Marilyn Hoegemeyer, editor
Mike Jeffrey, business manager
Page 2 Wednesday, Dec. 1, 1965
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By Bill Oltman
How obnoxious it is to be involved in a blind date?
It was just the other day that I made such an ob
servation. I was sitting in the room busily looking through
TIME magazine's movie reviews for a complimentary
comment, when a body entered the room and approached
my roommate with a usual, but frightening concept.
My roommate was chosen as prey, I am sure, because
his builder's calender was empty. This is a sign of social
activeness that can never be overlooked. I keep mine full
of birthday dates of the famous baseball players.
My roomy is, according to this person, a lucky person,
for he has a chance to be 'fixed' up with this somebody
(or something). Foolishly, my roomy's response was,
"Oh?". After this point I realized that there was no hope
for him. It was just a matter of small talk now.
I knew be was in trouble when they asked him how
tall he was.
Her name came up of course and was defended well:
"Anybody can find a date with a Susie Right?" He
looked at me, but I didn't answer. "But how often," he
went on, "do you come across a Maudy Monsoon?'
She was of course from one of the top five sororities.
This seems to be the greatest variable on campus.
"Well, who knows her?" he asked. Nobody knows her.
"Well, I've got to find out what she's like. Where's she
from? Omaha? Too bad she's not from someplace like
Lincoln where everybody knows everybody."
He found a 'confident' that filled him in on all the
pertinent details. Like; the color of her hair, how old she
is, how wealthy her parents are etc. Then it really got
tense. He asked what she looks like. Chances are the
best comparison would be to a water buffalo, but he's
never going to hear that. More likely they will say that she
is 'cute'. If so, I advised him to forget it! To forget it if
they say she's fun. And if they say she's not a beauty
contestant, not even to take her to a dog fight as a con
testant, because she'll probably lose. On the other hand if
she is said to be beautiful, and the life of the party then
the 'confident' is also the blind date.
With nothing else left to do, I tried to cheer him up by
offering the solution that he carry the thing out to its
fullest by never opening his eyes on a blind date.
Fox's Facts
By Gale Pokorny
I hope the people who accidently stumble across this
little article, (few) and those who are foolish enough to
read it, (fewer yet) will forgive me if they find a couple
of these sentences slightly incoherent, (is this really new?).
You see, I'm not really well (at last, he's admitted it).
,I contracted a rather serious illness of late, not un
usual among college students. In fact, the more I talk
with friends, the more I become aware of the fact that
nothing short of a major epidemic is about to be uncov
ered on the Nebraska campus. r
It will not be discovered by doctors or nurses how
ever. Those people who will first see it will be the pro
fessors and instructors that make up the N.U. faculty.
But then they won't be too surprised. In fact, I rather
thirk they expect it because it inevitably accompanies ev
ery vacation that lasts longer than two days. It becomes
quite severe over Thanksgiving vacation and over the
Christmas-New Year holidays, it could prove disastrous.
Its effects are seen to a certain degree as soon as the
vacations end but the fatal results usually appear around
the end of finals. Death certificates are not issued by the
city morgue however, they come from those merry un
dertakers over in Administration who handle the grade
matters.
The disease that I have contracted along with the
majority of students here on campus has been called
many things but I think that most would recognize it by
the name that the famed Dr. Schulz gave it when his
favorite patient caught it. It is called Charlie Brown
Disease.
It poisons the mind and warps one mentally. Suddenly
one loses all interest in economics and math and Robinson
Crusoe. All that work carefully and innocently allowed to
accumulate till vacation time permits time to catch up, is
scorned. The sufferer tends to put great faith in one thing,
tomorrow.
Tomorrow will be the day that 1 will sit down and
write my report, do those chem problems, read that book,
prepare for that test, etc. Tomorrow, being quite elusive,
keeps slipping away til suddenly there is no tomorrow,
vacation is over, and funniest thing, you haven't opened a
single one of those fourteen books. All of a sudden you get
sick, and the second phase of C.B.D. has taken hold.
