ojsiGi aiffiEtsc mem mma Friday, Nov. 1, 1963 GUEST EDITORIAL Shopping ONE DAY LAST SPRING a slender, dark haired stu dent slipped into the Back row of an upper division litera ture course. When the bell rang on the hour and the pro fessor began to pass out bluebooks, the student tried to slip out unnoticed, but the professor caught him. The stu dent left the building five minutes later, but not until he had been reprimanded by the professor. This student wasn't trying to miss an examination or steal a test paper, he was a "shopper." Although 'a good many faculty members frown upon the practice, students are in a sense the consumers of the product education and the faculty members are the re tailers. Some students like to shop around before they commit themselves to a three month course or in some cases a full year. These students are looking for good teachers. Some educational authorities would maintain that every member of every faculty is good for at least one student This philosophy assumes that there is no ideal teacher. Some students shop to discover the particular pro fessor's approach to the subject matter. Prof. Nevitt San ford of the Human Problems Study Center at Stanford contends that the student who loves order and organiza tion will react negatively to a teacher who wanders off the main material. What the presence of shoppers in the classroom un derlines, is an appalling lack of information about faculty members at the University. Although we- realize that traditions like the Harvard undergraduate guidebook to courses and the instructors don't spring up overnight, we recognize the lack of adequate material about faculty members which is available to students. The faculty member who has published widely and done considerable research may enrich his instruction. He may draw on his material in his lectures to impart new inspiration and understanding. Material regarding a pro fessor's publications, honors, travel and other experience is not really available to students. ' Students look for many qualities in a professor and probably no two students are in agreement We believe that some effort should be made to establish a faculty guidebook, which sets up objective criteria, perhaps just disseminating complete information about a professor's education and credentials for teaching in a particular course. Along with the description of the professor, a description of the course, far more substantive than the one in the university catalog should be presented. As the University grows larger and classrooms continue to be overcrowded shopping will become less practical than it once was. The guidebook although a mail order approach would crake the student shopping easier. OREGON DAILY EMERALD On Dear Editor, How can government aid to church colleges be justi fied? Do we justify it on the grounds that they need the extra funds? They do! They would be very happy to accept them. R has been argued that they are doing the state and government a great favor by taking part of the load of educating the nation's youth. Not subsidizing these colleges forces them to es tablish a somewhat higher tuition, but a church col lege should be able to de velop a program that is tailored much more closely to some particular types of individuals. Those who are against raising the tuition to pro vide better instruction and facilities seem to forget that tuition is not the most expensive part of a college education. The social life of a student Is often as much of his budget as the tuition itself, particularly in the case of nationally-affiliated bousing. Isn't what tuition pays for more valu able than fraternity does? Government support im plies government control. Is government control good? Has it helped the railroads? How long did they have to fight just to get rid of a few feathor bedders? They are not free to set up a really efficient system for handling freight, nor even set their own rates. Another example is thearmers. At the present farmers are still free to de cide when to plant their al lotted acres, but there has been talk. . . . At 'any college w orthy of the came' there is a con slant battle to maintaia in tellectual freedom, and ac cepting government sub sidy and control does not help preserve this. A church supported school should be abla to create a system w iih aa knportant individuality, Church-School and this is very hard to do w ith the government setting the standards. I wouldn't mind paying a . . LO Of VVPfnmA Dear Editor: Isn't it a great honor to be Homecoming Queen at the University of Nebraska? Judging- by the reception Queen Carol Klein received during half-time at the Nebraska-Colorado game, it isn't. Queen Carol, an indepen dent, was elected Home coming Queen from among ten finalists. All the finalists were qualified, but Carol was elected. Because Jhe student body did elect her, we cannot understand why her re ception at the rally and game was so cool. In the future, let us give visible support to our roy alty. It is an honor to be Homecoming Queen. Sincerely Yours, A Student Good Column Dear Editor: "The Xew Guard" is an excellent column. A point might be made about the following statement of Mr. Weaver's, however; 'Let's hope that the state's Legis lators can rise above tradi tional political motives . . ." The implications of this widely held belief are a bit disturbing. In a democracy, at least in theory, the will of the people is supreme. Isn't a politician who acts on the basis of political motives simply trying to act in ac cordance with the will of the people? Thus to "rise above traditional political motives" would be to rise above the will of the people something few American politicians, at least, would wisn to say. J.F.S. i The Music Man- JerScs - "A coward dies a thou sand deaths, the brave man only five hundred." said Professor Harold Hill of the "Music Man" on opening night at Universi t y T heater. In saying that. Fred Gaines pretty well summed up the theatrical -effort made on the first night of the first production of the theater season. The. "Music Man" jerked to life in the beginning scene m ...,w ,,,, OU 'POLITICS S THE ART OF Aid premium for the privilege of choosing my instructors and being abie to attack my courses in the manner I feel best suited to each. Can't church colleges do this? Or must they follow the examples set by the they have the vision to use their own particular assets inherent in a smaller sys tem? Yours truly, Philip Groelz 1025 Charleston if . . - - .X ' - , .