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The Daily Nebroskan
Wednesday, January 8, 1958
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Editorial Comment
Exam Procedure Needs
Study By Honorable Men
Some random comments on the final exami
nation procedures which the Semester Exami
nations Committee has sent to this office for our
pondering.
Good old Nebraska U., developing the spirit
of honor in its students and trying to make
us men as well as scholars, has outlined ten
regulations which, apparently, have been the
order of the day for professors who are kind
enough to conduct final exams in their classes.
The honor system (if you remember what that
Is) Is a long way off for Nebraska U. The rules
board emphasized by location this first rule
for the Instructors: "Each instructor Is expected
to exercise personal supervision over his final
examination except when the departmental
chairman has approved someone else as a
substitute." What this means in the language
of the students, whether the original intention
la such, is that the profs better keep their eyes
open because students aren't to be trusted too
far when left alone in a class room. A definite
step toward creating honor in students is at
hand, the administration must believe, when
the students have to be watched like dogs in
9 kennel.
But maybe this regulation has some good
ground to stand on. For example the third of
the regulations reads, "It is imperative that
every precaution be exercised in order that
copies of the examination questions shall not
fall into the hands of students prior to the time
of the examination."
With all due respect to the fine student-custodians
who wouldn't think of being meddlers,
maybe this means that all the student janitors
should be fired to insure that no repeats of the
flagrant snitching of tests from the profs' desks
doesn't reoccur this semester as it has been
prone to occur In the past.
And in this instance the student with itchy
fingers or who would grease his palms with
money from a few unscrupulous nobodies who
can't think on their own feet are the ones who
have destroyed the chances for the rest of the
student body to be treated with the respect
that ladies and gentlemen not only expect but
have the right to demand.
The rest of the regulations have some sense
to them. They don't Insult the intelligence of.
the average instructors, we suapeoUBut on the
other hand, those professors who have respect
not only for their own powers ef reasoning, but
also for the integrity of the vast majority of
the students might insure for himself the re
spect of the student body by diucking these
regulations in the wastebasket' and Tadminister
ing their tests the way they see fit.
NEA Program
A broad, long range four and a half billion
dollar program of federal support for public
schools is urged by the National Education
Association as the main plank in its 1958 legis
lative proposals for consideration by Congress.
NEA executive secretary William Carr, speak
ing for the 730,000 member organizations aaid,
"Schools have been starved too long."
This new long-range program of almost five
billion dollars contrasts with the 300-million
dollar federal aid bill the NEA supported last
year.
The new program also urges 20,000 under
graduate scholarships the first year, growing
to 80,000 in four years, and 5,000 graduate fel
lowships which would be increased to 15,000
after three years.
Of course now it is up to the American people
to tell their representatives in the Congress
whether they wish to go along with these huge
appropriaions in light of the expanded defense
budget for the coming fiscal year. Any program
of such scope, no matter how long it will be
continued, will draw fire from the budget-cutters
and budget balancers who believe in first
things first.
A Student Poll
Since the mothers of two American boys
being held in Red China have decided that they
will visit their offspring, the old question of
going into the Chinese Communist Mainland
has re-arisen.
One of the major controversies of recent
months has been the trip which American stu
dents made to China.
Here is how a cross section of American stu
dents feels about the excursion:
The American student group which attended
a youth festival in Moscow last fall also made
a short trip into Red China before returning to
the United States. In an attempt to evaluate
feeling in American colleges toward whether
Or not the group should have gone to Red
China, Associated Collegiate Press' Poll of Stu
dent Opinion asked a representative group of
American college men and women the following
question:
"Some members of the American student
group (who attended a world youth festival In
Moscow) took a side trip into Red China after
leaving Russia. Do you think they were right,
or wrong, in doing so? Why?
Results of first analysis of questionnaires are
as follows:
Men Women Total
Think they were right 36 39 3",
Think they were wrong 50 46 49
Undecided 14 , 15 14
Slightly more men than women felt the stu
dents were wrong in making a trip into Red
China, but the reasons advanced for their feel
ings were pretty much the same. Typical of
the comments supporting their views is one by
a freshman coed at Wayne State University
(Detroit, Mich.). She felt they were wrong for
the reason that "our government told them
not to." Similarly, a freshman at Knox College
(Galesburg, 111.) maintained they were wrong
because "they did so against a state department
ruling." A Bradley University (Peoria, 111.)
sophomore coed subscribed to the same view
by stating they "should have gone along with
what the government asked them to do." A
Tyler Junior College (Tyler, Texas) sophomore
expressed a slightly different opinion, how
ever, by saying they were wrong because "They
had no business there and accomplished noth
ing in going," and a freshman from the Uni
versity of Kentucky (Lexington, Ky.) sup
ported his view by concluding, "they couldn't
possibly do any good under the circumstances.
