Friday, March 18, 1960
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The Daily Nebraskar.
Editorial Comment:
Protests Poor Approach
To Civil Rights Problem
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t About 10 days ago the United States Na
tional Student Association sponsored a
day-long student protest in Washington
Square In New York City.
And at tha same time, other similar
demonstrations were urged and planned
across the country in revolt of the the
ever-present racial problem in the South.
The purpose of the demonstrations was
to show support of the battle now being
fought by Southern Negro students for
equality of education, facilities and treat
ment; and to show student concern with
the civil rights problem in America.
The nationwide protests began with dem
onstrations on the East Coast and smaller
sympathy demonstrations were docketed
to begin at noon in each time zone. Also,
several protests were held on campuses
and a deluge of telegrams poured into
Nashville; sTenn., to support 100 arrested
students.
The USNSA is evidently trying to solve
the racial problem by conducting and
sponsoring student revolts. It seems rather
unusual that such an organization repre
senting American college students would
take such means to focus attention on an
issue in a nation where revolts and dem
onstrations are frowned upon.
Moreover, it seems unusual that these
efforts are being conducted when the Sen
ate and House both have been in session
several weeks considering the question.
The method used in the Senate may not
appear as the most civilized approach to
the problem what with all-night sessions
and such, but to call attention to a prob
lem currently on the floor of Congress
seems a little ridiculous.
And it is hardly in good taste to conduct
demonstrations in a nation where issues
are taken into account in debate and
session.
America Is aware of the civil rights
problem has been for years and now is
doing something about it.
A student revolt, especially one spon
sored by a national student association, is
not a very mature approach to calling at
tention to a major issue.
Borrowing pages from the book of ac
tivities of students in other countries
doesn't always work especially when the
present leaders of this country are acting
themselves on the problems these self
assumed leaders of tomorrow already are
trying to effect.
Rocky's Tax Plan May Backfire
Last week the New York State Tax
Commission, which has been following a
tax-raising policy under the administration
of Nelson Rockefeller, issued a statement
directing parents to itemize "income of
dependent minor children from personal
service compensation."
Tha decree invoked protest from many
of the state's young babysitters, paper
boys and soda jerks. Most irate comments
came from parents, however. Many
claimed the Commission would foster
juvenile delinquency and decrease car
sales if it effected tax assessment of min
ors. One parent even sent State Tax Com
mission President Joseph H. Murphy two
cents.
According to federal law, dependent
minors are given tax freedom on up to
SO0 yearly earnings. The .New York rul
ing to assess taxes, according to commis
sioner Murphy, has been on the book for'
40 years. He said he was only trying to
"end confusion" by "clarifying" the tax
form.
The case might well have been more
than this, however. It is suspected .that
Nelson Rockefeller has his eye on the 1964
Republican presidential nomination. With
this in mind, Rockefeller has set out to im
prove the economic condition of his state
with a prosperous state-prosperous nation
analogy in mind, a good running point for
1964.
Rockefeller, however, needs to keep in
mind who many of his home state's voters
may be in 1964. The soda jerks and baby
sitters of 1960 may well be legal voting
citizens four years from now and the
memory of a governor who took often as
much as $100 in taxes out of their yearly
earnings could be a bit unfavorable.
The New York Daily News quoted a car
toon showing a young babysitter "learning
a lesson in cupidity," but Mr. Rockefeller
may find these wage earners aren't so
"cupid" after alL
Staff Comment:
A Leftist's View
The Student Council will present an
orientation session this Sunday for var
ious officers of campus activities. The offi
cial letter which the Council sent to each
president said the session would be held
at 1:30 p.m. in the Union Ballroom. The
Union is locked until 2 p.m. on Sundays.
Did someone goof?
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Kosmet Klub has been coming out with
some really eye-catching publicity for their
spring show, "The Pa
jama Game." Have heard
that the production is
shaping up very well the
campus and Lincolnites
should support this.
I'm anxious to see how
they do the Hernando's
Hideaway scene. It's so
mystic.
.The Admin Istration Sandl
struck out Wednesday. It
was the perfect flay for classes to be
called off. Maybe it was the middle of the
week and most students were on campus
but what about professors who had to get
up at terrible hours and shovel themselves
to the campus?
They'll all probably have heart attacks
or something.
But students need a vacation too. We've
been holed up during this great winter just
a tad too long and a free day would have
been a great morale booster. Instructors
have ceased being inspired and lectures
are painfully dull.
Come tha list spring day and something
By Sandi Looker
Is going to happen. It's one of those things
you can just feel.
The New York Times carried a story
about two weeks ago which pointed out
that students taking entrance exams at
Oxford University will no longer be re
quired to take a Latin proficiency test. It
is expected that Cambridge University will
adopt the same policy soon.
Good deal. Two scholarly institutions are
arising from the dead.
Educational institutions in the United
States have been steering ,away from
Latin and toward modern languages like
French, Russian, Spanish and German for
some time.
It used to be that everyone took Latin.
Now there are very few who are even
qualified to teach it.
Those who are still proponents of the
dead language are from the old school, in
my opinion, who attach some kind of
learned prestige to Latin.
The Times story said that some who still
favor having Latin taught feel that it is a
good background for English. This always
amuses me. If a person is interested in
having a good background in English why
doesn't he study English?
Bargain of the week a nickel pepsl in
the Crib. I guess the nickel glasses died.
Dime Dixie cups are nicer anyway espe
cially more than half full.
