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Friday, October 21, 1955
THE NEBRASKAN
Ncbraskan Editorials:
UTILE MAN ON CAMPUS
by Dick libler
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llw Time For Reconsideration
The Faculty Senate will be once again faced
with the controversial one week exam resolu
tion at its Nov. 8 meeting.
A majority report of the calendar committee,
which contains provisions for the one week exam
period, will be submitted to the Senate.
Also, a minority report drawn up by the two
student members on the calendar committee
will be filed with the Senate. This report will
give reasons for student opposition to the one
week proposal and also reasons for main
taining the present two week period.
Thus, the issue will be placed squarely before
the members of the faculty assembly for either
final support or repeal or possible compromise
and change.
But the exam proposal cannot be disregarded,
evaded, prolonged or drawn out any further.
If the majority report is accepted en toto, the
195&-57 calendar will provide definitely and fin
ally for one week of examinations. "
Even though the Senate 'is confronted with
the proposal again, however, they need not
reconsider it fully. The two reports can be
submitted, and an immediate vote can be taken
to accept the majority report without sufficient
discussion -or debate.
The Nebraskan hopes this will not happen
and tirges, as we have in the past, this year
and last, that full reconsideration be given to
the proposal. We advocated the present system
of two week examination periods, but more im
portant, much more important, we have advo
cated reconsideration editorially on the basis
of these three points:
1. The exam resolution was handled poorly in
the Faculty Senate last spring.
2. Student opinion was neither sought nor
cc sidered.
S. No justification for nor explanation of the
exam proposal was made to the student body.
We also urge reconsideration in the light of
the only available Jf acts, the 1950 Faculty Senate
Poll. (However the Council is conducting a sim
ilar poll which wall be ready soon.)
These facts, being five years old, can be no
more than an indication. Yet three professors
of the original '50 committee, T. J. Thompson,
W. F. Weiland and J. L. Sellers, told a Nebrask
an reporter Thursday that the findings in 1950
were still a valid reflection of faculty and stu
dent opinion today
The chart made four important observations:
1. MOST FACULTY MEMBERS AND STU
DENTS IN 1950 FAVORED LONGER EXAM
INATION PERIODS.
2. THE MAJORITY OF STUDENTS USED
THE TWO DAY READING PERIOD.
S. A MAJORITY OF THE STUDENTS DO
NOT LEAVE TOWN DURING EXAMS.
4. MOST FACULTY MEMBERS AND STU
DENTS FAVORED A MAXIMUM OF TWO
EXAMS A DAY.
In the light of all these above points the
Nebraskan has been and still is first of all con
cerned with full reconsideration of the exam
resolution by the Faculty Senate.
Next, and only next, we support the present
two week system of examinations. We feel the
basic issue, which shall be elaborated in a series
of editorials next week, is the disposition of the
extra week which would be chopped from the
normal period.
The Nebraskan feels that whatever be the
disposition of the one week whether it be vaca
tion time, classtime, or laboratory time the
cut will not in any way justify the lack of time
students will have to synthesize theif course
material, the haste the professors will have to
undergo in grading' the exams and the lessening
of standards which will result in some of the
colleges, particularly the Arts and Science Col
lege, and ultimately the University of Nebraska.
B. B. '
Mice Goto', Kids
Midst all this fuss about getting off for Little
Dixie, The Rag has afew kind words for all
who are Council members by trade.
Kiddies, we has been telling and telling
y'all to speak up. At times we been pretty nasty,
shreikin' about silent delegations and printing
charts.
A local cartoon compared you subtle-like to a
bunch of scare crows.
We was wondering in there if you could talk.
Now you have spoke out and lo and behold,
y'all found out you could think and talk at the
same time. What you had to say was pertinent
an' pointed.
Wuffo weren't you talking before? Last Wed
nesday's meeting was a lively affair, fun for
contestants and spectators alike. v
Accurate, reliable talliers were amongst you
taking it all down. There isn't a chart this
week because just one issue was hashed over
but here's what all we found out:
Two-thirds of the council membership spoke
at least once during the meeting. This is a
hundred per cent increase over the week before,
and a bigger increase of participants over un
official observation last year.
Contributions were pretty well distributed.
More important, comments were made for more
than just to accumulate marks on the little
yellow sheets.
Though no chart appears this week, there
will be one of them next week and each succeed
ing week for quite a spell.
We congratulates you, Council members.
So we wishes you a real roaring migration
down to Little Dixie. LET'S GO SOUTH! M. S.
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There is a little man
wandering around some
where who is a good
friend of mine, just as
he is a good friend of
many fortunate souls.
