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Page 2 Thursday, October 21, 1965 Ml ed Pencil Replaced The red pencil has been replaced at Kalamazoo College. Professors In four departments have tried a new system of grading by dic tation machine. What the students hear is the recorded voice of their professor evaluating and grading their term pa pers or lab reports. The school at Kalamazoo, Michigan, has not had time to evaluate the system scientifically but some observations, based on the 200 students involved in the initial test have been released. The professors from the English, his tory, philosophy and chemistry depart ments involved plan to continue with the new system. Dr. John B. Moore, who introduced the system at Kalamazoo, says that student-teacher contact is greatly increased. Dr. Moore originally tried the idea in an attempt to save grading time. Instead, he found he was spending about the same amount of time grading papers but was making far more detailed comments than he did with a pen. Perhaps this is the solution to the in creasing problem professors face: how to grade 50 blue books filled with students' answers to five or six essay questions. The task is staggering. Most profes sors have resorted to readers, usually department graduate students, to help in grading or to do the entire job. This so lution, while beneficial to the graduate assistants, is not the most desirable grad ing system. Seldom do professors see, during a semester, more than a random sampling of each student's work. Verbal grading would certainly per sonify the professor-student relationship. No doubt, in many cases, a student would be prompted to make an appointment to see his professor because of comments made about his exam. The learning pro cess would be expanded in this ex change. There were no complaints and much praise from the Kalamazoo students who were a part of the "voice experiment." They felt they were receiving more per sonal attention. A similar experiment should be made at the University of Nebraska. If adopted, the new method could increase student professor relationships here. And that we need. MARILYN IIOEGEMEYER Unrealistic Coverage Q)m' Abstention For Peace? Dear Editor: The Daily Nebraskan in recent issues has undertaken to describe what it has ob served as "the serious stu dent" emerging at this fine, conservative institution of higher learning. I'm sorry. I can neither buy your definition of this serious student or the sense 1 ss waste of front page space to a group oi raoble-rouse-s that pass themselves off as interested students. Although they do deserve a place (it hasn't been dug yet) I can hardly see how you can reconcile or prove your published view that this minority of the student population is representative and serious. The only serious thh.gs I see, are the iiaft card burn ing demonstrations of the ICOSMET (CLUB TRAVELERS ACTS 1965 FALL REVUE Anyone Intersted Contact: Ken Bradley 715 No. 16th 432-5949 QUENTIN'S 1229 R ST. 432-3645 The Authentic C.P.O. Shirts at QUENTIN'S ARE GREAT Deep Burgundy and Navy Anchor Buttons on the Right Side You should have a C.P.O. Shirt Daily Nebraskan Member Associated Collegiate Press, National Ad vertising Service, Incorporated. Published at Room 51, j Nebraska Union, Lincoln, Nebraska. i TELEPHONE: 477-8711. Extensions 2588, 2589 and 2590. Subsrriplliin rales are 14 per semester or 18 (or Ihs aoademlo tear. Knlered as norond nasi matter at the post offl.o In Lincoln. Nebraska, ! under tbe ail ol Aumi-I 4. 111!. The Dally S'rhraskan Is published Monday, Wednesday, rhursdar and Friday during the school year, exrept during vacations and axam periods, by students ol the Tnlveixlty of Nebraska 'under the Jurisdiction af lb Facility Suhrrp mlttee on Student Publications. 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From 1 1 a.m. until 1 :30 p.m. Ten taste-tempting varieties of pizza. o AIL YOU CAN EAT $1.25 FREE DRINKS THE PIZZA HUT 4601 "0" 4894601 affiliated groups and a re cent Treasury Department report that links these seri ous and Interested groups with Communists. It is too bad that public attention has been brought to focus on such a group of unrepresentitive and non students. You might say that their teach - in was good well, so was the State Sen ators visiting program last spring which received nei ther the publicity or atten tion that you've given this minority. It is too bad, that this un realistic coverage takes the place of news on REAL stu dent action, Where have you been? You should try to report those things that concern students, not what somebody wants to concern them with. If you really want to find or promote a solution to any thing, start with the year book pictures and if that's too big for you punt! An Interested Student Editor's Note: First, at no time have we published a view, either editorially or in the news columns, infering that the minority groups you speak of are representative of he student population. Second, the purpose of the DAILY NEBRASKAN is not to focus public attention on these groups, but to report their activities and plans so that people like you, "Interested Student," are able to decide to support them or reject them. This we have done. Your letter proves it. You have obvious ly arrived at a decision, formed on opinion. Third, the DAILY NEBR-' ASKAN is not here to please its readers, but to cover campus meetings and ev ents, to report the happen ings and to play them big or small Mon Cher SDS (and fellow travelers): i Peace is indeed desir able; few today would agree with Hegel that prolonged peace corrupts, that war preserves ethical health just as the blowing of the winds preserves the sea from foulness. But at what price absten tion? Yes, youth, old enough to be bearded, to beer, yea even to think, but not old enough to know, you will tell me at a negligible price. But have you stood at Panmunjon and listened to voices railing at Everyman's standard of reason? I have and understand why thou sands of U.S. servicemen remain in Korea. Have you walked along Berlin's wall and pondered the fact that neath your one-block stroll 32 separate escape tunnels had been dug? I have found that benevolent supposition fav oring communism subsides as one views the inside of the wall, once rough and gray, now whitewashed and smooth to offer clear tar gets and difficult climbing; as one views machine gun pits, the death strip, and border patrols with dogs. It is all very real, and very much there. A world of men, not na tions, would be grand.- On its behalf I would readily forego the Star Spangled Banner and the stars and bars of Miss Ross. But each step forward for com munism is a step backward from this goal. I wholly support oppon ents of nationalism and over-zealous patriotism, but to grant communism its day in . Viet Nam under t h e guise that our efforts are directed solely by these forces Is not the answer. If you wish to supplant an inadequate nation-state system, you would far bet ter serve humanity by pati ently seeking: an interna tional language, the wedding of variant cultures, eradica tion of gross economic dis parity, and an international understanding thereby that would lead to international law and its enforcement, a United States of the World. Sincerely, Larry L. Greenwald Rent or Buy SUZUKI & Haas OK Tire Store 500 West O 435-321 1 k t PANAVISION COLOR by DELUXE RV . s " 4 4,3 IBM jitfJ i 'E'uiEJn IMIIMMIMGIBWCIIVSI 11)1 rwJ ' Brawling... Loving... Laughing their way through the BIG ADVENTURE! 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