A North Dakota State School of Science (Wah
peton, N.Dak.) sophomore, however, reasoned
that the students were right in going to Red
China, and backed up his view with the state
ment that "they were curious, and wouldn't
become indoctrinated from such a short trip."
A sophomore coed from Colorado State College
(Greeley, Colo.) agreed they were right, and
commented that "students should be allowed to
see and learn more about other countries,"
while a University of Vermont (Burlington, Vt.)
senior felt they were right in taking the side
trip, "although the advantages may be slight."
The State Department shouldn't have barred
them," was the feeling of a junior from Bradley
University (Peoria, 111.) and a Missouri School
of Mines (Rolla, Mo.) junior commented "If I
had had the chance I think I would have done
the same thing."
One of the undecided students interviewed a
sophomore coed from Colorado State College
(Greeley, Colo.) answered, "I'm not sure they
were wrong to go against government disap
proval, but was the disapproval founded? Would
a visit to Red China be worse than one to Mos
cow?" A freshman from Wayne State University
(Detroit, Mich.) felt that, while he didn't see
anything wrong with the idea, still "I can't
call it right."
from the editor
First Things First. , .
by Jack Pollock
Good grief! times exhibit amazing speed and ease in pick
,' Less than a month after an urgent appeal for ing up local customs. , ,
men-type people to pop their childhood sweet- At an informal panel discussion on college
hearts in the nose and throw off the shackles dating, student George Wistrom had this to
of this modern trend toward matriarchy, the say .In Sweden, we don't actually have a
Daily Nebraskan publishes the longest list of dating system. But at Colorado College, all you
pinnings, engagements and marriages ever re- have t0 do is call an extension number and
membered by professional students (not to be for a certain girl. If she can't go. out you
confused with those graduates attending pro- ask if anyone there wants a date. Usually some
fessional schools). one does, but if not, then you just call another
Noting the overly-lengthy column of romantic extension number." - ,
attachments in yesterday's social column, I
detect the campus-wide influence on the doc- The phi psi,g have nobl said they piailned o
frine of graduation and marriage, one and insep- donate theif dog Dutchess tQ
science. To keep up
arable now and forever more. As an aged sage. with fte goviet acUv, o
I would lake to tenderly say, Big Deal! donate fl ,ed . -
It seems that the two-week Christmas vaca
tion is replacing the month of June as the most
popular time for the blossoming of Love and Abut tne Centrifugal Bumble Puppy (what
Marriage (sic Home Ec 191). ever it is) . . .
. Certain schools seem to think that this new
A foreign student at Colorado College has game, involving a machine powered by soi
hown how foreign students in the U.S. some- energy, will even replace Frisbee. p
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A Few Words Of A Kind
by e. c. hines
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The Gadfly
Sara Jones
Deviating from my usual non
constructive criticism and uncov
ering of corruption (I've always
felt there should be more corrup
tion in the world) I would suggest
that the AWS Board consider the
possibility of eliminating closing
hours for senior women. Actually,
most of the reasons why this would
be advisable would also apply
to underclasswomen, but this might
be considered too great a change.
The policy, applied to senior
women, has worked successfully at
the University of Colorado and at
several eastern colleges. Seniors
there are given keys to their
houses and any abuses of the sys
tem are seventy punished.
The present system at the Uni
versity,' herding seniors into the
house at a prescirbed hour and
locking them in, is a bit ridiculous,
considering that most are of legal
age.
Allowing senior women to choose
their own hours would at least
accord them the respect due any
adult and most seniors qualify
anyway, chronologically, for that
title.
If the AWS felt that some senior
women were not able to handle
this responsibility, they might gear
the privilege to grade averages
and allow, say, all seniors with
an average of 6 or above to have
house keys. This might even stim
ulate studying, since it would be
a considerable inducement. Be
sides, women with high averages
would be less likely to abuse the
privilege, since they usually study
at night.
Any infringment of the use of
the key, such as loaning it to an
underclasswoman, would have to
, be punished severely, say, suspen
sion of both women from school.
Probably the system could be put
on a probationary basis for a while
during which time any abuse of
the key could result in AWS abol
ishing the entire system. I think
this would be sufficient.
