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EDITORIAL
Thursday, May 9, 1963
Deferred
Rush
1
THE INTERFRATERXITY COUNCIL
rush committee has made a very mature
and objective judgment on the feasability
of a deferred rush week. They sized up
the situation and rejected it.
In writing before the IFC acts (they
decided on the report last night) it is im
possible to decide what they will do. but
this type of rush system, as suggested by
the rush committee, could only bring
problems to fraternities in their time of
difficult'.
THE IFC will be trying to improve
fraternity scholarship through the enact
ment of a new policy permitting only
high school seniors in the upper half of
their classes to participate in rush week.
If the IFC were to accept a deferred
rush motion at this point, the new pro
posal would be rendered useless, and
many hours of hard work would be cast
aside.
The rush cammittee lists several ef
fects that a deferred rush week would
inflict on the fraternity system. Accord
ing to the report the fraternity system
could loose as much as $180,000 in house
bills during the period of deferment.
Can an individual fraternith afford to ab
sorb a $9,000 to $10,000 loss in a single
year? Would their national chapters foot
the bill? Better yet, would the individual
members of a fraternity be able to pay
a $100 year-end assessment to make the
books balance? Or, maybe the University
(gloating over new bugetary appropria
tions) would pay the deficit.
THE MOST important effect, howev
er, is that 21 houses would be without
pledges the life and spark of a fraterni
ty. Apathy would rise among the upper
classmen. Dirty rushing would result.
And. interfraternity rivalry would be at
an all time high. Freshman living in the
dorm might get the wrong idea from
the rivalry, and feelings would undoubted
ly be hurt. The final result would be a
slow but continuing degradation of the
fraternity system a repulsive thought to
all of us.
On a campus with an effective IFC
(reported one of the best in the Big
Eight), and a strong Greek system, why
would Dean Ross favor a deferred rush
which would at the same time stifle a
growing, improving way of life.
gary lacey
Do We Need Grades?
ONE OF the threats facing learning
today is the grading system. This sys
tem attempts to rank a student among
his fellows according to the amount of
knowledge he apparently has. In reality,
it places the importance of getting a good
grade above the importance of learning.
The intended use of a grade is to
show the University how wen a student
dent is doing in comparison with other
students. The University uses grades for
conferring academic honors' and scholar
ships, and for showing other academic in
stitutions a student's progress and posi
tion in case the student wants to trans
fer or go on to graduate school. Because
of the law of averages, the overall rec
ord of a student's achievement is fairly
accurate. For administrative purposes,
this record need never be more than
fairly accurate.
GRADES AS administrative tools are
necessary. The University must know
where its students stand in relation to
each other. However, there is no reason
for the student to know his official stand
ing. Each student knows his ability and
can guess his achievement. If it differs
from his professor's guess, it is probably
the professor's guess which is off. One
of the most entertaining college activi
ties is bluffing. It is used by students
with great ability and little achievement
to see if their cleverness can cover up
their lack of knowledge. Usually this
bluffing doesnl fool the professor, and
the general attitude is that cleverness
deserves a reward which is a good
grade, and that the clever student should
receive a college education.
If the student didn't have the fun of
playing the grade game, if he were nev
er given the satisfaction of seeing if he
won, he might find more satisfaction in
learning itself. Not every student misuses
grades in the bluffing fashion, but every
student does use them as an incentive.
They are a very good incentive, but
thev are also false ones.
THE PURPOSE of a college education
is to give the student general knowledge
as the basis for specific knowledge, and
to sharpen his skill in a certain area.
The goal of getting good grades never
entirely dissolves the real purpose of an
education, but it does dim it If instead
of receiving a grade for a paper, or an
hour exam, or even for a final exam,
the student were given written criticism,
he would have a better idea of not only
where he stood, but how he should pro
ceed. This solution would not work for
all subjects. In lower levels of science
or in some parts of history where the
work is only memorization and not crea
tive, criticism is useless, however, a let
ter grade is equally useless. It usually
serves only to confirm what the student
believes he earned.
Erasing the idea of grades would not
erase competition. The desire to know
more, and the desire to be right are
stronger incentive than a good grade.
Grades are an administrative classifica
tion separate from the academic goal of
learning.
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Capital Punishment
FOUR CONVICTED murderers were
executed Friday in California's olive
green, octagonal gas chamber two in
the morning, two in the afternoon.
Supporters of capital punishment will
favor these executions claiming: .
THAT THE state has th moral rigMt
and obligation to execute men "unfit for
human existence."
