Wednesday, December 3, 1941
DAILY NEBRASKAN
Students Would Attend Class at Wil
70 UN Students Favor
Voluntary Attendance
BY ED HIRSCH.
If the students at the University of Nebraska can read a book
and obtain as much information out of the book as if going to class,
the attendance at classes should be voluntary. This was the answer
received 70 percent of the time by your inquiring reporter on the ques
tion, "Do you believe that students should be required to attend classes
a minimum humber of times, or do you think class attendance should
be voluntary."
The students questioned were a cross section of the classes, and
colleges. When asked, they sincerely believed that class attendance
ihould be voluntary.
The answers, to the questions are as follows:
George Schappaugh, junior bizad: "If a fellow can get as much
out of a book as if going to class, and can get a good grade, then he
should not be forced to go to class."
Jane Gillespie, sophomore, ag college: "I suppose as long as they
are In the institution they might just as well be required to attend
classes."
Marvin Scott, freshman in dentistry: "As long as they are pay
Ing for it, they should be required to attend classes."
Ruth Ann Robertson, sophomore, teachers: "Voluntary! Because
if you can g material without going to classes, then you should not
be forced to go."
Les Oldfield, junior, teachers: "There should be a minimum re'
quirement and if you can get the grades before the end of the semes
ter, then you should not have to go any more."
Carolyn Held, sophomore, arts and science: "They shouldn't be
forced to go, because it is up to the student."
Clift Lambert, junior, teachers: "Voluntary. They are here to
learn and should not be forced to go to classes."
Betty Gaynorval, sophomore, arts and science: "It should be vol
untary. The students should not be forced to do anything."
Arnold Torkelson. freshman, arts and science: "Voluntary! No
one should be forced and if they don't go it's their hard luck." ;
Muriel Jenknis, freshman, teachers: "Voluntary. After all you
are here on your own account, and if you don't want to learn, then the
student will take the consequence."
Collge Students
Do Not Attend
Bank Niahts
KENT, Ohio. (ACP). That uni
versity students stay away from
the movies when bingo, screeno,
and bank night are held is revealed
in a survey conducted by students
of Dr. Harry D. Wolfe, associate
professor of marketing at Kent
State university.
The poll shows that instead of
boosting attendance, these gift at
tractions keep 35 percent of uni
versity students from attending
the movies more often than
they do.
Opinion is almost evenly divided
concerning double features with
35 percent of the students opposed
to twin bills and 26 percent in
favor of them. The remaining 29
percent don't care. However, more
than three-fourths of the students
polled disliked movie program to
last over two and a half hours.
The poll also reveals that men
attend movies more often than
women and that both sexes attend
because of the picture and not the
stars in it.
Favorite types of pictures for
university students are light
comedies and musicals, the poll in
dicates.
Livingston Talks
At Ag Friday
L. F. Livingston, manager of the
agricultural extension division for
duPont, will speak Friday at the
college activities building on ag
campus at 9 a. m. Chemurgy will
be his subject.
AWS Holds Court, Sponsors Activities,
Makes Women's Rules for 27 Years
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Group Has Charge of Many Events
Half Nation's Collegians
Approve Voluntary Plan
By Student Opinion Surveys.
AUSTIN, Dec. 3. While a plurality of college students
favor voluntary class attendance, the latest Student Opinion
Surveys of America poll discovers that nearly as many would
rather be required to sit through lectures and attend labs.
Some colleges and universities have followed the lead of
such schools as the University of Chicago, allowing students to
report for classwork at their discretion. Chicago s President
Robert M. Hutchins reports that the plan works. But it has not
been adopted in the majority of higher learning institutions.
The idea, the figures below indicate, is approved by nearly half
of the collegians, but it certainly does not have the whole
hearted aproval of student opinion :
Do you think students should be required to attend
classes a minimum number of times, or do you think class at
tendance should be voluntary?"
Require minimum fc 41'
Voluntary 48
Require only some students 11
(Less than 1 percent failed to express an opinion.)
Interesting differences of opinion are brought to the sur
face when the ballots are cross-tabulated by year in college
Sophomores and juniors a majority of them are the most
eager to have complete freedom :
Re
quire Freshmen 46
Sophomores 39
Juniors, 39
Seniors, others 44
Those who want only certain students obliged to
often commented that undergraduates making low
should not have the privilege of cutting classes. "If a student
wants to learn, he'll come to class," concluded a Pennsylvania'
State college sophomore. "The earnest student who absents
himself usually has a good reason," was the comment of a Sk
Bonaventure (New York) college student.
Little progress has been made among American students
during the last three years by advocates of the voluntary plan,
surveys records seem to show. In February, 1939, a poil indi
cated 37 percent at that time were opposed to the voluntary
system.
Volun
tary 45
51
51
44
Only
Some
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10
10
12
attend
grades
For 27 years now, the AWS
eourt, black robed and serious, has
met in flickering candle light to
Judge the offenses and pardon or
punish the offender s those
women who have been so unfor
tunate as to forget the time and
'trail into the house after ''lights
out"
For 27 years, the AWS, an
Organization of university women
functioning independently of the
dean of women's office, has made
rules for and enforced the rules
governing university women. The
organization is self-governing and
the sentences meted out by the
court are more in the nature of
counsels than punishments.
More Important than the court,
tho less spectacular however, ac
cording to Ben Alice Day, pres
ident, are the various other func
tions such as sponsoring the All
Activities Mart, a vocational guid
ance program, and the Ivy Day
sing. Other than these, the AWS
compiles the freshman handbook
each year and enforces the
Women's activity point system.
Activities of the AWS are car
ried on thru three groups. The
first of these is the executive
board composed of 14 members
who are elected by women univer
sity students. The second part is
a legislative body composed of the
presidents of all organized houses,
and the third, the , AWS court,
consists of senior board members
and officers.
Ay rules for the government of
women students are made by the
AWS. These rules must be ap
proved by the dean of women and
other university officials. The rules
may be made more strict by each
house but they may not be made
more lenient
At the beginning of the school
year, the AWS instituted a new
rule taking away the privilege
of library leave for freshmen and
sophomores during the week
nights. Sophomores are expected
to use the one 10:30 night granted
them for library work. This rule
was made after consideration by
the AWS of the library-privilege
past
abuses made by women in
years.
Violations Reported.
Each week, the "date sheet" in
every organized house is sent to
the AWS, and examined by one
member who reports violations to
the AWS officers. If the number
of violations is great enough, a
meeting of the AWS is called for
the Friday of that week. If there
are but a few violations, the meet
ing of the court is postponed for
perhaps two or three weeks.
ALL cases go to the AWS court
where the offenders are judged
by university students governed
by the same rules as the offender.
The court makes the decision. A
report of the sentence imposed is
given to the house mother or the
house president who sees that the
sentence is complied with.
Appeals of the decision may be
made to the dean of women, and,
theoretically, the offender may ap
peal to the board of regents. The
scarcity of appeals seems to in
dicate the success of the self- gov
erning system.
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