Nebraska Newspapers

    TmpsHqv. October 2, 195S
THE NEBRASKAN
Nebraskan Editorials:
LITTLE MAN OH CAMPUS
by Dick Eibler
Schultz's Schmultz:
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A Political Community
If th remarks which have been filling the
front pages of the nation's newspapers concern
ing the lack of character and virtue possessed
by the nominees of the major parties are true,
then God preserve our nation for no one else
teems qualified.
The Nebraskan, during the month of October
and the first week of November, will provide
an extensive coverage of these remarks and de
cisions issued by local and national candidates.
The fun and tomfoolery of the Pogo drive has
been completed, although an occasional article
fron national Pogo headquarters may find its
way to the editorial page. Pogo has served his
piifoose. Over 4.000 questionnaires are being
tabulated and although our friend from the
swamp seems assured of election, we shall also
find out through rather informal means which
of the major party slates is favored at the Uni
versity. The Nebraskan intends to interview major po
litical candidates whenever it is possible. As in
past election years, statements of Nebraska
candidates for office will be run on the editorial
page.
A Nebraskan staff writer will write a column
m each issue preceding the campaign on current
issues. National collegiate polls will be featured
from time to time and their relation to the local
situation will be emphasized.
The editorial policy of The Nebraskan will
favor the re-election of the present Washington
administration. It is very difficult to become ex
cited about our state and congressional cam
paigns, however. Few people know the Demo
cratic candidates for office in the District elec
tions for members of the House.
The Nebraskan will endeavor to place the
responsibility of registering and voting squarely
before those students of voting age. Faculty
members should also be aware of the registra
tion deadline, Oct. 26.
The University has as one of its primary pur
poses the qualification of students for roles of
leadership in our state and nation. With lead
ership in the community, there is associated
a political responsibility which can only be real
ized through interest and participation in this
political community.
The Nebraskan will try to do its part in real
izing this participation.
Restrictions In Sight
Chancellor Hardin's report that the enrollment
of the University has increased by 535 students
the total population of a small college is very
significant in view of the rising technology and
standards of living in our atomic age.
That a college education or the influence of
college people is important in our world will
not be challenged. Men must become supermen
to survive in this world of hydrogen bombs, cyn
icism and rationalism.
The University as a source of enlightenment
and truth is the salvation of the state. Ne
braska (the state, not the school) is guided by
the "Watchfulness of its citizens." But the
school must become, or if it has become, re
main, essentially true to the state's motto.
We rely on the University to balance, educate
and inculcate values in us.
This can be done. The 83S7 regular students
here expect it to be Cone.
A University education today is essential, of
course, for advancement in the physical world,
ilacy are here for that purpose and that pur
pose alone. They learn, though, over the years
that a spirit of co-operation, logical thought and
truth are just as important for survival in each
one's personal life as accounting or French.
This, too, the University students can expect
from their school. We take four years from
our lives for melding and 40 years for the actual
work involved in life.
If that means we have to work just a little
harder or a little bit longer, then that's what it
will have to mean. We can't expect miracles
over night.
The wonderful part of University life is that it
takes four years. For some, these years mean
parties, banquets and balls. For others, they
mean a chance to get some of that spirit essen
tial to survival
We're willing to bet that many of the new stu
dents in the University family this year won't
be back next year. This happens each year, each
semester.
We're willing to bet, however, that those who
stick out the four year course will be better
men and women for it. They will be better pre
pared to meet the challenge life has to offer
after having conquered the more-than-difficult
University curriculum.
The pep talks won't last much longer. No more
encouragement will be given to the new stu
dents. They will have to struggle through the
first semester, then face seven more before
reaching the goal, graduation.
To the rest of the student body those who
have any number of hours on record encour
agement seems futile, even trite. We don't want
to encourage; we don't want to have to en
courage. The challenge of University existence should
be enough of an encouragement necessary for
ar.y young man or woman interested in the
challenge life has to offer.
Ia a2 the talk of weighty political issues, there
Is one small, mundane, yet very important con
sideraSon which is often overlooked. To vote
in Nebraska, one must be registered.
