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University of Nebraska
Tuesday, February 8, 7955
Nebraskan Editorials-
There'll Alviays Be An Editor
"The King is dead, long live the King." No
doubt the English had the second semester
editor of The Nebraskan in mind when they
Instituted this phrase. It rather fits the circum
stances if you substitute the word "editor" for
"King."
New kings have probably told themselves,
like new editors of The Nebraskan, that they
are not just carry-overs from the last regime.
Every new king, like every new editor, likes to
think in terms of starting anew even though
their constituencies may accept them as merely
successors to a job which never changes.
So it Is with this editor, who finds herself
facing a typewriter on which many editorials
have been previously written, sitting at a desk
bearing sentimental marks of past editors and
surrounded by ghosts of past newspaper sue
cesses and failures. It is a wonder how any
editor faced with these specters ever hopes to
$7 Million Dose
Remote as the College of Medicine is in both
distance and interest to Lincoln campus stu
dents, it comes as somewhat of a shock to learn
that a part of the University of Nebrska has
become out-moded to the degree of embarrass
ment. Concling Hall, School of Nursing dormi
tory In Omaha, is beyond the point of rejuvena
tion. Fortunately, this condition will be a part of
the past in a relatively short time. Regents gave
the go-ahead signal Saturday for a $1 million
dormitory for nurses, made possible by a $6
million appropriation from the Legislature in
1953.
The significance of the Regents' action is
far more than the fact that living conditions for
the approximately 120 nursing students will be
better. A sound nursing program is essential
to a good medical college, and women must be
attracted to the school in order to justify and
make possible the improvements which are
being made at the present time.
Unfortunately, the College of Medicine, of
which the School of Nursing is a part, has been
In an uncomfortable position in previous years
by having its accredidation questioned. Even
now, women at . the School of Nursing have
voiced concern over the possibility of the
School's losing its accredidation.
This would naturally be of grave concern to
any student or Nebraska tax-payer who con
siders the position of the University of Ne
braska in comparison to the other state uni
versities of the nation as important.
The new dormitory would not greatly influence
the accreditors in their decision as it is net in
the field of educational facilities. But it is a
part of the College and reflects the University's '
renewed interest in this field of education.
For this reason the Regents' action is repre
sentative of the attempts being made to improve t
both physical plant and educational methods
on the Omaha campus. And by virtue of these
improvements, the College of Medicine will
probably not lose its accredidation.
We are somewhat in the position, for lack of
Interest, of having weathered a storm without
ever knowing it a very dangerous position re
regardless of the outcome. K. N.
start anew. All a new editor can do to obtain
a feeling of divorcement from those past news
paper techniques is to change the ribbon on the
typewriter, ignore the sentimental marks on
the desk and put the files under lock and key.
But there seems to be an unwanted and un
written law, among editors past and present,
which is only obeyed after much rejection and
disillusionment. That unwritten code slowly
destroys the new editor's staunch conviction
that ideas are born, not developed, and no mat
ter how hard an editor ft?hts the past he usually
ends up pouring over the files, trying to find
the mistakes and get new ideas from ones which
already exist.
Under these circumstances, an editor can do
either of two things: fall into the trap of plager
ism by accepting the past completely to the
point of reproduction, or gear new ideas to past
experience and utilize that experience as a
framework for future development.
Too often the new editor jumps into his job
with high blood-pressure and dictatorial resolu
tions, which have their virtues over cold feet,
but this attitude only accomplishes estrange
ment from the job at hand and ends in back
tracking and self-purging.
Extremes in editor-leadership are not the
stuff of which good newspapers are made, so an
editor must first evaluate what kind of an ap
proach to the editorship he must have in rela
tion to what approach is needed to acquire
maximum staff efficiency, readership and news
service. This approach is flexible in relation
to the regular ups and downs of every news
paper. What the editor must guard most against
is excessiveness. either in objectivity, neutral
ism or one-sidedness.
There is a rational approach to the editorship
of The Nebraskan relative to each editor's de
gree of honesty but contrary to most notions, It
Is not an editor's Hooper rating that makes him
succeed or fail but whether his guidance and
leadership results in a newspaper which lives
op to the standards of journalism. J. H.
American A, B, Cs
The belief that a nation's people are only as
good as their teachers has long been accepted
by educators. And today, more than ever be
fore, the impact of this belief is being brought
home to parents all ever the country.
