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Editorial Comment
Worried Fraternities
The InUrfraternity Council obviously
doesn't know what's doing it, but the num
ber of freshmen going through fraternity
rush is steadily declining. Their worries
are probably reflected in modification of
their rule which restricts pledging of
freshmen who were in the lower quartile
of their high school classes. Now, upon
special appeal, the freshman may be
pledged if he obtained an average above
80 while in high school. This is average
or slightly below in most school's grading
systems. It is therefore apparent that a
worried group may possibly be doing a
quick backslide on its drive to emphasize
scholarship.
The 1FC should be reminded that a big
ger and better package is the only attrac
tion that will sell the fraternity system.
This means better scholarship, more con
structive pledge programs and sincere ef
forts to make the fraternity beneficial to
both members and the community by
stressing help for others instead of rais
ing hell to trouble others. "
Hell Week should be tossed down the
drain in all fraternities on the Nebraska
campus by order of the IFC and replaced
by a Help Week similar to' the Greek Sat
urday last year when community charities
and youth groups received cleanup help
from fraternity men. Each fraternity
should make Help Week a period in which
the moral and spiritual characteristics
which his fraternnty are supposed to em
phasize are emphasized. In addition, the
fraternities should individually aid one
youth or charitable group, and then later
run a combined program with other fra
ternities. This would present a brighter
picture of fraternity life than stolen One
Way signs and boasts of extraordinary
vandalism.
It's Called Culture
This year may prove to be the best ever
for University students who are interested
in doing more with their time than learn
ing the intricacies of slide rule manipula
tion, finesse at the bridge table or the art
of coffee date small talk. Numerous Uni
versity and civic organizations have an
nounced plans to sponsor presentations by
top notch professional entertainment or
ganizations or outstanding plays and
musical productions by students.
Here at the University, the University
Theatre has lined up a season which fea
tures plays by Shakespeare. Aristophanes
and O'Neill. The Foreign Film Society has
announced plans for more outstanding
films than have been shown in the past.
The Community Concert Assn. is presently
conducting a drive for student member
ships which will open the way to see per
formances by the Boston Pops Orchestra,
the Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Rouns
ville, the Chicago Opera Ballet and Ro
berto Iglesias jnd his Spanish Dancers.
The Broadway Theatre League of I
coln, meanwhile, has announced a four
play bill for folks interested in finding
what a Boardway " play looks like when
its performed in person by professional
troupes. The University Music Depart
ment can also be counted on to come up
with some exceptional programs as it has
in the past.
The student who thinks that college
doesn't do a complete job in making him
or her a well mannered world figure is
right. No college or organization can do
that. The student, however, can go a long
way to enriching his background by join
ing one or more of these groups and at
tending their productions this year.
Closed Doors
The Student Tribunal has raised its ugly
head and roared "our meetings are closed
unless we think it advisable to open them."
This is a wonderful example of the hoped
for messiah turning out to be a devilish
monster. This means that students will be
no better off, if not worse off, this year
than they have been in the past where
conduct punishments are concerned.
When a group which the students them
selves created has the audacity to tell the
students they don't have any right to
know what their so called representatives
are doing, that is the time to laugh the
organization off 'campus and defy any and
all of its decisions. Student Council lead
ers have personally contacted the Daily
Nebraskan this year and promised that
meetings would not be closed. Last year's
closed meetings and withheld information
were discussed as unnecessary limita
tions. Can't the infant organization on this
campus, the Tribunal, follow this course
of action? Or is it going to act like a bunch
of children who want to play their games
in secret?
Also, will the Council or somebody give
us a ruling on the legality ( if such a word
may be applied to the Tribunal) of Gary
Rodgers as a junior representative and
vice-chairman of the Tribunal? Rodgers
is now a student in Law College and as
such would seemingly not be qualified to
act as a junior representative. He simply
is not, because of his freshman law stu
dent status, such an animal.
Chuckle a While
'"Why don't you settle the case out of
court?" said an Irish judge to the litigants
before him.
"Sure, that's what we were doin', my
lord, when the police came and inter
fered." (Rud I Diaajtl
From the Editor
A Few Words of a Kind
. . . e. e, Junes
e.e.
All those freshmen beanies and not a
one on anybody's head. The Nebraska
football team is to blame for this. This
uninformed bunch, who obviously don't
read papers, went out and beat a team
that everyone knew was
going to win.
Why? Condit i o n i n g,
breaks, spirit . . .list
two or three dozen more
reasons. But remember
that if you were among
the 25,000 at Memorial
Stadium, you saw some
thing that home fans
hadn't seen for two long
years and possibly
weren't, according t o
some "experts," going to see this sea
son. Surprises can be pleasant. There were
two women standing in the concession
stand as you filed out from the game.
They didn't get to see the game, but
they had been pulling for the Huskers all
the way. They were smiling as you walked
past because their team had done the
unexpected.
There were the two men talking in front
of you. "This is the best I've seen Ne
braska play for a long time. With all
those sophomores and the freshman team
as good as its supposed to be we're going
to have 'a real team before long."
