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1 Marilyn Hoegemeyer, editor
Mike Jeffrey, business manager
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Wednesday, Nov. 24, 1965
Court's Decision
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c Student Court handed down their first official decision
", yesterday.
Their ruling should have settled a question that many
organization leaders have asked since the new constitu
v tion was adopted. "Does ASUN have the right to overrule
or change a particular organization's constitution or proce
dures?" '
s The court's answer is no and yes. No, ASUN could
f. not in the Tassels vs ASUN case, according to the court's
t decision, "Disturb the power of selection of the candidates,
which is currently vested in Tassels persuant to their con
stitution." But, yes, ASUN has the power, according to the con
stitution, "to establish . . . new and uniform conditions for
the continued approval of existing student o r g a n i z a -tions
..."
The key words, emphasized by the court, are "new"
and "uniform". Thus the court implied that legislation will
be limited to that which will affect not one but a group
of subordinate organizations. ASUN unjustly limited the
Tassels organization on September 25, but it could make a
similar ruling, apply it to a particular class of organiza
tions. How far the "new and uniform conditions" power could
extend was not a part of the judgement. The Student
Court will evidently rule on each case independently as it
arises.
The court, in making the declaratory judgement for
Tassels, ruled this year's Homecoming elections valid.
What will happen next year? The election of the Home
coming Queen is once again in the hands of Tassels unless
ASUN makes a uniform ruling which would affect a par
ticular class of organizations' election procedures includ
ing Tassels.
If a new ruling on the elections of various organiza
tions were made it would undoubtedly void some of the sub
ordinate organizations' constitutional power.
Here the important word is subordinate for ASUN
does have, constitutionally and through a court ruling, the
power to make changes which could affect not one but a
number of subordinate campus organizations.
Thanks Giving
We asked University students to comment on Thanks
giving Day 1965. Some said it is an outdated holiday.
Others said such a day was necessary to keep us "psyched
up" about Viet Nam and other world problems.
Today we present one of the most beautiful "thanks
giving" prayers we have ever read. The Editor
Dear God:
Too often, we speak to You only when we want something
of You.
Your blessings, your guidance, your forgiveness.
Today we take this minute, not to ask anything of You,
but to thank You for the gifts we have received.
F sunshine and soft rains; for winds and birds
and clouds.
For good talk beside a fire, for books and music.
For the magic of laughter, the lasting beauty of family
and friends.
For the wisdom of maturity, for bread and a roof.
We thank You for happiness and for the strength to
bear sorrow.
We thank You for our talents and our jobs, for opportuni
ties to grow.
For the joy of good fellowship, the fun of sharing good
times.
For the common sense to know that solitude can be rich
and gratifying, too.
We thank You for helping us to reach out and touch
hearts when we have done that.
For what we have ... for what we are . . .
Thank You, God.
1WANK HEAVEN THERE' NO WAY LEFT t?UT UF.
Campus Opinion
Safety Of Students Less
Important Than Prestige?
Do the policy-makers of
the University of Nebraska
care more about the Uni
versity prestige than the
safety of its student body?
One would wonder after
hearing the decision that
Christmas vacation will not
be extended to enable those
attending the Orange Bowl
ample time to return to
campus.
Why is it that Thanksgiv
ing vacation was changed
and not Chirstmas vacation?
The change in Thanksgiv
ing vacation caused many
students to miss the holiday
with their families. What
was the reason for the
change? To show the na
tion over television that Ne
braska football games have
good attendance.
But what about an extra
day to insure the safety of
the student body when they
return from Miami? The
University does not seem to
feel this is as important as
a full stadium.
I wonder if the Univer
sity will feel as bad as I
will if any of my fellow
students do not make it
back safely because of the
pressure of time.
Elaine Kruse
Editorials Blasted
Tragic Story
I was just thinking Saturday night
about the tragic story of an old friend from
my home town, which shall be nameless,
to avoid associating it with this sordid tale
in any way, but which I always fondly
call "Baghdad on the Platte."
Anyway, this childhood friend of mine,
Rapunzella Smythe. was one of those girls
born to be queen: Queen of the basketball
dance, homecoming queen, Miss Happy
NewYear, and queen of the Old Settlers'
Picnic. Which is to say that all the honors
our humble village could bestow, landed
on her.
Well, Rapunzella eventually graduated
from high school, and enrolled in a certain
Midwestern University. (One my parents
would never have let me attend, since it
was known back in Baghdad as Sodom on
the Plain.; I'll just call it, for simplicity,
old Sodom U.
There Rapunzella was desperately un
happy for a time, due to the old big-frog-leaves-little-puddle
syndrome, but this was
before she met L. Smoot Hawley III, who
fell in love with her in spite of everything.