In the universities, where the minds of Amer
ica's youth are most infuenced, the quality of
teachers is very important. These university
professors guide the thinking of young men and
women not only along the strict academic lines
but also in conduct, morals, politics, religion
and loyalty.
The recent establishment of an Americanism
Award by Regent J. Iroy Welsh, to be pre
sented to a University staff member, is one
way in which public encouragement of Ameri
canism may be given to professors. American
ism is not in this day and age confined only to
the indoctrination of youth. Encouragement of
loyalty is needed on all age levels and in every
occupation, but especially in the teaching pro
fession. The Award is a worthwhile gesture to
the neglected teachers who guard the safety
and welfare of the nation's minds and shape
future loyal or disinterested citizens. J. H.
.What's New In NU Colleges.
Arts, Sciences Requirements
Revised To Resolve Confusion
By WALTER E. MILITZER
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences '
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The other day a professor from the University
of Kansas told me that this university offers
about 1400 courses. He said this without pride;
In fact he said it with a considerable amount of
concern. I have no idea how many courses are
offered by the University of Nebraska. I am
afraid to count them.
It isn't necessary to lay these courses end to
end to confuse the student or the faculty. Even
when pressed into a compact catalog they pro
duce a glorious confusion.
Nor is there seed to explain that the ex
pansion of knowledge has forced an expansion in
the number of courses. The fact remains that
the courses are here. And they become a heavy
burden to anyone trying to make some sense out
of higher education. If faculty and administra
tors are bewildered we cannot blame a student
for asking about the substitution of a course in
wildlife for credit in the humanities. It has hap
pened. It is up to all of us to find some sort of
order out of the confusion.
A rather disappointing Idea to me hag grown
cut of many attempts to resolve the confusion.
That ir the idea of the high compression course.
The high compression course la supposed to
squeeze together vast fields of knowledge which
are considered Important biu still not important
enough to be sin died deeply. A survey of world
history la one semester is usually such a coarse.
I have always suspected this idea to be un
sound because everyone wants the other fellow
to do the compressing. No professor volunteers
to give in one semester what he formerly gave
in four. The other fellow should do it, and the
"other fellow" who is usually asked to do it is
the professor giving courses that have no direct
effect oa one's profession the liberal arts pro
fessor. He doesn't like it any better than others,
because he must compress thousand? of years
of man's knowledge and experience. The pro
fessor in a technical field usually must com
press only a few decades.
The College of Arts and Sciences is trying to
work its way out of the muddle of courses. We
have made just a beginning. Recently we have
revised our group requirements to permit a
sounder distribution of courses. The revision
will go into effect with the printing of the new
catalog. Freshman students entering in the fall
of 1955 will follow the new sequences. Those in
attendance before that date may take their
choice between the old and the new.
The viewpoint which we have used in setting
up the new group requirements is the viewpoint
that we must try to select for our education
that which is significant. We consider this, the
choosing of the significant, the real problem of
modern education. It is a problem facing every
university, every college, every instructor and
every student.
A century ago Cardinal Newman put it this
way, "We must make up our minds to be ig
norant of much, if we would know anything."
The statement is even more appropriate today
than it was a hundred years ago .
The College of Arts and Sciences does not
presume to have the final answer to the ques
tion of selection. We do, bjwever, say that the
study of the relation of man to other men and
of his relation to the universe in which he lives
is at least as significant to a student as his
major interest in making a living. We do not
like to believe that a knowledge of men is any
less important than a knowledge of things. In
many respects it may be more important.
It is on this basis that we have begun a re
vision of the degree requirements in the College
of Arts and Sciences. Within the next few years
we hope to put together a plan which will en
able a student to realize the best education from
his university years.
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Campus Capers
By Bruce Connor
CO
Givin' 'Em Ell
Tragedy, Comedy
All Greek To Us?
". . . Now she's put down the magazine . . . going over to the
dresser . . . now she's combing her hair ..."
Where There's Smoke
What When, Why,
Who So What?
By JOHN GOURLAY
i and ,
MIKE SHUGRUE
(Kdltor'i Nottt Ntw columnist! this HmH
tor art John Gfinriay and Mika Hhugrut,
Junior In tht Colltgt of Arts and 8clenccs
oho will collaboratt oa laterprtting campus
activlllet.)
