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Friday, March 12, 1954
THE NEBRASKAN
EDITORIAL PAGE
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
by pick Bibiar jq Student Forum
Admission Tai
Included in the general excise tax cut
which went through the House of Representa
tives Wednesday was an item of special in
terest to University students. Excise tax on
admission tickets was sliced from 20 to 10
per cent.
This cut, if carried through t would, of
course, affect every student where it counts
in his pocketbook. The University student
pays a tax on admission tickets for functions
ranging- from the Military Ball to football
tames. A cut would also affect the large
number of parents and Nebraskans who at
tend athletic events here.
With reference to athletics, the present
situation is this: During the academic year
1052-53 the nation's colleges paid $8,062,000
Personal Contact
It's here again the State Basketball tour
nament and the high school roundball en
thusiasts. Though basketball, on the high school or
college level, may have comparatively little
Importance to the average University student,
the high school fans have made their pres
ence felt In ways all University students can
feeL .
For the hustling, hard-working student,
the noise after the evening games end is an
noying and at best, distracting. For the coffee
gourmet of Earl's, the Campus Inn, the Union
or the other coffee bistros, the high school
students are making up a considerable por
tion of the establishment's business and sit
ting, "In my booth," in the words of many
students. For the activity minded University
student, high schooler's questions and slightly
awed looks have the effect of an elixer. Even
the University student for whom there is no
category, feels the high school presence
there are so few parking places available.
Many University students feel annoyed
because their daily routine has been broken
by this "new element," and show this feeling
with hard stares or harsh answers to ques
tions, "anyone should know the answer to."
However, annoyed or not, University stu
dents should realize it is this same "new ele
ment" that will one day be the University
student body or a great majority of it. Uni
versity students will do well to remember
the impressions high school students receive
of the University now will play some role in
what institution the high school students se
lect for their college education.
Several University organizations are plan
ning programs for the high school students.
The programs have a definite merit, yet they
cannot wield the influence that individual,
personal contact with University students
can. Fraternities and sororities do much to
make high school students feel welcome on
the campus, but their motives are admittedly
ulterior.
Personal contact does not mean long con
versations with high school students extolling
the virtues of N.U. High school students are
interested in what they came to Lincoln for
basketball.
The University student body can add
greatly to the prospective students' opinions
of the University simply through courtesy
and smiles instead of blank looks. T. W.
Rise Above It
Twist and turn, little people. Twist and
turn in the big tornado that is your life.
Listen to the babble of voices from within
that turmoil of Ideal and philosophies. Strain
to hear what the leaders have to aay. Do not
become confused if yon cannot hear them
clearly. Twist so that yon may see better.
Turn your ear to the right, or to the left
whichever direction the sound is loudest.
Spin, don't resist the forces pulling you. Try
to grasp the hot, stifling air in your fingers.
Hang on so that you will not hit against some
other spinning member and be blasted into
oblivion or fall from the writhing conical
mass.
Others are whirling about trying to listen,
trying to see. But their plight is the same
as yours. They are also caught up in that
circling, black chaos.
As you twist and turn do you finally suc
cumb to the hopelessness on struggle? Can
you find a refuge in that frustrating subter
fuge? Or do you try to escape? Do you try
to fight the magnetic power engulfing you?
Follow the spiral, up, up to the top. The
tornado thins out. Its inertia weakens and
the air is cooler. Follow it up, not down. Up
to a level where sounds become meaningful
Up to a level where the spinning loses much
of Its fore. Up to where the light breaks
through the grey cloud. The dirt is gone.
Turn your ear now. Search for the sights
denied in -the tornado's lower depths. You
fcavs slowed down at the top. Look down
t the miserable confusion below you. You
can faintly bear the once loud battle. But
at the top words are clear.
There Is peace at the top. There Is a
calmness there, And what was a maddening,
tortuous esnUct U left behind for a peaceful
void of Hving J. n.
in taxes. In the all-over picture 83.7 per
cent of the colleges lost money on athletic
programs. The total deficit was $12,394,000.
This means that colleges dipped into educa
tional funds to make up athletic deficits
an undesirable situation from any point of
view.
It might be argued that the solution is to
reduce athletic programs. However, non
profit sports are universally supported by the
only two profit-making ones football and
occasionally basketball. Elimination of in
dividual sports and small-group sports would
be the result of cut-backs in the "big sport"
programs. ,
In the local picture the situation is not
immediately drastic. The University Depart'
ment of Athletics is solvent. Addition of
money now going to the government, how
ever, could mean addition of something im
portant to the University, such as an adequate
sound system in the Coliseum. Or the De
partment of Athletics could provide- the
needed permanent Student Health Center.
