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Ttro Daily Nebraskan Station A, Lincoln. Nebraska. OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA Tteia Pr It rapraeantad for general advartlaing by tht Nabraaka Pratt Aaaociatlon. Tblt MMr It rapraitntad far ttnaraj advertising by tha Mabraakt Praia Aaaoclatian U ciated t?oUflint - i (As a4 v Entared tt aacond.ela-.a matter at tha pottofflce n Llncaln, Nebraaka. under act of congrjaa. March J8 and at apecial rata of poataga provided for In wefoj' I10S. act of October J. 19)7. authenxed January 20. 192i THIRTV.THIRD YEAR. Publlthed Tuetday, Wedneaday. Thuraday. Frioav nd unday morning during the academic year. SUBSCRIPTION RATE. SI K a year. Single copy 5 centa. $100 t aemeater. tt W a year mailed. 150 a temeater mailed. Under direction of the Student Publication Board. Editorial Offtc University Hall 4. ajualnata Off ice Oniveraity Mall 4-A. TlfrephonaDaTrBMSI: N.ght: B6882. B3433 (Jour. Ml). Aak for Ncbraakan editor. EDITORIAL STAFF Biirte Mtrvl Editor-in-Chief MANAGINO EDITORS Lamolne Blblt Jk Flacher NEWS EDITORS Fred Nkklae Virginia Seileek Irwin Ryan R.th Mat.ehul.at WK!Stv Idl", Sancna Kilbourne SociJ " J" Arnold Lav.no Sporu Editor BUSINESS STAFF RKhard Schmidt Buaineta Manager ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS Truman Obemdorff Robert Funk Faculty-Student Relations. A L.WAY3 present and at times quit troublesome ( y,; many-sided problem of faculty-student re lations on the campus. As a matter of custom at this university most faculty members take little interest in student af fairs and activities except in cases where they are Miged to. Students also, to great degree, are uninterested In faculty members and their work, and because of that attitude shun opportunities such as they never again will meet It is a fact that numerous faculty members have asked recently what they can do to become better acquainted with university students. They recognise that friendlier connections with students would be far better than the present aloofness. Many of these inquirers are inclined to look down on student activities as trivialities and general wast ers of time. But it is a fact, nevertheless, that stu dent, will take part in activities no matter what their older contemporaries on the campus say. So weald seem logical for these faculty members, whether or not they want to do so. to take more Interest in student activities. In that way they could jet in closer bond with their pupils. If student activities are actually over-empha-sixed at the expense of curricular work professors and instnictora, by taking more personal Interest in students and individuals, might be able to correct the situation thru personal influence. They could bring about a change by pointing out the value of studying and book-learning as compared with the aorta of extra-curricular activities, in that way creating a better balance than now exists. Another angle from which one can approach the problem of which far too few are aware is that concerning faculty supervision of student activities, laany of both groups on the campus are advocates d dose supervision, and others are proponents of the baads-off theory. There are those who attend that participation ia student activities trains one to cooperate in civic life after be graduates. If that is the case it seems that students should be given virtual free rein in running their own elections of student councils and rnijrflvenm and queenly royalty. After one grad uates be finds no Gods to substitute for faculty and adntsiatrative members in bis work evitb other peo ple. But a bands-off policy would hardly be approp rlata to the university. Officials of a school cant allow a student body, which is temporary, to bring about undesirable permanent situations ia the extra-curricular field. Overdone student unrest, con troversy, and animosity isn't good for any school. Because it seems to be for the best interests mt the university, faculty advisor should be quite active and use foresight in advising in regard to stu dent functions. There ia om practice prevalent in claw-rooms thai many educators consider very undesirable. That Is what we Shall term the Parrot System. Tb Parrot System works tn this way. Frab anea come t9 the university presumably ready and eager to learn. They go to class, listen to a profes sor lecture for an bour, eoaue the next day and re peat what be said, thus testing their memories, and whetting their curiosities not at all If curiosities are whetted they some day become Intellectual curiosities. Everything in a stuilenfs course Is rclnted to that glorious degree, the key to succc8s. Courses are now so much hay to be consumed before one is eligible to receive a diploma. Each one ia for gotten, a.i the Cnrn?st? report Indicates, as soon as the student tini..lie the semester's parroting. Boc-.ur of this existing set of condition there is great conflict that can be summed up as intel lectual curiosity vs. sole desire to pass, with the latter on the winning side. Lying latent In most minds Is the desire to reach out for the cultural in fluence