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ASSOCIATED WOMEN STUDENTS
Hour Change Three Cheers!
Rah! Rah! Rah!
Associated Women Students (AWS) has
liberalized its polky. This is probaly their
first, major progressive move in years.
The girls are cheering, the boys are hys
terical and the administration and AWS
leadership are patting themselves on the
back.
Girls now can stay out until 1:00 a.m.
on BOTH, not just one, but BOTH Friday
and Saturday nights. It's only a half hour
more for the weekend, but at least it's a
start for the liberalization of women's
hours and regulations.
Second, and probably the most import
ant change, is the abolition of the AWS
court for every violation. Those of us who
have watched this court in action over the
past semester have left the meeting in
stitches! The excuses the honeys give the
group of arbitrary decisions are really
sharp' and have indicated some real
thought.
But this is no more. Hie dollies will
have to give the excuse to house reps and
the housemother. They will mass the
NATIONAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION
Why Not
Mr. Edward Garvey. president of the
United States National Student Association
(NSA), will be the featured speaker at to
day's convocation. This is the first step in
the important events surrounding affilia
tion with this organization.
We have published materials from other
campuses. We have published columnist's
views, cartoon criticisms, and special re
ports. Many organizations have gone on
record either for or against. Many groups
have had quiet pressure groups in action.
Many organizations have spent hours
studying the question.
Now the horses round the bend. We come
toward the climax of the race. We see the
leaders of various groups uneasy about
the event ahead. Today, Mr. Garvey, the
man who should know the answers to the
many, many criticisms, will be here and
those who h a yakked about NSA have
THE chance to find out NSA's position.
What questions can yon ask? We feel the
the first and most important one is WHAT
WILL NSA DO FOR OUR CAMPUS,
SPECIFICALLY? Is NSA truly represent
ative of its constituents? Is it too involved
in national and international issues to be
affective in any single area1 Is it a rail
Hie Little Tilings on Campus
BROTHERS FROM
Yes. I am back again
for two reasons; first, to
apologize for the absence,
and second, to share some
thoughts with you this
time on Peru in South
America.
Have you noticed that
The Crib at the Student
Union sells "Toasted
Krazy Kora Imported
Maize from Pern?" The
package carries the fol
lowing copy:
"High in the Peruvi
an Andes, known as the
birthplace of maize
(corn), Indians have for
centuries grown limited
amounts of giant-sized
corn for ceremonial
feasts and celebrations.
This corn is grown at
12,000 feet altitude and
will grow no place else
in the world . . . Krazy
Kora ... is a delicious
cad healthful saack
product to be enjoyed
; by young and old alike."
' Most o? m when we
: think of Sooth America,
two pictures come to our
; minds immediately: that
of beautiful, charming
-seonrUat and of the fiery
revolutionists. But the
map of Pera is a map of
land, men, and history.
To the Incas (the original
inhabitants), the territory
' ef Pen was the whole
world. They called their
empire Tawantinsuyo, the
four regions of the earth,
end tnir capital was
Cbzco, which means "the
savll" la Quecbua. The
four regions they distin
guished were: the forest,
, the mountains, the pla
' teau, and the coast.
Then suddenly Peru
ceased to be the world.
The Spanish arrived, ob
served, and gave names
of their own to the main
geographic features. They
divided the country into
the three classic regions:
the coast, the Sierra, and
tie Montana. This arbi
trary and incomplete clas
sification leaves out other
perfectly well-defined na
tural regions and it does
not take the human fac
tor into account.
The ocean is often over
looked when one speaks
cf the coast, but several
reasons combine to make
It en Inseparable part of
the g nography of the coun
try. The sea was a divin
Find Out Today?
ity to the ancient Peru
vians and there are nu
merous native shrines
along the coast, dedicated
to the sea god ' and the
heavenly bodies. The most
famous is the shrine of
Pachacama, near Lima,
which faces several small
islands that are, accord
ing to the Indian (Ameri
can Indian, please!) tra
dition, real sleeping prin
cesses. The deep cultural back
ground of Peru, without
the wheel but with lots of
cloth, stems from its
marvelous climate, im
possible topography, and
magic outburst of vege
tation in little bits of land.
