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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Editorials Commentar Wednesday, September 20, 1967 Page 2 iiiii(iiiniiiiiiriiiiiiH:iiiinniintiiiiniiniiHiuMiiifiiiMiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiifriiriiiiiiiiiiniitiiiiiuiiMiiiiisiiiiiiii I For The Few CAMPUS OPINION: 'Dear Hippy Editor...' The Nebraskan could urge all 18,000 plus University students to rush right out and enroll in a course offered by the Nebraska Free University. But we will not. Instead we will urge all those University students to enroll who are interested in getting more out of there University education than merely a flimsy piece of pa per which says they have enough course requirements to graduate. The Free University, while it is designed to offer stu dents a chance to set their own course of study and methods of study, is not for those hundreds of students who complain about dull courses and professors simply for the sake of complaining or because they want to find the easiest route to graduation. Instead the Free University is work. In fact, it may be more work than some University regular University classes because it takes thought and study by both the teacher and the pupil in order to conduct a course of this type. But the rewards can be great and the work well worthwhile. Here is a chance for the real student to di rect the course of that class in the direction that he finds most beneficial. But again the Free University is not for the weak of mind. This does not imply that one has to be an intellec tual to attend the Free University. But it does mean that one has to work in order to acquire something from the course. Susie Phelps, a member of the Free University Co ordinating Committee, is hoping that the Free University can have fewer drop-outs this semester. But perhaps drop-outs from the Free University are beneficial in the long run. Most of the drop-outs may have been, or could be again this semester, those individ uals or "dead wood" that think they can get an educa tion without working for it. This type of individual would do little good for such a class in the Free University. In fact, we are sure they would only hinder the intellectual growth of those who are earnestly seeking a new type of education in the course. Finally, the Free University certainly cannot be con sidered radical if that connotes bad thoughts. Per haps the more proper term would be revolutionary. The Free University is another in numerous attempts on campuses all across the United States 1o bring the stu dent and the professor into closer communication, and allow the real student more freedom a chance to forge beyond the ordinary university class. Dear Hippy Editor: In reference to "The Pot" in Monday's holey cloth: it has come to my attention, to my utter dismay, that the Nebraska Krishna Kitty Clover Crunch-In has been cancelled due to adverse publicity and the unfortunate lack of chicken feathers. As much of a gas as it would have been, the care taker refuses to pick up the squashed and mutilated po tato chips when the week-end is over. What's more, the dog resents the fact that potato chips will be wasted on bare bottoms in the first place. Good luck in your efforts to find a new location for your potato chip dip-in. The Farmer's Daughter Thanks, Boys Dear Editor: As a student at the University of Nebraska I wish to express my appreciation to the Board of Regents and the governor for their recent noble action. Since they raised tuition and fees we shall not have to worry about those poor peasants who before the tuition hike could barely afford the cost of this illustrious institution. It is un natural that our peasants should attempt to rise above their class. If God had wanted them educated he would have made their fathers millionaires. An education teaches a person how to think for him self. I shudder to think what an education would have done to our blissfully ignorant masses. Why, our beloved state would be turned inside out. Yes, indeed, the Re gents didn't act a moment too soon. ! The method of the tuition increase is to be com mended also. The board waited until the summer to vote in the increase. That way the Regents didn't have to worry about the students rising up as a body asking for a reconsidera tion of the action because most were working, trying to earn enough for the next year. No, the Board and our brave governor are not about to let themselves be black mailed by a ragtag band of citizenry who could be duped by such pleas if these students were allowed to become organized. They might even force the University's elite, the ASUN Student Senate, into passing a resolution or two. It is about time the authorities adopted a "get tough" policy and -put these students in their place in the dorm cubes. Show them who is boss! Now our University realized how great it is. We are almost in the Ivy League with this increase. What a pri. vilege I enjoy by paying so much. How exclusive we are becoming! Oh, joy! With the increased revenues gained from the tuition hike, the .University can greatly expand its teaching fa cilities. I estimate that thanks to the increase the Uni versity can afford to hire 10 John Birchers for our politi cal science department, 15 Minutemen as ROTC instruc tors, a few KKK members to teach an anthropology and perhaps, if we are lucky, a mad bull elephant, two jackalopes, a hippotamus, and three mongueese for our animal breeding center on the East Campus. A great deal of credit can be given our forward-looking leadership and wise policies of the Board of Regents. This can even be seen on our beautiful city campus. Thanks to their wise and prepared planning our campus is truly a great twentieth century work of art pop art from one of the local junkyards. Yes. it is a great blessing to be a Cornhusker, or as we Nebraskans were called early in our history, a bogeater. Thomas R. Dean Editor's Note: The student tuition and fees increase was voted in by the University Board of Regents only after the increase had been built into the budget okayed for the school by the state