(Did I neglect to mention that Rapunzella's
neck was just a trifle too long, her teeth
were just a smidgen too big, and her eyes
were a tad bit too close together?)
Smooty, despite his impressive name,
was so poor that church mice were, to him,
the haves rather than the have-nots. He
was brilliant, had a scholarship, worked
part-time as a janitor, for which he got to
live in one of Sodom U's broom closets.
This particular autumn, the messenger
bringing the scholarship money (all in
nickels) got lost between the state treas
ury and the U. All scholarships were un
avoidably delayed. Smooty hadn't a dime
left to big name by the end of the third
week. He had even hocked the gold-plated
pocket watch left to him by his grand
father, the original Smoot Hawley, when he
had to buy "The Principles of Advanced
Pillow Ticking ($10.95), in which the in
structor did not make a single assignment
all iemester. But that is getting ahead
ot my story.
Rapunzella loved Smooty in spite of
aH these hardships. They used to go out
every Saturday,. Smooty's only night off.
They'd stand in front of the windows of a
At Sodom U
local hamburger emporium. Rapunzella
wrote that it was better than a movie.
At Sodom U., it happened, there was
no AWS board. Instead, women's hours
were regulated by a spcial group known
as the black bandits, since their insignia
was a black bandana worn across the
lower part of the face. Girls at Sodom U.
did not have to sign in and out; they just
had to pay to get back in: 10 cents before
nine o'clock on weeknights; and on week
ends, 25 cents until 12, 50 cents until one,
and on special occasions, $1 until two.
Cumulative, it was, also.
So you can see, it got rather expensive
to date. Especially for Smooty. He really
should have asked Rapunzella to marry
him and come live in the broom closet; but
he was so shy, that every evening he'd
just get worked up to ask her, and some
one would come along saying, "Two
o'clock. That'll be $5.50."
So, desperately, Smooty began paying
more and more money. He began to lead
a life of crime, starting by hocking all the
U's brooms and ending by peddling mari
juana. Once, a three o'clock night was de
clared, and Smooty tried to pick pockets
to get the money. Poor lad, he chose a
policeman's convention. He managed to
elude his pursuers and spend the evening
with Rapunzella, but when he brought her
home that night the cops were waiting,
and dragged him away.
"Oh, Smooty," cried Rapunzella, "just
say you love me and I'll wait for you!"
"That'll be another 50 cents, please,"
yelled one of the money collectors.
"I don't ..." Smooty started to say,
but he was cut off by the slamming of the
police car door. Essentially honest, he
meant to say he didn't have the money,
but Rapunzella didn't take it that way.
Anyway, Smooty went on into a life
of crime, and Rapunzella suffered that
fate worse than death: she had to go back
to Baghdad, where she taught school for
the rest of her days. As to the black ban
dits, one convinced a freshmen that she
could stay out all night by paying $500,
but the whole thing was found out, and the
system was abandoned in favor of an
AWS.
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Dear Editor:
Point I:
Ordinarily, I am proud of
the calibre of personal com
ment in the Daily Nebras
kan, including editorials.
But when the Nebraskan is
used as a vent for indivi
dual spleen, tempered only
by bias, I am ashamed of
it.
The November 22 editor
ial tended to gloss over the
fact that Nebraska's foot
ball team has indeed "put
Nebraska on the map." It
may be painful to admit,
but it is fact. Yes. our
"mighty king, football" is
the possessor of an enor
mous ego, because the en
thusiasm of Nebraskans is
its ego. To be smug about
an argument as trivial as
one d a y's difference in
Christmas vacation is,
again, not worthy of t h e
usual commentary.
Point II:
I am a brand new Greek;
therefore I have no basis
for c o m p a r i s o n of one
pledge sneak to another on
this campus. But I do know
that on most college cam
puses, traditional sneaks are
not only PUBLIC, but wide
ly PUBLICIZED. THAT is a
tradition, not degrading or
uninhibited spirit of fun.
And what kind of person is
so egotistical that he feels
he is important enough to be
"the laughing stock of most
of the campus?" Also, if you
are not "blaming the pledges
whom are you blaming for
Friday's activities? Or do
you feel that pledge sneaks
should be conducted single
file, marching soberly from
house to bus, quietly smoth
ering active's screams, who,
by the way, like feeling pop
ular enough to be stolen?
Far from being overdone,
Nebraska's pledge sneaks
are overly conservative.
Point III:
Cather Hall's skit in the
K o s m e t Klub show did
sparkle. It was an original
idea. But whose fault is it
that Cather men couldn't be
compelled to practice as of
ten as the Greeks? Should
a group whose polish, tech
nique, stage presence, and
musical interpretation are
not up to the level of those
of other skits be given an
award on the basis of i t s
idea alone? It is the inter
pretation of the idea which
sells that idea, not just
the skeletal framework.
