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The Daily Nebrcskan
Wednesdny, February 26, 1 958
Editorial Comment
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What A Social Code
flight Mean To Nebraska
The standardization of the University's
social rules may not be too far in the
offing, according to the thinking of some
officials of the student body and the ad
ministration. Dean rf Student Affairs J. P. Colbert
said that his office sees "no objection
to going Into the matter."
Colbert emphasized, however, that at
the) present time students have some
basic rights "which aren't exclusive to
th University but are rather accepted
as part of the American way of life."
The dean listed these four rights as
those respected by the Division of Stu
dent Affairs in processing any discipli
nary situations referred to his office.
1) The right to know what the charges
are.
2) The right to know who the accuser
l, if there is ene.
3) The right to speak in one's own de
fease. 4) That right to have extenuating dr
eamstances (such as would prevail if
the offense were a first offense) taken
into consideration by the administration.
"These rights are just. It is only decent
that we follow them," Colbert said Tues
day afternoon.
At to the cooperation with the effort
to codify the regulations of the Univers
ity Colbert pointed out that there are def
inite codifications existent at the present
time. The "Guide for Social Events."
the "Rules and By-Laws of the Board of
Regents," the "Husker Handbook," are
some of the places in w hich the regula
tions are found.
It might be better if there were a sin
gle place in which all these regulations
are found, in which the ambiguities, the
generalizations, the duplications are
avoided.
Colbert said that he hopes the "coun
cil, the press and others feel free to
come and ask questions and obtain the
facts where they are not sure."
This is certainly a sign of good faith
on the part of the Division of Student
Affairs.
Now what is left ii for the Council to
endorse the action of Ken Freed, passing
the resolution and forming a committee
aimed at codifying the regulations
promptly but judiciously.
One of the significant reasons why the
rules of the University with regard to
the students needs be codified into one
publication is for the benefit of the stu
dent tribunal.
Although it has not had the final go
ahead from the administration nor the
faculty, it should have better chances
of survival if it has some precedents
upon which it can base decisions. There
fore, a definite need exists to view the
codification in light of the specific serv
ice it could do by forming some basis
for tribunal decisions.
There is a closely correlated effort, we
believe, on the part of student and ad
ministrative leaders to give to the stu
dent body more responsibilities. They
will be available to the students if a
specific frame of reference for them is
developed. That frame of reference
could and very likely should be the codi
fication of regulations with regard to
conduct.
With the codification, a student would
have to appear before his peers on the
tribunal in full knowledge of the punish
ments which could be meted out to him.
That expedites justice, we speculate.
Further it emphasises the function the
student body can play in making the Uni
versity a better place to work in.
Balmy Weather
Temptation is the University student's
constant companion.
For weeks the weather was so cold
when we woke up in the morning that it
just wasn't worthwhile to roll out of bed
and trot off to class. No education is
desirable enough to make us want to fight
cold weather worse than any ever seen
by Sam McGee, we would rationalize as
we slipped under our covers and said to
Hades with our eight o'clock.
Now, it's spring weather that has flow
ers jumping out of the ground and our
attentions jumping out the windows.
The coeds have packed away their long
white socks and pulled forth their check
ered shorts. And, if anything, this only
means more and more distraction.
And the college gentlemen have begun
to don their dirty white bucks and casual
jackets. In addition they've started to
rummage around their rooms for other
assorted items like golf clubs and mugs.
Certainly absence in the case of spring
has made the heart grow fonder.
From the Editor
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Nathan Leopold Is a truly remarkable
man.
I've just finished reading his auto
biography and am convinced thai he
should have been paroled from the Il
linois State Prison many
long years ago.
Leopold, as just about ,
everyone knows, nasi
been serving time fori
34 years for the murder!
of little Bobby Franks.
The prisoner and his
late accomplice, Rich
ard Loeb, spent many
long hours serving the
pssishmect delivered by
oar system of justice.
Now Loeb is dead and Leopold has just
been paroled by the Illinois State Par
don Board.
At any rate, in his book Life Plus S
Tears the genius (and I use that word
ia all the subtle shades of meaning) de
scribes, among other things, the prison
schools which be and Loeb inaugurated.
For the purpose of review and your
wa edifkatioa, let me quote a passage
r two which the brilliant man wrote
iUb regard to honor in the school
systems of fee day.
Leopold is referring here to the li
brary which he revamped and stocked
with close to M.OCO volumes.
