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J 78. 733 STATE HISTORICAL SOCim UUCOLN, NEBRASKA ! NOV 0 fJSfr Friday, October 27, 1967 University of Nebraska Vol. 91, No. 27 Resident College Idea Considered Concepts of Student Life Examined at Conference By ED ICENOGLE Senior Staff Writer An experimental residential college may be a part of t h e University in the near future, Professor Robert Knoll, asso ciate chairman of the depart ment of E n g 1 i s h predicted Thursday. , Knoll, who attended a four day meeting on experimental residential colleges this week, said the current "concept of classes is under attack." "The residential college," Knoll explained, "is an oppor tunity to reconsider courses, student relations and teaching subject matter at the s a m e time." The concept of the college is to provide one place for students and faculty to study, learn and work while living together. NATIONAL MEETING This topic was the object of the meeting of 150 faculty members and students from across the nation. Gene Po koroy, AS UN first vice-president, and Merk Hobson, vice chancellor and dean of facul ty, attended the conference with Knoll. "There are experimental colleges around the country," Knoll said, "mainly at larger institutions like our own." The University of Nebraska is not trailing any of the ex perimental programs, either, Knoll said, pointing out t h e current honors program here. The successof new ap proaches to education has varied, the professor said. In the case of the University honors program, Knoll felt that it had not proved very successful. 7-2. AWS Judicial Committee Opposes Continued Expansion Of Court By ANDY CORRIGAN Jvnior Stan w rlter The AWS Constitutional Ju dicial Committee voted seven to two Thursday to propose a decentralized court system based on women's living units to the entire convention as sembly next month. The decentralized court system, if approved by the Constitutional Convention end AWS, would divide the court's duties among seven or eight courts. The present AWS court, which handles all infractions of AWS rules would become a Court of Appeals under the proposed system. SEPARATE COURTS Each city campus dorm would have a separate court; East Campus would have one court; and an AWS-Panhellen-k Court would be established for the sororities. The AWS-Panhellenic Court would be composed of Standards Board member from each of the seventeen Greek houses. Justices would be rotated periodically to al low each court member to bold the position during the year. "The Judicial Committee has yti to decide the rotation plan. Tbe committee is 3lo undecided as to the feir.foer shjp.on the dormitory courts and as to the status of WR1L WRii COURT Barb Doerr, chairman of the committee, suggested that fiaca tfH wag eoszposed of fnfitoq fiat Court of "We're not likely to run into any heavy static," he ( said of new proposals that should be made. "Everyone wants to try something; it's just the question of waht to try." "This was the purpose of the conference, sponsored by the Danforth Foundation," Knoll said. "We were all to go home and try something." The University is currently organizing the Centennial Col lege Committee to consider and propose experiments in education. Although it is too early to tell what new ideas may be tried, the professor said he is "terribly optimistic" that changes will be made at t h e University. "And it will be soon," he said. "Maybe not next semes ter, but soon." Those changes may not only be in creating a residen tial college but in methods of presentation of subjects and the courses themselves. ONE OR TWO COURSES "Perhaps students could have only one or two courses per semester," he said, "and they would concentrate on those." Knoll emphasized the sig nificance of student involve ment in any new program. "Students will be partici pating from the beginning," be said. "This is the I a t e s t wrinkle, tapping student intel ligence. "The students may help in deciding what order to take courses and which courses are most important," he said. Appeals should function as the WRH Court. However this proposal a met by opposition from a WRH committee member who stated that her constitu ents were opposed to having their cases heard before the Court of Appeals and desired a Joint court with Pound UalL A decision on the situation will be made at tbe next com mittee meeting. The committee also vetoed a proposal to have the Stu dent Tribunal as tbe appeals court for AWS infractions. The judiciary was also the concern of the Constitutional Executive Committee, ac cordin? to Linda Parker, committee chairman. STRICT DIVISION For tbe present the commit tee has tentatively proposed that a strict division between tbe programs and judicial areas of AWS be maintained. If the Board is not abolished tt will be subdivided between programs and judicial, form Ing a bridge of communica tion between the two main AWS structures. Miss Parker said. , A system of committee chairmen in the programs area has been suggested as an alternative to the Board, ln.cresied students wou'd be iniervieed tur ijhnm ana would be ap;ointed by the three executives. If this plan was imple mented the Chief Justices of the individual courts would form the cabinet of the vk presidjQt to ebargt ( th Behind The Bars . mm rZTrJfZJrr?. ra'':?"" Kifc mm tsy -y. utaoi gmi ym Mjf h--. . .-.v.w X-IS!:. 1 -- I ) La v i'l ITU T. (A'' i -! - - ' l if ; PL j '-r& (HMwfSrv U iri'f - . tAvi- -l;4 lUms rwaswsai? n v mi n A A l I ft CfiwselJ r TS? V A i tw I I - .-r "5 JUT wv L n 0 .if " j5h!P5 judiciary, according to Miss Parker. (WIBIE "There is also a possibility of combining these two pro posals and utilizing both Board members a J d ap pointed committee heads," she said. The committee has also pro posed that all legislative pow. er be in the habit of the House of Representatives and that if the Board remains it would only be concerned with the programs and judicial di visions of AWS. Tbe Legislative Committee and Powers Committee both met Thursday but their chair men were unavailable for comment. SECOND SESSION ' The second general session of the convention will convene Nov. 16, according to Nancy Coufal, convention chairman. At this time the four com mittees will present their pro posed ajsendments and alter, ations of the constitution to tbe other convention dele gates for consideration. All committee proposals ac cepted by the convention will be incorporated into the con stitution and presented to Uni versity women for ratifica tion. According to Mi Couial Uie convention was caiied to update the constitution. AWS was originally oniy composed of the Board members and consequently the present con stitution is built around them. Miss Coufal stated that she was pleased with conven Workmen tion