Two opposite character
istics helped make the
Peruvians master weav
ers: a climate that is
unique in the world, free
from rain, hurricanes,
freezing, or sunstroke, a
climate that is Providence
itself and that kept the
people safe and happy
with no great effort; and
a landscape that is tre
m e n d o u s, exhausting,
overwhelming, that
brought them together
only in isolated spots, and
against which the wheel
is useless. The Spaniards
had to conquer them on
foot with a few horses
that had to learn to step
like goats and camels.
The chariots of Alexan
der, Caesar, or Attila
would have sunk in the
sand or fallen over a
cliff!
Lima, the capital of
Pern, began as an out
post of Spain and hag re
tained much of its Span
ish heritage, in architec
ture and customs. To this
place we owe the literary
works of Ricardo Palm a,
and his successors Jose
Galvez and Jose Diez
Canseco. But it is also an
austere and historic city,
progressive and hard
working, as shown by its
role In the War of the Pa
cific and in the Pierola
Revdlution; by its con
tinue a c expansion, in
which modern architec
ture harmonizes amiably
with the many gardens.
The cultural work of the
four-hundred-year-old Uni
versity of San Marcos is
backed by museums that
points and give the girl her earned pen
alties. Finally, maybe there will be some
equality in judgements and decisions
made by AWS.
Why did they change? Well, we do not
believe the board has been happy with
its own arbitrary actions and have final
ly agreed to be halfway progressive,
fhey listed as their reasons: to make the
system more equitable and penalties more
consistent; to make penalties known in
advance; to cut down on the court cases
and to help discourage negligent conduct
such as the passionate male overstaying
himself at the door by a minute or so.
Now, AWS moves onward. What they
will do next is as unpredictable as women
themselves. Maybe they'll consider senior
keys. Maybe they'll give a girl a chance
to run her own life. Maybe they'll stop
making their pledges into freshman gun
ners. Maybe they will forget about push
ing people who could care less into activi
ties. But at least they are moving. Yes sir,
and we hope they will go a little farther
road organiaztion? Who are the financial
backers? Other than the member schools
jnd why do they have this Interest? Why
AREN'T minority views listed with major
ity decisions? Even our supreme court
does this.
Is there a lack of real background, both
sides, surrounding the decisions made by
NSA congresses or the executive council?
Or are they hurried and often premature?
Is their a faulty system of representation?
Are groups controlled in so far as who
they may send to congresses? Are their
representatives qualified? Is this a respon
sibility of NSA or the local group? Are
qualified individuals important to NSA?
Do we want Nebraska labeled as a mem
ber of NSA when often we might be in a
minority position? Should affiliation be
based on our moral obligations and not on
the basis of factual and need and the bene
fits that we can gain7 Is the NSA really as
affective abroad as it claims to be? How
strong is its voice on the committees and
organizations on which it is represented?
Let's get out and hear Mr. Garvey. He
is a very fine speaker, very impressive
and smooth in his methods of operation.
And he SHOULD have all the answers.
Far A
way I
have collected representa- i
tive examples from the I
various millennia of Per-
avian art.
The Sierra, or Andean I
Cordillera, is the back-
bone of the body of Peru.
Here lives the majority 1
of the population, predom- I
inantly Indian, and many I
of the Inca customs are f
still observed. The Peru- 1
vian Indian has main-
tained many customs and I
institutions from pre-Inca
times. It must be remem- f
bered that long before the
political organization of
the Incas, the inhabitants
of the Peruvian Andes
lived in groups known as
ayllus, in which the land
and the work were divid- 1
ed proportionately under I
a regime for communal
use and distribution of 1
wealth. The ayllu was not 1
merely an economic or 1
ganization b"t ne hv 1
man society that recog-
nized a common ances-
tor or totem and showed
its group spirit in cus- I
toms. dances, and rites I
This social nucleus has
been substantially ore-
served down to the pres- s
ent time. I
There Is also the world
famous liquor of Pern, I
the fiery "pisco," made
from the sweet, Juicy
grapes of lea, and indis-
pensable accompaniment
of the spicy cnisine and 1
the soul of the revelries I
at which one dances and
listens to music as gay as
it is elegant; the marln- I
era, tondero, the Pernvi- I
an waltz, and the polka. I
The capital of Lima has 1
Its own tea hour, as ele-
gant as it used to be in I
Madrid in the '20's. Worn- I
en and their beautiful
daughters sit stiffly, I
speechlessly, dressed by 1
Fath and Dior, loaded i
with jewellery and dia- I
monds, sipping tea. They I
are particularly adorable s
because they have a ma-
ternal and inexhaustible f
telluric store of comba-
tiveness: their tenderness
is invincible. Everything I
favors this store the i
eternal springtime and
the geography that brings I
people together. "Long
live the telluric store of
combativeness." s
I Writer Urges
World Peace
1 To the editor:
The week of April 15-21,
1962, has been designated
I as Week For World
Peace, and is being ob-
served by civic, religious
and labor groups a 1 1
I across the country. In con-
nection with this observ-
ance, we invite all stu-
dents at the University to
express their opinions on
1 the various problems re-
lated to peace.
