Dante jm fir if if B H p ww Marilyn Hoegemeyer, editor Mike Jeffrey, business manager Page 2 Thursday, Nov. 11, 1965 For Learning's Sake Professor-student groups at many universities from time to time have discussed the problem of learning for learning's sake versus the more common "educational" habit: studying for ye old average. A vast majority of the undergradaute students at the University study for an average because that is where the premium is. They use all the tactics necessary to pass a course read or scan their books, take notes in class, buy bookstore course notes, faithfully attend lectures where class attendance is required and roll is taken. Most students prepare for examinations the night be fore the scheduled test. They write term papers the week end before they are due. Are these methods conductive to learning? Certainly not not if students, their parents, professors and administrators stop kidding themselves. Such tactics are successful only for those students who are able to swallow enough facts the night before and regurgitate them successfully on the exam the next day. Those who are not capable of such "learning" pro cedures, are not successful at the University. It is an unfortunate situation and not uncommon at most undergraduate colleges and universities. No solu tion has been found. Several have been suggested. Most critics agree that the emphasis must be returned to the education itself. The proposal presented at the Student Senate meet ing Wednesday could become the impetus needed to al low University students the privilege of learning for learn ing's sake. Senator Bill Pott's proposal that a student be al lowed to take four elective courses for which he would earn either a passing or failing score is excellent And the stiuplations suggested are necessary. If a failing mark were not to become a part of a student's recordit is doubtful how many students would adequately complete the four elective courses. The impor tance of the proposal lies on the other side if the student passes the course he will simply earn credit toward grad uation for its completion. Those professors and deans who have voiced approv al of the proposal are to be commended. We are tired of seeing students knocking themselves out for an A instead of a B. or a 2 instead of a 1, rather than for an understanding of Romantic poetry, bio-chemistry or political parties . The Senate proposal would provide an opportunity to learn for learning's sake. The Daily Nebraskan urges" the Faculty Senate to approve the proposal. MARILYN' HOEGEMEYER FM Radio Is SAGE Dear Editor: The members of SAGE wish to thank the Daily Ne braskan for the excellent coverage which it has been giving to the progress of the drive for a student-operated FM Radio station at the Uni versity of Nebraska. We feel that this drive is an excellent example of the goals of SAGE in action. We call ourselves Student Action for Governmental Effective ness and hold as some of our goals the improved com munication between the stu dents of the University, be tween the students and then government, and between the University and the com munity surrounding us. We hope to achieve these goals by initiating projects through the established channels of student govern ment and the administra tion, which operate to the benefit of the entire Univer sity and community and at the same time improve the relationships between these groups. In other words, we wish these projects to make for more effective govern ment, whetier it be from Miscellaneous thoughts occur in g while I dusted the cookie crumbs out of my typewriter: Winter it upon us, my friends, and for those who have not already stocked up on antifreeze, snow tires, mittens, snow boots, long undies, earmuffs. cough drops, cold tablets, flu shots and one-way tick ets to Florida, you are probably already too late. I keep expecting to see snow each morning when I first peer out my window. This pessimistic view usually keeps me pleasantly surprised, but No vember is a particularly vicious month, and is undoubtedly just waiting until I am off guard. Now that Mari Sandoz Hall is hasten ing toward completion, I don't recall ever hearing what sort of exotic system has been thought up for the elevators. They've tried the every other floor method and the one to the upper floors, one to the lower floors plan. What is left? One which only goes up and one which only goes down. (I think they might run into tech nical difficulties there, unless they have some method by which the elevator goes up through the roof and comes down on the outside on a roller-coaster b ack. Hey, for that they could even charge admis sion.) Incident!?, I have been wanting to congratulate the Regents on naming the Station Project ASUN or administration and provide benefits the the same time. Gary Larsen. as head of the Senate's Cultural Affairs Committee, has been doing a fine job in support of our goals as far as the FM sta tion is concerned. However, just in case there is a n y misconception, we wish to make it clear that the orig inal idea for the station was SAGE'S, that it was SAGE who presented the idea to Larsen. that a committee of SAGE was responsible for writing the report that has been submitted to D e a n Ross, and that SAGE is con tinuing to lead the effort for the station's establishment. Mr. Larson has been working in concert with the committee of SAGE ever since we approached h i m with the idea, and we hope that we will continue to have his help in the future, not only on this project but on the many others we hope will be initiated in the fu ture. SAGE Student Action for Governmental Effectiveness) buDding for Miss Sandoz. I've been rather fond of her ever since I read "Old Jules" for a high school English class book report and got an "A" on it, yet. I was dreadfully worried that someone would dig up a