"Another thing that appealed to me
about the library job was that for the
first time I was entrusted with some
respontibiliuy . . . And so all of us in
the library being treated like men, tried
to act like men. It reminded me a lit
tle of school days. 1 had attended two
different universities. At the University
of Chicago, the honor system was in
force. The instructor would write the ex
amination questions on the board, tell us
to leave our examination books on the
desk when we had finished, and
. . . dick ghugrue
leave. If you saw anyone cheating you
were supposed to start tapping with a
pencil, and this tapping would be taken
up by all the others until the cheating
stopped. But I never saw that happen.
I know I never cheated at Chicago and
I never saw anyone else cheat. But at the
University of Michigan they had the
monitor system: graduate students
would walk up and dow n the aisles w rule
the class was writing the examination,
trying to catch someone cheating. "The
cat-and-mouse system," we called it.
There, a a matter of principle, if I
didn't ne d help I d make it my business
to give it. I once hopped a train from
Chicago to Ann Arbor, took a friend's ex
amina'ion in business law (or him. and
tool. Use next train home.
"It was a challenge and I think a lot
of u picked up the gauntlet. Certainly
in prison some little show of confidence,
some little giving of responsibility will
tend t develop self-respect and salvage
thoe wbo can be salvaged by any
means . , ."
I wouldn't want to compare the Uni
versity with the state prison of Illinois,
but I think that Leopold's comments re
garding the uses and abuses of the hon
or system are quite pointed. After all,
everyone knows that cheating has be
come a big game around here. No one
really gives a hoot about the moral ques
tions involved. But they do resent being
monitored, they do resent accusations
and what-have-you.
Tie University would not, I am con
vinced, be harmed by taking to heart
the comments of the committer of the
"Crime of the Century" with regard to
the rehibilitating tor. in this case, the
adjusting! function of the honor system.
Certainly, no more cheating would re
sult. And perhaps this would be another
first for the University to have a Mid
western Honor System.
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Objections Sustained I No Man Is An Island
. . . By Steve Sclmltz
After the pleasant meeting
in front of the Administra
tion's house of glass, I had
anticipated that someone
would write an editorial ask
ing, "What
the hell kind'
of school are-
you people .
running down
there?" But
I thought the
writer would
be some bent
old man who
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p u b 1 Ished I '
a ha n d s e t ' " " "
weekly for Schalt
his own amusement and his
neighbors' supposed edifica
tion. I didn't think anyone un
der 102 yers of age tould be
crotchey enough to dispute the
right of all the students to do
what a few would have been
doing anyway.
So I was surprised at the
letter from "Disgruntled mi
nority" which appeared in
Monday's Rag. The general
gist of the thing was that "it
was just a game" and "some
of us came down here to work
and not fool around."
Well now, little Dis
gruntled, you have a point;
not much of a point, but a
point nevertheless. It was
just a game. But what a
game it was. And Sunday's
march on the Bastille w as just
a pep rally. But what a rally
it was.
Perhaps, though, you were
too busy doing whatever it is
that people who didn't come
here to fool around do to not
ice the rally. Let me brief
you. About 2.000 students gath
ered in front of Adminny Hall
to cheer and sing and in gen
eral show some of the spirit
that should be shown around
here all the year around. And
Chancellor Clifford Hardin
Who s uddenly became
everyone's favorite person
let school out. And so every
one stayed in the sack the
next day. fl heard rumors
that a few hotheads were
drinking beer, but I don't be
live it.)
Maybe you say that Chan
cellor Cliff was coerced into
letting us have the day of fun
and frolic ori the campus
green. Maybe you think he
had tortured visions of t h e
mob swooping through his new
glass hut, looting and pillag
ing as it went. But I doubt
that the thought of possible
repercussions ever entered his
mind That wasn't a lynching
mob.
If Cliff tl take thee l h.-rty
of addressing him by his l'--it
name because sine- Sun lay
I regard him as an oid friend
answer had been "No." the
crowd would have folded its
tents and slipped quietly off
into the night.
That's just the thing: The
tents would have folded too
rapidly and the crowd would
have sLpped too quietly. And
Monday in the Crib everyone
would have been asking.
"Why did I ever come to this j
God-forsaken institution of
higher learning?"
But Cliff said, "Yes." Men- x
day there as not a undergrad
uate gripe, and Tuesday we
all went back to work with
smiles on our faces and Joy
in our hearts.