and cultural subjects that are in the envi ronment waiting to be acquired. Professors and Instructors are capable cf doing much more for students than they now do. A few, but far too few, of them, strive to relate their sub jects to the many others Included on the university schedule. It would be a bit hard on most of us students, but it probably would be best, if professors would make their knowledge a little harder to obtain, in that way forcing students to ask the questions. They are the logical ones to perform the duty, since they either want to find facts or are not students. In summary, it seems that faculty members should take more interest in student activities, in that way becoming acquainted with their pupils, and placing themselves in a much better position to In fluence students along curricular lines. It is best that faculty members retain super visory powers over student activities as advisors. As shown above such advisory control is for the best of the university. If possible professors and instructors should try to point in a stronger way than before the re lation of knowledge to life, even to student life, and as for questions, students should ask more oi them than they do now. It is up to faculty members to force them to. TITE DULY NERRASKAN aa his own doing all the faults of NRA. That does not alter the fact, however, that men of different temperament and sounder economic and social theory arc needed if anything of permanent value is to be salvaged from the present confusion into which the NRA seems to have plunged. Daily Prince-Ionian. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 4. 1Q.lt, Helping Strangers. Freshmen women at the university, during the first few days of their attendance here, are given a splendid opportunity to become acquainted with women's extracurricular activities and to make contacts which will be of great value to them thru out their college careers. Nebraska's Big Sister board, A. W. S. board, W. A. A, Y. W. C. A, and A. W. S. league are among the women's organiza tions performing a grea t service for freshmen women every falL Many students starting in school this fall came on the campus unacquainted, unbefriended, and timid. Vpperclass-women immediately took new women in hand, introduced them to campus leaders, faculty members, and made them thoroughly ac quainted with the university. Responsible for this was the Big Sister board. An organization with such a function certainly proves itself worth-while both to the school and new students. In the campus Y. W. . A. organization are freshmen commission groups, meeting at various times during the week under the supervision of jun ior and senior leaders of the association. These groups discuss problems of college women, and serve as a medium thru which new students can strike up acquaintances with older students. No system such as that discussed and com mended above has been instituted by the male popu lation of the school. Roys who are newcomers to the campus have to use their own initiative in many cases, and it is hard to use ones own initiative when one isn't acquainted with his environment CONTEMPORARY COMMENT Grading System Deemed Obsolete. Last week we took up the cudgels against the reward system in education and the evils which it has fostered, without rrescribing any remedy. To fill that void, we present a proposal conceived by Prof. A. N. Topping, a member of the University electrical engineering faculty, which appeared tn the April issue of the Journal of Engineering Education, His proposal is to abolish the H, A, B, P, C. D classification of scholastic excellence and to do away with pigeonholing such and such a subject in a specified semester. We quote, "Instead, lot us fix no quitting point, i. e., graduation point for any student, but let him continue to study so long as it appears to him and the University profitable and desirable to do so, and let him cease his university effort as soon as it appears that it is no longer pos sible or profitable for him to continue. ... It seems that the present system of artificial and traditional time limits exerts a deadening Influence, and makes of the student's effort, scholarship, and attainment a more or less perfunctory thing the educational process should be." The misconcepts entertained under the present system of grading are only too evident. A grade Is a symbol, and in itself is not harmful, but when the student moulds his education about a symbol, forgetting entirely the structure behind the token, the result Is tragic. We would be willing to wager that each senior enrolled in the university has, at some time during the past two weeks, totalled up his or her hours of B and P, and at the sme gloat ing or mourning, as the case may be, over the abun dance or lack of B s, without once contemplating just how much intellectual advancement he or she had realized in three years of university training. llf-nU. awl r th triftde. the brilliance of dis Unction, and the degree blind him to the real pur nose for which he la spending the good years of nls life. And so he Is content with the Instructor s