A policeman halted traffic on R Street
as the Nebraska band marched sharply
up to the corner, did a right flank and
boomed and blared its way to the music
building. Folks stood and watched and
listened . . . proud of the band, proud of
the team . . . glad to be a Husker, feel
ing inside that it's good to be a part of
this University.
The grade school boy in a checkered
shirt met a friend on the street. "That
ras a real good game, wasn't it?" His
Cub Scout friend replied, "I had a seat on
the fifty-yard line."
Then you met a friend who asked, al
ready knowing the answer. "Great game,
wasn't it?" You answered. "Yeah." and
thought, "I had a seat on the 45-yard line.
Wonder where he sat?"
Today it's appropriate to ask, "Where
do you stand?" Nebraska won't win all
its football games this year. (No, it didn't
have a chance against Penn State either.)
But the team should win every Nebras
kan's support. That means at rallies, at
games and even financially. Ever heard
of the Extra Point Club? Ever thought
of giving a dollar to help recruit more ball
players to make future Husker teams bet
ter than ever?
You don't believe in free rides for
athletes? Well, number one, a grant-in-aid
isn't a free ride. It is less money than
a person would get if he were to take his
football time and use it for part-time
work. Second, football is more demanding
and hazardous than any part-time job
I've ever had. If the certainty of charley
horses and bruises and the possibility of
smashed ribs and elbows pushed in your
face is the easy way to get through col
lege, why don't you try it?
Also, stop thinking that athletes are a
bunch of human paradoxes who are at the
same time physical giants and mental
dwarfs. This isn't true. Sports participa
tion demands huge chunks of time for
practice and weekend after weekend for
the real performances. It wouldn't exact
ly be easy to study when you were gone
every other week to an out of state foot
ball game, and often came back sporting
a few aches and pains. A person has to
be better than average to meet such de
mands and still stay eligible academically.
Coach Bill Jennings knows this and has
emphasized a player must be "sound on
the field as well as off the field."
The Nebraska team isn't begging for
your spiritual or financial support. But
the squad can do a whole lot better if you
are willing to offer it.
Daily Nebraskan
SIXTY-EIGHT TEARS OLD
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POINT OUT THE TROUBLE!
Bungling
By Dick Shugrue
The Briar Patch
By R. M. Ireland
The Interfraternity Council
made it very clear this past
year to both its own mem
bers and to the incoming
rushees of the fraternities that
it w o u 1 d
frown on
spiking, dir
ty rushing,
billeting o f
rushees in lo
cal homes,
! etc.
! These
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drawn out in
black and
white, were
generally agreed upon
members of the IFC.
teresting to see 1) if the scan
dals of the rush week are cov
ered up or if, 2) some action
will be taken.
I'm betting on the first. Or
better yet, I'm betting the
student tribunal won't have a
thing to do with it !
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I see where the people of
Grand Island turned down
liquor by the drink this past
week. The vote was 2 to 1
against serving CC or S7 or
VI. over the counter in a civ
ilized fashion.
The argument used chiefly
against L.B.T.D. is the tem
perance one. "Let people
drink in a bar and we're head
ed for shame and corniDtion."
Rules and regulations aren't sav the foes of the custom,
necessarily put to the a c i d o the other hand, the only
test by what they promise, j alternative is the purchase
They, like an employee of a j anfj total consumption of a
company or a bonus baseball i bottle bv such as the Univer
player, show what they're sjty student who can't bring
worth when the chips a r e ; his goodies back to the cam-
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Whether any action will be One of the most beneficial
taken against certain houses j steps the oncoming session of
for allowing incoming men to : the Unicameral could take
be quartered with fraternity j would be the establishment of
men here in town; whether a new state ruling allowing
the dirty rushing which ev-, liquor (or at least beer) to be
j eryone knew went on will be consumed on the college cam
j dealt with; whether the spik- ipus.
ing malpractices will be dealt ; Now stop throwing those
with, I cannot say. cubes at me, anti's. Drunken-
Just the same, if there is ' ness is a companion of over
any honor among thieves; if ! indulgence. You wouldn't
there is any justice a m o n g i have to overindulge to enjoy
Greeks; if the entire Greek I yourself, necessarily. You
system is to have the respect I could go in to a bar, have a
of the entire campus (a much j drink, walk out in a straight
larger whole than the Greeks ! line and get to bed.
are a part) some punishments As it stands now, you end
must be meted out. up a lush just about every
And if we come up w i t h time you go out for a drink,
any Bernie Goldfines in the So, if you please, lobby for
fraternity system who tell: a sensible liquor law. Don't
their fellow IFC'ers to over- force it on anyone and abide
look my mistakes and I'll j by the decision of the law
overlook yours, or, here, let's ! makers,
go out and drink a beer over j Students, as voters and as
this silly mess, I'd only say, : citizens of a University com
"Beware of Greeks, even munity, have a perfect right,
when they're bearing fits." and even more, an obligation,
Now just as discipline cases ' to speak up for what they j
involving fraternity row are tvant. Write candidates for
batted abot; between the Di-; state Unicameral posts and
vision of Student Affairs and j see what thev think about this
;the IFC, let's have an inves-1 proposal to have liquor al
i tigation of the past rush week iowed on the campus. Per
conducted by the party of the '. haps that could be your guide
ithird part, the Student Tri- to an intelligent vote hi No-
bunal. vember. though it certainly
It should be extremely in- shouldn't be the only one.