You say, Disgruntled Minor
ity, that the proper function of
a University is to educate. I
agree, but I propose that part
of the education should be
dedicated to instilling an at
titude called "community re
sponsibility" or "community
spirit." I think Sunday's
crowd showed that they had
learned the spirit lesson well,
better than anyone would
have suspected. And just as
you scholars who d i d n 't
come here to fool around are
rewarded with grades, so
those of us who don't mind
an occasional romp were re
warded. Maybe it is too bad
that crowds don't gather in
front of Administration Hall
when Phi Beta Kappa selec
tions are announced. Even so,
things are just about even the
way it Is.
The resolution pertaining to
a clarification of the Univer
sity's disciplinary policy,
when Ken Freed will intro
duce in Student Council this
afternoon, is significant
enough that every itudent in
the University should be con
cerned with its contents and
outcome.
We suspect that only about
200 students bothered to read
it yesterday, and that the
other 7,800 dismissed Freed
as rabble-rouser or a publici
ty seeker who was simp
ly looking for a technicality
which he could ride into the
headlines.
Actually, Kenny is dis
playing a good bit of courage
and more than a little com-mon-s
e n s e. After all, it is
only reasonable that the stu-
dent body should know exact
ly what its members can be
punished for when they are
called into the dreaded office.
Unfortunately, not a single
student has ever really had
this information, and one has
sometimes doubted that any
member of the administration
was exactly sure. As yester
day's Ra2 rfporteil. "Policies
seem to e for med as the need
occurs." And the policies
formed somt-iimc-s made non
payment of library fines a ma
jor offfi-. This sort of gov
erns - ' by half-remembered
pr t-tiviit could be disastrous.
We hope that Adminis
tration Hall will display cour
h .-- and common-sense equal
to Freed's. It will take some
of both to admit that the pres- -ent
policy is ' nebulous in the
light of the complex morality
of modern society" and to al
low "representative students
from those enrolled at t h e
University ... to testify dur- -ing
the time of the formula
tion" of new policies. I
This is another in a series of articles written by leaders
of the religious houses at the University. Today's article was
written by the Rt. Rev. Msgr. G. J. Schuster, pastor of the
Newman Club.
"Life is not so short but that
there is always time for cour
tesy." R. W. Emerson
If someone asked you for
the definition of courtesy, you
might very well tell him that
it is "the art of combining po
liteness with kindness." In a
broader sense, courtesy is re
spect for the rights and feel
ings of others.
A man who is courteous will
never neglect the small nice
ties of politeness. If he re-
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Cmnra Sunday Journal end Star
Msgr. Schuster
members this, good manners
will come naturally. And it
really doesn't matter whether
you were born on the wrong
side of the tracks or in a re
stricted suburb, or whether
you know when to use six
spoons and five forks at a
meal, you'll still cultivate
courtesy if you are kind and
if you think of the other fel
low. Remember: the greatest
enemy of courtesy is selfish
ness. Character is the founda
tion. Good manners are the
tools of expression. Ftiquettte
is the rule of the game. But
selfish person has no time
for anyone else, or 'another's
rights, or another's welfare.
And so a selfish man can't be
courteous, even on campus.
Here you may spot a selfish
man occasionally as he moves
through the course of the day.
He has no regard for anyone,
or anything, save for himself.
He is unmindful that is a dis
courtesy to come late (or
class, or leave early: or to
ignore adequate preparation
for class. He crashes the lines
in the dining hall. .He uses the
lawns instead of the side
walks. On some occasions his dis
courteous conduct is even a
violation of justice with the
consequent obligation of resti
tution as in the case of the
man who is dishonest with
telephone facilities, or mutil
ates library books, or destroys
property, or appropriates ob
jects for private use. Again,
you will find him disturbing
others in the halls. In short,
he has no regard for property,
for the convenience, or for
the rights of others. Indeed,
he is not even thinking of other
people. And by his own choice
he will always be a boor, a
hick, a public nuisance all
because he thinks of no one
but himself. Basically, he is
selfish; and a selfish man
cannot be courteous. You can
be the rugged, outdoor type,
you know, and still be cul
tured. You don't have to be cour
teous to exist; but without
courtesy you will find your
self terribly lonesome as time
goes on. In business you will
find people avoiding you. So
cially, you'll be a dead duck,
because w ithout courtesy you
can never hope to be a gentle
man. In the Middle Ages, the
Latin word for gentleman was
generosus w h i c h implies
something more than you
alone. It is largely up to you,
w hether you want to cultivate
courtesy, as one poet attests:
"Though courtesy is high
held
And people everywhere ad
mire it,
By law it cannot be com
pelled No power can force us to
acquire it.
"True courtesy's a gentle
art
That values taking less than
giving.
And they who have it, mind
and heart,
Have found the way to gra
cious living."
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