One can spot C.B. victims by their bleary eyes re
sulting from, "just one more TV program", or one more
date or just another hour with the guys etc.
The symptoms of Charlie Brown Disease also include
a marked inability to sleep at night probably caused by the
various resulting guilt germs. If you do manage to fall
asleep, you are haunted by nightmares of piles upon piles
of ugly books, mailboxes stuffed with downsllps or visions
of sunny trips to gay Hanoi.
As yet the cure along with the causes are unknown
but one thing is known, Charlie Brown Disease has taken
its toll every year since the first college fell from the
heavens and will continue to recruit new members for the
service for at least the remainder of this year, and prob
ably many more.
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Campus Opinion
'Mo Wacation Changs'
Support Is Irrational
Dear Editor:
I am astounded by your
support of the administra
tion's callous, irrational re
fusal to consider a change
in vacation dates.
What rational reason can
be given for this policy. It
certainly can be no mo re
than a mild inconvenience
to put off the vacation one
day before and after. If the
Administration believes that
the prominence of football
has become detrimental by
the academic Stnng of
the University of Nebraska,
there are steps that can be
taken. I and many others
would be opposed to these
steps, but they would at
least be rational attempts
to solve a problem.
The administration could
Smile Never Pasted
Dear Editor:
Speaking of the Orange
Bowl:
Who can better represent
the University than its foot
ball team, the "Cornhusk
ers"? And who might bet
ter represent the State of
Nebraska than "Miss Ne
braska," Karen Hansmeier?
You say that the rider of
the float will represent
the "University of Nebraska
Cornhuskers." Do the Corn
huskers need representing?
(Arkansas thinks so! )
From the Nebraska Cen
tennial Commission's inter
est in the float, I assume it
is a state-wide not just a
Dear Editor:
The Idea of a Library
Love Library, which nor
mally operates at a high
rate of efficiency and econ
omy, chose, for reasons un
beknown to me, to open its
doors from 7:50 AM to 4:50
PM on Nevember 26 and 29
(Friday and Monday).
This course of action was
without precedent and need
lessly involved a consider
able waste of taxpayer's
money as well as the li
brary staff's time. Most stu
Orange Bowl Bound?
PLAN TO STOP AT
KIMBERLY MOTEL
158 St. AT COLLINS AVE.
MIAMI BEACH, FLA. 33160
SPECIAL STUDENT RATES D'ErCTLY ON OCEAN
$7.00 PER PERSON DOUIUtS OlYMPIC POOL
$2.00 EACH ADDITIONAL PERSON PRIVATE BEACH
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THE NON-PLAYf
reduce the number of ath
letic scholarships, cut .out
the practice of red-shirting,
arrange the schedule to in
clude Kearney, Hastings,
and Omaha University.
They could de-emphasize, if
they believe football is
over-emphasized. But of
course they don't believe it
is and few others do either.
There are very good rea
sons why the vacation
should be changed. Four or
five thousand students went
to each of the last two bowl
games and this stupid ex
ercise of academic preju
dice will not make any dif
ference this year. So t h e
first day of classes will be
quite poorly attended and
that will actually be detri
mejital to the academic
University idea and activ
ity. The University is repre
sented and so is the state.
Could a coed represent both
as well as "Miss Nebras
ka"? Like myself. Miss Hans
meier is at Concordia
Teacher's College for a pur
pose, not because she has
something against the "U".
The logical choice for Ne
braska was made, so wipe
off your jealous grin. A
"Nebraska jmile" is never
pasted.
R. Scheer
CTC Seward
Library Open?
dents, myself included,
were hardily engaged in
matters non-academic over
the much-welcomed vaca
tion. Why should our Library
offer its privleges for the
benefit of trie few? Besides,
the Lincoln Public was open
during said hours for the
convenience of that minor
ity. Yours,
Thomas J. Renna
Graduate Student
(L AEEfETT MS99
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quality at this University.
