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EDITORIAL
Friday, March .2, 1962
NATIONAL STUDEN ASSOCIATION
Should The Campus Vote?
The Student Council has now voted
twice to withhold affiliation vote from
the student body over the National Stu
dent Association issue.
It was interesting to note that the vote
margin slimmed from 19-7 to 13-12. It is
very probable that Miss Herbie Nore will
bring the motion up again next week and
very possible that it will pass.
It is the opinion of the Nebraskan that
the motion should be removed from the
table and the merits of an all campus
vote at least discussed. It also is our
opinion that the final vote for or against
.affiliation should be left to the student
body.
We are very happy to note that this
issue has finally generated not only inter
est on the Council itself, but throughout
the student body. However, everyone, in
cluding the Council, is clammoring for
more information, both pro and con.
At this stage of the game, the Nebras
kan has not developed an opinion or a
philosophy in regards to whether or not
we should affiliate with NSA. However,
we have began to research the topic and
have requested information from several
sources. We hope to present both sides
of theMssue as best we can and reserve
the right of endorsement or rejection for
a later date.
We also wish to encourage Panhell and
other groups to discuss NSA openly. The
first Panhell session was, in our opinion,
what they claimed it would be a dis
cussion of NSA pro and con. The ses
sion seemed to emphasize the pro and
generally c6uld be called a failure in
that most students (nearly all girls) left
without any more information than they
already had.
It would be advisable to do a little
digging and research before even holding
sessions on NSA or any other timely
topic.
Returning again to the central issue of
this editorial comment, we would like to
wholeheartedly urge Miss Nore to con
tinue her drive for an all campus vote,
or at least the opportunity to discuss its
merits on the floor of the council.
It might be argued that the student
body is not interested or informed enough
to make the decision. But we might ask
as one reader did in Thursday's Campus
Forum, doesn't the individual student
have a right to vote on whether he wants
to be a member of NSA?
We might also ask: Why promote stu
dent "apathy" by not allowing them to
vote? By stalling the decision, it is true
that interest will increase. But it is also
true that by stalling a decision, students
might develop an "I don't give a damn"
attitude and return to their "apathetic"
shell.
Congratulations to the Student Council
for developing an excellent issue. We hope
their study group will present information
to and by students that will help us all
to make up our minds about NSA.
FRAN NY AND ZOOEY
Shows Need for Tolerance
By William Kemper
First, this week I would like to clear
up something from last week. My revue
of ADVISE AND CONSENT stated "(Po
litical decisions) can never be found in
the reality of the present by men with
a firm grip on their conscience(s) and
their courage."
That sentence should read "(Political
decisions) can only be found in the reality
of the present by men with a firm grip
on their conscience ) and their cour
age." Accuracy, the editor says, is the soul
of journalism.
Buddy Glass, Zooey's brother and an
author, says in the book FRANNY AND
ZOOEY that his greatest weakness as a
writer is a tendency to be too clever.
That is also a failing of Buddy's cre
ator, J. D. Salinger, though perhaps net
his greatest. In addition to being too
elever, Salinger is complicated, obscure
and "tedibly, tedibly intellectual, old boy."
In the FRANNY part of the book, Sal
inger introduces Francis Glass, senior at
an eastern girl's school, aspiring actress,
inspiring beauty and practicing neurotic
on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
She is on the Yale campus for a football
weekend with one Lane Coutell, with
whom she. says she is madly in love.
That can't be because Lane is a stuffy,
intellectual, egotistical bore. To rescue
his heroine, Salinger lets her have the
nervous breakdown before Coutell can lay
a callous paw on her.
That takes care of the first 42 pages.
They are hard hitting and well-written.
When Franny collapses, the reader nearly
does too. When she comes to and her
neurosis bubbles Poetically forth, the
reader hat had all that his heart can
stand.
In Franny, Salinger has merely been
a reporter, and a very good one indeed.
The obtusity of his intellectualism does
not overwhelm the reader because it is
largely part of Coutell's personality.
In ZOOEY, all this repatorial skill dis
appears. Zachariah Glass (Zooey) is Fran
ny's older, actor brother. He is the only
one of four Glass brothers still living in
the family's New York apartment with
his parents and he, therefore, must cure
his sister.
From the beginning, the reader does
not doubt that he will be able to do it
All the Glass children, you see, are very
bright. The reader may therefore, legiti
mately ask why it takes so long and why
is he able to do it at all and what is a
"sempevirent" anyway?
There may be a good reason. Franny's
affliction takes the form of a religious
fixation she is fascinated by a form
of prayer, . repeating the name ..of . God
-over -end -ovennrtfl it actually becomes
a part of her.
Franny is attempting to reject all the
egocentricity, the mediocrity, the petty
pomposity which she finds in everybody.
Or to put it another way, she is trying
not to be a phony.
