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EDITORIAL
Nebraskan's Stand?
SEVERAL DAILY Nebraskan read
ers have commented on the views ex
pressed on Monday's editorial page con
cerning the law suit filed by Dennis
Winkle.
Many took it for granted that because
the article appeared in the three columns
on the outside of the page that the views
were those of the Daily Nebraskan edi
torial staff. This is not true.
THE ARTICLE was written by a
University of Nebraska student who was,
as were many others, interested in the
case. He is not, however, a member of
the Daily Nebraskan staff.
As was pointed out earlier in the se
mester, editorials which reflect the views
of the Daily Nebraskan are not signed in
any manner and are written by the edi
tor. All other articles reflect the individ
FOR THE first time this semester,
the Daily Nebraskan is making a political
endorsement We have decided to vote
for and support FIORELLO.
We feel that he is qualified for the
"Saturday night office" because of the
many hard-working students who have
been planning bis campaign for many
weeks. The political rumor mill has it
that FTORELLO'S campaign is one of
the most organized in the history of Uni
versity politics.
WE URGE that everyone who is in
terested in FIORELLO'S platform attend
Back In the dark ages of fraterni
ties, when brutality was the by-word pri
or to initiations, some noble soul worked
diligently to do away with "injustice" and
instigated what is now known as Greek
Week.
To non-fraternity and "sorority mem
bers, Greek Week may appear slightly
ridiculous and perhaps equally useless.
On closer examination, however, the out
sider would be favorably impressed.
DURING GREEK Week, members
From a Peace Corps Volunteer
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The airport servicing
Laoag, Docos Norte, is
left over from the allied
landings in 1M4 during
the liberation of the Phil
ippines. It consists of iron
strippings placed on the
ground to provide for a
solid landing foundation
during the heavy rainy
season.
Crashed coral rock
makes up the waiting and
boarding area. The ter
minal building is hardly
more than aa open air
shelter with a counter
. and a small office room.
. There is a fire engine in
a small shed and a more
permanent building far
the ground controls. It
appears to be perfectly
adequate for the small
amount of traffic about
ten Sights a week.
A greeting party of
school dignitaries met s
at the airport Most of oar
baggage had gone ahead
f us, and what little we
carried we packed into
Che waiting Jeeps and
cars which drove as the
few kSometers to Laoag.
We stopped first at the
provincial capitol build
ing, a very capitolish
looking structure, two
stories, symetricaDy de
ft igned, complete with
dome. It is new within
the last five years. The
cream color and ivory
trim are kept spotless, in
contrast to the rest of the
town which is mostly
drab and colorless.
The staff of the division
education office hosted us
for a merienda ( mid-day
snack). The coffee was
cold, because we had ar
rived aboct an hour later
than expected. Our hosts
were quite apoloeetic
about the coffee, but we
drank it and didn't real
ly mind it We were too
excited about finally be
ing in northern Luzon aft
er more than two months
of anticipation to be both
ered by cold coffee.
We didn't stay long at
the capitol, because the
Peace Corps staff was
anxious to have ns set
tlei in am temporary
homes so that the sched
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ual views of the writer and are either
initialed or signed.
PERHAPS MANY felt that we were
editorializing on a case which is current
ly pending in court. And, we can see
how some might have thought this to be
true.
As Lincoln Police Chief. Joe Carroll,
pointed out, this is an unethical practice
for newspapers to follow. We agree with
him on this point, and we apologize for
our near-approach to this mistake.
We, along with Mr. Carroll and others,
will wait for the outcome of the case
and, during this time, we will refrain
from comment.
We hope that the readers did not feel
that the columnist's views were those of
the editorial voice of the Daily Nebraskan.
VOTE FIORELLO!
his campaign rally Saturday night in
Pershing Auditorium. Laughs, entertain
ment and talent are promised for all
those wishing to hop onto the FIORELLO
bandwagon.
Also, we congratulate the FIORELLO
campaigners you've all been doing a
bang up job in planning the political
showing. We're sure that your side will
win.
AND, WE hope that the student body
will take vour advice . . .
VOTE FIORELLO ... on Saturday
night
Value of Greek Week
from the different Greek houses work for
various non-profit organizations, compete
with one another in athletic events, ex
change dinners and open houses, plan
recognition programs for outstanding
Greeks, participate in various seminars
and support a Greek Week Ball.
Money for charity, work for non-profit
organizations, athletic competition, and a
chance to become familiar with other
Greeks over dinner.
