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U.S. Education Slack
A University has to do the
job that the high, schools
ought to have done.
This was listed as a basic
criticism of American educa
tion by Colin
Jackson,
British
s y n dicated
column i s t
and radio
c o m m e n
tator. Jack son
spoke at' a
Daily Ne
braska n
Cornhusk e r
lunch eon Colin Jackson
Tuesday noon.
Grammar Basics
"Students should get the
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Jackson Predicts Warm
Indian Reception for Ike
British Broadcasting Com
pany commentator Colin
Jackson Tuesday predicted a
friendly reception for Presi
dent Eisenhower when he ar
rives in India this weekend on
another leg of his world tour,
But the reception certainly
would have been much cooler
last year, Jackson told an
audience of Army ROTC
cadets.
Police Killings
Jackson said the recent
killing of nine Indian police
men in northern India by the
Chinese Communists has
made '"the Indian people
wake up."
They are angry with the
Chinese Communists and con
sequently aren't buying as
much Russian propaganda as
before, he noted.
Now the Indian people are
again looking toward the free
world, he said.
"I believe if we can save
India, the Russians are
thwarted in Asia. But the
rest of democracy in Asia
Government
Fellowships
Are Offered
Fellowships to study at
three different universities
are available now to students
interested in public affairs
and public service careers.
Applicants must receive
their B.A. in June.
The fellowships grant $1,700
a year plus college fees. In
total value each one approx
imates $2,200.
The winners will serve three
months, starting in June, with
a public agency such as TVA
or a department in a city or
state government In the 1960
61 school session they will
take graduate courses at the
Universities of Alabama, Ken
tucky and Tennessee.
Completion o! the 12-month
training period entitles fel
lows to a certificate in Public
Administration. They can be
awarded a masters degree at
any of the three universities
attended by completing a
thesis and passing examina
tions. Deadline for submitting ap
plications is March 4, 1960.
For further information,
write to: Educational Direc
tor, Southern Regional Train
ing Program in Public Admin
istration. University of Ala
bama, Drawer I, University,
Ala.
Whets Confused?
Undergrad Colleges
Vary Requirements
Maximum and minimum
hours, group requirements,
majors, minors, dual-matriculationthese
are just a few
of the various terms of "reg
istration language" that Uni
versity students will be en
countering during their prep
aration for spring registra
tion. A survey of the various
college bulletins reveals why
the process of registration is
often greeted with confusion.
Intricate System
The five undergraduate col
leges have established an in
tricate system of group re
quirements, varied hours for
majors and minors, required
grade average for graduation,
programs for specialization
and certificates and options
for special fields of study.
Arts and Science, Teachers,
the home economics depart
ment of Agriculture College
and Business Administration
all require a minimum of 125
hours for a degree. A degree
from the College of Agricul
ture requires 128 hours and
the minimum requirement for
Engineering College is 142
hours.
Also within the colleges, th2
basics in grammar and other
fields in high school and be
fore," he said. "Then in col
lege,, they should specialize."
He added that he thought
the U.S. was starting to get
away from their slack in edu
cation." Get the country back
in the hands of the egg
heads," he said.
"Television has been selling
people short," he commented,
explaining that he thought an
academic revolt in that media
should grow out of the Van
Doren affair.
You don t get people in
terested in international af
fairs until you rub their noses
in it, he said.
Algerian Christmas
Jackson, a world traveler
would be threatened if Rus
sia took over (in India)."
Discussion
Jackson also predicted two
main topics of discussion at
a summit conference ' which
he said may materialize by
April.
On the first, Central Eu
rope and Berlin, Jackson
foresaw little progress.
"Let's be realistic. How
hopeful can we be that the
Russians will take their 13
divisions (in East Germany)
bag and baggage back to
Russia?" he asked.
He said East Berlin was a
standing shame to the Com
munist world that part of
the city is "a living grave at
night" while the Western sec
tor was bustling, a view
which impressed foreign visi
tors. '
"Genuine Hope"
But on the second possible
topic, disarmament, the Brit
ish journalist expressed gen
uine hope."
