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The Daily Nebroskon Friday, December 12, 1953 Pace 2 X i .'.V V; i 1 ii it, - j " J! Editorial Comment-: Happy Paradox If an incidental observer were to note the manner in which students are object ing to the planned change in registration, he might consider that University of Ne braska students were a wild and uncom promising bunch. Fortunately, however, there is evidence to indicate that students' negative evaluation of the alphabetical registration plan is only a part of their concern. Also of concern to students is the success of their University, present and future. Proof -of this is the interest shown thus far in the Builders' sponsored drive for funds needed to insure a Kellogg Center for Nebraska. A tabulation of contributions by student organizations through Wednesday indi cated that more than $2,500 had been con tributed or pledged to the University Foundation in the campus drive. Indi vidual contributions will not be tabulated until Friday when the first groups of pledge cards are turned in to Build?rs from the various dorms and Greek houses. The Xebraskan has already voiced great "favor for the drive and would like to echo this support again. The organizations that contributed are to be complimented for the it support. One factor however, could bog down the student drive. There is a possibility that students belonging to or ganizations that make pledges will see no reason to make personal pledges. This means that many studentswho could play a bigger role in financing the Kellogg Center may feel no incentive to do so be cause their group has given a large sum. No one would suggest that a student go out on the financial limb to make a pledge for the Kellogg Center, but if any student has a desire to make a direct investment in a better University the drive is a suit able way to do it. A for Green Apples It appears that at least one prediction may be safely made on what 1959 holds for the student: Alphabet will mean more than seniority when cards are pulled. The Student Council has passed a resolution which makes it very evident that, in spite of heated opposition, they won't stand in the way of "progress." There doesn't seem to be much reason for the Daily Xebraskan to rant on and on about this point. Every student complains. Almost none has enough real interest to state his views on the change in a letter to the editor or appeal to the Council. The Council tells Hoover how little they care for the matter and then give up the moment L; walks out the door. Registrar Floyd Hoover is to be re spected for. appearing before the SU. jnt Council in an effort to justify his stand on the matter. More matters of concern to the student should be discussed by such administrators in Council meetings. He is not as worthy of praise for feeling that the change "wouldn't matter" to students. If Hoover and more administrators would stop and realize that they are dealing with a group of mature college students instead of a deck of cards. University morale could not help but improve. A lot of things do matter. No Man Is an Island Betty Wilson, campus adviser for the YWCA, has chosen to submit the follow ing selection from The Spirit of Christ mas" by Henry Van Djke because "it is meaningful to me and I think it should be shared with the rest of the campus." It is a good thing to observe Christmas day. The mere marking of times and sea sons, when men agree to stop work and make merry together, is a wise and whole some custom. ' It helps one to feel the su premacy of the common life over the in dividual life. It reminds a man to set his own little watch, now and then, by the great clock of humanity which runs on sua time. But there is a better thing than the ob servance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas. Are you willing to Iot'Jl what you have done for other people, and to remember what other people have done for you; to ignore what the world owes you, and to think what you owe the world; to put your rights in the background, and your duties in the middle distance, and your chances to do a little more than your duty in the foreground; to see that your fellow men are just as real as you are, and try to look behind their faces to their hearts, hungry for joy; to own that probably the only good reason for your existence is not what you are going to get out of life, but what you are going to give to life; to close your book of "complaints against the manage ment of the universe, and look around you for a place where you can keep Christmas. Are you willing to stoop down and con sider the needs and desires of little chil dren; to remember the weakness and loneliness of people who are growing old; to stop asking how much your friends love you, and ask yourself whether' you love them enough; to bear in mind the things that other people have to bear in their hearts; to try to understand what those who live in the same house with you really want, without waiting for them to tell you; to trim your lamp so that it will give more light and less smoke, and to carry it in front so that your sliadow will fall be hind you; to make a grave for your ugly thoughts and a garden for your kind feel ings, with the gate open are you willing to do these things even for a day? Then you can keep Christmas. Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death and that the blessed life which began in Bethlehem nineteen hundred years ago is the image and brightness of the Eternal Love? Then you can keep Christmas. And if you keep it for a day, why not always? But you can never keep it alone. M it.,. ftM SL,JI From the Slot I hate snow. This Is probably because it used to fall in great quantities on my outdoor basketball court at home making large quantities of the old bend and pitch exercise necessary. The other day someone was wishing it would snow a foot Well, today, it tried, but the weather eventually gave up and settled down to just be ing cold Let's knock off this ex traneous wishing. Tbe last time I wrote Mover (his column, a couple of nasty, dirty old misspelled words got in This immediately occasioned a communi cation from Madison. Not only that, but my sister, who oc casionally appears in the Daily Xebraskan office, has started looking over my shoulder while I write. So at this time, and in. view of the Christmas season, I would like to say, "Call off the Gestapo, father!" If there is anything more outstanding about Big Eight basketball than the cal iber of the teams involved, it is the poor sportsmanship of the fans. Before every game, tbe public address announcer In the Coliseum asks the crowd to please exhibit the kind of sportsmanship by George Moyer they w ould expect their team to receive away from home. The fans, knowing full well what kind of crowds the