- . : ... - i ' on the train thanks to mum bled lines, poor timing on the parts of the traveling salesmen in their actions, and the ear-s p 1 i 1 1 i n g agonies the orchestra went through in an effort to keep up with the rhythmic dia logue of the actors. However, as the play went on, it picked up speed and quality, Fred Gaines . as the delightful, convincing Music Man carried a com manding stage presence and sounded remarkably like JIM' J-l y C O IT 60 I e:S A Pi UrVs" PATCH CAM B P?.T?VC0LD AT rCJZ. !7r A'.CS.N.MS.. Use Nebraskan Want Ads " - ,,,, ' ' ."CMsrA.o srarTCH Know his movie counterpart, Rob ert Preston. In this case however, the resemblance was all to the good. It is only a small shame that his singing did not make his performance perfect in all respects. Gwen Waldo charmed the audience from her first song, "Goodnight My Someone," to the play's end. She did a creditable job of acting and with Gaines through some ex pecially enjoyable scenes notably her demise to his persistence in the library THE. POSSIBLE KST S3 fiflOD. I SAT &T Triic LKTl POUR O'CLOCK (MTri MCSKiNiS, UT TF "G&cAT PJ.tt?idN" NEVER CAME ,i ALMOST fKCZE TO DEtfH.. KPKSALLV LhzU IT HAS SEN CHILLED WITH DiSA??:.T.iNT Mr. Witt ; buifons down the news with Giveaway, horizontal stretch nylon and cotton that takes to action while it keeps its ' tapered good looks. GaleyLort 1407 BROADWAY. NEW YORK 18. N. Y. A Division of Idirimtnoii Industries Product dooi when he is assisted by the kids of River City. Stage Director Dallas Wil liams backed up the two main characters with al most ultimate perfection of stage direction. Alma Kix (Bonnie Benda) was almost too prim, brittle and grim acing. Linda Mead as Ethel Toffelmeier portrayed in such precious detail the chubby, nearing-m i d d 1 e age, giggling, fluttery pi anola player. Adding to the reality and humor displayed by the Misses Benda and Mead was the ferocious silliness, of River City's upped mix, I mean mixed up mayor, John Guinty, who did a fine job of acting. Jan Healey played Mrs. Schinn, the mayor's wife with a finesse of comedy timing. A blight in the play was the acting of the young children. Winthrop Paroo (Gilbert Morgan) came through, once, with gusto when he sang with true child-like gusto, "Gary, Indiana." The older "kids" of River City formed a well coordinated unit that radi ated enthusiasm and talent The Daily Nebraskan JOHN MORRIS, managing editor: St'E HOVIK, news editor; STEVE SYDOW SUSIE SMITHBERGER. GRANT PETERSON, senior staff writers; LARRY ASMAN, MARV McNEFF. GARY MILLER FRANK PARTSCH, fiHAKi JUH.NMJN, junior staff writers; PATTY KNAPP, ARNIE G ARSON, copy editors; HAL FOSTER, photographer MIKE ROOD, sports editor; MIKE JEFFREY, circulation manager, JIM DICK, subscription manager; BILL GltNLICKS. BOB CUNNINGHAM, PETE LAGE. busi ness assistants. Subscriptions rates $3 per semester or S5 per year. Entered as second class matter at the post office in Lincoln. Nebraska, under the act of August 4, 1912. The Daily Nebraskan is published at Room 51, Nebraska Union, on Mon dayr Wednesday, Thursday, Friday by University of Nebraska students under the jurisdiction of the Faculty Subcommittee on Student Publica tions. Publications shall be free from censorship by the Subcommittee or any person outside the University. Members of the Nebraskan are re sponsible for what they cause to be printed. Why don?t you ask your date this weekend to the Military Ball November 16th? r 7 - r? ,.- v' fo KATHARINE HEPBURN RALPH JASON ROBARDS, JR. DEAN Eugene O'Neill's LONG WE NEVER CLOSE i . - i a u iiooreffes DIVIDEND BONDED GAS 16th Gr Downtown in dancing. Not to be for. gotten is the barbershop quartet that sang at vario times throughout the play Those four should ro pro fessional if any one of the members is ever short for money. It is only too bad that the singing of the whole cast was not as good. Through all the boisterous noise it was hard to tell what the chorus was singing at times. And of course the unhappy sounds issuing out of the or chestra pit throughout the performance did not' help out the songs much. The complicated staging of the play was well done. The costumes were mag nificently fitting in many ways (as anvil salesman Tom Crawley riotously at tested to when ogling Miss Marion). The stage design remained happily fanciful and quite faithful to my image of Iowa corn coun try, front porches and town meeting halls of American early 20th century. The choreography was u n i n spired at the beginning of the show, particularly in the scene where Prof. Hill sets the children to march ing with make-believe in struments. It got better as it went on. Perhaps the "Music Man" did not die even five hun dred deaths on opening night. "The Music Man" is a difficult work to stage. Everyone involved made an ambitious attempt to put on a professional performance. In spite of the occasional jerks and imperfections of first nightitis, if this is in dicative of what can be ac complished on opening night of the season, the oth er works to be put on (Long Day's Journey Into Night, Madame Butterfly, Ham let, and The Rivals) throughout the year will be well worth seeing. RICHARDSON STOCKWELL in DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT ic: p Sts. Lincoln