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The DoiK' KVbroskon Fridov. February 6, 1959 Poos Editorial Comment: Council 'Dead Day' Idea Is Reasonable Request SS' ITS JUST - M j aMMtfff SMf SA.0 WfACE WAS ChAZACTES AND S5 C6hT. TDU'A A NO THINS.' DCN7 PAY ANY ATTENTION TC LUCY CKABUE B?AN.. 0W. IP I LISTENED ID HtS.J'D i-AVE BEN A KERVC JS ItfttOC A L0M5 TiA' AGO.' Faculty-student controversy over final exam schedules is not an issue new to the ditorial pages of the Daily Xebraskan. The whole thing was touched off in May of 1955 when the Faculty Senate approved a one week exam schedule. Student pro tests were long and loud, however, and the Senate delayed the institution of their action. During the delay, the Student Council conducted a poll of University students which showed them to be 4 4 to 1 in favor f an exam schedule running tw o weeks. Nevertheless, the Faculty Senate switched the calendar to the present eight day exam period during the 1956-57 school The object of the eight day schedule is to give instructors time to grade papers and prepare for second semester courses. The Student Council has been trying for some time to find a way to get the stu dents some extra time to review for exams. Their latest, and we think best, idea is to delay the start of exams tor one day. This would create a sort of dead day" without any exams or campus events of any kind to interrupt studies. To this the Calendar Committee objects on the grounds that: 1. The faculty would not have time to finish the past semester's business before preparing lor the oncoming semester. 2. It is doubtful whether or not one extra day of study would make any difference to students. 2. It would delay the administration in sending out grades. None of these appear to be really solid reasons for denying the Student Council recommendation for a "dead day" be cause : 1. The faculty would still retain four days without any tests. Some of the pre paration for the next semester could un doubtedly be transferred to the "dead day" and such a day would be an ideal time to catch up on faculty work not com pleted at the end of regularly scheduled classes. Furthermore, as the Council sug gested, secretaries would have more time to mimeograph tests. 2. It is certain that an extra day of study would make a difference with stu dents. The claim is that students have Saturday and Sunday to get ready for tests. Eut many classes had finals on Saturday this semester. Also, a majority of the people contacted by the Daily TSe braskan on this subject reported that they had many of their tests crammed into the first three or four days of finals. Totals of five finals in four days and four finals in three days were not uncommon. An extra day of study for such people, if used conscientiously, would undoubtedly give them time to be better prepared. S. The administration would be delaved only one day in sending out grades. If the grade turns out better, because the stu dent had an extra day to prepare for his test, it is hardly conceivable that the stu dent would complain about the delay. And one day extra isnl going to inconvenience the registrars office now that they save so much time with alphabetical registra tion. 4. ""Dead days" and even dead weeks' before finals are not uncommon on other campuses. Kansas State allows its stu dents an entire week before finals and according to the Kansas State Collegian, the week is a great success. Some sample quotes from the Collegian incluude this one by a junior speech ma jor: "Even though you study consistently, there's a lot to review at the end. At our house girls are isolating themselves in the dining room, in the laundry, or in a cor ner of a stairway. Everybody is working hard." Another campus that uses the "dead day" is Harvard. Somehow, neither the faculty nor the administration are terribly inconvenienced by such days on these campuses. But for some reason, our Uni versity has shied increasingly away from inconvenience for University personnel. From the Slot fa-aa-" Diana There's a bill going through the legis lative mill now which could give a much needed shot of adrenalin to one phase of Nebraska education. LB425 would re quire that special instruction, facilities and special adaptive classrooms be provided for mentally gifted stu dents. Under the pro posed law, every school district would provide educational opportunities for gifted children, whether fty providing tui tion to attend a neighbor ing district, or providing the facilities itself. As it stands, the bill may be a little extreme. Many Nebraska schools already have some sort of pro gram