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Editorial Comment
The Dailv Nebraskan
Monday, October 13, 1958
An Unproud Crowd
Henry Ward Beecher a long time ago
commented: A thoughtful mind, when it
sees a Nation' flag, sees not the flag
only, but the Nation itself; and whatever
may be Its symbols, its insignia, he reads
chiefly in the flag the Government, the
principles, the truths, the history which be
longs to the Nation that sets it forth.
Back in grade school, every day started
with a very serious little ritual. We all
stood up, faces solemn. We put our hands
over our hearts and repeated a little verse
which inevitably began "I pledge al
legiance ..."-We were pretty serious
about tha whole thing.
Then in high school, (at least at one o(
the five I attended), every morning began
with the strains of a melody that two
trumpeteers played out in the halls. We all
stood up. Then we repeated the same little
saying "I pledge." It was still a pretty
serious affair. Social pressure forbade any
levity or distractions.
Six Saturday's out of every fall, there is
another little ceremony performed. The
location: the coliseum. The occasion: foot
ball. The actors: some men who march
out carrying two flags. The musicians:
the University band, which plays a melody
somebody named Key once dreamed up
in the midst of a battle. The participants:
everyone who is around at the time. Their
attitudes: mixed.
Most of the spectators stand stock still,
attention focused on the band below, play
ing the anthem that they have pledged in
numerable times to honor. Those who have
passed time in the military haven't broken
themselves of the habit of standing rod
like, eyes focused on the flag. Then there
is the student section. Most, I will admit,
give at least outward respect to the flag
and the anthem.
It is the minority who do not that make
the entire ceremony farcical. During the
half time pla.viug of the Star-Spangled
Banner Saturday, when some 4.000 high
school kids filled the stadium with the
clash of cymbals and the roll of drums, the
student section was filled with snickcrhigs
because one cymbal player was out of
phase. A senior amused himself by hitting
the girl in front of him over the head with
his program. A dog walked through the
stands, and a feminine flutter went up as
10 or 12 persons bent down to pet the dog
and utter small cooing sounds. Conversa
tions went on as if the game itself were in
progress.
It doesn't seem as if it would be too
much out of order to mention that this sort
of behavior is, to say the least, unbecom
ing. Unpatriotic is a big, powerful type
word. Perhaps it is a bit harsh to use at
this point. Perhaps the outward respect
accorded to a flag or a song does not
really indicate the feeling one has toward
one's nation. (Diana Maxwell).
Light Heartedness
In this day and age when a late night
serenade is a major crime, a writer for
the Daily Kansan at the University of
Kansas pleads for more campus light
heartedness. He writes:
What we need is a good college prank!
We are not proposing the ordinary type
of prank: the vindictive, cynical, tear-out-their-guts
type. We are not saying the foot
ball coach should be hanged in effigy. Not
yet, anyway. It simply would be apropos
for a humorous event to be staged plainly
for the sake of a good joke.
When student imagination is limited to
redressing Jimmy Green and shampooing
the Chi Omega fountain, a tuneup of the
campus funnybone is in order.
The last really interesting event KU stu
dents staged was the legendary Gangdom
Murder pulled in front of the Varsity
Theatre around 1950.
In this foray into history, a group of stu
dents zipped by in a big black car, and
"machine-gunned" a young man as he left
the movie, late on a Saturday night. Lying
on the sidewalk, the prankster squeezed
catsup from a plastic bag onto his clothes
and the cement, while his girl screamed
her frightened head off, unaware of the
joke.
Thirty seconds later, another black se
dan appeared, six burly, masked men
threw the "body" into the trunk and drove
off, with the "murdered" man's arm hang
ing limply from the unfastened trunk. The
unfortunate girl was left in a swoon and a
pool of catsup, w hile hundreds of witnesses
dumbfoundedly ogled the proceedings.
That was a prank. A good, clean, college
prank.
Apparently times and moods have
changed on campuses. Ideas are needed.
Something must be done to make the pop
ulation realize that, youth is still present on
Mt. Oread. People are never too old to
laugh at somebody's red face. The trouble
is, countenances have been so pallid re
cently, other faces do nothing but reflect
their poker-like qualities. People need to
smile! It is good for digestion. Besides,
this campus could use a good shaping up
humor-wise.
Individual Staff Views
By Sandra Kully
Thank you, for peering down into this
humble corner to see what the workers
have to say this week; but if you're look
ing for a good, rabble-rousing shout, go no
further. I don't shout. I'm just going to
raise a few questions, shake a few hands,
and lade back into limbo.
Question number 1: What is the Student
Council's definition of beautifying the
campus"? The idea of having a student
committee to work with the administration
to "procure, and study make recommen
dations on ideas to improve the campus"
is a fine one; but there seems to be only
one thing that needs beautifying. The
architecture.