That capital punishment acts as a
deterrent to future crimes by others.
THAT THROUGH execution murder
ers pay their "debt to society," a modern
rendition of the cruder sounding "eye
for an eye, tooth for a tooth" doctrine.
That capital punishment saves the
thousands of dollars it would cost to keep
a convicted man in prison for life.
WE WOULD question the validity of
the arguments of those in favor of capi
tal punishment. The state, unless E has
either clothed in the infallible drape of
the old "divine right" theory or accepts
ed the multi-faced guise of Mother na
ture, cannot justify taking the life of a
human being, no matter how malevolent
the person be.
Many persons "unfit for human ex
istence" are now being treated psycho
logically to make them fit for human
existence, much like a person having
malaria is treated for his particular ail
ment. Many of those threatened by cap
ital punishment became criminals be
cause of cruel pressures placed on them
by society. It is more likely that society
has the debt, a debt which can be payed
by treatment of the criminal and not
death.
THE "DETERRENT factor" is the
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favorite but least tenable argument of
those favoring capital punishment. These
people completely forget that when Eng-
land used to hang pick pockets is public i
there were almost always other pick I
pockets present in the crowd collecting
what they could from the pockets of
the spectators. The times have not I
changed so much that the same is not
true today. None of us would be at all I
surprised if, as the news of executions is I
being rushed across the country, a mur- f
der or two were committed.
Besides, executions cannot act eft'ec- 1
lively as deterrents if they are held with
only a chosen few state officials and a
doctor or two on hand to see the deaths.
For the deterrent factor to become ten- I
able, executions would have to be held
as public spectacles, viewed by as many
people as possible. They would lie held
in public arenas; television and radio
commentators would minute by minute I
report the happenings from the last 1
meal of the criminal to the final cheers
of the spectators. Newspapers would
splash pictures of the deceased across
their pages, accompanied by vivid ac- i
counts of his last hours. The full horror I
and agony of the execution would thereby
be demonstrated to any would-be criro-
inals.
WE ARE confident that if such a
spectacle were ever held, and the full
barbarity of this institution revealed to
modem man, capital punishment, like
other relics of the less civilized past,
would quickly pass from the present I
scene. 1
The COLORADO DAILY
Who Says So?
I fie
Boogie
I Men
That's Who!
The campus looks like
I the parade following the
1 return ofiSeneral MacAr-
thur. Not even Broadway
could compare with ail
the chunks of paper that
I are fluttering around. Ev-
1 ery member of every or-
ganization must submit a
i detailed report in tripli-
cate for the first three
pages, duplicate for the
next umpteen, have them
bound, put one copy on
file in the central .reserve
room in the library, have
e another engraved on the
I head of a pin to be worn
I by the new chairman,
and then take the other
i copy of the report home
to cry on.
We have heard that th
local bookstores have a
part in this since tbey are
getting tuts ob the type-
1 writer ribbons, paper.
carbon, binding, as well
I as bufferia sales.
Read Daily Nebraskan
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Have the new Mortar
Boards and Innocents got
ten to know each other
. . . some mentioned that
there were a few people
m the activity world that
tbey must nut have
knon.
The entire J-School is
waltzing around these
da's with little ribbons
that say J-Day on them.
It would appear that the
entire staff of the school
is planning to re-enact
the entire Normandy in
vasion during these last
lew days to pep up the
campus.
Now in tiie year 19C3
( After hurt), tiie Student
Council sees the exit of
the old, the entrance of
the new. "We trust they
entered from stage center
m preference to the left
or right.
Old Burt and his crew
didn't d tm badly this
year, la fact, they ac
complished quite a bit for
the students. There were
the humorous faux pas
student flow in Burnett
U mention only one.
We shall now see what
the newly added IFC an
nex w i 1 1 do as it moves
into another year in
dominating the Council.
Gad could you imagine
what tiie Council would
ije like if the UPP had
won?
Maybe this will be the
year of student rights,
the rebellion to rubber
stampitis, enactment of
free love, beer in t h e
Union, etc.
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century everyone at around moping and refuiiu; lik food
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gayert (Sountry in Eurojje.
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diamj EJyiteetj wiiiKiiur hi imla( cane. Then, tired but
happy, everyone in the lxiuvre for liowk of onion wiup
The principal induBtry of France w cashing traveller cluwikii.
Well ir, 1 guei tliat' all you need to know alwut France.
Vext week we will vkit the Lund of tiie 'Midnight Sun-Spain.
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wfwk world over U filter-tipped Marlboro toft pack or
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