I doubt that serious abuses of
the privilege would occur anyway.
Lincoln women, who generally do
not have strict hours, claim that
they actually get in earlier than
dorm and house girls, because
there is no unwritten law re
quiring them to stay out until one
minute before closing hours. But
on occasion, say after a late show
or times when one is served late
or when the car is held up in
traffic, there is no necessity to
break your neck in order not to
be one minute late. And of course
there are times when you want
to go to Omaha and can't get back
in time.
This suggestion is based on the
idea that students should have as
much responsibility as they can
handle. Discontinuing hours for
senior women would do this.
The University is fortunate in
having a Dean of Women who will
allow liberal hours and co-eds here
enjoy later hours than on most
campuses. But I would suggest that
AWS look into the possibility of
abolishing closing hours for senior
women at their next meeting and
report their reaction to the student
body.
Letterip
Cards
To the Editor:
With the start of spring registra
tion Monday the usual chaos is
almost bound to pop up. It's al
ways a shame to watch the stu
dents who have no regard for or
der pop into the lines in one way
or another and snatch valuable
cards right from under our noses.
It's been a standing practice at
the University for upper classmen
to pilfer valuable section cards for
their buddies in the lower grades.
This is nothing short of highway
robbery as far as I'm concerned.
Who knows? Some poor scholar
of a freshman might be in financial
straits and have to have a particu
lar section of a course. Well, the
buddy system aces him out just
about every time. And the poor
little kid hasn't a chance.
But wait!
Now and then some departments
pull a Mickey Mouse trick and
hide cards under the tables. Then
when a real hardship case comes
up it's ovrt with the card and in
with the kid. There's no excuse
for this sort of horseing around.
But we might expect it here where
the faith of man for man doesn't
seem to be too important.
J. Silverhcels
Movies and dances are for the
drones. I have discovered a new
recreational pastime.
I go to auctions.
Going to auctions is a daring
intrigue. It's attending a house of
living caricatures. It's listening to
Herb Shriner-type humor from an
auctioneer who learned his last
new joke before I was born and
the last minstrel man retired.
And excitement and tensions
auctions are better than an over
time basketball game, a televi
sion re-run of a George Raft
thriller, or the first smile from a
coed who has finally noticed you
after weeks of studied effort on
your part.
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There was a time when my room
didn't have a single stool that I
could use to prop my feet on.
Then, I went to the auction.
The auctioneer's assistant held
up a wooden stool. I bid a dime.
Someone else bid 15 cents. I bid
20. He bid 25. I said 30.
Silence!
The other man had stopped bid
ding. The stool was mine!
They collected my 30 cents and
handed me the stool. Near sighted
me noted that it was a crude
wooden milking stool with a big
"26" scawled across the top with
a crayon pencil.
it
But this never dimned my en
thusiasm. It was mine. And for
only 30 cents.
The auctioneer sold pins and
rings and beds and bicycles and
finally the auctioneer's assistant
picked up a big red lamp that
must have been the pride of
Mother Hubbard's bedroom.
I had to have that lamp.
The battle of bids began. I
played my hand like a poker play
er who was determined to win
or go broke. No one was going
to outbid me for that lamp.
I almost fell over the lady sitting
next to me when I lunged for
ward to pay the man for the lamp
after I had finally "won" it for
a measely $3.25.
it
The lamp (It is adorned by
a quaint painting of a colonial
man with his hand over his heart
and his eyes peering at a fair
damsel to whom he is apparently
proposing or begging for a loan.
She, very demurely, is petting a
white lamb whose head is rest
ing snugly in her lap.) now sits on
my desk.
It is testimony not only to the
excitement and entertainment one
finds at an auction, but the ma
terial reward as well.
it it it
Whenever a person becomes de
pressed about the accomplish
ments and value of man he should
purchase a copy of the Atlantic.
There is no need to read the
articles. Just scan the book club
advertisements a great conglom
eration from the old standard
Book of the Month to Marboro,
Book Find, Classics Club, and the
History Book Club.
The ads extol the merits of a
host of appealing books that
Senior Survev
All students who will be
summoned into the Inner sanctum
of Frank Hallgren's office in the
new Administration building will
be pleased with the new surround
ings. Gone are the plain floor, wood
en chairs and subtle atmosphere
all replaced with carpets, modern
chairs and subtle atmosphere.
What this campus needs is some
good rabble rousers. There is ab
solutely nobody left on campus to
raise issues, cause hair to be
pulled and dire muttering to be
uttered under one's breath. The
paper is left without "sensational"
news; and everything is allowed
to go on quite normally. How dull.
