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The Daily Nebraskan
Monday, October 7, 1957
Editorial Comment
Student Editors
In conjunction with the selection of the can
didate for the student division of the Pub Board,
the Daily Nebraskan feels it would be worth
while to print the resolution of the Student Edi
torial Affairs Conference held during the sum
mer month at Ann Arbor, Mich.
The conference, made up of 51 student editors,
unanimously passed a resolution stressing the
importance of the freedom of the student press
and condemning interference with that right.
It seems apropos that this newspaper should
balance the scales of opinion since during the
past week we challenged the student council
and the nominees for the pub board to assume
their responsibilities and to work towards learn
ing more about the job of student publications.
And now, at the close of the national observ
ance of Newspaper Week, we print the im
portant points which the SEAC resolved and
which we accept.
The SEAC resolution reads:
Statement of Facts: Whereas freedom of the
student press has been abridged in the follow
ing ways:
1) Confiscation of student newspapers due to
the publication of controversial ideas which
faculty or administrative authorities consider
detrimental to the reputation and the welfare
of the Institution or some department of the in
stitution. 2) Suspension, expulsion, or threats of similar
action against student editor or publication due
to the publishing or the proposed publishing of
natters which faculty or administrative authori
ties consider detrimental to the reputation and
the welfare of the institution or some depart
ment of the institution:
Therefore: The first Student Editorial Affairs
Conference condemn all such actions and inter
ference as listed under the statement of facts
and declare the following fundamental rights
and privileges essential for the effective execu
tion of the responsibilities and obligations of a
free student press:
1) Within the legal restrictions of libel laws
and the conscience of the editors, the student
press shall have final jurisdiction and freedom;
2) The student press shall be free from all
types of financial and inordinate and excessive
social pressure from student government groups,
university or college authorities, state or city
officials, etc.
3) The student press shall be free to present
all articles concerning controversial matters
and opinions on such matters;
4) The student press shall be free from all
faculty and administrative censorship.
But along with the condemnations and the
statement of facts, we must assume responsi
bility for our actions. At this University there
has been freedom of the press; we have pointed
out in the past how it has been cherished.
Here's hoping that at this conclusion of Na
tional Newspaper Week we can resolve to stand
up for the high ideals presented in the code of
journalism and work towards the honesty and
fair play which characterize the modern Ameri
can newspaper.
Bargains
1.
There's culture in our midst.
Besides the fine selection of artists which the
University will offer to entertain the students
and faculty members, downtown organisations
are planning to gather a bumper crop of fine
e n tertainers
and artists
this fall and
winter.
Word comes
from both the
Lincoln Com
munity Con
certs group
and the Lin
coin Synv
phony Or
chestra that
the capital
Segovia ( city will be
anything but culturally barren.
The Community Concerts Association has
planned a season which will include programs
by the NBC Opera, The American Ballet The
atre, Paul Whiteman's orchestra, the Vienna
Boys' Choir and others.
The sparkling feature of that group is the
special price being offered students. Whereas,
regular adult members pay $7.50 for the season,
students (and servicemen) pay only $4. Hardly
sensible to pass this one up.
As far as the Lincoln Symphony Orchestra bill
Is concerned, Andres Segovia, considered to be
the greatest guitar player in the world, Roberta
Peters, Camilla Wicks and Rudolf Kirkusny will
all make appearances throughout the coming
months.
The price for the Symphony concerts is
higher. General admission seats cost $2 per
show.
Cries that the Midwest is a desert when it
eomes to culture will be thrown out the win
dow. If anything our neck of the woods will be
bulging with delicacies.
Students with the fine art on their minds
would find it well worthwhile to investigate fur
ther these programs.
Aftermath
How's That Again
It's a moment for mixed emotions when the
child learns to stay within the lines of the pic
ture in the coloring book. You know he is going
to be a law-abiding citizen, but not a great ab
stract artist.
An enthusiastic supporter of the senator from
Massachusetts says of the Democratic hopeful
for 1960: "Why Jack Kennedy could whip him
with Ls hair combed!" Chicago Daily News.
After last week's bout with words over what
spirit is, where it comes from and what it
means to University football, we feel that the
general public came to these conclusions:
1) Football and spirit aren't necessarily
equated by everyone. One can love the Uni
versity and never see a football team. One can
go all out for football and feel blah about the
University.
2) A rallying point for the state of Nebraska
has been the football team. Since the football
team hasn't been too strong, the support both
for the University and the football team has
been mediocre.
3) The characteristics of the state which make
residents here dislike (or at least be apathetic
to) Nebraska are legion. Foremost is probably
the fact that very few Cornhusker staters know
their state. They don't boast of it; they aren't
proud of it.
4) A great and winning football team is ex
pensive. Many of the leaders in the nation have
been clamped by the NCAA for breaking the
rules as to how much and in what manner
money may be spent for football (or any other
sport.)
