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The Daily Nebraskan
Monday. Morch 16, 1959
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Editorial Comment:
Friday Night Still Open
S, should t eici W
ore in New Rush Rules
Daily Nebraskan Letterips
In the newly proposed IFC rush sched
ule as in the programs of previous years
there is an open sore in the otherwise
smooth complexion of proceedings.
Friday night.
In the face of a $500 fine, all kinds of
probation and persecution usually from
members of their own houses some
fraternity men insist upon getting in that
last plug the night before pledging
takes place. Picture the poor rushee,
pounding back to his pad after the most
hectic day of his life. He looks forward to
a long night of rest and instead he is in
vited to party with a bunch of half awake
playboys who should be in the sack them
selves. A quick thought back to the gullible
days of your childhood will convince even
Hospitality
A few days ago the Daily Nebraskan
commented that through the years, Uni
versity students have "rolled out their
famed red carpet for the high school vis
itors" to the state basketball tournament.
How right we were. This past weekend,
the University and the city were suddenly
faced with the problem of housing several
hundred high schoolers unexpectedly. Both
came through with more than flying col
ors. The Chamber of Commerce within an
hour had rounded up over 1000 sleeping
places for strandees. And all over the
campus, houses threw open their doors
and their refrigerators for high schoolers.
One sorority gave a slumber party for the
15 girls they were sheltering. Another held
a sing fest for the prepsters.
Sunday morning reactions from the high
schoolers proved that these effects had
scored highly with our visitors. The Uni
versity and its students can take more
than a little pride at their fine response to
nature's effort to spoil tournament fun.
doubters that rushee resistance to this un
derhanded attack is as low as the Hob
Nob on the University list of approved
function foyers.
One method of c6mbating this situation
was suggested by the IFC rush committee,
and a darn good one too: Just quarter the
rushees at Selleck Quad for both nights of
rush week and require that they be there
all night.
It seems however that this wasn't pos
sible for some reason or other and now it
lookes as if the problem is to be relegated
to the legions of the future.
With special quarters completely out of
the picture the IFC is left with two possi
bilities for enforcement, assuming that is
what they really want.
First they can put even more teeth into
the present rules and provide for a more
thorough method of checking the under
ground aspects of various rush programs.
Another more practical and seemingly
more suitable solution, knowing the ways
of the fine and the probation among
friends, would be to arrange the rush week
schedule so that any such activity would
be naturally discouraged.
The exact mechanics of this are not im
portant but a possibility would be to end
the program with a full day's rushing and
then after an hour's interlude have the
pledging late at night.
It would not be the first time a fraternity
man made a momentous decision in the
hours of darkness and surely freshmen
are old enough to stay out past ten.
If this plan were adopted rush week
could continue as in the past taking only
Friday and Saturday. The only difference
would be that instead of a big happy hop
Saturday night pledges could go to the
houses of their choice for the first of the
long line of late evening conversations
they are to enjoy with their fraternity
brothers.
J. H.
From the Editor:
By
George!
What a hectic weekend this has been. I
mean like Wow!
But then the state tournament weekend is
always a hectic time. The big basketball
carnival is looked forward to for weeks
outstate.
With improving transportation facilities,
It has become increasingly popular for the
high schoolers to hit the big show whether
their team is playing or not. Many adults,
to, take a swing through Lincoln during
the tournament weekend "on business
well you know, I've been putting this mat
ter off till the second week in March for
about three months."
One fellow I talked to from Holdrege
said he was here to do some lobbying in
the legislature. When the Holdrege club
beat Holy Name in the first round, he sud
denly found it necessary to stay over one
more day even though his bill had been
killed in committee.
It's just about like a county fair. Walk
through the stands, plop down beside any
body and inside of three minutes you can
pick up a conversation on the game, the
weather or the cattle market. Somehow,
the talk always gets around to basketball
though.
And that means the home town club
must be discussed. I found that at least 17
state champions had gotten a raw deal in
the reglonals. Everybody was also con
cerned with one question of vital significance:
"What about next year? You just wait.
We'll be real tough."
