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Editorial Comment
Council Representation
Mutterings
sieve schultz
As long as a student has the obligation of
paying for tht services of a university he has
soma right to be represented in the decisions
made by that institution.
Consequently student councils have been es
tablished throughout the universities and col
lages of our land predicated on this basic idea
in American common law. The decision to al
low student councils stem from the Revolu
tionary War idea that taxation without repre
sentation is unjust.
Bat ra the other hand too much representa
tion can be as detrimental to the workings
el ft legislative body. So there may be a basic
disagreement between factions of an organiza
tion which has become topheavy with persons
representing ft particular bloc of students or
workers or citizens. And so Americans frown
a the antics of Tammany Hall in New York
City or tha late Kelly-Nash Machine in Chi
cago. Aa organization certainly has a right to
find out where it stands with regard to obtaining
representation in a legislative body. But some
basic protection for the members of the ma
jority should be existent to insure equality, to
insure honest government, to insure justice.
With these thoughts in mind the students
of tha University should consider the concerted
activity of the Kosmet Klub in seeking repre
sentation on the student council.
This newspaper believes very strongly that
the Kosmet Klub has no business on the stu
dent council. We believe that it is a special
interest group which should abide by rather
than formulate student policy.
If tha Kosmet Klub were allowed to be
represented on the council, moreover, the vast
number of private organizations in the Uni
versity would have a perfect right to have
representation on the council. Then we would
AUF Drive
Although there are some gripes about the
handling of the AUF drive and auction each
year, we believe the AU University Fund people
should be proud of the success they meet in
collecting funds for charity.
So keeping these thoughts in mind we can
offer soma criticism and know it will be accep
ted in tha same spirit it's offered in. Many
faculty members feel they are being stung
twice when the AUF solicits from them. After
aHthey give to the Community Chest and are
asked to make twice the sacrifice.' Judging from
the recent publicity given to low faculty sal
aries tha complaints are justified.
It might be wise for AUF to adopt a "hands
off" policy with regard to the faculty solicita
tion. Then, too, tha plight of students who work
and giva through tvr offices should be taken
into consideration. AUF requests to persons
like that are just double bites into much needed
pay checks.
All In all the AUF does a commendable
Job. But it must be cautious with regard to
its requests for it might allienate some per
sons who have done more than their share. A
price tag can't be placed on charity and so
the spirit should be considered, not the amount.
We hope the AUF will continue to have
success in aiding the fine charities selected
by tha students. But these suggestions might
be given serious thought as the board plans
next year's campaign.
see activity which gave to the special interests
special privileges.
This, of course, is a step which would lead
to the breakdown of a relatively efficient and
relatively just student government.
Certainly at the present time a student who
is a member of the Kosmet Klub has a perfect
right to file fcr membership on the council
from one of the disinterested organizations on
the campus such as the Arts and Sciences
College or the Inter Fraternity Council. Along
the same line a member oMhe Buddhist Reli
gion has a right to file for Congress as a candi
date of the Republican Party. But we frown
on such a man being elected as the representa
tive of that religion. We would likewise frown
on a member of the Federated Filecabinet Mak
ers of America seeking office as a representa
tive of that special interest group.
Basically the Daily Nebraskan believes that
the council would be making a tremendous
mistake if it permitted the Kosmet Klub to
have a representative on the legislative body.
It would be establishing a precedent which
would be harmful to the student council in
the long run.
Unfortunately the Kosmet Klub will probably
get a sufficient number. of signatures to be
placed on the ballot But fortunately the stu
dents still have the final say-so and if the mo
tion goes onto the Spring ballot the majority
will rule.
We trust that the students will remember
that a change in the council constitution is an
important measure. It should be made only
when there is a real need for it. Now in the
case of the Kosmet Klub there is no real need.
As a matter of fact there is a great need to
keep the counstitution of tha council as is with
regard to organizational representation. Or if
any changes are to be made the council should
consider giving the engine school more repre
sentation. But clubs . . .no!
Union Effort
Now that the smoke has settled and students
who objected to the facilities offered to Mrs.
Roosevelt when she spoke at the 'University
have calmed down a bit a word 'of explana
tion is in order.
First students should appreciate the fact
that Mrs. Roosevelt came to the University.