Second semester 1955 Like a
small city at dawn the University
of Nebraska is coming to life after
the long night of exams. It citizens
are enthusiastic resuming their
duties. Successful students, usual
ly targets of much derision, are
now joined by throngs of the less
fortunate blatantly proclaiming
new ideals.
Amid the activity, serious minded
students are concerned with many
"important" questions significant
to the future of the University.
They are asking such questions
as:
Will the faction's petition force
the s t u d e n t
vf
Gourlay
body to change
the S t u d e nt
Council consti
tution and pre
vent secret bal
lots? This con
troversi a 1 ac
tion would
have great ef
fect on later
University af
fairs. The fac
tion would
i
111 IM
3,
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Shugrue
know how Council members were
voting!
Will there be a 15th sorority on
campus? Opinions and arguments
for and against are eagerly and
bitterly discussed everywhere. In
conclave, Panhell weighs the ques
tion. '
Monday night. Fraternity chap
ter rooms are full. Who will get
the best pledge class in the fall
of 1955? Rush chairmen sound
ominous warnings. Plans to spend
money without limit are readily
approved. Curses greet news that
individual rush books have been
outlawed.
Will it rain on Ivy Day? Will
contender Sin-
fonia wrest
control of the
Ivy Day Sing
from Kosmet
Klub?
Who will be
masked and
tackled? The
few remaining
strings are be
i n g nervously
pulled. The
campus buzzes
with excitement.
Should termite-ridden Ellen
Smith Hall be razed? Tradition
lovers choke back sobs at the
thought of losing this Bastille.
Where would Dean Johnston go?
Where would the termites go?
Will the liquor inspectors invade
chapter rooms? Irate fraternity
men armed to the teeth with the
Bill of Rights stand anxious guard.
Will initiations be spied upon?
Is Soc. 53 really a snap? Is it
true that Ed. 61 is a waste of
time? Can one sneak through
Teachers College? Which of the
two instructors is easier? Stu
dents shudder at the thought that
they might have chosen a hard
course by mistake. Expensive text
books rot on book store shelves.
Who will be the campus queens?
What sorority will become undis
puted leader in claiming the Typi
cal Nebraska Coed? Who will this
dame be? What earthling will be
come deity as Goddess of Agricul
ture? Is the Whisker King elec
tion really fair? Who will be May
Queen? Eager candidates play in
different as the day approaches.
WHO REALLY CARES?
By ELLIE ELLIOTT
There are at least two universal
qualities inherent in man that set
him above the other animals: his
capacity for. suffering and his
ability to laugh. The world's great-
artists realize
this, and ex
emplify it in
their . trage
dies and corn
dies. The Greek
t r a g e dians
first sensed
the attraction
that tragedy
has for man,
and the Dleas-
ure that man derives from laugh
ter. To realize what they sensed,
they virtually invented the theater.
Their efforts in tragic and comic
drama have been equalled by only
one man in the past 2300 years.
The Greek playwrights wrote lor
an intellectual, educated audience.
This audience was not particularly
aristocratic; it was simply that the
niirsnit nf knowledge, the use of the
mind, was a typical Greek trait.
(Our own word "school" comes
from the Greek "schole," which
means "leisure." The Greek theater-goer
was at least wise enough
to be able to discern the difference
between tragedy and comedy, and
Shakespeare's are uproariously
to permit himself to respond to
each with the appropriate display
of emotion.
In this, as in most things, the
Greeks were superior to us. I sup
pose that most of you go to the
local movies occas. aally. The cin
ema is an art medium, if an under
developed and over-commercialized
one. Although .it must be rec
ognized that Hollywood is' more
famous for its display of, bosoms
than for its artictic sensitivity, it
spasmodically brings to us movies
of relatively artistic merit. -
It would be logical to assume
that we, the young intelligentsia of
Lincoln, would respond to these in
termittent productions of good
tragedy and comedy as the Greek
responded in like situations; that
is, with deep, personal and honest
emotions; But no; witness the sen
sitive reactions of the University
students to "Carmen Jones" and
"The Prince of Players" last Sun
day evening. Whistling, cat-calls,
jeers and a continuously loud and
unpleasant background conversa
tion. It seems that human suffer
ing and dramatic tragedy even
funny to us. So funny, in fact, that
we refused to let others enjoy
something we, perhaps, did not,
understand.
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