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Jo Stohlman, editor
Mike Kirkman, business manager
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Thursday, March 3, 1966
A Postscript
This may be the last we have to say
editorially about the faculty evaluation
book. If student interest were to indicate
what ours should be, we would let the
book rest in peace. "
But one thing more needs to be said,
or rather asked. Why?
Why were only S,000 question
naires out of 35,000 returned? Most
questions don't have simple answers.
We think this one does. Students just
don't give a dam..
The ASUN committee, which has
worked on the book more than six months,
under the direction of Ladd Lonnquist,
is baffled. The committee researched,
polled and questioned other universities
with faculty evaluation books. And then
they determined a program for a faculty
evaluation book which they felt would
satisfy the needs of Nebraska.
The faculty evaluation book is one of
the most meritorious projects undertaken
by ASUN this year. And, as such pro
jects often do, it ran into trouble in the
form of faculty resistance supposedly be
cause of the question of legal liability.
Well, the liability problem was
ironed out and the Committee on Stu
dent Affairs gave approval for the
book. The rest was up to the students
. . . and the students failed miserably.
The old stigma cf apathy is still pre
sent at the University, no matter what
leaders like Kent Neumeister, Larry Fro
lik and some of the senators do to pre
sent effective and meaningful programs
in student government. The ASUN poll
on student apathy bears this out.
The faculty evaluation book need not
be a dead issue. There is still time this
semester to revamp the program and get
the book out. Lonnquist has tentative
plans to pass out revised questionnaires
in classes during Dead Week. The hope
is that if students are too lazy to pick
up a questionnaire and fill it out, maybe
they will take the time if it is put in their
grubby little paws.
We wonder if this plan, too, will be
met with similar student response. We
would hope not
We are not optimistic about the fac
ulty evaluation book's chances for suc
cess, unless a radical (and we use "ra
dical" with the best of connotations)
change occurs in student thinking.
We are sorry that students who
have criticized student government's
ineffectiveness in the past, are the
same students who don't care when a
program of value is planned. These
students don't deserve a faculty eval
uation book.
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Another Viewpoint
Peace Corps: Draft
(Editor's Note: The fol
lowing editorial is reprinted
from the Daily mini.)
To some college students
the Peace Corps is "ideal
istic." To President John Ken
nedy the Peace Corps was a
place to work in the "na
tional interest" of the United
States.
To the Selective Service
System the Peace Corps is
a "draft deferment" in war
time. The immediate demands of
the Vietnamese War are
causing local draft boards
to review those draft age
men seeking admission to
the Peace Corps.
Peace Corps officials fear
the local boards will refuse
to grant deferments for
Peace Corps recruits who
are finishing college or tak
ing a leave of absence from
school for Peace Corps ser
vice particularly when the
recruit must wait two or
three months, before his
actual service begins.
The Peace Corps had
hoped to sign up about 4,000
draft age men to fill out its
currently authorized
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strength (about 60 per cent
of the Peace Corps is draft
able.) In addition, the Peace
Corps had planned to ex
pand in manpower from
13,700 volunteers to 16,000 by
Aug. 31, 1967, and later to
expand its service areas.
With the increased man
power demands of Viet
Nam, these expansion plans
will be cut back.
While Peace Corps offi
cials attempt to gain "fair
treatment" for returning
volunteers, officials do not
promise permanent draft
deferment.
In the five years since
Peace Corps was fonnded
there have been only a few
cases of the Selective Ser
vice System drafting a
young roan who had been
accepted for training.
However, in the last s i x
months the number of such
cases has greatly increased.
These cases obviously will
increase as long as the war
in Viet Nam continues to
escalate.
The very need for the
Peace Corps is being called
into question.
Deferments (2-A) were
given to Peace Corpsmen
because they were thought
to be working in the nation
al interest.
Some cynics can pass off
the Peace Corps as "a chil
dren's crusade," and not
worthy of a draft defer
ment. However, t h-e s e same
"children" will be carrying
the brunt of the war in Viet
Nam, according to m o s t
military authorities.
The "manpower m y t h,"
the need to draft college
students and Peace Corps
men once they have been
accepted for training, seems
to hold.
Fact one there are 990,
000 men now classified 1-A.
Fact two draft calls
have hovered between 30-40,-000
per month. An estimated
30,000 more men become 1-A
every month. Thus, the pool
remains almost constant
Fact three the Army's
efficiency in handling the
physical and mental tests
leaves much to be desired.
For the Army, it is easier
to handle the newer names
on the list than to test the
the existing pool.
It is not known whether
or not Peace Corpsmen who
have already been trained
and are serving overseas
will be reclassified. The war
in Viet Nam is not yet that
large.
But the future of the
Peace Corps is being
checked by reclassification
of those beginning training
and those waiting for train
ing to begin. j
Is the Peace Corps worth
saving? Even if it's emascn- !
