,t .-aou ... . - S : i mrnmrn rurlT rr - -" - -j-i--w " " - '- -- ' j , I i ' . k '1 Page 2 THE NEBRASKAN WpHnesdoy, October 17, 1956 Nebraska n Editorials: Activities On Display Wednesday the AWS Activities Mart will intro duce some 800 freshman girls to the wonders of the activity world. Somewhat protected from the endless rounds of painting posters and stuffing envelopes during the first five weeks of school in the fond hope that they would spend their time in study, AWS will finally allow the fresh man to join the famed crowd known as the ac tivity women. Certainly there is a great deal of good in activities: the difficulty comes when the em phasis is placed on the activity point and not upon the value behind it. But a tendency to the latter has become increasingly apparent on the N. U. campus. Required activity hours for fraternity and sorority pledges contributes a great deal to this tendency. A habit of requiring pledges to join those activities in which the house has a can didate'for office also results in a perversion of the real value of activities. And the results of this tendency? Usually the pledges will follow one of two courses. They may become so immersed in the merry-go-round of activities, pursuing the all-mighty Mortar Board that the quality of value becomes of secondary importance, an attitude much encouraged by organized houses. Or they may become dis gusted with the whole weary process and give up activities as a waste of time, a habit secretly shared by most members of organized houses. The Nebraskan would urge every freshman girl to attend the Activity Mart, to consider the purpose and the value of each organization and finally to select that organization on whose pur pose and values seem best. And once the ac tivity is selected, to stay in it only as long as a real value is realized from it. Activities have an important place in the University, but only a place. They cannot be ignored, or written away as useless, nor can they be made the end. Choose them cerefully, use thera wisely and leave them in their proper place. Spontaneity Needed All element were present for a Fine rally. The Yell Squad led the procession with the Corn Cobs and the Tassels following behind. Voices were raised and cheers launched. But to whom? The handful of onlookers? The football team en camped at Beatrice? And the band played on. The current pep controversy at the University was then settled. At least the Yell Squad has launched their accusations and formed their conclusions about the situation. A scattered crowd of less than 100 was in formed that the noted absences were due to a failure of participation by fraternities. This, in turn, was supposedly brought about by a recent ruling of the Interfraternity Council which stip ulated that banners could not contain the house's designation. This was even stressed to the point that all affiliates of organized houses in attendance at Friday's rally were urged to convince their house presidents that the IFC had made a bad choice and that their decision must be re pealed. According to this data the problem of success ful rallies thus generating better spirit for the student body seemingly rests on one point: Fra ternity banners. If this is true, several questions are in order. Is the spirit of this University at such an ebb tide that one factor such as this can wash out the entire success of a pep rally? Are fraternities interested in only plastering their Greek letters before pep rallies rather than contributing spirit? And if the success of the rallies is so jeop ardized by this, is the rest of the student body fairly represented? Following the rules of validty, several prem ises should precede a conclusion. Many factors contribute to the detraction from a Friday night rally. For example, last week there was a flood of people at the Tony Martin show, several pledge classes preparing decora tions for ensuing house parties and a great many people preparing to attend the rally night dance which started shortly after the rally. As the resulting function of a rally is to stimulate the entire student body and thus bring about more pep during the game, why not choose a time for such a rally at which the entire student body could attend without con flict, and one which would not allow a degenera tion of spirit by the time the game was under way? A possible solution would be a rally preceding the game after which those