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Editorial Comment
Sad, Bad Legal Snag
Nebraska education is trying to grow
up, but it's hitting snags. The latest snag
is the ruling of Attorney General C. S.
Beck that the University of Nebraska
Board of Regents has no authority to es
tablish branches of the school outside
of Lincoln.
This essentially means that the con
fines of Nebraska education are deter
mined by the number of bills that the
legislature of the state passes, and that
somehow they have failed to enact a
bill allowing expansion of University
services to include the right to establish
branches or subsidiaries in other cities.
The North Platte plan called for the
University to provide a series of college
courses at North Platte offered by and
through University personnel. It would
have been controlled by University offi
cials all the way from fees paying to
Jurisdiction over the teaching program,
'he same credits would have been grant
ed for the courses at North Platte as are
presently granted here. The North Platte
plan would have enabled a student to
take full-time college work on the fresh
man class level while living at home.
It would have been sort of a junior col
lege of the University.
But Beck ruled, "Clearly the proposed
operation would make college courses
available in classrooms at North Platte.
This certainly could be considered as
operating a branch or subsidiary of the
University at North Platte and authority
from the Legislature would be needed to
enter into the proposed operation."
There is probably little chance that
the ruling of Beck can be changed . . .
tradition is tradition and law is law. It
is evident now though that a change in
Nebraska law on this issue is needed.
This would not be a request for unlimit
ed powers on the part of University of
ficials to run every University affair
without legislative supervision. It would
be, instead, a request for recognition on
the part of state officials that this par
ticular proposal is desirable, both for
the University and North Platte.
Though enrollment may have dropped
at the University this year and may even
dip more next year, the facts cannot be
avoided bigger and bigger enrollments
are going to be registered here. College
for the masses is fine. It would seem
desirable, however, to establish some in
expensive program which would allow
the student to determine whether or not
he really desired to do college study,
and at the same time to allow college
officials to screen out incapable students
who have shown little aptitude for col
lege work and only crowd out the talent
ed student or hamper the instructor.
Branch schools, which are founded by
the University and In which the same
standards and performances are expect
ed, would seem to be the best manner
in which to satisfy those needs.
This program is not new. It has been
tried and is being used in other states
The University ofCalifornia, for example,
is spread over a good quarter or third of
the state with junior colleges supported
by the state in every fairly large com
munity. This program does just what the
proposed University-North Platte pro
gram could do provide an inexpensive
introductory college education and take
an enrollment load off the larger Uni
versity. Nebraska would seem to be an ideal
place for such a program. Cities like
North Platte, York and Grand Island are
among those which might successfully
cooperate with the University in estab
lishing such systems. The advantages
would be many. If the city provided the
building and the University the instruc
tors a college education would be more
closely within the reach of a much larger
number of Nebraska youth.
The wide spread nature of Nebraska,
many miles of walking room and few
large cities, makes it difficult for numer
ous junior colleges to be established. The
proposed system and others of the same
nature could certainly be more economi
cally operated. And it would help to make
the University and education a more im
portant part of the entire state's every
day life.
A University should not be forced to
play the role of a jumble of ivy covered
halls In this period, a college must be
allowed to be dynamic, to grow with
and out through the state. The University
was established first of all to serve Ne
braska. The choice of Lincoln as a site
was not the primary consideration; it
was that "service." Why then these laws
that limit the amount of service the
University of Nebraska may give?
From the Editor
private opinion
Alfred E. Neuman and Company have
Just come up with a new little book called
"Mad For Keeps," published by the
Crown publishing house of New York.
And in typical Mad fashion the book
does itself proud.
It was a pleasant reMef for me to read
through the book Tuesday afternoon.
Some of the situations in the book are
ones you'll recognize immediately from
recent Mad issues.
Essentially, though, the little 126 page
book compiles the best of Mad and pre
sents it to the reader with plenty of
laughs, plenty of variety and plenty of
A.E.N. peeking around corners and pant
legs.