To this end, the Univer-
sity of Nebraska Student
Committee for a Sane'
Nuclear Policy is distri-
buting a questionnaire on
the campus this week in
an attempt to assess stu-
1 dent attitudes on these
issues. Please take a few
minutes of your time to
consider the issues care-
fully, and then to express
your opinion through the
brief questionnaire, which
I will be available at booths
in the Student Union and
Love Library on Wednes
day and Thursday, April
18-19, and at other cam
pus locations during the
week.
In these times of ever
increasing reliance on the
use of violence as the fi
nal solution of interna
tional differences, join
with us in a rededication
to the search for peace
ful alternatives in dealing
with the grave political,
economic and social
crises facing the world to
day. University of Nebraska
Student Committee
For a Sane
Nuclear Policy.
Problem
Of
Week
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In
I would like to submit
the following statement in
response to Lt. Governor
Burney's "In Answer to
Goldwater" which you
printed Wednesday. You
are welcome to print my
statement in toto, but not
if altered.
It is rather appalling, to
have men in responsible
places (ranging from the
lieutenant governorship of
Nebraska to the presiden
cy of the United States)
who have very inaccurate
notions about the Ameri
can Revolution. Lt. Gov.
Burney thinks the colon
ists resented "an oppres
sive king who by simple
edict could impose heavy
taxes and dictate many
of the phases of people's
lives such as imposing
certain religious affilia
tions." Evedently he has not
heard of 18th century Par
liamentary and minister
ial government the
workings of constitutional
To
Early this year Dean
Breakenridge came to a
Mortar Board meeting to
ask for suggestions on administration-student
rela
tionswhat they are and
what they should be. This
was about the time when
the position of Dean of
Student Affairs was under
consideration. I had not
really thought about the
question and had little to
say. Lately, I have
thought a great deal
about it.
ATo Room Rush Agreement?
At 7 p.m., Tuesday, one
of the biggest farces ever
to sneak into the sorority
system may become a
reality.
The "no room rush"
proposal, which would de
pend primarily on (1) a
so-called "ladies' agree
ment", (2) "fearhss"
rush chairmen and Pan
hellenic delegates, and
(3) tattle-tale rushees who
would do what's "right",
regardless of retaliatory
measures against a vio
lating sorority and pos
sibly against themselves,
win be voted on by Pan
hellenic Council as one of
the proposed changes for
next year's rushing rules.
One blaring contradic
tion arises here.
On one hand, we slap
the sororities in the face,
saying, "sorry, but we
don't trust you enough to
conduct a legitimate, sin
cere room rush you
hot-box' the poor little
rushees and use unfair
tactics".
But then we sweetly
turn to them, saying,
"now, now, ladies, we
know youH be ladies,
and uphold the 'no room
rush' rule in a true lady
like fashion. This new set
up can't work unless we
all uphold a ladies' agree
ment!" And, of course, each
rush chairman and Pan
heUenic delegate will
fearlessly face their so
rority sisters and c o 1 d
heartedly state: "sorry,
sisters, I know how badly
we all want this rushee,
but I know that no other
sorority is going to break
the rules you know
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government or of the di
versity of colonial reli
gious affiliations. Presi
dent Kennedy, too, has
expressed a naive inter
pretation of what the Rev
olution was. He has been
guilty of grand-standing
to the new nationalists of
Africa by over-simplifying
the kinship cf Ameri
cans' repudiation of co
lonial status with the anti-colonialists
of our day.