Better and Better
Every year the brand of ball played by
the lower classes gets a little better. This
year, the smooth and potent Syracuse
club, eventual winner in Class B, looked
like it could have given any Class A team
in the state a rough time.
The only team to beat Syracuse during
the regular season was Louisville, the
Class C champ. Louisville had just one
blot on its record, a loss to Syracuse.
From the looks of this, the Class C kings
might have gotten along all right in either
Class B or Class A.
Comparative scores, of course, are al
ways deceptive. Nevertheless, the Louis
ville smoothies were as potent looking in
action as any team on the floor.
The one disappointment this year was
Class AA. There were some good indi
vidual performers, but the overall class
strength was lacking. Omaha Central, the
runners up, were just so so when 6'8" Bill
Vincent was on the bench. Even champion
Lincoln High made far too many mistakes
against both Scottsbluff and South. Better
competition might easily have scorched
the Links all season.
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Dear Sir:
A few questions about
the University's current so
cial policy. I will keep this
letter down to a minimum
length because I realize
that the space I fill would
otherwise be dedicated to
advertising.
1) Why was this partic
ular time picked to start
enforcing a policy which
has apparently been on the
books for some time? And
why hasn't enforcement '
been continuous if the pow
ers that be are seriously
interested in our moral
standards?- And how is a
student supposed to know
how rigidly the rules will
be enforced when the qual
ity of enforcement varies
from moment to moment?
One suspects that the
administration's current
moral fervor and righteous
wrath was generated in
part by outstate opinion
that the University has
reached a state approxi
mating that of the ninth
circle of Dante's Hell. The
school administrators sent
out a vaguely worded note
some months ago which
intimated that fraternities
were about as uplifting as
Chinese opium dens.
I think it is possible that
the administrators of this
great institution, in all
their providential wisdom,
have decided that Nebras
kans may stop sending
their daughters to a uni
versity which promieses to
turn them into booze swill
ing hussies.
If this supposition is
true, it means that the
current crackdown is a
massive publicity stunt,
that the three fraternities
which have gone on social
probation and the several
students who have accom
panied them to that bleak
limbo have been used as
examples of the righteous
wrath with which this
school is permeated.
2) Has the Student Trib
unal been given the oppor-
Lenten Notes
Don't Just
Profess
Practice
By Rev. Darrell Patton
Methodist House
Every person who is gen
uinely interested in a mean
ingful life should be in a
continuous process of self
examination. There is al
ways a considerable dis
tance between the faith we
profess and the faith we
practice. If this is not the
case then our faith is not a
significant one. It is quite
easy to make professions
and much more difficult to
put them into practice. We
are prone to express a love
for our fellow man in the
abstract but fail to give
practical expression of this
love.
We are much like the man
who professed a great love
for children (having none of
his own), who after pouring
a new sidewalk was quite
angry when he observed
that the children of the
neighborhood had inscribed
their names upon the new
sidewalk. His neighbors re
minded him of his great
love for children, to which
he replied, "I love children
in the abstract but not in
the concrete."
This is typical of most of
us. We are willing to state
that we love everyone In
general but find it difficult
to love certain people in
particular. Let us be hon
est enough with ourselves
during Lent to make a sin
cere effort to close the
breach between that which
we profess and that which
we practice.
tunity to judge any of the
students who have been
deprived of social priv
ileges during this month's
reign of terror? If not, why
not? And isn't it grand
that since the Student Trib
unal charter went into ef
fect, we have been living
in a Utopia?
3) Doesn't the University
administration realize that
its policy is impossible to
enforce? And that any pol
icy impossible of enforce
ment can only become a
laughing stock in time?
4) Why hasn't the ad
ministration followed the
precedent established last
year when it turned two
cases involving alleged so
cial violation by fraterni
ties over to the IFC for
judgment? Were those two
cases last year turned over'
to the IFC only because
the Office of Student Af
fairs found it inconvenient
to enforce the rules at that
time? Or was this action
taken as a sop to the stu
dent body to convince the
undergraduates that they
were really important and
that their best intersts
were being nurtured by an
administration which is
just a great big mother to we register ourselves as a
us all' social function?
5. I have two room- OutrMMasb,
mates this semester; must Steve Scnultx
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