"We've reached a point
where stockpiling of arms
has reached a stalemate, I
believe," he said.
There Is no point in accu
mulating more weapons when
either side has the potential
to destroy the world; further
testing and stockpiling would
be dangerous, he added.
"The Russians still want to
dominate the world but want
to win control without a war."
Jackson said he thought
the Russian people had a
sincere desire for peace
they suffered 15,000,000 cas
ualties in World War II.
Worksheets
Due Before
Christmas
All students planning to at
tend the University next se
mester should see their
advisers or make appoint
ments with them before
Christmas vacation.
According to Mrs. Irma
Laase, assistant registrar,
they should also check to see
if their departments have
special registration times.
"Some are early," she noted.
The assistant registrar also
reminded Business Adminis
tration and Agriculture Col
lege students they do not
have to bring worksheets to
her office. '
Junior division students al
so leave their work sheets
with advisers by special ar
rangement, she said.
hour requirements vary. A
degree in architectural engi
neering calls for 166 hours.
The home ec department has
seven specialized fields re
quiring from 40 to 45 hours of
home ec courses.
Business College offers spe"
cialized programs calling for
the use of a certain number
elective hours in particular
fields such as accounting or
banking and finance.
Many Majors
The College of Arts and
Sciences lists approximately
30 majors. Half of these re
quire 18 hours, six call for
24, two require 26 hours and
two 27 hours. One major was
listed as 21 credit hours and
one at 16-17 hours.
In addition to the varied
credit hour requirement!, the
various colleges have other
graduation . requirements
which differ.
For example, The Arts and
Science - graduate must earn
10 credit hours in courses
numbered above 100, meet
specific group requirements,
and have enough credit hours
for either two majors or a
major and two minors.
who wO iptud the Christmas
holiday in Algeria, said he
thought more United States
papers should send reporters
abroad for stories.
"For example, on President
Eisenhower's tour, you're
getting the same thing in all
of the papers wire service
reports," he said. "Mo r e
A m e r i c an correspond
ents should be going."
He cited the Kansas City
Star as an example of a
paper that was giving the
public "what they ought to
have, rather than what they
want."
Political Apathy
He also criticized apathy of
people towards politics unless
'they're personally in
volved." "You could tell some peo
ple that there was an atom
bomb under their chair," he
cracked, and they would just
sit there and say, 'oh.
He said that the U.S.'s prob
lem was sustaining interest
while being so prosperous.
"People need to read more
books," he said. "Television
should have some time de
voted to book appreciation."
Commenting on Russian ed
ucation, Jackson said that the
Russians were weak in his
tory "because they keep
changing it!"
Honorees
Selected
By Senate
NU Deans Report
On Recent Topics
Faculty senate members
yesterday heard three deans
report on recent meetings
and voted on indivduals who
will receive honorary de
grees at the January com
mencement during the De
cember meeting Tuesday.
Names of t h e candidates
for honorary degrees will not
be released untu a later date.
Research Money
Dr. John Weaver, dean of
the graduate school, reported
that the Federal government
was now giving one-half bil
lion dollars for research in
colleges and universities each
year.
He said that the relation of
the federal government and
the universities is in a new
era. There is little difference
in the private and public uni
versities in using these funds.
"But the need is to guard
that the proportion is not en
tirely used in one field," he
urged.
Dean Merk Hobson, College
of Engineering and Architec
ture, reported on the subject
"What We Think We Learn
About College Teaching." He
added that 80 per cent of the
class time involves student
thought rather , than college
teaching.
Doctors Needed
Dean Walter Militzer, Arts
and Sciences, reviewed some
of the facilities for educa
tion. "A f i g u r e to think
about." he said is the 65,000
doctors who will soon be
needed and present facilities
have room for only 3600."
A study on the duplication
of courses resulted in 10 hear
ings on requests from 20 de
partments. Many of these requests had
to be turned over to the Pol
icy Committee as it resulted
in new courses or requiring
extra faculty members to be
hired.