RIDICULOUS? Useless? Look a little
closer.
s of the Philippines
Lv herb probasco
try training could be fol
lowed. We transferred to
the .locos Norte Normal
ScbooL headquarters for
the training, where we
were issued sheets, a
blanket and a mosquito
net. There we met the
teachers w ho would be
ur hosts for eight days.
Dave Porter, from New
Jersey, and I were as
signed to be hosted by
Miss Purificacion Madam
ba, a middle-aged teach
er, and her family. We
picked up the rest of our
baggage at the Normal
School and piled into a
Jeep with two other vol
unteers and their host
and drove to our tempo
rary home.
Dave and I had no soon
er gotten cur bags car
ried into the main part of
the house than we had to
set them down in the mid
dle of the room and do
what any red-blooded
American would do upon
first arriving in a foreign
host's home twist One
of the teen-age members
of the family pounded out
a rock and roll melody
on the upright piano, and
we twisted.
I bad mixed feelings
about doing what I bad
always considered aa un
sophisticated waste of
time when it was the
vogue in stateside danc
ing circles. As I recall, I
don't think I had ever
tried the dance before. To
come all the way to the
Philippines and find the
twist more popular than
where I bad hoped I bad
left It, was somewhat dis
couraging. But I was al
ready feeling so much at
borne that I didst really
object to gyrating with
the rest of the group. I
hoped, though, that we
might be able to demon
strate during oar stay
that there was more to
the Americas character
than a lack of ability to
nse leisure time crea
tively. That afternoon we were
welcomed with a pro
gram at the Normal
School. School dignitaries
spoke, some of the teach
ers presented musical se
lections, and the vice gov
ernor bounced in at the
last minute, decked out
in working clothes and
very obviously sporting a
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I
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kett in the Philippines,
but that must be told in
more detail, later.)
Dave and I made the
full circle that evening
and the nest. We accom
panied our host to a bap
tismal party of a relative,
followed by a w ake far a
departed member the fol
lowing evening.
This might be a good
place to explain what the
sociologists call the bi
laterally extended fami
ly. The family in the Phil
ippines might better be
called a clan. As far back
as they are living, all the
relatives of the wife and
all the relatives of the
husband are as much a
part of the family as the
grandparents are to Amer
ican families.
(The extensioa goes s
far that often a persoi
may be a relative to a
family, but be may be so
many times removed that
the family doesn't know
the relationship. So wbea
aa elderly member of the
family died, be was to
our host just like a grand
father, even though his
relationship was that f
a cousin of the grandfa
ther.) Throughout that week,
we had the opportunitv to
come to know the Fili
pino people in a very
close sense. We ate three
meals a day with our host
family, meals that made
the comparable American
meal look like a light
snack. We spent roost of
our free time with them,
went to their parties and
generally led their life.
In turn, they did every
thing they could to make
us feel at home.
As we neared the end
of that brief training per
iod we found it difficult
to leave those families
whose warm hnCTntaUty
had meant so much to us
during our first few days
in their country.
But we were all anxious
to disperse to cur respec
tive towns of assignment
So on the morning of No
vember 29, eight of us as
signed to towns in Eocos
Sur and Abra provinces
boarded a Philippine Rab
bit bus and left Laoag for
the towns that would be
our homes for the next
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Responsibility has been
the topic of concern on
the campus for the past
weeks involving such in
cidents as Ray Simmons,
the State Legislature,
and, more recently, RAM
Council's sponsorship of
Clifford Prout and his
program to clothe ani
mals. What should be the pur
pose of an organization in
sponsoring a speak
er: RAM Council evident
ly didn't take this ques
tion under proper advise
ment when they focused
their interest on Dr. Clif
ford Prout. The question
which RAM Council has
seemingly failed to ana
lyze in the light of their
recent publicity-seek
, ing stunt is what are the
repercussions to be suf
fered. Early in February the
president of RAM Coun
cil was asked to complete
a resume of what had
been done daring the year
so that the residents of
Selleck might know where
the RAM dollar was be
ing spent. The request
was to be completed by
March IS, but nothing has
been yet printed. Does
this mean that RAM
Council has done nothing
of any significance other
than giving impetus to
the Prout mistake?
Publicity for publicity's
sake is not always harm
ful or wrong; however,
when an organization
some weeks previous
fires one of its officials
for irresponsible journal
ism and then itself be
comes irresponsible for
not investigating that
which it has given its
time and interest, who
then is the irresponsible
party?
