J 5 i f ft ? 1, t J ; s 'i : v! ?! r Paqe 2 The Daily Nebroskan Monday, March 11, 1957 Daily Nebraskan Editorials: lousing Code Dr. S. L Fuenning, director of University Health Services, has obtained the support of many students on this campus because he is willing to listen to constructive criticisms of the proposed housing code. Fuenning stated, "We don't want to force any thing on anybody. If there are any suggestions about the code which students want to make we want to hear them." Under the code, University housing must be "approved" by 1960. The regulations are stricter than those of the city of Lincoln but the changes were made in order to "tighten up a few weak spots" in the city's ruling. The new code is not an attempt on the part of the Health Services to make the freshmen live in a University Dormitory. "The Board of Re gents already has a regulation that requires freshmen men to live in University dormitories and we are merely quoting that regulation," Dr. Fuenning stessed. Dr. Fuenning commented that it is not only the duty of the Health Services to treat -people when they are sick or injured but also to keep them from becoming that way. Therefore, such safety features as fire escapes and adequate plumbing should and will be demanded. The code also creates some changes in private dwellings used by students. Licenses will be required of rooming houses which must meet the high standards which fraternity and co operative houses will meet. Fraternities which heretofore believed that the code itself would make some major changes in their economic setup are changing their po sitions as the facts come to light. As Dr. Fuenning pointed out, there is already an established regulation regarding freshman housing. It will be at least 1960 before the pro posed 1,000-man dormitories are constructed. That leaves the Greek system time enough to absorb upper classmen which can make the needed financial adjustment in the houses. The lapse in time leaves the Greeks three years to add to their houses in the ways recom mended by the Health Inspectors. Some final notes on the code and its admin istration might be worth remembering by stu dents looking for areas in which the administra tion is ready and willing to cooperate with and stand behind the students. 1) Dr. Fuenning has called for suggestions from the students. 2) Inspections which have started in the sorority houses are being handled on a cooper ative basis with city officials to coordinate findings and make the most adequate sugges tions to residents and owners. 3) The time element which gives the owners almost three years to complete the necessary changes will enable the work to be undertaken during summer months. The Daily Nebraskan congratulates the Health Services for developing a code meant to im prove conditions on the campus. We are con fident that the houses will cooperate to their fullest ability to make living at the University a safe and healthy experience. IK Ball . . . The IFC Ball has been returned to the Inter fraternity Council, after being dropped for one year. The Committee on Student Affairs, by its action, has showed it is willing to listen to stu dent petitions and grant requests, if they are deemed worthy. In giving back the IFC Ball to the fraternity system, certain stipulations were laid down that were accepted by the IFC executive Council, and must be accepted by fraternity presidents before the Ball can be held. In essence they are: 1. The IFC must obtain a signed statement from the management of the Turnpike Ball room, where the Ball will be held, that Uni versity regulations concerning social affairs will be observed. 2. The IFC must provide police for the ..dance. 3. Officers of each fraternity must sign ..a statement agreeing to help police the dance. Thus, in granting the Interfraternity Council permission to hold the IFC Ball as part of a "Greek Weekend," the Committee on Student Affairs has put its trust in fraternity presi dents and fraternity men in general to adhere to these stipulations. The rules were laid down for the specific purpose of doing away with drinking inattention to drinking rules cost the IFC their Ball back in 1955. Now that the Ball has been returned, there is still much for the IFC and fraternity officers to do. They must assure the University that the rules will not be broken, and that the Fratern ity system is able to shoulder the responsi bility of backing these rules to the fullest ex tent. The IFC is naturally grateful 'to see its an nual affair returned to it. Members are now able to plan a full weekend designed to boost fraternity spirit and enable men in different houses to get together socially instead of the rather strained competitive atmosphere of