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I N M I I '? r r ' I 1 Jo Stohlman, editor Mike Kirhman, business manager Page 2 Thursday, April 28, 1966 It's Time Now What knowledge is worth knowing? In other words, on what basis does a university determine what courses are go ing to be required to get into higher le vel courses; how are courses determined that result in a "liberal" education? Examine some of the group require ments for our own university for gradua tion in the college of Arts and Sciences. "What bit of divine revelation was the bas is for deciding that two years of foreign languages should be a necessity for all ,in Arts and Sciences? Or so many hours of social sciences? Or so many hours to t have a major? And we could go on. A group of three educators discussed '."the problems of higher education at a seminar in Denver, Colo., last weekend. . Some of their remarks, backed up by their teaching and educating credentials, , .say a great deal. Such as: "We are forgetting how to educate. We are creating specialists, who must be integrated Into siciety." "We need a better educational per spective." "So a university decides that a course in, say geology, should be required. The ' . problem here is that the required course is usually the introductory course for ma jors. A good survey course should replace the introductory course for non-majors." "Education nowadays is education in how to beat the system how to psych out professors." "Varsity football is just part of the circus, as is the system of ten ure. Students are becoming better 1 sponges than ever before." "Education is a public utility. We need it like water and power." "The great paradox of our universi ties is that learning is not coming from the classroom. It comes from social and political action." "The lecture method is one of the most ineffective means of imparting learning to people. Yet it satisfies the instructor's ego. He knows he has con trol of the class. It's academic prosti tution." "Improvement of education won't come from the administration. It must come from the students." Strong indictments of higher educa tion. And yet .many of the things these educators mentioned are common at the University of Nebraska. And what is be ing done to improve education here? We see little or nothing in the way of curriculum improvements, course evaluations, new methods of teach ing (not lecturing) being innovated here. It's a sorry comment on our Univer sity. A quality education stems necessar ily from quality teaching. And just what makes a good teacher? We wonder how often teachers ask themselves such a question, especially those with tenure. We know students are asking it. We hope that they will ask it more vocif erously in the future. If improvements of education must come from the stu dents, it's time now to start. Jo Stohlman Aii Apology It has come to the attention of the Daily Nebraskan that a letter which ap peared in the Campus Opinion column, supporting Steve Abbott for president of . ASUN, and signed by "Freeman White", was not, indeed, written by him. The Daily Nebraskan extends its apologies to Mr. White for the error. When printing a letter to the editor, we trust the writer's signature to be val id. Naturally, we cannot check every sig nature on every letter that we receive. It is terribly sad that we cannot always trust those who submit letters to the editor to sign their own names. It is pitiful that one would sign an other's name. We can understand that a strong sup porter of a candidate would wish him to be endorsed by many. We can under stand that such support may be solidicted. We cannot understand this type of cheating when the support is not given. It is unfortunate that we were "accessor ies to the crime." We ask that we not be placed in this position again. FdDX'S FACT! By GALE POKORNY Well fellow students pre--pare yourselves. You had better check your supply of coffee and No Doz and such IIecause you're going to "..fleed them. You might also - irepare to take several cold Showers in order to remain H awake and get ready to re '"ffiquish sleeping at night 'H?or in the day) for a few -weeks. i Yes people, that time is ,Jere again.. As we watch -4he grass turn green be 3eath our feet, and listen to "JZme birds sing outside our "-windows (all night), we Unow that the time is here tj do some serious studying! - Yes study, you know that's what you do when the beer is all done, the gas iauge reads empty along with your wallet and check jng account and the p u r e ,2l5ided folks at the Univer sity have seen ot it that all the fair innocent damsels Z3iave been safely and se . purely locked away for the night to keep them out of Wiethe cunning clutches and Ilaway from the dastardly in Intentions of college males who all undergo a type of ZZDr. Jekyll-Mr. Hyde transformation. ' Foiled again, Batman. That time of the year is here again when that blight attacks the campus and spells evil and ruin for what a successful if not enjoyable college career. But then studying isn't the worst thing that could hap pen to you (yeah, but if you die you don't know it), al though it may be fighting for first place. It is not so bad either, once you get used to it (neither is the army). Fortunately