TKe Daily Nebroskon
Wednesday, May 21,
Editorial Comment
Federal Educational Aid
Federal Aid for education has long been
a topic of controversy in the United
States and especially in recent months
since the Russian scare caused by the
Reds' apparent superiority in many
phases of technical science. Since the
Sputnik launchings numerous education
al and government leaders, including
the President, have come out in favor
of federal aid, primarily in the scien
tific fields.
Now the House subcommittee on edu
cation has agreed on a multi-million dol
lar program which will include federal
scholarships and student loans. The plan
is only beginning and will, of course,
have to face a goodly number of attacks
from conservative senators before it can
go into effect if it ever does. The plan
would provide 25,000 scholarships of
000 each for 4 years, and would be ad
ministered by the state. In addition it
would establish a 220 million dollar stu
dent loan program to be handled by the
universities.
Nebraska government officials have
generally voiced opposition to proposed
federal aid. Governor Anderson's pre--vious
statements have seemed to indicate
that ho is among those who are opposed
to such legislation. The signs of the
times Indicate, however, that American
education has not received the amount
of financial backing that it should. And,
without a single doubt, Nebraska educa
tion has received altogether too little
support to be economically sound enough
to keep pace with other states.
What we as Nebraskans should do is
inform our government officials that we
would like to see an end to this neglect
of the welfare of our educational institu
tions. The state policy to allow the communi
ties to develop their own educational sys
tems may motivate some cities to estab
lish and promote forward and financially
sound schools, but it does not allow for
adequate coordination between schools
or for sufficient economic aid for many
schools in smaller communities and rural
areas.
Nebraska education could make great
strides forward if additional state aid
were given to the schools and if this
aid were in turn bolstered by federal
funds. And we should not sit back and al
low our senators and congressmen to con
tinue to oppose the granting of aid for
education as a wasteful expenditure.
It is anything but that. It is a means
of distributing wealth from rich areas
to needy areas through a central sys
tem which can fairly evaluate the needs
of each state and area.
Our leaders must not be allowed to
hide behind the argument of federal con
trol, either, because experience has
shown that this charge is often little more
than an argument against progress as
it was in such cases as the TVA tangle
and federal highway construction.
Why the Rocks?
Americans are wondering why our Vice
President was greeted with stones in
stead of smiles on his South American
Junket. Perhaps we will know in a few
weeks. The Senate Foreign Relations
Committee has approved an investigation
into the mob attacks. Senator Wayne
Morse of Oregon will head the investiga
tion. He promises that "politics will play
no part in the investigation."
Morse has already told reporters that
comments from the State Department
clearly indicate Nixon should never have
made the trip in the first place because
of the bad feelings which were seemingly
at a fever pitch at the time of his de
parture. In a way, however, it may
prove to be tin indirect blessing that the
trip wan takeu at the time it was.
As a nation, we were dramatically
shown that talk is not enough to promote
friendly relations with other countries
even if they happen to be our neighbors.
What will be labeled as the cause of the
trouble is yet to be seen, but alnuJ
wi'-iout doubt the answer will be self
centeredness on the part of the United
States for its own security without taking
into consideration the fact that there
are other peoples also striving for eco
nomic expansion and cultural develop
ment in a free world.
Propaganda campaigns will not be
enough to rewin the Latin American
countries. We will have to stop talking
at South Americans and start working
with them to build a good neighbor policy.
From the Editor
private opinion
dick shugrue
The McGraw-Hill book people have
published a series of ads dealing with
the educational problems standing blank
against the American people.
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One of the ads, published in such pa
pers as the New York
Times, the Chicago Trib
une, and the Detroit
Free Press deals with
tne topic, la me neiai,
of education, who are to-1 ,
day's capitalists?" il f
And the ad answers V-7
emphatically, "As far I j V ' 1
as financial incentives L XJ
are concerned, we have Shugrue
virtually socialized the
academic profession." 1 1 continues,
"Ironically, the Soviet Union has de
liberately and successfully used capital
ist incentives to improve its educational
system. Although the Russians show an
utter disregard of civil liberties, they
pay their teachers well and confer on
them all the prestige and privileges that
Soviet society can buy."