It would make a nice present for a
graduate, I think. Go to your book deal
er and ask to look the thing over. I
think you'll be willing to fork out the
$2.95 It costs for a permanent record of
the zaniest publication around.
And for Pogo fans, the Pogo Sunday
Parade, published by Simon and Schus
ter has just crossed my desk. For a dol
lar there's a lot of Pogo, and, if you like
the little guy, a lot of laughs.
I've never been gone on Pogo. But
many students gripe because we don't
carry the critter in the paper. Here's
your chance to put the latest Pogo an
tics on your shelf. It's bright green
binding will look well next to a maroon
history book, I think.
The Daily Nebraskan has been given
an opportunity to participate in the dis
tribution of a syndicated column being
written by former Rag editor Dick Fell
man. Fellman, who won an Ail-American
award for his paper in the first
semester of 1955-56, plans to go to Brus
sels this summer as a representative of
college newspapers and bring back the
kind of stories students want to read
about the World's Fair.
Love In the wildnerness of Afghanistan,
dick shuerue
Arab reactions to the Israeli exhibits at
the fair, personal views of Russian stu
dents, are all to be subjects of Fellman's
exclusive articles from Brussels. We will
be pleased to present these articles (with
pictures) to you early next year, as a
happy replacement for the hack stories
which often plague the first week of a
college paper's publication.
Item. An example of the warped think
ing which goes on in at least one profes
sor's mind on our campus.
As I was walking down the street Tues
day afternoon, a prof approached and
said, "What is it that makes all Rag
editors equate themselves with God?"
He was referring to the fact that I pro
tested the student council election Mon
day because I believed the student wasn't
given a chance to have a real voice in
the election, considering the absence of
any write in votes being allowed.
If any Individual gripes about the
operation of the student government
whether it's you or I and is automati
cally labelled a rabble rouser, a power
monger, a little god, then there's some
thing wrong somewhere.
I laughed the guy's remarks off be
cause I didn't know his intentions.
But I can hardly laugh off the environ
ment which would lead a person to make
such a statement . . , especially an edu
cated person.
This kind of snide remark leads me
to think that trying to make a point is
absurd, no matter how right or how
wrong you may be. Then I think of guys
like Pulitzer prize winner Harry Ash
more who was willing to lose friends and
alienate people because he had a point
to make in Little Rock.
And finally, a person drops in who
says, "Go ahead. I think you're right."
Well, we may not be faced with tyranny
in our student council, but we are faced
with abuses, and I think we'll stick with
the fight until they're cleaned up.
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"Is That The Height Of Our Ambition?"
Wayward Wanderings
By Ron Mold
"There's no social stratifi
cation on this campus,"
someone said to me the other
day.
"Sure there isn't," I said
with tongue
in cheek.
A few days
lat-er, I J
chuckled as I
saw the pic
ture on the
front page of
the Pixie
Press. That '
picture,
as far as I've
been able to
determine, is a fairly accur
ate reflection of Greek atti
tude (and, incidentally, the
only item which even ap-
3s
Mohl
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a few
ivords
of a kind
....?. hines
I'm not a proponent for
violent actions, but there is
one unreasoned burst of en
ergy that I can forsee in the
not too distant future. Some
time early in
June a little
puff of
smoke will
arise from
the Beta lot.
It will only
be me burn
ing a few of
my text
books.
I'll keep a
couple but at
least two must go. The first
to burn will be a tan covered
creature a sort, of monster
from the Black Lagoonthat
devotes page after page to
such flings as heterogamous
angiosperms and flask like
archegoniums. And I'll take
all those lab drawings and
stack them on the fire, too.
It will be a beautiful fire.
You're invited. . . R.S.V.P.
e e
This striving to be a
reasonable being isn't the
most comfortable or passive
thing in the world. It gets
down right discouraging when
you find yourself two days
away from the due date for
a case study, a critical paper
and a test with the added
fear of a "have you been
reading your assignments"
snap quiz.
