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rrT B J VLi- rvr ITY OF N1 U MJ vLi? LLU U .rvn KAfivR 1 I Thursday, March 7, 1968 University of Nebraska Vol. 91, No. 74 1 "''.MiV enators vote for NSA affiliation i Bob Zucker, Faculty Evaluation Committee chairman: "The idea (of the Faculty Evaluation Booklet) is to discover what teaching really is and what students should demand of their teachers." Faculty Evalution pinpoints purpose Committee intends to define teaching bv Andy Cunningham Junior Staff Writer The purpose of the Faculty Eval uation Committee is to show what teaching means not to help stu dents find easy grades, the com mittee's new chairman said Wed nesday. "The idea is to discover what teaching really is and what stu dents should demand of their teach ers," Bob Zucker, the ASUN com mittee chairman said. The purpose is not to help stu dents find an easy teacher, he em phasized. Definition of teaching Echoing the words of the intro duction of the Course and Teacher Evaluation booklet of the United States National Student Association Zucker said: "One problem which is existent throughout the United States where ever you find teaching, is that there is no definition of what teaching is and what teaching effectiveness is." Such a definition, Zucker noted, does not exist, although in effect a faculty evaluation committee is claiming that it has found one when it compiles and publishes an evaluation booklet. Effective teaching What a faculty evaluation book let can do, according to Zucker, is express in general terms what the majority of the students at the University believe effective and val uable teaching entails. Zucker said that different stu dents have different personal goals in learning at the university; and that some want to be taught theory and others, factual material Discover deficiencies However, Zucker expressed the hope that the evaluation reports will permit his committee to discover any general deficiencies present in teaching at the University. Zucker said if the faculty was in terested in discovering more about teaching effectiveness, they would be more cooperative in allowing themselves to be valuated. While Zucker noted that the gen eral unwillingness of the faculty to help may reHect a certain apathy or even fear oh their, part rii to find more effective methods of teaching, he added: "Perhaps we haven't instilled in them confidence in us as evalua tors, and maybe we need to show them that we are going to do a good job." Teaching methods Zucker also pointed out that a teacher who has never been told that his teaching methods lack ef fectiveness is only partially respon sible for them, since no one has brought them to his attention. Zucker received the 104-page N SA booklet after he wrote that or ganization requesting help in estab lishing a solid teacher evaluation program. The majority of the comments in the NSA booklet have direct ap plication to the University, accord ing to Zucker. Evaluation important Zucker said he hopes that these statements will help students and professors alike realize that faculty evalution is important. Through greater cooperation fac ulty evaluation can be very use ful in answering the questions about the effectiveness of teaching prac tices, Zucker said. "The attempts of students to val-' uate their courses and teachers cannot be bad," contends the NSA publication. Students concerned "The attempt in itself is at least a sign that students are concerned with their own education. "... There are strong signs that student course and teacher evaluation, when thoughtfully ad ministered, is the best existing way to evaluate and hopefully improve the teaching-learning experience in the classroom." The most important aspect of fac ulty evaluation, the NEA publica tion concludes, is the effectiveness with which the evaluation is used to improve the educational process. Zucker announced that interviews fo the Faculty Evaluation Book let staff will be held Sunday, March 10. Positions tor the three area chair man positions as well as for six assistants are open. Sign-up sheets and applications are in the ASUN office in the Nebraska Union. Unanimous vote places issue on ballot for general elections by Susie Jenkins Junior Staff Writer ASUN Senate Wednesday unani mously endorsed University affili ation with the National Student As sociation (NSA), and voted to place the issue on the ballot at the April 10 general elections. The voice vote followed an ad dress by Al Handell, special ser vices diredtor of NSA. Handell de tailed for the Senate some services and policies of the organization, including the group's history and the controversial question of Cen tral Intelligence Agency subsidies for NSA students abroad. NSA was organized in 1947 by returning GI's who felt there was a need for an organized student voice. Since its beginning, Handell no ted, NSA has been attacked from the left, right and middle concern ing its political declarations. Since NSA publicly admitted its connec tions with the CIA in 1967, the sub sequent outbreak has given it a more conservative mein, Handell said. No more CIA funds The NSA stopped receiving funds from the CIA before the announce ment, and