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THE NEBRASKAN Tuesday, March 22, 1955 Nebraskan Editorials' Legitimate Politics The political scene on the campus has under gone major revision this past week through Independent actions taken by the All-University Party and the Ir.terfraternity Council. These changes, covered in detail in Friday's Nebraskan and In this issue, provide no violent shake-up In the status quo but promise to bring campus political affairs into their proper and legitimate focus. Through the newly conceived Elections Com mittee, the IFC plans to support candidates in the annual Student Council elections. In this respect, the IFC will be fulfilling one of the major functions of the defunct Faction. Important to proper understanding of this move, by the IFC, is the political function of a campus organization. The student body is composed of many groups, some quite independent and some strangely intertwined by mazes of related boards, com mittees and purposes. It is clearly within the duty of each of these groups to work for their own self-interest if the best interests of the Afterthoughts The announcement by the Russian news agency, Tass, that Russia and her European satellites have decided to set up a unified mili tary command was not entirely unsuspected by Western leaders. The unified Communist command Is a growth of a Moscow conference held last December, when the Soviets found themselves faced with the threat of German rearmament. The con ference was held as, a last-ditch attempt to delay German sovereignty, and now the recent Tass announcement only points up the futility of any delay attempt, and can be interpreted as only a final scare to Western allies. general welfare cf the University remain up permost in the minds and actions of each group's members and leaders. Fraternity men are in the minority in the total University population. Each fraternity exists, so to speak, at the "leave of the Board of Regents." This imposes two duties on the IFC. First, ell action must be taken with the general University in mind. Secondly, within well-defined limits, the IFC can and must act with their own interest in mind. At the moment this seems to be what has been done by IFC leadership. It must be hoped that these plans, just beginning to be publicized, will be put into practice precisely as they were created. At the present time there seems to be no reason to doubt this. There is room in campus politics for open campaigning by the IFC. Furthermore, there is just as much room for open campaigning by counterparts of the IFC to do the same thing. If this new election committee is properly used, the above function will be carried out. Being done, as it will be, by the IFC, which will work in the open, the job will carry none of the stigma attached to all actions by the Faction. Students backed by the IFC for office should be recognized as representing fraternity interests, just as men elected by a political party with a given platform are expected to be supporters of their party's stand. IFC leaders can well be praised for their re cent work. A somewhat rare thing has been done, for a partisan political group has acted in good faith for the general good. There remains but one question in this entire issue. What will the results of all this be? Only with time can this be answered. Until the new plans are seen in operation, no final judgment can be made. D.F. An Obituary The Faction is dead. Without ceremony, without a funeral ora tion, the undercover campus fraternity organi zation has been officially buried. The Faction died last week after a long ill ness. An operation had been proposed to cut out the core of the disease, but the infection had been left unattended too long and was in curable. The disease, Illegalitis, is rather widespread in political circles everywhere. The Board of Doctors had suggested a cure, but the price was higher than the Faction cared to meet. The Faction was born several years ago of a strange, complicated family known as Poli tics. The marriage of the majority of campus fraternities produced a new baby which was conceived to control the results of campus elec tions. The Faction had a normal infancy fif any thing in the Politics family can be called nor mal) and grew to be a powerful body. His friends, carefully selected and - approved by various members of the family, became 'Big Men on Campus. They were elected to Student Council, to Class Officer posts (in the days before they, too, died of a disease called use- lessness) and other organization posts. He was an introvert sort of individual, shy ing from open public society. He preferred to plan the parties and then let the other people attend. (And what parties he planned!) He spent all of his functioning hours in quiet con ferences and a very-important-just-between-us atmophere. Very few people on campus knew him intimately, yet most were aware of his reputation. During his life, the Faction was always just a wee bit of a shady character. He never did anything really wrong, yet because of his dis ease he was never quite on the level. In fact, most of his staunch supporters even refused to admit they were acquainted with him. In himself, he was not a bad fellow. But that disease tainted his whole existence. Although the Faction had been suffering from Ulegalitis since his birth, until recently the disease had never handicapped Hs results. However, it finally caught up with him, as most diseases do. And so, after a crazy career, the Faction Is dead. But the family from which it sprang Poli tics is very much alive. M.H. Whafs New In NU Colleger Teachers College Offers Laboratory, Field Programs By F. E. HENZLIK Dean, Teachers College The Teachers College faculy recently has taken steps to make more effective the learning procedures for those who apply for admission to teacher education "programs. Criteria are being developed to insure a program that will result in every graduate of Teachers College being recognized as a superior teacher. Of the 125 semester credit hours ordinarily required for a college degree, from 20 to 25 semester hours are in the area of professional education, 0 to 105 semester hours are earned in special or academic subjects or fields. In other words, emphasis is now given and will continue to be placed on an understanding of human growth and development, how children learn, as well s on mastery of the subject matter taught and the