Fiiday, December 2, 1955
Pec a 2
THE NEBRASKAN
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Nebraskan Editorials:
Duly Recognized
The many cries heard throughout the Univer
sity calling for more responsibility among stu
dent groups received one of the strongest boosts
possible by the most recent action of the Inter
fraternity Council.
IFC representatives and officers should be
proud of the new spirit, now in strong evidence
in their organization, which led to the thumping
defeat of the weakening proposal to legalize
spiking among the 23 campus fraternities.
When fraternity men begin talking in terms
of 'enforcing" a program upon themselves,
raising the level of fraternity commitments and
the like, there is a great deal of hope far, far
more hope than has yet existed for many years.
What is now needed is a plan: A Plan Of Fra
ternity Self Discipline.
No matter who does the job, somebody must
get to work, and fast. They must begin working
on a way to guarantee to each fraternity the
freedom all American citizens now enjoy, the
freedom to do anything as long as it does not
hinder someone else's equal right to do what
tie wants.
Along with this freedom will come the respon
sibility of being policeman. Again, the IFC can
copy what it has before its eyes. None of us
get mad at a law enforcement officer who is
doing his job. At one time the IFC would have
us believe fraternity men too immature to ac
cept this same attitude toward IFC "cops."
It is wrong to poke fun at a board of student
Justice, by calling it a grand inquisition or some
such other term carrying evil overtones when
self-discipline is exactly what is needed.
Since this action was taken and since the of
ficers of the IFC are now attending their na
tional convention, a few wishful thoughts will
be uttered.
First: This trend must continue.
Second: Ways to implement the new policies
should and must be found. '
Third: Before the IFC again begins bragging
about the quantity and quality of their "do
good" projects -none of which has ever been
denied let there be some work on the quantity
and quality of their essential projects, e.g., en
forcing pre-Rush Week rules, enforcing Rush
Week rules, working towards the simplification
of pledgeship, etc.
Fourth: Get the notion out of everyone's mind
that the IFC is incapable of doing anything.
This is the last and most important of all.
An appalling number of IFC delegates almost
voted for legalized spiking because they thought
the IFC to weak to enforce the present no
spiking rules.
Well, gentlemen, you have heeded good ad
vice,, no matter where it came from. You are
working in the right direction. You have more
support all over the University than you know
about.
But right now people are going to watch.
They are going to sit and see if you really can
keep your own linen clean. They want to know
if the so-called evils of the Greek world can be
solved by the Greeks themselves.
The Nebraskan believes they can. It hopes
the IFC will now assert itself and show that it
really is capable of governing efficiently, fairly
and strongly over the sphere of campus life it
now only nominally controls. D. F.
Dovms 'Rake Standards'
First semester Is more than half over as
many students were reminded with a shock
when second scholastic reports arrived early
this week.
There are usually twice as many ten-week
downs as four-week downs, but it seemed in
many houses that the number was tripled or
more. In some courses, a fifth to a half of the
class was warned their work was unsatisfactory.
Most of the increase was in C's a grade be
low 4, "unsatisfactory but redeemable." The
number of F's, reporting immediate danger of
flunking a course, seemed to be running ap
proximately the same as in previous semesters.
Why so many more C's? Have more students
been goofing up than usual?
On the contrary, Assistant Dean Lee Chatfield
told The Nebraskan, scholastic standards have
been going up in the last few years. We don't
have nearly as many juniors and seniors in
difficulties, he indicated.
At the same time, Chatfield said, the faculty
has been urged to turn in more complete re
ports, particularly of grades below 4. "This
is for two reasons. In the first place, any grade
of 2 or 3 adversely affects the. 4 average for
graduation. And a 2 or 3 obviously does not
reflect competence in a course."
In other words, Chatfield indicated, the "more
downs" policy has been consciously fostered to
raise academic standards. This seems to have
been the semester when the majority of the
faculty took the instructions at their word and
reported everyone doing less than satisfactory
work.
And if academic standards are to be raised
at the University, they depend on individual
records. The administration thinks complete
warnings will raise standards. The Nebraskan
agrees. M. S.
Toward A Better University
The following editorial is the first of seven in The Nebraskan's special
series dealing with questions voiced in a Nebraskan editorial published Nov. 16.
It is hoped that these editorials will speak for thinking elements of the
campus. It is further to be desired that the editorial series will anticipate a com
ing University address by Chancellor Hardin. If possible, The Nebraskan hopes
that a further closing of the so-called "breach" between elements of the Uni
versity might be achieved by this attempt to bring about mutual understanding.
Today's editorial states the general relationship between faculty-administration
members and the student body. Succeeding editorials will be con
cerned with student self-government, faculty standards including the loss of
good professors, the University building program, the University and outside
pressures, student housing and University parking.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
by Okie Bibler
A Wide And Sn
allow Hole
An inevitable problem that faces any large
University is separation that exists between
faculty and administration and the students.