Union Plans
Santa Spree
Next Week
"Santa's Spree" will be the
theme for the Student Union's
annual Christmas Party next
Tuesday.
Plans for this year include
dancing, refreshments, free
games and movies!
Two combos will provide
the dance music. A combo
will be located in the Crib
from 7:30-10:30 p.m. Bill Al
ber's Combo will be featured
in the Pan American Room
from 8-10:30 p.m.
A3 activities in the games
area will be free. This in
cludes bowling, billiards and
table tennis.'
A free movie will be shown
in the ballroom at 8 p.m.
A new feature at this year's
spree will be a special party
for the children of all Uni
v e r s i t y professors and
staff members. Santa Claus
win pay a visit to the party
rooms in the Union Base
ment. Games have been planned
for the children from 7:30
6 p.m. and a special cartoon
movie will be nhown in the
small auditorium at 8 p.m.
Vol. 34, No. 44
PBK
One
Five University seniors and
one graduate student were re
vealed as new members of
Phi Beta Kappa Tuesday
night.
Those elected to the top
scholastic honorary society for
liberal arts students, include
Carol Crate, James Foley,
Lynn Carpenter, Karen Pe
terson and Charles Wilson.
The graduate student is Steve
Schultz.
Miss Peterson, an English
Ye Olde Yule Season Underway
With Kiddy Parties Scheduled
Christmas spirit has in
vaded the campus and the
next week and a half will
see scores of children from
the city orphanages and
homes of alums at most
sorority and fraternity
houses for parties.
The Chi Omegas, Zeta
SAMMY CLAUSESMembers of Sigma Alpha Mu fra
ternity repair toys to give to needy children at Christmas
time. The project is part of their Christmas philanthropy
program. Around the table clockwise beginning at the low
er left are Gary Hill, Dave Widman, Jerry Rosen, Bob
Epstein, Stuart Fogel and Gary Bervin.
Objective? Subjective?
It's the Same Problem
Between Student, Prof
Testing, testing but how?
It seems an age-old prob
lem between student and
teacher has been, what test
will do the most good, yet
be the easiest to correct?
Would you rather fill in
the blank, give multiple se
lection answers or answer in
length, detail and organiza
tion? Pro Essay
One professor interviewed
thinks the only way the stu
dent learns "to grasp" the
subject is by studying for the
essay-type exam.
"It's more of a chore to
check, but that's negligible,"
he added.
Another defended the objective-type
mental gymnas
tic. "Certainly, they're easier
to check, but they help the
students store facts necessary
for ideas," he contended.
Asked to answer the argu
ment that a student forgets
what he studies after the ob
jective test, the professor
said, "No. Once he's got the
facts in mind he can always
call on them, even though
they might not be so fresh,"
Study Trouble
Most students think it's
harder to study for the essay
test. "Or to remember, mce
you've studied," a coed
claims. "I find it hard to call
on ideas under tension," she
noted.
"I don't," a companion
commented. "I think study
ing to get a real understand
ing of the material reduces
the tension for me."
A dean of one college in
Episcopal Sister
Is YW Speaker
Sister Lioba Katherine, a
member of the Episcopal or
der of the Community of
Transformation, will speak to
a YWCA group Wednesday.
Sister Katherine will dis
cuss the personal devotional
life of students and also
answer any 'questions.
Sister Katherine has served
as a medical social worker in
Japan and worked with the
Japanese internes during
World War II. At present she
is a director of a children's
camp in California.
Any interested persons are
invited to attend.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA Wednesday, December 9, 1959
Honors Four Seniors,
Grad for Scholarship
major, is president of Mortar
Board and president of Stu
dent Union. She was Ideal
Nebraska Coed at last year's
Coed Follies show.'
