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Charity at home
The Kansan respects student body vice-president Marilyn Bowman's views on the Vietnam war and the moral issues she believes are being violated by ROTC's presence on this campus.
The Kansan, however, hopes that Miss Bowman will see fit to direct her energies toward those she elected to represent as vigorously as she did Friday making peace signs in Memorial Stadium.
Contrary to a common belief, there are other things of concern to students besides ROTC. For instance there is sub-standard student housing. Marches and peace signs have their place in this nation of ours. After all, they are a legitimate form of dissent.
But the Kansan sincerely hopes that Miss Bowman will not see fit to greet every crisis with a march or a peace sign or a violation of University
guidelines. One sincerely hopes that Miss Bowman will use the legitimate channels of change which she was given when she was elected.
If Miss Bowman or any other elected officer representing the student body choses to violate laws and regulations set down by their constituents through due process, that person should be removed from office.
What Miss Bowman did last Friday in Memorial stadium did not violate a law or regulation of the University. She did, however, violate a set of guidelines which were drawn up to protect the rights of ROTC members to assemble.
If Miss Bowman continues to put her personal moral beliefs above the rights of the majority she was elected to uphold, then Miss Bowman should seriously question her own right to hold office.
Ron Yates
Kansan Editor-in-Chief
Elections revisited
KU students now are tasting the political medicine that apathy can brew.
Students themselves—especially the ten thousand who did not vote—will be direct recipients of what democracy gone awry can do to a democratic system of government.
It is not humorous to contemplate the true significance of apathy in connection with student government. For it is this apathy which has created the ironic, unfortunate twist to democratic procedure in the Student Senate.
A minority of students elected a minority party which now has the power of a majority.
It would be childish—indeed, ignorant—to castigate the actions of Miss Bowman. For she has violated no law; she has infringed upon no one's true guaranteed freedom.
And the irony of the minority power, now the majority, last night gave its endorsement of Miss Bowman, through due process.
It would be political suicide to argue the legality of this due process. Emotions have no part in legislative procedure.
One could argue that as an elected officer, Miss Bowman violated an unwritten oath of her office: to serve the best interests of the student body.
But there is where the true blame begins to fall, for, a mere one-third of the students even bothered to show at the polls. Perhaps this indicates that the students do not care what their best interests are, how they could be represented—or whether they should be "represented at all."
The blame for this controversy can not fall on the Senate, for legally supporting a party officer; nor can it fall on the officer herself, for doing something in which she believed.
The fault is the students'. For it is they who did not care through the polls.
And it is they who will live with the consequences of this power of the minority. (JTM)
In middle age I am not young enough to know everything. So I want to learn from my students. Especially do I want to hear new excuses.
As a professor new to KU this semester, I don't know whether the excuses heard at KU at final examination time are different from those I've heard elsewhere.
Excuses, excuses
Here is a list of excuses I have already heard and will not honor. If you think your grade should be raised, read the list. If your excuse is not on it, come see me. If it is, don't bother. This is the list:
1. There must be a mistake somewhere.
2. I got no warnings. Somebody should have told me to do better.
3. I was not well at the time of the exam.
4. I was not well the night before the exam, or the night before that, when I would ordinarily be studying. I was not able to study at all.
5. I know many members of my class whose work was not so good as mine but who got better grades. I was recognized among my classmates as a good student. Just ask any of them.
6. This grade has ruined my chance for graduation.
7. This grade has ruined my chance for a scholarship.
8. This grade made my father very unhappy.
9. This grade made my mother very unhappy.
10. This grade made me very unhappy.
11. This is the only course in which I've gotten a poor grade.
12. I think grades are wicked and I care nothing for grades. However, since I have to be the victim of this pernicious system, I am seeking a higher grade.
13. I have trouble finding a parking place and so I cannot get to class often.
14. I work on the school paper and so I cannot get to class at all.
15. I had to get married last weekend.
16. I got pregnant last weekend.
17. My house blew up.
19. Several students copied from my exam but got higher grades than I would have a higher grade, too.
18. My house burned down.
20. I studied this subject from a broad and philosophical point of view. I was unable, therefore, to answer questions demanding specific or precise knowledge.
21. I spent my days reviewing all the wrong things.
22. I broke my glasses.
23. I cannot sit for three hours.I have piles.
24. The instructions said the answers had to be typed and triple-spaced. I do not own a typewriter. Anyhow, it doesn't have triple spaces.
25. The exam did not cover everything in the whole course and I knew all the answers to all the questions that were not asked.
26. Since I have a job, I cannot be expected to know as much as others know.
27. I commute weekends to New York to edit a Chinese newspaper.
28. You were a great teacher and I really enjoyed your course and I let you beat me at golf and I piled you with beer at the school picnic and I cannot understand why you don't like me.
29. I don't want to go to Vietnam.
30. The coach told me you were an old jock
By John B. Bremner
Associate Professor of Journalism
Letters to the editor Readers' write
To the Editor:
For some reason or other, a good old English nursery rhyme has kept coming to my mind in recent days. Here it is, in a slightly altered version:
"Oh the grand old - Duke of York,
He had a—hundred men,
He  marched  them  ...
marched them up to the stadium.
Then he marched them down again.
And when they were down, they were down!
And when they were up, they were up!
And when there were only half way up,
Professor
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