Secondly t he r e will be
students who will try to
make it back. The consci
entious students, those
who have quizzes or hour
exams, and those in classes
like speech where absences
are heavily punished will be
driving like mad across
country trying to stay up the
thirty-six hours the trip re
quires. The administration's pol
icy for which there is no
possible excuse other than
a distaste of administrators
for seeming to cater to foot
ball will be putting the lives
of students in danger, and
this is almost criminal in
my opinion. And to see the
student newspaper blindly
following along completely
oblivious to the problems of
the students and the strong
feelings of the vast major
ity of them is absolutely
unbelievable.
Sincerely
Ray Wilsen
Water Supply
Is Decreasing
Dear Editor :
On my way home from the
Hyde Park gathering I hap
pened to hear the Water
Commissioner and the Scho
larship Chairman discussing
a timely topic. It seems the
Water Commissioner's prob
lem of the day was the high
consumption of water of
the SDS members.
In an effort to scrub off
the wide yellow streak down
tis invertabrate sect's back,
the SDS members had show
ered several times daily.
The Scholarship Chairman's
office had been over-run
with SDS members applying
for assistance to pay their
high water bills.
Now Editor, I realize you
are a busy person, but could
you find time to he a d a
drive to ask for donations to
help pay deficient SDS
water bills; relieve the Scho
larship Chairman of extra
burdens; and perform a
civic service to Save Our
Wilier Supply.
Meter Reader
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Teaching
After wew
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Editor's Note: Teachers
and professors face a new
day professionally and so
cially according to Harry H.
Ransom, Chancellor of the
University of Texas, who
presented the following
article at the recent conven
tion of the National Associa
tion of State Universities
and Land-Grant Colleges.
Ransom's analysis and
suggestions which follow are
pertinent not only to t h e
University professor
situation but also for those
students who will someday
be lementary, secondary or
college teachers teachers
who can expect "alternating
acclaim and distrust, ap
plause and suspicion."
"Many Americans have
been cheered a n d some
have been hastened by re
cent public clamor about
teaching. First a loud
chorus, not yet s i 1 e n t,
brought a series of indict
ments against the present
state of undergraduate
instruction.
Behind the negative rhet
oric there were certain hard
negative facts. The "flight
from teaching" could b e
illustrated by numerous fac
ulty members departing the
campus for industrial and
federal appointments. More
disturbing were statistics
within the university:
Larger budgets often invited
larger numbers of the fac
ulty to do less teaching in
order to do more research.
"Publish or perish" policies,
sometimes exaggerated or
misunderstood, seemed to
sound a death-knell for the
teacher's primary concern
with students.
Student outcry, which
once had been spontaneous
expression of the undergrad
uate's inalienable right to
complain, changed tone. Stu
dents put their case in force
ful terms: They objected
less to what and how they
were being taught (an anc
ient complaint) than to the
fact that some were sure
they were being completely
ignored (a new and serious
charge).
Quickly the press and the
public rediscovered the
importance a! teaching. The
Sputnik syndrome, which
had roused insistent, in
coherent demands for re
search, invention, innova
tion, and technology still
lasts. National defense sus
tains it. But it is overlapped
by nostalgia for Mark Hop
kins, ready and eager to
teach, facing a ready and
eager learner who is not
just a bump at the opposite
end of the academic log.
Old arguments received
old truisms, and familiar
testy questions. "If ever the
learner is to advance know
ledge, he must first acquire
it." Is today's student really
learning? "accumulating in
formation, trying out results,
judging values, developing
taste are essential to the
independent mind." Is the
student really being brought
forward to responsible indep
endence? "Education must
be submitted to the trials of
experience, the unknown
challenges of the future, the
hard necessities of citizen
ship." Are students really
moving toward those high
goals? If not, what is the
university going to do about
it?