Then they should understand- that she was
sponsored not by the University but by the
American Association for the United Nations
in cooperation with the Nebraska University
Council on World Affairs. The AAUN booked
the Union ballroom hoping primarily to find
a location for the speeches and for the dinner
honoring Mrs. Roosevelt.
Consequently it was a last-minute suggestion
to the administration to make the affair an
All-University convocation. As we understand
it the committee members for a convocation
were not available to make the necessary ar
rangements. The Union then, carried out fully its part of
the bargain by supplying the best of its facili
ties to the convocation as it was.
Certainly many students were disappointed
that they could not see and hear Mrs. Roose
velt because of the limited space. On the other
hand students should be pleased with the ef
forts of the Union to make the joint appearance
of the former first lady as fine an occasion as
it was.
In the future, through the cooperation of
other civic groups in the city, it is hoped that
the entire student body will get the opportunity
to hear distinguished guests. All that can be
said at the present time is we profit by our
mistakes.
Now I know nothing about AWS
because I know next to nothing
about sorority girls (which is
probably all the better for all con
cerned). I am given to understand
by informed sources, however,
that AWS has something or other
to do with seeing that all the
girls get in on time so that their
dates still have time for a quick
brew before the state men padlock
the pubs. I hear also that they
mingle their minds and dispense
campuses with sagacios zeal to -
anyone Wicked enough to violate
.someone's arbitrary opinion of
what constitutes an hour befcre
which nothing untoward can hap- '
pen. And currently, I am told,
the AWS. Special Committee on
Literature and Drama Apprecia
tion is doing its blue-nosed best
to decide which Coed Follies
scripts are proper for presenta
tion. A girl I knew m the good old
days when we were all young and
even more foolish than we are
now is ekitmaster for one of the'
campus centers of sisterhood. Her
script centers around the "AWS
USSR Pajama Factory," a disci
plinary institution situated in eith
er Siberia or the Sandhills for
the purpose of punishing girls with
the intoleable gall to consider
10:30 an unlikely bedtime for ma-i
ture young ladies. The Dean oL'
Women appears and gets her
comeuppance.
Now, for old times sake I read
this script before it was turned
in for approval! It's midly amus
ing and fairly satirical. A few
days ago it was returned from the
AWS with all sorts of red editorial
scrawls,, consisting mostly of sug
gestions that the whole thing was
not treated subtly enough, what
ever that may mean. By the time
the self-appointed censors, were,
through, hardly enough was left
of the. script to present onstage.
If one didn't know better which
I don't one might think that the
administration Is afraid to be
made fun of. One might even sup
pose that, like God and the Great
White Father of the Potomac, the
administration has joined that se
' lect group which is untouched by
humorous hands. If so, they may
' as well build that Sandhills Pa
jama Factory for real; in fact,
I'll be only too glad to go there
because things will get pretty bot
here on campus for anyone who
larks the proper reverence.
Oh, don't worry too much. As
the Kosmet Klub show proves, you
can still make jokes about curling
matches, begging in Paris and 4he
Asian flu. Just so long as the
good Dean doesn't take up any of
the three.
According to an apprcryphal
story, an instructor once passed
a paper around his classroom and
asked his students to sign it. All
of them did. It turned out to be
a contract giving him permission
to decapitate them on the steps
from the editor
First Things First, . .
According to a poll on dating taken recently
t tha Georgia Institute of Technology, the
coeds agreed boys should not drink, should
dress conservatively, 67 per cent disapproved
of kissing on the first drink, In addition t o at
tribute as being considerate, humorous, intel
ligent and cheerful. They mentioned nothing,
however, about letting the boys out of the
glass cages for Christmas.
The boys, on the other hand, decribed the
ideal coed as "wow," "my wife," attractive,
Christian, honest, understanding, congenial and
intelligent. One wanted a girl with a 140 IQ
end another asked for an MIT electrical engi
neering graduate.
Down to tha basics, boys favored girls will)
blue eyes (47), while 28 per cent preferred
brown eyes and 10 per cent with green eyes.
The remaining 15 per cent were distributed
among "same color," black, dark, two, one,
Done, hazel, red, yellow, purple and pink.
