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THE NEBRASKAN
Wednesday, February 23, 1955
Ncbraskan Editorials-
Time Is Growing Short
"Beware the Ides of March" quoth the sooth
sayer and with the same foreboding University
students should anticipate spring fever and
the annual spring riot which has become an
habitual activity come warm weather.
The Student Council spring eyent committee
has a big job to plan an all-University event
before the campus gets restless. This job
should not be taken entirely as a fun-and-frolics
project. There is a more definite purpose
behind the committee's function than just plan
ning a party.
The Council, the Administration and many
students fear the possibility of another spring
riot and more bad out-state publicity. This year
especially such an ill-famed uprising might
prove to be particularly unhealthy as far as
the reputation of the University is concerned
and so far as the budget is still in the State
Legislature. Any publicity the University re
ceives between now and the date set for budget
debate In the Legislature must be of the high
est caliber. The Administration realizes this
and it is hoped the students feel the- same an
xiety for the budget's approval.
The annual "riot" (by all appearances it has
become annual) per se is unworthy to be called
a student event. It is a perverted form of "fun."
The factors which give rise to such a situation
are only natural but until this year they have .
been ignored and suppressed as indications of
student immaturity and irresponsibility. These
factors more recently have been recognized
as student boredom resulting in pent up energy
which, if not given constructive outlet, bursts
into a chaotic form of mass revolt. This is what
happens when students go through one semester
crammed with major events demanding their
participation and enter another semester with
little or no events of major interest. The pres
sure of final exams is over, the weather gets
milder and students become bored with studies,
Saturday night movies and odds and ends of
activity busy-work.
If there Is no major event to draw their at
tention, students make their own, even to the
extent of property damage and law-breaking.
When . this happens students are losing sight
of the responsibilities which they assumed upon
entering the University as adults and as ex
amples for their juniors and to the University
as an Institution of higher learning. The fault
lies not wholely with the student mob but also
with the critics, both student and administra
tive, who have seen the need for an energy
outlet but have done nothing to channel it to a
constructive activity.
This negligence has been altered or is sup
posedly being altered by the spring events com
mittee but an all-University spring function is
far from reality. The initial step has been taken
but there are far more steps to take before
an event of this scope can be actual.
It is well to get suggestions as to what type
of event the campus wants and would support
but it may be too late to put these suggestions
to active use unless the Committee dispenses
with the light treatment attitude.
There are questions which arise which are
not merely extraneous queries as to the type
of event that is desired. These questions arise
when every big event is planned and concern
student attitudes toward the necessities which
make or break a function.
Money is a big factor in an undertaking of
this type. Will students be asked to buy tickets
or finance the event in some other way? If
the committee, the Council and the Administra
tion is seeking maximum student participation
in a spring event this financial stigma would
throw a crimp on attendance. It would be
ideal to hope that such a spring event could
be financed by a philanthropic organization
desiring to see ALL students participating but
this could only be accomplished if the alumnae
group of the Administration decided such a fi
nancial adventure would be a good investment.
Another factor in planning a successful event
would be the campus attitude toward competi
tion. The most successful events on campus
have proved time and again to be those in
which campus organizations are competing.
Competition is what makes this campus tick
and has for such a long time that it has be
come second nature to students. Support could
be best obtained if the committee would in
corporate into its plans a competitive event.
The most disheartening factor which must be
realized as a planning problem is drinking. If
the event is to be a success, it must be good
enough, big enough and "fun" enough per se
to drive any thoughts of "livening up the party
with alcohol" from the students' minds. This is
a challenge confronting the event committee
and contains no small implications. No matter
how much the Administration or student spon
sors protest there will always be those stu
dents who will withdraw support for the simple
reason that no drinking will be allowed. If the
committee can come up with something more
appealing than alcoholic sensations it will have
closed the gap between a campus stigma and
campus unity.