In other words, elimination of the excise
tax would provide the University with money
for improvements which would benefit not
merely athletes but the entire University
community.
The proposed cut 20 to 10 per cent is
a step in the right direction as far as the Uni
versity is concerned. However, it is still in
consistent with previous Congressional policy.
In 1951 Congress exempted high schools
and elementary schools from federal admis
sions tax leaving colleges as the only educa
tional institutions paying the tax.
The theory behind this move could have
been the same as outlined above that money
made by athletic and other paying projects
ultimately works for the good of the entire
institution, not just a specialized group.
If this ifi he case, then a 10 per cent re
duction is not enough. The entire tax should
be abolished for colleges and universities.
S. H.
Needed Knowledge
Because of he constant around the clock
life that university students live, it becomes
too easy for us to put aside all thoughts of ed
ucation and outside reading when our studies
are over, and in some cases, we put these
thoughts aside when our studies haven't yet
been begun.
It's a good idea every once in a while to
take a little time out to evaluate our person
alities and to set firmly in our minds our
aims, Ideals and goals.
Education is not a dull thing. Things are
uninteresting only when we are unfamiliar
with them. Education can be both fun and
challenging. Perhaps the most interesting
aspect about the acquisition of knowledge is
the fact that the more we learn, the more we
find out that we didn't know.
Since citizens today, particularly those of
the United States, are given the privilege of
participation in community and world af
fairs, it is more important than ever before
for these citizens to have more than just a
limited knowledge of governmental func
tions, current affairs, and prominent people,
and at least an intelligent conversational
knowledge of most things of interest for,
mainly, the sake of self-pride.
Probably the easiest and most enjoyable
way of securing an education, while at the
same time keeping up with current affairs,
is the reading of newspapers and magazines.
Of course it is up to the individual just how
well-informed he would like to be, however,
the individual must realize that in the first
place, in order to make democracy work and,
second, in order to keep up with the competi
tion of other well-informed people, a certain
amount of fundamental knowledge is abso
lutely necessary.
Recently, this seemingly simple test was
given to a Journalism class.
L How many states will elect congressmen
this year?
2. How many senators will Nebraska elect
la the next election?
t. Who are the present Nebraska senators
and congressmen and where are they from?
written for those who cannot. There is an
4. What are the first ten amendments
called?
5. What is the Electoral College?
. What are the branches of government
and bow many are there?
7. What was the substance of the Brtcker
amendment?
It is the same test that the Gallup poll
used to find out If eighteen-year-olds were
really old enough to vote. All the questions
are about facts every person should know.
Many of you will be able to answer every
one of these questions, but this editorial was
written for those who can't. There is an
alarming amount of people who don't know
the answers to the above questions, and the
reason is not a lack of intelligence!, but simple
laziness. J. C.
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"YES to both your questions. ....This IS a required course and
there IS a way out of it"
On The Light Side
At Loose Ends
By JOYCE JOHNSON
Tuesday our Journalism lab
reporting class sat in on the traf
fic court sessions and listened
wide-eyed while the judge passed
sentence on traffic violators.
While there we noticed several
University offenders who ap
peared in court because they had
been caught red-handed by that
demon of all traffic cops
RADAR!
In mulling over the effects of
this new wizard of weapons I
began thinking of what would
happen to our University scene
if Radar projected itself into
other areas besides patrol cars.
Probably one of the first places
this omnipotent instrument would
show itself would be in the sor
ority housemother's living quar
ters. I can gruesomely picture late
minute girls being marked off,
photographed and tallied up by
the smelting- radar, whOe the
housemother innocently sits by
nibbing her knitting needles to
gether. Another equally horrible thought
would be the invasion of Radar
into the classrooms. No longer
would the instructor wonder what
happened to three-tenths of his
classroom population. Instead,
the professor's assistant. Radar
. . . AB., DDS., PhD., would be in
action clicking off the rounds of
coffee being served the unsuspect
ing class cutters at Earls.
In time another classroom pos
sibility for Radar might be to
act as Counter-Spy for Sen. Joseph
McCarthy. Each time the word
"Communist" is whispered in
class this uper-sensitive instru
ment would send up "Red" flares
and sing "Praise the Lord and
Pass the Ammunition."