FOR SOME TIME NOW,
THE United States has been
holding a wide-flung town
meet' ig on such matters.
Confusing though some of
the arguments may be, sure
ly this involvement of the
public, the press, and the
academic community in
co "imon purposes is
healthy. More than that, it
enlivens tradition and adds
tremendous o p r o r t u
nity. Educators cannot avoid
or escape this hujbub. 1
know very few who would
choose to do so.
DURING THIS PERIOD
DANCE
Being Ignore
we have learned a whole
vocabulary of educational
pessimism "drop-out,
"late-bloomer," "college
illiterates," "campus revolu
tionaries." We have also
learned about new theories
of learning, new arenas of
teaching (auditoriums, lab
oratories, libraries), new
educational aids (television,
information retrieval, pub
lication and communication
devices).
From the time when Soc
rates was younger than Ma
caulay's s c h o o 1 b o y, the
learners have been educa
tion's main asset. If an edu
c a t i o n a 1 renaissance is
under way, it is largely
because of revitalized con
cern about these learners.
For one thing, there are so
many of them. Their pro
portions will continue to in
crease. In ways not always
apparent to earlier genera
tions, they are now con
cerned with what happens to
their own minds. Some are
equally concerned about the
social issues of knowledge
what may happen latter to a
world which they must in
herit and can perhaps, re
make. WE WILL NOT SOLVE
future problems by resorting
to formulas, hard and fast
systems, aimless imitation
and adaptation of what
seems successful on some
distant campus.
I would suggest seme em
phasis upon certain condi
tions and special opportu
nities: ?. The youngest university
student a freshman or a
sophomore, let's say is reg
istered in three to five or
more courses conducted as
quite distinct if not com
pletely unrelated processes
of learning. Meanwhile, his
instructors, rightly con
cerned with the burden of
specialty, usually suffer
from current under-exposure
to t h e r academic dis
ciplines. The undergraduate,
of course, is expected to ac
quire, retain, and relate the
whole array of miscel
laneoui instruction.
2. We must avoid the
ABCD fallacy in measuring
attainment. If an under
graduate completes a course
with a grade of 75 or C, he
may conclude that he knows
only three-fourths of what
he was supposed to learn.
Worse he may assume that
twenty-five per cent of his
effort went to failure or
futility. Yet as a matter of
experience, he may have got
twice as much as he was
supposed to get Regardless
of his grade, later signifi
cance of what he did may
diminish to zero, or expand
to vast proportions.
TO SUSTAIN GOOD
TEACHING and to improve
it, some kind of sensible
and generally acceptable
method of eviluation is
necessary.
Evaluation by colleagues
brings to bear the necessary
professional com
petence, mingled with other
random human elements.
Evaluation by alumni pro
vides more than perspective
in time; it can reflect the
staying power as well as the
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nver been systematic. Com
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IX MOST DISCUSSIONS
of teaching, we use the word
".learning" too little. After
his last commencement is
adjourned, the student will
still have easy a c c e s s to
formal education adult
courses, special courses,
lectures, doors open to sub
jects not included in his
formal course of study.
Nevertheless, if he has not
proved the uses of learning
by himself, on his uwn im
pulse, he will have missed
the most important lesson
the university can teach
him.
In this section of educa
tion, we have made some
progress. Directed j t u d y
programs, honors courses,
tutorial systems, have been
joined lately by undergrad
uate "research" programs,
awards for creative work
outside courses, numerous
plans for solo study in read
ing periods, summer vaca
tions, and spare time. For
m a 1 encouragement has
been given such activity by
the advanced-s t a n d i n g
examination.
STILL NEEDED, how
ever, are much larger bud
gets to provide much wider
opportunities. Above all.such
independent work should b
recognized more widely,
even when, at first glance,
it seems to be obtuse as well
as independent Thoreau's
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