' ':')
Speaking of dull subjects, finals
are almost upon us, aren't they?
One new item concerning finals
has raised its little head this year.
One can always tell his or her
parents that the University has
raised its standards and is really
cracking down as an excuse for
poor grades. If used with the right
amount of pathos, this excuse can
; evoke sympathy instead of par
ental ire.
"
' An issue has come up! A real,
live, pulsating issue! It all has
to' do with the mound of stone,
filled with dusty volumes which
adorns the center of the campus
known as Love Library. Why is
it that the library closes at the
ridiculously early hour of 9:25 in
the evening? Most students haven't
even gotten started studying by
that time. It would seem that the
library would increase their traf
fic .greatly if they would stay open
for student use until a reasonable
hour like 11:00.
It has been pointed out that this
would undoubtedly mean the hir
ing. of more personnel or make
the present personnel work longer
hours. It would seem more sensi
ble to Cut the number of employes
during the morning and early aft-
ernoon hours when most students
are enveloped in their classes and
use these people for the late hours.
It would cause Inconvenience for
a few people, the librarians, but
it would add greatly to the con
venience of many, the students.
It is one of those problems, the
solutions for which always incon
venience someone. The thought just
now struck that just about every
problem is that way and that the
secret of tact is to solve the prob
lems with the least inconvenience
for the fewest.
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Looking at the mammoth list of
pinnings and engagements makes
one wonder if there will be any
one left with whom to spend a
stag night next semester. Every
one expected the list to be long;
but that was fantastic.
by ron warholoski
It seems that Sputniks have had
absolutely no effect on men and
women wanting to spend the rest
of their lives together.
It seems that Teachers College
is going to fight any abolishment
of dual-matriculation tooth and
nail. Why they don't want this
state to have more teachers is
beyond my comprehension. It
would seem that matriculating in
just one college would induce many
more students to consider teaching
as a career. I have heard many
students say that those teaching
courses are so bad that they
would never enter Teachers Col
lege. But never having taken one,
I'm not in a position to say.
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cover everything from psychoan- v
alysis to the story of the FBI
and the life of a comedian.
Each of these books is a sym
bol of something more than the
magic of modern printing and ad
vertising. They also symbolize the
depth of man's mind and its uni
versality. -V
I am a lover of book club ads.
I read them like some people read
Perry Mason mystery tales. Each
ad is certain to guarantee mt
with wonder and mystery.
And in my little way I like
to think how wise I would be
if I could only read the books
symbolized by these ads.
Take the description of the
book, "Battle for the Mind," by
Dr. William Sargent. "How evan
gelists, psychiatrists, and brain
washers can change your beliefs
and behavior. 'Every page is full
of lively interest.' Bertrand Rus
sell," the description says.
it it
Then comes the disheartening
"list price $4.50."
So I move on to the next de
scription and read how a book
will reveal to me the great
achievements and thoughts of "92
men and women who created the
thought and taste of our time
from Proust to Einstein, Roose
velt & Stravinsky."
In small towns it is still a Sat
urday night practice to drive up
town and then sit in your parked
car, watching the people walk past
you on the street.
No two people puss you in ex
actly the same way. Each of them
seem as though they could give
you a little better idea of what
makes life tick.
Even when you aren't in tlu '
philosophical mood the actions of
people are still fascinating to
watch, whether for humor or hor
ror. Book ads provide me with this
"standing on the corner watching
all the world po by" outlook. I
never read a half or even a tenth
of all the books I dream of read
ing when I discover their appeal
ing descriptions tucked amidst the
jumbled ads, but its a task that
never fails to please.
And with each new discovery
comes the thought, "Someday . . ,
I'll . . ."
"But tomorrow comes and to
morrow goes and the distance
between grows and grows."
Fashion As I See It
- if""'' ' J u .
Welcome back to old
N.U.! It is so much fun
coming back to classes
and finding out the
things which should
have been done two
weeks ago!
Well take time from
the busy schedule and
come browse around
in Gold's. Late winter
and early spring fash
ions are waiting for
you.
This outfit by Ar
dee of California is
made up of many
pieces. Plaids and solid
colors are carried out
in the ivy league styled
burmudas, slacks,
blouses and skirts.
Excellent for study or
play. The price ranges
from 5.98 to 7.98 in
colors of lavender, mel
on or blue in plaid or
plain designs.
Visit Gold's sports
wear, second floor to
day! ! !
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