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Fridav, January 16, 1959
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Your soup got cold, Mr. Hoover!
Things worked very fine registration
wise for the fortunate souls who were born
to early in the alphabet parents. But, alas
and alack, ABC In the last analysis ap
peared to spell out "A Bad Concoction."
Several seniors found themselves forced
to take alternate sections or waddle around
campus pleading to be allowed to take this
or that course in order to have a schedule
which would allow them to work or gradu
ate. Things went well for the registrar's
folks, but their numbers when totaled,
proved to be far fewer than the several
hundred students involved.
The Daily Nebraskan is sure it speaks
for the majority of the student body when
it appeals to Mr. Hoover to forget the
whole thing. Several of us were inconven
ienced this registration period; all of us
will eventually be inconvenienced if the
plan is continued. Members of the student
body still feel that seniors should have a
little special recognition and a few privi
leges now and then. This is especially true
to registering. It is conceivable under a
machine card pulling system, which Mr.
Hoover is so anxious to see put in effect,
that a student could go to the University
all four years and never get an instructor
he wanted, "Impossible," you say. "So
are airplanes," we reply.
There is no way for the registrar to deny
that a part alphabet, part hours-earned
card pulling system cannot be used. The
plan is presently being used at the Uni
versity of Arizona where some 10,200 stu
dentsa few thousands more than here
are involved. There the alphabetical
schedule is used by all students except
seniors and graduate students. The same
thing could be done here.
An alternate proposal is to do the entire
thing by class ranking with the alphabet
system incorporated. The first half of the
alphabet would get first crack first se
mester, the second half second semester.
But best plan of all would appear to be
the good old hours earned system. Def
initely the student body should get in touch
with their Council representatives to see
that the registrar is not given a chance to
set up his golden plan in which all cards
would be pulled by a friendly IBM whose
love and awareness of mankind is at least
as strong as that of a wild skunk. The
similarity, of course, does not end there.
"No priority, no confusion. Priority,
confusion," chatters Mr. Hoover.
"No life, no worries. Life, worries," is
our answer.
Always Buy, Chesterfields, Mr. Hoover,
and let us tackle confusion in our own
brave way. We're grown up now. Our
need for sheltering isn't nearly as great as
it once was.
From the Editor
A Few Words of a Kind
The last column begins like the first
with a blank sheet of paper and the real
ization that something should be said to
pass the inches away, provide a little
news, spur forth an occasional smile, win
a frequent grunt of approval, crusade for
a soon to be forgotten cause, and tell a few
other people that you think and worry
about a lot of the same things they do.
With all these possibilities before you, you
tap-tap-tap away and come up with a few
words of a kind:
I think that the honor and responsibility
that are bandaged up with the work of
Rag editor have not made me a bigger
man, but neither have they made me a
smaller one. An editor
comes to the job hoping to
accomplish more than he
ever does. He leaves the
Job realizing that few peo
ple have the chance he
has had, and that like an
actor he was pleased that
he got to play the part.
But no one can play In the
same show for too long a
run, and so editors and
actors look forward to
strutting and fretting their way through
new roles. I want to do the following kind
of things:
Lie on my couch with book in hand,
unmindful of deadlines or stories to write.
Study. Strange as it sounds. .
Writ a poem. It will be very bad I
don't know the first thing about writing
poetry.
Have an afternoon or so free each
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week to visit a park when warm days
arrive again.
Be able to talk with other people with
out the need to think of some tactful way
to excuse myself in order to get back to a
newspaper task.
But why bother you with what I would
like to do. You have your own things to
do, and I won't get many of mine done
anyway.
The little fiancee, who doesn't eat
cheesecake, has registered for only two
Tuesday-Thursday classes. They are re
lated in a way which disturbs me a bit
The first is on contemporary dictatorships.
The second is Love and Marriage.
It is good to be a Nebraskan. A good
share of the folks in U.S.A. don't know
where or why Nebraska is. They tell you
how it was too hot or too cold when they
dozed their way across the state in a Pull
man. "Not a damn thing to see," they
say. "What the hell can you do there?"
they ask. But their attacks don't bother
you. Nebraska's borders have been the
covers confining the story of your life;
Nebraska's land and people are most of
that story. If you don't have to apologize
for yourself, you don't have to apologize
for Nebraska.
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A "thank you" to the Daily Nebraskan
stat. They are the paper's creators and
critics. Each issue has inked their work,
their ideas, their errors, their achieve
ments. Buy bonds!
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Editorial Revi
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Thus We Spoke
The Daily Nebraskan
made two violent outbursts
during the semester. Tar
gets of our wrath have
been registration and the
Student Tribunal. Registra
tion we deal with in today's
lead editorial so it shall be
neglected here. But now
about the Student Trib
unal The Daily Nebraskan ar
gued early this year that
the student body should be
given the right to know
what goes en Inside the
chamber walls. The closing
of its doors in reply to our
requests to gain admittance
was done, the Tribunal said,
in order to protect the ac
cased from unfavorable pub
licity. The Nebraska", re
plied that we did not seek
or plan to blow up the
cases handled by the Trib
unal, or smear the persons
involved. At first we con
tended that the names of
persons involved in Trib
unal cases should be re
leased. Later, we reversed
our stand when an open
hearing was held made
possible by a student's re
quest and merely printed
the action taken with no
definite identification of the
student.