These are just a few ideas of what the com
mittee has to face and has to face soon. A spring
activity with all-student support is drastically
needed. But it is needed NOW and it is needed
in the form of a well-organized, well-publicized
and well-accepted reality. Spring is almost here
and student rioters are probably polishing up
their sling-shots. Before student energy runs
rampant and the University is again in hot
water for not controlling its students, a lot of
quick and concentrative planning must be done
by the spring event committee more than just
soliciting for ideas. J. II.
-Campus Circuit
Liberal Arts Emphasized
In Yale Teaching Program
Reprinted from The Yale News
Yale University
"When dealing with a school system involving
millions of students, we can't expect to im
prove it overnight. Someone must start the fight
and it must be fought on as many fronts as
possible, and still fought effectively."
This statement by Edward S. Noyes, the en
thusiastic director of Yale's Master of Arts in
Teaching Program, is a summation of the pro
gram's attitude in trying to correct what Presi
dent Griswold has called "the crisis in our
schools (which) casts a lengthening shadow
over our colleges and universities."
The scope of MAT's success in the "fight"
far exceeds the some 50 secondary school teach
ers it may produce this year. Although only four
years old, and still beset with the problems
and doubts of "something new," the program
envelops functions, theories, and goals that
, may have a great effect on American secondary
education.
The general aim of the program, according
to Noyes, is to "work out the best possible
means for preparing secondary school teachers
and elementary school foreign language teach
ers.? This is coupled with a desire to accent the
liberal arts. In this sense MAT Is a proving
ground as well as a school, Its graduates am
bassadors as well as teachers.
The average cost per MAT student is, at
present, approximately $2,600, slightly nnder
the University average. In addition, this money
is not from Yale MAT operates on a $250,000
grant from the Carnegie Corporation and a
$450,000 grant from the Fund for the Advance
ment of Education. Considering the fact that
the biggest item In the budget Is for fellow
ships (few MAT students nre self-supporting)
and that the Talne of MAT cannot be measured
la number of pupils, the cost Is certainly not
excessive.
It is not excessive, that is, under its present
financial position at Yale. At other schools with
similar programs, and not blessed with such
generous grants,, the cost could be restrictive.
In the words of Noyes, these "other fronts on
which the battle is fought" are important. Yale
Is merely one part of the whole program. This
problem, however, is more the basic one of
American universities' need of funds rather
than problem of the teaching program itself.
In the opinion of the program's administration,
the actual size makes little difference MAT
is not trying to improve secondary education
by pure strength of numbers, but by new ideas
and encouragement. The work of its "ambassa
dors" is designed not only to make the schools
ware of the need for better teachers, but
also for the need of better methods of teach
ing, accenting the liberal arts.
Another important part of MAT is the for
eign language program led by Associate Direc
tor Theodore Andersson, one of the leading ad
vocates of foreign language instruction at the
elementary school level. The scope of this pro
gram can be appreciated by noting that within
a few years the number of elementary schools
teaching foreign languages has jumped from a
handful to over 200.
Much of this progress can be attributed to
Andersson and his staff. He has traveled all
over the world spreading the doctrine of ele
mentary school language instruction, considered
by some a theory that could revolutionize the
whole curriculum of American education.
The third question, that of the administration
of the program itself, can best be answered by
an outline of MAT's graduate and undergradu
ate curriculum.
In addition to the graduate courses, two un
dergraduate courses are offered in Yale college.
It is the goal of Noyes and his staff to make
hese courses so interesting that even those
who are not interested in teaching as a profes
sion will take them and make use of the know
ledge in later life (for public education affects
all, directly or indirectly).
' The main program consists of one year of
Instruction on the graduate level culminating in
a Master of Arts in Teaching degree (the gradu
ate is still free to continue later towards highel
degrees). The student usually takes four courses
with a maximum of two of these in "education."'
In some cases It is possible for the student
to concentrate completely on his major, or spe
cialty. This emphasis on the liberal arts is one of
the bases of the program.
During his year at Yale the MAT student not
only studies the prescribed curriculum but also
engages in the conferences, practices teaching
in local schools, and meets with the experi
enced teachers here on John Hay Whitney fel
lowships (a program that is in conjunction with
the MAT at Yale).