we have several things 'hat daily en courage us to hit those books (perhaps even look at a few). Encouraging things like the voice of Barry Sad ler for instance, (one studies just for an excuse to turn the radio off at moments like that). Another warm, friendly little sign that even in this big University in the mid dle of this big country, in the middle of this big world, somebody somewhere knows you're here, is that Uncle Sam "I want YOU" poster strategically located beside the test paper "pigeon holes" in several of t h e class buildings on campus. It really makes you feel Ike running madly into the library, grabbing the first book you see, and memoriz ing every word in it. But then, what is coming up that will require so much study so soon? The smoke is already clearing away from the last round of hour exams and finals are still several weeks away. Well guys, I am referring to that hour exam of hour exams, that final and it may be THE final of your college tests. The Selective Service college deferment test. So grab your pencils and notebooks and rush on down to the nearest Army surplus store and start taking notes fellows. Learn everything you can about canteens and stuff. You are at somewhat of a disadvantage as it is not knowing what the test is like as the instructor hasn't said a word yet, but there is al ways hope, (prayer?). Maybe if you all got to gether, you could protest to the chancellor in Washing ton , . . Daily Nebraskan Vol. 81, No. 100 iiiixiiiiiiftJiitiiij irif iiiiiiiiiiiitiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiif irriiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiff iiiitiiiitriiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiifii f More Letters . . . I ."Library Conversations Dear Editor, . , Many of the people who campaigned for Senate men tioned extended library hours in their platform. This is XTfine with rue. But why couldn't someone do something about the 'people who work in the library and carry on audible tele !2phone conversations while honest students like me are studiously working on four papers due by the end of the .'-semester? . ZZ- Just the other day I was sitting in one of the read ing rooms and from the 5 minute conversation that I could --hear, I learned just how much a roll of microfilm costs. This is not the first time it has happened and I don't "ihink I'm the only person annoyed by such interruptions. ;3Iaybe the people who answer phones in the reading room meed a lesson in how to whisper while in a library. Emily P. Second-class postage paid at Lincoln, Nebraska. Member Associated Collegiate Press, National Advertising Service, Incorporated. Published at Room 51, Nebraska Union, Lincoln, Nebraska, 68508. TELEPHONE: 477-8711, Ex tensions 2588, 2589 and 2590. Subscription ratei are S4 per seme ter nr S6 for the academic rear. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and rriday during the school year, except durinl vacations and exam periods, by students of the University of Ne braska under the Jurisdiction of the Faculty Subcommittee on Student Pub lications. Publications shall be free from censorship by the .Sjbcommitteo or any person outside the L'uiversitjr. Mem bers ol the Nebraskan are responsible for wba! they cause M ba orlnted. EDITORIAL STAFF Editor, JO STOHLMAN i managing editor. STEVE HUNUERFOrE" new eu.lor. WAYNE hREUSCHKR, night EIE KERKHOFFl sports editor, KELLEV BAKER, senior staff sjr ters, JAN ITKIN, BRUCE GILES, I, Lm.,RR,Si """ts "itant, BOB FLASNICK, Junior stair writers, RAN DY IREY, TONI VICTOR, NANCY HENDRICKSON, DAN PILLAR i pho toaraphers, TOM RUBIN, RICH F.I8 EERl copy editors, POLLY RIIVNcl DS LOIS QUINNETT, PEO BENNETT, BARB ROBERTSON. NANCY COUFAL. BUSINESS STAFF MIKE KIRKMAN, business manareri SHIRLEY WENTFK, CONNIE RAS MUSSEN, CHUCK SALEM, DICK THEIS, BRUCE WRIGHT, LU WALL ACE, JOHN RASMUSSKN, business assistants! LYNN RATIIJEN, clrcula. lion manager) JIM BUNZ, subscription manager. Iqday's Crossword 2. Period of Time 3. Pari o "To IV L Little. 7 Smic ccb Nutter 5 Sorry About That! Being a compendium of farce, humor and comment, selected arbitrarily by the Editor . . . Historical Note of the Day: In 1829, Percy Bysshe Klibs writes his famous poem, "Ode to Me." In 1933, University of Nebraska, Innocents stalk the Daily Nebraskan office, one gets his hand caught in a typewriter. Well, the last Senate meeting before the new regime turned out to be quite interesting. Terry Schaaf announced that he is Baloney Chairman for the ASUN picnic. And Andy Taube announced that the pic nic will be catered, because of an un limited budget. One of the more significant motions of the day came from Bob Lott, a gradu ate student, natch. He moved that the "gentlemen in the red robes leave the room, as they are disrupting the meet ing." The Hooded Herd left, after Bill Harding, still an amateur spooker, sat in an ashtray. Skip Soreif casually placed his arm around the back of junior Bill Hansmire's chair, to which Hansmire re acted by turning a shade commonly as sociated with Communists. Give the Innocents a few more days, and their spooking will shape up. And junior men will laugh or wince a little more noticeably. To Be Sung To Any Tune Tis the season to be