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, 4 j Frank Partsch, editor Mike Jeffrey, business manager Page 2 Friday, February 19, 1965 ntitfftiiiiiiiiiti iiiifiiiijiiiit4iiitt tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!-iiit iiiiiriiiiiitiiimiiif iiitiit't4itiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin eans Several articles and editorials have appeared in the Daily Nebraskan during the last two or three years, which, although they appear unrelated, could be interpreted as being different factors in the same problem. They begin in two basic categories, generally entitled "Are Classes Necessary" or "Why Issue1 Grades," and "Students Cheat," or Students Don't Cheat." But we think they are related. We see these two apparently in dependent topics as pointing to such questions as "What Is A University?" Not wishing, at the moment, to answer the overall question, we merely offer the suggestion that, if the pres sures were rerouted from the necessity of making an av erage average to the necessity of learning something, that a university would be more a university than a grade factory. Whether this would be practical in such a large institution as ours is questionable, but several smaller col leges have taken this detour. We feel that the constant pressure to earn a 5.000 or a 8.999 is removing our sights from our real objective. We see raving beauties raving and winking their way to beauti ful nines. We see 8.999 averages built up on shakey piles of Cliff's notes, test files and memorized facts. We see 5.7's and 6.3's who really KNOW things and we sometimes see these 5.7's and 6.3's explaining difficult subjects to the 8.999's. But our argument is not with those carrying high av erages. We admire and envy them. Our case is with the system that forces memorization of facts, utilizes multiple-choice tests, and, by concentrating on "knowledge" that can be expressed in a word or a mark, discourages a glimnse at the overall picture and ENCOURAGES CHEATING. Answers have been proposed. One highly-regarded ad ministrator thinks we should eliminate the grading sys tem, giving students a number of credit hours ranging from one to five, according to their performance. There are drawbacks in this, not least among them the question "With no grading, how will the performance of the stu dents be evaluated?" Perhaps there are no better answers, but we feel that our main purpose learning things is being prosti tuted in the continual fight for the 5 or the 9. FRANK PARTSCH 'OX s By Gale Man can not live on bread alone. The monotony of the daily tread must con stantly be salted with something to make it worth living. The college student is no exception. If he studies from the crack of dawn (or the alarm clock), continu ously til he passes out at night, he will soon be slip ping on the brink of utter insanity. This particular specimen is often seen playing foot ball at midnight in nine feet of snow or standing in the breakfast line at seven in the morning with a SMILE on his face. The more serious cases are likely to be spotted go ing to house meetings and reading this column. To avoid this leper's fate, I decided early in my col lege career to look into the assorted organizations and activities available for fun and profit on our campus. I was determined to find out that suited my needs in order to keep my mind from further deterioration. I further decided to start with the most attactive ac tivities, the ones with the most under-developed poten tial. With this in mind, I sent my application form in with hopes that I might get to be a member of the student council. I don't know why, I guess the whole set-up appealed to me. It just begged for a per son with real initiative and get up and go. An organization of this type is a good stepping stone to politics. It looks good on your rec ord too. I waited patiently since early November for a reply from them. I kept telling myself that they were just slow in their bookwork but recently I came to the conclusion that they aren't in need of any more members. They ap pear to have more than they can handle now. Too bad, opportuni ty knocked only once. Obviously the references I used on my application were of the wrong kind. ThoI'OUghlV disillusioned, j I bid goodby to all Tlni-j Or End? racts Pokorny versity condoned activities and looked beyond the cam pus boundaries for a means of mental release. One night while leaf ing through a Cather Hall Bible, opportunity present ed itself. The very idea of bright lights, fame, fortune, and money was too much. I yielded to temptation. Quick ly I tore out the handy ap plication blank that the magazine provided, filled it out and sent it in. I had taken the prelimin ary steps in becoming a Playboy Bunny. During the last lew weeks, I've been cramm ing for two kinds of finals. Not only did I fill up on phonemes, medival Europe, and Spanish, but I also learned how to serve drinks with out getting "b u n n y ears" in the customer's eyes, how to execute a one hand judo chop, and what to do so I wouldn't catch pneumonia. Much to my joy, I found that I passed the "bunny final" and would be entitled to membership as soon as I completed one last require ment. Namely that I send the head rabbit two photo graphs of myself. One fa cial close up and another in a (gasp) swimsuit. They assured me it was a mere formality. However, I have a hunch that in my case it would be sheer di saster. So here I make my des perate plea. If there is a warm-hearted, understand ing, unselfish co-ed among us. let her come forward. CLASSIFIED ADS WANTED Car insurance. Young drivers and in surance problems. Call 489-6015. Apartment for rent. Call Bob Newton. 