One cannot accuse "the
introducer of the idea of
irresponsibility if he tries
to forward his organ
ization through publicity;
however, it appears that
there is nothing to pub
licize . . . except RAM
Council's indifferent atti
tude. Who then is to be asso
ciated with this publicity
seeking stunt? Evidently
the entire executrve-eoBn-cQ
would be the ones to
decide whether or not
they should carry out the
idea.
Had Clifford Prout been
factual and sincere in his
desire to clothe animals,
as absurd as it might
seem, the situation might
not have made RAM look
as foolish. But, according
to Newsweek and Time,
Clifford Prout Jr. and Sr.
and a gag writer for the
Garry Moore Show are
three in one.
Next time let's hope
that RAM Council wffl
not only have something
to publicize, but will also
give more time in their
investigation of what will
be of the roost benefit to
the University and to Sel
leck. 7tiE 1$ MXH
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DEAR S.C.
I am one of those many
persons who does not un
derstand the basis of the
constitutional guarantees
of which Winkle was de
prived. Please answer the
following questions and
then perhaps I will un
derstand. It Is driving a car an
inalienable right?
21 Do .police have a
right to stop drivers to
see if they are driving
without a license?
2) Do police have a
TO THE EDITOR:
I'd like to express a few
opinions concerning the
letter written by Arthur
Riley Jones.
First, may I say that I
am a dark-skinned fellow
too and that, while I do
agree that some establish
ments may not be very
happy to serve people
with dark skin, especially
those with negroid fea
tures, I disagree violently
with some of his o t h e r
statements:
1) I believe that a good
number of people with
skin are afflicted by a
feeling, or feelings, of In
feriority, and bring upon
themselves the discrimin
ation they protest against.
How? By carrying a "chip
on their shoulders" and
exhibiting an agressive or
"pushy" attitude towards
others.
2 1 "Fraternization with
white girls" Some of
us dark-skinned fellows
put too much emphasis
on dating and association
with white girls. In fact,
some of us are so ob
sessed with the idea of
dating a white girl that
we'll even ignore our own
kind. Now, maybe this
would not be so bad. but
what happens is that some
of us feel discriminated
against if the white girl
or girls upon whom
we've directed our
glances, will not flirt
back or not accept our re
quests for a "date."
In other words, some of
us feel that if a white girl
TO THE EDITOR:
Mr. Jones tells us noth
ing new.
The right to occupy an
apartment or bouse, to
patronize certain busi
nesses, to work at var
ious jobs in this captial
city of a northern state
depends upon skin color.
We white university stu
dents, teachers, citizens
of Lincoln take the situa
tion philosophically. Raci
al prejudice is irrational,
but crusading is "bad
form."
Men of two sorts have
excuse for racial prejud
ice (if anyone does):
1 ) the descendant of
the "old Southern family,
who is still smarting from
the Civil War;
2 1 the man so unsure of
his own worth that he can
take pride only in the
tint of his hide.
As for the rest of us,
perhaps some of the in
sincere friendliness that
Mr. Jones deplores is. in
fact shame.
Impartial
TO THE EDITOR:
If the Daily Nebraskan
is to be a newspaper, ft
should initiate a policy of
impartial news coverage.
In the case of the Win
kle lawsuit an important
area has been overlooked.
An effort should be made
to report why the car in
which Mr. Wafik was
riding was stopped by Of
ficer Bruder. It could be
that it was this officer's
duty to demand do see
Mr. Winkle's identifica
tion. It bas not yet been
shown that this demand
letter of
TO UNIVERSITY OF NE
BRASKA FACULTY AND
STUDENTS:
I would like to take
this opportunity to ex
press, on behalf of the
Nebraska Union Board of
Managers, its stu
dent committees and the
Union Staff our thanks
Jor the fine cooperation
shown the Union by the
students and faculty of
our campus during the
State High School Basket
ball Tournament
W7e here at the Union
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Points of Clarification
right to see further iden
tification to prove that
drivers are not using
someone else's license?
4) Since the privilege
of the Writ of Habeas
Corpus recognizes the
right of police to hold a
person until he is ordered
to be released, are you
saying that this provision
in the U.S. Constitution is
unconstitutional?
5; Since refusal by state
officers to issue or deliv
er a Writ of Habeas Cor
pus subjects them to pay
to the one detained from
200 to 500 dollars for each
Answer on Discrimination
won't go out with us,
she's prejudiced. A racist,
or worse! In my opinion,
this kind of thinking is
stupid!