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Being a compendium of farce, absurdity
and comment, selected arbitrarily by the
Editor . . .
Thought for the day: Will the weath
er be good enough to take the top down
on my convertible this weekend?
The Daily Kansan (University of Kan
sas) carried on the front page a picture
of "Nebraska's Nate Branch (with Ball)".
The cutline read . . . "Even he couldn't
help the Buskers."
Nor could the three fans who were
there.
Nebraska Union Rule of the Day:
"State, city and University laws and reg
ulations are to be observed at all times,
including the prohibition of alcoholic bev
erages, gambling, etc."
1 saw two students flipping for a cup
of coffee yesterday. My conscience nor
mally would move me to report this gam
bling infraction, but I managed (some
how) to restrain myself.
It's always reassuring to know that
Nebraska isn't the only university with
problems. Consider these excepts from
one issue of the Daily Illini:
"On our now distinctly unprogressive
campus, it may be stated that students
do not have the opportunity to move to
ward a mature pattern of student life . . ."
"Student Senate continued to fumble
around this week while other student or
ganizations tried to get a few things ac
complished . . ."
"Janitors to strike Monday midnight
it
Nebraska could probably cope with
(and does) the first two of the University
of Illinois' problems . . . hope we never
see the day when the third strikes us.
Excerpt from the minutes of the AWS
meeting: "Lynn has received the accep
tance of the (campaign) rules (for presi
dential candidates) from Kent Newmast
er (sic.)"
Sounds like AWS is a trifle unhappy
about ASUN's interference in their elec
tion process.
We're sot running a Campus Opinion
column today (due to the great abundance
of letters which we didn't receive.) Sor
ry About That!
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BY GALE POKORNY S
This morning when I was rudely jarred out of a beau,
tiful and sound sleep by my automatic clock-radio, I was
suddenly overcome by that attitude familiar at one time
or another to all of us, namely to heck with higher edu
cation, I'm going back to sleep!
However, before I was able to stumble across my
carefully concealed radio and shut the accursed instrument
off (I purposely hide it each night before I turn in antici.
pating my weaker moments which for some reason or the
other usually correspond to getting up to the morning)
some character sounding suspiciously like the voice of fate
(possibly doom) started singing about all those guys witn
the ereen berets and all that fighting and stuff and in
short, after hasty reconsideration, I decided that maybe
I had better get up and go to class if I knew what was
good for my health.
But soon, my mind was on other things. After cntting
my gums with my electric toothbrush, tearing a new pair
of socks with my electric shoe shiner, and burning my
tongue with coffee that my automatic coffeemaker consis
tently makes too hot, I began to ponder mankind and the
trap technology in general was making for him (or us).
We've all heard the solemn predictions that in a few
centuries (if we're still here) we will all be physically
immoble, fat, with oversized heads to accommodate the
brains that have taken precedence over body (apparently
they overlooked me) etc.
The thing that seems to be a prime tool in this subtle
underground battle of the scientist versus Charles Atlas
is the computer.
Just last week, as I was scanning the pages of the
Rag, I found an article explaining the latest sinister use
devised for the computer, scientific date matching. (Does
she or doesn't she, only six thousand technicians at Gen
eral Electric know for sure).
Apparently a couple of Harvard students are using an
IBM to match couples and shortly they will have to use
another IBM to keep track of all the money they are
making.
Now stop and think for a minute (ouch), the uses
of the computer in this manner, given the right informa
tion at the right time are limitless.
Imagine getting up in the morning, groping your way
over to your private computer, feeding in the necessary
data concerning time, weather, day of the week, number
of parties in Lincoln last night, and presto out come the
odds on your finding a parking place on campus.
Why go when you know you will never be able to park
your car, go back to bed. (A lot of sleep could be caught
up on this way).
Or how about athletic contests? The coach could uti
lize the Big Red computer, feeding in such essential infor
mation such as, weight of the ball, the number of scream
ing fans, how hungry the players are in comparison to
the number of bags of popcorn held by spectators in the
front five rows and again the answer would emerge mak
ing costly trips (like the one into bleeding Kansas) un
necessary. Greek pledges with the aid of an IBM could easily de
termine whether or not they will be activated without go
ing through the strain of pledge training and duty. These
fellows need only to feed the machine statistics on such
things as the number of dates they had last week-end,
the number of white socks they have in ratio to the num
ber of pale blue button down shirts, divided by their grade
average and the magic word will appear.
In fact a lot of people here in school could easily fig
ure out if the scholastic battle will end in victory or de
feat and if they will graduate or not A good computer
will know, if provided with reliable data on such things
as the strength of your trigger finger in ratio to your
slide rule thumb, the color of your eyes (do they match
olive green), and your ability to duck compared against
your willingness to stick your neck out
In short, computers are the thing of the future, to be
smart, become part of the American dream, and make a
pile. Send away to Allied Radio for an easy-to-assemble
transistor computer kit and clean np.
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