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Monday, December 8, 1953 Pegs 1 The Daily Nebraskan Editorial Comment- I'MHAVlNSAN DID YOU HEAR ME? ISARVDUCWIIM MY FEELINGS!!!- I fun i u; iw jr, PIS PARW. CHARLIE CANT HURT AVT7 JfA BROW AND I'M GOING W MB INVltE EVERYONE No Real Voice FEELINGS K 1 K f A LOUD ,. ( c A, I LIAR! J J I jfzl J " Sestet The biggest farce that the University of Nebraska has ever pulled off Is to encour age the establishment of student govern ment and tribunal bodies under the pre tense that these automatically give the student a voice In the operation and policy of the school. Nothing could be a bigger lie. Soih groups have no real power. They do a little discussing, make a few recom mendations and enable a few holes to be made in identification cards when voting time comes around for the selection of new officers. ; , When things that really matter to a stu dent pop up, who makes the decision? How did you guess? Some 'administrator who is more concerned about efficiency than anything else. The best and most im mediate example of this is the suddenly announced change in registration. ' Who desired this change? Not the stu dents who are involved. No, it was the people who find that things get hectic for them because they have a couple of large groups who swarm about the registration desks looking for engineering and ROTC course cards at various stages of the reg istration game. This makes the business a little inconvenient for the -folks pulling the cards. Terrible thing! Efficiency Is a wonderful thing ... in a factory. It is also a wonderful thing in school . . . when it isn't carried too far. The change in registration, however, makes efficiency a thing to be worshipped. A-B-C-D-E-F-G may be adapted to a love song or a seating chart, but its utilization should end somewhere. Seniority ought to make some difference. Being an upper- classman ought to mean something. Once it did. Now efficiency is all that counts. Who gives a moment's thought to the person who has spent three or three-and-a-half years at the University and would like to arrange a schedule that doesn't contain a bunch of early morning or late afternoon classes? The registrar tells him that if it is really necessary for him to have a certain class he may, but it ought to be terribly vital because they find it difficult to efficiently place him in that t mid-morning class. Now if his name were Abe Administrator things would be fine be cause he would just about head the list, but poor fellow he was born into the wrong family. If the proposed alphabetical registration is really implemented, every student on campus will know that his opinion doesn't amount one iota. To be an upperclassman is only to be a step closer to the day when a person may step up to the desk where diplomas are given out in alphabetical order, and pick up a scroll of paper con summated after careful supervision and check of his college career with the aid of his IBM number. Blood, sweat and tears mean nothing at the University of Nebraska. Study, en durance and intelligence mean a little. Efficiency apparently is all important. Students- should protest this proposed change to the bitter end. They should re fuse to accept it under the guise that it is worth trying. Changes of this sort made by the administration too closely parallel suicide. Once they are done they cannot be undone. Wednesday a silence will speak louder than any words. Wednesday an empty chair will be an eloquent voice in the cause for freedom. Wednesday, In Stockholm, Sweden, the Swedish Academy will present the 1958 Nobel Prizes. And Boris Pasternak won't be there to accept the literature award. Boris Pasternak is Jewish, 68, the son of a musician mother and painter father. He was born in Moscow, and in Russia he has lived his life. It has been a productive life his poetry for years making him a writer to be con sidered when the Nobel Prize and other world literary honors are awarded. But It Is not for his poetry that Paster nak rates this year's prize. It is for a book "Doctor Zhivago." "Doctor Zhivago" is openly critical of the methods used by the Russian Com munist party to subject their people under the slogan of world socialism. Because he is a critical voice among a people who have lost their right to criticize, Boris Pasternak will not be allowed to accept the world's highest honor for literature. And so, Wednesday, the empty chair and the silence when Pasternak's name is called will be the living testimonial to the troth of "Doctor Zhivago." It will mark the creation of a new ghost in a long line of ghosts that each year return to torment All Empty Chair the leaders of the Soviet Socialist Repub lics. Wednesday, the empty chair in Stock holm will take its place at the head of fan imposing army of monuments to the hypocrisy of the Communist