and the university's superficial measure of him as a substitute for real achievement. . . He acquires the habit of valuing himself and his achievements through the eyes of others Instead of as he truly is. Factors contributing to tno idealization of the B are too strong to allow even the student who real izes the puffed-up value of grades to pursue the edu cat.onal wlll-'o-the-wlsp in a sanely Intellectual manner. The university, perhaps unconsciously, aids and abets in the attempt to cut a whetstone with a razor by encouraging the public recognition of scho lastic honors, lists of distinguished students, and scholarships. Were these devices discarded, the Idea that graduation assures a happy and successful life afterwards would not be so prevalent. To expound further on the proposal itself. If tomorrow, no grades were forthcoming, the uproar would be immense. Students have become accus tomed to keeping a detailed account of every grade in order to have a clear picture of just what grade test number seven requires for a B in a course. If, however, the proposed system were to be put into effect gradually over a period of years, we venture that a diploma would be a record of intellectual training and accomplishment, not a symbol. The complaint has been raised by employers that college graduates have been taught an accumu lation of facts, not the thinking processes by which those facts are deduced. Under a non-artificial system, a college would be a poor institution in deed to give a student a diploma unless it was satis fied that the candidate was fully acquainted with the pudding and not just the proof. Today, the university is practically forced to give a candidate his diploma if he has his required quota of B hours, even though it may realize that his eye is more powerful than his intellect. A symbol is usually considered stuff that dreams are made of. but the hard, crystallized sym bol that is the grading system of today is out of place in education. Purdue Exponent CAMPUS CHEST DRIVE Dean LeRossignol Predicts Increased Faculty Donations. Contributions of $2,568 in the university division of the annin.l Community Chest drive are some what higher than at the niid-wi.v point In last year's campaign and point toward an increased faculty donations this year. Dean J. E. Le Rossignol announced Wednesday. Members of the university fac ulty are giving their assistance to the city of Lincoln in its yearly campaign to raise subscriptions for charity and welfare associa tions. Prof. J. E. LeRossignol. dean of the college of business adminis tration, heads the university sec tion of the campaign with cap tains in each building on the cam pus. M. J. Btish. professor of agri cultural chemistry and chemist of the experiment station, is leader f the Chest drive on the agricultural college campus. FIRST SIGMA DELTA JMOKKK OCT. 1 1 Sigma Delta Chi. profession il Journalism fraternity, will nvvt Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Awgwan oftices to riiscu.sa plans for its first smoker to he held Thursday, Oct 11. The group will also consider sending of delegates to the na tional convention this month and will formulate plans for an ad vertising campaign for the A;-wan. The Eagle Plucked. It was some fourteen months ago that General Hugh Johnson icade a dramatic entrance into the Washington nurry-go-round. Now aftf-r repeated whisperings that be was to be consigned to the limbo of the "'forgotten men,'" his exit talus place, accompanied by no outstanding theatric but by what appears on the surface to be a general feeling of goodwill. The picturesque general has had many critic and enemies dining his stormy tenure of office, and not without reason, for strong language and oratori cal splendor to the contrary, be vacillated on al most every issue that came unor his proving. He was lor "selfgovernment in industry"" tou't con.ttnt lv lambasted it for iailure to cooperate n tus pro gram. His indelicately twW tirades against labor made the workers his most bitter enemies, yet be incessantly urged business na to deal with and recognize the unions. He was going, to protect the consumer and have price-fixing at the same tux, but the trouble Jay in the fact that the protection was verbal, and the price-fixing actual. Industry soon saw that the claws of the eagle had bsen filed by its keeper, and thai its barking match-dog had shouted out his stoe-ttth. Whatever were bis faults as an administrator and a Judge of sowi, one must give ample praise to his unwavering devefion to the cause as be con ceived it and to bis absolute wCling-neiis to accept I l j I t . ' 1 - - V ' 9 " - " -.c . . h "V - v .;-.... . ' C0U5CTL ELECTS " DAVIES ATHLETIC BOJLXD MEJCBE2 CoEiliud from Page 1 1. ganisations that relinquished the igbt in favor of the party. petitions from the young Demo crats and Touag PepoOHcant dubs for recognition as campus ergan taacBaBS were considered and wtO be voted epos, after tn-rpectkon A their conatitutions. The student activity tax was c'lscuswd i . plans tuade tar ce-aaiaeraaoa at the . tcxt saoeting. 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