5) Many students just don't give a hoot about
the football team any time besides Saturday
afternoons. They will sit in their seats and make
a little noise on Saturdays but that's about it.
This last conclusion was affirmed Friday be
fore the team left for Kansas when Bob Martel,
sports editor of this newspaper, had planned a
sendoff for the team.
Bob reported that he had called thirty-five or
ganizations on the campus asking the members
therein to be present if they did not have nine
o'clock classes.
How many showed up?
Besides the team, Martel said there were three
cheerleaders, himself and a photographer.
For a spontaneous rally this is an extremely
embarrassing turnout. And there certainly must
be some students who don't have 9 o'clock.
Martel was disgusted. So are we.
But we can't ask anyone to develop a liking
for football.
Maybe it wouldn't be asking too much to in
quire just how much feeling there is that Ne
braska is a great school and that the Corn
husker football squad with Bill Jennings at its
helm is playing its heart out for the school
and the state.
from the editoi
First Things First, . .
Surpprisc, surprise . . .
In whst was termed an "upset" by sportswrit
trs, the Nebraska Cornhuskers displayed a squad
full of pep, despite a multitude of injuries, to
drop the K-Stater.
Other Big 8 highlights included a University of
Kansas (our Homecoming opponent) upset over
the University of Colorado, 35-34. Iowa State
dented Oklahoma's scoring record, racking up
two touchdowns in a 40-14 losing cause.
As on sportscaster said, it was a "well-fought,
veil-coached, well-played game."
Nebraska students didn't deserve a win. The
players did and they got it.
Last week, Daily Nebraskan sports editor Bob
Martel called 35 organized houses in an attempt
to scrounge up a send-off group for the Corn
huskers Friday. Martel, a photographer and
three cheerleaders showed.
by Jack Pollock
For those who decry spirit at NU and wonder
who's fault it is, take a look at your mirror . . .
The University of Wyoming claims title to an
enterprising young lad who, daunting the formid
able 3-1 boy-girl ratio, has managed 14 dates
this fall with 10 separate girl.
The lad claims in order to keep a second date
one night he convinced his first date she was a
victim of the Asian flu and offered to deliver
her to the student health. After a sympathetic,
"Get well soon," he wa off for hi second en
gagement. Over enthusiasm for student balloting was
noted last week at Creighton University at Oma
ha. A special election for an Art College senior
representative to the Student Board of Govern
ors was ruled invalid when it was found students
voted who were not in Arts school.
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Toadie
A big fat toad sat in a mud hole
by the side of a shallow, flat
pend and munched on a bug.
The toad was a plain ordinary
one gray all over, sleepy eyas,
a big mouth, and two short stumpy
legs in front ard longer, stumpier
legs in back. His name was Mini
ver Cheevy a very common
name for a very, very common
toad.
Miniver devoted much of his
time to his mud hole where he
munched on bugs.
Most of you probably think that
Miniver the toad was very content
! in his mudhole but he wasn't. No,
mutterings
The ranks of Rag columnists
continue to swell until I begin to
think that if a reader revolt ever
occurs we will have them outnum
bered. But as we get more writers
we seem to get fewer subjects;
first we don crepe hair beards and
give un-needed advice to unheed
ing freshmen, then we describe the
, grandeur of our summer vacations
to the really-big city, then we at
tack an ROTC department which
comes to any battle of wits half
armed and which can only reply to
attacks with a volley of M-10 plot
ting boards
and futile trig
ger clicks from
unpinned rifles.
And then, of
course, we
gaze eagerly
at the future
battle fields of
The Great In
dependent Re
volt. Under
stand, please, Schultz
that I am in favor of the Inde
pendents if they want only their
fair share in student government
and activities. Because they form
a not inconsiderable proportion of
the student body, that share is
large and they are entitled to it.
But, if Lyle Hansen who wrote
sixteen inches of paean to the Quad
for Wednesday's paper-, represents
the non-affiliated viewpoint fairly,
it seems to me that the Independ
ents are making some grossly mis
guided assumptions which weaken
their position and will probably
lengthen the time until they get
what is coring to them.
First, Hansen sayd, "Lincoln's
A Few
Words
Of a Kind
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What will happen next?
The Reno, Nev., city council
voted last week to draw up an
ordinance outlawing fortune tellers
after one of its members contended
the sooth-saying activity is a
"phony business."
r
Is this the beginning of the end
for all prognosticators? Let us
hope not. For we crystal ball
gazers have conjured up some ex
traordinarily foresighted observa
tions. Some of these include the pre
cise date and hour when the world
will be destroyed by fire (and, as
Mr. Frost said, if it will have to
happen twice "ice should suffice"),
the early New England predic
tions that witches must be
searched out and destroyed before
"they" mislead the world, and the
more recent argument (As recent
as the 1920's in Tenessee) that
the teaching of evolution in schools
will convert us all into devils. (You
devil, you.)
