Page 2 The Daily Nebrasftan Tuesday, December 8, 1959 Wanted: Young Turks Newsweek would like to know where are the "Young Turks?" So would a few million others. The "Young Turks" 'in Turkey were the ones who destroyed the archaic despotism and made way for modern government. The ttrrn lodged itself firmly in the American vocabulary into the lingo of the America that used to be the center of Young Turks. The term lodged but what happened to the people? To quote the ad in Newsweek: "Where is that traditional young Ameri can who takes the "Boy Wanted" sign out of the window and says to the boss, "I'm your boy"? "You know the lad I mean. The bell ringer, Up with the sun, Last to leap, Sweep the floors, Learn the line; Get to know the territories, Up off the canvas. "Shoot for the moon. Watch-my-dust! "We've had our bellies full of the play-4t-iafe boys. Where is that enterprising youth who's willing to stick his skinny neck out and make decisions? "He only has to be right 51 of the time to be a success," says Bruce Barton. America needs more young Turks. "(And more Old Turks who know how to recognize the Young Ones). "The kind of man who parachutes into darkest Africa and opens a chain of su permarkets in sixty days." Hit home? Met any young Turks lately? Sneered at any crack-pot dreams lately? Looked into any safe, responsible, secure, comfortable, guaranteed jobs lately? Harumppph. Hide heads, plead sophisti cation. Not applicable to college campuses? Each batch of exchange newspapers from other campuses yields at least one scath ing blast at the abominable, sticky apathy that is the No. 1 malignancy of our really beat crew. It's not just apathy about foot ball, or tradition, or all the other pegs that the old yeah, college used to be based partly on it's the pervasive apathy that extends to every nook and corner of liv ing. Like, why fight nuclear tests, we'll all be blown up in three years . . . like, why fight the system it's bigger than both of us . . . like, don't fight, city hall? . . .like, don't stick your neck out and nobody will notice you . . . like, just plug along and your turn for advancement will come . . . like, barf ... To cite "authority." A dean at Syracuse University termed apathy the major un derlying problem at his school. "This year, with the No. 1 team in the nation, we still don't seem excited . . . I've never seen the morale on this campus any low er than it is now. This apathy is not only on our own campus, but is affecting every other university I've recently visited." He added that there was a "cagey atti tude everywhere. We are afraid of being gung-ho, collegiate. When we have some thing we could crow about, we say, 'Well, all right.' ". Shades of Charlie Brown and Blahdom spreading everywhere has anyone any where noticed any Young Turks doing anything anywhere anytime recently? When Jazz Meets Poetry A real breath of something new seems to be blowing. It's a medley of jazz jazz plus poetry. The combination so far has added up to success not lukewarm, but real en thusiastic praise. It first hit campus over KUON, and in the Art Galleries where a jazz group teamed up with the poetry trio to see what a blending of the two forms would produce. It produced an audience that was sold, man. So jazz-poetry moves up-town, into the Pan American Room at the Student Union Thursday, where the John Marshall Sextet ' will supply the jazz and a talented trio will supply the reading. Ernie Hines, Bon ca Tebo Hayes and John Marshall are all pros at the game of oral communica tion. Their selections will come from tradi tional poets like Gerard Manley Hopkins, through Yeats, to Sandburg and our own Shapiro. Although we have not yet had the chance to hear a jazz-poetry combina tion, it's advocates stress the "nes dimen sion" it gives both to the poetry and the jazz. Bernice Slote, associate professor of English and a writer herself, commented that the combination produces a kind of emphasis to rhythm which is otherwise impossible to attain. She termed it a "syncopation liveliness." The Union has thrown the support of its huge background of publicity training in to the support of this "seminar." Poster makers have gone ape over publicity con coctions. All of which shows that tH Union can produce real quality enteiwiment at a low, low cost and of an intellectual and cultural value. Let's have more, more, more of this kind of offering. (Tickets are free at the main Union desk). Carol Concert The opening of the University Christmas music season was carried off in the usual fine fashion by the University Singers at their annual Christmas Carol Concert Sun day afternoon. The two performances