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Approximately 600 students who may have trouble re
turning from the Orange Bowl in time for classes January
3 are to make personal requests to their professors to be
excused.
This was the most logical approach to a relatively in
significant problem in the first place and it is still
the logical and only approach which can be used after
Faculty Senate tabled Student Senate's motion for a non
test-check day. The issue is over.
HOWEVER, THE SIGNIFICANT PROBLEM of com
munication between Faculty and Student Senate is not
solved.
It is essential that there be a direct line of commu
nication between the student and faculty governing bodies.
Just as any faculty member, properly introduced or spon
sored by a Student Senator could appear on the Student
Senate floor so should a Student Senator have the right
to present a proposal on the Faculty Senate floor.
Chancellor Hardin's cautioned suggestion that tradi
tionally the Faculty Senate is not open to the students was
unnecessary. Few students, if any, would be interested in
attending their meeting. Few faculty members are.
HARDIN'S STATEMENT came after Dr. Richard Gil
bert, Faculty Senate secretary, told the Daily Nebraskan
that all students were welcome to observe the meetings.
Students don't want to attend Faculty Senate meet
ings. But their elected representaives should be able to
present their resolutions and proposals directly to the
facultv governing body.
PERHAPS A PROPOSITION which has been effective
on other campuses could be a solution here: a board of
faculty members, administrators and students act as a
buffer deciding which bodies should be involved in the
decision making process on a particular proposal.
Obviously there would be problems with the forma
tion of such a group. However, such a plan might be
the only effective method to incorporate a satisfactory inter-senate
communication.
We would hope that the creation of a "buffer board"
would not be necessary. And that the solution for com
munication between the senate bodies could be the easy
one cooperation.
Goods Gathered
Goods for the Vietnamese people have been gathered
in Lincoln and surrounding communities. The clothing,
food and utensils have been loaded are ready for the
train trip to San Francisco where they will be shipped to
Vietnam.
The collection of articles will be presented to the Viet
namese people by the American soldiers stationed there.
This is the significant part of the project which is spon
sored by the national groups of Junior Chamber of Com
merce, Young Democrats and Young Republicans.
TOO MANY TIMES Americans have traded their "gift
friendships" to a Black Market crowd. It is fortunate that
this drive will not end in such a way.
It is probable that most of the goods will reach those
who actually need food and clothing and who will appre
ciate it.
ALL THAT REMAINS is the rally scheduled for 8:45
p.m. tonight to show support not only for the ACTT proj
ect but also for the soldiers fighting the war.
We urge all those interested in showing their support
to attend. It could be stimulating. Undoubtedly it will be
interesting.
MARILYN HOEGEMEYER
Some Sfudents Robots,
Have Built-in Timers
Dear Editor:
College is, for many peo
ple, a wonderful opportun
ity to develop into respon
sible human beings. In
most cases, it is the first
time that the students have
been away from home and
away from the control of
their parents. Also, the var
ious courses develop the stu
dents' abilities to weigh
matters intelligently before
making decisions.
However, once at college,
students living on campus
find it unnecessary to be
come responsible people.
They are told what things
they can do and what things
they cannot do and at what
times they can or cannot
do them. The machinery of
the university runs very
effeciently with the s t u -dents
learning to live as ro
bots with built-in timers.
Funny that at twenty-one
& woman is old enough to
vote for the leaders of this
Orange Bow Sound?
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country and physically cap
able of bringing into being
more members of the hu
man race, and yet the AWS
considers her too mentally
immature to ration her 'ime
for study and too lacking
in morals to be able to con
trol her impulses. So t h e
AWS attempts to do this
for her by setting up rules
and regulations.
Whatever morality or im
morality the women of this
school presently possess is
very unlikely to be changed
by the enforcement of hours
and other such rules.
The university should not
make the people but rather
the people should make the
university. Let us remain
the individuals that we are.
each having different likes
and dislikes and let us
retain the right to decide
for ourselves what is best
for us.
Another-Brave-Enough-To-Fight,
Dianna K. Eggli
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Dear Editor:
Last week you printed a
letter from a discouraged
freshman who had concluded
that the purpose of his pres
ence in the classroom was
to see if he had the stomach
to play memorizing games
with his teachers, and who
signed himself "I don't."
That student deserves an
answer:
Dear "I Don't,"
Three cheers for you!
Three cheers for your abili
ty to recognize pettiness and
trivality and your backbone
to object to it! Hurrah for
your intelligent critical judg
ment and your articulate
condemnation of irrelev
ance! If an educational system
is satisfied merely with pok
ing insignificant facts into
students' heads, it is sadly
lacking indeed. If it never
challenges or inspires the
minds of its students, it
has grossly failed and needs
serious re-examination.
Your apt criticism should
stimulate some thoughtful
self -evaluation among teach
ers and administrators.
But you too, forget some
thing important.
Because of the number of
flutings on an Ionian column
the names of King Tut's 47
children or the symbols of a
phonemic alphabet, you
seem to condemn all of ed
ucation. Because of certain
kinds of courses (particular
ly ripe, alas, as a freshman
level) you apparently have
given up on the whole
academic process.
You are giving in to
triviality yourself if you let
a few facts, a few teachers,
a few exams, a few courses
of one semester obscure the
whole of learning.
As a society we are appar
ently stuck with a system
that organizes knowledge
artificially into rigid de
partments and courses with
numbers on them. The sys
tem wields a dubious grad
ing system behind the drink
ers at the fountain of knowl
edge and measures their in
take by series of artificial
examinations multiple
choice and machine-graded,
no doubt.
