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University-Daily Kansas Friday, April 12, 1957
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Our Policy
Point Of Clarification
We have been taken to task for an "impertinence" which we feel needs clarification.
In an editorial in Wednesday's Daily Kansan, we presented our view on a matter vitally important to KU students.
An estimated 300 million dollars The U.S. spent 15 billion dollars worth of goods is taken from stores for GI Bill of Rights training of every year by shoplifters. World War II veterans.
We accused some All Student Council members of a blatant disregard for the interests of the student body in favor of party aggrandizement. If we were interpreted to mean that only one party was guilty of political maneuvering, then we apologize, for lack of activity of any sort is as great or worse a political sin as active subterfuge.
If we indicated unqualified support for a measure that would revamp the entire student government, then we must qualify that by saying that in our mind the proposal was the lesser of two evils—the present Council system and a change that, though promising, would still leave much to speculative political whims.
At the time of this writing, the All Student Council is to decide upon a compromise measure reached by rational and gentlymanly arbitration.
The compromise has its basis in a unicameral Council with division of the executive powers, but with retention of the present elective system members would be elected both from schools of
the University and from living groups. There are changes in the compromise which affect this carryover from the present system as explained elsewhere in this issue.
Now, as regards the policy of the University Daily Kansan in the coming elections:
We do not choose to support any one political party. Frankly, neither the Allied Greek Independents nor the Party of Greek Organizations has shown us much.
However, after seeing the slate of candidates for office (we will concentrate our attention on the major elective offices), we may see fit to support one candidate in favor of another.
On the other hand, if neither party nominates a candidate who we feel is qualified, then we may back a candidate of our own choosing.
We will attempt to be as fair and practical in our analysis of candidates for office as human makeup will permit.
We feel there is no room in student or any government for those who are not sincere in their efforts to represent to their best ability those who elected them.
As we have told one party leader, because this newspaper is dependent on all students for its existence, we cannot afford to be partisan. We hope that those who ultimately will be chosen for office will be similarly motivated.
Jerry Dawson
Cheating - Right Or Wrong?
Cheat? Forty per cent or more students at a large number of colleges do it with no apology or sense of wrong-doing!
So said a national survey released a few weeks ago. And at least one college journalist makes no effort to refute it.
"This is new?" asks Dakota Student columnist Chuck Sakariassen at the University of North Dakota. "I thought it was a known, accepted fact!"
Reading the survey results reminded Sakariassen of a recent discussion with a friend after both had "flunked a stinker."
"Men of our calibre," said the friend in dead seriousness, according to Sakariassen, "should have been able to beat that one. If I would have known the set-up, I'll tell you what I would have done . . ." and went on to explain his system.
"I'll swear he must have spent the whole two hours sneaking glances around figuring what he could have gotten away with rather than trying
to pass," says the writer. "No wonder he flunked."
"My excuse? I'm just stupid."
He hastens to add: "I don't mean to imply I'm above it. My white bucks are still full of ink marks from last semester's finals.
"What I'm trying to emphasize is how funny we are," he says and goes on to tell how his friend once spent eight hours making crib notes of the semester's material ("really, a work of art") only to find he had unconsciously learned the stuff.
But Sakariassen finishes, "Is it wrong?"
"There are two sides to the question. If you value honesty as a moral virtue I guess you'd say it was. But I sure wouldn't feel guilty glancing at the next guy's paper to find out who Henry VIII's third concubine from the left was if it meant the difference between a B or a C.
"Who said, 'You're only cheating yourself'? (I think it was my fourth grade teacher!)
"Anyway, whoever it was, I disagree. I'll go along with W. C. Fields who said, "Whatever's worth having is worth cheating for."
Associated Collegiate Press
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"YES I'M GOING TO PASS YOU BECAUSE I'M TIRED OF HAVING TO MAKE UP NEW TESTS FOR THIS COURSE EVERY YEAR!"
Cork, Portugal's chief export, is the dead outer bark of an evergreen oak and may be removed periodically without killing the tree. Portuguese law permits the stripping a tree once every nine years.
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