given by the group which featured carols of foreign lands, a Bach cantata and original carols by University faculty members, were well attended, packing the Union Ballroom with some 1,400 good-music lovers. Staff Views : On the Other Hand By Sondra Whalen International students at the University of Kansas formed some rather pertinent definitions of America. Among them were the following: "America is where the girl expects the first kiss the second time you take her out" Too Busy To Think "America is where stu dents have to read too much to be able to think about it" "America is where stu dent advisers are abun dant Why not establish a special adviser to advise the advisers on the advice needed from the advis ers?" Several truly apt points indeed. I wish the University would offer a course where the only requirement would be to read one book every week or two weeks tad ge to class. The class would consist of students throwing the ideas and thoughts that they had read out for discussion. The book ly'T I X I Sondra could be on anything, fcition, non-fiction, etc. No busy reports, no outlines. Just ideas. Who knows? We might learn something! We're not the only paper which is cry ing "suppression of the news"! it seems. The Colorado Daily reports that "creep ing secrecy, the occupational disease of any bureaucratic organization, is slowly Infesting the bureaucratic bodies of the University." Among the organizations which have closed their doors were the Arts and Sci ences Faculty, a committee on student organizations and social life, the Univer sity Club, faculty senate and administra tive Council. Even the Board df Regents was accused of carrying on much of their business in secret sessions. Inaccuracy Grows The editorial makes the point that when the press has to obtain its information sec ondhand, chances for inaccuracy and omission grow. The top student governing body, how ever, is credited with "scrupulously keep ing all meetings open to the public". Daily Nebraskan SIXTY-NINE YEARS OLD Htmbart Associated Collegia t Press, Inter- ' mUetfat Fren BpreMBUUve: National Advertlslfij Serr lee. Incorporated Published at; Room SO. Student Union Lbtebh?, Nebraska Uta ft S , Talephoaa J-7SS1. ext. 4229, 4228, 4227 TSt IXH1 Nebrmxfem puMfeM Moaday, Taeodar. Wmt4Hr aed mean darlne the ecbeol mi, ept dnrtnn vacations M nam ewrlnnn. by sto4nta at tha CanrMMty at Nesweka aefer she Mtherizattoa rf the twmn'M e mwdeat Mair as mat examielea f m. ami mptxfnm. PoMmttiNi 4-r Mw larlMtictiea a tfte IMHnwwitio mm PaMliwrimn ehftll Im tm trmm mnlurtm esasnrnblp aa Mm pari a the Seneom wttee at aa tm part of any aieniaci af Ha taralty of tt littwa,, or tin pt at aay verm eateuie Sua fualreealu, Xa eaasaaars at aha Pail jffkeaefcaa) daft are aersennllr nt-amnlMa tor what they ear, a 4 enn ta be printed. February a Its!, aaaoertntlea rataa are $ par aaamtar at U far ta Entered aa second ansae matter at Mm pest office fa Uacela, Nebraska, under tha act at aunt 4. UU. EDITORIAL STAFF OlMa Maxwell M.narlnc Editor Carrot Kraoa Wewe Kdftor . ............... ...........aooilra Whalea Sport. Editor Hal Brmra Copy Editor .....Pat Dean, ftvxlra Laafcer, . Herb Prohasee Nlrht News Editor pat Dcaa Btatt Writers .Jaoaae Janecek. Keren la(, . Mike Mllrar. Ana Mayer "eportare Ifaaey Whltford, Jba Format, Jerl - Johnsoa, Harvey Peruana, Dirk Stock er B I' 81 K ESS STAFF Mmmw Katima AMIetaat Dadaeai Uaaacera Dob Feravsaa. Ok Ondr. Chanvae Oroea " Boat VoasoaW WMea Manager ...... ....MM...,M..AWafa acjera , ' OSMOSIS- Haecker - YE, ED ,' T WISH I HAD A0l TO COLLFGg EPUCATlOM, 1T6IV66 A MAM THAT C&KTAIN SOMETHING THAT HIM APOVg AMP APART FROM THE AVPA6e small talk By Ingrid Leder It used to be that all freshmen, both men and women, Greeks as well as independents, were re quired to wear beanies. This was less than ten years ago. This tra dition was first dis c"o ntinued among coeds, but until only a c o u d 1 e years ago Ingrid all fraternities still re quired their freshmen pledges to wear beanies, and perhaps next year these fraternities will also abandon this custom, and freshmen beanies will be come a thing of the past. Just one Example This is only one example of how the University of Nebraska is losing many of its traditions. When I was a freshman, if a girl wasn't a "coed" she just didn't rate, and each night you could see scores of couples by the pillars. But now the pillars are empty at night and an other tradition is fading out of existence. There are many other ex amples. Serenades are be coming fewer and fewer, trophy "borrowing" has be- Spell It Out Never let it be said that something wasn't cl arly explained. Like when something is or isn't happening, there has got to have a sign. Monday, when some work was being done in a tree in front of the Administration Building, a sign dutifully noted the following: "Man Working in Tree." No Sips, Drags Add Up Years Lack of alcoholic beverages and cigarettes were the, rea son for his long life span, a Falls City man claimed oe fore his death. Maybe it was so. L. A. Scott of Falls City died Saturday at the age of 103. j THE LETTER TrllS I U)A.."DEAR 1i ANTA,U)E HOPE W HAP A NICE I ' WAT MX YOU WWa).