in tramurals and activities. The best and most intelligent display of this gratitude would be full backing of Unin versity regulations governing social affairs. Biting the hand that feeds you just isn't very good policy. i can't eemeuber when Anything has upset ae so.. 7g I FU2ZY-FACE! I I HE WALKED BY. I AND HE SAID. 7 h r V Ul CI177V. I W A 1 i.T, I LI 1W 5TILL...I DONT KNOUT WHY IT SHOULD.. Sf AFTER ALL. WHAT DOES HE EXPECT ME TO BE. CLEAN-SHAVEN 1 3-fS Travel: NU faculty Present Related by Writer Iowa State's Cardinal Guild a corn fed name for student council has rejected a class cut proposal which would have allowed students with a grade point average meeting that of the all college average an unlimited number of unexcused class absences without academic prejudice. The Daily Nebraskan feels that it is un fortunate the motion was defeated at Iowa State. Not that our University would have to follow suit if such a proposal were presented here. Rather that the students at Iowa State had indicated through a poll that they are in From The Editor's Desk: foiva Rejection favor of some sort of class cut system. The Guild, in not giving the students what they sought, was probably not working in the best interests of the entire student body. That, we presume, is the privilege of the legislator. But it is the privilege of the student body to change legislators, too. A lesson for our student body government to take is the sorting out of student opinion be fore any action. The Council has done some extensive survey work on the question of tui tion. Let's hope any action subsequent to the findings will be in accord with the wishes of the majority of the student body. A word or two 8 Tomorrow the Faculty Sen ate should discuss and prob ably vote oa a resolution by the Student Council that stu dent members of faculty sub committees be allowed to vote, at the discretion of the particular committee. This privilege has mater ially been lacking since Janu ary, when a le.tter from the Student Affairs Office re minded committee chairmen of a December, 1955, ruling of the Senate. Although student members of committees can discuss and offer opinions, it certainly isn't the same as a vote. To express your opinion is one thing; to do something about it is quite another thing. The Daily Nebraskan is confident the Faculty Senate and the committee on commit tees will give this resolution their fullest consideration. Student self-government of any degree requires the abil ity of students to express their before you views through a vote. Ira Epstein has gone off to war. After entering the Univer sity sometime around the fall of 1949, Ira racked up seven and one-half years of continu ous, consecutive enrollment. He went three years as an un dergraduate, four years in law school, received his law de gree and stayed for another semester doing graduate work until he heard the bugle's call and marched off to join the Judge Advocate's part of the Army. Ira was also a Yell King, Corn Cob, Innocent and campus politico bar-none. "Touch not a hair of that old grey head . . . There is talk of holding June graduation in the sparkling new Pershing Memorial Audi torium, down town. It com fortably seats thousands of people, and the acoustics are fine. But it doesn't have anything much to do with the Univer sity 'of Nebraska. For years graduations have been held in the vaulted cavern of the Coli seum in the heat of a sunny June day. Graduating seniors in their hired robes have filed down past the Carillon Tower and into the Coliseum. For most of them graduation is their last real link with the Uni versity. So, if you will pardon V our nostalgic snifflings, why not let us be graduated from the University, instead of from one of the biggest mosaics in the United States. True, the Auditorium is a fine, functional building, a credit to the city , and most useful for various University sponsored functions and pro grams. Still, there is an "old school" kick left in some of us. It seems a little more satisfying to make the long trudge past the Carillon Tower and across the Mall than to stumble around downtown. Halls of Ivy, and all that sort of thing. The Daily Nebraskan FIFTY-FIVE YEARS OLD Blember: Associated Collegiate Press Intercollegiate Press Representative: National Advertising Service, Incorporated Published at: Room 20, Student Union Lincoln, Nebraska 14th & R Tt r; 1Vehrka t pntUhd Monday, Tuesday, vVednewdey d trifiar 0ttrUr the school ymr, except taring jksWi nd ruun r rinds, end one lue ts rwiWrtMl diurlnir Anrost, bt stadpnts ot the University .... mdwr the ufcrltln o the Committee B Si(dnt Affaire ri ol indent opinion. fnbl" -aii'Mie under the jur1rti-tto the Bubeommlttee on hiuslwl . f-tiink-aihma ahull lie tree from editorial t o-i.tr-; ip on the part et the Knbeommltlee or on the part of n uifmher of the tartilty of the linlvemlly, of (he pnrt of auy im outside the University. The ,(-,.. of the riVhrko elaff are personally re imii lJj for what ihej. ay, or do or mm to he yrmirr. teiiru.