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EDITORIAL
Vote of Confidence
Newsgram Revises Policy
THE RAM Council has already given
RAM President Dave Scholz its vote of
confidence for his recent dismissal of the
RAM Newsgram editor, but the Daily
Nebraskan still wishes to turn in its af
firmative vote for Scholz' action.
In the February 15 edition of the
Daily Nebraskan, we asked the Council
w begin an immediate investigation of
the Ntwsgram in order to re-evaluate its
editorial policy, its news content and its
purposes. We based our charge on a re
cent editorial printed in the Newsgram
which represented irresponsibility and
slanted news reporting.
IN THE most recent edition of the
Newsgram it was evident that the News
gram's editorial policy has been re-evaluated
and patterned after the principles
of objective presentation.
The following is the context of the
publications' editorial policy as presented
by George Peterson, RAM vice-president:
Wednesday, February 20, 19631 Ever st0P ,t0 about
the glass houses that exist
on our great and fa-
mous campus? Ever real-
ize the ubiqutous stone-
throwers that inevitably
i live in these houses?
"BRIEFLY, THE Newsgram should
serve at least four functions: 1) report
the news, 2) serve as a sounding board
for the opinions of the residents, 3) make
public announcements, and 4) to some ex
tent, serve as a device for displaying lit
erary talents of residents.
"All news reporting must be accur
ate, impartial, and responsible. Personal
opinions, too may be expressed, but only
if they are responsible and not libelous.
Printing rumors is not responsible even
if submitted by an interested reader. In
addition, all content should be in good
taste and indicative of the high quality
men that we have living here."
IN THE Nebraskan's opinion, the
Newsgram's policy has finally become
one of effectiveness for the important
group which it serves and represents.
You are now on your way to serving
the best interests of RAM, the residents
of the Quadrangle and the University of
Nebraska.
. 1
Adult Comments on
Student Council's
TO THE EDITOR:
In the Rag of Thursday,
Feb. 7, the lead story de
scribed and quoted from
Don Burt's address to the
opening session of the
Student Council.
Included in the quoted
material was a strong
statement to the effect
that the Student Council
should act firmly to dis
solve any student organ
ization that did not active
ly pursue some worth
while purpose. The way I
read this, if a dozen or so
students should become
intrigued enough with the
complexities of finger
wrestling, cockroach rac
ing, or matchbook collect
ing to want to formalize
their activities, and the
Student Council decided
their purpose was not a
worthy one, their organi
zation into a club should
not be permitted. And if
organization did occur.
Student Council should
force them to disband.
Why?
Not being a student, I
wonder at so arbitrary a
point of view only from a
sense of mild curiosity.
Arbiter Rights
Real discouragement
comes from the absence
of any student reaction.
Since the story appeared,
no student letter and no
editorial statement h a
been printed questioning
the appropriateness of
Student Council's setting
itself up as arbiter of the
purposes student organ
izations should be permit
ted to p r u s u e. Would
frivolity be banned? That
would be unfortunate. But
that the students shouldn't
care is kind of tragic.
JONATHAN WARREN
COUNSELING SERVICE
Personally, the old adage,
which some of our illus
I trous professors, adminis-
trators and students seem
to have forgotten, "People
I in glass houses shouldn't
throw stones," seems very
1 appropriate.
And it always seems that
these glass-house, stone
I throwers always break
I some glass . . . sometimes
in their own houses.
And so this column is
i dedicated to those crusad
I ing souls who have found
"Truth, Justice, and the
American Way of Life" and
have desperately attempted
I to make the rest of us con
I form.
I I was going to use this
space for a marvelous lit-
tie treatise entitled, "Stu-
dents Have A Right Not To
Attend Class," but, after
someone in administration
told me that as far as he
knew no statement of stu-
dents rights existed, (I
1 guess we don't have any
surprised, aren't you?) I
decided to forego causing
lour administrators any
more headaches.
Anyway, M. F. wrote that
brilliantly-thought-out col
li umn that if the pledges
didnt like hell week, they
could, and even, oh yes,
they should, rebel.
As the demagogue
screamed in print, "Rebel,
rebel, rebel oh ye pledges."
Rebel to make Hell Week
non-existent! Rebel to
"make Hell Week work in
reverse!" Do any thing
throw eggs, not at your
pledge brother but at the
active, spit your bite of
the happy apple (onion) in
the actives faces, and on
and on and on.
Brilliant reasoning! And
from the rooftops, deans of
fices, and boys dorm come
echoes "Good idea, won
der if it would work?" So
rority presidents and Mor
tar Boards yell "Finally,
at last a solution at last
the perfect idea a pledge
revolt!"
Sounds great in print
especially to those glass
house, stone-throwers who
have absolutely no contact
with the fraternity system.
When we consider the prac
tical results of such action,
the prospects are frighten
ing. Presently, the Greek sys
t e m is who'.e-heartedly
working towards a "Help
Week" with no hell. How
ever, things do not change
overnight, and in general,
fraternities are working to
wards a Help Week.
Then M. F. in a brilliantly-thought
out work, tells
the pledges to revolt and
end hell weeks immediate
ly. Wouldn't that be sharp?
Cool?
Yes, I can just see it
now. The pledges are lined
up, awaiting the "hell" to
begin. This year, however.
