that; he is asked to remember the blind, the helpless and Pearl Harbor. He is tempted with fattening foods and warned to watch his weight; he is urged to think this and told not to think that; he is solicitously invited to go into debt to pay for a car, a TV set or vacation—and urged to be thrifty. He is asked to consider the Jews, reminded of Arab refugees, and cautioned to be kind to minorities. And he is also asked why he doesn't relax."—Thomas Griffith, "The Waist-High Culture"
--holds a Carnegie Research Assistant ship in political science.
"The clever woman desiring to ensnare a man realizes that the best way to get him is to throw away all the traditional feminine weapons and subterfuges, and frankly and openly, yet charmingly, tell him that she likes him. The man thus handled, all folklore to the contrary, is won—and absolutely."
George Jean Nathan, "The Smart Set Anthology"
Cuthbertson, Horejsi Named Outstanding Seniors
(Editor's note: The following is the first in a series of features on 10 outstanding members of the 1959 senior class. They were chosen for their activities and scholastic honors. The seniors were selected by first sending out cards to over forty campus organizations and departments asking what seniors in their organization they considered to be outstanding. From the replies to this questionnaire a committee composed of four students and three faculty members chose the persons to be honored. Any persons who had been Jayhawker Hilltopters were eliminated because they had already been honored for their work.)
A long list of activities may not be proof that a student has gained much from college but when it is backed up by a high grade average, one can be sure the student received an education during four years.
He has held a Summerfield Scholarship throughout college and is a member of the gifted student program. Last fall he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He currently
Cuthbertson tops the list of grade averages for the senior class with over a 2.9. He received the Paul B. Lawson award, given annually to the senior with the highest grades.
Two seniors who can claim both grades and activities are Stewart Horeisi, Salma, and Gilbert Cuthbertson, Leavenworth.
His collection of books on the Civil War won him the Tavler Memorial Book Collection Prize.
the is a member of Delta Phi Alpha, honorary German fraternity, and Phi Sigma Alpha, honorary political science fraternity.
Cuthbertson also collects books on other subjects and Indian relieds and fossils.
Cuthbertson's interests expand in many directions as shown by his other activities. He is interested
in writing and is a member of the Quill Club editorial board and has written book reviews for The Daily Kansan.
He has served as a regional chairman for Statewide Activities for several years. He has been a member of the debate squad and vice president and president of the Circle K. Club, a Kiwanis sponsored service organization.
Gilbert Cuthbertson
He was chosen to be one of two KU representatives to the Fourth Student Conference on National Affairs which was held at Texas A & M College last fall.
An interest in student welfare was shown when Cuthbertson served as secretary and later chairman of the All Student Council Housing Committee.
As a freshman he was treasurer of Westminster Fellowship.
He enjoys playing bridge and won the KU bridge tournament in 1957. He also was president of the Student Union Activities Duplicate Bridge Club.
Cuthbertson plans to do graduate work next year but has not decided whether to accept a Rotary Foundation Fellowship to study medicine at the University or for a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to Harvard University to study political science. He majored in political science at KU.
He says his main decision is whether to become a political science teacher or go into medicine.
Horejsi has about a 2.8 grade average and is a member of Owl and Sachem societies.
His major is industrial management and his business school background has led him into many activities. Among them are Alpha Kappa Psi, professional business fraternity and Beta Gamma Sigma, honorary business fraternity, of which he is vice president.
He has served as vice president of the Business School Council. He is also on the Business School curriculum committee.
He has been business manager for the K-Book, editor of the KU calendar, advertising manager of
Stewart Horejsi
the Student Directory, business manager of Squat humor magazine, and on the sales committee for the Rock Chalk Revue.
A member of Phi Gamma Delta social fraternity. he was president of his pledge class.
now that spring is here he will be heading for Lone Star to participate in one of his favorite sports, water skiing.
Herezis plans eventually to earn a PhD degree. Next year he will begin working on his master's in economics on a Woodrow Wilson scholarship to Indiana University.
For three months he plans to tour Europe by car.
Dailu Hansan
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