Most desirable heights were 5'3" 18, 5'4"
18, 5'6" 18 and 5'5" 16. Thirteen per cent
preferred coeds standing from 4'0" to 5'2" and
11 per cent preferred those from 5'8'' to 6'0".
Another six per cent preferred any girl up to
SO (zero inches) or to "six beer cans" in height.
by Jack Pollock
Brown hair received 32. per cent favor over
blondes, 29 per cent and blacks 22 per cent.
The remaining 17 per cent covered such colors
as dark, yellow, at least some, lots of, blue,
real, or natural color.
Other results: Twenty-five per cent approved
of girls who smoke, 71 per cent disapproved; 27
per cent preferred girls who drink, 69 per cent
did not; 66 per cent for sweel girls for party
girls; 54 per cent approved of kissing on the
first date and 39 per cent disapproved and 84
per cent said the men should make the dici
sions. (For the other 16 per cent, I'll offer for
sale by texts on "How to be a Yes Man," and
the recent offering of "How to be Happily
Henpecked.") Every love and marriage course
ought to have the latter. I think I can safely
say in the Cornhusker state, votes for men
making the decisions would probably run over
the 100 per cent mark, allowing more than
ample room for ballot stuffing.
Then there was the professor who announced
an exam and a student asked what was to be
included on the quiz. Quipped the indignant in
structor, "Son, I'm an educator not a quiz
coach!"
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of Andrews Hall. The moral Is
obvious. v
Equally obvious is the fact .that
the Kosmet Klub will be able to
collect signatures on its current
petition for membership in the
Student Council until the cows
come- home. Everyone wants to
be a good fellow, so everyone will
sign. ' '
What is not obvious is why KK
feels it is entitled to a represen
tative among the campus solons.
(Solon?) Certainly the chib, made
up of a selected membership who
gain admission without any re
gard for equal representation cf
the student bedy and with do I
dare breathe the words? oc
casional political oull, cannot
claim to represent any large seg
ment of the campus populus. Cer
tainly the club cannot dispute the
fact that some of its members
are already on the Student Coun
cil. Certainly the club cannot sup
pose ' that the student body does
not know that many of its' mem
bers already exercise considerable
influence on campus. And certain
ly no one thinks the present con
centration of power among a small
group of politicoes can be relived
by giving that group even more
power.
Just Between Us
doc rodgers
Once upen a time (it was a
long, long time ago) there' existed
at the small university called Ideal
tj., a very good form of student
government. It was known by all
as the Studentium Councilum (well
it was a long, long time ago).
The Studentium Councilum had
a very gocd system of represen
tation. Everyone was satisfied be
cause every one had a represen
tative. Every campus group, big
or small, had a representative,
and when ever .an organization
would ccmpl.ain of lack of repre
sentation, the Studentium Council
um would give them a couple more
members.
Just for an example of the or
ganizations that had representa
tives, one might mention the Bean
Pods (the student pep organiza
tion, the bean being, of course,
the school symbol and the students
were known far and wide as the
Beanshuckers). Other groups rep
resented were the Early Latin
Club, the Constructors, Female
Advisors, the Down-town-campus
Council of Clergy supporters, the
Inter-council of Cooperation, t h e
Affiliated Women Students League
The Gadfly
Sara Jones
A headline on page 12 of the
Wednesday Lincoln Journal car
ried a terse and unknowingly ac
curate statement. "Hardin Talks
Principles." Everyone in the Uni
versity talks principles. But in ac
tual practice these principles be
come meaningless cliches.
Dr. Marvel Baker, Assistant
Dean of the College of Agriculture,
called the Patterson motion at the
Faculty Senate Tuesday a "naked
personal attack on Dean Lam
bert." He's right. Three times the
academic freedom of a professor
within Lambert's department was
violated, with the express knowl
edge of Lambert. At the time
that Dr. Mitchell was removed as
chairman of the department of ag
riculture economics the reason
given by Lambert was the need to
strengthen research and extension
work within the department, a rea
son whose untruth became laugh
ably apparent only days after it
was announced. He was indeed
a naked personal attack on some
one, Mr. Baker. The only differ
ence between the accusation of
Lambert and the accusation of
Mitchell was that Mitchell was
shown to be innocent.
