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The rate of turnover in the faculty is dou
bled, according to Chancellor Hardin. At Tues
day's meeting of the Board of Regents 38
faculty members' resignations were received.
Dr. Hardin said that people cannot be
blamed for leaving and since they are looking
for long-range security, as is anyone, the delay
ing and debating of the Legislature cannot help
their peace of mind."
But as the Daily Nebraskan has noted before,
the situation is more than one of losing good
instructors from the staff. The question of where
the replacements will come from is even more
urgent.
After all, if a man who has worked for a
doctor' degree and done extensive work in
bis own field beyond that cannot get a decent
remuneration for his labors, h will not even
consider the University as a place to display
his talents.
Good teachers will see the effects of the
penniless atmosphere of the University and
steer clear of what could be one of the finest
public schools in the cation.
We are disappointed that the Legislature has
continually asked the University to chop its
budget. When legislator strive to please their
constituent they must do o at the expense
of someone. And that someone it seems at least
during this session of the Unicameral 4s the
University and its personnel.
The days when men would sacrifice and live
in garrets for the sake of their work are gone
We are faced with a very real world which has
very real financial needs. When the University
begins to lose top-flight instructors to the fields
of industry and higher paying teacher jobs, it
is time for us to become just as realistic and
do something about the situation.
Arthur Thompson noted at the meeting Tues
day that people don't want their salaries to
depend on the whims of the weather man. Some
thing must be done to insure the security and
advancement of our faculty.
Will the answer be milk the students? It cannot
be, for that is a highly impractical answer.
Will it be to cut the enrollment and spread
the salaries over a narrowed field? No, for
that defeats the purpose of a state educational
institution.
Will the answer be for the state legislators
to pull their heads out of the hole of fear for
the voters back home and give the University
not just an adequate but a secure budget
increase? What elsecan the answer be?
We could plead with the legislators to raise
the budget of the University and make it stick.
But that would be useless since they feel a
responsibility to the "folks back home." We
can implore the people back home to take up
the torch for the University and insure the great
ness of Nebraska U. not only for the next two
years but far into the future.
Peanuts . . .
Mew Staffers
More efficient operation of the University
business departments are expected now that
new arrangements have been made by the
Board of Regents.
The Board Tuesday separated the office of
comptroller and business manager now directed
by John Selleck who will retire in July.
Taking over the comptroller's position will be
Dr. Joseph Soshnik who is director of the
Creighton University department of manage
ment and the school's auditor and budget con
sultant. Carl Donaldson was elevated from position of
director of purchases and procurement to that
of business manager.
Dr. Soshnik come to the University highly
recommended by The Very Rev. Carl Reinert,
S. J, president of Creighton, who said, "The
University of Nebraska is acquiring a very com
petent administrator with great efficiency. While
I'm extremely sorry to see him leave Creighton
after a very pleasant association, I'm never
theless happy to know that he has decided to
stay in Nebraska and to remain in the field of
education at our fine sister institution."
Soshnik joined the Creighton staff as an in
structor in management in 1946 and has served
as auditor and budget consultant since 1952, the
year he earned bis doctorate in business organ
ization and management from the University.
Donaldson will take charge of the University's
physical plant including all buildings, grounds
and equipment and will supervise the employing
of all non-academic and non-administrative per
sonnel. He has been with the University for
29 years.
What is noteworthy, the Daily Nebraskan be
lieves, is the fact that Selleck has been able
to handle these positions as comptroller-business
manager for so many years. The Daily Nebras
kan, when first informed of his decision to
retire "as soon as a replacement could be
From The Editor's Desk:
A word or two
found," stated that his enthusiasm was a symbol
of Nebraska spirit.
We wondered whether the University would be
able to find a replacement for Selleck and we
are quite satisfied with the action the Regents
have taken to divide fee jobs and operate the
University with added efficiency.
Chancellor Hardin said the division of the
jobs was made necessary by the growth of the
University and is being done in the interest
of more economical as well as efficient opera
tions. The Chancellor has remarked that the action
does not add any posts to the staff. And Selleck,
according to the Chancellor, fully approves of
the separation of positions.