Obviously, we have yet to miss I
it ir ft
And taking a more foresighted
look at this questionable ordinance
(These words are much too mild.
May I label this as a damnable
injustice?) it is possible to see the
coming of the day when the news
paper column will be outlawed as
a "phony business." (This will oc
cur in 2017 A D. at 10:39 CST in
the office of the Daily Nebraskan).
Those people who will make
these accusations will say, "Let
me read you a few of the things
from the columns of the 1957 Daily
Nebraskan."
And, because they find one mis
calculation in the prophecy of Mr.
Schultz, or because the independ
ents have not yet risen despite
the far-sighted rumblings of some
1957 columlsts, the column of the
prognoeticator will be thrown Into
the GI can or filed with some
never to be revealed to anyone
pornographic literature that cor
rupts the minds of growing chil
dren in the 2 to 102 age bracket.
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Those of you who laugh at this
must not forget what one of my
forerunners told his people, name
ly: "Save your confederate money.
The south will rise again."
One parting bit of news relating
to the newest things in colors.
This cooes from the fashion sec
tion of the Omaha World Herald:
"If you've been looking for huge
(two-inch 'disc earrings to no
avail, look no more. Some have
com in I They are flat, have a
pearlized surface and come in
jrummy colors."
Class dismissed!
steve schultz
well known statement that a house
divided against itself will not stand
seems to be quite apropos in the
current amends for this natural
t r e n d." Now, if by "natural
trend" Hansen means that there is
a spirit of rivalry among fraterni
ties, he is right. After all, groups
which rush against each other,
which play hard fought intramural
contests, which compete for tro
phies and scrolls and girls, cannot
avoid rivalry. But Lyle seems to
mistake these rivalries for feuds.
The days of "the faction," the days
when mental switch blades were
carried to IFC meetings, are over.
Occasionally one house may raid
another and discreetly loot the tro
phy case, but any bad taste in
the mouth can be quickly washed
out by a cup of coffee or Hallgren
preserve us a can of beer.
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Second, Hansen says that the
campus "has listened to and ac
cepted as royal law the dictates
of a selected few for so long that
even the few are not sure of what
they're trying to accomplish any
more." The writer seems to assume that
the "selected few" who made these
so-called dictates were selected on
ly from fraternities. He forgets
that all these years while the In
dependents were admittedly "on
their haunches" they were per
fectly welcome to take part in al
most any activity on campus. The
Rag continually pleaded for Inde
pendents to write, even went so
far as to make begging phone calls
to the Quad.
Any qualified man was welcome
to run for Student Council. And the
Innocents established a precedent
a few years ago when they tackled
an Independent, but he resigned in
attempt to start a controversy
which in reality exploded like a
damp paper sack.
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One has to search quite a while
before he finds a University acti
vity which is completely closed to
the Selleck crowd. They, on the
other hand, recently crowed on
this page about their Palladian
Club, of which no fraternity man
will ever become a member.
Third, LyVe assumes that "If
there are two opposing forces when
a situation like the latter (?) oc
curs, the second usually jumps in
for the kill." "The second" is, I
suppose, the Independent group;
"the kill," I am unwillingly forced
to think, is complete domination
by the fraternities which Hansen
thinks he has seen in the past. In
either case a special interest would
be catered to. which is what Han
sen supposedly does not want.
But what is even more pernicious
about this statement is that Han
sen sees the affiliates and the non
affiliates as "opposing forces."
Two paragraphs before, he (and
Abraham Lincoln) wrote that "a
house divided against itself will
not stand." If this is true, how
does he propose that the student
body endure if it splits into armed
camps?
I want it understood that I am
not in complete disagreement with
Lyle. He writes that "a group of
strategists" is at work and that
he hopes "the work of these anony
mous politicians can be seen be
fore another all-campus election
rolls around." I agree. But until
the Quad rids itself of some of its
mistaken attitudes, it had better
not publish its opinions under the
name "B i 1 1 e r , Ashes'"; "Sour
Grapes" would be a better title.
Letierip
To the editor:
If it isn't the lots question for
car addicts, then it's a problem of
the flow of traffic.
I see from your paper that one
man wants to regulate the flow of
traffic on the University campus.
All well and good except for con
sidering where the cars of the
people of Lincoln are going to
drive. Or does he realize that R
Street is considered by some to be
an arterial?
Come down, come down from
your ivory tower!
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Miniver longed for the days cr
old when everyone wora big furry
coats, croaked (or what ever toaJs
do) to the tune of a banjD, threw
mud at each other by the big
pond, and cheered loudly at the
toadie contests which occurred ev
ery fall on the Kly pad near the
mushroom patch.
The old days were so sublime.