3) "Those Roman gods
and virginal godesses who
will join the Peace Corps
and be seat to Latin
America" I say, as a
Latin American, my h a t
is off to them.
Personally, I would not
do it. but I still have re
spect for those who will
go to f o r e i g n lands to
teach the natives a little
about sanitation, medical
care, agriculture, etc. Be
ing an egotistical person,
I can think of better
ways to spend time en
joying mvself and "to
heck withvthe world!"
Again, let me say "Viva
those in the Peace Corps."
4) "In some of t h e s e
countries there is racial
harmony." Superficial
ly, yes. I've lived in Lat
in America and I can tes
tify that even there the
light skin is "better" than
the dark skin. In some re
gions nhere there are Ne
groes, a light-skinned
Negro (a .Mulatto) consid
ers himself "superior" to
not only a dark-skinned
Negro but also to an In
diaa or a dark-skinned
"mestizo." I know this to
be a fact, I've had exper
iences of this type where
I the mestizo was
the inferior, and the ran
latlo or in even some
cases a dark Negro
was my "better" or sn- .
perior.
To Gain Self-Respect
If we are theoretically
without prejudice (and
actually ashamed), why
do we ignore discourtesy
and injustice?
1 Too busy?
2i Too lazy?
3) Afraid of upsetting
people? (What woild
Aunt Gcraldine say?)
4 1 Afraid of jeopardiz
ing social position?
5 1 Afraid of looking like
a do-gooder?
6) None of these?
If we stopped being
philosophical about other
people's problems, wbat
could we do?
It Refuse to buy from
local businesses which
practice discrimination in
service or in employment.
U f N students spend
money . And we have rela
tives and friends.)
2i Organize teams of
students to find housing
for our fellow stu
dents and their families.
(I do not suggest renting
under false pretexts. The
helpers could absorb the
Coverage
was an infringement of
Constitutional rights.
The editorial stand of
the Nebraskan is decep
tive in that it presents
only the case against the
police department No
cause has been admitted
for Officer Binder's ac
tion. Having been previously
condemned for not pre
senting both sides, in the
area of politics, it might
be well that other areas
be covered more objec
tively by the Nebraskan.
A READER
Thanks
are well aware of the
many inconveniences
which are experienced by
our regular owner clien
tele, and feel badly that
we cannot complete our
usual service to them
during this time.
Thank you one and all
for assisting us in com
pleting our public rela
tions and service func
tion to our campus guests
again this vear.
A. k BENNETT
Managing Director
Nebraska Union
offense, why in Winkle's
two hours (which were
not spent in violation of a
Writ of Habeas Corpus)
worth $48,000?
6) Is Winkle's time
worth $24,000 per hour, or
48 million dollars per
year (based on an aver
age 'work week)?
7) Is this why many
Nebraskans go outside of
the state to attend law
school?
8) Is this whole thing a
V Jke?
9) Are you some kind
of nut?
ELDRIDGE FOSTER
If anvone is interested
in more factual evidence
on the above, please read
the essay on race by Juan
Comas. He states, and I
quote, that in some re
gions along the Amazonas
River in Brazil the Ne
groes look down upon the
native Indians as "infer
iors". May I add that
I've observed that the
same is true of some
American Negroes who
treat peoples of other dark
races as trash, but, when
I retaliate with the same
treatment, then I catch
heck from them!
5) About the professors,
individuals and organiza
tions who "ostensibly ap
pear liberal or international-minded",
I'd say
that whle a few may be
hypocrites, as Mr. Jones
states, the majority it
seems to me are hon
est people who actually
practice what they
preach.
In fact some of them
bend over backwards to
make the Negro feel at
home. This attitude, for
reasons I cannot q i t e
pat my fingers on. caases
consternation and, let's
be honest, a little jeal
ousy in me.
6 1 To conclude. I'd like
to suggest to Mr. Jones
that he not only revise
this thinking but also his
attitude towards others.
Isn't it possible that per
haps be is at fault part
ly anyway for some of
the unpleasantness be has
had?
JUAN M. RAMOS
discouragement of repeat
ed refusals. ACT and a
group of local churches
can tell us how this kind
of plan works.)
3) Abolish racial re
strictions in campus or
ganizations. 4) Fill this one ii for
yourself.
The comfortable altern
ative is to wait for Time
to solve the problem. We
can go on respecting the
notions of some of our
white fellow citizens. Or
we can defend the rights
of those people who are
now being insulted and in
jured. We can do something
to regain our own self
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