Whether this curriculum, the plan of cross
departmental instruction, the theory of elemen
tary language instruction, or, for that matter,
the whole theory of MAT is the best way to
approach the problem is admittedly undecided.
The relative youth of MAT and its atmosphere
of experimentation makes this necessarily so.
Its complete success or failure (despite the suc
cesses to date) cannot be judged now, or pos
sibly riot even within the next few years. The
future and effect of the Master of Arts in
Teaching program is as yet undecided, but
judging from its performances at this early
stage in its existence, the future is very encouraging.
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Schneid Remarks'
Psychology, Biz Ad
Become Dating Tools
By STAN SCHNEIDER
There's been a long, black lim- back with a force too terrible to
ousine driving by my house about describe. She skids down the hall
five times a day since last week's on a pretty bare pelvic bone and
column and I have a sneaking sus- stops in front of the janitor's broom
picion I ruined some Beulaha's ro- closet. He rushes once more to her
mance so I'll try to even the score side.
this week. (She will never catch j jke y0U) giri5 You're clever,
me. I'm wearing my Capt. Midnight Tell you what I'm going to do. I'm
Jiffy Jet Boots.) willing to let you have a night of
Today's date clues for women my time. (Ever heard this guy be
will be limited to two types of fore?) I'm going to give you a
men, eliminating the common, or- little relaxation. First, we'll head
dinary, run-in-the-mill men who run out for the "Cat's Meo" and have
in mills and that's about as clever a ball with some of the cool fools
a line as you'll read in this column, there. Then . . ."
Our firsty type is the guy who 'It's crowded in here with all the
uses psychology. He spies this dol- brooms and stuff, Jocque. Light a
ly feedng on the bark of an Ail- match or something, Jocque, it's
anthus Glandulosa (CQ) (you have ark jn here."
to work to figure out this column) Fear not, fair maiden. I have
and approaches her. (To be read never touched a hair on a clam,
with casual but sincere interest.) As i was saying, from there we'll
"Hello, Gretchen. How are you? hit the jitterbug endurance contest
What do you mean you're fine? and hVe a little. We can go all
You have your hands in your pock- night. I promise you there will
ets don't you? What's the matter, never be a dull moment with me,
do you have something to hide? honey-bun."
Conscience bothering you?'
"But Rodney, it's two below zero.
They're cold."
'Have faith, child. Trust old Rod.
The point here is not ' move
a muscle. Don't even let your ath
lete's feet get the best of you. The
slightest twitch in your shin-splints
I know you've had a pretty rocky means yes. One way out of this
past, ji you Keep up mis compen- YxnA of situation is to say that
satory defense you may suffer from you'U g0 with him and when he
a psycho-somatic condition which turns his back to draw up an af-
could disrupt your hormone distri- fadavit for you to swear to, run
bution and result in a physical in- ike a horned Grebe for the near-
feriority complex that even the est exit and hustle your 38 inch
dime store can't even repair." waist-line home and stay there.
"But Rodney . . ." (Pause here and steal that banana
"Tut-tut, little one. Nary another from the lunch bag that's next to
word. Old Rod will take you to y0u.)
his experimental laboratories far For mer in take those old quiet
out in the country where you can nights on the farm when we used
study finger paintings and watch to sit around the open fire place
thousands of litfle white mice run m the living room and munch pop
through crazy mazes." (Insert a corn wniie Dad pounded out old
sinister laugh if you think it will tunes on the timpani drums.
nelP- (Here shed a tear and reminisce.)
"But Rodney, why are you sis used to sit on the couch with
wrenching your hands. I didn't her beau and play footsie and me
know you had a black, handle-bar and my little brother used to fight
mustache Rodney. But I don't want to see who would get to throw the
to get Into your car Rodney. Rod- Bowie knive at the over-stuffed
ney, why are you chewing on my couch. Sis lost her beau one night,
arm? Steady Rod boy. .RODNEY j jidn't know he was sitting there.
. . . RODNEY (Hysterically), The
back of my hockey stick to you,
bully."