jolly, Fa, la, la, la, la, La, la, la, la Tis the juniors' annual folly Fa, la, la, la, la La, la, la, la. Don we now our gay apparel, Fa, la, la; la, la, la; la, la, la. And fall not into dispair-al. Fa, la, la, la, la, La, la, la, la. Long-lost comments: Someone once said to Calvin Coolidge, "There are a lot of s.o.b.'s in Congress." Cooledge's re ply was, "Well, there are a lot of them in the country they are entitled to representation." In case the Senate election didn't turn out as you had hoped, we extend our sympathy and we're a little Sorry About That! IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!IM Another Vietvpoint 1 I Life in a Dorm I April 28. vm By John Schmadeke Daily Illini Some people say it is fun to live in a dormitory. Oth ers say there is a lot of life in a dormitory. 1 agree. There is a lot of life in a dorm. It can be found crawling around on the floor in the middle of the night, and it is often known to inhabit most of the drains in the johns. Some of the life walks on .four feet and some of it walks on two feet. The two footers by far outnumber the four-footers, but both species are utterly fascinat ing to watch. The four-footers are gen erally quite hairy in nature. They have only a super ficial interest in modern appliances they are expert at using irons and spray starch, but they have never heard of a washing ma chine.. I once knew a four-footer who had a pair of pants which he repeatedly ironed and sprayed. They were al ways good looking pants un til one day he discovered there was nothing left but starch. At meal times, the four footers are in their glory.. They gallop through t h e cafeteria line with their food and then look around to eat. Most prefer sitting on the floor while they eat, but there are usually enough chairs to go around so they use them. . Eating Is never a prob- biem for a four-footer. He never cares what sort of food is offered, in fact, he never even notices. Instead, he pretends his plate is a horse's feed bag and pro ceeds to cram his muzzell into the food as though he were an ostrich. Every minute or so he will come up for air, scan the immediate horizon while at the same time licking his chops and then start over. But what about the two footers you say? As I said, they outnumber the four footers fortunately, some people say. The two-footers are gen erally interested in things like house president, house football, house spirit all kinds of houses in fact. As I understand it, about every 70 or so two-footers is placed under the care of what is known as a counsel or. This person is really a C- sophomore at Universi ty High School, and the job is actually the form of pro bation they use there. Well, these counselors and two-footers get together ev ery so often and try to figure out how to build the best house on campus. Sometimes they try knot ty pine and sometimes they try brick. Anyhow, that's where the phrases "knot head" and "brickhead" come from. This very week there is a knothead fighting against a brickhead for a job called president of the men's assn., an organization devoted to wiping out all bad things in the lives of both two and four-footers. One of the funniest sights I have ever seen is what happens when a bunch of two-footers get together to hold kangaroo court. They have a device called a sum mons; it has the shape of a shepherd's staff, and the only difference between the two is that the summons is very flexible. It is so flexible, in fact, that it can be made to fit almost any situation It is used whenever any large group of two-footers or four-footers get together in the halls and stai't making noise. They have to make a lot of noise so that some one who was trying to study will come out of his non soundproof room and com plain. When this happens, one of the two-footers slaps the studier with a summons. This constitutes a binding challenge to a duel. No mat ter what the weapons used may be, a thing called the jury is always used to help defeat the studier. You might wonder how I learned all this fantastic in formation, but the answer is simple: I just live here. id i iniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii inrnimiiini iiiiiini mini mi iiiiiiiiiniiiift CAMPUS I I OPINION I I 1 'Yea, Denver (?)' Article Dear Editor Morris, Concerning your poorly written and overwhelmingly ex treme and ignorance of facts editorial of April 22, 1966: It seems to me that either you yourself or the Daily Nebraskan in general has nothing of noteworthy impor tance to write about. An editorial on "Yea Denver (?)' is just a little out of your line as far as interest to the students at the University of Nebraska. 