Probably one of the most con
structive roles Radar could as
sume on campus would be to act
as a reminder to the local frat
men on which and how many girls
on campus are wearing their
club badges. I'm sure it would
save many man-hours trying to
figure out just which Clara Coed
was last seen sporting their
more-than- one frat pin.
To add insult to injury. Radar
would definitely have to go if it
ever reached the hands of Joe
College's long-suffering parents.
Not that college students don't
conduct themselves according to
present-day standards, but their
Radar-recorded actions will cer
tainly give fuel to Mama and
Papa's ever -loving refrain,
"Times have certainly changed
. .. now when I was in college,
back in '1 . . ."
As the great Bard once said
"Things is getting tough all over."
Two On The Aisle
Fine Acting, Miller Music
MalceGood'Story'Movie
By DICK RALSTON
It was a long hard pull, but
somebody finally got the trailer
moved out of the Lincoln Thea
ter so Lincoln (town) could go
see the movie it has been eagerly
awaiting.
I wonder whether "The Long,
Long Trailer" was being held
over because it was so success
ful, or whether it was held over
because "The Glenn Miller
Story" was so successful some
place else. At any rate, the
Miller epic is finally gracing the
Lincoln's Brobdingnagian screen.
Jimmy Stewart and June Al
lyson play the Miller couple in
a typically Hollywood Gee-I-wish-ail
marriages -c o u 1 d-be-like-that
fashion. The story deals
primarily with Glenn sweeping
Helen (his wife) off her feet;
his search for that "certain
sound;" and generally with his
long climb up to the top of the
ladder (where he gets three
cents per record).
It's the same old story: the
hero has a dream, and with the
help of a beautiful and loving
wife, a couple of loyal friends
and finally a lucky break, be
eventually overcomes tough lock
and realises said dream. Only
this time the story Is a little
better told and acted, and some
how this story seems different
and somewhat wonderful.
A good share of the differ
ence, aside from the homey
"naturalness" of AUyson and
Stewart et al, may very well be
the movie's renditions of some
of Miller's classic arrangements.
Among others ' included are
"Moonlight Serenade," "String
of Pearls," and "Little Brown
Jug." Although the show isn't
actually a musical, it contains
music of sufficient quantity and
quality to be classified as such.
If the Miller classics aren't
enough to set your toe a-tapping.
Gene Krupa contributes a couple
of drum solos while Louis Arm
strong gives forth with his trum
pet and that growl of his. Real
gone!
Of all things commendable
about the movie, I lift my hat
the highest to the way Miller's
death is handled. Although defi
nitely a tear-jerker, it is not
vulgarly so. And in spite of the
tears, the movie is not depres
sing in the least. (A damn good
trick).
If your stock of handkerchiefs
is running low, better see "Red
Garters" at the Stuart instead.
No handkerchiefs needed there
unless you are prone to tears
when laughing awfully hard.
Stars are Rosemary Clooney,
Jack Carson, Guy Mitchell, Pat
Crowley, Gene Barrie, Joanne
Gilbert and Cass Daley. Some
how between laughs, ten differ
ent songs are squeezed in of the
type that make you want to
jump up on the stage and start
dancing. A couple of them are
already hits.
My personal choice between
the two movies is "Red Garters,"
but it's mostly a matter of taste.
Both are very fine entertainment.
Exchange Editorial
Iowa State Writer Requests
Tax Exemptions For Students
it has not been uncommon in
the past for college students to
earn a few dollars less than $600
in a summer's employment and
then call it quits.
This tactic has "een used to
preserve for the parents an ex
emption on income tax.
A United States Representa
tive from New York, Abraham
J. Multer, would like to rem
edy that situation, however, by
making college students an ex
emption no matter how much
they earn.
Sep. Multer bas a bill on the
floor of the House of Represen
tatives which will make ex
penses for college education tax
deductible. This Is a bill which
should gain the attention of
many college students.
With .ising costs in nearly ev
ery college in the nation, it
seems only logical that such a
move as that made by Rep.
Multer would be popular. In
the past, students have had their
hands tied so far as helping
themselves through school.
Ws nastn't look at this action
from the greedy angle, however.
It U important to take In the
overall picture when examining
its advisability. In other words,
we must be c ireful to assure
fairness to everyone fat any
change which might be made.
Though it is not ideal, it is
necessary that our government
doesn't play favorites in setting
up tax scales. It cannot make
allowances for someone in col
lege without making the same
consideration for a non-college
individual who may be having
as much trouble meeting finan
cial demands.
