Utilization of ideas will determine fate of Greek Week
by Jim Pedersen
Nebraskan Staff Writer
The success or failure of Greek
Week will be determined by the extent
to which Greek houses utilize the
ideas presented during the week, ac
cording to June Wagoner, Greek Week
co-chairman.
"If houses follow up with speakers
during the regular year," she said
Sunday, "then the week will have
been a success." Greek Week cannot
be evaluated immediately, she added. '
Greek Week was marked by
moderate participation on the part of
houses and the administrators, faculty
and state senators who were invited
to speak or live in the houses.
ELEVEN SPEAKERS addressed 14
Greek houses, but no prominent
person lived in any of the houses.
Several houses which did not have
speakers during the week have ar
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Philosophy instructor Edward Becker plans to lead students in a new philosophy course.
New philosophy course to emphasize relevance
Nebraska Free University (NFU)
has inspired the addition of a new
philosophy course to the University
curriculum next fall, according to
Edward Becker, philosophy instruc
tor. Discussion will be of contemporary
topics and will probably include such
issues as situation ethics and the
''death of God" theologians. Becker
said. The tentative text list ranges
from "The Playboy Philosophy" by
Hugh Hefner to the "Port Huron
Statement" by Students for
Democratic Society.
Although the class (Philosophy 6)
will be a large lecture section, the
instructor said, it will be basically
a discussion course. Students will be
Foundation attempts
of man
by Connie Winkler
Nebraskan Staff Writer
Twenty years of people.
For twenty years Nebraska Human
Resources Research Foundation
(NHRRF) has been improving human
relations.
NHRRF Is a research foundation
that contends that man's greatest
resource is man and that the best
way to develop this resource is
through good human relations.
"We study the dimensions of human
nature and not its limitations," said
Dr. William E. Hall, director, at the
2oth anniversary meeting last
weekend. The most significant wav
to develop human resources is through
the relations a human being has with
another human, he continued.
HALL FEELS that once mankind
learns to relate to others, the whole
world will be changed. Technological
knowledge is Increasing at tremen
dous speeds, but our knowledge about
getting along with other people has
increased very little. NHRRF' is
working to increase this knowledge
about human relations.
To develop good behavior one starts
studying the kind of behavior he wants
to produce, Hall said. There are many
reasons why people fail, but only a
few things that determine why they
succeed. There is always some good
tn everyone; sometimes it is hard to
find, but It Is there, Hall continued.
Good behavior also comes from
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The complete text of the pro
posed ASUN Constitution ap
pears Oti page six of today's
Nebraskan. Students will vote
in a referendum Friday to ac
cept or reject the proposal.
The new constitution is the
result of the Constitutional Con
vention which completed Its
work last Saturday. One of the
I major changes Involves reap-
portwnment of student senators
to the ASUN senate.
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ranged to have speakers during the
next few weeks.
"We did not get very good coopera
tion from houses and some speakers,"
Miss Wagoner said. "Also there was
a lack of organization on our part."
Part of the organization problem
can be blamed on the fact that a
committee planned Greek Week, ac
cording to Miss Wagoner. Some people
worked well on the committee, and
others didn't work at all.
"We planned Greek Week with the
idea in mind that we either had to
change it or drop it," she added. "If
there is to be a Greek Week next
year, the houses will have to decide
whether or not they want one."
GARY WARREN, the other
chairman of Greek Week, said that
Greek Week loses its coherence over
the several day period.
"I question whether the projects of
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organized into small groups according
to interest to write cooperative
papers, he explained.
"The papers will sort of take the
place of quiz sections." he said.
Students will discuss the question with
their co-writers instead of in formal
discussion sections.
Students will decide what is to be
studied, Becker added. He said he
plans to poll the students about their
interests and disinterests and allow
them to add or subtract materials
from the course.
Relevance is the key word in the
origination and instruction of the
course. The students will decide what
is relevant, Becker said. "In a sense
through
recognizing good behavior, and pro
viding a model of good behavior, Hall
said.
Building a relationship does
something to people. that nothing else
does, and one builds a relationship
by Investing in people, Hall said. If
you are going to invest in people we
must have an awareness of people.
People have to be , something more
than things that are knocked down
when we pass them on the sidewalk,
Hall said.
IF WE ARE going to invest in
people we must have empathy and
see the world as the other person
sees it, Hail explained. "Uutil you
see the world like the other person,
you can never build a relationship."
The Foundation also believes that
people must plan things they can be
successful in. If we tackle something
too tough, we lose all our capital,
Hall said. Some of the most in conse
quential things in the world are the
most important, he added.
NHRRF grew out of a circle of
graduate students who gathered
around Hall after he came to the
University In 1946, according to Dr.