-try H, iH.ii. ; .i.rtl teouJ rta matter at the pt offtae la "iHit 'r "3v " l "Ml pun 'HiMqN uiju"I EDITORIAL STAFF Kdltor rred Daly ManaKtnt Kdltor , Jnrli I'ollorli Kdltorlal I'aKe Editor Dirk Nhusnie .New Editors .-. Sara Jonei, Boh Ireland ilHirte Kditor , Huh i Mnrtel Copy Editors Art Blaekmam Carole Krank George Moyer. Run Warholoskl Ar Editor Walter Patterson itaff I'hotocrapner , Dale Lewis N'ltht News Editor Sura Jonre Offlc Merretary, Julie Dowell toeleiy Editor 'an KarreU Reporters iudy 8leler Marilyn Nlen, Mlnnetter Taylor, lilana Maxwell, Sandra Whalen, Dorothy Hail. Dlanna beau. Bill Cooper. BUI Million, Oary Fetenon, Mary Pat terson, Dranna Barrett. Emmie Llmpo. Staff Writers Nnncy Dekon. t'yathia Zsrhau. Boh Wlrs, tlnry KodKere, JoAnn Uahlioron, Stan Wldmen. BUSINESS STAFF ' Bimlneos Munaser . . Georjre Mndnen Circulation Manaxrr. Jaek N.irrls letaiit Buslnens Managers Larry kpst.-ln Tom Neff, Jerry belletln This is the second In a series of travel features on vacation ideas for the college student. By ED ALLISON Travel "Editor More and more university stu dents each year are taking trips to Europe either with a student tour or just roaming around the countryside by themselves. Many students, however, still believe that a trip to Europe is a rich-man's pastime. This is definitely not true. The greatest expense of Euro pean travel is the trip over on a boat or plane and the trip back. After these initial expenses, it is very easy to travel and live very cheaply if the traveler stays out of the big name hotels and restau rants. London is usually the place where most tours of the Continent begin. There is a very simple rea son for this. The ships and planes that carry passengers to Europe usually land in or near London. When the average college stu dent reaches London, he s h o u d never ask for the. Savoy or May fairer Hotels. Although he may have heard about these places and similar ones throughout Europe, if students are looking for an ec nomical trip, this is very definite ly the wrong way to start out. One of the most important things to remember while traveling abroad is that the American Ex press Company is in every country a student will travel in and they are there for a very explicit pur pose and that is to serve the Amer ican traveler. Don't ever be afraid to sound dumb by asking the nen in these offices where a good cheap hotel is. Students have traveled all over Europe for as little as $8 per day. They did this by simply following the old adage, "When in Rome, do as the Romans." This old say ing is never more true than while traveling in Europe. The European people are very friendly to Americans, but one thing has made the people in the big cities like London, Paris, and Rome a little sceptical about our American way of life. They see so many Americans come out of the big hotels with a line of bell boys carrying out their luggage and putting it into the big Cadillac that the American has gonp to great expense and trouble to have shipped over and back foiihis trip. This is an example of the things you will meet when traveling in Europe and it is up to the students to change this attitude. After England the tour usually goes to France. France is a beau tiful place and of course Paris is everything a person thinks it is and even more. But here again if students are wanting to travel economically they must go to the American Express office in Paris and inquire into the hotel and restaurant situation. (A little hint here: don't go to Maxim's for lunch or the Lido Club for dinner and the floor show, unless of course, you have an extra $100 you want to spend.) Following Paris the next stop is usually the French Riviera, for sun bathing and looking over the beautiful scenery, and then on to Rome, the city of ancient history and art. A student will be able to see all of the sights in Rome at a nom inal cost if he checks on pnees before doing or seeing anything. From Rome to Venice, which is a city of Gondolas and Venitian history. There are no cars allowed in the city at all. Any travel that is done is done by Gondolas or by foot. This is truly the most inter esting of all the European cities. The Swiss and Austrial Alps are places that lead the list on almost everyone's itinerary. The beauti ful cities of Switzerland such as Lusanne and Luzern are beautiful along'with the Materhorn, the mas ter of all the Swiss Alps. In Germany the people are still trying