Western Rush
Words from the University of Southern Cali
fornia via the Intercollegiate Press: A more
stringent rushing program, lying somewhere
between the highly formal rushing of sororities
and the virtually unrestricted plan now used
by fraternities on the USC campus is the goal
of the Interfraternity Council.
Main points suggested for the new program
include requiring all rushees to register, charg
ing a fee for the registration and setting up a
fraternity orientation day. The orientation pro
gram could include an open house on the Row
and an IFC assembly at which a rushing film
explaining the procedures of rushing and the
purposes of fraternities would be shown.
Stressed was the facet of selling the fraternity
system as a whole to the new rushees, a job
which panelists at the fraternity presidents' con
ference held at Idyllwild retreat early in January
felt the IFC was well suited for.
The West Coast boys may think they're far
ahead of us country bumpkins in flashy outfits,
but the middlewest is the fertile field for new
and effective ideas in rushing.
before you go .
By FRED DALY
Editor
The following was borrowed
from the North Carolina
Dally Tar Heel for the benefit
and counsel of hard-working
campus politicians and for
the instruction of voter.
At the University of North
Carolina campus politic are
on a larger spaa than they
are here. There are recog
nized campus political parties.
We quote;
Tor spring candidate who
do not already have one, we
publish this abridged list of
qualifications for office seek
er. 1. He must know how to con
struct a parking lot.
i. He must have at his finger-tips,
lists of sources within
the University where money
supposedly could be got. It is
preferable that those place
be somewhat obscure, so no
one can contradict the candi
date. S. He must have a working
knowledge of traffic patterns,
as wen as a majority behind
him on the Town Board of
Alderman.
4. E must have access to
all future physical plans of
the University, as well a
.those of the town, and he
must exercise the veto power
over all policy-making groups
of both organizations, as well
as dictatorial power over
same.
5. He must know intimately
the problems of dormitory
men, fraternity men, dormi
tory women, sorority women,
in-town men, in-town women,
transfer students, athletes and
foreign students.
6. He must control a simple
majority of the North Caro
lina General Assembly.
7. He must have a friend in
the federal government's fi
nance corporation, and he
must be an expert on student
union buildings.
8. Above all, he must be
able to talk a great deal and
say very little. He must have
three hands, one for shaking,
one for patting and one for
painting posters while not
stabbing.
9. Some lists include a plat
form as the last requirement,
but that would be asking a
little too much, we fear.
(Eds. Note:) This does not,
of coarse, pertain in all parts
to the University of Nebraska,
where there is no open politi
cal maneuvering. This is the
"White Spot" of the nation,
yon know.
From faint whisperings sent
out by the weather bureau and
from present conditions, the
weather picture for All-Sports
Day is not the best. It is be
coming a tradition, appar
ently. The University Theater is
planning to present "Harvey,"
by Mary Chase, as one of their
spring productions.
This is indeed fine. After
having seen the play twice
and the movie once, "Harvey"
has become one of this writ
er's favorite individuals.
There is something about
him you can't quite describe.
... As a matter of fact there
are few who could describe
hira. And you know about
these kind. They're happy, for
one thing, which seems down
right indecent in this day and
age.
One last bit of advice: Keep
smiling, but not so long that
you'd drown.
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To the Editor:
L?st night a "sneak preview" of
Cecil B. de Mille's film, "The Ten
Commandments," was shown to a
select group of Lincoln civic and
religious leaders. Yet, in spite of
the publicity and the reviews that
the film has enjoyed in the nation,
many of these leaders did not ap
preciate the Paramount produc
tion. As a religious production, the
film was typical of the American
concept of the spectacular. The
scene in which the miracle of God
giving Moses the Commandments
was exploited to make it as spec
tacular as any of the comparable
incidents in other de Mille produc
tions, such as "The Big Show." .
None of the actual true religious
experience of the tribes wandering
in the wilderness was portrayed.