basic techniques of teaching. These requis ites are essential to the preparation of good teachers. Ia addition to the programs of regular elas tod coarse work, laboratory and field experi ences demanding constructive leadership and personality qualities, along with technical skills end professional ability, are now being pro vided. Space does sot permit a detailed descrip tion of these at this time. A brief statement of a few, however, will suffice to make clear the type of projects to which we refer. Among the several are the following: 1. The Community Education Division of the College is now engaged in a comprehensive pro gram of community improvement and develop ment ia four Nebraska centers. The venture is called the Nebraska Community Education Project. Ia co-operation with the communities concerned, the projects seek, to identify and analyze the types of leadership that influence community action; to help initiate a program for the analysis of genuine needs and problems facing each community; to place a factual base tinder such analysis by assisting in the, gather ing and classifying of data relative to the leadership structures and needs of the commun ity; to encourage wider problems and the reeli saffsti of goals for community development. The project Is being sponsored and, in part, sup ported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. 2. In response to the tremendous demand for special attention educationally for children who have particular problems, Teachers College has recently expanded Its facilities for the training of teachers to work with exceptional children. New courses have been approved, and new physical quarters will soon he available. Par ticular attention Is given to the mentally re tarded, the physically handicapped including those with speech and hearing difficulties and the gifted. Courses lead to the prepration of classroom teachers and supervisors of programs in these special areas and also provide help for the regular classroom teachers who has excep tional children In her room. Plans are being made for experimental studies of these children. Members of the staff act as consultants to teachers and administrators, and provide clini cal services of an educational and psychological nature insofar as time' ot staff will permit. 3. Activities and plans are provided in the freshman orientation program for advanced students to cooperate and help in developing their own potentialities as well as those of persons new to University Life. These ap proaches involve the selection of juniors and seniors with ability and interest in helping freshmen and the directing of learning activities concerned with citizenship and the associating with others in the communities and groups participating. In stimulating and helping the freshmen to find and to ex-press themselves, the advanced students gain insight, skills, under standing and the development of qualities which contribute to their teaching proficiency and success after graduation from the University. The process or method of education Is a matter of re-creation (when viewed from the standpoint of the pnpil) or of re-discovery (when viewed from the standpoint of a teacher). It Is the process whereby the pupil recreates for himself under guidance the Idea, the generali zation, the attitude, the ability, the skill or the quality which becomes an accretion to his personality. 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Where There's Smoke Teacher Answers 'Mediocrity1 Charge By JOHN GOURLAY and MIKE SHUGRUE 1 v ' 1 Four weeks ago we wrote a col umn dealing with apparent in adequacies in the Nebraska high school system and their effect on the University. We stated that "too many teachers are mediocre." We rec e i v e d a careful re sponse to that column from ' Gunnar Horn, head of the English depart ment at Om aha Benson High School, who com mented: "In large measure the citizens of Nebraska are receiving more in service to their children than we have any right to expect or than they are paying for. If there undue numbers of mediocre teachers in Nebraska, it can be attributed to the fact that we have the lowest certification standards of any state in the Union. Naturally Nebraska attracts teachers who cannot qualify anywhere else. Con sidering the mediocre boards of education, the mediocre admin istrators, the mediocre salaries, and, in Omaha at least , the crowded classrooms, it is little short of amazing that the state has as many professionally quali fied, even outstanding teachers, as it does." The present legislature has passed a bin raising standards for teaching certificates in rural areas. Formerly one could teach In a rural school with only 12 hours of college credit. According to the .new law, by 1960 every rural teacher must have two years of college training to qualify for a certificate. The present redistribution of school districts offers one solution to this problem. If students from several districts are brought to gether to one large school, teach- Quic Quips Prof: "A fool can ask more questions than a wise man can answer." Student: "No wonder so many of us flunk our exams." He's the kind of guy who would marry Marilyn Monroe for her money. "And that, my son, Is how the first world war was won. "But pop, why did they need all those other soldiers?" A lady was seated with her little girl in a railway car when a frowsy looking fellow entered the compartment. A few minutes ; before the train started, the lady) perceiving that she would have to travel with an undesirable companion, thought of an excuse to rid herself of him. Leaning forward, she said to him, "I ought to tell you that my little girl is just getting over Scarlet Fever and perhaps" "Oh, don't worry about me, madam," interrupted the man. "I'm committing sucid at the first tunnel anyhow." 