WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY. 5, 1936.
TWO
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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EDITORIAL OlMrr
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'Familiarity
Breeds Contempt
Congestion in the university is something
new to the freshman registering tor his initial
term. It is more familiar to the sophomore and
junior. With the senior it becomes so oft re
lated that he becomes tempted to refer t
to the adage "familiarity breeds contempt.
Semi-annually students express intense
dissatisfaction with numerous difficulties en
countered in completing registration to their
own liking. A small part of the fault lies
th them. Much of the trouble is with the
assignment committee's handling oi the situa
tion; Much of it can be traced to the deans
of the various colleges
But to the average student attending
the university it appears rather inexplic
able whv, after registering oyer 5,000 stu
dents twice a year over a period of a quar
ter of a century, some satisfactory system
cannot be evolved. Many persons wonder
at the arbitrary manipulation of then
money which, as a matter of fact, as the
ultimate transaction reached. Students en
ter the university as customers. Tor
money paid they rightfully expect a suitable
return. Of course it is only natural that the
university can not accommodate beyond its
means. The point remains, is the university
functioning to the fullest extent of its ca
pacity and ability?
This semester brings but a recurrence of
an undesirable situation. t Most of the diffi
culties seem to occur m the elementary
courses where, because of the size of the reg
istration, it is found necessary to fall back
upon the use of sections. California and W is
consin avert discord by use of the lecture
system. One professor lectures the entire ele
mentary enrollment with other instructors as
suming the duties of specialized branches.
Such a revolutionary change is not
needed. One thing, however, is certain; stu
dents must be better accommodated. In Busi
ness Administration college at the present
.time so much red tape is encountered that it
takes the student fully a day longer to regis
ter. Briefly following the Bizad freshman
thru registration we find that first lie must
consult his advisor who then tells him only
.what course to take. Next he visits the Bizad
assignment committee which allocates his
hours. Finally his schedules reach the main
assignment committee. There they arc again
subject to revision. Cloned sections may
necessitate a final transfer before the payment
of fees.
Is It the intention of the Bizad depart
xnent to find work for all of its instructors
or to register the student at the earliest
possible moment? Apparently the latter is
not the case. Such circumlocutory methods
may be compared with the trial and error
methods of primitive man. That total
abolition of the Bizad assignment committee
would be a boon to the student is the opin
ion of the Nebraskan.
Another source of perplexity to the stu
'dent arises from the failure of deans of the
various colleges to keep in constant touch
.with the assignment committee. Students
oomplnin of encountering a closed section
while friends registered a day later yet were
admitted to the restricted section. This hap
pens when a college does not submit its lists
tothe assignment committee until the next
day. These matters may he corrected by more
careful manipulation of class schedules on the
part of those involved. The smart student
now wishing to change sections, instead of
repeating the treacherous path from advisor to
assignment committee, will forsake the laby
rinth by the simple process of securing his
card from the instructor bestowed him by
the assignment committee and taking it di
rectly to the one for whom ho originally in
tended it.
But constituting a far greater evil than
any other consists of robbing the student of
his right to pursue under the same instructor
a course once undertaken. Faculty members
and students are of one accord on this. They
are in agreement that some method should
be set up whereby such a program would be
made possible without incurring the evils of
1 he lecture system.
Several years ago the assignment com
mittee placed in the hands of instructors
cards whieh were, in turn given to the stu
dents wanting to continue the course the sec
ond semester. This plan failed. Since then
no further attempt has been made to do
away with current evils.
Let the Nebraskan offer a suggestion
as to why it failed. Furthermore let the
Nebraskan propose a plan it is certain will
prove effective.
The assignment committee's plan failed
because the instructors passed these cards out
to the students. They were to be presented
when the student registered. As a rule these
students, secure in the belief that they could
attain the section desired, postponed their
registration until the last minute. Thus when
they camo up before the assignment commit
tee the latter, totally uncertain as to how
many cards were coming in, had filled the
class to capacity.
Now the Nebraskan plan. Instead of
allowing the individual students to keep the
cards the instructors should turn them over
to the assignment committee. No doubt
then exists as to how many places should be
saved. If a section has been limited to 65
and 40 have signified their preference on
the cards nows in the hands of the commit
tee then obviously only 25 more can be
accommodated. A simple procedure, yet
quite effective. Most professors would be
only too glad to cooperate in eliminating
much of the confusion.
Saw entrants would be decided by con
tinuing to place a premium upon early regis
tration. If deans of colleges refuse to coop
erate in helping the students reach the as
fiignment committee in the minimum possible
time, then the Nebraskan can only suggest a
tubbing party with undergraduates in charge.
STUDENT PULSE
Brief, conclsa contributions pertinent to mtttera of
student life and tho university are welcomed by this
department, under the usual restrictions of sound
newspaper practice, which excludes all libelous matter
and personal attacks. Letters must be signed, but
names will ba withheld from publication If so desired.
'Fricnd-a-Day1
Club.
