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Editorial Comment
Today's Play Happy Collegian
Was Born Jnst In Time
A number of present day University
students can give thanks that they
weren't born a dozen years later. If they
had been they might not be able to soak
up their little bit of college wisdom. Go
ing to college won't be as easy in 1970 as
it is in 1956.
Many of the nation's educators have
indicated that the trend toward more
and more college students will probably
squeeze out the students who weren't
serious in high school or came to col
lege merely to have fun and get "ad
justed" to a higher type of social life.
One Florida educator told the Associated
Press that, "Not all students who de
sire to go to college can or should be
admitted. Living in a democracy does
not in itself confer the right to a college
degree . . . The pressures will become
so great that there can be little justifica
tion for admitting college students who
are not qualified to carry college work
successfully."
The trend is seemingly an admirable
one. It may mean the end of the low
average collegians whose only active
interest is fire-crackers, beer busts and
spring formals.
There are now about 3 million college
students. By 1970 the outlook is for 6
million. This means that high school
grades and IQ and interest-aptitude tests
will do more and more in determining
who gets a shot at advanced education.
Ironically enough, then, the population
squeeze may be the thing that will
"purify" college of haphazard students.
But another factor is also important
in this "improve our colleges and educa
tion" wrangle. Better counseling and
more concise surveys of professional op
portunities and needs should be made.
The present cries are for teachers and
scientists, and even in these fields there
are finer sub-divisions of needs for
specific kinds of teachers and scientists.
Few college students are given any
careful counseling service at the present
time. Perhaps in high school they are
called in to speak with a dean of men
or wromen and told what talents they
seemed to possess according tc an apti
tude test they took upon entering high
school. Perhaps they have an interested
college adviser who tells the students
what fields he seems best suited for.
Perhaps some college students decide
they should take a trip to University
Counseling Service and take tests to de
termine their aptitude strengths and
weaknesses. All of these are fine, but at
the present time they are little more
than perhaps cases.
In place of perhaps there should be
a definite set up which makes it manda
tory that every entering University
student take an aptitude test. This test
should be taken well enough in advance
of his enrollment to allow proper evalua
tion of the test results by a competent
counselor. The student should be in
formed in detail of the results of this
test and what the results indicate in
terms of the student's qualifications for
specific occupations he may or may net
be interested in.
Such a counseling program would be
expensive but only in the most immedi
ate sense. In the long run it would pay
off in supplying the nation with profes
sional people in fields for which they are
adequately trained and qualified. It
would eliminate the production of sur
pluses in many fields like laws or cer
tain teaching subjects.
24-Inch Education
More often than not dreams of the
constructive benefits that a new inven
tion or discovery will make to human
ity's gallant game of life are a lot big
ger than the end results. Probably no
popular present day invention produced
fonder dreams of educational sublima
tion than did television. Likewise, prob
ably no media so badly missed the mark
set by the dreamers. Educational tele
vision is still miles and mountains away
from achieving its place in the world
and doing its good work in improving
man culturally.
Don't give up hope though. Educa
tional television may be slowly on the
march. A few outstanding information
shows like The Seven Lively Arts, Omni
bus and Wide, Wide World are doing
their bit to break the ice of pure enter
tainment in commercial television. They
are doing it by educating and still en
tertaining. Television program managers should
realize that folks will look at educational
TV. This is the first step that must be
taken in local areas to help improve the
quality of television. In New York a tele
cast by Dr. Floyd Zulli of New York
University was scheduled for 6:30 in the
morning. He was supposed to talk about
the great books. Well, he did talk about
great books and the results were unbe
lievable. He drew about 150,000 viewers
and the books he has reviewed have dis
appeared from the book stores in fan
tastic numbers.
KUON-TV is experimenting with this
type of show at the present time. .A
loud hurrah should go up when other
state TV stations give educational pro
grams a chance.
From the Editor
private opinion
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Absolute freedom of the press to
discuss public questions is a foundation
stone of American Liberty.
Herbert Hoover
Griping citizens blast newspapers and
newsmen for writing what they believe
should be written. Hollow-headed jerks
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sive reaction to what!
you write down.
Generally, people!
who have something to
say cover it up with
fancy words and lan
guage and the bulk of the readers sit
back and start nodding like the ole prof
in Catcher in the Rye "um -humming"
everything in black and white.