consequently 80 per cent of NSA's activity is directed to ward campus projects rather than for international purposes. NSA now has 350 member col leges ranging from seminaries to UCLA, Handell said, and three na tionally elected officers. The main office is in Washington, D.C., where 50 full-time staff members run the organization's affairs. In addition, NSA has a board of ten directors elected from differ ent areas of the country. Largest in region If student voters accept the af filiation this spring, the University would become the largest member of the Iowa-Nebraska region, one of nineteen regions across the United States. Member colleges participate in regional and national conferences, including the summer 1963 nation al convention to be held this year in the midwest at either Wiscon sin, Illinois or Kansas State Uni versity. Handell said that is it from these meetings that the statements of po litical policy and "controversial resolutions" originate. 'Full control' resolution "Last summer the 1,200 dele gates passed a resolution that af fects every college student," Han dell said. "We voted that students should have full control of their non-academic lives and join con trol of their academic lives." Handell stressed that member universities need not back NSA resolutions, and they in fact vote IIIUillllllllllllllllllllllllinilllllll!!!llllllllllllllllllllllllillie 0?i Campus ... j Today The psychology and zoology de partments will sponsor sympos ium on behavior Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in Bessey Hall auditorium. The speaker will be Dr. John A. King, Department of Zoology, from Michigan State University in Lans ing, Michigan. A brief social time will be held 20 minutes before the sympoisum. ft ft ft Gov. Norbert T. Tiemann will speak at the Young Republican meeting Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Union auditorium. The meeting will be conducted in a town hall for mat with a question-and-answer session following Tiemann's speech. ft ft ft AWS presidential candidates Mi mi Baker, Nesha Neumeister, Nan cy Eaton, and Karen Wendt will give their views on AWS Issues at a forum Thursday night in the Un ion at 7:30 p.m. ft ft" ft Quiz Bowl matches will be held Thursday night beginning at 7 p.m. These matches are the start of the final elimination tournament. Mr. Jim Huge and Dr. Carl Nielson will moderate. ft ft ft The World Community Luncheon will be held at 12 neon at 3:30 N. 14th St. The luncheon is sponsored by tne University YWCA. on each resolution if they wish to do so. "Our statement in support of cer tain concepts of the Black Power movement is one statement that has been voted down," he said. "Whether this is good or bad de pends on your point of view of SNA's power of representation." Liberals leaving Since the revelation of the CIA affiliation, some of the more left ist NSA members have dropped membership. "This is not a bad development, because we are now attracting a wider range of members, and can represent a greater cross-section of opinions," he said. NSA provides many services to campuses backed by money from the federal government, private or ganizations, and national dues. NSA as scapegoat "Our services are available to any paying member, but they won't solve any of your problems unless you utilize them," Handell said. "For this reason NSA is some times used as a scapegoat when campus conditions are not chang, ed overnight by memberships." Included in the services and pro jects NSA offers are: Student Stress Project, backed by the Office of Education, inves tigating pressures which cause student drop-outs and suicides; Student Course and Teacher Evaluation, to be utilized by the ASUN Faculty Evaluation Book staff in writing the 1968 hand book; Chapel Hill victory Legal Rights, helping student governments to take a bigger role in protecting student rights. This project has already won a case al lowing students of Chapel Hill Col lege in North Carolina to bring on to campus speakers of their own choice; Tutorial Assistance, ser ving 300,000 students under a grant from the Office of Education; International Commission, now without funds, presently design ing program to deliver package lec tures on the Vietnam war; Student Life insurance, provid ing $10,000 coverage for a $20-per-year cost; Senators approve report of disciplinary committee by Kent Cockson Senior Staff Writer Student senators unanimously ap proved Wednesday the report sub mitted to the Senate two weeks ago by Bob Weaver's Committee on Stu dent Disciplinary Procedures. "We are prepared to submit this to the faculty who have expressed some concern in this matter and are ready to consider it," he said. Under new business, Sen. Tom Morgan moved that ASUN sponsor Choice '68, a mock presidential election to be conducted among the nation's colleges that accept spon sorship. The motion failed 12-15. Spangler leads opposition Opposition to sponsorship, led by Al Spangler, seemed to agree that involvement in the mock election would be a waste of time because it would divert student interest away from the Nebraska presiden tial primary. In the discussion prior to passage of the student due process report, Dennis Schulte said the report as it was then presented had too many restrictions and was too detailed. He called for further evaluation tnd further refinement, adding that that the current disciplinary system could not be left as it is. 