Problems exist in the very nature of the
Institution. There are large classes and
large enrollments and comparatively few oc
casions to come into close contact with mem
bers of the administration and to a lesser ex
tent with members of the teaching staff.
The specific problem that has been discovered
recently concerns a lack of understanding more
than a lack of actual physical contact by stu
dents and administration. There is difficulty
In bringing the goals and needs of students and
University officials into equal focus.
Both sides seem to be sincere in their efforts
to close the gap and both sides seem confused
as how to go about it.
The Faculty Senate has placed students on
several faculty-student committees and several
colleges have advisory boards made up of stu
dents. The Chancellor has weekly meetings
with members of the Student Council through
bis Cornhusker Roundtable.
But still the administration doesn't actually
know the students. The Chancellor doesn't know
the people who don't participate in student ac
tivities, and the Dean of Student Affairs and his
office has little contact with the average student
"who stays out of trouble and doesn't need the
benefit of those services.
The Dean of Student Affairs and the Dean of
Women appear to have little knowledge of the
attitudes of the University student community
and what knowledge they do have certainly is
sot first hand.
- The students demonstrate their interest in
their University, most visibly, though their par
ticipation in student government, and possibly
through the student newspaper. More repre
sentative of the student body is that vast, un
known that is student opinion which is mani
fested in interest or apathy it is shown in its
approval or resentment.
The students often forget, however, that the
administration and the faculty are not neces
sarily oppressive or oligarchal in their decisions,
nor are they malicious in their actions. It is
entirely possible, and quite likely, that officials
really are trying to do that which is in the
"best, interests of the University."
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Optimism is found in the recent action of the
faculty senate concerning exam week in which
student opinion and student desires were con
sidered. Hope is being nurtured in the efforts of
the Chancellor to seek out and understand the
students..
Only recently has this gap been recognized,
but just as it has been discovered, so is it being
relegated to the forgotten. Few obstacles stand
in the way.
The Chancellor must realize that students are
not necessarily the Student Council. He should
consider the possibility of an all-University con
vocation at which time he could talk to all the
students.
The Dean of Student Affairs should try to
know and understand the students.
The entire administration should realize that
the students want to know what is going on at
their University. They (the students) should
be told what is going on.
Students should also realize that they must
go halfway in closing this gap. The administra
tion would like to meet them halfway.
In conclusion, it might be provident to be
thankful for the progress that has been made
and thankful for the free exchange of ideas that
still exists. The breach, as wide or as shallow
as it may be, is being filled and doesn't seem
impassable. S. J.
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Life 'On Tip-Toe'
Flie Expectancy
Of Christmas
By THE REV. ROBERT E- DAVIS, UNIVERSITY PASTOR
Baptists and Disciples of Christ
The season of Advent is upon us when our thoughts turn toward the
revelation that God gave to man on the first Christmas. To children,
half of the fun of Christmas lies in the anticipation of it looking for
ward to the gaiety, the gifts and the excitement of the festive season.
But as we grow older, we are apt to lose this sense of expectancy
and accept the Christmas season, and indeed, all of life, in a spirit of
hum-drum resignation.
There is in the second chapter of the Gospel of Luke a lesser Mad
portion of the Christmas story which tells of two elderly people, Sim
eon and Anna, who had for years kept up a constant vigil at the
Temple, confident that some day, some how, God would reveal Him
self to them.
For years they had come with unwavering faitti until finally they
saw the One who was the Lord's Anointed. And Simeon said, "Lord,
now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace ... for mine eyes have
seen thy salvation . . ." (Lk. 2:29, 30) His years of expectant waiting
had been rewarded.
The head of the music department of a well-known women's col
lege in the East had searched for years for a tune that he had heard
as a young boy, but had never been able to find in printed form
But throughout his life he kept saying, "Someday IH find it." ,
About ten years ago, when he had already passed his eightieth
birthday, he was visiting in the home of a friend when a young boy
in the house began to play from some yellowed sheet music that he
had found in the attic of the home.
And there among the yellowed pages was the simple tune, "White's
Air" which had been the object of such a long search. A long vigil
had been rewarded.
Unlike Simeon and Anna, and the old music professor, we fail to
keep our faith alive, to keep a sense of expectancy in our hearts. We
let life become dull and monotonous, because we cease to believe that
anything significant is really going to happen. A poet wrote of a
friend who had died. ''She lived life tip-toe to the very last."
If we could recover the sense of expectancy of childhood at Christ
mas, through an awareness of the real meaning of Christmas that
God had broken into history for man's redemption, and the concomit
ant realization that he can again break into history and transform it
through the instrumentation of our lives life would never again be
hum-drum.
We, too, could "live life tip-toe to the very last."
More Student
I r-y Gov't Proposed
I am going to interrupt the cur
rent series of sketches of indepen
dent organizations for this week at
least. Instead, let's look at some
thing that has been happening for
several months here at old NU. A
new policy toward students has
been formed.