Miniver thought to himself as he
sat munching his big fat bug. At
least he guessed they were for
he wasn't a very old toad and
really didn't know much except
what he occasionally read when
he wasn't eating bugs or playing
with his little typewriter,
ft ft ft
Miniver longed for the days of
old because things hadn't been the
same at the toadie contests on
the lily pad near the mushroom
patch and this made him frus-
trated.
Miniver surmised that the trou
ble was- also due to the compe
tition between the other ponds for
the big toadies who naturally mads
.the best players. The other ponds,
Miniver thought, had bigger and
fatter bugs to offer and that was
another reason why all the local
big toads were hopping away from
the local lily pad.
Maybe this wasn't all. Miniver
thought between munchs of his big
fat bug. Maybe the trouble with
the team was due to the obvious
complacency of the toadie spec
tators who attended the contests
on the lily pad.
It was true, Miniver thought,
that today' spectators were dif
ferent from the spectators of day3
gone by. Yesterday's "lost gen
eration of toads" was being ra
placed by practical-minded crs
who considered every bjg ca"ht
something of value Instead of just
another one in the gullet.
He remembered the time when
Bill, the head toadie coach ssme
years ago, had lost too many con
tests to suit him and how he.
Miniver, had helped throw Bill off
the lily pad.
Bill was obviously a poor toadie
coach because I didn't like the way
he acted, Miniver thought. Th;re
was once upon a time when Bill's
toadie team won seme great con
tests on the lily pad, then I li'rd
him. But as soon as he lost. I
wisely gave him up as just an
other poor toad, Miniver thought
to himself.
And then Miniver remembered
how he had learned to use (al
though not very well) the type
writer his playmates had given
him by composing castigating
stories about Bill, the head toadie
coach and giving them to the Mag
pies to spread all over the big
pond.
After the toadie coach left how
happy I felt, Miner said to him
self. But, alas, we still haven't
won very many toadie contests. It
must be those toadies who spec
tate from the sides of the lily pad,
Miniver thought to himself and
then belched for he had finished
his bug.
Alum
by
Rally of the Future
I am told that a great public
outcry followed the appearance of
my first column on this page. I
understand that most of the com
ments began with, "Who was that
jerk that . . ." But no matter,
I was deeply touched.
If I understood the Rag cor
rectly in its editorial referring to
the Chancellor's State of the Uni
versity message at a convocation
last -week day, the address laid
an egg (pardon my indelicacy).
It seems, according to the Rag,
that the chancellor spent his time
delivering a sort of pep talk abou t
what great opportunities are avail
able at the University, rather than
discussing its many shortcomings.
Obviously the Rag's editorial writ
er is no disciple of Dr. Peale,
because he found all of ths posi
tive thinking highly suspect.
How about that? And what does
it all mean? Does anybody care?
On the assumption that some
may, I have taken a look into
my crystal ball and seen the con
vocation of the future. In what
follow, any similarity to actual
chancellors, either living or dead,
or to any students anywhere, only
proves that the reader has a dirty
mind. So don't do it.
The scene is New Slippery
Rock Teachers College, a bustling
institution of higher learning
Sounding
clarence kaufman,
somewhere in the great Midwest.
A hush, as we always say, has
fallen over the assembled thou
sands as Chancellor Harding Gif
ford enters the hall.
"Students," the chancellor be
gins. "I don't need to tell you
what the state of the University is.
You all know ... 42 to nothing!
And before that, 34 to 12! That'
the state of the University!"
At this point there are a few
cries of "Give 'em hell, Gifford"
and s few fraternities raise ban
ners. Two-by-fours are swung and
there is in general great unrest
among the students.
The chancellor pounds his Phi
Beta Kappa key on the lectern
to restore order and again the stu
dents are quiet.
"But, students," Gifford contin
ues, "do not lose hope. I am hap
py to report that we are going
to solve this problem, if it takes
the finest football team money
can buy.
"In fact I am pleased to say
that a new organization, the Corn
husker Nebraskans O-Street and
Ak-Sar-Ben Union for the Advance
ment of Knowledge, otherwise
known as the Beat Oklahoma Club,
has been formed.
"And," the chancellor continues,
"we are not stopping there.
"If we don't win every game
next year, we're going to tear
Board
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down the stadium and turn it into
a parking lot, thereby solving two
problems at one stroke. i
"And further, in order to fore
stall this drastic step," says Gif
ford, "we are going to limit at
tendance at all football rallies to
the football squad. We're sending
selected groups from all the hous-jf.
es to do the actual playing. Let's';
see how they like that!" More'j:!
cneenng at tnis point.
"Of course," Gifford continues,
"there are many other problems
we haven t tackled yet . . . such
as warm beer In the student un
ion. But with your help we will
go onward and upward."
Again the fraternity banners f!y,
as do the two-by-fours, and the
crowd rushes screaming from the
building, as
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