'Provides due process' Weaver in turn called for imme diate approval and said that the report simply provides the mini mum elements of due process for the student in any court hearing. Following the favorable vote, he said that in approving the report, the court structure which has been sought by other people in the Uni Educational Travel, which helped 110,000 students to get to Europe cheaper last year. NSA is now fighting the impending feder al tax on travel, which would cut into the numbers of students who could only afford to travel via NS A, Handell said. As a result of these services, Handell said, organizations on oth 15 students begin election procedure No registration forms have been returned by students filing for an ASUN Executive position, Student Senate, or College Advisory Bords according to Dick Schulze, ASUN president. About fifteen registration forms have been picked up in the ASUN office, Schulze said. Schulze added that he will release the names of students filing for positions period ically as the application deadline of March 15 approaches. Applications for any of the three positions require a petition signed by thirty-five members from the college in which the student is en rolled and their respective I.D. numbers. Financial forms are due on elec tion day, April 10, and must be accompanied by an itemized ac count of contributions received and contributions made to a party or an executive slate. Financial expenditures of candi dates for Senate or College Ad visory Board positions cannot ex ceed $40. Expenditures of students running for an Executive position must not exceed $50. A mandatory orientation meeting will be held Sunday, March 17. Any candidate who fails to attend will be disqualified from running. Application forms with further in formation are available in the AS UN office in the Nebraska Union. 'No' on choice '68 versity has been provided to bring some order out of the apparent confusion. "This set of due process guide lines together with the court struc ture will be the vehicle for enforce ment of those principles the rights and responsibilities of the student which will be shortly forthcoming from the chancellor's Student Academic Freedom Com mittee," he said following the meet ing. Within guidelines He added that counselling could take place within these guidelines, and that it was not the purpose of the committee to limit this func tion of Student Affairs. "These requiremens are essen tial," he said. "Counselling can take place as an element of final dispo sition following the judicial pro cess." - After Morgan moved that ASUN sponsor the Choice '68 elections on rampus, he said that Senate has al ready waited too long to approve the election, and if it was held up any longer, the election would not get enough publicity to make it "go over successfully." Phil Boardman countered with: "To get people involved in really what I call a game and divert them from taking interest in the Ne braska primary is a great mis take." , Valid point Morgan said that he failed to see the conflict of interests, but he added that Spangler had made a valid point earlier when he said er campuses have begun to work more closely. "It especially draws the groups closer to the student government, since we prefer to work strictly through that body," he said. NSA can bring more than organ ization to a campus, Handell maintained. Fur ASUN dale A student fills out her pre liminary application form for the upcoming Student Senate election. Thirty five signatures are re quired to file officially. that the election does not fall into the realm of ASUN. "But if me want to make it suc cessful," Morgan added, "we shoul take on the responsibility. No other organization has made a move to sponsor the election . . . and if we don't, it will die a slow death." Final action Phil Bowen moved that the sen ate take final ction on the issue before it adjourned, and after pro cedures of order, the motion to sponsor the election was defeated. In other action: ASUN President Dick Schulze reported that the Student Bill of Rights is in the final consideration stage with the Student Academic Freedom Committee. He said it will then be presented to the Chancellor who will then decide where to send it for further approval. Spangler moved provisions to have the Bill of Rights released to the senate before its final approv al. The motion was passed. Seven appointments The senate approved all seven appointments for next year's Stu dent Tribunal. They are: Dave Sny der, chief justice; and associate jus tice Earl Drdge, Kathy Kuester, Dave Piester, Terry Schaaf, John Schrekinger and Carl Wangsvick. . An applicationfor a graduate student seat in the senate was ap proved unanimously. Mark Gustaf son, a graduate student in Agricul tural Economics, will take his place in the senate for the five remair ing weeks that it will be in session. The resolution on Faculty Ad vising under new business was tabled indefinitely. g .... t