What the popular mind
or the superficially in
formed mind evidently
does not realize is the
uniqueness of our Revolu
tionthat fact that Amer
i c a n colonists enjoyed
some of the most ad
vanced forms of self-government
within the Brit
ish empire that any men
ever have had within an
empire-the fact that 20th
century nationalism and
anti-colonialism is not
based on the comparative
degree of self-government
which our 18th century
admini and the faculty
Periodically, we are
bombarded from all sides
about the apathy on cam
pus. But, you know, de
spite all the accusations
there is an occasional
murmer of something be
ing done. People-to-People
has mushroomed, Mortar
Boards and Innocents are
sending speakers around
the state to talk to sen ice
groups about the Univer
sity, and a new campus
literary-h n m o r maga
zine is making a valiant
that no one on campus
ever broke the 'spiking'
rule so no matter
what the rest do and
no matter if we get hurt
for several years this
is for the good of the so
rority system as a whole
so no sneaky room
rushing, or I'll be forced
to report us."
Now, then, we focus our
attention on the strong
willed, stick-to-their-prin-ciples,
intrepid rushees.
Aware of the severe pen
alties to be administered
to a sorority violating the
"no room rush" rule, and
that they, as an individ
ual, could suffer indirect
ly, they would fearlessly
report that they had been
a victim of a sorority's
inflicting upon them such
wouldn't be at all flatter
ed, of course.)
This proposal might
also be unfair to some
sororities and favor oth
ers in that the general
proposed rushing area
differs physically accord
ing to each sorority.
The idea of eliminating
room rush is basically
sound, and I recognize ti e
fact that the University
of Nebraska is one of the
few campuses in the Fig
Eight on which room rush
now exists.
A question w'jy is it
that in private ronversa
tions, many Pinhellenic
representatives have
stated that they do not go
along with the present
proposal yet it was
presented without much
opposition and win be fi
nally acted upon Tuesday
night.
A realist.
everywhere.
forebears enjoyed and
which prepared them for
independence to a far bet
ter degree than many
20th century colonists.
The expressions of pub
lic figures concerning
American history would
seem to indicate that
many of our countrymen
probably need to correct
their knowledge of facts
and interpretations of our
national story.
It is certainly time for
the public to be schooled
in the facts that George
III was not a tyrant, that
American colonists were
not being deprived of ev
ery human liberty, that
the American Revolution
was a curious mixture of
innovation, of liberal
premises, and of main
taining old forms or con
servative of another, that
what was conservative
for one generation may
be liberal in another.
Don R. Gerlach
Instructor in History
University of Nebraska
debut. So what does this
have to do with you ad
ministrators and faculty
members? A great deal
. . . because the differ
ence between having and
not having these things is,
in the end, up to yon. Yon
may well be the differ
ence between a dynamic
student body or an apa
thetic vegetable garden.
You know that you can
squelch new ideas at any
time and it takes very
little in this way to start
back down the road to do
nothingness and why
botherdom. I am appealing to every
one of you to take an
interest in and believe in
honest student attempts
toward betterment. Don't
let this school fall any
farther into the backward
kind of conservatism that
says "Well, has it ever
been done b e f o r e?'
"Let's wait and see . . .",
"maybe sometime, but
not this year", or "What
are the chances of fail
ure?" These are the
things I've been hearing
all year for every new
idea, there is a negative
comment. And it comes
not only from the students
but from faculty and ad
ministration. Why is ev
eryone so afraid c-f fail
ing? How can anything
ever get done if no one
will take a chance?
I am not meaning to
sound insolent or a r r o
gant. I am appealing to
you, faculty and adminis
trators, to take a chance
on us the students. We
don't need negativism,
but good constructive,
positive criticism always
has its place. We are old
enough now to stand
alone. Heaven help the
world in five years when
we have no censor, no di
rector, if we aren't. Look
at our new ideas and posi
tive attempts (there are
too few of tht,a already)
with a grain of enthusi
asm. Believe in as. If yon
don't, there will be no
licpe for anything but a
dying University and a
dead student body. No one
wants to bang their bead
against a brick wan more
than twice.
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