The story was written to appeal
to the emotional sense of some
thing large and something over
powering. But the sense that the
picture appealed was to the true
sense of religion. This again is
typical of religion in America.
Religion for the sake of the appear
ance that it gives and not for the
sense of humility.
But even the religion that was
portrayed was played down. The
first hour and a half of the movie
was nearly all devoted to the love
affair of the princess and Moses.
This first hour and half portrayed
the portion of the life of Moses
about which very little is done. The
rest of the film could not begin to
encompas's the true accomplish
ments of Moses. In fact the only
thing that was really religious
about the film was the title.
"The Ten Commandments" was
typically an American production.
The cause of liberty - hogwash!
The film was supposed to give the
portrayal of man's first quest for
freedom. This is most certainly an
innate characteristic of man and
not something that can be de
veloped by any group of Hollywood
script writers. The film was a
picture that should be placed in
the film file of the Illinois Ameri
can Legion if the purpose that it
was trying to attain was that of
showing man's quest for freedom.
If one look's at the film from
the point of view of pure entertain
ment it has some merit in that it
might be a little better than some
of the trash that finds its way out
of the city of unholy love.
Admittedly, de Mille did go to a
lot of trouble to film the picture
in the natural environment. In this
the iconoclast . . .
It is worth noting that Karl
Shapiro's comments on mid-western
culture sparked some interest
in the mid-west. At least, I was
able to get up a conversation in
the Crib yesterday. But my coffee
hour conversation was disappoint
ing. It took much the same tack
as did the comment in Sunday's
newspaper that "Nebraska is not
a cultural center." The fact was
stated, it was agreed upon, and
the discussants were willing to
dismiss the point without hope
that the situation would ever be
changed.
I do not intend any personal af
front, so I'll say that the two fel
lows I was talking to were repre
sentative of what I conceive to be
the opinions held by the majority
of the student body. One of them
was an art major. He didn't think
he could get as good an education
in art at Nebraska as he could
somewhere else. So he was going
to California. "Ever thought of
trying to change conditions here?"
I asked him. And his answer was
to the effect that society is a mono
lith, a pyramid, against which one
should not bother to beat his head.
The other of my coffee partners
was more interested in politics that
paint, but he dismissed any noble
ambitions he might have with the
comment, "What is the percent
age in going into politics? There's
more money to be made in busi
ness." What we had in effect was the
admission that many things were
wrong coupled with the surrender
to a lack of hope that anything
could ever be done. If my two
friends are indicative, the Univer
sity student body is suffering from
acute apathy.
But one should aot merely diag
nose an ailment. He must also iso
late the virus which causes the
ailment, and above all he should
know what will be the state of the
organism when it is cured. I sug
gestand I am fully aware that I
will be causing considerable wrath
by so doing that the primary
cause of whatever apathy may ex
ist is the "New Republicanism"
which permeatss the American
government.
I grow increasingly convinced
that Eisenhower Republicanism
consists of Ike's smile and his aura
of good old Main Street common
sense. One suspects that the popu
larity of the present administra
tion is based upon its attitude that
no problem is so big that it can
not be settled over a coke at the
local drugstore. However that
may be, one must admit that the
government seems not to rest upon
any philosophy which can be de
fended or attacked. One could rab
idly defend or violently attack Wil
son's "New Freedom" or Roose
velt's "New Deal," but one is un
able to find anything in Eisenhow
er's "New Republicanism" which
can be either accepted or op
posed. Moreover, the administration
has been so successful in identify
ing itself with the causes of peace
and good fellowship that to attack
it seems to be an un-American
act. This is shrewd politics, but it
creates an intellectual atmosphere
in which attack or defense on any
level has become impossible.
Thus, while problems exist at the
University and in every other
phase of life, one feels rather un
comfortable when he meets them
vigorously.
Brother Shugrue suggested in
yesterday's Rag that today's youth
(That's you and me) should wait
until a leader is found and then
follow. Now, that would be all
well and good if such a leader
were within sight. But the un
happy fact is that no one appears
steve schultz
who will take the place of H. L.