A quick puck to the molars and
off she ran, knees knocking, to the
Biz ad building where she runs
into our second type, the super
salesman. He sees her, breathless,
scared, bleeding from the arm and
he performs a series of back
hand-springs, a half -gainer with a
full-twisting sommersault, clamps
a double wristlock on her good
arm, stares excitedly into her
frightened eyes and speaks.
."Hotcha - hotcha. Whatcha say,
baby-doll? What happened, get your
hand caught in a beer can? Yak
yak. (That's typewriter for ho-ho)
How'd you like that one? Pretty
clever huh?" (He slaps her on the
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Globetrotting-
Gandy-Dancers Ball
In Outer Mongolia
By CHARLES GOMON
One well-known comic . strip ely abandoned as far as foreign
character is repeatedly being con- shipping goes. Instead the Chinese
fronted at his door by a gadget- are iMl(n westward once more,
salesman When the hero finally gtrentheni oId HeI with lnter.
believes he has nd himself of the
high-pressure peddler and has lor peoples (witness Tibet) and
locked the door, he turns around turning their attention to their bord-
to find that the salesman has come ers. Part of the program is tha
in through the back entrance. A nterior railroad,
variation of this age-old theme is
being Played out this moment in Hw soon new track will be
the cold war. It isn't quite so completed, is a good question; it
funny. took 13 years to lay the 5,000 miles
While the United States talks 0f the Trans-Siberian Railroad,
loudly of the possibility of a naval The new rail link stretches from
and air blockade of the China coast, Lanchow, China, to Ayaguz in the
Chinese coolies and Mongol work' Kazakh SSR, which is about as far
battalions are believed to be rush- back in the hills as you can get
ing the finishing touches on a back on this earth,
door of their own. A fifteen-hun- Begun in 1951, the right of way
dred mile railway is being construe- being tracked skirts the unbeliev-
ted through Mongolia and Sinkiang able temperature extremes of the
to Russia. Gobi's sands, climbs three sepa-
The military significance of the rate mountain chains, crosses the
new rail route is immediately ap- gorges of at least 25 charted moun.
parent. Instead of relying on the tain rivers and plows across more
old Chinese Eastern and South than 100 miles of swamp and bog.
Manchurlan Railways' trackage Don't think it can't be done; that's
which runs for several hundred what they said about the Alcan
miles within fighter-bomber range Highway, and we did not have al-
of the Manchurlan coast, the Com- most unlimited forced labor for that
munist Chinese will soon have a job.
rail route to Russia through the We cant 8t0p the building of the
interior, no point of which can be Lanchow-Ayaguz railroad, but we
reached by anything but our stra- can qUit kidding ourselves into
tegic air command. thinking the Reds aren't a shrewd
Of even more importance is the group of operators. Someone is
political effect which this develop- quietly picking the lock on the
ment of western transportation fa- back door,
cilities will have in Peking. Only
recently in history have the Chinese
paid much attention to their coast
anyway. Not primarily a seafar
ing people, the Chinese of old con
tacted foreigners primarily by way
of the great caravan routes of the
west.
Since the opening of the Chinese
coast to foreign influence about ati0n of rights to eliminate some of
Bill Of Rights
Out Of Date?
A group of high school students
met in the old capital of the state
of Virginia and adopted a declar-
1840 however, the interior trade
routes have been displaced by the
docks of coastal China. Shanghai
has been one of the world's leading
trade centers. Where Marco Polo
the "abuses" of the present Bill
of Rights in the Constitution.
The students, winners of the
Voice of Democracy contest, spent
all dav discussing the topic. "Is
probably knew as much about the fte Bm of RigMs 0ut of Date?"
Gobi Desert country as we do, and , , . .,
Yakhta was once the gateway from i ,E,",eSeu i 0iRnts they
Siberia to China, thesf names have fdded: "We believe that none of
been practically, forgotten until these rights may be used m any
now by all except a few scholars ay to promote the violent over
and the central intelligence agency. Oaow of the government of the
As a result of the seizure of pow- United States by violent means."
er in China by the Communists They added, no person "shall be
and the subsequent sanctions ap- compelled in any criminal case to
plied by the western nations, the be a witness against himself ex
coastal ports are now comparativ- cept in trials of national security."