The "Cement Block" campus of the fu
ture is rapidly becoming a reality. Look
at the straight lines and sharp corners of
the administration building, the new girls'
dorm, Selleck Quad. You can't miss the
style; that's all it Is, just straight lines and
sharp corners. And the cement blocks
stacked in the Union parking lot lead me
to believe that the new addition will be a
first cousin to these buildings.
At the present, there is a kind of double
variety in the campus building fashions.
This is due to two factors: the middle-aged
buildings haven't yet been knocked down,
and the Board of Regents can't decide how
utterly clean and straight the new genera
tion should be. Consequently, each addi
tion moves a little closer to a veritable
brick pile than its predecessor.
The high points of our "Cement Block"
campus will be, of course, the haphazard
appendages branching out like pigtails
from the older buildings that are too good
to knock down, but too small to fulfill their
purposes.
I can't help mentioning the up and com
ing Greek houses that border the east end
of the campus with various and sundry
shapes.
The Student Council obviously has good
intentions when it recommends the forma
tion of this committee, but it seems a little
late to be worrying about trees and
flowers. A rose by any other name is still
a rose, and so are cement blocks.
Question number 2: Who decides where
we Cornhuskers migrate once a year? If
there is no such thing as an official migra
tion, and the Student Council migration
committee is mere gingerbread, how do
all the students know who to flock down
upon? Esprit de corps, or instinct per
haps? Handshakes and red roses to the Home
coming Queen candidates.
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My Weal or Woe
. . . By Dick Basoco
I thought about it all last thing, no one will find out that
Saturday. I we're responsible.
"What," 1 said to mvsclf, ; 5 '
"have I done to thus incur the j What with homecoming
wrath of the gods? What, i Queen election just out of the
Basoco
what, what?"
Really, I was
n o t doing
anything. I
was just
minding my
own busi
ness, walk
ing down the
street, try
ing to keep a
10:15 ap-point-
ment at the "Busy Store."
Suddenly a huge crowd
loomed up before my eyes
and some discordent strains
welled up in my ears.
Band Day.
I'd forgotten somehow
about that amazing display of
ineptitude every Band Day
morning before the football
game.
But realizing what was go
ing on didn't help me get
across 'O street any faster.
One band after another, each
with majorettes who could
neither strut nor twirl a baton
and band members who could
neither march nor play their
respective instruments, came
straggling by
way, it's a good time to men
tion the quality of feminine
pulchritude that represents
our fair University as queen
of this or that.
I, for one, think it's per
fectly ndiculous to have all
these qualifications for queen
candidates.
Who really cares w h o is
poised or talented or what
kind of a personality she has
as long as she is good looking?
Granted, beauty is only skin
Nominees Named
For Pub Board
Candidates To Face
Student Council Wednesday-
deep, but when you see a girl
pictured in a yearbook, for ex
ample, all you see is beauty
anyway. Only at Nebraska,
chances are you don't see
beauty because she was
picked because "she's a nice
kid, all the girls like her and
she plays the piano."
These queen deals probably
started from the "beauty con
test" idea in the first place,
but we've corrupted it into
something else again. .
After all, these "queens"
are primarily just publicity
stories and pictures anyway,
so why not leave the 30 some
odd thousand people at the
game and all those who see
After waiting patiently for rr bWm ,n 4h
, . ,,;,, Jnfj.jiiv, and in the Cornhusker
street myself, I finally defied , . .... . . .
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banner and dashed across,
narrowly missing death at the
hands of a section of slide
trombonists.
Then I went to the game.
Some 35 hundred young'ensj
crowded on the stadium I
turf stumbled through a cou
ple of maneuvers, and then
mangled dear old Nebraska
U. The effect was kind of un
usual; 'I'd never heard it
'yed in the form of a round
ire. It was a round, wasn't
1.
Nebraska is supposed to
have originated Band Day.
Well, maybe if we all keep
very quiet about the whole
Lett
crin
Flag Flaunted
tive girl!"
Nobody is really going to
care if her personality is
lousy or good anyway. Most
of us on campus don't really
care either.
And that brings up an in
teresting point. Why don't we
care?
We don't care because all
our queens do are get pre
sented at the particular event
they are queen of and that's
it. Fini.
Like E. E. Hines says, why
wait until half-time of the
Homecoming Game to pre
sent the queen? Is it to build
up tension and suspense?
Not quite. Everybody knows
it has to be one of five girls
any how, so the desired effect
is practically nil.
Why not have her reign
over all the festivities of
Homecoming week?
