3 Jo Stohlman, editor Mike Kirkman, business manager Page 2 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. ininfliiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiwimiium 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 Daily Nebraskan Member Associated Collegiate Press, Nation! Advertising Service, Incorporated. Published at Soon SI. Nebraska Inioa, Linre!u, Nebraska. TELEPHONE: 477-8711, Ex tension 2588, tsm and K9B. 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- ! la ted? The Crest Pie FightZ.The Mad Automobile Race The Western Saloon Brawl.. . The Sheik' t Tent. The Devilish Dirigicycfe..Jhe Fiend" t Dungeon... The Sinking Iceberg?. Sonte el t!tt gem la -fie m'miest- eonsasOT wt ail Mtii ffi 'WW I. v 4ti i a at iai- Sorry About That! 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! wiiiiiiiiiiimiiimimiiiti mn hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiih nniinniiiiiimiinmTnminiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiin 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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