Sustained applause followed
Chancellor Hardin's statement that
such questions are "seldom wholly
black or wholly white, wholly right
or wholly wrong". This is indeed
a statement worthy of a public
relations expert, for it absolves
blame and takes away any feelings
of responsibility, for after all,
"such questions are never wholly
right or wholly wrong".
Finally The Chancellor said that
he would act to insure the observ
ance of principles included in the
report on the Mitchell case. That's
fine, Chancellor. Five years ago
in the almost forgotten Anderson
case, our former Chancellor en
dorsed a beautiful set of principles
of academic freedom. When Mitch
ell was first attacked, the Regents
proclaimed a set of principles.
Two years ago they reaffirmed
them. So . all in all the Mitchell
case was nothing but a summer
storm lighting and thunder and
dark storm clouds, but when it's
over the air is as hot and stuffy
as before. "After all the fuss and
shouting, all we got was another
affirmation of principles.
,
The Mitchell case is over fin
ished. The Rag will carry no more
stories or columns about it. The
faculty and the students, bored to
death by two years of editorials,
can sigh with relief. The Admini
stration will join in rousing chorus
"It's All Over Now".
And the saddest part about it is
that the Administration probably
didn't mean to consciously abridge
Mitchell's freedom. They thought
they were doing the whole thing
for the good of the University. And
they can't see where they've done
anything blameworthy at all.
for Democratic Action and the Un
affiliated Women Students League
for Democratic Action. Oh, yes,
there was also a representative
for ths BB&G, Bill's Beanery and
Guzzle Shop.
Well, with all these groups rep
resented, there was no argument
when a new organization (or one
that was here-to-fore unrepresent
ed on the council for some rea
son) applied fcr membership. At
least there was none until one
day the Komedy Klan applied for
membership. It was a very good
group, even though it was small
(23 members), in fact, the Kom
edy Klan was revered by all tha
students. And everybody said,
"Why not give the Komedy Klan
(or KK'ers as they were com
monly known) a representative,
everyone else has one."
The KK'ers even petitioned the
students and got a tremendous
support since no one could resist
( the heart-touching pleas of a fra
ternity brother saying, "but I need
the signatues," and "It'll help me
if yoa sign it."
But then someone . found out why
the Studentium Councilum had de
nied the organization representa
tion. You see, the members were
afraid that if any more represen
tatives were admitted it might up.
set the seating arrangement. They
had worked for months in Com
mittee meetings to come up with
the present arrangement in which
every Councilum member .could
' both see the beautiful new Ad
ministration Building through the
picture window and have easy ac
cess to the door to run down to
the Bean Pot for a bowl of bean
soup.
When the student body found out
about the seating arrangement in
the Councilum and the fact that
Council leaders were padding their
own pocketbooks with bribes for
good seats, it turned out to be
the straw that broke the camel's
back. The good denisens of the
student body got together and
adapted a system of representa
tion by colleges alone. This, they
said was the most democratic of
all, since the representation was
based on the number of students
in each college, one representa.
tive being allowed for every 500
students. At first an obstacle arose
in this plan, some said, what if .
a college should grow from 1000
to 1500 students, wouldn't they
have unfair representation. This,
however, was worked out with the
adoption of a system of periodic
adjustment to fit the changing en
rollments of the colleges.
The plan was adopted over
whelmingly, of course some op
ponents said it was done not for
more democratic government, but
because some Councilum members
wanted seats nearer the window.
A Nebraskan Series
Rickover Cites Education Democratization.
European Subsidization of 'Able Students'
This Is the last in a series of
articles featuring exerpts from
a speech of Admiral H. G. Rick
over of the Atomic Energy Com
mission. The European educational sys
tem has now been democratized by
abolishing school fees and by sub
sidizing the education of able stu
dents through scholarships. This
is done extensively in E n g 1 a n d,
where, for example, three-fourths
of the students at Oxford are on
government grants. Russia has
gone furthest in this respect by
paying complete living ex
penses to able students. Opportu
nities have also been developed
which permit the late blooming
child to catch up or shift from
one educational track to another.
Moreover, democratization has
not meant the lowering of aca
demic standards. Examinations
weed out those who cannot absorb
further education. And yet the sys
tem is, in fact, less rigid than
ours when circumstances require.
