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Tuesday, October 10, 1961
The Daily Nebraskan
EDITORIAL OPINION
Alert Student Body Acts;
Michigan Dean Resigns
Scratch one dean of women. Credit an alert student
body and even a sharper student committee for ex
pressing their .opinion to an administration ready to lis
ten.
The Office of Student Affairs is minus their dean of
women today at the University of Michigan. Why? Be
cause the person In said administrative position simply
couM not handle the responsibilities the job demanded.
Miss Deborah Bacon, the former dean, hit the nail on the
head with her statement she released at the time of her
resignation.
She noted that her 11-year stay in the Office of Stu
dent Affairs at MU were "thrilling, exciting and satisfy
ing. The burden, however, grows heavier every year,
especially Inasmuch as I personally am not in tune with
some of the changes which seem inevitable in the years
ahead," she confessed.
This perhaps Is an example of the honesty needed in
the function of any good University administration or
even a good business. This lady should be given a round
of applause for stepping down when she knew she could
no longer keep up with the times and thereby accomplish
the task set before her.
However, the resignation would not have occurred
had it sot been for the student body and its representa
tives to the administration. Discontent and apathy grows
where a person in authority cannot pacify those affected,
with his authority. This was the situation on the Michigan
campus last spring. The committee of students did the
only thing reasonable and justifiable in such a situation.
They put the protests into a document and presented it
to the University administration. After due consideration
and faculty study, Miss Bacon left the Office of Student
Affairs.
On our own campus we are undergoing admin
istrative changes of our own. There is need of a new dean
of Student Affairs besides possible changes in student
services and student-faculty relationships.
We would be wise to do as the students and faculty
did on the Michigan campus. We should allow students to
make a sensible list of grievences and suggestions and
present them to the University administrators.
Dean Adam Breckenridge has already agreed to ac
cept a Student Council study on student-faculty evalua
tion program for study. The student rattng'of the ability
and qualifications of their instructors has been adopted in
many colleges and universities and should be given a
chance here. We urge students and faculty to demand the
promised consideration.
We are not saying the Student Affairs office has not
done a good job or has not satisfied students in the past.
We are saying, rather, as in most cases, there are cer
tain areas which could reasonably be improved upon.
Some of the student services changes have already been
completed and were announced by Dean Breckenridge
last week.
It is our hope that the students on this campus care
enough about gripes and endless complaints to submit
their opinions and suggestions to the voice of the student
body the Student Council. The Council will, we are sure,
attempt to make the student's feelings known to those
ia authority. I
In the same light we advocate the efforts on the part 1
of the administration to go half way. Why not invite stu- 1
dents to sit in on the faculty committee set up to study I
the area mentioned above? It happened at Michigan and
it can happen here.
We do not intend to criticize any group or groups at
this point. We are only saying that today is the opportune I
time. I
(N. B.)
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Where Is Van Westover? j
If we were to nominate possible successors to Dean
J. P. Colbert, we would have nominated the departed
Van Westover among others. His ability to work with
students was exceptional. He had a clear cut majority of
students behind him. He was able to talk to students in
such a way so as to create a sense of understanding.
His departure is not clearly Justified or explained in a
any quarter. Returning students this fall were shocked 1
to hear that he had departed. Did he leave for further i
educational pursuit? Did a cut budget cause his removal?
We would mist our bet if we say he left because he was
not happy or he found a better paying job.
This is only one area where students should demand
a voice. We agree that lack of funds may have forced
Westover out of his position. But does seniority weigh so I
heavily so as to lose a strong link in the always-shakey j
studentrfaculty relations?
Ahead must lie the shaping of a philosophy and the
creation of a structure of the Student Affairs offices which
will be in agreement with both administrators and stu-
dents. j
Attainment of this goal does not lie exclusively with !
the Student Council or the Student Affairs office. It rests
with every administrator, faculty member and student.
(N.B)
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vVH0W MUctf OF THAT FACE M YOU TRYING To SAVE?"
IDean of Women Quits at Michigan:
(Administrative Changes Initiated
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Ed. note: In view of recent actions by
both administrators of the University and
the Student Council to study and make
changes where necessary in student serv
ices and student-faculty relations, the
Daily Nebraskan is printing the following
report from the Michigan Daily, official
student newspaper of the University of
Michigan.)
AfW severe student faculty criticism
contained in a student document sent to
the faculty Student Relations committee
advocating sweeping changes in the office
of Student Affairs at the University of
Michigan, Dean of Women Deborah Bacon
resigned her post last week, according to
the Michigan Daily.
