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Tuesday, December 1, 1959 Page 2 The Daily Nebraskan Editorial Comment Salvo Goes on Training America's favorite iconoclast, the same admiral who made headlines by getting away with bullying Khrushchev, has again leveled a salty salvo at our educational system. Vice Adm. Hyman G. Rickover, "the father of the atomic submarine," has been a caustic critic of our educational system for several years. His latest comment in this week'svissue of the Saturday Evening Post, "The World of the Uneducated," brings the shortcom ings of our system into clear focus., Adm. Rickover underscores the reason for this failure by explaining the all-important why as he sees it. As he testified last August before a House committee: "I am a customer for the products of our schools. I tried to get people to help me do a job in nuclear power development, and I found the prod uct of our schools quite unsatisfactory, so I set out to find the reasons." These "reasons" he found to be a mis conception on the part of educators of the difference between education and train ing. Said Rickover: ."Education is but one of the two processes by-which children are guided into adulthood: the other is train ing. . . As understood in the West, edu cation goes to the whole of a man's person ality, seeking to enrich it by widening his intellectual horizon. In contrast, training merely seeks to fit the young into their native society." A quick review of the high school classes recently left behind will emphasize the validity of the admiral's observation that our system has become so engrossed in , the training of children that the education of children has been left wanting. The school is being asked to perform the func tion of parents, of the church, of the com munity as well as that of the educator. Twelve years is a short space into which to cram the rudiments of writing, of " mathematics, of language, of history, of music while at the same time teaching how to drive, how to sew, how to cook, i Take one example drivers' training. Law enforcement officials, safety experts and parents largely concur that driver ed ucation in high school is worthwhile. The trained instructor perhaps can teach how to obey the laws of the road and manipu late the old Chevy better than can dad. But does this justify taking the semes ter, or the six weeks spent in learning to drive away from the study of something which most dads cannot teach like lan guage, like math, like German? It is eas ier, yes, to say that the school must be re sponsible for the training of the young. In saying this, however, it must be real ized, that something else must be aban doned for each item of training undertak en. In this case, it is what Rickover has called education. Again a retrospective peek into the 12 years preceding entry into the ivy halls fails to conjure up a picture which would even approximate Rickover's wonderful formula of what education should be. What then of training? Again the ad miral's view: "Training . . . develops in youth char acter traits to suit the predominant ethical and religious beliefs of the community, and teaches socially approved manners, mores and personal appearance. Such formation 'of attitudes and habits can be called 'life adjustment,' or adjustment to the 'peer group,' to borrow favorite ex pressions of progressive education. Train ing also develops vocational skills which qualify one to earn a living by doing a specific type of routine work. "Training does not stretch the mind. The intellect is not improved by, acquiring habits or learning mechanical skills, nor will routine work enlarge one's mental ca pacities, as hard thinking will." End of indictment. Training is needed, but the schools should not have to bear the entire burden of training. Only the schools are geared specifically to educate no other institution or group is established specifically for that purpose. Only they can remove us from the "World of the Uneducated." Freshmen All in a Lump Administrators at Florida State Univer sity believe they may have found the so lution to the problems created by the college-switcher and the major-changer. An Intercollegiate Press Bulletin reports that all freshman at FSU except basic majors are in the new Division of Basic Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences. One purpose of the change is to cut down on the complications and work caused by students changing from one school to another so frequently. Begin ning with the current freshman class stu dents will not declare a major officially or register in another school until their junior year. Arts and Science received the new di vision "because the faculty is already there. "The division provides a home for our general education," according to the new dean of the division. Florida Uni versity already has such a university col lege. Apparently experience at the larger university ha convinced a sufficient num ber of Floridians on the value of the old- fashioned liberal education first, special ization after theory. Obviously such a program would have kinks at first. Some students might feel that they were being forced to wait