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Lincoln, Nebraska
Wednesday, January 19, 1955
Editorial Comment
The Y's And Discrimination
The National YM and YWCA's, by definition
"Christian" organizations, came up with some
startling resolutions at their joint national stu
dent assembly meeting held during late De
cember In Lawrence, Kansas.
Discrimination apparently was one of the
key-noted areas of discussion and action ai the
meetings. In all, the Assembly came up with
four resolutions concerning this evil practice.
However, the Christian character of the or
ganizations seemed to get lost in the shuffle
of outraged feeling on the parts of the dele
gates. In general, the resolutions showed clearly
delegate unhappiness with discriminatory prac
tices. YM and YW members voted to: 1. Sup
port buls in various state legislatures to pro
hibit fraternities and sororities with discrimina
tory clauses from existing on state university
and college campuses; 2. Urge all local YMCA
and YWCA groups to work with and through
the offending organizations membership to
limm at A ifiwiminafiwit mIicu. Z
Bounce and oppose discriminatory clauses in
local and national fraternity constitutions.
In making these resolutions, the "Christian"
groups have urged lobbying, infiltration and
denouncement tacticsj-a new twist on Chris
tian action if ever there was one. However im
portant these resolutions may be, none of them
pack the punch of the fourth.
The YM-YW Assembly voted its approval of
program of: "Urge all local chapters of the
YMCA and YWCA to work on their campuses
to persuade their college administration to out
law fraternities and sororities which have dis
criminatory clauses." This statement will prob
ably go down as one of the most unusual made
by any organized pressure group; it is sicken
ingly unique in the annals of a Christian move
ment. In addition to a heartfelt request for effec
tive lobbying, infiltration and denouncement,
the two Y's plan action to bring university
and college administration-backed death sen
tences upon groups which practice discrimina
tion. Seldom, if ever, has any student group
with such a considerable portion of its
membership made up of students suggested
such ridiculous, dangerous, ill-considered reso
lution. At the University, students
have existed under a system in which
the administration has taken the lead in legis
lating on student problems. This has been any
thing but a happy situation; students are work
ing now to rectify it.
Seldom, if ever, has a group with a "Chris
tian" orientation suggested such non-Christian
means to what is generally considered a worth
while end.
It seems the YM-YW groups have evidently
assumed the attitude that any means justifies
a worthwhile end a direct reversal of what
many consider to be Christian action.
Local YWCA leaders have stated they do not
favor the resolution. They have also stated the
vote by the National Assembly does not bind
any local group to take the suggested action.
It is gratifying to note that University mem
bers of one of the organizations have not sub
scribed to what seems to be the prevalent atti
tude of two worthwhile organizations.
However, what of the effects of the resolu
tion elsewhere? Certainly there must be schools
somewhere in which the YWCA and YMCA are
strong enough, or their members ludicrous
enough, to make the resolution meaningful. The
effects of a well-planned, well-organized pro
gram by organizations of the stature and qual
ity of the YW and YMCA in forcing some type
of action on discrimination are readily appar
ent. Legislators could be put on the spot easily.
Public relations-conscious administrations might
be badgered into taking action.
For students who protested The Nebraskan's
attempts to awaken student interest and atten
tion to the discrimination problem in campus
fraternity and sororities the YM-YW action
is a good example of what letting the issue lie
dormant may produce. A group outside the
fraternity-sorority organization may make radi
cal suggestions, resolutions or proposals of ac
tion which might receive widespread following
with disastrous effects to the groups involved,
not heard The Nebraskan's stand on discrimina-
For those who have forgotten or who have
tion: The Nebraskan is completely against
segregation; it is equally strong in the convic
tion that action to remote this evil from fra
ternities and sororities should come from the
organizations involved not from outside ele
ments. T. W.
A to Tre nd Control
People and institutions change with the times.
And if we were to divide time into semes
tersthen deliberate on the most significant
characteristic .of that period of time we could
characterize this present semester as a period
when attempts were made to more effectively
control the student body.