party. It will join the Hungarian Revolution, the East German freedom riots, the mock trials and purges of the 1930's, the persecution of the Kulaks and the suppression of the Kronstadt rebellion on a long list of charges which compose the indictment against Communism. At the same time, Russian history can embrace a new hero. For Boris Pasternak has decided not to accept Nikita Khrus chev's offer to emigrate. He will remain in Russia. This decision has been made in spite of the fact that a trust fund set up by Paster nak's publisher for the royalties from "Doctor Zhivago" would make him a mil lionaire if he chose to leave Russia. The decision has been made because Pasternak has deep roots in the Russian, soil. He couldn't write anywhere else, ac cording to those who know him. Patriotism has long been a character istic of the Russian citizen. And Paster nak's patriotism would put that of most Americans to shame. The United States isn't the only country in the world capable of producing a Nathan Hale. From the Editor A Few Words of a Kind e. e. hines A c Li iL.Ut e.e. Sentiment and tradition used to mean something . .'. even at the University of Nebraska. Consultations for good will used to mean something . . . even at the Uni versity of Nebraska. But now administrators have so little respect or concern for the opinions of the student body that they announce sweeping changes i n registration without saying "boo." Not having a vast back ground in philosophy or history I can't cite all of the wise and judicious comments on Uje care which should be taken in implementing change without considera tion of tradition and sentiment. I do be lieve, however, that it was Burke who warned that the existence of an institu tion or system with a few faults did not warrant the complete discarding of this institution or system for one which was applicable in theory but untried in prac tice. What previous generations have evolved contains more collective wisdom, Mr. Burke argued, than a system which may be envisioned by one man in the here and now. , - This theory has not enjoyed the popu larity it knew before man's suddenly zeal ous devotion to technology and tinker toys, but this does not sap it of all validity in matters where change means a great in crease in antagonism without a corres ponding increase in effectiveness. Many students are grumbling about the planned change in registration. Only a handful of administrative personnel stand to benefit. Only a few hours work appear capable of being saved. Little or no monetary gain stands to be made by the implementation of the alphabetical registration system. Experience with school administrators has invariably -revealed that anytime a student disagrees with their "wisely thought out changes" (we all like our own ideas) that the dissenting student is im mediately branded incorrigible, dim witted or as a loud mouth attempting to stir up a storm of controversy. Almost never is a student's opposition accepted as sincere and possibly justified. No, I do not like the planned change. Yes, I am getting near the point where my accumulated hours enable early regis- tration, but "H" would not keep me away from the -desk for long. The simple fact is that tradition ought to mean something in this matter, that a senior should have special concessions not enjoyed by the freshman, sophomore or junior with the 'amount of special concessions working down the scale, diminishing as the fresh man level is approached). I suggest the plan be discarded as a bad idea. Could it be possible that Cain slew Abel because be got tir-d of waiting in line? Daily Nebraskan EfXTT-EXGHT TEAKS OLD SSemfecr: Asoc!ted Celleriate Press IatercoUerUU Press "topnfentft&ret National Advertising Service, laoonMwttvJ Fabiis&ed t: Room 29. Stndent Union Lincoln, Nebraska ltUi A K rtm IXJtj Kehraakaa t psblltta Mnadar, Tn6aj, ? mttt "! 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Staff rbstorrapbar Mmaett Taylor BUSINESS STAFF Biminm Haoacer Jerry Sellrntle AMiatauet Bwuaoas Maaaren fttaa Kalmaa. Charles Grow, Norm Rohlfinc Clrunaitlna. fasahacMMurxaac. .'rrry Trup BEETHOVEN (DAS Htorc, IT ALSO SAYS THAT THERE 15 SOME WXTA5TOTWStWB A0R6 OPXS BEETHOVEN'S plRTHPAf (WRE0RLES5) The Briar Patch By R. M. Ireland Ireland Registration is bad enough without having socialism creep in and remove all of the privileges I have pain stakingly earned over the last three , and one-half years o f, devoted service to my U n i v ersity, Sunday Rrhnnl unit ROTP i So far as I can perceive this new Al p h a b etized Soup Plan the officials of Registration Redtape Inc. have devised is an attempt to deprive upper classmen (and women) of their God-given heritages. And they have the gall to state that rooms and classes can be had for all. Ask an engineering student about that (I hate to use engi neers as examples of my