Legislature. Warnings that the tuition might go up were given last February and ASUN spent a good deal of time and energy working to convince senators not to force a tuition hike.) Pay Up No, the Free University is not radical lutionary. it's revo- No, the Free University is not for all students it's for the few. Nonaccredited Negro Colleges In Trouble paration of students for employment." In a telephone interview, By Walter Grant Collegiate Press Service "They tell us to lift our selves straps, dui we aoni even any hope for an institution have boots to put our feet like Miles after reading a re in," says Lucious H. Pitts, Pn like this. The report, however, is not of a Regional Institute for president of Miles College, a Rather than criticizing Ne- a11 negative. Writers of the Higher Educational Oppor predominantly Negro college gro colleges and universities, report say it is designed to tunity to assist the states and in Birmingham, Ala. s up by our own boot pitts said' sit here at my Place bIame for the p . h,.t . rwt desk and won(ler H there. is quality of Negro education s, but we dont even any hooe for an institution tions also have issued state ments' saying the SREB re port is unfair and should poor on the South as a region. particularly during the tran- trast to the nearly 44 per cent sitional Deriod ahead." enrollment of college-age NEED CONCERTED DRIVE Specifically, the report called for the' establishment for Negroes. Miles College, like 32 other traditionally Negro institu tions of higher education in South which are accredited do the South, is unaccredited. The quality of its education is far below that at most "Miles College and any Southern non-Negro colleges other institutions like Miles and universities. are in a vicious cycle," Dr. Even the 71 predominantly Pitts said. "We are not ac Negro institutions in the credited and we can't get t .i,u oi i,iv,. accredited until we get ade- serve as a springboard lor their educational systems in action which will provide mounting and coordinating a Pitts thinks, the drafters of the report and the SREB c h n ii 1 A liavik oHmiHoH fhovt are the ones who have failed e(5ual and Droader education- concerted drive toward equal to provide equal education al programs for Negroes in opportunity. the South, lead to improved The commission which whites. The commission urged white colleges and universi ties to adopt "high risk" quo tas for the admission of "ed ucationally disadvantaged students." The report also says tra ditionaUy Negro colleges, in order to be of maximum as sistance in meeting the needs of its students. 4'must recog nize that no single institution can provide all of the pro grams required, that the state's total resources must which will set up programs they can administer." Dear Editor: Your correspondent who protested about difficulties put in the way of students wishing to obtain football tickets should wake up to Reality. It has apparently not occurred to him that: 1. Thousands of Lincoln citizens and out of towners, as well ; and 2. Businessmen and other non-students pay more for tickets than do students, by a substantial margin; and 3. Therefore, it is nothing more than good business to sell more tickets, if possible, to non-students than to stu dents. Further, though I would not wish to discount the fact that there is undoubtedly a good deal of local loyalty to the team, pride in the community, and so on, your cor respondent should realize that football has been, ever since the 1920's, a strong commercial asset to any com munity. Assume, at a guess, that 50 percent of any given crowd of 60,000 at the stadium may be from out of town; even at a dollar or two apiece for food, gasoline, park ing, etc., think of the pockets they help to line. You have not seen any businessmen advertising sub stantial discounts on their wares to students; nor would I argue that, in a capitalistic economy, they should do so. Why, then, should the university, or this business, that is, ticket-selling, department, favor students except for the pragmatic and advertising value of supporting the public illusion that college football is a sport, and NOT mere an adjunct to local business? Age of Reason SIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINIIIIIHIIWIIIIMim I IFdDX'S IFAOTS y dale Pokorny VICIOUS CYCLE instruction and carefully drafted the report was chaired be a Part of curriculum plan- planned development at tra ditionally Negro colleges, and encourage the Southern states to shape public policies aimed at forging a single, high quality system of higher ed ucation for all their citizens." The key conclusion of the report was that the South's mist fqrilitipie rnnrec unrl cational opportunity for their faculty salaries'. We can't do students, according to a re- this without money, and when traditionally Negro universi port released recently by the we go into a foundation of- ties and colleges should be Southern Regional Education 4fice and ask ' ? v J the!L 1 h a n turn us down because we're wrapped. Many of these in- Iioara- not accredited." stitutions, the repon, said, UrbI Trmihi' "can contribute greatly to the Several other presidents of South's effort to provide kegee, Ala., Luther H. Foster, "I don't think anybody can predominately rieero institu- equal education to Negroes, nresident or Tuskeeee Insti- by Watts Hill Jr., chair man of the North Carolina Board of Higher Education. The commission included the presidents of the University of Mississippi, Clemson Uni versity, Tuskegee Institute, Louisiana State University, the University of Alabama, Middle Tennessee State Col lege, Virginia State College, and Florida A&M University. Contacted by phone in Tus- deny that we are in real trouble, Pitts said in refer ence to the report. "But it's not our fault," he adds. "The people who sponsored this re port are the same ones who are responsible for the poor quality of Negro education in the South.' Pitts explained that South ern governors and legislators form the backing of the South ern Regional Education Board. The report, prepared for SREB by the Commission of Higher Educational Oppor tunity in