She is trying to do this by making her
life, her whole being, God centered, rather
than ego centered or man centered. But
Franny leaves out one of God's primary
ingredients tolerance. Without that, she
is not religious, merely sanctimonious.
It takes Zooey a long time to give
Franny tolerance. In the process, he also
gives the reader a sophisticated meta
physical analysis of Buddhism, Hindu
ism, Christianity and several more minor
and exotic sects, all this in good old
American slang complete with cuss words.
In the end, it is not too bad. Salinger
makes Christ seem real. He is much less
the fairy story person of your fourth
grade Sunday School class and much
more the brilliant intellect, the superbly
human, man-God that the bible makes
him.
As a strong statement of the Christian
faith from a member of a class the in
tellectuals where strong faith in any
thing has become almost gauche'. Sal
inger's book is worth reading. But read
it with a dictionary handy. The author
preens his own ego with his language.
As I See It
7
On Monday, the people
who attended the Panhel
lenic discussion of the
NSA heard John Nolan
give exemplary material
from both the pro and con
positions toward the As
sociation, and Warren
Danskin discuss what
seemed to be his own
personal experiences in
the organization. Mr. Dan
skin referred to his ex
periences in the NSA as
"great," and proceeded
to give examples of
speakers he heard and
peopi he visited with,
presumably at NSA con
ventions. Mr. Danskin never
made it clear whether he
regretted these experi
ences, or was swayed to
vote Democratic hence
forth, or was able to ap
proach them with a crit
ical attitude and take
them for what they were
worth.
He said the controver
U ever NSA centered on
the philosophy which un
derlies the organization.
This philosophy is to stim
ulate students to know
their own role as students
in their own country and
throughout the world, to
study and endeavor to
solve the problems which
they, as students, share
with others around the
globe. Our decision will
be on the basis of this
philosophy: are we will
ing to accept the respon
sibility such a committal
would entfil?
Are we willing to ex
press a concern for stu
dents who live under dic
tator ships and are de
nied academic freedom?
Will we sympathize and
help students expelled
from their schools for
n o n-violent demonstra
tions to secure the civil
rights we have been fight
ing for for 300 years?
(The Justice Department
does, you know.)
Will we sponsor stu
dents to study in the
by joel lundak
United States, to prevent
them from accepting help
from Russia, when our
government sympathizes
with them but is power
less to take action? These
questions stem from the
"controversial" actions of
the NSA.
We, as students, on the
Nebraska campus must
decide whether or not we
are willing to broaden
our interests and begin
studying and trying to
solve some of the prob
lems which we, as adult
members of communities
and our nation, will face
and have to tackle with
in a few years. We must
also decide whether par
ticipation in the NSA
would be an effective
means of doing so.
I would join theTan
hellenic in urging each
student to follow the de
bates and express an in
formed opinion.
Thp "ollegiate Council
Continued on page 2'
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By SUE HOVIK
Dates, dances, pin
nings, functions, grades,
bad teachers and the big
lack of time are the main
topics of conversr' t
that float around this
campus when two or
more students get togeth
er. Most students, and I
don't think that this is an
exaggeration, live in their
own private world which
consists of the territory
guarded by the boundar
ies of "R", 17th, 12th
and Vine streets.
Occasionally students
venture out of th'. little
city of their own to hit
various Lincoln homes,
apartments, shows,
dances and restaurants
How many times do
you talk about such things
as foreign or intemation
al affairs, religions, philo
sophies, etc?
If you are like most of
us, you don't get around
to these topi, very often
and when you do, you dis-
wer to your amazerru ..;
that you don't know
enough about the subj ct
to be able to talk intelli
gently. Or, if you are one
of the more fortunate stu
dents, you discover that
the conversation has ac
tually been interesting
and enjoyable.
Why don't we talk more
often on topics of a cul
tural nature? Could it pos
sibly be that we have for
gotten all the aspects of
the reason that we came
to college?
That reason is know
ledge: in the social, aca
demic, and cultural sense.
"f I am not mistaken, the
social aspect is being
taken care of very well
and the University is giv
ing us the opportunity to
fulfill the academic part
of our education.
However, nobody is
pushing us into the cultur
al part of the process of
learning. This is left en
tirely up to the individual
but the opportunities are
more than abundant for
attending events of a cul
tural nature.
If you don't care for
operas, singing and con
certs, i e are many
events .hiring art, in
ternational affairs and lit
erature. The variety of -events
is numerous and
provides for interests of
every kind
We should consider
ourselves lucky that the
option of going to these
events or not is left up to
us. At least one univer
sity requires all freshmen
to attend all-university
convocations.
That should not be the
answer to this question,
because if you don't want
to attc-d these e nts you
are not going to enjoy
them or learn from them.
I'm not advocating go
ing all-out on a culture
move. Other events, - -H -u
and academic, are all an
important part of our edu
cation, but let's try to
bring culture more" into
perspective with the oth
er phases of college life.
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