The significant fact about these controls is
that they stem from different and contrast
ing sources. They come from the administra
tion and the Student Council Controls have
been attempted by the Athletic Department and
the office of the Associate Dean of Men.
Aa attempt has been made to control the selec
tion of Ivy Day songs.
With these proposed controls there is a de?
ice well known to the national government,
but relatively obscure at state institutions in
vestigation. The Student Council, in past years a sound
ing board for student opinion, has decided to do
something, but has wound up doing every
thing. They have faced their usual problems
of organization, parking and elections and their
white shirts with emblems typically arrived
late.
The Council recently discovered that Iry
Pay has come and gone for these many years
with no one ever being responsible for it.
They are now trying to remedy this by an in
vestigation. An organization was found to consist of one
person, who had manimously elected himself
president, and a council committee was acti
vated to investigate student organizations, their
purposes and their functions. This committee
has, among other things, started an inquiry
into the advisability of so few persons control
ling so many University activities. For the
most part, they have questioned these few per
sons. A report is expected soon.
The Chancellor and the Board of Regents
have stated that public opinion, real or imag
ined, has influenced their decision to try to
curb drinking on the University campus. It
is almost impossible to discover if drinking
has declined, but it is certain that it has been
driven underground.
A policy of enforced control is being adminis
tered by the office of the Dean of Student Af
fairs. Associate Dean for Men Frank Hallgren
has stated that although fraternities have been
cooperating with the University's policy, it is
necessary for the aihrunistration to enforce the
rules. He defined the enforcement as a "rou
tine administrative matter."
An attempt to limit Ivy Day fraternity sing
ing to fraternity songs h?s proved to be un
popular and several groups are investigating
the matter. Two organizations would like to
sponsor the sing, although there is no profit
in it.
One of the most startling, and perhaps the
most needed attempt at control, has come front
aa unsuspected source, the department of ath
letics. Athletes will attend study hall almost
without exception and -diseipation will not be
tolerated. A scholastic adviser, CoL C. J. Frank
forter, has been hired. No more qualified per
son could have been secured
Perhaps some of these attempts at control
have been needed, but so many in so short
a time is somewhat startling.
These are the signs of our University's times.
S. J.
Sororities: 14lToo Many
Although it has apparently been considered
la past years, the possibility of a fifteenth
sorority on campus has come closer to an
actuality this year than ever before. The Pan
heDenic office declares no definite steps have
been taken as yet, but the addition to the Uni
versity family of Creeks is a very real possi
bility for next year, or sometime in the not-too-"&stant
future.
But why establish another -sorority? Is there
need for ne?
- The obvious advantage of another sorority
would be to reduce disappointments during
rush week. Last year, 16 per cent cfthe rushees
tid not pledge but not all because they were
not accepted by any sorority. Most preferred
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ters easier, then, far the rushee whose heart
is set oa a certain group.
Paring this year's open rush, 54 girls tave
registered. Of these, 14 have pledged, leaving
49 still looking for a sorority acceptable to
them. Each sorority has a quota of S girls,
and cot all these quotas have been f iBed, so
many more of these rushees win be pledged
before the end of the year.
la order to establish a new sorority here,
there oast be aa initial group consisting of 59
University coeds who meet She scholarship and
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a group would probably take place after rush
week, since the training period in sorority
principles will take approximately one year.
Independent organizations of coeds have never
been strong; small group have been formed.
but never flourished. Compared to the sbe of J
the University, the number of independent coeds
is relatively smalL The majority of rushees
pledge during rush week; most of those who
sign up for open rush pledge also. The Univer
sity Panhellenic system is strong and generally
well-organized; few college campuses have such
a commendable rush week percentage of pledg
tngs. Therefore, it seems doubtful that 50 in
terested, energetic coeds could be found to
form the charter group necessary for new
sorority.
At the present time, there is no need for an
other sorority. We could make room for one
more, but we are doing tv&t without it.
The University enrollment has not increased
appreciably for several years in fact, it it fewer
than right after tfae war. At that time, 14
sororities accommodated aH the coeds. So the
situation now is acutaHy better than some years
previously.