the South, said Southern Negro institutions do not match their predom inately white counterparts in admission standards, breadth and depth of curriculum, quality of instruction or pre- Daily Nebraska Val. M Ne. 4 Beat. U. 1K7 tute, and the only member nf tha rfi?nm1nsinn fmm a Dredominantlv Negro institu- tion, said he had no major Maddox of Georgia, a segre- disagreements with the re- gatjonist, criticized the pro- ning. Thus, the commission says cooperative progams in volving two or more institu tions should be regarded as a means of relieving faculty shortages and giving students access to a wider variety of course offerings of acceptable quality than a single college can provide. MADDOX CRITICISM The commission's report was endorsed last week by the Southern Governors' Confer ence, meeting in Asheville, although Gov. Lester Becond-elaae aaataaa aaM at Lincoln. Nab. TELEPHONE: 4TO49M, 477-MM, 4TI-MM. Bobaortpttoa rejee are M bar aauiaatar o t for tin academic nil. Pub Uahed Monday, fVellneedaj. Thuradar and Fnd 4 urine tha school ran. amsast onna vacation and aura eertada. a the atudente of tna Un)ereit af Nabraaka aader tha fcriartictioa al tha laeiuia SubooBurattae oa Student Pablioatkma. Publlcntme ghall ba frae tram aeuuialilii b tha tubeotnmitwa or aw venom aataaoe tha ttahmlta. Manbara al tha tJabraakaa an reaponalWe tar what tbar eauae la ha snmad. Member Aamelatea' CaBeglate Praaa, National Advartithii Service, tncor aoraiad. FobliMMd at Roam SI, Nabraaka Union. 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However, he would not say that the criti cism of Pitts and others is unjustified. NEED SINGLE SYSTEM posals. The fact that Southern gov ernors endorsed the propos al was regarded by many observers as a positve step One of the most significant toward eliminating racial bar- recommendations of the re port was that "long-range plans should be devised to complete the evolution of the South's dual system of high. er education into a single system serving all students." The 48-pace report says inly about 15 per cent of the South's college-age Negro riers in the Southern educa tion system. But Pitts has reservations about the significance of tha endorsement. "It could mean more funds, but I have some questions about where they intend to population was attending col- Beek funds om their leg- lege last fall, in sharp con- islatures or from foundations Welcome back, fellow draft dodgers. Once again it's time to get baek into the rigors of college life, standing in line, paying through the nose, cramming for exams, sidestepping deranged motorists on the 14th Street dragway and exchang ing pleasantries with your confused ad visor (who doubles in his off hours as one of those deranged motorists). Now I ask you, is this really the good life? No, but it beats the heck out of tip toeing through the Pungi traps in Viet nam, doesn't it? At least here at Nebraska's cultural center (fairly reeking with the aroma of learning ... or is that the smell of smoldering draft cards) when you hear an explosion, the odds are pretty good that it is not a Claymore but just the ceiling of the Crib finally caving in as expected? ! Who expects this particular sky to fall? Have you ever been around the Union about three o'clock in the afternoon when all those hippie cool construction workers stream in (cautiously) for their coffee break (the sixth one of the afternoon?) All day long they stand around leaning on their respective shovels bareheaded. But when they come in from their ex hausting jobs for a shot of coffee, every one of them straps on at least three steel helmets. Then, too, there are times when one is peacefully wandering around campus trying to figure out just what and where "Building G" is) when an occasional piercing scream titillates the old ear drums. Now if you were picking your way through a Vietnamese jungle trying care fully to avoid the NBC news correspon dents, the TIME staff writers, LOOK photographers, and the On the Spot in terviewers from NEWSWEEK, with your luck, you'd probably trip and fall on a piece of discarded video tape and look up to see a sweet little old native wom an trying to sell you a couple of sweet little china dolls for nothing less than twenty bucks. (Made in Japan by genu ine craftsmen and boojplrapped in Hanoi by genuine card-carrying, black hat-wearing Viet Cong . . . who incidentally are also genuine craftsmen). Anyway, if you were enjoying the morning splendor possessed only by a Vietnamese rice paddie, that previously described scream would probably mean that one of you buddies has just tiptoed his combat boots across the chest of a six-foot, five-inch Viet Cogger (And Cong you can bet he will) who was catching twenty (no time for forty) winks in a con venient patch of rat snake grass (rsther a quaint name, don't you think). Anyway the scream means that your buddy has just realized all those nasty remarks made in reference to the relia bility of his trusty M-16 weren't so nasty after all. Not only that, but he knows now he really shouldn't have bet his bayonet (or old Betsy) in that final hand of poker last night. Oh well, let us leave this rath er unpleasant set of circumstances (as we'd all like to ignore it anyway) and return to business at hand, i.e., ..the screams we hear on campus. The screams heard around this place can mean one of two things, an unsus pecting (or worse trusting) student has just plummeted his body into one of the numerous gapping caverns that pock the immediate area in great numbers, or an equally unsuspecting type is standing at the checkout counter of one of the local bookhouses (that's pocket instead of pock) and the friendly little lady behind the counter has just broken the good news that those' four books stacked in front of lum add up to 49, plus fifteen cents in tax yet. To add to the flavor of this mock battleground, every now and then this sort will scream and yell, "Medic,- before slumping to the ground. Yes, the fall semester once again rings with the familiar sounds and shouts echoing throughout the buildings and across the campus. Too bad these sounds are so familiar. 1