This policy might be briefly de
scribed as we'll-decide-and-then-make-
the- students- like- our- de
cision. There have been several ap
plications that everyone knows
about. The new drinking policy was
one of the first to be formed under
the new system. Other recent ex
amples were the KK ban and the
proposed one-week exam period.
Some perons say the new policy
let's call it NUTS (No Utterances
To Students) is aimed at getting
more and better publicity for the
University.
Others assert it is designed to
Influence the legislature favorably,
and thus obtain a larger budget for
the school. Still others feel NUTS
is a manifestation of sadistic ad
ministrators who take delight in
concealing the motives behind their
urpopular decisions.
The cause really matters little.
The whole thing probably grew
from a gradual ignoring of student
opinion. The important job now is
to find a solution. Here is a three
point remedy for the NUTS policy.
1. Reinstate the traditional State
of the University address givjen an
nually by the Chancellor. This ad
dress should outline the general
policy of t'ue Univeri:'y and its
aims and goals for the year. Also
included should be the major ac
complishments and gains of the
past with some historical data to
help build tradition.
2. Allow press conferences fcr the
Nebraskan staff with high-ranking
administrators. These talks can
keep the campus informed of day-to-day
policy changes and the cur
rent attitude of the administration.
When new problems come up they
should be put before tSe students
and as new Information is gath
ered, it should be released.
3. Create a student government
with some REAL POWER. Our
present Student Council might be
able to fill the need, but only
after a major overhaul.
Student government should be
at
given the power to decide such
things as whether the KK show
was offensive or not, whether
panty raidjrs should be expelled
permanently or just until the ex
citement died down and many of
The Silent Majority
the individual disciplinary matters
now handled by the men in Ellen
Smith.
There can be little concern
about lax discipline from such a
group, for student government is
notably more severe than faculty
disciplinary action on other cam
.puses where this system is used.
The system should be subject
to administrative veto. It should
work like the authority given the
Council to hear appeals on park
ing tickets.
Tho Challenge
Navy Faces Tough
Challenges: Burke
By ARLEIGH BURKE
Chief Of Naval Operations
Fd. note: Thin ta the fonrth In.tallment la ''the Challenge" WHea.
peelally for The Nrhnukaa by world femoua neraonalltlet. Today' eolnma featnrea
Arlelgh Bartte, Chief Of Naval Operation., who comment oa the itmigth, BToblema
and challenges of the United Stale Navy.)
The editors of "The Daily Nebraskan" are to be congratulated for
their ingenuity and initiative in creating a weekly series of columns
which are appropriately entitled "The Challenge." At least it is ap.
propriate as far as the Navy is concerned for we face many difficult
challenges in the days ahead.
The U. S. Navy's primary challenge is to keep control of the
seas to keep them friendly regardless of what threatens. Our Navy
must always keep a firm control of the sea highways leading to the
doorsteps of our friends and allies.
We must be capable cf countering the submarine, countering
enemy aircraft and missiles and we must be able to deliver crushing
blows- The more reprisal power the U. S. Navy can concentrate on
the high seas, the more defensive power any would-be aggressor must
build if he is to achieve his objectives.
Our Navy must be able to project our military power overseas.
We must be able to land our blood brothers, the Marines, on hostile
territory as necessary. We must be able to supply and support Army
and Air Force units deployed across both the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans.
Numerically, the Soviet Navy now ranks second In the world. Her
armament efforts continue unabated. She is still building naval weap
ons at a rapid rate- Since World War II she has built more cruisers,
destroyers and submarines than the rest of the world combined. She
also continues to build other types of naval weapons such as jet air
craft, fast amphibious craft, and sea mines.
If the Soviet Union had not decided to challenge the United States
control of the seas, why would she concentrate so much of her na
tional effort in the construction of naval weapons and aircraft?
More particularly, why would she do it at a time when she is
critically short of steel and steelworkers; when her domestic economy
is so hard-pressed for both durable and consumer goods?
Another tough challenge confronting the Navy is that of building
new ships and weapons to keep pace with the modern miracles of
science. The guided missile art is making great progress.
We are building all types of missiles surface-to-air, air-to-air,
surface-to-surface, and air-to-surface. They have achieved a degree
of perfection where we can start mounting them aboard our ships
and aircraft.
The sooner our fleet is equipped with missiles the more powerful
it will be both offensively and defensively. Today we are operating
one nuclear-powered submarine, the NAUTILUS. Her performance is
better than our fondest hopes.
We are now planning to put nuclear power into other types of
ships such as aircraft carriers, cruisers, and destroyers. These days
are comparable to those when the Navy went from sail to steam. Wa
may be flying nuclear aircraft sooner than we once thought.
The Navy's future is bright, but it is going to take lota of people
with drive, imagination and enthusiasm working hard together. Bui
how else did anyone ever overcome a real challenge?
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