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Poge z The Dailv Nebraskan Editorial Comment A Special Birthday A birthday party that has a special sig nificance for the world's students will be held today when the United Nations ctle brates the 13th anniversary of its founding. Established in San Francisco in. 1945, the U.N. will start its new year on a note of renewed confidence in the power of discus sion to overcome the force of arms. Even on the world organization's birthday, the General Assembly will meet to work out peaceful solutions to crises in the Middle and Far East. U.N. Day has been officially proclaimed by President Dwlght D. Eisenhower as a time for public education about (lie func tions and achievements of the United Na tions. The day is considered to be of spe cial importance to students on both sides of the Iron Curtain, since it salutes ah organi ration without which the world situation might well have deteriorated to the active fighting itage. Officials at the U.S. Committee for the United Nations, the semi-governmental, privately-supported organization founded in 1947 to spread U.N. knowledge and supervise U.N. Day observances, underline the debt that students owe the world organization. "Every student who has peacefully con cluded his college career and has received a diploma since the U.N. was established should be grateful that the international forum exists," Committee director Theo dore Smith says. "The U.N. has given each student the opportunity for education un troubled by war. It has also marked a real step forward for the basic principle underlying education by recognizing the value of knowledge in preserving peace. Before the U.N., crises were settled by strong men. Today, more and more, they arc being settled by thinking men." This year's U.N. Day observances are dedicated to the memory of the 32 non combatant United Nations fighters for peace who have died in the line of duty since 1945. Programs are scheduled on a Federal, state and local basis. They will emphasize the fact that the country's mem bership in the U.N. costs each American only 57c a year. That sum just over a penny a week also supports our partici pation in the specialized agencies of the U.N. and voluntary contributions to special programs such as the Children's Fund and the Technical Assistance Program. University Failures Professors are forever grading their stu dents. Some recent studies have permit ted students to do some rating on their pro fessors. The results do not flatter the pro fessors. Commenting on these studies, in his new critical book on higher education (Some of My Best Friends are Professors, Abelard-Schuraan, 1958), Professor George Williams of The Rice Institute in Texas finds that in a typical study: 53 of their professors were rated poor 37 were fair. Only 10 were considered excellent by the students. "These figures," Williams adds, "reflect pretty well my own experiences with col leagues who have had children in college, often in the same college where their fathers taught. These children have had the advantage of professional, and often intimately informed, advice in the choice of professors and courses. Never theless, almost every one of these professor-fathers whom I have consulted has ad mitted that at least half the professors under whom his children studied were in competent." But lest the opinion of students seem in sufficient as a criterion of success for the university, Professor Williams sadly re Veals another suggested criterion: the number of students who fall out of the university. This number is usually held to be classified information by universities. But some estimate can be obtained by knowing that any one graduating class is usually only about 60 to 65 as large as it was when it entered as a freshman class. We must assume therefore that 35 to 40 of the students who enter college do not graduate. Dr. Williams warns that it would be a mistake to assume that these students who do not graduate necessarily represent per sonal failures. "Some students leave col lege on account of illness, some on account of financial troubles, some because they have acquired outside interests. Never theless we should not be far wrong in esti mating that the colleges are absolute and total failures in trying to educate about 20 to 30 of the students they originally se lected as hopeful prospects." Naturally, in spite of the students' opin ion of their professors, the universities pre fer to say that it is the student that has failed, not the student's university. But is this true? Professor Williams doubts it. And he documents his belief that the fail ure must be laid at the door of some of his best friends, the universities' profes sors themselves. "It may be worth mentioning," he points out, "that 200 thousand of the students in the upper fourth of their high school grad uating class who enter college drop out subsequently of their own volition because they feel that college has nothing for them that is worth the trouble of obtaining. This 200 thousand constitutes student material as good as any college can expect; yet the colleges fail to, give them a 'higher edu cation.' " As a matter of fact, Professor Williams points out that even this record, of failure by the university's own standards, pre sents the colleges in too favorable a light. "For almost any professor will tell you that if in a class of 20 undergraduates, he has two students who are altogether satis factory ... he considers himself lucky. The other W'o of the class range from par tial to total failures ... All things consid ered, therefore, it would seem that the colleges are unsuccessful in satisfactorily educating at least half their students." Before going on to locate the source oi this failure in the universities today, Pro fessor Williams concludes with this fright ening