"Meanwhile on this campus, the area of
Student affairs and student services is
presently being viewed for possible
changes. The establishment of a faculty
advisory committee to assist in selecting
a successor to J. P. Colbert, retiring dean
of Student Affairs and a self study in the
areas of student services and student af
fairs is in the first step.
In a statement released by the Unlver
sity of Michigan President Harlan Hatch
er, Miss Bacon called her 11 years as dean
of women "thrilling, exciting and satisfy,
tag," according to the Michigan Daily.
"The burden, however, grows heavier
year by year, especially inasmuch as I
personally am not in tune with some of
the changes which seem inevitable in the
years ahead," she was quoted as saying
in the Daily.
A group of students composed of the
196041 Daily senior editors and three
members of the Student Government
Council Human Relations Board originat
ed the protests last spring with a docu
ment which they submitted to the vice
president of Student Affairs.
Their report, never released in full,
called for personnel changes, structural
changes within the office, clearer rela
tionships between the Office of Student
Affairs and the rest of the University, a
review of University housing policies and
establishment of an orderly grievance
mechanism for students.
Members of the original student group
still on campus issued the following state
ment to the Daily:
"It is encouraging that the dynamic
qualities which she possesses are being
transfered to a position where they can be
used to advantage." (Mrs. Bacon will take
a position teaching English.)
"We hope that those students and facul
ty members for whom the central issue
was the paternalistic orientation of the
Dean of Women's Office will now focus
their attention on the broader aspects of
the problem.
"We are not, and never have been, pri
marily concerned with personalities. We
are most concerned that the University
re-evaluate the role which the Office of
Student Affairs should play in the lives
of the student body."
The Office of Student Affairs took the
Initiative when they received the docu
ment and set up a committee to in
vestigate the structure of the office. This
committee today includes both faculty
and students with a faculty member head.
Last week Dr. Adam C. Breckenridge,
dean of faculties, announced several
structural changes in the administrative
organization. He noted at the time the
changes were not for reorganization of
services but rather, merely a part of
a complete survey.
He also said that he hoped to work with
representation of student organizations on
this survey although there are no definite
plans at the present time.
In addition, Dean Breckenridge will
present the suggestions of the Student
Council for a Student-Faculty Evaluation "
Program at the next meeting of the organ
ization of department chairmen.
Five Wake Forest Sororities Lose
Charters Over Policy Disagreement
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By Mallnda Berry
(Special to the Daily Nebraskan)
Five sororities at Wake Forest College
have lost their national charters in a dis
pute over the right of national sorority offi
cials to dictate local policy relating to ra
cial and religious discrimination.
The five houses are also represented
here at the University (Michigan). They
are Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Phi, Alpha Xi .
Delta, Chi Omega and Gamma Phi Beta.
Thursday, Wake Forest President Wil
liam Graham Cole said he had Informed
the alumni of the college that the charters
were withdrawn by the national group!
because of the policies adopted by the
school's trustees in 1958 and last June.
"We established a special committee of
faculty, students and alumni, which
passed on the resolution after commence
ment last June, which recommended to the
Board of Trustees that the anti-discrimination
resolution be passed," Cole said.
The resolution stated that the college
would recognize only those social or fra
ternal organizations "having complete au
tonomy in selecting their local member
ship." "We realized that progress along these
lines takes time, and cannot be done over
night. We offered the sororities time to
work within their own groups and we also
offered them any help we could give," he
said.
"We then sent copies of the resolutions
to the national offices of the sororities,
and in late August the local chapters re
ceived word that their charters were being
revoked," Cole said.
Cole, in his letter to the alumni, said
that the college is not anti-sorority or auti
fraternlty, but Is opposed to discrimination-
He said that the college is not Insist
ing that "any group on campus must in
clude members of minority groups," but
only that they have the right "to do so if
they choose."
"We will welcome the five nationals
back at any time they will give us assur
ance that the local chapters will be free to
select their members without asking Uie
permission of any national or alumni
group," Cole said.
Cole said the sorority members are lo
discuss next week whether they should
continue to operate without national sup
port. He said the school "will give them
every assistance, even financial aid, if
necessary to function.
Three weeks of Ag cam
pus experience, mastery of
water divining and several
years of after game play
calling for the Elwood Pi
rates will surely qualify the
opinions and solutions to the
Farm Problem which will
be introduced in this col
umn. The Farm Problem is es
sentially that of having two
many bushels of grain for
too few heads of consum
ers and how to take the ag
ricultural world off govern
ment support.
Feed grains, soil bank,
parity and various other
methods have all been tried
but every election year
just about every candidate
for a political office points
out that the farmer is still
having a hard time making
a go of it.
The first plan would have
to be kept rather under
' cover until the time for
recognition was at hand.
