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EDITORIAL
Role of Council
Finally Realized
Despite our disagreement with the Student Council's
meeting behind closed doors, it is gratifying to know that
behind those doors somebody is finally lighting a fire
under the Council and we may get some positive action
other than a report of which organization filed its list of
members and which didn't.
It has long been evident that the Council has not op
erated as a strong organ of student government. Rather
it has been more of a clerical organization, supervising
elections and seeing that organizations remain in good
standing. A student governing body is only as strong and
effective as the various issues with which it concerns it
self. For this reason, the points brought out Friday by
Chip Kuklln during the executive session of the Council
show that the big step has been taken in recognizing that
there are many areas into which the Council can branch.
The suggestion that the Council might investigate the
merits of compulsory ROTC and take a stand on the is
sue through a resolution shows considerable foresighted
ness on Mr. Kuklin's part. Since the students are not or
ganized in a manner to voice their feelings on such an
issue, it is vitally necessary that the Council sound out
student opinion on ROTC and take a stand for or against.
The suggestions for looking into the quarter system
as a possible calendar basis for the University rather than
semesters and also the possibility of a five point grade
scale are sound ideas. Doubtless, the administration or
faculty committees have examined or are examining
these changes, and there is no reason why the Council
shouldn't do the same on behalf of the student.
Other points which Kuklin brought out are worthy of
note, such as sending a Council representative to legis
lative hearings concerning the University, calling for a
report from the Tribunal every two weeks and from the
Pub Board after every meeting, promoting the University
to high school students in Nebraska, investigating the
possibility of one way streets, bringing persons of na
tional interest to speak on campus and having a body
familiar with the Publications Board and the Student Tri
bunal select or aid in the selection of members for their
respective organizations.
Requiring more of each individual member, such as
having all responsible for knowing and understanding the
constitution of the Council, having representatives talk
with the deans of their respective colleges and earning
the respect of the University all show an interest in see
ing the Council take on the duties that it has long been
neglecting.
Admittedly, there are some points that would not
have a place on the list of Council repsonsibilities. But in
the light of the other points, these can be ignored. What
is important is that there is someone who is aware that
the Council cannot be any stronger than it is now, unless
its members recognize that their duties consist of more
than just coming to a 30 minute meeting every Wednes
day plus a short committee meeting before or after the
regular session.
The ball has started to roll and it is up to the Council
to get behind it as a group and keep it moving. There is
plenty of room on this campus for an effective student
voice through the Council and if we don't hear it soon,
we will look elsewhere. Spring Days are fine as are offi
cial migrations, but more than ever the student's role is
increasing in this day and age and there is' no reason
why we at Nebraska should not play a mature part in this
Tole.
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Reader Replies
To Letterip
To the Editor:
In regard to Dick Stuck
ey's letter (Oct. 19) may
I say it is nice to have
friends. It is obvious in Mr.
Stuckey's letter that this is
the source of his remarks.
It might interest Mr. Stuck
ey to know a bit about Mr.
Boroff's experience. Out
side of his classes in
Temple Building he spent
the past summer In pro
fessional summer stock.
The purpose of a review is
not, I repeat not, to say
nice things about everyone
so they will be happy but
rather to state what is good
and bad about the per
formance. A true critic takes for
his standard an ideal per
former, in this case "the
ideal Review"." He then
proceeds to point out the
areas where the actual per
formance fell below the
ideal standard. These
standards are set by the
critic himself and not by
the little god called
Temple. These standards
re within the realm of his
experience and if his ex
perience 4s only in off col
ored jokes and ill at ease
presentation then he would
no doubt agree with you.
However, there are some
(even outside Temple) that
desire higher standards.
The point of this is to point
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OPINION
out to Mr. S. that his only j
real complaint of Mr. Bor- ;
off's review was that it i
happened to tell the truth, j
Do you then, Mr. S., object i
to the truth when it says i
your friend did not M. C. j
the show as well as he !
could have? Come on, Mr.
S., a college student should
realize by this time that
truth is not necessarily
flattery. I'm sure that Mr.
Boroff did not go out of his
way to insult your friend.
It would not be assuming
too much to say that I am
also sure that if one of the
professors of Temple gave
a performance similar to
that of your friend he
would have had the same
things said about him.
I would also like to point
out that if Hollywood made
a motion picture of the Bi
ble starring the original
cast that they probably
would glamorize it com
pletely out of proportion.