attending could go directly to the stadium. The Yell Squad is to be commended on their enthusiasm; but if the remainder of the student body remains apathetic; their purpose is defeated. The Political Soap Box: What 3s Truth? By DICK SKUGRUE each of us from a different part of the country Copy Editor has his own personal views on the matter. I The Truth Squad was in town Tuesday. don,t believe that this is a major issue in the The four member team of United States Con- campaign any longer." gressmen representing the Republican party in Statistics were read by Sen. Curtis which in- its effort to stay in office stopped briefly in dicated that the present Administration's effi- Lincoln on the way to Moline, HI., and Battle ciency has greatly improved the state of the Creek Mich. nation. Sen.' Carl Curtis of Nebraska, Sen. Frederick e PhilofPy Truth Squad is that Payne of Maine and Representative Clifford Mc tements out of context can be cor- Intire U Maine are the members of "the team "cteJ " t the pubhc may know just what which is "trailing Adlai Stevenson and his fellow the admintration has done for them." Democrats to bring the truth of the record of B Th".,dea' Z"' "0t CXdU8iVe WUh tte the Eisenhower Administration to the Nation." Republicans. The Democratic party, too, chal- . . . ... .. . ... lenges speeches and statements which the GOP Sen. Curtis, who has been "trading shifts on majjeg the squad" with Sen. Roman Hruska said that A presidential campaign would,t be fun toe team "had talked with Dee in the White candidates didn.t clagh on to The Truth House and each of us was told to tell the truth g effoft cmjntcr to the nation. Democratic statements at the meeting Tuesday. The Truth Squad was concerned with the The three-man team did not attempt to show statement made by Adlai Stevenson that all that the Administration has improved the coun- hydrogen bomb tests should be halted. Sen. try. Fayne quoted Harry Truman as saying a halt a statement by Sen. Payne sums up the Re in the tests would mean "the giving away of publican view of ihe entire situation. "We are the United States' advantage as a world power." looking to the press to tell the nation the truth. One of the Lincoln newsmen asked Senator We trust you to print the facts as they stand." Payne if the Republican demands for continuing The logic behind the Truth Squad can only be the tests means that perhaps the Administration explained if Ike or Adlai can answer the his- is disregarding advice from scientists that the toric challenge, "What Is Truth?" tests are harmful because of atomic fallout. The Senator replied that the opinions of scien- II 9 m mi in tSsts vary as to the harmful effects of fallout. J V f Pff ffflfi tfff f C 'But we can't spend billion of dollars on weap- III Cliff J ons and not know whether they work. We have - to be on the guard. Perhaps a suggestion that Of POlltlCS tests be stopped by mutual agreements between nations would work. But the next tests the Rus- Recently a well-known national family maga- slans make might be on American cities," he zlnc posted Gov- Stevenson and President Eisen- said. hower on its front cover, each on a separate The general tone of the meeting was not apol- occasion, egetic. The Congressmen knew that they were What klnd of PJitic within the magazine's meeting members of the working and-accord- offlcc determined which candidate would be ing to legend tongue-in-cheek press. displayed first? Also, which issue, the first or For every question asked, the nimble fingered Jhe cond. would be determined to be the staff immediately presented figures from stuffed "vored Position? briefcases to substantiate the answers given by No doubt ood number of strained executive the Squad. meetings were held to figure all this out. Sen. Curtis was asked about the GOP farm policy. He directed the question to Rep. Mc- ClCISSGS Mandfltarv Intire, who himself is a farmer. Pointing out rn !nfL , ,1? , that the Administration is against a rigid, 90 rZZ.Ti fomor" ' ' ba University per cent of parity price support, Mclntire aid J tfnT f Jr?'? COmpu,wrr " that the new program cf the President would thX " L JI? 1 "be a much greater aid to farmers." Jj ft J? 'I""', The team w. momentarily .tumped by a !D?"' r""L "h?"'" television reporter who asked why the position ltr"?'l lil'ul f7 of Ktbrtik.'