He isn't very "big nor
especially, strong.. He
wouldn't be a good foot
ball player, nor could he
coach a professional
collegiate team. He
probably couldn't even
edit a paper such as this,
and if he could, he would
surely find much to
change.
This
though
widely,
little man, al-
he has traveled
has never been
at the University, or if
he has, his trip was in
cognito. He understands
a great deal more than
most of us do and yet he
seems so simple. In his
journeys ,, which have
. taken him from his own
little planet to the earth,
via many other planets,
he has seen and heard
and learned a lifetime's
worth of wisdom and
understanding.
This man, as you must
know by now, is the
Little Prmce. Now, as
far as The Nebraskan
knows, he isn't planning
to visit the campus. One
wonders, though, if he
is planning to go on the
informal migration to
Columbia or whether he
prefers Ames..More than
that, one wonders what
he would think of this
terrible Migration Mess
in which we have been
entangled.
The Little Prince, to
the best of my knowl
edge, has a favorite
phrase he would use,
symbolizing the entire
fif f 9ir
"Balderdash," he
would say, in a voice not
too loud and not too
soft.
He would look at the
AWS Board and sympa
thize with tbe well
meaning and hard-working
ladies. But he would
think how sad it is that
they could not have
honestly tried to judge
the real wishes of their
coed constituents, that
they tied themselves
needlessly to a set of
rules and that they were
just a bit naive in think
ing there was such a
great difference between
the two destinations.
Then he would look at
the band and begin to
think like this, assuming
he would be thinking for
the band.
"Maybe we really
weren't invited. Maybe
the band director at Mis
souri needs a break, so
we'll stay away and help
him keep his job. Maybe
it would be nice to visit
Iowa State because they
usually visit us." But
then he would undoubt
ably add:
"G r o w n u p s never
really understand any
thing. What a pity it is
to be a grownup, even a
college-grownup."
Then the Little Prince
would look at the whole
migration mess, in one
grand picture. He could
only utter one thought.
"These must be mat
ters of consequence."
And then he would
laugh, a great big laugh,
all by himself. He would
think that with all the
ability among the stu
dents and faculty, with
all the slide-rule knowl
edge, with all the quot
ing of apt phrases signi
fying nothing, there
must be a simpler and
better way of solving
this mess.
He would suggest that
right away somebody,
and 'it could be the
Council, get to work so
that next year and in
the years to follow, this
will not happen again.
You'll notice that the
Little Prince refused to
ask questions. He
thought things to him
self. If he were here now
he would think:
"I must hurry down
to Columbia right now.
My friends are there and
they will be having a
good time. I don't have
much time on this
planet, so I'd better join
them."
he SMebraskan
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By HERBERT JEHLE
Aldous H'lxley needs no Intro
duction. Who has not got a kick
out of reading me of his novels,
essays, short stories or poems.
Behind this brilliant writer there
is a deep religious thinker not
so well known now but really
transcending our secular civiliza
tion. Huxley is one of our contemp
oraries who is great enough to
live in the face of death, one who
needs no distractions to shield him
from the ultimate questions of life,
a man who is aware of the pur
pose of our existence. Instead of
writing more about him, let me
better quote passages from his
"Perennial Philosophy" to give an
idea of the book.
"The word '"Perennial Philoso
phy" was coined by Leibniz (the
philosopher and mathematician),
but the thing the metaphysic
that rcognizes a divine Reality
substantial to the world of things
and lives and minds; the psy
chology that finds in the soul
something similar to, or even
identical with, divine Reality; the
ethic that places man's final nd
in the knowledge of the imman
ent and transcendent Ground of
all being the thing is imme
morial and universal.
Rudiments of the Perennial
Philosophy may be found among
the traditionary lore of primitive
peoples in every region of the
world, and in its fully developed
forms it has a place in every one
of the higher religions."
This book of Huxley's is a mon
umental work, an anthology of the
Perennial Philosophy. "I have
brought together a number of sec
tions from these writings, chosen
mainly for their significance but
also for their intrinsic beauty and
memorableness."
"For example, the -being of a
child is transformed by growth
and education into that of a man;
among the results of this trans
formation is a revolutionary
change in the way of knowing and
the amount and the .character of
the things known.
"As the individual grows up, his
knowledge becomes more concep
tual and systematic in form, and
its factual, utilifarian content is
enormously increased. But these
gains are offset by a certain de
terioration in the quality of im
mediate apprehension, a blunting
and a loss of intuitive power . .. ..
"Nor are the changes in the
knower's physiological or Intellec
tual being the only ones to affect
his knowledge, what we know de
pends also on what, as moral be
ings, we choose to make ourselves.
" 'Practice', in the words of Wil
liam James, 'may change our
theoretical horizon, and this in a
twofold way: It may lead into new
worlds and secure new powers.