However, I don't see what
this remark had to do with
your attack upon Mr. Bor
off. Maybe you were using
it to climax your other
wise illogical and irrele
vent argument against
the critic.
To conclude my com
ments to you, Mr. Stuckey,
don't feel downhearted
even if you didn't intellec
tually score a point; you
still have your frat brother
as your friend.
Maxine Jabenis
JJjer Knows
4 AT WtWJtD?
MINNEAPOLIS STAR
Don't Expect a
On Grounds of
By Eric Sevareid
! The final or manic phase
: of the political campaign
; has now seized the candi
; dates and ancillary orators,
; the phase in which frenetic
; p o hticians
I regret only
i those state
: ments that
lose them
votes what
ever the
loss of their
own dignity
or of the
co u n t r y ' s
fie xibility
of strategy
in a warring
This brief
Sevareid
world,
period is
al-
ways dangerous ana often
damaging for men and for
national policy. This goes
double for the present cam
paign in which, as we sug
gested weeks ago, a single
remark could decide the
outcome. Only mass euphor
ia obscures the sheer ghast
liness of a condition in
which the Presidency of the
! United States may be de
: cided by statements about
the presence of Nationalist
i soldiers on those two off
j shore islands soldiers kept
i there by Chiang Kai-shek in
I a primary hope of ambush
i ing America into war with
i Red China, weird as this
! may sound to those ignorant
; of what Chiang has been
j living for these past t e n
years.
In this phase of a Pres-
idential contest, as in a
; war, truth is hounded down,
I disfigured and tattered,
by half-truths, exaggera
j tions, innuendoes, cut-rate
j debating points, impossible
j promises and a blatant re
! writing of history that the
I editors of "Pravda" must
admire.
In terms of the search for
I truth, it is as preposterous
j to compare the oral tennis
I matches on television with
I the Lincoln-Douglas debates
! as it is to compare Que
! moy with Berlin in terms
i of the search for world safe-
ty. A spectacle of volley
i and counter volley in which
; neither man concedes a sin
I gle point or admits a single
! error, past or present, by
i himself or his party, is mere
; ly an exercise in point scor
i ing, a travesty on the de
i bating institution in its aca
; demic or parliamentary
: sense. Truth is neither tur
gid nor neatly packageable;
it is elusive, many-sided, a
harvest gathered only with
patience, humility and lar
gesse. On and off television the
hailstorm of selected facts
and claims, exaggerations,
Les both little white and big
black, is lashing the crop,
filling eyes, ears and nose
with dust and chaff.
No doubt a desperate
plaintiff or defendant (to
complete this mixed grill of
metaphors) testifying from
a witness chair perched on
a soap box in a shouting
courtroom cannot be re
garded as in full possession
of his faculties, so a mis
trial is not apt to be called
after Nov. 8 on grounds of
perjury. But, in the absence
of the recording angel, let
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us perform the functions of
the court reporter and jot
down a few of the non
truths so far loosed upon
the jury.
Considering first those of
an apocalyptic nature, rea
son whimpers in pain at Mr.
Kennedy's accusation that
Mr. Nixon is trigger-happy,
as it does at Nixon's solemn
assertion that loss of the
rocky ridges of Quemoy
and Matsu would lead us
into world war three. It
was Ike, not Dick, who cut
his palm showing Mamie
how to fan a six-gun; and
Khrushchev's game is
blackjack, not dominoes,
falling or otherwise.
And if Nixon's observa
tion that three Democratic
Y" 1 LUCKY STRIKE
I A DR. FROOD'S THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
Dear Dr. Frood: What should I look for first when I
look for a wife?
Searching
DEAR SEARCHING: Her husband.
Dear Dr. Frood: Our son has been in college three
months, and we haven't heard a word from him.
Not even a post card. I don't want him to think I am
too demanding or overprotective, but frankly I am
worried. What should I do?
Worried Mother
DEAR WORRIED: Why worry after only three months
in college? He's still learning how to write.
Dear Dr. Frood: I am six foot five, 225 pounds,
handsome, tanned, muscled, a good athlete. But I
can't get along with girls because I can never think
of anything to say. What do you suggest?
. Brawny
DEAR BRAWNY: "Me Tarzan, you Jane.