- N V0UAAN, I HIS VACATION ... "A MCE I EVEN SANTA QAL SWMEft'W WAS TO HAVE A I IMA&NE HE 60& Off SOWE PLACE TO RESXOf? PLAY SOLE CO M SOME SKIN CXVlN DON'T YOU THINK SO? For SEME reason r just CAN'T PICTURE SANTA OAlS SKIN CWIN0.' come highly frowned upon, and people are even talking about doing away with homecoming displays. I am sure that if we want ed to all of us could find reasons why the different traditions are being or should be discontinued. Ser enades are too noisy and disturb studiers. Trophy "borrowing" is unethical. Beanies look ridiculous. Homecoming dis plays cost too much money, etc. But I don't think that these reasons can ever out weigh the fact that tradi tions make students loyal to their school, and it seems to me that loyalty is one of the most important prere quisites for school spirit. Loud Alums Why do alums yell louder than most students at foot ball games? Why do "they stay until the very end of the game while some of us leave when Nebraska is be hind more than 10 points in the fourth quarter? Could it be that the alums have more loyalty because there were more traditions when they were in school? I won der. Traditions should not be judged by how much sense! they make or whether they have a material value but by whether they build loy alty in students. If there are some tradi tions which don't create loyalty in the student body, I'm all in favor of doing away with them, but let's keep the one's which do be cause , we don't have very many traditions anyway. Enough said. Perhaps last year's Mor tar Boards should have con sidered one more thing in selecting this year's crop, namely that there, are 14 sorority houses, the dorm, and several other women's residences? Since there are only 12 Mortar Boards, who's going to collect the late-date-night money at the remainder of the houses? A university Is really a rather weak and transient medium of achievement. The most it. can do for a student is to provide a prop er atmos- ' p h e r e which, if he is will in g, will "s t i m u late his na tural abilities. . A university can teach no one to think, nor can - it teach any formulas or truths for a successful and happy ..life. It can only expose a student to the means in which, if he applies him self, he can discover his own ideals and enhance his own mind. When a university be comes polluted with mass education, its level of pur pose is naturally pulled down to a common norm. This lowered norm is then determined by the degree of willingness in the stu dents to challenge them selves in the worthwhile endeavors of an education. Thus we have quality sac rificed for unselected quan tity and on top of this we place the added pollution of so called "training" or ex tra currlcular activities. In the lower grades this over concern with training can be blamed on the edu cational administrators and 1 IN A WAY 'dearsantA I CLARIS By George Haecker the educational system in general. But in a univer sity the responsibility is shifted more to the students (perhaps too much so) and, it is supposedly up to them to decide what is meaning ful and what is not. In a recent article in the Saturday Evening Post ti tled "The World of the Un educated," Adm. Hyman G. Rlckover points out the dif ference between training Aid intellectual education. He emphasizes the urgent need to distinguish between the two and to devote our schools to education, leav ing training for the home, church and natural experi ence. The Admiral believes that it is impossible to give both training and education in a normal school year. And as our schools and universities are the only common mean we have for an education, we should devote them completely to this pursuit and leave training or "life adjustment" activities to other means. Training does not broad en the intellect nor stretch the mind and our schools should not be retarded with the inclusion of those life adjustment skills that train ing is supposed to give. . Although the Admiral's concern was with second ary education I think our somewhat cluttered univer sity could well heed his words. 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