Knowledge we could never attain,
remaining what we are, may be
attainable in consequences of high
er powers and a higher life, which
we may morally achieve.'
'To put the matter more suc
cinctly, 'Blessed are the pure in
heart, for they shall see God'. And
the same idea has been expressed
by the Sufi poet, Jalal-uddin
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Rumi, "The astrolabe of the mys
teries of God is love'."
The book quotes St. Bernard:
'God who, in his simple substance,
is all everywhere equally, never
theless, in efficacy, is in rational
creatures in another way than in
the bad.
He is in irrational
creatures in such a way
as not to be comprehended by
them; by all rational ones, how
ever, he can be comprehended
through knowledge; but only by
the good is he to be comprehend
ed also through love.'
And William Law: "Byjove I do
not mean any natural tenderness,
which is more or less in people
according to their constitution;
but I mean a larger principle of
the soul, founded in reason and
piety, which makes us tender, kind
and gentle to all our fellow crea
tures as creatures of God, and for
his sake.'
The quotations in the hook are
interspersed with comments both
on philosophical and on a down
to earth plane so characteristic
of Aldous Huxky, "So long as the
organized lovelessness of war and
preparation for war remains,
there can be no mitigation, on
any large, nationwide or world
wide scale, of the organized love
lessness of our economic and po
litical relationships.
"War and preparation for war
are standing temptations to make
the present bad, God-eclipsing ar
rangements of social progressive
ly worse as technology becomes
progressively more efficient."
All the editorials, discussion and
argument on the one-week versus
two-week exams question leaves
this writer wondering whether
students and faculty members
have a sense of values or not
So t&T, nearly all that has been
said about the Facnlty Senate ac
tion is that the action was hasty,
ill-considered and done without
regard to students' wishes.
However true these charges may
be, they are greatly overshadowed
by the consideration of what the
proposed change would do to the
standards of the University.
Yet, to read the sentiments of
the campus in the last few weeks,
an outsider would think that the
only issue was who pulled a quickie
on whom in the Faculty Senate
last spring.
The real issue is what effect
would a one-week e x a m period
have on the value (of finals and
ultimately on the whole grading
system.
As I understand the situation, the
one-week period was advocated
by many faculty members in Agri
culture, Engineering and Teachers
College. Engineering instructors
claimed their students needed
mora class time while the other
two colleges felt their students saw
too many movies and went home
too much during finals, I am told.
On the other hand, the move was
actively opposed by the faculties
of the College of Arts and Sci
ences. These people felt that the
value of the final examination
would be impaired by forcing the
instructor to grade his tests in one
week. They aiso pointed out that
many departments would, from
necessity, resort to objective tests
of the "'multiple guess" and true-and-false
type.
Another objection was that the
shortened testing period would re
duce the length of the exams to two
hours each. In this time it is not
possible to cover an entire semes
ter's work so the value of the final
exam would have to be reduced.
Many Arts College instructors
saw the proposal as a move by the
followers of '"progressive educa
tion" to fveaken the position of the
liberal arts courses by forcing the
use of shoitnswer tests.
The arguments of Arts College
appear stronger than those of its
opponents. It would seem disas
trous to find English, history, po
1 i t i c a 1 science and philosophy
courses being tested by an IBM
machine.
The objective test may have a
place in courses in which the stud
ent is taught merely to parrot the
The Silent Majority
instructor and text But it has na
value in a course requiring inde
pendent thought and judgment.
If we allow the school to get the
name of being one which makes
its tests shorter and makes its
finals count less just to be easier
on its students, the University will
not hold the position of respect it
now enjoys.
As a solution to the problem fac
ing Agriculture and Teachers Col
leges, I recommend that they put
more material into their courses.
Then, if they will give a compre
hensive final over this material,
their students' time will be occu
pied with study and review. In this
situation two weeks wfll not be too
long for final exams.
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As for Engine College, I suggest
that if class time is so short the
college should consider a five-year
curriculum in order to gain the
needed time.
One week could be gained in the
second semester of each year by
abolishing the so-called "E-Week."
It seems that when engineers ara
grabbed by industry as fast as they
can be turned out there is little
need for a week devoted to sell
ing engineering to the public
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Off to the Halls of Ivy
Off for a day of classes are Gene Christensen and
Sandra Saylor . . just as you expected , . . clad
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slacks are the ever
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with plain front and
strapped hack.
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Chris is Sandy Saylor,
wearing the coed's
version of the touch
of Ivy. This three
quarter length cotton
poplin coat comes in
pink, Hue and khaki
shades, and is an
exact copy of our au
thentic Swiss Chalet
jacket ,($19.95). Her
skirt is an all wool
tweed with & stylish
kick pleat in frpai.
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