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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
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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.
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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.
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