to clean up after the war, but much of the beauty is still there and this country is very def initely worth a visit. This is but a brief sketch of Eu rope, but to those who are plan ng a trip in the near future, re member some of these things be cause they will help you. San Blast Sanford McConnell Making mistakes can be very embarassing. Certain psychologists rlnim individuals learn correctly by wrongly performing an act. I imagine everyone nas at leasi one or two top-notch mistakes to his credit. At the time a mistake is committed, it seldom seems hu morous before time allows us the privilege to reflect our folly. Abou ive summers ago while working jt Omaha Muny Airport I performed a top grade mental lapse. I had been working as a lineman gas boy, for about a week when one afternoon we became quite busy. The customers started outnumbering the employees, so I was allowed a chance to prove my merit and given my solo gas Job. The plane was a twin-e n g i n e Beechcraft and belonged to the Civil Aeronautics Administration. The pilot carefully 'instructed ne to, "gas all tanks." I started to gas the nose tank and presently noticed a liquid pouring out of the bottom of the fuselage. I had heard about moisture condensing in gas tanks and presumed that it was water, co-rung out of some hidden vent. The meter was happily rounding the sixty gallon mark when the boss came running up. He informed me the liquid wasn't water but gas. Hoping to find the cause of the strange phenomenon, we opened the nose and looked in. The Campus Green The Scales Theoutside shader silently stands Awaiting la,mb's soft rains and wind And feeling sharpened lion's claws Allows a hum to come each bitter night. But shader knows that with the spring Comes hope of warming summer's sun And then the fall and cyclic change Which transforms leaf to ashy dust And brings again the sharpened blast. The change is slow enough as years . Crawl only day by day to centuries. The shader came before the house and Watched the boards from brothers rise. . Its silent life and silent hums will stand Long after brother boards will rot away. And wisened branches will protect the land From blistering rays of golden sun. David Happily pandoria Passing me in Burnett's Hall a faculty buddy just had time to slip me a tear sheet from the New York Times which, she believes, has some significance for the Uni versity student. She couldn't stop to talk about it then. She must be the kind who believes in what she reads for in essence the article told of the fail ure of the present generation to be individualistic . . . and a mark of the conformist is a long chat in a Nebraskan Letterips To the Editor: Although Wednesday's editorial i& the Rag made a pious gesture in the direction of admitting that poor performance on the part of the student is the fault of the stu dent himself, the general tone of the argument was that' somehow poor instruction on the part of the faculty is the real villain. While no teacher in his right mind would assert that the general level of pedagogy could not be improved, it by no means follows that students evaluation would be any solution to the problem. If we accept the premise that the faculty knows more than the students about how to run a uni versit (and if the Rag doesn't, it is hopelessly confused) then what the students think of the faculty is interesting but hardly of any overrriding importance. It seems to us that you have made a number of rather question able assertions concerning student evaluations and have ignored cer tain facts. You blithely remark, "Granted that every student who studies can attain a good grade in a course." Ridiculous! Some students in some courses can never study and still make "good" grades; other students vill never make good grades no mat ter how much they study. Nature, unfortunately is not very demo cratic. You state that "any student will admit that the level of instruction in various departments differs." In the first place, just "any stu dent" may not be a reliable judge, and in the second place, the level of students differs widely. What do you mean by saying that students with "the proper attitude" (?) would be "more than fair" in their evaluation? What is "more than fair''? Who are all of these "high-caliber student' who would benefit? What about the low-caliber students? 