Some interesting statistics are in
cluded in the ad. For example: "In the
U. S., the average faculty salary U Utile
more than the average Income of in
dustrial workers ... In Russia on the
other hand, the young Soviet graduate
can see that it pays and pays very well
to choose teaching as a career . . .
Russia . . . offers much higher prem
iums than the U. S. to those who attain
distinction in teaching."
It is difficult to compare the value of
the Russian ruble on the market, I would
imagine, but the Russian university's de
partment chairman earns about eight
times the income of the Russian worker,
the ad tells us.
The McGraw-Hill people assume, quite
frankly, that the "shabby treatment of
onr teachers threatens to undermine,
not only our educational standards, but
our free enterprise system itself."
And the conclusion the ad writers
(members of the McGraw-Hill Depart
ment of Economics) reach is, "Russia
clearly has set her teaching salaries well
above the 'right' figure. We are nowhere
near it. What this adds up to is that the
Communists not we have become the
shrewd capitalists in the vital field of
education."
It's no secret in Nebraska that teach
ers are underpaid, dedicated individuals
who are constantly being wooed by in
dustry toward better paying Jobs, more
prestige all the things that make life a
little more bearable.
But it seems that a national awareness
of the problem has been some time in
the making and is called for by the
times immediately.
Big industry (General Motors, Ford)
send item after item to this newspaper
declaring that they are giving more and
more money te the causes of education.
That is well and good. But whether the
big businesses should bear the brunt
alone is another question.
It's my opinion that the American pub
lic ought to get out from in front of the
color television set and demand of their
legislators in Congress to appropriate
federal monies to teachers, to education
in general. Until then our teachers can't
expect a generous economic treatment.
Got a nice note from Robert DeWitt,
circulation director of the Libraries. He
tells me that every effort is being made
to promote good relations between the
students and the libraries. And certainly
it is as is evidenced by the new cards
being sent to delinquent book holders.
Also got a shock as I rummaged
through the top three layers of junk on
my desk and found a book due April 30.
tBRflSKfln
SIXTY-SEVEN TEARS OLD
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My Weal Or Woe
by dick basoco
Charlie Starkweather prob
ably pulled the biggest boner
in the world yesterday when
he said that he would stand
on the fifth "commandment"
if called back to the stand
to testify. He w.as apparently
referring to the Fifth Amend
ment which states that no one
can be forced to testify
against himself. The "Fifth
Commandment" generally
connotates that rule in the Old
Testament which says "Thou
shalt not kill."
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By the time this column
hits the presses it'll be too
late to do anything about the
situation, but I'd like to toss
in my two cents about the
r 1 diculously
small . num
ber of nomi
nations for
the Outstand
ing Nebras
k a n award.
At latest
count there
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Everyone seems to be on
the "good-bye, life won't be
the same without you" band
wagon. But I shall abstain be
cause most of us will actually
be more than happy to be rid
of each other.
It's a tough confession to
make (such confessions are
not made by
folks who
read Emily
Post and send
thank you
cards every
time they
spend more
than five min
utes in a per
son's home)
but one which
cannot be left e.e.
unsaid by a man who has final
ly reached the height of his
school career that is, attend
ed his last biology lab of the
year and (unless the gods as
sign special punishment to
me) for evermore, amen. And
it is a confession that must
be made by a knowledge sat
urated soul that yearns to es
cape for three Ion months
from all players and props
in this fantastic strutting on
the stage performance called
college.
Oh, I will miss some of you
when I wander into a coffee
shop and fail to see anyone
I can persuade into buying
me a cup of coffee by apply
ing my I haven't eaten for
36 hours and 15 minutes look.
You great benefactors are so
few in number, however, that
by e. e. hiiies
the brief period of our sep
aration will not adversely af
fect my career, which con
sists in playing The Artist As
A Young Dog (of the "his
bite doesn't hurt you much"
variety).