To blame the failure of
Cather Hall to capture a prize
on "campus politicians" is
a dishonest analysis prompt
ed by a sour grapes atti
tude. Sincerely,
Jo Carrol Flaugher
Challenge Of Bigness
x Living -Learning
ichigan Sfate Solution
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Editor's Note: The problem of "big
ness" which faces most colleges and uni
versities in 1965 is outlined in the follow
ing article, which was presented by Dr.
Howard R. Neville of Michigan State
University, at last week's 79th Annual con
vention of the National Association of State
Universities and Land-Grant Colleges.
One of the major problems facing in
stitutions of higher learning today is how
to live with our present bigness and at
the same time prepare for even larger en
rollments which we expect by 1970 and
1975. Enrollments which are sure to dou
ble generally in the next 10 years.
WE ARE TRYING TO APPROACH the
problem at Michigan State from a variety
of directions. Underlying them all is an
attempt to develop a plan of administra
tion which is a controlled decentralization
of the total undergraduate and graduate
programs for we in higher education must
be making plans for 1970 and 1975, not
just solving the crisis problems of this
year and next.
We are placing a great deal of em
phasis on the development of programs
which lead to breaking down the student
body into small groups. One of these ap
proaches, and one with which we have
had considerable success, is what, we call
our living-learning units. These are de
signed to offer students a small college
environment and still retain the advan
tages of the larger university.
THESE COEDUCATIONAL, academic
residence halls are self-contained units
which include not only living, dining and
recreational facilities but also classrooms,
laboratories and faculty offices.
This arrangement of combining aca
demic and living facilities was designed
to promote closer relationships among
students and between students and facul
ty. This system has some parallels with
the English universities of an earlier
era
THE INJECTION OF THIS ACADEM
IC EMPHASIS into residence hall living
has pleased both the faculty and the stu
dents. Surveys indicate that students ap
preciate the convenience of the residence
hall classes and the ease with which they
can make contact with their classmates
and their instructors. As for the faculty
members, they report that the academic
atmosphere is more informal than in the
traditional classrooms. This results in more
class discussions and closer student in
structor relationships.
In one survey, 95 per cent of the stu
dents who responded indicated that they
could recommend the living-learning units
to new freshmen. A further testimonial is
the f?.ct. that the academic residence halls
have had the highest proportion of return
applications in the experience of the MSU
residence hall system.
THE FIRST SUCH HALL was con
structed in 1961. We have built a total of
seven academic residence halls since that
time and an eighth will be occupied next
fall. Each houses some 1,200 students.
There are 600 men in one wing and 600
women in the other and in each wing there
is a head adviser, two graduate advisers
and 12 resident advisers.
In addition to the new complexes, we
have converted a number of existing liv
ing facilities to living-learning units. Cur
rently, 500 class sections are being taught
in these coeducational academic-residence
halls.
THE "LIVING-LEARNING" CON
CEPT was carried a step further this fall
at MSU with the opening of Justin S. Mor
rill College. This is a small college within
the large university and it offers a liberal
education with an international dimen
sion. The first class consisted of 200 fresh
men women and 200 freshmen men. The
college has its own residence hall, its own
faculty and it has its own special curricu
lum. This may well be the first of several
semiautonomous units at MSU.
There are other examples of MSU's
college within a college approach to uni
versity life. For example, instead of as
signing students to residence halls on a
more or less random basis, we have
grouped them voluntarily, and to a limited
degree, according to their class and major
subject. For instance, the College of Natur
al Science has been assigned to one resi
dence hall, The College of Social Science
and College of Arts and Letters to others.
AN INTROSPECTIVE EXAMINATION
of the entire university is being carried
out through our Educational Development
Program. Through a total curriculum re
view process, we are trying to develop
programs at least at the junior and senior
levels, where students will have at least
one small class each term.
This is already being carried out
through what we call pro-seminars in the
College of Arts and Letters. These offer
a graduate-type seminar in which the stu
dent may select a specific professor and
follow a field of special interest for at least
a year long program.
I think I should emphasize at this
point, that I do not want to give the im
pression that we have all the answers.
However, we do feel that we have been
able to identify some of the more im
portant questions.
WE ARE ASKING OURSELVES: How
does a large, growing university organize
itself administratively? How does the fac
ulty organize itself? How do students or
ganize themselves? How can a university
help students develop an effective student
government; and, how does a university
plan facilities for its students and its fac
ulty? Another important question is how
should libraries be developed to keep pace
with the expanding enrollments? ShouM
there be a centralized library or several
libraries? What is an undergraduate edu
cation? These are just a few of the vital ques
tions facing the large university today.