warning: "About 93 of American institutions of higher learning are doing a poor job producing scholars that satisfy collegiate standards of scholarship." Individual Staff Views By Wynn Today is United Nations Day! "Don't be unconscious Be UN con scious" says the Collegiate Council for the United Nations. Those of us who still re main on campus for the weekend might give a few minutes of thought to the 13-year-old body whose headquarters are in New York City. Facts reveal that the 80-member organi zation had its birth at the San Francisco Conference in the spring of 1945, when the United Nations Charter was drafted. A majority of the nations which signed the Charter had ratified It by October 24, 1945, and on that day the United Nations offi cially became a working, organization. So much has been said and written about the attitudes of today's college youth "the lost generation," "the generation without a cause" most all of which are generaliza tions. Yet one must admit that as the world becomes more complex, the student views it wonderingly, and the tension that sometimes results almost turns to fear. Man has the power to create prosperity ; scientific aids advance continually and transportation has been cut to the extent that long trips are considered in hours and minutes rather than thousands of miles. However, two of the most productive and advanced nations are using their power to vie with each other for military superior ity. The character of war, which now hints at total annihilation, reveals that if man is to survive, he must achieve permanent peace: The role of the United Nations in interna tional affairs has become increasingly sig nificant. A crowded busload of interested students and two advisors headed for New York during last year's Thanksgiving vacation. Smithberger The YWCA sponsored a national meeting of students from all over the country some even journeyed from the west coast for a United Nations seminar. The group was able to tour the U.N. building unhur riedly during a busy tourist season, meet with United Nations officials and listen to experts discuss the problems which face the world's leaders. (Of course the eve nings were free and activities weren't lim ited to serious meetings!) It was a great opportunity yet only eight of us were from this University. Sorry you missed it! Try to go this year. Helmets off (on a big football weekend) to Kl'ON-TV for its program, "U.N. He view," a discussion on current events at the United Nations, which will be featured tonight at 7:45 p.m. University students do have the oppor tunity here on campus to express their opinions on international affairs with their friends. The N.U. Council of World Affairs (or Action, whichever you prefer) abbrev iated to confuse people "Nl'CWA" tries to develop an interest in the understanding of the U.N. and its problems among univer sity students. Of course this is a plug, but meetings are held every other Tuesday night at 7:30 p.m.. in the union. This com ing Tuesday the program will be based on the United Nations. The United Nations holds as its purposes the doing away with war and the building of a better world for all peoples, through collective resistance to aggression and through fighting hunger, disease, Ignor ance and discrimination. Certainly this is a group that deserves the enthusiastic, "gung-ho" following of the college population. SIXTY-EIGHT TEARS OLD Member! Associated Colleriato Pres. Intereollef'. its Press tepreienUtirt: Nation! Advertising Service. Incorporated . Published st: Room 20, Student Union Lincoln, Nebraska 14tb & R Tlie Dan PKbiaskM I Bubllhe4 Moods?, Tonday. TTtii1tiini1T en f lid ay during tit. mbooI jree.r, .irept taring mentions sui4 exam period!, by stnilent. f the lniersrr af Nebraska under Mm aatborltatlna of the Commit tot as student Affair a an expression af stn Seas opinion, rnblteatlon andr the Jurisdiction af the ftubeommlttn an Student PuMtrnttim thall be free from adlloriai aenaoranJp aa the part of the Siibwmimlltee or aa the part sf any member af the ft nlty af tha I ni anity. Tha atnn af tiaa Neijraeka ittff nr. per- Daily Nebraskan ermalry reaponslhla 'or arhnt the tar. ar So ar eanu ta at printed, r.bmary B. 155. nnlerlption rate tra $'A per aemerrw ar 98 for tha aeaamle year. Entered aeroad el. mailer at the port afflet la Lincoln, Nebraska, ander tha set af Aorusl 4. 111. EDITORIAL STAFF Editor Ernest Rlnea Msnatlnr, Editor Oeorta Moyer Senior Ntaff WrlUr Emmie Umpo ".porta Editor . Randall Lebert Copy Editor Carroll Kmua, Utsna kiwell. Kiwdr Knllr. Gretrbrn aide. Staff Writer Hondra Whalen. Wyna Bmlthbercer. Staff FiMtfltraphnr . . . MoINESS ST A FT Hnrfie.s Manaaer Assl.tnnt Huslne Manager. . MarUTa Coffey, JMInoetta Taylor Clreutatloa Mnnacer. Jerry Kellenlln Mn kalman. f harlrne (iron. 'nrm ftohlflnc jerry Trnpp -Letters to the Editor Friday, October 24, 1953 The Daily Nebraska will publish only (hoar letters hie a are slmid Loiters allarkin individual! must rarry the author's name. Others may use initial! er a pro name. Lrtirrs should not exreed W words. Whrn letters exrerd this limit the Ne braskan rrsc-rve the ngbl to ran dense thrm, rrtainm the writer' views. Tribunal Defended In examining Mr. Shugrue's "Bungling" in the Oct. 20 issue of the Daily Nebraskan, the reader is confronted with what the author of the article no doubt felt to be a damning attack on the Tribunal. Shugrue claims that the ar bitrary action of the Tribunal in closing its door is demoral izing the student body. Not only have I failed to see any of these demoralized students of which he speaks, but neither was the action taken an arbitrary step done with' out authority. The Tribunal Charter gave to the group the power to formulate its own rules governing procedure, and it was merely exercising this power. Also, in examining the rule itself in its