1 ' And are all students equally cap able of making a so-called objec tive evaluation of their instructors? Will the "3" student's evaluation weigh as heavily as the "9" stu dent's? ' And what precisely is wrong with faculty-student relationships? What is "some of the talk flowing around the campus"? What are these "certain sections" where im provement is needed? You imply that all teachers can be evaluated in the same way, which is not true. You imply that all students are equally capable ' of judging their teachers, which is not true. And you imply that all students recognize valuable instruc tion immediately, which is not true, for we often do not realize the value of instruction for many years. While we recognize that it is the nature of college newspapers to beat the drums for the cause of increased responsobilities for stu dents, let's remind the Rag that the University community will not be served by an irresponsible at tempt to turn teaching into a popu larity contest. The evaluation of teachers should remain in the competent hands of the teachers themselves. Graduate Students Dick Shugrue college hall. Too many students at the present time are concerned with being "mild, the good guy and the well rounded person" the Times story reported rather than being a whole individual. Well, Robert Hutchins got his two cents worth in the discussion reported by the Times. Dr. Hutch ins' two cents always seem like two dollars anyway. . j . He said the task falls to the University stu dent to revamp the pattern of so ciety. His idea of a university is a place for independent thought and should include emphasis on how to make the democratic system work. But the Fund for the Republic official stressed that seeking re form for the "old ways" is foolish unless -society, wishing reform, looks for education to play a prom inent role. And just what are the elements that make this ridiculous individual of the present day? A group of students at Sarah Lawrence Col lege in Bronxville, N. Y say that the life of ease without any friction and conflict casts us into a mold maybe what they meant to say was that we're moldy. Enough of that. I suppose we have to translate the findings of the students at S.L. to N.U. if we are to practice what they preach. And the advice for the day? A little less grumbling with your lot and a little more sat isfaction that we still have a chance to get out before our jelly like personalities harden in the mold. Unfortunately, there was no gas tank located inside, and all tha gas I pumped in had" filled the siowiy aripping out oi siauc aur holes. , ' ' We later found out the tank had been removed to lighten the pay load, but for a long while I had mental images of myself com fortable situated inside a nearby cross-bar hotel. Luckily, however, the pilots realized, "a person who would make such a stupid mistake couldn't be held responsible." More recently, lastThursday to be exact, I once again became in volved with my old friend, foolish blunder. After eating dinner, I rushed over to the Union for tha NUCWA convention meeting. For some odd reason, I imagined the meetjng was scheduled for Room 313. Well, after several minutes of contented sciolism, I discovered the meeting I was in was not NUCWA but IFC. My mind is probably still quite incoherent, for I somehow find it possible to con ceive a 1974 university campus on which independent and fraternity will settle their differences by ben efitting from the mistakes both sides are now making. Columbia Views Grad Problems NEW YORK CITY (IP)-Grad-uate education its purposes, re sponsibilities and shortcomings is boldy being examined by Colum bia University Dean of Graduate Faculties Jacques Barzun in his first annual report which deals with the three non-professional graduate faculties of Philosophy, Political Science and Pure Science. Today's challenge to the grad uate school may be stated simply, says the report. Soon "the col leges will expand and mutiply in an attempt to 'give' what many of them will not have. Now the best colleges have been staffed by degree holders from graduate schools, usually Ph.D.'s. It follows that if the A.B. degree is to retain the same value by the same means, the graduate schools must con trive to prepare a proportionately increasing number of graduates. Otherwise, we shall see as adul teration of college work compar able to that which has overtaken the high schools." Dean Barzun specifies the fol lowing charges which may be leveled at the graduate school: 1) The time spent in making professional scholars is too long for the results achieved. 2) Instructors are required to do too much lecturing and students too much sitting and note-taking: both groups should do more inde pendent work and come together for periods of true tuition and ap prenticeship. 3) The research done for tha Master and Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees is too often re search: it adds little or nothing" to knowledge hence it is both pre tentious and wasteful. quentms town & campus 1229 R STREET "A Good Teachert Ag uncy! 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