477-4D45. FOR RENT Four male students, beautiful two-bedroom apartment, paneled living room, nire kitchen with disTxwal, washing, clow? to camnua. Prefer colored upper rlassmen. 434-.'lfif4. Students nire warm hmtrmcitl apHrt menl, one bedroom. lare livin room, kitchen und bath with shower. Suitable for 2 or 3. Ilifi5.no. furnished. 4.14-3HM. LOST 1 pair prescription classes Vicinliy of HvsHvy Hjill-Cather Hall 715-Steve Laffprbc.rs Human Genetks Text. Monday. Rurnott R""rd Sa"y 4:,4",m j Tsfeft, For Goldfinger Plan Of WU Writer Editor's note: In Mon day's Daily Nebraskan, we presented an article by David Trask analyzing the student interest In the hit movie "Goldfinger." We present the following edi torial from the Washburn Review, in hopes that our readers will enjoy another analysis. By Phil Lewis Applicants are now being accepted for the Students For Goldfinger and His Web of Sin committee. Although his habit of plas tering unfaithful beauties in paint might be considered in bad taste, this connois seur of evil has many en dearing qualities. First and foremost, he loves money, and will do practically anything to get it. This should make him he favorite of the WU bus iness staff, whom one caus tic professor once dubbed the "dog-eat-dog" bureau. Second, he has fascinating companions like Odd Job. whose hat flinging antics would certainly come in handy if the Regents got stuffy about approving pro grams. Guy Harris might even cow his opponents into let ting him win a few golf matches if he could muster Odd Job's trick of crushing a ball with his bare hands. Third, Goldfinger had the good sense to hire every body's idea of a grandmoth er to guard the gates of his hideout and mow down in truders with machine guns. Fraternities could hire her out as "doorman" at par ties in case the dean decided to drop in. Fourth, our hero hired P. Galore and her Flying Cir cus, which certainly made ROTC look sick. If Angel Flight would just get on the stick and swoop down on Ft. Knox. Washburn wouldn't have to dicker in Washing ton for educational TV funds. James Bond has a f e w good attributes, too. His car would certainly drive the campus cops nuts on sorority raids. Students could amuse themselves with his tire slashing equipment as they drove through the parking lot adjacent to the union which has now been re served for the faculty. The entire movie would be a jazzy subject for a logic class: How can a luxury-size car be crushed (with gold and body) and plopped in the back end of a Falcon without flattening all four of the Ford's tires? Even when crushed, the big car would still weigh t h e same. And Bond's habit of keep ing himself from being hurt by slinging pretty girls draped in bath towels at black-jack-swing b o g g i e men might be a whippy eth ics class topic. Yes sir, he's quite a man. We'll go along with t h e bunch of teen-agers who sat behind us at the movie. When the going got rough and Bond got cruder, they yelled "Come on, Odd Job. Baby!" -.iiMlilllllliiiitllliili!illiiii!iniiniiiii:.... About Letters I Thr DAILY VFRRASKAN litvl E rradf r t one It for exttrewslnn of opinion on rurrrnt tontct rrffr4 Iwtn of vlewpntnt. lttpr most be KiR-nrd. rnntaln verifiable 4 dreti. and be free of Hbelnn ma r trn. Ien unmet tn 9 be In rinded but legmen tbe chance of publication. Lenrth letter ma? be edited or omitted. niEiiniMMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiijiMiimiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiir CONNIE STEVENS DEAN JONES ITVU'RKS AT 1:00 - ''."..iminiimi .in in mil! iiiihiipiiiii THIS PRODUCT IS AVAILABLE AT: W& II V tl By Mike Barton Some students are vulgar, while others are gross. There is a difference. The former is stylish, the latter sophomoric. Vulgarity stems from the cocktail party, but grossness is etched on a bathroom wall. For example, suppose you feel ignored in spite of the fact that your tux shirt is indeed elegent. Throw out a casual&!. Eyebrows rise throughout the group. Girls snicker. Now you're the center of attention again. Suppose 30 of the class is asleep and your instructor poses a ridiculous question. Raise your hand and begin, "Now what the rt&. !. . ." It will appear that you are in formed. That's worth five points on the next exam. Suppose the party is noisy and you spot two freshman girls huddled by the pot belly stove. Yell, "!&. . Now you've broken the ice. Your name will be a password in every pledge class. Suppose your mother refuses to pay your house bill. Calmly say, "Now just a "!&?' minute. . ." Now she's convinced you're a man. Money problems will be a thing of the past. Suppose you're arguing with your pledge trainer. You've been a bad boy and the appropriate punishment has been meted out. Start up the stairs, turn your head slightly and mutter, "You "!&?. . ." You've made your point. Ten to one He'll reconsider. The aforementioned examples constitute stylistic vul garity. . . I think. Let me know how they work, you !&?'