This is a matter of utmost importance to Uni
versity students, because the majority of those
of voting age have turned 21 since the last na
tional elecwon. Chances are, a great many of
those otherwise eligible to vote will deny them
selves a rake, rso matter hew small, ia this
First Step
great American institution known as the "dem
ocratic process" simply because they have
failed to register.
Information on registration procedures and re
minders of the deadline will appear in the Ne
braskan during the next two weeks. Registra
tion is a simple process which requires only
a short time. It is a small enough price to pay
for a privilege which is still, in this "enlightened
age," restricted to only a small portion of the
world's population.
From The Daily Tarheel':
The Liberal Arts Major
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vert pvessare, the Eberal arts cOeges nest mmt falter ia aenaiag with a wbele heart aad .
wfcaeat mental reservatim the fell measure mt their historic perpese. We kaw that clese
apftkaswv will fid aa asswer to the praMems aad hard wart win 4m the jafc. Preside
Harold W. Dedds el Priacete Uftnrersiry, at biceatesmial ceavacattn this week.
Tt Princeton president's worries are well
sounded. American ccSe&es ad osiversities,
now fairfy safely through the Eed Prcfeassr Pe
riod, have another prafclea to cooSerjd with:
Tie fcereassEg ixpertaace ia most pecfie's
roiads of a eaCege diploma.
Th diocia is istportasL Bat far too many
peepje Jiiik it Is tepsrtaEt because it ineazs
mere ami qmker ja&smey. For too EAry people
a dipSania is a Ikease to practice acme srsaH
part of socse large vocaiko.
Sperfa-icatsoa is key to these people. They
spend tbeir ccSege IL'e fca&Eed ia ore corner of
a very tig rxa, When they leave they can
give the exact STfcsfkasoc aad disarsKcns of
fiat osr&er, bet fcey know nothing about the
w&&ue rocta,
CcciseqiaeniJSy, wbea they start to practice lsv
icg, t&ey lack tie ti&Sj to tmdler&xsd much
of life.
Tiese pecp'e. Chen, have lacked what Is called
at Canfea tie liberal arts edacatsoa. That ed
oca.'ja is obtained here ia moat of tie class
rocss oa tie east side of tie flagpole. It also
is obtained ia dormitory rocms, ia the W2iaa
library, ever cdlee, a revels aoad oa tie brick
va3rrays
Nowadays, when a student is about to be grad
uated from aa institatsoo cf higher learning, be
registers with a placement service oa bis cam
pus. If his work is specialized, if he knows a
lot about a Lale, be probably win get a job
cakker and with more pay than the student
who has developed bread interns ia a kL
The people who hire graduates are most at
faaliL It is their shortsightedness that makes
some scadecis grcpe far the diploma, the al
mighty diploma, instead of groping for the light
of learsiEg.
Eat there are indications that some employers
have seen tie value of a liberal arts education.
Whether it is becasise they themselves were lib
eral arts people we do not know, but reports
are steadily comkg in cf employers who ad vies
a placement service:
"We don't care what be majored in. Just give
tis a man who has a good, solid education. Well
tra.o him on our time after we hire Mm." '
That is a good sign. But not good enough.
What is needed, as Dr. Dodds suggests, is the
universities and colleges close application to
the task of falfiHisg the seed for people edu
cated ia the liberal arts. As he says, "hard work
wi3 do the job."
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One of the interesting facets of
the American character is our
willingness to believe in great
ness. We are, in fact, so anxious
to adore that we apply the ad
jective "great" to commonplaces.
Sportswriters who probably con
tribute as much badly styled prose
as any other class of litterateurs
constantly call athletes "great" who
are actually doing only what they
are paid to do. Motion pictures
Steve Schultz
for more than a year, James
though they are actually medio
cre or worse. For instance, High
Society, which was a tedious waste
of two pleasant singing voices,
was called great so often that
the public believed the publicists
and thought it was being enter
tained. But the outstanding ex
ample of this American urge to
apotheosise is the current adora
tion of an actor who has been dead
.espe-
Bob Cook
Clothes make the man.
ciaCy the college man.
