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The Daily Nebraskan
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IFC Makes a Choice
A major step in the right direction wa3
taken last week when the Interfraternity
Council passed the final points of its legis
lation regarding pledge training. The Ac
tive Training Creed, as it is titled, con
tains six points of ideals of the IFC fra
ternities and methods for achieving these
ideals.
This Creed represents hours of hard
work by its authors, and they are to be
congratulated for their foresight
For too long, fraternities have carried a
derogatory connotation with more than a
few members of both the community and
the student body. In some cases this out
look on the fraternity system was justi
fied. Shocking incidents revolving around
hazing activities have made it necessary
that fraternities take a thorough look at
themselves and realize the necessity of re
vamping their system to a position of re
spect in the eyes of every citizen.
The University IFC took it upon itself to
develop a unique program designed to af
fect all of its members and came up with
the Active Training Creed.
This creed calls for a scholarship pro
gram "conductive to scholastic achiev
ment;" a personality development pro
gram regarding dating, extra-curricular
activities, behavior and meal time atmos
phere) ; a pledgemanship program designed
for the "maintenance and propagation" of
the fraternity; and abolition of all degrad
ing pledge activities and hell weeks, with
penalties ranging from conduct warning
to maximum $500 fines.
This last point deserves more attention,
since such activities have probably been
responsible for the absence of better
scholarship, personality development and
pledgemanship,
, Several fraternities have already taken
It upon themselves' to eliminate hazing
and replace hell week with help week.
Since the introduction of these programs
the general standards of the fraternities
which have adopted them have been
raised to position of esteem well above
- that which they occupied previously. .
With the adoption of the Active Training
Creed, the IFC has done its part in im
proving the fraternity system. The job of
putting it to his inte i d use now lies with
the individual houses. Whether they fcbide
by thia Creed is for the most part up to
each fraternity. The IFC won't be able to
watch every movement of every house.
However, if a fraternity is interested in its
reputation along with that of the entire
fraternity system, it will abide by the
Creed.
Take Advantage
No one wants to be accused of being
trite, but one comment on today's Home
coming election seems very much in
order. One vote counts.
Yes there are deals houses doing block
voting, deals and all the rest. But these
are not so wide-spread nor so prevalent to
make the single vote ineffective.
In other words-now that the procedure
of elections has been changed let's take
advantage of it.
The Bands Played On
No matter how the game is played, the
one football clash that is always worth
seeing
This year's band day came on a day
when the weather couldn't have been
ter. The bands seemed to work better this
year than last year. The color, the sound,
the excitement of these high school stu
dents swarming onto the field in an order
ly fashion is impressive to say the least.
Our congratulations to Prof. Donald
Lentz for another superb performance.
Also a note of thanks goes to the many
high school band directors who work many
an hour to prepare their groups for their
big day in Lincoln.
From the editor's desk:
On Campuses 'n Things
That Lucy's a sharp little shrew. Rags
serve not only for spider killing but on
rainy days they represent the first line of
defense against rain and all those other
elements.
All of which leads up to the comment
that we are now in the midst of National
Newspaper Week. At last report that's
what we were running down here, so con-.
sider the comment made. As the staunch
est of Peanuts fans, couldn't resist reprint
ing the strip from last September in which
Lucy presented her chum with the flippi
fying dictum.
Speaking of newspapers, nine of us from
the School of Journalism were the guests
of an Associated Press managing editors
meeting in Beatrice Friday. Which again
convinced us that newspeople have more
fun than anybody.
Also must report that
In the midst of the festivi
ties (ummm . . such nice
steaks) at the prompting
of one of our profs (notice
how I carefully refrain
from identifying the good
Dr. directly) in our own
inimitable fashion we per
formed the Nebraska
Chant for this assembled
eroun of state dailv edi
tors with a few AP types and University
PR men thrown in.
Also we discovered someone who knew
both the words and melody to that rapidly
disappearing Husker song "come a-run-ning
boys" and I must say like the gal
In "My Fair Lady" that song has "Really
got it" in comparison to , "There is No
place.
In one of those really, really sage' dis
cussions that three persons trapped in the
second row of a station wagon for an
hour's drive set into, it was decided that
actually Nebraska songs aren't so bad.
Someone commented that when you're out
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at East Hills or Turnpike or at Colorado,
you sing the darn things with real gusto.
So why is it that you have to get away
from the campus before these things real
ly mean anything? '
And between Beatrice and here we con
cluded that the problem lies much deeper
than the songs, or the "spirit." Actually
what seems to lie at the root of the thing
is the sort of tense, huddle-with-the bunch
feeling that prevails on our campus. I'll
admit myself that when I'm sitting at a
game basketball, football or whatever,
if the people around are singing, I love to
sing with the rest. But if you are one in a
group of 10 and suddenly realize that you
are the sole vocalizer, it doesn't take long
before you become the tenth silent
member.
Like this is the other half of Stuckey's
comment that if the guy beside you
doesn't feel like yelling, don't try to make
him yell. This is the half that says if the
guy beside you feels like yelling or rattling
a noise-maker, maybe it'd be nice if you
didn't look at him as if he had just toppled
off the bar stool.