too long before leaping in with slide rules and books flying into their chosen field. In the long run, however, our guess is that the students of FSU will benefit greatly from this change. The declaring of a major before entering the freshman year is frequently a hap hazard thing. In many cases, students are kept from changing majors to something more "up their alley" because of the loss of hours involved in making the switch from oneiield to another. FSU's new program, if it works as cut lined, could make a twofold improvement. First, it could eliminate a lot of admini strative work and second, it could provide a more solid background for all students. Staff Views: On the Other Hand V J By Sondra Whalen Through the mist of a lovely, sleepy, turkey filled vacation, it's awfully hard to think of anything but more sleep, food and fun. But last week a profound thought oc curred, of whicn rem nants are still somewhat in focus. Not an original thought, it's an idea that's been successfully tried at many other schools. It concerns women's hours and is specifically termed "late leaves." It seems that at various other places, women stu dents may stay out an hour later when the ne cessity for such arises. A specified num ber of these leaves are given to coeds fcr each semester, and may be used eith er only on week nights, or on any night, depending upon the school. Thus, when a female student decides she would like to attend a play, and knows the play gets out at 11 instead of earlier, she simply signs out for a late leave. Thereby she does not need to break all speed records returning to campus, and Sondra might even have time for a cup of coffee. While coming back to campus 15 min utes after the event is over (when it's University approvtd) is all right, a sys tem of late leaves seems to be so much better. You can easily waste 5 or 10 minutes of the alloted 15 simply getting out of a crowded theatre, and, if the show was downtown and you're walking, you'd bet ter plan on 10 minutes for that. AWS and the University don't have the time to approve everything either, and those events not officially approved require , regular hours. As an example, Stan Kenton at Turn pike was certainly worth hearing, but col lege students had to leave early for 11 p.m. hours were enforced even though the con cert lasted until 11. Late leaves would also allow for the un expected, if they could be called in. 'Twould be a lovely privilege, if 'tweren't abused. A KU coed started smoking a pipe be cause it was the only way she could find to have something in common with the boy she dated. s Could it be they weren't meant for each other? Daily Nebraskan SIXTY-NINE YEARS OLD XZemben Associated Colleclate Press, Inter- eollerUte Press stepresenUtlre: National Adrertlstaf 8erv- . lee. Incorporated Published at: Room SO, Student Union Lincoln, Nebraska 14th A R Telephone 1-763L ext 4225, 4228, 4227 Th 0UI NnbnMhM to iraMlih MaMajr, Vaeadar. WndMMat mat rrida daHaa tha Mhool ior, narp dnrlaa vacation mad emu porlmtt. by rtudnti mt tha (JaJvaraity at Wabraaka anaar ina Mtharluetoa at thm Cammltbw aa fuudrat Affair a ma iirwilna at ata 4m aetahrv, Pailirotloa aaarr Mm rld;ja at tha Hubaammltlot oa Mioanm PuhliitatkiM (hail ba fraa tmm wntorial smannhlp oa tha part at tha Hanaon. 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Till " ' r.fPJSgts. -1 Across the Campuses Sororities Should Be 'Marriage Markets' l'ffy (tfO&St, W6THOSZ AtW A6AIN W5 MUST Errant Thoughts dear di well kid sitting here in a meleiicholy state of mind you know what a sip or two of suds does to me i got to thinking of things past in relation to the effect they may have on things future like last spring when the fourth floor union purge was going on as you know certain groups were worried about the seemingly grow ing power of other groups on campus and were anx ious to put a stop to said growth statements like i think she is and there is reasonable' doubt and i think we should look into this more fully were bandied about reck lessly with the result that anyone mentioned or con nected with the other group or groups was slipped the black bean without hesita-' tion white flag raised all of this was of. course designed to keep or perhaps finally raise the waving white flag of purity and truth if this could have been accomplished these people reasoned it would remove a lot of the temptation the younger generation might be exposed to in later life to join these other equally mystic groups these youths who must be guarded would then not join the bad mys tics and their power would diminish rapidly well dear di it !s obvious that the one group failed to cut out all the undesirable since almost a majority of its membership is made up of bad guys. the ; other fourth floor purge was more thought out and better planned and per haps the particular method of selection for membership is more adaptable to head rolling than the other at any rate it was more successful of a dozen apples but one turned out to be rotten speculation all this is the ancient his tory which has caused me to do a certain, amount of speculation about the future first of all the question arises will the two groups