for the gifted. Many are linked with the University and other state colleges. Others, however, have neither the money, facilities, teachers or students to conduct elaborate programs for gifted students. No large, sweeping state program can be put into effect in a school where only one gifted student is enrolled. However, LB425, as proposed by sen ators Stanley Portsche of Lincoln, Nor man Otto of Kearney and Fern Orme of Lincoln, is definitely a step in the right direction. The gifted child, as a Chicago elementary school teacher pointed out, "'is an ace coaster." When classes move slowly, the gifted student is more than likely to develop Bluffing techniques that would put a GI goldbricker to shame. On the other hand, Dr. Marshall I-liskey, head of the educational psychology clinic on campus, assured me that many re search studies have shown the tremend ous gains that can be taken by gifted students given the proper stimulus. He also struck out at the traditional argu ment against special education for gifted Daily Nebraska!! 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Uttt. tilUTOKlAL HIiFF .. Mirite Mover Maimulm f.dltiir Illana Maxwell Henlur Mtaff Mrltnr ..... .rct.en MMea 7""" l-llt"r Maatlall Lamtwrt .iv I ilitnr. Carroll Knui. aandra Jkully ( hilly Zn'Iihh. Jr. ( iipy J.illl.irM bean, lum llavlea Hlaff Wrlten, Marlly iJnftey, tamdra Wlialen. dithn Mwemer. wtaff fhntiHrraiiher Minn tie Taylnr BI HINKMet HIMT HnallieM Muiibuit ., Jerry fcellentin AnlnlHiit HliMltieee Manaji'-ni ... Mtan Kalman. t harlenr l.nmn. Nurni Huhlflnt. ClaMllled MaruMinr till tiradr the Briar Patch 31ore Sidewalks Sometimes institutional logic can be just a little strange. Take for instance the signs the men from buildings and grounds keep putting up on the grass around campus. These little green and white tags urge students to "Please use the walks." They are us ually planted in the middle of a favorite shortcut, notably to Swede's and the Temple. Now there is nothing wrong with trying to maintain well manicured lawns. The people at buildings and grounds have been most successful in doing this and there is no doubt that their success has added much to the campus. Eut . . . the shortest distance between two points is still a straight line. And stu dents, being human beings, follow the trail blazing instincts of their pioneer fore fathers by trying to get where they want to go by the shortest route possible. So why not put the sidewalks there? It is true that curving walkways and shadowed bowers make for a lovely cam pus. At the same time, there is no use trying to fight something that cant be licked. Someone must have thought of that when the sidewalks on the mall be tween the library and the Coliseum were laid. They are functional enough. Why not continue to combine function with beauty ali over the campus? One Saturday night last semester 1 had the privil ege of attending a jam ses sion by a group of corn picking Iowa boys who con centrate on guitars and drums. They called themselves the Hi-Phis, a psuedo Greek name, but their music is far from Grecian. In fart their melodic out put that night was so in triguing I was forced to postpone my beauty rest for a full hour so that I could be amongst the equally excited spectators. Therefore. 1 was most pleasefi to learn that said group of musical wizards would be in the vicinity of our beloved campus this Friday night. And to all those who ap preciate fine rhythm plus flavored song and dance 1 recommend your attend ance at the Turnpike Fri day. Crazy, man? IVo More Draft "ot that I'm a coward or a Communist as certain regimented personnel have suggested, but I am advo cating the abolishing of the draft, that awesome law which terrifies the 1-A pop ulus of my class. It seems that said bill is coming up for reapproval in our beloved Congress sometime this summer. Might 1 suggest to all those seniors and other in terested parties that they v write their Congressman in the near future and earnest ly request the aving of the current conscription law. After all we have that well known assemblage ol zealous soldiers known as the ROTC to protect us in case of sudden invasion. And we have 1B.957 atom bombs, numerous other le thal weapons, and a whole corps of intelligentsia housed in a fix-e cornered building in Washington to augment the Pershing Rifle people. Resides, most people drafted today would be do ing their country a much greater sen-ice by selling shoes or collecting bottles from roadside ditches in stead of polishing M-l bolts. Touchy Subject I must be polite now for we are dealing with a touchy subject. Therefore