What's puzzling me is why
am I doing this? If playing
the classical man is my ideal
I should drop into Rent-a-Cloak
service and then seek
out a few contemporaries to
have dialogues with; stopping
only long enough to m a k e
sure that my friend Plato
has a sharp pencil.
Good old Steve is a born
optimist. He took me aside
the other afternoon and said,
"Ernie, what I'm really
working for is to be an ad
miral in the Great Navy of
the State of Nebraska."
Then the conversation got
around to a discussion of
how many folks are admirals
in our great navy. Bob Ire
land said, "I've been one for
five years. I used to play
marbles with the Governor's
kid."
"I'm abou the only one In
the state who doesn't have
an admiral's card," Gene
Spence said. "Oh, well," he
added, "when Sam Jensen is
Governor we'll all have
them."
Steve smiled and an
nounced, "And if I can't be
an admiral in the Nebraska
Navy, maybe I can be Out
standing Nebraskan,"
proached humor in that en
tire "sinful" publication).'
One weekend last winter,
I screwed up enough gall to
ask a sorority girl for a date.
The evening of that date, a
good friend of mine happened
to be sitting in front of some
of my date's sorority sisters
in the coliseum. When he
heard my name being batted
around, he listened attentive
ly. The conversation went
something like this:
"Where's Svelda tonight?"
"Oh, she has a date with
Ron Mohl."
"Who?"
"Ron Mohl." Then in a
hoarse, disdainful whisper)
"He's from the dorm!"
And so goes the life of an
independent at NU (now I
don't want to sound like a
mouthpiece for RAM far
from it my only reaction to
RAM is one of amusement
as I watch them trying to
govern the ungovernable, or
ganize the unorganizable, and
I personally don't give an In
dependent's damn whether
the thing sinks or floats).
So it seems we have two
major social levels here at
NU the Goodnicks and the
Nogoodnicks. The Goodnicks
buy $100 tux's, go to parties,
drive convertibles, and initi
ate pledges. Obviously they
are the campus aristocracy
(sociologists might label it
"conspicuous belonging"). I
even know one Goodnick who
is so high up on the social
register that his mother
scrubs office buildings in the
evenings to enable him to
maintain this status.
When I first started writ
ing this column, I vowed
to myself that I would stay
off the age-old Greek vs. In
dependent feud. But now I've
done it I have stuck my
pied a la bouche. I don't want
to convey the idea that I'm
making an eloquent plea for
the Independent case. I'm
not. On this campus, Inde
pendents are particularly in
dispensable. After all, some
one has to be around to
throw his coat over a mud
puddle when a Greek walks
by, and walk in the dirt when
the Greeks want the s i d e-walk.
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Now Hollow Flames . . .
By Dave Rlioadcs
Last Saturday evening when
I should have been out at a
party gathering column ma
terial, I found myself rumag
ing through some old Daily
Neb raskan
files a 1 -
ways an in-1
teresting ses- y
sion where I
rem inisce!
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news, and, ? A
editorials.,
You might .J -
remember a ' w
few of these Rhoades
comments made in the Ne
braskan I'm sure those who
made them would probably
like to forget them as water
over the dam or ink over the
press or whatever.
For instance, Col. Carter
Duncan of the AFROTC was
quoted January 10 in a Ne
braskan editorial in answer to
the question concerning the
workability of an honor sys
tem at Nebraska: "Certainly!
It works at West Point and
where could you find a more
mixed group?" I wonder!
Duncan continued- "The best
way to get the ball rolling for
an honor system would be to
have the IFC or PanHellenic
draw up and present it through
the fraternities and sororities
to the student body. After all,
they are organizations based
on Christian principles . . ."
My goodness!
Remember the motion from
the Student Council concern
ing limiting funds spent by
organizations last semester?
Jan Shrader past Tassel prexy,
said: "I think the motion
is right. Last year we had a
banquet with the Corn Cobs.