Don't be surprised if someone on the
campus stops you just anywhere and asks
you to become a member of the "Friend-a-day"
club. There is no initiation fee or cere
mony. As soon as you stop and respond to
this 'rather unethical method of making an
acquaintance, you have qualified to become
a member. I liave felt a need of such a club
for as long as I have been at the University
of Nebraska. I have seen too many students
meet and pass each other without so much as
a friendly nod, although each plainly indicates
that he wishes the other were a friend and
would speak.
Fear of a snub of which neither one would
be guilty is the reason for this frigid at
mosphere. Therefore, I hereby ask anyone
interested enough to become a member with
out being asked, and everyone else to coop
erate and make tho University of Nebraska
the friendly institution it should be. Start
today! All you have to do is stop someone
you don't know, introduce yourself, have a
friendly chat, explain the club and its pur
pose, and extend an invitation to become a
member. Remember, one friend per day is the
minimum, there is no reason why you can't
contact two or three. J. C. B.
To the Editor:
"What this school needs is adequate med
cal protection. The impressive medical service
department equipped with a nurse and two
physicians, at first observance, seem to have
everything under control. Recently, however,
I witnessed gross inefficiency on the part of
the inhabitants of tottering Pharmacy Hall.
A friend of mine was knocked unconscious in
the coliseum just previous to participation in
an inter-mural water polo game. The fall was
caused by the fellow's slipping on the wet
floor. This is the initial inefficiency Had
the medical department been alert they would
have required a rubber mat to prevent the
numerous falls which had previously oc
curred The conviction of their guilt is shown
by the immediate laying of the aforesaid mat
after the incident A "locking the door after
the horse is stolen" attitude is not character
istic of medics.
The university medical department re
buked D. J I. the following day when he sug
gested they pay the bill saying that they were
in no way connected with the incident. Let
us see how much they were ... (1) The boy is
a university student. (2) lie was injured in
a university building. (3) Ife was attended
by university physicians. (4) lie has payed
$'20.00 in medical fees to this university in
the past eight semesters. A. C. L.
It's the
Girl.
Featured in the rotogravure section of a
recent Sunday World-Herald was a series of
pictures depicting the life of a coed at the Uni
versity of Nebraska. "While the student coun
cil had nothing to do with this publicity, it is,
perhaps, in line with their program for spread
ing news and pictures of the university's so
cial life over the feature pages of the nation's
publications.
The set of twelve pictures attempted to
portray the school day of a typical coed. The
first picture shows her in bed, sleepily reach
ing over to shut off the alarm. The others
show her gaily going about the day's "tasks,"
including caking, contentedly reading while
attired in lounging pajamas romantically danc
ing, and finally an amorous goodnight to her
sweetheart or at least her date of the evening.
One picture shows our coed studying. We don't
know how that happened to get in there, un
less it be the fact that a co-ed is student at
the university.
Those of us close to the campus realize that
the pictures were merely interesting sidelights
on university life. We realize that no such
thrilling day as depicted is every way typical
of the average coed's daily life. Hut persons
outside of the university are unable to inter
pret the pictures in the same manner. They
take them seriously. Fathers and mothers
viewing that page have probably formed a
mental concept of what daughter's life down
here would be. As a result, many a high school
senior is going to find it necessary to do twice
as much talking to get to Lincoln. The echoes
haven't died down yet. "Wc can still hear that
old parental chant, "I told you the University
of Nebraska is all social life."
Is this type of publicity valuable? "We are
inclined to believe its value is over-rated.
Rather than publicize the university as an edu
cational institution, the present trend, evi
denced by the student council drive, is to
splash pictures of its coeds over newspaper
pages. As if university were all fun! And the
news and feature service has to take it on the
chin because in its old fashioned way it con
tinues to play up the educational aspects of
the university. Maybe that's wrong. But wc
wouldn't know. "We never went to boarding
school. E. D.
OFFICIAL
BULLETIN
Engineers Society.
Chemical Engineers Society will
meet Wed. Febr. 5, at 7:30 In
chemistry lecture room for a short
business meeting.
Corn Cobs.
There will be a special meeting
of the Corn Cobs In U. hall Wed
nesday evening, 7:15. All mem
bers must be present.
Student Council.
Student Council meeting Wed
nesday afternoon at 5 p. m,, In
room 8 of U. hall.
Orchesls.
Orchesls will meet in the danc
ing studio of the women's gymna
sium at 7 o'clock Wednesday eve
ning. Members of Orchesls and of
the understudy group are expected
to attend.
Melvln Rugg, Rochester Univer
sity freshman, travelled 21,000
miles to come to school.
Romantic! Eld tin I
DANGEROUS
INTRIGUE
with Ralph Bellamy
Mat.
20e
Eve
Plus this htart-ponndinr
Dtor of the battle-warons
BORN FOR GLORY
Thundering suns! Ships of
itetll Men of steel! A sara
st naral warfare.
Nebraskan Writes Article,,
A former university faculty
member, Dr. Victor E. Vraz, Is
the author of an article entitled
"Professional Economists" which
was printed In tho New York
Times.
Clark Entertains Economica.
Members of Economica club
were dinner guests' of Dr. John D.
Clark of the college of business
administration at the Cornhusker
hotel recently. Dr. Clark spoke
on "Economic Nationalism."
Yale students earned a total of
$432,132 last year
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