may I courte ously suggest that the cam pus police could perhaps supplement their rigorous duties of ticket taping and minor - beer - buyers - gath ering by directing the maze of B aan. traffic which daily congregates at 14th and S, etc. This drastic revolution of the campus protection league would certainly im prove dispositions of both students and professors. It would also prevent many Hate to class situ ations. And it would halp lower the University's fatality rec ord, an item rising faster than the KU budget. If something doesn't hap pen soon 1 shall sneak my portable smog machine into the bushes by the Adminis tration Building and cause the biggest fog scene since Temporary K burned down. Moment of Silence This weekend marks the anniversary of the decline and downfall of a once paid Daily Nebraskan staff member and red faced hatchet man .of sei-eral oth er petty groups. Lending Library Opening Delayed The Union pictures lending library opening will be de layed one week. The new opening is scheduled for Feb. 12-13, from 9-12 a.m. and 1-5 p.m.. m me inion lounge. iAjREjsrjP;ST7 .-i, :rIeIsT;0;P EjD IsIn ElLl.flflrJj iELivpDi ,f if ;m;t T:!a. vQv. AOs!u;Err WA C QBJ AH O D 1 C ;T .A I TE N'Dlfb.S EEI S E;QN E;D.PA. Switch iFrom Wots o Snow fresh Filter KQDL Attention lobers of Jfinc iflusic. Eljt instrumental roup linotun aft The Hi-Phis WILL APPEAR AT THE TURNPIKE BALLROOM FRIDAY. FEB. 6 9-12 P.M. if niuKM' Wr ihe f lxa wlm ta Hi-Phr"1 Bill Shaken jtnarr. Strut jri Jop. S2.D0 per couple 8 I I Ticket at Door Photo Play students, which is that "segregating them" will somehow do "irreparable damage" to both the gifted and the av erage student. The issue is not, however, whether to segregate these students. It's whether to give them an educational "break" by challenging their minds w hile they are at their most impressionistic peak in the elementary and high schools. And, in most eases what would be involved is pulling these kids into special classes far an hour or two a day, or letting them take extra courses above and beyond the minimum fur less capable students. This sort of thing is already being prac ticed in schools in Lincoln, Omaha, Ains worth, Kearney, Lexington, etc., etcM etc. As a start, this is great. What is needed now is an overall awareness of the im portance of educating the gifted child by awakening him to the excitement of knowledge. This is hard to do when he is able to excell in a class of average stu dents. Unless somehow, he is forced, at least part of the time to compete with others of similar capabilities as himself, it seems like a tremendous temptation for the gifted student to become that ace coaster. Another point worth considering is the "average" or "slow" student. It has been said that this student needs the "leader ship" of the gifted student. Research in this area has shown that these students frequently develop their own leadership qualities, and actually strive harder when not faced with the impossibility of com peting with an especially talented student on his own terms. Three cheers then for LB 425. It serves to focus attention on this vital area of education. In 1941, and at the tender j age of 26, Orson Welles pro duced, directed, partially wrote and starred in Citizen! Kane. Charles Foster Kane, the subject of the film (although! hardly the hero ) w as a news-' paperman, but certainly not an ordinary one as he owned I and operated about 20 papers j across the country. As a moider of public opinion, and ' as a colorful character, Kane i was great. At the same time j he was ruthless, lustful and ! danEerously impulsive. ' Kane obviously was Welles' takeoff on journalist-! ic tycoon William Randolph Hearst. In fact, the film so i closely portrayed certain of the Hearst activities (politi cal aspirations, romantic ad ventures)., that he ordered his entire string of papers to refuse to take advertising on the picture which to most of the world was an open ad mission of guilt. Supporting Welles in this American classic are Joseph Cotton and that fine actor, Everett Sloane. Citizen Kane was recently selected one of the 10 best features of all time from any country by a panel on international film by John West critics. The Union shows it Sunday. Cooper Foundations of ferings for the coming week end are more than interest ing. A re-showing of George Stevens1 production of A Place In The Sun, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Mont gomery Clift, is slated for the Lincoln and the Stuart will present Clifton Webb's latest, The Remarkable Mr. Penny packer. 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