Personally, I don't think it was
right. I don't think we'll have
it again this year because I
just didn't feel right about it!"
One gets the idea that Jan
just didn't feel quite right
about it no matter how she
looked at it which is all right,
I guess.
In a story carried Novem
ber 15, 1957, Dean Hallgren
was quoted as stating on an
interview on KNUS, "Students
should have standards of their
own. They should make use of
their own convictions". This
leads to all sorts of interesting
comment . . .
According to Bill Spilker on
October 11, 1957, in upholding
the present system of se
lecting Corn Cob officers:
"This manner of electing offi
cers keeps politics out of it!"
And of course we're all for this
I'm sure. On October 19, 1956,
Bruce Brugmann, the prickly
one, said in his column that
certain Cob members had ap
proached him and requested
him to attack the organization
just to prove It still exists on
the campus. Everyone knows
they still exist because they
elected officers a few weeks
ago.
Steve Schultz, the campus
bard, muttered on September
18 this quote about religion:
"Billy Graham whipped the
television audience into a
frenzy every Saturday night
during the summer months
and counted as converted the
people he was able to mass
hypnotize out of their seats
and down the aisle." Frankly,
I've never been able to sit
very long in one place during
the summer months.
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(BylhtA uthor of "Rally Round Out Flag, Boy! "and,
"Bartfooi Boy with Chtek.'")
THE ENGINEERS HAVE HAIRY EARS
Today in this age of technolofry when engineering graduates are
wooed and courted by all of America's great industries, how do
you account for the fact that Rimbaud Sigafoos, who finished
at the very top of his class at M.I.T., turned down hundreds of
attractive job offers to accept employment as a machinery
wiper at the Acme Ice Company at a salary of $20 a week with
t twelve-hour day, a seven-day week, and only fifteen minutea
for lunch?
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I know what you are thinking: "Cherchet lafemme!" You art
thinking that Mr. Acme, head of the Acme Ice Company, has
a beautiful daughter with whom Rimbaud is madly in love and
he took the job only to be near her.
Friends, you are wrong. It is true that Mr. Acme does hava
a daughter, a large, torpid lass named Clavdia who spends all
her waking hours scooping marzipan out of a bucket and staring
at a television set which has not worked in some years. Rim
baud has not the slightest interest in Ciavdia; nor, indeed, does
any other man, excepting possibly John Ringling North.
So how come Rimbaud keeps working for the Acme Ice Com
pany? Can it be that they provide him with free Marlboro
Cigarettes, and all day long he enjoys that filter, that flavor,
that flip-top box?
No, friends, no. Rimbaud is not allowed to smoke on the job,
and when he finishes his long, miserable day, he has to buy his
own Marlboros, even as you and I, in order to enjoy that
estimable filter, that incomparable flavor, that crazy flip-top box.
Well, friends, you might as well give up because you'll never
in a million years guess why Rimbaud works for the Acme loo
Company. The reason is simply this: Rimbaud is a seal!
He started as a performing seal in vaudeville. One night on
the way to the Ed Sullivan show, he took the wrong subway.
All night the poor mammal rode the B.M.T., seeking a helping
hand. Finally a kindly brakeman named Ernest Thompson
Sigafoos rescued the hapless Rimbaud.
He took Rimbaud home and raised him as his own, and
Rimbaud, to show his appreciation, studied hard and got ex
cellent marks and finished a distinguished academic career aa
valedictorian of M.I.T.
Rimbaud never eomplained to his kindly foster father, but
through all those years of grammar school and high school and
college, he darn near died of the heat! A seal, you must remem
ber, is by nature a denisen of the Arctic, so you can imagine
bow poor Rimbaud must have suffered in subtropical New York
and Boston, especially in those tight Ivy League suits.
But today at the Acme Ice Company, Rimbaud hag finally
found a temperature to his liking. He is very happy and sends
greetings to his many friends.
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