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Mike Jeffrey, business manager
Monday, Nov. 15, 1965
The Changing Life
The Greek system at the University faces the same
problem outlined by a California sociologist whose study,
is presented in part today.
The problem is one of change change on the college
campuses 9cross the nation, changes in the college stu
dent himself. Most collegiate members of the Greek sys
tem would agree that fraternities and sororities cannot and
do not hold the same function they did 20 years ago, ten
years ago or even five years ago.
The question is: are they fulfilling the needs of their
members today, in 1965? Many would, without hesitating,
respond yes. Others would simply avoid the question. A
few would correctly, intelligently say, no, all needs are not
being met.
It is the people who make the realistic, negative re
sponse that will be the saviors of the fraternity-sorority
system, if it is to be saved.
The more mature college student of 1965 does not need
the security and assurance of a devoted sister or brother
hood. In fact, many students despair of the rules and obli
gations that have necessarily been a part of Greek life.
The student of 1965 expects more from Greek life than
a pin, a ritual, Monday night seranades, and house parties
or he should if he doesn't.
Four college years spent in an unchallenging atmos
phere is unfair to today's college student. His life is full of
changes, adjustments which occur at a faster pace than
ever before. If the Greek system is to continue changes
must occur equally as fast, the system must not only pro
vide the proverbial "home away from home." It can no
longer be only a medium for social activity, but it must
challenge the 1965 student, make him aware of the fast
moving world in which he lives.
The Greek system must offer more than the roman
tic's view of the ivy-covered hall, and a life of fun, frolic,
joy. fellowship and brotherhood. Life is just not that way
in 1965 and the new student is not about to be fooled in
believing the Greek fairy tale version.
Because of the nature of a fraternity or sorority the
alums as well as the collegiate members must be aware
of the new challenge. Those alumni members who still
view the house as the institution they were a part of in
1928, 1939, 1955. or even 1960 must be convinced that many
of their methods, solutions and views are no longer ap
plicable in 1965.
Nebraska will be one of the last campuses strongly af
fected by a changing world, a changing university com
munity and with it a changing student. But Nebraska will
be affected just as the campuses on the coasts. If the
Greek system here will but feel the new atmosphere and
adopt itself, it can be a strong and important part of
University life.
Students' Message
The Rhodesian problem is of paramount importance
to a small group of University students the African stu
dents. THEIR CONCERN is verbalized in a statement to be
sent to governmental officials in Africa, and in their pledge
to volunteer to go home and fight if necessary to insure
Ian Smith's defeat.
Most of the students agree that the nations of Africa
must have help from the outside to win the struggle. And
all fear that Wilson, with a very slim majority in Parlia
ment, may lose in his effort to provide British military
help.
MANY FEAR that the African nations will turn to any
hand even a communist hand if it holds a promise of
helping to overcome Smith and others like him. The prob
lem is complex, the Rhodesian situation , unwektv, -
The African students have taken a positive means of
expressing their concern, their point of view. May their
timely statement stimulate their fellow countrymen to
boldly defy and defeat Ian Smith's new regime.
Marilyn Hoegemeyer
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Campus Opinion
Union Problem
Is loom Space
Dear Editor:
Due to the increased
number of students and ex
panded organizational ac
tivities on campus this fall,
the Nebraska Union has
found itself approaching ca
pacity during the more pop
ular hours of the week for
organizational meetings.
Room reservations, there
fore, are becoming increas
ingly difficult and resulting
in" problems and misunder
standings. It has been ne
cessary to change room
designations in order to
satisfy the greatest number
of groups and individuals
on g!.en days at given
hours. This has caused
some concern among var
ious organizations.
The Nebraska Union is
mindful of this concern,
and in attempting to meet
the problem is asking or
ganizations booking space
for activities in the Union
to publicize only the d a y,
hour and building; and to
request all concerned to
check the Daily Calendar
for final room designation
upon entry to the building.
Such a measure is pre
dicated on the fact that our
special-use room space is
limited. For example, the
Pan American is primarily a
food service area; and must
be used as such. Any group
booking a special-use room
for other than its primary
use must be advised that
such a booking is in jeop
ardy, if another group has
need for that special-use
space even if such a need
arises at a later date than
the original reservation.
The Nebraska Union feels
compelled to continue this
policy of retaining space as
signment privileges to meet
the rapidly increasing ser
vice demands of its campus
clientele, to whom we feel
a strong commitment. The
only alternative to this pol
icy" is to begin denying stu
dent organisations in their
room reservation requests,
because of the insistence of
prior rights by other organ
izations. Such a measure is,
however, not in keeping with
the philosophical disposition
of this management or the
campus at large.