All too often the system
gets the better of even the
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To Freshman;
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most wary. The wheels of
the degree-factory drown
out the real challenges of
learning. Even our educa
tional goals ("transmitting
the wisdom and experience
of the past and developing
the thinking minds of the
future") start sounding tired
and meaningless.
With an artificial, cum
bersome academic system,
with frequently mediocre,
plodding teachers, with fre
quently dull, careless stu
dents, is it any wonder that
the fountains of knowledge
sometimes look more like
bogs? Or that people like
you get mouthfuls they can't
swallow?
You. perhaps, came to the
University hoping to find
answers to big questions
about yourself and the
world and life, hoping to en
counter questions you hadn't
thought of yet, hoping to be
shown the secrets of how to
live or even merely how to
write. And instead you get
mimeographed advice, the
names of 40 journalists, and
meaningless multiple-choice
exams.
But-
Our mundane failure to
achieve a perfect education
al system (or even, perhaps,
a very good one) and o u r
blunders in using the one
we have cannot condemn
our attempts to do so or
make meaningless our belief
in the importance of knowl
edge and of education.
So with you. You have
been disillusioned by t h e
necessity to memorize ap
parent trivialities in several
courses. Have patience a bit
longer. Play the education
game even though it seems
to have silly rules and stu
pid players. Sooner or later
you will find that while the
game may be absurd, it is
sometimes accompanied by
relevant facts and vital
ideas.
For instance, it is probab
ly very wasteful of brain
power and enthusiasm to as
sume that in introductory
courses students must be
content to memorize and re
gurgitate minute sets of
facts. Nevertheless it is one
of the current little rules of
the game as many depart-
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ments play it, to save the in
teresting thinking until lat
er. (It is possible, though
by no means inevitable, that
some of these facts or the
mental discipline of learn
ing them might someday be
useful for something.)
The way the game is
played, the most important
questions will likely never
be asked on any exami
nations, the most relevant
answers will never appear in
your class notes. Neverthe
less the challenges of those
questions and answers are
here. Anyone who is awake
can find some of them
somewhere. Even the silliest
system cannot wholly extin
guish the excitement of dis
covering an idea.
You may have to search
them out for yourself, but
there are on this campus
and on others stimulating
courses, inspiring profes
sors, animated students and
exhilarating ideas both in
side and outside courses and
classrooms.
Stick around awhile!
Sincerely,
L.M. Cunningham
Department of English
Clock Huns Life
Dear Editor:
Having survived the fresh
man year here at the "U,"
I now enjoy the somewhat
dubious honor of being a
sophomore. This alone, I be
lieve, gives me the right
to make a few comments
on the AWS hours if not
the authority to back them
up.
I am wholly in favor of
Polly Rhynalds' letter in
the Friday paper, especial
ly the part about rushing
back to the campus from
Kings by eleven o'clock.
Since I often work until
9:30 or 10 p.m. during the
school week, it is almost
impossible to take a cam
pus girl under AWS rules
anywhere for a snack
or study and yet have her
back by "that hour," This
turns what would have been
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a normal, sedate, orderly
date into a madcap mad
ness run by a clock!
After all, how many men
or women like to have
their love-lives regulated by
a clock under the complete
and authoritarian control of
a small group who believes
that their opinions are much
more responsible than any
one else's?
Why is it that as soon as
a young woman enters our
great university, she is re
garded by AWS officials as
being a degenerate crea
ture needing a caretaker?
I realize we live in an
age of automation, but au
tomated sex is going a lit
tle too far!
Oh! It's eight o'clock;
time to have mother tuck
me in
Paul S. Lerner
Fox's Facts
Twelve
On the first day of Christmas, my clerks all said to
me, a host of wealthy students we'll see.
On the second day of Christmas, the numbers did in
crease, two hundred gullible freshmen so ready for a
royal fleece.
On the third day of Christmas, the coins came rolling
in, three giggling coeds buying cuff links (?) and they
all left poorer than when they came in.
On the fourth day of Christmas, things looked better
yet, four fraternity brothers coughing up all those crisp
new dollars and sinking so pitifully deep into debt.
On the fifth day of Christmas, with my hands a wring
ing, I passed off Yokahoma plastic as gold and sent my
bank account swinging.
On the sixth day of Christmas, I sold a fine Jeweled
clasp, it went to a pre-med student, all he could do was
gasp, he really thought he had me, but that pink Caddy I
saw within my grasp.
On the seventh day of Christmas, some trouble did I
rank, the doctor said woe onto me, if I didn't quit running,
with all those heavy bags, forever to the bank.
On the eighth day of Christmas, a sale did I present,
taking note of the customer's pocketbook, I marked drastic
prices, everything had to go, nothing was marked up,
less than fifty per cent.
On the ninth day of Christmas, in came quite a crowd,
I bargained, haggled, and lied, 1 hooked and crooked a little
too, with each like so many sheep, John D. Rockefeller
would have been proud.
On the tenth day of Christmas, my stockbroker got for
me, controlling interest in Standard Oil, a fistful of
Westinghouse, a truckload of triple M, and eighty shares of
A.T. and T.
On the eleventh day of Christmas, oh how my fortune
grows, a bunch of athletes lumbered in, bought pretty
weights and barbells (made of tin) and paid through the
nose.
On the twelfth day of Christmas, I closed up my
store, said good bye to Lincoln, fired all my clerks, ga
thered up all my riches that the students had been
drained of, bought the southern half of Florida and lived
happily forever more.
No Reason...
"There is really no reason why a human
being should do more than eat, drink, sleep,
breathe, and procreate; everything else could
be done for him by machinery. Therefore the
logical end of mechanical progress is to reduce
the human being to something resembling a
brain in a bottle." George Orwell
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