Donald 0. Clifton, one of the early
students and now associate director. '
One course offered students the op
portunity to counsel with freshmen
about academic, social, creative and
leadership goals. In this situation
research was begun to discover people
who could build a positive rela
tionship. HALL AND students went on to ap
ply the positive approach to real life
situations. Their first protect
recognized good behavior in a kin
dergarten in the Lincoln Public
Schools. The project was successful
and the parents were responsive when
their children liked school bettter,
studied more and had fewer pro
blems. James Stuart. J. Lee Rankin and
Gerald Brownfield became interested
In the projects and agreed to sponsor
and finance the project. At the 20th
anniversary Stuart was recognized for
his contributions with the Stuart
Award. In the future the Stuart Award
will be presented to a University stu
dent who exemplifies outstanding
leadership. With, the exception of the
Greek Week should be done over a
week's time," he said Sunday. "It
might be better to take one aspect
of the week and concentrate on it
in a one or two day period."
On the whole, the week was not
a success, Warren added, because not
all the houses participated.
"The change from the type of Greek
Week held last year to the kind of
week we held this year caused us
to lose some of the houses," he con
tinued. "Participation should increase
considerably over the next few
years."
Warren was satisfied with the newly
introduced Greek carnival.
"EIGHTEEN HOUSES took part in
the carnival," he said. "But again,
participation should pick up next
year."
"A stronger push by the co
chairmen and the committee earlier
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it's sort of an experiment which I
hope will show that education can be
relevant," he said, adding that he also
hopes to demonstrate the applicability
of philosophy.
"It was my brainstorm," the in
structor explained. "It, resulted from
thinking of the kind of needs that
we all have." The course will in
corporate some of the most popular
aspects of NFU, he added.
NFU is a "very good thing," Becker
said, "and should be viewed by the
faculty as an indication of where
students' interests lie. It should be
used as a model of what the ac
credited University should be," he
added.
improvement
better relations
HEP program, the Foundation is still
privately financed.
The second project focused on a
group of 15 junior high and 15 college
students, which later evolved into
Teenage Project.
From 1950-57 the project was head
quartered in Temporary K building.
In 1957 NHRRF moved to the ad
ministration building. The expanded
present facilities in Love Library were
provided by the Woods Foundation in
1906. .
THERE ARE NOW 11 projects in
volving 300 people.
Teenage Project is agroup of 16
high school and 16 college students
attempting to discover and practice
the NHRRF philosophy by forming
good c o u nselee-counselor rela
tionships. They aim to develop the best possi
ble relationship between the college
counselor and high school counselee,
according to Connie Clifton, chairman.
In addition to weekly meetings each
counselor and counselee get together
once aweekandtakeaninterest
once a week and take an interest
in things that are important to each
other.
The counselor tries to present ex
amples of positive behavior. The pro
ject also attempts to develop the best
possible relationship between all the
members of Teenage Project, to im
prove friendly relationships between
high school students and to illustrate
the contribution a teenager can make
to his community.
Pre School project applies the
Foundation's goals and principals to
ithe development of the potentiality
of three, four and five-year-olds
according to Marty
Mayfield. Mayfield is carrying on
studies to identify why children in
this project performed significantly
higher on achievement tests for school
readiness than matched groups of
children who attended other nursery
schools or had no pre-school ex
perience. MRS. WILLIAME. Hall is director
of the Foundation's Early Learning
School, assisted by two-university
education majors.
Child's Project deals with children
in the year might have increased
participation," Warren added. "It
would have taken a tremendous
amount of organization to make Greek
Week a coherent week of activity."
According to Mrs. Jayne Anderson,
adviser to Panhellenic. the decision
to reduce Greek Week from a week
to a weekend was made two years
ago by both IFC and Panhelenic, but
it apparenty was never applied.
Tuesday Mrs. Anderson sent a
questionnaire to the presidents of all .
University sororities asking them if
there should be a Greek Week and
if their house would participate next
year.
THE QUESTIONNAIRE also asked
which of five Greek Week formats
the sororities would approve. The five
types of formats were a conference,
a conference and entertainment, just
entertainment, speakers ' in living
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NEBRASKAN
Advisers' cry: many
students, too little time
by Ron Taleott
Nebraskan Staff Writer
An experiment in student academic
advising is being continued this
semester to allow faculty advisers
more time to act in their regular
capacities, according to Dt Robert
L. Hough, associate dean of Arts and
Sciences.
Hough explained that during last
semester's pre-registration. student
assistants in Harper Hall advised
about 150 students on how to complete
their registration forms.
"The faculty adviser's signature
was still required, but the student
went into his office with his schedule
completed, and would be more likely
to ask larger questions, such as those
concerning professional opportunities
in his field," Hough said.
