University of Nebraska Kearney - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Kearney, NE)

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Making the Grade KSC MEN AND WOMEN ENGAGE IN A BATTLE OF THE SEXES OVER GRADE POINT AVERAGES. WOMEN APPEAR TO BE WINNING THE TUG-OF-WAR SO FAR. It’s the same old story. The battle of the sexes - who is the better? Boys are stronger; girls are smar- ter. Right? Isn't that the way it is? Well? Maybe ... On KSC s campus the gals out num- ber the guys. During the spring semester 1987. the total enrollment of KSC was 57 percent female — good news for the guys! The total grade point average during the 1987 spring se- mester was 2.974. The total male GPA was 2.767 and the total fe- male GPA was 3.128. Well» okay, there’s not much to brag about there. There were a mere 14 per- cent of the girls who had to look else- where, go without or share. But, here s something to ponder. The total grade point average for all those enrolled at KSC for the same se- mester was 2.974. The total male GPA was 2.767. The total female GPA was 3.128. Come on guys! The girls showed you up! What is it, guys? Is it that you were so busy being fought over by the girls you hardly had time to study, while the girls had time off occa- sionally? Not to worry. If 2.0 “C” is aver- age, all average GPAs were well above. The total undergraduate GPA was 2.803 while graduate students main- tained a higher GPA which to- talled 3.607. The trend is higher GPAs with a high- er class standing. For the spring se- mester 1987 fresh- men totalled an average GPA of 2.530; sopho- mores were slightly higher with 2.741; juniors again climbed with 2.878; and seniors held a 3.059 average GPA. Survival is possible as confirmed by those who received degrees during the 1986-87 yeaj. Out of the 1,196 degrees re- ceived, yes, the majority were received by women with 45 percent baccalaure- ate, 12 percent master’s and 1 percent specialist as opposed to the men’s 33 per- Conn’d. Male Female Combined 2.974 2.767 3.128 Undergraduate 2.803 2.624 2.952 Graduate 3.607 3.511 3.653 Xv». XvX X X X X XvVXX Xy X; ‘ v Ny i All freshmen (male female) 2.530 | All sophomores (male female) 2.741 1 All juniors (male female) 2.878 1 x- All seniors (male female) 3.059 1 cent baccalaureate, 7 percent master’s and 2 percent specialist. W'hat does all this mean? ... Maybe boys are stronger. Mehete Sizer BE36

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E C Believe or not Black cats, horoscopes, Mon- days, walking under ladders, and Friday the 13th. They’re only stupid superstitions, right? Except they aren’t so stupid if you believe in just one of them! Almost all people, KSC students in- cluded, have crazy superstitions. As I discovered, many students listen to, or read their horoscope every day. After an incident a few weeks ago, I think I might believe almost anything. I was involved in an accident with my boyfriend’s pickup; my roommate noted that we had missed listening to our ho- roscopes that morning. Perhaps my horoscope would have predicted this ac- cident. After that day was finally over, I think 1 would have believed that the earth was a triangle. It wasn’t a “good” day at all! Some people actually believe they’re going to have a bad day whenever Mon- day rolls around. Our fuzzy little friend Garfield even believes that Mondays should be dropped off the calendar! But why do people have such fears? I tried to find out. Many superstitions come from movies, like Friday The 13thf or maga- zines and television; but mostly they come from oneself. If a person really be- lieves in something enough it will hap- pen. Let's say that a black cat crosses my path on Friday the 13th. If I believe enough in those myths, something will happen to me. Whatever that something is, you can believe it’ll be bad! Remember back to when you were a little kid in bed at night, all alone in the dark with the exception of a few stuffed animals. Remember how afraid you were to get up to go to the bathroom or get a drink of water because of the boogey- monster in your closet or under your bed. A lot of students surveyed said that was their greatest fear — being eated by a monster! But why? Children could be afraid of some monster puppet they saw on Sesame Street. What kind of excuse is there for teenagers, grown men and women? There have been some crazy things that have happened here on campus. Two roommates, who wished to be anon- ymous, began to notice strange and ba- zaar things going on in their room. For four days one girl’s clock Tan back- wards. She kept setting it back to the correct time, but couldn’t figure out what was go- ing on. When she told some friends, they just laughed and said she was seeing things. Then they began to take note at one particular wall hanging they had. It would move around and turn sideways on the wall. Now they knew something was go- ing on. Another thing they said that oc- curred, was their beds would shake; not really bad, just a type of vibration. At the time of the interview, the beds still vi- brated. All the other occurrences have quit, but the beds still move. Do you believe them? Could it have really hap- pened? The oblong light fixture on the ceiling spins; the curtains blow from some wind (but all the win- dows are closed); there are flashes of light across the ceiling; and if you listen, a very, very dist-ant weeping can be heard. Another person, who doesn’t wish to be recognized, reported an incident he heard about in Conrad Hall. Many years ago, a college girl hung herself in one of the rooms. The occu- pants of this room today said that spooky things happen in this room. The oblong light fixture on the ceil- ing spins; the curtains blow from some wind (but all windows are closed); there are flashes of light across the ceiling; and if you listen, a very, very dis- tant weeping can be heard. Now if that doesn’t make you hate your room, I don’t know what would! But, are these true happenings or does the mind play such a trick on you that you can’t tell make-be- lieve from re- ality? Is it all in our minds, or do these things really happen? The mind believes what it wants to believe. I’m not saying that these things don’t happen. But if a person is superstitious enough about something, it will happen. The de- cision is yours. Believe it, or not. n 6 IT at CG w] T! th m W! ■3. KSmSctniltft HESS t