Slip into a mauve Brook's Broth
ers, a charcoal carbon tie with an
undernourished, scrunchy knot,
pull on a pair of pie at less slacks
over charcoal shoes, don a pad
less slim black coat and slim black
horned rimmed glasses over the
bridge of a slim black nose and
you have Joe College. . .slim,
black Ivy League style.
Yes, there is truth in the fact
that herrses may replace conver
tibles on the American campus,
for the poison Ivy look seems well
settled upon today's male colle
gians. Upon close examination of the
current trend towards four button
double breated suits, men will no
longer be able to snicker at the
Flapper era without a guilty con
science. However, Ivy League is not with
out its history. Its tradition is
steeped in the fragrance of mag
nolia blossoms,' honeysuckle, jas
mine, and John Brown's fine told
body.
Let us delve into particulars a
bit Take for instance the origin
cf the button down collar. Now here
is a real bit of evolution. The need
for such a thing first resulted
from tragic experiences suffered
by the Pogonian Indians ia the
upper Andes. Being a hearty breed
and influenced somewhat by the
wine used in communions at the
local r"'""T". the natives would
make their pilgrimage every Sun
day down the treacherous paths
to early mass. And not to be out
done by one another, soon began
to sport imported linen shirts, as
the Kafir corn crop was subsidized
by per cent parody.
This was all fine and good in
season, but complications arose in
the monsoon season. Winds of im
possible velocity (as every good
geography student knows are com
mon to Outer Pogonia) threatened.
And in less than three weeks, doz
ens of casualties were incurred;
and all met the same horrible end.
Yes, history books will long re
member the Outer Pogonia disas
ter wherein 43 casualties were sus
tained from stabbings by starched
collar points.
Early solutions were very un
successful. Many attempts were
made to curb the situation: glued
down collars which proved messy
for neckties, no collars at all which
William Randolph Hearst support
ed editorially to no avail, and
even the neighboring Jivaro tribe
left their peaceful valley (this was
before television) and made their
contributions towards a solution.
It seems this wasnt appreciated
as the Jivaro 's have a fond cus
tom of bead shrinking and the di
lemma still remained. AH seemed
futile. Even the local Beta chap
ter flew in brothers from the U.S.
for suggestions, but to oo avafl.
This set the stage for the name
of Quentin Leghorn to be on the
end of everyone's tongue. (Diges
tion was held to a minimum) Yes,
up from his second rate haber
dashery in Cambridge came Quen
tin Leghorn with his innovation of
the BUTTON down collar. It
seemed like nothing could bar old
Quentin from success now, but it
happened.
As this was in the height of the
depression, a capitalist on Wall
street had cornered the market on
buttons. The great button boom
of 1903 followed with button shoes, '
etc., and such parlor games as
button, button, who's got the button?
M GREEN m
Into The River
The brown clotted river rubbed fee twilight docks;
Just the clocks were loud.
A glass man with electric eyes
Sparked in. the evening chimes.
The tugs were dull and moist
Beneath the chd of a distant guIL
The beCs of time pierced the membrane
And withdrew the cry;
A rpark in the river
Aad a gull in the sky
The idiot bilge rubbed resumingly on
With its whirlpool eyes in the mud.
Time ceases to be alive; just rhyme
Above the river's rocks.
And dangling tires oa waiter tugs
Laugh like maniacs. .
Death at the twCight docks.
Richard U. Rally
Interne Quietus
The crickets scrapped blood into the sight
And the moon was a clock.
The radios were absorbing the night
And the moon was a song.
Until the heart wsnt insane
Ia its clocking the breath.
(O so perceptive in bed I)
The crickets beat drums in the dark
And the moon is a skulL
Radios smiled mute;
Shadows tack root.
And light split the walls
Of tumbling down kails.
And life counted three
So intense the refugee.
Richard If. Rally
Times have changed. Today we
find the parlor set participating In
button, button, here comes the
housemother, and Ivy League has
climbed to its present state.