. Representative Weaver W,2 mJewed' sss "s--e Adt,8tratlon. asf- a rssyj s Weaver has supported the rigid price support ver.ity officials think the new ruling will raise . , , j . 19 ,tandard ot cademic achievement among 17,11 fflear RP' Wclatire stated, "that the freshmen and sophomores. , ' The. Nebraskan prr-nvz years old xZfJZr . . . ISemben Associated Collegia! 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Imm t-twkUa, Tom Kaff, tmtf anlloaUaa Uttle man on campus by Dick Bibler Pogo's Progress: BRISBANE, Australia (Special) Dingoes, Koalas and Emus of this vicinity will gather tomorrow night in the shade of a boola bong tree to draft plans to welcome Pogo Possum. American candidate for President, to this sunny land of "down-under." One prominent Emu, manufac turer of false Ostrich feathers, claimed that the denizens of Aus tralia and the Anzac regions are one hundred per cent for the mar supial candidate. "I am not a mar supial myself," said the Emu, "although I have been invited to join and my mother's father had a little pouch, but I can guarantee that many of our prominent deni zens are simply delighted that Pogo has decided to stump this country for the "down under" vote. Denizens from all over will be gathering in New South Wales and you can bet they will vote to a man for the candidate from up over. One very important denizen, a platypus by trade, has guaran teed to deliver the monotreme vote." Pressed on whether the other marsupials will welcome the opos sum candidate as one of their own, the Emu declared that so far as he was concerned the election is in the bag. "We are divided on just one point," he pointed out. "There is some feeling on the part of a small Kangaroo group that Pogo will not be the first to stump the country." At this, an old man Kangaroo spoke up and claimed that there is no such thing as a small Kangaroo group. "A small Kangaroo is a Wallaby," he insisted, "and is an interloper from New Zealand. Any Kangaroo group woud have to be a LARGE Kangaroo group. And as for stumping the country, NO BODY has ever stumped the Aussies." A delegate from New Zealand, thereupon, threw dirt into the pouch of a placid old lady Kan garoo and fighting broke out among the Echidnas who claimed that they single-handedly had stumped the entire state of Queens land in a stumping contest in 1932. Order is expected to be restored in time for the happy welcoming party. (Copyright im. Walt Kelly) m f JN A WORLD Of CHANGING MORALS. THEIR LIVES CROSS... is7 .arV S .. . n m 77 '"WA ramng ROBERT lAYLOft nd introducing KLSACT 1V1UELLE8 V , ar3a 9 1 . n i st. A ROUGH AND TOUGH GUNSLINGER . . , AND A BEAUTIFUL "BLONDE-BOBCAT" . . . thrill . . . after thrill after thrill . . . sweeps across the big screen in top flaming setting of those danger-packed frontier days! i. , , Apt,..,,., fi : if v v 4 k" WW tum BEVERLY IRELAND GARLAND BJUY DANIELS "MI?. BUCK MAGIC CROOvir, MuicAt FEvtre I ALIO-A HOKET Of A COtOB TUJflE esc fpHXSi Jill L . j 13th 6 f S!rts Z im EVES. 80c Schultz Schmaltz Before my column of last week was published, my roommate asked me to print a note in the last paragraph informing the pub lic that he did not share my views on James Dean, sports writing, or High Society. He was afraid, he said, that if he were associated with my opinions, he might be murdered in his bed by screaming partisans of the scathed triumvi rate. Actually, last week's column was amicably received. Most read ers seem to agree with me, and those who do not have been re markably temperate. Considering the extent to which the Dean idola- Steve Schultz try has grown, I am surprised. And disappointed. When I started writing, I looked upon myself as a crusader against ignorance and advertising men. Instead, I am a Quixote without so much as a windmill. I am comforted by the thought that I am not alone. There lodges in every man the desire to be a King Lear, resolutely battling mankind and the elements. And this Lear urge has led to stranger phenomona than last week's es say. Consider the Rock and Roll antics of the high school set which has made Elvis Presley a sacred cow. This combination of disson ance and pelvis swinging would not be a craze if moralists and music critics were not so vigorous in their condemnation. Consider the sweat shirts, tennis shoes, and Bohemian behavior of the arty set which thinks of itself as the salva tion of civilization. Many read e. e. cummings, contemplate the most abstract of abstractions, and llva in bare garrets not for