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Prof. Donald Jensen's Psychology 170 this fall is
in its seventh year at UNL, getting bigger and bet
ter all the time. College Game fans, rejoice. .
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we vciciaii yiaytia - - - -hiHont a working Knowieugc v -
was still Psych 70 (yes, it was that long ago) re- -To give d3gles.
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the course has been reduced from four credit supposedly produced ty miaiern
hours to three, and some material covered in Psych nsjMd Qf $tudents eacn
86 For The unenlightened, the Psych 170 system in
volves computer testing over a variety of class
presentations, including lectures, films and tapes.
Both, tests and presentations, in alternate weeks,
run almost continuously; the student arranges
them around his or her schedule
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Candidate seeking
X-rated equal time
This kind of memorization is not geared to real
learning but is serves well enough to fulfill what
social scientists would call the "hidden agendas" of
Psvch 170:
-To increase the credit hour production of the
Psychology Dept.;
-To provide psych graduate students the raw
material from which theses and computer programs
and bell curves are molded; and
-To festoon the walls of Donald Jensen s office
with Outstanding Teacher of the Year awards.
(Jensen, by the way, rarely if ever is seen by
Psych 170 students. Those of us who work in the
Nebraska Union sometimes see him lunching in the
Colonial Room.)
What do students get out of Psych 1 70?
if thpv have a rift for taking information into
the mind, putting it on paper and then forgetting
By Arthur Hoppe
The Ford family s
'refreshing candor" about its sex life
drove the Democrats into deep gloom. There was no ques
tion the votine public couldn't wait to scan the front pages
each day to see what Jerry, Betty, Susan, Jack and Liberty,
the nolden retriever, had, or had not, been up to.
In a futile attempt to capture equal space, Sen. Scoop
Jackson issued 42 position papers, Sen. Humphrey deliver
ed an eight-hour major address on a sdd he had kissed in a
rumble seat at the 1923 Kenosha Pumpkin Fair, and only
Sen. Kennedy maintained silence on the subject, insisting
he was not an active candidate.
It was" that well-known dark horse, Hector (Hec) -
Goodbodv, the folksy, Harvard-educated rabbit farmer,
who correctly assessed the political winds. He promptly
divorced his wife of 35 vears, Norma Jean, married Linda
Lovelace and purchased 30-second spots extolling his
qualifications for president which television stations refused
to show before 10 p.m.
His campaign literature,, mailed in plain wrappers,
featured a charming family photograph of his whip
carrying Hauchter, Hotbreath, his manly son, Jocko, his
new wife and himself having fun at one of his No-Host .
Cocktail Party and Virnin Sacrifice Fund Raisers.
He was easily distinguishable from the others by the fact
he was wearing socks.
"I've always had this thing about socks," he said with re
freshine candor. "They really turn me on."
His most brilliant speech, entitled "Berlin and Other
Eroeenous Zones," was delivered to an American Legion
Stag Smoker in Cleveland, Ohio, in it, he came out
vigorously in favor of foreign affairs, "particularly in Paris,"
and recounted his experiences with 23 different women
(illustrated by color slides) the previous Tuesday night.
Meanwhile, the other members of the closely knit family
worked hard for his election. Hotbreath, in an exclusive
interview with The Ladies Home Companion, told of hei
dreams and ambitions, saying it was her "insatiable desire
to do something for others" that had led her to become s
happv hooker.
At the same time, Jocko was telline Sports Today thai
his father's campaign was "a real shot in the arm" for th
Winnctka Closet of the Gay Liberation Front, of which he
was sergcant-at-arms.
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In addition, the tests may be taken a number of he mind put g y
les; only the highest grade is counted Students it, .the y reiye s are quite g00d) and
m their test scores almost immediately, and so Dept. courses iu m
JHfSa & EEw. and go to class. ,hey may pass the course but they
Without these, the student is told, it is impotable won t pas Go. . . n .
to pass the course. .
Students with quick, short-term memories, how
ever, soon learn otherwise. By studying sample test
forms they discover it is possible to pass the
course-arid do it well-simply by memorizing the
samples, their own dry-run tests and those of
others. .
And students in both groups will learn to spell
"scitzophr-" er, that is, "schitsophren-"
Student- in both groups will learn that "MMPP
stands for "Minnesota Multiphasic Personality
Inventory.
Rebecca Brite
Vine Street Irregulars
Forgotten grad students
seek increased visibility
The Fords were relegated to the back pages. Goodbody
appeared a shoo-in. Across the land, registrars placed sign
on the voting booths reading, "No one under 21 admitted
without parental guidance."
But the mood of the voting public is mercurial at best,
And when the ballots were counted the surprise winner was
- a write-in candidate, E.G. Brown, Jr., a lifelong Trappist
monk.
(Copyright Chronlcls Publishing Co. 197b)
By Michael Hilligoss
"Yossarian," I said, "did you dnow people have actually
been asking me if you exist, if you're reaH"
"Not surprising," he said, raising h' glass in salutation
to Casey's Tuesday night crowd.
"You know," he continued, "what's much more in
teresting is that the existence of the VSI itself is often
questioned. It seems that the faculty and administration
generally regard it as incredible that even a small group of
graduate sutdents from different departments could find
anything in common.
"And the VSI issmall, he added. "Do you realize that
if the VSI had 100 members (which it doesn't) that would
only be about three per cent of the graduate student
body!"
"But the part about having members from almost every
department," I pursued. "Isn't that a bit much to ask
people to' believe?"
"Is that really so unusual?" he asked. "Every discipline
is represented in the faculty senate and graduate students
have at least as many common concerns as the faculty.
"as a group don't exist. Consider all the changes that might
be called for if anyone took real notice of our collective
existence.
"Think of it," he encouraged. "There would be
proposals for an off-campus graduate student lounge,
apartment-style housing, unionization of teaching assist
ants, published evaiuauons ot tne graduate tacuity, and so
on.
"What kind of administrator would want to deal with
proposals like that? It's much better for administrators to
just forget about graduate students as a category."
"hor example," he said, "even though grad students do
most of the research on this campus (theses, dissertations,
and seminar papers), the library doesn't even know what
proportion of the total book circulation is due to grad
student use of library materials.
"Or take the comptroller's office. They can't tell you
how much grad students kick in to the student activities
fund when they pay their fees each term. .
"Yes," he lamented, "here we are doing much of the
active research, a lot of teaching and most of the senous
studying, but we re less visible than the incoming iresnnrc.i.
Nevertheless, Yossarian, you must admit that graduate We're just lumped in with the undergraduates even though
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student. Remind the administrator (when you nave
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students don't have much visibility as a croup." I the arad student has a BA degree (often an MA), is
countered.
"Our numbers seem to be repressed somewhere hi the
ministration's subconscious," he surmised. "In fact,"
he said, "there were more than 3,000 grad students register
ed at UNL last semester. That's one grad student for every
five undergraduates."
"But if there are that many graduate students on
campus," I said, "surely the special needs of a group that
size would come to the attention of the administration "
"Quite the contrary, Hilligoss," he chastised, "things frequently and someone in the administration might just
run much more smoothly if one pretends grad students take notice."