Since income tax brackets are
set up to collect a larger per
centage from the person with
more income, it follows that any
exemption for college students
should come only in the lower
bracket.
We do agree with Rep. Mul
ter, however, in that some sort
of exemption schedule should be
set up to make it easier for par
ents to send their children to
college.
By BILL DEVRIES
PREDICTION OF THE WEEK:
Two topics will dominate the
discussion in University adminis
trative circles this week, and per
haps in weeks to come. oBth top
ics require clarification to the
student body and the outcome of
open discussion may very well
evidenced by some policy
changes. The topics are: 1, the
Ag college farce, and 2. flimsy
Faculty Senate action.
At first glance, you may feel
that my phraseology Is a little
strong. However, these two is
sues show inconsistencies that
must either be defended or cor
rected. The latter topic involves the
rather unfortunate action the
Senate took toward the press in
its most recent meeting. The is
sue stems from the fact that last
fall The Nebraskan asked the fac
ulty Senate if they could send a
reporter to the Senate meetings.
The request was made in keep
ing with the primary function of
The Nebraskan: to keey the Uni
versity community informed of
University happenings. The Fac
ulty Senate said no.
At the last meeting of the Sen
ate, only Lincoln newspaper re
porters were granted permission
to report the Senate's proceed
ings. The Nebraska would have
like to have "had their reporters at
the meeting also, but because of
the Senate's earlier decision, did
not attempt to "cover" the ses
sion. Che fact is that the Senate has
every right to decide what guests
shall attend its meetings. It is,
however, unfortunate that The
Nebraskan was "discriminated
against."
The Nebraskan incident is sim
ply entangled in the real prob
lem. I think this situation has cre
ated the need for a definite state
ment of policy by the Senate.
There are those who think that
the Senate meetings should be
private so that faculty members
can talk over University problems
with fear of being quoted or mis
quoted. There are those who think
that the public should be in
formed of University affairs. And
there are those who think that
the student body should have rep
resentatives on the Senate.
All these questions will un
doubtedly be mulled over by both
students and faculty members in
the immediate future. The out
come, I hoper will be satisfactory
to everyone.
The "Ag College farce" per
tains to the College of Agricul
ture's policy on schoolarship. Un
der the Ag. College policy, instruc.
tors are permitted to record fail,
ures (flunks) as incompletes. Thus
the A student's weighted average
is not damaged by failure, and his
college record is not botched. The
advantages are easy to see.
Undergraduates in other col.
leges do not have this privileges,
yet students in all colleges com.
pete for scholastic recognition.
Grades play an unparalled role In
determining a student's status In
the University.
To the Greek pledge they
mean difference between initiation
and rejection. To the athlete they
mean the difference between eli
gibility and ineligibility. To the
activities worker they mean the
difference between recognition
and failure. To the good student
they mean the difference between
a seat on the stage at Honors
Convocation or a seat in the au
dience. To the poor student they
mean the difference between a
college education and disenroll.
ment. To the ROTC student they
mean the difference between be
coming an officer and becoming
an enlisted man. And to all of us,
grades mean the difference be
tween a good job and a mediocre
one after graduation.
The Ag College policy therefore
makes competition biased and
definitely shows an inconsistency
in the University grading system:
The policy should either be ex
tended to all colleges or removed
from all colleges. Amid these in.
onsistancies, I can see one con
sis tancy. It is perhaps of lesser
significance than the topics men
tioned above, but I think it is
worthy of note. The fact is that
the ZBT's are consistantly excel
lent hosts.
The Missouri Student
Canadian Definition
Gives Interesting View
Ordinarily, this column would
be devoted to items from several
college newspapers throughout
the country. This week, however,
an interesting bit of sarcasm
from the University of Saskatch
ewan "Sheaf" came to our atten
tion. Please note, this is not neces
sarily the STUDENT'S opinion of
college coeds. But there seems to
be some degree of similarity be
tween Canadian lasses and our
own brand of American girls, so
we are reprinting word-for-word
their definition of a coed.
"A Co-ed is the female coun
terpart of a student She likes
boys, dates, corsages, coffee,
dates, bridge, formats, and sleep
in that order more than anything
else in the world. If she can't
have them in abundance life to
her is not worth living.
a
"A Co-ed wears either flat
shoes with no heels or 6 inch
spikes. She wears sloppy sweat
ers that would be loose on Primo
Camera or skintight sheathes
that look as though they were
sprayed on with a paint gun.
She is by turns a freckle-faced
tom-boy practicing a flying
tackle in the Bowl, or a sultry
siren undulating to Cuban rhy
thms in the Adam Ballroom.