1 lap of luxury AFTER SIX for mats an 10 debonair, so handsome, to comfortable, with "natural" styling. For your social high spots, hm more run-go to lose their jobs. Thus they are often forced to compromise stand ards for contracts. Part of the blame for this can be laid at the door of communities which are more interested in winning teams than in scholastic standards. To improve school boards and educational standards in general, former governor Crosby set up the Lay Committee, composed of citi zens and educators, which is at tempting to reevaluate and find solutions to some of the educa tional problems in the state. A committee of school adminis trators is also at work on a plan for de-emphasizing activities and athletics that have grown out of proportion in some schools. - There is a move to extend the teacher-tenure law, whicb is now in effect in Omaha and Lincoln, throughout ftie state. Under this law, teachers who have served a school system for a certain length of time have their jobs guaranteed to them unless they prove them selves unfit, immoral, insane or frt, the like. Under a system such a 1 as this, prin cipals need not . fear for their jobs when they raise and maintain edu cational stand ards in their schools in the face of com munity .opposi tion. School ad ministrators can then act accord ing to educational standards rather than political or community stand ards. There are too many mediocre teachers in the state, but there are also many good ones. Miss Mary Mielenz of the Teach ers College staff, who has re cently completed a tour of a num ber of the larger high schools in the state, comments, "There is tremendous teaching being done in some places." There are problems In the teacher situation in Nebraska. There are also solutions to these problems, but some of them are more long-range than others. Next week we sha'l comment on educational standards in the schools and on those high school graduates who go on to college. Givin' 'Em Ell Ban On lysisfrata' Mav Be Good Idea By ELLIE ELLIOTT For those who have made re peated trips to the library for a copy of Aristophanes' "Lysi strata," only to find it checked out, let me first say that I have a copy that I will gladly loan . . . for a price. Not only is this "obscene, lewd, and lascivious" play to be found in any bookstore on campus; it is actually dis- cussed in classes at this u n i v e r sity, along with such other im moral and de moralizing cre a t i 0 n s as "Oedipus," Ag a m e m n on' and the poetry of Sappho. Perhaps Clas sics 281 . will merit its own in vestigation committee! Personally, I think we all ought to go to New York and revive the New York Society for the Sup pression of Vice. Just think: In order to discover how obscene, lewd ,and lacivious a book, play, poem ,or story Is, we should have to READ it! Besides giving vent to our vari ous vicarious animalistic passion, we would be exposed to all sorts of wonderful literature. We would have to read, in order to suppress the, the Song of Solomon and the works of Chaucer, Ovid, Shakespeare, Byrop, Shelley, Blake, Aristophanes, Sappho, Freud, Whitman, Auden, Yeats... the possibilities for education are almost unlimited. Obviously, we will all qualify as suppressors, since none of us is an "average normal reader." Why not? Because there simply is no such animal ... a fact which we will not, for the good of our So ciety, reveal to Postmaster Gener al Summerfield. If my admirers In the School of Law will now resume their proper stance of sedate sobriety, I should like to quote a few pertinent pas sages from John Milton's "Areo pagitlca." - ". . .if learned men be the first receivers out of books and dispred ders both of vice and error, how shall the licensers themselves be confided in, unless we can confer upon them, or they assume to themselves above all others in the Land, the grace of infallibllty and uncorruptedness? And again if it be true, that a wise man like a good refiner can gather gold out of the drossiest volume, and that a fool will be a fool with the best book, yes, or without book, there is no reason that we should de prive a wise man of any advantage to his wlsdome, while we seek to restrain from a fool that which be ing restrain'd will be no hindrance to his folly... "...to all men such books are not temptations, nor vanities; but useful drugs and materials where with to temper and compose effec tive and strong med'eins, which man's life cannot want. The rest, as children and childish men, who have not the art to qualifie and prepare these working mineralls, well may be exhorted to forbear, but hinder'd forcibly they cannot be by all the licencing that Sainted Inquisition could ever yet contrive..." iehmlwn Letterip Apologies Dear Editor: Let it be known that I do hereby tender my appology to Jack Rogers, Roger Wait, Ellie Elliot and all the burgeoning attornies of the University of Nebraska Law School. Never again will I step in and joust in the academic arena. Never again will I challenge the rightiousness of Jack Rogers. Never again "Will I make "snide" remarks about Miss Elliot's column. Never again will I read a Nebraskan. I think I will skip happily back to my little ivory tower and gloat over the fact that I know the rule of Purefoy v. Rogers.. Now, cir culation managers, please continue circulating The Nebraskan around the Law School in order to provide my fellow law students with one of their few sources of entertain ment. , Long live the First Amendment and Ellie Elliot. IRA EPSTEIN alias MR. STANLEY Girl Scouts Defended Dear Editor: I hope you were merely being flippant; but even if so, you were being painfully in bad taste. I can not condone your swinishly vituper ative attack on the Girl Scout. As an alumna of the University of Ne braska, as a former Girl Scout, and as the mother of five daugh ters when I hope to present in due time as legacies to the best soror ity on the campus (I shall not be invidious and name It), I feel that I must demand a retraction of the insinuation that Girl Scouts are potential alcoholics and potentially incompetent wives and mothers. I could, if I chose, list for you dozens of sober, competent wives and mothers who have been Girl Scouts far more than you could produce from among your vaunted Innocents and Rhodes Scholars. I can only conclude that the author of thjs stupid and sneering editorial has never been a Girl Scout. MRS. HARRIET TRAUT Saster Gards Now on Display Large Selection Eastor April 10 this yoar. GDLDEH18D 215 North 14th St. vy n p j ' I UkH ' mm . CIGARETTES size FILTER TIP TAREYTON PATINTS riNOINO An entirely sew concept In cf&arettt filtration. A filter tip of purified cellulose, incorporating AftfvH ffiarcoal. s filtering substance world-famous as a purifying ft$ent, notably for six, water and beverages. HONEYWELL OFFERS DIVERSIFIED OPPORTUNITIES The opportunities for engineers in the automatic control field are unique in their variety and in the insight provided into all of the industries of today's mod ern world. 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