The Daily Nebraskan
still contends that it should
have the right to report the
action the Tribunal takes in
all cases it handles. "Give
us time to get the Tribunal
on its feet and working,"
Tribunal members argued.
You have had this time,"
the Nebraskan replies. In
order to make certain they
got this opportunity to get
established, the Nebraskan
withheld further editorial
comment on its functions or
policy. Now the Nebraskan
points to the initial argu
ments we raised: the stu
dent body does not know
what is going on inside the
Tribunal walls, we do not
know if the judges have
made competent decisions,
we do not know if they are
merely a rubber stamp for
the office of student affairs,
we do not know if they
serve a purpose which is
significant enough to war
rant the continued life of
the Tribunal. This much we
do know:
The Tribunal, in theory,
has no real power. All
members may do is hear
cases and recommend ac
tion they feel should be
taken. The power is still in
the office of student affairs.
Student discipline is still a
very hush-hush affair.
Tribunal judges are
chosen by representatives
in the Council who, like the
rest of the student body,
will have little information
about the functions or ac
tions of the Tribunal.
The Student Council
should take immediate steps
to see that the Tribunal is
either made a more student
oriented organization or
that it is dissolved. One kind
of secret discipline is not
necessarily better than an-
other type of secret disci
pline. -
Kellogg Drive
The University of Nebras
ka has been honored by its
selection as site for a Kel
logg Center. The Unuersity
students showed that they
had a special interest in
their school when they
ple'dged nearly $10,000 to the
fund drive late in the semes
ter, in the years to come
much more will be written
about the Center. Here we
wish only to add that the
Nebraskan is sure it shall
have the continued support
of the students of the Uni
versity and other Nebras
kan citizens.
University Budget
The Nebraskan has come
out in favor of increased
salaries for University per
sonnel, both faculty and
other employees from top
to both of the chain of com
mand. Bigger and grander
buildings are only part of the
requirements for better uni
versities. The human ele
ment is the most important.
Nebraska cannot hope to
maintain an outstanding
university if the 45 turn
over record occurs in the
next six years as it did be
tween 1952-1958.
Student Activities
Activities play an impor
tant role on the University
campus and in s t u d e n ts'
lives, but they should not be
detriments to top notch
scholarship. In some cases
they have been. These in
clude Penny Carnival, Kos
met Klub fall show, Coed
Follies and Homecoming.
Penny Carnival, fortunately,
has bid us adieu. Homecom
ing should be built up as
a more important activity
with a possible open house
on Friday with a special all
University dance Friday
evening or Thursday. The
fall show should fall and
the follies should be recog
nized as such pure folly.
As for Homecoming Queen
why do Tassels have the
inside track? If the queen
takes part in a University
wide e ent all girls on cam
pus should be eligible for
the honor and it should be
an honor, not a silly secret.
Perhaps the changes pro
posed by Tassels will help.
Actually, it seems the Coun
cil ought to take the wiole
affair out of Tassel hands.
i Conservative Estimate
By John lloerner
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Hoerner
A few weeks ago Dr. Floyd
Hoover, University registrar,
appeared before the Student
Council to explain the alpha
betical registration system.
At this time he threw out
to the council a
unheard of in
novat i o n
having the
Univer s i t y
pull cards for
all students
At this time
not one coun
cil membei
was in favor
of even con
sidering such
a plan.
Wednesday night in an in
formal discussion of council
members a straw vote re
vealed that fifteen (out of 33)
council members felt that this
was the best system of all
that had been proposed.
To one who is not following
the developments in regard to
the registration question this
may be a bit shocking.
If you are not too disgusted
to read on, maybe a few
points which have been giv
out in' defense of this new sys
tem will throw some light on
the subject.
Under this system the card
pulling would start much ear
lier. This would give the Uni
versity a chance to take a
slow methodical pace for the
operation.
Now, one of the big prob
lems with any registration
system is the fact that some
times students cannot get in
to a course which they very
much want to take or even
desperately need for gradu
ation. Under this system, when
the University "card-pullers"
discovered a section or a
course getting low and it ap
peared that there were a
greater number of students
desiring to take the course
than planned, there would ba
ample time to contact the de
partment chairman and let
him open a new section.
Under the present system.
lone in which the registration
completely ' proceeds at breakneck speed
considering the total number
of cards pulled, department
chairmen rather than hastily
agreeing to open a new sec
tion are more inclined to say
"impossible", thus closing
out the students who really
want to take the course.
This as I see it (plus possib
ly an extra day or two of
vacation) would be the only
advantage of the proposed
system.
The main disadvantage, In
spite of the registrar's office's
protests to the contrary, is the
utter "impersonalness" of it
all. Granted, a student would
be able to fill out a schedule
with the classes he wished at
the hours he wished.
Everyone realizes that all
students cannot get all the
courses they want when they
want them. Thus a second or
even third choice factor
comes in.
It is here and only here
that I see a big disadvantage
to the new system. Each in
dividual is the only one who
knows what his own values
really are. Can a remote
"card-puller" in the adminis
tration building possibly know
whether or not I would like
to take English 21 at 1:00 or
3:00 if my first choice was
8:00 and my second choice at
9:00? I have serious doubts.
These thoughts should be in
the mind of every student who
cares about his future at the
university.
I said in my first column,
"people get the kind of gov
ernment they deserve, and us
ually just a little bit better."
I think this goes for regis
tration too.
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