Earlier this year when the
wheat harvest was in full
swing the Agricultural Sec
retary's little helper
black rust cut off thou
sands of bushels of grain
throughout the midwest. A
little later Nebraska corn
growers tangled with root
worm.
If the Department of Ag
riculture were to develop
swarm after swarm of black
rust spores and thousands
of root worms and casually
distribute them in the fields
of' America the whole sur
plus problem would be
solved. At first such a plan
Meetings
The Ag YMCA-YWCA meet
ing tonight to be held at 7:15
will feature a panel discus
sion group of foreign students
on "Integrated Minds About
the World." The meeting will
be held at the Ag Student
Union.
a
Workers interested in help
ing on Student Council com
mittees as liason representa
tives between the council and
Individual living units should
meet tonight at 7 p.m. in the
Student Union.
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The first in the Ag College
Documentary Film series will
be seen Wednesday in the Ag
Union activities lounge at
4:30 p.m. Wednesday's film
will be "The Face of Red
China."
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Free dance lessons will be
gin in the Ag, Union Wednes
day from 7-9 p.m. in the Ag
Union Ballroom.-The lessons
will be taught by an instruc
tor from Don's School of
Dance and are sponsored by
the Ag Union Dance Commit
tee. a a
Pi Mu Epsilon members
will have a meeting In 324
Student Union at 7:30 tonight.
Cornhusker pictures will be
taken.
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Student Union chairmen
and assistants will meet at 7
tonight in the Student Union.
a a a
Alpha Lambda Delta will
hold a business meeting in
332 Student Union at 5 p.m
Thursday.
The Student Council Ap
peals Board will hold Its first
session Thursday at 5. p.m.
in 341 student Union.
.Any University student who
wishes to appeal a parking
violation should register the
appeal with the campus po
lice and then appear before
the appeals board. If a vio
lator cannot appear at the
time when the board meets
he is allowed to present his
case to them in writing.
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Phi Eta Sigma, men's schol
astic honorary, will meet
Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in
241 Student Union.
The meeting will be devoted
to the election of officers and
the selection of a new faculty
adviser. Cornhusker pictures
also be taken.
a a
Dr. C. B. Schultz, director
of the state museum, will pre
sent slides and a lecture on
Thursday at 8 p.m. in 20 Mor
rill Hall on the International
Quaternary Conference held
In Warsaw curing Septem
ber. The lecture is sponsored by
Sigma Gamma Epsilon, na
tional earth honorary.
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An alum Knight3 Tea will
be held Thursday at Lincoln
Southeast lounge from 3:30
to 5 p.m. for all girls who
are alumnae of Lincoln South
east High School..
a a a
University of Nebraska Sec
ondary Education Association
(UNSEA) will hold its first
meeting of the year Wednes
day at 7:00 p.m. in the Stu
dent Union, Room 240.
"The Code," a film con
cerning the NEA Code of
Ethics, will be shown.
By Cloyd Clark
seems a bit inhumane, but
when all the alternate plans
are looked at it may be the
only choice. The following
facts suggest, that such a
plan could be put into ef.
feet without endangering tie
economy or the farmer.
The . farmer wouldn't en
joy seeing his crops eaten
up, but it wouldn't stop him
cold either because of the
tradition of 'bad luck and
hardship which has hovered
over agriculture since the
beginning of time. Many
farmers might have to
starve, but the only thing
they know or want to know
is farming.
The land grant colleges
and research institutes
would all relish a crash
program to protect i h e
crops of the coming years.
Crop dusters would also ex
perience a boom in their
business as well as ferti
lizer people, vector serv
ices, insurance companies
and of course, the corps of
men who would be planting
a new bunch of bugs in the
fields as soon as the farmer
had killed the original in
fection. In the final account
this plan could also help
out the unemployment prob
lem. As long as the project
was kept under complete
security restrictions and
none of the farmers realized
that the rust and root worm
weren't the wrath of old
mother nature, the plan
would be completely s u c
cessful. After two years it
could be discontinued and
by that time industry would
have sufficiently advanced
so that employment for the
distressed and starved
wheat and corn grower
could be employed as shock
absorber makers or some
thing else.
The one big fallacy with
the plan would be if a sur
plus of castor beans de
veloped. The castor bean is
supposedly a plant that
doesn't have many bugs
that want to bother it.
The Department of Agri
culture could also develop
prairie fire encouragement
programs and hail seeding.
Another approach to the
problem might be to sim
ply ammend the state's li
quor laws so that 18-year
olds could drink beer pro
vided it were made of Ne
braska grains.
The second plan might
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much resilient combed-cottoa
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