1 would like to ask you some questions concerning your wide-sweeping narrow-sighted and premature opinions con cerning a city that is, in your opinion, one large ghetto. What is your definition of ghetto? Do you actually think that five long days is really an adequate time to per ceive and formulate any generalizations or concluding opin ions about a city of one million people? Is living in Five Points for that length of time representative of the entire city and its inhabitants? Have you ever been to New York City, Chicago, Cleveland, Watts, or even Omaha or any other large city which has poverty-stricken areas filled with bums, criminals, and other misfits and scavengers of society? Who are you to make such unrealistic and pro found observations? If you are asking what I base my factual and know ledgable perceptions on, listen closely editor. I am a legal resident of Denver. I was born there and raised there and feel that twenty years of residency deserves far mora merit than a quick and meek five day stay. Also, due to summer jobs and ownership of property around the city, including property where lower class people live, I have been associated with this kind of peopl. I find your argument or whatever it is, one large gen eralization based solely on a quite temporary duration of stay, and evidence from people who are from the lower clas. of society and because of this fact have biases and prejudistic opinions toward their economic and social stat us in society. Did you happen to see any other part of Denver at all? It seems quite evident that you did not! If you had a poor time in Denver due to lack of fi nancial backing or due to your avid participation in some YWCA (typical) project or activity, that is your fault edi tor. Do you or can you produce documented statistical evidence of your argument? How do the other ten YWCA workers feel about your views expressed? I think your entire presentation over a topic of little concern to students of the University is a gross misrepre sentation and has no depth or real significance. If you do not like Denver or the way the city is taking care of its urban renewal projects or slum areas, then take your narrow idealistic ideas and keep them to yourself thank you. If you cannot say something nice or good about some one or something it is far better to keep quiet than dis turb the sentiments of the people. All your ending comments about grades of ghettos can be easily applied to any city in the United States so you are not saying anything that is news or noteworthy. What ever time you had in Denver, you made the time. It is up to the person to have a good or poor time anywhere anytime. All I can say is that Denver is definitely for you (and your skin better had be the right color) for the simple reason that your ideas are outdated and you are unable to stomach the hard fact and realities of life in the big city. Every city has its problem of slums, etc. and I believe that it can iron out its own problems without the criticism from a non-resident of the state, let alone the city. Rod D. Peterson Editor's Note: The article to which you refer was written by Julie Morris, a staff writer, and not an edi torial. Her column was not in any way meant to be an opinion of the paper; it merely expressed her personal im pressions of Denver. ; Abel XI Wants the Rock Dear Editor, We want the rock! In the past several days, it has come to the attention of the Daily Nebraskan that there exists a traveling trophy among the men's residence hails. At last notice, the 7000 Building at Selleck had possession of the "proud trophy." However, the rock was last seen on Tuesday after noon when Avery floor dropped it in the back of an 8-10 year old pink Ford and drove off with it. Their intention is "to try to keep" the trophy until their open house this weekend. This is a direct violation of the rules! And we, the men of Abel XI, who were caught at 4:40 in Seaton try ing to steal said stone, take this opportunity to issue the folluwing challenge to the "men?" of Avery. We challenge said "men" to act as men, and to car ry the proud tradition that is typical of our University (that is; honesty and a willingness to accept any, fair challenge.) We demand that these students carry on the tradition of fair play and immediately bring the "rock" into the open so the "traveling trophy" may continue to travel. The Men of Abel XI View From Ohio Stale Dear Editor, ' " I find it interesting that the administration at Nebras ka is somewhat amused by the furor over the naming of your Dr. Hall to direct Ohio State's school of journal ism. We're just that way here: we have principles.' .'. Dr. Hall Wants to make Ohio State journalism corn many did the Daily Nebraskan win? Sort of makes Ohio State Lantern, a product of the school, only won 8 of 14 awards at the Sigma Delta Chi convention last year. How many did the Daily Nebrskan win? Sort of makes Ohio State's practical journalism look a little better, doesn't it? I noticed Nebraska papers supported Dr. Hall as a fine journalist. Right wing, extremist views must be" ter ribly popular out there in the sticks. Irresponsible, bland journalism must be big, too. Thanks, but no thanks for Dr. Hall. Let him continue to build the journalism school at Nebraska, until I hear about it someday like I do Missouri's and Columbia's. And Ohio State's. ; Journalism is taught here, not communicology.-" All you folks on the plains should remember that. " Michael SchoonOver, Ohio State sophomore Letters Policy (Just Slightly Korrect) It isn't really possible there are still sub-rosas on the cam pus ... or is it? Unsigned letters to the editor will not be printed. However, a pen name will be used, upon the writer's re quest. Letters critical of Individuals must be signed with the writer's name. 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