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EDITORIAL PAQE
The Lost VJeek
The 18th annual Brotherhood Week has
arrived and departed from the University
scene without ceremony, or for the most
part, mention by faculty, administrative' or
atudent groups. The Week, celebrated the
, week of Washington's birthday, did receive
wide attention elsewhere In the country.
This attention, though limited, did seem
Justified for Brotherhood Week is aimed at
promoting, "justice, amity, understanding
and co-operation among Protestants, Catho
lies and Jews," a lofty and fine project, for
any movement or week. But the statements
and projects of the Week seemed to fall of
deaf ears at the University. So far as The
- Nebraskan could determine from efforts by
'"'the reporting staff, there were no programs,
meetings, speeches or the like during the '
Week.
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The question arises, why Is Brotherhood
Week given so little attention at the Uni
versity? The answer is not readily ap
parent. However, Brotherhood Week has been
noted at the University by several groups
In the past. It has been important to stu
dents and faculty as a check of past Ne
braskan news stories indicated.
Perhaps the spirit of Brotherhood Week
has lost its appeal to Nebraska college stu-
It's The Law
There will be no official Religious Em
phasis Week at the University this year.
Why?
First, looking at the religious courses of
fered at the University, it seems almost sur
prizing that only two courses in religious
education are offered with credit to the
students.
This means that a student wishing to be
come a minister cannot obtain his educa
tion here. The reason that the University
offers, only two religious courses is not be
' cause it is the common practice for students
wishing to become ministers to obtain their
education at small religious schools, for sta
tistics have shown that more seminar stu
dents have come from state tax supported
Institutions then come from religious schools.
The campus does have many student de
nominational houses; however, religious
groups and activities are left by the faculty
to the students. There is no official ad
ministrative recognition given to religion by
the University, nor is money provided for
religious education programs.
If the above situation Is a true problem,
the fault lies with the administration and
faculty having failed to fully realize their
responsibility towards the total development
of the student, for this development includes
not only studies and athletics, but also
religion.
The University of Nebraska, however, is
faced with a difficult situation. The Con
stitution of the State of Nebraska maintains
that there shall be a complete separation
between the church and the State. This
means that there can be no religious activities
or meetings held in any state-owned build
ing. The University of Maryland recently con
structed a two million dollar chapel. Iowa
State University has a chapel which holds
Protestant and Catholie services every noon,
and every noon this room is filled. The
chapels are those particular University's way
of offlcally recognizing the fact that there
is a God. However, it would be impossible for
the University of Nebraska to have such a
chapel because of the State Constitution.
It Is a pity that a University, as a place
of education and character development,
must be affected by this law. However, this
fact does not mean that the University should -Ignore
such occassions as a Religious Em
phasis Week.
Whenever a prominent religious leader Is
Invited to come to the University to speak
to the students It Is not through the Univer
sity but through the initiative of the ministers
and pastors of the various student religious
houses that he is asked. Such was the case
last year when the Prlncton student leaders
spoke to the fraternities and were so popu
larly received.
In other Universities, the University of
Colorado for example, these religious lead
ers are invited to come to the campus
through a letter from the president of the
school, and these leaders are given a chance
to become acquainted with the faculty mem
bers at a tea given by the faculty.
This is not the situation at the University
of Nebraska, and it sometimes becomes diffi
cult to ask a prominent church man to give
his valuable time to a University where
be will be Ignored by the administration and
faculty. It therefore becomes difficult to
schedule a Religious Emphasis Week.
A state law must be observed, but the
University would not be going beyond the
restriction in the State Constitution if its
administrators and faculty members would
recognize religious speakers coming to the
University, and would shown more of an
interest in religious programs. J. C.
dents. This is a possibility, but an examina
tion of University traditions and life re
fute it. First, the University is noted for its
independence of student action. There is
no strict code of behavior for students set
up by the administration, no class lines on
financial or age criteria. Second the ad
ministration of the University is also lenient
in comparison with that of other state and
private schools on other than behavior
criteria. Third, recent action by the Student
Council .and editorial policy of the campus
newspaper have shown student disapproval
of discrimination and intolerance on religious
and racial lines.