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At Last the new SINCE 1968, MANY THINGS HA VE CHANGED: THE YOUTH’S MUSIC, SEXUAL ATTITUDES AND PEOPLE’S VIEWS TOWARD THEM- SELVES. BLUE GOLD RETURNS TO THAT YEAR VIEWED AS ROMANTIC TO FIND HOW OUR PERSPECTIVES TOD A Y COMPARE TO THOSE OE 1968. The 1960’s will likely be remembered as a decade of great change and un- rest. The year 1968 was the highlighted year during that restless decade which seemed to pinpoint exactly where America stood. That year marked the end of America’s illusion of being a world power in control of itself and on the rise. It also represents the beginning of the realization that the United States was losing the war in Vietnam, a war that many said we should not have been fighting in the first place. Thus, 1968 not only became a year of great political protest, but it as also a year of social and moral change. The civil rights movement was stronger than ever; young men burned their draft tickets to protest the Vietnam War; the youth of America re- belled against authority with many creating their own lifestyle, an approach to life that did not include moral codes or ethics. The youth became the “voice’1 of America as they listened to their acid rock, experimented with various drugs, and included casual sex in their way of life. The year 1968, a time of restlessness, turmoil and change may seem so far away from us now - yet it is not. It is a part of us, a part of our American history and we cannot forget it. We cannot forget all those who lost their lives in the Vietnam War; we cannot forget all those, including a great number of musicians, who died of drug overdoses; we cannot forget the open decline of morality which was creat- ed by the sexual revolution. The important question today we must ask ourselves 20 years later in 1988 is: “Have we learned anything since 1968?” The news stories, the headlines, and the faces of AIDS victims or those who have died of their addiction to cocaine don’t indicate that we have learned our lesson. Yet, according to August 1987 Glamour survey of 1,200 college stu- dents across the nation, “Students today are surprisingly more traditional.” The survey also said, “About half of all college students say the threat of AIDS has caused them to change their sexual habits.” Is AIDS the only catalyst for change? Is AIDS the rea- son why the youth of the 80s see sex in a different light than the generation before them did? Not entirely. The August, 1987, issue of Cosmo- politan printed an article titled “Whatever Happened to Great Sex (and the single girl)?” which discusses the subject of the sexual attitudes of the 80s in comparison to those of the 60s. The article quotes Stephen Josephson, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Cornell Medical Cen- ter in New York, “For the single women I know, both personally and in my practice, sex has become more mundane and infrequent. Partly this is attributable to anxiety about sexually transmitted diseases, but it’s also due to changing values. Increasingly, women want sex exclusively in the context of a fully committed and emotional rela- tionship.” Evidence from the article shows that single women and their lifestyles have changed in the last decade, but it is also evident that the same holds true for most bachelors too. Even the “meeting” place of a potential mate has changed. The health clubs of the 80s seem to have taken the place of the erotic singles bars of the 60s. There still are, of course, those who ignore all risks, especially health risks, and participate frequently in casual sex, but the number of those who do so seems to be growing smaller. In a September, 1987, issue of Glamour an article titled “Sex, Aids, and Pillow Talk” reported that something good did come out of all the terrible news about AIDS. “People are at least beginning to think about their sexual behavior and are trying to talk to their partners about it. People hold AIDS responsible for the death of hard- won sexual freedoms; as with any death, the grieving takes time and always includes some denial. Coming to grips with AIDS is, for many, a process; it begins by thinking Morality 6