cru sade as they keep knocking the wind out of me with their blasted drawing boards as I scurry through Burnett). If you are a senior with 192 hours and find yourself with six classes per week coming at 4 p.m. you can thank the 'Peace' Offered By 'Nook' Books, Music Lure Students Opportunities to sit, chat quietly, smoke and read are offered to University stu dents in the Union Book Nook. A peaceful haven away from the usual campus bus tle, the Book Nook is located in the northeast corner of the Union next to the Crib. 200 Best Sellers The room is best de scribed as a recreational reading room. More than 200 best selling books line the paneled walls of the room and 40 popular maga zines are available from a rack in the corner. A Seeburg Hi-Fi record player stands in one corner, with 100 long playing rec ords to choose from. Eleven new albums have just been purchased including two Mantovanl recordings. Christmas music is being featured with two Fred Waring caroling albums and a Johnny Mathis Merry Christmas album. Other records include a Boston Pops Orchestra al bum, one of "Ballet Melo dies," "The Sounds of Par is" by Melachrino Orches tra, "Lights and Shadows" by Al Nevins and his orches tra and Roger Williams' "The Fabulous Forties." The Book Nook is financed by money from the Union Activities Fund. new regimentation which has invaded our ranks. I can see it now. Soon we will have complete alphabetization here on our campus where freedom once reigned, robin's eggs were put back in nests instead of being squished, and students were regarded as humans instead of IBM numbers. Admittance to graduate school will be based on the Soup method. All those idiots who find themselves from L to Z will join the ranks of the ditch diggers, nevermore to enjoy the stimulus of higher learning. Local honorary societies will also incorporate this ROTC- like bureaucracy. Agnes Aabca will be president of Mortar Board, president of Phi Beta Kappa, president of the Faculty Senate, and vice president of N Club (Archie Aabad edged her out). If you are one of the vast majority of University stu dents who regard the new registration scheme as treach erous, wicked, corrupt and highly ridiculous then do something! Petition your Student Coun cil representative. Call the chancellor. Throw snowballs at the M and N building. Boy cott your classes. Drop out of school Or do what I am going to do. Change my name to Arvid Arf. a I see where we can all have parties now that the Military Ball has officially opened the social season. I didn't think they would ever get around to it. Books on Review ISC Dean To Address Convocation Dr. Louis Thompson, asso ciate dean of the Division of Agriculture at Iowa State Col lege, will address a convoca tion for all Agricultural Col lege students and faculty at 10 a.m. Wednesday. He will d!cuss the future of agricultural students and the training they need to meet the demands of future employ ers in a speech called "Ag Students Is Your Future In Agriculture?" All College of Agriculture classes will be dismissed at 10 a.m. for the convocation. Dr. Thompson has been pro fessor in charge of the Farm Operations Curriculum at Iowa State since 1950. He ob tained his B.S. degree at Tex as A. & M. in 1935, his M.S at Iowa State in 1947 and his Ph. D. at the same institution in 1950. He was a traveling fellow in Europe in 1935, a senior fellow at Iowa State in 1946 and 1947 and worked for the U.S. Con servation Service in T e x a s during the late 1940's. He has published a book entitled "Soils and Soil Fertility." "The Nature of Prejudice," by Gordon W. Allport. Doub leday Anchor Book. $1.45. Originally published in hard cover in 1954, this study of the causes, nature and effects of prejudice, has been slight ly abridged for paperback publication but still runs 496 pages. . The size of the book should not frighten the reader. All port is one of a seemingly rare species, , intellectuals who can make themselves ar ticulate and interesting to the layman. The ' subject matter is extremely significant to Americans in the wake of Little Rock and world-wide tensions resulting from the stir of nationalism in the Mid East, East and other impor tant areas of the globe. Allport, however, does not rely solely on the interest the reader should have. He pre sents not only an important subject but he adds interest ingly written background ma terial in carefully organized fashion which enable the lay man to stick with the author. Unlike many books on the subject, chapters do not ram ble on and on but mostly con fine themselves to 10 to 20 pages. The author warns that the book does not contain the complete answer to' the na ture of prejucide: "So great is the ferment of investiga tion and theory in this area that in one sense our account will soon be dated. New ex periments will supersede old, and formulations