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. His personality, the kind of person
he becomes, Is the learning-product which comes
out of these experiences and is the goal we seek.
Tho Mebraskon
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Campus Capers
By Bruce Conner
"
"Although the incantation I have just read must seem ridiculous,
you must understand that these primitive people actually believed
they could conjure up monsters in this manner. It is interesting to
note that in their society ..."
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
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