MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1957
DAILY NEBRASKAN"
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Student Week For Freshman
Filled With Varied Activities
Long lines, new friends, orienta
tions, and a busy schedule sum
up the activities pi incoming fresh
men participating in New Student
Week. New Student Week, which
is the first week of the 1957
58 school year, is a week devoted
to helping incoming freshmen be
come better acquainted with the
University, its faculty, and stu
dents. Each new student will pick up
a packet of materials in the Stu
dent Union Ballroom when they
arrive on the Sunday before New
Student Week. This packet will
contain a schedule for the week's
activities, appointment cards, a
Husker Handbook, .and other im-'
portant materials. Students are
divided into two color groups red
and green. Both groups participate
in the same activities, but have
different time schedules. The
week's schedule will go something
like this:
On Monday morning the first
scheduled activity is an all-college
convocation. Following this convo
cation part of the students will
begin pre-registration testing. The
tests run from eight until noon
and from one until five in the
afternoon in the Coliseum. The
other group of students will partici
pate in Student Health meetings,
Speech and Hearing examinations,
and campus tours.
On-Wednesday morning students
will meet their faculty advisers in
groups. Faculty advisers are per
sons who specialize in the partic
ular field the student is interested
in pursuing. Following this group
session, the individual conferences
with advisors will begin. At this
time the students will fill out
worksheets for the classes they
-will attend. The next step will be
the actual registration for classes.
Registration, involves pulling a
card for each class to eb at
tended. This will be done in the
Men's Physical Education Build
ing. After the student has pulled
all his cards, he will complete his
registration by paying fees. Fees
are paid in Love Memorial Li
brary. During the week there will be
orientation sessions scheduled for
all students. During these ses
sions new students will be -given
information concerning the Uni
versity and the responsibilities of
vhe student living in the University
community. Discussion of the var
ious colleges, activities and study
habits will be held at these orien
tations. To acquaint the students
with the use of the library a spe
cial session is held.
Special programs will be held
during the evenings and during
the weekends for students' recre
ation. Students are encouraged to
attend these activities in 'order to
better acquaint themselves with
the University, but these activities,
of course, are not required.
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NEW STUDENTS wait in line at a barbecue during New Student Week.
It Happened at Nebraska U.
A sweet young thing had gone
out with a handsome college cat
and he got her consent to giving
him a little goodnight kiss.
"I'll kiss you if you won't tell
a soul," she said.
"But that excludes all the heels
I know," he replied.
Some students want to get at the
heart of their courses.
One senior, already a grizzled
eteran of three years of trying
to find out just where his classes
are to be held, got a little confused
the first day of classes.
He mistook his instructor's of
fice for the classroom and sat
there alone for 15 minutes waiting
for the professor to show up and
start lecturing. He left mumbling
about people that sit all day in
their offices, doing nothing.
Every year there is some stu
dent, who, when the PBK lists
come out, receives a severe shock.
One such student under one such
shock could only utter, "And I
told all my friends he was stupid."
Of course there are the students
who complain about the presence
of some "brain" in a class who
always gets such high grades that
the instructor can't scale the
lower ones. But after the PBK
announcements the complaints
change to "Gee, he' was in my
class and was he ever smart."
When asked what historical
background he had learned from
the motion picture, "War and
Peace," an English student re
plied, "Well Napoleon attacked
France. No!! France attacked
France. No! France attacked Na
poleon. No! Napoleon attacked
Russia, Yeah, that's it."
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Lincoln 8, Nebraska
AN OLD SCENE in the University of Nebraska's history
University Of Nebraska
Has Grown Very Fast
Without a doubt, the University'
of Nebraska is a great midwestern J
university. Its history is bound up '
with the history of Nebraska itself.
Nebraska Territory was opened toj
settlement in 1854. At the first i
ture, held in Omaha, the acting
Territorial Governor, Thomas Cum
ing, urged the Territorial citizens
to give thought to the establish
ment of a university. This was j
long-range planning, since there '
were less than 3,000 white settlers j
in the whole territory at that time. !
When Nebraska became a state j
in 1367, one of the first acts was
to make provision for a Univer
sity of Nebraska. The act provid
ing for a state university contem
plated a "complete and perfect in-1
stitution, embracing a college ot
ancient and modern literature, ma
thematics and natural science, ag
riculture, law, medicine, political
science, civil engineering and
mechanics and a college of fine
arts."
The first University structure,
old University Hall, was built in a
cow pasture a few blocks north of
the new capitol of Lincoln. The
object of the university was "to
promote the general educational in
terests and welfare and to qualify
students to engage in the several
pursuits and employments of so
ciety, and to discharge honorably
and usefully the various duties of
life."
The first curriculum was charac
terized by an almost inflexible
course of study and practically no
electives; classics and mathema
tics formed the backbone of the
entire work. History, English,
French or German and text-book
study of science were introduced to
give practical knowledge to prac
tical men.
The first building on the campus
contained 48 rooms on three floors.
This included two gymnasiums, a
museum, a library, offices, college
societies and classrooms. The first
cost cf the building was $152,000,
but the work was done in such an
imperfect manner that the edifice
threatened to crack and crumble
to ruin. A vigorous and expansive
effort on the part of Lincoln citi
zens averted the catastrophy.
A prominent Nebraskan once
said that "the main fault of the
University was that it was opened
too early"; and its scant patronage
and an inferentially high per capita
cost of students ws industriously
ridiculed and denounced. It was in
the old University Hall that the
first students of the University
began their year. There were five
freshmen, two sophomores, one
junior and 110 "Latin School" pu
pils aged 10 to 16. The course of
ferings were few and the faculty
scant. Student activities amounted
to the efforts of a few debating so
cieties But as the University grew,
it produced a record of teaching
and research.
Nine Point Grading System
In Scholarship Established
Scholarship at the University
of Nebraska is graded on a nine
point grading system.
9 Superior 95-100
ft Excellent 90-94
7Very Good 85-89
6 Above Average 80-84
5 Average 75-79
4 Below Average 70-74
3 Passing 5-69
2 Barely Passing 60-64
1 Failing Below 60
0 Incomplete
A grade average of 4, currently
and cumulatively, must be main
tained by students. Satisfactory
progress must be made in at least
12 hours of registration through
out the semester. .
"Down Slips" are a record of
unsatisfactory scholarship issued
by instructors to students. They
are reported to the dean at the
end of the fourth week, tenth week
and at the end of the semester.
A student receiving a down slip
must see his instructor and is re
quired (o be in earlier on school
nights. Freshmen women with a
"down" must be in at 8:00 p.m.
Students' parent's are also noti
fied of down slips. A student fail
ing to make satisfactory progress
can be put on probation or can
be expelled from tne university.
Students are responsible for
class attendance to the instructor.
No cuts are permitted by the Uni
versity, but a temporary leave-of-absence
may be obtained from the
dean of the college, in unusual
circumstances. Excessive absences
are not only detremental to grades
but may result in a "down".
University Claims
Bea utyContesta nts
Each year the Lincoln Junior
Chamber of Commerce sponsors
the Miss Lincoln Contest. Any
girl with a high school education
who is between the ages of 18 and
28 and unmarried is eligible to be
come a contestant. t
The University takes a great
interest in the contest. Many of
the entrants are University stu
dents. University girls usually
comprise the majority of the fi
nalists, and for the last three
years, the winner has been a Uni
versity coed. All three of these
Miss Lincoln winners have gone
on to become Miss Nebraska.
The Miss Lincoln contest is
judged on poise, personality, and
talent as well as beauty.