relation to the per son affected, the student, it may be seen to serve his best interests to allow him the dis cretion of choosing either an open or a closed hearing. The right being protected is not the right of the Daily Nebras kan to exploit the details of a hearing essentially private in nature, but rather the' rights of privacy that should be ac corded to each student unless he surrenders that right by properly requesting an open hearing. The primary pur pose of the Tribunal is . to attempt justice in the event of an unwarranted complaint against a student. The campus legislature gave the Tribunal the right to ex clude the public from its hear ings if the student involved so desired. This was done for the apparent purpose of pro tecting the student body against unwarranted publicity in deference to their right to privacy. The Daily Nebraskan would sacrifice this privacy of the student if Shugrue 's recommendations were to be adopted. . . I feel that the Daily Ne braskan has made a tempest in a teapot out of this whole matter and exploited it in a grandiose manner. LARRY FRAZIER Sehultz Comments First, according to Dick Shugrue, you misrepresented his policy in regard to Ne braskan columnists. Dick is obviously the final source of information concerning his past policies, but he is pres ently in Colorado on a debate trip. You . . . stated that ". . . Shugrue refused to permit Steve Sehultz to write articles criticizing the editor or the paper, and also to attack fel low columnists." The truth of the matter is that Shugrue cautioned me against w riting articles which were possibly libelous and that he forbade me to attack personally either the editor or my fellow columnists. At no time did he forbid me to at tack the newspaper as an or ganization or any of the pol icies which it set up. la this same connection you state that "An article by (Sara i Jones, which criticized the Nebraskan, was not print ed on order of Shugrue." The reason this article was not printed was that in the opinion of several who read it, it was not an attack on the Ne braskan but a personal attack on editor Shugrue. ... Shugrue at no time re fused me permission to attack ' the newspaper. j . . . you have not followed! past precedent in allowing Bob Ireland, one of your re maining columnists, to print a personal attack-on me ... I have tried to follow this policy to the' best of my ability. (Rasoco) was simply inter ested in using his position as a columnist to disagree with the views of your newsaper. Let me emphasize again that in resigning we were not interested in gaining publicity. We were simply interested in speaking out for freedom of the press . . . STEVE SCHULTZ Astonishing Change This change in Dick Shu grue is truly astonishing . . . if he has really seen the light as to how a newspaper ought to be run, why doesn't he make his repentence clear? As a former columnist -one who suffered the Shugrue regime I would be interested in hearing his reasons for the change of heart. In this matter of the three columnists resigning, as in the matter of the Student Tri bunal, much of the trouble seems to be that too many people have a mistaken idea of their own importance. They are striking ridiculous poses : Three Musketeers, smoke filled room politicans, and Sir Galahad to the res cue. Ridiculous! Boys, drink your beer and shake hands. MELVYN EIKLEBERRY Nervous? Noop! The nervousness of a prac tice teacher on her first day at teaching gave a senior class in journalism a good laugh. While demonstrating the qualities of a good yearbook layout, the practice teacher discovered that the page she was using for an example was blank. Conservative Estimate By John Hoerner Hoerner A Greek philosopher once said something to the effect that people get the kind of government they deserve and usually just a little bit better. Considering the fact that only 1,908 or about 25 of the eligible students showed their interest lor fear of a $1 fine) by voting in the last Student Council election, it seems to me that we've conw out mighty lucky. In their first five meetings this year the council has al ready launch ed an inves tigation into the campus parking prob lem, selected a Spring Day comm 1 1 e e and two members of Publicatio n s Board, clari fied the mi gration question started work on bringing all campus organization constitutions up to date, demonstrated that they intend to strictly follow their own constitution, and or ganized a committee for cam pus beautification. Wednesday afernoon the council took a firm stand in unanimously supporting and explaining its last year's tri umph - the Student Tribunal and proposed checking intto the possibility of keeping the library open until 10. What does this show? It shows that the council is working, trying, and succeed ing - to an extent - in being a useful, worthwhile, organiza tion. This "extent" to which they succeed depends on one fac tor, student support. In Wednesday's council meeting when new business was called for there was a glassy-eyed silence. Now I'll admit this isn't exactly indicative of thirty three alert minds just wait ing for a chance to leap up and propose a sweeping re form or a mammoth pro ject. But it does indicate this: individual expression of opin ion is badly needed. Whether it be through di rect suggestion to your coun cil representative (by the wav,- who IS your represen tative?????), the Letlerip, painting it on the Beta's door or any other suitable means of communication, your ideas carry more weight than you think. With interest nearly as ex tinct as Daily Nebraskan columnists one idea is almost a mass expression of feeling. I'll bet my Dan River Dan Stormer that if your sugges tion is worthwhile, and prob ably even if it isn't, it will be presented to btuaent coun cil Wednesday. 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