Lucretia M. Willing, a Eugenia R. Cain, or maybe even a Wilhelmina Maybelle that the place just had to be named for. I mean, there's no doubt that Miss Louise Pound was a worthy lady and even if my mother did have her for an English class, there is a certain distress ing lack of elegance about her last name. Do you suppose they really are plant ing winter wheat in the mall between the library and the Singing Silo? There's one advantage to cold weath er, though; when it snows, there are no serenades. Those people you see who have a pe culiar blue tinge to their complexion late ly are the ones who have a motorcycle in stead of a car for the winter months" There's one thing about having the Oklahoma game on Thanksgiving it's put an end to the annual anxiety: iif we would win the game, would they really call off classes for that Monday and Tuesday?) which has bothered students in previous years. Only it was never proved whether they would or not, and this was probably the ideal year to have proved it. m.m. Mi I'M h CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR TO THE Satire Statement Said Conflicting Dear Editor: I am somewhat confused over a seeminglv comiict ing statement that you have made concerning the satiric quality of a letter sent in by an Abel resident ec.i cerning the rash of fires at the dormitory. You stated in an editorial on the day that his letter was printed and in reply to a letter sent in deiense of the first letter that "ridicul ing the situation, the men of Abel Hall is no help at all." However, in the same is sue that your first state ment was published, a sa tiric cartoon was printed that riciculed the situation, and especially the men of Abel, very much so. I'm sure that I don't have to de scribe the cartoon; it was particularly funny and packed a lot of wallop in its attempt to "ridicule" the situation. I contend that the Daily Nebraskan, while chastising Mr. Kaufman for writing a satire on the fires, is also guilty of ridiculing the same Praise And Scorn Dear Editor: Until this year. I have al ways been disappointed with University Theatre produc tionsthe ones directed by a faculty member. (Plays directed by students have been invariably excellent. But Dr. Morgan's Who's TOMMOROW MGIIT thing. I think that a clari fication is warranted. Sincerely. Larrry Eckholt Off-Campus Resident Editor's Note: The Daily Nebraskan has received several letters expressing Mr. Eckholt's point of view. Our original thought ex pressed in an editorial on the Abel fires was that a rational approach to the problem was essential. We said it was ridiculous to be lieve that over 1.000 men in Abel could be blamed for the fires. We also stated that the conduct of f very Abel resident should be adult, responsible and that aiding the investigation teams, not ridiculing their attempts, or the situation was essential. The importance of coop eration and responsible ac tion on the part of every Abel resident was the point of the editorial. This was the point missing in Mr. Kaufman's excellent satire of the situation, because of the nature of the satire. Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? deserves highest praise, as do the actors. So I thought things would be different this year. I got a ticket to Macbeth, despite the horror of the recent production of Ham Jet. What a bore! I never saw an audience so fidgety. Hamlet may have been mis directed, but Macbeth was hardly directed at all. The players merely proclaimed their speeches except for Lady Macbeth, who almost sang them in tones so round it was difficult to under stand her, or to believe she could be real. This was not Shakespeare. The direction has been a great disservice to those who are approaching Shakespeare on the stage for the first time, as well as wasting an evening for so many and giving the Uni versity a rotten reputation. V. E. Barnet Graduate Student attend the next meeting of . 0aa.30 Student Action for Cover mental Effectiveness Thursday, November 11 t:00 pm Nebraska Union Room 232 A SAT. MGIIT. U.M. THEATRE PRESENTS: WAR ON POVERTY Notes From The North Pole Being new and inexpe rienced, there is just no telling what you fans will put up with until I reach the rock-bottom security of con formity. I am rather in secure, you know. I admit this, however, with joy. My column is no rumble of defiance at a malevolent, threatening world of gray, nor a squeak of waspish anger at an unconcerned society. It is more of the gardener's happiness at a small violet growing in the onions ( what quaint par allelism), or the athlete's joy in discov ig that his multi-fracturei ,g was only broken in one place. I identify with both James Bond and Einstein, though I am more frequently com pared to Charlie Brown and others of like reputation. By the way, the title of this "column" i s in ref erence to the freezing, bitter winds of cold sweeping down from the p o 1 a r reg ions, rather than to the jolly old elf as a bringer of goodies. (That's for you who haven't already figured it out). Enough of introductions. Being foolish by nature and impulsive by habit. I went to a football game Sat urday. T'S'greatest game in the world." slushed an alum as he spilled his ninety proof down my shirt.) Continu ing through the gate ' was escorted by several boy scouts as an illegal entrant. After showing my papers, I managed to convince them that I was not the culprit, or, at least to let me go, and 'Navy' Poem Dear Editor: May I offer the enclosed poem in response to the November 8 Campus Opin ion written by a Marine in Viet Nam. Amid the glitter of brass, blue and red. There strides a man, a Marine it's said. He walks so proud, yet looks so mean He's called what, "The world's greatest fighting machine?" Stop, allow me the time to classify him, As merely a sailor who cannot swim. "Ex-Navy" The following excerpts taken from a