An AWS senior board mem
ber, she is also a member of
Alpha Lambda Delta, fresh
man women's scholastic hon
orary, and Pi Beta Phi sor
ority. She has held Regents' and
Lincoln Altrusia Club scholar
ships. Tau Alphas, Tri Delts,
Gamma Phi Betas and Al
pha Chi Omegas are help
ing needy families through
"Lincoln Project" by con
tributing Christmas din
ners, taking the children to
see Santa Claus and giving
the families Christmas
gifts.
the University said individual
professors, not the college or
department, should decide
what tests should be given.
"Any decree from any ad
ministrative office would be
against democratic princi
ples," he noted.
Many Ideas
So, it looks as if students
and faculty will continue to
keep their own ideas about
testing. The safest solution
for the student seems to be
to find a professor who agrees
on his philosophy long, long
or short, short answers.
One coed had an interesting
comment.
"I guess I'll take either,"
she sighed.
Fraternity Appeal Wanes
"College fraternities ap
pear to be losing their popu
larity." Francis M. Highes, Indian
apolis attorney and national
alumni president of Delta
Tau Delta, brought this ap
praisal to the front at tne
recent National Interfraterni-
ty Conference in New York
City.
Speaking Nov. 28, Hughes
told the conference that it is
becoming more and more
evident that the fraternity
man in the United States is
not measuring up scholastic
ally to the average male stu
dent. Need Remedy
Hughes pointed to the rela
tively small number of men
going through fraternity rush
"in spite of welling college
enrollments." He indicated
the apparent lack of appeal
to be widespread and
stressed the value of immed
iate remedy for an increased
rushee figure.
President Herman B. Wells
of Indiana University de
scribed the fraternity situa
tion as an admirable position
which mieht well become the
"center of intellectual life in
which students may mutual
ly stimulate and assist each
ether in the exciting enter
prise of learning."
Wilson is president of Phi
Delta Theta fraternity and a
member of Innocents. He is
also past assistant business
manager of the Cornhusker
and belongs to Theta Nu, hon
orary pre-medical fratern
AIso an English major, he
holds the national General
Motors scholarship.
Carpenter is a French ma
jor. Miss Crate is a member of
Alpha Lambda Delta, Phi Sig-
The Chi Os also are giv
ing one of the families
their Christmas tree when
they leave for vacation.
Grab Bag
The Alpha Phis and Sig
Eps are having their an
nual Chirstmas party for
orphans Saturday, com
plete with gift grab bag,
cocoa and cartoons. The
Alpha Phis also are hav
ing a "kiddy party" for the
children of their alums.
The Thetas and DUs are
devoting next Saturday aft
ernoon to entertaining un
derprivileged children with
cartoons, gifts and the ap
pearance of Santa Claus.
The Sigma Nus are hav
ing 10 to 12 orphans over
for dinner next Wednesday
and for a party and pres
ents. Santa Helpers
The Sammies. are playing
Santa's helpers, collecting
old toys, rebuilding them
and giving them to
orphans.
Kappa Delta is entertain
two little girls from White
Hall, aged 6 and 7, at din
ner in the next week. Be
sides taking Cedars Home
children to see Santa Claus,
they are also sending gifts
to their national philan
thropy hospital for crippled
children in Virginia.
The Pi Beta Phis, Delta
Gammas and Kappa Kap
pa Gammas are having
Christmas parties for the
children of their alums.
The Kappas also are plan
ning to sing carols at the
TB Hospital and help out a
needy family.
Alpha Omicron Pi and
Delta Sigma Pi are enter
taining Cedars Home chil
dren at a Christmas par
ty Saturday morning. The
AOP's also are sending
clothes to a needy family
in Kentucky.
The Alpha Xi Deltas and
Sigma Alpha Epsilons are
having a Christmas party
for the children at Cedars
Home Wednesday night.
Contributing money to the
Home and to Lincoln Proj
ect is included in the Alpha
Xis Christmas program this
year, too.
. . . Sophir Comments on Appraisal
Dr. Wells called upon fra
ternities to meet the rising
populations and increased
college enrollments with an
expansion of their chaplers
and a return to the original
objective of the first fraterni
ties which he deemed
scholarship.