proceedings adding that her official role in the con vention has been as an orga nizer and presiding officer of the convention. Vietnam Week . Former HHH Aid Is Final Speaker Vietnam Week's final speak er, Allard Lowenstein, is ex pected to support the "dump President Johnson move ment" Friday evening, ac cording to Al Spangler. chair man of Vietnam. "I expect that he will say that the realistic way to do something about the war in Vietnam is to get rid of John son, Spangler predicted Thursday. Lowenstein, vice-chairman of tbe Americans for Demo cratic Action, wiH speak at the final Vietnam seminar Friday in the Union at 7:3d p.m. The we'k ol discussion scs 'wp. has been sponsored by ASUN in conjunction with Union Talks and Topics Com mittee which arranged for some speakers. Lowenstein, who has aided Hubert Humphrey in political Ctampsignj n4 lg former . . i& w s 'S Bind Up Union In forecasting possible con vention decisions Miss Coufal feels that the decentralization of the AWS courts and legis lative powers are probable. president of the National Stu dent Association, is now lead ing the movement to draft a new Democratic nominee for President, Spangler said. The movement is called the "Concerned Democrats" Spangler said, or, on the West Coast, tbe "Dissenting Dem ocrats." "Tbe Concerned Democrats are talking about running Eugene McCarthy cf Minne sota against Johnson in the presidential primaries,'' the Vietnam Week chairman add ed. Lowenstein has also helped construct the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Following the speech, only a referendum Monday rs mains on the Vietnam Week agenda. The referendum will present four alternatives on the war in Vietnam for vot ing bj the students and iao By. Bel Kaufman: Schools Failing Education Is Sponge Soaking Up Water By GARY GILLEN Junior Staff Writer Bel Kaufman, author of the book, "Up The Down Staircase," told University students Thursday night that impersonal school systems in Fraternities To Discuss Role; Goals The Council of Profes sional Fraternities will spon sor a panel discussion on the role of professional fra ternities on campus Sun day at 2 p.m. in the Ne braska Union. Russ Brown, associate dean of student affairs, and Ron Gierhan, assistant in student affairs, will take part in the discussion. Interested students should bring a list of goals for their own fraternities and goals they feel the Council should attain. The Council, which was formed last year, is also planning to televise six programs on the National Educational Tele vision (ETV) about professional fraternities and their fields. Happy Days Scheduled Next Week Two Act Play Has Cast Of Two "Happy Days," by Sam uel Becket will be presented Sunday and Monday at 8 p.m. in room 201 of the Temple Building. The two act laboratory play is being directed by William Turek as a part of the Laboratory theater program. According to Turek, the play is based upon the dia logue of Winnie, played by Kathy Baines, who is im bedded in the center of a mound. Jan Johnson, as Willie, is the other member of the cast. Panhel Revises Old Constitution A Panhellenic committee is revising the Panhellenic Con stitution, according to Shari Mueller, president of tbe or ganization. Miss Mueller said that last year a faculty-student c o m mittee on student affairs pointed out several deficien cies in the constitution. Some parts of the constitu tion are outdated, such as a section which states that each sorority can only have one publicity article a year printed in a Lincoln paper. The rotation system for Panhellenic president will also be revised, said Miss Mueller. She explained that under the present system the Panhellenic presidents are named in the order that the sororities they represent were established on campus. Miss Muller explained that this section neeeded to be clarified because five sorori ties went off campus during th .eprension vears and there are discrepancies. When these sororities were re-established some were placed in successive order according to the r original founding data and some to fceif tacood foandirg tata. this country are not reaching the student. She said that education to day is "much like a sponge soaking up water and squeez ing it o u t again at exam time." "The essence of good edu cation is face to face con tact," she told the capacity audience at the Nebraska Un ion ballroom. She said that since she is teaching in college she finds that she is able to come in closer contact with her stu dents. DON'T NEED AS MUCH "College students don't need me as much as high school students," she said. She noted that college stu dents are able to take ideas and expand upon them with out anyone pointing out the way. Something that is growing in popularity in this country is the hiring of teachers on their scholarship ability rath er than teaching ability, she said. "Dead earnest effort on the part of the teacher is the sub ject of greatest importance," Miss Kaufman said. Addressing herself to the young teachers-to-be in the audience, she said that when they the teachers go to their classes they should expect the unexpected. GOOD TEACHER "You won't find situations that you studied in psycho logy or of the adolescent, if there is such a thing," she said. The good teacher must be able to feel the students needs, she added. "Children seem to say a great deal even when quiet and a good teacher must be able to sense this," the author said. She said that the problem of a discrepancy between a student and teacher may lie in the gap between the rec ord and real life. Miss Kaufman said that by the time children reach the high school level they have been conditioned to the point of losing the excitement of learning. "There is a great burden on the youth of today, even more than my day," she said. she said. Relations between Panhel lenie and the Alumni Advis ory Board need revision, Miss Mueller said, because tbe present constitution gives the board legislative power, but it is never exercised. Another deficiency of t h e constitution is that it requires council attendance but does not state why it is required or the penalties for absences. Panhellenic has councils for each sorority office, such as a Presidents Council and a Rush Chairmen Council. The re vised constitution will make provisions for the organiza tion of these coundils. Tbe constitution win follow the resolution made by t h e Panhellenic to raise th e re quired average for pledge ac tivation from 2.0 to 2.2, she said. It will also provide for a Panhellenic Coutvil treasurer an-1 for combined rush tw k, the president sia 'd. Jan Binger is the chairman of t h e revised constitution committee. Miss Mueller said that Panhellenic Council must approve the amendments be fore they art incorporated Into the cosftLtuUoOa