"A Co-ed is a magician. She
squeezes marks out of papers
that deserve none. She hypno
tizes crusty old professors and
transforms them into misty-eyed
philanthropists with a single
sweep of her artificial lashes.
In two or three hours of concen
trated effort she can produce a
passable essay copied flawlessly
from some well-worn library
book and hand it in only two
or three weeks overdue.
"A Co-ed sips cokes and coffee
by the hour In the cafeteria. She
chain-smokes cigarettes, and acts
bored and nonchalant when a
male passes by. At the same time
she notes his every move snd
casually hitches her skirt to the
level appropriate to his date
rating. She berates her room
mate's beau in public while se
cretly coveting him and plan
ning his early submission to her
charms.
k "A Co-ed becomes adept in
simulating the beauty of a Venus,
the logic of an Aristotle, the
wisdom of a Solomon. Her thes
pian abilities are comparable to
those of another Bernhardt. She
laughs uproariously at all jokes
related in her presence, though
she seldom if ever gets the point.
A Co-ed spends the morning
avoiding the professors whose
classes she has skipped. During
the afternoon she develops neu
ralgia, headaches, and lumbago
... all of which combine to
make studying impossible. As the
week-end approaches site sud
denly sprouts pincurlers, facials,
University
Bulletin Board
FRIDAY
Laboratory Theater Produc
tion, 7:30 p-m-, Temple Building,
201.
High School Tournament
Dance, 4 to 6 pjn, Union Ball
room. Campus Capers Dance, 9 to 12,
Union Ballroom.
University Teams Debate at
University of Wisconsin.
SATURDAY
Rifle Chsmpionshiy Competi
tion. 7:30 a.m.
Shenanigans Dance, 9 to 12
p.m.. Union Ballroom.
SUNDAY
Art Lecture. 3:30 p.m., Gallery
B, Morrill HalL
"David and Bathsheba," 7:30,
Ag Union.
manicures, mascara, and a south
ern drawl.
"A Co-ed becomes vivacious
on dates in direct proportion to
the number of Gin-fizzes with
which her date is able to supply
her. She makes up for the self
denial she has suffered all week
when faced with residence food
by gorging herself on Chop-Suey
and Chow mein when someone
else is paying. She table hops
from friend to friend showing off
her latest backless, strapless
gown which is reinforced with
wires, bands, pads, scotchtape
and prayers.
At three minutes to one -she
has forgotten to get a late pass
and rushes back to residence in
a flurry of excitement while her
date tries to figure what has
happened to his money and the
evening. At the doorway she
suddenly gives him a passionate
kiss on the cheek thereby re
paying him for the expenses in
volved. "A Co-ed is the young freckle
faced child whom yon sent off
to the university. A kid hardly
old enough to be alone at night
without a sitter. She left with
brown hair, brown eyelashes,
bobby sox snd tears rolling down
her chubby cheeks as she bids
you a sorrowful goodbye at the
station, promising to write every
day.
"A Co-ed is the tall, lithe
sophisticated lady that steps off
the train at Christmas time
sporting a blond cowlick over
her forhead, ma scarred eye
lashes, a silver cigarette holder
and a vocabulary consisting of
a liberal sprinkling of four let
ter words. She has written horns
three times asking for money.
But you know that underneath
it all she is still your little
girl and that she still loves you
and needs you when she climbs
on your knee, buries her facs
in your shoulder and sobbingly
says, "Oh, Daddy, I'm pregnant."
Dob's Di7es
By ART DOBSON
Tessie "What is your brother
la college?"
Jessie "A half-back."
Tessie "I meaa is his stud
ies." Jessie "Oh, In his studies he's
sway back."
a
"Gosh, you have a lovely fig
ure." a
Bill "You dance wonderfully
Betty "I wish I could say the
same about you."
Bill "You could, if you could
lie as I do."
a a
Prof "What is the most out
standing product that chemistry
bas given to the world?"
Student "Blondes."
Courses Offered
Coed Swimmers
In co-operation with the Amer
ican Red Cross, a Water Safety
Instructors course and Senior
Life Saving Course will be offered
at the University pool during th
weeks of April 28 and May 3. ,
According to Miss Betty McCue, '
associate professor of physical
education, the courses are being
offered to help women who are
interested in obtaining summer
camp counseling Jobs.
Women students who are inter-
ested in either course should
register at the Office of the De
partment of Physical Education
for Women at Grant Memorial as
soon as possible.