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grade school and high schools, however. Soon
the enrollment of the eniversaiies and colleges
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'Kansan' Editorial Says
Finals Count Too Much
"Let's see I cot "INCOMPLETE" in math 215, "WITHDRAWN"
in English II, "CONDITIONAL" in social studies and a "D" In PHYS
ED Boy!"
Voice Of The Turtle
Race Of Musicians Abide
By Laws Of Modulation
By FRED DALY
A campus, as you may have no
ticed, is more than a cold collec
tion of ivy-covered public debts
and tilted temporary buildings
sprinkled about the prairie. There
are people there, too.
All sorts of people, as a matter
of fact. Big people, little people.
engineers, geologists with their
pockets full of rocks, med students
with their pockets full of anatomy
specimens, art students with their
pockets torn off to patch the holes
in the knees of their jeans.
There are business administra
tion students reciting from the
Wall Street Journal and philosophy
students debating as to whether r
not the sua will come op tomor
row.
There are arts and sciences stu
dents arguing with eneineers about
the merits of a liberal education.
There are teachers college stu
dents .wealing over their text
books in Ed. 62.
There are journalism students
racing madly about the Rag office.
yelling "stop the presses," and
"tear out the front page" and
chauvsmokine Ph uin Morrises
mooched from the Cornhusker office.
There are law students with their
left arms twisted queerly from
carrcarrying books and home eco
nomics students with needles stuck
in the lapels of their coats.
There are Ag students earn in C
about little vials of seeds for
agronomy. There are anthroook.er
students bankered dews digging in
toe dirt asd shouting ever bard
lumps.
And then there are the music
students.
"Music students," you might
say, lifting your eyebrows slight
ly. "Oh, yes. Music students.
Hummmmmmmm.
Music students, it must be es
tablished, are a race apart. Nobody
knows much about them. Whether
they know about anybody else, no
body knows. Maybe they doat
care.
At as? rate, they are ttldum
sees iitkide the walls at their
rltadrL Tbey prefer to stay aside
make the average pacer4y bias
mske the average patter -br
blink sligfeily and ran as fast as
bis Legs wm tarry him to the
w arm cmduu f the fcxwk store.
When tbey are seea out in the "
world, music students carry their
own world with them, or so it
seems. Two music students on
meeting will break into a very
technical jumble of "dominant
fifths" and modulation." They also
carry large, bulky cases around
with them which they use for ges
tures and bridge tables.
The inside of the Music Building
is slightly antique. The practice
rooms are very carefully stripped
of aay insnlatioa or sound-proofing.
People practicing eaa bear
each other easily, too. Sometimes
an exceptionally fervent practice
session resonates enough to crack
the plaster ia the Pharmacy HaQ
and drive aH the traffic away for
three blocks.
An exceptionally cherished place
In the "old M. B." is a dark place
under the stairs. It is a place to
work on chords and study and the
verage music student feels a lit
tle guilty if he doesn't go down
there at least once a day.
On good days music students
can amuse themselves- during prac
tice sessions by trying to identi
fy the pitch of an auto horn out
side. Nobody else had been known
to try this, probably because they
couldn't. Anybody else would go
mad.
If a mask stodeat is la a band
r combo be doesnt play at a
dance: he "blows a job." When be
bears a band at a daaee be does
not try to enjoy himself. Instead
be conducts his own private crit
ical analysis of the leader and ev
eryone else.
Coed music students have it nice,
too. If a coed taking Strings 7
doesn't wear a cello skirt on cello
days is looked upon with hor
ror and gaping mouths.
Most coed musicians seem to the
layman to be sopranos who carry
their music everywhere, occasional
ly dropping it in the gutter and
muttering "oh, darn" while . still
keeping up a running conversa
tion with a young man carrying
a clarinet and whistling a bit of
Sousa,
It all boils down to "too much,"
or "the most," whichever way
you want to look at it.
The next time the ort-bestra plays
or the Messiah is presented or
Stophoaia presents a program, yoa
can see Use masic students in the
heights of their aectpUsbienis.