Mencken, who may have been
cften wrong but who was never
dull and was always provocative.
The leaders must come, not as
gods who will reach down and
touch us with the divine spark of
thought, but as members of our
own society who can prove them
selves to deserve our confidence
in their judgments intellectual and
moral.
There is always fear when one
becomes a leader that he will be.
The leader is subject to a natu
ral fear from within himself that
hevill be wrong. I would suggest
that the possibility of being vigor
ously wrong is more attractive
than the presently probability of
being apathetically neutral. Per
haps the best indication that the
University has been restored to
intellectual health will come when
we reaffirm man's divine right to
make a fool of himself.
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respect the film has a few good
scenes.
As a whole, the film is typically
American, trying to put across an
American moral. If this is the way
that liberty and reunion are ex
plained, Heaven help us! The
common philosophy of Hollywood
is that you take out the moral
from some religious story, add a
Hollywood version, throw in a few
big scenes and you can sell the
American public.
For after all, which of us ever
loving patriots and devotees of the
film capitol would dare stay away
from a film which offers a love
s'.ory, spectacular scenery and a
moral all in the same picture.
Mary E. Fulton
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
by Dick Bibler.
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THE PULSE-POUNDING SAGA OF
DE WITT CLINTON, AMERICAN
Let ns today turn our eager young minds to the in
spiring story of De Witt Clinton, one of the greatest
figures in American history and unaccountably one
of the most neglected.
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De Witt Clinton (sometimes called Aaron Burr) first
made himself known to fame in 1756 when Governor
William Penn commissioned him to survey the forests of .
the Western Reserve. (One is inclined to wonder what in
the world Governor Penn could have been thinking of,
for De Witt Clinton was eighteen months old at the time.)
However, the little chap did remarkably welL He surveyed
as far west as Spokane, teaching phonetic English to
more than twelve million Indians along the way, and then,
tired but happy, he became Johnny Appleseed.
Later, he became a keelboat and sailed home to enter
politics. He tried to join the Greenback Party, but his
back wasn't green enough, so he joined the Whigs.
He was offered the Whig nomination for the presi
dency, but declined with the celebrated statement: "If
nominated I will not run; if elected I will not serve."
But the Whigs only nudged each other and said, "That
old fox, he's just playing hard to get." So they nominated
him anyhow, and sure enough he did not run, but he was
elected anyhow, and sure enough he did not serve. In
fact, he was elected to a second term, which he also did
rot serve. However, only a few top Whigs knew there
was nobody in the White House. The rest of the country
thought that the President was confined to his room with
a wrenched knee. For a while people sent "Get Well"
cards, but soon everyone forgot and turned their atten
tion to important matters like opening the west, inventing1
the buffalo, and the Black Tom Explosion.
After two terms as President, De Witt Clinton
entered Yale and took up smoking. He tried several
brands of cigarettes until he found the one brand that
pleased him in every particular Philip Morris, of corrisl
(You knew I was troingr to say that, didnt you? Well,
of course you did, especially if you are a Philip Morris
smoker, for if you are, you know what a sweetheart of a
smoke Philip Morris is how full of rich, natural flavor,
how natural and mellow, how long size and regular. And
if you are not a Philip Morris smoker, you've got a treat
coming. Light one soon. Light either end.)
Upon graduation from Yale, De Witt Clinton became
commissioner of baseball and smoked and loved Philip
Morris Cigarettes for the rest of his long and distin
guished life, and when at last he was called to his reward,
his friend Old Hickory (Daniel Webster) stood up in the
Senate and said, "How sad that De Witt Clinton must
now be forever separated from his beloved Philip Morris 1
"Nay 1" cried Pitt, the Elder (Henry Clay), bounding
to his feet- "We need not separate De Writt Clinton and
Philip Morris. I know how to keep them together always 1"
And, sure enough, If you will look at the blue federal
tax stamp on your pack of Philip Morris, guess whose
picture you'll see. De Witt Clinton's 1 That's whose I
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