These factors combine to show University
students are in agreement with principles
set forth as important in the Brotherhood
Week movement. Thus, the spirit of
Brotherhood Week is a vital one to Univer
sity students, yet they show very little, if
any interest in a movement which promotes
these principles. ,
Another possible reason for Brotherhood
Week's slack in importance to the Univer
sity might be Its appeal to the Utopian or
"way things should be Ideally" is no longer
desirable to college students.
Again, . action by students refutes this
answer to the "loss of face" of Brotherhood
Week. Students have shown themselves
willing and capable of expressing their ideas
of how things should be. Students are sel
dom at a loss for words when asked how
things should be in government, religion,
social customs, business etc.
In all, University students have shown
they are interested in the principles
Brotherhood Week supports.
The reason for the Brotherhood Week fall
can be explained only by saying its principles
haven't been "sold? well enough to students.
This Week has become unimportant al
though what it stands for Is acceptable, even
popular with students.
Brotherhood Week on the University cam
pus had become a time for good works and
little action. It had fallen to a point where
its seven days were filled with statements
as to the way things should have been,
not a time for restatements of how things
had been.
When Brotherhood Week's principles can
be stated as reaffirming what is already
believed, by those who sponsor it, it will
be accepted and participated in by Univer
sity students. Until that time it will stay as
unimportant as it is now. T. W.
Pollyanna Says
Oh! Woe! The world is unsettled. The
world is a mess. Nothing to count on. Will
the Army want men or not? No one knows.
Will our private affairs come out joyfully?
No one knows.
But, oh trudging student,, do not dispair.
You know one thing positively You will
trudge through mud.
Someone said once that the University
had no traditions. Think of the possibilities
of MUD for a tradition. ,
When Ellen Smith Hall goes, the Univer
sity could erect a fatalistic building in the
shape of a large glob of mud.
oPssibilities of a painting incorporating the
fluid, modernistic character of mud could
be explored fully by budding artists in Mor
rill Hall. The Alumni association and Stu
dent Council could give a prize for the best
painting of mud. This then could be made
the school symbol. (Think ho wa sticker
, which looked like mud would confuse garage
men who wash windshields.)
Annual contests could be held among
faculty members and a large , cash award
presented to the Most Faithful And Persistant
Mud-Slinger.
And that most tradtional of days could be
sanctified further by putting mud In the ivy.
But as daydreams do, this must end. I
have to slog home through the mud. S. H.
Margin Notes
Prof's Point
A University Ecology professor, in the
middle of a normal lecture, arrived at a
point on his outline discussing the relations
between members of the same species.
Among them, was a major point entitled:
Competition for Mates.
The professor mentioned the desirabilities.
In nature, of certain mates over other ones.
"But then," the professor smiled and said,
"Our habits seem to have changed. We now
think that such attributes as a good ward
robe, the ability to dance or a new Cadillac
are the most important."
"I guess I shouldn't have too much to say
on this latter subject," the professor con
tinued, "for you folks seem to be the ex
perts on those matters. Now in the relation
ships between members of different
species "
' The professor had a point.
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by Dick Bibiw The student Forum
"I don't know why I take this class with ALL boys .
know the first thing about trains." ,
On The Light Side
Af loose Ends
. I just don't
By JOYCE JOHNSON
It forever amazes and amuses
me how harmful-cigarette find
ings utterly confuse student at
titudes towards smoking.
Whether he realizes it or not
each student smoker acts out
his own little celodrama in his
battle to curb, control or carry
on his smoking habit.
In my opinion, believe me it
couldn't be anyone else's, there
are three distinct types of star
smoker performers.
The first dramaticist is Piccal
ily the Puritan who stars in "Life
Can Be Beautiful." This creature
professes to have over thrown the
smoking virus which formerly
tested heartily upon his very
being. He now holds evangelistic
revivals proclaiming how you
too can see the light of day and
be the master of your soul.
