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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Feb. 7, 1958
Protecting The Guilty
At latest count, 95 University students are involved in a picayune swindle concerning early enrollment cards.
By purchasing counterfeit cards for a dollar apiece, the students hoped to avoid the enrollment lines (which were nearly non-existent this year) and to insure enrollment in the classes they wanted before they were closed out.
The racket has been worked before. It happens that this year's crew was the first to get caught. Because of this, the argument has been raised that the names of the students involved shouldn't be made public.
The ironic thing, it seems here, is that several of the dollar bargain buyers were due to enroll on the first day of registration anyway.
Granted, the operators of the swindle were more unfortunate, or perhaps more clumsy, than the previous owners of the franchise. That seems a pretty puny excuse for their actions.
This is something like saying if ten banks are robbed, and only one robber is caught, his name should be kept out of the papers.
The Kansan would hardly want to print the names of the 95 suckers, but it seems the names of the men who made the profit would be news. A man robs a bank, he gets his name in the paper; get hit by a car, you get your name in the paper.
We don't have all the facts and facets of this case: only the Disciplinary Committee does. The committee decided not to throw the two out of school, and we can't argue with their decision.
These two small businessmen are adults, and they knew exactly what they were doing. However, the powers that be say that since they are students, they have the protection of anonymity.
The way things stand now, though, the names of the two are pretty well known around the campus. One of the rumored counterfeiters was called, and said only "No comment," which might be a good indication.
If anybody really has to know the names, it shouldn't be too hard to find out. Just call the campus police and see whose driving permits or registration cards have been revoked, or look on the list of contributions to the scholarship fund.
If the two whose names are being mentioned aren't guilty, they're being done an injustice. If they are, publication of their names won't hurt them among their friends, who probably know about it already, and it would protect the reputations of others who might be suspected.
Seems a shame: the University, among others is chastised for not turning out good scientists. It appears we can't turn out competent crooks either.
Are Finals Really Necessary?
Alan Jones
It is quite a while until the end of the semester will again roll around, but still fresh in most student's minds is last semester's final week. The students who found those six days tortuous ones, may be wondering if final week is really necessary.
That is a good question, and one to which no simple answer is available. There is a case both for and against finals. Which case has the most validity? That is up to the individual point of view.
Finals vary from the only test given during the semester to a glorified hour exam. The student's entire semester grade may depend on the final, or it may carry so little weight as to be almost negligible.
From the instructor's point of view the final test may tell him whether or not the student has gained anything from the course. Since the student is supposedly here at the University to learn, the instructor has a right to find whether or not the student is accomplishing this. Whether or not tests, especially finals, is the way to obtain this information is the question.
Instructors are of the opinion that a student who keeps up with the course material throughout the semester should already have the necessary knowledge to write a good final paper without having to cram.
Instructors who give only one test during the semester; the final, believe the student, since he is a college student, will diligently read his weekly assignments. Thus, with a few hours of
From the student's point of view, the instructors often fail to take into consideration the fact that his course is but one of several the student must study during the semester.
review he will have no trouble making a good mark on the final exam.
Of course the instructor knows the student is carrying more than two or three hours, but being human, he feels his course is as important as any. Thus he may assign more work than a student, who has five other courses amounting to 14 or 15 more hours, can find time to do.
The result is cramming before and during final week. By cramming the student can commit enough to memory to pass his final. But very few students learn much from cramming. For one thing they are under pressure to do a lot in a short time. Also, they may be interested in learning only enough to pass, and what they do learn is not retained very long.
Another point about final week is the time element. A student may have six finals in the first two days. Of course, he should have been ready for finals weeks in advance, but with term themes, papers and projects due he may have been pretty busy in the weeks preceding finals. So he may be left with only two complete days to brush up. And the pressure mounts.
Few people work well under pressure. And although it shouldn't be, final week is a week of tension and strain for most students. It seems foolish and unfair to base a student's entire semester grade, or a large part of it, on one such week.
Northern Bias Poll
An idea of the thinking of northern students was revealed in a poll taken at a Big Ten school.
—Del Haley
This was one of several student attitudes shown by a campus-wide human relations poll conducted and reported by the Minnesota Daily. Two professors, of sociology and journalistic research, aided in preparing and evaluating the poll.
Sixty-two per cent of students at the University of Minnesota do not believe fraternities and sororalties are justified in having bias clauses in their constitution.
Only 21 per cent said Greek organizations were justified in having bias clauses. But many, 38 per cent, said the university shouldn't disestablish groups because of such clauses.
Only two per cent interviewed believe the Negroid race is biologically inferior. Ninety per cent said Negroes were not biologically inferior.
Fifty-five per cent of the Minnesota students noticed that Negro students usually congregated in one place in the student union. Eighty-two per cent had no objection, while eight per cent thought it was objectionable.
So far as science knows, it has never rained cats and dogs, but it has rained fish and frogs. Small herring bounced down on Appin, Scotland in 1830 and in 1900 frogs rained down on Liverpool. These creatures had been picked up at sea and from marshlands by waterspouts.
—Associated Collegiate Press
Short Ones
Ostriches never, never bury their heads in the sand or anything else. As birds go, the ostrich is not stupid but smart. The males will decoy enemies away from nests by staggering off and then collapsing as though dying. The males rule over three to four females who lay their eggs in the same nest. At night, the male sits on the eggs.
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Philadelphia—Maj. Gen. John B. Medaris, chief of the Army ballistic missile agency in Huntsville, Ala., on the urgent necessity for the United States to achieve manned control of space:
"The blunt truth is that we are in a race against time with an adversary of no mean capabilities, who has committed to his effort a far greater percentage of his total resources than we have so far mustered."
Washington—President Eisenhower, on why his chief White House aide, Sherman Adams, has every right to make public addresses:
"He knows exactly what I believe, what are my convictions, my policies, and he attempts to make his speeches exactly in that line."
Joliet. Ill.-Nathan Leoepold. 52, appealing for parole after serving 38 years for the thrill-killing of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, on how he has changed since the 1924 Chicago murder that shocked the nation:
"I was an intelligent savage who knew no law except his own desires. I am no longer the conceited smart alexk kid, but an older man who humbly pleads for your compassion."
Hollywood—Actress Kathy Grant, wife of singer Bing Crosby, on the child they are expecting next August:
"We hope everyone will be as happy as we are."
Dean John S. McNown of K.U. is engineering science adviser to the National Science Foundation.
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