Our hero Quentin Leghorn has
long been forgotten, and last heard
of was working as a weather vane
at Capisrtano.
If present day interest keeps sus
tained, one can imagine the vogue
of tomorrow featuring such things
as repp tongues, button down ear
lobes and back straps on the shoul
ders.
for more than a year James Dean.
This adoration, I am convinced,
is based more upon the publicity
given Dean since his death than oa
the talent he displayed as an ac
tor. I do not propose to discuss
the taste used in this advertising;
it is unquestionably bad. The only
question is whether those who dis
tribute the mass of James Dean
literature are interested more in
the dead actor or in the money
to be made from his unreieased
movie, Giant. Still, the public has
welcomed the torrent of D e a n,
memorabilia.
Understand please that I am not
being disrespectful to a dead man,
but I fail to see what James Dean
did to deserve the hysteria accord
him. Two of his movies have been
released.One of these, East at
Eden, was studded with Elia Kazan-type
naturalism and tr i c k y
camera angles, which failed to eon
ceal the fact that Dean had been
directed as an imitation of Mar
lon Brando. He was complete with,
pout, mumbled speech, and a wob
bling type of run which was sup
posed to be the essence of real
ism but which has never actually
been seen outside a movie theatre.
Rebel Withoat a Cause showed the
actor abandoning the Brando ster
eotypc. But the script ignored all
laws of dramatic probability for
mulated from the time of Aristotle
to the present. Dean was forced to
seem believable while wandering
through deserted mansions and
of all unlikely places a plantar
ium. Nevertheless, after R e b 1
Without a Caaae was released,
adolescents all over the country
proclaifed that m James Dean
they had found a champion who
understood and could express their
mass personality. If the boy in
the movie was a typical teenager,
the high school set is even mora
mixed up than the Elvis Presley
erase indicates.
I am told that in Giaat, the last
movie Dean finished before his
death, he gave a great perform
ance. I hope so. The American
screen has produced all too few
great performances, though the ad
jective has been applied all toe
many times.
The Buttress:
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Talk
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Unbeknown to the sodaBxed
campus of the U. of N., the past
two years has produced a new
and surging organization most pop
ularly known as the R.A.M., Resi
dence Association for Men of Sel
leck Quadrangle. Besides giving
independents a place to live, this
busy organization has developed
a well rounded program of edu
cational and social life.
The educational bit is self ex
planatory, but let us probe into this
social life. I discovered more than
Dwaine Kogge
just all parties. Along with the
parties, I found a flurrry of ac
tivities and a genuine desire for
today's college man to live and co
operate with his contemporaries.
The nucleus of this movement is
centered in the R A.it. Council,
and the Executive officers discuss
the problems of and formulate new
means of improving life for the resi
dents of Selleck quad.
Social functions planned for this
year include formal and informal
dances, exchange banquets, style
shows, parties for orphans and
underprivileged children, and smok
ers. This variety will provide. en
joyment for everyone and, inci
dentally, in some instances will
tend to make the residents more
EROAD-minfell
Ia the activities circle, X Icml
intramurals and special iateewt
clubs. The intramural partidpaota
are very optimistic this year aad
plan to take their share of cam
pus trophies. The interests the chiba
relations to music appreciation,
from the Rifle Club to the Cam
era Club.
The officers of R.A.M. point out
that Selleck Quadrangle is a place
where any man can lire and
achieve leadership experience, ed
ucation, and social acceptance.
These opportunities afforded ev
ery man enable him to use his own
initiative to develop his character
and enhance bis self satisfaction.
In this brief view, put forth that
in the past two years what used
to be a dormitory simply a
place to eat and steep has
progressed into a midene asso
ciation for the fuCfQlment of col
lege life for men.
P. S. Chow's better at Selleck
Quad this year, tool
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suit from Magse's Ivy Shop,
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the sofUnatarol It Iran )
unpadded shoulder and nar
row lapel to th end of the
Jacket The clear-cut, refreeh
ing herringbone pattera is
quietly soptusticated. The
trousers, of course, have the
Ivy belted back and pleatlets
front ... in keeng with eoV
legiate tastes!
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