continue or attempt to con tinue the blood baths for the politically over anxious es for the first of the fourth floor clans i think answer will be no no one seems to have a burning desire for a return to cal vinistic propriety group two is more of a question mark certainly great inroads were made towards a ma jor house cleaning but the same attitude must prevail among this year's elite or the efforts of last year's crop of masked marvels will have gone for naught the second question re lates to whether or not such purges as 1 have cho sen to .call them are ac tually good or valid things i have heard via the Graduates Hear Indian Students Political economic and cultural developments in In dia were discussed at the re cent meeting of the Univer sity Graduate Students Asso ciation. , An open forum followed the discussion, which was led by Indian students. The association will hold its next meeting Friday at 4 p.m. The Christmas p a r t y to be held Dec. 11 will be planned. The meeting will be held in the Indian Suite of the Stu dent Union. by caesar grapevine that the admuv istration would not outlaw any organization that ex isted for the good of the stu dent body therefore there are those of us who reason that such groups are not good and can serve no real ly useful purpose but should otherwise deserving juniors be denied the honor of ivy day. recognition simply be cause they may also belong to one of these no good or ganizations alas dear di tis a question but twenty five can answer to beware that , which is done in the name of good jittery already my final errant "thought on the subject is one of amazement that juniors should be so jittery already aad also that these same people should allow 'them selves to be coerced by a group that at best has only potential strength at the present time knowing 1'ttle as i do about illegal elements on this campus green i none- theless get the impression that the subrosa exists be cause of the weakness and selfish desire of those preyed upon and that such character istics are apparently prev alent in some hopeful cir cles is a sad commentary on the youth of today with bleary eyes sad dened heart and pretzled breath i remain yours in the bonds of the up and up caesar One of the three assets of sororities is that they set up a good marriage mar ket, the dean of women at Penn State told a PanheJ lenic conference at Syra cuse University recently. The Daily Orange reports that the other two assets outlined by Dr. Dorothy J. Lipp were establishing close human relationships and providing a variety of ac tivities. "If you're not dead, you ought to be very much alive," Dr. Lipp com mented. She explained that in today's world of revolu tionary trends, no one can arrord to be apathetic about life. A Daily Kansan writer muses: "I've been comparing Max Schulman with H. L. Mencken and find today's college student a Knight astride a lame-legged stal lion hobbling toward a rotting inn to rest his brain. "His steel armor takes a heavy toll on stamina, leads to the muddled state of his mind. His wit has all the sharpness of a lecture on thermodynamics, h i s goals the virtue of a ward politician and his thoughts the clarity of Los Angeles smog. "So there's not too much hope for him as the ma jority of educators have turned their balding heads to the heavens in search of truth and a better place to land a rocket. The few pro fessors who kept their eyes fastened to the ground are being labeled as 'Hinder ances to Progress' and will no doubt be shoved into re tirement along with the humanities, man and other things which slow the ad vance." Leading scholars and sci entists at Harvard are join ing with selected freshmen this year in an experiment with "colleague ship." Freshmen of Har vard and Radcliffe College are doing lab research, field work and reading be yond normal first year work. This work is then . dis cussed with senior faculty members and in small seminar groups and labor atory workshops. Mail Sent To Campus On 3 Routes Ever wondered how the campus mail service oper ates? Three mail routes serve campus two are business routes and the other is a residential route, according to C. E. Camprath, residen tial mail carrier. Camprath delivers letters and packages once a day, while Clarence A. "Doc" Green and Art Berkehim each make two business de liveries a day. Campus mail is handled at the Lincoln city post of fice in the same manner as other mail and then is sort ed by the carrier, Camp rath said. On delivery, each campus residence sorts its own mail. He said campus mail car riers offer the same serv. ices as do regular city mailmen. Christmas Cards LARGE SELECTION Have v per$onalie your cards this year, G0LDENR0D 215 North 14 luerr oCuclfe 2)t The Finest in Hairckessing. Hove a Styled Cut, Set or Beautifully Soft Permanent Wave. Located at 1340 N St. Phone in Self Park 2-2302 2601 "0" St. Ph. 2-5968 East of Uinky-Dinky MEN'S Suit $1.25 Trousers .. . .65 Sweorerc ... .60 Sport Coot .. ..... .65 Sport Shirt 60 Jackets .... .. .75 Overcoats ... ... 1.35 Neckties . .20 LADIES' Ploin Dresses . $1.25 Suits Skirts Sweaters Blouses . 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