When all of you grinning,
frowning, griping, rah-rahing
folks are bundled together in
my environment for nine long
months I have the tendency
to say, "This is a very
crowded world. Who are all
of you people?" and start
mumbling, "Hello, how are
you (Little Sir Echo, How Do
You Do, How Do You Do)?"
without really caring what
you answer or how much the
rock in your shoe is hurting
your foot.
This is a terrible feeling to
slip into because all of you
even those of you who kick
footballs across the streets
down which I walk, toss fris
bies and beer cans through
my red draped window, or
clutter my life with herculean
study tasks a r e basically
good people in spite of the
fact that the majority of you
have been distorted by a cor
rupt world of materialism and
eat your chicken with one
hand conventionalism.
I am glad to see you go
because absence supposedly
makes the heart grow fonder.
Heaven knows there is noth
ing which a young idealist
wants more than to like and
be liked by all. So get out of
my life so I can like you.
five instruc- Basoco
tors who had been nominated.
You mean to tell me that
there are only 12 people out
of this huge campus popula
tion that are worthy of even
being nominated?
I don't believe it. I think
it's just another case of "Gee,
somebody sure ought to nomi
nate him" and "Why wasn't
she even considered?" But
everybody wants to let some
body else do the nominating
because it's just too darn
much trouble to write out a
letter yourself. -
To me this is just another
example of the apathy that
I've been griping about pe
riodically this semester. Well,
we sure need something to
snap us out of these apathetic
doldrums, so I hope we beat
Oklahoma next fall so we all
go out and get some spirits.
I guess that's what's needed,
huh?
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I see in the Rag that the
U is picking up a "top teach
er." That's swell. I'm sure
that Mrs. Schwarz will be a
big asset to the campus.
But what are we going to
do about all the other "top
teachers" that we're losing?
Like in the next year or two,
unless I miss my guess, old
NU is going to have to ob
tain practically a whole new
history department.
in this department alone we
have some of the most out
standing scholars in their re
spective fields. But Brandeis
University is getting one this
year, Washington will prob
ably grab another next year,
a couple others are leaving
for other institutions too and
at least one will retire.
Now I'll admit that there
isn't a whole lot you can do
to keep a person from reach
ing retirement age unless you
start that search for the
"Fountain of Youth'' again,
which would probably be just
as fruitless as the first quest.
But how about these people
who are leaving for financial
reasons?
It seems to me that maybe
it's a reaKswell idea to plant
a 500 dollar Christmas tree
by the Administration Build
ing and to buy the Elgin plant
for $725,000, which is admit
tedly a steal, and to erect new
buildings left and right. We
certainly need these improve
ments, but this "brick and
mortar" policy of the Chan
cellor's just isn't going to look
'so .sharp when all the nice
new buildings are filled with
nice new students with no
able, nice old profs to teach -them.
Maybe we could try
paying them enough to keep
them here, instead of leav
ing Nebraska with the repu
tation as a nice stop over
place on the way to a better
paying college.
I'm afraid that the TJ, which
has always felt the pains of
not having enough top flight
instructors, will suffer from a
lack of "weal" and a prepond
rance of "woe" as far as
the teaching situation goes In
the next few years.
Nebraskan Letterip
J It Pays To Increase Your Word Power
DANIEL WEBSTER said, "If all my possessions and
powers were taken from me with one exception, I would
choose to keep the power of words, because by them I would
recover the rest." In the list below check the word or phrase
you Deiieve is nearest in meaning to tne key word.
(1) passive A: temporary. B;
restless. C: downcast. D:
submissive.
(2) pretense (pre fence' or
pre' tence) A: vanity. B:
apology. C: ruse or false ap
pearance. D: humility.
(3) revere A: to make
known. B: respect deeply.
C: daydream. D: denounce.
(4) predicament (pre dik' a
ment) A: struggle. B:
grave danger. C: obligation.
D: trying situation.
(5) vestige (ves' tij) A:
trace. B: garment. C: waste.
D: total loss.