The Nebraska Union feels
the full cooperation and un
derstanding among the var
ious student organizations
and their officers can as
sist us in serving the cam
pus at large in the most ef
ficient manner.
Any organization or group
desiring information on
what constitutes a special
use area or any further in
formation regarding room
reservations may obtain
such information from the
Reservations Secretary in
the main office of the Ne
braska Union.
A. H. Bennett, Director
Nebraska Union
Bill Harding, President
Nebraska Union Board
African Students Protest
Ian Smith's Take-Over Poet Must Speak
students at the University have volunteered to return home to fight "Smith's
part of a two-step protest ol lan Smiths attempt for Rhodesaan independ-
African
gang as a
ence.
The University African Student Association decided in a meeting Saturday night to
take positive action in demonstrating their disapproval of Smith's actions. Two tele
grams will be sent, one to the secretariat of the Organization of African Unity head
quartered in Addisababa, Ethiopia, the other to Pan African Students of America.
PASOA, headquartered in New York.
The telegrams will be followed by 36 letters to be sent to all the heads of govern
ment and state in Africa.
In the letters the member states will be urged to declare a state of emergency, to
mobilize all armed forces, and to call for volunteers and a draft.
In addition the University students have asked that the African states encourage
the Rhodesian Africans to aid the exiled Rhodesian government "which seeks recogni
tion from within and without Africa."
The statement further urges that all necessary and effective material, food and
medicine be sent to the Rhodesian Africans.
-"Arms intervention is the only solution." Sylvester Amanquah, president of the
African Student Association said. Thus he explained the Association members' pledge
to be ready on call to return home to fight to overcome Smith's new regime.
Dear Editor :
In response to a letter by
Jean Reynolds. "Scrip Fol
lows Barbaric Line." The
idea that contemporary li
terature is degenerate ( your
word is "rot") is open to
speculation. The condemna
tion however of New work
(in becoming) is a strangle
hold. The infancy of all things
is difficult, and new writing
has always been stimulating
to detractors and friends,
the stimulus elicits different
reactions.
Jean Reynolds may disa
gree with what she person
ally finds worthless (the en
tire issue of Scrip apparent
ly), but maybe her liberal
"paraphrasing" or corrupt
ing of Miss Hodges poem
consists of substituting
"word" for "dream." The
poem originally ended:
'Today
The kindest
Dream of all
Is
Dreamless
And Miss Reynolds is
stepping on that dream and
making it dreamless. The
writer-poat must speak,
must use the only medium
available, words, but per
haps his best speech is when,
he, "Speaks like silence."
Got it Jean?
D. M. Crook
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By Bob Wetherell
The University medical school is testing a "model
ambulance" to see how effective it is. We wonder what
happens to prospective patients if it is not effective enough.
And speaking of this, it seems a possibility that the
residents of Abel will probably find out if they continue
their escapades with fires and elevators.
Sociologist Says "Sororities Face Extinction
On Higher Education
The Mystery: No Students
In Class, Many Excuses
Davis, Calif. (CPS) - A
University of California
sociologist says that sorori
ties, long influential i n
manipulating t h e campus
social order, now face
extinction.
John F. Scott, professor of
sociology at the University
of California, Davis, says
that factors that caused the
growth of these social in
stitutions during the first
half of the century have
changed and that rigidly
structured sororities are
finding it more and more
difficult to mesh with to
day's highly competitive
campus society.
Dr. Scott, who has studied
sororities in detail, says he
finds them an outgrowth of
society's efforts to control
marriage and the selection
of the "right man."
"UNIVERSITY ADMIN
ISTRATIONS are not as
hospitable to Greeks as they
once were," he says, citing
regulation changes that tend
to minimize the influence of
Greek activities on campus.
Extensive dormitory com
plexes are effectively com
peting with sorority housing
and off-campus activities
are proving as popular and
as varried as sorority activities.
"But trie worst blow of all
to the sorority system comes
from the effect of increased
academic pressure on the
dating h a b i t s of college
men," Scott says. Academic
competition on most cam
puses is keen arid college
men no longer have time for
the form of courtship that
made sororities so exciting,
he savs.
SCOTT CONCLUDES that
the sorority system, "n o t
likely to yield to change,"
will no longer be able to
sustain itself. "When parents
find that sorority member
ship does their daughter
little good, the system as we
know it will go into history,"
he says.
On the University of Calif
ornia's 27.500-student Berke
ley campus the predictions
made by Dr. Scott are
already beginning to come
true.
SORORITY RUSH PAR
TICIPATION was down this
fall to 340 coeds as com
pared with 437 just a year
ago. The dean of women's
office could not explain the
drop.