enjoyment, but because these things symbo lize separation from society. If a rumor spread among the dilet tantes that Longfellow is esoteric, they would read "The V i 1 1 a Blacksmith." Consider also the se cret societies on campus, which would, I suspect, lose all their charm if the administration sud denly approved of them. They art only one more example of the de. sire to bs different and, if possible, forbidden. These rebels against society, these self-styled non - conformists, make two basic errors. First, they assume that society is a mass with a single set of manners and mor als. Actually, society is formed of many segments, each with its own standards. The cliques of reb els are, therefore, not non-eonform-ists. They live by the standards of their group as much as a middle brow businessman lives by tha standards of his. The "rebels" con form to non - conformity. Second, the self styled rebels make the mistake of trying to abandon what is good in the com mon life. The artistic rebel over throws the enduring art of Michael angelo, Shakespeare, and Swift in favor of fads and fancies. The Rock and Roll rebel forsakes good popular music I am thinking particularly of Gershwin's songs and clings to claptrap. The se cret society rebel forgets that most of us are having our fun without slapping yellow paint on doorsteps. After this is published, I shall probably be called "conservative" and all sorts of other nasty names. You may want to argue with me. Please do. I enjoy arguing; tha Lear urge in me is strong. ispPvHnQpm (Authtr -Bartft Bny Wtth Chttk," tic.) STUDYING CAN BE BEAUTIFUL Is studying bugging you? Do you have trouble re membering names, dates, facts, figures, and the location of the library? Dear friends, it need not be so. All you have to do is master the simple art of mnemonics. Mnemonics, as we all know, was invented by the great Greek philosopher Mneir.on in 526 B.C. Mnemonics, in cidentally, was only one of the many inventions of thia fertile Athenian. He is perhaps best known for his in vention of the staircase, which, as you may imagine, waa of inestimable value to mankind. Before the staircase, people who wished to go from floor to floor had to leap from springboards. This meant, of course, that aged and infirm persons were forced to live out their lives, willy nilly, on the ground floor, and many of them grew cross as bears. Especially Demosthenes, who was elected con sul of Athens three times but never served because ha was unable to get up to the office of the commissioner of oaths on the third floor to be sworn in. But after Mnemon's staircase was invented, Demos thenes got up to the third floor easy as pie and took tha oath-to Athens' sorrow, as it turned out. Demosthenes, his temper shortened by years of confinement to the ground floor, soon embroiled his countrymen in a series of senseless and costly wars with the Persians, the Visigoths, and the Ogallala Sioux. He was voted out of office in 617 B.C., and Mnemon, who had made his accession pos sible, was pelted to death with fruit salad in the Duorao. But I digress. We were discussing mnemonics, which are nothing more than aids to memory catchwords or jingles that help you to remember names, dates, and places. For example, any student of American history surely knows the little jingle: Columbu$ Bailed the ocean blue In fourteen hundred ninety two. You see how simple a mnemonic is? There is no rea son why you can't make up your own. Say, for instance, that you are proceeding with American history. The Pilgrime landed on Plymouth Rock In sixteen hundred twenty, doc. (This jingle is especially useful to medical students.) The next important event is the Boston Tea Party. Let us compose a rough-and-ready couplet about thati Samuel Adams flung the tea Into the briny Zuyder Zee. You can see how simple and useful they are -not only for history, but also for current events. For Instance, In nineteen hundred fifty six It's the cigarette that clkknl What, you ask, is tha cigarette that clicks? Why, Philip Morris, of corrisl And why shouldn't it click? Could any cigarette be more pleasing to the palate? Nol Could any cigarette be more tempting to the taste buds? Nol A thundering, thumping, resoundlnjr nol Get some today, hey. You'll see. Mai Shuhnaa, ItIS You won't ni mnmonle$ to nmtmbtr tho wonitrful natu re1 fiw of fhUlp HottU Clgaratt; mhou maker, arm dm. Ughud to bring you thU column every tch.