Speaking of games and yelling, I must
say that the Tri Delts and whoever was
sitting around them displayed consider,
ablly more enthusiasm at Saturday's
' game than did the red-blazered boys who
get special seats in return for cheering.
It's kind of too bad that when a spontan
eous yell starts it has to como from an
individual house with an eye to copping a
trophy rather than from a pep or niza
tion. But then I imagine the Tri Delts and
cohorts had more fun than the peppers.
And notice I have thus far refrained
from labelling the whole biz conformity.
But one word about conformity. Even if
the card section is supposed to be seated
during any card flashes if an individual
within the section feels that when the na
national anthem is played he should stand
even though it partially disrupts the pic
ture, I'd say more power to him.
Lucy's Really Got It
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Writing in America
Who's To Review the Reviewers
By Doug McCartney
No one who haa sampled
the delights of the English
literature courses and
compared them with much
of the current works, can
help but notice the differ
ence. One question which
arises from this observa
tion is "Are today's writ
ers exemplifying a new
trend a new type of
writing, or are they the
time-worn successes of the
past, slightly modified with
current public obsessions
such as sex?"
Final Judges
The people who make
the final judgment are the
critics. They are found re
viewing novels, movies,
TV, and any and all kinds
of writing.
Harper's Magazine an
swered saying, "The lead-.
ing writers of the times will
judge the critics. To them
also falls more accurate
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examination of today's
, writings." And this they un
dertook in the latest issue
of Harper's.
Now it falls to the public,
te criticize the writers who
review the critics who read
the nations writings.
One of the contributors
of the magazine, Bud
Schulberg, author of "On
the Waterfront" and "What
Makes Sammy Run" cent
ters his criticism on the
movie and TV industries.
He points out that about
the only people you don't
hear about in connection
with a movie, are the peo
ple who wrote it.
Back in the days of 5 P.T.
(pre-television) when the
movies were king, they
were also mass produced
and "about as full of real
life as a box of popcorn."
The nations top writers left
Hollywood, after seeing the
, essense of their scripts
wind up under the re-writers
pencil or on the cutting
room floor.
Popcorn Production
Schulberg writes, "In this
popcorn, mass-production
era, no wonder writers
. were tucked away in dark
corners, or hired and fired
out of hand like the iteiner
ant odd-job men they
were."
Then came TV, and as
Schulberg puts it, "the pub
lic seemed to be reaching
at least an enlightened
stage of adolescence." The
movies were forced to of
fer more than the slicks.
"The trend is in the direc
tion of a new, wide-open
kind of film making . . .
writers are encouraged to
write and produce and di
rect their own work . . .
for the first time in Ameri
can film history the writer
that is if he is willing to
fight for his right is be
ing given his head.
Vance Bourjaily, one of
the best of the young novel
ists who has tried play-writing,
Challenges television to
prove its worth. He calls
it "a challenga to our writ
ers without precedent in
the history of human cul
ture" then adds, "we seem
to have faced it squarely
with our backs."
One of the leading re
viewers, novelist Elizabeth
Hardwick, wrote a f e w
hard hitting statements in
her critiques. ,
"The condition of popu
lar reviewing has become
so listless, the effect of its
agreeable judgments so en
ervating to the general
reading public that the sly
publishers of "Lolita" have
tried to stimulate -ales by
quoting bad reviews with
the good."
"The truth is, one ima
gines, that, the publishers
seeing their best and
their least products re
ceived with uniform equan
imity must be aware
that the drama of the book
world Is being slowly, pain
lessly killed."
She poimed out that in
Book .Review Digest in
1956, of the reviews, 51
were favorable, 4.7 un
favorable, and most im
portant, 44.3 were non
committal! "The book reviews . t .
are marked by the same
lack of strenuous effort."
The author counters how
ever, that there is room,
for the individual willing to
put forth this serious ek
fort. And not only is there
room, but a serious need!
The next part wJl deal
with the, methods of writ
ing, featuring the criticisms
of Kazin, Yerby, MacLeish
and Brusteic.
Nebraskan Letterip
The Dally Nroraakaii will puMHn only too ajtteri which are elroeal.
Lettrm attacking Indiv.uiiala rouat carry the author a name. Otneri may
am Initial! or a prn name. LHlrra ahonld not exrwd 00 word. Whom
trltora exreed thl. limit the Nebraakan reerme the light to ondenie tbem.
MtaJnln thA arriter'a vlewa.
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Gaping Absence
To the Editor:
The whole problem of
school spirit on this campus
is tied up with the gaping
absence of effective rallies.
In the four years that I
have trod the pitted side
walks of old N.U., I have
not witnessed nor partici
pated in one good rabble
rousing riot.
Singing mournful chants
will neither endear the Al
ma Mater to the hearts of
her students nor instill in
their insipid little souls the
true spirit of mass hysteria.
What is needed is an all
university sit . down strike
for shorter assignments, a
gross looting of Love Li
brary, or mass march
through downtown, Lincoln
to remind the city folks
that the University is still
important
Nothing grows well unless
it is carefully nurtured. If
students grow accustomed
to rioting for such trivia,
no doubt a cause will move
them to even more impres
sive violence.
Rally, rally now for the
sake of more effective ral
lies in the future. Don't
let your school down!.
G.C.
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