However by the shadows of
night anyone who possesses in
tellectual curiosity or suffers
from insomnia might stumble
upon a most revealing scene. For
the familiar campus-row noise,
which has always been inter
preted to be lusty rats knawing
on textbooks, is in reality Piccal
ily scraping together fragments
of discarded tobbacco, rolling his
own midnight weed and nuero
tically mumbling to himself, "It's
better to have flunked your Was
serman than never to have
smoked at all."
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The second lung offender is
known as Byron the Brand
Changer who is featured in
"What Price Glory." This char
acter is electrified by the recent
research statistics and can drib
ble in breathless lengths on the
harmful effects of smoking. But,
alas, Byron is unable to con
trol his fag appetitie. Instead, he
experiments daily with new cig
arettes in his zeal to find the
one which will be both health
ful and taste-appealing to his,
by now, tender T-zone.
Gone is the former carefree
glow from Byron's face. In its
place is a look of helplessness and
surrender. If you eye the back
booth of any coffee nook you'll
find Byron listlessly puffing on
four different-brand cigarettes
and coughing in his coffee,
"Where do I go from here?"
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The third performer is Liver
pool the Live-And-Let-Liver who
appears in "Tobbacco Road." A
firm believer in "the more you
know the less you know," Liver
pool ignores any outside intru
sion into his happy, smoke-filled
world. This personality theorizes
that it is better to live to be 30
than to exist to the age of 60.
Thus Liver pool can be spotted
blithefully triping along his tob-bacco-stained
path humming
fervently, "If I Had My Life To
Live Over I'd Do The Same
Things Again."
Which are you ... a Piccallly,
a Byron or a Liverpool? I Just
want the facts.
Two On The Aisle
Dances, Songs Highlight
'Sadie Thompson' Movie
By DICK RALSTON
At last someone has come up
with a 3-D that is worth seeing
in spite of the headache and
bloodshot eyes you're sure to
get. The picture, "Miss Sadie
Thompson," is an adoption of
W. Somerset Maugham's "Rain."
The stars: Rita Hayworth, Jose
Ferrer and Aldo Ray. The place:
Varsity Theater.
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"Miss Sadie Thompson" takes
place on one of those "beauti
ful" south pacific islands. Sadie,
Miss Hayworth, finds herself
stuck on this veritable "para
dise" when her ship is quaran
tined. The complication: a de
tachment of women starved ma
rines. Naturally Sadie's arrival
is excuse enough for a rip-snort-in
dance which one seems in
varibly to find in Miss Hayworth's
movies. Though she seems a lit
tle out of practice, the exhibition
is good enough to relieve the eye
strain for a few minutes.
Trouble, however, rears Its
ugly bead in the form of Jose
Ferrer, a good old fashioned I-hate-sin
moralist. It seems Mr.
Ferrer knows something of Sa
die's none-too-bright past s n d
isn't particularly Inclined to keep
it a secret.
After. he has aired the dirty
linen to Marine sargeant Aldo
Ray and successfully niped a
potential romance in the bud, he
entreats Sadie to give up her
life of sin. With the spark of
romance gone, Sadie is fair game
for the "good word."
If the author had been some
one else, the story would prob
ably have ended there, and you
could probably read in a Sunday
School pamphlet. However, the
author is Maugham and the
story doesn't end there.
Ferrer, after such a success
ful conversion, breaks the bub
ble of illusion by proving himself
as human as the Marines. From
there the movie moves swiftly to
a conclusion which seems to
disprove his preaching.
Color is Technicolor, in a man
ner which contributes to the
mood but not the reality of the
picture, reminding one of Fer
rer's last movie, "Moulin Rouge:"
The music is exceptionally good,
two songs especially standing
out: "The Heat Is On," quite
aptly named as Sadie sings it
during her torrid dance, and
"Blue Pacific Blues." Best line:
"The situation has landed and
has the Marines well in hand."
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If you haven't any aspirins
handy, I suggest "The Man in
the White Suit" at the State. Alec
Guinness invents an indestruc
table cloth and sets the textile
industry on his tail. A contrap
tion that literally "sings" and
the destruction of the "indis
tructable" cloth aid in making
movie a delightful comedy.