(6) invalid (in val id) A:
hopeless. B: strong. C: hav
ing no force or effect. D:
ridiculous.
(7) verbose A: noisy. B:
wordy. C: boastful. D: en
thusiastic. (8) Solicitous so lis' 1 tus
A: serene. B: demanding. C:
bitter. D: showing care and
concern.
(9) turbulent A: agitated.
B: muddy. C: revolving. D:
swollen.
(10) compile A: to com
promise. B: store. C: bring
together. D: force
(11) disconsolate A: forlorn.
B: disorganized. C: shabby.
D: untrustworthy.
(12) chagrin (sha grin') A:
violent anger. B: pride. C:
vexation. D: soreness caused
by friction.
(13) derision A: ridicule or
scorn. B: origin. C: failure
in duty. D: act of throwing
into disorder.
(14) futle (fu'til) - A: lazy
B. useless. C: frustrated. D:
useful.
(151 amply (am' pli) A:
awkwardly. B: foolishly. C:
abundantly. D: in excess.
(16) wily wy' li) A: hon
est. B: crafty. C: willful. D:
polite.
(17) tedium (te' di urn) A:
deep sorrow. B: intense hun
ger. C: despair. D: weari
some monotony.
(18) gullible A: amusing.
B: easily deceived. C: clown
ish and awkward. D: greedy.
(19) minimize A: to re
duce to the smallest possible
amount.' B: apologize. C:
copy. D: enlarge.
(20) crucial (kroo thai) A:
tragic. B: physically painful.
C: uncertain. D: critical and
decisive.
20 excellent
19-17 good
16-13 , fair
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Addressing You
We address you, the Amer
ican students on this campus,
to give you an idea of one of
the purposes for which we are
in the United States and to
let you know what is in the
minds of the foreign students
on this campus.
When we left our respective
home counties we were in
structed that it would be one
of our chief objectives to build
up a warm and friendly al
liance between you and our
countries. Such an alliance,
we were told, was vital for
all of us, for you as well as
the 275 of us. It would help to
cement the ties that already
exist between our govern
ments, ties that are indis
pensable for world peace, ties
that in practice enable you to
travel freely in our countries
and give us a chance to learn
from your democratic ways
of life.
For the purpose of building
such an alliance on this cam
pus we established some
years ago the Cosmopolitan
Club, the membership of
which should be recruited
from American as well as
foreign students. In looking
back at the last couple of
years, however, we have come
to the conclusion that the
club has failed in one of its
primary objectives. We al
most never find one of you
in our midst and the club then
naturally fails to promote the
fellowship between you and
the foreign student.
This little note is an appeal
to you to show up at our elec
tion of officers in the Cosmo
politan Club tonight at 7:30
in the Student Union. This is
your chance and it is our
chance to get acquainted.
VV. CHRISTENSEN
Waning Away
During the past year, inter
est in the Cosmopolitan Club
has been sadly waning away.
This club has been in past
years a significant feature in
the campus life of foreign stu
dents as well as a handful of
American students. However,
at the moment, the very exist
ence of the organization is be
ing questioned and threatened
by a lack of participation and
co-operation.
Many illusions have been
working against sustained ef
fort on the part of a few to
further the development of
the club. For example, the
club is definitely not for for
eigners only and there is no
reason why an American can
not be elected to the office of
president.
It is a sad state of affairs
that more students are not
aware of the opportunity pro
vided by this club and the
potential it has. If the trend
is maintained, undoubtedly,
this organization will fall into
oblivion or else will continue
to exist in such an ineffective
and pretensive way that it
would be intolerable for those
who care.
Why can't we realize that
some of the most perplexing
and frustrating problems- of
international relations can be
understood and solved at the
individual level (through per
sonal inter-cultural contact?
Why must we stand helplessly
in bewilderment about the im
posing propositions of dishar
mony under which we live?
Are we standing aside and
watching the world go by or
are we concerned to seek
openings in the forces that
nibble away at our happiness
and security?
. - KEN ACKBARALI
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