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t V I V -J? 'i 4 J m 0IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1HIIIIIIIIIII I 111 I II II 1 1 1 1 1 -1 1 1. 1 1 1 1 1 Iliiiini imiiiiiii iiiniiiiiiiiiiiu EES Page 2 Thursday, November 12, 1964 ClllllllttlllllllllMMIJIIIflfflllllfIIMIIIIflllTi:ffillllittMllllllfllIIIIIIIII1tl1fllllIIIIIIIIIlJIIIIIIIlMMII)ttl.t 'Gef Off!' "Get off that grass!" "Don't throw that football across the street!" As Indian Summer extends itself into November and the footballs continue to fly across the green turfs and the cemented streets, and as skate boards continue to roll up 16th and 17 Streets, tempers are getting shorter. Twin Towers is attempting to grow grass, Selleck Quad is attempting to keep the grass they already have, the individual houses all have their cherished blades and the football players are outcasts. Last week a letter was received asking why the ten nis courts were closed on week end evenings. The physi cal education Held is closed to students who just want to let off a little steam. The gravel parking lots is hard on both the players and the cars. In short, there's no place for these persons to go for that half hour of catch after dinner. Football is not the only activity that is limited. There's physical energy that has built up through the day. Girls, too, feel the constriction. Part of this comes with the compact campus. Solu tions are hard to find. Administrators are concerned with the problem also. Dean Winston Martin has toyed with the idea of closing a street and making it into a recreational area. This would give the students a little recreational area as well as add ing beauty to the campus, if they are practically possible. However, funds will be needed to accomplish this. Here we are again, butting our heads against the wall. Again the only way to get more money is to work and talk for it. If the students want more recreational facili ties they must let their wishes to known and then help the administrators find the financing for this luxury. SUSAN SMITHBERGER Misery Is... Having to sell Kosmet Klub tickets. Dean Martin without a cigar. The cigar industry without Dean Martin. Three hour exams on Friday the 13th. A blind date on Friday the 13th. Finding only a nickel in your pocket on a 2:00 night. No overnights on a 2:00 night. Due late minute on a 2:00 night. Another queen contest. Winning the AUFul Ugly contest when you weren't en tered. Seeing a "Care Enough to Share" sign in the columns. Seeing your Cornhusker proofs. Having to tear the AUF dunking stool apart to get it into the Union. Student Council. By Mike Barton KAMPUS KITCHEN: Devil's Head Dumplings Select several lively, junior-sized pigeons, preferably Genus Fraternus. Puncture the heads and inject Visions de Grandeur, a powder of unknown origin. At this point, the birds will squirm. Relax. Whisper, "Hi," and the birds will coo. Bloat the fowl with Aye-et-cee Sauce, a rare concoc tion of little potency. Now the birds look fat and sassy, right? But we know they're just full of Sauce. Incidentally Aye-ef-cee is quite expensive. Sprinkle our birds with Stewdin's Kounzel, rare spices from a remote valley in Byelorussia. They add zesto to an otherwise ordinary dish. Caution, I say, as too much Stewdin's Kounzel may leave a bad taste in your mouth. Any more garnish is optional. You might try Kaekae Syrup. The decanter is very dressy, carnation and all. Watching your budget? Soak your birds with Bilder's Award Wine, an inexpensive solution easily acquired. No wrap your birds in tinfoil, in triplicate. Tie the legs with red tape. Place in a scorching oven till Spring, lhe recipe for Hens is approximately the same. Serve a baker's dozen with all due ceremony. The ex tra birds make wonderful sandwiches. Best of Luck, Druncan Hines J. JZ't IF I AM PRESIDENT, I WILL DEMAND IMMEDIATE I Will demand "across the BOARD" (JA6 INCREASES FOf? CUSTODIANS, TEACHERS AMD ALL l(viNolKAIIVc rtK50NNcL; And AwV little dos uwo HAPPENS TO OJANDEI? ONTO THE rWbKOWD WILL NOT 0 CHASED AldM. BUT UJlLL BE WELCOMEOmH OPEN ARMS.' Passing A striking campus phe nomenon of recent years is a rapid increase in "social paranoia" among students. I refer to the tendency to atrribute all sorts of evil designs conspiracies to the faculty and administra tion. While it is conceivable that the dean might be in cahoots with the Greeks to stifle RAM, or that t h e staff in a large freshman course is out to flunk a stated percentage of the class, it is not at all prob able. Difficulties faced by students are important and real, but they are not very often the result of conspi racies. Nevertheless students are being victimized by a rapid ly increasing lack of atten tiveness to their needs by the institution, despite fac ulty and administration ef forts to counteract the trend. The trend itself stems from great disturbances in academia which lessen the effectiveness of the faculty and administration in rela tion to students and which are not well understood by students themselves. The first reason for the decline of attentiveness to students is the expansion of the student body. The mere fact that many more stu dents are in residence and that the size of the staff has not kept pace is itself per haps the principal cause of inattentiveness. The conse quence is separation and alienation a situation sure to engender paranoid symptoms. The paranoia is often exacerbated by well meaning but ineffective ef forts by the university to cope with its problems especially rules relating to student conduct. A second major cause of student alienation is the di versification of university function which has taken place recently. All kinds of new