presentation made by University Italian Trofessor Rocco Vanasco at the recent Dante Festival are the second in a series of articles of an intellectual nature. The Editor 'THE LITERARY world celebrates, this year, the 700th Anniversary of the birth of the immortal Dante Alighieri. We claim the privilege o f collaborating with Italy in commemorat ing the most eminent of her many brilliant sons. "WE MODERNS are not only obessed with the theory of evolution, but are dominated by the idea that nothing of permanent value can come from medievalism. We arrogantly proclaim that ours is the greatest of cen turies because we have not only what all other centuries had, but something else dis tinctively our own a vast contribution to the world s progress. C e r t a i n 1 y the validity of the theory is not confirmed by the intellectual history of the human race. Dante was not a solitary phenomenon of his time but a worthy culmination of the literary movement which, beginning between the 12th and 13th centuries, produced a mass of undying literature. "DANTE WAS the greatest man of his country. He wrote the greatest book of his era, he started the greatest intel lectual movement of any age or time. The influence of his thinking upon the people of I slipped away, ignoring the pointed stares of the two thousand scout leaders which the incident had gathered. Amazing how many scout leaders there are on Saturdays ! Moving on toward the ramp, I narrowly saved one of my feet from the menac ing cleats of the entire Kan sas team as they stampeded onto the field. I found my seat occupied by thirty or forty venders selling to the people higher up. After again showing my credentials and talking two of the more husky venders out of fighting over the mat ter, I took my seat with anticipation. But they took my arrival with more bad grace than I had anticipated many of them stubbornly Base-r The proposed Job Corps installation at the airbase will start out with 400 stu dents and 700 employes. We imagine that most Univer sity students wish that they could have nearly two in structors for each student. Unfortunately, they are too socially acceptable for such luxuries. Daily Nebra&kan Member Associated Collegiate P r e f t. National Advertising Service. Incorporated. Pub lished at Room 51. Nebraska I'nion, Lincoln, Nebraska. TELEPHONE: 477-8711, Ex tensions 2588, 2589 and 2590. SaaacrtrtJna rate are S4 prr acaaea trr ar M far iaa acaarmLe jtmr. ITbuw aa eraaa' Han aalor at IW avat attic la Marata. Vraratfca, fMJrr ta art af taim i. ftlt. Tke Datlr Nrtraaka. k aaattakr lenaar. We4im4aa. raaraaa? n4 Praia? fertac Ota kM rear, nrcat tmrint raeaUaaa ana nam arrtaaH, to atoet af ka l'aHrerH af . brack anar (fca triMlrlaa al aa l arallr fcakrammtUa aa Kraa Pva ll'aUaai Pabltrattaa ifcatt a frea fraaa "atanaia br lb ttatowmfaitw ar as eraaa aniaior law l aJrrrrKT Metav arra at Urn Nraraakaa ara rraaaaalala ar artat Ian caaaa la ba aria. EDITORIAL STAFF Mrlar. IMftUrM WfT,tnnTI Buaaftar aattlar, CAKOLK SFVOi aw Mtr, JO WE THII.'; aarni rttar. JIM SWaRTZi altbt am JW, KM rTr RKLtl aim' ataff wrHr, TVt B.BKI SCOT. STEVE JOWMV; toiler staff wrhm. ITKIIi, BRt'tt OfLHi. tnhSK UNI. IH1, lOVT Mrl Kki tart Tampan repwtrr, J.VR fMMFK: afwtt aa alataat, Hm. Ff.RKR, rnj oa aar.. fftLI. V aWMaXIW. CaJtOtVM OtLimS. PENC DAVIS. Student summer ob In Cor many offered by Lufthansa German Airlines, in coopera tion with the German Gov ernment Labor Office. Stv left may work an forms, hv duttry, or in hotels and hos pitoti. No fee h charged for ostiitinf students It years v older in securing summer jobs for 1966 in Germany. For further information and obtaining the official appli cation forms, pfeoso contort: Mr. Omer Atkimur TRAVEL AND TRANSPORT, INC 3220 Harney Street Omahe, Nebraska, 48131 Italy, the Italy of his own day and of s u c c c e d i n g generations, is one of the marvels of history. "He was the interpreter of man to all generations. Whatever the -eason for our interest in Dante, the study of his Divine Comedy will be always both a discipline "not so much to elevate our thoughts" says Coleridge, "as to send them down deep er," and a delight calling forth the deepest emotions of our being. "THE POET'S POWER," said George William Curtis, "is not dramatic, obvious, imposing, immediate like that of the statesman, war rior, and the inventor. But it is deep and strong and abiding. The soldier fights for his native land, but the poet makes it worth fight ing for." "JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL in his essay on Dante tells us that the great Italian "wrote with his heart's blood, like an in spired prophet of old." He never lost his confidence in the ultimate victory of right and truth. He took the vernacular speech of his own day and give it color and richness, form and sub stance, eternal dignity and beautv. "FAR FROM BEING a waning classic, Dante "in power ever grows," and the interest he calls forth constitutes, as James Bryce observed "the literary phenomenon of England and America." blocking my view of the field for minutes at a time while they pretended to be selling chocolate covered hot dogs to the rabid fans above me. Toward the fourth quarter, when I did catch a glimpse or two of the field, I began leaning forward in my seat with each play. (Every fifth play I fell onto the guy ahead of me). Shortly, how ever, his discomfort was removed, as the fans whose taste for blood was satisfied, began leaving. Determined to see the end of the con test. I clung to my seat grimly, ignoring the. waves of people pouring off the seats on either side of me. At about five-thirty I found myself staring at an empty field in a deserted stadium. As somebody once said, tom orrow is another day. And next week-end is another game one I'll listen to on the radio. S. 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