! Movie Review 'Two On A Guillotine' Modern Horror Story By Diaper Sandoe Connie (A Summer Place) Stevens and Dean (Ensign O'Toole) combine to form the love interest in a melo dramatic date-grabber called Two On A Guillotine. The plot is nothing new. A beautiful girl is com manded by her recently-deceased father's will to live in a haunted house for seven days if she is to collect $300,000 from her father's estate. As the cab driver says as he drops her off at the front door of the man sion he stammers, "You . . . you're . . . going to . . . stay here . . . alone?" She is, but only until a house keeper comes to stay with her the next day. In t h e meantime, Dean Jones be comes jonny-on-the-spot and agrees to stay with Connie the first night, because she's afraid to stay in the house alone. The reason that Connie is afraid is that her father is tbe former great magician, the Great Duesquene, played by Caesar Romero, (Vincent Price must have been signed up when the casting for this picture took place.) has promised that he will return from the dead to the Haunted House within a week after he dies. As one might imagine with all this supernatural build up, the picture has amply sprinkled amounts of terror and suspense, and handsome Dean Jones :s the kind of guy you just have to like. But Connie Stevens, howev er beautiful she may be, gives one the uneasy im pression that as soon as the director calls "Cut!" at the end of the scene, she's going to say a nasty to somebody, and the crux of her dramat ic part is that she appear sweet and innocent. The acting plum is picked off by Connie's cynical house-keeper who comes and goes all too quickly. Jones soon becomes a lit tle tiresome portraying the All-American boy, and Con nie's perpetual pouting is cute only so long. Their muddled love-dialogiie which is suppose to comprise all the best attributes of Drag on a . OuiLloTin$ -or 7 nights in a A house of terror -or the unkindpst rut nf all. and CESAR ROMERO - :i:0:i - 5:(Mi - 7:12 - 9:18 IT'S GREAT TO BE 'IN DYNAMIC STYLE CONTINENTAL ?- net and The Many Loves of Doby Gillis just doesn't come off. The picture is 'spine-tingling', however, and if you enjoy knot-tying, Two On A Guillotine is for you. The director has thoughtfully provided the audience with plenty of loose ends to prac tice on. I IdONDER IF ME READ "fiyLLIVER'S TRAVELS." ANO WROTE HIS BOOK REPORT... C PlP VOJ FINISH iTSHAftlEBMl WHEN WPVCW CO IT? AT Three o'clock THIS MORM'N5!! 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After talking with several people, including some state senators, I was encouraged to learn that they felt young people can influence legis latorsif they are tactful and have some knowledge of the issues they want to dis cuss. College students could and should make their ideas known to legislators on is sues involving the Universi ty. We students need to show our legislators a genuine in terest in the University and in its future because it is OUR University we and our parents pay a sizeable proportion of the cost of the operation of the University by tuition payments. If we don't talk with our legislators, how else can they find out how the stu dents feel about conditions at the University and its fu ture? There are many ways to Aumt (Hailing "But in the gross and scope of my opinion, this bodes some strange eruption to our state:" (the John Birch Society.) "What is the hour now?" (Dean Snyder.) "I think it lacks of twelve:" (Seniors.) The Doily Nebraskan Phone 477-8711. Extensions 2588, 2589 and 2590. Mike Jeffrey, business manager I.EE MARSHALL, managing editor: Sl'SAN R UTTER, news editor: BOB SAMVELSON, sports editor; LYNN CORCORAN, nisht news editor; PR1SCIL LA MTLL1NS. senior staff writer: STEVE JORDAN. KEITH SINOR, RICH MEIER. WAYNE KREISOHKR, Junior staff writrrs: ROR GIBSON, snorts assistant: POLLV RHYNALDS, CAROLE RENO. JIM KORSHO.I. ropv editors: SCOTT RYNEARSON, ARNIE PETERSON, MIKE KIRKMAN. FETE LAOE, CONNIE RASMl'SSEN, business assistants: JIM DHK. subscription manager; LYNN RATH.ILN. circulation manager; LARRY F1EHN, photograph re. Subscription rates S3 per semester or SS 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 I'nion, on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday during the sclool year, except during vaca tion and final examination periods, and once during Auffust. It Is published by University of Nebraska students under the Jurisdiction of the Faculty Subcommittee on Student Publications. Publications shall be free from censorship by the Subcommittee or aony person outside the Univer sity. Members of tbe Nebraskan are responsible tor what they cause to be r Tinted. TQHIGHT...at 8:00 p. r.i. (DOORS OPEN AT 6:45 PM.) A GREAT FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT!! The Wonderful New World of I rr i y !A fi) JsSk MATINEE T0M-W (SATURDAY) AT 1:00 P.M. & SPECIAL CHILDREN'S V2 PRICE MATINEE AT 5 P.M. EVENING SHOW SAT. AT 9 P.M. SUNDAY MATI NEE AT 2:00 P.M. Winter s-1 DOWNTOWN AND GATEWAY mmm make ourselves and our in terests known to the legisla tors. Perhaps the best idea is for each of us to visit with the senator from his district about his personal views of conditions on campus (such as crowding, shortage of in structors, etc) and es pecially his genuine interest in high quality education. We can write our parents, inform them of conditions here, and encourage them to write their senators, who are always willing to listen to the views of their consti tuents. Information about the budget and the finan cial situation of the Univer sity can be obtained in the Public Relations office, 312 Administration, where I found that they are glad to help us. Other ideas might be: For us to encourage our official representatives, the Student Council, to become more active in expressing the needs of the University to the senators. Perhaps a plan by which senators could be invited to visit the University during school time, especially dur ing the busy days such as Monday, Wednesday and Friday, to observe the Uni versity in operation could be instituted. It is time for students to become more actively in terested in the future in the University and to show this interest. John Schrekinger YES . . . 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