Thus it permits changes in the
demand and supply of the several
professions to be effected rapidly.'
It is this continental European
system which the Soviets reintro
duced 20 years ago and which has
enabled them to forge ahead at
an astonishing rate. There is noth
ing specifically Russian or com
munistic in their system, except
that they have trapped all the
"nonessentials" from the Europe
an model they have1 stripped ev
erything that develops independent
thought and a cultivated mind
and that they have introduced as
much political indoctrination into
the curriculum as they consider
necessary. By paying the living ex
penses of most students, by put
ting large sums into construction
and equipment of superb labora
tories and libraries, and by offer
ing their children no other road
to success but education, the So
viets have been able to get a larg
er percentage of their students
almost twice the number in Europe
and A m e r i c a into profession,
al 'university level study.
The method is simple. Combine
the European educational system
with adequate funds, and motivate
children by offering the highest
material rewards for hard mental
study and you get the same re
sult anywhere in the world. There
are the beginnings of this hi China,
too.
In no other Western country are
educational institutions so precau
tiously placed financially, so de
pendent on local politicians, on the
whim of small communities where
few have ever had a higher edu
cation. Half our colleges are con
tinuously threatened' with bank
ruptcy. The future looks bleak un
less in some way federal assist
ance can be made acceptable and
some sort of national standard can
be established to which diploma
and degree-giving institutions must
conform.
England which was faced with
a tradition of private- education
and of control by thousands of lo
cal school boards finally worked
out a compromise by which gov
ernment and local school authori
ties were able to co-operate. The
local school boards had to go how
ever, and were replaced by a
small number of county councils.
Government aid remains volun
tary but is conditioned on accept
ance of uniform standards of ex
cellence in curriculum and in
teacher qualification. Moving slow
ly step by step, England has been
able to overcome her own political
obstacles to good public educa
tion; but it took her over a hun
dred years and she has been that
much behind continental Europe.
Might this not be one reason why,
despite her far-flung Empire, her
enormous head start in industrial
ization, England was rapidly over
taken by Germany, both industri
ally and finally militarily? Edu
cation is too vital for a nation's
welfare safely to be debated over
long. In our own country, the schools
have been primarily engines for
Americanizing children of diverse
backgrounds; for teaching all chil
dren to get along with others
whose economic and cultural
standards might be different; for
developing the qualities which
citizens in a democracy need in
order to carry out their political
responsibilities. These tasks our
schools have accomplished excel
lently. As long as the country de
voted all its energies eingle-mind-edly
to development of the highest
standard of living for the greatest
number of people, the kind of ed
ucation received by American
youngsters was entirely adequate.
But in the pursuit of this aim,
we have neglected two things:
First, we have not counted the
cost to us of our high standard of
living in terms of rapid exhaustion
of irreplaceable mineral and fuel
resources; and
Second, we have failed to rec
ognize the damage done to our
talented children by squeezing
them into the strait jacket of the
comprehensive school.
Faced with the task of expand
ing the aims of American educa
tion we mv-t yet not lose its great
qualities of humaneness and its
abilty to lay the spiritual founda
tions for harmonious democratic
life among people of varied ca
pacities and cultural standards.
Change, of course, is always
painful. Too often those whose way
of life is dependent on the old and
familiar routines resist fiercely,
counting their own interests above
those of the nation, though never
conscious of this. Nothing is easier
than to convince oneself that what
is good for him is good for the
country.
Today unlike a hundred years
ago, we no longer have a wide
margin of time. We no longer live
as on an island, spiritually and
geographically removed from the
power politics of the world. A
hundred years ago, Europe was
the cockpit of power struggles,
and we stood on the side lines,
protected by friendly oceans and
free to choose whether to refrain
from or join the battle.
Today, it is we who are in the
center of the area; and how well
prepared we are will determine
whether there is to be a battle
and, if so, whether we will emerge
victorious.
H. G. Wells remarked that civ
ilization is a race between educa
tion and catastrophe. If this school
throws its weight into the scale on
the side of education s mall
though this weight may be in the
total mass of educational effort
our country requires it may yet
be the little bit which will guar
antee survival of civilization.
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