functions are now per formed by the university, taking time and interest away from students. An en terprise in adult education like the Kellogg Center adds a new dimension to the uni versity's operations which is expensive of staff time. The great influx of government contracts to deal with an amazing variety of projects like the Peace Corps or defense-connected research also tends to engage fac ulty and administration en ergies to the disadvantage of students. The total impact of ex pansion and diversification is quite astronomical and all of it lessens the degree of attentiveness to students accorded by the staff. De- Through spite awareness of the trend and attempts to counteract it. the University has not been able to react effect ively as yet. The sense of hurt and of deprivation ex perienced by students in the context of declining atten tiveness ultimately becomes manifest in withdrawal symptoms or paranoid feel ings. The staff, incidentally, also is subject to some of this. What is to be done? The first task is to recognize and interpret the adverse consequences of expansion and diversification. The next step is to re-establish attentiveness to students in the new and unavoidable context of expansion and diversification. The princi pal goal, of course, must be to enlarge the University staff to improve the s t u-dent-teacher ratio and also to expand facilities. The staff must be given suffi cient time to deal with their students and adequate equipment. This enterprise takes mon ey. There are two m a i n sources: additional revenue from the state and addition al revenue from the federal government in the form of aid to education. Until the people of the State become conscious of the need for vastly increased state and federal assistance, the out look for the elimination of inattentiveness to student needs is grim. How can students re spond to these adverse cir cumstances constructively? They can help in a public sense by explaining the uni versity's problems and needs to their parents and, friends at home. They can help themselves by guard ing against the tendency to withdrawal and paranoia and by working out personal relations with fellow s t u dents and faculty members which transcend or at least mitigate that inattentive ness which no one likes and which no one least of all faculty members and ad ministrators wishes to create or to perpetuate. DAVID F. TRASK I'liniimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiii,,. 1 About Letters I y is, Q rk ; . , f ) Ar-v tW, ,; x Mm j j DIFFERENTIAL SqusuLL SquabblsiL Just Me The DAILT NFRRASKA.N Invites : readers to use II for expression I of opinion on current tuples regard- : less of viewpoint. Letter must be simed, rontaln a verifiable ad- dress, and be free of libelous ma- terlal. Pen names m a be In- S the chance of publication. Lengthy rr letters may be edited or omitted. 5 rii!iii!iiiiiiiiimiiiiiii:ii:iii!!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiir 1 was much relieved when a student came up to tell me that I was wrong about there being no original things done on this campus. He pointed out that there are very few campuses where the fans wear t h e team's colors to the game. At Nebraska there are splashes of red seen all through the stadium. Even the windows on the field houses are painted red. What other campus has a "Big Red R y d e r?" he asked. And there are the bombs that used to be shot off after each touchdown. He also pointed out that other campuses do not carry signs around the track at half time to campaign for their candidates for queens or offices. And last year there was the fire that the Sammy's had burning the week be fore the big game with Ok lahoma. Reports have it that the fire will again be lit this year. . . I must say that I'm much relieved. If other students have more suggestions as nominations for unique hap penings on this campus, please, please send them to the Daily Nebraskan, in care of Squee's Squabbles. On yes, 1 hear that some one on campus is trying to start a fad of going bare foot to classes. It will be in teresting to see w h a t happens to this when cold weather sets in. He is around on the ship thats bound Over the water's deep He does not know But very slow He will fall asleep. He cannot stand The Water's hand Rucking to and fro. He is not well On the waves large swell So lie takes refuge below. That is the reward Of the first time aboard On a ship out in the sea. No one did know That that poor old soul Was really just me. by Nick Partsch The Daily Nebraskan RICH HALBERT. managing ed itor; FRANK PARTSCH. news ed itor; PRISCII.I.A MULLINS, MARI LYN HOEGKMEVER, senior staff writers; WALI.IS LUNDKEN, JIM KORSHOJ, BARRY ABRAMS. PEN NY OLSON, junior staff writers; VICKI ELLIOTT, SUSIE RUTTER. LEE MARSHALL, copy editors; RICH EISER, photographer; PEGGY SPEECE, sports editor; BOB SAM I'ELSON. sports assistant; Bob LED1 OYT, BUZZ MADSON. SCOTT RY NEARSON, business assistants: LYNN RATHJEN, circulation manaser; JIM DICK, subscription manager. Subscriptions rates $3 per semester or $5 per year. 0 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 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Fri day by University of Nebraska stu dents under the jurisdiction of the Faculty Subcommittee on Student Publications. Publications shall be free from censorship by the Subcom mittee or any person outside the University. Members of the Nebras kan are responsible for what they cause to be printed. The paper is published Mondav, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday dur ing the school year with the excep tion of vacation and examination periods. 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