It seems to me that the
Student Council's committee
on student activities should
take it upon themselves to in
vestigate certain campus or
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the foi.rse of
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ways been &GfyrpZ-
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necessary bu- VST
reaucracy es-yl W
dwells here
at the Uni- Ireland
versify.
One particular organization
which needs surveillance by
said committee is Builders.
Somebody once called Build
ers an over-sized whale.
Sporting numerous commit
tees and an almost equal
number of executive positions
this group seems to me to typ
ify the existing student busy
group with countless red tap
ers and with actually little to
do.
Some of its functions include
tours (a procedure of confus
ing the already confused mass
of new students), issuance of
so-called "calendars" (an in
dispensable item for all so
cially acceptable activity peo
ple), the dilatory release of
the student directory (a con
glomeration of wrong phone
numbers, omissions, colleges,
and other useful facts), the
First Glance" (a magazine de.
signed to introduce new stu
dents to activities and such,
providing said groups pay for
space), and other petty rou
tine assignments.
Now I do not advocate the
complete overthrow of Build
ers. However, certain limita
tions should be imposed on its
octopus-like bureaucracy.
For instance the large col
lection of vice-presidents
(which resembles the hier-
iarchy of a bank) could be
drastically reduced.
' Likewise the publishing pro
cedure of the student direc
tory could be revised so that
!1) students receive the thing
j before New Year's Eve and,
2) names, colleges and phone
j numbers are arranged cor
i rectly.
! Of course if the whale is de
' blubberized something will
i have to be done about the sev
i eral hundred students who
would undoubtedly lose their
coveted jobs.
I suspect Builders arose out
of typically all-encompassing
New Dealist legislation. '
Whatever the cause some
thing should be done to rem
edy its gout-like over-expansionism.
By the way what do they
build, anyhow?
No Man Is an Island
Nebraskan Letterip
! Pleasure Palare
Dear Editor:
Every time I walk past the
I new additions to the Student
! Union, I hear these words
echoing from nowhere:
"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure dome
decree."
I find it hard to believe
that this pleasure palace will
include bowling alleys. I
I thought our profs were under
paid, that new equipment and
! classroom space was needed.
j Even if ours is a rich univer.
jsity, my pocket book still
hurts where the raise in tui
tion hurt it, and it hurts
worse every lime I walk by
that pleasure palace under
construction.
It is too late to do much
about it now. Even I will
wander around there a little
bit waiting out the years,
waiting for my diploma. But
this sizeable bit of extrava
gance ought to be pointed out
to the state legislature when
the University goes begging
for more money.
MELVYN R, EIKLEBERRY
Articles written by director of
each week tn the Daily Nebraskan.
article.
Have you ever heard a
beautiful song and then tried
to beat out the melody on a
table with yaur fingers? You
get a poor imitation of the
richness and tone. So inade
quately do the chapels and
religious student houses on
I campus reproduce the invisi
! ble. Yet their very act of
imitation of the invisible,
i weak as it may be, makes
them the most meaningful of
i campus institutions.
Insist that they stutter and
I stammer. They do. But listen
i to what they are trying to
' say. "The unseen is real. All
j about us is the spiritual life,
I the God from whom we came,
' by whom we are sustained,
I to whom we go. The father
hood of God, the availability
I of the spirit, the saviorhood
1 of the Divine outpouring of
Christ, the purposefulness of
: creation, the coming victory
, tif righteousness, the fulfil
ment of life through love and
service."
These things the religious
student houses are trying to
say. They are trying to say,
"This world is more than a
I mere collec tion of atoms.
Mind is the maker of the uni
verse and purpose is at the
heart of it and Providence in
i control of it and love under
neath it and victory ahead for
it, and what is excellent, as
God lives, is permanent."
Pigs look down. Dogs look
campua reliainna nrKanlzahona appear
Rex Knowlea it author of today a
ahead and aside. Man has
become an upward looking
being. The loss of this up
ward look is a reversion to
the animal. No human lift
'justifies the erectness with
1 which it is endowed which
docs not regularly look up.
However, they stutter and
stammer, the religious pro
grams on cainous are savincr
I the most meaningful thing be
ing said, "Unto Thee, I lift up
my eyes."
Deferred Rush
j Approved a I KU
! LAWRENCE. Kan. - The
iPanhellenic Council at the
University of Kansas has
voted to change the time for
women's formal rush activi-
i ties to the second semester of
! the freshman year.
For a number of years, the
membership selection period
i has been held during the week
i before fall semester for wom
! en of sophomore standing or
above.
! No specific time during the
i second semester has been de
termined for rush activities
yet. Freshman women will
continue to live in Ilnivprsilv.
operated freshman halls
throughout their first year at
KU.
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