Diversions Trap Students
When you stop to think
about it, there are numerous
diversions on campus and
off campus (1115 "P" street)
that tend to lure unsuspect
ing and innocent college
students into a very com
mon trap, that of staying up
long past the hour when
helpful house mothers, wor
rying counselors and loving
coaches would have them
safely tucked away and
sleeping.
One doesn't necessarily
have to go off campus to
stay up late either. In fact,
one doesn't even have to
venture out of one's room
to stay up late. As most
people know there are al
ways four or five people
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'Ark Antics Was Refreshing
Dear Editor:
I must certainly agree
with you that Cather Hall's
presentation of "Arc Antics"
in the 1965 Kosmet Klub
Fall Revue was refreshing
and entertaining. Kosmet
Klub was indeed very proud
and honored to have Cath
er in the Revue. In addi
tion, the Klub is eagerly an
ticipating Cather's continued
participation.
All of the skits fit ex
tremely well into our pro
duction scheme, worked
very hard, and brought hon
or and distinction to the pro
duction for which the Kos
met Klub is indebted.
Vour aspersions as to the
Kosmet Klub's award-giving
procedure are characteristi
cally unfounded and unin
formed. I am thankful that
the majority of your read
ing public possess the per
ception to discount your
remarks.
I challenge you to prove
what you have so effective
ly implied by innuendo.
Certainly every member of
the Klub had opinions as to
whom the awards should
have been given as did the
other members of the view
ing audience. The selection
of the recipients was made
by a highly qualified group
of Lincoln people selected by
our senior Judging Commit
tee Chairman.
It is unfortunate but true
that where there is compe
tition of this sort the re
sults will always be con
tested. I hope that it does
not come as any great
shock that I like yourself
have sampled ONE or
TWO opinions and have
found them not in accord
with your own.
Kermit A. Brashear, II
President, Kosmet Klub
Thank You
Dear Editor:
Our thanks to all those
who have complimented our
skit. We enjoyed presenting
the skit and wish to thank
Kosmet Klub for giving us
the opportunity.
Our sincere congratula
tions to the winners of the
skit competition.
Sincerely yours,
Cather Skit Members
around who are willing to
sit down and talk about the
local situation til the sun be
gins to rise. One friendly
nocturnal sport in the friend
ly male dwellings on cam
pus is to sit around and
engage in a friendly little
game of cards (Old Maid,
Hearts etc.) where you are
liable to lose your friendly
month's rent.
The worst part of these
night jaunts and adventures
however, is getting up t h e
next morning and heading
out into the snow and cold
(just wait all you Fresh
men) and trudging to your
seven-thirty class, whose in
structor for some reason or
other deems it necessary to
chalk up a substantial por
tion of your grade to attend
ance. (What you do is invite
him to one of your friend
ly card sessions).
Then to add insult to in
jury, the instructor ex
pects you to remain
awake through the entire or
deal on penalty of death by
torture if you don't.
After enduring a semes
ter of this agony, one who
wishes to survive is quick
to spot methods used by oth
er victims to stay awake,
and utilizes ttiese methods
for his own good.
One tried and approved
method is the Chesterfield
Plan involving carrying a
pack of cigarettes with you
to every class meeting. You
walk into the room, s i t
down, and place three ci
garettes between the fingers
of each hand. You light
them and doze off. Some
what later a crackling
burning sound will awake
you and the pain of your
smoldering knuckles is guar
anteed to keep you awake
for the remainder of the
period.
Another method involves
getting a cup of dormitory
coffee and taking it along
with you to your morning
class. Extreme caution
must be used here so one
doesn't get this coffee mixed
up with regular coffee and
try to drink it. If you did
you wouldn't go to sleep
you would pass out. Instead
you simply hold the coffee
in your hand and t a k e a
sniff whenever you start to
feel drowzy. The coughing
and gagging alone will keep
you wide awake.
A last technique popular
among the men for staying
awake is the Pepsi method.
No you don't drink Pepsi
during class, you save the
bottle caps. When you have
saved a couple of dozen, you
stuff them into your back
pockets and go to your dawn
class. Did you every try to
catch forty winks sitting on
a pile of crushed rock?
If you follow these tech
niques, you should be able
to fake out the instructor in
to thinking, "Here is a gun
ner etc." and you should be
able to pass. Under no cir
cumstances however should
you place your grade in jeo
pardy by walking up to him
and 1. asking him about the
dozen cigarettes in his hand,
2. all those topless pop bot
tles on the desk, 3. or smell
that cup of coffee he has.
Daily Nebraskan
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