Or, if you want to exercise
your neck, the latest cinimascope,
"Hell and High Water," is ap
pearing at the Stuart. A good o'c
fashioned spy story, the mowe
is neither better nor worse th"n
any of the preceeding wide angle
r----1 -?i xeature: co-
star Bella DarvL
..ii in au, us a great weekend
for movies.
Qhidds.&..
Frosh to blind date: "I don't
believe in reincarnation, but what
were you before you died?"
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Mother Willie, the canary is
gone!
Willie Gee, that's funny. It was
there this morning when I vacu
umed the cage.
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Warning to the girls: Never
slap a guy in the face when he's
chewing tobacco.
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He Kiss me!
She What? Remember I'm a
lady.
He I know, if I wanted a man
I'd kiss my father.
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The bank president was stroll
ing through his domain one day
and saw a stranger in the teller's
cage, briskly counting $100 bills
and piling them neatly next to a
small bag. Assuming him to be
a new employee, the president
greeted him cheerily and said,
"You look like a bright young
man. May I ask where you re
ceived your financial training?"
"Yale," stated the young man,
scarcely pausing in his task.
"I thought so," beamed the
executive. "And what is your
name?"
"Yohnson."
University
Bulletin Board
FEIDAT
"Hasty Heart," 8 p.m., Arena
Theatre.
' Intercollegiate Debate and Dis
cussion Conference, Temple.
Church Vocations Conference
dinner, 6:15, Presby House.
Alpha Kappa Delta elections,
3:30 p.m., Room 113, Social Sci
ence Building.
Gerald Thorne Public Lecture,
3:30 p.m., Agronomy Building.
SATURDAY
Gene Kemper lecture to Sigma
Delta Chi, 6:45 Room 317 Union.
SUNDAY
Nebraska Art Association Ex
hibition opening, Gallery B, Mor
rill Hall.
mi Next . . .
By BILL DEVRIES '
COMMENT OF, THE WEEK:
. Had it not been for the sound
judgement of one of its members,
the Student Council very possibly
would have scuttled the results of
four months work of the Class
Officers.
In the Wednesday meeting of
the Council, a motion was intro
duced to reject the new constitu
tion of the Class Officers. Al
though the Officers do not. have
the experience of analyzing a
multiutde of constitutions, as the
SC judiciary committee has, they
have endeavored to create a con
stitution which would appeal to
all students whether male or fe
male, independent or Greek. The
constitution, which was developed
in co-operation with the Nebraska
Alumni Association, also includes
an outline for a constructive pro
gram of events aimed at improv
ing spirit at the University. As
Ted James, president of the Sen
ior Class, put it, "We did not hope
to achieve perfection, but by start
ing a constructive program we
are closer to our goal than if we
had no program at all."
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It is discouraging to me to think
that a man who owes much of his
success to the slogan, "To Build a
Greater University" and who was
consulted prior to the formation
of the constitution should now be
oposed .to it.
In addition, the Council Prexy
did not even do the Class Officers
the courtesy of Informing them
that their constitution was com
ing up for discussion and he was
asked prior to the meeting.
Fortunately the motion for re
jection was tabled. I think that
perhaps because of the fact that
the Council has been severely
criticized for its actions this past
year (much of which was unjust
criticism), they do not want to
tackle anything new. I wish I
knew the answer. 1
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In a well-written "letter to the
editor" which appeared in the
Lincoln Journal last Tuesday, two
members of the Student Union
Fc
Activitips Board (Ernie Bphh anA
Stan Sipple) appealed to the peo
ple oi uncoin 10 support uie un
ion's efforts to brine fine enter.
tainment into uncom.
Certainly the citizens of Lincoln
and the students of our University
owe the Union a vote of thanks for
their constant endeavor to bring
entertainment and culture into
our so-called desert. Many stu
dents on the Union Board worked
as much as eight hours a day dur
ing past weeks to help promoto
the "Fabulous Redhead," a fact
which is worthy of note.