Huskers will play before while on the road, pour it on the visiting teams and coaches. Last Monday, against Mar quette, they even went so far as to strike Eddie Hickey, the visiting coach. However, there is a sort of latent feeling of fair play lurking below the surface of each Cornhusker fan. They will sometimes reveal their true nature by cheering for the underdog. Since in the past, Nebraska has usually been the underdog, the denizens of the Coliseum haven't needed cue cards to tell them when to lend vocal support. But against Northwest Missouri and Montana, a pair of foes hopelessly out classed by the more active and aggres sive Cornhuskers, the crowds occasionally waxed silent as if in confusion. It is a good thing that Nebraska finally got into' the meat of its schedule. Other wise, Husker, fans might have switched en masse to the opposition teams. Seriously though, it would be sice if those attending tbe next home game could manage a slightly more courteous atti tude toward the opposition, the referees and anyone else who is not patently a Ne braska partisan. Having now completed my weekly joust against a prominent campus windmill, I will now pass on to pleasanter things. 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The discussion moved rapidly from one phase of the subject to another and from specific cases to general dis cussion so fast that it was hard to follow what anyone was saying except that Dr. Hoover was for the new sys tem and most of the council members were against it The fact still remains that there are a given number of classes in a certain subject. These classes are held at specified hours. It is evident from this alone that all stu dents can't possibly have the schedule which is most ideal for them. Dr. Hoover seems to feel that the most important fac tor in this case is getting the registration done smoothly and as long as every student gets the classes he needs everything will be fine. The point w hich needs to be brought out, however, is that not only is getting into the class of importance but the time at which the class is taken is of vital importance to some student. Under the old system, one of seniority, students with the higher number of hours had first crack at the classes they wanted. . . whan they wanted them. .They may not have been able to get the exact schedule they wanted but at least they had first crack. Under the new system the ones who get first crack at an ideal schedule are those whose names begin with A, B, C, . . . etc The only advantage of the new system that the council could find Wednesday was that it would save a little time in registration. By John Hoerner Is there any student on campus who wouldn't rather stand in line the whole cotton picking day than have a screwed up schedule for the rest of the semester. Anyone can see that getting in first is most .desirable. Surely there is a more equita ble way to do this than by letters of the alphabet It appears too late now to do anything about it this se mester but we still have a chance. Dr. Hoover has agreed to work with the Stu dent Council and accept any hconstructive sugge tions which they have to of fer after they have had the opportunity to w atch the new system in action. mm I've been trying to get this in for three weeks, Maybe I'D hit this time. a a a If you want to be happy for an hour, get drunk. If you want to be happy for three days, get married. If you want to be happy for a week, roast your pig. If you want to be happy for a lifetime, learn to fish. Old Japanese Proverb. International Meeting In Chicago - International students throughout the Middle West have been invited to attend Chicago's Holiday Center pro gram Dec. 20-31. Tbe program, sponsored by the Young Women's Christian Association, wiD be held in the YWCA, 59 E. Monroe St, Chicago 3, I1L The program will include tours of the Chicago Natural History Museum, the Art In stitute and the Museum of Science and Industry. Other tours include Inland Steel, an advertising agency, the Conrad Hilton Hotel, and The Chicago Tribune. Christmas and New Years Days the students will be of fered hospitality in Chicago homes. ' Interested students should see Dr. George Rosenlof s of fice for further information. CAMPUS. CHATTER By WtnAr Mmkepeacm Nebraskan Letterip Tha Oallr NakraUaa mm aahll! aalr taaaa mtm wak ar LUm aiiarklng taolrldaaU al carry tha aatar "JZl aar Initial. r a at aanw. LMIar. .aaaK ao. 1M jZZ? nar rxrrrm tan limit la Nrbnuaaa raaarva. taa rtrtt ta aaaarma tarm. malalai taa arlapr'a tkvk. 1 Fraternities Beware The recent interest of fra ternities in academic stand ing is certainly commend able. I should like to point out, however, that there is considerable danger involved in some of the con templated actions arising out of this interest. We are all aware that it is easier to get good grades in some courses than in others, depending on the' course material, the standards of the instructors, and (ideally, pri marily) the abilities and in terests of the individual stu dents. We are also aware that the most valuable courses to an individual student are not necessarily those which he finds easiest. Grade Record We are further aware that a student's grade record wiD be of considerable importance in the short range (a few years) and that in deciding whether or not to take a dif ficult (for him) course he must weigh the long range educational value of the course against the negative value of the expected below average grade. My point, then, is that in attempting to encourage stu dents to become better schol ars we must be careful not to plate still shorter range importance on the grade av erage. Now, the situation can be come very bad if a student has to consider group loyal ties when choosing courses and loads. Most students are to some extent willing to take personal risks (below-average grades) for the sake of per sonally desirable goals (cer tain courses and perhaps high loads) but might be very re luctant to extend a risk to their friends ("social proba tion") for the sake of person al goals. I therefore beg ot the fra ternities, that in whatever ac tion they finally take to im prove their grade averages, they very militantly refrain from putting pressure on their members to take easy courses or postpone difficult ones, or take smaU credit hour loads, for the sake of high grades. Competition for good grades among various groups and in dividuals can be a good thing, provided the stakes are not too high. Edgar A. Pearlstein Assoc. Prof, of Physics 4 Silk in all iU flowinf elegance is now featured in this popular 'Shirt-tale dress in Gold's second floor Campus Shop. Mur ray Millman of California has combined the fitted waist and the fall skirt U accent any co-ed's fifure. Royal blue. 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