Tbey sound pretty keen (pardon
square word).
And secluded as they are, no
one bothers them about drinking
or whether or not they won the
Orange BowL Lucky!
By JANCY CARMAN
The Daily Kansan, University
of Kansas, printed an editorial
saying that they felt finals influ
ence grades too much. These
facts were mentioned.
It ' doesnt matter whether or
not the student's work for the se
mester has been good, for in one
two-hour period he may destroy
any chance for getting the grade
for which he has been working
all semester.
The final might be scheduled
after the student has taken one or
even two others on the same
day, and by that time what he
knows in the course is a blur.
Sickness and numerous other fac
tors can influence the way a stu
dent does on a final examination.
Some persons get so nervous they
are unable to get what they ac
tually know on paper.
The suggestion was made that
the final examination should not
count any more than a regular
hour test at a university where
class attendance is required.
The Colorado Daily has decided
to include in their regular columns,
one for males only. This column
has as its purpose neither to
elevate or deflat the male intel
lect, but to bring them items of
news concerning male haberdash
ery, bar tools, pocket squeegees
and such.
This first column contained these
bits of masculine fashion modes.
It looks like your pants legs'
are going to be pegged this year
says the Men's Wear Industry
Council. The new dimensions are
due to come since the long, clean
line of the narrow-cut suit coat
appeared on the scene. The pic
ture seems to indicate an eight
een inch knee and a fiteen inch
cuff.
Have you seen the new euf
link and tie-bar set made to re
semble pieces from a Scrabble
set. This item is only for those
who dont mind people stopping
them in the streets for a quick
game before classes.
Boulder's humor magazine, the
Flatiron now dead has not yet -faded
from the scene. This item
appeared in the Colorado Daily,
classified ad section.
Wanted. Girl who passed the
spelling test to assist Flatiron ed.
itor who didn't. Leave name, tel.
ephone number and available time
Li the Flatiron box at the hostess,
desk. .
Studying for finals has been gi.
en a new twist by a University
of Minnesota coed. One sophomore
girl recommends doing your study,
ing in a tub full of suds, eg
and, of course books.
Dealers are finding it worth while
to advertise in college news papers,
and for a good reason too. A re.
cent survey found that college ttg.
dents spend:
Only 33 minutes a day on all
books.
Only 80 per cent less time listen,
ing to the radio than the national
average.
So little time on TV that 75 per
cent of the students do not watch
any program regularly.
Plenty of time reading their own
college paper for 99 per cent
of them read it, 91 per cent regu
larly. The average advertisement in
college newspaper gets 65 per cent
readership.
At UCLA the university adminl.
stration directive providing that
students can not smoke in classes
got going over in the editorial
columns of the UCLA Daily Bruin.
The paper ran an article under
"Smoke in Classes?" giving two
students views pro and con
on the headline question.
The student believing that it it
cricket to smoke in classes gave
as one of his reasons:
"But what about the prof.' This
poor guy has to face all these
faces three times a week ani
after a number of years, the class,
the subject material, the students
and their blank looks at 8:06 a.m.
get oa bis nerves. He needs a
cigarette. If things are really bit
he may even need a cigar.
"Classes could boil down to a
nervous shuddering with the prof
stuttering at the class and the stu
dents shaking, twitching and shud
dering back at him." The col
umnist predicted this would give
UCLA the reputation of being the
most nervous school in the nation.
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Inconsistent
Dear Editor:
The issue which Is to come be
fore the Student Council this aft
ernoon is, as you say, "one of the
most important issues facing it
this year."
You stated in your editorial yes
terday that you favored increased
independent activity in the realm
of student government and then
in the same breath said that you
cannot support the request ma.de
by Louis Schoea in behalf cf the
Co-Op Council. Your support is
not forthcomirg because the Stu
dent Council would be guHly of a
grave injustice to Creek-letter or
ganizations granting the proposal"
Kkelber you wfO admit to it or
not, yon are clearly prejudiced
la the matter; you yourself are
a member and a president of a
Creek .letter organization. Yet
fraternities and sororities are only
one aspect of all the student Bfe
oa this campus. There are others
to be considered: aH the ttUferent
types cf Independent organizations,
the members of when outnumber
those of Creek bouses.