HE ASSESSED the experiment a:i
a success and said it would be con
tinued this semester in the Women's
Residence Halls. But outside of this
innovation, the University's acalenuc
advising program has had ''no najor
change on the faculty level in recent
years," according to Hough. He went
on to discuss how the system func
tions. "The faculty adviser has two jobs."
Hough said. "First, he is a signer
of forms. Secondly, he gives advice
who already have a great deal of
opportunity and possibility. The
purpose is to take the challenge of
further developing their potential. The
project aims to understand the nature
of children and develop that nature
to the most productive level, ac
cording to students Kay Kugler and
Mary Tidball.
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units, or speakers and entertainment.
IFC President Joe Voboril was not
very satisfied with the outcome of
Greek Week.
"The speakers, the conference with
Gov. Tiemann and the carnival were
all good ideas," Voboril said Sunday,
"but the committee didn't follow
through on the ideas."
Voboril objected to the method in
which speakers were invited to
participate in Greek Week.
"SPEAKERS were not approached
personally but were sent explanatory
letters and a mimeographed sheet
which offered them the alternatives
of living in a house, speaking or not
participating," according to Voboril.
The speakers were contacted a long
time in advance of the week, he said,
and the committee didn't follow up on
the first contact.
advice on such matters as changing
majors, selecting minors and pro
fessional opportunities.
"When we select advisers, we
always confer with the chairmen of
the departments and ask them how
many majors they have. On this basis,
we decide how many advisers the
department should have, then we talk
about, who would be good advisers,"
Hough continued.
"We get some feedback on teaching
ability, warmth and personality, and
we try to select professors who are
generally interested in students."
Hough concluded.
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HOl'GH SAID THAT each adviser
should have about 20-25 advisees, but
the ratio, in practice, varies con
siderably. "I don't know exactly haw many
people I'll see during pre-registration,"
Dr. Paul Landolt, zoology pro
fessor and coordinator of the pre-med
advisory program, said. "I have about
35 regulars, but since I'm the
coordinator, other pre-med advisers
send students into me if they can't
answer their questions.
"With my other work and my job
as coordinator, 35 students is a bit
too many for me." Landolt com
mented. "I know some pre-med ad
visers who see as many as 50
students."
"I'll only see about six students."
Dr. Charles Kingsbury, a pre-med
adviser, said. "1 don't really knoA'
why so few." Asked if he gets to
know his advisees. Kingsbury said,
"By the time they're seniors, I do.
but not when they're freshmen or
sophomores, because you see them
so infrequently."
"I DOUBT IF I will recognize half
of them that come Into my office,"
Landolt said. Vou can't really get to
know them (advisees) because,
unless they come in for other reasons.
1 won't see them until the next
registration period."
"One of the problems with the
system is that, while 1 see only 10
students, I see them only for about
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According to Miss Wagoner, it wa.?
the responsibility of the individual
houses to make a final invitation to
the speakers once the houses were
notified of who their speaker was to
be.
Voboril feels that the carnival was
a success and that Greek Week was
improved by getting away from many
of the activities of past Greek Weeks.
"The carnival will make about $350
when all donations are in from houses
who couldn't participate," he said.
"This money will go to Cedars Home
for Children."
"We wanted to get away from trivia
like the Greek games and do
something relevant this year," Voboril
added. "We hoped that speakers and
live-ins might encourage individual
houses to go on with this sort of thing
during the semester."
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20 minutes once a semester," Stephen
Hilliard, an English department ad
viser, said. "Much of my job is the
mechanical business of signing forms.
If I knew the students better. I could
perform more usefully as an adviser,"
Hilliard added.
What should be done to improve
the system?
"We have a numbers problem, but
1 don't believe the main problem is
with the system," Hough said. "Oc
casionally, a student will tell us that
his adviser 'doesn't seem to be in
terested in me' or that he feels 'he
wants me out if his office,' but here
the problem is the personnel, not the
system."
"One thing that would help and
this is impossible is to have more
advisers." Landolt said. "This way
we could work with smaller groups."
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"WHAT WE ARE doing is placing
more responsibility on the student,"
he continued. "We tell them to read
their catalogues and try to solve some
of their own problems before coming
to see us."
Hilliard also stressed that increased
student responsibility in choosing their
courses is needed, saying that many
students know little of what they want
to do, and citing group requirements
as a particular area of ignorance, but
he also sympathized with a common
student problem:
"Students arc- given these large
catalogues with grand-sounding
courses all taught by staff and they
don't know which courses to take
outside their own major," Hilliard
said. "There are not enough survey
courses available, courses offered
specifically for non-majors."
Landolt said that when a student
is able to complete his registration
form by himself, there is probably
no real need for him to go through
the business of making an appoint
ment with his adviser, just to have
his forms signed (although this step
is still required).
But he would not favor eventually
eiminating the faculty advising
system.
"We still should be there to answer
questions," he said.
