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--train out of town, be it north, south, east or west. Could that happen here? Do we come within a million miles of home? Can we convince convictions about this matter?—If a man has convictions, he will fight for them—and, if need he, die for them. Otherwise, he hasn't any. Quibbling wars are—Flaming convictions? Never!
A PROFESSOR AWAKENS
Is Interested in Better Understanding Between Faculty and Students
(Once in a while—not any oftener than that—a faculty member takes enough interest in general affairs of the University to sit down at his table and write a communication to the Daily Kansan. Whenever one does it, he writes something worth while and the following, answering a communiqué on the Campus. Each column last night, is so good as to merit special mention and an unusually large amount of space—the Editor.)
To the Editor of the Daily Kansan:
The communication signed "Student" which appeared in your issue of yesterday, deals with a matter which seems to merit some comment. It raises a question on which we all tend to talk in different tongues, and to doubt one another's good faith.
"Student" is justly indignant because a friend of his has been accused by a hasty instructor of cheating, when as a matter of fact, he had done honest work; and after much labor had produced an English paper so well written, he was sure he must have plagiarized—without waiting for proof, said so.
I see "Student's" side of it. I see it so well, in fact, that I know he has not duly considered the point of view of a student, and I have no authority. I had a personal experience recently which illuminates the matter considerably. It may help if I relate
HAD SIMILAR CASE
I was giving an examination to one of my classes a few days ago. In the middle of the room sat a man whom I count among my best students, and whom I always trusted. Suddenly I noticed that his eyes were following their direction. I saw a paper laying at his feet. There was writing on it. I didn't want to make a scene, and I shrank from humiliating the student; and yet it was clear that I must do something. I resolved that somehow or other I would get that paper. But how? - I sat back and looked around. And my heart was very heavy because he was a man I'd banked on.
Presently he finished the page on which he was writing; and laid it over the paper on the floor. Then he went on writing; and now and then he wrote again, till finally at the page he had just finished, till finally he covered it with the next
Did I feel like an ass?—I certainly did.
And yet, I am not so sure that I was to blame for my momentary certainty that I had a cheater on my hands. The circumstances would have been convincing to most persons, I am sure.
Suppose I had accused that student at once, instead of waiting till I might the more effectively prove my case, then I would have been well. Yes, well—in a sense. But in another sense, no; for both of us would then have been the victims of that social condition which makes open cheating unlawful. No, if he had been really cheating, none of the many persons around him would have felt themselves bound to take action in the matter. They would have felt no personal responsibility whatever.
Had anyone taken it upon himself to openly protest, he'd have been labeled a "tattle-tale," after the manner of high school days; and would not have asked more than the cheater of having his life on the campus made intolerable. The others would have asked the question "Am I my brother's keeper?" forgetting that the man who first asked it to me was my own condemnation when he asked it.
Had I been able to rely on the students around that man to take the view that cheating was not to be told, but rather that it was the paper on the floor, a second thought. As it was, both the student and myself nearly became the victims of a social condition. Aside from the question of too much haste on my part, it would have been the fault of the student would not have been his. It would have been the fault of our spineless ethics. The students of the University of Kansas would have been to believe that who are responsible for the fortunate mistake related by "Student."
INDIVIDUALS MUST SUFFER
Any body of public opinion which looks with anything but furious and implacable hostility on lying and cheating, will suffer as a body for the sins of its members. The Uni-
tiest nation in the world ever attain its full stature till its students require a passion for righteousness, and an effective spiritual fervor for spiritual things.
If the students of this University are willing to endure the company of cheaters, let them not complain if now and then they find themselves smeared with some of the pitch. Let them reflect that they are free to choose their own company; and that so far they have chosen badly.
There are universities in this country where a discovered and convicted cheater is taken to the railroad station, and placed on the first
The instructor in question made a bad mistake. Very good! Thumbs down! But—the student he accused knew, just as all of us know, that in college you should not be the instructor would have been right instead of wrong. I don't mean to be cynical—but let's just face this thing as it is. I don't defend him, I don't blame him, and young men just out of college often do. So do young men still in college.
It is because I feel this so strongly that I insist on conducting all my academic work on the honor system basis. If I found myself in such a relationship to my students that I could not look upon them as normal, approachable, moral human beings, I'd stop teaching; for it would mean that I could regard me as a sort procter; a proctor; an examination or anywhere else is an outword and visible sign of the corruption he is set to watch. I won't teach on these terms. I'd rather get cheated now and then.
PROFIS HAVE FAULTS, TOO
I do not mean students monopolize police who does not know himself as the greatest of sinners. We are all in the same boat; and for that reason if for no other, a condition of suspicion and mistrust between students and faculty, as is illustrated in Stuart's book, "bought short-sighted human document, is destructive to the last degree."
There is no sane faculty member who does not see that student backsliding are more often than not the faults of immaturity—the failure "to learn" or "not succeed." Not even faculty members can see life with such a vision as that; but most of us are a bit further on the road to it than are our students; and if we are the right kind of teachers, we try in humbleness of all things with much stumbling to make a trail that may be worth following.
"What is a student to do?" asks "Student". It is not a question of apologies, retractions, complaints, and all that nonsense. Let the student who has a grievance, or the instructor who has a grievance, go straight to his man, look him in the eye, and make man-talk, at St. Paul. Let him by no means go running with his troubles to the Dean or the Chancellor, until all other means to an understanding have failed.
The statement in "Student's" letter that there are "approximately 3000 reasons"—towit, students—"why the members of the faculty have jobs," is ill-considered. Students is a very young man, or he might know what to do. Kansas has its being neither in its faculty nor its students. The University of Kansas would continue to exist if everybody here from the Chancellor down to the guinea pigs were wiped out of existence today; it would continue to exist if all the people of Kansas were included in the catastrophe. That crud idea, held by the Great Half-Baked, that "there are approximately 3000 students who have jobs," goes far to explain the state of our ideas; it shows with gahstly clarity why we have among us those who see nothing particularly wrong in cheating, in childish actions in the task badly done in slovenly mental habits, and in flaccid ethics.
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NEW GEOLOGY FRATERNITY
GETTING MANY PETITERANS
Sigma Gamma Epsilon, the new fraternity founded at the University of Kansas last December in the interests of geology, mining and metallurgy, has started the work of expanding. The Council has granted a charter to a petitioning body in the University of Pittsburg, Pa., and Prof. W. H. Twister, Leave lee Dec. 13, to install the chapter. Sigma Gamma Epsilon is the first national fraternity to be founded at this institution.
The School of Mines at Pittsburgh ranks very high and the establishment of a chapter there will be of great value in the future of Sigma Gamma Epsilon. Among the petitioners are three of this year's champion football players, including captain-elect Williams.
Granting this chapter is the outcome of systematic work planned by
the founders here. Other technical schools over the country have shown their interest in such an organization by sending in petitions. The Grand University started the investigation of a number of the petitioning bodies.
The editors of the University section of the Jayhawker met Wednesday in Room 110 in Fraser Hall to assign the work of this department of this year's Annual. Under the plan, the students will include what was formerly the politics, club, faculty and art sections and the space given to each school.
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