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; 5 .1 4 'i i 4 THE NEBRASKAN Wednesdov, February 23, 1955 Nobraskan 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 event 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 s adults and as ex amples for their juniors and to the University as aa 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. IL "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 cant 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 it. 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,G00, slightly under 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 went ef Education. Considering the fact that the biggest Item in the budget is for fellow ships (few MAT students nre self-supporting) and that the value 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 f the whole program. This problem, however, is more the basic one of American universities' need of funds rather than a problem of the teaching program itself. In the opinion of the program's administration, he 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 off its "ambassa dors" is designed not only to make the schools aware of the need for better teachers, but also for the need of better methods of teach ing, accenting tb ':ieial 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 school 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 These courses so interesting that even thoss 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 highef degrees). The siudent 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 cf 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 experimentatkn makes this necessarily so. Its complete success or failure (despite the suc cesses to date) cannot be judged now, or pos sibly not 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. Campus Capers By Bruce Conner The Nebraskan - . 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(Ever beard 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, well 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 youH 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 dark in 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.) s I was saying, from there we'll "Hello, Gretchen. How are you? hjt the jitterbug endurance contest what do you mean you're fine? an(j jve a little. w can go all ou 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? boney-bun." Conscience bothering you?" The point here is not ' move "But Rodney, it's two below xero. a muscie. Dont even let your ath They're cold." lete'S feet get the best of you. The "Have faith, child. Trust old Eod. slightest twitch in your shin-splints I know you've had a pretty rocky means yes. One way out of this past. If you keep up this compen- kmIj situation is to say that satory defense you may suffer from y0uH go with him and when he a psycho-somatic condition which tums 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- ie a horned Grebe for the near feriority complex that even the est exit and hustle your 38 inch dime store cant even repair." wsist-line home and stay there. "But Rodney . . ." Pause here and steal that banana Tut-tut, little one. Nary another fron, the lunch bag that's next to word. Old Rod will take you to you.) his experimental laboratories far Yor me, IH take those old quiet out in the country where you can nights on the farm when we used study finger paintings and watch to around the open fire place thousands of little white mice run the living room and munch pop through crazy mazes." (Insert a corn wnile Dad pounded out old sinister laugh if you think it will tunes on the timpani drums. kelp.) (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 ner oeau an(j piay footsie and roe know you had a black, handle-bar Bn(j my little brother used to fight mustache Rodney. But I dont want to see who would get to throw the te 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 didnt 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 USE NEBRASKAN WANT ADS For Sale: A used B L Microscope, oil emerelon, very cheap, tape recorder, amphcorp, macnemite. Ph. S-2UUI). Loet: A. Gray leather envelope puree t ewlmmlnt meet. Need high eenool ac tivity tickete. Identification, etc. Pleaae return. Reward. -Georgia VoeeL Ph. 2-566. PRINTING Frcrtomarr. 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When the hero finally strenthcning old. ties with inter believes he has rid himself of the high-pressure peddler and has Pples (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 the in through the back entrance. A interior railroad, variation of this agMld theme is wm fee being played out this moment in the cold war. It isnt 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 Ayagus 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 aoje 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 no- 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. Manchurian Railways' trackage Dont 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 Manchurian coast, the Com- most unlimited forced labor for that munist Chinese will soon have a job. rail route to Russia through the ;ye cant stop the building of the interior, no point of which can be La.nchow-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 recentlv 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 1840 however, the interior trade Bill Of Rights Out Of Date? A group of high school students met in the eld capital of the state of Virginia and adopted a declar ation of rights to eliminate some of tV.. .knr.e" nf tVia nreon Rill liunb.wi, CilC dUUiT v. .- f ... routes have been displaced by tne f Rights in the Constitution, docks of coastal China. Shanghai students, winners of the has been one of the world's leading Voice rf Democracy contest, spent trade centers. Where Marco Polo aU day jjscussing the topic, "Is probably knew as much about the the Bm o of Date?" Gobi Desert country as we do, .and Bm hts Ir,wS2E! tfed: "We believe that none of Siberia to China, these names nave f . . . . been practically, forgotten until these rights may be used .m ny now by all except a few scholars Z tlrn Sl and the central intelligence agency. f Z L As a result of the seizure of pow- United States by violent means, er in China by the Communists They added, no person "shall bo 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 comparative cept in trials of national security." THE CARE AND FEEDING OF BOOKS Yon busy college people yon with yonr classes and your studying and your social activities and your three-legged race 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 aoon leave the hurly-hurly of colleg- for the tranquility of the outside world. Oh, youH 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 tha 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 me 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 yon too may someday Bit 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. Sitting and rocking, my limpid brown eyes closed 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 Grit 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 close my danc ing blue eyes and recall another book, a thrilling true adventure, lovely and affecting, called Climbed Everett the Hard Wat by Cliff Sherpa. Mr. Sherpa, as everyone knows, was the first man to reach the peak of ML Everest by tunneling from below. In his book he gives a lovely and affecting account of bis trip, which was not as easy as it sounds, you may be sure. I light another merry Philip Morris cigarette and close nry lambent hazel eyes and recollect another book Life on the F arm by Dick Woolly. This is a short book only 55 words ana 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 givea me pleasure. There is Blood on the Visor by Eichard Membrane Haw (he who wrote the lovely and affecting Blood on the Gritt). 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 Qambroth, There are many, many others, all lovely, all affecting. But sitting here, drawing on my roaf Philip Morris cigarette, my saucy amber eyes closed tightly, I am thinking that the loveliest, most affecting of all historical novels is Maf Fuster's classic, I Was a Serf for the F.BJ. Mrs. Fuster, justly famed for her rich historical tapestries, has outdone herself in this tempestuous romance cf Angela Bodice, fiery daughter of an entailed fief, who after a great struggle rises to the lofty position of head-linesman to the Emperor cf 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. CMet hulmeo. l'i The mafcert of Phitim Morrit. tthm hrinr roa thU column, tell you ! that in our book, PHILIP MORRIS U ike nuUetL, testiest cigarette I mmybody