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THE DAILY NEBEASIAN
Other Opinions
A Tapping Oligarchy
To the Editor:
I'm still dazed.
Along with hundreds of other un
dergraduates, I always looked up to
and revered the Innocents. I sup
posed that the society existed pri
marily as a real honor society, and
that to be made an Innocent was the
reward that came to those men who
had shown themselves to be the real
leaders In intellectual pursuits, in ac
tivities, and in athletics. I sup
posed, of course, that elections to the
society were made solely on the basis
of merit And then, along comes
this 0. V. B. person.
Say, that fellow certainly laid the
cards on the table. "There you are,
take it or leave it." says he to the
Innocents.
But to get bnck to the subject. I
really didn't believe it all at first. I
asked some of my more experienced
friends. They laughed. "Why ev
eryone knows that the Innocents
have been runing on this six-seven
split for years," they said. It seems
thnt the only point that 0. V. B.
missed is that they have been select-1
ing men on that basis for three or
four years longer than he thought.
Now it wouldn't bo so bad if tho
Innocents were only what they pro
claim to be an honorary society
and confined their activities to "hon
oring" their members. Even the
out and out crookedness could be
overlooked The appalling fact, Mr.
Editor at least the fact that appall
ed me when I took the trouble to
find out a few things the other day
is that here in this supposedly
democratic university of a democrat
' ic state COMPLETE CONTROL OV
ER ALL STUDENT ACTIVITIES is
vested in a close corporation, a self
perpetuating organization, whose
members are elected not necessarily
according to merit but by manipu
lations of two rival fraternity poli
tical machines for such an organi
zation is the Innocents society.
It is a well-known fact that the
Innocents, evidently mistrusting re
presentative government, have
forced the Student Council to its
present ineffective position and, with
the knowledge of administrative offi
cers, have silenced ambitious Council
presidents, telling them that only the
Innocents have complete power to
regulate student activities. I won
der if the Faculty committee on stu
dent organizations gave that power
to the Innocents?
On the whole, things are in a bad
way. The student body of the Uni
versity of Nebraska should demand
a show-down, for to tolerate such
a condition as the recently exposed
facts indicate, is to compromise with
those ideals which a University
should hold the highest
Ivy Day this year will be one of
the most tragically comic events in
the history of the University. In
the first place, of course, there isn't
a thing about the ceremony that is
any more symbolic of the real Ne
hrnnka than are dill Dickies. But
there, under the shading elms, etc.,
thirteen young men will be "tapped"
according to tradition. Two thous
and or so students will be looking
on. They will be smiling, most of
them. For the two thousand will
know beforehand just who will be
tapped; they will know that, what
ever the merits of the men selected,
the prime reauisite for membership
is the support of a Greek-letter fra
ternity faction; they will know that
the society which those thirteen
young men are joining is an oligar
chy which, by its actions, has shown
itself to be fundamentally opposed
to the exercising in student affairs in
the University of Nebraska of that
right which is most fundamentally
sacred to the American people the
right of democratic, representative
government.
D. R. G.
p. S. While it is hardly to be de
nied that the present emblem of a
devil's head js quite appropriate, why
doesn't someone suggest to the In
nocents that they could better carry
out the idea of the six-seven split, in
spirit, as in truth, if they would use
for their insignia a numeral 7 super
imposed on a 6.
Innocent Fun
To the Editor:
This is a very amusing thing you
have shown us the Innocents, a
self-perpetuating aristocracy of
cheerleaders whose membership is
by a system
that is farcically obvious in its crook
edness, deciding to take charge or
w BpHvltloa thev want control of,
and regarding any interference with
this policy as 'opposed to tne Desi
interests of the University
Tf is nmusinir that thirteen men
who are selected because they hap-
helonir to the right fraterni
ties, because they have been errand-
boys to the athletic department, or
because they have played politics in
'hnnnmrv' oreanizations shouid say
that they are able to deffre 'the best
interests of the University.' It would
not be funnier if they were chosen
because they part their hair in the
center. But the most comic thing
about the whole spectacle is that
they should take themselves quite
seriously.
If they had handed down this die-
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laugh would have been on the stu
dents. As it is But why tell
them what asses they make of them
selves? Let them go on providing
fun for us; they may some day ac
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After all, the thing was set forth
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Better,' when the Chorus of the In
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"On Ivy Day from the Junior class
We manage to tap every thorough-
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