The sorority representa
tive to the campus student
government said, however,
she felt the drop reflected
a "steady trend."
"The drop has been about
the same every year since
I've been here." she said.
"It has something to do with
the way the university is
changing."
ANOTHER T R 0 U B L E
within the Greek system not
mentioned in Dr. Scott's
study is either implied or
actual racial and religious
discrimination. Last spring,
the national Sii'ma Chi
fraternity organization drop
ped the Stanford University
chapter from its rolls after
it had pledged a Negro. The
national body said this was
not the reason the chapter
was dropped, however.
At Yale University, t h e
Phi Gamma Delta frater
nity chapter just voted to go
local in opposition to its na
tional's membership selec
tion policies. The chapter
had pledged the first Negro
in the history of the national
last spring and had sub
sequently been subjected to
heavy pressures from the
parent body.
This fall, the chapter of
at the Catholic University of
Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority
at the Catholic University of
America in Washington.
D.C. terminated its affilia
tion with the national group.
The local chapter had just
joined in May. Pam Hull,
chapter president, said the
decision was made after
some chapter members at
tended the s o r o r i t y' s
national convention in New
York City.
"During the convention."
she said. "I discovered pol
icies of the organization
which had not been made
known to our group when
w e joined." Informed
sources within the chapter
have made it known on
able principles
tion.s" involve
tion.
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The following article, written by a
student at the University of Oregon em
phasizes our concern about the system of
higher education in America. Though not
every observation made is pertinent lo the
University, the article shows the general
frustration which haunts a student desir
ing learning for learning's sake. The Edi
tor IJy Hob Carl
A professor from England, teaching
in the U.S. for the first time last year,
was astounded when he faced his "first
class of American students and found that
several were missing. A pretty coed final
ly solved the mystery by telling him, "It's
Friday and a lot of kids like to go home,
so thf-v skin class."
THE FOLLOWING MONDAY, again
facing his abbreviated class, the professor
expressed surprise. However, when some
one told him. "A Jot of kids aren't back
from their long weekend yet." he accepted
this.
On his way to the Wednesday class,
the professor thought to himself. "At last
I'll ret to see all my students."
However, when he stared out at the
empty seats, he asked. "Where's every
one today; where is everybody?" and a
cooperative student in a back seat hap
pilv answered. "Today's Wednesday, the
middle of the week. S'ou don't expect us
to stuclv ;dl Hie time, do vou?"
SO.' THE PROFESSOR still wonders
what is wrong with higher education in
America.
And this, ttie .W4 question, remains
unanswered despite obvious signs ot stu
deir dissatisfaction with their education.
Students come to the campuses ol
America's colleges and universities seek
ing excitement and stimulation in their
new-found academic environment. And.
almost without fail, and even in the out
standing centers of learning in the coun
try, they find db-'tppointmorit -and disullu
sionnicnt.. THIS IS NOT TO SAY that all stu
dents, or even most of them, are inter
ested in learning for its own r.ake; how
ever, those students who are find them
selves frustrated by the system w h i c h
dominates American higher education.
As one 1 Serkeley student has written,
". . . there is a deep and bitter resent
ment among many students about then
life at the university. It is a resentment
that starts from the contradiction between
the public image and reputation of the
university and their actual day-to-day ex
periences there as students." (From the
book "Revolution at Berkeley").
In other words, as freshmen and soph
omoresand even during their last two
years of high school students are forced
to attend classes that often are devoid of
intellectual stimulation, and taught by dull
professors with out-moded ideas and tech
niques. A MORE EXTREME FRUSTRATION
occurs when a naive students signs up for an
introductory course in almost any field.
For almost certainly that course will be
taught in a large lecture hall, seating
somewhere between fM) and 4(H) students,
bv the poorest teacher in the department.
This is true because the better, more ex
perienced professors don't want to waste
their time with undergraduates.
Today's students have no say in their
course offerings or curricula in general.
They are introduced to their future alma
mater with an oul-dated orientation pro
gram, and thereafter, ttiey are told what
courses to take, regardless of their likes
or dislikes, and are forced to accept what
the institution deems advisable.
STUDENTS LEARN to get through
their education by mastering a four-year
system of lectures, reading "lists and ex
aminations but they have little to do with
genuine learning.
However, the outlook is not all black
for higher education in America, because
some students manage to beat the svstem
and get a reasonable education in spite of
their institutions of learning.
And as the professor from England
said, "American students may someday
seek an education for iu own sake. Stu
dents in Great Britain have tried it and
found it to their liking. And they go to
classes too."
(Carl is a student at the University of
Oregon and a member of the edlturlul
board of the Oregon Dally Emerald.)
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