Then a guy comes along who digs
his scalpel Into a story and comes out
with a pip.
Such a person was Nellie Biy of the
New York World who stayed ten days in
an insane asylum and created a furor in
her city. She merely wrote down what
she saw; she was hardly what could be
considered a competent authority on
psychiatric therapy.
Another case is the courageous news
man Henry Gordon of the Cleveland
Press who masqueraded for six months
as a cop in the toughest part of his city.
Although Gordon could hardly be
called an eminent criminologist he came
out with a story of Cleveland and its
police force which kept the lawmen on
edge for the month during which his
articles appeared.
He was an example of a newsman who
called them as he saw them.
It's not the function of the journalist
to play favorites in his news stories.
Nor is it his function (if he's got any
competence at all) to cover up for
what's bad or what seems bad to him.
Then come the gripers who have to
make the reporter seem like an idiot in
order to cover up for their own mistakes.
The Cleveland police, for example, don't
trust reporters because the newsmen
might find out some of the musty secrets
of the cops.
And, to go a step farther, the reaction
of these people to the reporting of a jour
nalist makes any honest person want to
puke.
Instead of taking a positive step to im
prove their lot, these people have a
tendency to ostracize the journalist, to
make excuses for their past actions
rather than take the criticisms offered
and improve.
To illustrate you can tell which poli
ticians will be trusted by their reaction
to the press. The kind that have a
cover up all the time or a smart-alec
answer usually can't be trusted any
further than a journalist can throw
them.
What burns John Q. up more than Jim
Hagerty's assertions that the Will Mc
Gaffins of the Chicago Daily News and
her sister papers don't have the right
to ask questions about Ike or matters
of importance to the American people?
Every day we can see that the Amer
ican people are falling into the negative
thinking, ridiculous attitudes which
screech the wheels of American progress
to a halteroo.
Maybe the words of Elsa Maxwell fit
in here:
"Don't look back Don't look behind
you to the past it's all declined and
been surpassed."
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As I plodded from class to
class (except my 10 o'clock)
in the ankle deep slush, I
kept wishing the Chancellor
had called off school to keep
school spirit
alive.
Now it
takes a cer
tain amount
of imagina
tion to con
nect slush
and school
spirit, but I
had plenty of
time to con
coct a plaus
ible excuse for my reasoning
as I sat in my classes,
mourning my sodden shoes,
soaked socks, and frozen feet.
Classes on days like last
Friday are even more unpop
ulated than Friday classes
normally are. Half of the
campus population locks out
the window through sleep
closed eyes, mumbles some
thing about nothing really im
portant in class today any
how," stumbles back and
fluffs the pillow and collapses
in the rack again for another
couple hours of sack time.
I think these may be the in
telligentsia after all.
Half (that's V of the total
number) of the rest of us who
are out of our minds slide and
slosh our way to that 8 o'clock,
which is a ridiculous insti
tution anyway. This part of
the population coincides with
that number of students who
don't have overshoes, and, by
II o'clock everyone who
hasn't decided that it's really
not too late to go back to bed
after all is suffering from
the first stages of an accute
case of pneumonia.
The other V of the campus
population is made up of
stodgy professors who bundle
up in adequate clothing and
galoshes and would go to
class come . . or high
water" anyway. These are the
people whose shoes still
squeek instead of squishing on
soggy days. They are also
prone to give -nap tests just
to spite those o didn't risk
bronchitis by coming to class
Now nothing is more demoral
izing or detrimental to stu
dent spirit than a sneaky thing
like this.
By today everyone, at least
the normal anemic, rundown
college student, is hacking and
wheezing and has probably
given up caring whether or not
he will live, let alone whether
or not there is any school
spirit.
To have school spirit, a re
cent rag poll has disclosed, it
is necessary to have people
in that school. And since most
profs are still laboring under
the misconception that this is
a school for the instruction of
subject matter rather than a
place to learn how to be
spirited, I'm afraid that school
spirit will have to be up to
the students. But how can
anyone expect us to tear down
nets when we're all trying to
recover from pneumonia?
So maybe we should pass
around a resolution to be
signed saying that if the Chan
cellor calls off school on all
such mungy days, we won't
stage more than one "very
well behaved" riot per bas
ketball game.