Dr. John A. Krout, vice
president and provost of Col
umbia University, told the
convention that the members
of fraternities nave gained
"an insight into the respon
sibilities that can never be
separated from the privileges
of self-government.
"The fraternity member
senses how a powerful volun
tary association can achieve
a common abjective," Krout
said.
University delegates to the
National Undergraduate Con
ference of Interfraternity
Councils meeting concurrent
ly with the senior organiza
tion were Marty Sophir, Sig
ma Alpha Mu; Bob Blair,
Sigma Alpha Epsilon; and
Jack Muck, Phil Delta Theta.
Sophir Comments
Sophir, commenting on
Hughes' remarks at the con
vention said, "Fraternities
get the raw end of the pub
licity angle.
"Whenever an individual in
any college or university in
ma Iota, romance language
honorary, and Phi Alpha The
ta, history honorary. She has
had a Regents scholarship for
three years and another
$320 scholarship last year.
French Awards
A French and Spanish ma
jor, she has had several
awards for her proficiency in
French. She is also a member
of Towne Club.
Foley is majoring is psy
chology. Schultz, who received his
Bachelor of Arts degree this
summer, was selected Out
standing Nebraskan the first
semester of last year.
A former Daily Nebraskan
columnist, he founded and ed
ited Scrip, student liter
ary magazine. He was presi
dent of Masquers, and a mem
ber of Phi Kappa PsL
Ross Speaks
Of the six students select,
ed, four live in Lincoln.
Schultz is from Nevada, la,
and Carpenter is from Scotts
bluff.
Principal speaker for the.
evening was Dr. Stanley Ross,
associate professor of history.
He spoke on "Jottings on Mex
ican Cultural and Intellec
tual Life."
Ross spent last year in
Mexico engaged in a special
research project.
Jazz, Poetry
Go Together
In Seminar
Bonna Tebo Hayes, John
Marshall and Ernest Hines
will combine their dramatic
talents to present a "Semin
ar in Jazz and Poetry" Thurs
day at 4:15 p.m. in the Pan
American Room of the Stu-
dent Union.
The presentation will be en
tirely different than that giv
en several weeks ago over
television and in Morrill HalL
"Dandylion," presented by
the sextet of Paul Leacox,
Mary Ann Marshall, Frank
Tirro, Ron Trombla, John
Marshall and Del Whitcomb
will open the show. Other
numbers by the group will be
"Black Magic" "N ever
Never Land," "Thou Swell."
"No Moon at All," "Midnight
Sun," and 'BachinaL"
Mary Ann Marshall will
play "Summertim e,"
and Frank Tirro "Skylark,"
Alternating with the sextet
will be the three readers giv
ing "When You are Old" by
Yeats, "Nostalgia" by Karl
Shaprio, "To Mistress Mar
garet Hussey" by John Skel
ton, "God's Grandeur" by
G. M. Hopkins, "Do Not Go
Gentle Into That Good Night"
by Dylan Thomas and
"Tales" by Carl Sandburg.
Tickets for the hour pro
gram may be obtained at
the main desk of the Union.
the country is brought to
light for drinking, being snob
bish or countless other
things, he is immediately for
gotten if he is an independ
entand he is continually
talked about if he is affiliated
with a Greek letter organiza
tion. "The problem of fraternity
loss of appeal to incoming
freshman is largely caused by
frequent misrepresentation
and misunderstanding of
facts and ideas by newspa
pers and other media.
"All that needs to be done to
get fraternities off the public
book is for them to arrive at
a more effective interpreta
tion of their own aspira
tions." Sophir added, "Anytime
anything needs to be done, a
fraternity will do it, not be
cause of the publicity that it
might receive, but because it
has, within its core, men of
high caliber who get real sat
isfaction from service.
"Fraternities should not
be on the defensive nor
should they be put on the
same. They are important in
the progress of society an
everlasting institution and
fraternity ideals of brother
hood, scholarship and living
within a tightly knit group of
fer some of the greatest les
sons of life."