of various theories will be improved." This does not keep him from warnings that the last word has yet to be said. The reader is thus informed without be ing left with a feeling that mastery of the book would make him a master of the subject. With so much recent dis cussion on the supposed poor treatment of foreign students at the University, the follow ing comments by Allport seem especially pertinent: "Everywhere on earth we find a condition of separate ness among groups. People mate with their own kind. They eat, play, reside in hom ogeneous clusters. They visit with their own kind,' and pre fer to worship together. Much of this automatic cohesion is due to nothing more than convenience. There is no need to turn to out-groups for com panionship. With plenty of people at hand to choose from, why create for our selves the trouble of adjust ing to new languages, new foods, new cultures, or to people of a different educa tional level? "Thus most of the business life can go on with less ef fort if we stick together with our own kind. Foreigners are a strain. So too are people of a higher or lower social and economic class than our own. We don't play bridge with the janitor. Why? Per haps he prefers poker; al most certainly he would not grasp the type df jests and chatter that we and our friends enjoy; there would be a certain awkwardness in blending our differing man ners. It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty of people of our own class, or race, or re libion to play, live and eat with, and to marry. "It is not always the dom inant majority that forces mi nority groups to remain sep arate. They often prefer to keep their identity, so that they need not strain to speak a foreign language or to watch their manner. Like the old grads at a college reun ion, they can 'let down' with those who share their tradi tion and presuppositions." In brief Worth more atten tion than the time needed for its reading, (eeh) Collegiate Roundup Asia Comes to Syracuse At Annual Christmas Sale LITTLE MAN ON CAM PUS 'AY.ftlYUie, 15 THAT MXJK 0A$KET0ALl PLAYER. Y0U'V& T5LUW6 A16 A0OUT "if Gifts are pouring into the University f Syracuse. The occasion is the annual Christ mas Sale of Syracuse in Asia Dec. 8-12. According to the Daily Orange, campus newspaper, items sent ia from former teachers and alumni include a shipment of silver and mother of pearl jewelry, a supply of pina cloth for dresses, an abacas, copper and brass trays. The teacher evaluation is sue has popped up at Kansas State, where the Collegian ran the following editorial: "With all the concern over Russia's educational ad vances there has been great emphasis placed on the qual ity of schooling in the United States. "Greater attention has been focused on student achievement and education in technical fields has been stressed. "But we wonder if still an other step could be taken faculty evaluation. "We can't help but feel that students do not get as much out of certain courses as they could because the in structors have failed in their ways of present material and or evaluating student per formance. "The instructor who insists on lecturing in the same mon otone voice for the whole period, the instructor who keeps expounding on a pet peeve, the instructor who is inconsistent in his method of grading exams, and the in structor who gives tests with ambiguous questions can stand some improvement. "Why couldn't a system be devised whereby students turn m unsigned critiques giv ing their evaluations of the instructors . . . "However we believe the majority of students are ma ture and responsible enough to make fair evaluations . . ." At the University of Kansas, the Daily Kansan bemoans the death of the good, fresh invective. . . "In better times, as any reader of Mark Twain can tell you, a man just couldn't get by just tossing off a stand ard cussword to confruud his antagonist" Examples of the type of "cussin " the Kansas would like to see a rebirth of: Two New York papers, the Sun and the Post,, years ago, were staging a major feud. The Sun got in the last word when it said: . "The Post calls the Sun a yellow dog. Our attitude re mains that of any dog toward any post." Other examples: "Instead of calling a man a nitwit, why not elaborate and inform him that his brain was an irre futable proof of the Darwinian theory ... or calT him an eternally blasted offspring of a misconceived goat." AF Qualifying Tests Th Air Force officers quali fying tests will be given Thursday, beginning at 7:50 a.m. in the Military and Naval Science building. , : --- you ' JILjP wont a present for your house??? IT'S SIMPLE till M tmrm that (maty aactu frem MARLBORO, PARLIAMENT, an PHILLIP MORRIS cijaratt . . . tha aroanixcj fcom with th most amprr aaclu vim tfc MOTION PICTURI CAMERA, Proctor, Sctmo aaa" all th attachmtitti. Contest Deadline Dee. 17