Thus the entire student body
will be able to toast the team
on to greater heights, etc.
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I see that Ike is making
plans to provide for Nixon to
take over in case he is un
able to preside over what ever
he presides over.
But I wonder if he's made
any provisions as to who will
replace him as the nation's
top 90's golfer. The Augusta
County Club is probably wor
ried about this. Maybe my
fears are unfounded, though.
I guess maybe Ike will still .
be able to swing his club
even if Nixon does have to
sit in the usually-empty-any-way
White House chair.
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Wayward Wanderings
By Ron Mold
Since the beginning of the
first semester, I have been
trying to determine what con
stitutes a "critical paper" as
defined in a certain lit course
of mine. So far, I haven't been
very success
ful. The cri-
t e r i a set
forth seem
to be in con
flict and con
sequently re
sult in a di
lemma (for
me, at least).
On the one
hand, we are
told to crili-
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cize everything relative to our
own limited experience. In
other words, we must criti
cize Shakespeare in terms of
neighborhood grocery stores,
corn fields, and manure piles
all of the things which we
have encountered in our lives
up to this point.
This sounds simple enough.
I like manure piles and corn
fields. Especially manure
piles. I can talk about them
for hours. But when I attempt
to do this, harboring a faint
hope that, this time, I might
have done the assignment
properly, my paper is re
turned marked thusly: "The
point of view from which you
write is so self-conscious and
so self-limited that you never
do seem to get beyond the
formulation of your own re
sponse . . .etc . . .etc . . ."
In about three weeks, I'll
have to hand in another one.
Somewhere between the ma
nure piles and over-generalizing
lies the ideal critical pa
per. I can't seem to apply the
scientific method, so it seems
I am left with the pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey
method.
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I make no pretense of being
an intellectual. Or of even
having the makings of one
for that matter. Some people
these lays seem to think that
separating people as to intel
lectuals and other categories
(which are too absurd to even
repeat) is a simple mechani
cal task. I say nay. And Ber
gen Evans says: "There is
no English word to designate
the intelligent as a group (the
intelligent rarely going in
groups and probably too intel
ligent to permit themselves
to be recognized as superior
people)."
Who is to say who is an
intellectual and who is- not?
I should think it would be a
vastly more challenging task
to attempt to separate the
intellectuals from the pseudos.
You'd have plenty of material
to work with.
I have a certain knack for
making a fool of myself in
public. A few weeks ago, aft
er eating lunch in a downtown
hotel, I was standing at the
cashier's counter. In adding
up my bill, she had made a
mistake. She said, "You'll
have to excuse me. 1 have
added up so many bills today
my brain is taxed."
In my usual bad habit of
speaking before hinking, I
made a feeble attempt at a
pun, and 1 blurted out, ' Oh
that's all right everything
else is too!" Colder stares
were never stared.
Last week I had an exam
in one of those large classes
of about 150 people. The char
acter sitting beside me looked
up at the proctor pacing up
and down the aisle. "We ouqht
to have the Honor System
here at NU," he said 'aloud
"then we could all cheat!"
A friend of mine is a hi-fi
bug (1 am one at heart, but
can't afford the equipment).
He recently purchased an al
bum entitled "The Weavers
at Carnegie Hall." This con
cert, recorded in December of
'55, is one of the finest col
lections of folk music I've
ever encountered.
Up to now, I haven't been
particularly fond of folk mus
ic, but the Weavers show just
what can be done with it when
it is done by a group who
have devoted their lives to
folk music. This recording
contains folk songs collected
by the Weavers from all over
the world and, though the
phrase has lost most of its
meaning, is truly a collec
tor's item.
Lelterip
Where's Toadie?
To the Editor:
Where's Toadie? He used to
write a lot of nothine that was
pleasant to read. The word
is out that poor old Toadie
is dead too bad, I'll miss
him.
Rumor has it that he caught
a rare and badie disease
called Nasty Ole' Decay
Germ. They say that one
night instead of usin'T Gleenio.
Toadie tried Schlitzcr and
N, a s t y Ole' Decav Germ
gobbled him up. The irony
of it is that they say the
doomed Toadie didn't even
make the chance from
Gleemo that fateful night.
Hats off and a moment of
silence fellow Toadie readers
for two and a half years of
hard work down the drain.
JACK HOUCIIEN
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