And why, by the way, does
The Student Council nom
inating committee has named
two seniors, three juniors and
two sophomores as candidates
i'foi the Faculty Senate Sub
committee on Student Publi
cations. They are: seniors Cynthia
Zschau and Biff Keyes; jun
iors Corol Novicki, Barbara
Bacon and Fred Bliss an d
sophomores Renny Ashle
man and Eleanor Kessler.
It was the first time in re
cent years that the commit
tee has made the names of
nominees public prior to the
meeting of the Student Coun
cil which makes the final'
selection.
Council president, Dwaine
Rogge, in making the an
nouncement, said that he
could think of no good reason
why the names should be kept
secret.
Right to Know
"Students have a right to
know who may be represent
ing them," Rogge said.
Committee member Don
Schick said after the inter
views that "I think we have
a very good slate oi candi
dates." Appear Wednesday.
Nominees must appear be
Student Council and did not
choose to reapply for the
Pub Board because "my
Council activities take up the
time I formerly could -have
spent working on the Pub
Board."
Ali-Sar-Ben
Announces
Princesses
Among the sixteen princes
ses in the 1958 Court of Ak-Sar-Ben
Friday and Saturday
evenings will be two Univer
sity coeds and fou: alumni.
The princesses include stu
dents Gayle Peddie, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison
Peddie, and Cynthia Zschau,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Ernest Zschau, both members
of Kappa Alpha Theta.
University alumni partici
pating are Sally Berg, Pi Beta
Phi, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Einar Berg; Sharon
Hall, Kappa Kappa Gamma,
daughter of Mrs. J. B. Fraz
ier, Jr., and Mr. Robert Hall
and Lesly Klein, Sigma Del
ta Tau, daughter of Mrs.
Leonard Klein.
Another princess, Nancy
Tucker, Alpha Phi, who was
It was gratifying to watch
the Huskers Print! nut a 7.fi
win over the Iowa State Cy-'Tassels select the five that we
clones last Saturday. The Wl11 vote on? Its more of a
game was played well by both
teams, and I'm sure each
team respected its opponent.
However, there was one thing
that clouded the spirit of the
game, and the victory the
Huskers produced the dis
respect shown to our national
flag and anthem by the ma
jority of the students and
spectators during the p r e -game
ceremonies. It was dis
graceful to watch university
ievel students talk and gig
gle while our colors were
being presented.
If my memory serves mc
correctly, we were taught the
correct procedure of respect
toward this important cere
mony in our early elementary
education. During this early
education it was impressed
upon ui the importance of our
national flag and anthem and
the respect due to it. I think
it no less impoitant to show
respect now that we are in a
school of higher education
than it was then.
The tradition, sweat, blood,
and sacrifice put forth in
making our flag honored and
respected by the world was
not trivial. It took many
years, and the lives of many
good Americans to make this
accomplishment.
We have a great nation
where freedom is more abun
dant than in any other conn
try, past or present, in t h e
world. Why then can't we
take five minutes of our time
before a football game to
show the honor and respect
due the memory of these men
who made the supreme sacri
fice so that we may enjoy
this freedom and the way of
life it offers.
In my opinion the laxity of
respect shown to our colors
gave a blackeye to the Uni
versity of Nebraska, and its
student body. It has often
been said that there is a time
and place for everything.
That is very true, but I think
it should be impressed upon
the student body of this uni
versity that the time and
place for taimng, giggling,
and general neu raising is not
Jurin2 the presentation of our
national flag and anthem, but
afterwards.
RICHARD G. CAMPBELL
Veterans Hospital
aim I t a .a
lasseis wueen in an a
Homecoming Queen under the
present set up.
Use Nebraskan
Want Ads
consin.
fore the Student Council a Nebraska home coming
Wednesday for interviews. queen finalist in 1956, is at-
j nree junior candidates were 1 tending the University of Wis
cnosen Because miss Bacon
was confined to Student
Health and didn't have the
opportunity to be interviewed
by the committee.
"We thought the Council
should have a chance to talk
to her since she couldn't get
to her interview." Rogge
said.
Last year's student repre
sentatives were Pat Coover,
senior, Keyes, junior, and
Dave Godby, sophomore. God
by is presently a member of
Psi Chi Meeting
Psi Chi, psychology honor
ary, will hold a meeting Mon
day at 7:30 pm. in Parlor A
of the Union.
Gallery Presents
Eastern Poetry
The University of Nebraska
Art Galleries will feature
"The Poetry of the East" at
their Tuesday evening pro
gram. The public may attend the
8:30 p.m. presentation in Gal
lery B; no admission will be
i charged.
The Galleries will present
readings in Sanskrit, Indian,
Persian, Hebrew, Chinese, and
Japanese in collaboration with
the department of English.
Translations will be read by
faculty members Bernice Slote
land Karl Shapiro.
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