Faulty though they are, let me
makt my points by an analogy.
The United States, as you know,
is a federal union of 43 states;
each has its representatives and
senators in Congress. Even the
territories have representatives,
though they do cot vote.
So it Is with this campus. There
are many types of organizations
tt, sad each one Is entitled to
representation oa the governing
body. By voting down the motion
put forward by Scboen through
Mart Pickett, the Student Council
would be guilty of a most grave in
justice to the men's iadependeet
bouses.
Small though their numbers
might be, they are neverJUeless
entitled to representation.
To favor something in print l
Iple but not in practice is plainly
inconsistent.
ROGER WAIT
A GUIDE FOR THE DATELESS
With the cost of dating rising higher and higher (seems tht
only pleasure that costs the same these days is Philip Morris),
it is no wonder that so many of us men are turning to discus
throwing. Naturally, we would prefer nuzzling warm coeds to
flinging cold disci, but who's got that land of mosey? Prices
being what they are, the average man today has a simple choice:
dating or eating.
Unless the average man happens to be Fluster Sig&foos.
Let me tell you bow Flnster Sigafoos, a man no smarter, no
richer, than you or I, solved his dating problem. Finster cam
to college with the normal amtition of any average mas: fca
wanted to find the prettiest coed on campus and make her his.
He looked long and carefully, and at last he found her a tall
job named K retch ma Inskip, with hair like beaten gold.
He asked her for a date. She accepted. He appeared at tor
sorority house that night, smiling, eager, and carrying a bou
quet of modestly priced Cowers.
"Now then," said Kretchma, tossing the sleazy flora to t
pledge, "where are we going tonight?"
Finster was a man short on cash, but long on ideas. He had
prepared several attractive plans for this evening. "How would
you like to go out to the Ag campus and see the milking
machine?" be asked.
"IcV she replied.
"Well then, bow about running over to the dental school to
fool with the drills?"
T.ah." she replied.
"Well, what vxmld you like to do?" be aaked.
"Come," said the, "to a funny little place I know just oatsid
cf town."
And away they went
The place was Millionaires Roost, a simple country Inn md
of solid Ivory. It was filled witb beautiful ladies fa backless
gowns, handsome men in dickeys. Waiters scurried about bear
ing costly eats on flaming swords. Original Rembrandt adorned
the walls. Philip Morris trays adorned the cigarette girls..
Chained to each table was a gypy violinist
Finster and Kretchma were seated, "I," said Kretchma to th
waiter, "will start with shrimps remoulade. Then I will bare
lobster and capon la madeira sauce witb asparagus spears. For
dessert I will have load of out-of -season fruit."
"And you, Sir?" said the waiter to Finster.
"Just bring me a pack of Philip Morris," replied Finsltr,
"for it ever a man needed the soothing, steadying, bene&ceui
aromas of mild vintage tobaccos, it i me now."
So, smoking the best of all possible cigarettes, Finster watched
Kretchma Ingest her meal and calculated that every time her
fetching young adam's apple rose and feSL lie was out another
974. Then he took her home
It wa wbDe saying goodnight that Finster got hi brfflUct
idea. "Litn V he cried excitedly. "I just bad a wonderful notion.
Next time we go out, let ' go Dutch treat!"
By way of reply, Kretchma slashed him across the face witb
her house mother and stormed Into tht house.
"Well the beck with her," said Finster to himself. "She U
just a gold digger and I am well rid of her. I am sure ther
are many girls just ax beautiful as Kretchma who will under
stand the jutic of my position. For after all, girl get as much
money from home a men, so what could be more fair tbaa
sharing expenses on a date?"
With good he-art tnd high hope. Finster began a search for
a girl who would appreciate the equity cf Dutch treat, and yo
will be pleased to hear that he soon found one.
Today Finster goes everywhere and share expenses fifty-fi'V
with Mary Alice Hematoma, a lovely three legged girl with
siaeburn.
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