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something Is different. In
stead of being told to "as
sume the position" they are
given instructions for con
structiveyes, M. F con
structiveaction. Let's consider where the
fraternity "hell weeks"
stand as of right now. No
one will say that "hell"
plays no part in pre-initia-tion
activities. But neither
can anyone (even you, M.F.)
say that no "help" exists
either.
Fraternities are at a mid
point in progress between
the old style, paddle and
egg hell weeks and a purely
constructive Help Week.
No one will deny, I re
peat, that some hell still
exists. But the intensity is
diminishing fraternity men
are realizing that a t r u e
fraternity cannot exist on
such things as hell weeks.
Practically, however,
these things take time. The
movement for "help weeks"
is young. The old-guarders
still exist but in ever de
creasing numbers.
Now, let's speculate what
any active chapter would do
in the face of a pledge
revolt. Old-guarders would
scream "Look, I told you.
by jim moor
all this crap about new
style hasn't worked at all!'
Before long, a motion
starting, "I move that Chi
Chi Chi return to hell weeks
instead of these unsuccess
ful help weeks ..." would
unanimously pass active
chapter after active chap
ter. All present progress
would be lost, all present
gains defeated. For, regard
less of immature "threats",
pledges could make the ac
tive chapter world pre-dom-inate.
M.F. the idealist would
not agree. But those of us
who know the fraternity
system, those of us who are
realists, and those of us who
think before they print,
would agree.
Practically, the results of
a pledge revolt would be
disastrous. Six months of
pledge work details, pledge
meetings and pledge tests
would evaporate.
M.F., in my opinion, has
missed an essential point.
Hell does still exist I'm not
denying that But progress
has been made and will
continue to be made toward
a fully constructive Help
Week.
I cannot believe M.F. was
actually serious . . .
XJ1
Reader Feels News
Substitutes Needed
TO THE EDITOR:
It seems to me that
news must be getting aw
ful scarce.
Otherwise, why is the
Rag turning into a scan
dal sheet? In saying this
I am referring to the fued
between D. F. and V. C.
In the light of GOOD
journalism, I think that
aseriesof feature ar
ticles on each of the de
partments and organiza
tions on campus would be
more newsworthy than
some of what was pub
lished last week.
Most anything else
would be an improve
ment. Verv Trulv,
DISGUSTED
EDITOR'S NOTE: First
of all, Disgusted, yon
should realize that the
editorial page of the Daily
Nebraskan does not con
cern itself with straight
news content. The editori
al page is reserved for
editorial comment, edito
r i a 1 columns and col
umns. The department
features have been and
will be used on pages one
GAP Vine Column
TO THE EDITOR:
In an article in the
Daily Nebraskan last
week, GAP Vine, the
writer ended a superb
piece of nothing by be
seeching our pity with
these words, "You
(greeks) are no d o u b t
forming such descriptive
adjectives about me as
'uninformed,' 'prejudiced,
and Just plain stupid.' "
With a little thought on
the subject, both greeks
and independents will
agree that he is "unin
formed, prejudiced, and
just plain stupid," at
least in regard to the
words he uses to back up
Ms statements.
He seems to go by the
adage that "What they
will believe is better than
anything you can tell
them."
I will not take issue
with the issues with which
he took issue, these can
be left to those who
know more about them
than I (a lesson even he
could learn).
To begin with, a person
should be well-versed in
his subject before he at
tempts to write about it.
Not being a greek himself,
how can he possibly know
the internals of the sys
tem. It certainly doesn't
suffice to read an article
by one who doe6 know,
and then consider yourself
well enough informed on
a subject to judge and
criticize it.
He mentioned the de
feat of a certain motion
on the Student Council,
but my gosh, how many
meetings have we at-
and three. Our writers
are given the opportunity
of free expression within
the limits of our editorial
policy on libel and sland
er. D. F. and V, C. felt
that they wanted to have
their opinions printed.
And, you. Disgusted, in
writing this letter, took
advantage of the same
opportunity.
In short, all three of
you have exercised the
right of free expression.
This in itself constitutes a
large part of our editorial
policy.
Is Questioned
tended in which every
motion was passed?
What really irks me
though, is his use of the
catch-alls "unofficially,"
and "according to very
reliable source." Their
use means that one can
say absolutely nothing,
and have readers give it
their serious considera
tion, leg. informed
sources in the Administra
tion building say that Mao
Tse - Tung has accepted
Chancellor Hardin's in
vitation to speak at t h e
University's commence
ment in June i. See?
Unless he is more specif
ic in regard to his writing,
(sources, informants,
etc.), I feel that lean
safely predict that any :
influence he has w.i 11 :
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Request Made For Constitutional Policies
TO THE EDITOR:
It has come to my at
tention that, on the dis
cussion of students of fra
ternal organizations as op
posed to independent stu
dents, there has been a
large amount of ambiguity
as to who is Informed and
who is not.
I hereby wish to ask a
question for the purpose of
personal information, con
cerning fraternal organi
zations. Are there, on this
campus, any approved fra
ternal organizations that
govern the admittance of
members as to creed or
color through constitution
al articles?
It is my desire that
someone having pertinent
information on this sub
ject will answer my ques
tion through the medium
of the student newspaper
so that all might be better
informed.
Sincerely,
Lowell J. Eck
Daily Nebraskan
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