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THE CARE AND FEEDING OF BOOKS
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You busy college people you with your classes and yoor
studying and your social activities and your three-legged races
it is no wonder that you have so little time for reading. I mean
reading for the pure pleasure of it, not to cram for exams. It is
a sad omission, and my heart goes out to you. I do, however,
take comfort from the fact that the graduation season ap
proaches. Many of you will soon leave the hurly-burly of college
for the tranquility of the outside world. Oh, you'll love it on
the outside! It is a quiet life, a gracious and contemplative
life, a life of ease and relaxation, of plenty of time to enjoy the
treasures of literature.
It is with you in mind that I sit now in my cane-bottomed
rocker and close my kindly gray eyes and smoke a mellow
Philip Morris cigarette and remember books that made ma
laugh and books that made me cry and, remembering, laugh and
cry again. It is, I say, with you in mind that I sit thus and
rock thus and close my kindly gray eyes thus and smoke a
Philip Morris thus and laugh and cry thus, for I wish to recom
mend these lovely and affecting books to you so that you too may
someday sit in your cane-bottomed rockers and close your kindly
gray eyes and smoke a mellow Philip Morris and remember
books that made you laugh and books that made you cry and,
remembering, laugh and cry again.
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Sitting and rocking, my limpid brown eyes dosed in reverie,
a plume of white smoke curling lazily upward from my excellent
Philip Morris cigarette, I remember a lovely and affecting
book called Blood on the Grits by that most talented young
Southerner, Richard Membrane Haw. It is a tender and poignant
story" of a sensitive Alabama boy who passes safely through
puberty only to be devoured by boll weevils ... A lovely and
affecting book.
I puff my splendid Philip Morris cigarette and dose my danc
ing blue eyes and recall another book, a thrilling true adventure,
lovely and affecting, called Climbed Everest the Hard Wat
by Cliff Sherpa. Mr. Sherpa, as everyone knows, was the first
man to reach the peak of Mt Everest by tunneling from below.
In his book he gives a lovely and affecting account of his trip,
which was not as easy as it sounds, you may be sure.
I light another merry Philip Morris cigarette and close my
lambent hazel eyes and recollect another book Life on the Farm
by Dick Woolly. This is a short book only 55 words and
rather a dull one. It would not be worth mentioning here were
it not for the fact that the author is a sheep.
I exhale a cloud of snowy white smoke from my bracing Philip
Morris cigarette and shut my laughing green eyes and think
of the vast, vast array of historical novels that have given,
me pleasure.
There is Blood on the Visor by Richard Membrane Haw (he
who wrote the lovely and affecting Blood on the Grits). There
is Cold Steel and Hot Flashes by Emmaline Prentiss Moulting.
There is The Black Shield of Sigafoos by Wruth Wright There
is Four Quarts in a Galleon by William Makepiece Clambroth.
There are many, many others, all lovely, all affecting.
But sitting here, drawing on my matchless Philip Morris
cigarette, my saucy amber eyes closed tightly, I am thinking
that the loveliest, most affecting of all historical novels is May
Fuster's classic, Was a Serf for the F.B.L Mrs. Fuster, justly
famed for her rich historical tapestries, has outdone heiself
in this tempestuous romance of Angela Bodice, fiery daughter
of an entailed fief, who after a great struggle rbes to the lofty
position of head-linesman to the Emperor of Bosnia and then
throws it all away to lead the downtrodden peasants in a revolt
against the mackerel tax. She later becomes Ferdinand Magellan.
But the list of fine books is endless, as you will soon discover
who are about to leave the turmoil of the campus and enter into
the serene world outside, where a man has time to read and rock
and close his rakish taupe eyes and smoke good Philip Morris
cigarettes.
CMu Rhulmsn. lntt
The maker of Philip Morrit, who bring you thin column, tell you
that in our book, PHILIP MORRIS U the mildett, tattieit cigarette
anybody ever made.