FROOD FAD SWEEPS COLLEGES! They laughed when Dr. Frood started the new
college craze of enjoying a Lucky while hanging from a coat rack. But now every
body is doing it! Smoking Luckies, that is. Today college students smoke more
Luckies than any other regular. Reason: With or without coat rack, Luckies deliver
the greatest taste in smoking today.
CHANGE TO
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ra THE
..6VJEK IT WAS
THAT MIKOM A
'Mistrial'
Perjury
presidents led us into war
means that they acted ar
bitrarily, we find our
self troubled by his claim
while defending Ike in the
first TV argument that
Presidents only do what the
people demand. He might
also now rewrite his St.
Louis speech of years ago
in which he praised Tru
man's courage for the Ko
rean intervention.
We note down, but with
invisible ink for sheer em
barrassment, T r u m a n's
claim that Nixon ''never"
tells the truth, Nixon's sanc
timonious concern that Tru
man's racy language will
corrupt our young, and Ken
nedy's claim that seventeen
(See Sevareid Page 4)
early to rise is an excellent way to avoid people.
LUCKIES and
Not
By Myron Tapadakis
and Bob Nye
Rest easy all organiza
tions, congregations and
unions, for today the core
of a custom will be laid
bare by our tainted and urn
eloquent ax. Today insti
tutions can breathe a sigh
of relief as t heir image,
although fragile and like
glass, teetering like cam
pus spirit, will remain un
broken for a while longer.
To digress for an instant
we understand that an in
structor in philosophy has
used one of our earlier arti
cles to demonstrate incor
rect, warped logic and false
argument. Good work sir, we
are sure it wasnt too hard
to find. This week we will
make it so easy that even
freshmen without any phi
losophy an pick out the
fallacies. One change the
errors won't be in our logic
this time.
Today we are going to dis
cuss the ancient traditions
of getting lavaliered and
pinned. No offense now
girls, but a word to (any
one that cares to listen)
"Girls are modest to a
fault, but among us are
faultless."
This being a true state
ment false premise, per
haps?) we shall continue.
Girls on this campus have
one main fault: they col
lect jewelry. This jewelry
comes in many forms, sizes
and values (monetary),
ranging from neck charms
(or n e c k i n g charms) to
safety pin size. The game
of put a charm around her
neck would be fine if there
weren't so many mercen
ary people on the east side
of the street. Apparently
the Balfour man will re
deem jewelry at 75 cost,
and being intelligent he has
gotten the word to those
concerned. After much
searching we found the
girls definition of "good
work" in our unbiased dic
tionary. It is the integra
tion from lavalier to Din
with respect to the shortest
amount of time.
There are many prob
lems posed by these cus
toms. One might be . . .
"Which one shall I wear
today, or if I don't wear
Bob's today maybe George
will ask me. (Besides Bob
isn't here.)
Oh well, guys, don't pan
Early to bed
Dear Dr. Frood: Don't you agree that every college
man has the right, in fact, the duty, to stand up and
speak out for the things he believes in? Tomorrow
1 am going straight to the college president and
tell him, politely but firmly, what is wrong here
the inferior teaching, the second-rate accommoda
tions, the bad food. My friends think I am wrong to
do this. What do you think?
Determined
DEAR DETERMINED: I applaud your spirit, young
man! Had I been able, I would have commended
you in a more personal letter. However, you forgot
to leave a forwarding address.
Dear Dr. Frood: I am puzzled by the Lucky Strike
slogan: "Remember how great cigarettes used to
taste? Luckies still do." I've been sitting here for
hours, thinking, thinking, thinking, but for the life
of me I can't remember. What should I do about
this?
DEAR FORGETFUL: I sug
gest you lean back, relax,
and light up a Lucky Strike.
I'm sure it will all come
back to you who you are,
what you were, where you
lived, everything.
get some taste
Product qf&Jfauuea iaea
Guilty
ic, prices range from
seventy-five cents to $1.25
for cheapies. Forego on
lunch at the Union which
will be no chore) and you
can give her a lasting sym
bol of your love.
There is one other prob
lem that confronts this cus
tom. It is not standardize
throughout the country. In
fact there are many small
schools that due to the lack
of fraternities have no such
item as a lavalier. Does
this mean social alienation
to these unfortunates? To
find the answer we wrote a
letter to the president of
the student body of Carle
ton College. The answer
states, "no problem exists
here at all. Nobody even
cares, for as soon as you
leave campus it's all for
gotten." And now, a word of ad
vice , , . If it fits, take it
off.
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and
Forgetful
for a change!
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