There's a mystic door on the west side
of the hall, first floor, of Soc. Painted on"
it is "Office of the-." That's all it says.
It's always closed. I wonder .
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by john f. else
World Government
To the Editor:
I hope my readers recall
the letter from the gradu
ate student in economics at
the University of California.
He proposed a voluntary
payroll decuctions plan as
charity for underdeveloped
countries.
Though I highly commend
his idealism and generosity,,
I must say that such a
plan could cause more
harm than good. This char
ity could allow governments
to feed their populations
temporarily without making
efforts to solve a basic
problem: the population ex
plosion. Aided by the proposed
charity, the populations of
underdeveloped countries
might expand at a rate
faster than the charity and
scientific developments to
aid them (and this has been
the case all over the world).
The result would be that
the charity would cause a
larger population problem
and more misery than now
exists.
, Again this proposed char
ity could cause more harm
than good by supporting un
just and inefficient govern
ments. It could either sup
port or be lost in inefficient
and unjust economic sys
tems among these under
developed countries.
My apologies to the pro
poser of this charity for
criticizing a plan developed
out of such laudable mo
tives, but the best of Inten
tions caa cause great harm
if the wrong methods are
used.
Obviously something
should be done, but what?
The answer is that a world
government, with social and
economic justice, must be
established. It does no good
for nine nations to prepare
for peace if a 10th nation is
preparing for war.
It is unfair for nine na
tions to work hard and limif
their populations while a
10th increases in laziness,
population and misery; we
really cannot expect these
nine nations to support the
10th.
Those nations which are
least cooperative in estab
lishing the security of the
world are the very nations
which most need to be dealt '
with.
A world government is
needed to treat them like
wounds in the world body.
A world government would
abolish military and eco
nomic rivalry, and these
energies could be used for
the common good. "
Cooperation would be ex
pedited. Without this world
government, economic de
velopment will be severely
hampered by selfish gov
ernments, international ri
valries and inefficient eco
nomic systems.
Melvyn R. Elkelberry
Union Thanked
To the Editor:
To Whom it may con
cern: From Upsilon chapter of
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia,
just a note of thanks to
Dottie Holcombe, the Union
Board and to anyone else
who helped to make "Por
traits In Jazz, II" such a
huge success Tuesday eve
ning. Without their help and
cooperation it would have
been impossible to make
the concert a success.
Due to their outstanding
help we will be able to of
fer a scholarship to an in
coming freshman next fall.
This, we believe, is what
makes the Nebraska Union
an outstanding and enjoy
able student activities cen
ter. Thanks again to the Ne
braska Union.
Upsilon Chapter
Phi Ma Alpha Sinfonia
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Else
It has been said that the
primary purpose of an ed
ucational institution can be
easily detected by observ
ing what activities cause
the s t u
dents to get
excited
This must
exclude, of
course, the
of un
expec ted
winter
holid ays
caused by
"a c t of
God."
A look at Yale, one of the
highly praised Ivy Colleges,
might serve as a good ex
ample (or poor, depending
upon what is being proved).
One cause for excitement
came when two "good-humour
men" (ice cream
venders) decided they
wanted to sell on the same
corner.
The students chose up
sides with their favorite
vender, or the favorite ven
der of a friend, or their
favorite vender of a friend,
or the favorite of a friend
of a friend ... and had a
brawl which made the news
across the nation.
Then there was the or
ganized snowballing of po
licemen, which led to the
arrest of several students,
and again Yale made the
headlines.
In contrast to this, I re
cently heard of a young
man who was visiting a
Swedish college campus.
He came upon a large mob
of students standing before
the administration building,
and when a man came out
onto the -steps and made
an announcement, they sud
denly went wild, hoisted a
student onto their shoulders,
and tramped off amidst
shouting and singing.
Asking what all the fuss
was, who the football hero
(or basketball star or ac
tivity king) was, the young
man was shocked when told
that the announcement was
of grades, and the "hero"
was the boy who had re
ceived a perfect grade
average. (Well, I guess we
do put their pictures in the
paper. That's something.)
It makes one wonder, as
he gazes at our University
and, more generally, all
American colleges, just
what the purpose of our
"educational institutions"
is. Maybe our anti-apathy
groups co'.'ld contribute
something of significance
to the cause of education
if they tried channeling the
"school spirit" into the
veins in which such spirit
belongs in an institution of
higher learning.
One thing is sure, that
there oughta be a re-evaluation
by the students and by
the administration of what
the purpose of this institu
tion is, OR ELSE . . . they
are liable to wake up to
the fact that our purpose
is not what we profess it
to be.
Review Day Dropped
At Skidmore
Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
(IP) A recent change in
the exam period at Skid
more College has eliminat
ed the "days of review"
and arranged final exams
so that no student has two
tests in one day.
The change was first dis
cussed In the Student Cur
riculum Committee, then
with the Faculty Curricu
lum Committee, and was
finally approved by the
Registrar.
According to Wendy Wy
ati, chairman of the stu
dent committee, "We were
interested in avoiding the
litaatloa where students
had two to four exams la
a row, especially la the
first two days of the exam
College
period.
'To us, the most logical
idea was to take the exams
scheduled for Wednesday
and Thursday and spread
them over the four morn
ing periods beginning Mon
day. "Thus it would be pos
sible for a student to have
two exams in a row or
two oa one day."
Under the new plan, each
student has the weekend
to study and although she
gives up here two days of
review, exams are spaced
allowing free time to study
before each one.
Also, in most cases, a
student has one full free
day during the first four
days of the exam period.
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