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The attendance at Miss Moore
head's show was very encourag
ing, I think, and perhaps indi
cates that one of these days wa
might find an oasis in our "des
ert." I chuckled a little, however,
when I read the last sentence of
The Nebraskan's account of Miss
Moorehead's show. It read, "It
must be said that Miss Moore
head, whatever she does in tha
future, will probably become a
success in any field she chooses
if she continues as she did hers
in Lincoln Tuesday night." Tsk,
tsk, I wonder how she would ba
as a mechanical engineer.
The person who wrote the ar
ticle for The Nebraskan, gave mo
the impression that Agnes was
the first stage performer he had
ever seen, for I really 'believe
that neither the audience nor tha
Union Board got what they ex
' pected. A person of Miss Moore
head's qualifications and prestige
could easily have fractured the
attentive audience but instead the
prima donna merely "did a
show" for them.
In fact, she had to be persuaded
to even do "Sorry Wrong Nurn-.
ber" for the second performance.
An adequate summary of the Red
h e a d's performance probably
should have been written some
thing like this: a great, yet very
independent actress gave up fifty
five minutes of her time to do a
show for a packed house without
the help of continuity, good light
ing effects, or technical direction.
From The Cornell Sun
Discussion Of Problems
I, Assist Solution
Speed,
(Reprinted from the edtlorli! pases af ths
Cornell Daily 8ua
Just what can be adverse about
bringing a social problem to the
surface has long confounded us.
However, the feeling that there
are some topics which we "just
don't talk about" does exist as the
letter to the editor appearing on
this page today . indicates
In a university community
where one on an academic level
discusses everything from the
most personal codes of ethics and
morals to the most controversial
systems of social and political or
ganizations 'in the classroom, it
is hard to' conceive of anyone
wanting to keep one of the more
important problems of college
life under cover.
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We are not here expressing an
opinion on the topic of fraternity
or sorority discrimination. We
are not certain to what extent it
even exists on this campus. We
do realize, however, that, overtly
or not, there is a certain amount
of discrimination or bigotry prev
alent here as there is in any com
munity in this nation. Sociologists
recognize that such discrimination
is taking a turn toward the bet
ter and minority groups are con
tinuing to become more inte
grated into their communities.
One of the methods advisable
In bringing about an end to dis
crimination or bigotry is to air
the problem openly. A strong case
is built for the fact that these
evils cannot be legislated out of
existence. They must, if we may,
be "talked out of existence."
The intolerant must be shown
first that bigotry is not a per
sonal matter which does not af
fect anyone else or does not cre
ate social misunderstandings.
They must also be made to real
ize, and this is a more difficult
problem to attack, that persons
of other religions or other racial
origins are different only in that
society has created certain bar
riers for them which they must
overcome. v
Concerning the type of individ
ual who might be classified as
indifferent to the problem of dis
crimination or bigotry, airing the
problem also has its advantages.
These persons should be enlisted
in an informal drive to promota
racial and religious understandgs.
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We would be the first to criti
cize legislation that creates an
unnatural situation. However, wa
would be the last to advocate any
obstacle to the educational pro
cess in which such great strides
are being made toward alleviating
racial and religious intolerance.
The letter about alleged dis
crimination in sorority rushing
which appeared in this newspaper
yesterday served a purpose. It
pointed out a problem that may.
or may not exist. Suppression of
such material would serve no
purpose. Publication, on the other
hand, would once again stimulate
mature members of an intelligent
community to take cognizance of
a situation which should not be.
As a postscript, we would like
to note that the statistical Infor
mation concerning breakdown of
rushees Into denomina tional
groups was obtained from Pan
hellanlc Council records designed
to aid sororities 'In ascertaining
those rushees who are Interested
in receiving party Invitations from
houses whose religious makeup is
predominantly one type or an
other. This is done to give as many
rushees as possible the chance to
visit as many of the houses which
they prefer as possible, since quo
tas are placed on the number of
rushees who may attend a given
party.
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